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Hayley Atwell, Aneurin Barnard, Asa Butterfield, Jack Lowden, Daryl McCormack, Sean Bean, Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement will star in Duncan Jones' new film ROGUE TROOPER, which is being shot using a gaming-style performance-capture animation. Based on a British comic set in a toxic, war-torn future, it's about a genetically altered super-soldier who sets off to find the traitor who killed his team. It's official: Denis Villeneuve will direct the 26th JAMES BOND movie. Everything else reported about this project is still a rumour, including who might play the iconic role. And Villeneuve has multiple projects in the works, with DUNE: MESSIAH set to shoot later this year. Dave Bautista will produce and star in THE ROMANTIC, a comedy about a beefy man who is secretly the bestselling author of a series of steamy romance novels. In order to dodge a cynical female journalist who is onto him, he hires a woman to play his alter-ego at a literary festival. Jake Gyllenhaal will produce and star in the thriller COLLISION, based on the Don Winslow novella about a family man who makes a mistake that lands him in prison, where he struggles to survive. And once released, his journey continues with a surprising discovery. Michael Sheen, James Norton and Bill Nighy will voice characters in an animated adaptation of HEART OF DARKNESS, the classic 1899 Joseph Conrad novella that inspired Apocalypse Now. The book is about a man who travels by steamboat up the Congo River to find a Belgian military officer who has gone rogue. Director Gerald Conn is using his own sand-animation technique. Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in a new adaptation of Jane Austen's novel SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, about sisters adapting to a new reality when they are forced to leave their family estate. Georgia Oakley (Blue Jean) is directing from a script by Diana Reid. Ronda Rousey is writing the script for a biopic based on her memoirs My Fight/Your Fight and Our Fight about her life from her shy childhood as a swimmer and judo champ to her wrestling and acting careers. Augustine Frizzell (Euphoria) is directing. Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to his 2010 drama THE SOCIAL NETWORK, about the creation of Facebook. The film will explore how social media platform owners have long been aware of their harmful effects on society, but continue to prioritise profit. Jesse Eisenberg is likely to be back as Mark Zuckerberg. Doug Liman will tackle the elusive job to direct a feature film adaptation of Stephen King's 1978 masterwork THE STAND. The epic story chronicles a battle between good and evil after a virus kills off almost everyone on earth. The novel has been adapted as a TV series twice, in 1994 and 2020. And Kim Kardashian will play the villain in a new live-action BRATZ movie, based on the line of fashion doll and cartoon franchise that was previously adapted into a genuinely terrible 2007 live-action feature film. The reboot script is by Charlie Polinger and Lucy McKendrick.
Russell Crowe is joining Henry Cavill in Chad Stahelski's reboot of the HIGHLANDER franchise, about immortals in the Scottish Highlands. Apparently, Stahelski is combining his John Wick hyperviolence with sword action for this one. Filming is set to start in the autumn. Jon Bernthal will play Frank Castle, aka Punisher, in SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, in which Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has his university studies interrupted by yet another global threat. Also on board are Zendaya, Jacob Batalan, Sadie Sink and Liza Colon-Zayas. Destin Daniel Cretton is directing. Abigail Breslin, Booboo Stewart and Aaron Kuban will star in the comedy drama A GOOD FIGHT, about a businessman whose interview with a university journalist has surprising fallout for both of them. Robert Rippberger (Renner) is directing from a script by Pierce Gardner. Owen Wilson will be back for the fourth MEET THE PARENTS movie, alongside Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Teri Polo, plus Ariana Grande. There's no word yet on the plot, or whether Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman will be back as well. John Hamberg is writing and directing. Dennis Haysbert, Malin Akerman, Ron Perlman, Ryan Hansen, Jeff Howard and BJ Bales are starring in SUBURBAN PSYCHO, a comedy about two guys who begin to suspect that their best friend is a notorious serial killer. Sitcom veteran Fred Goss is directing from a script by Howard and Bales. Meanwhile, Perlman will also star alongside Julie Benz, Jim Rash and Busy Philipps in HORRIFIED, a comedy about a has-been scream-queen actress who attends a horror convention where a killer disguised as her franchise's villain begins taking people out one by one. Michael Zara is directing. Ryan Simpkins, Robin Tunney, Aaron Dominguez and Emily Robinson are starring in UGLY CRY, a body horror thriller about an actress who is told that she looks, well, ugly when she cries. Robinson is also writing and directing. Louis Garrel and Jasmin Trinca will star in the romantic drama IT WILL HAPPEN TONIGHT, the next film by Italian writer-director Nanni Moretti. It's loosely based on a short story collection by Eshkol Nevo, whose novel Three Floors Up was previously adapted by Moretti. Marco Calvani (The Four Seasons) will star in ITALIANNA, alongside Halle Bailey and Rege-Jean Page. Other than the fact that it's a romantic comedy, no plot details have yet been released. Kat Coiro is directing from a script by Ryan Engle. And Shane Meadows is returning to feature filmmaking 17 years after he made the switch to TV. His new project is titled CHORK and follows two teens who leave their foster home and travel up England's east coast in search of a more promising future, pursued by the police. The script is by Jack Thorne (Adoescence).
Glen Powell is teaming up with director Ron Howard to make a film about a Texas firefighting team that is struggling to rebuild their camaraderie after a devastating wildfire. It's based on a story by Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey). Meanwhile, Howard is also apparently working on both a remake of his 1991 firefighting drama BACKDRAFT and the true-life Afghanistan war survival thriller ALONE AT DAWN. Matthew McConaughey is reteaming with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto to adapt one of the MIKE HAMMER books into a mystery thriller and potentially launch a new movie franchise. Pizzolatto is writing the script and may direct the film. Teyana Taylor, Ben Marshall, Kam Patterson and Zach Cherry are joining the comedy 72 HOURS, alongside Kevin Hart, Mason Gooding and Marcello Hernandez. It's about a 40-year-old who decides to make the most of his accidental invitation to a bachelor party weekend. Tim Story is directing. Carla Gugino is the latest to join Brad Pitt in THE ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH, the Hollywood sequel directed by David Fincher from a script by Quentin Tarantino. Gugino is also joining Lou Taylor Pucci in WINTHROP, a horror film based on the Knifepoint Horror podcast. Daniel Stamm is directing. Dave Bautista is joining Jake Gyllenhaal in a sequel to the remake ROAD HOUSE. The film continues the adventures of a former UFC competitor working as a bouncer at a roadside bar in the Florida Keys. Guy Ritchie is directing this one, from a script by Will Beall (Bad Boys: Ride or Die). John Cho and Kal Penn will be back for a fourth HAROLD & KUMAR movie, which will again be written by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, with Hurwitz and Schlossberg directing. The last film was in 2011, and it's likely that Neil Patrick Harris will be back as well. Cathy Moriarty, Chloe Fineman and Jamie Alexander will join THE VERY BEST PEOPLE, a comedic thriller about a group of friends who are under the spell of a right-wing TV host. The film also stars Paul Walter Hauser, Tim Roth, Lili Reinhart, Jake Lacy and Jai Courtney. Tony winner Brian Swibel is directing from a script by playwright John Lavelle. Cory Michael Smith (Mountainhead) has landed the lead role in OCTOBER, which is being described as a fugitive thriller that's set around the Halloween season. Jeremy Saulner (Rebel Ridge) is writing and directing. Theo Rossi, Billy Campbell and Rosaline Elbay will star in A BETTER PLACE, about a disgraced deputy, his partner and a prisoner who must work together to cover up a hit-and-run. Anton Sigurdsson is writing and directing. Tom Rhys Harries (White Lines) has landed the title role in CLAYFACE, based on the DC Comic about an actor who, after a car crash, becomes a shapeshifter who goes on to torment Batman. James Watkins is directing from a script by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. And Ryan Reynolds will produce the animated feature I EAT POOP: A DUNG BEETLE STORY, based on the children's book by Mark Pett. It's about a dung beetle who tries to hide who he is at school, then realises that he has some needed skills. Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) is directing.
Word has it that Natasha Lyonne will play iconic comic Joan Rivers in the biopic CAN WE TALK, tracing her rise through the male-dominated world of standup comedy, including memorably appearing as guest host on The Tonight Show. The script is by Amelie Gillette (The Office). Vanessa Kirby and Sebastian Stan will team up for RUINS, based on the novel about a couple that, while spending a summer in Greece, has a fling with a young woman that opens up cracks in their relationship. Ridley Scott is producing. Billy Porter is joining the cast of the next Hunger Games movie, SUNRISE ON THE REAPING. Also on board are Kieran Culkin, Glenn Close, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Maya Hawke and Mckenna Grace. Francis Lawrence is directing from a script by Billy Ray. Bill Pullman, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga and Mel Brooks will all be back for a very long-gestating sequel to Brooks' 1987 satire SPACEBALLS, which lampooned Star Wars, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, among others. They'll be joined by Josh Gad, Keke Palmer and Lewis Pullman. Josh Greenbaum is directing. Jack Huston will star in Paul Schrader's next film, THE BASICS OF PHILOSOPHY. It's about a university professor who, like most of Schrader's protagonists, finds himself in an existential crisis when the repercussions of his past actions push him to change his life. Teri Polo, Dylan Walsh and Jamie-Lynn Sigler will star in THE MAN ACROSS THE STREET, a thriller about a recently widowed woman who becomes convinced that a neighbour is a murderer. But no one believes her. Richard Switzer is directing from a script he wrote with Amy Irons. Diego Calva, Dougray Scott, Aoi Yamada, Shioli Kutsuna and Hidetoshi Nishijima are joining Nicolas Winding Refn's next film, HER PRIVATE HELL. The cast includes Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Kristine Froseth and Havana Rose Liu. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Sasha Lane is joining the cast of the thriller CORPORATE RETREAT, which is about a company getaway that goes horribly wrong. Already on board are Alan Ruck and Rosanna Arquette. Director Aaron Fisher started filming this week. Paul McCartney will voice a walrus (of course) in the animated film HIGH IN THE CLOUDS, which is based on the children's book McCartney wrote about a squirrel who goes on a quest to find a secret island animal kingdom. Toby Genkel is directing. Brandon Skenar and Juliana Canfield will star in F.A.S.T., an action thriller written by Taylor Sheridan, about a commando who is hired to lead a black ops team against a group of drug dealers that is being protected by the CIA. Cinematographer Ben Richardson is directing. And Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) is directing a new movie featuring the CARE BEARS, a group of teddy bears whose colours reflect their feelings. Originally greeting card characters, they went on to star in various animated movies and TV series. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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 Can you see the real me? DANCE: Pete Townsend's Quadrophenia becomes a dazzling mod ballet at Sadler's Wells until 13th July......  Defying gravity in the gloom DANCE: Botis Seva's Until We Sleep rattles us to the core at Sadler's Wells East...  We’re all perfectly safe STAGE: Simon Kane's Jonah Non Grata is a blast of surreal genius at Soho Theatre, then at the Fringe...  Send in the clowns STAGE: This year's London Clown Festival kicks off with a rambunctious cabaret night at Soho Theatre... MAY TV: The White Lotus, Hacks, Adolescence, The Four Seasons, The Studio, Mid-Century Modern, more... DANCE: Detention at The Place in London, and on tour nationally through October... STAGE: A British spin on Lorca's Blood Wedding at Clapham's Omnibus... STAGE: Plied and Prejudice riotously spins Jane Austen at The Vaults in Waterloo STAGE: Neil LaBute's How to Fight Loneliness has its UK premiere at Park Theatre... DANCE: BalletLORENT's Snow White: The Sacrifice at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Skatepark celebrates rebellious youth at Sadler's Wells East... STAGE: James McDermott's Jab traces the pandemic, at the Park Theatre... MARCH TV: 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...
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NEWS SOURCES:
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The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety.
Deadline.
Empire.
IMDb.
Rotten Tomatoes.
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