Sarah Hyland’s mom wasn’t a fan of Jennifer Aniston for a different reason than you’d expect.
02.08.2023 - 23:23 / deadline.com
Skydance has acquired the rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ Mike Hammer franchise with plans to develop and produce the bestselling book series into a feature film based on the iconic character. No writers, directors or actors are attached at this time.
Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger will produce along with Guymon Casady, Benjamin Forkner, and Ken F. Levin. Max Allan Collins will executive produce with Jane Spillane serving as co-producer. Carin Sage will oversee the project for Skydance.
Hammer is the protagonist of a series of hard boiled detective novels, starting with the novel I, the Jury published in 1947 and becoming one of the most popular figures of the genre.
With over 250M copies of Mike Hammer books sold globally, it is often recognized as the most popular American mystery/thriller series of all time. Hammer is credited with inspiring numerous other iconic characters including Dirty Harry, Jack Reacher and James Bond (who Ian Fleming famously referred to as “the British answer to Mike Hammer”).
The producers have the rights to the Hammer catalogue which includes dozens of Hammer stories, books, and graphic novels – authored by Mickey Spillane as well as those co-authored by Spillane and his friend, best-selling author Max Allan Collins, who wrote Road to Perdition.
The Mike Hammer novel Kiss Me Deadly was adapted as the classic film directed by Robert Aldrich from 1955. In 1999, Kiss Me Deadly was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registryby the Library of Congress.
The character has not had a chance for any feature film treatment due to long-winded rights dispute. When Spillane passed away in 2006, which came one month after the death of
Sarah Hyland’s mom wasn’t a fan of Jennifer Aniston for a different reason than you’d expect.
“It’s a mad way to make a film, and I’m not sure it’s not something I would rush into again,” director Hope Dickson Leach said of the process behind her latest feature, the Edinburgh competition title The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Creative Assembly has defended its decision to sell the next downloadable content (DLC) pack for Total War: Warhammer 3, Shadows Of Change, at an increased cost – despite causing backlash and negative reviews from players.Earlier in the month, Creative Assembly revealed Shadows Of Change, Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC that will add three new legendary lords and more recruitable units to the game.However, the DLC’s price raised eyebrows at the time. At £20, the new content is £7 more expensive than the game’s previous lord pack, Champions Of Chaos.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is enjoying a night out on the town.
teaser trailer for the docuseries entitled “Heart of Invictus” dropped Wednesday and will premiere on the streamer on Aug. 30.The sporting games were founded in 2014 by the Duke of Sussex, 38, as an Olympic-style tournament for injured men and women who served in the armed forces.The show will involve the royal meeting with different players, as well as interviews with wounded participants who want to share their inspirational stories.“The Games doesn’t focus on what causes the injury but really about the recovery and how to be part of a community again,” Harry said in the teaser.“Everyone is going to struggle at some point,” he went on.In the clip, footage of Harry speaking during a previous Invictus Games’ opening ceremony is shown.Shots of veterans talking about their service and the pain from their ailments are also featured.
Warrior Nun was canceled by Netflix after two seasons but thanks to support from fans the series will return as a trilogy of movies.
While Lisandro Alonso doesn’t make films that will likely earn $100 million at the box office and attract a massive audience, the acclaimed filmmaker is one of the most interesting and skilled storytellers working today. Unfortunately, we haven’t heard much from the filmmaker over the past decade.
We can always count on Tulisa Contostavlos for a good hair transformation, but she's surpassing our expectations this week. with her latest one.The N-Dubz star just took to the stage with a hair colour and style that look like they've come straight out of a comic book – and some fans even think the new look makes her resemble Harley Quinn. Posing for a carousel of Instagram grid images, Tulisa looks incredible with extra-long red and black hair tied up in high pigtails.The look is dramatic enough with the hair alone, but the singer adds to the drama with a punchy shade of red lipstick and some cat-eye eyeliner flicks.
TV presenter Anne Diamond has opened up about a terrifying accident that happened while she was on holiday with her family in the US. Anne, who has hosted shows such as Good Morning Britan and Good Morning with Anne and Nick, alongside Nick Owen was a panelist on GB News today, August 11.
As of last year, over a million people have died of opioid overdoses in the United States. The central culprits, as outlined in Netflix’s latest miniseries, “Painkiller,” are Purdue Pharma and the “non-addictive” prescription drug they marketed to anyone with a pulse and a toothache: OxyContin.
Oscar-nominated producer Bill Pohlad has a long history of aligning himself with auteurs on award-winning fare—from Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain to Terrence Malick on the Palme d’Or winning The Tree of Life to Steve McQueen’s Oscar Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, and getting financially behind them with his River Road Entertainment banner. We talk with Pohlad on Crew Call today about his third career feature as director, Dreamin’ Wild, based on the New York Times Steven Kurutz article about the Fruitland, WA-based Emerson brothers whose dad literally bet the farm (mortgaging it to the tune of $100K) on the duo’s singing talents in the 1970s, and built them a studio. They didn’t make it initially — not until 2008 when the album they made some near 40 years prior, “Dreamin’ Wild,” was discovered by a record collector in Spokane, Jack Fleischer, and championed fervently. The record’s single “Baby” ultimately became a cult hit when it was covered by Ariel Pink in 2012. Casey Affleck plays Donnie Emerson, the aorta of the songwriting duo, who grapples with the mid-life crisis of finding some facet of fame, when all seemed forever lost.
Ariana Madix may have to film with Tom Schwartz — but that doesn’t mean she has to be his friend.
Justin Simien directed Haunted Mansion for Disney based on the theme park’s attraction of the same name. The filmmaker is now opening up about another Disneyland attraction he would like to adapt into a film and it’s Michael Jackson’s Captain EO.
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EXCLUSIVE: Joel McHale and Beck Bennett are starring in a new TV movie that is set to debut on Comedy Central.
The Jersey Shore gang is back!
Roland Emmerich’s upcoming gladiator series Those About to Die has been picked up by Prime Video across Europe.
Taylor Swift is quite the “Lover” after gifting truck drivers on The Eras Tour with $100,000 bonuses.
So what’s Nicolas Winding Refn been up to lately, besides advocating for WGA and SAG guild members to “burn it all down”? He’s hard at work in the UK shooting his next TV series after “Copenhagen Cowboy.” And it’s a strange project for Refn to do, to say the least. The Danish director is adapting Enid Blyton‘s “The Famous Book” children’s book series for the BBC.