‘Just Cause’: ‘Stuber’ Director To Take On Film Adaptation Of Popular Video Game Franchise

Cats.The 2019 film, which featured an all-star cast made up of Idris Elba, Dame Judi Dench, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Rebel Wilson, was panned by fans and critics alike upon its release.In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Lloyd Webber said: “The problem with the film was that [director] Tom Hooper decided that he didn’t want anybody involved in it who was involved in the original show.”He added that “the whole thing was ridiculous.”It’s not the first time Lloyd Webber has spoken out

Netflix has revealed that it is currently working on a film adaptation of Ubisoft’s 2003 sci-fi cult classic video game, Beyond Good & Evil.The upcoming movie was revealed exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter, which notes that the project is currently in “early development”.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerFACEBOOK IS IN: Facebook has jumped into the music video game. The social media giant has announced it will now license content from Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group for Facebook Watch and via individual artists’ pages.

Also Read: Xbox, Ubisoft and Every Virtual Gaming Announcement Scheduled This Summer“We’re excited to work with Netflix on the ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ feature film and we look forward to sharing more in the future,” Ubisoft Film and Television said in a statement to TheWrap.Created by “Rayman” creator Michel Ancel, was a commercial failure upon its release in 2003 and plans for a sequel were scrapped.

Also Read: Annapurna Interactive Enlists Nathan Vella to Join Executive TeamExposing the absurd and feral truths of motherhood, “Nightbitch” is a darkly comedic telling of an unnamed woman and former artist, thrust into stay-at-home domesticity after the birth of her son, who becomes increasingly worried and convinced that she may be turning into a dog.

This year’s San Diego Comic-Con replacement, Comic-Con@Home, was pretty damn disappointing. Sure, fans got to see new trailers and clips and some decent interactions between cast members of some genre projects, but overall, there wasn’t that big exciting, surprise announcement or show-stopping panel.

Earlier in July, Zedd released his first new music of the year, and now that same song is soundtracking a new Zedd-centric experience inside of Minecraft.

Gaming network G4 teased a return next year with a video posted to Twitter on Friday, its first tweet since 2013. Alongside the caption "We never stopped playing," the clip showed the words "Incoming Transmission" on a TV screen, followed by "G4" and "2021." The website G4TV.com also appears to be backonline, showing a click-to-playPong game.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe virtual Comic-Con@Home received a very real blast from the past today – with more to come.Unplugged since 2014, video game network G4 TV is coming back to life next year.The NBCUniversal-owned once time home of Attack of the Show and X-Play sparked up earlier Friday with a PONG playing G4 TV website and a short “2021” tease on social media that resembled an eighties teen flick – in the best way:We never stopped playing.

No one will ever play music quite like Avicii, but a new video game is giving fans the opportunity to try.

Also Read: Reese Witherspoon to Star in Pair of Netflix Rom-ComsSet against the backdrop of the mid-20th century South, “Where the Crawdads Sing” centers on a young woman named Kya who, abandoned by her family, raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. However, when her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is thrust into the spotlight, instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.

David Robb Labor EditorEXCLUSIVE: The WGA has wrapped up successful negotiations on two fronts in the past few weeks, getting UTA to break ranks with the other Big Four agencies by signing the guild’s franchise agreement and hammering out a new three-year film and TV contract with management’s AMPTP. And WGA West president David A.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Indivisible, the action role-playing video game, is set to be adapted for television with Inside Out’s Meg LeFauve and Rob The Mob’s Jonathan Fernandez.The pair are writing and exec producing a small-screen take on the game, which was first released in 2019 and Deadline understands the project is in development at NBCU streamer Peacock.DJ2 Entertainment, which specializes in video game to television and whose credits include the Sonic the Hedgehog feature

Just Cause video game franchise has landed its director, Michael Dowse.The news was revealed exclusively by Deadline. Dowse is best known directing the 2020 Netflix original film Coffee & Kareem and the 2019 buddy cop flick Stuber.

Also Read: 'John Wick' Creator Derek Kolstad to Adapt Video Game 'Just Cause' for Constantin FilmWhile the film’s plot is being kept under wraps, as with the four “Just Cause” games the film will follow Rico Rodriguez on a race-against-time mission to stop the Black Hand, a lethal mercenary group.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: The bigscreen adaptation of the bestselling video game Just Cause has landed Michael Dowse as director. Dowse, whose work includes Stuber and Coffee & Kareem, has been set to helm the coproduction between Constantin Film and Prime Universe.Scripted by Derek Kolstad (The John Wick Trilogy), the film is produced by Constantin Film’s Robert Kulzer, Prime Universe Film’s Adrian Askarieh, and Kolstad.

Justin Kroll Film ReporterMattel Films and Universal Pictures are developing a live-action movie based on the hit ’90s TV series “Wishbone,” about a Jack Russell Terrier.“Wishbone” is the first theatrical film collaboration between Mattel and Universal Pictures, and the ninth Mattel Films project in the works.Mattel Films will produce “Wishbone” alongside Academy Award winner Peter Farrelly. Roy Parker will write the script.

Peter White Television EditorChris Grabenstein, author of children’s books including the Mr. Lemoncello series, and a frequent collaborator of The President Is Missing author James Patterson has signed with talent agency APA.The move will see the agency help secure adaptations of the New York Times bestselling author’s books for film and TV.Grabenstein has written over forty books in the last 15 years including Escape From Mr.