April 25, 2024

Tim Miller Slated To Direct “Artemis”

Visual effects artist Tim Miller has been tapped to direct the sci-fi action thriller "Artemis" for 20th Century Fox. Andrew Lobel ("Tunnels") will pen the script for what is described as a "contained action thriller set in outer space". No further details are known, other than John Davis will produce. Miller's name has been linked with … [Read more...]

Casting: Hart, Burrell, Pace, Miller

Get Hard Kevin Hart has signed on to star in the comedy "Get Hard" at Warner Bros. Pictures. No director is yet onboard, but Gary Sanchez is attached to produce. Will Ferrell plays a wealthy investment banker sentenced to a maximum security prison for a crime he didn't commit. He enlists the help of the man who usually washes his car (Kevin Hart) … [Read more...]

Casting: Miller, Lyonne, Parker, Sackhoff

Foxcatcher Sienna Miller has joined Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" at Annapurna Pictures. Steve Carell plays a paranoid schizophrenic scion who created a training center for wrestlers. He then murdered Olympic grappler Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo). Sienna Miller will play Dave's wife while Channing Tatum is already cast as Dave's brother. [Source: … [Read more...]

Ezra Miller Romances “Madame Bovary”

"We Need to Talk About Kevin" star Ezra Miller will play Mia Wasikowska's love interest in this new adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's classic 1856 novel "Madame Bovary" at Occupant Entertainment says Variety. The story focuses on a doctor's wife who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of … [Read more...]

Miller, Lawrence Up For “Catching Fire”?

Last week we heard of a wish list by Lionsgate for potential helmers of "The Hunger Games" sequel "Catching Fire". At the time only three names on the list were revealed - David Cronenberg, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Now The Playlist has revealed two more - "Moneyball" director Bennet Miller and "I Am Legend" director Francis … [Read more...]

Wentworth Miller Has “Disappointments”

Former "Prison Break" star Wentworth Miller has sold the original thriller screenplay "The Disappointments Room" to Voltage Pictures and Killer Films says Risky Biz Blog. The story follows a family that moves into a mysterious old house in the country that has a dark past. Nicolas Chartier, Zev Foreman, Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon will … [Read more...]

Tim Miller Directs “Gravel” Adaptation

Tim Miller is set to direct a live action adaptation of the Warren Ellis comic "Gravel" at Legendary Pictures at Deadline. The story revolves around the character William Gravel, a soldier in the British S.A.S. who uses his skills in dark magic to moonlight and battle supernatural beings for clients in order to make some extra cash. Oliver … [Read more...]

Casting: Browning, Miller, Grondon, MacClaine

Summer in February Emily Browning ("Sucker Punch") has replaced Ophelia Lovibond in Christopher Menual's period-drama "Summer in February" which begins a seven-week shoot in Cornwall this Sunday. Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens also star in the story of a love triangle within a group of UK Bohemian artists at the start of the 20th century. Jonathan … [Read more...]

Miller & Jones To Play Hedren & Hitchcock

Sienna Miller and Toby Jones will play Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock respectively in the Julian Jarrold-directed BBC Two drama "The Girl" reports Deadline. The telemovie will chronicle the famed director’s obsessive relationship with his "The Birds" leading lady, a previously unknown fashion model. Hitchcock became obsessed with her and his … [Read more...]

Miller Working On New “Mad Max” Trilogy?

Get ready for three times the Hardy. Filmmaker George Miller has revealed that the upcoming "Mad Max: Fury Road" could be followed by not one but two possible sequels. Miller tells the Australian Financial Review that "We started with [Fury Road], but we then started to do a second story and a third. We've written the script for the second and … [Read more...]