The release of the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s iteration of Dune is too big for just a regular debut. The scope, scale and significance to culture of Frank Herbert's bestseller means that the first look at its big-screen adaptation has to be a moment.
In order to make this a benchmark in cinematic history and…
One of my favorite horror movies ever is Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining. The author himself famously didn’t share my enthusiasm, endorsing instead the idea of the inferior 1997 ABC miniseries based on the book. But King, still gold these days at the box office after the success…
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Wu, one of the leading actors of the Hong Kong film industry and most recently seen in MGM’s Tomb Raider and starring in and producing AMC’s martial arts drama Into The Badlands, will next star alongside Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson and Thandie Newton in Westworld EP Lisa Joy's directorial debut Rem…
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Reminiscence, the Lisa Joy-directed action thriller that will star Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson. The film marks the directorial debut of Westworld executive producer Joy, who also wrote the script. This was the hot package at Berlin, and the…
Josh Brolin has joined the epic cast for the Denis Villeneuve-directed film adaptation of Frank Herbert's bestselling novel Dune. Legendary has assembled a lineup of Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem. The script was written by Villeneuve, Eric…
EXCLUSIVE: As the Sundance deal avalanche abates, it is time to focus on the film packages to be unveiled next week in Berlin. In what instantly becomes a hot property there, Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson are finalizing deals to star this fall in Reminiscence, a film that Westworld executive producer Lisa Joy has…
EXCLUSIVE: Hot off Mission: Impossible Fallout, Rebecca Ferguson is being set for a plum role in theMen in Black spinoff. She has separately closed her deal to play the scary Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep, based on the Stephen King novel that continues the story line King started in The Shining.
Ferguson, who…
Rebecca Ferguson is in talks to play Oscar winner Patricia Neal alongside Hugh Bonneville as children’s novelist Roald Dahl in John Hay’s Untitled Roald Dahl & Patricia Neal project. Goldcrest Films is financing, co-producing and handling worldwide sales, introducing the pic to buyers at the AFM. Principal photography…
Rebecca Ferguson is attached to star as Ruth Harkness, the first person to bring a live giant panda out of China, in the Justin Chadwick-directed film The Lady And The Panda. Chadwick co-wrote the script with Laura Bickford and Holly Gent Palmo, and the film is set to being production in the foothills of the Himalayas…
EXCLUSIVE– Jodie Comer, best known for her turn as the 22-year-old mistress/homewrecker in BBC’s ratings phenomenon Doctor Foster, has landed the plum title role in The White Princess, the sequel to the acclaimed historical TV drama The White Queen. The series will be a Starz production, which will air it in the U.S…
EXCLUSIVE: What’s next for Ryan Reynolds after the record-setting Deadpool opening? Reynolds is in talks to star with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation‘s Rebecca Ferguson inLife, a Skydance Productions film that Daniel Espinosa will direct from a script by Reynolds’ Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese…
