One day after Michael Fassbender became attached to the "Assassin's Creed" adaptation, word comes of another recently acclaimed video game making the jump to the big screen. CBS Films have announced they have secured the screen rights to Square Enix's iconic "Deus Ex" videogame franchise. Set in the near future where human augmentation has … [Read more...]
Connelly’s Bosch Becomes A TV Series
July 10, 2012 by
Author Michael Connelly, "Treme" producer Eric Overmyer are teaming up to develop and co-write a TV series based on Connelly’s best-selling detective novels featuring the character of Harry Bosch says The Hollywood Reporter. Fuse Entertainment, the company behind "Burn Notice" and "The Killing", are backing the procedural about the driven, … [Read more...]
Clancy’s “Splinter Cell” Becomes A Film
June 15, 2012 by
First it was Warner Bros. Pictures a few weeks ago, now Paramount Pictures has begun talks for a film version of Ubisoft's best-selling video game series "Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell" says Deadline. The six games in the series thus far follow a covert operative and have sold twenty-two million units over the years. Ubisoft is expected to be very … [Read more...]
Stephen King’s “It” Becomes Two Films
June 9, 2012 by
"Jane Eyre" and "Sin Nombre" director Cary Fukunaga has come onboard the proposed film adaptation of the classic Stephen King 1986 novel "It" reports Heat Vision. In a clever move considering the book's density and size, Fukunaga and co-writer Chase Palmer have abandoned the single film idea and will instead envision the adaptation as a two film … [Read more...]
Bradley Cooper Becomes A “Sniper”
May 26, 2012 by
Bradley Cooper ("The Hangover," "Limitless") will produce and likely star in "American Sniper", a film adaptation of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's autobiography says The Hollywood Reporter. Jason Dean Hall will pen the script about Texas native Kyle who came to record the highest number of sniper kills for an American. The book is a frank first-person … [Read more...]
Instagram for Android updated with tilt-shift capabilities, all becomes well on Earth
May 12, 2012 by
Something tells us #teamiphone is going to adore this. Instagram has just updated its much-ballyhooed Android app, bringing the version to 1.1.0. What's new? Tilt-shift for "supported devices," enabling cameraphone shooters to add entirely too much blur to shots that could've used a tripod to begin with. We kid, we kid. But seriously, the download … [Read more...]
“Paddington Bear” Becomes A Movie
May 10, 2012 by
"Harry Potter" series producer David Heyman and Studiocanal are teaming for a combination computer animated and live-action adaptation of classic children's book character Paddington Bear says Deadline. Paul King ("Bunny And The Bull") has come onboard to direct the film which follows the curious but polite young bear who travels from darkest Peru … [Read more...]
Tina Fey Becomes An “Intern”
April 14, 2012 by
Paramount Pictures will finance and distribute Nancy Meyers' "The Intern" with Tina Fey attached to star reports Deadline. Fey will play the founder of an e-business with a fashion focus who is told that her company is importing senior citizens to be interns as a community outreach effort. Her personal intern is an over-70 widower bored with … [Read more...]
“Braveheart” Story Becomes A Series
March 14, 2012 by
STV Productions, Digital Rights Group, Nine/8 Entertainment and Creative Media are all teaming to develop "Wallace", a historical dramatic television series based on the life of Scottish legend William Wallace reports The Live Feed. Said to be akin to recent cable series hits like Starz's "Spartacus" and HBO's "Game of Thrones", the project … [Read more...]
“Legion” Becomes A TV Series
February 11, 2012 by
Syfy and Sony Pictures TV are developing a series version of Scott Stewart's 2010 supernatural thriller "Legion" which starred Paul Bettany as an Archangel says Deadline. The story chronicles the human race’s battle for survival against God’s legion of angels sent by him to bring on the Apocalypse. The people get an unlikely ally in Archangel … [Read more...]
