Having been in development for some time now, it looks like cameras will finally start rolling on the Assassin’s Creed movie later this year, with producer and star Michael Fassbender telling Coming Soon that production on the video game adaptation will kick off in September. “You say it’s a long time but what I’ve found–it’s […]
Lionsgate pushes Power Rangers reboot back to 2017
Fans looking forward to seeing the Power Rangers back on the big screen will have to wait a little longer, with Lionsgate and Saban Brands pushing the feature film reboot back six months from its original date of July 22nd 2016 to January 2017. The reboot of the long-running TV series was originally being developed […]
David Duchovny says The X-Files revival will be “like a six-hour movie”
Back in March it was confirmed that Fox is to reopen The X-Files with a new six-part series that will reunite David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. As the new episodes gear up to go into production this summer, Duchovny has been talking to THR about the […]
The Week in Spandex – Avengers: Age of Ultron, Civil War, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, The Punisher, Silver Surfer and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Luke Cage, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, The Punisher, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse, Silver Surfer, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Gotham, The Flash, Arrow, Constantine […]
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn wrote a Silver Surfer treatment for Fox
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has taken to Facebook to reveal that back in the late 1990s he spent time working on another of Marvel’s cosmic properties, producing a treatment for a Silver Surfer movie for 20th Century Fox. “Little known fact: When I first moved to LA in 1999, one of the […]
Marvel’s Kevin Feige talks Spider-Man, Daredevil and Inhumans
During a promotional interview with Crave Online to promote the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has been speaking about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discussing the upcoming debut of Spider-Man, the chances of Charlie Cox’s Daredevil making the jump to the big screen, and the introduction of […]
Cult sci-fi film Cube set for remake at Lionsgate
Lionsgate is reportedly readying a remake of the cult 1997 Canadian sci-fi film Cube. Jon Spaihts (Prometheus) is on-board as one of the producers, with director Saman Kesh, whose short Controller has turned some heads in Hollywood, set to make his feature debut with the film, which will be entitled Cubed. Philip Gawthorne, who has […]
Warner Bros. secures rights to The Forever War, set to star Channing Tatum
Deadline has reported that the bidding war between Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures over the 41-year-old sci-fi novel The Forever War by Joe Haldeman has been won by Warner Bros. Richard Edlund had held the rights to the book for around 27 years, and the project had previously been set up at Fox for […]
The Omen TV show moves from Lifetime to A&E
Deadline is reporting that the new TV show based on the classic horror film The Omen, entitled Damien, is set to change from Lifetime to A&E. The straight-to-series drama is set to be a direct follow-up to the original The Omen, which was directed by Richard Donner (Superman) and starred Gregory Peck. The show had […]
J.K. Simmons and Emile Hirsch to star in comedy The Runaround
Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) is to co-star with Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild) in The Runaround, a new comedy from director Gavin Wiesen (The Art of Getting By) and written by Seth W. Owen (Morgan). The film will see Simmons star as a workaholic father who has to team up with her daughter’s ex-boyfriend […]
