Hulu has given a pilot order to Sweet Tooth, a drama based on characters created for DC Vertigo by Jeff Lemire. The project hails from Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey, Hap and Leonard co-creator Jim Mickle and Warner Bros. TV.

Written and to be directed by Mickle, Sweet Tooth is the coming-of-age…

EXCLUSIVE: STX Entertainment has halted pre-production on Godforsaken, after Sylvester Stallone abruptly decided not to go forward with the starring role. Jim Mickle has been set to direct the Daniel Casey script, which was to begin production in Atlanta December 5. This one has to hurt as it was the mystery picture…

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Mickle has been set to direct Sylvester Stallone in an untitled thriller for STX Entertainment. Daniel Casey wrote the script, one that had previously been known as Godforsaken. That title will be changed. This is the mystery picture that Stallone boasted about during STX's presentation at CinemaCon…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, and producer E.L. “Evan” Katz, who won the 2013 SXSW Audience Award with his festival favorite dark comedy Cheap Thrills, has joined Jim Mickle and Nick Damici (Cold In July) as writer and producer on SundanceTV’s original scripted series Hap and Leonard.

Premiering in 2016, the series is …

Legendary Pictures has found a helmer for the tragic wildfire story Esperanza in Jim Mickle, the acclaimed American director who’s made a name for himself with horror indies Stake Land and We Are What We Are and last year’s Southern-fried pulp thriller Cold In July.

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Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are tells a twisted version of Jorge Michel Grau’s original Spanish-language Cannes chiller Somos Lo Que Hay: Here Ambyr Childers and Julia Garner play sisters forced to continue their family’s gruesome tradition following the death of their mother. Michael Parks, Kelly McGillis, Nick…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael C. Hall, whose final season as Showtime’s signature serial killer Dexter starts June 30, has just landed the lead role in Cold In July. That’s the feature adaptation of the Joe Lansdale cult novel that will be directed by Jim Mickle, whose horror film We Are What We Are just played at the Cannes…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Backup Media has teamed up with Memento Films International to finance Cold In July, an adaptation of the Joe Lansdale cult novel that will be director Jim Mickle‘s next film. Mickle’s We Are What We Are is playing in Directors’ Fortnight section here at Cannes. Shooting on Cold In July begins…