In an industry like Hollywood where once-famous actors and actresses are thrown upon the heap of public boredom; where today’s hotshot agent can’t get anyone on the phone tomorrow; where crafty and clever screenwriters, having failed to score multi-million dollar spec sales, are stacked on the bottom of a low-level development executive’s weekend read list; [...]

A number of movie sites are reporting that Paul Verhoeven may be taking over directing duties on The Topkapi Affair, the long-in-development sequel to the 1999 heist film The Thomas Crown Affair. It’s an intriguing pairing of director and material to be sure, but Niall Browne at Screen Rant makes a very good point in [...]