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Warner Bros. to bring Keeper of the Lost Cities to the big screen

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Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Shannon Messenger’s bestselling fantasy book series Keeper of the Lost Cities. Always on the lookout for future blockbuster IP, Deadline report that the studio has acquired the rights with the intention of turning it into a tentpole franchise. The Keeper of the Lost Cities follows Sophie, a 12-year-old […]

A new Matrix movie is in the works from Drew Goddard and Lana Wachowski

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Get ready to re-enter the Matrix as Warner Bros. is developing a new Matrix film with Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) directing and Matrix co-creator/writer/director Lana Wachowski executive producing. The Matrix – which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary – told the story of a dystopian future where humanity is controlled by a race of AI machines and plugged […]

David Robert Mitchell’s new film with Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway titled Flowervale Street

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After casting Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Anne Hathaway (Interstellar) in his new film, David Robert Mitchell’s new film has been given a title and release date. Flowervale Street will star McGregor and Hathaway in the lead roles in a film described as “a family adventure set in the 1980s involving dinosaurs.” No other […]

Will Forte says we’ll probably never get to see the “incredible” Coyote vs. Acme

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Coyote vs. Acme star Will Forte has opened up about the Warner Bros. tax write-off Looney Tunes comedy, calling the film “incredible”, but adding that it’s looking like audiences will never get to see it. When Warner Bros. dropped a giant anvil off a cliff edge, straight on top of Coyote vs. Acme, making it […]

Mysterious creatures stalk Dakota Fanning in Ishana Night Shyamalan’s The Watchers trailer

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Warner Bros. has dropped a creepy first trailer for Ishana Night Shyamalan’s debut feature The Watchers, which stars Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds) as a young woman who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland, only to be pursued by mysterious creatures each night. Based in the novel by A.M. Shine, The […]

Tom Cruise to lead new Alejandro G. Iñárritu film for Warner Bros.

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It seems Tom Cruise may have just landed his first project at Warner Bros. under his new deal with studio. Per Deadline, WB and Legendary Entertainment are in talks for an original film from The Revenant director Alejandro G. Iñárritu with Cruise as the lead. The untitled film, which Iñárritu wrote with Sabina Berman and his Birdman co-writers […]

Paul Thomas Anderson to direct Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn & Regina Hall in untitled Warner Bros. film

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Here’s some news to get cinema aficionados excited; Paul Thomas Anderson has lined up Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Regina Hall to star in his as-yet-untitled movie for Warner Bros.  According to Deadline the There Will be Blood director will begin production on January 21 in California, and will work from his own script, as […]

Hellraiser’s David Bruckner reimagining The Blob for Warner Bros.

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A reimagining of horror-classic The Blob is bubbling away at Warner Bros., and they’ve tasked Hellraiser and The Night House filmmaker David Bruckner with writing and directing the film.  According to The Wrap, Bruckner will bring the amorphous shape to the big-screen for a third time. The original was released in 1958 and featured Steve […]

Warner Bros. chief says dropping Batgirl and more took a lot of “courage”

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If you think scrapping projects like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme as tax right-offs was easy, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says think again. Zaslav appeared at the New York Times Dealbook Summit in New York this past week and dropped some major headlines concerning his controversial choice to can Batgirl, the Scoob! sequel […]