Get ready for another cinematic universe filled with superheroes and super villains, because this morning Hasbro confirmed that it has assembled the writers who will be crafting its interconnected franchise of films. Those names include author Michael Chabon, graphic novel writer Brian K. Vaughan, and screenwriter Nicole Perlman.
“Time Traveling Bong is so fucking stupid," Ilana Glazer has said recently of Comedy Central's new sci-fi stoner miniseries. "But I think it is so good and I love it so much that I’m like 'it’s smart.'" Leave it to the Broad City co-creator, co-star, and co-writer to encapsulate her new series (created along with star Paul W. Downs and writer/director Lucia Aniello) with all of the low-brow intelligence and brevity that its patently quirky title suggests.
Because American Gods wasn't enough work on its own, author Neil Gaiman is readying up a project focused on adapting another of his fantasy novels, Good Omens, for the small screen. The series is set to be a six-party event show, and Gaiman made the announcement at a memorial event for Terry Pratchett, who co-authored the novel with him back in 1990, and passed away March 2015.
We're weeks away from the launch of Ratchet and Clank, what might be the first truly great video game adaptation (crosses fingers). In preparation for the film's release, Gramercy Pictures has launched three new movie clips from the animated flick to whet fans' appetites for the hilarious adventures of the titular Lombax and his robot sidekick.
Continuing his anti-hero/villain persona, actor Jackie Earle Haley is set to play the key villainous figure in Amazon's reboot of The Tick. Set to fight newly-cast Peter Serafinowicz, Haley will play The Terror, a powerful super villain and leader of an evil league of mysterious characters.
M. Night Shyamalan's reboot of the classic anthology series Tales From The Crypt is officially moving forward at TNT, with the network picking up the series for a 10-episode first season. Based on the original EC Comics series, the new show will be hosted by "a newly reinvented Crypt Keeper," with Shyamalan acting as executive producer.
The Eli Roth-produced horror flick Clown was already scheduled for a limited theatrical run, but now news has come that those interested will be able to watch the movie at home thanks to a simultaneously On Demand release via Starz Digital.
The cast for the upcoming American Gods adaptation on Starz has increased by two today, with news coming that Crispin Glover and Jonathan Tucker are both joining the fantasy drama based on Neil Gaiman's trippy book.
In the grand scheme of weird film adaptations of old toy lines, DreamWorks' upcoming Trolls movie is pretty far up the list. All the same, new casting announcements for the family-friendly movie build up a promising ensemble: Zooey Deschanel, Jeffrey Tambor, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Baranski, Quvenzhané Wallis, and John Cleese have all been added to the voice cast of the film.
Sit back and relax, it's your regularly scheduled Avatar sequel update: James Cameron has announced today at CinemaCon that he plans a total of four Avatar sequels, all due out before the end of 2023. That'll be fourteen years after the original Avatar launched in theaters in 2009.
