Warner Bros.’s pending Dune sequel stands to be one of the more exciting highlights for moviegoers this year. It’s certainly helped put Jon Spaihts on radar after penning the first one, adding to his resumè notably topped off with Marvel’s Doctor Strange (2016) before now.
LA-based Upgrade Productions is revving up the new original eco-political drama-thriller series, Volcano. Nebojsa Taraba and Miodrag Sila (HBO’s “Success,” Netflix’s “The Paper”) created the series based on an original idea and are shepherding for Croatia’s Drugi Plan, alongside Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (“True Detective”) and Hörður Rúnarsson (“Black Sands”) for Iceland’s newly launched ACT 4, and with Upgrade exec producing.
Behavior Interactive’s surprise success with their asymmetric horror title DEAD BY DAYLIGHT is the latest hit game to make the jump from the small to the silver screen! Teaming up Blumhouse and Atomic Monster production companies, both familiar with the Horror genre, is sure to be a great formula to bring the love letter to the genre that is DBD to greater heights.
Independent film duo Robert Samuels and Robert Jefferson are developing Blood Brothers, a new action thriller set as the first of a new line of feature projects out of R4 Films LLC. The duo is also in talks with actor and martial artist Marrese Crump for a lead role, with Jefferson penning the script for a hopeful Q4 2023 or early 2024 shoot in Thailand.
Nearly twenty years since taking shape on the big screen, Dark Horse mainstay Hellboy is on deck yet for another reboot.
Nearly ten years since its brutal and bloody culmination, Spartacus TV shepherd Steven S. DeKnight is bringing back the blood-drenched sword-and-sandal fanfare for STARZ according to a press release on Thursday.
Actress and filmmaker Maria Tran and her good folks at Phoenix Eye are currently tracking the festivals in 2023 with their debut feature, Echo 8. The new psych action thriller, about an assassin who finds herself at an impasse with her organization when she’s assigned her latest target, has already lined up several official nominations and awards including and not limited to Tokyo and Singapore, while the company is now priming a continuation of the story in two back-to-back sequels, Echo 8: Beyond and Echo 8: Five By Five.
Folks who took a liking to season one of The Terminal List will be in good company going forward as Amazon revs up season two of the hit series, according to the trades on Wednesday. With series main Chris Pratt back on board, the company is also moving forward with a prequel to expand on the character played by Pratt’s season one co-star, Taylor Kitsch.
New DCU co-shepherd James Gunn took to social media on Tuesday to finally announce “Gods And Monsters”, detailing just part of the eight-to-ten-year plan that he and Peter Safran have in store to streamline its properties between film, television, and gaming. As Gunn notes, the plan will leapfrog off of Shazam: Gods And Monsters, followed by The Flash which will reset the DCU, as well as the impending releases of Blue Beetle and Aquaman 2.
The creative team behind one of last year’s biggest hits is coming back for more with The Wrap’s Drew Taylor reporting limited details confirming a sequel to Tommy Wirkola’s Violent Night. The report defers to quotes from Wirkola who verified the return of lead actor David Harbour in the role of a kick-ass Norse mythology-based Santa Claus who in the first film descends with a vengeance on a gang of home invaders led by John Leguizamo.
Kodachrome helmer Mark Raso will direct Hunter’s Run, an adaptation of the 2007 sci-fi novel. The news came via press release this week announcing the acquisition of the rights by Exile Content Studio on Wednesday.
It was back in 2017 when actor Jared Leto was eyed for a role in a possible start of development for a third installment of the Tron franchise at Disney. That’s not to say that developments of a new chapter haven’t been without their share of hurdles after more than seven years, and now, word over at Deadline has it that a new film with Leto starring and producing will move forward this August in Vancouver.
Industry stunt multihyphenate Olivier Schneider is on deck to direct the new crime thriller, Les Orphelins. Casting details remain pending on the film which was recently announced in French entertainment magazine, Écran Total.
Casting is currently underway for Don’t Move, the new horror thriller from directing duo Adam Schindler and Brian Netto. The film reteams Schindler with, T.J. Cimfel and David White who wrote Schindler’s 2016 pic, Intruders, starring Rory Culkin.
Gaming auteur Hideo Kojima’s Kojima Productions is partnering with Barbarian executive producer Alex Lebovici’s Hammerstone Studios to develop and produce the highly anticipated film adaptation of the wildly popular and critically acclaimed hit videogame franchise Death Stranding. The news comes hot on the heels of announcing the tentatively-titled “Death Stranding 2” at The Game Awards.
Where does one begin when discussing a legendary gaming series such as God of War? It’s the epic tale of Kratos, a tortured Spartan warrior, hell-bent on revenge against the Greek deities that used and wronged him. Over the course of several games, he would eventually topple Mount Olympus’ pantheon and himself claim the title of God of War. The series would receive a universally acclaimed sequel/reboot in 2018 that would find it’s hero exiling himself to the Norse realm of Midgard. This game was recently followed up by the runaway success of God of War Ragnarok, winning Best Narrative, Best Action/Adventure and more at the Game Awards 2022, and selling over 5 million units in it’s launch week; the fastest selling first-party game in Playstation history. Naturally, Playstation Productions would follow this up with a bombshell announcement: they’ll be teaming up with Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios to deliver GOD OF WAR, a live-action series based on the series!
It’s been about four years since Legendary Entertainment acquired the rights to adapt Kohei Horikoshi’s hit manga, My Hero Academia. The animated series from the studio, Bones, was in its fifth season, while the development of the movie up-ticked a bit with the attachment of filmmaker Shinsuke Sato to direct as of last year.
It may have been just a matter of time before Hollywood took notice of a video game like Sloclap’s latest hit, Sifu, but now we’re seeing the evolution of that potential surface this week in new reports detailing the development of a live-action adaptation now in the works.
Media mogul Shannon Lee has been pursuing a biopic about her late father, actor and martial arts sensation Bruce Lee for years but now it looks like we have a solid footing over at Sony’s 3000 Pictures. What’s more is that celebrated Life Of Pi, Hulk and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee is on deck to direct the film with none other than his son, Mason Lee (The Hangover II, Who Killed Cock Robin?) attached to play the part of the screen legend.
Netflix subscribers are only days away from the launch of Ng Yuen-Fai’s hit sci-fi action adventure thriller, Warriors Of Future, and its star is now on record teasing a prequel currently in the works. The film, which is set in a future dystopia where Hong Kong’s military forces uncover a conspiracy in the wake of mankind’s increasing devastation at the hands of alien plant life ravaging Earth, became a blockbuster hit in Hong Kong as of its August release, after seven years of extensive development and subsequent production with Louis Koo starring, as well as producing the pic out of his One Cool Film banner.
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