Kathryn Bigelow Swaps Netflix Films

Last month came the news that just as Dan Lin was starting as new Netflix film chief, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Hurt Locker”) had dropped out of directing an adaptation of David Koepp’s apocalyptic novel “Aurora”. Her exit happened several months earlier and now Puck News (via

Downey Jr., New Writer Set For “Yucatan”

Two decades after it began development, it looks like the late acting icon Steve McQueen’s passion project “Yucatan” is being revived. Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (“Blue Beetle,” “Miss Bala”) has been set as the screenwriter of the project which is now in early development at Netflix according to Deadline. In addition Robert

EA Considering In-Game Ads Again

Electronic Arts, the publisher that occasionally gets caught up in controversy over the way it gets money out of players, appears to be up to its old tricks. The Verge and Nasdaq reports that company CEO Andrew Wilson is working on their next generation of in-game ads. Speaking on the