‘The Goon’ Update: ‘Deadpool’ Might Help This Animated Comic Book Movie Finally Get Made Almost eight years ago directorDavid Fincheroptioned the movie rights toEric Powell’s Dark Horse comic book seriesThe Goon, which started back in 1999. Over the years, Blur’s animated project has struggled to acquire financing. Back in 2013, after asuccessful Kickstarter campaign, Powell said the comic book adaptationwas still moving forward. The few hundred ground went towards paying for a feature-length story reel, which was meant to attract financiers....

‘The President Is Missing’: Showtime Adapting Bill Clinton & James Patterson’s Thriller Novel Into A TV Show 2013 was a big year for fictional movie thrillers involving the President of the United States, withOlympus Has FallenandWhite House Downboth blasting into theaters within three months of each other. Those were simpler times when movies about the president didn’t pale in comparison to the hellish nightmare of the behavior of the actual leader of our country....

‘The Toll’ Exclusive Clip: Anyone Up For A 3 A.M. Stroll Through The Woods? In the new horror filmThe Toll, a woman and her taxi driver end up stranded in the middle of nowhere late at night. As if that weren’t awkward enough, there may or may not be some sort of malevolent unseen presence lurking in the darkness, watching them. Cue the spooky music!T he Tollis headed to theaters, digital, and On Demand this week, and we’re debuting an exclusive clip from the film to set the mood....

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 11 Trailer: AMC’s Flagship Series Shuffles Toward The Endgame The beginning of the end is upon us. At this week’s Comic-Con at Home panel, fans finally got a sneak peek of what lies ahead forThe Walking Dead, telling us a little more about how the series will end. Check out the first trailer for the final season below. The Walking Dead Season 11 Trailer It’s no surprise that in a series about an apocalyptic world, all our favorite characters are haunted by their pasts....

‘The Witchlands’ TV Show Announced By The Jim Henson Company The poor reception to their R-rated puppet noir filmThe Happytime Murdershasn’t seemed to negatively impact The Jim Henson Company yet, because they’ve just announced a brand new project. The company will produce a live-actionThe WitchlandsTV show based on the bestselling fantasy novel series, and the artists at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop will be designing and creating characters for the show....

‘Thor 4’ Coming From Director Taika Waititi As Live-Action ‘Akira’ Is Put On Hold Indefinitely Taika Waititiis coming back for moreThor. TheThor: Ragnarokdirector will return to the MCU to helmThor 4, the first fourth film in a series that Marvel Studios has committed to so far. Waititi will write and direct the fourth installment in theThorfranchise, which will presumably once again seeChris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder charming us all with his impeccable abs and comedic timing....

15 Years Ago, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Transformed Meryl Streep Into A New Kind Of Icon In 2003, Lauren Weisberger released her debut novel,The Devil Wears Prada, a comedy about a young woman hired to be the personal assistant of a powerful and notoriously harsh fashion magazine editor. Upon its publicationThe Devil Wears Pradaattracted attention because Weisberger had worked for Anna Wintour, the somewhat infamous editor-in-chief of AmericanVogue. Of course, audiences presumed the novel to be autobiographical, something Weisberger weakly denied....

2009 Sundance Film Festival Competition Films Announced The Sundance Institute has announced the first half of the line-up for the2009 Sundance Film Festival. Included in the first press release are the films in competition in the Drama and Documentary segments. 3,661 feature-length films were submitted this year, which is 37 more films than last year. For the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected including 87 world premieres, 19 North American premieres, and 4 U....

Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’ Eyes ‘Creed’ Star Tessa Thompson Alex Garland’s next feature film is shaping up to have a cast as good as his last one did — and that’s really saying something, consideringEx Machinastarred Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikander. His new projectAnnihilationalready hasNatalie PortmanandGina Rodriguezin place, and now it’s looking to bringCreedbreakoutTessa Thompsoninto the fold as well. More details on the Tessa Thompson Annihilation casting after the jump....

Alexander Payne Calls Next Film ‘Nebraska’ “A Nice Little Comedy” It was seven years betweenAlexander Payne’s filmsSidewaysandThe Descendants, but the director has a couple new projects in the works. He probably won’t have to wait nearly as long before getting another film off the ground. We know, for one, that he’s working onWilson, anadaptationofDaniel Clowes' comic story. BeforeWilsongets going, however, Payne will likely makea film calledNebraska, about a father and son on a roadtrip to collect contest winnings the father believes to be waiting for him....

Blake Lively, Channing Tatum, And Jude Law To Star In Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Side Effects’; Megan Ellison To Finance This month’sHaywiremarks the first of two collaborations betweenSteven SoderberghandChanning Tatumwe’ll be seeing this year, the other one being this summer’sMagic Mike, and it seems we’ll have another to look forward to next year as well. Aftertoyingwith the idea of teaming up for Warner Bros.‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.before Soderberghpulled out, the pair may now be gearing up to reunite onThe Side Effects, previously titledBitter Pill....

Box Office Tracking: Can Zack And Miri Top HSM3? Probably Not High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Disney) is likely to win a second consecutive weekend, but there is a great deal of mystery about how this Kenny Ortega-directed sensation will play out. There were lots of questions going into opening weekend. The thinking was that teens would show up in big numbers Friday night and then Saturday’s business would increase because Moms would bring carloads of tween girls to America’s multiplexes....

Bryan Cranston To Lead Brad Furman’s ‘The Infiltrator’ A little over a year afterBreaking Bad,Bryan Cranstonis heading back to the criminal underworld. The Emmy-winning actor is attached to leadThe Infiltrator, about real-life federal agent Robert Mazur’s years undercover. Brad Furman, who directed Cranston inThe Lincoln Lawyer, will helm. Hit the jump for more about the Bryan CranstonInfiltratormovie.Ellen Brown Furmanwrote the script, based on Mazur’s own autobiography. Cranston got on board thanks to his relationship with Furman....