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Sydney Sweeney has landed the lead role in THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY, based on the Edith Wharton novel about a woman climbing the social ladder in early 20th century New York City. Sofia Coppola is writing and directing. Mila Kunis will star in the thriller NIGHTWATCHING, about a woman who takes a stranger into her home during a fierce winter storm, then struggles to protect her children when things take a turn. Brian Netto and Adam Schindler are directing. Odessa A'zion is joining Cailee Spaeny and Drew Starkey in the musical DEEP CUTS, about two music-loving young people navigating their lives in the early 2000s. Sean Durkin is directing. Patricia Clarkson is joining Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT, Martin Scorsese's thriller that follows a couple travelling to Europe to adopt a baby. Then things take a confusing, scary turn as the hotel they are staying in appears to be haunted. Sally Hawkins and Victor Garber are joining Ryan Reynolds in ELOISE, based the beloved children's books about a mischievous girl (Mae Schenk) who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. Here, she heads to Paris to see her movie star mother. Amy Sherman-Palladino is directing. Lena Headey has joined the cast of RED, WHITE AND ROYAL WEDDING, the romantic comedy sequel carrying on the story of British Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) and Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez), who is son of the US President (Uma Thurman). Costars include Ellie Bamber, Chloe Fineman, Clifton Collins Jr and Stephen Fry. Jamie Babbit is directing. Madelyn Cline is joining Glen Powell and Cristin Milioti in the cast of Judd Apatow's still-untitled comedy about a country music star trying to navigate their collapsing career. Powell and Apatow are also producing and writing the script. Joey King is lined up for the title role in BAMBO, a 1980s-set drama about a boxing promoter who brings his daughter along as he seeks to become the next Don King. Natasha Lyonne is writing and directing. Diarmaid Murtagh (Outlander) will play the villainous Drom Baxton in SUPERGIRL, in which Kara (Milly Alcock) helps an alien girl on a quest for revenge. Costars include Jason Momoa, Matthias Schoenaerts, Emily Beecham, Ferdinand Kingsley and David Krumholtz, plus David Corenswet as Superman. Craig Gillespie is directing. And Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell will reunite to produce and star in KEENAN & KEL MEET FRANKENSTEIN, which is inspired by the iconic Abbott & Costello monster movie comedy about two delivery drivers who inadvertently awaken a monster in a creepy castle.
Mikey Madison and Lea Seydoux will star in THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, a darkly comical adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe horror story about a masquerade ball in a palace that's visited by a mysterious, murderous figure. Director Charlie Polinger (The Plague) starts filming in Budapest next month. Pamela Anderson is joining Billy Bob Thornton and Ariana Greenblatt in SOMEDAYS, about a fatally ill delivery driver who finds a new reason to live when he rescues a troubled teen girl. Writer-director Brian Klugman is currently filming in New Jersey. Vanessa Kirby will star in THE SUN ALSO RISES, based on the Ernest Hemingway novel about expats in Europe following the Great War. The story centres on an American journalist struggling with an injury that has an impact on his romance with an aristocrat. James Gray is directing. Mark Wahlberg will reteam with director Baltasar Kormakur for THE BIG FIX, starring alongside Riz Ahmed in a cat-and-mouse thriller based on a true story about match-fixing in the international football world. Filming has just kicked off. Holly Hunter, Craig T Nelson, Sarah Vowell and Huck Miller will be back to voice their superhero family in a third INCREDIBLES film, once again written by Brad Bird. Peter Sohn is directing this one. Dafne Keen and Aidan Gillen will star in DRIVER, a romantic thriller about a sex worker who teams up with an ex-con as they try to escape the grip of a violent London mob boss. Patrick Ireland is making his feature directing debut. Maika Monroe, Michael Shannon, Paul Dano, Judy Greer and Brandon Sklenar will star in VEGAS: A LOVE STORY, about a graphic designer living in her car as her romance with a single father is disrupted by the re-appearance of her ex. The film reteams Shannon with 99 Homes director Ramin Bahrani. Gabrielle Union, Steve Park and Lacey Claire Rogers will star in the psychological thriller PERDITA, based on the Henry James story The Romance of Certain Old Clothes. It's about a lonely woman who inherits a creepy old house. Megan Raney Aarons is directing from a script by Matthew Hurt. Snoop Dogg will star in the horror thriller DON'T GO IN THAT HOUSE, B*TCH, which writer-director Eli Roth says will be the ultimate haunted house movie. Otherwise, the plot is being kept under wraps, with filming set to start this summer. Omari Hardwick is joining Hayley Atwell and Gerard Butler in EMPIRE CITY, a thriller about a New York firefighter and his cop wife trying to rescue people who have been taken hostage in a skyscraper. Costars include Michael Beach, Tre Hale, Stephen Murphy and Dominic Boogard. Director Michael Matthews is currently filming in Melbourne. Blake Jenner, Erin Cummings, Chrystee Pharris, Robert Lee Leng, Jennafer Newberry and Mark Famiglietti have joined the romantic drama VERONICA & JULIAN, about a New York marketing exec (Nadia Bjorlin) who falls for a younger architect (Kyler Pettis). Otoja Abit is writing, directing and costarring in the film. And Paul Feig has come on board to direct a third MAMMA MIA movie, nearly a decade after the last one. Much of the cast is expected to reassemble, including Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters and Dominic Cooper, plus hopefully Meryl Streep and Cher.
Cate Blanchett will play the live-action version of her animated character Valka in the remake of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2. Olafur Darri Olafsson is also joining the cast as the villainous Drago. Now in production with director Dean DeBlois, the adventure film again stars Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Julian Dennison and Gerard Butler. Antonio Banderas and Danny Trejo are reteaming to star in ARMADILLO UNITED, a comedy-drama set around a fictional youth football team that's trying to get to the World Cup. Costars include Danay Garcia and Ruben Blades. Alan Jacobs is writing and directing. Adria Arjona and Kingsley Ben-Adir will star in SCORN, about a woman who refuses to go away quietly after her married lover tries to dismiss their romance as just a fling. Sarah-Violet Bliss is writing and directing. Jack Whitehall, Casey Wilson and Scott MacArthur are joining Kim Kardashian in THE FIFTH WHEEL, a comedy about a successful woman surprised to find herself the odd woman out on a Vegas holiday with longtime friends. Eva Longoria is directing. Cristin Milioti is joining Glen Powell in the cast of Judd Apatow's still-untitled comedy about a country music star who has fallen on hard times. Powell and Apatow are also producing and writing the script. Sophia Bush, Jerry O'Connell, Violet McGraw and Tim Rozon will star in SUMMER'S LAST RESORT, a comedy about a teen trying to sabotage her mother's relationship with her school's vice principal. Melanie Scrofano is directing from a script by Emily Andras. Michael Angelo Covino will direct and star in THE LAST FIX, a comedy about a political fixer in Boston who learns that he has a terminal illness. So he plans to go out in a blaze of glory. The script is by Chuck MacLean. Gracie Abrams (JJ's musician daughter) will star in PLEASE, the next film by Halina Reijn (Babygirl). The plot details are being kept under wraps, but it's said to centre around themes of violence and masculinity. Stephen Lang, Bruce Boxleitner, Samuel Roukin and Eric Nelsen will star in GETTYSBURG 1863, about a Union soldier struggling with conflicting loyalties during the American Civil War. Bo Brinkman is writing and directing. Lang played a Confederate soldier in the 1993 epic Gettysburg. Myles Truitt (Stranger Things), Madison Wolfe, Alex Aiono, Genneya Walton, Marley Aliah and Mitchell Hoog will star in YOUNG BLOOD, about university friends who travel to Key West for spring break, then somehow end up stranded on a deserted island with ravenous vampires. Ari Schlossberg is writing and directing. And Jorge R Gutierrez (El Tigre) will direct an animated SPEEDY GONZALES movie, based on the lively Looney Tunes mouse. There's no word yet on the plot. Created in the 1950s, the character most recently turned up in 2021's Space Jam: A New Legacy, voiced by Gabriel Iglesias.
Michelle Yeoh will star in the fourth and fifth AVATAR movies, if they go ahead. James Cameron hasn't yet confirmed the project, but plans to shoot the next two back to back, as he did with the second and third films. Apparently, Cameron has already shot scenes for the fourth film that feature Yeoh with younger cast members. Glen Powell will lead the cast of the sci-fi thriller TESSERACT, which is being written and directed by Sam Esmail (Leave the World Behind). The plot details are being kept tightly under wraps, but the title hints at something to do with time travel. Michelle Williams will join the cast of writer-director Damien Chazelle's untitled new project, which is apparently an 1970s-style action movie set in a prison. The plot is being kept tightly under wraps. The film also stars Daniel Craig, Cillian Murphy and Dave Bautista. Nicolas Cage, Justin Long and Shelley Hennig will star in the action thriller BEST PANCAKES IN THE COUNTY, about a perilous stand-off in a small-town diner between federal agents, a con artist and a frazzled waitress. Writer-director Ken Sanzel is currently filming in Arkansas. Faye Dunaway, Mira Sorvino, Jack Huston and Betty Gabriel have joined the cast of PRIMA, which stars Nicola Peltz Beckham as a ballerina struggling to maintain her place in the company when the leadership changes. Luca and Alessandro Morelli are directing. Emily Bader wlll play soccer legend Mia Hamm in a biopic titled THE 99ERS, tracing the US women's team as they took on China in the 1999 World Cup, which was played to a crowd of 93,000 in the Rose Bowl. Nicole Kassell is directing. Blair Underwood and American football star Vernon Davis will produce and star in THE LISTENERS, a psychological thriller about a jazz musician whose sudden deafness confounds his doctors. Costars include Bechir Silvain, Cindy Herron, Taylor Talley and Simone Leonora. Joslyn Rose is directing. Ed Helms, Rhiannon Giddens, John Sayles, Regina Taylor and Steve Earle will star in the drama AN ODE TO MARY JO, about a woman who is distracted from issues involving her children by the mystery of her missing ex-husband. Justin Liberman is making his directing debut. Rising star Spike Fearn (Ella McCay) will lead the cast of writer-director Gavin O'Connor's next film, RUNNING, which centres on a homeless teen who uses his natural track and field gifts to escape his past and form a new family. Michelle Randolph has landed a lead role opposite Christopher Briney in the holiday romcom CLASHING THROUGH THE SNOW, which follows someone desperately trying to get home in time for Christmas. Carlson Young is directing. Guiseppe Tornatore will write and direct THE FIRST DOLLAR, a biopic about Bank of America founder Amadeo Peter Giannini, who helped create the Hollywood studio system and financed a string of early classic films. And Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You) is making a film adaptation of MR BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY, a dark comedy set a century after society collapses. It features people reconstructing an episode of The Simpsons in an effort to preserve history. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 Married to the job STAGE: Gecko brings The Wedding, a sparky exploration of social contracts, to Sadler's Wells East...  Let it all hang out STAGE: Golden Goose Theatre's new production of cheeky song and dance hit Boys in the Buff until 10th Jan...  Make the yuletide gay STAGE: The Fit Prince brings a hilarious sense of holiday romcom anarchy to King's Head Theatre until 3rd Jan...  The boss’ new groove DANCE: ZooNation's a dazzling hip-hop take on Dickens, Ebony Scrooge at Sadler's Wells East until 4th Jan... STAGE: The Great Christmas Feast<, Dickensian dinner and immersive show... STAGE: RVT's panto Growled< riotously spins Beauty and the Beast... STAGE: Brick Lane Music Hall's The Magic of Christmas dinner-theatre... NOV TV: Boots, Only Murders 5, Chad Powers, Peacemaker 2, MobLand, The Morning Show 4, Alien: Earth, more... DANCE: Ballet Black's Shadows, a new double bill at Sadler's Wells... DANCE: Pite and McBurney's staggering Figures in Extinction at Sadler's Wells... DANCE: Akram Khan and Manal AlDowayan's elemental Thikra at Sadler's Wells... STAGE: KC and the Sunshine Band musical Get Down Tonight at Charing Cross... STAGE: Ghost Stories returns to London's Peacock Theatre...
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