Now that Dredd 3D has — to put it mildly — tanked at the U.S. box office, it’s perhaps time to look again at the idea that Comic-Con International can serve as any kind of market barometer for genre movies and, hopefully, kindly dispose of that notion as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Tom Hardy will star in and Doug Liman will direct an adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s novel Paths of Glory. The movie will tell the story of George Mallory, who died trying to become the first to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s.
Producer Adi Shankar has signed Haywire star Gina Carano for the ensemble cast of his still-untitled female take on The Expendables.
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.
As Anne Hathaway circles a role in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Robopocalypse, outgoing Fox chairman Tom Rothman has signed on to produce the sci-fi action movie.
Zombieland and Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer will helm an adaptation of the 1983 arcade game Spy Hunter for Warner Bros.
Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen will executive produce an FX series loosely based on their acclaimed 2006 crime film Fargo.
Len Wiseman (Underworld, Total Recall) is in talks to direct the Universal Pictures reboot of The Mummy, produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
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.
Magicians Penn & Teller gave Spinoff Online a walkthrough of their new Universal Orlando maze “Penn & Teller New(kd) Las Vegas” ahead of the opening of this year’s Halloween Horror Nights.
Spinoff Online was at Universal Orlando for the opening of Halloween Horror Nights, where we were among the first to walk through the Walking Dead-inspired maze. It turns out the zombie apocalypse is just as scary when you’re walking through it as it is on the TV screen.
Fox has released an international trailer for direct Ang Lee’s adaptation of Life of Pi, which tells the story of an Indian boy marooned on a lifeboat with only a Bengal tiger to keep him company. The film is due in theaters Nov. 21.