Having finished wrapping Star Wars: Episode VIII, fans have been wondering when we’ll hear the official title for the movie. However according to Daisy Ridley, we won’t find out for “a while yet”. “I heard a title, but I don’t know if it’s going to be that,” she told the presenters of My Dad Wrote a […]
Gotham casts the Mad Hatter’s sister for season 3
Last month it was announced that Benedict Samuel (The Walking Dead) is portraying the Mad Hatter in the upcoming third season of Gotham, and now Variety has revealed that the Batman prequel series has cast Naian Gonzalez Norvind (The Devil You Know) as Jervis Tetch’s younger sister Alice. Norvind will debut in the third episode […]
Community’s Dan Harmon has contributed to the Doctor Strange script
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Dan Harmon has contributed to the screenplay for Marvel’s upcoming Phase Three origin story Doctor Strange, with the Community co-creator brought in to provide some last minute rewrites on the superhero blockbuster. According to the site, Harmon came on board after post-production had wrapped, and contributed pages for “additional […]
Director Gareth Edwards discusses the meaning of the title for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
We’re just a few months away from the release of Disney and Lucasfilm’s first Star Wars anthology movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and during an interview with Empire Online, director Gareth Edwards has been discussing the meaning of the title. “I’d been thinking about it,” states Edwards. “What does it mean? ‘Rogue One’ […]
Todd Lasance to play The Rival in The Flash season 3
TV Line is reporting that Todd Lasance (The Vampire Diaries) is set for a recurring role in season three of The Flash, where he’ll portray The Rival, a black-suited Speedster (who is presumably the same character spotted in these set photos back in July). Initial reports has suggested that Lasance has been cast as Savitar, […]
Doug Liman to direct Justice League Dark movie, exits Gambit
It looks like Doug Liman has grown tired of waiting for 20th Century Fox to get its oft-delayed Gambit movie off the ground, as it has been revealed that the Edge of Tomorrow director is swapping the X-Men franchise for the DC Extended Universe – and more specifically, the supernatural side of the DCEU. Variety […]
Jóhann Jóhannsson to score Blade Runner sequel
Iceland Monitor is reporting that Academy Award-winning composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything) is set to score the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, having previously collaborated with director Denis Villeneuve on Prisoners, Sicario and the upcoming Arrival. The as-yet-untitled follow-up to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic is based upon a script by original scribe Hampton Fancher […]
Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano to star in Get Shorty TV series
Deadline is reporting that Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) and Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) are in final talks with Epix about joining its upcoming Get Shorty TV adaptation. The 10-episode hourlong is described as a “reimagining” of Elmore Leonard’s 1990 novel, which was brought to the big screen in 1995, with Barry Sonnenfeld directing a cast […]
Jennifer Lawrence tops Forbes list of highest-paid actresses for second year in a row
For the second year in a row, Jennifer Lawrence has topped Forbes’ list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, with the X-Men and The Hunger Games star banking $46 million over the past twelve months. The site reports that the bulk of Lawrence’s income came from her backend deal on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – […]
Steve McQueen to receive BFI Fellowship at the London Film Festival
The British Film Institute and the BFI London Film Festival have announced today the Steve McQueen, the Turner Prize-winning video artist and Oscar-winning producer, director and screenwriter, is to receive the BFI Fellowship during the London Film Festival’s annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 15th. “I first walked into the BFI library and cinema 28 […]
