Having brought in Tom Cruise a couple of weeks back to star in The Mummy, it looks like Universal are looking to go after Hollywood’s ‘big guns’ for their Monsters Universe, as Deadline are reporting that Johnny Depp has signed to star in The Invisible Man.There’s no word yet on a director for the movie, but […]
David Koepp to write Indiana Jones 5 for Disney
After the big announcement this week that Indiana Jones will be returning in a fifth movie, we have more news on the project today as Disney has announced the screenwriter to take charge of the newest entry in the franchise.According to The Hollywood Reporter, regular Steven Spielberg collaborator David Koepp has been tapped to write the new […]
Disney’s Bob Iger says new Indiana Jones movie is coming
If all the recent talk from Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford wasn’t enough to convince you that Indiana Jones 5 was on the horizon, Disney’s CEO and Chairman Bob Iger has now confirmed that we will be getting a new adventure featuring the iconic adventurer in the wake of the box office success of Star Wars: […]
Game of Thrones possibly renewed for season 7 and 8, season 6 premiere date confirmed
Though the sixth season of Game of Thrones has yet to premiere, with a now set date of April 24th, HBO is apparently already talking about renewing the series not just for a seventh season, but an eighth as well.At the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena on Thursday night, HBO president Michael Lombardo […]
Simon Kinberg on X-Men: The New Mutants, Deadpool 2, Gambit and the future of the X-Men franchise
Yesterday we brought you some comments from writer-producer Simon Kinberg about the possibility of 20th Century Fox producing another Fantastic Four movie, as well as rumours linking him to the director’s chair on X-Men: Supernova. Well, as the press tour for Logan continues, Kinberg has now been speaking more about the X-Men franchise, offering updates on X-Men: […]
Paramount and Appian Way acquire Truevine as a Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle
Fresh from snapping up the rights to Captain Planet, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is in talks to acquire Beth Macy’s book Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother’s Quest; A True Story of The Jim Crow South, which it will produce with Paramount Pictures as a star vehicle for DiCaprio.Truevine takes place in 1899 […]
Jennifer Lawrence set for Zelda Fitzgerald biopic with Ron Howard
THR is reporting that Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play the jazz age icon Zelda Fitzgerald in a new biopic which is being developed by Inferno helmer Ron Howard.The biopic – currently titled Zelda – has been written by screenwriter Emma Frost (The White Queen), and tells the story of Fitzgerald, a socialite, novelist […]
Quentin Tarantino still planning to “drop the mic” after ten movies
During production on his eighth film The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino revealed that he plans to call time on his directing career after ten movies, stating that “I don’t believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off.”Over the past couple of years, the acclaimed filmmaker has reiterated that stance on […]
Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas set for Unchained
Deadline is reporting that Millennium Films has tapped Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas to star in Unchained, the new film from writer-director Paul Solet (Grace). Described as “a Reservoir Dogs-style thriller”, the film will see the trio as “career criminals who trap themselves in a warehouse with the law closing in, and run into the attack […]
Frank Miller on where he would take the Batman movie franchise
Having penned a number of seminal Batman tales including The Dark Knight Returns and Year One, influential comic book creator Frank Miller almost got to make his mark on the Batman movie franchise back in the early 2000s, teaming up with Darren Aronfosky to write a version of Year One, although it was ultimately scrapped […]
