An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
Hulk and Ant-Man drink a coke
I guess easy money for Mark Ruffalo and Paul Rudd, since they probably didn’t even have to turn up.
Film
News: Good Wife cancelled; Orange is the New Black triple-renewed; Jason Bourne trailer; + more
Film
- MacGyver movie planned
Film trailers
- Trailer for JJ Abrams’ 10 Cloverfield Lane
- New trailer for Captain America: Civil War
- Trailer for Jason Bourne
- New trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence
- New trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse
Canadian TV
- Teaser trailer for final season of Bitten
Internet TV
- Liza Weil to return for Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival
- Netflix renews: Orange Is The New Black for three seasons
New UK TV shows
- Trailer for E4’s The Aliens
US TV
- CBS cancels: The Good Wife
- Thursday ratings
- Friday ratings
US TV show casting
- Morocco Omari to recur on Empire
- Jerry O’Connell to recur on Mistresses
- Reba McEntire to guest on Last Man Standing
New US TV shows
- Fox green lights: pilot of female buddy cop comedy The Enforcers and inter-racial NFL family comedy
- CBS green lights: pilot of mirror-touch synesthesia medical drama Sensory
New US TV show casting
- Kal Penn, Maggie Q, Natascha McElhone and Italia Ricci join ABC’s Designated Survivor
News: Steven Moffat leaves Doctor Who; an Exorcist TV pilot; David Schwimmer’s new TV show; DC comics reboot; + more
Doctor Who
- Chris Chibnall to replace Steven Moffat as showrunner, only a Christmas special this year
Film
- Reboot of Labyrinth planned
Film casting
- Tom Cruise joins The Mummy remake
Film trailers
- New trailer for Warcraft
Comics
- DC to ‘recalibrate’ titles with movies, restart from #1 with Rebirth
Internet TV
- Susan Misner and Emmanuelle Chriqui to co-star in Hulu’s Shut Eye
- New iPlayer Valentine shorts
New UK TV shows
- Trailer for BBC Two’s The Night Manager
- Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough to star in Channel 4’s Yew Tree-esque National Treasure
US TV
New US TV shows
- NBC green lights: pilots of adaptation of Charlaine Harris’s fantasy town trilogy Midnight Texas and idealistic lawyers drama Miranda’s Rights…
- …Amy Poehler royal family comedy, procedural comedy The Trail and fortune teller comedy Good Fortune
- Freeform developing: mum-on-the-run drama Hunted
- CBS green lights: pilots of adaptation of doughnut shop comedy Superior Donuts and cutting-edge medicine drama Bunker Hill
- Kevin Smith wraps: pot comedy Hollyweed
- HBO red lights: Brothers in Atlanta
- Fox green lights: pilot of The Exorcist adaptation
New US TV show casting
- Mark Consuelos to recur on USA’s Queen of the South
- David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess to star in AMC’s Feed The Beast
News: Romeo & Juliet sequel; Wong to play Wong; Sky gets Twin Beaks, Billions; + more
Film casting
- Benedict Wong to play Wong in Doctor Strange
Canadian TV
- Josh Donaldson to guest on Vikings
Internet TV
- Walter Presents gets 1m views [registration required]
UK TV
- Sky Atlantic to be exclusive home of Showtime dramas, including Twin Peaks and Billions
US TV
US TV show casting
- Amanda Brooks to recur as Sharon Tate on Aquarius
- Debby Ryan to guest on The Mysteries of Laura
- Marilyn Manson to guest on Salem
- Jennifer Beals to recur on The Night Shift
New US TV shows
- ABC green lights: pilot of imaginary friend family comedy…
- …and Romeo and Juliet sequel Still Star-Crossed
- NBC green lights: pilot of Eric Kripke/Shawn Ryan’s Legends-of-Tomorrow-alike Time
- HBO green lights: series of house guest comedy Crashing
- Trailer for Showtime’s The Girlfriend Experience
- Showtime developing: fishmonger comedy Monger
News
News: Wonder Woman footage; Citizen Khan, Boy Meets Girl renewed; David Simon’s porn series; + more
Film trailers
- First footage from Wonder Woman
- Trailer for Suicide Squad
Internet TV
- Clayne Crawford to recur on Amazon’s David E Kelley legal drama
UK TV
- Charlotte Moore to become BBC controller, TV channels and iPlayer
- BBC One renews: Citizen Khan
- BBC Two renews: Boy Meets Girl
UK TV show casting
- Casting on Inside No 9
US TV
US TV show casting
- Martin Starr to return to Hawaii Five-0
- Jon Cryer to return to NCIS, Laura San Giacomo to guest
New US TV shows
- USA green lights: adaptation of Norway’s Øyevitne as Eyewitness
- CBS green lights: Nancy Drew series, adaptation of ABC Australia’s Upper Middle Bogan…
- …and long-distance relationship sitcom My Time/Your Time based on web series 7P/10E
- HBO green lights: series of David Simon’s porn drama The Deuce
- The CW developing: romantic dramedy I Do Crew
New US TV show casting
- Juliet Rylance, Stephanie Leonidas and Gabriel Bateman join CBS’s American Gothic
- Johnathon Schaech to play Jonah Hex on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow