For all the botched conversions and box office duds that the practice has produced, suddenly there's a renewed interest among the Hollywood elite for video game adaptations. From Splinter Cell to the Michael Fassbender-led Assassin's Creed, there's a handful of projects that have the potential to finally bring an end to the curse that has lingered over the video game movie for well over a decade. Ubisoft isn't the only publisher muscling its way into the action, though, as Square Enix is quietly toiling away on a Just Cause film.
"How many times have you fallen in love?" whispers the soft-spoken Therese Belivet in the latest, moving trailer for Todd Haynes' Carol. Starring Rooney Mara and the Oscar-winning Cate Blanchett as a pair of mismatched women living out their lives in a post-war New York City.
We're getting closer and closer to the date when Warner Bros.' live-action Wonder Woman steps in front of the cameras for its London shoot this November, and already, excitement is beginning to spill over across the four corners of the Internet. It's a high-profile project that has almost been a permanent fixture in the news cycle, too, with Chris Pine's casting, a working title and the fact that Hoyte Van Hoytema won't, despite rumors to the contrary, serve as cinematography for the standalone feature.
With AMC's companion tale Fear The Walking Dead now beginning to find its feet, the network has released a new banner for its flagship undead series ahead of The Walking Dead season 6.
For a project beleaguered with numerous setbacks, during which time Nick Cassavetes, Joe Johnston and Barry Levinson were all attached to helm the crime drama, it appears the long-gestating biopic Gotti has finally settled on its director in Kevin Connolly.
Growing up, one of the early lessons that your parents would often teach is that at times the world can be a scary place. But for Lenny Abrahamson's much-touted adaptation Room, Brie Larson's caring mother takes that to a whole new level by convincing her young son Jack that their decrepit 10-foot by 10-foot abode they call home is quite literally their entire world.
Still reeling from yesterday's creepy batch of stills for Michael Dougherty’s festive horror? Well today, Legendary has completed its one-two punch by debuting the first look trailer for Krampus, which gives us a solid indication of the brand of horror that the screenwriter-cum-director is cooking up.
To date, DICE and publisher EA have showcased some of the nominal game modes that will be available in Star Wars Battlefront - namely Walker Assault, Blast and the sky-scrapping Fighter Squadron mode. But as teased late last month, one of the new additions that will feature in October's beta test is that of Drop Zone, with EA touting the game mode as a "King of the Hill-style" experience.
Michael Fassbender's reputation as one of the busiest bees in Hollywood looks set to continue today after reports surfaced linking the X-Men: Apocalypse and Macbeth star with the lead part in Tomas Alfredson's The Snowman.
In a couple of weeks, Baltasar Kormákur's Everest will introduce moviegoers to the visceral, unforgivable environment atop the world's highest peak - and the real-life tragedy that inspired it - though the director is already thinking further afield. Don't be fooled into thinking that the Icelandic filmmaker will want to helm a cozy rom-com as a respite from this month's icy thriller, because as the man himself revealed to Empire, Kormákur's new projects will look to retain that gripping intensity.
