After the success of Alice In Wonderland, Disney has been making other live action movies based on characters that have appeared in its animated film, with the upcoming Maleficent and Cinderella. Now THR reports they’re planning a movie based around 101 Dalmatians villainess Cruella De Vil.
Glenn Close played the role in two live action films, but they were still based around the doggies, while this one will focus on the fur-loving mast herself.
Disney has hired Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote Cinderella and contributed to Maleficent, to pen the script, which is currently going by the title, Cruella. There’s no plot details, but it’s likely to focus on De Vil’s backstory.
When it was announced they were making The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe, Walden Media said they wanted to shoot adaptations of all the Narnia books. However after disappointing box office for Prince Caspia, Disney dropped out as Walden’s partner.
It’s just under two months until we can go back into the arena when The Hunger Games: Catching Fire hits cinemas on November 22nd. Now the final poster is here, with Jennifer Lawrence looking pretty badass while brandishing her bow.
LGBT representation on US screens has improved massively in the last decade or so (with some room for improvement), and while that should be applauded, a new report says that offscreen discrimination is still a problem.
While there was a big gap between District 9 and Elysium, Neill Blomkamp is working quicker this time around, hoping to shoot Chappie early next year. Sharlto Copley and Dev Patel have already signed on to star, and now Hugh Jackman has revealed he’ll be in the movie too.
As many had expected, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 stormed the US box office, taking $35 million in its first weekend, ahead of the $30 million the first film took in 2009, although behind last year’s Hotel Transylvania (also from Sony Animation), which took a September record $42 million.