Flickering Myth

Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games

Jennifer Lawrence to team with Adam McKay for medical drama

by

Deadline is reporting that Academy Award winners Adam McKay (The Big Short) and Jennifer Lawrence (Joy) are to team up on an upcoming medical drama. McKay is behind the film and will write and direct with Lawrence taking on the lead role of Elizabeth Holmes, the 32-year-old founder of medical company Theranos, a start-up blood […]

Jennifer Lawrence in talks to join Sandra Bullock for Ocean’s 11 reboot

by

With the release of her new film X-Men: Apocalypse only a few days away, The Tracking Board is reporting that Jennifer Lawrence has lined up a new project, with the Oscar winner in talks to join the all-female reboot of Ocean’s 11. Gary Ross, who directed Lawrence in the first Hunger Games film, is attached to direct the reboot […]

Michael Douglas and Halle Berry join Adrian Lyne’s Silence

by

Adrian Lyne, director of such hits as Fatal Attraction and 9 1/2 Weeks, is returning behind the camera for the first time in fourteen years to helm Silence. Lyne, whose last effort was 2002’s Unfaithful, is reuniting with his Fatal Activation star Michael Douglas for the new film, while Halle Berry (X-Men: Days of Future Past, […]

Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show moving to ITV2

by

Seth MacFarlane’s hit animated show Family Guy is trading homes in the UK this autumn, with news announced today that The Griffins are set for a move to ITV2 from their previous home on BBC Three. Beginning with the fifteenth season of the show, Family Guy will air exclusively on ITV2 in a multi-year deal […]

Idris Elba joins Benicio Del Toro, James Franco, Robert Pattinson and Al Pacino in Harmony Korine’s The Trap

by

The new film from acclaimed director Harmony Korine is gathering pace, with THR reporting that not only has the filmmaker set his cast of actors for The Trap, but that Focus Feautures is set to pre-buy the film before it begins production. The Trap is “a revenge tale set against the backdrop of the Miami […]

Force Majeure set for American remake with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

by

Hollywood remakes of foreign-language films aren’t anything new, so it comes as no surprise that one of the most recent foreign offerings to strike it big is getting the American treatment, according The Hollywood Reporter. Winner of the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, critically acclaimed Swedish film Force Majeure […]

Lee Daniels departs upcoming Richard Pryor biopic

by

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels (The Butler, The Paperboy) has departed the upcoming biopic about legendary comedian Richard Pryor. The Precious director has had to leave the project, currently in pre-production, due to scheduling conflicts with his hit television show Empire (for which he is showrunner) as well as […]

Movie Review – The Neon Demon (2016)

by

The Neon Demon, 2016. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Desmond Harrington and Keanu Reeves. SYNOPSIS: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means […]

Adam Driver set to join Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky, Seth MacFarlane also in talks

by

Deadline is reporting that Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Adam Driver is set to join the cast of Logan Lucky, the new film from formerly retired director Steven Soderbergh. Driver’s Midnight Special co-star Michael Shannon was due to feature in the film but due to scheduling conflicts the actor has had to drop out. […]