Variety is reporting that 1821 Media and Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment are teaming up with Lionsgate for an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel Romeo and Juliet: The War, a futuristic reimagining of the William Shakespeare classic. “What a treat it is to finally announce our partnership with Lionsgate on a project,” […]
FrightFest Presents announces six new titles
Following its launch in October of this year, FrightFest Presents has announced the next six titles set for release in February and March of this year in The Lesson, Last Girl Standing, Landmine Goes Click, Curtain, The Unfolding and Emelie. The Lesson The Lesson is a dark, painful and savagely funny psychological thriller unlike any you’ve […]
Artsploitation Films bringing Bunny the Killer Thing to the States, watch the trailer here
Artspoloitation Films has announced that it is bringing Finnish filmmaker Joonas Makkonen’s horror-comedy Bunny the Killer Thing to the United States with a DVD/Blu-ray/VOD release in early 2016. A rabbit is very cute; a killer rabbit is kind of scary; a 6 foot tale killer rabbit is pretty frightening; and a perpetually horny 6 foot tall […]
Gameplay footage from cancelled Avengers movie tie-in video game
Thanks to Did You Know Gaming, we’ve got a look at some gameplay footage from THQ’s cancelled video game tie-in to Joss Whedon’s Avengers movie, which was in development between 2010 and 2011 before the publisher went bankrupt. The first-person game would have offered four playable characters in Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk and Thor, […]
Peyton Reed talks Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hank Pym will play a huge part
Out and about on the press tour for the home-entertainment release of Ant-Man, director Peyton Reed has been offering up a few words about the 2018 sequel, discussing the relationship between Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) in Ant-Man and the Wasp, as well as confirming that Michael Douglas’ Hank Pym […]
Black Mass director Scott Cooper in talks for spy thriller White Knight
It looks like Black Mass director Scott Cooper may have lined up his next project, with Deadline revealing that he’s in talks with Warner Bros. about directing the spy thriller White Knight, as well as rewriting the original script from Bill Dubuque (The Judge). White Knight follows a disgraced Secret Service agent who takes a job […]
Natalia Cordova-Buckley to play Slingshot in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
According to Point of Geeks, Marvel is adding another member of the Secret Warriors to the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with the site reporting that Natalia Cordova-Buckley is set to play Yo-Yo Rodriguez, a.k.a. Slingshot. Slingshot made her first comic book appearance in Mighty Avengers #13 in 2008, and possesses superhuman speed, although she […]
Rob Liefeld’s Prophet could be heading to the big screen
Rob Liefeld’s creator-owned comic book series Prophet could be set for a big screen adaptation, with The Tracking Board reporting that Liefeld is pitching the project as a movie, with 20th Century Fox apparently showing some interest in what is being described as “a mix between The Martian, Mad Max and Avatar“. The character of […]
Netflix remaking Lost in Space
The cult 60s sci-fi series Lost in Space is heading back to the small screen courtesy of Netflix, with executive producer Kevin Burns confirming that the streaming service is teaming up with Legendary TV for a remake of the show, which is being written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (Dracula Untold), with Neil Marshall […]
Paramount and Hasbro launching writers rooms for G.I. Joe and Micronauts
Earlier this year Paramount and Habsro enlisted Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman to launch a “Writers Room” to generate ideas for the Transformers franchise. Well, it seems the two companies are so pleased with the results that they’re now looking to do the same for two other properties in G.I. Joe and Micronauts. According to Deadline, this […]
