A new Jonah Hill TV show is in the works from Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan. It's set in 1940s Hollywood, and Hill plays a studio fixer.
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Jennifer Lopez is set to star in a crime drama about Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco in The Godmother movie, helmed by Reed Morano.
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Liam Neeson will play Philip Marlowe in a project written by William Monahan (The Departed). The new Philip Marlowe movie is simply titled Marlowe.
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Believe it or not, The Departed TV series is something in development with an eye towards being something akin to FX's adaptation of Fargo.
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The writer and director of Mojave was kind enough to discuss filmmaking, the business, writing, and more with us. Read our William Monahan interview.
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William Monahan's latest film, Mojave, opens in theaters next week. The director updates us on Lighthouse, The White Devil, and the Evel Knievel project.
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Watch the Mojave trailer. Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund lead the cerebral thriller directed by William Monahan (The Departed).
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Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese is eyeing an Evel Knievel movie, which will reunite him with screenwriter William Monahan and producer Terrence Winter.
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Read our Mojave review from the Tribeca Film Festival. Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac lead the SoCal-set thriller directed by William Monahan.
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You thought a genetically modified dino was bad? See concept art of the Jurassic World Dinosaur-Human Hybrids, from an earlier version of Jurassic Park 4.
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Briefly: Brie Larson has been on the rise for a few years, but 2013 has been a big year. Her role in Short Term 12 has proved to be an attention-getter; she's great in The Spectacular Now, and she was terrific in a minor but important role in Don Jon as well. Those are just…
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As filmmakers go, Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips, and Rupert Wyatt are pretty damn different. However, they do have one project in common: The Gambler. A few years back, Scorsese was set to direct the remake of the 1974 film, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to play the lead. He fell off at some point, and last…
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Directors sure do love Mark Wahlberg. After making Pain and Gain with Michael Bay, the action-prone filmmaker brought the actor back to star in Transformers 4. In between, Wahlberg shot a movie called Lone Survivor with Peter Berg. Now, Berg's asked the actor to team up with him once again. Wahlberg and Berg will make American Desperado, the real life…
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It's been a slow week for movie news, but not so on the small-screen front. After the jump: Jon Favreau will direct one of The Office's last episodes Nancy Pelosi and Ice-T will appear on the 30 Rock finale A Walking Dead newcomer joins Once Upon a Time Here's what Donald Glover will be doing on…
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Here's the first official poster for Oblivion, the new film from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. The movie casts Tom Cruise as a drone repairman who is stationed on an Earth that has seen better days, to put things mildly. The first image sells a grand vision of an almost fossilized Manhattan, with Cruise in the…
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Where to start with the big remake news of the past twenty-four hours? How about with the version of Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance that Charlize Theron has been trying to make for so long that when it cropped up again today, many people thought it was new. The third film in Park's "Vengeance…
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Over the past decade, Todd Phillips has built himself a comfortable niche as the director of lucrative R-rated comedies. While he came out of the gate with confrontational documentary Hated, his first non-documentary feature was Road Trip, followed by Old School, Starsky & Hutch, School for Scoundrels, Due Date, and the two Hangover films --…
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No, it wasn't just you -- Men in Black 3, entertaining as it was, made no sense at all. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that starting the shoot without a completed sequel did not help. Also after the jump: Robert Rodriguez talks up Sin City: A Dame to Kill For…
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Catherine Hardwicke, who made the first Twilight film a few years back, and followed that with Red Riding Hood, is looking back towards the indie circuit. She's about to make Plush, a thriller with Evan Rachel Wood, and as a potential follow-up she's developing a gangster film set in '60s London. The new film is…
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Joseph Kosinski is set to follow Tron Legacy with an original sci-fi idea that he hatched as a proof of concept graphic novel a couple years ago. The film is Oblivion (which has also been called Horizons, and said to be untitled as well) and was originally housed at Disney before the studio cut it…
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William Monahan, screenwriter of Kingdom of Heaven and Oscar-winning writer of The Departed, directed his first film back in 2009. London Boulevard opened quietly in the UK last year and is opening even more quietly in the States this fall. The movie is an adaptation of a novel by Ken Bruen (who also wrote the…
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Reports of a possible sequel to Martin Scorsese's The Departed have been floating around pretty much since its release, but we haven't heard any solid news about a follow-up in quite some time. In a recent interview, however, screenwriter William Monahan re-ignited the conversation by revealing his thoughts on a possible storyline for the sequel --…
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Want to rewatch the best part of Green Lantern? What kind of reviews is Batman: Arkham City getting from game critics? Can the screenwriter of Sin City 2 give any updates about the movie? How does Attack the Block fit into New York Comic Con? Is there an update on real life superhero Phoenix Jones?…
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The long-rumored sequel to Sin City sounds like it's finally coming together, six years after the first film's opening. The last time we checked on the film, titled Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For, director Robert Rodriguez said that he and his team were "just waiting for the script" to start shooting. Now…
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The last big news late last week was that The Departed team of screenwriter William Monahan and director Martin Scorsese would remake the 1974 film The Gambler. James Caan starred in the original as a New York English professor who has a serious gambling addiction. Thing is, the film wasn't just any old movie, at…
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As audiences wait to see what Martin Scorsese has done by moving outside his comfort zone and working with 3D in a family movie, the legendary director is already looking ahead to get back in his comfort zone with a gritty New York drama. He's currently developing a remake of the 1974 film The Gambler…
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William Monahan (The Departed) graduated from screenwriter to writer/director with London Boulevard, for which we just saw a UK trailer. Now he's lined up a second directorial project: an adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play Becket. Deadline has the story, noting (as should be common knowledge) that this would follow the 1964 adaptation of the…
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