After scribing and sitting behind the camera on indie Take This Waltz and documentary Stories We Tell, it may be time for actress/writer/director Sarah Polley to hit the big time. Deadline reports that Paramount is eying her to adapt Looking for Alaska, working from the novel by The Fault in Our Stars writer John Green.
Ever since her transformative performance in David Fincher's amazing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo adaptation, Rooney Mara has been highly in-demand. She's had her pick of projects over the past few years, appearing in such great films as David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects and Spike Jonze's Her. Mara's upcoming schedule looks equally promising - she's got Stephen Daldry's Trash, a Terrence Malick film, Todd Haynes' romantic drama Carol and Joe Wright's blockbuster Pan on the way. Now, the actress has joined another exciting project - Annapurna Pictures' memoir adaptation A House in the Sky.
Today, it was announced that Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley has joined the already-impressive cast of Disney's The Jungle Book, one of two big-budget adaptations of the Rudyard Kipling classic currently being fast-tracked for release.
Most DC comic-book fans are eagerly anticipating this fall's Gotham, a Fox series that explores the early days of James Gordon (Ben McKenzie), destined to become the city's Police Commissioner and one of the Caped Crusader's most trusted allies. However, the series isn't just charting Gordon's backstory - Gotham will also detail the origins of iconic rogues such as Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), Selina Kyle (Camren Bicondova) and Pamela Isley (Clare Foley), who will one day become The Penguin, Catwoman and Poison Ivy, respectively.
The Help helmer Tate Taylor, whose James Brown biopic Get On Up will open this August, has just signed on to direct historical drama In the Event of a Moon Disaster for FilmNation.
One of the biggest movies hitting screens in the jam-packed summer of 2015 is undoubtedly going to be Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller's long-awaited continuation of his now classic Mad Max trilogy. Raves from test screenings have definitely raised our excitement for the flick, which finds Tom Hardy stepping into the role of Max Rockantasky. Though there's a long wait for fans until next May, Hardy and Charlize Theron, who plays baddie Imperator Furiosa, graced the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly, and the story run about the film offers up some tantalizing new details.
American Horror Story has taken us inside a haunted house, an insane asylum populated by Nazis and aliens and a modern-day coven of witches. But this fall, for its fourth season, the Ryan Murphy-run series may be heading to its wackiest locale yet - a 1950s freak show in Jupiter, Florida. Though American Horror Story: Freak Show will feature a bevy of returning cast members, including Jessica Lange as a German ex-pat and Sarah Paulson as a two-headed freak, it's also going to include some new additions, such as The Shield alum Michael Chiklis.
Though his feature directorial debut, Winter's Tale, was an unqualified disaster on absolutely every level, Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (for his script for A Beautiful Mind, which also won Best Picture) isn't giving up the director's chair just yet. This week, he signed on to helm a horror flick called Stephanie, for Blumhouse, Unbroken and The Gotham Group.
Another day, another potentially groundless rumor for Star Wars Episode VII. Yesterday, sometimes-reliable gossip site Latino Review posted a new crop of possible scoops for Disney and Lucasfilm's upcoming, J.J. Abrams-directed franchise restarter.
