The moment 3D became popular there was talk in Hollywood of making a new Ring movie, with the feeling that having the creepy Samara crawling out of the screen would be very popular with audiences. However while there’s been rumours of remakes and sequels, it’s been trapped in development hell.
Now it’s got a new wind, with Deadline reporting that Before the Fall’s F. Javier Gutierrez has signed on to direct. Hopefully he’ll have more luck with the film than his predecessors and with The Crow remake, which he’s been attached to for several years but which has also had difficulty getting the greenlight.
The Ring, based on the 1998 Japanese movie Ringu, arrived in 2002 and was a decent hit, although the 2005 follow-up, The Ring Two, wasn’t quite as successful. The hope is that 3D can add new interest despite the fact it’ll be at least 10 year since the last film before a new one arrives in cinemas.
It’s not known when the new film will shoot, or if star Naomi Watts will be involved.
Although most people were supportive when Anna Paquin revealed a few years ago that she is bisexual, there was a firm and vociferous minority who weren’t impressed and were unfraid to show it. Particularly as she was talking about bisexuality (and while in a relationship with a man at the time), the backlash and bitchiness came from both homophobes and bi-phobic gay people.
Wentworth Miller has been opening up about his decision to come out as a gay man to 
Back in May Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan – he’s directed five movies and he’s still only 25 – picked up and Cannes Jury Prize for his latest film, Mommy (although he missed out on the Queer Palm for the best LGBT-themed movie at the festival).
Hollywood loves sequels and spin-offs, but usually these revolve around the characters or situations from a movie – not the props. However Annabelle is a film that’s based around the creepy doll we saw in The Conjuring.
When a live action/CG version of the classic character Paddington was announced, Colin Firth was due to voice the bear. He stuck with the project right up until last month, when just five months before release he dropped out, suggesting he didn’t think he could do the bear justice.
After quite a while in development where moviemakers were trying to work out how to translate the massive success of RL Stine’s books onto the screen, despite the fact it’s essentially an anthology with all sorts of different stories.
For many years Universal has been trying to work out what to do with its classic monsters, but despite attempts such as The Wolfman and Van Helsing, nothing has really worked. Now they’re hoping to create something much bigger, as Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek, Transformers, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious franchise) have signed up to develop an entire cinematic universe involving characters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and more, according to 
Back in the early 1990s, Scandal star Tony Goldwyn was an up and comer who looked like he had a chance of breaking big, particularly thanks to his villainous role in Ghost. However the same year that movie was released he took on the role of Jeff Mitchell in The Sum of Us, playing a young gay man in a play about his character’s relationship with his father.
Ouija has been on quite a journey to the screen. It’s been around five years since the idea was first mooted, and in that’s time it’s been planned as a full-on gore-fest, a mega-budget tentpole release and a family friendly adventure film, but it’s finally becomes creep-fest that’s more aimed towards teens and with a relatively modest budget.