‘Leprechaun’ Reimagining From Director Felipe Vargas In Works At Lionsgate

Annapurna Interactive Showcase today (June 29), Dinogod founder Ben Ruiz has spoken to NME about Bounty Star, their studio’s upcoming base-buiilding mech game.Announced last year, Bounty Star follows ex-soldier Clem, who must build up her base of operations while hunting bounties in her mech. Thanks to Bounty Star‘s elements of farming, base-building and 3D mech combat, along with its “post-post-apocalyptic” Western setting, fans have been struggling to find an existing game to compare it to — something its director, Ruiz, is pleased with.“I think it’s cool that that’s the response,” Ruiz tells NME.

Streamers such as Hulu, Disney+ and Max have made headlines for their decision to cancel shows and subsequently remove them from their services.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor The Alliance of Women Directors has named Melanie Mack as its new executive director. AWD is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles that advocates for women directors in film, television and new media. Mack, who is CEO of Codega Media — a multi-media company she founded in 2016 which produces and curates content created by women — will lead the member organization in its efforts to increase opportunities for women and nonbinary directors working in the screened content industry through robust advocacy, craft development programs and mentorship.

EL 47, the latest feature from Spanish production powerhouse Mediapro Studio, is kicking into gear with cameras set to roll on the pic in Barcelona in the coming days.

EXCLUSIVE: Candle Media’s Exile Content Studio is partnering with acclaimed Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell and director Gaz Alazraki (Father Of The Bride) to produce a scripted feature about the incredible recent news story of the four children, including a baby, that survived a plane crash and 40 days in the Amazon Rainforest before being rescued by Colombian special forces.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter An “Among Us” animated series is in the works at CBS Studios, Variety has learned exclusively. The studio, via CBS Eye Animation Productions, has partnered with Innersloth, the independent game studio behind “Among Us,” to develop the series. Owen Dennis will serve as creator and executive producer on the project under his overall deal with CBS Studios. Per the official logline, the series is based on the premise of the game, namely, “Members of your crew have been replaced by an alien shapeshifter intent on causing confusion, sabotaging the ship, and killing everyone. Root out the ‘Impostor’ or fall victim to its murderous designs.”

and as TheWrap first reported, Marvel Studios and Universal are sitting out next month’s Comic-Con, according to insiders.Paramount will be making the trek down to San Diego and returning to Comic-Con to promote the upcoming animated film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” which has been generating positive buzz and strong word of mouth since it screened at Annecy in France. In 2022, Paramount promoted “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” at the convention and was one of the standouts at con.The writer’s strike, along with a potential strike by SAG-AFTRA, is making it tough for studios and TV networks to show up to the annual convention without product and performers to promote their projects.

EXCLUSIVE: Artist International Group, the globally minded management and production company founded by David Unger, on Thursday announced its signing of Umut Aral, the award-winning director behind the hit Turkish-language Netflix series, Who Were We Running From?.

EXCLUSIVE: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is developing a docuseries about pioneering Black basketball players including Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd and Nat Clifton.

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny director James Mangold has explained why Shia LaBeouf will not be returning to the franchise.LaBeouf played the titular archaeologist and adventurer’s son, Mutt Williams, in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, directed by Steven Spielberg.Explaining LaBeuof’s absence at the Dial of Destiny Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday (June 14), Mangold told Variety: “I think the point I had was that when I came on, I wanted to capture that wonderful energy between Indy and an intrepid female character.”“So that was my first goal, and there’s only so many people you can edge into a picture,” he added.The fifth instalment in the Indiana Jones franchise stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Indy’s goddaughter, Helena.Back in 2017, screenwriter David Koepp revealed that LaBeouf would not be returning. “Harrison plays Indiana Jones, that I can certainly say,” he told Entertainment Weekly, “And the Shia LaBeouf character is not in the film.”The latest offering marks the final instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise, and sees Harrison Ford reprise his iconic role at the age of 80.So far, Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny has received mixed reviews from critics, with some hailing it as delivering a “sweet blast of pure nostalgia”, while others have declared it to be a “complete waste of time”.It’s also predicted to earn a disappointing $60million at the US box office in its opening weekend.In a four-star review of The Dial Of Destiny, NME wrote: “The biggest question – could another director succeed Steven Spielberg after four Indy films in a row – is well-answered.

Elizabeth Debicki is looking back on the “heaviness” she felt playing the beloved Princess Diana in season 5 of Netflix’s hit historical drama “The Crown”.

Ever since “Joy Ride” had its world premiere at SXSW in March, it’s been one of the summer’s most anticipated movies. Why’s that? Well, it’s raunchy, hilarious (our review praised it), and it’s helmed by “Crazy Rich Asians” writer Adele Lim in her feature directorial debut.

There’s a lot to unpack to properly adapt The Dark Tower books by Stephen King.

A great movie comedy is something of a miracle, a combination of circumstances, personnel, and timing that would seem impossible to replicate, even under the most ideal circumstances.

In hindsight, it’s quite amazing that anyone could watch Adrienne Shelly’s final film as a director and see it as anything but a movie. It was a good one, a simple story about a small-town woman who falls pregnant by her abusive lover and complicates matters by having an affair with her gynecologist. Starring Keri Russell, the film was funny, romantic, frankly feminist and pulled no punches when it needed to, and its modest success of the box office made it all the more tragic that Shelly, murdered in her own apartment by a construction worker in 2006, would never make another.

Tribeca Film Festival, is a sensitive, empathetic look at intersex peoples. Similar to how the doc showcases the extraordinary lives of its subjects, the path to getting it made also came from a unique place. “I used to be a ‘Dateline’ producer many, many years ago,” Cohen told TheWrap.

Canadian action star Ryan Reynolds may be currently working on Marvel’s “Deadpool 3,” but that doesn’t mean he can’t line up other big projects for the future. He’s reportedly set to reunite with Skydance Media for a new film at Apple Original Films, as Deadline reveals he’ll star alongside director/actor Kenneth Branagh in “Mayday.” READ MORE: ‘Deadpool 3’: Brianna Hildebrand & Shioli Kutsuna Will Both Be Back For Shawn Levy’s Upcoming Marvel Sequel The action-adventure flick hails from “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” filmmaking duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who had some decent success recently with their fantasy-comedy based on the beloved table-top role playing game.

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a long and winding road but Beatles manager movie Midas Man has finally reached post-production having recently taken on a third director to get it over the line.

“The Flash.” Before “Dungeons & Dragons” they co-wrote “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and directed 2018’s “Game Night.”Reynolds recently appeared in Apple’s Christmas musical “Ghosted” and has “Deadpool 3” and John Krasinski’s high-concept fantasy “IF” in the works (both for 2024).

Hallmark reimagines the beloved amateur sleuth with the upcoming prequel movie, , which sees Skyler Samuels stepping into the shoes of the titular heroine previously played by former star Candace Cameron Bure.In the film, which premieres Friday on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, a fresh-out-of-college Aurora finds herself back home in Lawrenceton. Her mother, Aida (Marilu Henner), struggles to keep her newfound real estate business, while Aurora supports herself by working as a teacher’s assistant in a crime fiction class and waitresses at the local diner in the evenings, where she shares her love of true crime with her friend, Sally (Kayla Heller), and police officer, Arthur (Evan Roderick).Of course, something arises that puts Aurora's sleuthing skills to use: When Sally’s fiancé doesn’t show up at their wedding rehearsal, Aurora recruits Arthur to help her search for him.