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Word has it that Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio are up for lead roles in HEAT 2, Michael Mann's hybrid prequel/sequel to his 1995 heist thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Other rumoured cast members include Austin Butler, Adam Driver and Bradley Cooper. Michael B Jordan and Juno Temple will lead the voice cast of SWAPPED, an animated comedy about a small woodland critter who mysteriously swaps bodies with a large bird, forcing these natural enemies to team up in order to survive. Nathan Greno (Tangled) is directing. Susan Sarandon and Scott Eastwood will join Rosario Dawson in UNMERCIFUL GOOD FORTUNE, based on the play about a lawyer defending a waitress from multiple murder charges. But she claims her psychic powers led her to kill for the greater good. Tirsa Hackshaw is writing and directing. Daisy Ridley will star in THE GOOD SAMARITAN, an action thriller about a couple that rescues a wounded man from the sea off the coast of Indonesia, then find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy. Pierre Morel (Taken) is directing from a script by Mathew Ian Cirulnick (Rambo: Last Blood). Nick Jonas, Bebe Neuwirth, Danny DeVito, Lamorne Morris, Marin Hinkle and Rhys Darby will all be back for the fourth JUMANJI movie, alongside Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan. Returning director Jake Kasdan started filming this week in Los Angeles. Danielle Deadwyler, Dolly De Leon, Alfred Molina and Tim Meadows are joining THE CHAPERONES, a black comedy that follows three slackers as they escort a troubled teen across America. The cast includes Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Paul Dano. India Donaldson is directing from a script by Sebastian Black. Mason Gooding will star in LAST RESORT, an action thriller in which cartel goons take over a beach hotel that's full of university kids on spring break. One of the students is a former Marine who kicks into action. Director Luis Prieto is currently filming in Spain. Betty Gilpin is joining Anne Hathaway and Adam Driver in ALONE AT DAWN, Ron Howard's drama based on the true story of an intelligence officer who proved that a US Air Force officer fought to his death to save his fellow soldiers during a fierce battle in Afghanistan. Harvest costars Frank Dillane and Caleb Landry Jones will reteam for a still-untitled horror film by director Arkasha Stevenson (The First Omen), alongside Josh Hutcherson and Whitmer Thomas. It's about a bachelor party that spins out of control into something very nasty. And Kevin Costner will play Bill Clinton in UNITED, a dramatisation of the 1999 United Nations mission to East Timor after an election erupted into violence. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing.
Denzel Washington is set to star in the third BLACK PANTHER movie, which writer-director Ryan Coogler says is his next project. There's no word yet on returning cast members, and the story is being guarded as if it's a state secret. Filming is still more than a year away. Shirley MacLaine will team up with Ansel Elgort for LUCY BOOMER, a comedy about a struggling writer who helps a 93-year-old woman break out of her nursing home, embarking on a road trip adventure. Howard Deutch is directing. Patrick Schwarzenegger is joining Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in BUNKER, about an architect who gets a job to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire. Florian Zeller is writing and directing. Nicolas Cage is reteaming with director John Woo for GAMBINO, a biopic about a journalist who is investigating the legacy of New York crime boss Carlo Gambino. The script is by George Gallo and Nick Vallelonga. Antonio Banderas and Richard E Grant will team up for ROSE'S BABY, about a divorced couple who decide to have another child in order to help their terminally ill daughter. Trudie Styler is directing from a script by Camille Griffin. Charlie Plummer is joining Rob Lowe and Keith David in MY NEW FRIEND JIM, a black comedy about two men who team up to search for a daughter who has run off to Reno. Ash Avildsen (Queen of the Ring) is directing. Veronika Slowikowska, Luke Kirby, Deborah Rush, Isabelle Barbier, Jack Bensinger, Jonas Gindin and Natalie Paul will star in the comedy CLOSE TO NOWHERE, about a small-town woman who demonstrates fake psychic abilities to impress a famous writer. Samantha Carroll is making her feature writing-directing debut. Erik Palladino, Fred Melamed and Michael Rispoli are joining Al Pacino and Kiefer Sutherland in FATHER JOE, a 1990s-set action thriller about a priest who wages war against New York's criminal underworld. Barthelmy Grossman is directing from a script by Luc Besson. Meanwhile, Sutherland will also star in HOUR OF RECKONING, about a retired cop who returns to his hometown to investigate his brother's mysterious death, then uncovers a major criminal operation. Vaughn Stein is directing from a script by Chuck Hustmyre. And Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves) will write and direct an all-new STAR TREK movie. Word has it that the film will not include characters previously seen in the franchise.
Adele will make her acting debut in CRY TO HEAVEN, alongside Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Owen Cooper. It's based on the Anne Rice novel set in 18th century Italy, as a nobleman from Venice who studies opera with a peasant-born castrato. Tom Ford is directing. Nicole Kidman, Tatiana Maslany, Lily Collias and Cush Jumbo are joining THE YOUNG PEOPLE, the next horror thriller from writer-director Osgood Perkins. The cast includes Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville, Nico Parker and Lola Tung. Plot details are being kept under wraps, even as filming is underway in Vancouver. Sabrina Carpenter will produce and star in a new movie musical adaptation of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, in which a girl falls into a rabbit hole and finds herself in a nonsensical fantasy world. Lorena Scafaria (Hustlers) is writing and directing. Brie Larson and Benny Safdie are joining the voice cast of THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE, the animated sequel again starring Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Charlie Day and Keegan-Michael Key. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic are directing. Colin Farrell will star in the action thriller ORDAINED, about a priest with a secret violent past who is being hunted down by mobsters. Anthony and Joe Russo are directing from a script by Derek Kolstsad. Dakota Johnson will play a robot in TRUDY BLUE, set in a near-future society where androids have been outlawed. Then this robotic housekeeper wakes up in a landfill and embarks on an epic journey to get home. Angus MacLane is directing from a script by Evan Twohy. Elizabeth Olsen and Molly Gordon will team up for PEAKED, about two women who were once the most popular girls in high school, but have done nothing with their lives since then. Now they plan to crash their 10-year reunion. Gordon is also directing and cowriting with Allie Levitan. Nicolas Cage and director Andrew Niccol have just started filming on their 20-years-later sequel to the thriller LORD OF WAR, continuing the story of an illegal weapons trafficker, this time facing off against his mercenary son. Costars include Bill Skarsgard, Laura Harrier, Sylvie Hoeks and Greg Tarzan Davis. Ed Helms will take on a rare dramatic role in THE ENGLISH TUTOR, a dark spy thriller set in Mexico City. Helms is also producing the film, which is directed by Gaz Alazraki and written by Michael LeSieur. Michael C Hall, Noomi Rapace and Teo Yoo will star in the thriller STRATAGEM, about a female CIA operative who sets out to seduce a tech genius, but finds that he has his own agenda. Michael Idov is directing. And Andy Garcia will be back for OCEAN'S 14, alongside George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle. There's no word yet on the story or who will direct this one, and more than half of the cast remains to be announced.
Pamela Anderson and Guy Pearce will star in QUEEN OF THE FALLS, a thriller in which they'll play lovers on the run from the law, heading towards Niagara Falls. Rania Attieh and Daniel A Garcia are writing and directing; Pedro and Agustin Almodovar are producing. Ryan Reynolds will produce and star in a remake of the 1974 classic THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT, which follows the exploits of a veteran thief and his charismatic protege. Reynolds is taking the mentor role, and also writing the script with Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson. Deadpool & Wolverine editor Shane Reid is making his directing debut. Idris Elba will be back for a second movie featuring his tenacious London detective LUTHER, reteaming this time with Ruth Wilson, reprising her role from the TV series as his serial killer love interest. Dermot Crowley will also return as Luther's boss. Jamie Payne is directing from a script by Neil Cross. Toni Collette, Anthony Hopkins, Stephen Graham and Charlie Plummer will star in IBELIN, based on the acclaimed documentary about a Norwegian couple who discovers that their gamer son, who died of a degenerative disease at 25, wasn't as lonely as they thought he was. Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) is directing. Ncuti Gatwa is joining Cynthia Erivo in the animated musical comedy BAD FAIRIES, about a group of sprites who rebel against the strict rules in their magical world. Megan Dong is directing from a script by Deborah Frances-White. Mark Wahlberg will produce and star in HEADHUNTERS, based on the Jo Nesbo novel that was previously adapted into a Norwegian film in 2011. It's about a corporate boss who secretly steals art to maintain the illusion of his success. Then a heist goes badly wrong. The script is by Bill Dubuque. Hayley Atwell will join Gerard Butler in the action thriller EMPIRE CITY, about a married fireman and police officer who set out to rescue hostages in a New York skyscraper. Michael Matthews is directing from a script by Brian Tucker and S Craig Zahler. Maria Bakalova and Frank Grillo will star in OVERRIDE, about a soldier who is left for dead on the battlefield, then she's rescued by an AI medical robot that tries to save her life. Jordan Downey is directing from a script by Jackson Murray and Kevin Stewart. Anjelica Huston, Jack Whitehall and Lucy Hale will star in the horror thriller LEGACY. The plot is being kept under wraps. Director David Slade is currently filming in the UK from a script by Thomas Bilotta. And Courteney Cox is directing the thriller EVIL GENIUS, which stars Patricia Arquette, David Harbour, Danielle Macdonald, Owen Teague, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Chernus and Tom McCarthy. It's the true story of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man who attempted a bank robbery while wearing a collar bomb. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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