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Jenna Ortega is rumoured to have taken the lead role in a new GREMLINS movie, reviving the franchise that launched in 1984 and had a sequel in 1990. Chris Columbus is directing the new film, and also producing again alongside Steven Spielberg. Scott Mescudi will write, direct and star in DOE, which follows a man living on the streets of Hollywood over 24 hours as he deals with addiction and survival issues. Costars include Mark Webber, Brandon Perea, Leah McNamara and Brandon Scott. Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi, is also recording original songs for the film. Justice Smith, Alexandra Shipp, KJ Apa, Ashley Park and Josh Brener are joining Nick Jonas and Kathryn Newton in WHITE ELEPHANT, a horror film about friends whose Christmas gift exchange descends into a violent competition. Eli Craig is directing and cowriting with JT Billings. Meanwhile, Newton is also joining Storm Reid, J Smith Cameron, Owen Painter and Dove Cameron in HOT YEAR, a thriller about childhood friends whose bond is strained when they plot revenge against an ex-boyfriend. Writer-director Roxy Sophie Sorkin starts shooting next month in Oklahoma. Michael Pena, Chris Messina and Esai Morales are joining Sam Rockwell and Maisy Stella in TUMOR, about a private eye with a fatal brain illness struggling with his grip on reality as he searches for a politician's missing daughter. Will Bridges (All of You) is directing. Andy Serkis will reprise his role as Alfred alongside Robert Pattinson in THE BATMAN: PART II. Also returning are Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright and possibly Barry Keoghan, plus Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan. Matt Reeves is also back as writer-director. Filming starts in Britain in June. Lin-Manuel Miranda will direct a film adaptation of Dave Malloy's a cappella stage musical OCTET, which centres around the members of an internet addiction support group that meets in a church basement. Malloy is adapting the screenplay. Director Jake Schreier will reteam with Beef writers Lee Sun Jin and Joanna Calo for the new X-MEN movie, which is being set up as a complete reboot. Calo also cowrote Schreier's Thunderbolts, which suggests that this film might take a similarly rag-tag approach to Marvel's mutants. Zach Shields (Godzilla x Kong) is joining director Zach Cregger to write GLADYS, a prequel recounting the back-story for Amy Madigan's character from Weapons. Madigan is likely to return, although a younger version of character will offer a juicy role for another actor. Unlikely rumour has it that Emerald Fennell may direct a remake of BASIC INSTINCT, the 1992 thriller about a detective investigating a murder that involves a seductive novelist. Original screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has written the new script, which he describes as a return to the sex-filled style of his 1990s films.
Margot Robbie will produce and perhaps star in DIE ALIVE, about a woman who finds herself having to take care of the children she didn't know her boyfriend had. Megan Park (My Old Ass) is writing and directing. Wagner Moura is replacing Oscar Isaac to star alongside Kristen Stewart and Elisabeth Olsen in FLESH OF THE GODS, about a wealthy couple in 1980s Los Angeles that becomes entangled with a mysterious woman and her hard-partying friends. Panos Cosmatos (Mandy) is directing from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker. Odessa A'zion, Cherry Jones, Benedict Wong and Ewan Mitchell are joining the cast of FONDA, the new film from writer-director Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall), which also stars Allison Janney, Mia Goth, Andrew Scott, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Frank Dillane. It's a psychological thriller that deals with grief and obsession. Pete Davidson will star in TOMMY KARATE, a biopic about the notorious mob enforcer Thomas Pitera, a martial arts enthusiast who may have murdered as many as 60 people and is currently serving a life sentence. Paul Walter Hauser will play the federal agent who tracked him down. Justin Chon is directing from a script cowritten by Davidson. Annette Bening and Andy Samberg will star in 42.5 YEARS, a romantic comedy about a man who wakes up after decades in cryogenic stasis and wants to reunite with his now much-older girlfriend. Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz are directing from a script by Seth Reiss. Emory Cohen, Katelyn Rose Downey, Suzanna Son and Fabien Frankel are joining the cast of an untitled bachelor party horror film by Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith (The First Omen). The cast includes Emma Corrin, Josh Hutcherson, Havana Rose Liu, Hunter Schafer and Caleb Landry Jones. Tan France, PJ Byrne, Zarna Garg and Andrew Schulz have joined the comedy CLASHING THROUGH THE SNOW, about rival colleagues (Michelle Randolph and Christopher Briney) travelling cross-country to get home for Christmas during a storm. Costars include Lukas Gage and Julia Fox. Carlson Young is directing. Nina Concepcion, Barbara Crampton, Bashir Salahuddin and Michael Strassner are starring in RUTHIE JOINS A DEATH CULT, a black comedy about a lonely young woman who stumbles into a shady religious group. Director Kyle Kenyon cowrote the script with Concepcion. Kathryn Bigelow is lined up to direct UNARMED, about a double amputee who works as a psychiatrist at a military medical centre, helping veterans with severe injuries return to civilian life. The script is by Eric Roth and Denis Johnson. And Nora and Lila Zuckerman (Poker Face) are writing the eighth SCREAM movie, which is unsurprisingly in the works after the seventh movie broke all records for the long-running franchise. Presumably, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and their younger sidekicks will be back.
Bad Bunny, Colman Domingo and Tom Hanks will star in THE COMEBACKER, a drama set in the world of baseball. The film reteams Hanks with A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood director Marielle Heller. Dua Lipa is the latest new cast member in PEAKED, which stars Molly Gordon and Allie Levitan as former mean girls trying to reclaim their power at their 10-year reunion. Gordon is also directing and cowriting with Levitan; costars include Laura Dern, Emma Mackey, Simone Ashley, Amy Sedaris and Connor Storrie. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Vanessa Kirby will star in LIMINAL, a police thriller based on the graphic novel Telepaths, set at a time when a tenth of the world's population suddenly gains the ability to read minds. Louis Leterrier is directing. Alfre Woodard, Brandon Wilson (Nickel Boys), Jonas Gindin (Lurker) and Aaron Holliday (The Wilderness) will star in POCKETS OF HEAVEN, about two homeless young people who team up with a privileged rehab resident as they navigate the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Maria Belafonte is directing. Judith Light is joining Cameron Diaz and Stephen Merchant in an untitled romantic comedy, alongside costars Sherry Cola, Jake Lacy, Josh Segarra, Lisa Gilroy and Dustin Ybarra. It's about a struggling comic who enters a fake marriage with a British hotel worker. Merchant is also directing and cowriting with John Butler. Alec Baldwin is joining the cast of KOCKROACH, Matt Ross' drama about a man who infiltrates New York's criminal underworld and rises to become a top boss. The film also stars Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton and Zazie Beetz. John Hannah will reteam with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz for the third sequel to THE MUMMY, which follows on from the events of 2008's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Plot details are being guarded like a state secret. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are directing from a script by David Coggeshall. Richard Kind, Polly Draper, Paul Raci, Tovah Feldshuh, Bill Smitrovich and Ed German will star in NOT DEAD YET, a comedy about a 68-year-old creative director who is sacked due to his age, but he refuses to go quietly. Eric and Nick Weber are directing from a script by Eric. Shane Black will write and direct THE EXECUTIONER, a big-scale action thriller adapted from the novel series about a sniper who takes on the mob, the KGB and various terrorists. Joel Silver is producing. And while it looks like a Naked Gun sequel is unlikely, its director Akiva Schaffer and writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand are reteaming for STEPSISTERS, a comical spinoff following Cinderella's abusive stepsisters on their own adventure.
Gwyneth Paltrow will star in STRANGERS, based on Belle Burden's memoir about the shock she felt when her husband of 20 years, with no warning at all, announced that he was leaving her. Heidi Schreck is writing the script. Ryan Gosling is set to star in the next film by the Daniels, aka Everything Everywhere All at Once writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Of course, everything about this project is being kept tightly under wraps. Filming is set to start in Los Angeles this summer. Snoop Dogg will join Shia LaBeouf in GOD OF THE RODEO, a thriller set in 1967 as a lifelong Louisiana inmate participates in the first rodeo staged by a prison, as the warden seeks to cement his power. Rosalind Ross is writing and directing. Emily Bader and Logan Lerman will star in a remake of the 2004 body-swap comedy 13 GOING ON 30, about a teen who makes a wish that transforms her into her adult self. The project reunites Bader with The People We Meet on Vacation director Brett Haley. The script is by Hannah Marks. Josh Hartnett and Leila George will star in WHITE LIES, a drama that spans three generations in a family, as a man sets out to avoid making the same mistakes as his parents. Oliver Stone is writing and directing his first narrative feature in 10 years. Dylan O'Brien and Hudson Williams will team up for the thriller APPARATUS, about a ride-share driver who is forced to take on a dangerous job. Sofia Banshaf is directing and cowriting the script with Grayson Moore. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Joen McHale, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Nicole Ritchie, Raven-Symone, Charo and Michelle Visage have all joined STOP! THAT! TRAIN!, the action comedy about drag queens (Ginger Minj and Jujubee) who team up with the president (RuPaul) to save the day during a catastrophic storm. Costars include Monet X Change, Brooke Lynn Hytes and Latrice Royale. Adam Shankman is directing. Gabby Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, F Murray Abraham, Steve Zahn and Adam Horovitz are joining Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman in TIME OUT, Scott Cooper's remake of the 2001 French classic about a man who tries to hide his unemployment from his family and friends. Meanwhile, Hoffman and Jennifer Jason Leigh are joining the cast of DEEP CUTS, which follows two music-obsessed young people through their decades-long relationship. Cailee Spaeny and Drew Starkey also star in the film, which Sean Durkin is writing and directing. Eric Andre will star in SYNERGY SYSTEMS, about an indecisive data analyst who discovers that the company he works for is developing a doomsday plot, and he's the only person who can save the world. Toby Harvard (The Greasy Strangler) is writing and directing. And Stephen Colbert and Peter Jackson are producing and cowriting a film set after the Lord of the Rings trilogy. SHADOWS OF THE PAST features hobbits Sam, Merry and Pippin reuniting to retrace their adventure some 14 years after Frodo's death. The story comes from an unfilmed section of one of Tolkien's novels. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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