The Huntsman: Winter’s War director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is set to helm an adaptation of Jean-David Morvan and Bengal’s acclaimed graphic novel Naja for Thunder Road Pictures, Entertainment 360 and Nickel City Productions. Scripted by J.P. Davis (The Neighbor), Naja “centers on a beautiful assassin, who is all the more deadly because she is unable to register […]
Shock and Gore: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis and The Hershell Gordon Lewis Feast
Shock and Gore: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis and The Hershell Gordon Lewis Feast are two extraordinary limited edition releases from Arrow Films celebrating the warped mind of horror and exploitation genius Herschell Gordon Lewis. Packed to the rafters with blood drenched shockers, the compendium represents the best of the serial gore producers efforts […]
Samuel L. Jackson joins Travis Fimmel in sci-fi Inversion
Variety is reporting that Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to join the cast of Inversion, a new $130 million-budgeted sci-fi from director Peter Segal (Grudge Match), which has Travis Fimmel (Vikings) and Liu Yifei (Once Upon a Time) also attached to star. The film will revolve around Fimmel’s “street-wise American con man who teams […]
Universal developing live-action Voltron movie with screenwriter David Hayter
With its acquisition of DreamWorks Animation earlier this year, Universal Pictures picked up the rights the 80s cartoon series Voltron, and the studio has continue development on a live-action adaptation of the franchise. David Hayter (X-Men, Watchmen) is set to pen the script for the Voltron movie, although Deadline is reporting that with it being an inherited […]
Stephen Mangan, Heather Graham and Jo Hartley to star in Sky Atlanic comedy series Bliss
Stephen Mangan (Episodes), Heather Graham (Angie Tribeca) and Jo Hartley (This Is England) are set to star in Bliss, a new comedy series from writer-director David Cross (Arrested Development) and Sky Atlantic. Deadline reports that the series stars Mangan as Andrew, “a successful travel writer who, through extenuating circumstances, finds himself living between two sets […]
IDW and IM Global teaming up for action drama LD50
IDW Entertainment and IM Global Television have announced that they are partnering up to co-develop and co-produce LD50, a new action drama from writer and executive producer Scott Dacko. The project will incorporate a TV series, along with a series of comic books. LD50 is described as “an expansive, thought-provoking character-drama set in a world […]
The Goldbergs spinoff in development at ABC
Deadline is reporting that ABC and Sony Pictures TV are developing a spinoff to the hit sitcom The Goldbergs. The potential series would take place in the 1990s and follow Bryan Callen’s recurring character Mr. Mellor and another high school teacher, who become unlikely father figures to the school secretary’s three misfit kids. The spinoff is […]
Netflix explores theory that Breaking Bad is a prequel to The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad are two of AMC’s most successful and critically acclaimed shows, but could they actually be connected? Well, there’s a fan theory doing the rounds that suggests just that, and Netflix has released a video which explores the evidence that Walter White is ultimately responsible for the zombie apocalypse. Watch […]
The Lives of Others director adapting fantasy comic Thorgal
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director of the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, is set to bring the Belgian fantasy comic series Thorgal to the screen, THR is reporting. Created by Belgian writer Jean Van Hamme and Polish artist Grzegorz Roskinski and launching in 1977, Thorgal follows Thorgal Aegirsson, a mysterious child who is found and […]
Katherine Waterston joins Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon in The Current War
Katherine Waterston has signed on to appear alongside Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Michael Shannon (Midnight Special) in The Weinstein Company’s upcoming drama The Current War. The film is being directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and revolves around the real life battle between Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse […]
