In the race to get The Jungle Book to the screen, Disney has taken the lead, with Idris Elba in final negotiations to voice star as the tiger Shere Khan in Jon Favreau's take on Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Nicole Perlman, who co-wrote Marvel Studios' upcoming sci-fi adventure movie The Guardians of the Galaxy, has been tapped to adapt the first book of The Fire Sermon, a YA sci-fi trilogy for DreamWorks.
DreamWorks picked up the novel in 2013. The novel was written by Francesca Haig and so far only has a publishing deal for the U.K. via the HarperCollins imprint Voyager, in June 2013. (Voyager, the publisher of George R.R. Martin’s books in the U.K.., is eyeing a 2015 publishing date.)
Tom McCarthy, the filmmaker known for his indies such as The Visitor and The Station Agent, is going big for his next movie.
How big? Dinosaur big.
McCarthy is writing with an eye to direct Tommysauraus Rex, Universal's long-in-the-works adaptation of the Doug TenNapel graphic novel. McCarthy will co-write the script with John Bland.
Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are producing via their Disruption Entertainment banner.
Thomas Kretschmann, who is playing Baron Strucker in Marvel Studios' The Avengers: Age of Ultron, has signed on to play another high-profile villain.
The actor, currently on Imax screens in the Russian movie Stalingrad, will play Le Clerq in Agent 47, Fox International's sequel to the 2007 action movie Hitman.
The original teleplay for the classic Star Trek episode "City on the Edge of Forever" has become an almost mythological artifact in Trek fandom, and later this year, fans will get a chance to read it for themselves -- well, almost -- when it gets adapted into a comic book by IDW Publishing.
Just because you’re fighting for the future of the free world doesn’t mean that you can’t worry about your co-workers’ love lives. At least, that’s the takeaway I see from the latest preview of Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which shows Chris Evans’ star-spangled Avenger taking on the forces of Georges Batroc.
The first trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's second visit to Sin City has been released, showing a beaten Joseph Gordon-Levitt, dancing (and glowing) Jessica Alba and deadly Eva Green. What else would you expect from a movie subtitled A Dame to Kill For?
Batkid didn't make a surprise appearance at the Oscars, but five-year-old Miles Scott and his family did earn a trip to Disneyland with Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
After it was revealed on Wednesday that Scott, as Batkid, was originally scheduled to appear during the Ellen DeGeneres-hosted 86th Academy Awards ceremony, speculation mounted about why the segment was canceled.
ComiXology, the leading digital comics distributor and publisher in North America, today sent out emails to customers and retail partners advising them to update passwords, following a security breach.
The email to customers explained that "an unauthorized individual" had "accessed a database of ours that contained usernames, email addresses and cryptographically protected passwords," quickly pointing out that payment account information is not stored on the company's servers.
Popular PlayStation3 video game The Last of Us is getting the movie treatment.
Neil Druckmann, the creative director for the game, will write the script for the big-screen live-action adaptation, which Screen Gems will distribute.
2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the release of the first issue of Marvel Comics, the first series from the publisher that would one day grow into the Marvel Entertainment that fans know and love. Today, the company released a video previewing its birthday celebrations.
