AMC shares jump amid rumours of Amazon acquisition

AMC shares jumped in value this week, after The Mail on Sunday reported that Amazon could be interested in acquiring the cinema operator.

The theatre chain in the US is also the owner of the Odeon chain in the UK, … Read More

Netflix to adapt The Lying Life of Adults

Netflix and Fandango are joining forces to develop a series based on The Lying Life of Adults, the latest novel by Italian novelist Elena Ferrante.

The series tells a powerful and singular portrayal of Giovanna’s transition from childhood to … Read More

The Woods: Netflix’s Harlan Coben adaptation arrives this June

Netflix is teaming up with Harlan Coben again for its latest original thriller, The Woods.

New Netflix Original series based on Harlan Coben’s novel. The Woods – June 12th. Only on Netflix.

The six-part mystery series, based on Coben’s novel, … Read More

Impetigore: Shudder snaps up Sundance horror hit

Shudder has snapped up the rights to Impetigore, Joko Anwar’s Sundance horror hit.

The follow-up to Satan’s Slaves premiered at the Utah festival earlier this year, after a successful run in Anwar’s home country of Indonesia, where it was the … Read More

Keeping Up with the Kardashians comes to Netflix UK

Keeping Up with the Kardashians is coming to Netflix UK for the first time this summer.

Netflix has been stepping up its reality TV game in the past year, proving that it can deliver hits such as Love Is Blind … Read More

Apple inks overall deal with Dickinson’s Alena Smith

Apple has inked an overall deal with Dickinson creator Alena Smith.

Dickinson is a half-hour comedy series that explores the constraints of society, gender and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet Emily Dickinson. Set in the 19th century, … Read More

Webby Awards 2020 to live-stream from home

This year’s Webby Awards will be live-streamed from home as the online prizes are handed out virtually during the coronavirus lockdown.

Patton Oswalt will host the Webbys from Home, after the original event in New York was cancelled. Oswalt is … Read More

Here Comes the Flood: Netflix nabs Simon Kinberg heist script

Netflix has nabbed the latest script from Simon Kinberg, a heist story called Here Comes the Flood.

Kinberg is an established name among genre films, with a long-running involvement with the X-Men franchise and a hand in the scripts for … Read More

David Ayer brings Harlan Coben’s Six Years to Netflix

David Ayer is bringing Harlan Coben novel Six Years to Netflix.

The Suicide Squad and Fury director is no stranger to the streamer, having helmed Bright, Netflix’s first big original blockbuster starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. This past week, … Read More

Dark Days at the Magna Carta: Blake Lively to star and produce in Netflix thriller

Blake Lively is headed to Netflix for the new thriller Dark Days at the Magna Carta.

The post-apocalyptic tale is written by Michael Paisley, who has served as writer’s PA on The Witcher and whose Dollhouse horror spec was snapped … Read More