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Rose Byrne is reteaming with If I Had Legs I'd Kick You writer-director Mary Bronstein for the dark drama NASTY, which follows a young gymnast fighting for a place on the US Olympic team. Jenna Ortega is also on board. Carey Mulligan and Ella Beatty are joining the cast of Sarah Polley's adaptation of the classic Sylvia Plath novel THE BELL JAR. Mulligan is playing the mother of Billie Eilish's character, an aspiring poet whose life begins to unravel due to depression. Connor Storrie costars. Jessica Brown Findlay, Daniel Ings, Fenella Woolgar, Sophie Colquhoun and Rick Warden will star in THE TWO WEEK WAIT, a short drama about a woman whose mental health starts to deteriorate due to the stress of infertility treatment. Olivia Grant is making her writing-directing debut. Danny Huston and Mia Threapleton are joining the political thriller THE PRICE OF PEACE, set during the 1945 Potsdam Conference as Winston Churchill (Jared Harris), Harry S Truman (Guy Pearce) and Joseph Stalin (Merab Ninidze) decide the fate of Germany and the world. Anthony McCarten is writing and directing. Alyssa Milano, Trevor Wallace and father-daughter Shea Wigham and Giorgia Whigham will star in the comedy HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES, about a young woman who leads a Girl Scout cookie drive as court-ordered community service. Directors Edward McDonald and Lucas Fraser just completed filming in Vancouver. Terrence Howard, Kate Bosworth and Guillermo Ivan will star in the thriller BROKEN ONES, based on the true story of lawyers grappling with thorny issues surrounding a car accident case that uncovers a corporate scandal. Timothy Gagliardo is writing and directing. Garrett Wareing (The Long Walk) and Amanda Fix (Lowlifes) will star in the prequel THE CONJURING: FIRST COMMUNION, playing a younger version of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in the previous movies). Matthias Schweighofer (Army of Thieves) is also joining the cast. Rodrigue Huart is directing. Ava DuVernay will direct 14TH, a documentary following on from her Oscar-nominated doc 13th, which explored the US Constitution's clauses about involuntary servitude. This one will explore the equal protection and citizenship clauses in the 14th amendment. Writer-director Michael Waldron (Chad Powers) is making a film based on the comic book character NOVA, a super-powered officer in an intergalactic police force. Waldron's previous Marvel projects include writing the Doctor Strange sequel and showrunning Loki. And Colman Domingo will team up with theatre director Robert O'Hara to write a live-action take on the 2009 animated drama THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. This version will be more centred on Princess Tiana, seeing her romance with the frog prince through her eyes.
Hannah Waddingham is joining the cast of the action meta-comedy JASON STATHAM STOLE MY BIKE, alongside Jason Statham as himself. The plot is being kept under wraps, although the title offers a big hint. David Leitch (Bullet Train) is directing from a script by Alison Flierl. Bradley Cooper will lead the cast in the next G.I. JOE movie, reteaming with Aloha writer-director Danny McBride. There's no word yet on the plot, but it will be the fourth movie in the franchise after 2009's The Rise of Cobra, 2013's Retaliation and 2021's prequel Snake Eyes. Daniel Radcliffe, Peter Dinklage and Young Mazino are joining the voice cast of STEPS, the animated spinoff centring on Cinderella's nasty stepsisters. Also on board are Amanda Seyfried, Ali Wong, Stephanie Hsu, Nikki Glaser and Bette Midler. John Ripa and Alyce Tzue are directing. Rosario Dawson, Lamorne Morris, Joshua Jackson, Stephen Root and Edi Patterson are joining the cast of THE GIRLFRIEND, alongside Meghann Fahy and Glenn Howerton. It's about a man who hires an escort to be his lonely wife's friend. Natalie Morales is directing from a script by Howerton and Rich Appel. Jessica Alba is joining the cast of 13 GOING ON 30 a sequel/reboot of the 2004 comedy about a teen girl who is granted her wish to be a grown woman. Costars include Logan Lerman, Emily Bader and Adeline Rudolph. Director Brett Haley is currently filming in Los Angeles. Joe Alwyn is lined up to join the cast of THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, Brady Corbet's next epic, which spans from the 19th century to the present day, and is largely set in the 1970s. Costars include Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez and Michael Fassbender. Alan Ritchson is lined up to star in MAELSTROM, the next action thriller from director Jaume Collet-Serra. It's about a federal marshal guarding an arms dealer's girlfriend who is in witness protection. Then a hurricane hits just as an army of goons turns up. Michael Gandolfini, Melora Walters, Jackie Earle Haley, Justine Lupe, Tom Pecinka, Ben Krieger and Jan Hoag will star in the 10-years-later IT FOLLOWS sequel. Maika Monroe is back in the lead, plus Naomi Ackie. David Robert Mitchell also returns as writer-director. Lesley Ann Warren and Dane Cook will star in MEDIUM RARE, a short horror film about a man whose life begins to unravel when he becomes trapped in a bar. Writer-director Jeff Barker (father of Obsession director Curry) will shoot the film in Los Angeles this summer. And Peter Jackson is finally making his THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN sequel, 15 years after he produced the last one, The Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg. They're swapping roles for this one, and Jackson is writing the script with Fran Walsh. It's rumoured to be based on The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.
Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore will star in MOONSONG, a biopic about offbeat children's author Margaret Wise Brown and her boundary-pushing publisher Ursula Nordstrom. Rebecca Miller is writing and directing, with Martin Scorsese producing. Connor Storrie is joining Billie Eilish in a film adaptation of Sylvia Plath's landmark novel THE BELL JAR, about a promising young woman who becomes engulfed in depression relating to expectations and identity. Sarah Polley is writing and directing. Tyriq Withers and Isabel May will star in the romantic comedy LOVE LOVE, about a tennis star who is struggling as she tries to make it to the finals at the US Open. Then she falls for a charismatic ball boy. Joey Power is directing and cowriting the script with Daniel Sweren-Becker. Dylan Douglas (son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones) will make his feature acting debut in KILLING HITLER, alongside David Arquette, Harry Goodwins and Graham Sibley. It's based on the true story of Jewish mobsters who tried to assassinate Adolph Hitler in 1933. Actor-director Danny A Abeckaser started filming this week in Budapest. Chris Kattan is returning to acting for the horror comedy TRASH QUEEN, alongside Matty Cardarople, Lynn Lowry, Kevin Keppy, Jonathan Stoddard and Emily Tullock. The plot is being kept under wraps. Gabrielle Rosson is directing and cowriting with Tullock. David Lowery will write and direct an adaptation of the horror novel THE FISHERMAN, about two widowers who discover a mysterious spot in rural New York where they can see their late loved ones. David Chase (The Sopranos) is writing and directing a 1950s-set feature film about the CIA chemist known as the Black Sorcerer, who ran dangerous experiments involving LSD during the Cold War. Paul Feig will produce and direct the horror thriller DETENTION, about seven strangers who discover a freaky secret while they're trapped in an abandoned school. The script is by Daniel Gold; Jason Blum and Michael Bay are producing. After King Richard, Reinaldo Marcus Green has another sporting biopic in the works, as he will write, direct and produce a biopic about baseball legend Roberto Clemente, tracing his childhood in Puerto Rico, rise to fame and humanitarian work. He died while delivering aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims in 1972. And recording artist PinkPantheress, aka Victoria Walker, will make her acting debut in the secretive new movie from the Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Costars include Matt Damon, Sandra Oh, Charles Melton and Michael Gandolfini.
Rachel Zegler, Amy Ryan and Penn Badgley will star in NDA, a psychological thriller about a woman who files a harassment claim at work, then begins to question both the truth and her sanity. Writer-director Audrey Ellis Fox just started filming in New York. Dwayne Johnson will star in FREE BYRD, as a has-been motorcycle daredevil who wants to perform one more risky stunt before his dementia gets more advanced. The film reteams director Greg Kwedar with Sing Sing cowriter Clint Bentley. Diego Calva is joining the cast of POSSESSION, a remake of the 1981 supernatural thriller about a marriage that is fractured by a sinister force. The film also stars Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley and Paul Dano. Parker Finn is writing and directing. Sacha Baron Cohen has apparently shot a new ALI G movie in secret, returning to the clandestine style of filmmaking he used with Borat and Bruno. This rude-boy interviewer character was last seen on the big screen in 2002's Ali G Indahouse. Details have yet to be released, but it was apparently filmed in America. Guy Pearce will narrate the documentary THE VESUVIUS CHALLENGE, which follows a scientist creating software that can read hundreds of ancient scrolls that were buried by the volcano's eruption in 79 AD. Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme are directing. Noomi Rapace, Michael Beihn, Ron Funches, Roland Moller, Laz Alonso and Dan Fogler are joining the cast of THE KELLYS, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth and Geena Davis. It's about a disgraced New York cop who enlists his family to rescue his kidnapped wife. Brad Peyton is directing from a script by Tze Chun. John Goodman is joining Brie Larson in the horror thriller SKELETONS, about a young boy who discovers that his parents are hiding a dark secret about his mother. Costars include Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner and Ione Skye. JT Mollner is directing. Ron Perlman and Daniel Stisen are joining the thriller ANGELS IN DARKNESS, about a private detective trying to stop a cult from unleashing an ancient curse on the world. Costars include Cuba Gooding Jr, Anarosa Butler, Agathe Levi, Sam Nejad and Robert Goodman. Ali Zamani is writing and directing. Anthony and Joe Russo are developing a remake of the 1993 hit FREE WILLY, about a preteen who sets out to rescue an ageing orca from a local aquarium. Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett are writing the script. And Jake Shears will produce TINDERBOX, based on the book about the 1973 murder of 32 people when a New Orleans gay nightclub was set on fire. Shears will also provide music for the film. Colby Holt and Sam Probst (Ganymede) are writing and directing. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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