A comic book movie adaptation of Danger Girl is reportedly in the works from the producers of the Hitman and Resident Evil films. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Constantin Film, the company behind the Resident Evil movie franchise, has acquired the film rights to Danger Girl, which follows a globe-trotting adventurer named Abbey Chase.
"I'm busier in my career than I have ever been in my entire life," says Baltimore septuagenarian John Waters, the author, stand-up comedian, satirist, paradigm smasher, movie auteur and, not least, his hometown's Statue of Liberty. He styles himself as "The People's Pervert."
The film festival that gave a first public screening to Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is marking its 30th anniversary with another diverse celebration of cinema. A question and answer session with actor Richard E Grant - himself celebrating 30 years in film - is among a host of highlights at this year's Foyle Film Festival, Northern Ireland's only Oscar-affiliated film festival.
Wolf Creek actor John Jarratt has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Sydney's east in the 1970s but he "emphatically" denies the claim. "Police are investigating an allegation of a historic sexual assault on Sydney's eastern beaches," a NSW Police spokeswoman said in a statement on Saturday.
Now and then, director Rob Reiner achieves Hitchcockian suspense in his entertaining 1990 adaptation of Stephen King 's novel. But a wink or a chuckle is always around the corner.
About 10 minutes into Darkest Hour , you forget Gary Oldman's playing Winston Churchill in a gripping World War II drama. Gone is the vaunted British actor - all that's left is the stocky frame, large jowls and signature cigar of a political force of nature.
Looking at his long and diverse career, it is indeed hard to see many straight lines between, say, the roast beef sandwich-coveting Modell of the Barry Levinson classic "Diner" and the author of three books of homespun wisdom - "Couplehood," "Babyhood" and "Familyhood." Or to find the links tethering his entertaining villain Carter Burke of "Aliens" and the musician-composer who released 2010's "Unusual Suspects," a lovely album of ambient piano pop with singer-songwriter Julia Fordham.
The critically-acclaimed Netflix original series Frontier , starring Jason Momoa , will debut its second season on November 24, 2017 with all episodes available to stream. Frontier also stars Landon Liboriron , Jessica Matten , Zoe Boyle , Alun Armstrong , Katie McGrath and Shawn Doyle .
The fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal has been reverberating far beyond the United States' borders, and in France, where male chauvinism is ingrained in the culture, the allegations of sexual misconduct have inspired women here to speak out. Reports of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment in France rose 25 percent in October compared to the same month a year ago, a spokesman for the French interior ministry told ABC News.