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Michael B Jordan will team up with writer-director Christopher McQuarrie to make a movie adaptation of the videogame series BATTLEFIELD, which allows players to go to war in time periods from WWII into the near future. Kate Hudson and Javier Bardem will star in HELLO & PARIS, a romantic comedy based on the novel about a novelist who starts a long-distance relationship with a landscape artist after a chance meeting in France. Elizabeth Chomko is writing and directing. Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne, Emile Hirsch, Terrence Howard, Evan Ross and Famke Janssen will star in the action comedy TURNBUCKLE, a small-town southern gothic survival story. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Writer-director Sean McEwen is filming in Arkansas. Lil Rel Howery, Brent Pella, Nikki Howard, Aristotle Georgeson, Jonathan Kite and Paul Soter will star in the psychedelic comedy PEAKING, about a couple trying to add spark to their relationship while attending a music festival. Pella is making his feature writing-directing debut. Jason Statham will reteam with A Working Man/The Beekeeper director David Ayer for another action thriller. JOHN DOE is about a man who can't remember his name or anything about himself, except for a woman's face. He's also, of course, in the middle of an intense mission. The script is by Zak Penn (Free Guy). Justin Long, Ron Perlman, Harry Shum Jr and Martin Starr are joining the cast of HELLHOUND, an action comedy about a veterinarian facing a zombie outbreak that is threatening New York City. The cast includes Marisa Tomei, Sam Rockwell and Chris Messina. Zach Golden is directing and cowriting with costar Ivan Martin. Pom Klementieff, Katherine LaNasa, Serenity Grace Russell, Matthias Schweighofer and Micheal Neeson are joining the action comedy MISTER, about a man (Walton Goggins) who teams up with his estranged daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) to confront his violent past. Wade Eastwood is directing. Luke Macfarlane, Colm Feore, Erika Prevost, Samantha Brown, Sara Waisglass, Bryce Wynter and Damian Hardung will star in INTO THE DEEP BLUE, based on the novel about two best friends whose relationship is tested during a road trip. Jonathan Wright is directing from a script by novelist Jennifer Archer. Tracey Letts and Franka Potente are joining Vanessa Kirby, Yahta Abdul-Mateen II and Tom Pelphrey in the action thriller LIMNAL, based on the graphic novel Telepaths, set after an electromagnetic disturbance gives 10 percent of humanity telepathic powers. Louis Leterrier is directing. And Ellen Degeneres will be back to voice the clownfish Dory in a new short film that features the character in a new adventure. There's no word yet on the story, or if any of the other characters from Finding Nemo or Finding Dory will be back, although that's likely.
Cynthia Erivo, Thabo Rametsi and Guy Pearce will star in THE ROAD HOME, a biopic about South African musicians Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, who took a controversial stand against apartheid by performing with Paul Simon for his 1986 album Graceland. Bill Condon is directing from a script by Michael Bronner. Naomi Watts will play the iconic Margot Fonteyn in MARGOT & RUDI, about the sparky 1960s partnership between the married 42-year-old ballerina and gay 23-year-old Rudolf Nureyev, played by Ukrainian dancer Alexandr Trush. Costars include Richard E Grant, Harriet Walter and Demian Bichir. Anthony Fabian is directing. Glen Powell may star in a remake of the 1954 horror classic THEM!, about an ant nest in New Mexico that grows to epic proportions following nuclear tests. Composer Michael Giacchino is set to make his feature directing debut. Matt Reeves is producing. Melissa McCarthy and Connor Storrie will star in TURPENTINE, a thriller about a slacker who hires friends to rob his parents, but of course this doesn't go smoothly. Craig Zobel and Gregory Falatek are directing from a script by Justin Varava. Rita Ora is joining the cast of HONEYMOON WITH HARRY, based on the book about a guy (Jake Gyllenhaal) who ends up taking his honeymoon with his late fiancee's (Sarah Pidgeon) awkward father (Kevin Costner). Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are directing from a script by Dan Fogelman. Kumail Nanjiani is joining Tatiana Maslany in GREEN BANK, a horror thriller about a nanny who suspects that the couple she works for aren't as oblivious as they seem to be. The twist is that mobile phones and wifi are forbidden in this town. Costars include Jim Belushi and Brittany O'Grady. Josh Ruben is directing. Tommy Lee Jones and Ice Cube will team up for OUTSIDE MAN, about a former Chicago mob goon who moves to Texas and studies furniture making with a retired Texas Ranger. Of course, their pasts catch up with them. Brian Helgeland is writing and directing. Sanaa Lathan, Steve Toussaint, Louis Msamati, Anton Lesser and Andy Nyman will star in A BLUE BUTTERFLY, a romantic drama about a driver who is living in exile when he meets an actress and begins to consider a possible future. After filming in London, director CJ "Fiery" Obasi will shoot the rest of the movie in Rwanda. The script is by Toussaint. Jason Isaacs, Jackson White, Nonso Anozie, Michael Mando, Gemma Chua-Tran and Ida Brooke are joining Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo in the live-action GUNDAM movie, based on the 1970s anime series about people who have emigrated to colonies in space due to overcrowding on Earth. Jim Mickle is writing and directing. Liza Colon-Zayas is joining Halle Berry in the thriller FLEUR, about an American housewife who moves to Paris to reinvent herself as a dominatrix. Costars include Matthias Schoenaerts, Marton Czokas and Kate Moran. Ellie Foumbi is writing and directing. Tom Burke, Emma Laird Jonathan Pryce, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Ruby Cruz and Peter Serafinowicz are joining the cast of ELDEN RING, based on the videogame about a powerful artefact in a mythical realm. The film also stars Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw, Cailee Spaeny and Nick Offerman. Alex Garland is writing and directing. And Chris O'Dowd will team up with comedian Bill Burr for BENDER, a coming-of-age comedy based on the experiences of screenwriter Adrian Cunningham. It's about a group of teen misfits trying to take advantage of the chaos surrounding a papal visit to late-1970s Dublin. Adam Bernstein (Pluribus) is directing.
Adria Arjona has landed the role as antihero Maxima in MAN OF TOMORROW, James Gunn's sequel to Superman, again starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Isabela Merced and Nathan Fillion, plus Aaron Pierre and Lars Eidinger. Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger will star in the romantic comedy BEACH READ, based on the novel about a struggling novelist who runs into her university class rival at a writing competition. People We Meet on Vacation screenwriter Yulin Kuang is writing and directing. Matt Smith will join Imogen Poots in THE SALAMANDER LIVES TWICE, a mystery thriller about a man who washes ashore on an island with no memory. But he's taken in by a family that has some seriously dark issues. Ant Timpson is directing. Samantha Morton is set to star in LOVE AND WAR, about a woman who travels to war-torn Syria to find her daughter, who was taken there by her estranged husband. Lisa Mulcahy (Lies We Tell) is directing. Bill Nighy is joining the cast of IBELIN, replacing the departing Anthony Hopkins alongside Toni Collette, Stephen Graham, Charlie Plummer, Isabela Merced and Maisy Stella. It's an inspirational biopic about a disabled Norwegian man who connected with the world through online gaming. Morten Tyldum is directing. David Harbour will play the commanding officer in JOHN RAMBO, the First Blood prequel starring Noah Centineo as the young soldier fighting in Vietnam. Costars include Jefferson White, Jason Tobiun and Yao. Jalmari Helander is directing. Danny Trejo will be back for a sequel to his 2013 boxing drama COUNTERPUNCH. In this one, his boxer has retired to become a mental health counselor, and he is working with a young boxer who will be played by Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect). Charles Dance is lined up to join the cast of THE BATMAN PART II, playing the father of Harvey Dent (Sebastian Stan). The film stars Robert Pattinson, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis and Jeffrey Wright. Matt Reeves is directing. Simon McBurney, Liam Cunningham, Arieh Worthalter and Dmitrij Schaad will join Jasna Duricic for the sequel QUO VADIS, AIDA: THE MISSING PART. The film continues the story after the fall of Srebrenica in 1995 as Duricic's Aida learns that her sons may be alive in a prisoner-of-war camp. Jasmila Zbanic is back as writer-director. Zach Cregger will team up with Steven Spielberg to make the sci-fi thriller THE FLOOD. Cregger's script is apparently set on a distant space station, and will no doubt include horror elements. He will also direct the film, with Spielberg producing. Marielle Heller will direct a live-action remake of the 1992 animated hit FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST, which follows a group of tiny fairies who get into trouble when they inadvertently shrink a human logger to their size. And unsurprisingly, Tom Cruise will officially be back for a third TOP GUN adventure. There's no word yet on the story, or which filmmakers or actors will rejoin him for this one. Aside from producer Jerry Bruckheimer of course.
Cate Blanchett will play Martha Stewart in the biopic GOOD THING, tracing the lifestyle guru's rise to fame in the 1990s with an Emmy-winning TV show and popular magazine. After becoming the US's first self-made female billionaire, she fell from grace, convicted of dodgy stock trading. Janicza Bravo (Zola) is directing from a script by Ricky Tollman. Bradley Cooper will write, direct and star alongside Margot Robbie in a still-untitled prequel to OCEAN'S ELEVEN. The story explores how Danny Ocean's parents taught him everything he knows about staging a heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix. Amanda Seyfried, Rachel Zegler, Jonathan Groff, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Tramell Tillman will star in OCTET, Lin-Manuel Miranda's adaptation of the stage musical about members of an internet-addiction group who meet in a church basement. Playwright Dave Malloy is writing the screenplay. Demi Moore will join Charlize Theron and Julia Garner in TYRANT, which is being described as a high-stakes thriller set in New York's fine-dining world. No other plot details have been revealed. David Weil (Hunters) is writing and directing. Jamie Dornan will play a young Aragorn in THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM, the Lord of the Rings prequel once again starring Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood and Lee Pace. Kate Winslet and Leo Woodall have also joined the cast. Serkis is directing, and will start filming soon in New Zealand. Nicolas Cage will be back for another LONGLEGS movie, reteaming with writer-director Osgood Perkins. There's no word yet on the plot or whether it's a sequel, prequel or spinoff. But there's apparently a plan to create a franchise around the character. Nick Jonas will star in an untitled romantic comedy about a confirmed bachelor whose life is upended when he inherits his cousin's infant child. Then the baby's godmother turns up demanding custody. Ari Sandell (The Duff) is directing. Brian Tyree Henry is joining Spike Fearn in RUNNING, about a homeless teen who uses his athletic skills to get his life back on track and find a new family. Gavin O'Connor is directing from a script by Bill Dubuque (Ozark). Gal Gadot and Isla Fisher will join Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in BITCOIN: KILLING SATOSHI, which follows the man who invented the cryptocurrency, leading to death threats and a high-stakes race between tech billionaires to establish a new financial system. Doug Liman is directing from a script by Nick Schenk. Linda Cardellini and Bill Hader will star in THEY KNOW, a horror thriller about a man who thinks his ex-wife's new boyfriend is having a sinister influence on their children. Hader is also producing, writing and directing the film, which started shooting in Los Angeles this week. Robert Rodriguez will produce, write and direct an animated Christmas adventure titled THE NAUGHTY LIST. Plot details are being kept under wraps. It's based on stories and drawings he created with his children over more than a decade. And a fourth PADDINGTON film is in the works, but few details have been announced. Ben Whishaw is surely back on board, along with Brown family members Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Emily Mortimer, Samuel Joslin and Madeleine Harris. Apparently, some top comedy writers are working on the script. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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