Scarlett Johansson's got a lot of reasons to be happy. A career which has given her the joy of starring in small-budget indies and big blockbusters is about to expand further. The Truman Capote novel, Summer Crossing, is slated to be her first stab at getting behind the camera. While this news broke two years back, the project has now secured financing and international sales kick off this week at Cannes.
Another novel set for adaptation, Z For Zachariah will expand further on Hollywood's latest trend. A world struck by devastation. The project was announced last summer by Compliance director Craig Zobel, hot off the back of his success at Sundance. A press release has revealed this week that the film has gathered steam with three new leads. Chris Pine, Amanda Seyfried and Chiwitel Ejiofor have now been confirmed to star.
Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal are not actors who immediately spring to mind when you think "fairytale musical." Both leading men are more likely to be found commandeering star ships or donning a badge while bustin' down doors. That however, could all change. Gyllenhaal and Pine are now in talks to take on roles in Rob Marshall's musical Into The Woods.
Spanish-language network Univision have announced that they intend to bring From Dusk Till Dawn back...as a TV show. The network, which is aimed primarily at Latin Americans residing in the U.S., have teamed up with Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network to revive the vampire romp.
Is it a TV series? Is it a book? No, it's definitely a film. Kevin Smith has taken to Twitter and Facebook with the announcement that he has finished the first draft for Clerks III. The writer-director began writing the script at the start of March. Clocking in at a mammoth 137 pages, his initial draft will no doubt undergo a series of rewrites before it's ready for shooting.
This week there's a wealth of new trailers landing for projects which have been waiting to debut at Cannes. Yesterday, we had the first clip from James Franco's Faulkner adaptation, As I Lay Dying. It was definitely interesting but it's nothing compared to this first look at the Stanislaw Lem adap, The Congress.
A remake of Gremlins has been on the cards for some time. It's going to happen, no matter how much your inner child repulses at the thought. Now, Bloody Disgusting reports that genre reboot maestro Seth Grahame-Smith has been tapped by Warner Bros to produce and he will team up with producer David Katzenberg for the kiddy-monster flick.
The next season of Arrested Development is nearly upon us. Since the show's cancellation back in 2006, it's topped many a list of shows that need to be resurrected. Jumping on the success of their original programming, Netflix yanked the show from its early grave. Weeks before its debut, a trailer has arrived which should whet your appetite for further Bluth family mishaps.
