EA has announced that it is closing its Visceral Games studio, and as a result it will be retooling its long-gestating Star Wars video game, which has been in development since 2014 under Amy Henning (Uncharted).“In its current form, [the game] was shaping up to be a story-based, linear adventure game,” writers Patrick Söderlund, Executive […]
Zak Penn reveals that he may be writing a new Marvel movie
During an interview with Screen Rant to promote his new movie Ready Player One [read our review here], The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers screenwriter Zak Penn has revealed that he’s about to start work on a mystery new Marvel project.“I think I’m probably gonna come back,” said Penn. “I think I’m gonna do one […]
Transformers’ Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel to star in Think Like a Dog
Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-stars Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel are set to reunite on the upcoming family comedy Think Like a Dog, Variety has revealed.The film is being written and directed by Gil Junger (10 Things I Hate About You) and “follows a 12-year-old tech prodigy whose science fair experiment goes […]
Scarface remake enlists new screenwriter
Last month it was announced that Universal’s long-gestating Scarface remake looked to be getting back on track, with filmmaker Antoine Fuqua returning to the project almost a year after vacating the director’s chair in favour of The Equalizer 2.Now, according to Deadline, the studio has enlisted screenwriter Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Miss Bala, Contralepo) to pen a rewrite […]
Malik Vitthal to direct “Get Out meets End of Watch” supernatural thriller Body Cam
Variety is reporting that Malik Vitthal, director of the short films Leela, Watts and Volts, and Pastor Stuart, is set to make his directorial debut on Body Cam, a supernatural thriller for Paramount Players.The film is described as “Get Out meets End of Watch” and follows several LAPD officers who find themselves “haunted by a […]
Taken director to helm Claes Bang in sci-fi thriller The New Mrs. Keller
Taken director Pierre Morel has signed on to direct Claes Bang (The Square) in the sci-fi thriller The New Mrs. Keller, Variety has revealed.Based on a spec script by Mark Hogan, The New Mrs. Keller takes place in the near future and “follows the smart, beautiful, and sophisticated titular Keller. She ensnares her husband, prominent […]
Adventure Gnome arrives on Android and iOS
Mobile developer D3 Go have announced that their latest title Adventure Gnome is now available on Google Play and the App Store. This new adventure will see players tap their way through mines to help a gnome rebuild a destroyed garden.Professional garden gnome Rolf Digstrom is in a spot of difficulty after a rogue ice cream […]
Black Panther overtakes The Avengers to become highest-grossing superhero movie of all time in the U.S.
It may lose top spot at the North American box office this weekend to Pacific Rim Uprising, but it’s celebration time for Disney and Marvel Studios as Black Panther has officially overtaken 2012’s The Avengers to become the highest-grossing superhero movie of all time in the United States.By close of play on Saturday, the Chadwick […]
McG to direct sci-fi adventure Rim of the World for Netflix
Director McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) is gearing up to shoot the Netflix sci-fi adventure movie Rim of the World, with principal photography set to get underway in May.The film follows “four misfit teenagers who become unlikely allies when their summer camp experience is cut short by an alien invasion. The teens must work together, […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation returns to comics for Terra Incognita
After the success of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Mirror Broken, which introduced the alternate “Mirror” villainous version of the U.S.S. Enterprise crew to comics, and the excitement around the upcoming five-week mega-event Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror, IDW has announced that it will be returning to the original “prime” universe this August for Star Trek: The Next Generation: […]
