According to Deadline, Justin Lin – director of the last four Fast & Furious movies – is being eyed to board HBO’s True Detective, with the site reporting that Lin is wanted to direct at least the first two episodes of the critically acclaimed show’s second season.Cary Fukunaga, who recently won an Emmy for his […]

Zachary Leeman chats with Jack Reher about his new novel Rex’d: Welcome to Scholomance…Jack Reher has graciously taken time to speak with us before about everything from how he became a screenwriter to the public release of his script for the PIN remake.Now the writer finds himself filling some different shoes as a novelist. The […]

Life of Crime, 2013.Directed by Daniel Schechter. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, John Hawkes, Mos Def, Isla Fisher and Will Forte.SYNOPSIS:Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.Life of Crime, […]

Nightcrawler, 2014.Directed by Dan Gilroy.Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Ann Cusack, Kevin Rahm, Anne McDaniels, Riz Ahmed and Michael Hyatt.SYNOPSIS:A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism.A security guard discovers a chain fence being cut by a mysterious individual who assaults him for his watch.  The thief in question is Lou Bloom who sells his stolen […]

The Price We Pay (La Face cachée de l’impôt), 2014.Directed by Harold Crooks.SYNOPSIS:The  documentary explores the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.Corporations like individuals try to avoid paying taxes and are more successful […]

Coming Home (Gui lai), 2014.Directed by Zhang Yimou.Starring Gong Li, Chen Daoming, and Zhang Huiwen. SYNOPSIS:In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, an amnesiac woman (superstar Gong Li) struggles to regain her memory and reconnect with her long-imprisoned husband.A Chinese academic escapes from political prison after a decade of being incarcerated and seeks out his wife and daughter.  […]

Back in July Constantine executive producer Daniel Cerone expressed his ambitions to expand the supernatural side of the DC universe in the upcoming show by introducing the character of The Spectre, and now it has been revealed that Emmett Scanlan (The Fall, Guardians of the Galaxy) has nabbed the role of Jim Corrigan in the […]

As we approach the premiere of the fifth season of The Walking Dead, AMC has announced that it has officially placed a pilot order for the long-gestating companion show / spin-off to the hit zombie series. It will be produced by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman alongside Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert, with […]

According to Deadline, Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have made an offer to British actor Sean Harris (The Borgias, Prometheus) to join the cast of the action sequel Mission: Impossible 5 as the main villain.The latest instalment of the blockbuster spy series reunites Tom Cruise with his Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie, and sees Simon […]

Two actors from very different generations are set to team up for an upcoming comedy. Oscar winner Robert De Niro (Meet The Parents, Goodfellas) and Hollywood heart-throb Zac Efron (Bad Neighbours, The Paperboy) being eyed to star in Dirty Grandpa, the latest film from Dan Mazer, director of I Give It A Year and co-writer […]