Ben Affleck and David Fincher are planning to re-make Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. Gillian Flynn, who wrote the screenplay for Gone Girl, which was directed by Fincher and had Affleck in the lead, is currently in talks to write the script. The film's a twisty new version of the Hitchcock classic, featuring Affleck as a movie star in the middle of an Oscar campaign. His plane breaks down and is "given a ride to L.A. on another plane by a wealthy stranger," it was reported in Deadline.

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, has been named 2014's most overrated film users of review aggregator site Metacritic. Interstellar, which has largely failed to set the awards season on fire, was named ahead of Richard Linklater's much lauded Boyhood in the site's annual poll. According to Metacritic users, other overrated films of 2014 include Guardians of the Galaxy, dystopian blockbuster The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part One and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman.

Amazon Prime has signed on Woody Allen to create a new television show for the website. Allen will write and direct the series, his first foray into television. "Woody Allen is a visionary creator who has made some of the greatest films of all-time, and it's an honour to be working with him on his first television series," Roy Price, Vice President of Amazon Studios, said in a statement. "From Annie Hall to Blue Jasmine, Woody has been at the creative forefront of American cinema and we couldn't be more excited to premiere his first TV series exclusively on Prime Instant Video next year."