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OBSESSION THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 PROJECT HAIL MARY MICHAEL THE SHEEP DETECTIVES AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH VOICEMAILS FOR ISABELLE MORTAL KOMBAT II SCREAM 7 THE GOOD BOY HOKUM HOPPERS REMINDERS OF HIM NORMAL POWER BALLAD TUNER THE MASTERMIND EXIT 8 (Jpn) THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE (Irq) BILLIE EILISH: HIT ME HARD AND SOFT • Also worth watching: SHE'S THE HE. THE LAST GUEST OF THE HOLLOWAY MOTEL. HOW TO MAKE A KILLING. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE. KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN. EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC. I AM FRANKELDA. MISS YOU, LOVE YOU. SCARLET. I SWEAR.	D A T E L I N E : 1 2 J U L Y . . . Rachel Zegler, Amy Ryan and Penn Badgley will star in NDA, a psychological thriller about a woman who files a harassment claim at work, then begins to question both the truth and her sanity. Writer-director Audrey Ellis Fox just started filming in New York. Dwayne Johnson will star in FREE BYRD, as a has-been motorcycle daredevil who wants to perform one more risky stunt before his dementia gets more advanced. The film reteams director Greg Kwedar with Sing Sing cowriter Clint Bentley. Diego Calva is joining the cast of POSSESSION, a remake of the 1981 supernatural thriller about a marriage that is fractured by a sinister force. The film also stars Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley and Paul Dano. Parker Finn is writing and directing. Sacha Baron Cohen has apparently shot a new ALI G movie in secret, returning to the clandestine style of filmmaking he used with Borat and Bruno. This rude-boy interviewer character was last seen on the big screen in 2002's Ali G Indahouse. Details have yet to be released, but it was apparently filmed in America. Guy Pearce will narrate the documentary THE VESUVIUS CHALLENGE, which follows a scientist creating software that can read hundreds of ancient scrolls that were buried by the volcano's eruption in 79 AD. Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme are directing. Noomi Rapace, Michael Beihn, Ron Funches, Roland Moller, Laz Alonso and Dan Fogler are joining the cast of THE KELLYS, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth and Geena Davis. It's about a disgraced New York cop who enlists his family to rescue his kidnapped wife. Brad Peyton is directing from a script by Tze Chun. John Goodman is joining Brie Larson in the horror thriller SKELETONS, about a young boy who discovers that his parents are hiding a dark secret about his mother. Costars include Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner and Ione Skye. JT Mollner is directing. Ron Perlman and Daniel Stisen are joining the thriller ANGELS IN DARKNESS, about a private detective trying to stop a cult from unleashing an ancient curse on the world. Costars include Cuba Gooding Jr, Anarosa Butler, Agathe Levi, Sam Nejad and Robert Goodman. Ali Zamani is writing and directing. Anthony and Joe Russo are developing a remake of the 1993 hit FREE WILLY, about a preteen who sets out to rescue an ageing orca from a local aquarium. Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett are writing the script. And Jake Shears will produce TINDERBOX, based on the book about the 1973 murder of 32 people when a New Orleans gay nightclub was set on fire. Shears will also provide music for the film. Colby Holt and Sam Probst (Ganymede) are writing and directing. D A T E L I N E : 8 J U L Y . . . Vicky Krieps, Josh Gad, George Mackay and Omar Sy are joining the cast of the OCEAN'S prequel, which stars Bradley Cooper and Margot Robbie as Danny Ocean's parents, running a Monte Carlo heist in 1962. Wagner Moura and Monica Barbaro costar; Cooper is also writing and directing. Jude Law will produce and star in an action thriller about a getaway driver who encounters a series of obstacles as tries to reach safety. Zach Baylin (King Richard) is writing the script. Ariana Greenblatt and Rain Spencer will star in LITTLE FIVE, based on the true story of four student athletes as they launch the first women's team in Indiana University's Little 500 bicycle race in the 1980s. Ian Samuels is directing; Anne Hathaway is producing. Ashley Walters, Nathalie Emmanuel, Leo Gregory and Emmett J Scanlan are joining the cast of ECHOES, a short drama about two men whose lives intersect as they are confronting issues from their childhood in boarding school. Alex Lanipekun is writing and directing. Harvey Keitel will star alongside his wife Daphne Kastner to make a movie guerrilla-style on the streets of Hollywood. There's no word yet on the plot. Kastner is also writing and directing. Maya Da Costa (Girls Like Girls), Chase Yi (Mythic Quest) and Sonia Mena (Tell Me Lies) will star in a new PARANORMAL ACTIVITY movie, which is being directed by Ian Tuason (Undertone). Plot details remain under wraps for this eighth movie in the series that started in 2007. William Mapother, Valerie Jane Parker, Amanda Righetti and Spencer Locke will star in the horror thriller SHED, about a young woman whose repressed trauma begins haunting her from inside her body. Filming in Nashville, Mila Vilaplana is directing from a script by Parker. Clive Standen (Vikings) will star in THE COLONEL, based on the true story of a WWII veteran who became a celebrated football coach in Texas. Costars include Kelly Frye, Sam Huntsman and Peter Gerety. Writer-director Tim Williams is one of the coach's former players. Rising Brazilian stars Maeve Jinkings, Barbara Colen and Marcio Vito will star in MESOPOTAMIA, a dramatic thriller set in rural Brazil during the military dictatorship in 1974, as a couple battles officials who demand their land to build a hydroelectric plant. Andy Malafaia is directing. And the AI "actor" Tilly Norwood has landed her first feature movie, as the lead in the comedy thriller MISALIGNED, a coming-of-age story about an artificial being who assembles her back-story from whatever she finds online. It's being described as a hybrid production combining traditional filmmaking with AI tools. D A T E L I N E : 5 J U L Y . . . 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. b>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. D A T E L I N E : 1 J U L Y . . . 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. OLDER NEWS >>
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