The 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards took place in Santa Monica, Los Angeles yesterday, and it was a very good night for Moonlight, with the film sweeping all five awards it was nominated for – Best Feature, Best Director (Barry Jenkins), Best Screenplay (Jenkins), Best Cinematography and Best Editing – as well as receiving the […]
Replicas helmer to direct Jackie Chan in Five Against a Bullet
Back in December it was announced that Jackie Chan had signed on to star in the action thriller Five Against a Bullet, and now comes word that Traitor and Replicas helmer Jeffrey Nachmanoff will be handling directing duties. Five Against a Bullet has been in development for several years, with Bruce Willis attached to star […]
Why The Oscars Are The Most Important Event Of The Year
Neil Calloway claims that the Academy Awards are more important than you might think… Tonight is the 89th Academy Awards, the industry prize giving ceremony that everyone knows as the Oscars (for obscure reasons – nobody is quite sure why they’re called that, with competing origin stories for the nickname). I would argue it’s the […]
Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya joins Steve McQueen’s Widows
Fresh from the box office success of Jordan Peele’s horror movie Get Out [read our review here], actor Daniel Kaluuya has signed on to star in Widows, the new film from Shame and 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen. Widows has been scripted by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn and is based upon 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 […]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Michiel Huisman set for Irreplaceable You
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beauty and the Beast) and Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones) have signed on to star in the romantic drama Irreplaceable You, which is being directed by Stephanie Laing (Veep) from a script by Bess Wohl. Variety reports that the film will see the duo as Abbie and Sam, soul mates who were destined […]
Michael Rooker confirms Yondu return for Avengers: Infinity War
We already knew that Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Groot (Vin Diesel), Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff) are set to feature in Avengers: Infinity War, and now Michael Rooker has revealed we’ll have a full house of the Guardians of the Galaxy, confirming his return as […]
Suits spinoff focussing on Gina Torres’ Jessica Pearson in development
According to TV Line, Universal Cable Productions is in early development on a Suits spinoff, which would revolve around the character of Jessica Pearson, played by Gina Torres in the first six seasons of the legal drama. The site reports that development is in the earliest stages, and USA Network is yet to be pitched […]
Orange Is the New Black’s Madeline Brewer set for Captive State
Orange Is the New Black star Madeline Brewer has joined the cast of Captive State, the upcoming sci-fi thriller from director Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), which is due to go into production this coming week. The film takes place in Chicago “decades after the inhabitancy of alien forces, and explores […]
Michelle Rodriguez to appear in Alita: Battle Angel
Production on the Robert Rodriguez-directed and James Cameron-produced Alita: Battle Angel has wrapped, but Entertainment Weekly brings word that Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez will play the cyborg warrior Gelda in the long-gestating manga adaptation, although her casting had been kept quiet until now. Alita: Battle Angel follows an amnesiac cyborg (Rosa Salazar) who is discovered […]
