As someone with a deep and abiding passion for Cloud Atlas, I've committed myself to seeing anything that the Wachowskis made - even overblown trollop like Jupiter Ascending. Luckily, the sibling directors' Netflix series Sense8 looks a lot more interesting than their last feature ever did. It's a mind-bending sci-fi story about individuals joined together by some mysterious neural anomaly - and that's really all I need to know.
With his disaster epic San Andreas opening this weekend, director Brad Peyton is making press rounds, and during a recent conference, he revealed to Digital Spy that, like seemingly everyone else in Hollywood, he is interested in directing a superhero movie at some point. And Peyton, who was once attached to direct Lobo with his San Andreas star Dwayne Johnson, already has his eye on a certain big blue Boy Scout.
Pan director Joe Wright is venturing out to sea again - though his vessel will be sailing through water, not air, this time around. The helmer is in talks to direct The Lifeboat, an adaptation of Charlotte Rogan's book, with Anne Hathaway attached to the lead role.
Having realized that it can trick millions of moviegoers into plunking down their hard-earned cash for CGI-heavy, plot-bereft riffs on cheap plastic toys, Paramount Pictures is attempting to turn Beyblade into a live-action franchise.
Learning of Cary Fukunaga's departure from his two-film adaptation of Stephen King's IT after creative differences with New Line was one of the most depressing stories to come out of Hollywood in recent weeks. But in what's a small silver lining to a big gray cloud, Bloody Disgusting is reporting that the project is still very much alive.
Jason Reitman has been on a downward spiral since Up in the Air, and his latest film, last year's Men, Women & Children, was the worst of the bunch, preachy, tone-deaf and utterly ill-conceived from first frame to last. Now, it appears that the once-promising helmer is taking refuge in less heavy fare - he's signed on to write and direct Beekle, an adaptation of Dan Santat's award-winning children's novel The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, for DreamWorks Animation.
After spending a year over at Marvel rewriting Ant-Man to accommodate for Peyton Reed taking the reins from Edgar Wright, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari have moved over to Paramount Pictures, where they've become the latest to join a Transformers brain trust being assembled by Akiva Goldsman. Deadline first reported their involvement and also made mention of one pitch that's fast gathering steam over at the studio: an origin story set on Cybertron called Transformers One, that may be animated and land in between live-action installments.
Archer producers Adam Reed and Matt Thompson are joining forces with Community's Megan Ganz for animated comedy Cassius & Clay, which FX has just greenlit for a pilot order in hopes of expanding its animated lineup past Reed and Thompson's beloved spy riff. Reed and Ganz wrote the series, and all three are exec-producing.
Benedict Cumberbatch will have some company as he traverses the world of sorcery in Marvel's Doctor Strange - THR is reporting today that Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive) will be taking on the role of a Tibetan mystic known as The Ancient One (because you didn't think she'd be playing a straight love interest, now did ya?) in the Scott Derrickson-directed blockbuster, which is intended to simultaneously introduce the Sorcerer Supreme and the more magical side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Just recently, it was reported that The Theory of Everything Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne was in talks for the lead role of Newt Scamander in Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and now an intriguing shortlist has emerged of actors and actresses contending for the other main roles. According to separate reports by TheWrap and Variety, a bevy of talented thespians, along with some unusual choices, are up for the two female leads and the part of Newt's male rival.
