If you’re into the experience of watching horror movies in a big dark theatre with other like-minded people, this year you may be out of luck.
Carrie, which opened last week, was really the only scary movie out there this year and it's not doing all that well. Next year promises to be better but until then, what’s a boy or girl who wants some scares supposed to do?
Well, the proliferation of haunted theme parks continue and those are pretty awesome and may even make you pee your pants.
DreamWorks Animation is dressing down to its skivvies, tapping Rob Letterman to direct Captain Underpants, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
Nicholas Stoller has written the script for Captain Underpants, which adapts the popular kids books by Dav Pilkey.
Paramount’s Insurge Pictures is picking up Prism, a pitch from emerging writer Ian Fried, who has had two other scripts land on The Black List.
The project is being closely guarded by execs but it is known to be in the low-budget sci-fi project.
It is thus fitting that John Davis, the veteran producer behind the low-budget sci-fi pic Chronicle, will produce Prism. Will Rowbotham and Caliber Media are exec producing.
With Warner Bros' dreams of a big-screen Green Lantern series appearing to have taken a turn toward the blackest night, Ryan Reynolds is once again talking about the possibility of headlining a movie based on Marvel Comics' Deadpool, telling reporters in the U.K. that the movie will "get made, eventually."
Science has Schrodinger's Cat, a thought experiment that offers a scenario wherein a cat could theoretically exist in two different states simultaneously until one state is definitively witnessed. The movie industry, it seems, has Independence Day 2, the screenplay of which currently exists in two separate versions until Will Smith decides whether or not to sign on.
When Marvel Comics released the official solicitations for the first two issues of its long-awaited Miracleman reissue series, the writing credit caught a lot of attention. Entirely absent was any mention of Alan Moore, the man who wrote the material reprinted in the issues, with his name replaced by a more generic "The Original Writer." In a newly published interview, Moore explained why you won't see Marvel mention his name.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives a horrible life. The world hates the saucer-eyed 10-year-old for who and what he is. The kids in his school hate him because he's brilliant, a strategic savant with the rare gift of being able to analyze any situation and see the way to achieve the most positive outcome, even if that means putting a bully in the hospital. "I wanted to win that fight, and all the fights after that," he explains coolly. His older brother hates him because, well, his older brother is a sociopath who gets his pubescent jollies by causing pain.
Walking Dead star Chandler Riggs and Ioan Grufudd will star opposite Bella Thorne and Natalie Martinez in Home Invasion, a thriller being made by Voltage Pictures and Zinc Entertainment, a division of Silver Pictures.
Commercials director Sean Carter is directing the thriller, which has a script by Joseph Dembner.
Robert Zemeckis is developing a new drama as as follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Flight.
Universal has optioned the 2010 documentary Marwencol, which tells the unique story of Mark Hogancamp and the way he coped with the severe memory loss he suffered after he was attacked and beaten by a group of teenagers. As part of the deal, Universal also picked up Hogancamp's life rights.
The project is coming to Universal with a script by Caroline Thompson, and Zemeckis is attached to direct.
While the prospect of a live-action Wonder Woman movie remains somewhat stalled, much to the frustration of her fans, it's not entirely impossible that we could see another animated feature-length story centering around the character, according to the supervising producer of Warner Bros' DC animated features. There's just one thing: It probably wouldn't include the words Wonder Woman in the title.
What's that, you say? The Captain America: The Winter Soldier trailer wasn't enough sneak-peek footage from a Marvel Comics-related superhero movie from 2014? Bryan Singer and the people behind the X-Men franchise have your back, releasing a brief glimpse at next week's all-new trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Michael Arndt is no longer writing the script for Star Wars: Episode VII.
Screenwriting duties are being taken over by Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and by J.J. Abrams, who is already on board as director.
April 23, 2014, will see the next World Book Night, an annual celebration of reading during which thousands of books will be gifted to those who don't regularly read for pleasure. It will also be the first World Book Night to include a comic book as part of the official selections to give, with Derek Kirk Kim's debut graphic novel Same Difference being chosen for the honor.
