Deadline is reporting that Amazon Studios is in development on a biographical TV series based upon the American rock band The Grateful Dead, tapping Oscar-nominated Straight Outta Compton screenwriter Jonathan Herman to pen the script. Herman will use Grateful Dead roadie Steve Parish’s memoir Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with The Grateful […]
The Flash’s Grant Gustin joins The Last Full Measure
The Flash star Grant Gustin has become the latest superhero actor to join the cast of director Todd Robinson’s (Lonely Hearts) political drama The Last Full Measure. Gustin is set to play William Pitsenbarger, a special forces para-rescue jumper and Medal of Honor recipient. He joins a cast that includes Marvel Cinematic Universe veterans Samuel […]
Legion season 2 likely to consist of more episodes than the first
The second season of X-Men universe TV show Legion is likely to feature more episodes compared to its first season. With season one of the bizarre mutant series Legion finishing up its eight episode run last night on FX, attention is now turning to the future and the already confirmed season two of the show. […]
Jordan Peele is being courted to direct the live-action Akira movie
Warner Bros. is courting Jordan Peele to direct the long awaited film adaptation of the popular anime Akira. With the success brought his way through his work directing Get Out – a horror film centred on a young black man visiting his girlfriend’s creepy Caucasian family – one can imagine that Peele will be getting […]
Transformers: The Last Knight IMAX Preview Footage Description
Tai Freligh was at the press junket for Transformers: The Last Knight and has this footage description… I was among members of the press in Los Angeles on Wednesday who watched a fifteen to twenty minute IMAX preview of Transformers: The Last Knight footage. It was several vignettes featuring the main cast members, including Mark […]
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk impresses at CinemaCon
Footage of Christopher Nolan’s much anticipated World War II drama Dunkirk has impressed theater owners at CinemaCon. Christopher Nolan, director of such films as Interstellar, Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, delighted those in attendance at CinemaCon when he dropped footage of his upcoming film Dunkirk. Dunkirk tells the story the British military evacuation of Dunkirk […]
Annabelle 2 now titled Annabelle: Creation
During a presentation at CinemaCon yesterday, Warner Bros. has announced that the upcoming Annabelle 2 is now going by the title Annabelle: Creation. pic.twitter.com/8DEjNT7lFD — David F. Sandberg (@ponysmasher) March 29, 2017 The follow up to the hit spinoff to The Conjuring is being directed by Lights Out helmer David F. Sandberg, and features a […]
Joss Whedon to direct Batgirl solo film
It appears Warner Bros. is ready to expand the DCEU – the Batman side of it, at least – even more as Variety has reported that the studio is finalizing a deal for The Avengers director Joss Whedon to write, direct and produce a Batgirl spin-off film. Batgirl seems to have originated in the studio the past month as plans post-Justice League […]
UPDATE: Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye rumoured for Ant-Man and the Wasp, first logo revealed
It looks like Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne may not be the only superheroes in action in Ant-Man and the Wasp, with Showbiz 411 reporting that Jeremy Renner will be reprising the role of Hawkeye for the 2018 sequel. Renner is currently shooting Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, but the report states that […]
Oscar Isaac to hunt Nazis in Operation Finale
Star Wars star Oscar Isaac has signed on to lead the upcoming thriller Operation Finale, which tells the true story of the hunt for Adolf Eichmann, a member of the SS and one of the main architects of the Holocaust during World War II. The film is being directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy, […]
