‘Escape Plan’ Sequel From Emmett/Furla/Oasis; Sylvester Stallone Reprising
Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films has green lit a sequel to their 2013 film Escape Plan, with Sylvester Stallone prepared to reprise the role he played in the original, this time in a supporting capacity. (DH)
Top Sony Executives Disillusioned With Film Chairman Tom Rothman
A series of personnel complaints and threatened defections by senior executives have raised questions about the leadership of Sony Pictures Entertainment movie boss Tom Rothman. (VAR)
‘Lucifer’ Snags Full Season 2 Pickup
The network has ordered an additional nine episodes of the devilish drama, bring its Season 2 total to 22 episodes (aka a full-season order). (TVL)
Altitude Takes Animated ‘Rock Dog’ With Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, J.K. Simmons for U.K.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired the big-budget animated family film Rock Dog, featuring the voices of Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard and J.K. Simmons, for the U.K. (THR)
‘American Horror Story: Roanoke’ Bringing Back Sarah Paulson’s ‘Asylum’ Character
Season 6 will have an Asylum crossover by having Lana Winters appear in Season 6. Series creator Ryan Murphy made the announcement over Twitter. (COLL)
Riley Keough To Star Opposite Andrew Garfield In A24’s ‘Under the Silver Lake’
Riley Keough is in final negotiations for the female lead opposite Andrew Garfield in A24’s crime noir pic Under the Silver Lake. Director David Robert Mitchell is on board to write and direct the film. (VAR)
‘Before the Flood’: Watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s Climate Change Documentary Now
Fisher Stevens’ new documentary Before the Flood, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, examines our planet’s everlasting ecological nightmare, a look at our bleak future if we continue to stand idly by and a call to arms to stand up for change. Watch it here now. (IW)
Trailer Buzz: ‘Life’
Astronauts and scientists played by Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Rebecca Ferguson, sail through the stars in a giant space station, eventually coming into contact with what appears to be the first-ever alien life form. (WIR)
Screenwriters: Writing Female Characters – She Said; She Said
Doug Richardson explains the complexities, and sometimes harsh realities, of writing female characters for Hollywood. (SM)