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Halo TV series coming to Showtime

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After years of speculation and development hell, the hit video game series Halo will finally be coming to the small screen. Showtime has ordered a 10-episode season for Halo, currently the working title of the series, which will be based upon the Xbox video game franchise. The Halo series comes from Kyle Killen (Awake), Rise of the Planet of the Apes director […]

Steven Spielberg could direct Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic

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Having worked together on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, it is being reported that Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio could be set to reunite on DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic, which his Appian Way company is producing for Lionsgate. According to Deadline, Spielberg is considering directing the project, which has been scripted by David […]

Take a look inside Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in new featurette

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Universal Pictures has released a ‘look inside’ featurette for the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which takes us behind-the-scenes of the dino-blockbuster and includes interviews with Steven Spielberg, director J.A. Bayona, and stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Genetic power has been unleashed in new Jurassic World: […]

Steven Spielberg becomes first director to gross $10 billion at the worldwide box office

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With his latest film Ready Player One hitting $500 million worldwide, Steven Spielberg has become the first director in history whose movies have crossed the $10 billion mark at the global box office. Spielberg has reached the total with 32 movies across his career, giving him a solid lead over the nearest competition, Peter Jackson, […]

Steven Spielberg to direct DC film Blackhawk

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As if the DC news couldn’t get more exciting with the announcement of Cathy Yan directing a Birds of Prey film comes news that Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment have attracted one of the biggest names in directing to their slate. Steven Spielberg, fresh off directing Ready Player One, has been announced to join DC to direct Blackhawk, a […]

Steven Spielberg still hoping to adapt Stephen King’s The Talisman

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Back in 1982, two years prior to its publication, filmmaker Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to The Talisman, a fantasy novel from Stephen King and Peter Straub. As King notes in a piece over at Entertainment Weekly, “several times [Spielberg] came very close to making it”, and it seems the filmmaker isn’t ready to give […]

Steven Spielberg pipped James Cameron to the Jurassic Park movie rights

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During an interview with The Huffington Post, James Cameron has revealed that he attempted to acquire the movie rights to Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, but ultimately lost out to Steven Spielberg by a matter of hours. Cameron went on to reveal that, in hindsight, Spielberg was a better fit for the material, and […]

Steven Spielberg says Indiana Jones 5 will be Harrison Ford’s last outing, open to female-led reboot

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Given that he’ll be pushing eighty years old by the time it hits cinemas, it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to hear that the upcoming Indiana Jones 5 will mark Harrison Ford’s final outing as the bullwhip-cracking, fedora-wearing archaeologist and adventurer. Speaking to The Sun during a promotional interview for his new […]

Ready Player One opens with $181 million worldwide

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Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One has enjoyed a healthy debut at the global box office, pulling in $181.3 million worldwide. Domestically, the pop culture sci-fi grossed $53.2 million across the Thursday to Sunday period to take top spot ahead of Tyler Perry’s Acrimony, and pulled in a further $128 million from […]