Morten Tyldum has already segued his success with the Scandinavian movie Headhunters into landing the job as director of the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, which is due to shoot soon with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley set to star. Now Deadline reports that Warner Bros has hired him to direct an adaptation of Roger Hobbs’ novel, Ghostman.
The book is about a professional Ghostman, someone who cleans up messes and helps fugitives get away. The story follows a clean-up man’s attempt to recover $1 million dollars from a botched casino heist. He finds himself in the cross-hairs of a drug lord named The Wolf and is given 48 hours to complete the task.
Morten Tyldum will be directing from a screenplay provided by Peter Craig with Kevin McCormick producing. No cast has been announced as yet, and there’s no news on when it might shoot, although it won’t be until Imitation Game is in the can.
Star Trek and Transformers writers/producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman must really like the comic book series Locke & Key, as despite initial attempts to turn it into a film failing, and then a pilot episode of a TV version not getting picked up by Fox (mainly due to budget issues), they haven’t given up.
While Mary Jane Watson wasn’t in The Amazing Spider-man, she was supposed to be in the sequel, with Descendants star Shailene Woodley taking the role. However it now appears her scenes have been cut.
After months of speculation over who would helm the film version of Fifty Shades Of Grey, Universal Pictures and Focus Features has announced that British artist and director Sam Taylor-Johnson (previously known as Sam Taylor-Wood) has got the job.
James Gandolfini, most famous for The Sopranos, has passed away at the age of 51. He suffered an apparent heart attack in Rome while the actor was on holiday, although no official cause of death has been released.
Justin Chatwin may have announced he’s leaving the US version of Shameless behind, but he’s not having a break, as 
After years in development, earlier this year it finally seemed Dumb and Dumber To was finally going to go ahead, with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels both agreeing to star. Then last week disaster struck when New Line Cinema dropped the comedy sequel.