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Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci are set to reunite for a sequel to the 2006 hit THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, reprising their roles as an imperious fashion magazine editor and her frazzled assistant. This time, the editor is facing the decline of print media, while the assistant has now become a rival who runs a luxury brand. Aline Brosh McKenna is also back to write the script. Isabelle Huppert will play a fictional version of the billionaire L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, faced scandal when it emerged that her father and husband were both members of a violent pro-Nazi group during World War II. In 2015, French author Francois-Marie Manier was convicted of manipulating her for financial gain. Thierry Klifa (All that Divides Us) is writing and directing. Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Milly Alcock, Meghann Fahy and Glenn Howerton will star in SIRENS, a dark comedy miniseries that Molly Smith Metzler has adapted from her play Elemeno Pea. It's about a fateful weekend at a luxurious beach home, centring around a toxic relationship between a young woman and her wealthy boss. Margot Robbie is producing. Halle Berry and Glenn Close will produce and lead the cast of ALL'S FAIR, a legal series created by Ryan Murphy and Kim Kardashian. The ensemble show is set in an all-female law firm, and is being written by Jon Robin Baitz (Feud: Capote vs the Swans). Rumer Willis, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jeff Fahey and Graham Greene will star in BROKEN TRAIL, a Western set in 1875 as a woman teams up with a man with a shady past to avenge her husband's death. Director Johnny Remo started filming this week in Arkansas. He wrote the script with Daniel Backman. Brendan Gleeson is joining Nicolas Cage in SPIDER-MAN NOIR, a live-action spin-off series from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse that follows Cage as an older, jaded superhero in 1930s New York. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are producing; Oren Uziel (The Lost City) is the writer. Indya Moore, Steve Coogan, Adrian Lester, Jack Gleeson, Freddie Fox, Douglas Booth, Esme Creed-Miles, Clive Russell, Ann Skelly and Ruairi O'Connor are joining the cast of THE SANDMAN for its second season, alongside returning stars Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, Patton Oswalt, Stephen Fry and Ferdinand Kingsley. Jessica Belkin (American Horror Story), Savannah Lee Smith (Gossip Girl) and newcomer Ayvan Williams will star in THE UPSIDE OF UNREQUITED, a coming-of-age comedy about 17-year-old twin sisters who have very different approaches to romance, as one has silent crushes and the other has constant hookups. Hillary and Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare are writing and directing. Sam Raimi will produce and direct the horror thriller SEND HELP, which is being described as Castaway meets Misery, as it centres on two people who are stranded on a remote island. The script is by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (2009's Friday the 13th) And while out promoting their forthcoming comic book action movie DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have announced that they intend to capitalise on their friendship by working on another movie together. All they will say is that it's not a superhero movie, and that the project is coming soon.
Ian McKellen is teaming up with Drag Race UK star Divina de Campo to voice the title role in DRAGFOX, a stop-motion animated musical adventure. It's about a child (voiced by newcomer Aidan Gale) whose struggle with gender identity is aided by a lively fox who lives in the neighbourhood. Lisa Ott is directing. Wanda Sykes is in Puerto Rico, where filming started this week on UNDERCARD. In a rare dramatic role, she plays a former boxing champion trying to reconnect with her son (Bentley Green) as she coaches him as a boxer. Costars include William Stanford Davis, Roselyn Sanchez, Berto Colon and Xavier Mills. Tamika Miller is directing. Morgan Freeman and Duncan Jones will produce the horror thriller IN OUR BLOOD, which stars Brittany O'Grady (The White Lotus), EJ Bonilla (The Exorcist: Believer) and Alanna Ubach (Euphoria). It's about a film crew caught up in a mystery when the subject of their documentary goes missing. Documentary filmmaker Pedro Kos is directing. Jesse Metcalfe, Arielle Kebbell and Sophia Bush will be back for a sequel to the comedy JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE, although there's still no word on whether Penn Badgely, Brittany Snow or Ashanti will return. Kebbell, who worked on the first film's script, says that the title character might be a better person now that he has a daughter of his own. A decade after the project was announced, filming has finally begun on WATCH DOGS, an adaptation of the videogame series that centres around hackers who are seeking revenge or justice. Although the movie's plot is being kept under wraps. Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde star in the film, which is being directed by Mathieu Turi. Alia Bhatt and Sharvari will star as top agents in the Indian action thriller ALPHA, the first female-led film in the hit Yash Raj Spy Universe franchise, which includes the three Tiger movies, War and Pathaan. Shiv Rawail is directing. Also in the works are War 2, Pathaan 2 and Tiger vs Pathaan. Sara Tomko (Resident Alien) and Terry Farrell (Deep Space Nine) will star in THE GLASS MIND, about a psychologist who claims to be the very first demon and makes a dangerous offer to a young mother. SJ Creazzo (Skipping Stones) is writing and directing. Huma Qureshi (Gangs of Wasseypur), Chandrachur Singh (Maachis), Sachin Khedekar (Sita Ramam) and Avijit Dutt (Piku) will star in the drama BAYAAN, about a female detective investigating her first case while dealing with her father's legacy in the police. Writer-director Bikas Mishra starts filming this month in Rajasthan. Ryan Coogler is working with author Mattson Tomlin to adapt A VICIOUS CIRCLE as a big screen action thriller. The graphic novel series centres around two assassins from the future who hunt each other through time. Coogler is producing, while Mattson (Project Power) is writing the script. JAMES BOND rumours this week centre on the possibility that Edward Berger, the Bafta-winning director of All Quiet on the Western Front, is being lined up to direct the next film in the franchise. His new film Conclave, opens in November and stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. Other directors mentioned include David Michod and Kelly Marcel.
Letitia Wright says she will definitely be back as Shuri for more BLACK PANTHER action, although she is of course having to remain very vague about the details. The character is likely to appear in the forthcoming two AVENGERS movies, as well as a third stand-alone film. Daniel Bruhl will reteam with All Quiet on the Western Front costar Felix Kammerer for BREAK, a biopic about 1930s German tennis champion Gottfried von Cramm, who as the world No 1 in 1937 was used as a propaganda tool by Hitler's rising government, leading to an epic match against American Don Budge at Wimbledon. Bruhl is also directing, from a script by Hossein Amini. Hugh Bonneville, Michael Socha, Jeff Mirza and Ella Bruccoleri (Bridgerton) will star in GO AWAY, a British comedy about a loser who is facing a catastrophic day when a series of problems all converge at the same time. Ed Kear and Cringo Williamson are writing and directing. Molly Shannon is joining the cast of BALLS UP, the action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as marketing executives who are fired for jeopardising a deal, then get in even more trouble after a day of drunken antics at a major soccer match. Peter Farrelly is directing from a scripts by Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. Jillian Bell will make her directing debut with SUMMER OF 69, a comedy starring Chloe Fineman, Nicole Byer, Charlie Day, Natalie Morales, Alex Moffat and Paula Pell. It's about a high school senior (That '90s Show's Sam Morelos) who hires an exotic dancer to seduce her crush, but of course this doesn't go as expected. Peyton Elizabeth Lee, DJ Qualls, Sasha Mason, Marc Sully Saint-Fleur, Jackson Kelly and Chris Elliott will star in CARVED, a horror comedy about a group of teens who become trapped in a historical reenactment village on Halloween night, chased by a sentient, murderous pumpkin. Justin Harding is directing from a script he wrote with Cheryl Meyer. Iqbak Theba (aka Glee's Principal Figgins) will produce and star in DAYS WITH DANDEKAR, about a middle-aged man who is sacked from the job he has had for 35 years and decides to track down his beloved car, which his family traded away. Leena Pendharkar is writing and directing. Rising star Filipe Braganca and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu wil star in 100 DAYS, which tells the true story of young Brazilian hero Amyr Klink, who in 1984 became the first person to row across the South Atlantic. Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age) is directing. French writer-director Mia Hansen-Love is making IF LOVE SHOULD DIE, a biopic about the 18th century English writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. Considered a pioneer of feminism, she argued in 1792 that women only appear inferior to men because they are denied educational opportunities. Her daughter Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818. And it's hardly surprising that Chad Stahelski is already set to remake this week's Indian action thriller KILL. Set on an overnight train to New Delhi, the film sees a commando take on a murderous gang of thieves in claustrophobic corridors. Stahelski is also working on the HIGHLANDER remake and overseeing the JOHN WICK franchise.
Ryan Gosling will produce and perhaps star in the zombie comedy I USED TO EAT BRAINS, NOW I EAT KALE, based on a short story by Adam and Daniel Cooper, who are also writing the screenplay. The film is being described as being set in a "post-post-apocalyptic" world where zombies are trying to reintegrate into society. Elizabeth Banks, Bill Pullman and Luis Gerardo Mendez will star in the noir-style thriller SKINCARE, about a celebrity aesthetician whose career is threatened by a rival. Austin Peters is directing from a script he wrote with Sam Freilich and cinematographer Deering Regan. James Marsden and Vince Vaughn will team up for MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE. The plot is being kept under wraps, but it's been described as a buddy action comedy set in the criminal underworld, BenDavid Grabinski is writing and directing. Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Sophia Hammons are joining the cast of the FREAKY FRIDAY sequel, reuniting Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a body-swapping mother and daughter more than 20 years later. Also returning are Chad Michael Murray, Rosalind Cho, Mark Harmon and Stephen Tobolowski, plus Manny Jacinto and Julia Butters. Director Nisha Ganatra just started filming. Richard Ayoade, Nick Cave, Alice Lowe and Angus Sampson will star in the performance film THE EXTRAORDINARY MISS FLOWER, about the real-life British woman whose letters in the 1960s and 70s inspired Icelandic singer-songwriter Emiliana Torrini. Caroline Catz is playing Geraldine Flowers, while Torrini will appear as herself, and also perform 10 songs. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are directing. Connie Nielsen will return to join Bob Odenkirk in NOBODY 2, continuing the adventures of a family man whose past as an assassin violently returns to haunt him. Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us) is directing. Odenkirk is writing the script with Derek Kolstad, Aaron Rabin and Umair Aleem. Michelle Hurd, Lucas Bryant, Bruce Davison, Ed Begley Jr, Dee Wallace and Rachel Nichols will star in 25 MILES TO NORMAL, an ensemble comedy about a doctor who takes his estranged father along on holiday with the whole family. Joshua Brandon is writing and directing. Dennis Haysbert, Illeana Douglas and Willow Shields are joining the comedy IN FIDELITY, about a happily married couple (Carla Buono and Chris Parnell) that decides to have an open relationship. Rob Margolies (Bobcat Moretti) is writing and directing. KJ Apa will star in FALLING, a romantic comedy-drama about a guy who finally finds the girl of his dreams, then his best friend falls for her as well. Colin and James Krisel are writing and directing. Filming started this week in Leeds. And Eddie Murphy has a lot going on. He's back voicing Donkey for both SHREK 5, currently in production, and a spin-off DONKEY movie. And he's also planning to use an ensemble of top comics to remake the star-studded 1963 cross-country comedy IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. Jez Butterworth is writing the script. << NEWER NEWS | |
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