TriStar Pictures. Courtesy of Alamy. Now here’s quite the pairing of director and material. British actress/filmmaker Emerald Fennell of “Saltburn,” “Promising Young Woman” and the recent “Wuthering Heights” fame, is reportedly in negotiations to direct the reboot of the iconic 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct”. Word came in July last year that the original film’s […]

Netflix It’s official, Netflix’s live-action “One Piece” series is returning to screens in 2027 with the third season, which has been in production in South Africa since the end of last year. The streamer has unveiled the third season’s subtitle, ‘The Battle of Alabasta’, which follows on from the second season’s ‘Into the Grand Line’, […]

Netflix Update: A reliable source has shot down the report, dismissing it as “not true”. Original: “Wednesday,” “Scream” and “Beetlejuice 2” actress Jenna Ortega has reportedly been offered the female lead role in the new “Gremlins” film. The report originates from scooper DanielRPK with no further details other than the offer and talks. At present, […]

20th Century Studios. Courtesy of Alamy. HBO Max has unexpectedly premiered “Alien 3: The Assembly Cut” on the service, the title appearing over the weekend. This alternate version, which clocks in at 144 minutes – a full half-hour longer than the theatrical cut – was born out of director David Fincher’s refusal to do a […]

Paramount Pictures Universal has officially announced “The Comeback King” as the title of the next Judd Apatow-directed comedy for the studio. A first poster has also been released for the film, which will star Glen Powell and has reportedly just begun production ahead of a planned February 5th 2027 release. The story follows “a country […]

David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is reportedly nearing a deal to secure nearly $24 billion in funding commitments from three Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to back the company’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. According to The Wall Street Journal and Variety, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) agreed to provide around $10 billion to Paramount. […]

Marvel “Beef” creator Lee Sung Jin and “The Bear” writer/co-showrunner Joanna Calo are both reportedly writing – or rather re-writing – Marvel Studios’ upcoming “X-Men” film. At last report, Michael Lesslie (“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t”) was penning the script for the film. Lesslie […]

Lucasfilm Reviews are out for Disney and Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord,” with the title drawing better numbers than most With 25 reviews counted, the title sits at a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes along with a 71/100 on Metacritic with the latter in line with some of Disney’s live-action “Star Wars” efforts […]

Amazon The fifth and final season of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” premieres this week, and reviews are now in for the last run. The fourth season drew slightly softer critical reviews than prior ones amid complaints that the series was running out of steam and taking some odd left turns. Things picked up in […]

Paramount Pictures It has been fifteen years since Steven Spielberg’s animated feature “The Adventures of Tintin” was released, what was originally going to be the first of three proposed “Tintin” movies. At the time, the plan was for Peter Jackson to direct the second and the pair to potentially co-direct a third, with the likely […]