Having cast Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Disney and director Ava DuVernay have now found their lead for the upcoming adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. 13-year-old actress Storm Reid (12 Years a Slave) is set to portray the character of Meg Murray, who […]
Christina Hendricks and Gillian Anderson join Agatha Christie adaptation Crooked House
With filming getting underway today, it has been announced that Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Terence Stamp, Stefanie Martini and Honor Keafsey have joined Max Irons and Glenn Close in director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Crooked House. Based on Christie’s 1949 detective novel and scripted by Julian Fellows (Downton Abbey), Crooked House […]
Ben Barnes joins The Punisher as a series regular
It looks like casting is underway on Netflix’s latest Marvel project, with TV Line reporting that Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) has signed on to appear alongside Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle as a series regular in The Punisher. Although character details are being kept under wraps, it is rumoured that Barnes will […]
Mad Max: Fury Road minus the CGI showcases incredible practical effects
Mad Max: Fury Road is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest action films of recent years, and featured some of the most visually impressive stunts and incredible action sequences in cinema history. All the more impressive is that director George Miller captured much of the mayhem using practical effects, and a new video has arrived […]
Kirstie Alley joins Scream Queens season 2 as series regular
TV Line is reporting that Kirstie Alley is joining the cast of Scream Queens, and will feature as a series regular in the second season of the horror anthology series. She is set to play a “brilliant and devious administrator.” Alley joins fellow new additions John Stamos, Taylor Lautner and James Earl in season two, […]
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 […]
Benicio Del Toro in talks for Shane Black’s The Predator
It looks like we may have our first piece of casting on The Predator, with Deadline reporting that Benicio Del Toro (Sicario) is in talks to join the reboot/sequel. The Predator is being directed by Shane Black, who co-starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 original. Black is penning the script with Fred Dekker, his […]
Mister Sinister confirmed for Wolverine 3?
Those who stuck around for the post-credits scene of this year’s X-Men: Apocalypse would have noticed a tease for Essex Corp., suggesting that the character of Nathaniel Essex – a.k.a. Mister Sinister – would soon be making his big screen debut in Fox’s X-Men franchise, presumably in Wolverine 3. Well, it seems we now have confirmation […]
Daniel Radcliffe is “never going to close the door” on Harry Potter return
A couple of weeks back, a rumour surfaced claiming that Warner Bros. is planning to turn J.K. Rowling’s stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child into a movie trilogy, with the studio keen to have Daniel Radcliffe reprise his role as the (former) Boy Wizard. Although WB has since denied the claims, stating that […]
Chris Pratt wants Star-Lord to meet The Punisher in Avengers: Infinity War
Thanks to some comments from Vin Diesel, we know that – as expected – the Guardians of the Galaxy will be meeting Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, and Chris Pratt has been chatting to We Got This Covered about which Marvel character he’d most like to see crossing paths with Star-Lord in […]
