The Random – The Predator, Ghost in the Shell, John Wick 2 & more

• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands gets a new trailer
• Jacob Tremblay (Room, The Book of Henry) joins the cast of Shane Black’s The Predator – THR
• Anne Heche and Sandra Oh’s Catfight is heading to cinemas and VOD on 10th March. Hillary loved it at TIFF 2016. You can read her review here.
• WGN America has opted not to proceed with Roadside Picnic, its drama pilot based on the famous novel by top Soviet/Russian science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It is being shopped out to other outlets – Deadline
• James Ponsoldt (Smashed, The Spectacular Now and The End of the Tour), is working on an adaptation of Larry Niven‘s 1971 short story Inconstant Moon. This story raises the question: How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the Moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova and they only have a few hours until the Earth rotates into the deadly sunshine – THR
• Ghost in the Shell gets a new teaser and poster

• Bryan Singer is going to direct the pilot episode of the new X-Men TV show. The untitled project focuses on two ordinary parents who discover that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive – Deadline
• The the recent bidding war for Little America, a spec written by British filmmaker Rowan Athale who will also direct, has been won by Universal. Michael Bay is set to produce the project with Platinum Dunes. Set in a dystopian future, America has been bankrupt by a “Donald Trump-like president” and China has called in all the debts of the nation, leading Americans to begin to immigrate to China to look for work. In this new world, a Chinese billionaire must hire a former American Force Recon member to rescue his daughter from an American ghetto – Tracking Board
• Shia LaBeouf has been arrested in New York early Thursday morning after he allegedly pushed a man outside of the site of his new permanent protest against President Donald Trump – Deadline
• Check out this great video by Christopher Leps.

Hollywood: A Call For Excellence from Christopher Leps on Vimeo.

• John Wick: Chapter 2 gets a new poster and TV spot