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Annette Bening and George Clooney will star in a romantic drama based on Amy Bloom's acclaimed book IN LOVE: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND LOSS, which explores a real-life couple's decision to end their lives on their own terms. Paul Weitz is directing. Jim Carrey is lined up to play George in a live-action movie based on the classic 1960s animated sitcom THE JETSONS, about a lively family living in a groovy space-age future. Colin Trevorrow is lined up to direct from a script he cowrote with Joe Epstein. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a biopic about iconic Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi, who rose to fame after playing Dracula in the 1930 classic. The script is by Scott Alexander and Larry Karascewski, whose film Ed Wood explored Lugosi's final years (Martin Landau won an Oscar for the role). Emma Thompson, Hugh Jackman, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bryan Cranston, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chris O'Dowd and Hong Chau are voicing characters in THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, an animated comedy about a shepherd who reads whodunits to his flock every night, sparking them to begin investigating a real murder. Kyle Balda (Minions) is directing. Cosmo Jarvis, Jamie Bell, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller and Woody Norman are joining Andrew Garfield and Katherine Waterston in THE UPRISING, which is set during the Peasants' Revolt in 14th century England as ordinary people challenge Richard III. Paul Greengrass is writing and directing. Al Pacino, Kiefer Sutherland and Ever Anderson will star in the action thriller FATHER JOE, about a priest in 1990s Manhattan who declares war on a powerful mob boss. Barthelemy Grosmann is directing from a script by Luc Besson. Wunmi Mosaku is joining the cast of THE SOCIAL RECKONING, Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network sequel starring Mikey Madison as a Facebook engineer who works with a journalist (Jeremy Allen White) to blow the whistle on the misuse of information. Jeremy Strong and Bill Burr costar. Emma Roberts will produce and star in EXPIRATION DATES, based on the book about a woman whose relationships always end just as predicted in cryptic notes. Then one man refuses to accept his fate. Novellist Rebecca Serle is writing the script. Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) will join the action thriller ARCHANGEL, alongside Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt and Shea Whigham. It's about a retired soldier who lives quietly in Wyoming designing weapons for a secret government agency. Presumably, chaos ensues. Will Eubank is directing. Meanwhile, Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen (Vikings: Valhalla) will play Jesus in Mel Gibson's two-part sequel THE RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST. Costars include Rupert Everett, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Mariela Garriga and Pier Luigi Pasino. Filming is underway in Rome.
Lady Gaga has joined the cast of the DEVIL WEARS PRADA sequel, alongside the returning Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci, plus Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, Simone Ashley and Tracie Thoms. Director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna are back as well. Scarlett Johansson is being lined up to play Mother Gothel in Disney's live-action remake of TANGLED, the animated musical retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale. Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) is directing from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Cynthia Erivo will lead the voice cast of BAD FAIRIES, an animated musical about a subversive group of sprites that sets off a rebellion. The score is by Isabella Summers (Florence & The Machine), with songs by Six composers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Matt Dillon is the latest to join the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, the biopic starring Anthony Ippolito as Sylvester Stallone and Stephan James as Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the 1976 classic. Dillon will play Sly's dad Frank. Peter Farrelly is directing. Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Aimee Lou Wood and Anna Sawai are joining Sam Mendes' four-film BEATLES biopic, as Ringo Starr's wife Maureen, Yoko Ono and George Harrison's wife Pattie. Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan are playing John, Paul, George and Ringo, plus Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney. Omari Hardwick, Anika Noni Rose, Jasmine Guy and Reggie Lochard will star in the coming-of-age film SHADOW DANCE, about a teen boy (Tavon Olds-Sample) who is thrown out of his home for being gay. Then while living on the streets of New York, he dreams of dancing with Alvin Ailey's company. Kelley Kali is directing from a script by Lochard. Burn Gorman and Brittany O'Grady are joining the cast of the third JUMANJI movie, alongside returning stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, Danny DeVito, Bebe Neuwirth and Alex Wolff. Jack Kasdan is also back as director. Danielle Vasinova (The Madison) is joining Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga and Jim Parsons in THE LEADER, based on the true story of the Heaven's Gate cult, which committed the largest mass suicide in the US. Michael Gallagher is directing. Amelia Brantley Emily Deschanel, Keith Kupferer, Samuel Hunt and Grant Jordan will star in MONKEY BREAD, about an aspiring 30-something actress who takes a job babysitting for her idol, which shows her the truth about the life she always wanted. Brantley is also writing and directing. And Megan Fox is joining FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2, playing the villainous Toy Chica. Returning cast members include Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio and Theodus Crane. Emma Tammi is again directing from a script by videogame series author Scott Cawthon.
Apparently, OCEAN'S 14 is finally coming together. Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and friends will be back for another heist caper. Word has it that filming could start in the spring, and David Leitch may direct this one. Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon, Tim Heidecker and Nassim Lyes will star in FULL PHIL, the next offbeat comedy from French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. It's set in a near-future AI-controlled Paris that's divided sharply between classes. Saoirse Ronan will play Linda McCartney in Sam Mendes' four-film BEATLES biopic, which stars Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan as Paul, John, George and Ringo. Each film will tell the band's story through the eyes of one of the bandmates. Peter Straughan, Jack Thorne and Jez Butterworth are working on the scripts. Jaden and Willow Smith will produce and voice characters in new anime projects by Black and Japanese artists. Jaden is working on MFINDA, a fantasy epic based on a Congolese folk tale. Willow is involved with the horror thriller WEBE: SPIRIT DETECTIVE, about a sleuth solving a string of paranormal murders in the Deep South. Taron Egerton and Jessica Henwick will star in EVERYBODY WANTS TO F**K ME, a comedy thriller set in the cutthroat world of modern dating. Writer-director Jonathan Schey is making his feature debut. Filming is scheduled to start in London next month. Ashley Judd will star in 21 DOWN, a biopic in which she'll play the mother of Caden Cox, who became the first player with Down syndrome to play and score a goal in a college American football game. Sean McNamara is directing. Jenny Slate and Chris Pine will star in CAROUSEL, the next film by writer-director Rachel Lambert (Sometimes I Think About Dying). There's no word yet on the plot, but it's described as a love story. Costars include Jessica Harper, Jeffrey DeMunn and Helene Yorke. Drag queens Monet X Change, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Ginger Minj, Jujubee, Latrice Royale, Symone and Marcia Marcia Marcia are joining RuPaul in the cast of the DRAG RACE movie in which two train stewardesses must try to prevent a national catastrophe. Adam Shankman is directing. Luca Marinelli and Charlotte Vandermeersch will star in Belgian filmmaker Felix van Groeningen's next movie LET LOVE IN, about a couple that is unravelling after the revelation of an affair. Then they discover a deeper connection. And Reese Witherspoon is developing a live-action film based on the POLLY POCKET line of tiny collectible dolls, starring Lily Collins in the title role. The script is by Jordan Weiss (Freakier Friday) and Dan Brier (Sweethearts).
Tom Holland will produce and star in a film adaptation of John Grisham's 1997 novel THE PARTNER, about a likeable young lawyer in a Mississippi law firm, who steals cash from a client who has been defrauding the government. After four years on the run, he decides to turn himself in. Jason Bateman is directing from a script by Graham Moore. Anne Hathaway and Adam Driver will star in ALONE AT DAWN, based on the true story of an Air Force officer who fought while fatally wounded to protect his team, earning a posthumous medal of honour. Ron Howard is directing. Diane Kruger and Mads Mikkelsen will star in AMI, a survival thriller about an astronaut who is stranded on a strange planet with only an AI assistant to keep him company. Director Fernando Szurman plans to shoot the film in Spain. Mel Gibson, Esai Morales, Renata Notni and Marty Lindsey will star in COYOTE, a thriller about a retired smuggler who helps a woman and her daughter avoid both traffickers and law enforcement to cross the border. Austrian filmmaker Per Prinz is making his feature directing debut with a script he wrote with Adam J Goldstein. Stephan James has joined the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, as Carl Weathers, aka Apollo Creed. The film follows Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) as he writes his 1976 classic Rocky, then refuses to sell the script unless he plays the title role. Peter Farrelly is directing. William H Macy, Nolan Gerard Funk, Meadow Williams, Ludi Lin, Cristiano Caccamo and Emanuela Postacchini will star in ETERNITY, a thriller about a conman who targets a wealthy widow on her super-yacht, then dark secrets begin to emerge. Jamie Marshall is directing. Tobias Menzes is lined up to take on a major role in the long-awaited THE BATMAN PART II, which will again star Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, Andy Serkis and Jeffrey Wright, plus Barry Keoghan as the Joker. Matt Reeves is also back as director. Zach Cherry (Severance), Kali Reis (True Detective) and Johnno Wilson (Twisted Metal) are joining the cast of Zach Cregger's new stand-alone take on the RESIDENT EVIL franchise, which also stars Austin Abrams and Paul Walter Hauser. The script is by Shay Hatten (John Wick Chapter 3). Filming starts this month in Prague. Steven Cree will write and star in BEN & LUCY, a Glasgow-set comedy drama about a comedian who is recovering from alcoholism and trying to reach out to his estranged daughter, who is falling into her father's self-destructive patterns. Robert Carlyle and Stuart Martin costar; Cora Bissett is directing. And Brad Pitt will produce a feature adaptation of Mark Ronson's coming-of-age memoir NIGHT PEOPLE, which traces his years as a struggling DJ in New York in the 1990s before he hit worldwide success with the likes of Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. << NEWER NEWS | |
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | ||
 September TV Roundup SCREEN: Chief of War, Wednesday 2, Smoke, Dexter: Resurrection, The Institute, Stick, Fisk and more...  Chaos, transformation, rebirth DANCE: Andrea Pena's near-naked Bogota explores history and culture at Sadler's Wells East...  A joyous fusion DANCE: Acosta Danza celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhilarating explosion of rhythm at Sadler's Wells...  You’ve been framed DANCE: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Vlaemsch (Chez Moi) explores the complexities of his Flemish identity at Sadler's Wells... DANCE: Sadeck Berrabah's Murmuration: Level 2 at the Peacock Theatre... INTERVIEW: Writer-director Corey Sherman talks about his film Big Boys... STAGE: Lorenzo Allchurch's new play Lost Watches at the Park Theatre... DANCE: Pete Townsend's Quadrophenia becomes a mod ballet at Sadler's Wells... JULY TV: Too Much, The Bear 4, Andor 2, Squid Game 3, The Last of Us 2, Sirens, Murderbot and more... STAGE: Kiki & Herb return to London for three nights at Soho Theatre Walthamstow... STAGE: Otto & Astrid bring The Stages Tour to London for one night only... DANCE: Botis Seva's Until We Sleep defies gravity at Sadler's Wells East... STAGE: Simon Kane's surreal Jonah Non Grata at Soho Theatre, then the Fringe...
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