Tag: Cube
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‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Returns for a Head-Trip Sequel That’s Both Entertaining and Exhausting
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a busy place. With its crisscrossing sequels, superheroes who dart in and out of each other’s movies, and labyrinth of laws and totems and over-the-cosmos-and-far-away lands, it’s become a metastatic playground, the kind of place that even the most ardent comic-book fans have to dedicate themselves to keeping up with.…
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Shochiku Confirms ‘Cube’ Remake in Japan
Shochiku, a major Japanese film producer and distributor, has announced its remake of “Cube,” a 1997 fantasy-thriller by Vincenzo Natali about six people who find themselves trapped in a maze-like cube and have to figure a way out, while evading fatal traps.A Canadian production that premiered at Toronto, the original film became a cult hit…
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Rubik’s Cube Movie and Game Show in Development From Hyde Park Entertainment, Endeavor Content
The Rubik’s Cube is getting the big screen treatment.Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Endeavor Content have partnered with the eponymous brand for a feature film based on the best-selling puzzle toy. Hyde Park is also working with Endeavor Content-backed “The Wall” producer Glassman Media for a game show based on the Rubik’s Cube.The…
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What’s Coming to Amazon in January 2020
As the new year begins, Amazon Prime Video is keeping with the tradition of “out with the old and in with the new.” The streaming service will ring in the new decade with a few original series premieres, including “James May: Our Man in Japan,” “Just Add Magic: Mystery City,” “All or Nothing: Cbf” and…
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Vincenzo Natali to Open Sitges Festival with ‘In the Tall Grass,’ Host Sitges Pitchbox (Exclusive)
Like Ron Perlman in 2018 and Guillermo del Toro the year before, Canadian writer-director Vincenzo Natali, whose new Netflix film, an adaption of Steven King’s “In the Tall Grass” will open October’s Sitges Film Festival, is lined up to emcee this year’s Sitges Pitchbox, organized in partnership with Barcelona-based platform Filmarket Hub. The Sitges Pitchbox…
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Netflix Lands Stephen King Adaptation ‘In the Tall Grass’ with James Marsden
Netflix is heading back into the Stephen King well. Per Deadline, the streaming giant has landed a package for an adaptation of the novella In the Tall Grass, which King wrote with his son Joe Hill. The project has James Marsden in talks to star and Splice filmmaker Vincenzo Natali adapting to direct. Natali first…
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Netflix Nabs Rights to Stephen King-Joe Hill’s ‘In the Tall Grass’
Netflix has picked up movie rights to the horror story “In the Tall Grass,” a novella written by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, with James Marsden in talks to star in a film adaptation.The streaming giant has tapped Vincenzo Natali, director of “Cube” and “Splice,” to helm from his own script. Producers are…