It Comes at Night and Krisha director Trey Edward Shults is re-teaming with A24 for the musical drama Waves, starring Lucas Hedges and Sterling K. Brown, with music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
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HBO's new four-hour documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed will attempt to get to the bottom of the case that became a cultural phenomenon thanks to the podcast Serial.
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Netflix will premiere Castlevania season 2 in the summer of 2018, according to an announcement from Castlevania writer and executive producer Warren Ellis.
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Producer Adi Shankar promises the Castlevania Netflix series will be "the best f***ing video game adaptation ever made to date." Learn more about the show.
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Netflix, producer Adi Shankar (Dredd), writer Warren Ellis (Planetary), and executive Fred Seibert (Adventure Time) are making an animated Castlevania show.
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Hear a track from the Far From Men score, composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
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The Warren Ellis-penned comic book series Global Frequency is getting its third shot at television. A decade ago, The WB tried to set a Global Frequency TV series in motion, shooting a pilot based on the comic about an organization that attempts to protect the world from the influence of covert government actions. But the show…
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Nick Cave is a killer rock songwriter, and he and creative partner Warren Ellis have crafted a significant identity as a film scoring duo. Their music for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is among the great western film scores, and they've done excellent music for films such as The Proposition and Lawless.…
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This Nick Cave documentary trailer gives you a first look at the excellent 20,000 Days on Earth, which profiles the singer and his work.
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This special edition of TV Bits looks to the future, with several bits of info about new projects in development. After the jump: Kelsey Grammer produces a Freakonomics-inspired drama for NBC Warren Ellis' crime novel Gun Machine is being adapted for TV by Fox Fox is developing a television adaptation of Danny Boyle's The Beach…
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I know there's resistance to Red based on the fact that the film looks quite a bit different from the Warren Ellis comics upon which it is based. I haven't read the comic, so can only approach the film based on what I see -- and I really enjoy the stuff we've been shown so…
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I would never have guessed that the director of Flightplan and The Time Traveler's Wife might turn out the most entertaining-looking under the radar comic book adaptation of this summer. But I grinned all the way through the trailer for Robert Schwentke's Red, which adapts Warren Ellis' graphic novel about a group of retired CIA…
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On Easter Sunday, I landed in New Orleans to sweat and drop by the set of RED, yet another comic book adaptation, but one packing the following A-list cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren (as a tea-sipping sniper with a 50-cal machine gun), Mary-Louise Parker, Star Trek's Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard…
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The last time we talked about Guy Ritchie's King Arthur movie, it was suggested that a new script was going to be called for, superceding the Warren Ellis draft and now, we've found out who the new writer will be. The lucky winner is John Hodge, probably most famous for having written Danny Boyle's Shallow…
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You may recall that, last year, Warren Ellis mentioned he was working on a treatment for an Arthurian film that may or may not be a remake of Excalibur. Now Warner Bros. has evidently attached a director to the film: Guy Ritchie, ready for more adventure after scoring a success with Sherlock Holmes. Pajiba reports…
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What if you went to prison, only to discover that the institution was run by vampires? That's the very silly premise behind the graphic novel Nightfall, which is now the target of a film adaptation by Aurora Productions and Nightfall's publisher Platinum Studios. (Someone, please tell me why vampires might run a prison. I'm so…
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Constantine didn't entirely work out as a franchise starter or as an adaptation of its source material, the comic Hellblazer. But there's room for more than one supernatural solider or detective on screens. So Legendary Pictures, which loves to develop comic book movies (recent Batman and Superman films, 300, Watchmen, Jonah Hex) has picked up…
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Prolific writer Warren Ellis has a post on his site today that mentions a project he didn't get a chance to talk about while doing press for his Marvel Anime projects at Comic Con. He has penned a draft of an Arthurian movie for Hollywood Gang, the outfit that optioned his graphic novel Ocean and…
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Morgan Freeman is in talks to star alongside Bruce Willis in a big screen adaptation of Warren Ellis’ Wildstorm comic book Red for Summit Entertainment. The three-issue mini-series is about a former black-ops CIA agent who is forced out of retirement when a high-tech assassin shows up to kill him. The official comic description from…
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Comic Book writer Warren Ellis is finally headed to the big screen. Summit Entertainment (Twilight) announced this morning, a big screen adaptation of Ellis’ Red, about a former black-ops CIA agent who is forced out of retirement when a high-tech assassin shows up to kill him. The comic, first published as a three-issue mini-series by…
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