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EXCLUSIVE: Almost 50 years after the release of Robin Hardy’s horror classic, Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s The Imaginarium and Studiocanal-backed Urban Myth Films are turning The Wicker Man into a TV series. BAFTA-winning Misfits and War of the Worlds writer Howard Overman has penned the…

Lukas Nathrath’s One Last Evening Wins Locarno Pro’s First Look Prize German filmmaker Lukas Nathrath’s debut feature One Last Evening, about a young couple who host a doomed farewell dinner for friends before moving to a new city, has won Locarno Pro’s First Look Award. The prize comes with €50,000 in post-production…

EXCLUSIVE: The Batman, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes and Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis is set to direct the feature film The Giant’s House for Brooklyn and An Education producer Wildgaze Films. Adapted by Oscar-nominated Brit scribe Nick Hornby (Brooklyn) from Elizabeth McCracken’s lauded 1996 novel, the story…

Andy Serkis (Venom: Let There Be Carnage) is directing an animated adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novella Animal Farm for Aniventure and his company The Imaginarium. Production is underway at Cinesite, which is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary as a world leader in animation and VFX. The dystopian…

There are moments in the latest entry in Warners and DC’s Batman franchise when I thought this is going to turn into a variation of what we experienced in the reimagined Saw series sequel, Spiral — in which Chris Rock played a detective trying to solve a series of grisly, graphically presented murders in a city run…

It's not quite the actual Avengers, but the sheer power of the talent assembled on the Hero Nation podcast this past year has pretty damn close. Which is why you have to listen in on some of our genre greatest hits with The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang, What If… executive producer A.C. Bradley and No Time to Die…

Sony's Venom: Let There Be Carnage has crossed the $400M worldwide mark, grossing $191.6M domestically and $212.5M at the international box office for a $404.1M cume through Tuesday. This makes the Andy Serkis-directed sequel the fifth Hollywood movie to top the four-century worldwide milestone since the beginning of…

While it was busy ringing in the second best previews night of the pandemic era domestically, Sony's Venom: Let There Be Carnage set a new record for the Culver City studio in Russia on Thursday. With a $3.04M day one on Thursday, the Tom Hardy-starrer bested the previous film's $2.97M in the market, making it Sony's…

“There’s an arc to this obviously,” Venom: Let There Be Carnage filmmaker Andy Serkis explains about connecting Sony’s Spider-Man villain to the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe. “We weren’t thinking of individual movies, but thinking about eventually where it’s going to go,” says the motion capture…

Two-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Genius: Aretha) and Emmy nominee Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, War for the Planet of the Apes) will join Golden Globe nominee Idris Elba in a Netflix film continuing the story of Luther, Deadline has confirmed. Emmy nominee Jamie Payne (The Alienist) will…

EXCLUSIVE: Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish's Imaginarium Productions has optioned film rights to Catriona Ward's upcoming new novel The Last House on Needless Street. Viper will publish in the UK on March 18 and Tor Nightfire will publish in the U.S. in late September. Ward will executive produce alongside the…

Huzzah! The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will revisit Middle-earth alongside cast members of the epic film trilogy Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, and Elijah Wood. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has…