Over the past few months the fan campaign to bring back Dredd has shifted gears from a sequel to the cult 2012 movie to a TV series featuring the return of Karl Urban as the Mega-City One lawman. Urban has previously that “it would be a privilege to make another Dredd“, and he’s reiterated his interest in […]
Pixar has no plans for Ratatouille, WALL-E or Inside Out sequels
With Finding Dory out in U.S. cinemas and Cars 3, Toy Story 4 and The Incredibles II all on the horizon over the next few years, Pixar president Jim Morris has been discussing the studio’s approach to sequels, as well as revealing that there are no plans at present for follow-ups to Ratatouille, WALL-E and Inside Out.“Most […]
Michael Bay’s Drone Warrior gets a screenwriter
Michael Bay’s Drone Warrior has gained Andy Bellin (Trust, Lovelace) as its screenwriter.Deadline reports that Bellin will adapt the script from the upcoming book Drone Warrior: An Elite Soldier’s Inside Account of the Hunt for America’s Most Dangerous Enemies for Paramount Pictures, while Bay is directing and producing.Drone Warrior “is about the U.S. Army’s highly trained soldiers who hunt and […]
Susan Sarandon, Cheryl Hines and Christine Baranski join A Bad Moms Christmas
The sequel to last year’s Mila Kunis-led Bad Moms has gained three big additions. In A Bad Moms Christmas, Susan Sarandon, Cheryl Hines and Christine Baranski will be playing the mothers of Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn’s characters as they visit their daughters for the Christmas season. Baranski, Sarandon and Hines will be playing Kunis, Hahn […]
Hulu gives pilot order to Locke & Key, Scott Derrickson to direct
Last year it was announced that IDW Entertainment were developing a small screen adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s acclaimed comic book series Locke & Key, and now comes word that Hulu has officially placed a pilot order, with Carlton Cuse (Lost) set to executive produce and showrun and Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange) directing. […]
Nicolas Winding Refn would like to direct a Batgirl movie
It looks like Nicolas Winding Refn is keen to go from female-led horror to female-led superheroes, with The Neon Demon director revealing to Business Insider that he’d like to direct a Batgirl movie. “God, I would love to make [a superhero movie], it would probably be great fun,” said Refn. “I just don’t know when […]
Deadpool tops the list of the most pirated movies of 2016
After unveiling the most pirated TV shows of the year earlier this week, Torrent Freak has now revealed the ten most-pirated movies of 2016, based upon the number of illegal downloads on BitTorrent over the past six months.There aren’t really any major surprises here, save perhaps for the lack of Zootopia, which is the third-highest […]
Tim Miller no longer directing Deadpool 2
This was certainly a surprise, especially just after news that Tim Miller has met with ten actresses for the role of Domino, but it seems Miller is no longer set to direct Deadpool 2. According to Deadline, Miller and Ryan Reynolds had creative differences over the sequel, yet the split was an amicable one with no hard […]
Assassin’s Creed flops at the U.S. box office
Well, it looks like the video game curse may have struck again, as 20th Century Fox’s Assassin’s Creed movie has failed to set the U.S. box office alight, pulling in just $10.6 million over the Friday to Sunday period.Assassin’s Creed will settle for fourth place over the Christmas weekend behind Rogue One: A Star Wars […]
Michael Fassbender says Assassin’s Creed planned as first instalment of a trilogy
In just a few short days, Assassin’s Creed will make the leap from video games to feature films as 20th Century Fox unleashes its hotly-anticipated movie adaptation, and should it prove successful at the box office, it seems it could be the launch pad for a trilogy of films based around Michael Fassbender’s Callum Lynch and his […]
