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John Legend will play Harry Belafonte in THE ROAD HOME, alongside Cynthia Erivo, Guy Pearce, Johnny Flynn and Thabo Rametsi. It's the story of how Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba defied the consensus to work with Paul Simon on his Graceland album. Director Bill Condon is currently filming in South Africa from a script by Michael Bronner. Samara Weaving will play Emma Frost in the new X-MEN movie. She's a telepath who was originally a villain but later joined the team. Also rumoured are Sadie Sink's Jane Grey and Inde Navarrette as Mystique. Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts) is directing the new film from a script by Joanna Calo (The Bear) and Lee Sung Jin (Beef). John Leguizamo is reteaming with Matt Damon for the mystery-shrouded new film from the Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Costars include Sandra Oh, Charles Melton, Michael Gandolfini and PinkPantheress. Scott Mescudi, Natasha Lyonne, Jessica Rothe and Travis Fimmel are starring in PATHETIC FALLACY, a thriller about a young widower who visits a new-age mountain community to find meaning in his grief, but stumbles into a demon-infested forest. Adam Egypt Mortimer is directing. Frank Grillo will star in SHOW OF HANDS, a comedy about an aspiring filmmaker who kidnaps his father, a Cadillac dealer-turned-political candidate, to raise funds to make his movie. PJ Pesce is writing and directing. Samira Wiley, Sophia Bush, Brandon Flynn, Tovah Feldshuh and Midori Francis will star in THE LET GO, about a single mother trying to help her musically gifted 11-year-old daughter (Mileiah Vega) become a star. Kristen Wolf is writing and directing. Irina Shayk and Chris Fleming are joining the baseball-themes romantic comedy THE CATCH, alongside Emma Stone, Chris Pine, Tim Robbins, Sissy Spacek, Ashley Padilla and Druski. Dave McCary is directing. Francois Arnaud, Blu Hunt, James Urbaniak and Olivia Taylor Dudley will star in GODSTAR, a dark comedy-drama about a self-destructive actress who moves to Los Angeles to star in a play opposite her famous ex-boyfriend. Oren Shai is directing. Billy Zane is joining MILLISECONDS, a noir thriller about a reclusive painter caught up in a mystery connected to a suicide hotline. Costars include Kevin Ryan, Scottie Thompson, Bonnie Root, Don Wallace and John Billingsley. Philippe Caland (Repentance) is writing and directing. Emma D'Arcy (House of the Dragon) will star in STAGES, about an elite ballet school student whose big shot is jeopardised by a family tragedy. Costars include Julie Delpy, Kate Dickie, Kathryn Hunter and Takehiro Hira. Sonoya Mizuno is writing and directing. Director Phil Barantini (Adolescence) will team up with writer Mark L Smith (The Revenant) to make a biopic about Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, centring in 1915-1916, when the crew of the ship Endurance was trapped on Antarctic ice for more than a year. And work is underway on an ACTION MAN movie, based on the classic British line of action figures. Simon Hatt (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Anthony Sellitti (X-Men '97) are writing the script. Jeremy Latcham (Dungeons and Dragons) is producing.
Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage will star in NAUGHTY, a comedy about a woman who tracks down the real Santa Claus so he can testify against her boyfriend at her child custody hearing. Olivia Wilde is directing from a script by Jimmy Warden. David Oyeklowo is joining LITTLE FIVE, which is set around the launch of the Little 500 cycling race at Indiana University. Arianna Greenblatt, Drew Powell, Rain Spencer, Nadia Alexander and Sasha Frolova costar. Ian Samuels is directing; Anne Hathaway is producing. Regina Hall is joining the cast of LIZARD MUSIC, about a young boy (Theo Clark Leber) who discovers a late-night radio broadcast leading to a fantasy realm. Costars include Dwayne Johnson, Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker. Benny Safdie is directing. Rising star Michael Johnston (Obsession) is joining the fourth MUMMY movie, which again stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah. There's no word yet on the plot, although it's expected to lean more into the horror. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are directing from a script by David Coggeshall. Alexandra Daddario, Christian Convery and Julian Morris will star in the drama AMERICAN FEVER DREAM, which follows a young middle-class family as they slowly become impoverished over the course of two decades. Jaclyn Noel is writing and directing. Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) will star in the psychological thriller YOU'RE SAFE NOW. The plot is being kept under wraps. Costars include Jesse Rath, Anja Savcic and Bo Martynowska. Director Nimisha Mukerji has just started filming in Toronto. Ron Perlman, Esai Morales, Orlando Jones and Josh Bowman will star in LIVE 2 DIE, a thriller about a Los Angeles detective who stumbles into a criminal organ-harvesting operation. Victor Rios is directing from a script by Jason Zimmatore. Shabana Azeez (The Pitt) will star in the romantic comedy-drama UNREQUITED, about a young woman who takes her best friend on a road trip around California to convince her not to move back to India. Lynn Q Yu is making her writing-directing debut. Madeline Brewer, Emory Cohen and Nicholas Alexander Chavez are joining the cast of POSSESSION, a remake of the 1981 thriller about a marriage that is strained by a supernatural force. The film stars Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley, Diego Calva and Paul Dano. Parker Finn is writing and directing. Karan Soni, Piper Curda, Sujata Day, Steve Agee and Dot-Marie Jones are joining the cast of THUD, the supernatural romcom starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the Grim Reaper and Rudy Pankow as the devil, wreaking havoc at a wedding as they fall for each other. Mali Elfman is directing. And Oscar-winner James Marsh will direct a feature documentary about Aron Ralston, whose survival story was dramatised in Danny Boyle's 2010 thriller 127 Hours. This new film is based on his memoir, and will include never-seen footage from his ordeal.
David Jonsson will play T'Challa's now-grown son in the third BLACK PANTHER movie, and he will take on the title character in the story. Denzel Washington costars, but there's no word yet on who else will return. Ryan Coogler is back as writer-director. Ryan Gosling will play GHOST RIDER in a new movie based on the Marvel Comic. There's no word on how this ties in to the previous films or the cinematic universe. The project reteams Gosling with Starfighter director Shawn Levy and writer Jonathan Tropper. Cooper Koch, Carla Gugino, Miranda Otto, Sarah Bolger and Angus Imrie will star in FOG CITY, a noir drama set around the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in Depression-era San Francisco. It's loosely based on real events. Dan Pritzker is writing and directing. June Squibb, Alex Borstein and Trieu Tran in TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON, a comedy-drama based on the real-life experience of a family during lockdown. Dave Pantano is making his writing-directing debut. Will Forte is joining the cast of GOBLIN, an offbeat buddy comedy about a goblin (voiced by Kenneth Branagh) who befriends a human. Skyler Gisondo costars. David Mikalson is writing and directing. Whoopi Goldberg, Vanessa Williams, Jenifer Lewis and Vivica A Fox will star in WOMEN LIKE US, about a woman who confronts her husband's recent death when her friends take her away for a weekend on what would have been her 30th anniversary. Tasha Smith is directing from a script by Ali Kinney and Tracy Oliver. Scoot McNairy, Nick Nolte, Ben Mendelsohn and Adelaide Clemens will star in COMPANY, a dark mystery set in the winter of 1975 as a woman arrives unexpectedly at a family gathering. Casey Affleck is writing and directing. Kate Burton, Paul Sparks, Xander Berkeley and Rhys Coiro will star in A GREAT DEPRESSION, about a man trying to reclaim his role leading his family's billion-dollar company following a personal breakdown. Melissa Miller Costanzo (Run) is directing. Sky Yang (Last Days) is joining TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW, a romantic drama about two lifelong friends who connect deeper as they create a videogame. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sean Kaufman lead the cast; Sian Heder is directing. And Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer will appear in the 13 GOING ON 30 reboot, which stars Jessica Alba, Taylor Ortega, Adeline Rudolph, Tim Meadows and Dan Bucatinsky. Also joining are Taylor Zakhar Perez, Owen Thiele, Nasim Pedrad, Audrina Miranda, Supriya Ganesh and Henry Samiri. Brett Haley is directing.
Tom Cruise will return for a sequel to DAYS OF THUNDER, which will be directed by Jonathan Levine (Long Shot). There's no word yet on the plot, or whether Nicole Kidman will be return as well. Jerry Bruckheimer is back as producer. Ryan Reynolds has confirmed that he will be back for a fourth DEADPOOL movie, following on from 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine. There are no more details about the new project, although it's likely to be an ensemble adventure featuring other X-Men characters. Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, David Tennant, Vicky Krieps and Jason Watkins will star in THE JOY OF SEX, a love triangle comedy based on the true story of the people who published the scandalous bestselling 1972 sex manual. Sharon Maguire is directing and cowriting with Lise Mayer. Glen Powell will reteam with director Richard Linklater to play Lou Gehrig in a new biopic about the legendary baseball player, who played for 17 years and died at age 37 of ALS. His story was previously adapted in 1942's The Pride of the Yankees. Simon Rich (Saturday Night Live) is writing the script. Toni Collette, Karren Karagulian, Salvatore Esposito, Michele Savoia and Lorenzo de Moor are joining the cast of POSITANO, alongside Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldana. It's about a retired jewel thief who plans a high-stakes heist with a mystery woman. Daniel Roher is directing. Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker and 10-year-old newcomer Theo Clark Leber are joining Dwayne Johnson in LIZARD MUSIC, Benny Safdie's hybrid live-action/animated adaptation of the novel about a boy who discovers a secret door to a bizarre fantasy realm. Zosia Mamet, Jimmi Simpson, Lauren Tom and Ben Wang are joining the dark comedy KAET MUST DIE, based on the memoir about a young woman (Awkwafina) whose perfect life is upended by a cancer diagnosis. Anthony Ramos and Ken Jeong costar. Mercedes Bryce Morgan is directing. Taylor Ortega, Tim Meadows and Dan Bucatinsky are joining the reboot of the comedy fantasy 13 GOING ON 30, alongside Emily Bader, Logan Lerman, Jessica Alba and Adeline Rudolph. There's no confermation yet whether this is a sequel or reboot. Brett Haley is directing. Rob Morgan, Brett Gelman and Kevin Nealon are joining the cast of the comedy MINI WAR, about a stoner who inherits a mini golf course and gets into a war with the owner of a nearby go-cart track. The film stars Vanessa Hudgens, Luke Wilson and Nick Swardson, who also wrote the script with Allen Covert. Joel David Moore is directing. And RJ Cutler (Elton John: Never Too Late) will direct a documentary tracing the life and career of Julie Andrews. Meanwhile, Mat Whitecross (Oasis: Supersonic) will direct a feature doc about outspoken actor-musician Lily Allen. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 Feel the heat DANCE: Matthew Bourne's The Car Man, a sexy, thrilling take on Bizet, returns to Sadler's Wells until 29th August...  We are world beating STAGE: LegalAliens' entertaining and important Ali in Wonder(Eng)land at Jacksons Lane...  A place to call home STAGE: Mohamed-Zain Dada's pointed Blue Mist at Theatre Royal Stratford East, and on tour until 30 Jul...  June TV Roundup SCREEN: Half Man, The Four Seasons 2, The Comeback 3, the finales of Hacks, Euphoria and The Boys, and more... INTERVIEW: Coffee in Annecy with Minions & Monsters' Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri & Brian Lynch... STAGE: Nicolás Pérez Costa's high-octane Richard III at the Cockpit... STAGE: Hideki Noda brings his expansive, dazzling –320°F to Sadler's Wells... INTERVIEW: Chatting with Rohan Kanawade about his acclaimed romance Cactus Pears... DANCE: Phoenix Dance Theatre's exuberant, engaging Interplay at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Acosta Danza Yunior's Next Generation at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo celebrate their 50th anniversary... STAGE: Head First Acrobats' sexy antics in Return of the Godz at the Peacock... STAGE: Mark Gatiss in Brecht's electrifying The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, RSC Swan...
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