The Random: Gotham by Gaslight, Luc Besson, Galaxy Quest TV show, Mario, Labyrinth, The Terrific Ten and more
– Batman: Gotham by Gaslight – Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, the all-new, feature-length animated film arrives from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Digital starting January 23, 2018, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD February 6, 2018.
– Garret Dillahunt (The Mindy Project) has joined the cast of the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead.
– Chris Addison’s untitled Anne Hathaway-Rebel Wilson MGM comedy will see a wide release on August 10. Hathaway and Wilson play two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who compete to swindle a naive tech prodigy out of his fortune – Deadline
– Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing) are close to an agreement with Nintendo to make a Super Mario Bros. animated movie. The video game’s creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, is expected to be a producer on the film and have a say in the creative development, alongside Illumination’s CEO Chris Meledandri. The film is still in the early stages of planning and wouldn’t come out for several years, and would be animated at Illumination’s Paris-based studio Mac Guff – WSJ
– Jimmy Kimmel made a comic book when he was a kid called “The Terrific Ten,” so in honor of his 50th birthday Ben Affleck and director J.J. Abrams got some of Jimmy’s friends together to surprise him and turn his work into a major motion picture. Here is the WORLD PREMIERE EXCLUSIVE trailer of The Terrific Ten starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Cousin Sal, Jon Hamm, Shaq, Ty Burrell, Billy Crudup, Jake Tapper and Wanda Sykes.
– Taraji P. Henson is set to star in What Men Want, a twist on the Nancy Meyers comedy What Women Want starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The project hails from Paramount Players with Will Packer, James Lopez, and Henson producing. What Women Want followed Mel Gibson as a sexist advertising executive who develops the ability to hear what women around him are thinking. In the gender-swapping update, Henson stars as a sports agent who has been constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When she gains the power to hear men’s thoughts, she is able to shift the paradigm to her advantage as she races to sign the NBA’s next superstar – The Tracking Board
– There is a new Labyrinth comic book coming out that will look at the origin of the Goblin King. Boom! Studios imprint Archaia is publishing the first ongoing comic series inspired by the movie, from writer Simon Spurrier and artist Daniel Bayliss – EW
– ABC has given a put pilot commitment to The French Detective, based on James Patterson‘s Luc Moncrief mysteries. Luc Besson will direct in his TV directorial debut and Jean Dujardin (The Artist) will star in the series. The show comes to us from Besson’s EuropaCorp TV Studios. The show is being called a “light procedural drama” and will tell the story of Parisian detective Luc Moncrief (Dujardin) who joins the NYPD to star a new life. Luc will try to keep his past in the past while solving crimes in New York City. Collage, Cooper and Collier will executive produce with Besson and James Patterson Entertainment’s James Patterson, Leopoldo Gout and Bill Robinson – Coming Soon
– The first teaser for Fantastic Beasts is out tomorrow.
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— Fantastic Beasts (@BeastsMovieUK) November 15, 2017
– Paul Scheer spoke to /Film about the Galaxy Quest TV show which will carry on the story of the original characters:
So it is mixing two casts. It’s separate kind of adventures that kind of merge, and I’m looking at this first season not as episodic, but as a serialized story. So, the only way I’ve been looking at it is, using everything from the first movie and making the reasons for everything not just – I want to avoid anything that could be viewed as a reboot for reboot’s sake. There are real reasons behind these choices – maybe too much so
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