Having been rumoured back in September, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow, Into the Woods) is now in talks with Disney about portraying the magical nanny Mary Poppins in Disney’s upcoming sequel. The project will reunite Blunt with Into the Woods director Rob Marshall, and is said to be set in […]
Dirty Dancing TV remake castings Colt Prattes as Johnny
Newcomer Colt Prattes, who is best known for his appearance in P!nk’s music video for “Try”, has been cast in the iconic Patrick Swayze role of Johnny in ABC and Lionsgate’s upcoming TV remake of Dirty Dancing. The three-hour musical will see Prattes joining Abigail Breslin (Scream Queens) as Baby and Debra Messing (Will & […]
Peyton Reed talks Ant-Man and the Wasp
Attending the 42nd Annual Saturn Awards – where Ant-Man was honoured with the award for Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture – director Peyton Reed offered up a few words on the 2018 sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, which will be the first Marvel movie to feature a female character in its title. “It’s something we’re excited […]
Games of Thrones to get season 6 aftershow titled After the Thrones
Following in the footsteps of such Chris Hardwick-hosted shows as Talking Dead and Talking Saul, which both air after new episodes of The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul, respectively, Games of Thrones will be getting its own aftershow for season 6. Titled After the Thrones, the show will be available each week on Monday […]
Anthony Mackie to play Johnnie Cochran in Signal Hill movie
Captain America: Civil War star has signed on to portray lawyer Johnnie Cochran in an as-yet-untitled legal drama based around the 1981 Signal Hill police brutality case, which has been scripted by David McMillan (Lucifer). Variety reports that the film will follow Cochran “as he takes on a police brutality case in 1981 in which a […]
Agent Carter season 3 “highly unlikely”, ABC also “cooling” on Marvel’s Most Wanted
During an article on the broadcast networks’ 2016-17 TV schedule, The Hollywood Reporter has been speaking about the chances of Marvel’s Agent Carter getting a renewal, and if you were hoping to see Hayley Atwell back for more adventures as Peggy, then it makes for disappointing reading. The site is reporting that Agent Carter, which […]
FOX CEO says David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter on board for more X-Files
Fox scored a huge ratings hit earlier this year as it reopened The X-Files for a limited series, reuniting creator Chris Carter with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Both Carter and the network have already expressed interest in more adventures for FBI Special Agents Mulder and Scully, and now FOX CEO Dana Walden has […]
Shooter renewed for second season
The Shooter TV series has just been renewed for a second season on USA Network. The series is an adaptation of Stephen Hunter’s novel Point Impact and the 2007 Mark Wahlberg film Shooter, and stars Ryan Phillippe as Bob Lee Swagger, a former Marine sniper framed for an assassination attempt on the President’s life. Shooter was supposed to air in the […]
Francis Lawrence to direct Battlestar Galactica
Months ago there was word that a Battlestar Galactica film was starting development over at Universal and now Deadline is reporting that movement on the project is finally picking up again. Francis Lawrence, director of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and both parts of Mockingjay, is being courted to direct while Westworld’s Lisa Joy is […]
Deadpool 2 screenwriters on introducing Cable and setting up X-Force
Over the past week, Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have let slip some info on the upcoming sequel, confirming that it’s on track to shoot this year, as well as revealing that Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth will be reuniting with Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Dopinder. Now, speaking to Collider, the […]
