Casting Bits: Mary Louise Parker Replacing Demi Moore in ‘Lovelace’?, Greg...
It was just a few days ago that Demi Moore dropped out of the porn biopic Lovelace after being hospitalized for “exhaustion,” but it looks like filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman may be close...
View ArticleCasting Bits: Kristen Bell, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, and More in...
I don’t know how she’s doing it, but Kristen Bell‘s been booking roles almost faster than we can write them up this week. Hot on the heels of news that she’d been cast in Disney’s Frozen and the Neil...
View Article‘Writers’ Trailer: Greg Kinnear Knows What Makes a Great Writer
If Girls seems to chalk up Hannah’s bad ideas to her relative youth, the first trailer for Writers suggests such misguidedness may simply be an occupational hazard. In the directorial debut by Josh...
View ArticleJosh Boone to Direct ‘The Fault in Our Stars'; Shailene Woodley and Hailee...
There are more YA adaptations in development right now than we can count, but Fox 2000’s The Fault in Our Stars stands out for a couple of reasons. First, it features no paranormal creatures or...
View ArticleFirst Look: Shailene Woodley Is Sick, Lovesick in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’
Shailene Woodley has two highly anticipated YA adaptations out this year, one of which (Divergent) is being touted as the next Hunger Games. And indeed, it has everything an on-trend teen flick needs...
View Article‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Trailer: Shailene Woodley Falls in Love for the...
Last year, screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber brought us The Spectacular Now, a smart, tender YA adaptation about first love. This year, they’re mining similar territory with The...
View ArticleStephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Adaptation Taps ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Director
There’s been another shuffle on The Stand over at Warner Bros. While Scott Cooper was recently the latest writer/director linked to the adaptation, he fell away thanks to disagreements over done and...
View Article‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Extended Trailer: Shailene Woodley’s Other Big YA Movie
If you’re not a big fan of Mondays (and who is?) then you probably think the last thing you need is an excuse to cry. And that’s exactly what the new The Fault in Our Stars extended trailer is....
View Article‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Actor Nat Wolff Likely to Join ‘The Stand’
This will probably help frame the direction Josh Boone plans to take his adaptation of Stephen King‘s massive post-apocalyptic novel The Stand. While Warner Bros. has cycled through few different...
View Article‘The Stand’ Director Josh Boone Crafting 3-Hour, R-Rated Adaptation
When The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone was hired to direct The Stand for Warner Bros., we assumed that the intent on the studio side would be to make a film or pair of films with a broad...
View ArticleJosh Boone in Early Talks to Write and Direct ‘The Vampire Lestat’
Universal only just put more energy into its efforts to adapt Anne Rice‘s vampire novels into films, as the studio renewed the option on 13 of Rice’s “Vampire Chronicles” books. The studio isn’t...
View ArticleMatthew McConaughey Wanted for ‘The Stand’ [Updated]
Writer/director Josh Boone is down with the McConaissance, for obvious reasons, and he wants the actor to play a lead role in The Stand. Depending on which of Matthew McConaughey‘s roles are most...
View ArticleKatie Holmes Is Going to Be a Director Now
In Dawson’s Creek, it was always Dawson who wanted to be the big-time filmmaker. But in real life, it looks like little Joey Potter will be the first one of the gang to helm her very own feature....
View ArticleStephen King Suggests ‘The Stand’ Could Be Split Into Multiple Films
Warner Bros. has worked on a new version of The Stand for a few years, using Stephen King‘s post-apocalyptic novel as a basis for work by a few different creative teams. Most recently Josh Boone (The...
View Article‘The Stand’ Adaptation Now Planned as Four Movies
Warner Bros. has been trying to craft a new film adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel The Stand for several years. The studio has gone through a roster of writers and directors, but last year finally...
View ArticleMatthew McConaughey Possibly Cast in Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’
Josh Boone‘s plans for Stephen King‘s The Stand are grand. Four movies, if all goes according to plan. If that plan is to work, he’s going to need “a cast that’s going to blow people’s minds,” or so...
View Article‘The New Mutants’ Developing at Fox, Josh Boone to Write and Direct
Fox is getting deeper into its rights package for Marvel’s mutant characters, and has put in motion a plan to create a New Mutants movie as a spin-off from the X-Men movie series. Josh Boone, the...
View Article8-Part Showtime Miniseries Will Precede ‘The Stand’ Movie
The epic nature of Stephen King‘s The Stand has meant that a big screen adaptation is all but impossible. Several filmmakers have tried and failed to condense the lengthy story – which is about a...
View ArticleSuperhero Bits: New Mutants, Jessica Jones, Captain America, Batman: Arkham...
What’s the latest on Josh Boone‘s New Mutants? Who’s directing Jessica Jones? When will Batman: Arkham Knight return to PC? What happens when Superman oversleeps? Has the Arrow / Flash crossover...
View Article‘The Stand’ Delayed as Director Josh Boone Looks to a Completely Different...
Hollywood has been flirting with a film adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Stand for years now, with A-list directors and actors constantly orbiting the project, only to drop out for reasons that are...
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