HBO developing new TV series based on Michael Crichton’s Sphere

Posted 5 years ago

With Westworld set to enter its fourth season, HBO is looking to stay in the Michael Crichton business with an adaptation of "Sphere." The 1987 novel focused on a group of scientists in an underwater facility who encounter a mysterious...

Legendary Pictures has found a director for the Hot Wheels movie

Posted 12 years ago

In case any of you were still wondering– yes, they are still making a HOT WHEELS movie because if you can make a NEED FOR SPEED movie, you can make one for HOT WHEELS. At first it seems pretty stupid:...

The Fighter scribes to adapt Boston Marathon Bombing book Boston Strong

Posted 12 years ago

Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy, the Oscar-nominated screenwriters behind David O. Russell's THE FIGHTER, have just optioned the book "Boston Strong" by Casey Sherman and Boston Herald reporter Dave Wedge with an eye towards adapting it for the big screen....

The UnPopular Opinion: The Fighter

Posted 12 years ago

THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We’re hoping this column will...

Showtime scores Ridley Scott to direct the pilot episode of its new series The Vatican

Posted 13 years ago

Ridley Scott may honestly be the busiest man in the film business, or at least close to it – matched (but not eclipsed) only by the likes of Guillermo del Toro or Steven Spielberg, he directs as much as he...

Universal brings on a new scribe to polish David Ayer’s script for modern-day Scarface redo

Posted 13 years ago

Here’s something you might (or might not) have forgotten about the Brian De Palma/Al Pacino singular piece of pop-culture presence: it’s a remake. The first version hit theaters in 1932, and there was a certain amount of dissension and annoyance...