Following the success of his most recent sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, director Tim Burton spoke about the status of the follow-ups of two of his earlier hits, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. During a Q&A at the Marrakech International Film Festival, the Emmy-winning filmmaker ruled out revisiting the two features, which are among his…
Screenwriter Marshall Brickman, who collaborated with Woody Allen on several of his most important films, died in Manhattan on November 29 at the age of 85. Brickman also co-wrote the Broadway musicals Jersey Boys and The Addams Family. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer for Allen Funt’s Candid Camera as well as…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Filmmaker Jon M. Chu has shared new details about the long anticipated sequel to his acclaimed 2018 feature, Crazy Rich Asians. While talking to The Hollywood Reporter to promote his latest smash hit, the screen adaptation of Wicked, the director said: “I always promised the cast, I will not bring them…
©Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Bridge7 Productions may be working on a sequel to Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire. Bridge7is founded by producer Swati Shetty and former agent Grant Kessman, the company has landed film and television rights to the property from production company Celador. Dev Patel played Jamal, a young man from Mumbai’s…
Watch your ears, Mickey. Your distant cousin Mighty Mouse is on his way. Matt Lieberman has reportedly been tapped to write the script for a feature film adaptation of the iconic Mighty Mouse cartoon for Ryan Reynolds and his production company, Maximum Effort Productions. Paramount had previously announced, in 2019, that a live-action/animation hybrid movie…
Jesse Eisenberg is poised to write and direct a yet-untitled musical comedy for Topic Studios and Fruit Tree, which recently released his acclaimed Sundance film A Real Pain. Eisenberg will also compose original music for the upcoming production. Deadline reported that Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti have been tapped to appear in the new film,…
The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned Jussie Smollett’s conviction of charges that he perpetrated a hate-crime hoax against himself. The actor was convicted in December 2021 on five felony counts of disorderly conduct for the hoax, which occurred in 2019. Smollett had been sentenced to 150 days in a county jail and 30 months of…
© Courtesy of CJ Entertainment Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group and CJ ENM have signed a deal to develop, finance and distribute English language and Korean language features, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The projects will be remakes of each studio’s films. As part of the new agreement, Warner Bros. will serve as the lead…
Javier Bardem has been cast in a lead role for Apple TV+’s upcoming series adaptation of Cape Fear, Variety is reporting. The Oscar-winning actor is set to play a new iteration of the notorious serial killer, Max Cady. The streaming service has released the following official logline for the drama: A storm is coming for…
Takashi Yamazaki, the acclaimed director of Godzilla Minus One, will next be directing, writing, and producing Grandgear, his first English-language feature for Sony Pictures. Sony, which won a competitive bidding war for the project, has not released details or a release date about the upcoming film. J. J. Abrams, who directed Star Wars: The Rise…
© 2020 Team Coco Comedian and late-night television host Conan O’Brien will be emceeing the 97th Oscar ceremonies scheduled for Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. He will replace Jimmy Kimmell, who had hosted the program for the past two years as well as in 2017 and 2018. Over…
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