Casting continues on Disney’s upcoming adaptation of The Nutcracker, with THR reporting that Helen Mirren is in talks to star in the live-action film, which is based upon E.T.A. Hoffman’s story and the ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky. Titled The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, the film is being directed by Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House […]
Fox places pilot order for Greg Berlanti’s new DC TV project Black Lightning
It seems Fox is looking to add another DC show to its slate, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the network has given a production commitment to the Black Lightning pilot from Greg Berlanti and Mara Brock Akil and her husband Salim Akil (The Game), which was revealed as in development last week. The series […]
Sausage Party co-director to helm The Toxic Avenger remake
Deadline is reporting that Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon has signed on to helm the long-gestating remake of Troma’s cult 1984 superhero horror-comedy The Toxic Avenger. Mike Arnold and Chris Poole (Archer) are set to rewrite the screenplay, which was originally penned by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine). “The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite […]
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson’s Shanghai Dawn moving forward with director Jared Hess
Back in May of last year it was announced that Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were looking to reunite on Shanghai Dawn, a follow-up to 2000’s Shanghai Noon and 2003’s Shanghai Knights, and now Deadline is reporting that the project is moving forward under Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess. The new film has been scripted […]
Heathers TV pilot gets the greenlight from TV Land
TV Land has ordered a pilot for a TV adaptation of the cult 1988 dark comedy Heathers, which will be directed by Leslye Headland (Sleeping With Other People) from a script by Jason Micallef (Butter). Deadline reports that the project will reimagine the movie as an anthology, and “will be set in the present day, […]
Klaus returning for the Christmas one-shot Klaus and the Witch of Winter
The limited series may have wrapped up last month, but Klaus will return this Christmas courtesy of Grant Morrison and Dan Mora with the one-shot Klaus and the Witch of Winter from Boom! Studios. Via CBR, here’s a look at Mora’s cover to the one-shot… Klaus returns for an epic oversized one-shot, perfect for any […]
Rosamund Pike joins Christian Bale in Hostiles
Last month it was announced that Christian Bale is to reunite with Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper for the Western epic Hostiles, and now Deadline has revealed that Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) has also signed on to appear in the cast. Hostiles is based on a thirty-year old script by Donald Stewart (Missing), […]
Natalie Portman is the First Lady in first clip from biopic Jackie
Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the first clip has arrived online from director Pablo Larrain’s upcoming biopic Jackie which stars Natalie Portman as First Lady Jackie Kennedy; check it out here… The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was one of those moments that defined a generation. That this handsome, charismatic […]
The Disney Channel announces voice cast for Tangled: Before Ever After
Back in June, Disney announced that it was developing an animated spinoff series to 2010’s Tangled, which will take place between the film and the 2012 short Tangled Ever After and see the return of voice actors Mandy Moore and Zachary Levy as Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert. Well, it has now been announced that the […]
Ashley Thomas signs on for lead role in 24: Legacy
British actor Ashley Thomas (Black Mirror) has signed on for one of the lead roles in Fox’s upcoming 24 revival 24: Legacy, where he’ll play Isaac Carter, the older brother of military hero Eric Carter, played by Corey Hawkins (The Walking Dead). The pilot for 24: Legacy has been written by 24 veterans Manny Coto […]
