Currently starring in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, actor Daniel Bruhl is set to join the cast of the mysterious sci-fi film God Particle from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Bruhl is latest actor to join the film after The Night Manager star Elizabeth Debicki was added to the ensemble last week, and […]
TNT places series order for Tales from the Crypt reboot from M. Night Shyamalan
Back in January it was announced that M. Night Shyamalan was developing a relaunch of Tales from the Crypt to spearhead a new horror and suspense program block for TNT. Well, the network has now made it official, with Entertainment Weekly reporting that it has been granted a ten episode series order for the cult […]
Paul Thomas Anderson has supposedly directed a Radiohead video
Film auteur Paul Thomas Anderson has been taking, making and then sometimes even dropping from a host of atypical projects since his last feature Inherent Vice. He shot two music videos, Sapokanikan and Divers, for Joanna Newsom, he filmed a highly-secretive music documentary Junun and he was even attached to direct the live-action Pinocchio remake […]
Filming underway on Nosferatu remake, Doug Jones to star as Count Orlok
Variety is reporting that production is underway on a new remake of the F.W. Murnau silent horror classic Nosferatu, which stars Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) as the infamous Count Orlok. The Kickstarter-funded project is being directed by David Lee Fisher (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and is described as a “remix” of the 1922 […]
Scarlett Johansson addresses Ghost in the Shell whitewashing accusations, new TV spot released
Ahead of its release next month, a new TV spot has arrived online for Rupert Sanders’ highly-anticipated live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, which you can check out below… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-faw6bvk9A Meanwhile, during a recent interview with Marie Clare, star Scarlett Johansson addressed recent accusations of whitewashing aimed at the movie: “I certainly would never presume to […]
Scarlett Johansson to play Zelda Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and the Damned
The Tracking Board is reporting that Captain America: Civil War has signed on to play American socialite and novelist Zelda Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and the Damned, which is being produced by Millennium Films from the Black List script by Hanna Weg. The film “centers on the tumultuous and doomed love affair between Jazz Age icons […]
Mark Rylance to reunite with Steven Spielberg on Ready Player One
Fresh from the news that Mark Rylance will be reuniting with Steven Spielberg on The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, it is now being reported that Rylance is also in talks for Spielberg’s next project, the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One. Rylance won an Oscar for his turn in Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, […]
R.I.P. Gareth Thomas (1945 – 2016)
Some sad news this morning as Welsh actor Gareth Thomas – who was best known for his role as Roj Blake in the classic sci-fi series Blake’s 7, has passed away at the age of 71 having suffered heart failure, it has been announced. “It is with deep sadness that we have to announce that […]
Benedict Cumberbatch to voice the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Trey Parker joins Despicable Me 3
During Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s big presentation at CinemaCon, Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri dropped a couple of bits of casting news for two of the studio’s upcoming animated projects. Joining the cast of the animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie is Benedict Cumberbatch, who will lend his voice to the titular character, previously portrayed […]
Benedict Cumberbatch to produce and star in Rogue Male
Benedict Cumberbatch is set to produce and star in Fox Searchlight’s upcoming adaptation of Geoffrey Household’s 1939 novel Rogue Male, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. “I am thrilled both as an actor and producer to be working on bringing this most treasured of English novels to the big screen,” states Cumberbatch, who will next be […]
