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Josh O'Connor will star in JACK OF SPADES, a new film by Joel Coen that will be shot this summer in Scotland. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Coen is also working on a new project with his brother Ethan, while O'Connor had two high-profile films at Cannes this year. Sandra Huller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Goodman and Sophie Wilde have joined Tom Cruise and Emma D'Arcy in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's untitled new comedy, which is about a powerful man desperately trying to save the world after creating a catastrophe. Filming recently completed in London. Meanwhile, Kieran Culkin is joining Plemons in SUNRISE ON THE REAPING, the Hunger Games prequel/sequel that also stars Glenn Close, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Maya Hawke and Mckenna Grace. Francis Lawrence is directing from a script by Billy Ray. Daniel Craig and Cillian Murphy are teaming up to star in Damien Chazelle's next film, which is still untitled but is said to be set in a prison and centred around two characters. Filming is set to get underway later this year. Dwayne Johnson will produce and star in BREAKTHROUGH, a psychological thriller set in late 1990s Southern California as a young man becomes obsessed with a shady motivational guru. The script is by Zeke Goodman. Mark Ruffalo will reprise his role as Bruce Banner (aka Hulk) in SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, again starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon, plus Sadie Sink, Liza Colon-Zayas and Michael Mando. Destin Daniel Cretton is directing from a script by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Jason Momoa, Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo and Roman Reigns are lined up for the new STREET FIGHTER movie, which is being directed by Kitao Sakurai (Twisted Metal). The videogame has previously been adapted for the big screenin 1994 and 2009. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christin Milioti are teaming up for THE BACKROOMS, a horror thriller based on a viral found-footage video. It's about a filmmaker who finds himself in another dimension while walking through a labyrinthine office building. Kane Parsons is directing. Joey King is joining Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock for the PRACTICAL MAGIC sequel, which catches up with the witchy sisters from the 1998 comedy. Susanne Bier is directing from a script by Akiva Goldman and Georgie Pritchett. Filming starts this summer in London. Alan Ritchson will star in FORTUNE, an action adventure produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The plot is being kept under wraps, but it's being described as Indiana Jones meets Memento. The script is by Neil Widener and Gavin James (A Minecraft Movie). Ezra Miller will reteam with filmmaker Lynne Ramsay for a movie that will be centred around a vampire protagonist. There's no word yet on the plot. Ramsay is also working on an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel STONE MATTRESS. And word has it that Sabrina Carpenter will join the cast of the third MAMMA MIA movie, playing the daughter of Amanda Seyfried's lead character. Judy Craymer is producing the sequel, but hasn't yet confirmed the cast, which has included Meryl Streep, Cher, Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters and Dominic Cooper.
Tilda Swinton will star in DEATH IN HER HANDS, the next film by writer-director David Lowery. Described as an "otherworldly psychological thriller", it's about a recently widowed woman who discovers a note in the woods, leading her to investigate a mysterious murder. Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones will team up for HERE COMES THE FLOOD, a thriller about a bank teller, a guard and a master thief who engage in a series of double-crosses. Fernando Meirelles is directing from a script by Simon Kinberg. Bella Ramsay, Odessa Young, Carrie Coon and Lily James will star in HARMONIA, based on the real-life experiences of writer-director Guy Nattiv's grandmother, who was in an all-female cult in the 1980s. Scarlett Johansson is joining PAPER TIGER, alongside Miles Teller and Adam Driver, who play brothers who get caught up in a scheme that involves the Russian mafia. Director James Gray starts filming next month in New Jersey. Kelvin Harrison Jr, Glenn Close and Maya Hawke are joining the cast of SUNRISE ON THE REAPING, the next Hunger Games movie from director Francis Lawrence. Costars include Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak and Lenore Dove Baird. The script is by Billy Ray. Samuel L Jackson, Eva Green and Maria Pedraza are teaming up for the thriller JUST PLAY DEAD, about a criminal mastermind who fakes his death for an insurance payout while framing his wife's lover for his murder. But she has plans of her own. Gary Fleder is directing from a script by Dan Gordon. Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder will star in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, a horror film set at a summer camp. It's a new offbeat odyssey from director Jane Schoenburn (I Saw the TV Glow). Lily-Rose Depp and Jacob Elordi will star in OUTER DARK, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel set in Depression-era Appalachia as a brother and sister search for an abandoned infant while being pursued by three violent strangers. Laszlo Nemes (Son of Saul) is directing. Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy will star in THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF WILSON SHEDD, a thriller about a teacher in an abusive marriage who takes a job in a prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate, leading to a prison break. Tim Blake Nelson is writing and directing. Elizabeth Debicki is joining Brad Pitt in THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH, the sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Set several years later, the title character is now a studio fixer. David Fincher is directing from Quentin Tarantino's script. Ana de Armas is joining Tom Cruise in DEEPER, the underwater thriller that reteams Cruise with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman. It's about a deep-sea diver who encounters a supernatural force while surveying an unexplored trench. Christopher McQuarrie is adapting an original script by Max Landis. And Chris Pine will produce and star in RUN THE NIGHT, an action film about a a banker who, to save his family, must survive a perilous night in Amsterdam while being chased by assassins hired to kill him. Robert Alonzo is making his feature directing debut.
Michelle Yeoh will star in THE SURGEON, an action thriller about a retired doctor who is kidnapped and forced to operate on a mysterious patient. Then she takes on the baddies with surgical skill. Roshan Sethi is writing and directing. Dwayne Johnson will produce and most likely star in RIPPED, about an insecure man who enters an intense physical fitness programme led by a charismatic personal trainer. Joe Ballarini is adapting his own short story into a screenplay. Mikey Madison will join Kirsten Dunst in REPTILIA, a thriller about a dental hygienist who is seduced by a mermaid and lured into the underworld of exotic animal trade in Florida. Alejandro Landes Echavarria (Monos) is directing. Hannah Waddingham, Idris Elba, Celine Dion, Himesh Patel, Jimmy Fallon and Ringo Starr will voice characters in HIGH IN THE CLOUDS, an animated adventure based on the book by Paul McCartney. Toby Genkel (The Amazing Maurice) is directing from a script by Jon Crocker (Paddington 2). David Jonsson and Cooper Hoffman will star in THE LONG WALK, based on the Stephen King novel about a group of teens who compete in an annual government-sponsored contest in which, if they don't maintain a certain speed, they will be shot. Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games) is directing. Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall are teaming up for the thriller BURNING RAINBOW FARM, based on the true story of a gay couple that built a hippy enclave in rural Michigan. When their young son is taken from them by local officials, a standoff develops with police and the FBI. Justin Kurzel is directing. Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Manu Rios will team up for RAPTURE, a horror thriller set in a 14th century Yorkshire monastery as a virulent virus sweeps through the countryside, turning people in to zombies. Playwright Jordan Tannahill is making his feature writing-directing debut. Hunter Schafer and Tim Roth will star in FISH, a drama about a reclusive art historian who begins to believe that he is slowly transforming into a fish. Carlo Hintermann (The Book of Vision) is writing and directing. Jon Hamm and his Mad Men costar John Slattery will reteam for a still-untitled Hollywood satire about a bride-to-be (Zoey Deutch) who heads off on a crazy odyssey after her fiance cashes in on his celebrity hall pass. David Wain is directing. Mandy Moore is joining Nate Bargatze in THE BREADWINNER, a comedy about a man who struggles to cope when his wife strikes a huge deal on Shark Tank. Eric Appel is directing. Terry Crews, Snoop Dogg and Bill Nye are joining the voice cast of PAW PATROL: THE DINO MOVIE, a third film in the series about the animal rescue team. Also on board are McKenna Grace, Jennifer Hudson, Paris Hilton, Jameela Jamil and Fortune Feimster. And Ferris Bueller costars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are set to reunite for THE BEST IS YET TO COME, about two friends who team up to track down one of their sons, who has gone missing. Jon Turteltaub is directing.
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem will team up on-screen for a fifth time for BUNKER, about an architect who accepts a questionable job to build a survivalist room for a billionaire, prompting his wife to question their marriage. Florian Zeller (The Father) is writing and directing. Chris Hemsworth will star in SUBVERSION, a thriller set on a submarine as a commander is blackmailed into transporting illegal cargo across international waters while facing a sea blockade and threats inside the submarine. Patrick Vollrath (Everything Will Be Okay) will direct from a script by Andrew Ferguson. Rachel Zegler and Marisa Tomei will star in SHE GETS IT FROM ME, a comedy-drama about a young woman who, when she becomes engaged to be married, goes in search of her estranged punk-rocker mother. Julia von Heinz is directing. Lily James, Shun Oguri and Liv Morgan will star in BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO, about an FBI agent who arrives in Japan to investigate the disappearance of a politician's daughter and becomes entangled with a corrupt local cop. Takashi Miike is directing, reteaming with Audition screenwriter Daisuke Tengan. Meanwhile, James will also produce and star in PHOTO BOOTH, a drama about a performance artist who achieves global fame while putting off starting a family with her husband. Then a woman he had a one-night stand with turns out to be pregnant. Brothers Spencer and Lloyd Harvey are making their directing debut. Marisa Abela and Nicholas Galitzine will star in the thriller THE RETURN OF STANLY ATWELL, about the surprise reappearance of the heir to a fortune after being presumed dead for a decade, causing all kinds of mayhem. Brian Welsh (Black Mirror) is directing based on a story by Steven Soderbergh, who is producing the film. Gal Gadot will star in the thriller RUIN, which is set in post-WWII Germany as a freed concentration camp inmate teams up with a German soldier to stop a rogue Nazi unit. Niki Caro is directing from a Black List script by Kaz and Ryan Firpo (Eternals). Adam Pearson will star in THE ELEPHANT MAN, based on the 1977 play by Bernard Pomerance (rather than 1980 David Lynch film). It's the true story of Joseph Merrick, an artist and performer in Victorian London who was known for his unusual physicality. Pearson shares the same condition. The script is being written by Bernard's son Moby Pomerance. Rebecca Hall, Gael Garcia Bernal, Noomi Rapace, Beanie Feldstein and Susan Wokoma will star in THE END OF IT, a comedy-drama set in the near future where ageing can be cured, and a 250-year-old artist decides that it's time that she died, but her family disagrees. Maria Martinez Bayona is writing and directing. Natasha Lyonne will make her directing debut with UNCANNY VALLEY, for which she intends to use a clean, regulated artificial intelligence that doesn't replace human jobs or use copyrighted source material. Brit Marling is also involved in the project. Rufus Sewell, Tony Goldwyn, Justin Theroux and Tennyson Crowe are joining the cast of the Cold War thriller BILLION DOLLAR SPY, based on the true story of a Russian (Russell Crowe) who passed Soviet secrets to a CIA handler (Harry Lawtey). Costars include Vera Farmiga and Willa Fitzgerald; Amma Asante is directing. And Jenna Ortega says she is working on her own project, based on a script she has been working on for nearly a decade. She won't say anything about the plot, but says that she plans to direct and possibly star in the film. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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 May TV Roundup SCREEN: The White Lotus 3, Hacks 4, Adolescence, The Four Seasons, The Studio, Mid-Century Modern, more...  We need one-star hotels STAGE: Barney Norris puts a British spin on Lorca's Blood Wedding at Clapham's Omnibus until 24th May..  Dancing with death STAGE: Neil LaBute's How to Fight Loneliness has its UK premiere run at the Park Theatre until 24th May...  Stumble on something witty STAGE: Plied and Prejudice puts a riotous spin on Jane Austen at The Vaults in Waterloo, until 18th July... DANCE: Skatepark celebrates rebellious youth at Sadler's Wells East... STAGE: James McDermott's Jab traces the pandemic, at the Park Theatre... MARCH TV ROUNDUP: The Residence, Paradise, Prime Target, Squid Game, Shrinking, Industry and more... DANCE: Jules Cunningham's Crow and Pigeons at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Rachid Ouramdane's Outsider thrills at Sadler's Wells... STAGE: Nick Hyde's Double Act uses comedy to address pain at Southwark Playhouse DANCE: Lyon Opera Ballet's Merce Cunningham Forever at Sadler's Wells... STAGE: From Japan, Drum Tao brings The Dream to the Peacock theatre... STAGE: Madeleine Brettingham's Dear Martin at the Arcola until 29 Mar...
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Deadline.
Empire.
IMDb.
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