BAFTA-winning screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne (Skins, This Is England) has been set to work on the script for the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s beloved Sandman comic book, with David S. Goyer and Joseph Gordon-Levitt confirmed to be involved as well.
In Hollywood, it seems as though everyone is talking, all the time. Inevitably, a lot of it is just noise and carries little meaning, but once in a while, if you really pay attention, someone seems to let something slip that is very important indeed. This week, it looks like that someone is writer/director Drew Pearce, and that something is Joss Whedon’s involvement with The Avengers 3.
Veronica Mars was never going to be an ordinary movie. As a feature length addendum to the TV show that was cancelled in 2007, it came into being by shattering fundraising records on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. It defied the odds by drawing back the original cast members, impressed nay-sayers with the timely release of a trailer that suggests a film entirely in-keeping with the spirit of the show, and on March 14 2014, it will make history as Warner Bros' first simultaneous release in cinemas and online.
Sir Ben Kingsley and Italian actress Alessandro Mastronardi are the latest additions to the cast list of Life, which is currently filming in Toronto, Canada, and stars Robert Pattinson in the lead role.
Just when you thought LEGO couldn’t get any cooler – with a blockbuster hit at the cinema solidifying its long-held status as the must-have toy for any self-respecting person of any age – news arrives of an all-LEGO episode of The Simpsons.
The advantage of having Michael Keaton in the cast of a heavily promoted movie like RoboCop - apart from his formidable talent - is that we get to hear his response to the inevitable journalistic enquiry: What’s happening with Beetlejuice 2?
In a landmark move, Universal Pictures have signed award-winning Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou (The Flowers Of War) to direct their planned film adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Parsifal Mosaic. According to Deadline, this collaboration will mark the first time a mainland Chinese director has signed on for an English-language film for a US film studio.
When it hit the festival circuit in 2007, the 40-minute long documentary made a huge impact, winning no less than 14 festival awards, including the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. When its director Cynthia Wade collected the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in February 2008, the film received an even greater boost in interest, and by 2010, Ellen Page was attached to star in the narrative re-telling, with a screenplay by Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia, The Painted Veil).
Having commissioned the pilot episode of The Brink – a half-hour dark political comedy – last year, HBO has now ordered the show to series, with Tim Robbins and Jack Black heading the cast.