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Charlize Theron will star in and produce TYRANT, which is only being described as a psychological drama set in New York's elite culinary world. The plot is being kept under wraps. David Weil (Hunters) is writing and directing. Alicia Vikander, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Dornan, Bill Nighy and Gillian Anderson will voice characters in the animated adventure THE TURNING DOOR, about a young girl who must save her parents when they are frozen in a magical realm. Nicholas Ashe Bateman is writing and directing. Taraji P Henson and Jo-Vaughn Virginia Scott will star in 'TIS SO SWEET, based on the true story of a Chicago baker who makes a miraculous discovery that helps her to deal with her troubled past. Tasha Smith is directing from a script by Randy Brown; Tyler Perry is producing. Taron Egerton is joining Channing Tatum and Zazie Beetz in KOCKROACH, a thriller tracing a shady figure's journey into New York's violent criminal underworld. Matt Ross (Captain Fantastic) is directing. Egerton is replacing Oscar Isaac, who had scheduling conflicts. Rob Lowe and Keith David will team up for MY NEW FRIEND JIM, a dark comedy about two very different fathers who are searching for a daughter who has run off to Reno. Ash Avildsen (Queen of the Ring) is directing. Issa Rae and Zach Cherry are joining BABIES, about a couple (Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick) thinking about parenthood when a friend and her toddler move in with them after a divorce. Costars include Dan Stevens and Kate Berlant. Lauren Miller Rogen is writing and directing. Heather Graham and Johnny Knoxville are joining Nico Parker and Lola Tung in THE YOUNG PEOPLE, the next horror thriller by writer-director Osgood Perkins. The plot is being kept under wraps, even as the film is currently shooting in Vancouver. The busy Perkins' previous film Keeper opens next week. Stephen Dillane is joining THE UPRISING, a period epic following the rebellion against Britain's Richard I. The cast includes Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, Katherine Waterston, Thomasin McKenzie, Jamie Bell, Cosmo Jarvis and Jonny Lee Miller. Filming is underway with director Paul Greengrass. Jenny Slate, Dave Franco, Manny Jacinto, HER, Lea Salonga and Liza Soberano will voice characters in FORGOTTEN ISLAND, an animated adventure comedy about best friends who need to give up their shared lifelong memories to escape from a mystical world. Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado are writing and directing. And Jason Statham will reteam with Guy Ritchie for VIVA LA MADNESS, an action thriller that has been adapted from a script by JJ Connolly that was originally written as a sequel to Layer Cake, the 2004 London gangster thriller that starred Daniel Craig and Tom Hardy.
Sydney Sweeney will star in a remake of the 1964 French action-adventure comedy THAT MAN FROM RIO, about a young soldier on a week's leave who heads to Brazil to rescue his girlfriend, who has been abducted by thieves. Justin Lin is directing. Austin Butler is being lined up to star opposite Michael B Jordan in Joseph Kosinski's new MIAMI VICE movie, based on the iconic 1980s TV series about two detectives working undercover in a place full of both glamour and corruption. Dan Gilroy and Eric Warren Singer are writing the script. Glenn Close will join Penelope Cruz in THE BLACK BALL, based on an unfinished story by Federico Garcia Lorca that links the lives of three gay men across different historical periods. Costars include Lola Duenas, Carlos Gonzales (Veneno), Miguel Bernardeau (Elite) and singer-songwriter Guitarricadelafuente. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi are writing and directing. Kit Connor, Ebon Moss-Bacharach, Catriona Balfe, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Manuel Garcia Rulfo will join Fred Hechinger in A LONG WINTER, the new drama written and directed by Andrew Haigh. It's about a group of people who are searching for a woman who went missing in a snowstorm after a fight with her husband. Filming just started in Alberta. Johnny Depp will play Scrooge in a new horror-style adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost story A CHRISTMAS CAROL, which is being directed by Ti West (MaXXXine). This is not to be confused with Robert Eggers' planned adaptation, which will star Willem Dafoe and is also likely to tilt to the darker side of things. Charli XCX, Jessica Alba and Vanessa Burghardt are lined up to star in A TREE IS BLUE, Dakota Johnson's feature directing debut. It's about an autistic teen who is seeking freedom from her overprotective mother after graduating from high school. The script is by Burghardt; filming is scheduled to start next month. Sam Rockwell and Maisy Stella (My Old Ass) will star in TUMOR, about a Los Angeles private eye who is searching for a politician's missing daughter while a brain tumour threatens his grip on reality. Will Bridges (All of You) is directing. Jodie Turner-Smith, Olivia Cooke, Harry Lawtey, Burn Gorman and Viola Prettejohn will star in BRIDES, a horror thriller about a woman whose dream trip to Italy turns into a nightmare when she is stranded in an isolated villa inhabited by a group of immortal women. Chloe Okuno (Watcher) is directing. Richard E Grant and Celia Imrie will star in MERRY CHRISTMAS, AUBREY FLINT, a holiday comedy about a painter who loathes both Christmas and other people. Then he meets a chain-smoking former West End diva. Jack Spring is directing from a script by Chris Boyle-McQuarry. Mia Goth, Zach Galifianakis and Dan Stevens will star in HEY BEAR, a black comedy about a woman who furiously heads out into the woods to get revenge against the bear that ate her husband. Jonathan Krisel (Baskets) is writing and directing. Lil Rel Howery, Ashley Olivia Fisher, Rotimi, Aspen Kennedy, Gregory Alan Williams, Clifton Powell and Roger Guenveur Smith will star in GOD WITH US, which reimagines the story of the Nativity as taking place in a present-day urban Maryland neighbourhood. Jimmy Jenkins is writing and directing. And Quentin Tarantino will step in front of the camera for a change in ONLY WHAT WE CARRY, an introspective drama starring Simon Pegg as a man who finds his darkest secrets unearthed when an old friend turns up. Jamie Adams (She Is Love) is writing and directing.
Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger have joined GIRL GROUP, the comedy starring Rebel Wilson as a singer kicked out of her band by members Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls), Ashley Roberts (Pussycat Dolls) and Shaznay Lewis (All Saints). So she forms her own group instead. Wilson is also writing and directing. Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans will star in BUT WHEN WE DANCE, as a pianist and the head of a primary school who learn, on the same day, that they both have Parkinsons. It's not being described as a romance, but we can perhaps assume it is. John Madden is directing. Chase Infiniti will star in THE JULIA SET, as a young maths genius who is recruited to join an elite course that will prepare her for a fiercely difficult mathematics competition. Costars include Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and Christopher Briney. Niki Byrne is writing and directing. Melissa Barrera is joining John Travolta in BLACK TIDES, a survival thriller about a man who is trying to reconnect with his daughter and grandson when their sailboat is attacked by a pod of orcas. Director Renny Harlin is now filming in Spain. Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) will star in TWICE OVER, a romantic comedy about two people who unexpectedly reconnect, stirring up some long-forgotten feelings. Director Alena Lodkina wrote the script with Miles Allinson and will shoot the film in Australia. Josh Hartnett will star in ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, an action thriller about a retired bank robber who returns to crime in order to pay his daughter's Harvard tuition. But his big heist becomes entangled with a reality TV show that needs a ratings boost. Tommy Wirkola is directing from a script he wrote with John Niven. Adria Arjona and Callum Turner will star in ALONE TOGETHER, about a British filmmaker who embarks on an offbeat journey of self-discovery amid a series of personal crises. Ben Sharrock (Limbo) is directing from a script by Florian Zeller (The Father). Camila Cabello, Adriana Barraza and Langston Kerman are joining the cast of CUT OFF, a comedy about siblings (Jonah Hill and Kristen Wiig) struggling to survive when their wealthy parents (Bette Midler and Nathan Lane) stop their allowance. Hill is also directing. Sam Richardson, Ben Schwartz, K Callan, Mark Duplass and Rob Corddry are joining Cameron Diaz in BAD DAY, the action comedy about a woman fighting to keep a promise to her daughter on the worst day of her life. Costars include Ed O'Neill, Danielle Brooks and John Higgins; Jake Szymanski is directing. Annabelle Wallis is joining the cast of PEDRO PAN, alongside Paz Vega, Andy Garcia, Nestor Carbonell, Danny Pino and Allen Leech. It's based on the true-life rescue of 14,000 children from Castro's indoctrination in Cuba. Richie Adams is directing. Alicia Witt, Skeet Ulrich, Jon Heder, Megan Suri, Natasha Leggero and Pete Holmes will star in THE BIG KILL, a horror comedy about a group of longtime friends who are staying in an isolated cabin after a funeral. Then a killer strikes. Todd Berger is directing from a script by Daniel Radosh (The Daily Show). And Colman Domingo will voice the Cowardly Lion in WICKED: FOR GOOD, the concluding half of the story, which opens next month. Jon Chu directed the two movies at the same time, with an ensemble cast that includes Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Bowen Yang.
Stanley Tucci, Simona Tabasco and Victor Belmondo will star in MASTERPLAN, a thriller about a veteran thief who audaciously sets out to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. And the cohorts he hires don't know that they're actually his children. Director Thomas Vincent started filming this week on location in France and Italy. Nia Long and Larenz Tate will reteam to star in a still-untitled romantic drama inspired by Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite album. The plot is being kept under wraps. Eugene Ashe is directing from a script he wrote with Kay Oyegun. Ben Foster will play daredevil Evel Knievel in THE STUNT DRIVER, which follows Canadian stuntman Ken Carter (Jay Baruchel) as he prepares to jump a rocket-powered car over the mile-wide St Lawrence River in the late 1970s. Ed Helms costars; Michael Dowse is directing. Paz Vega, Andy Garcia, Nestor Carbonell, Danny Pino and Allen Leech will star in PEDRO PAN, a thriller based on the true story of a group of people in Miami who lead an operation to rescue 14,000 children from Castro's indoctrination programme in Cuba. Director Richie Adams starts filming next month in Mexico. It's official, Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez will be back for the long-gestating sequel RED, WHITE AND ROYAL WEDDING, following on the romantic antics of a British prince with the son of the US president. Presumably Stephen Fry and Uma Thurman will also be back as the powerful parents. Jamie Babbit is directing. Greg Kinnear is joining the cast of ETERNITY, about a con man who targets a socialite on her yacht but ends up engulfed in deadly secrets. Costars include William H Macy, Berenice Marlohe, Nolan Gerard Funk, Ludi Lin and Meadow Williams. Jamie Marshall is directing. Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby) has joined the cast of BEHEMOTH, alongside Pedro Pascal and David Harbour. It's the story of a cellist told through flashbacks. Writer-director Tony Gilroy is currently filming in Los Angeles. Toby Kebbel, Jay Duplass, Tracey Letts and PJ Byrne have joined the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, which dramatises Sylvester Stallone's fight to star in the now-classic boxing movie. Also on board are Anthony Ippolito, Stephan James and Matt Dillon. Peter Farrelly is directing. Cheech Marin, Dean Norris, Teresa Ruiz and Katie Tripp are joining COYOTE, alongside Mel Gibson, Esai Morales, Renata Notni and Marty Lindsey. It's about an ex-smuggler forced back into action on the US-Mexico border. Per Prinz is directing from a script he wrote with Adam J Goldstein. Meanwhile, Norris and Stephen Dorff are joining Darby Lee-Stack and Cole Sprouse in ELASTIC HEARTS. The only details about this project are that its an intimate character-driven drama set in contemporary America. Danish writer-director Milad Schwartz Avaz is currently filming. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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