Scarface remake may have a director

Deadline reports that, because both the 1932 Chicago bootlegging film and 1983 Miami cocaine-dealing versions of Scarface are such enduring cult classics Universal Pictures has been refining the script with several screenwriters, while keeping the new movie’s details under wraps. According to their report the studio is in heated talks with British director David Yates, ….

TV show based on DC’s Flash confirmed for CW Network

Variety reports that CW president Mark Pedowitz, speaking at the network’s TCA session on Tuesday, confirmed the development of Flash, a drama project based on the DC character. The show will apparently be seeded into the CW’s superhero drama Arrow. The Flash TV show introduction continues The CW trend of leveraging a property with a ….

New Bloodsport and The Crow ‘reinventions’ coming to theaters soon

According to reports, Relativity Media is preparing to shoot a remake of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1988 cult classic hit Bloodsport, with V for Vendetta director James McTeigue taking the helm. According to the report, Relativity will produce the new Bloodsport with Edward R. Pressman, Chris Brown, Alberto Lensi, Australia-based Pictures in Paradise and Trans-American Films ….

Tom Cruise sci-fi action thriller Yukikaze will be adapted from epic Japanese novel

Variety reports that Warner Bros. is taking Tom Cruise‘s sci-fi action thriller Yukikaze into production with Wrath of the Titans screenwriter Dan Mazeau set to adapt the original Japanese novel by Chohei Kambayashi. The Studio nabbed film rights to Kambayashi’s Yukikaze earlier this year and attached Cruise to star in the movie. The producers of ….