The Disney Channel has placed a series order for its That’s So Raven spinoff Raven’s Home, which will see the return of Raven-Symone and Anneliese Van Der Pol as Raven Baxter and Chelsea Daniels. Deadline reports that the new series “will pick up with Raven and Chelsea, who are now divorced single mothers raising […]
Barry Levinson to direct Billy Crystal in comedy Revival
Deadline is reporting that director Barry Levinson is teaming with Billy Crystal for a new feature film comedy entitled Revival, which has been scripted by Phil Primason (5 Doctors). It will mark the first collaboration between Levinson and Crystal, although they did both previously serve as executive producers on Analyze This and Analyze That. The […]
Aquaman screenwriter to pen Universal’s Creature from the Black Lagoon
Universal Pictures’ Classic Monsters shared universe is set to get underway this June with the release of The Mummy, and now it looks like the studio is stepping up development on another instalment, tapping Aquaman screenwriter Will Beall to pen Creature from the Black Lagoon. The remake of the 1954 classic has been in development […]
Greg Rucka to adapt his comic book The Old Guard for Skydance
THR is reporting that Skydance Productions has picked up the rights to Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez’s new Image Comics series The Old Guard, tapping Rucka to pen a script for the movie adaptation. The Old Guard follows “a small group of soldiers, led by a woman named Andy, who are inexplicably immortal and have […]
The first draft of The LEGO Movie Sequel is complete
Chris Miller has taken to Twitter to announce that the first draft of The LEGO Movie Sequel has been completed and turned in to Warner Bros. Just turned in the official first draft of LEGO Movie 2. Hello, Thanksgiving. — Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) November 25, 2015 Miller is writing the follow-up to the 2014 smash […]
Jason Segel co-writing but not directing LEGO movie The Billion Brick Race
After the massive success of last year’s The LEGO Movie, a franchise is being built: not only is there a sequel on the way, but we have many spin-offs on the horizon too, including one that is being co-written by Drew Pearce (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) and Jason Segel (The Muppets). Early word also […]
Brad Fuller talks Friday the 13th, clears up rumours
It’s Friday the 13th, and so it’s entirely appropriate that Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller has taken a moment to discuss his plans for the next instalment of the iconic slasher series. The Friday the 13th sequel has certainly had a rocky development since first being announced in 2009, including several delays, the latest of which […]
Universal bringing The Machine, Kill Shakespeare and El Pantera to the small screen
Earlier this week Universal Cable Productions announced that it had reached a deal with Dark Horse to adapt the comic book series The Umbrella Academy, Harrow County, Concrete and Back-Up for the small screen, and now it has been announced that UCP has acquired three more properties in the British sci-fi The Machine, IDW Publishing’s […]
Channing Tatum producing comic book adaptation Zombie Brother
Variety is reporting that Channing Tatum’s Free Association is teaming with China’s Tencent Pictures for an adaptation of the comic series Zombie Brother, which is being directed by David Sanberg (Kung Fury) from a script by Matt Lieberman (Scoob). Zombie Brother follows an ordinary guy who looks to escape his city when the population start […]
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 […]
