Kevin Hart is set to produce and star in the action-comedy Night School, with Universal Pictures setting his Ride Along and Think Like a Man helmer Tim Story to direct, Variety has revealed. The project is based on a story by Hart and follows a group of misfits forced to attend adult classes to prepare […]
Luke Cage season 2 casting breakdown reveals two new characters
With the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage readying itself to go into production, MCU Exchange has got its hands on casting breakdowns for two new series regulars set to join Mike Colter’s Power Man in the Netflix series. [BYRON] 30 – 45, 6’0 or taller, Jamaican, but open to Black Caribbean or African Descent. […]
The ZX Spectrum Next shows off its 7MHz mode with some classic games
At the end of April the ZX Spectrum Next arrived on Kickstarter with a required goal of £250,000 and within a mere forty-eight hours this wanted total was blown out of the water! Now with fourteen days still to go and the project being marked by Kickstarter as a “Project We Love” the total currently […]
Jeremy Renner to play legendary gunslinger Doc Holliday
Many a top actor has brought the role of legendary Wild West gunslinger Doc Holliday to life, from Val Kilmer, Kirk Douglas, and Dennis Quaid. And now Marvel star Jeremy Renner will get his chance. PalmStar Media has optioned the rights to the novels Doc and Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary […]
Warner Bros. developing Joker origin movie from Todd Phillips and Martin Scorsese
DC fans are in for some rather surprising news. According to Deadline, DC and Warner Bros. are apparently in the early stages of development of an origin film for The Joker, one of the most well-known and fearsome villains in all of comics. The film is to be directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover) from a […]
Jared Leto dismisses speculation over his future as The Joker in the DCEU
While there’s been a tonne of speculation surrounding Ben Affleck’s continued involvement with the DC Extended Universe, it’s also been rumoured on several occasions that we may have seen the last of Jared Leto as The Dark Knight’s nemesis The Joker. Well, following the news of a Joker and Harley Quinn spinoff movie, Leto has […]
Joel Edgerton to direct and star in Boy Erased alongside Lucas Hedges
A distributor bidding war is currently underway for Boy Erased, the second directorial effort from Joel Edgerton, which will see him starring alongside Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea). Based upon Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir, Boy Erased tells of his time attending Love in Action, a brutal Twelve-Step conversion therapy porgamme designed to ‘deprogram’ LGBT people. However, rather […]
Jennifer Lopez is to produce and star in romantic comedy Second Act
Jennifer Lopez is set to produce and star in a romantic comedy called Second Act. The pop star and actress has joined the venture as part of STX Films’ efforts to produce female centric movies. The film will apparently be in the same vein as Working Girl and Maid in Manhattan, with Lopez playing a […]
Riz Ahmed to play Hamlet for Netflix
Riz Ahmed is heading over to Netflix for his next project. The Night Of and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star is in talks with Netflix for a contemporary take on William Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet, with Deadline reporting that the Emmy-winning actor will take on the title role, with the film written by Mike Lesslie (Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed). The […]
Hellboy reboot casts Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan
As pre-production on the Hellboy reboot ramps up ahead of filming later this year, the film has made yet another cast addition. The latest actress to join, per The Hollywood Reporter, is American Honey’s Sasha Lane, taking the role of Alice Monaghan in the film. In the Hellboy comics, Alice Monaghan was a baby when she was kidnapped by […]
