Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld is in talks to helm Lore, the Warner Bros. adaptation of 2003 IDW Publishing miniseries by Ashley Wood and T.P. Louise. Dwayne Johnson is attached to star.
Zombieland and Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer will helm an adaptation of the 1983 arcade game Spy Hunter for Warner Bros.
Clive Russell (Sherlock Holmes, Game of Thrones and Richard Brake (Batman Begins) have joined Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World as the war god Tyr and a captain of the Einherjar. Directed by Alan Taylor, the film opens Nov. 8, 2013.
Hoping to land a job on Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. television series, a graphic designer gathered some friends — Amber Benson, Grant Imahara and Bear McCreary among them — to help put together a fan film to showcase his work.
Fox has released the first official photo from its upcoming follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine featuring a shirtless Hugh Jackman, claws bared, on the set of direct James Mangold’s The Wolverine.
When all the receipts are counted, the action-drama End of Watch is expected to pull ahead of the horror-thriller House at the End of the Street to lead a mediocre weekend at the North American box office. Dredd 3D, meanwhile, opened in a dismal sixth place.
After more than six decades, the Emmy Awards proved that it’s still capable of surprises, with Homeland winning outstanding drama, toppling Mad Men, which set a record for biggest shutout by losing in all 17 categories in which it was nominated.
Although Thanos creator Jim Starlin seemingly confirmed the Mad Titan will play a role in both Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers sequel, Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige is remaining tight-lipped, saying only that the classic villain was included in the closing credits of The Avengers for a reason.
FX is developing a television series based on The Strain, the bestselling vampire novels by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, with Lost alum Carlton Cuse serving as showrunner.
The cast of NBC’s The West Wing reteamed for “Walk and Talk the Vote,” a clever campaign ad for Bridget Mary McCormack, a non-partisan candidate for the Michigan State Supreme Court who just happens to be the sister of actress Mary McCormack.
Fox has unveiled the poster for the fifth and final season of Fringe showing Peter Bishop, Olivia Dunham and Walter Bishop depicted in graffiti as revolutionary icons in the year 2036. The series returns Friday, Sept. 28.
NBC, which first put Midnight, Mass. into development in 2009, has again picked up the rights to John Rozum’s 2002 Vertigo miniseries about world-famous husband-and-wife occult investigators.
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