Shazam! star Zachary Levi has signed on to play former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner in the inspirational sports drama American Underdog at Lionsgate. Jon and Andrew Erwin will direct from a script written by Friday Night Light‘s David Aaron Cohen and Jon Gunn. Warner’s story is one of NFL legend, and sounds pulled from a Hollywood screenplay[…]
Mulan director Niki Caro, whose film should be one of the first major Hollywood releases when it arrives in August, has signed on to direct Beautiful Ruins for Sam Mendes‘ Neal Street banner and Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Partners. The film is based on Jess Walter‘s bestselling novel, and will be adapted by Mark Hammer and Chiara Atik, who[…]
Remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows? No? The 2016 sequel to the 2014 TMNT reboot starring Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Tyler Perry? A movie that lost Paramount an estimated $75 million? Don’t fret, no one remembers either of those films, but it’s just proof that Hollywood has tried to reboot the TMNT franchise already.[…]
Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali has already found success at HBO with the third season of True Detective, and he’s teaming up with the network again, this time for a limited series revolving around the life of boxer Jack Johnson. Ali will star as the legendary boxer in a series titled Unruly, which he himself will executive produce[…]
Most of the time when an NFL quarterback agrees to a project about their life, much of the focus would normally be on their on-field work. But that won’t be the case with the newly announced Netflix series based around Colin Kaepernick. While Kaepernick was at one point a good QB that took the 49ers to the brink of[…]