Beating out some other major studios, Fox Animation has secured rights to adapt Noelle Stevenson's bestselling graphic novel Nimona for the big screen, with Patrick Osborne (pictured above, director of the Oscar-winning short film Feast) at the helm.
After hitting a home-run with her directorial debut Pitch Perfect 2, Elizabeth Banks is being courted for another red-hot project at Universal. The studio is in talks with the triple threat (actress, producer and now helmer) to develop with an eye to direct Red Queen.
When you make a movie as rip-roaringly good as Kingsman: The Secret Service, there's understandably an immediate and deafening call for an encore - and director Matthew Vaughn's ears are still ringing from that commotion, he admits. Luckily, 20th Century Fox agrees with the fans whole-heartedly and has been pushing ahead with a follow-up, but it was unclear until today whether Vaughn would be involved. Now, talking with Yahoo! UK, the helmer has revealed that he's personally at work on a script for Kingsman 2.
For the first time in his versatile career, Denzel Washington will be toplining a franchise - the actor is signed on to reprise the role of former CIA agent Robert McCall in The Equalizer 2, which Sony has just set for release on September 29, 2017.
Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig have teamed up to make a Lifetime Original Movie. Has that sentence sunk in yet? Good - because the teaser for said film, hilariously titled A Deadly Adoption, is now online, and it's appropriately melodramatic in the over-the-top way only Lifetime pics can manage.
Guy Ritchie is a curious fit for the spy genre - in his past films, the British helmer has gotten down and dirty with London's lowlifes, duked it out with fast-talking thugs and turned Baker Street's best into a bone-crunching badass. So watching the new trailer for his spin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., it's thrilling to see how Ritchie has taken to the slick, stylish world of upper-class espionage, complete with gorgeous period wear and lush locales. Of course, there are still some hard-hitting fight scenes, including one in a dingy bathroom, but the film seems more Bond than bruiser for the most part.
Marvel's Doctor Strange already boasts one of the more interesting casts in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch taking on the role of the Sorcerer Supreme and Tilda Swinton playing a regendered version of The Ancient One. Now, it's been revealed which character 12 Years a Slave Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor will be portraying - and as expected, it's one with extensive roots in comic mythology.
Yesterday brought our first image from Walt Disney Animation Studios' upcoming Zootopia, and the studio has struck while the iron's hot yet again to deliver the first teaser for the ambitious pic, which centers on a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, completely devoid of humans and getting along all the better for it.
Heroic Hollywood is expanding its horizons outside of Suicide Squad, Batman V Superman and Captain America: Civil War for once, reporting on the upcoming Power Rangers movie. And if what the site's sources say holds water, they have uncovered some very interesting dirt on what's sure to be one of 2017's biggest tween hits.
After his powerhouse performance in Selma and incendiary one-man-show in HBO's Nightingale, it's clearer than ever that David Oyelowo is Hollywood's next great actor. Now, Disney may be the next studio to work with him, entering into discussions with Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films and Oyelowo's Yoruba Saxon for The Water Man.
