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Cate Blanchett will reteam with director Todd Haynes for THE MAIDS, adapting Jean Genet's 1947 play Les Bonnes, based on real-life sisters who fantasise about murdering their boss. And then set out to do it. Blanchett performed the play on-stage with Isabelle Huppert, raising hopes of a big screen reunion. Connor Storrie is lined up to play the villain opposite Ryan Gosling in the new adaptation of GHOST RIDER. It's about a motorbike stuntman who sells his soul to become a supernatural force for vengeance. Shawn Levy is directing from a script by Jonathan Tropper. Damson Idris will produce and star in SACRAMENT, a thriller about two ex-cops from Chicago who are hired to track a thief who is hiding in a remote town in Utah. Jonathan Levine is directing from a script by Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson. Paul Giamatti, Sam Nivola and Nico Parker are lined up to star in GRANDGEAR, the first English-language film by Takashi Yamazaki (Godzilla Minus One). There's no word yet on the plot, but it's likely to be a mecha vs monster effects-based thriller. Melanie Laurent will join Bollywood stars Saif Ali Khan and Vidya Balan in LONG YEARS AGO, about a family that is forced to confront an issue they have all been avoiding. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) is directing. Ice Cube will be back for LAST FRIDAY, the comedy series that saw four films released from 1995 to 2002. There's no word yet on the plot for this one. Lawrence Lamont (One of Them Days) is directing from a script by Ice Cube. Cory Michael Smith is joining the cast of Ari Aster's next film, SCAPEGOAT, which also stars Scarlett Johansson, Jacob Elordi, Jude Law, Ella Purnell and Caleb Landry Jones. The plot is under wraps. Leslie Bibb is joining Camila Mendes in the UPGRADED sequel, which was set in the art scene as an intern plots to move her career forward. The plot details are being kept under wraps. Director Becca Gleason has just started filming in Italy. Celine Dion will voice a character and perform songs with Paul McCartney for the animated adventure HIGH IN THE CLOUDS, based on the children's book about a teen squirrel, cowritten by McCartney. The cast includes Hannah Waddingham, Idris Elba, Himesh Patel and Clemence Poesy, plus Ringo Starr and Lionel Ritchie. Toby Genkel is directing. Jack Champion and Grace Van Dien will star in THE ONE BEFORE THE ONE, about a Wall Street analyst who is transported back to high school while attending his 20-year reunion, giving him a second chance at a lost love. Brittany Sarkisian is directing. And it turns out that Sandra Huller has a cameo in the forthcoming AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY, and of course her role is being kept as a secret. The Russo brothers' epic stars Robert Downey Jr and the casts of pretty much every Marvel movie in recent memory. It's out in December.
Juno Temple, James McAvoy and Joey King will star in ALMOST YOU, a comedy about an engineer who creates an AI version of her recently deceased little sister. The film reunites Temple with Ted Lasso director Matt Lipsey. Filming is underway in Glasgow. Anthony Ramos and Michael Pena will team up for the thriller FREE AGENT, based on the true story of sports agents who set out to bring Cuba's best baseball players to the US, but become entangled with organised crime and corrupt politics. The script is by Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz (BlacKkKlansman). Jack O'Connell will reteam with Cillian Murphy for A QUIET PLACE: PART III. Murphy reprises his role in Part II, alongside Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds and writer-director John Krasinski. Mia McKenna-Bruce, Nicole Wallace, Josh Heuston and Julio Pena will star in THROTTLED, a romance based on the first book in the Dirty Air series about an ambitious young woman who joins her older brother on the car racing circuit and falls for his teammate. Nzingha Stewart is directing with a script by Melissa Osborne. Richard Gadd is joining RODE TO RUIN, the Western about a retired marshal who tracks down his wife's killer, but both men are old and losing their memory. Costars include Morgan Freeman, Michael Keaton and Laura Linney. Keaton is also directing. Mena Suvari, David Arquette, Belle Shouse and Alberto Rosende will star in HOMESICK, a horror thriller about a doctor who has a secret she has never shared with her husband. Then a stranger turns up. Director Todd Slavkin starts filming this week in Winnipeg. Stephen Lang will reteam with director Uli Edel for MERCY RIDER, some 30 years after Last Exit to Brooklyn. It's about a former soldier living quietly on a Texas ranch who takes on immigration authorities when they detain his father. Jack Hudson costars; Richard Julian is writing the script. Sarah Niles, Ray Panthaki, Richard Brake, Flula Borg and Charley Palmer Rothwell are joining the cast of the CRAWL sequel, alongside Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd. There's no word yet on the plot, but it will likely involve crocodiles. Alexandre Aja is directing. Peyton Elizabeth Lee (Wildwood), Tanner Buchanan, Finn Douglas, Elliott Fullam and newcomer Oscar O'Meara will star in the 1994 road movie GASOLINE, about a young singer tracelling with his brothers to perform shows. Along the way, he falls for a punk rocker. James Merendino (SLC Punk) is writing and directing. Toni Servillo and Sebastian Koch will star in THE LUNEBURG VARIATION, a mystery based on the novel about an elaborate revenge plot that plays out over four decades through games of chess. Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo) is directing. Tricia Helfer, Georgia Bradner and Elizabeth Adams will star in the horror thriller DEVOUR, as a former figure skater who becomes obsessed with her daughter's new friend, to the point that her life begins to unravel. Erica Orofino is directing. And Keanu Reeves will replace Alan Ritchson in MAELSTROM, a long-gestating action thriller originally pitched back in the 1990s as a vehicle for the likes of Bruce Willis. It's about a federal agent protecting a woman from her crime-boss husband, just as a hurricane hits. Jaume Collet Serra is directing.
Keanu Reeves and Don Lee will star in THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL, a reimagining of the 2019 Korean action thriller about a detective who teams up with a crime boss to catch a serial killer. James Wan is directing from a script by Eric Pearson; Sylvester Stallone is producing. Amanda Seyfried is joining Ramy Youssef and Sharon Stone in MARTHA & MUHAMMAD, a comedy that is also Youssef's debut as a feature director. He also wrote the script, but the plot is being kept under wraps. Denzel Washington will star in a still-untitled thriller directed by Christopher McQuarrie. It's about a former detective who is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, so sets out to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But his past won't let him go. The script is by Scott Barkan and Gregg Zehentner. Samara Weaving is joining the cast of NAUGHTY, about a woman (Jennifer Aniston) who asks Santa (Peter Dinklage) to testify in her child custody battle with her unfaithful husband (Ike Barinholtz). Regina Hall and Chase Sui Wonders costar. Olivia Wilde is directing. Javier Bardem will narrate the documentary NESTOR, which traces the life and career of legendary Spanish cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven, The Blue Lagoon) in his own words. Laurent Bouzereau is directing; JA Bayona is producing. Dev Patel, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Leslie Grace will star in THE JOURNEYMAN, about a tennis player who gets involved in a match-fixing scam and finds it impossible to get out of it. Tarsem Singh and Angel Miguel Soto are directing. Scott Mescudi will write, direct and star in JEAN, a biopic about iconic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rose to fame with his innovative neo-expressionist graffiti art in the 1980s, often working alongside Andy Warhol. He died at 27 of an overdose. Camila Mendes will be back as an auction house intern in a sequel to the romantic comedy UPGRADED. The plot details haven't been released; the script is once again by Luke Roberts and Justin Matthews. Director Becca Gleason starts shooting in Italy this month. Sylvester Stallone will produce an adaptation of the novel THE SUMMER OF BROKEN DREAMS, about a young woman who becomes obsessed with winning her family's annual assassin game, the makes an alliance with a cute stranger. Lauren Hynek and Elizabeth Martin (Spellbound) are writing the script. And Chris Pratt will return as Star-Lord in a future Marvel movie. It's unlikely he'll pop up in December's seriously crowded Avengers: Doomsday, but the followup Secret Wars is more likely. There's also a rumour about a Logan-style stand-alone movie.
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are teaming up with writer-director Alex Garland to make a movie together. There's no word on the plot, but it's likely to have some sort of science-fiction twist to it. A24 is handling the production and distribution. Tom Holland will produce and star in PENTHOUSE, a thriller written by in-demand screenwriter Drew Pearce (The Fall Guy, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation). The plot is being kept under wraps. Colman Domingo, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Goldblum and David Krumholtz will voice characters in LIZARD MUSIC, the live-action/animated adventure about a young boy who discovers an offbeat hidden world. Also in the cast are Dwayne Johnson, Regina Hall, Alicia Silverstone and Andrew Dice Clay. Benny Safdie is writing and directing. Judy Greer, Giovanni Ribisi, Kal Penn and Michael Chiklis have joined Gregg Araki's dark comedy THE DECLINE OF F*CKING WESTERN CIVILIZATION. Costars include Alison Brie, Ashton Kutcher, Colleen Camp, Margaret Cho, Steve Guttenberg, Wendy Mclendon-Covey, David Koechner and Nat Faxon. Stefanie Beatriz and Daniel Ings will join Kevin Bacon and Georgia Whigham in SUMMONER, a horror thriller about a man who is hired to deal with a demon that's terrorising a witness in the protection programme. Jeremy Slater is writing and directing. Rory Culkin, Oona Roche, Hattie Hoskins and Mark Lane III have joined Wunmi Mosaku and Aldis Hodge in ONE NIGHT OUT, a thriller about a couple on a date night who spot a stranger on their nanny cam with their three kids. George Tillman Jr is directing. Tyrese Gibson, Omar Benson Miller, Beverly D'Angelo and Ron Livingstone will star in DON'T OPEN THE DOOR, a horror thriller with a real-world plot that is being kept under wraps. Deon Taylor is writing and directing; filming starts this week in Mississippi, Tim Burton will direct a film set in post-war Japan, and it's being written by Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro. There's no word yet on the plot, but this is an original screenplay, not adapted from a book or play. Director Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games) and writer Justin Rhodes (Terminator: Dark Fate) will team up to adapt the first in the series of RED RISING novels, which mix Roman mythology into a story set on Mars in a future where the classes are delineated with a colour code. The plot centres on a lowly miner fuelled by grief as he sets out to bring down the upper class. And plans are still afoot for Jennifer Grey to return for a sequel to DIRTY DANCING, which will be 40 years old next year. Producer Nina Jacobson (Crazy Rich Asians) is developing the project, and says that the late Patrick Swayze will be honoured in the film. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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 Adventures in space DANCE: Katya Bourvis, Hannah Peel and Tala Lee-Turton bring their evocative show Pia to the Barbican....  Slap that puck STAGE: Hugely entertaining musical parody of Heated Rivalry lands in London, at Underbelly Soho until 1st Nov...  A message from Mother Earth DANCE: Dickson Mbi recounts an epic folk tale in the riveting, propulsive Tellus, at Sadler's Wells East...  October TV Roundup SCREEN: Brothers, Ted Lasso, La Mesias, Lanterns, Star Trek, Chad Powers, The Gentlemen, The Shards and more... DANCE: Acosta Danza's breathtaking Cuban Baroque spices things up at Sadler's Wells... DANCE: Yllana's acclaimed, cheeky show Flamenc Oh!! at the Peacock Theatre... DANCE: Jess & Morgs' dazzling, politically charged Deepfake at Sadler's Wells East... AUGUST TV: Ride or Die, The Bear 5, Tip Toe, Widow's Bay, Spider-Noir, The Vampire Lestat and more... DANCE: NDCWales' expressive, deliberately imprecise Blue|Glas to Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's soulful Legacy at Sadler's Wells... FESTIVAL: Daily reports filed from the Edinburgh Fringe... DANCE: Matthew Bourne's sexy, thrilling The Car Man, returns to Sadler's Wells... STAGE: LegalAliens' entertaining Ali in Wonder(Eng)land at Jacksons Lane...
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