Hilary Swank to star in Hammer Films next thriller?
This seems to be somewhat of a departure for two time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, but this could be a serious game-changer for the newly revived Hammer Films Productions. According to Variety, Swank will top-line The Resident, a thriller the label is set to begin lensing in May 2009. Not that Hillary Swank is a stranger ….
Foxes mid-season schedule jumbles Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, but we still have a trailer
The Hollywood Reporter just broke news about Fox TV’s mid-season schedule. I won’t go through every special event, game show and other non-essentials, but here’s some info on the action dramas that genre fans want to see, but now need to stay home on Friday’s to watch: Joss Whedon’s action drama Dollhouse will air on ….
Logan’s Run and Wonder Woman Updates
Producer Joel Silver (V for Vendetta) recently talked to SCI FI Wire about several of his high-profile genre films that are in various stages of development. “The next one up is The Reaping, with Hilary Swank and directed by Stephen Hopkins, which is a supernatural thriller,” Silver said in an interview. Silver previously tapped Hopkins to direct Predator 2 and several episodes of TV’s Tales From ….
Firefly voted best sci-fi series ever?
Sci-fi buffs from around the world have voted cult TV series, “Firefly,” the world’s best space science fiction work ever in an international poll conducted by NewScientistSpace.com, the space news website from New Scientist magazine. Incredibly, the TV series which is set 500 years in the future was pulled off the air early. However, it ….
Whedon’s A Goner
Variety reported that Universal Pictures has paid seven figures for Goners, a fantasy thriller spec script Joss Whedon wrote and will direct. Film will be produced by Mary Parent and Scott Stuber. The studio premiered Whedon’s directorial debut, Serenity, on Thursday night at Universal City Walk. Pic opens Sept. 30. Whedon doesn’t give much detail ….