With Freeform reportedly set to go into production on Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger next month, it seems we may have our two leads for the straight-to-series show, with MCU Exchange reporting that Noah Gray-Cabey (Heroes) and Debby Ryan (Jessie) have been cast as Tyrone ‘Ty’ Johnson and Tandy Bowen. Meanwhile, The Hashtag Show claims to […]
UK film production hits record high
The UK film industry is going from strength to strength — the nation acting as a hub for some of the world’s biggest blockbusters with franchises like Star Wars being filmed on its shores. And the strength of the UK’s production sector has now driven spending to new highs according to BFI’s annual statistic report. […]
Vera Farmiga and more join Rupert Wyatt’s Captive State
Deadline is reporting that Bates Motel and The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga has signed on to appear in Captive State, the upcoming sci-fi from director Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Along with Farmiga, Jonathan Majors (When We Rise) and Colson Baker, a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly (Roadies) have also joined the cast, […]
Nina Dobrev returning for the series finale of The Vampire Diaries
Nina Dobrev has taken to Instagram to reveal that she’ll be reprising her role as Elena Gilbert for the upcoming series finale of The CW’s supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPvFgMAASH9/ Dobrev led the cast of The Vampire Diaries for its first six seasons, before leaving the show when her contract expired in 2015. This […]
Marvel announces start of production on Black Panther, Andy Serkis to return to MCU
Marvel Studios officially revealed today that production on Black Panther, the upcoming 18th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has begun. While this information has been known for the past couple of days through set photos and tweets, the studio’s press release also provides plenty of previously unrevealed tidbits about the project, including a full cast list and a […]
James Ponsoldt to team up with Arrival producers for Inconstant Moon adaptation
James Ponsoldt, director of The Spectacular Now, may still be in post-production on his latest cinematic effort, The Circle, but that hasn’t stopped him from committing to his next project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ponsoldt will be directing a film adaptation of Inconstant Moon, an award-winning science fiction short story from author Larry Niven, for […]
Zach Braff’s Start Up gets a pilot order from ABC
It looks like Scrubs star Zach Braff is heading back to the small screen, with Deadline reporting that ABC has placed a pilot order for the single-camera comedy Start Up. Start Up will explore “all the things that happen — the good, the bad and the ugly — when a guy (Braff) in his mid-30s with […]
Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier to helm new Netflix movie Hold the Dark
Green Room, the uber violent and ultra stylish 2016 horror film, was one of last year’s best received movies of the genre, and now it’s been revealed that director Jeremy Saulnier will helm his next movie for streaming giant Netflix. The film which is titled Hold the Dark, will apparently be another bloody and tense […]
Michael Bay producing Little America featuring a “Trump-like dystopia”
THR is reporting that Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for Little America, a new “sci-fun” tale set in a dystopian United States following a “Trump-like” presidency which has left the country bankrupt. The project takes place in a future where China has called in its debts and now owns the USA, with many […]
Director Rian Johnson talks inspirations for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
With the recently revealed title for the next episode in the saga — Star Wars: The Last Jedi — speculation has kicked into overdrive. Fans are of course pretty darn eager to unravel all the mysteries that Episode VIII might contain, and now thanks to director Rian Johnson, we know of some of the film’s […]
