Baywatch has added some comic relief, with Variety reporting that Jon Bass (Big Tim in Hollywood, FL) has joined the cast of the upcoming big screen remake. Bass will play Ronnie, a character who is described as “funny, awkward and a skilled disco dancer. He falls in love with Kelly Rohrbach’s C.J. Parker character at the […]
Universal snaps up untitled comedy from Family Guy trio
Universal Pictures has snapped up an as-yet-untitled comedy pitch from Family Guy writers Wellesley Wild, Kevin Biggins and Mike Desilets, which is set to be produced by Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark’s Bluegrass Films, the production company behind the upcoming The Free State of Jones and Central Intelligence. Deadline reports that the logline for the […]
Neil Marshall to direct NBC pilot Time
Neil Marshall is set to direct Time, an action-adventure pilot at NBC, which has been created by Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield). Deadline reports that Time is described as “Back to the Future meets Mission: Impossible” and is “a high-octane drama following an unlikely trio who travel through time to battle a […]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead talks 10 Cloverfield Lane
Earlier this month Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Productions dropped a major surprise when it release the trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the sequel / “blood relative” to the cult 2009 monster movie. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the SAG Awards, star Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been speaking about the secretive nature of the movie: […]
Hasbro and Netflix team for animated Stretch Armstrong series
With Hasbro failing to get its planned live-action Stretch Armstrong movie off the ground, it has now been announced that the company is teaming with Netflix for an animated series entitled Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters. Here’s the official series description from the press release: From Hasbro Studios comes an animated action/comedy series about […]
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal reteaming for Detroit race riot crime drama
Deadline is reporting that Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal are reuniting for an crime thriller which will explore the race riots that took place in Detroit in 1967. The duo have previously collaborated on The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and have been developing a film based upon U.S. Army sergeant […]
Dominic Monaghan confirms that David Bowie auditioned for The Lord of the Rings
It’s been rumoured for years that David Bowie had auditioned for a role in Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings, and now it has been confirmed by Dominic Monaghan, who recalled seeing the legendary musician during his own audition for the role of Merry. I was at the Hubbard’s, which is […]
Romeo & Juliet sequel Still Star-Crossed gets pilot order from ABC
If you are itching to know what happens after to the Houses of Montague and Capulet following the deaths of Romeo and Juliet in William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, then ABC may have just the thing for you… The network has placed a pilot order for Still Star-Crossed, an adaptation of Melinda Taub’s 2013 novel of […]
Mary Harron to direct Manson film The Family
Los Angeles-based producers Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin Shulman of Roxwell Films have reassembled the American Psycho filmmaking team for Ed Sanders’s best-selling Charles Manson 1971 novel, The Family, and to add an extra twist, the team has incorporated The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult, a firsthand account from […]
Dan Stevens and Rebecca Hall to star in rom-com Permission
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, The Guest) and Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3, The Gift) are set to star in the romantic comedy Permission. The film is written and directed by Brian Crano (A Bag of Hammers) and follows a couple who decide to sleep with other people for the sake […]
