Acclaimed filmmaker Brian De Palma is set to get back behind the camera, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that he’s set to direct an adaptation of Sascha Arango’s black comedy crime novel The Truth and Other Lies. The book, which was awards the Prix Européen du Polar du Point, the European prize for best literary […]
HBO remaking Fahrenheit 451 with 99 Homes director
The Wrap is reporting that filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) has signed on to write and direct a new adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a future American society where firemen are employed to destroy the most illegal of all commodities, the printed book. However, when […]
Skydance Entertainment adapting Image series Faster Than Light for TV
Image and Shadowline Comics have announced that their hit sci-fi series Faster Than Light by Brian Haberlin is being developed for television by Skydance Entertainment. Tomorrow we discover the key to faster than light travel and our world will never be the same. In FASTER THAN LIGHT Captain William Forest and those under his storied […]
St. Vincent making directorial debut in female-helmed horror film XX
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalists Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, is about to make a horror film. Yes, you heard that correctly, the brilliant mind behind “Digital Witness” is set to make her directorial debut in an all female-helmed horror anthology film called XX. Clark has officially just boarded the genre film anthology to be […]
The Nut Job 2 announced for May 2017
Open Road Films has announced that The Nut Job 2 is set for release in North America on May 19th 2017, having originally been eyed for release back in January of this year. Deadline reports that the sequel to the 2014 independent animated hit will “return to Oakton, where the evil mayor decides to bulldoze […]
John Krasinski joins Bad Robot’s mystery sci-fi God Particle
The Office and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi star John Krasinski is in talks to join God Particle, the mysterious sci-fi thriller from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. Variety is reporting that Krasinski will play a member of a team of astronauts “who make a terrifying discovery that challenges everything they know about the fabric […]
Natasha Lyonne joins Netflix’s National Lampoon movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Orange Is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne has become the latest name to sign on to Netflix’s original movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture, director David Wain’s (Wet Hot American Summer) biopic of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney. Variety reports that Lyonne is set to play one of the writers on the humour magazine, which became […]
Earth To Echo scribe to write DC’s Shazam movie
Many worried that the recent news of a Black Adam solo film would mean further delays and stalled development for the film featuring the villain’s superhero nemesis, Shazam. However, it appears that the wheels are still turning for DC’s “Big Red Cheese” to get his big screen debut. Earth to Echo scribe Henry Gayden has been brought on to pen the […]
Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam to get DC solo movie
In news that will likely surprise no one, it has been revealed via THR that Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam, the villain of the upcoming DC Extended Universe Shazam movie, will be getting his own solo spinoff film. According to the new report, the Black Adam film will be developed concurrently with Shazam, so fans of the Captain Marvel character should rest […]
Lucifer and Rosewood renewed for second season
Fox has announced that it has renewed the DC / Vertigo series Lucifer and procedural Rosewood, with both shows joining Scream Queens in receiving second season pickups from the network. “We knew we had something special with Lucifer, from the engaging performances of Tom, Lauren and the rest of the charismatic cast, to Len Wiseman’s […]
