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Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage will star in NAUGHTY, a comedy about a woman who tracks down the real Santa Claus so he can testify against her boyfriend at her child custody hearing. Olivia Wilde is directing from a script by Jimmy Warden. David Oyeklowo is joining LITTLE FIVE, which is set around the launch of the Little 500 cycling race at Indiana University. Arianna Greenblatt, Drew Powell, Rain Spencer, Nadia Alexander and Sasha Frolova costar. Ian Samuels is directing; Anne Hathaway is producing. Regina Hall is joining the cast of LIZARD MUSIC, about a young boy (Theo Clark Leber) who discovers a late-night radio broadcast leading to a fantasy realm. Costars include Dwayne Johnson, Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker. Benny Safdie is directing. Rising star Michael Johnston (Obsession) is joining the fourth MUMMY movie, which again stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah. There's no word yet on the plot, although it's expected to lean more into the horror. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are directing from a script by David Coggeshall. Alexandra Daddario, Christian Convery and Julian Morris will star in the drama AMERICAN FEVER DREAM, which follows a young middle-class family as they slowly become impoverished over the course of two decades. Jaclyn Noel is writing and directing. Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) will star in the psychological thriller YOU'RE SAFE NOW. The plot is being kept under wraps. Costars include Jesse Rath, Anja Savcic and Bo Martynowska. Director Nimisha Mukerji has just started filming in Toronto. Ron Perlman, Esai Morales, Orlando Jones and Josh Bowman will star in LIVE 2 DIE, a thriller about a Los Angeles detective who stumbles into a criminal organ-harvesting operation. Victor Rios is directing from a script by Jason Zimmatore. Shabana Azeez (The Pitt) will star in the romantic comedy-drama UNREQUITED, about a young woman who takes her best friend on a road trip around California to convince her not to move back to India. Lynn Q Yu is making her writing-directing debut. Madeline Brewer, Emory Cohen and Nicholas Alexander Chavez are joining the cast of POSSESSION, a remake of the 1981 thriller about a marriage that is strained by a supernatural force. The film stars Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley, Diego Calva and Paul Dano. Parker Finn is writing and directing. Karan Soni, Piper Curda, Sujata Day, Steve Agee and Dot-Marie Jones are joining the cast of THUD, the supernatural romcom starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the Grim Reaper and Rudy Pankow as the devil, wreaking havoc at a wedding as they fall for each other. Mali Elfman is directing. And Oscar-winner James Marsh will direct a feature documentary about Aron Ralston, whose survival story was dramatised in Danny Boyle's 2010 thriller 127 Hours. This new film is based on his memoir, and will include never-seen footage from his ordeal.
David Jonsson will play T'Challa's now-grown son in the third BLACK PANTHER movie, and he will take on the title character in the story. Denzel Washington costars, but there's no word yet on who else will return. Ryan Coogler is back as writer-director. Ryan Gosling will play GHOST RIDER in a new movie based on the Marvel Comic. There's no word on how this ties in to the previous films or the cinematic universe. The project reteams Gosling with Starfighter director Shawn Levy and writer Jonathan Tropper. Cooper Koch, Carla Gugino, Miranda Otto, Sarah Bolger and Angus Imrie will star in FOG CITY, a noir drama set around the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in Depression-era San Francisco. It's loosely based on real events. Dan Pritzker is writing and directing. June Squibb, Alex Borstein and Trieu Tran in TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON, a comedy-drama based on the real-life experience of a family during lockdown. Dave Pantano is making his writing-directing debut. Will Forte is joining the cast of GOBLIN, an offbeat buddy comedy about a goblin (voiced by Kenneth Branagh) who befriends a human. Skyler Gisondo costars. David Mikalson is writing and directing. Whoopi Goldberg, Vanessa Williams, Jenifer Lewis and Vivica A Fox will star in WOMEN LIKE US, about a woman who confronts her husband's recent death when her friends take her away for a weekend on what would have been her 30th anniversary. Tasha Smith is directing from a script by Ali Kinney and Tracy Oliver. Scoot McNairy, Nick Nolte, Ben Mendelsohn and Adelaide Clemens will star in COMPANY, a dark mystery set in the winter of 1975 as a woman arrives unexpectedly at a family gathering. Casey Affleck is writing and directing. Kate Burton, Paul Sparks, Xander Berkeley and Rhys Coiro will star in A GREAT DEPRESSION, about a man trying to reclaim his role leading his family's billion-dollar company following a personal breakdown. Melissa Miller Costanzo (Run) is directing. Sky Yang (Last Days) is joining TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW, a romantic drama about two lifelong friends who connect deeper as they create a videogame. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sean Kaufman lead the cast; Sian Heder is directing. And Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer will appear in the 13 GOING ON 30 reboot, which stars Jessica Alba, Taylor Ortega, Adeline Rudolph, Tim Meadows and Dan Bucatinsky. Also joining are Taylor Zakhar Perez, Owen Thiele, Nasim Pedrad, Audrina Miranda, Supriya Ganesh and Henry Samiri. Brett Haley is directing.
Tom Cruise will return for a sequel to DAYS OF THUNDER, which will be directed by Jonathan Levine (Long Shot). There's no word yet on the plot, or whether Nicole Kidman will be return as well. Jerry Bruckheimer is back as producer. Ryan Reynolds has confirmed that he will be back for a fourth DEADPOOL movie, following on from 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine. There are no more details about the new project, although it's likely to be an ensemble adventure featuring other X-Men characters. Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, David Tennant, Vicky Krieps and Jason Watkins will star in THE JOY OF SEX, a love triangle comedy based on the true story of the people who published the scandalous bestselling 1972 sex manual. Sharon Maguire is directing and cowriting with Lise Mayer. Glen Powell will reteam with director Richard Linklater to play Lou Gehrig in a new biopic about the legendary baseball player, who played for 17 years and died at age 37 of ALS. His story was previously adapted in 1942's The Pride of the Yankees. Simon Rich (Saturday Night Live) is writing the script. Toni Collette, Karren Karagulian, Salvatore Esposito, Michele Savoia and Lorenzo de Moor are joining the cast of POSITANO, alongside Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldana. It's about a retired jewel thief who plans a high-stakes heist with a mystery woman. Daniel Roher is directing. Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker and 10-year-old newcomer Theo Clark Leber are joining Dwayne Johnson in LIZARD MUSIC, Benny Safdie's hybrid live-action/animated adaptation of the novel about a boy who discovers a secret door to a bizarre fantasy realm. Zosia Mamet, Jimmi Simpson, Lauren Tom and Ben Wang are joining the dark comedy KAET MUST DIE, based on the memoir about a young woman (Awkwafina) whose perfect life is upended by a cancer diagnosis. Anthony Ramos and Ken Jeong costar. Mercedes Bryce Morgan is directing. Taylor Ortega, Tim Meadows and Dan Bucatinsky are joining the reboot of the comedy fantasy 13 GOING ON 30, alongside Emily Bader, Logan Lerman, Jessica Alba and Adeline Rudolph. There's no confermation yet whether this is a sequel or reboot. Brett Haley is directing. Rob Morgan, Brett Gelman and Kevin Nealon are joining the cast of the comedy MINI WAR, about a stoner who inherits a mini golf course and gets into a war with the owner of a nearby go-cart track. The film stars Vanessa Hudgens, Luke Wilson and Nick Swardson, who also wrote the script with Allen Covert. Joel David Moore is directing. And RJ Cutler (Elton John: Never Too Late) will direct a documentary tracing the life and career of Julie Andrews. Meanwhile, Mat Whitecross (Oasis: Supersonic) will direct a feature doc about outspoken actor-musician Lily Allen.
Rose Byrne is reteaming with If I Had Legs I'd Kick You writer-director Mary Bronstein for the dark drama NASTY, which follows a young gymnast fighting for a place on the US Olympic team. Jenna Ortega is also on board. Carey Mulligan and Ella Beatty are joining the cast of Sarah Polley's adaptation of the classic Sylvia Plath novel THE BELL JAR. Mulligan is playing the mother of Billie Eilish's character, an aspiring poet whose life begins to unravel due to depression. Connor Storrie costars. Jessica Brown Findlay, Daniel Ings, Fenella Woolgar, Sophie Colquhoun and Rick Warden will star in THE TWO WEEK WAIT, a short drama about a woman whose mental health starts to deteriorate due to the stress of infertility treatment. Olivia Grant is making her writing-directing debut. Danny Huston and Mia Threapleton are joining the political thriller THE PRICE OF PEACE, set during the 1945 Potsdam Conference as Winston Churchill (Jared Harris), Harry S Truman (Guy Pearce) and Joseph Stalin (Merab Ninidze) decide the fate of Germany and the world. Anthony McCarten is writing and directing. Alyssa Milano, Trevor Wallace and father-daughter Shea Wigham and Giorgia Whigham will star in the comedy HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES, about a young woman who leads a Girl Scout cookie drive as court-ordered community service. Directors Edward McDonald and Lucas Fraser just completed filming in Vancouver. Terrence Howard, Kate Bosworth and Guillermo Ivan will star in the thriller BROKEN ONES, based on the true story of lawyers grappling with thorny issues surrounding a car accident case that uncovers a corporate scandal. Timothy Gagliardo is writing and directing. Garrett Wareing (The Long Walk) and Amanda Fix (Lowlifes) will star in the prequel THE CONJURING: FIRST COMMUNION, playing a younger version of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in the previous movies). Matthias Schweighofer (Army of Thieves) is also joining the cast. Rodrigue Huart is directing. Ava DuVernay will direct 14TH, a documentary following on from her Oscar-nominated doc 13th, which explored the US Constitution's clauses about involuntary servitude. This one will explore the equal protection and citizenship clauses in the 14th amendment. Writer-director Michael Waldron (Chad Powers) is making a film based on the comic book character NOVA, a super-powered officer in an intergalactic police force. Waldron's previous Marvel projects include writing the Doctor Strange sequel and showrunning Loki. And Colman Domingo will team up with theatre director Robert O'Hara to write a live-action take on the 2009 animated drama THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. This version will be more centred on Princess Tiana, seeing her romance with the frog prince through her eyes. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 Feel the heat DANCE: Matthew Bourne's The Car Man, a sexy, thrilling take on Bizet, returns to Sadler's Wells until 29th August...  We are world beating STAGE: LegalAliens' entertaining and important Ali in Wonder(Eng)land at Jacksons Lane...  A place to call home STAGE: Mohamed-Zain Dada's pointed Blue Mist at Theatre Royal Stratford East, and on tour until 30 Jul...  June TV Roundup SCREEN: Half Man, The Four Seasons 2, The Comeback 3, the finales of Hacks, Euphoria and The Boys, and more... INTERVIEW: Coffee in Annecy with Minions & Monsters' Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri & Brian Lynch... STAGE: Nicolás Pérez Costa's high-octane Richard III at the Cockpit... STAGE: Hideki Noda brings his expansive, dazzling –320°F to Sadler's Wells... INTERVIEW: Chatting with Rohan Kanawade about his acclaimed romance Cactus Pears... DANCE: Phoenix Dance Theatre's exuberant, engaging Interplay at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Acosta Danza Yunior's Next Generation at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo celebrate their 50th anniversary... STAGE: Head First Acrobats' sexy antics in Return of the Godz at the Peacock... STAGE: Mark Gatiss in Brecht's electrifying The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, RSC Swan...
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