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Naomi Ackie is joining Maika Monroe and Keir Gilchrist in THEY FOLLOW, the It Follows sequel, which will continue the story of the creepy supernatural haunting. David Robert Mitchell is writing and directing. Toni Collette is joining Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels and Joel Edgerton in the untitled new film from writer-director Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The plot is being kept under wraps, but it is being described as an AI thriller. The story is by Natasha Lyonne. Nicholas Galitzine will star in Gus Van Sant's next film, playing top 1980s supermodel Hoyt Richards, who lost millions when he became involved with the abusive Eternal Values doomsday cult. His escape from the group is documented in the series Bring Me the Beauties. Daniel Kaluuya will reteam with Judas and the Black Messiah director Shaka King for THE PARLAY, an action thriller costarring Teyana Taylor. There's no word yet on the plot. LaKeith Stanfield is joining Jonathan Bailey in an untitled drama that traces the landmark courtroom trial relating to the harm caused by Monsanto's most popular pesticide Roundup. John Lee Hancock is directing. Wagner Moura is joining Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper in their OCEAN'S ELEVEN prequel. Robbie and Cooper are playing the parents of Danny Ocean (George Clooney in the original films). Robbie is also producing; Cooper is directing. Michael J Fox will voice the lead role in DRAGOONS, an animated adventure about an anonymous corporate worker who is mysteriously transformed into a fearsome dragon and discovers that this is his true form. Shea Wageman (Charlie the Wonderdog) is directing. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rudy Pankow will star in THUD, a supernatural comedy in which the devil and the grim reaper have a meet-cute at a destination wedding they are intending to disrupt. Mali Elfman (daughter of Danny) is directing. Geena Davis is joining Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth in THE KELLYS, an action thriller about a disgraced New York cop trying to rescue his family after they are abducted by terrorists. Brad Peyton is directing. Ariana Greenblatt will star in EGG BABY, a romantic comedy about a teen who must coparent an egg for a class assignment with the school's pampered quarterback. Natalia Anderson (Black-ish) is directing from a script by Sawyer Perry. Tracey Ullman and Stephen Fry have joined the voice cast of HEXED, alongside Hailee Steinfeld and Rashida Jones. It's about a quirky teen girl who discovers secret magical abilities that propel her into a magical realm where she feels seen for the first time in her life. Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand are directing. And Sean Penn will write and direct a film about the violent uprising at the US Capitol on 6th January 2021, recounting the story from the perspective of one of the police officers. Bradley Cooper is apparently being lined up to star.
Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube will be back for 24 JUMP STREET, nearly 15 years after 22 Jump Street. That movie's writer Rodney Rothman (Into the Spider-Verse) is directing this one, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller producing. Jennifer Lawrence will star in ONE MONTH MARK, a romantic comedy about a woman who has never made it past a month in a relationship and a man who has never been single for longer than a month. The script is by newcomer Sophie Fleur de Bruijn. Miles Teller will star in COPPERHEAD, a thriller about a federal agent who teams up with a veteran detective to find out the dirty members of an elite task force. John Swab (King Ivory) is directing. James Norton, Ben Schwartz, David Morrissey, Leanne Best, Harry Lloyd and Adam Pally have joined the four-film biopic THE BEATLES. Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan play the pop icons, with Anna Sawai, Saoirse Ronan, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce as the women in their lives. Sam Mendes is directing. Maggie Gyllenhaal will write and direct CREATION LAKE, based on the novel about a freelance spy who goes undercover in an environmental collective in France, then begins to doubt her own morality. Willem Dafoe and Michael Douglas are reuniting with Oliver Stone for WHITE LIES, his first narrative feature in a decade. It's a multi-generational story about family connections. Shot in Thailand and Italy, the cast includes Josh Hartnett, Homer Gere, Ellen Barkin and Leila George. Camille Cottin, Veronica Llinas, Peter Lanzani, Soledad Villamil and Valeria Lois will star in VILLAFLOR, a political thriller based on the true story of a woman in Argentina who takes a stand against the government when her son is arrested and disappears. Santiago Mitre (Argentina 1985) is writing and directing. Mike Colter and JoJo Levesque will star in the romantic drama THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU, about a former child reality show finalist hiding from her past as a barista when she meets a jazz pianist. John Zaring is writing the script. Sean Astin will star in WILL TO WIN, as the coach to a teen (newcomer Isabel DeRoy-Olson) who, after suddenly losing her parents, embraces her Native American heritage and joins the boy's baseball team at her school. Lorraine Bracco and Jeremy Piven costar. Director Sean McNamara is currently filming in Oklahoma. Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso/Rooster) is joining the romantic comedy HELLO & PARIS, alongside Kate Hudson, Javier Bardem and Steve Zahn. It's about a novelist who starts a long-distance relationship with a landscape artist in France. Elizabeth Chomko is writing and directing. Elias Koteas, Mark O'Brien, Carmen Christopher and Jamie McShane will join Gaby Hoffman and David Harbour in LITTLE ONE, a dark comedy about a child whose sudden change in behaviour begins to unravel a perfect family. Alex Kavutskiy is writing and directing. And eight-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close will be presented with an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November. Other honourees include Ridley Scott, producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, and animator Floyd Norman.
Hugh Jackman will play the pirate Long John Silver in Ridley Scott's new film adaptation of the classic 1883 novel TREASURE ISLAND, a coming-of-age adventure about a young man seeking a long-lost fortune. The script is by Jack Thorne. It's official, Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino will be back for a 30-years-later ROMY & MICHELE sequel, as will returning costars Alan Cumming, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim and Julia Campbell. Joining them are Keegan-Michael Key, Rob Huebel, Breckin Meyer, Patrick Warburton and Nathan Lee Graham. Director Tim Federle is filming in Los Angeles. Henry Cavill will join Kevin Hart in an untitled action comedy that's being directed by McG. It's about rival spies who run into each other at a prenatal class where their wives become friends. Jonathan Tropper is writing the script with Adam and Aaron Nee. Elisabeth Moss will produce and star in AMERICAN FANTASY, based on the novel about a divorcee who runs into all five members of her favourite 1990s boy band when she embarks on a cruise. Bill Nighy is joining the cast of CAINE, the John Wick spinoff starring Donnie Yen as a blind assassin. Costars include Mason Thames, Dacre Montgomery and Rina Sawayama. Yen is also directing the film, which is shooting in Budapest and Hong Kong. Rosemarie DeWitt, Emmy Rossum, Ariana Greenblatt, Fisher Stevens, Michael Imperioli and Chris Bauer are joining Grace Van Patten in RUBBER HUT, about a 1992 flight attendant who scandalises her Catholic community by opening a condom shop. Hanna Gray Organschi is directing. Ashley Padilla (SNL) is joining the cast of the romantic comedy THE CATCH, alongside Emma Stone and Chris Pine. Set around a female baseball player, the plot is being kept under wraps. Dave McCary (Stone's husband) is directing. Paul Walter Hauser, Michael Pena, Boyd Holbrook, Teyonah Parris and Veronika Slowikowska are joining the cast of TURPENTINE, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Connor Storrie and Bill Camp. It's about a woman trying to clean up the mess after her son stages a robbery of the family's antique gun collection to pay off a debt. Craig Zobel is directing. Stacy Martin, Alfie Allen, Ben Hardy and Ryan McParland are joining Felicity Jones and Vincent Cassel in ELEVEN MISSING DAYS, which traces the period when mystery writer Agatha Christie vanished at the height of her fame in 1926. Bertie Ellwood (Silo) is directing. Lauren Graham, Patti LuPone and Dan Bucatinsky will join Nick Borenstein in AUGUST, a comedy about a young man who becomes convinced that his therapist's death wasn't accidental. Borenstein is also writing and directing; filming is underway in New York. Rory Culkin and Lauren LaVera will star in RED WEDDING, a horror thriller about a teen and her stepmother who are kidnapped and held for ransom, but the real threat is a murderous bride and groom on the rampage. Josh Stolberg is directing from a script he wrote with Pete Goldfinger. And Kelsey Grammer is joining ETHAN ALMIGHTY, based on the true story of an abused dog whose recovery captured national attention. Costars include Selma Blair, Brandon Routh, Sean Patrick Flanery, Trevor Donovan and Finley Slater. Tane McClure is writing and directing.
Sydney Sweeney will star in HOLLOW, reimagining the 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, about a headless horseman, through the eyes of love interest Katrina. Lindsey Anderson Beer is writing and directing. Sweeney and Margot Robbie are producing. Chris Hemsworth will produce and star in a movie based around the Tatts Finke Desert Race, an extreme two-day event in the Australian Outback featuring a range of off-road vehicles. Hemsworth is working with the race organisers to produce multiple projects around the event. Zoe Kravitz will star in the untitled new film by writer-director Megan Park (My Old Ass), which is about a woman who gets stuck taking care of her late boyfriend's children. Margot Robbie is producing. Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff will reunite for TRUST THE MAN, a thriller set during the Vietnam War as an Army intelligence officer investigates a troubled heroic soldier's past. Will Graham is writing and directing. Arnold Schwarzenegger will star in THE KELLYS, as a disgraced police officer whose wife is abducted by terrorists. So he teams up with some dodgy figures to rescue her. Liam Hemsworth costars; Brad Peyton is directing. Andie MacDowell, Kevin Bacon, Tig Notaro and Kristin Davis are joining the cast of BEACH READ, a romantic comedy about a blocked novelist (Phoebe Dynevor) who swaps genres with her writing nemesis (Patrick Schwarzenegger) from university. Yulin Kuang is writing and directing. David Harewood, Nathalie Emmanuel, Bruce Greenwood and Holt McCallany will star in HYDE, a noir-style thriller about a troubled detective who is hunting a serial killer. Writer-directors Graham and Parker Phillips are filming in Romania. Gabourey Sidibe will star in ROSE MOON, as a probation officer who begins a fling with one a paroled convict. Then the relationship spirals into obsession. Anna Kendrick will direct a feature adaptation of the novel THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, which centres around a young journalist who interviews an ageing Hollywood star about her scandal-filled life. Liz Tigelaar and Francesca Sloane are working on the script. Anna Camp will star in the psychological thriller SERPENT, based on the novel The Serpent's Bite, about an actress who reluctantly joins her estranged family on a week-long hike through the Wyoming wilderness that of course takes a dark turn. Dito Montiel will direct a biopic about actor-filmmaker Gene Wilder, with cooperation from his family. It will cover his career from a shy theatre actor to his iconic movie roles, along with events from his personal life. Montiel is writing the script with Jeremy Roth (Love Victor). And filmmaker Matthew Miele (Always at the Carlyle) is making a documentary that traces the career of Nathan Lane across film, television and the Broadway stage. Planned appearances by his friends include Mel Brooks, Jean Smart and Matthew Broderick. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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