Deadline is reporting today that Boyhood helmer Richard Linklater, nominated for the Best Director Oscar last year, is Sony Pictures' top pick to direct Jennifer Lawrence in The Rosie Project.
Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, referred to in horror circles as The Vicious Brothers, have set their next project in Temple, a horror-thriller written by You're Next and The Guest scribe Simon Barrett.
After Christopher Nolan's sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar divided critics, the director went quiet as to his next movie, but now it's been revealed that Nolan has actually been hard at work on a very different sort of project.
When it comes to blockbuster franchises like Star Wars, which keep secrets under lock and key while mounting massive productions around the world, there's really no telling from where the next scoop is going to come.
The upcoming Vacation sequel/reboot will be an interesting watch for Marvel fans - the writer-director duo behind the studio comedy, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, were at one point in the mix to direct the upcoming Spider-Man reboot, and they've since been tapped to pen the script. Now, in a joint NPR interview, Daley and Goldstein have confirmed their involvement in the high-profile project and spoken a little about why they're well-suited for the gig.
Alternating between indie-circuit hits (Young Ones) and blockbuster hits (Maleficent), Elle Fanning has worked steadily to emerge out of older sister Dakota's Hollywood shadow, and she'll be aiming squarely for the hearts and minds of the YA crowd in upcoming project All the Bright Places. This morning, producers have announced that Fanning will team with Youth in Revolt director Miguel Arteta for the pic, an adaptation of Jennifer Niven's novel.
Fox's Gambit spinoff, set to star Channing Tatum as the card-carrying mutant, is still operating under the cloak of pre-production darkness, but a new report from Showbiz 411 claims to uncover when the project will go before cameras, as well as which supporting roles have yet to be cast.
Despite diving headfirst into franchise territory with Fantastic Four and Creed, Michael B. Jordan isn't forgetting his dramatic roots. The Fruitvale Station breakout is teaming with Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretton to adapt Bryan Stevenson memoir Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, according to THR.
As Marvel ramps up to shoot Doctor Strange this November, the studio and director Scott Derrickson (Sinister) are busy putting together a top-tier supporting cast to battle the forces of darkness against Benedict Cumberbatch's Sorcerer Supreme. Rumors have been flying left and right about which actress could take on the lead female role in the superhero blockbuster, with True Detective star Rachel McAdams emerging as the frontrunner for a key (but still unspecified) part. Now, the actress has gone record to confirm that she's at least been approached by Marvel - if not that she has signed on quite yet.
"Who cares about the *belch* thing you guys are talking about?" Words to live by, Grandpa Rick, words to live by. In the second season premiere of Rick and Morty, the weirdest and unquestionably one of the best animated comedies on television hasn't missed a beat - even though it's been over a year since the brilliant first season ender aired, "A Rickle in Time" puts viewers back in the same giddily amused mindset within seconds. Rick is still a brilliant monster, prone to unleashing firestorms of smart-aleck abuse on his simple-minded grandson Morty and granddaughter Summer; Morty is the hapless kid who idolizes him nonetheless; and parents Jerry and Beth remain the same distracted, vaguely dissatisfied couple we know and tolerate.
