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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.
Denzel Washington is lined up to star in the third BLACK PANTHER movie, which is again being written and directed by Ryan Coogler. There is of course no word on where this story will go, but it's at least very likely that Letitia Wright will be back. Regina King, George Lopez and Ice Spice are joining the voice cast of the fifth SpongeBob movie, SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS. In this one, SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and friends travel to the ocean's depths to face the ghost of the Flying Dutchman (Mark Hamill). Derek Drymon is directing. Walton Goggins, Orville Peck and Eric Andre are apparently lined up to join the movie based on the videogame STREET FIGHTER. Also on board are Jason Momoa, Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo and Roman Reigns. Kitao Sakurai (Twisted Metal) is directing. Margaret Qualley, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Aaron Pierre will star in LOVE OF YOUR LIFE, a romantic drama directed by Rachel Morrison. There's no word on the plot yet, but the script is by Julia Cox (Nyad). Ryan Gosling is producing. Mark Ruffalo and Dylan O'Brien are joining Ruth Madeley in BEING HEUMANN, a biopic about Judy Heumann, centring around the 28-day sit-in she organised in 1977 San Francisco, demanding accessibility and equal rights. Sian Heder (Coda) is writing and directing. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is joining the cast of THE ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel starring Brad Pitt, plus Elizabeth Debicki and Scott Caan. Leonardo DiCaprio is expected to have a cameo. David Fincher is directing from a script by Quentin Tarantino. Gabrielle Union, Nicola Coughlan, Patton Oswalt, David Harbour, Nick Kroll, Jennifer Lewis and basketball star Stephen Curry are leading the voice cast of GOAT, an action comedy set in an all-animal world as a tiny goat gets a chance to become a roarball star. Tyree Dillihay (Bob's Burgers) is directing. Emily Mortimer will make her feature directing debut with DENNIS, a romantic comedy about a British student (Saltburn's Alison Oliver) who falls for a Russian poet (Anora's Yura Borisov) in Moscow in the 1990s. Emma Stone is producing. Sarah Bolger is reteaming with A Good Woman Is Hard to Find writer-director Abner Pastoll for NERVOUS, a psychological horror film set amid the breakdown of a marriage. Costars include Ko Ah-sung (Snowpiercer) and Sungsoo Yune (Smugglers). Filming is underway in Seoul. Vincent Cassel will star in QUASIMODO, a more darkly gritty adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, set in 1830s Paris amid a cholera epidemic and political upheaval. Jean-Francois Richet is directing from a script by Eric Bresnard (Wrath of Man). Elemental director Peter Sohn is set to direct INCREDIBLES 3, carrying on the animated adventures of the superhero couple (Holly Hunter and Craig T Nelson) and their lively kids. Brad Bird is returning to write and produce this time. There's no official word yet on the cast. And Robert Eggers will write and direct a new version of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. No more information has been offered about this project, but it's likely to be a darker-than-usual take on the classic ghost story. Before this, Eggers is still set to direct WEREWULF from a script he wrote with Sjon (The Northman).
Viola Davis will produce and star in ALLY CLARK, a thriller who stumbles into a dangerous global conglomerate while investigating the death of her friend. Phillip Noyce is directing from a script by Jose Ruisanchez and veteran filmmaker Irwin Winkler. Brad Pitt and Channing Tatum will team up to produce a feature film set around the Isle of Man's legendary TT race, in which motorbikes speed down public roads through the island's villages and countryside. Reid Carolin (Magic Mike) is directing. There are plans to accompany the film with a documentary series. Nick Jonas will play Kiss frontman Paul Stanley in the biopic SHOUT IT OUT LOUD, and he plans to do his own singing in the role. Casting is underway for actors to play Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in the story of four young men from Queens who created the colourful rock band. The film has been long in development with director McG. Mia Goth has joined Ryan Gosling in the cast of Sean Levy's STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER. All that's known about this film is that it's a standalone adventure set in a period of the timeline that has never been explored before on-screen. The script is by Jonathan Tropper. Mason Gooding and Marcello Hernandez are joining Kevin Hart in 72 HOURS, a comedy about a 40-something executive who is trying to save his career while attending a three-day bachelor party with guys half his age. Tim Story is directing. Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things) and Sean Giambrone (The Goldberg) will team up for an untitled comedy about two loner university students whose pizza delivery becomes a psychedelic odyssey. It's written by the standup duo BriTANicK, aka Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher. Elisabeth Shue and John Ortiz are joining Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin in WHALEFALL, based on the novel about a diver who is swallowed by a sperm whale and has just an hour to escape before he runs out of oxygen. Director Brian Duffield starts filming next week in Los Angeles. Haley Bennett is lined up to star in the sixth INSIDIOUS movie. Nothing is known yet about the film, including whether Tye Simpkins will be back in the central role. Jacob Chase is directing, with James Wan, Leigh Whannell and Jason Blum back as producers. Jonathan Daviss (Outer Banks) will play Snoop Dogg in a biopic that traces the early life and career of the iconic rapper. Craig Brewer (Dolemite Is My Name) is directing from a script by Joe Robert Cole (Black Panther). Snoop Dogg is producing. Rob Riggle and Jordana Brewster will star in THE PIRATE KING, about a Marine war veteran dealing with trauma and addiction. Seeking recovery, and to reconnect with his daughter, he joins a group of pirate re-enactors. Josh Plasse is writing and directing. Riggle served as a Marine officer for 23 years, and says he identifies closely with the character. Andrew Koji, Jack Griffo, Azizi Donnelly and magician Shin Lim will star in HIGH STAKES HOLIDAY, about two sisters (played by Violet and Madeleine McGraw) who are vacationing in Las Vegas when they get caught up in a Christmas heist. Shaun Piccinino (A California Christmas) directs from a script by John Ducey (A Hollywood Christmas). And Alan Ruck, Richard Kind, David Costabile and Helene Yorke have joined the cast of HERSHEY, a biopic about the family that founded the iconic American chocolate company. The film stars Finn Wittrock as patriarch Milton Hershey, with Alexandra Daddario as his wife Kitty. Mark Waters is directing.
Mikey Madison is lined up for a dual role as long-lost twin sisters in a remake of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, based on the Edgar Allan Poe story about a masked ball in an abbey, as nobles try to hide from a deadly epidemic. Charlie Polinger (The Plague) is writing and directing. Jason Momoa and Andy Samberg are teaming up to produce and star in a new comedy. There's no word yet on the story, aside from the fact that it's set in Hawaii. The script is by Rob Klein and John Solomon (Saturday Night Live). Andrew Garfield, Monica Barbaro and Yura Borisov are teaming up for ARTIFICIAL, a comedy-drama based on the true story of a period in which OpenAI boss Sam Altman was fired and then rehired. Luca Guadagnino is directing from a script by Simon Rich. Andrew Scott is joining the cast of A PLACE IN HELL, alongside Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones. The plot is being kept under wraps, but centres around two women who work at a high-profile criminal law firm. Chloe Domont (Fair Play) is writing and directing. Rian Johnson is producing. Kit Connor may reteam with Warfare director Alex Garland for a live-action film based on the videogame ELDEN RING, which allows players to adopt roles in which they return to conquer the homeland of their exiled ancestors. George RR Martin was involved in creating the game. Shailene Woodley and Russell Crowe are joining Jacob Tremblay in UNABOM, a drama about Harvard genius-turned-terrorist Ted Kaczynski who killed three people in a mail bombing campaign. Janus Metz (Andor) is directing. Keke Palmer and SZA will be back for a sequel to the hit comedy ONE OF THEM DAYS, continuing the adventures of two quick-thinking friends after they survive a momentous day trying to solve a series of major problems in their Los Angeles community. Lawrence Lamont is returning as director. Octavia Spencer will be back for a sequel to MA, as a woman trying to be the cool friend to a group of teenagers who are the children of her old school friends. Then things turn very grisly. There's no word yet on where the sequel will take this premise. Michael Showalter is lined up to direct. Christine Taylor, Bebe Wood, Lix Pascal, Anna Akana, Rio Mangini and Warren Egypt Franklin will team up for the comedy LOVE & CHAOS, about a group of university-age actors on a reality TV show who are abandoned in Europe when their show goes bankrupt. Drew Denny is directing from a script by Frederick Grimm. And horror movie veterans Kane Hodder (Friday the 15th) and Bill Moseley (Devil's Rejects) are teaming up for COVET, a thriller about a lowlife car salesman trying to clear his name after his mistress is murdered. Brian McQuery is writing and directing. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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 Send in the clowns STAGE: This year's London Clown Festival kicks off with a rambunctious cabaret night at Soho Theatre...  Body and Soul DANCE: Phoenix Dance Theatre's Inside Giovanni's Room, based on James Baldwin's novel, at Sadler's Wells East...  The right to exist DANCE: Gary Clarke Company brings Detention to The Place in London, and on tour nationally through October...  May TV Roundup SCREEN: The White Lotus 3, Hacks 4, Adolescence, The Four Seasons, The Studio, Mid-Century Modern, more... 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 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
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Variety.
Deadline.
Empire.
IMDb.
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