Irish made film will have its premiere in competition at the festival… Irish production and distribution company Element Pictures has announced that THE LOBSTER will have its world premiere at this year’s 68th Cannes Film Festival, screening in the prestigious...
Hollywood-skewering playing to get film adaptation… Celebrated playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet (‘Wag The Dog,’ ‘State and Main,’ ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’) is teaming up with producers Irwin Winkler and Randall Emmett to adapt his 1988 stage play ‘Speed-The-Plow’ the...
Our first good look at Paul Bettany as The Vision… Marvel Studios presents ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things...
Live-action redo in development… Disney has plans for a live-action re-imagining on their 1998 animated feature ‘Mulan,’ according to THR. The trade’s sources hear that the Mouse House has snapped up a script by writing team Elizabeth Martin and Lauren...
Fantasy series based on the 2005 film in the works… Scribe Ehren Kruger (‘The Ring,’ ‘The Skeleton Key,’ ‘Arlington Road’) has been tapped by Miramax to adapt Terry Gilliam’s fantasy adventure ‘The Brothers Grimm’ to the small screen, according to...
Disney’s family comedy may have found its director… Variety is reporting that ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ and ‘Nacho Libre’ director Jared Hess is negotiations to take the director’s chair for ‘Overnight at 42nd Street’ for Disney. Scripted by Oren Uziel (‘Kitchen Sink,’...
