The Underwater Welder is a mind–bending graphic novel written by critically acclaimed, award–winning cartoonist, Jeff Lemire, and published by Top Shelf/IDW. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao’s Waypoint Entertainment and Anonymous Content will produce a film adaptation based on the book. The New York Times bestselling graphic novel centers on a man in the dangerous profession of …
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Just received notice that actor and Cult Cinema Icon Bill Paxton has passed away. We’re losing so many of the great ones recently, just tragic!
Deadline reports that Warner Bros has offered the directing job for the Batman franchise to Matt Reeves, who directed Cloverfield and Let Me In, and who just completed War For The Planet Of The Apes over at Fox. The news comes weeks after current Bruce Wayne/Dark Knight Ben Affleck decided that directing and starring in …
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News came across the wire for Star Trek fans, from E Online. The first new Trek series in a decade, Star Trek: Discovery, has found its lead. The exciting news for us is that lead will be The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green, badass sharp shooter on the hit AMC show. According to EW, the casting …
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Lionsgate and CBS Films announced today that Sanaa Lathan (The Perfect Guy, Now You See Me 2) and Shiva Negar (Four In The Morning, The Art Of More) are joining Dylan O’Brien (Deepwater Horizon, The Maze Runner), Academy Award-nominee Michael Keaton (Birdman, Spotlight) and Taylor Kitsch (Lone Survivor, True Detective) in the adaptation of Vince …
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Deadline reports that Cinemax has ordered a pilot for Warrior, a crime drama based on original material written by iconic martial artist and film star Bruce Lee. According to the report, Warrior has been a passion project for the late martial arts icon and Fast & Furious director Justin Lin, who is executive producing the …
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Yahoo News posted an interesting quote from ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey about whether fans are any closer to seeing the long-discussed live-action Star Wars television series on the Disney-owned ABC network anytime soon. “As a fan, I would absolutely love to say yes,” ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey said about a Star Wars series. …
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Well Go USA Entertainment announced that the company has nabbed North American rights for Don Coscarelli’s iconic Phantasm series, including an all-new 4K restoration of the original 1979 cult classic Phantasm: Remastered, never-before-seen HD restorations of 1994’s Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead and 1998’s Phantasm IV: Oblivion, and the long-anticipated debut of the fifth …
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Film directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe today, that young actor Alden Ehrenreich will play Han Solo in Lucasfilm’s 2018 spinoff prequel movie. According to various online reports, the filmmakers said that they auditioned more than 3,000 actors for the role, before settling on Ehrenreich. Variety reports that filmmaker …
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It’s just about that time of year again. A time when pop culture fanatics journey to San Diego, California for Comic Con International, wait on lines for hours, even days, at a time, all to get a glimpse of their favorite celebrities, filmmakers, comic creators, pop culture writers & artists, streaming personalities, and cosplay icons. …
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Troma Entertainment has acquired the action-horror-comedy film Hectic Knife, directed by Greg DeLiso. The new acquisition will be celebrated with a New York City rooftop screening premiere in Brooklyn at Our Wicked Lady on July 28th, 2016 as a pre-party fundraising event for TromaDance, Troma’s Film Festival which runs the weekend of July 29th. A …
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Principal photography has begun on the independent feature Elizabeth Blue. The film, which stars Anna Schafer, Ryan Vincent, Christopher Ashman, Nicola Lambo, Inger Tudor, Kathleen Quinlan and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje centers on Elizabeth (Schafer) a young woman recently released from a mental hospital while coping with ongoing episodes of Schizophrenia. With the love and support of …
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Relativity Films has announced that the company will co-produce Hunter Killer starring Gerard Butler, alongside Millennium Pictures. Dana Brunetti and Ryan Kavanaugh are also executive producing the film with producers Neal Moritz and Tobey Jaffe. Donavan Marsh (Avenged, Spud) will direct the action thriller. Peter Craig and Jamie Moss wrote the script based on the …
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EuropaCorp has released first look images from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The sci-fi epic film is directed by cult favorite filmmaker Luc Besson and stars Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, John Goodman, Herbie Hancock and Kris Wu. Rooted in the classic graphic novel series, Valerian and Laureling, …
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MTV announced today that it will honor Will Smith with the Generation Award during the 2016 MTV Movie Awards. Smith, originally an rapper and television star (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), began his film career with the indie movies Where the Day Takes You & Six Degrees of Separation, but cemented his superstar status in …
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Deadline Hollywood reports that filmmaker Michael Mann has made a deal to launch Michael Mann Books. According to the report, the imprint will develop a series of novels with a stable of writers and the properties will simultaneously be developed for film and television. Mann will also look through his own projects for ideas and …
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Will Smith may have found his next project with Suicide Squad director David Ayer, according to Deadline Hollywood and Variety. They are apparently in talks to join a developing spec script project titled Bright written by screenwriter Max Landis. Ayer, who recently rewrote the original treatment, is attached to direct, with Smith on board to …
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TNT has nabbed rights to Luc Besson and EuropaCorp TV USA’s action television show Artificial Intelligence. The show will be penned by Besson, along with Bill Wheeler. The pair will also executive produce the series. AI marks the first time Besson has written a television series for the US market. The cult favorite director is …
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