Deadline is reporting that Brendan Gleeson (Suffragette) has signed on to appear in Live By Night, the currently in production Prohibition-era drama from director Ben Affleck. SEE ALSO: First set photo from Live By Night Based on the book by Dennis Lehane, Live By Night sees Affleck starring as Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of […]
Sony sets The Theory of Everything screenwriter for Freddie Mercury biopic
Sony’s long-gestating biopic of the legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury has found itself a new screenwriter, with The Tracking Board reporting that Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything) has signed on to revive the project and take over scripting duties from Peter Morgan (The Queen). Sacha Baron Cohan had long been attached to the role […]
Jennifer Aniston joins Robert De Niro in The Comedian
Deadline has revealed that Jennifer Aniston has signed on to star alongside Robert De Niro in his passion project The Comedian, which is being directed by Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray). The film will see De Niro as “a toxic insult comic on the order of a Don Rickles”, with Aniston set to […]
Julianne Moore reteaming with Todd Haynes for Wonderstruck
Julianne Moore is set to reunite with Todd Haynes for a fourth time, teaming up with the Carol director for an adaptation of Brian Selznick’s children’s novel Wonderstruck. Here’s the official synopsis for the book: Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious […]
Bill Hader set for David Foster Wallace-inspired comedy Empress of Serenity
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl scribe Jesse Andrews (of both the novel and the screenplay) has just announced his next project, of which he will both write and direct. With Bill Hader now locked in as the lead, Empress of Serenity, which is inspired by David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll […]
Rumuor: Warner Bros. narrows director search on Justice League Dark
Over the past few days we’ve heard several casting rumours for Warner Bros.’ supernatural DC ensemble Justice League Dark, with Ben Mendelsohn tipped for the villain Anton Arcane and Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Ron Perlman and Monica Bellucci said to be up for the roles of Constantine, Etrigan the Demon, Swamp Thing and Madame Xanadu. […]
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 3 Episode 8 Review – ‘Many Heads, One Tale’
Danny Hale Reviews the eighth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 3… That’s how you do it! This week the multiple storylines that we’ve been following in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. all season came together leaving a clear but dangerous path ahead. With our mid-season finale fast approaching and the show on a week’s break for […]
Marvel’s Joe Quesada dismisses rumours that Iron Fist has been scrapped
Last month, a rumour emerged over at Bleeding Cool suggesting that Marvel is going to pull Iron Fist from its Netflix slate, with a subsequent report claiming it would be replaced by a Punisher series. Well, according to Joe Quesada, that’s simply not the case, with Marvel’s CCO brushing aside the rumour when asked by IGN about the […]
Evan Peters on Quicksilver’s “bigger, longer and more detailed” slow-mo sequence in X-Men: Apocalypse
While the initial reveal of Evan Peters’ Quicksilver during the marketing campaign for X-Men: Days of Future Past met with a mixed reception from fans, the character would go on to provide one of the highlight’s of last year’s X-Men movie with his slow-mo action sequence inside the Pentagon. Peters is set to return to […]
Jessica Jones Episode 2 Review – “AKA Crush Syndrome”
Luke Owen reviews the second episode of Jessica Jones… Following on from the breath-taking end to the premiere episode, Jessica Jones now finds herself as the wrong half of a cat and mouse game against Killgrave. His actions have lead to poor old Hope killing her parents and she is now facing the criminal punishment for […]
