Deadline is reporting that Universal Pictures has snapped up the rights to The Cruel Prince, the upcoming fantasy novel from Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. The book, which will be published in January, will mark the first instalment of a new series called Folk of the Air, and follows the journey of a human […]
Creative team for Kurt Sutter’s “nuns with guns” revenge series Sisters of Sorrow revealed
Back in November it was announced that Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter has teamed with BOOM! Studios for the new comic book series Sisters of Sorrow, and now the publisher has announced that Bram Stoker Award-nominated novelist Courtney Alameda (Shutter) and artist Hyeonjin Kim will be serving as the creative team on the “nuns with […]
Aidan Turner joins The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Deadline is reporting that Poldark star Aidan Turner has signed on to the cast of The Man Who Killer Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, which is being directed by Robert D. Krzykowski and also stars Sam Elliott. The film will follow the story of an American soldier called Calvin Barr (Turner), who leaves his true love […]
Freida Pinto has joined The Path for season 3
Freida Pinto has joined the cast of The Path for the show’s third season. The Hulu drama revolves around a mysterious cult headed by Hugh Dancy’s Cal Roberts, and how Eddie, the father of a family wrapped up in its movement, begins to struggle with his faith in what the cult calls Meyerism. Pinto will […]
Netflix orders 90s coming-of-age dramedy Everything Sucks!
Deadline is reporting that Netflix has placed a ten-episode series order for Everything Sucks!, a half-hour coming-of-age dramedy set in the 1990s. The show hails from writers Ben York Jones (Like Crazy) and Michael Mohan (Save the Date) and is described as a quirky, funny coming-of-age story that follows two groups of high school misfits, an […]
The Shape of Water officially rated R, Guillermo del Toro says it’s not a horror
Guillermo del Toro has announced on Twitter that his latest film titled The Shape of Water has received an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. The rating falls in line with most of the auteur’s previous works and he seemingly has no desire to cut the film down to PG-13.He also clarified the genre […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Laura Harrier joins Fahrenheit 451
Spider-Man: Homecoming star Laura Harrier has become the latest addition to the cast of Fahrenheit 451, the upcoming HBO movie adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel.According to BlackFilm, Harrier will play Mildred “Millie” Montag, the wife to protagonist Montag, played by Michael B. Jordan (Creed). Also featuring in the cast are Michael Shannon (Man of […]
Netflix could save Triple Frontier with the help of Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck
Netflix and the two Oscar winning brothers Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck could resurrect the seemingly doomed thriller Triple Frontier.We learnt in the middle of last month that the J.C. Chandor directed film had lost its studio Paramount and stars Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum.But now it seems, in an exclusive by Deadline Hollywood, that […]
Josh Duhamel to make directorial debut with The Buddy Games for WWE Studios
Transformers: The Last Knight star Josh Duhamel is set to make his directorial debut on The Buddy Games, a new film from WWE Studios, which will see him starring alongside WWE Superstar Sheamus and Nick Swardson (Reno 911!). Deadline reports that the fil follows “a group of thirtysomething friends who reunite to play the Buddy Game. […]
New Line sets screenwriter for The Conjuring 3
Given that the first two instalments have grossed almost $640 million worldwide, you won’t be surprised to hear that New Line Cinema is officially moving forward with The Conjuring 3, hiring David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2) to pen the script. According to Deadline, James Wan is expected to return to produce the third instalment, […]
