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Stanley Tucci, Simona Tabasco and Victor Belmondo will star in MASTERPLAN, a thriller about a veteran thief who audaciously sets out to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. And the cohorts he hires don't know that they're actually his children. Director Thomas Vincent started filming this week on location in France and Italy. Nia Long and Larenz Tate will reteam to star in a still-untitled romantic drama inspired by Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite album. The plot is being kept under wraps. Eugene Ashe is directing from a script he wrote with Kay Oyegun. Ben Foster will play daredevil Evel Knievel in THE STUNT DRIVER, which follows Canadian stuntman Ken Carter (Jay Baruchel) as he prepares to jump a rocket-powered car over the mile-wide St Lawrence River in the late 1970s. Ed Helms costars; Michael Dowse is directing. Paz Vega, Andy Garcia, Nestor Carbonell, Danny Pino and Allen Leech will star in PEDRO PAN, a thriller based on the true story of a group of people in Miami who lead an operation to rescue 14,000 children from Castro's indoctrination programme in Cuba. Director Richie Adams starts filming next month in Mexico. It's official, Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez will be back for the long-gestating sequel RED, WHITE AND ROYAL WEDDING, following on the romantic antics of a British prince with the son of the US president. Presumably Stephen Fry and Uma Thurman will also be back as the powerful parents. Jamie Babbit is directing. Greg Kinnear is joining the cast of ETERNITY, about a con man who targets a socialite on her yacht but ends up engulfed in deadly secrets. Costars include William H Macy, Berenice Marlohe, Nolan Gerard Funk, Ludi Lin and Meadow Williams. Jamie Marshall is directing. Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby) has joined the cast of BEHEMOTH, alongside Pedro Pascal and David Harbour. It's the story of a cellist told through flashbacks. Writer-director Tony Gilroy is currently filming in Los Angeles. Toby Kebbel, Jay Duplass, Tracey Letts and PJ Byrne have joined the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, which dramatises Sylvester Stallone's fight to star in the now-classic boxing movie. Also on board are Anthony Ippolito, Stephan James and Matt Dillon. Peter Farrelly is directing. Cheech Marin, Dean Norris, Teresa Ruiz and Katie Tripp are joining COYOTE, alongside Mel Gibson, Esai Morales, Renata Notni and Marty Lindsey. It's about an ex-smuggler forced back into action on the US-Mexico border. Per Prinz is directing from a script he wrote with Adam J Goldstein. Meanwhile, Norris and Stephen Dorff are joining Darby Lee-Stack and Cole Sprouse in ELASTIC HEARTS. The only details about this project are that its an intimate character-driven drama set in contemporary America. Danish writer-director Milad Schwartz Avaz is currently filming.
Annette Bening and George Clooney will star in a romantic drama based on Amy Bloom's acclaimed book IN LOVE: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND LOSS, which explores a real-life couple's decision to end their lives on their own terms. Paul Weitz is directing. Jim Carrey is lined up to play George in a live-action movie based on the classic 1960s animated sitcom THE JETSONS, about a lively family living in a groovy space-age future. Colin Trevorrow is lined up to direct from a script he cowrote with Joe Epstein. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a biopic about iconic Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi, who rose to fame after playing Dracula in the 1930 classic. The script is by Scott Alexander and Larry Karascewski, whose film Ed Wood explored Lugosi's final years (Martin Landau won an Oscar for the role). Emma Thompson, Hugh Jackman, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bryan Cranston, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chris O'Dowd and Hong Chau are voicing characters in THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, an animated comedy about a shepherd who reads whodunits to his flock every night, sparking them to begin investigating a real murder. Kyle Balda (Minions) is directing. Cosmo Jarvis, Jamie Bell, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller and Woody Norman are joining Andrew Garfield and Katherine Waterston in THE UPRISING, which is set during the Peasants' Revolt in 14th century England as ordinary people challenge Richard III. Paul Greengrass is writing and directing. Al Pacino, Kiefer Sutherland and Ever Anderson will star in the action thriller FATHER JOE, about a priest in 1990s Manhattan who declares war on a powerful mob boss. Barthelemy Grosmann is directing from a script by Luc Besson. Wunmi Mosaku is joining the cast of THE SOCIAL RECKONING, Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network sequel starring Mikey Madison as a Facebook engineer who works with a journalist (Jeremy Allen White) to blow the whistle on the misuse of information. Jeremy Strong and Bill Burr costar. Emma Roberts will produce and star in EXPIRATION DATES, based on the book about a woman whose relationships always end just as predicted in cryptic notes. Then one man refuses to accept his fate. Novellist Rebecca Serle is writing the script. Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) will join the action thriller ARCHANGEL, alongside Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt and Shea Whigham. It's about a retired soldier who lives quietly in Wyoming designing weapons for a secret government agency. Presumably, chaos ensues. Will Eubank is directing. Meanwhile, Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen (Vikings: Valhalla) will play Jesus in Mel Gibson's two-part sequel THE RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST. Costars include Rupert Everett, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Mariela Garriga and Pier Luigi Pasino. Filming is underway in Rome.
Lady Gaga has joined the cast of the DEVIL WEARS PRADA sequel, alongside the returning Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci, plus Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, Simone Ashley and Tracie Thoms. Director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna are back as well. Scarlett Johansson is being lined up to play Mother Gothel in Disney's live-action remake of TANGLED, the animated musical retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale. Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) is directing from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Cynthia Erivo will lead the voice cast of BAD FAIRIES, an animated musical about a subversive group of sprites that sets off a rebellion. The score is by Isabella Summers (Florence & The Machine), with songs by Six composers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Matt Dillon is the latest to join the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, the biopic starring Anthony Ippolito as Sylvester Stallone and Stephan James as Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the 1976 classic. Dillon will play Sly's dad Frank. Peter Farrelly is directing. Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Aimee Lou Wood and Anna Sawai are joining Sam Mendes' four-film BEATLES biopic, as Ringo Starr's wife Maureen, Yoko Ono and George Harrison's wife Pattie. Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan are playing John, Paul, George and Ringo, plus Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney. Omari Hardwick, Anika Noni Rose, Jasmine Guy and Reggie Lochard will star in the coming-of-age film SHADOW DANCE, about a teen boy (Tavon Olds-Sample) who is thrown out of his home for being gay. Then while living on the streets of New York, he dreams of dancing with Alvin Ailey's company. Kelley Kali is directing from a script by Lochard. Burn Gorman and Brittany O'Grady are joining the cast of the third JUMANJI movie, alongside returning stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, Danny DeVito, Bebe Neuwirth and Alex Wolff. Jack Kasdan is also back as director. Danielle Vasinova (The Madison) is joining Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga and Jim Parsons in THE LEADER, based on the true story of the Heaven's Gate cult, which committed the largest mass suicide in the US. Michael Gallagher is directing. Amelia Brantley Emily Deschanel, Keith Kupferer, Samuel Hunt and Grant Jordan will star in MONKEY BREAD, about an aspiring 30-something actress who takes a job babysitting for her idol, which shows her the truth about the life she always wanted. Brantley is also writing and directing. And Megan Fox is joining FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2, playing the villainous Toy Chica. Returning cast members include Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio and Theodus Crane. Emma Tammi is again directing from a script by videogame series author Scott Cawthon.
Apparently, OCEAN'S 14 is finally coming together. Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and friends will be back for another heist caper. Word has it that filming could start in the spring, and David Leitch may direct this one. Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon, Tim Heidecker and Nassim Lyes will star in FULL PHIL, the next offbeat comedy from French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. It's set in a near-future AI-controlled Paris that's divided sharply between classes. Saoirse Ronan will play Linda McCartney in Sam Mendes' four-film BEATLES biopic, which stars Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan as Paul, John, George and Ringo. Each film will tell the band's story through the eyes of one of the bandmates. Peter Straughan, Jack Thorne and Jez Butterworth are working on the scripts. Jaden and Willow Smith will produce and voice characters in new anime projects by Black and Japanese artists. Jaden is working on MFINDA, a fantasy epic based on a Congolese folk tale. Willow is involved with the horror thriller WEBE: SPIRIT DETECTIVE, about a sleuth solving a string of paranormal murders in the Deep South. Taron Egerton and Jessica Henwick will star in EVERYBODY WANTS TO F**K ME, a comedy thriller set in the cutthroat world of modern dating. Writer-director Jonathan Schey is making his feature debut. Filming is scheduled to start in London next month. Ashley Judd will star in 21 DOWN, a biopic in which she'll play the mother of Caden Cox, who became the first player with Down syndrome to play and score a goal in a college American football game. Sean McNamara is directing. Jenny Slate and Chris Pine will star in CAROUSEL, the next film by writer-director Rachel Lambert (Sometimes I Think About Dying). There's no word yet on the plot, but it's described as a love story. Costars include Jessica Harper, Jeffrey DeMunn and Helene Yorke. Drag queens Monet X Change, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Ginger Minj, Jujubee, Latrice Royale, Symone and Marcia Marcia Marcia are joining RuPaul in the cast of the DRAG RACE movie in which two train stewardesses must try to prevent a national catastrophe. Adam Shankman is directing. Luca Marinelli and Charlotte Vandermeersch will star in Belgian filmmaker Felix van Groeningen's next movie LET LOVE IN, about a couple that is unravelling after the revelation of an affair. Then they discover a deeper connection. And Reese Witherspoon is developing a live-action film based on the POLLY POCKET line of tiny collectible dolls, starring Lily Collins in the title role. The script is by Jordan Weiss (Freakier Friday) and Dan Brier (Sweethearts). OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 A dreamy odyssey DANCE: Hofesh Schechter leads the audience on a surreal journey to the Theatre of Dreams at Sadler's Wells...  A screaming good time STAGE: After scaring the world, Ghost Stories returns to London's Peacock Theatre until 8th November...  That’s the way I like it STAGE: KC and the Sunshine Band musical Get Down Tonight rocks Charing Cross Theatre until 15th November...  September TV Roundup SCREEN: Chief of War, Wednesday 2, Smoke, Dexter: Resurrection, The Institute, Stick, Fisk and more... DANCE: Acosta Danza celebrates A Decade in Motion at Sadler's Wells... DANCE: Vlaemsch (Chez Moi) explores Flemish identity at Sadler's Wells... STAGE: Michael Keegan-Dolan's biographical How to Be a Dancer at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Sadeck Berrabah's Murmuration: Level 2 at the Peacock Theatre... INTERVIEW: Writer-director Corey Sherman talks about his film Big Boys... STAGE: Lorenzo Allchurch's new play Lost Watches at the Park Theatre... DANCE: Pete Townsend's Quadrophenia becomes a mod ballet at Sadler's Wells... JULY TV: Too Much, The Bear 4, Andor 2, Squid Game 3, The Last of Us 2, Sirens, Murderbot and more... STAGE: Kiki & Herb return to London for three nights at Soho Theatre Walthamstow...
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NEWS SOURCES:
Dark Horizons.
The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety.
Deadline.
Empire.
IMDb.
Rotten Tomatoes.
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