Netflix “The Harder They Fall” and “The Book of Clarence” filmmaker Jeymes Samuel has been set as director of the film adaptation of the classic SEGA arcade game “Streets of Rage” at Lionsgate. The 1991 side-scroller follows several ex-police vigilantes – Axel Stone, Blaze Fielding, and Adam Hunter – trying to rid the fictional American […]

Embassy Pictures “Justice League” and “300” director Zack Snyder is set to write and direct a reimagining of the 1981 John Carpenter classic “Escape from New York” set up at StudioCanal. THR broke the news, indicating the film package is currently being put together and will be taken out to market in the coming weeks. […]

Orion Pictures. Courtesy of Alamy. Dito Montiel (“Riff Raff,” “A Guide to Recognising Your Saints”) is set to direct a biopic based on the life of legendary actor, writer, and director Gene Wilder. Montiel has scripted the project with Jeremy Roth (“Love, Victor”) and has secured life rights from Wilder’s Estate. Wilder was a two-time […]

ASUS The ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, both developed by ASUS, were first revealed in early June last year. Now, one year on, ASUS has announced the ROG Xbox Ally X20 – a new version that will be essentially the same internals as the Ally X, but with a new 7.4-inch 1080p/120hz […]

Paramount Pictures Miramax and Paramount Pictures have premiered the final trailer for the new “Scary Movie” film opening on Friday. Whereas some of the themed teasers for the film have spoofed the likes of “Michael” and “Backrooms,” this one is an ode to Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” at first. The sixth overall film in the […]

Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled the second trailer for “The End of Oak Street” starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway. Previously going by the title of “Flowervale Street,” the film begins when a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports its neighbourhood to someplace unknown. The Platt family soon […]

Amazon Amazon’s “Spider-Noir” series was released a few days ago and has stirred a whole bunch of talk, with a surprisingly large part of it centered on which way you watch it – in colour or black & white. There’s no question an incredible amount of effort has been put into the show’s production values […]

Photo courtesy Instagram@ChrisHemsworth Filming has officially wrapped on the 1950s New York-set crime thriller “Kockroach” starring Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton and Zazie Beetz. The story follows a mysterious stranger from New York’s criminal underworld who transforms himself into a larger-than-life crime boss in a city where power is everything. Shot over the past seven weeks […]

A24 When early projections for the opening weekend of A24’s “Backrooms” came in around $20-30 million a few weeks back, many expected the actual result would be much higher. Even they, however, are probably surprised by just how high 20-year-old Kane Parsons’ liminal horror film has gone, with the title pulling in $81.4 million domestically […]

Warner Bros. Pictures The upcoming “Evil Dead Wrath” has officially wrapped production ahead of a planned release on April 7th 2028. Filmmaker Francis Galluppi (“The Last Stop in Yuma County”) writes and directs the film, the seventh overall movie in the series, and a short video marking the wrap has been released – one involving […]