TV News: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Comic Being Developed as a TV Series

By Seaberry • September 2, 2010 • View Comments

Neil Gaiman, comic book writer and novelist, has another property set to be adapted by Hollywood, this coming on the heels of the 2007 film adaptation of his novel Stardust.  Warner Brothers Television is in the process of obtaining the television rights to the Sandman character from its sister company DC Entertainment.  DC Entertainment owns Vertigo, the publishing imprint that produced [ >> ]

Screenwriters Named for Tupac Shakur Biopic

By Seaberry • September 2, 2010 • View Comments

The Tupac Shakur biopic is finally crawling out of the depths of development hell.  Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Brooklyn’s Finest) was previously named as the film’s director.  Recently, Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson were hired to draft the screenplay.   Rivele and Wilinson are an Oscar-nominated writing team known for their work on Ali and Nixon.   There was a previous draft that was [ >> ]

Posters: New Posters Emerge for The Next Three Days, Tron: Legacy and Let Me In

By Kevin Coll • September 2, 2010 • View Comments

IMP Awards has posted two brand new international posters from the highly-anticipated movies Tron: Legacy, due in theaters December 17, and Let Me In, which will arrive on October 1.

Lionsgate has unveiled the first poster for the upcoming Paul Haggis thriller, The Next Three Days, starring Russell Crowe, Liam Neeson, Elizabeth Banks and Olivia Wilde.  You can see the trailer [ >> ]

TV News: Jamie Foxx’s Sketch Comedy Series Airing on Fox at Midseason

By Seaberry • September 2, 2010 • View Comments

It looks like Jamie Foxx will be returning to his sketch comedy roots.  Foxx’s first major gig was as a cast member of Fox’s sketch show In Living Color.     Fox has ordered 12 half-hour episodes of  a sketch comedy show currently titled The Jamie Foxx Project.  Although a pilot was shot  recently, the weekly show will be different and the pilot will be [ >> ]

Fright Night First Look Photo with David Tennant as Peter Vincent!

By Kevin Coll • September 2, 2010 • View Comments

A brand new banner image of David Tennant in the upcoming remake of Fright Night has just been uncovered at what seems to be the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. This is Tennant’s first film role since departing his long time position as Doctor Who. He is playing a character, Peter Vincent, which seems to be a cross [ >> ]

Check Out The New Footage In International Due Date Trailer!

By Kevin Coll • September 2, 2010 • View Comments

Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled the international trailer for Due Date, which features some new footage from the Robert Downey Jr/Zach Galifianakis comedy. Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is an expectant first-time father whose wife’s due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the [ >> ]

Rumor: Tony Scott Wants Brad Pitt & Johnny Depp for Nemesis Adaptation?

By Kevin Coll • September 1, 2010 • View Comments

Well, if Tony Scott’s name wasn’t enough to make you get some what excited about the film adaptation of Nemesis, then how about the fact the director wants Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp for the film? Mark Millar, the creator of the comic series was recently on a BBC radio show, where he didn’t hold anything back on all of his [ >> ]

Marvel’s Runaways Film To Start Shooting this March

By Kevin Coll • September 1, 2010 • View Comments

It’s been awhile (May 2010)  since we have had an update on the Runaways film adaptation from Marvel Studios, but apparently Production Weekly believes that the film version of Brian K. Vaughn’s teen superhero concept will begin filming in March 2011.
Originally the movie was supposed to start filming in January, so it’s interesting they have pushed it back. No cast [ >> ]

Net Crawl: Cool Fan Made Chuck Posters from Online Contest

By Kevin Coll • September 1, 2010 • View Comments

This year at SDCC 2010, the WB/NBC Marketing teams introduced an awesome new Chuck Season 4 teaser poster featuring a “War Games” inspired look. We posted the poster the other day with a new casting announcement.
After crawling the internet today, I came upon a bunch of photos, including the winner and runner-up, of a fan-made poster contest Warner Brothers ran [ >> ]

VG Designer Ken Kevine Updates Bioshock Movie, “Still An Active Thing”

By Kevin Coll • September 1, 2010 • View Comments

A reader at the website, Kotaku,  discovered a radio interview with Bioshock video game designer Ken Levine, where he said that the long awaited Bioshock movie is still moving forward. We reported just over a year ago that 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo had taken over the reins from Gore Verbinski, although Gore Verbinski will still produce the movie (if it happens).
In [ >> ]

Casting Couch: Shark Night 3D Cast Builds, Rami Malek, Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, Dwayne Johnson and Others Line-Up Projects

By Kevin Coll • September 1, 2010 • View Comments

I have been sort of behind reporting on the all the tinsel town casting news from the past week. So I am dumping it all in this week’s Casting Couch article. First off, on the heels of the Piranha 3D acclaim, Shark Night 3D is casting away its film. The Rock is lining up another kids’ film, Rami Malik will [ >> ]