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Director Zach Cregger was announced last week as the director of Clue – but now he’s swapped that for a Resident Evil reboot.

Zach Cregger is no longer directing Clue. Instead, the Barbarian director is swapping Sony projects, moving from one movie featuring grisly deaths in a mansion to another movie featuring, well… grisly deaths in a mansion.

Just days after being announced as the director of a new Clue film, based of course on the popular murder mystery board game (known as Cluedo in these parts), Cregger has now exited the project.

Cregger isn’t leaving the Sony stable, however. Instead, he’ll be moving over to the PlayStation Productions arm of the studio to tackle a reboot of one of the studio’s most popular and enduring videogame franchises: Resident Evil.

According to The InSneider, the decision comes largely down to money. Cregger is reported to have wanted $4m to direct Clue,...

Barbarian director Zach Cregger is set to team up with Sony for a remake of the 1985 classic mystery comedy Clue.

Here’s an interesting story that has emerged this morning regarding Zach Cregger, the director who bought us 2022’s Barbarian, a wild horror that became one of that year’s most talked-about films. The success of Barbarian was enough to earn Cregger a handsome deal with New Line Cinema for whom he will be directing his follow-up film, Weapons.

According to reporting at the time, Cregger’s budget for Weapons is 'double the size of Barbarian's, while he has reportedly scored a string of other concessions such as “a guaranteed greenlight, a guaranteed theatrical release, a controlling interest in a backend pot and Cregger receiving final cut pending a threshold being met during test screenings.’

Given that it’s been dubbed as the Magnolia of horror films, we’re...

Better known as Cluedo in the UK, Clue could eventually be a TV series, as Hasbro and Sony announce the latest effort to adapt the boardgame.

Movies based on toys and games bring in audiences these days. People also seem to like murder mysteries, if Knives Out is anything to go by. All of which might explain why Hasbro is partnering Sony in another attempt to adapt the murder mystery boardgame Clue (known in the UK as Cluedo) for the screen.

As reported by Variety, Hasbro Entertainment and Sony have signed a deal to make a film or TV series – at the time of writing, it isn’t clear which route the two corporations will take.

In a statement shared by the outlet, bosses from Hasbro described Clue as “culturally impactful,” which is quite a funny thing to say about an old boardgame that comes with a tiny piece of string and a miniature pistol,...

Ian Lavender, the last remaining cast member of beloved BBC sitcom Dad’s Army, has died. He was 77.

An X statement from the official Dad’s Army Radio Show account announced that Lavender, who played Private Frank Pike in the sitcom that ran for a decade, ending in 1977, had died on Friday.

“We are deeply saddened to hear the passing of the wonderful Ian Lavender,” said the statement. “In what truly marks the end of an era, Ian was the last surviving member of the Dad’s Army main cast. His wonderful performance as Private Frank Pike will live on for decades to come.”

The statement added that Lavender, who appeared in the 2016 Dad’s Army movie and whose other work included EastEnders, Parsley Sidings and Rising Damp, “leaves behind a legacy of laughter enjoyed by millions.” It said it would dedicate this year’s Dad’s Army tour to Lavender’s memory.

It might be said that besides murder-mysteries, no other genre rejoices as much in the deaths of its human pawns for a satisfying puzzle. The only one to match this gleeful indulgence and exploitation might be pink film. Chusei Sone's Agatha Christie-esque “Case of the Disjointed Murder” marries these 2 cinematic phenomena in an explosion of violent elegance. Though unequal in its attempts at profundity, “Case of the Disjointed Murder” earns memory as a conflicted venture, made during Sone's ironic struggle to depart from pink filmmaking – an artistic struggle that eventually led to his own, equally mysterious disappearance.

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Sone's beginnings as a cinephile for foreign titles distributed by Art Theatre Guild (Atg) possibly cemented that he would always have a taste for the arthouse. Despite becoming a veteran director of Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series by 1977, his...

The murder-mystery renaissance really is in full effect right now. The likes of Only Murders In The Building, Poker Face, and Apple TV’s The Afterparty have been making armchair detectives of us all on the telly side of things, but it’s the big screen sleuthing boom that’s had genre fans flocking to the multiplexes with their magnifying glasses and (presumably) deerstalkers most recently. With whodunnits as wildly varied as Park Chan-wook’s sensual Decision To Leave, the superbly silly See How They Run, Rian Johnson_ – which leans hard into the ‘D’ of DC Comics – on offer, it’s not exactly hard to see why, either.

Now, as we prepare to take enough champagne to fill the, erm, canals of Venice with us to see Kenneth Branagh_, we at Empire HQ have put our tan raincoats on and launched an investigation into the very best the genre has to offer.

"Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?" Enjoy this official trailer for a movie history doc called Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, directed by Jeff C. Smith. This premiered last year and it's already available on on Blu-ray, but with a recent streaming launch on Screambox, we're happy to catch up with it. Jonathan Lynn's Clue (1985) has become a cult classic loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary to tell the behind the scenes stories... until now. Solve the mystery of how Clue, based on original "Cluedo" board game, was murdered at the box office but, in a shocking twist, found a fan-base with a passionate appreciation for the movie’s hilarious dialogue and incredible cast. Even though it bombed, the film has gone on to earn its status as a comedy favorite. The doc features interviews...

Murder Mystery 2 has enjoyed the second biggest opening weekend of any Netflix comedy film.

Starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, Murder Mystery 2 was watched over 42 million times last weekend (per Variety) after its debut on 31 March.

The Netflix crime comedy follows on from the original Murder Mystery, which was released on the streaming service in 2019.

In the days after its release, the sequel climbed Netflix’s ratings and has been the most-watched film since Saturday (1 April) in the UK with the first film also ranking highly.

It wasn’t just the UK that loved Sandler and Aniston’s crime-solving couple: the film managed to reach Netflix’s Top 10 in over 90 countries.

Sandler and the former Friends star reprised their roles as Nick and Audrey, who have both given up their jobs to become full-time private investigators this time around.

The international cast includes the Maharajah Vick, played by Adeel Akhtar,...

I can’t imagine anyone holds high expectations for the results of Adam Sandler’s $250m (£202m) deal with Netflix – not the company, its subscribers, or Sandler himself. Much of his straight-to-streaming output, such as 2016’s The Do-Over or 2017’s Sandy Wexler, seems purposefully made for quiet nights in, when the toil of the week has rotted away any ability to concentrate.

Arguably, Murder Mystery (2019) – in which he and Jennifer Aniston played a hapless couple trapped in a real-life game of Cluedo while on holiday – achieved a pinnacle in mindless distraction. It wasn’t all that funny. It wasn’t all that clever. But it was eminently watchable. It’s also funny to see how much its sequel riffs on Knives Out, seeing as the original Murder Mystery preceded that Rian Johnson film and the whodunnit craze it spawned. Because, essentially, Murder Mystery 2 is what you watch if it...

The game that taught you how candlesticks could be used for murder is getting an animated series from Fox.

"Clue," the board game first sold in 1949, was turned into a live-action film back in 1985 and is getting the animation treatment from Hasbro's eOne and Fox Entertainment's Bento Box Entertainment. Don't get this series confused with the 20th Century Studios live-action remake that is set to star Ryan Reynolds, directed by James Bobin ("The Muppets").

If you cast your mind back to childhood, you may recall the board game with teeny tiny murder weapons, rooms where the murder took place, and suspects named Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, and Mr. Green (these names differ in some versions). The game, which has been sold in over 30 countries (where it's sometimes called "Cluedo"), has a murder for you to solve, and now it's happening in animated form.

Though...

Exclusive: Emmy-nominated writer, comedian and actor Dewayne Perkins (The Amber Ruffin Show) has been tapped to write and executive produce Fox’s animated series Clue, based on Hasbro’s hugely popular mystery board game. Tim Story also has joined the project and will executive produce with Lynn Barrie for The Story Company. The project, which was set up at Fox for development last year, hails from Hasbro’s eOne and Fox Entertainment-owned Bento Box Entertainment, which will serve as the animation studio.

Clue reunites Perkins and Story. Perkins co-wrote and stars in Story’s The Blackening, which is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. The MRC horror-comedy film, which Perkins co-wrote with Tracy Oliver, was based on Perkins’ viral Comedy Central digital short of the same name.

No details about the premise of the animated series have been revealed beyond assurances that it will be “encapsulating the thrilling and...

Michael and David Uslan, the father and son producing team with credits that include “The Dark Knight” and “Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch” have struck a cluster of deals that makes them a two-way conduit for TV formats between Hollywood and Asia.

U2K, a company that includes the Uslans and Jon Karas, has recently struck deals with top rights owners in China, India and South Korea to bring their content to Western audiences.

And, with the purpose of taking content from West to East, U2K has struck a first-look deal with Renegade 83. The Sherman Oaks-based company is one of the world’s top unscripted TV producers, and has credits including “Naked and Afraid,” “Smash Cuts,” and “Gone Country.” The company was recently acquired by eOne Entertainment.

The Uslans and Rengade 83 are both represented by William Morris Endeavor. And Wme brokered the first-look agreement.

“With Renegade...

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Clue. Cluedo. That Game That Starts Fights On Family Holidays. Whatever you call it, the delightful murder mystery game is iconic all over the world, having been released, in various languages and styles, in over 30 countries. Its commitment to style and its fun, sleuthing format have made it perfect for spin-off TV shows, video games, plays and even a film.

The enduring popularity of Clue(do) is partly due to its versatility. Every game starts with the murder of Dr. Black/Mr. Boddy (depending on the edition), a mansion crowded with suspects and six possible murder weapons. There are 324 gameplay possibilities and the use of dice means that, not matter how good your strategy, a win is never guaranteed.

There are Clue societies and fan-sites all over the internet, speaking to its enduring popularity in a market flooded with more modern or complex games. But even if you...

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In the next part of his series, Alex talks us through the film careers of the second and fourth Doctors, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker...

Read Alex's retrospective on the film careers of William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, here.

Like their fellow Time Lord actors, William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker also shared certain genres of film. Both appeared, before and after their time as the Doctor, in horror movies and both worked on Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films.

Patrick George Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London on March 25th 1920. He made his film debut aged 28 in the 1948 B-Movie The Escape. Troughton's was a very minor role. Among the better known cast was William Hartnell, though even Hartnell's role was small and the two didn't share any scenes together. From the late Forties, Troughton found more success on the small screen,...

Actor who was both heart-throb and hardman as Bodie in The Professionals

In a 1980 episode of the hit British cop show The Professionals, an ill-advised villain tries to threaten the ex-mercenary William Bodie with his snarling doberman pinscher. After a brief altercation, Bodie, all sang-froid and minimally curled lip, inquires: "Would your little dog like to chew this electric fire? Or maybe you'll just leave."

This kind of butch badinage, along with rugged good looks, helped make Lewis Collins, who played Bodie in all 57 of the show's episodes from 1977 and 1983, and who has died aged 67 after suffering from cancer, into a household name. During that time he formed one half of Britain's answer to Starsky and Hutch, a crime-fighting duo called Bodie and Doyle who worked for a shadowy criminal intelligence agency, CI5, headed by Gordon Jackson's strait-laced George Cowley. At its height, The Professionals was watched by 12 million viewers a week,...

Actor Lewis Collins has died, aged 67.

The Professionals star passed away in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with cancer, his agent told BBC News.

The actor was perhaps best known for playing Bodie in the 1970's TV drama alongside Martin Shaw.

His agent said: "He died peacefully at his La home surrounded by his family. Privacy is asked for at this very sad time."

The Professionals centred around the cases of the fictional crime fighting unit named CI5.

The ITV programme was ratings success in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Collins auditioned for the role of James Bond in 1982, but was reportedly thought "too aggressive" for the part.

His other roles included Sas captain Peter Skellen in 1982's Who Dares Wins, George Godley in Jack the Ripper and parts in The Grimleys, The Bill, Cluedo and The New Avengers.

Watch the intro from The Professionals below:...

Chris Tarrant has revealed that he hates being described as a gameshow host. The TV and radio presenter, who has fronted shows including Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Cluedo, Everybody's Equal and The Great Pretender, claimed that he does not like the connotations associated with the job title. "I never wanted the label 'gameshow host'," he told Digital Spy. "It conjures the image of an oily spiv in a spangly gold suit and being totally vile. As long as I can do my manic stuff on radio and go off filming polar bears, then I'm (more)...