Jess Walter's generation-spanning romance Beautiful Ruins tore up the bestseller charts and topped critical best-of lists when it was released last year, so no one was really surprised when Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films promptly snapped up rights to the film adaptation. Interest in the project shot up dramatically, however, when Todd Field, the acclaimed director of In the Bedroom and Little Children signed on to direct. Now, Beautiful Ruins has its first actress as Field has selected the rising Imogen Poots to star in the film.
Television history was made today when FXX signed an absolutely massive deal with 20th Century Fox Television for the rights to air animation staple The Simpsons in syndication for at least the next ten years. FXX, a recent spin-off channel of FX (also owned by Fox), will pay approximately $750 million spread across the next decade in accordance with the terms of the deal, which also grants them the ability to stream past seasons of The Simpsons on their soon-to-launch video-on-demand app FXNow.
With all of the higher-profile Oscar bait movies coming out this fall, a lot of critics have been neglecting to talk about Out of the Furnace, an upcoming thriller which stars Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson and Casey Affleck. The film has flown somewhat under the radar in recent months, but now Relativity Media is turning the heat up on its marketing campaign with a new poster and TV spot, both of which you can check out below.
Hollywood needs to cool it on the summer tentpoles. 2015 is possibly the most jam-packed year for sequels, adaptations and high-budget blockbusters on record by this point, but studios are showing no signs of slowing down as 2oth Century Fox has just slotted an August 2015 release date for Assassin's Creed, a feature film adaptation of Ubisoft's mega-successful video-game franchise.
According to the ever-reliable Latino-Review, specifically their writer El Mayimbe, a frontrunner has emerged for a highly coveted female role in Zack Snyder's Batman vs. Superman. Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress and model, is supposedly up for a pivotal but mysterious part in the hotly-anticipated blockbuster.
If 2015 wasn't already a crowded enough year for sequels, with Star Wars: Episode VII, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Batman/Superman, Terminator and Ted 2 all lobbying for your hard-earned cash, Universal has set a 2015 release date for Pitch Perfect 2, the sequel to last year's surprise box-office smash.
After years in development, it appears that all the pieces are finally falling into place for the Miles Davis biopic Kill the Trumpet Player. Don Cheadle is set to portray Davis and will also direct the film, working from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman. Ewan McGregor and Zoe Saldana will take on supporting roles.
Today, Summit has unveiled a second trailer for their upcoming Hunger Games-esque hopeful, Divergent, a potential franchise-starter adapted from the bestselling series by Veronica Roth.
If the average consumer hadn't already wasted enough hours on Temple Run, Imangi Studios' wildly successful endless runner, THR is now reporting that Warner Bros. is in negotiations to turn the app into a feature film, with David Heyman already attached to produce.
Well, that was fast. Last week, we brought you news that Marvel would be teaming up with Netflix to develop four thirteen-episode limited series based on the superheroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, which would lead into in a Netflix mini-series adaptation of The Defenders. Now, the first name attached to this hugely ambitious project has been revealed. Drew Goddard, the director of acclaimed meta-horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods, is in final negotiations to write the Daredevil series for Netflix.
