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Even before the live-action remake opens next week, Dwayne Johnson says he is already in talks to return for an animated MOANA 3. Auli'i Cravalho will also be back to voice the eponymous island heroine. Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller are writing the script. Allison Williams, Simu Liu, Michelle Randolph and Anais Parello will star in the thriller HOMEWRECKER, about three Americans who collide in France just as a major event sends the world into chaos. Director Xavier Gens starts filming in Paris next week. Paul Dano will join Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner in a remake of the 1981 thriller POSSESSION, which was about a couple in Cold War-era Berlin whose marriage spirals into supernatural horror. Parker Finn (Smile) is writing and directing the remake. Troy Kotsur and Flula Borg are starring in the horror satire THE AMERICAN WINNER, about a tech billionaire who manipulates world markets while protecting a strange being that is pregnant with his child. Farbod Ardebili is writing and directing. Peter Dinklage will produce and star in the action thriller THE RECKONER. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it's being written by Derek Kolstad (John Wick, Nobody, Ballerina), so we have a fair idea what this will be. Kenji Tanigaki (The Furious) is directing. Kiefer Sutherland, Barry Pepper, C Thomas Howell and Ryan Michelle Bathe will star in THE HORSEMAN, a Western set in the late 1880s as a man goes to desperate measures to rescue his horse, all that's left of his family. Rod Lurie is directing from a script by Pepper and Ed Gass-Donnelly. Teri Polo and Ron Perlman will star in LIES WE FOLLOW, about a woman frustrated that doctors can't help her daughter, so she turns to a "new world" cure at an isolated retreat. Aida Gevorgyan is directing from a script he wrote with Lisa Baker. Peter Mullan, Iwan Rheon and Rebecca Lucy Taylor will star in MOUNTAIN, about a neglected young boy (newcomer Seth Isaac Thomas) befriends a hermit in rural 1980s Wales. Celyn Jones (The Almond and the Seahorse) is directing. Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty) is joining the cast of PLEASE, the new film by writer-director Halina Reijn (Babygirl). Costars include Connor Storrie, David Jonsson, Tom Burke and Gracie Abrams. There's no word yet on the plot. Acclaimed filmmaker Bille August will direct the biopic ARMANI: THE KING OF FASHION, tracing the life of Giorgio Armani, who started his career as a window dresser in the early 1930s before becoming the protege of designer Nino Cerutti. He founded his fashion house in 1975. And Zach Cregger (Weapons) will team up with Brian Duffield (Whalefall) to write and produce SIREN HEAD, based on the YouTube animations featuring a tall skeleton with two loudspeakers for a head. Duffield will direct the film.
Rob Lowe says that a script has been written for a 40-years-later ST ELMO'S FIRE sequel, and than the original cast is up for returning, possibly including Demi Moore, Andie MacDowell, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy. Monica Barbaro is lined up to join Bradley Cooper, Margot Robbie and Wagner Moura in the OCEAN'S prequel, which is set around the parents of Danny Ocean (George Clooney in the films). Cooper is writing and directing, and also producing alongside Robbie. Colin Farrell, Steve Coogan, Domhnall Gleeson, Himesh Patel, Niamh Algar and Charlie Heaton are joining the cast ofthe thriller BAD BRIDGETS, alongside Emilia Jones and Alison Oliver. It's about a woman in 19th century Ireland who is lured into a mysterious underworld in New York City. Rich Peppiatt (Kneecap) is writing and directing. Sissy Spacek and Tim Robbins are joining the cast of the romantic comedy THE CATCH, as Emma Stone's father and aunt. The film centres on a baseball player who makes a mistake that causes her team to lose a pivotal game. Costars include Chris Pine and Ashley Padilla. Dave McCary is directing. Sam Claflin, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sian Clifford, Tom Hollander, Anthony Boyle and Josh Finan are joining the dark comedy THE WORST, alongside Keira Knightley, Alicia Vikander and Erin Kellyman. It's about a posh couples' getaway that spirals into a disaster. Simon Woods is writing and directing. Alfredo Castro is reteaming with Chilean writer-director Pablo Larrain for ONCE (Spanish for "eleven"), which follows 11 stories over the hours following the military coup that overthrew Allende in 1973. Costars include Octavia Bernasconi, Alejandro Goic, Valentina Muhr, Roberto Farias and Marcelo Alonso. Lulu Wilson, Jada Jay, Freddy Carter, Mark McKenna, Stelio Savante, Jeremy Gauna and musician John Ford Coley will star in DO NOT OPEN, a contained supernatural thriller set in a storage facility. Writer-director Kristian McKay is currently filming in Texas. Imani Lewis and Tanya Wright will star in KILLA, a dramatic horror film about a young woman from Louisiana who wants to become a top basketball star but is derailed by a mysterious supernatural force. Laci Dent is making her writing-directing debut. Aaron Moorhead, Madeline Weinstein, Arthur Langlie, Riley Dandy and Oliver Stark are joining the cast of CUT YOUR TEETH, which is set at a weekend engagement party that is upended by a betrayal that ripples through the group. Sam Goodwin is writing and directing. And Brian Austin Green, Tania Raymonde, Breanna Yde, Rob Huebel, Brendan Sexton III and Steve Agee will star in EAT YOUR HEART OUT, a musical with horror-comedy overtones as a party drug incites zombie mayhem at a music festival. Taylor Morden is writing and directing.
Selena Gomez and Timothee Chalamet will voice the lead characters in the animated adventure NOT ALONE, about a botanist developing a plant-fuelled rocket with an introverted mechanic. Then they encounter a group of aliens. Brett Goldstein, Allison Janney, Rob Brydon, Jamie Demetriou, Lamorne Morris and Diane Morgan are also in the cast. Eric Guillon (Despicable Me 3) is directing. Tom Holland is making a film with Danish writer-director Tom Vinterberg. They first worked together on a Prada advert last year, and haven't released any details about their new project. Vinterberg's last feature was 2020's award-winning Another Round. Nia Long and Ice Cube will reteam for ARE THEY GONE YET?, a second sequel to Are We There Yet? The first two films followed a ladies' man taking on the children of his girlfriend-then-wife. The script is by Chris Hazzard and Mike Fontana. Glen Powell will star in the dark thriller HOMEWRECKERS, about a woman who tries to add spark to her marriage by reliving her romance with a younger AI version of her husband. Craig Gillespie is directing. Elizabeth Banks is producing a film adaptation of the children's series THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS, and will play the teacher Ms Frizzle, who takes her class on outrageous field trips each day. Rob Letterman (Detective Pikachu) is directing. Lily James will star in the horror thriller SEASONS, based on a short story about a husband and wife who buy their dream home, then discover that it is full of ancient spirits that demand seasonal rituals. Drew Hancock (Companion) is directing. Sirens costars Meghann Fahy and Glenn Howerton will reteam for THE GIRLFRIEND, about a man who hires an escort to be his wife's best friend after she moves to a new town with him. Natalie Morales is directing from a script by Howerton and Rich Appel. Taika Waititi and Jemane Clement are working on WE'RE WOLVES, a sequel to their 2014 mock-documentary What We Do in the Shadows, which of course sparked a six-season America-set sitcom in the intervening years. The new film will centre around Rhys Darby's werewolf Anton. Acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Holland will direct BERLINWEH: YEARNING FOR A HOME, a biopic about screen icon Marlene Dietrich. The German-born star was a singer, actress and fierce anti-Nazi activist. The script is by Ingo Rasper. And Romeo Beckham will make his acting debut in the romantic drama FORTY LOVE, as an upstart rival to a tennis superstar. Costars include Catherine Deneuve, Paul Kircher, Guillaume Canet and Benjamin Voisin. Fashion photographer Pierre-Ange Carlotti is making his directing debut.
Cher and Bob Geldof are lined up to voice roles in FLY SQUAD: FIRST STRIKE, an animated Australian adventure centring around a team of insects that takes on the evil owner of a chemical plant. The script is by Anthony Maley. Kate Hudson and Ana de Armas will star in the thriller PALM GROVE, about a woman who discovers that her husband has a double who also lives in their exclusive Miami neighbourhood. Kornel Mundruczo is directing from a script by James Morosini. Keanu Reeves will star in a new Lego movie that's being developed by filmmaker Josh Cooley, who previously worked with Reeves on Toy Story 4. All that's known about the film is that it will be a live-action/animation hybrid. Everything else is being kept under wraps. Kylie Minogue and Quentin Tarantino are teaming up for TANGLED UP IN BLUE, which also stars Jason Isaacs, Allison Williams, Sofia Boutella and RZA. Details are being kept under wraps. Jamie Adams is writing and directing. Kevin Bacon will star in the thriller SUMMONER, as an exorcist who confronts a demon in an isolated witness protection location, with horrific repercussions. Jeremy Slater is writing and directing. Sandra Oh and Charles Melton are joining Matt Damon in the next film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once), which is being called a sci-fi action comedy set both in the 1980s and today. Plot details are being kept under wraps, of course. Halle Bailey, Ansel Elgort, Chris Bridges, Alan Ritchson, JB Smoove and CeeLo Green are voicing characters in GROOVE TAILS, an animated musical adventure following a young mouse who dreams of fame as a dancer in New York. Bob Logan is directing from a script by Johnny Mack. Jeff Daniels is joining Brendan Fraser in STARMAN, a thriller about a visionary scientist who is stranded millions of miles from Earth when a Mars mission goes awry. Josh Wakely is writing and directing. Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place) will star in and write the crime thriller GRACE, about a deaf teen whose family's violent secret past begins to create serious problems that she needs to address. And Jim Carrey may reprise his title role for a sequel to 2000's HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. It's difficult to imagine where this story can go, but Curb Your Enthusiasm writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel are officially working on the script. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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