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AMC Networks has acquired the rights to John Maxim’s popular Bannerman spy book series for development as a potential television series. The project hails from Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Ironman), Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Creepshow) via his overall deal with AMC Networks, and Brian Witten (Creepsh…

Veteran producer Joel Silver (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Amazon Studios are partnering to develop a series of feature film and television projects based on Donald E. Westlake’s series of highly popular Parker crime fiction novels, written under the pseudonym Richard…

Iron Man 3 writer and director Shane Black is moving into animation with a new comedy project at Fox. Black, who also wrote the first two Lethal Weapon movies, is developing Crag Banyon P.I., based on James Mullaney's book series. Black and Mullaney will write and exec produce the project, which will also be exec…

Can we ever get enough of Predator? Apparently not, since there have been numerous sequels, reboots, re-imaginings and spinoffs (Alien vs. Predator, anyone?) since the original 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that started it all. Now, 31 years later, director Shane Black — who co-wrote the script with Fred Dekker…

Shane Black used the the Los Angeles premiere of his new film The Predator on Wednesday to continue apologizing for casting a registered sex offender in a bit part in the film. 20th Century Fox cut the scene from the movie soon after co-star Olivia Munn learned about the male actor’s status and notified the studio…

Like the ragtag group of ex-soldiers they were playing, the stars of The Predator didn’t know what they were in for, signing up for Shane Black’s 2018 reboot of the franchise—but they were satisfied with where they ended up, and the rapport that developed between them over time. Approached for the project, actor and…

UPDATED with new Shane Black statement: A scene has been cut from 20th Century Fox’s upcoming reboot of The Predator after it was discovered a registered sex offender was among the actors in it. The studio confirmed the decision after a report surfaced in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday morning that the film’s…

20th Century Fox has dropped the red-band trailer for franchise reset The Predator ahead of the genre film’s premiere at the start of the Midnight Madness section Thursday at the Toronto Film Festival. Connoisseurs of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger original will see some familiar DNA. But director and co-writer Shane B…

20th Century Fox kicked off Comic-Con’s Hall H festivities today with director/co-writer Shane Black and the cast of The Predator including Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Trevante Rhodes, Jake Busey, Yvonne Strahovski, Thomas Jane and Augusto Aguilera. The panel started with a reel and cast…

Before Shane Black directed big blockbuster pics like Iron Man 3 and churning out cinephile fare like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, there was one little film he is known for in culty fanboy/fangirl circles: the 1987 horror pic The Monster Squad. The documentary Wolfman’s Got Nards explores how the box office…

“Tell me about the mission – did you see anything unusual?” Hmm, there’s a loaded question, and a nice set-up for this first teaser trailer for Shane Black’s The Predator.  Here’s what we know from the logline for what’s being called a “reinvention” of the series (based on characters created by Jim Thomas & John…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Walter Hill and comedian/filmmaker Keenen Ivory Wayans are both being honored this year in Austin at the annual Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference. Hill, whose film career goes back decades with such films as The Warriors and 48 Hrs. and HBO’s Deadwood will be honored with the Extraordinary…