Rob Zombie and Mila Kunis have teamed-up to produce a horror comedy series with Starz. The project, entitled Trapped, will see Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects) not only producing but also sitting in the director’s chair. Trapped centers on a rich family who is attack by a murderous cult. The series, created and written by Joey Slamon (Arrested Development), will […]
Ben Daniels and Alfonso Herrera cast in The Exorcist TV pilot
Following on from the casting of Brianne Howey (Scream Queens), TV Line is reporting that Fox’s pilot for The Exorcist has found two priests, with Ben Daniels (House of Cards) and Alfonso Herrera (Sense8) signing on to potential series. Daniels will play Father Marcus, “the intense holy warrior carrying out an occupation that the church […]
Fox places a pilot order for The Exorcist TV series
The Exorcist could be heading to the small screen, with Variety reporting that Fox has ordered a pilot for a new one-hour drama series which is said to be a “modern reinvention” of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 book, which was of course adapted for the screen two years later with William Friedkin’s horror classic. The […]
Katrina: American Crime story casts Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick has been cast in Katrina: American Crime Story, joining Annette Bening in the second season of the anthology crime series from producers Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Broderick, who was last seen in Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply, will portray FEMA Director Michael D. Brown, the man who was in charge […]
Legion Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Chapter 4’
Rachel Bellwoar reviews the fourth episode of Legion… ‘Chapter 4’ opens with a character we’d never met in person, Dr. Bird’s husband, Oliver (Jemaine Clement), introducing the episode as a “five act play,” like this is Masterpiece Theater. More importantly, Oliver gives us something to look for this episode, a common thread to pull all […]
Complacency: The Killer of TV’s Golden Age
Samuel Brace on the death of TV’s Golden Age… It’s all over. Television’s golden age is, it seems, gone. It’s done. Some will argue that it was never here at all, but those people are mostly ardent film fans who could never face that for a while, for a very short time, TV was better than […]
Warner Bros. announces Vixen: The Movie
No, Mari McCabe isn’t joining Nightwing in getting a live-action DC Extended Universe outing, but she is coming to Blu-ray and DVD in animated form, with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announcing Vixen: The Movie for release this May. As you may have guessed from the cover artwork, Vixen: The Movie is actually a home-entertainment release […]
Noah Hawley says X-Men show Legion is “a standalone kind of thing”
Earlier this week it was announced that FX Networks has placed an eight-episode series order for Legion, the upcoming X-Men series from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, and during an interview with Hitfix Hawley has been discussing how the show fits – or rather doesn’t fit – with the X-Men movie universe. “No, it’s not [connected],” […]
Sons of Anarchy spin off Mayans MC casts John Ortiz
Following the casting of Edward James Olmos and Clayton Cardenas, we have now learned via Deadline that John Ortiz has become the latest addition to FX’s Sons of Anarchy spin-off Mayans MC. The spinoff is set to take place on the Mexico border and will explore the inner workings of the Mayans MC charter through the […]
Kit Harington, Liv Tyler, Peter Mullan and Mark Gatiss join the BBC’s Guy Fawkes series Gunpowder
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Liv Tyler (The Leftovers), Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) have signed on to star in the upcoming three-part historical thriller series Gunpowder from the BBC. Scripted by Ronan Bennett (Top Boy), who devised the project with Harington and Daniel West, the series will explore the […]
