Live-Action ‘Detective Pikachu’ Movie Catches ‘Goosebumps’ Director
Legendary Entertainment has hired the Goosebumps director to lead its live-action Pokémon movie. He’ll work from a script written by Nicole Perlman and Alex Hirsch. (EW)
Sundance Film Festival 2017: Four Films To Know
The selections announced today — 32 American-made features and documentaries, all world premieres, that compete for prizes — will include Novitiate, The Force, and Chasing Coral. (NYT)
Fox Buys ‘High Wire’ Cirque Drama From Kathleen York & Cary Brokaw
Fox has put in development High Wire, a drama series project from Kathleen “Bird” York and producer Cary Brokaw. (DH)
‘Masters Of Sex’ Is Done At Showtime
Showtime has opted not to renew Masters of Sex for Season 5. (TVL)
‘The Wire’ Star Lance Reddick Joins Kate Bosworth, Tyler Hoechlin In ‘The Domestics’
Mike P. Nelson wrote and is directing the post-apocalyptic thriller. (THR)
John Goodman To Star In Rupert Wyatt’s Sci-Fi Film ‘Captive State’
John Goodman will star in Rupert Wyatt’s next film, Captive State. Wyatt will direct from a script he co-wrote with his wife, Erica Beeney. (VAR)
Nicolas Cage Starring In ‘The Humanity Bureau’
Nicolas Cage will star in global-warming, sci-fi thriller The Humanity Bureau. Rob King is directing the movie, which has a script by Dave Schultz. (EMP)
Hannah MacPherson To Direct Lionsgate’s ‘The Merciless’
Hannah MacPherson is in final talks to direct The Merciless, the Lionsgate adaptation of the Danielle Vega horror novel about good girls gone evil. Script has been written by Marlene King. (DH)
Can Kevin Spacey And Paul Bettany Make The Next ‘People v. O.J. Simpson’?
Spacey will executive produce a series about the Unabomber; Bettany has been cast to play the domestic terrorist. (VF)
