'Jessica Jones' Creator Melissa Rosenberg To Trade Marvel TV For Warner Bros. TV
Jessica Jones creator and showrunner Melissa Rosenberg leaves Netflix and moves to Warner Bros. TV after the latter a new overall 8-figure deal.
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The Morning Watch: 'Ant-Man And The Fly' Trailer, Examining Wes Anderson's 'Bottle Rocket' & More
In this edition, see a different Marvel movie in the Ant-Man and The Fly trailer, see how Wes Anderson's first film hints at his future style and more.
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'Jessica Jones' Star Krysten Ritter To Make Directorial Debut In Season 3
Star Krysten Ritter is set to make her directorial debut with an episode of Jessica Jones season 3. The Marvel Netflix series will likely return in 2019.
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'Jessica Jones' Season 2 Spoiler Review: An Ambitious Second Season That Doesn't Stick The Landing
In our Jessica Jones season 2 spoiler review, we dive into what works and what doesn't work in the sophomore effort of the best Marvel Netflix show.
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'Jessica Jones' Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg On The Internal Struggles And New Foes Of Season 2 [Interview]
In our Melissa Rosenberg interview, the Jessica Jones showrunner talks about creating new threats for the super-powered P.I. in her second season.
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'Jessica Jones' Season 2 Episode Titles Announced With Pulp Illustrations
Jessica Jones season 2 episode titles have been revealed with a series of super-cool pulp art illustrations created by female artists.
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'Jessica Jones' Season 2 Featurette: The Super Women In Front Of And Behind The Camera
The new Jessica Jones season 2 featurette sends appreciation to the talented women in front of and behind the camera, including showrunner and creator Melissa Rosenberg, who brought the superhero to life.
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'Jessica Jones' Season 2 Review: Netflix's Best Marvel Show Is Back
Our Jessica Jones season 2 review digs into the new season of Netflix's best Marvel show. Krysten Ritter returns as the droll, damaged, hard-drinking superhero private eye.
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'Jessica Jones' Season 2 Will Be Directed Entirely By Women
Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg has announced that every episode of Jessica Jones season 2 will be directed by a woman.
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Interview: 'Jessica Jones' Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg Talks Kilgrave, Luke Cage, And Rape On TV
When Netflix dropped the first season of their latest Marvel series, Jessica Jones, on November 20, many viewers finished it before Thanksgiving. To comic books fans, the rest of us were just catching up. The show pulled a lot from Brian Michael Bendis’s Alias series, including Jessica (Krysten Ritter)’s relationship with Luke Cage (Mike Colter)…
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'Jessica Jones' Showrunner: "We Went Even Further" Than Original Marvel Comics Series
Currently on stage before the Television Critics Association is a panel of Netflix showrunners representing a selection of the streaming service’s top original shows. Melissa Rosenberg is on the Showrunner Panel representing Marvel’s Jessica Jones TV series, which stars Krysten Ritter (pictured above in Breaking Bad). Asked about her upcoming show, the edgy tone Rosenberg…
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Marvel's Latest Leading Lady Is Krysten Ritter As 'Jessica Jones,' Mike Colter In Line For Luke Cage [UPDATED]
Krysten Ritter has been cast as Marvel's superhero turned detective, Jessica Jones. The show comes to Netflix in 2015. Read about the Jessica Jones casting.
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Former 'Dexter' Writer Melissa Rosenberg Will Write 'Jessica Jones' For Marvel And Netflix
Briefly: Melissa Rosenberg, who was a writer/producer/showrunner on Dexter during the good years (she left after season four) and who wrote all the Twilight films, was once set to oversee a show called AKA Jessica Jones for ABC. The show would have been based on the superhero turned investigator character Jessica Jones from the Marvel Universe,…
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Rumor Control: Ryan Reynolds Not Yet Confirmed For 'Highlander' Reboot
Briefly: Not too long ago Ryan Reynolds was nominated to become the new champion decapitator at the center of the Highlander reboot. He would theoretically be stepping into the shoes formerly worn by Christopher Lambert, who played a Scottish Highlander who learns that he is born of an immortal bloodline. The catch is: immortality actually…
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo In Talks To Reboot 'Highlander' [Updated]
The reboot of Highlander, which Summit has been working on with various degrees of enthusiasm for the past couple years, is getting a new director. Justin Lin was signed to make the film, but walked not long ago. Now Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who directed 28 Weeks Later and now, four years later, has Intruders opening…
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Justin Lin Bows Out Of 'Highlander' Remake
Justin Lin and his publicist are working overtime this week. The director has been doing a few interviews, and in the process dropping details about how he's still working on Terminator 5, the fact that he's got a sequence already prepped for Fast Six (or whatever it will be called) and the "ok, whatever" revelation…
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Paramount Options Young Adult Sci-Fi Novel 'Earthseed'
Earth is dying. In a last ditch attempt to keep humanity alive, humans blindly send an intelligent ship into space to raise a group of children hoping they'll find a habitable planet to live on and keep the species going. That's the set up of Earthseed, an award winning 1983 young adult novel by Pamela…
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/Filmcast Ep. 134 - The Eagle (GUEST: Eric Vespe From Ain't It Cool News)
This week, David, Devindra, and Adam praise the low-budget Ink, geek out over the new X-Men: First Class trailer, and try to remember what those Highlander movies were all about. Special guest Eric Vespe joins us from Ain't It Cool News. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us for our…
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'Twilight' Scribe Melissa Rosenberg Writing 'Highlander' Remake
It's been years since we last heard about Summit's planned remake of the 1986 cult classic Highlander, which starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. At the time Justin Lin (Fast and Furious) was set to direct with Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway working on the script. Well Lin is still attached but…
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'Twilight' Screenwriter Bringing Marvel's Jessica Jones To Television
Just a week ago, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige chatted with fans, expressing his love for female heroes and a desire to bring more to the big screen. He also enthused "I love Jessica Jones," that being the lead character, a superhero turned investigator, in the comic series Alias (no relation to the TV show)…
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The Craziest Part Of Breaking Dawn Might Not Be In Breaking Dawn
(Note: Spoilers follow.) For those of us who couldn't give a toss about Twilight, there has still been some reason to anticipate one of the two halves of Breaking Dawn, the adaptation of the final book in the series. Specifically, there's a fairly crazy scene where Bella (Kristen Stewart) gives birth to her half-vampire baby.…
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Will Be Filmed As Two Movies, Shot Back-To-Back
As if we didn't see this one coming, Nikki Finke has confirmed with her high up sources that Summit Entertainment will film the two-film adaptation of Breaking Dawn, the last film in the Twilight series, back-to-back beginning in Mid-October 2010. It is a smart move for Summit to act quick on the remaining chapters of…
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Summit Developing Three Twilight Sequels
Twilight doesn't hit theaters until next Friday, and Summit Entertainment has already aquired the rights to the next three novels in Stephenie Meyer's vampire romance series. According to THR, Twilight scribe Melissa Rosenberg has signed on to pen the next two screenplays, based on the books New Moon (you can read the first chapter here)…
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