Less than a week after the announcement that Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated passion project Pinocchio is moving forward at Netflix, we now have word that another adaptation of the Carlo Collodi fairy tale is moving forward, this time in live-action. Deadline reports that writer-director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Dogman) has cast Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni (Life […]
SPOILERS: Promo and clip from The Walking Dead season 9 episode 5 – ‘What Comes After’
AMC has released a promo and clip from the fifth episode of The Walking Dead season 9, entitled ‘What Comes After’ which marks the final episode for Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes; watch them here… SEE ALSO: Andrew Lincoln says The Walking Dead “will continue to be great” without him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULms-uiqDT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4sltvykf0 Rick is forced to face the […]
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel to start production in January
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle enjoyed an enormously successful box office run across the last holiday season and into this year, going toe-to-toe with Star Wars: The Last Jedi on its way to $962 million in global box office receipts. With those figures making it Sony’s second-biggest release of all time behind Skyfall ($1.1 billion), […]
Blu-ray Review – Candyman (1992)
Candyman, 1992. Directed by Bernard Rose. Starring Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Vanessa Williams, Ted Raimi, Kasi Lemmons, and Eric Edwards. SYNOPSIS: A university grad student studying urban myths becomes the victim of the fabled Candyman after she says his name five times into a mirror. It has been said that the 1990s was […]
The Purge franchise will end with a fifth movie
It looks like the end is in sight for The Purge franchise… until the inevitable reboot, anyway. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, The Purge creator James DeMonaco has revealed that he has one more film in mind which will serve as a conclusion to the popular horror-thriller series. “I have it in my head,” said DeMonaco. […]
Boom! and Cartoon Network announce Ben 10: For Science! graphic novel
Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max are set to return next summer with Boom! Studios and Cartoon Network announcing the upcoming release of the all-new original graphic novel Ben 10: For Science! from the creative team of writer CB Lee and artist Mattia Di Meo. Ben 10 tells the story of fun loving, 10-year-old, Ben Tennyson, his […]
Short Term 12 director to adapt graphic novel The Sculptor
Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle director Destin Daniel Cretton is teaming up with Michael Mitnick (The Giver) and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps to adapt Scott McCloud’s acclaimed graphic novel The Sculptor. THR reports that the story follows David Smith, a struggling New York artist “who makes a deal with Death for the supernatural […]
Thora Birch to star in Lucky McKee’s Kindred Spirits
Deadline is reporting that Thora Birch (Hocus Pocus, American Beauty) has signed on to star in Kindred Spirits, an independent thriller from genre filmmaker Lucky McKee (The Woman, All Cheerleaders Die). Kindred Spirits will see Birch portraying Chloe, “a single mother in a relationship with Alex (Macon Blair). Chloe’s life is turned upside down when […]
Richard Linklater to write and direct Bill Hicks biopic
Acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Boyhood) has signed on to write and direct an as-yet-untitled biopic about the controversial comedian Bill Hicks for Focus Features, Collider has revealed. Texan comedian Hicks is widely regarded as one of the best American stand-up comics of all time, despite his career being cut short when he […]
LEGO’s Harry Potter Diagon Alley November promotional set revealed
LEGO has revealed its Harry Potter Diagon Alley micro build which is available free at LEGO stores and Shop@Home between November 9th and November 21st with qualifying purchases of $99 and over as part of their monthly promotional offers; take a look at the official promotional images here… Recreate the magic of Diagon Alley with […]
