Rounding up the weekend’s big news stories… THE DARK TOWER MARKETING BEGINS It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the marketing campaign for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s fantasy epic The Dark Tower is about to begin, with the first teaser poster arriving online on Sunday. Now, how about that trailer… […]
Boom! Studios announces new horror series The Unsound
Boom! Studios has announced the upcoming launch of the new horror series The Unsound from writer Cullen Bunn (X-Men: Blue, Deadpool, The Sixth Gun) and artist Jack T. Cole. Debuting in June, The Unsound follows the journey of Ashli, a young woman caught in the middle of a strange supernatural conspiracy that reveals to her […]
Willa Fitzgerald and Dylan Bruno join Behind Enemy Lines TV pilot
With Fox in development on a small screen adaptation of the 2001 action thriller Behind Enemy Lines, Deadline is reporting that Willa Fitzgerald (Scream) and Dylan Bruno (Numb3rs) have signed on to appear in the pilot, which is being directed by McG (Charlie’s Angels) from a script by Nikki Toscano (Revenge). Behind Enemy Lines is […]
10 Cloverfield Lane director joins the Space Race
Universal Pictures is looking to snap up the sci-fi spec script Space Race from writer Daniel Kunka (12 Rounds), which has 10 Cloverfield Lane helmer Dan Trachtenberg attached to direct. Plot details for Space Race are being kept under wraps, but Deadline reports that it is being described as “a high concept with four-quadrant tentpole […]
Emily VanCamp to star in Fox medical drama The Resident
Revenge and Captain America star Emily VanCamp has signed on for the lead role in The Resident, a new medical drama pilot from FOX, which has been written by Amy Holden Jones, Haley Schore and Roshan Sethi. The Wrap reports that the series will follow an idealistic young doctor (Matt Czuchry; The Good Wife) as […]
Alyssa Milano cast in The CW pilot Insatiable
Deadline is reporting that Alyssa Milano has signed on to appear alongside Dallas Roberts and Debby Ryan in Insatiable, a new pilot at The CW which is written and executive produced by former Dexter co-executive producer Lauren Gussis. The site reports that the project is inspired by real-life Southern lawyer and top beauty pageant coach […]
Beauty and the Beast opens to $350 million worldwide
Disney’s latest live-action adaptation Beauty and the Beast is off to a stellar start at the global box office, pulling in $350 million around the world and setting itself up for a potential $1 billion plus haul. The film has broken records on both sides of the Atlantic; domestically, it grossed $174 million across the […]
Logan crosses the half billion dollar mark at the worldwide box office
It may have found itself slipping down the charts these past couple of weeks thanks to Beauty and the Beast and Kong: Skull Island, but 20th Century Fox’s latest X-Men offering Logan continues to pull in the cash at the box office, having crossed the half billion dollar mark this weekend. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine swansong […]
Movie Review – Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Beauty and the Beast, 2017. Directed by Bill Condon. Starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Ewan McGregor, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Kline, Sonoya Mizuno, Hattie Morahan, and Audra McDonald. SYNOPSIS: An adaptation of the Disney fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch’
Shaun Munro reviews the third episode of Iron Fist… After a mediocre season premiere and flat-out bad second episode, Iron Fist hopes to change things up as it swaps out writer Scott Buck and director John Dahl for Quinton Peeples (Flashforward, 11.22.63) and Tom Shankland (House of Cards, Luke Cage) respectively. From the outset, things are definitely […]
