American Horror Story Season 8 has enlisted Cody Fern in a key role. The Assassination of Gianni Versace breakout has joined the upcoming season of the FX anthology series — which is titled Apocalypse — in the role of Michael Langdon. Series creator Ryan Murphy made the announcement on Twitter. Fern received widespread acclaim for […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda, James McAvoy and Ruth Wilson have all been cast in the BBC’s upcoming series His Dark Materials, based on the bestselling fantasy novels by British author Philip Pullman. Oscar-winner Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”) will direct the first two episodes of the eight-part adaptation by Jack Thorne (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”). […]
Altered Carbon has been renewed for a second season at Netflix, but another actor is taking over the role of Takeshi Kovacs from Season 1 star Joel Kinnaman. Anthony Mackie is joining the series in the lead role. The change up in the show’s main character is not unexpected given that it takes place In […]
Netflix has optioned the movie rights to Nike founder Phil Knight’s autobiography Shoe Dog. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, whose credits include Ed Wood, and The People vs. Larry Flynt, are writing the screenplay. Knight will produce with Frank Marshall. Knight launched Nike in 1963 with $50 borrowed from his father with one simple mission: […]
Comedian George Lopez and Lana Parrilla have joined Bobby Soto and Shia LaBeouf in David Ayer’s crime thriller Tax Collector, which has started shooting in Los Angeles. Cross Creek Pictures is financing Tax Collector, a co-production between Cross Creek and Cedar Park Entertainment, Ayer’s production company. Ayer and Chris Long of Cedar Park are the […]
Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies have scheduled two nights of showings of The Sound of Music at more than 600 theaters on Sept. 9 and 12. The showings are part of the yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics series from Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies. In addition to the full feature presentation, TCM Primetime […]
Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout soared to $6 million on Thursday night. The earnings (from 3,300 North American locations) are well above Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’s 2015 preview gross of $4 million. Paramount’s sixth installment of the franchise is expected to dominate the weekend with forecasts ranging from $50 million to $65 million […]
MoviePass has been hit by a service outage after its parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics ran out of cash temporarily. The subscription service began tweeting on Thursday evening about “an issue that is preventing users from checking-in to movies” and said it was working to resolve the problem. The company said its e-ticketing function […]
Hulu may have rejected it, but Netflix hasn’t and has officially ordered to series an adaptation of Joe Hill’s acclaimed horror/fantasy comic series Locke and Key. The story follows a woman who moves her three children to Maine after her husband is brutally murdered. They arrive at Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion with fantastic […]
Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott are officially confirmed to star in Elizabeth Banks’ Charlie’s Angels reboot, with newcomer British actress Ella Balinska completing the crime-fighting trio. Banks is pulling double duty on the Sony Pictures pic, serving as the film’s director while playing Bosley, the handler and intermediary between the detectives and their elusive employer, […]