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Ayo Edebiri will write and possibly star in a live-action BARNEY movie, bringing the iconic purple dinosaur to the big screen. There's no word yet on the plot, but the adult-aimed project has been in development for the past five years. Daniel Kaluuya is one of the producers. Tessa Thompson, Eddie Redmayne and Patsy Ferran will star in LATER THE WAR, the new film by writer-director Charlie Kaufman. It's adapted from a short story about a man who is promoted from creating dreams to manufacturing nightmares, then discovers a real life nightmare in his personal life. Yahya Abdul-Mateen will join Mark Wahlberg and Sterling K Brown for BY ANY MEANS, based on the true story of a mafia hitman who was hired by J Edgar Hoover to hunt down those responsible for killing civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi. Elegance Bratton (The Inspection) is directing. Jamie Lee Curtis will produce TRUEBADOUR, a thriller about a tech company that is upended when they start using an innovative artificial-intelligence device. The cast includes Kevin Kreider, Ryan Bergara, Gina Su, Matt Gottlieb and Tom Herrick. Jennifer Zhang (Charon) is directing. Chris Pine will star in NOWHERE FAST, a contemporary Western thriller about a small-town criminal in Texas who accidentally kills his boss' nephew and has to go on the run. Noah Hawley (Fargo) is writing and directing. Tom Waites has joined the ensemble cast of Martin McDonagh's new film, WILD HORSE NINE, which will be shot on Easter Island. The plot is being kept under wraps; costars include Sam Rockwell, Mark Ruffalo, Parker Posey and John Malkovich. Richard Grieco, Randy Charach, Rampage Jackson, Natalie Burn, Al Sapienza and David Chokachi will team up for VANISHED, an action thriller about a defence contractor working to rescue his daughter, who has been kidnapped and held for ransom. Jared Cohn is directing. Teresa Palmer will join Russell Crowe and Nina Dobrev in BEAR COUNTRY, an action thriller about a club owner who is robbed by a masked gunman, jeopardising his plans for the future. Director Derrick Borte is currently filming in Australia. Katie Cassidy (Arrow) will star in the thriller NAMNY CAM, about a new mother trying to protect her daughter from what she believes to be a demon. Costars include Myles Clohessy, Riley Dandy and Sol Miranda. Writer-director Jenni Farley (aka JWoww) starts filming next month in New Jersey And work is apparently moving forward again on a sequel to the 2005 DC Comics adaptation CONSTANTINE, about a man who gets caught up in a battle between heaven and hell. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, director Francis Lawrence and writer Akiva Goldsman are all lined up to return.
Janelle Monae will produce and star in the heist thriller NEVER SAW ME COMING, based on the true story of Tanya Smith, the teen hacker who made a fortune when she infiltrated America's banking system. And then she outsmarted the FBI when they caught up with her. Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to star in Martin Scorsese's next movie, a thriller set in 1960s Hawaii as a mobster battles to take over the islands' criminal underworld. Based on a true story, the script will be written by documentarian Nick Bilton. Zendaya is apparently being lined up to star opposite Will Smith in a long-gestating sequel to HANCOCK, the 2008 film about an amnesiac, alcoholic superhero who struggles to remember his past. Charlize Theron and director Peter Berg have both said they would be up for returning. Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat will team up as THE WRONG GIRLS, aimless young women whose use of an experimental drug gives them telepathic abilities. And now everyone wants it. Costars include Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, LaKeith Stanfield and Tony Hale. Dylan Meyer is writing and directing. Mahershala Ali will star in YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER, finally teaming up with writer-director Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli), who dropped out of directing Ali's Blade reboot, which is currently in limbo. The plot of this new film is being kept under wraps. Mia Goth, Shiloh Fernandez, Jesse Garcia, Rafi Gavron and Will Yun Lee are the latest additions to the growing ensemble cast of Christopher Nolan's ambitious adaptation of Homer's THE ODYSSEY. Cast members include Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron. Jack O'Connell has joined Kaitlin Dever in the next GODZILLA X KONG movie, the sixth in the series, which will feature humans and titans facing a world-ending threat of some kind. Dan Stevens is back as the super-cool veterinarian. Grant Sputore is directing from a script by Dave Callaham. Rashida Jones will direct PLAYDATE, based on an original story by Marie Osterbye (Deliver Us). It's about two mothers who launch into psychological warfare after a flurry of bullying between their feuding daughters. Mena Suvari, Nick Stahl and India Marie Cross will join Caleb Landry Jones in DOWN THE ARM OF GOD, which is based on real events as a young pastor in a small Texas town tries to help the homeless amid opposition from his congregation. Peter Brunner is directing, and also writing the script with Jones. Mickey Rourke, Justin Chatwin, Vanessa Angel, William Forsythe, Eddie Kay Thomas and Rob Gronkowski will star in THE ROARING GAME, a comedy about a janitor who assembles a misfit curling team in an effort to win back his hockey-playing ex at the Winter Olympics. Tom DeNucci is writing and directing. And Joseph Kosinski will reteam with Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer to make an action thriller that they are describing as All the President's Men with UFOs. Nothing else is known about the project, which studios are clamouring to get their hands on. Zach Baylin (The Order) is writing the script.
Kate Winslet will star in and make her directing debut with GOODBYE JUNE, about a group of estranged siblings forced to pull together during a family crisis. Costars include Toni Collette, Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall and Johnny Flynn. The script is by Joe Anders, Winslet's son. Kristen Wiig and Bill Murray will star in EPIPHANY, the next quirky comedy from Max Barbakow (Palm Springs). It's about a socialite who is determined to marry rich in order to maintain her fashionista lifestyle, and she sets her sights on a billionaire mathematical genius. Javier Bardem will star in THE BELOVED, as an acclaimed director who reunites with his estranged actress daughter to make a movie together. Along the way, they need to confront buried issues from their past. Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts) is writing and directing. Morena Baccarin, James Purefoy, Charlotte Riley, Kojo Attah and Johannes Haukur Johannesson have joined the cast of the new MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE movie, alongside Nicholas Galitzine, Alison Brie, Idris Elba, Jared Leto and Camila Mendes. Travis Knight is directing. Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe will team up for THE WEIGHT, about a widower in 1933 Oregon who is separated from his daughter and sentenced to a hard labour, where he gets caught up in a gold smuggling scheme run by the work camp's ruthless boss. Padraic McKinley is directing. Naomi Ackie, Bill Nighy, Daniel Mays and Bodhi Rae Breathnach have joined Jason Statham in an untitled action movie that just started filming in Great Britain. The film apparently features that old chestnut plot in which a man is pushed to action when his violent past catches up with him. Ric Roman Waugh is directing from a script by Ward Parry. Derek Jacobi, Mawaan Rizwan, Alice Eve, Meera Syal, Danny Dyer, Maria Friedman, Ray Fearon, Lucien Laviscount and James Lance have joined TINSEL TOWN, alongside Rebel Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland and comedians Kathryn Ryan, Jason Manford and Asim Chaudhry. It's about a Hollywood action star who travels to small-town England to appear in a stage production of Cinderella. Chris Foggin is directing. Jenna Fischer, Mason Thames, Angela Kinsey, Ryan Foust and Ignacio Diaz-Silverio will star in NEW YEARS REV, a comedy about friends who take a road trip across America for their big break, opening for Green Day at a New Year's Eve concert in Los Angeles. Lee Kirk is writing and directing. Jack Kesy, Julio Cesar Cedillo and Kate Del Castillo will star in the thriller sequel THE BLACK DEMON: ATLANTIS, about an undercover DEA operative inside a prison in the middle of the ocean, which is attacked by a massive shark. Ben Hernandez Bray is directing. And Douglas Hodge, Max Beesley, JJ Feild and Betty Gabriel are joining John Krasinski in the feature film that follows on from Tom Clancy's JACK RYAN television series. Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly are also returning, plus Sienna Miller. Andrew Bernstein is directing.
Kerry Washington and Steven Yeun are joining Ben Affleck and Gillian Anderson in ANIMALS, a thriller about a mayoral candidate and his wife who take action to rescue their kidnapped son. Affleck is also directing, and will start filming in Los Angeles next month from a script by Billy Ray and Connor McIntyre. Riley Keough and Barry Keoghan will star in BUTTERFLY JAM, about a teen in New Jersey's tight-knit Circassian immigrant community who wants to escape the family restaurant business and become a wrestler. Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole) is directing. Laura Dern has joined the cast of IS THIS THING ON, about an understudy who has to be ready to take on all of the roles in a play. Bradley Cooper is writing the script with and starring alongside Will Arnett. He's also directing and will operate a camera himself when filming starts next month. Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce and Josh Brolin are lined up to join Jacob Elordi in THE DOG STARS, based on the novel about two men who are seeking for signs of a better life in a dystopian America after a devastating pandemic. Ridley Scott is directing from a script by Mark L Smith (The Revenant). Bill Skarsgard, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe are joining Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer in THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, which picks up the story of the notorious thief later in his life. Michael Sarnoski is directing. Paul Giamatti will play the late author and radio host Art Bell in a biopic that will be directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (aka Radio Silence). Bell's iconic shows featured guests sharing stories about time travel, alien encounters and past lives. The script is by Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves. Miles Teller will star in the biopic BARTALI, about Italian cyclist Gino Bartali, who went on to become a war hero after winning the 1938 Tour de France, then returned to win again in 1948. E Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Nyad) are directing. Meanwhile, Teller is also joining Casey Affleck in WILD GAME, a thriller about a fish and game officer who ends up being hunted by a renegade poacher in the Black Rock Desert. Jason Hall (American Sniper) is writing and directing. Madelyn Cline will join Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp in DAY DRINKER, a thriller about a bartender who is grieving the loss of her partner when she becomes entangled with a mysterious stranger. Mark Webb is directing from a script by Zach Dean. Sope Dirisu will star in MY FATHER'S SHADOW, about two brothers in rural 1993 Nigeria who spend a special day with their estranged father, travelling to the big city for the first time. Akinola Davies Jnr is directing and writing the script with his brother Wale Davies. Aaron Paul and Jacob Tremblay will play the same character at different ages in THE NIGHT HOUSE, based on the Jo Nesbo novel about a teen who witnesses a classmate get sucked into a telephone receiver, but no one believes him. Jesper Ganslandt is directing from a script he wrote with Nesbo. Brad Peyton will direct a live-action adaptation of BAKUGAN, the anime series and line of toys featuring tiny action heroes that emerge from marbles. There's no word on how this will transform into a plot. And Dave Bautista will lead the thriller DREADNOUGHT, set after an alien species has arrived on Earth, unleashing a plague that wipes out most of humanity. And survivors and interlopers are struggling to live together. Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott are directing from a script by Joseph Greenburg. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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