'The Secret History Of Hollywood' Podcast Is Becoming A Movie – Here's Why This Is Cool News
The Secret History of Hollywood, which has been one of my favorite podcasts for years, will be adapted into film and/or television projects.
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'Cleopatra' Will Reunite Gal Gadot And 'Wonder Woman' Director Patty Jenkins At Paramount Pictures
Paramount won an intense bidding war for a new Cleopatra movie with Gal Gadot taking the lead and Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins at the helm.
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'Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic' Movie In The Works At Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm is allegedly developing a Knights of the Old Republic film, with a script from the writer of Alita: Battle Angel.
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'Altered Carbon' Season 2 Casts Anthony Mackie As New Lead
Altered Carbon season 2 is officially happening at Netflix, and the sci-fi series has found a new lead in MCU star Anthony Mackie.
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'Altered Carbon' Director Miguel Sapochnik On His Influences, Imagining The Future, And 'Blade Runner' [Interview]
Miguel Sapochnik, known for his thrilling Game of Thrones episodes, tells us about directing the first episode of Netflix's Altered Carbon and the influence and importance of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Check out our Miguel Sapochnik interview.
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'Altered Carbon' Trailer: Netflix's New Cyberpunk Series Imagines A Sexy, Violent Future
The Altered Carbon trailer promotes the new Netflix cyberpunk series that depicts a dystopia where people can download their minds onto new bodies.
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Sequel Bits: 'Star Trek Beyond', 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter', 'Hellboy 3', 'Kill Bill 3', 'Predator'
We've got a lot of ground to cover today, so let's get right to it. After the jump: Arnie is optimistic about Shane Black's Predator sequel. Terminator 5 scribes talk James Cameron, time travel, and deleted scenes. Samuel L. Jackson is totally up for another Unbreakable movie. Quentin Tarantino wants to make a third Kill Bill someday.…
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Paramount Could Take Over 'Terminator 5' Distribution Rights
Paramount is about to add another massive franchise to its stable. Last week, sources revealed the studio reacquired the full rights to make new Friday the 13th and South Park movies and now, they're in negotiations to acquire distribution rights for the Terminator franchise. Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures and David Ellison's Skydance Productions own the…
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Glen Mazzara To Write 'Shining' Prequel Called 'The Overlook Hotel'
The Shining has had quite the resurgence in the past few months. Rodney Ascher's Room 237 is certainly one factor. Another, bigger motivator is Stephen King himself, who is currently working on a Shining sequel novel called Doctor Sleep. Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the Stanley Kubrick film, surely sees this as a perfect time…
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'Shutter Island' And 'Drive Angry' Writers Tapped For 'Terminator 5'
Just as promised, the Terminator will be back. Progress on Terminator 5 has been on-again, off-again for the past couple of years, but now it's picking back up with the hiring of writers Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier. While the pair have yet to complete any projects together, they've collaborated on a couple of things that…
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'30 Minutes Or Less' Collar Bomb Heist Gets True-Life Dramatic Treatment
In Ruben Fleischer's 2011 comedy 30 Minutes or Less, Jesse Eisenberg played a pizza delivery boy forced to rob a bank when two men strapped a bomb to him. The idea came from a real-life event that took place in Erie, PA in 2003, as detailed in Wired Magazine. Unlike that film, though, the actual…
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Warner Bros. Mulling The Notion Of A Prequel To 'The Shining'
At this point there's nothing that anyone can do to The Shining on screen that Stephen King hasn't already done himself. (See the TV series adaptation of his novel, scripted by King, which leaves out few of the novel's details, and misses most of Stanley Kubrick's chilling effect.) So the idea of a prequel is…
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'Red' Director Robert Schwentke To Direct 'The Lobotomist' Pilot For HBO
While working on Shutter Island, producer Brad Fischer, writer Laeta Kalogridis and star Leonardo DiCaprio were all taken with Jack El-Hai's book The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. The tome is a history of Walter Freeman, the doctor who was the first proponent of…
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Chris Columbus To Direct Reboot Of Sam Peckinpah's 'The Rifleman' For CBS
The TV Western is definitely back in style, with several projects in various stages of development at different networks. And it seems audiences are into it as well -- Hell on Wheels just gave AMC it's second-biggest debut ever, just behind last year's premiere of The Walking Dead. For its part, CBS has just hatched…
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Laeta Kalogridis To Rewrite 'Fantastic Voyage' For Producer James Cameron
James Cameron has been attached to produce a 3D remake of Fantastic Voyage for a while now but, recently, there haven't been many updates on the project. Until now. Word is that Laeta Kalogridis, who got an Executive Producer credit for doing some rewrites on Avatar and wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island,…
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Legendary Pictures Lands Live-Action Technotise Adaptation
Last year we posted an awesome fan-made movie trailer for a big screen Green Lantern film, edited together by Jaron Pitts using clips from a bunch of different movies, using composited computer generated imagery. If you haven't seen it before, click the link and watch it now. Scott Glassgold, co-chief of IAM Entertainment, saw the…
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Fan-Edited Movie Trailer Lands Avatar Producer For Live-Action Technotise Adaptation
Last year we posted an awesome fan-made movie trailer for a big screen Green Lantern film, edited together by Jaron Pitts using clips from a bunch of different movies, using composited computer generated imagery. If you haven't seen it before, click the link and watch it now. Scott Glassgold, co-chief of IAM Entertainment, saw the…
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Shutter Island Writer Adapting Ghost In The Shell For Live-Action 3D At Dreamworks
Last year, Dreamworks bought the rights to Masamune Shirow's original manga Ghost in the Shell and tapped Jamie Moss to write a new feature film based on the story. Now a new writer has been assigned: Laeta Kalogridis, the scribe and executive producer of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. Variety says the new version will be…
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