The Tracking Board is reporting that Fast & Furious 7 director James Wan is set to produce a new Mortal Kombat film for New Line Cinema. Wan, whose Furious 7 grossed over $1.5 billion this summer, will serve as one of the producers on the reboot, working alongside New Line and Broken Road who a […]
UPDATED: Homer and Marge are not seperating in upcoming episode of The Simpsons
In an announcement that has sent parts of the internet into meltdown, the new season of The Simpsons is set for a dramatic shake-up with news that Homer and Marge are to “legally separate” in an upcoming episode. In an interview with Variety about the show’s 27th season, executive producer Al Jean has stated that in […]
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem to star in Escobar
In casting news coming out of Cannes, Deadline is reporting that Javier Bardem (Skyfall) and Penelope Cruz (Zoolander 2) are set to star in upcoming film Escobar. Based on a true story, Escobar will be directed by Fernando Leon de Aranoa (A Perfect Day) who has also written the script for the film. The story tells of […]
Tom Hooper to direct film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats
Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is set to helm a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed long-running musical Cats, reports The Wrap. Working Title producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are behind the film, and previously worked with director Hooper on 2012’s Les Miserables. Lloyd Webber’s Cats is based on the collection of […]
Christopher Nolan discusses film, film prints and projectors
Despite Hollywood’s transition to digital, director Christopher Nolan has always spoken out about his love of physical film and films prints, which led to Paramount Pictures taking big steps last year to make sure his latest film Interstellar got a “film-print” run as well as a digital one. In fact, just last summer Nolan, as […]
Kristen Stewart’s Equals sparks bidding war after TIFF screening
Following its debut at the Venice Film Festival, there was some buzz around the sci-fi thriller Equals and now after its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, a bidding war has broke out between distributors for the film’s rights. Equals stars Kristen Stewart (American Ultra) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Apocalypse) and “tells the story […]
Tarsem Singh to direct entire series of Emerald City
It looks like Self/less director Tarsem Singh has lined-up his next project, with news from Deadline that the filmmaker is set to direct the entire series of Emerald City for NBC. Emerald City is a long-gestating television series based on the classic story of The Wizard of Oz that has now been taken over for […]
Jenny Slate to star in new comedy series on FX
Comedian and star of last year’s indie comedy hit Obvious Child, Jenny Slate, will star in a new comedy show for FX. What’s more, the show is to be co-created by Slate’s Obvious Child writer Elisabeth Holm and the film’s director Gillian Robespierre. The project is said to tell the story of two native New […]
Boardwalk Empire’s Jack Huston linked to The Crow remake
A seamlessly endless string of Hollywood actors have been linked to one of the longest-mooted screen remakes in recent memory, The Crow. With the latest name, Luke Evans, leaving the role earlier in the year, it seemed as though the people behind the new version would be searching forever. Well, Deadline is reporting that the […]
Halloween “recalibration” coming from Saw writers
With many of horror’s classic big-bads being rejuvenated and renewed many times over, it seems that one of the genre’s biggest figures, Michael Myers, is set to return in a new film from Dimension Films. The Hollywood Reporter is today reporting that a new chapter of the Halloween franchise is set to go before the […]
