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Pedro Pascal looks set to take over Joaquin Phoenix's role in DE NOCHE, writer-director Todd Haynes' romantic drama that Phoenix notoriously dropped out of just days before filming was supposed to begin last year. Danny Rodriguez costars in the film, which follows two men who leave Los Angeles for Mexico in the 1930s. Amy Adams, Eva Mendes, Aaron Pierre, Daniel Ings and Simon Bird are joining STARFIGHTER, Shawn Levy's stand-alone Star Wars movie, which takes place after the sequel trilogy and follows a soldier who is transporting a force-sensitive child. The film also stars Ryan Gosling, Matt Smith, Mia Goth and newcomer Flynn Gray. Antonio Banderas, Forest Whitaker, Richard E Grant, Eva Birthistle and Arinze Kene will star in ROSE'S BABY, a romantic comedy-drama about a couple trying to set aside the drama surrounding their divorce so they can support their daughter. Director Trudie Styler is filming in the UK from a script by Camille Griffin and Chloe King. Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson will star in KILLING SATOSHI, a thriller that explores the mysterious background of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Doug Liman is directing from a script by Nick Schenk. Filming kicks off in London in October. Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen are teaming up for the comedy BABIES, about a couple that's trying to decide whether or not they want to become parents. Then a single-parent friend moves into their home with a 3 year old. Lauren Miller Rogen (aka Seth's wife) is directing. Kristen Bell and Daniela Melchior are joining David Harbour in VIOLENT NIGHT 2, the continuing action adventures of a fearsome John Wick-style Santa Claus. Tommy Wirkola is back as director, as are writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller. John Cho and Alexandra Daddario will star in INGROUND, about a man who builds a swimming pool in his backyard with his son after his divorce, but the bonding experience turns horrific. Aaron Katz (Gemini) is directing. Emma Roberts will star in A MURDER UNCORKED, a romantic comedy about an actress who loses her TV detective role and goes to work in a Napa Valley winery, where she has to solve a murder. Ari Sandel (When We First Met) is directing from a script by Karen McCullah (Legally Blonde). Milly Alcock (Supergirl) will star in THUMB, as a lonely young woman who receives a severed thumb in the mail, then sets out to discover the hand it once belonged to. The script is by Cesar Vitale. Nina Dobrev, Tyler Hoechlin and Virginia Gardner will star in IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER, a romantic comedy based on the novel about a Hollywood starlet who is cut off from her wealthy family and ends up living on a beach, where she clashes with an uncouth, sexy local. Peter Hutchings is directing. After playing Al Pacino in The Offer, Anthony Ippolito will take on Sylvester Stallone in I PLAY ROCKY, a biopic that traces the making of the original 1976 Rocky movie. The then-unknown Stallone famously refused to sell his script until the studio agreed that he could also star in the film. Peter Farrelly is directing from a script by Peter Gamble. And Bryan Singer has apparently directed a secret movie starring Jon Voight. Shot in Greece last year, all that's known about the film is that it's a father-son drama set during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the 1970s and 80s. Singer's last project was Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), from which he was fired before filming was completed.
Halle Berry will star in FLEUR, about a New York woman who, after 30 years as a housewife, runs off to Paris to reinvent herself as an escort and dominatrix, then wonders if she can ever go home again. Ellie Foumbi is writing and directing. Blake Lively will produce and star in THE SURVIVAL LIST, an action romcom about a TV producer who is shipwrecked on a remote island with a celebrity survivalist who isn't as knowledgable as he claims to be. The script is by Tom Melia (Rye Lane). Tramell Tillman (Severance) is joining the cast of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, which is currently filming in Britain with Tom Holland, Zendaya, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Bernthal, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon and Liza Colon-Zayas. Destin Daniel Cretton is directing. Vera Farmiga is joining Mark Wahlberg in WEEKEND WARRIORS, a remake of the German comedy-drama about exhausted parents who find a way to reach out to their autistic son (Obi-Wan's Indie DesRoches) by taking him across the country to basketball games. Stephen Chbosky is writing and directing. Adam Sandler and Shawn Levy are teaming up to produce DAD CAMP, based on the novel about a retreat where a man and his pre-teen daughter test the limits of the bond between them. Kevin Jakubowski (8-Bit Christmas) is writing the script. Chase Sui Wonders and Sophie Wilde are joining Cory Michael Smith in OCTOBER, which is being described as a fugitive action thriller that's set around the Halloween season. Jeremy Saulner (Rebel Ridge) is writing and directing. Josh Holloway will star in ONE SECOND AFTER, an action thriller about a professor with a military past who helps lead his town to safety after an electromagnetic pulse switches off the world's power. Stunt coordinator Scott Rogers is making his directing debut. Jaime Pressly, Laraine Newman, Michael Rappaport, basketball star Baron Davis and country musician Lil Man J will star in LAST SHOT, a coming-of-age drama about a 12-year-old basketball prodigy (Dylan Friedman) who must reconnect with his absent mother after his father dies. Andy Palmer is directing. David Gyasi has landed the lead role in THE BARD, a biopic about poet George Moses Horton, the first Black author to be published in America. He was still enslaved, so this was a criminal act. Costars include David Strathairn, Julia Schlarpfer and Micharl McElhatton. Kevin Wilmott is directing. And director Baltasar Kormakur will return to acting for DARK OCEAN, alongside top Icelandic actors Olafur Darri Olafsson, Thorsteinn Bachmann and Thorvaldur Kristjansson. It's about a group of crewmen stuck on a ship when the captain refuses to return to port. Baldvin Zophoniasson is directing from a script by Mattias Tryggvi Harandsson.
Jason Momoa will produce and star in an action movie that's set on a pirate ship. It's being described as similar to The Raid, in the way it layers one battle on top of another. David Leitch (Bullet Train) is directing from a script by Will Dunn (Ms Marvel). Jake Gyllenhaal and Kevin Costner will team up for the long-gestating comedy-drama HONEYMOON WITH HARRY, about a man who, when his fiancee dies two days before the wedding, opts to go on his honeymoon with the man who would have been his father-in-law. Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are reteaming with Crazy Stupid Love screenwriter Dan Fogelman. Regina Hall and Anna Faris will be back as Brenda and Cindy in a legacy sequel to SCARY MOVIE, which will be the sixth film in the horror spoof series. Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory Wayans are also back on board as writers and producers alongside Rick Alvarez. Michael Tiddes is directing. Guy Pearce and Jack O'Connell are being lined up to star in the biopic INK, based on the play about how Rupert Murdoch's 1969 purchase of The Sun and editor Larry Lamb's subsequent rivalry with The Mirror reshaped the worldwide news landscape. Danny Boyle is directing from a script by playwright James Graham. Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer will star in a new film adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic play DEATH OF A SALESMAN, which explores the tension within an ordinary family pursuing the American Dream. Chinonye Chukwu (Till) is directing from a script by Tony Kushner. Karen Gillan has joined the cast of Chad Stahelski's HIGHLANDER reboot, which also stars Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Dave Bautista and Marisa Abela. It's an action adventure about a medieval Scottish warrior who discovers that he is immortal. The script is by Michael Finch. Catherine Keener and Gabriel Basso are joining the romantic drama LOVE OF YOUR LIFE, alongside Margaret Qualley, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Aaron Pierre. It's about a young widow who embarks on a personal journey to begin moving forward with her life. Rachel Morrison is directing from a script by Julia Cox. Diego Luna will star in and produce MEXICO '86, based on the true story of Mexico's audacious bid to host the 13th World Cup. The event is famed for Maradona's notorious "Hand of God" goal and the first appearance of the Mexican Wave. Gabriel Ripstein (600 Miles) is directing. Anthony Anderson, Amy Landecker, Kellu Garner and Rich Sommer are joining the cast of Chris Rock's untitled next film as writer, director, producer and costar. It's about an actress (Rosalind Eleazar) trying to reignite her career. Costars include Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Kaluuya and Topher Grace. Justin Long is sticking with the horror genre, and is set to star in two more. He'll costar with Kate Bosworth in NIGHT PATROL, which is described as "a kinetic thriller with teeth". And he'll also lead COYOTES, about a Los Angeles cop who is dragged back into his former gang life after his brother witnesses a murder. And Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood are apparently going to be back as Gandalf and Frodo in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM, the first of two new films that Andy Serkis is directing. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Serkis is also reprising his title role.
Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, Henry Golding and Lily Collins will star in CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS. Likely to be a romantic comedy-drama, the plot is being kept tightly under wraps. Jason Orley (Big Time Adolescence) is directing from a script by Isaac Aptaker (Love, Simon). Tiffany Haddish, Maggie Grace, Devon Sawa and Ralph Macchio will star in THE GIRL IN THE RIVER, a thriller about a young psychologist and a veteran criminologist who team up to investigate the murder of a young girl and the disappearance of her twin sister. Writer-director Brando Benetton has just started filming in Mississippi. LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke and Sam Claflin are joining the cast of F.A.S.T., an action thriller about a former commando who is hired to lead a black ops team against a group of drug dealers. Costars include Brandon Skenar and Juliana Canfield; veteran cinematographer Ben Richardson is directing from a script by Taylor Sheridan. Kristen Wiig will voice the warrior Roboto in the new MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE movie, which stars Nicholas Galitzine (as He-Man), Idris Elba, Jared Leto, Alison Brie, Morena Baccarin, James Purefoy and Camila Mendes. Travis Knight is directing from a script by Chris Buttler. Sandra Huller, August Diehl, Anna Madeley, Hanns Zichler, Theo Trebs and David Striesow will star in 1949, about a journalist rally driver and her father who drive from Frankfurt into Soviet-controlled East Germany at the start of the Cold War. Pawel Pawlikowski is directing from a script he wrote with Henk Handloegten. Filming started this week in Poland. Chris O'Dowd is the latest new cast member in ARTIFICIAL, Luca Guadagnino's ensemble comedy-drama biopic about the founder of OpenAI. Also on board are Andrew Garfield, Monica Barbaro, Cooper Koch, Yura Borisov, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Zosia Mamet, Billie Lourd and Ike Barinholtz. Randall Park will star in BETTER LIFE, which is being described as a dark comedy with a sci-fi twist. Apparently, first-time writer-director Jessica Liu based the story on the life of her immigrant father. Kal Penn, Chris Redd, Adam Pally, David Castaneda and Edy Modica are joining the cast of WHAT THE F**K IS MY PASSWORD, about a guy who has only four tries to remember the password that will give him access to his newly accrued crypto-fortune. Costars include Alexander Ludwig, Kate Walsh, Stephen Dorff and Poppy Liu. Steve Pink is directing from a script by Jeff Morris. Cole Sprouse and Darby Lee-Stack will star in ELASTIC HEARTS, about a young couple navigating a complex relationship through personal decisions and unexpected events. Iranian-born filmmaker Milad Schwartz Avaz (Better Times) is writing and directing. And Isla Johnson (The Queen's Gambit) has landed the title role in JEHANNE D'ARC, Baz Luhrmann's epic retelling of the story of Joan of Arc, a young peasant in 15th century France who believed she was sent by God to save her nation during the Hundred Years' War. After service as a military leader, she was executed at age 19 for heresy. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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