Last May it was announced that director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin are set to reboot their 1994 sci-fi Stargate with a potential new trilogy, and now the duo have found their screenwriters for the new film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are in final negotiations to pen […]
300 and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra screenwriter to pen Robotech movie
A big screen adaptation of Robotech has been in various stages of development for the best part of a decade, and it now looks like the movie version of the classic 80s anime series is finally moving forward. According to Deadline, 300 and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra screenwriter Michael Gordon has signed on […]
Officer Downe adaptation secures financing, will be directed by Slipknot’s M. Shawn Crahan
The planned live-action adaptation of Joe Casey and Chris Burnham’s Officer Downe has secured financing, with Life Out Loud Films set to fund the project, which is being directed by M. Shawn Crahan, drummer and co-founder of Slipknot. “Very excited to dive back into badass muscular cinema akin to what we did in Crank,” said […]
Big Hero 6, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Game of Thrones among the winners of the 2015 VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society held the 13th annual VES Awards in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, with Disney’s animated Marvel adaptation Big Hero 6 claiming six gongs and 20th Century Fox’s simian sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and HBO’s Game of Thrones taking home three awards apiece. Check out the full list […]
Michael Keaton on the uproar over his casting as Batman
When Ben Affleck was announced as taking on the role of The Dark Knight in next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the negative reaction to the news wasn’t the first time that Warner Bros. had found itself under fire for its casting of the Caped Crusader. Michael Keaton suffered a similar fate as […]
Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone and Bella Heathcote join Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Nicolas Winding Refn is set to reunite with Drive star Christina Hendricks in the cast of his upcoming female-led horror The Neon Demon, while Keanu Reeves (John Wick) has also signed on for a role along with Jena Malone (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1) and Bella Heathcote (Dark Shadows). The four new names […]
An all-our arms race talks hold of Cybertron in Transformers: Combiner Wars
IDW has announced that the biggest Transformers publishing event of the year, Transformers: Combiner Wars, is set to get underway next month in the pages of the main Transformers title, along with the new series Transformers: Windblade. “We’re blowing the Transformers universe wide open with this series: showcasing new characters and new worlds in a […]
Steven S. DeKnight talks Daredevil’s black costume, The Kingpin and more
Yesterday Marvel released the trailer for the upcoming Netflix series Daredevil [watch it here], which is set to open up a new corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock takes to the streets of Hell’s Kitchen for the first step on the road to The Defenders. Following the trailer debut, IGN […]
Jimmy Fallon reunites Saved By the Bell cast
Jimmy Fallon took a trip to Bayside High on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show, reuniting the cast of the popular 90s sitcom Saved By the Bell – well, Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris), Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (Kelly Kapowski), Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie Spano), Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater) and Dennis Haskins (Principal Belding) at least – for a […]
The Joker to debut in Gotham this season
Prior to the premiere of Gotham, showrunner Bruno Heller suggested that we’d have a lengthy wait on our hands before we saw the introduction of the Clown Prince of Crime, but it seems those plans have changed as Heller has now revealed that The Joker could be making his debut in the first season of […]
