Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui
Taron Egerton is due to face off with Paul Walter Hauser in the new show In With the Devil, a true-crime limited series based on the memoir by James Keene. Apple may pick up the six-part adaptation, which follows a young man who is offered a deal out of a ten-year prison sentence by coaxing a serial killer into a confession.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
Reese Witherspoon has lined up another promising adaptation with Lauren Neustadter through their Hello Sunshine production banner. Teaming up with 3000 Pictures, they’re producing an adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing, based on Delia Owens’ best-selling novel of the same name. Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People, War of the Worlds) is starring in the film, and the production has brought in up-and-coming stars Taylor John Smith and Harris Dickinson to take the two male leads Read More »
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui
What’s coming up next on WandaVision? Marvel Studios is keeping a tight lid on all things spoilers for the Disney+ TV series about Wanda and Vision’s wedded sitcom bliss, but star Paul Bettany has a few things to tease about upcoming episodes…including a top secret star with whom he’s “always wanted to work with.” But who could it be?
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
On January 26, 2013, Canadian student Elisa Lam came to Los Angeles. She eventually checked into the run-down Cecil Hotel located in Downtown Los Angeles. But by January 31, 2013, she had vanished, seemingly into thin air. There was no record of Lam checking out of the hotel, and all the police really had to go on was mysterious security camera footage from one of the hotel’s elevators that showed Lam behaving oddly. The case went cold – until February 19, 2013, when Lam’s body was found floating in one of the hotel’s rooftop water tanks. Lam’s disappearance and death – and that disturbing elevator footage – created a wealth of conspiracy theories – some plausible, some ludicrous (the prospect of the supernatural came up, for instance). Now, the Netflix docuseries Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel tries to uncover the real story.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Ben Pearson
Remember The Coachman from 1940’s Pinocchio? Forgive me, of course you do – it’s a silly question, because no one could possibly forget him. Well, according to a new report, Luke Evans, who embodied the blustery Gaston in Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast and is reprising that role in a Disney+ spin-off, is now set to play a hot new version of The Coachman in Robert Zemeckis‘ remake of Pinocchio. And though you surely don’t need a reminder about who that character is or how he’s involved with the story, I’ll give you one anyway below. Read More »
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Ben Pearson
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic The Great Gatsby has had its share of film and television adaptations already, but since it entered the public domain at the start of this year, it’s fair to expect a flurry of new iterations to enter development in the halls of Hollywood studios.
A new report states that writer Michael Hirst (Vikings, The Tudors) is working on a big budget television adaptation of the novel that is being envisioned as a closed-ended miniseries which “will explore New York’s Black community in the 1920s as well as the musical subculture.”
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Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Prisoners of the Ghostland, the latest from filmmaker Sion Sono, is headed to this year’s Sundance Film Festival in a few days – and now it’s found distribution, too. RLJE Films has snapped-up the US rights to the movie, which stars human meme Nicolas Cage as a bank robber. When the project was first announced, Cage himself said: “It might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made, and that’s saying something.” RLJE has distributed recent Cage titles like Mandy and Color Out of Space.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Even though Warner Bros. just announced a new release date for Godzilla vs. Kong, they’ve decided to go ahead and move it again. But don’t worry – the move isn’t that drastic. Instead of hitting theaters and HBO Max on March 26, 2021, as was announced last week, Godzilla vs. Kong will now arrive on March 31. Why move it back five days? No idea! But we have some guesses.
Meanwhile, WB also revealed the release date for James Wan‘s return to horror, Malignant – September 10. The release date comes with an image from the film, and a message from the director.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Ready for a Spy Kids reboot? Even if you’re not, you’re getting one anyway. Skydance is moving ahead with a revival of the family-friendly franchise, and they’re bringing in original director Robert Rodriguez to write and direct. The film series first launched in 2001, and followed by three sequels and an animated series. The original films followed siblings Carmen and Juni Cortez, who discover they’re part of an entire family of spies.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 by Ben Pearson
On the January 26, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and TV news and answer a few mailbag questions. Read More »
