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21 Aug

Fletch Reboot Movie’s Difficulties Explained by Former Director in Ted Lasso’s Bill Lawrence

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If the Fletch reboot movie project was an undercover prostate exam, it would have had ample time to belt out “Moon River” many times over. While such a project was recently revived by Miramax, this time starring Jon Hamm, the process has been one marred by so much difficulty, it has been referred to as a cursed endeavor. It’s a notion to which Bill Lawrence, co-creator of Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, can attest, having once been attached as director for Fletch. The effort to revive and/or reboot Fletch, the Chevy Chase-starring 1980s comedic detective film franchise based on the…

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20 Aug

Kraven the Hunter Movie Eyes JC Chandor as Director at Sony

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Sony Pictures is reportedly in talks with director J.C. Chandor to helm a movie based around the Marvel Comics villain Kraven the Hunter, according to Deadline. If this goes forward, it would make Kraven the third Spider-Man villain to make the jump to a solo movie after Venom and next year’s Morbius. Chandor is a name that should be familiar to a certain type of movie fan. His previous films include his debut, Margin Call, as well as the highly acclaimed All is Lost with Robert Redford and the outstanding A Most Violent Year, the latter being an A24 release…

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14 Aug

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Director Fired Following Misconduct Investigation

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Former Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail has been fired by Ubisoft following an investigation into misconduct allegations made against Ismail. “Following an investigation by an external firm, it was determined that Ashraf’s employment with Ubisoft had to be terminated,” reads a statement from Ubisoft (acquired by Kotaku). “We cannot provide any details about this confidential investigation.” The allegations in question involve women who stated that Ismail has pursued extramarital relationships by utilizing his power and position at Ubisoft. It’s been stated that Ismail even pursued these affairs while acting as an official representative of Ubisoft at industry events.…

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13 Aug

47 Ronin Sequel, a Future-Set Cyberpunk Film, Lands Director Ron Yuan

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47 Ronin may not have made an impact as an action flick—released in 2013 headlined by a post-Matrix, pre-John Wick comeback Keanu Reeves—but someone over at studio Universal apparently has enough love for the medieval-Japan samurai film to greenlight a sequel—specifically a cyberpunk sequel set in the far-future. Now, said sequel has a director.   Ron Yuan, an actor who moonlights as a director, has been hired to helm the untitled 47 Ronin sequel movie, according to Deadline. The sequel, set up at Universal Pictures Home Entertainment subsidiary Universal 1440 Entertainment, will contrast starkly from the historically-based, Reeves-starring predecessor, touted…

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13 Aug

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Director Promises “Full Arc” Story in PS5 Spin-Off

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This post contains spoilers for Marvel’s Spider-Man In

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10 Aug

Tron 3 Back in the Works with Director Garth Davis

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Tron 3 is about to emerge from its imprisonment in the proverbial Grid of Disney’s backlog, as evidenced by the Mouse House’s appointment of a director. Garth Davis is now set to direct the long-gestating untitled third film in the Tron franchise, reports Deadline. Davis, an emerging talent known for indie dramas, most recently directed the 2018 Rooney Mara-starring Biblical epic, Mary Magdalene, and the Oscar-nominated 2016 Dev Patel-starring biographical piece, Lion, along with television runs with Top of the Lake (for which he shared an Emmy nod,) and Love My Way. While the status of the script is not…

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04 Aug

Whitney Houston Biopic Set at Sony TriStar with Director Stella Meghie

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Whitney Houston will soon posthumously take her place amongst the recent cinematic annals of legendary music stars to receive the biopic treatment. The developing project in question, titled after her 1987 smash hit, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, has just found itself a studio home with Sony’s TriStar pictures, having also secured a director and even a targeted 2022 release window. I Wanna Dance with Somebody is indeed moving forward with Sony’s TriStar, which has reportedly prevailed in a bidding war against five other studios and streaming platforms, according to Deadline. Now, said studio is wasting little time with the…

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31 Jul

Versatile British Director Alan Parker Dies at 76

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Innovative and acclaimed British director Alan Parker, died Friday, July 31, after a lengthy, but as yet undisclosed illness, according to Variety. He was 76. Parker was nominated for two Best Director Oscars. One of those films was 1988’s Mississippi Burning, which highly dramatized the investigation of three murdered civil rights activists in 1964. The films starred Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman, with the latter being nominated for Best Actor. Parker’s first Oscar nomination though came for the 1978 drama Midnight Express, another film based on true events. Oliver Stone won his first Oscar for the screenplay, which focused on…

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28 Jul

Former Ubisoft Executive Canceled King Arthur Game From Dragon Age Director

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A report from Bloomberg reveals that former Ubisoft executive Serge Hascoët is responsible for the cancellation of a King Arthur project led by Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw. The report (which is currently behind a paywall) indicates that Laidlaw was hired by Ubisoft sometime around 2018 to work on an RPG project known as Avalon. With the help of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey developers Ubisoft Québec, Laidlaw intended to create an expansive fantasy world based on the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It seems that Laidlaw and the team at Ubisoft Québec also intended…

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28 Jul

The New Mutants Director Josh Boone on a Possible Streaming Release

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Marvel movie The New Mutants has become one of the most intriguing COVID-era film industry stories. After all, when has the industry dealt with a spinoff from a concluded franchise that, upon completion, spent over two years battered by delays, only to see its hard-won final release date land in the middle of a freaking pandemic? Thus, there’s a vocal contingent of moviegoers calling for the film to nix its theatrical aspirations and go straight to streaming or VOD; a notion to which the film’s director, Josh Boone, seems amenable. In an interview with ComicBook.com from the rounds of the…

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26 Jul

Constantine Director Says They’d Film A Sequel Tomorrow

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The 2005 film Constantine, based on DC/Vertigo’s popular Hellblazer comic book about a mystic who can communicate with angels and demons, was not a resounding success. But the movie’s principals — actor Keanu Reeves, director Francis Lawrence and producer Akiva Goldsman — very much wanted to make a sequel. “Boy, we wanted to.  We wanted to make a hard ‘R’ sequel,” said Goldsman during a Comic-Con@Home panel, hosted by Collider’s Steve Weintraub, in which Reeves, Lawrence and Goldsman all looked back at the comic book adaptation. “We’d probably make it tomorrow,” Goldsman continued, “To the studios who made it, Village…

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24 Jul

A Suitable Boy Director Mira Nair: ‘If We Don’t Tell Our Own Stories, Someone Else Will’

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This Sunday the 26th of July sees the start of BBC One’s new six part series A Suitable Boy. Based on Vikram Seth’s novel of the same name – at 1,349 pages, one of the longest books ever to be published in English – it’s both the first screen adaptation of the novel and the first BBC drama with an all-Indian cast. The six-part series has broken barriers for diversity and inclusion, and provided a showcase for South Asian actors on the BBC, as well as attempting the daunting task of doing justice to Seth’s well-loved book. The novel follows…

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21 Jul

Helter Skelter: An American Myth Director Deflates the Legend of Charles Manson

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Charles Manson was five foot, two inches tall. He would claim to be five foot six, and some papers list him as 5’4″, but he was much smaller than how he has been presented. He is certainly not as physically imposing as the stature of his lore. Helter Skelter: An American Myth in one of the most comprehensive examinations of Charles Manson found in one title. The six episodes of the documentary series delve deep into the childhood of the man who would start the Family that committed the Crime of the Century. Directed and executive produced by Lesley Chilcott,…

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20 Jul

Grease Prequel Moves Forward with Director Brett Haley

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Paramount’s plan to tell you more, tell you more about the crucial amorous 1950s-set teen backstory to its iconic 1978 musical, Grease, appears to be coming to fruition. The project, a prequel movie titled Summer Lovin’, went into development last year and has just procured a director in Brett Haley. Summer Lovin’ is officially moving forward with Haley in the director’s chair, reports Deadline. A surging indie talent for whom the film will serve as a potential mainstream breakthrough, Haley will work off a script by Leah McKendrick, a surging talent poised to break out in her own right. They…

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15 Jul

The Blair Witch Project to Skyman: How Director Daniel Myrick Came Full Circle With His New Sci-Fi

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“Blair Witch, which I consider incredibly fortunate to have been a part of, does come with its own set of baggage,” says Daniel Myrick, one half of the duo who made the found footage phenomenon which scared the hell out of audiences when it was released in cinemas in 1999 and went on to change the face of horror as we know it. We’re chatting (via Zoom) in the context of Myrick’s new movie, Skyman, a documentary style sci-fi which feels like it could be real, featuring elements of found footage and starring relative unknowns Michael Selle and Nicolette Sweeney,…

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08 Jul

Ryan Gosling’s Wolf Man Movie Gets Invisible Man Director

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Filmmaker Leigh Whannell is in talks to direct The Wolf Man, according to Deadline. The picture, slated to star Ryan Gosling, is being put on the production fast track by Universal Pictures following the worldwide success and acclaim of The Invisible Man, which Whannell wrote and directed. That film starred Elisabeth Moss and grossed $124 million worldwide in just a few weeks of theatrical release, before the pandemic shut screens down everywhere. The Invisible Man cost just $7 million to make, a price point that’s comfortable for both Whannell, whose career was launched with the independent Saw, and Blumhouse Films,…

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25 Jun

Warcraft Movie Director Explains What His Sequels Would Have Been About

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Warcraft director Duncan Jones has confirmed via Twitter that he had mapped out the basic story for a Warcraft film trilogy before plans for subsequent Warcraft movies fell apart. “Part 2 would have been Go’el/Thrall as a young orc slave in Blackmoore’s gladiator camp,” Jones says in regards to his intentions for a sequel to 2016’s Warcraft. “Here he meets & befriends a Tauren who tells him of another land to the west where his people come from, & where he might find allies & maybe a new home…” From there, Jones goes on to describe what an eventual third…

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22 Jun

Director Joel Schumacher Dead At 80

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Joel Schumacher, the colorful director of 23 feature films including Flatliners, Falling Down and perhaps the two most polarizing entries in the Batman franchise, has died at the age of 80 after a year-long battle with cancer, according to Deadline. Other films on his resume included one of the defining movies of the “Brat Pack” era, St. Elmo’s Fire, along with the John Grisham adaptations A Time to Kill and The Client, the highly influential horror film The Lost Boys and the screen version of the long-running Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera. But Schumacher was arguably best known…

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11 Jun

New Evil Dead Director Has Been to the Woods Before

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When Bruce Campbell announced earlier this week that he and longtime Evil Dead producing partners Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi were preparing a fifth film entry in the series, he also unveiled the new movie’s director. Meet Lee Cronin, an Irish filmmaker with just one feature film to his credit. But Cronin’s sole movie to date provides several clues as to why he might be a solid, even inspired, choice to make the movie now being called Evil Dead Now. (Trivia note: Lee Cronin was also the pseudonym of late Star Trek: The Original Series writer/producer Gene L. Coon, who…

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08 Jun

Evil Dead: Bruce Campbell Confirms New Movie, New Director

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You can’t ever keep a good Deadite down for long. Bad ones too, we imagine. And they’re all so wickedly bad in the indestructibly groovy Evil Dead franchise. Hence just two years after Bruce Campbell hung up the chainsaw for good, he’s confirming that the movie franchise will nevertheless live on. While speaking with Empire, Campbell revealed the next Evil Dead movie is in active development with Lee Cronin, who directed A24’s The Hole in the Ground horror movie, taking over directorial duties. “We’re just getting off the phone with Lee Cronin, who is writing and directing the next Evil…

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