With Dwayne Johnson vehicle Hercules under his belt and recently announced sequel Snow White and the Huntsman 2 coming down the pipeline, screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos is rapidly gaining favor with major Hollywood studios. Though he cut his teeth on kiddie flicks like Pooh's Heffalump Movie, Battle for Terra and Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, the scribe has been steadily transitioning into larger blockbusters, and now, thanks to his work on Hercules, Spiliotopoulos has been brought on board to adapt another high-profile project - Fox's adventure thriller Seven Wonders.
Most of the internet buzz about HBO's upcoming second season of the hit crime anthology series True Detective has focused on which actors will be taking on the lead roles, but I'm personally just as interested in finding out which director will be taking over for Cary Fukunaga this time around. We haven't heard very much on that front at all, but now news has emerged that Killer Joe filmmaker William Friedkin is at least intrigued by the possibility of directing.
Though the books are beloved and bestselling, an adaptation of James Patterson's YA Maximum Ride series is currently languishing in development. Columbia Pictures originally snapped up rights to adapt the novels, only to eventually lose them to Universal. However, Universal recently stated that it no longer had immediate plans to adapt Maximum Ride either. So, with the film's development currently in limbo, Patterson has teamed with Collective Digital Studio to turn the books into a YouTube series.
Though Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel The Goldfinch, her first in 11 years, was originally being shopped as a TV miniseries (not that surpising if you're familiar with its story), we're now hearing that Warner Bros. is the studio with the best chance of snagging rights to adapt the novel into a feature film.
After reviving the Fast & Furious and G.I. Joe series, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson may be about to get a franchise of his very own, with news that the wrestler-turned-actor is in early talks to topline The Janson Directive, based on a novel by Bourne author Robert Ludlum, for Universal.
For what seems like months now, the roster of 2015 Oscar contenders has been set. We've got Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Tim Burton's Big Eyes, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, David Fincher's Gone Girl, David Ayer's Fury and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman all touching down in the last three months of the year, and any of them could be heavyweights on the awards circuit. But one high-profile blockbuster has been so surprisingly quiet in the past few months that we seem to have counted it out of the race altogether - I'm talking about Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings.
Anchor Bay Entertainment will be bringing Trust Me, a dark comedy-drama which The Avengers actor Clark Gregg wrote, directed and starred in, to DVD on August 26th, and We Got This Covered is pleased to be able to exclusively unveil the DVD box art for the movie.
As part of its on-going quest to devalue every happy cinematic memory from our childhoods, Disney is looking to turn its animated classic Dumbo into a live-action affair with the help of (wait for it) Transformers franchise writer Ehren Kruger. Because everyone knows that, when you want to make a movie about a kindly elephant with over-sized elephants, there's no one better than the guy who gave us such gems as "There's a missile in the living room," "Prime’s taken my trophy case, and he will feel my wrath," and my personal favorite, “Autobots, we’re going to prove who we are, and why we’re here” (and that's just from Age of Extinction).
If Ridley Scott's upcoming Biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings is meant to be a serious, dramatic venture, why can't I stop sniggering at the new set of posters for it that just hit the web? Maybe it has something to do with the PhotoShop job done on stars Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton, surely one of the shoddiest since that god-awful Magic in the Moonlight poster with Colin Firth's weird wandering eye.
When Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl broke out to become the runaway literary hit of the summer, Hollywood naturally turned its focus to getting the thriller author's rabid fans into theaters. Quickly, 20th Century Fox and Se7en director David Fincher snagged Gone Girl. That red-hot thriller adaptation, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, is being positioned as an awards contender and given an Oscar-friendly release in October. Then, Exclusive Media grabbed the rights to Flynn's earlier novel Dark Places (out this September), which Charlize Theron will star in alongside Chloë Grace Moretz. Now, we're hearing that Flynn's debut thriller Sharp Objects is also getting adapted - but, intriguingly, for the small screen.
