EXCLUSIVE: Max Landis, the screenwriter who's accused of sexually assaulting and mentally torturing several women, has been fired by Writ Large, his personal managers. "Writ Large does not represent Max Landis," said Britton Rizzio, his former manager. "As soon as we heard about the Daily Beast article, we parted…

Max Landis, the screenwriter known for Bright and Chronicle, is coming under fire for his alleged mistreatment of women – again. The latest allegations, as detailed today in the Daily Beast, include charges that he sexually assaulted and mentally tortured several girlfriends, at least one of whom he allegedly…

Chloë Grace Moretz is set to star in director Roseanne Liang's action-horror Shadow In The Cloud. Let Me In and Suspiria star Moretz will play a captain carrying top secret documents aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress who must contend with an evil presence, an oncoming Japanese ambush and a leery, all-male crew. Brian…

Nielsen announced in October that it will measure Netflix viewership, and today the company is out with some numbers for the streamer’s high-profile Will Smith movie Bright. The ratings giant noted that because Bright is a full-length movie, its data is different from other SVOD ratings releases including for the…

EXCLUSIVE: QC Entertainment and Good Universe have stepped up to produce and finance Decon, a horror film script by Max Landis. The companies are currently attaching a director to begin production in early 2018. Decon is the story of a young medical prodigy who is pushed to the mental, physical and emotional brink…

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency just kicked-off its sophomore visit to New York Comic-Con with a screening of the opening episode of its upcoming second season. The preview was announced early this morning on social media by creator Max Landis. Bringing back many of the characters from the BBC America show’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Gal Gadot is in early talks to join Bradley Cooper in Deeper, the MGM pic that Max Landis scripted and White God helmer Kornel Mundruczo will direct. In the drama, a disgraced astronaut embarks on a mission to reach the bottom of a newly discovered oceanic trench, theorized to be the lowest point on Earth…

President Donald Trump’s choice to blame “many sides” for the now-fatal violence in Charlottesville today has drawn outrage and condemnation from Hollywood players, Beltway pundits and even, in a subtler way than some, his old rival Jeb Bush. In his speech from Bedminster, N.J., the president said, “We condemn in the…

EXCLUSIVE: The controversial film Assholes from writer/director Peter Vack, who was an actor in Mozart in the Jungle has been acquired for theatrical release by Breaking Glass from Vack and producer Max Landis (Chronicle, An American Werewolf in London). Breaking Glass then pacted with Factory 25 to release the…

EXCLUSIVE: An American Werewolf in London is officially getting a remake with The Walking Dead‘s David Alpert and Robert Kirkman producing through their Skybound Entertainment for Universal Pictures. The remake of filmmaker John Landis’ classic 1981 comedic horror film will be written by his son Max Landis, who also…

Have plans for the weekend before The Walking Dead returns for its seventh season October 23? If you want to treat yourself to some smart and enticing TV, those plans should include a binge of Season 3 of Black Mirror on Netflix and the debut of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on BBC America. With the third…

"I'm not going for just the tip of Douglas Adams' weirdness, I'm going full weird," Max Landis said today at the Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency panel at Madison Square Garden for New York Comic-Con. Based on Douglas Adams' beloved duo of late-1980s novels, DGHDA is set to debut on October 22 on BBC…