As the week comes to a close, the groundwork is being laid for what could be the biggest bidding war of the year. And it’s, appropriately enough, for Battlefield, the military video game which last […]
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It began life in a college dorm room (well, technically it was 2,700 years ago, but we’ll get to that later), gained a multi-million army on TikTok, and earned a real-world record deal. Now Hollywood […]
Kumail Nanjiani, Jim Belushi, Brittany O’Grady and Taylor John Smith have joined Tatiana Maslany in Green Bank, an independent sci-fi horror thriller Pangaea Studios, Big Swell Entertainment and Nocturnal Kid. Josh Ruben, who previously helmed […]
A24’s adaptation of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s video game Elden Ring, its most ambitious feature movie project to date, has rounded out its cast as it begins production. Tom Burke, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Jonathan […]
John Powell, the two-time Academy Award nominee for his work on How to Train Your Dragon and Wicked, is set to score Illumination’s Minions & Monsters. The move reunites the music meister with Illumination, for whom […]
David Harbour is going all Rambo. The Stranger Things star is a late addition to John Rambo, Lionstate and Millennium Media’s action feature being directed by Jalmari Helander, the helmer behind the grimy and gritty […]
Universal Pictures is capitalizing on the heat from Sydney Sweeney and the success of The Housemaid by stepping on the gas on its own Sweeney thriller, The Caretaker. Indie horror darling David Bruckner has been […]
Searchlight Pictures has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to Monitor, the horror feature from rising directors Matt Black and Ryan Polly. The acquisition comes after the movie made its world premiere in March at […]
DC’s Absolute Batman, already a publishing sensation, is now poised to take over the brick building and video game realms. The Absolute incarnations of Batman and Catwoman, seen in the comic book by writer Scott […]
Zach Cregger is reuniting with Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group’s New Line division for his next original feature. Cregger, who directed last year’s acclaimed Oscar-winning horror hit Weapons for the company, has written, and will […]
Osgood Perkins is working on a new Longlegs feature, a follow-up to the filmmaker’s mystery horror thriller that became highest-grossing independent film of the past decade. And in a twist out of the Longlegs playbook, […]
20th Century Studios is jumping into the video game adaptation business. In a competitive situation, 20th Century has picked up theatrical film rights to the popular game 99 Nights in the Forest, developed by Grandma’s Favourite Games […]
What a difference a Hollywood year can make. Just a year ago, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein were a filmmaking duo with humble indie horror roots, prepping to release their first sizeable feature, Final […]
The story of The Price is Right models and their fight to stand up to Bob Barker, the show’s famous host, is getting the screen treatment. The Gotham Group, the management and production company run […]
Brandon Routh, best known for portraying Superman in Superman Returns, has joined the cast of indie family drama Ethan Almighty – Ethan’s Law. Sean Patrick Flanery, Selma Blair, and Trevor Donovan are already on the roll call […]
Leaning into the romantic comedy genre, Netflix has picked up Court Date, an original feature pitch from Michael Montemayor. Berlanti/Schechter Films, the feature banner run by prolific TV mavens Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, will […]
Apple Original Films has prevailed in the bidding war for the new feature project from Megan Park, the well-regarded Canadian filmmaker behind the equally well-regarded coming-of-age comedy My Old Ass. LuckyChap, the company run by Margot […]
Michael Shanks, the filmmaker behind last year’s cult horror fave Together, has teamed up with Adam McKay, the multi-faceted writer-director-producer behind movies such as Vice and Don’t Look Up, for a mystery project. Sony Pictures […]
Amazon MGM has beefed up the comedy quotient for his holiday feature Clashing Through the Snow. Comedians Andrew Schulz and Zarna Garg, fashion designer and celebrity personality Tan France as well as comedy actor P. […]
Stellan Skarsgård has lined up his first project since earning plaudits and an Oscar nomination for Sentimental Value this past awards season. The actor is set to star alongside Dakota Fanning in Apple TV’s untitled […]
New Line has once again brightened up to the idea of a sequel to its 2016 supernatural horror hit Lights Out. The Warner Bros. division has hired up-and-comer Connor Osborn McIntyre to write the screenplay […]
Universal Pictures’ The Mummy is reuniting the family. John Hannah, who appeared in the previous Mummy movies made at the turn of the century, is reuniting with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz for the latest […]
Fresh off her breakout work in Wuthering Heights, Alison Oliver is reteaming with LuckyChap to star in the period revenge thriller Bad Bridgets. Oliver is replacing Daisy Edgar Jones (Twisters) in the feature that is written […]
In a competitive situation, Amazon MGM Studios has picked up the film rights to Romantic Hero, the upcoming novel by Kirsty Greenwood. The book deal marks the first acquisition for Sullivan Street, the recently launched […]
In one of the buzziest books of the year, Netflix has won a massive bidding war to nab the screen rights to Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden. But it’s not just the […]
Coming out on top in a competitive situation, Sony Pictures has staked claim on 71 Minutes, an original spec script from Ian Shorr. Jason Reitman will produce the feature via his Ghost Corp banner along […]
Frank Miller was one of the major influences on Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird when the duo, then in their twenties, created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the early 1980s. Miller’s popular work on […]
Powers, the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming indie comic series currently published by Dark Horse Comics, is getting the adult animated treatment. Netflix is developing an adult animated series adaptation of the long-running […]
Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson have signed on to star in The Cackling of the Dodos, a crime thriller that Jason Bateman will direct for Netflix. The project was announced by Netflix’s head of film, […]
Something Is Killing the Children is already a best-selling comic book series. Now it’s getting the novel treatment. Crown Publishing Group, in partnership with Boom! Studios, will publish Hope is a Knife: A Novel, set […]
In brightest day, in blackest night, Aaron Pierre will face the Man of Steel’s might. Pierre, who is already playing Green Lantern hero John Stewart in HBO’s upcoming DC series Lanterns, is joining the cast […]
James Wan has come aboard to direct and produce an English-language reimagining of Korean movie The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil for Paramount Pictures, becoming the latest bold-faced filmmaker recruited by the Skydance-owned studio. Don Lee, also […]