Jake Gyllenhaal and Antoine Fuqua, who previously collaborated on boxing drama Southpaw, are set to re-team again, this time for a remake of Danish chamber thriller The Guilty. The original film follows a police officer under investigation who is demoted to desk-work at an emergency call centre. He then receives a phone call from a terrified woman. To reveal[…]
Although all the hubbub regarding cinemas re-opening revolved around the release of Tenet, it was actually the Russell Crowe road rage thriller Unhinged that was the first new film released to cinemas in the US. Obviously something from that film piqued the interest of a producer somewhere, as director Derrick Borte has been hired to helm a horror-thriller titled[…]
Well, this is interesting. Sick of all those by-the-numbers biopics that tell the life of a famous person in pretty similar, rote ways? Well what if the subject themselves directed their own biopic? That’s exactly what’s happening with Madonna, who is co-writing and directing her own biopic at Universal. She’ll pen the film alongside Diablo Cody (Juno, Young Adult).[…]
Netflix are developing feature film adaptations of Rick Riordan‘s Kane Chronicles. Riordan, who also wrote the Percy Jackson series, is reportedly developing the series himself. The books explore Egyptian gods in the modern world through the eyes of Sadie and Carter Kane, powerful magicians descended from the two pharaohs Narmer and Ramses the Great. The first of the[…]
Host, an original movie on horror streaming service Shudder, became one of the first movies to shoot during and address the coronavirus pandemic when it was released a month ago. The film is a found-footage horror film shot entirely on Zoom, and somehow managed to be both terrifying and a perfect distillation of how we all feel right now.[…]