By 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
“Lincoln Lawyer” Star Joins Next “Jurassic”
“The Lincoln Lawyer” series star Manuel Garcia-Rulfo is reportedly in negotiations to join Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey in the new “Jurassic World” movie at Universal and Amblin Entertainment. Specifics of his role are under wraps but it will mark his biggest film role to date and follows on from
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
“Apes” Planning To Go For Nine Films
The original “Planet of the Apes” franchise ran for five movies before fizzling out, but the writers of this week’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” have far larger plans than that. Married scribes Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver have been working with films since the 1992 thriller “The
