Matthew McConaughey’s forthcoming film Gold has just locked down a Christmas Day release. The film follows down-and-out modern-day prospector Kenny Wells (McConaughey) as he teams up with eager geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramirez) to search for gold in the uncharted jungles of Indonesia. As Deadline puts it, “Getting the gold was hard, but keeping it […]
Oscar Isaac joins Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
While 2015 marked a breakout year for Oscar Isaac, this year has been a rather quiet one for the actor (as far as movie releases go), with the exception of his villainous appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse. But with a slate of big films, which now includes Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, in the […]
HBO pulls the plug on rock & roll drama series Vinyl
HBO has announced it is pulling the plug on its epic music drama Vinyl. The Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger-executive-produced series, which recently saw the exit of showrunner Terence Winter back in April, had previously been renewed for Season 2 but, according to THR, those plans have now been scrapped. Vinyl followed New York record […]
Jake McDorman joins Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd in Ideal Home
For those who haven’t yet heard, Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan are teaming up for new dramedy from Hamlet 2 writer and director Andrew Fleming , entitled Ideal Home. It has now just been announced that Jake McDorman, star of Limitless, will be joining the comedic duo for the forthcoming film. Ideal Home will follow […]
Milla Jovovich to costar alongside director James Franco in Future World
Milla Jovovich has joined the cast of a new sci-fi indie film called Future World. She will costar alongside James Franco, who is also set to direct the film with Bruce Thierry Cheung. Future World follows a young noble boy, accompanied by his bodyguard, who ventures out into the depths of this future world to […]
Woody Harrelson joins George Clooney’s Suburbicon
George Clooney’s Suburbicon has just picked up Woody Harrelson. According to The Wrap, the former True Detective star has now officially come aboard as part of the forthcoming crime comedy film, scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen. Suburbicon is set in the quiet family town of Suburbicon in the ‘50s. The film centers on a […]
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later limited series followup coming to Netflix, watch the announcement trailer here
We all know what happened on the last day of camp back in the summer of ‘81. Come to think of it, we also know what went down on the very first day at Camp Firewood. Many of us have been wondering what ever came of Beth, Coop, McKinley, Ben, Susie, Andy, Gail, Lindsay, Neil, […]
Paul Thomas Anderson has supposedly directed a Radiohead video
Film auteur Paul Thomas Anderson has been taking, making and then sometimes even dropping from a host of atypical projects since his last feature Inherent Vice. He shot two music videos, Sapokanikan and Divers, for Joanna Newsom, he filmed a highly-secretive music documentary Junun and he was even attached to direct the live-action Pinocchio remake […]
St. Vincent making directorial debut in female-helmed horror film XX
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalists Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, is about to make a horror film. Yes, you heard that correctly, the brilliant mind behind “Digital Witness” is set to make her directorial debut in an all female-helmed horror anthology film called XX. Clark has officially just boarded the genre film anthology to be […]
Rainn Wilson & Christopher Backus join Cameron Crowe’s Roadies
The forthcoming hour-long comedy series Roadies just picked up a couple more cast members. The Office star Rainn Wilson has officially signed on for a recurring role, as has Christopher Backus. Roadies is the new series, written and directed by Cameron Crowe, expected to air on Showtime in June. The show follows a group of […]