Deadline reports Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) has been cast as the lead in an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s Across The River And Into The Trees from director Paula Ortiz (The Bride). Schreiber will play Colonel Richard Cantwell, “Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical lead character who is an American officer serving in Italy right after World War II, facing up to […]
Adult Swim cancels The Venture Bros. after 7 seasons
After seven seasons and 17 years on the air, Adult Swim has cancelled its longest running show The Venture Bros. Series creator Christopher McCulloch (AKA Jackson Publick) made the announcement on Twitter. Premiering in 2003 with a pilot and the series proper in 2004, The Venture Bros. followed the Venture family – Dr. Venture and his two […]
Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie to re-team for spy thriller Five Eyes
Action star Jason Statham (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) and director Guy Ritchie (The Gentlemen) are set to re-team once again on Miramax’s spy thriller Five Eyes. The pair have collaborated on several films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Ritchie’s upcoming Wrath of Man. Statham will star as MI6 guns-and-steel agent Orson […]
Kit Harrington stars in trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Criminal
Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of its police procedural anthology series Criminal. The upcoming season sees Game of Thrones‘ Kit Harrington as a suspect in a new set of mysteries. Watch the trailer below… Criminal follows a new take on the police procedural formula as it focuses entirely on the interrogation process between the investigators […]
Amazon picks up Awkwafina and Karen Gillan action comedy Shelly
Jumanji: The Next Level co-stars Awkwafina and Karen Gillan are set to team up again in the upcoming action-comedy Shelly with Awkwafina as an assassin who targets her high school bully, and Deadline reports that Amazon Studios has picked up the rights to the film. Shelly follows the two women “a decade after an embarrassing prom […]
Star Trek: Discovery casts non-binary and trans actors Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander
CBS All Access has announced two new additions to the cast of Star Trek: Discovery that makes franchise history as the series has added non-binary actor Blu del Barrio and trans actor Ian Alexander (The OA) who will play Star Trek‘s first non-binary and trans characters in the upcoming third season. Del Barrio will play the non-binary […]
Marvel’s Avengers adds Kate Bishop as DLC character
With one day left until the release of Marvel’s Avengers on consoles and PC, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics has revealed on the Playstation Blog that the first post-launch DLC character will be Kate Bishop, Hawkeye’s young protégé, in Operation Taking Aim. Operation Marvel’s Avengers: Kate Bishop — Taking AIM will directly advance from the conclusion […]
Emma Roberts to produce and star in Tell Me Lies for Hulu
Emma Roberts (Scream Queens) has just made a first-look deal with streamer Hulu and her first order of business is to star in and produce a series adaptation of Carola Loverings’ 2018 novel Tell Me Lies. The novel follows “the story of a young woman’s obsession with a man who’s good at being charming. When […]
Julianne Moore joins Dear Evan Hansen
The cast of the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway stage musical Dear Evan Hansen continues to grow as the project has added Julianne Moore (After The Wedding). Ben Platt (The Politician), who performed the title role on stage, is expected to star in the film as Evan Hansen, a sociacially-awkward teenager who unintentionally gets caught […]
Pierce Brosnan to star in true WWII veteran story The Last Rifleman
Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is set to star in The Last Rifleman, based on the true story of World War II veteran Bernard Jordan according to Deadline. Brosnan will portray Artie Crawford, “a World War II veteran living in a care home in Northern Ireland who has just lost his wife. On the 75th anniversary of […]