During TwitchCon 2024’s opening ceremony, the streaming service announced upcoming changes and advancements to its ban policy—namely that it would be making it more clear what constitutes a violation of the platform’s terms of service. According to Twitch, these changes “seek to improve clarity about our enforcements…
Back in 2022, Amazon closed an $8.5 billion acquisition of the film studio MGM, giving them ownership of the studio’s thousands of films and TV shows. Last year, we heard that the six MGM properties Amazon was most interested in doing something with were Poltergeist, Stargate, The Thomas Crown Affair, Legally Blonde, Rocky, and RoboCop… and we’ve recently heard updates on some of those projects, with a Poltergeist TV series finding its showrunners and Michael B. Jordan signing on to both direct and star in a new version of The Thomas Crown Affair. Now Deadline has broken the news that a new RoboCop TV series is moving forward and has James Wan, the director of such films as Saw, The Conjuring, and Aquaman, on board as executive producer.
Peter Ocko (Lodge 49) has been hired to write, executive produce, and serve as showrunner on the potential series. Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett are executive producing through their company Atomic Monster, while Danielle Bozzone is overseeing the project for Atomic Monster. The series is being produced by Amazon MGM Studios.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, the 1987 film RoboCop has the following synopsis: In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company’s nefarious plans, he turns on his masters. The movie was followed by sequels RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993), an animated series that ran for one season in 1988, a live-action TV series that ran for one season in 1994, a 2001 mini-series called RoboCop: Prime Directives, and a 2014 remake, as well as video games, comic books, toys, clothing, and other merchandise.
The new TV series has the following official logline: A giant tech conglomerate collaborates with the local police department to introduce a technologically advanced enforcer to combat rising crime — a police officer who’s part man, part machine.
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It is officially fall. The temperature is already noticeably dropping, meaning layers are coming back into fashion and crunchy leaves are about to start decorating our pavements. Heavy blankets are getting hauled back out, unless they never went away, and games are going on sale to celebrate the coming of the best…
It is officially fall. The temperature is already noticeably dropping, meaning layers are coming back into fashion and crunchy leaves are about to start decorating our pavements. Heavy blankets are getting hauled back out, unless they never went away, and games are going on sale to celebrate the coming of the best…
A few months ago, we learned that the Netflix streaming service had gotten a new film chief in Dan Lin – and one of the first projects Lin greenlit at the streamer is an adaptation of author Ruth Ware’s bestselling 2016 thriller novel The Woman in Cabin 10, which has Keira Knightley attached to star in it as the titular woman. Now a dozen actors have been cast in the film alongside Knightley, and Deadline has their names: Guy Pearce (Memento), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), David Ajala (Star Trek: Discovery), Gitte Witt (The Sleepwalker), Art Malik (True Lies), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), Christopher Rygh (Vikings: Valhalla), Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), Kaya Scodelario (Crawl), Lisa Loven Kongsli (Wonder Woman), and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki).
Simon Stone, who previously directed The Dig for Netflix, will be directing the film from a screenplay by Snake Eyes writers Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (with Stone handling script revisions himself). Knightley will be playing a travel journalist assigned to cover the launch of a luxury yacht. When she witnesses a passenger tossed overboard in the dead of night, no one believes her story as all on the ship have been accounted for. Doggedly she searches for answers, putting her own life in danger as the boat barrels through the desolate North Sea. Details on the characters her co-stars will be playing have not been revealed.
A description of Ware’s novel (you can pick up a copy at THIS LINK) provides some more information: In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can describe only as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for – and so the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong. With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense listen in The Woman in Cabin 10 – one that will leave even the most sure-footed listener restlessly uneasy long after the last minute ends.
Sister, the production company co-founded by Elizabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone and led by CEO Cindy Holland, is producing The Woman in Cabin 10 with Debra Hayward, while Sister’s Ilda Diffley serves as executive producer.
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Today, Ubisoft announced that the recently delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be arriving on Steam on day one when it finally launches in February 2025 and confirmed that future Ubisoft games will do the same, ending a years-long strategy of keeping its biggest games off Steam for months or longer after launch.
Today, Ubisoft announced that the recently delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be arriving on Steam on day one when it finally launches in February 2025 and confirmed that future Ubisoft games will do the same, ending a years-long strategy of keeping its biggest games off Steam for months or longer after launch.
Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics is a welcome celebration and return for the iconic franchise. While the nostalgia of playing these arcade titles is enjoyable, there are some setbacks compared to their modern equivalents. One such downside is the lack of a proper rematch feature for offline play.
Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics is a welcome celebration and return for the iconic franchise. While the nostalgia of playing these arcade titles is enjoyable, there are some setbacks compared to their modern equivalents. One such downside is the lack of a proper rematch feature for offline play.
Ben Stiller returns to the world of sports with an all-star cast for a new film.
Red Hour Films and Rivulet Films will re-team for the upcoming pickleball comedy, The Dink, which is set to star Jake Johnson (Spiderverse films, Self Reliance, New Girl) in the leading role, with Mary Steenburgen (Book Club series) and Ed Harris (Pollock) also set to star. Ben Stiller (Zoolander) and former tennis champion Andy Roddick will have key supporting roles. Josh Greenbaum (the upcoming Spaceballs sequel for MGM, Will & Harper) will direct the original screenplay from Sean Clements (Workaholics). Principal photography is set to begin in Los Angeles in November.
The Dink follows a washed-up tennis pro (Johnson) who, in trying to save a club in crisis and win his father’s respect, is forced to break a solemn vow and do the one thing he swore he’d never do: play pickleball.
John Lesher and Ben Stiller are producing through their Red Hour Films banner alongside Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill. Jake Johnson will also serve as a producer. Stiller and Rivulet’s most recent collaboration, Nutcrackers directed by David Gordon Green, just opened the Toronto International Film Festival where it sold for eight figures to Hulu in a competitive situation. Rivulet will also be fully financing this production and the company’s senior strategic advisor Rick Steele will serve as Executive Producer alongside Sean Clements and Josh Greenbaum.
Meanwhile, Stiller will also star in another upcoming film from Rivulet Films, which will have him directed by The Exorcist: Believer‘s David Gordon Green titled Nutcrackers. Nutcrackers follows the work-obsessed Mike (Ben Stiller), who must reluctantly travel to rural Ohio to look after his four rambunctious nephews after their parents die in a car accident. After run-ins with the local deputy (Tim Heidecker) and misguided attempts to unload the boys on an orphan profiteer (Edi Patterson) and an eccentric empty-nester millionaire (Toby Huss), Mike becomes smitten with social worker Gretchen (Linda Cardellini), who helps him on his journey to find a home for the boys.
Stiller’s involvement with Nutcrackers ends a six-year chill time for the comedic actor. Rivulet Films’ Rob Paris and Mike Witherill, Red Hour Films’ Ben Stiller and John Lesher, and Rough House Pictures‘ Nate Meyer are producing. Rivulet financed the film, which recently wrapped production outside Cincinnati, Ohio.
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