With its fourth entry – Despicable Me 3 – edging towards $950 million at the box office, making it the biggest film of the summer, Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me franchise has now topped Shrek to become the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time. The series, which launched in 2010, has grossed a combined […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters adapting Vacation Guide to the Solar System
According to Deadline, Paramount Players has come out victorious in a competitive bidding situation for the rights to Olivia Koski and Jana Grcevich’s book Vacation Guide to the Solar System, tapping Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to pen the script for an adaptation. Described as “Jurassic Park in tone with The […]
The true story behind The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Luke Owen revisits The Garbage Pail Kids Movie… “This is it. The worst. The absolute worst. No story, no character, no plot, just pain. Pure concentrated pain. There has never been anything this bad in the history of man. It should be studied, it should be analysed. It is pure evil. I don’t know whether […]
Fox to satirise TV revivals with Revival
It looks like we can add another revival to Fox’s ever-increasing slate, although this one is a little different… According to Variety, the network has made a put pilot commitment to a single-camera comedy series entitled Revival, which spoofs the recent trend of TV series revivals and follows Elliot, a former child star from an […]
Christopher McQuarrie teams with Gaumout for crime drama STL
Mission: Impossible 6 director Christopher McQuarrie and his wife and producing partner Heather McQuarrie have signed a first-look deal with Gaumont to develop multiple scripted drama projects, Variety has revealed. First up from the deal is a remake of Gaumont’s French crime drama 36 Quai des Orfevres; provisionally titled STL, the series will explore the […]
Richard Stanley may get another chance at The Island of Dr. Moreau
More than twenty years after he was fired from the project three days into shooting, South African filmmaker Richard Stanley has revealed that he may get another opportunity to direct a film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic tale The Island of Dr. Moreau. Stanley spent years developing the 1996 feature starring Marlon Brando and Val […]
Channing Tatum to star in drug cartel drama Bloodlines
Variety is reporting that Channing Tatum has signed on to produce and star in an adaptation of author Melissa Del Bosque’s upcoming book Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty. Bloodlines follows two FBI agents as they work to take down members of a drug […]
Preview of Hi-Fi Fight Club #1
Boom! Studios launches its new series Hi-Fi Fight Club on Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue here… Film and TV director Carly Usdin (Suicide Kale) teams up with breakout artist Nina Vakueva (Lilith’s Word) for a new series that’s music to our ears! New Jersey, 1998. Chris […]
First promo for Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
Australian streaming service Stan has released the first promo for Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. The 10 episode sci-fi anthology series is based on several of the author’s works and features a cast that includes Bryan Cranston, Juno Temple, Janelle Monae, Steve Buscemi, Greg Kinnear, Mireille Enos, Anna Paquin, Terrence Howard, Timothy Spall, Richard Madden, […]
Amazon’s Galaxy Quest TV series back on track with new writer
Having put its plans for a TV revival of the cult 1999 comedy Galaxy Quest on hold following the death of Alan Rickman, it seems that Amazon is once again turning its attention to the planned small screen series. According to THR, writer, actor and comedian Paul Scheer (The Disaster Artist) has signed on to […]
