Not only has Star Wars: The Force Awakens broken the Internet (it crashed our site and YouTube yesterday), it has now broken IMAX records for advanced ticket sales. IMAX announced that single-day pre-sale tickets for Star Wars: The Force Awakens have come in at an estimated $6.5 million, which broke the single-day previous record – […]
The Horror Channel revives Hammer double bills
This November, The Horror Channel is reviving its Hammer Horror double-bills with a series of eight unmissable classic films that will be screened on Saturday nights throughout the month. Sat 7 Nov @ 9pm – THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961) *Network Premiere In Oliver Reed’s first film role, he excels as Leon Corledo, a […]
Crimson Peak bombs at the US box office with just $12.8 million
After a slew of mediocre reviews (read ours here and here), Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak struggled out of the gates on its opening weekend. Opening in less than 3,000 screens, the Gothic horror movie pulled in a very disappointing $12.5 million, coming fourth behind Steven Spielberg’s Bride of Spies, The Martian and children’s horror […]
Hack/Slash heading to the small screen for TV adaptation
A movie adaptation of the horror comic book series Hack/Slash has been stuck in development hell for several years now, but it looks like the project has been given a new lease of life on the small screen, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that a TV series is in the works courtesy Relativity Television. According […]
John Carpenter wins plagiarism lawsuit over Luc Besson thriller Lockout
Luc Besson’s (Lucy) production company Europacorp has been ordered by a French court to pay €80,000 in damages after John Carpenter (Halloween) filed a lawsuit claiming that Besson-produced thriller Lockout infringed the copyright of his own Escape From New York. SEE ALSO: John Carpenter to executive produce Escape from New York remake SEE ALSO: Clive […]
Seth Rogen set to star in The Disaster Artist drama about making of cult classic The Room
Seth Rogen (Steve Jobs) is currently circling an undisclosed role in The Disaster Artist, which is directed by Rogen collaborator James Franco (The Interview) and follows the making of cult classic movie The Room. SEE ALSO: Dave Franco to star in The Room movie, The Disaster Artist According to The Tracking Board, Rogen is set […]
Paramount to remake The Ten Commandments
If Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings didn’t satisfy your appetite for seeing the story of Moses on the big screen, then you may be in luck as The Tracking Board is reporting that Paramount Pictures is developing a remake of 1956’s The Ten Commandments. The site reports that, unsurprisingly, the new film will “center […]
Warner Bros. TV adapting The Arcana Chronicles
Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. TV has snapped up the rights to The Arcana Chronicles series of YA novels and has tapped writer Seamus Kevin Fahey (Battlestar Galactica, The Following) to adapt the first book, Poison Princess, for a TV series. Written by Kresley Cole, Poison Princess “is a dystopian tale about a young woman […]
DC announces The Legend of Wonder Woman digital series
Ahead of her big screen debut in next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, DC Entertainment is set to revisit the origins of the Amazon Princess with a new nine-issue digital comic book series The Legend of Wonder Woman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new series from Renae De Liz (Womanthology) “will focus […]
FX bringing Y: The Last Man to the small screen
It looks like Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man is finally heading to the screen, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that FX is teaming with Vaughan for a TV adaptation. Published by DC imprint Vertigo and launching in 2002, the ongoing series ran for 60 issues through to 2008 and “revolves around Yorick Brown […]
