While its not unusual for Hollywood to pick up the rights to a TV series, it’s rarer for someone to buy a single episode with the hop of turning it into a movie. However that’s what’s happened with Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
The episode The Entire History Of You has certainly excited some of Hollywood’s top names, with Bleeding Cool reporting that Robert Downey Jr. beat out George Clooney for the rights. At the moment Downey is just down to produce, but could well star as well.
The episode, written by Jesse Armstrong, is set in a future where humans have tiny implants that record the person’s entire life, making all memories and events available for playback. Toby Kebbell plays a lawyer who’s worried about losing his wife (Jodie Whittaker) and think she could be having an affair with another man (Tom Cullen). The chip implant plays a big part in unraveling past events and what’s actually going on.
Black Mirror returned to UK TV this week, and it’ll be interesting to see if any other episodes excite Hollywood.
A couple of weeks ago the first image from Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac debuted, but for a film that promises a lot of full-on sex, it wasn’t really that interesting, just showing a woman lying on the floor. Now a second image has shown up, via 
Just last week, Seth MacFarlane managed to sign Charlize Theron up for his follow-up to Ted, the comedy Western A Million Ways To Die In The West. Now, despite being busy preparing to host the Oscars, he’s got another lady interested in his movie – Amanda Seyfried – who’s currently in talks to join the film.
Sandra Bullock is getting her supervillain on, as she’s signed up to voice the baddie in the Despicable Me spin-off, Minions, according to 
Community star Joel McHale is hoping to make a splash in the film world, as he’s moving up from supporting roles to starring with A Friggin’ Christmas Miracle, according to 
It’s been quite a long time since we heard anything about Peter Bogdanovich’s Squirrel To Nuts. However now it’s back and has added Jennifer Aniston to the cast, according to 
The Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman grossout comedy Identity Thief may have been faced with some vitriolic reviews, but US audiences obviously didn’t care as the film significantly outperformed expectations, taking $36.5 million in its first three days in cinemas. It’s one of the best starts ever for an R-rated comedy, suggesting the film should have strong legs over the coming weeks.
It’s a strange situation where the director who’s sweeping most of the awards ceremonies isn’t even nominated for the Oscar, but that’s the situation Ben Affleck is in. He’s added the BAFTA Best Director Award for Argo to the Golden Globe, DGA and various other gongs he’s won, even if he can only hope his movie will win Best Picture at next week’s Oscars.
There ought to be more gay-themed teen movies. One that’ll hopefully arrive soon is Geography Club, which has just released its first trailer – and you can watch that below.