Lucy Griffiths, best known in the UK for her role as Maid Marian in the BBC’s recent version of Robin Hood, has signed up for a regular role in the fifth series of True Blood. She will play Nora, a centuries-old vampire “sister” of Alexander Skarsgard’s character Eric – both were turned by Godric. According to TV Line, the character […]
The US Art Directors Guild has decided to honour the creative team behind the art production on the blockbuster Harry Potter film series during their 16th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards to be held next February. The honorary Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award has previously been given to individuals including Terry Gilliam, Steven Spielberg, Frank Oz and George […]
FX has announced that its creepy and highly succesful American Horror Story has been picked up for a second run, after only four episodes have been aired. The new batch of 13 episodes will air in 2012, FX Networks President and General Manager John Landgraf announced today. “It’s one thing to have the ambition and guts to reinvent a genre […]
Syfy Films has announced that its first project will be an adaptation of Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin’s shared universe series, Wild Cards. The anthology series began in 1987 […]
Talking to Deadline while demonstrating his 3-D conversion of his blockbuster movie Titanic, director James Cameron gave a brief update on progress on the new version of Fantastic Voyage which […]
The production team behind the BBC Three hit Being Human are working on another supernatural drama, this time to do with witches. Appropriately announced just before Halloween, Switch follows four twenty-something […]
Fox has released a preview for Novation, the next episode of Fringe, which combines brief clips from the episode with some commentary from Joshua Jackson, explaining what has happened to his character Peter Bishop since he made his reappearance at the end of the fourth episode. The episode was supposed to air October 28 in the U.S., and in the U.K. […]
The Estate of Philip K. Dick has started legal proceedings against Media Rights Capital over payments resulting from the Matt Damon movie The Adjustment Bureau. According to Justin. M. Goldstein, the attorney from Carlsmith Ball LLP who is bringing the case for The Philip K. Dick Testamentary Trust, “Philip K. Dick’s trust and heirs were partners every step of the way […]
Following Brian Grazer’s suggestion that a revised budget might make a Dark Tower movie feasible, he’s now been speaking to MTV, and strongly hinted that he and production partners Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman found a home for the television sections of the story. “We’re going to do [The Dark Tower] with HBO,” Grazer told MTV. “We’ll do the TV with […]
As may be obvious from his films such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright knows and loves cinema, and to mark Halloween next week, he’s come […]
After the stellar ratings achieved by the opening episode of the second season, and only a very minor drop-off for the second on October 24, AMC has announced that it has ordered a third season of the zombie drama The Walking Dead. “Today we are pleased to announce that the ‘dead’ shall live as we proudly renew The Walking Dead for a third […]
According to producer Brian Grazer, Ron Howard’s ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s seven book series The Dark Tower may now get a greenlight, after some serious pruning was made to the budget. Promoting his new movie Tower Heist, Grazer told The Playlist: “We found a way to cut out $45 million out of the budget without changing the scope and […]
It was only a few weeks ago that we reported that the Harry Potter team of David Yates and Steve Kloves were reuniting to work on Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus, The Stand, but now it seems as if Argo director Ben Affleck is going to be responsible for the project. According to a report at Deadline.com […]
According to a report in Variety, A-Team star Bradley Cooper is Steven Soderbergh’s choice to replace George Clooney as Napoleon Solo in his upcoming remake of the classic 1960s spy […]
Former Criminal Minds showrunner Ed Bernero has sold an adaptation of Marvel’s Punisher to Fox. Created for The Amazing Spider-Man comic book in 1974, The Punisher follows the adventures of […]
According to an exclusive report at Deadline, Band of Brothers and Anonymous writer John Orloff is close to signing a deal to pen the new movie adaptation of Glen A. Larson’s 1978 TV series Battlestar Galactica. “I have wanted to write this movie since I was 12 years old, and built a Galactica model from scratch out of balsa wood, […]
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