Epic Games Epic Games has reportedly laid off over 1,000 employees with the blame tied to decreasing player engagement inside its long-running live service game title “Fortnite”. The news was shared via an internal memo penned by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and published on the company’s official site this morning. Sweeney says the decision […]

Disney Disney has announced “Stepsisters,” a live-action feature focusing on Anastasia and Drizella – the evil stepsisters who abused Cinderella reports Deadline The team behind the “Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers” film – director Akiva Schaffer and writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand – have boarded the project in the same capacities. Gregor and Mand, […]

Amazon “The Nice Guys,” “Play Dirty” and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” writer/director Shane Black is set to adapt Don Pendelton’s pulpy “The Executioner” book series into a feature at Sony Pictures. Black will reportedly write the film, with an eye to direct the project. His frequent collaborators Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry will co-write. The […]

Marvel With the season premiere now available on the Disney+ service, the first reviews are out for the second season of Marvel Studios’ “Daredevil: Born Again” and with 37 reviews counted, the series is holding at a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 72/100 on Metacritic. That’s a notable improvement on the first season which […]

Marvel Avengers: DoomsdayActor James Marsden has spoken about finally being able to wear a comic-accurate Cyclops suit in Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Doomsday,” a distinct change from the black leather outfits of the prior “X-Men” films. He tells Jimmy Kimmel Live: “The first movies, we were just in black leather that was very tight… But then […]

Sony Pictures Marvel Studios’ “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” trailer launched on May 17th, pulling in 718.6 million views in its first 24 hours – making it the biggest trailer debut of all time. Thus it comes as little surprise that after four days, the title has now reached 1.1 billion views per analysts WaveMetrix. That […]

Sony Pictures Sony Pictures has announced that it is moving its new “Jumanji” film, delaying it by two weeks from December 11th to Christmas Day. There had been growing concerns that the film, the third of the current era and fourth overall, would be crushed the following week by the ‘Dunesday’ event with both “Dune: […]

HBO Max Untitled Jimmy Olsen SeriesShowrunner Dan Perrault has shared some brief new details about the upcoming “Superman” spin-off series for HBO Max which puts the focus on Skyler Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen. He tells The Direct that the show’s title is still being finalised in the genre of “crime mystery comedy” and says: “there are […]

Lionsgate A spin-off of Lionsgate’s “John Wick” franchise, one revolving around Donnie Yen’s blind assassin Caine, has finally set a production start next month. Deadline reports that Yen will both direct and reprise his role in the new film which was first announced back in May 2024 and follows the character introduced in the fourth […]

Cannon Films. Courtesy of Alamy. Martial arts champ turned iconic 1980s action star Chuck Norris has died. The 86-year-old passed away on Thursday following reports that he’d been hospitalised in Hawaii earlier this week after an unspecified medical emergency. No cause of death has been given, but his family confirmed his death on Instagram this […]