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Josh O'Connor is the latest actor rumoured to have landed the role of James Bond in the next 007 adventure. Of course, there's no official word yet. Aaron Taylor-Johnson had previously been the favourite to take on the role. Anne Hathaway and Dave Bautista are teaming up for WEDDING STING, inspired by the true story of FBI agents who pose as a couple to infiltrate global criminal organisations, then invite mobsters to their fake wedding. Anthony and Joe Russo are producing. Karla Sofia Gascon (Emilia Perez) will star in LAS MALAS, based on the novel Bad Girls, about the leader of a group of trans sex workers who decides to adopt an abandoned baby, which puts her in danger. Birdman screenwriter Armando Bo is directing and writing the script with Josefina Licitra. Owen Wilson and Matt Rife will star in ROLLING LOUD, a comedy based on the true story of a man who teams up with an irresponsible colleague to sneak his young teen son into the eponymous Miami hip-hop festival. Jeremy Garelick is writing and directing. Emilia Clarke, Edgar Ramirez and Jack Farthing will star in NEXT LIFE, which is set on the London jazz scene as a woman finds herself confronted with parallel lives that unfold in very different ways. Drake Doremus is writing and directing. Courteney Cox and Mason Gooding will be back, while Anna Camp is joining the cast of SCREAM VII. Neve Campbell is also returning to star in the film, after sitting out the sixth chapter. Kevin Williamson is directing. Paris Jackson, Rory Culkin, Crispin Glover, Mark Boone Jr and GaTa will star in the comedy SKINEMAX, about the offbeat friendship between an indie filmmaker and an adult movie star. Adam Sigal is writing and directing. Wes Studi, Tanaya Beatty, Irene Bedard and Owen Crow Shoe will star in the Western drama TIMBER LANDS, about two families whose generational hatred for each other comes to a head after a tragic death. Directors Baylee Toney and Myles Clohessy are filming in Oregon. Matthew Warchus will direct a remake of CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, based on the Ian Fleming story about a widowed inventor who heads off on an adventure in the eponymous flying car with his two children and a candy company heiress. The new script is by Edna Walsh. And Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have apparently come up with an idea for a sequel to BARBIE. The movie is likely to be a long way off, as Gerwig's first priority at the moment is her adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Jamie Lee Curtis may play Jessica Fletcher in a big-screen movie reboot of the 1980s whodunit series MURDER, SHE WROTE. The character was of course famously played by Angela Lansbury over 12 seasons, plus a few TV movies. The new script is by Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum. Word has it that a fourth MEET THE PARENTS movie is in the works, reuniting Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner and possibly others from previous films, including Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman and Owen Wilson. John Hamburg is back as screenwriter. Glen Powell will star in the thriller HOMEWRECKERS, about a man who becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife is having an affair. But she's actually been given the chance to rekindle her romance with an AI-generated younger version of her husband. Neil Paik wrote the script based on his novella. Angourie Rice, Ella Purnell, Lukas Gage and Finn Bennett will star in LOSER, a thriller about a troubled physicist who tries to solve her personal issues by travelling through time, but gets caught up in a violent situation instead. Colleen McGuinness is writing and directing. Jared Leto is joining the cast of ASSASSINATION, alongside Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Brendan Frasier and Bryan Cranston. It's about a journalist investigating mob connections to JFK's death. Barry Levinson is directing from a script by David Mamet. Bill Skarsgard will team up with director Gus Van Sant to make DEAD MAN'S WIRE, based on the true story of a property developer who in 1977 took a mortgage banker hostage then demanded both cash and an apology. The script is by Austin Kolodney. The project was originally developed for Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog. Kit Harington will join Mark Wahlberg in a sequel to the action comedy THE FAMILY PLAN, which also stars Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Colletti and Van Crosby. In this one, the former assassin takes his family to Europe for Christmas. Director Simon Cellan Jones and writer David Coggeshall are also back on board. A$ap Rocky has landed the lead role in Spike Lee's next film HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, a remake of the Akira Kurosawa classic High and Low, about a company executive who is blackmailed after his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake. Costars include Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera and Ice Spice. Melanie Zanetti and David McCormack will be back to voice their characters in a BLUEY movie, based on the Australian animated series about a blue dog and his family. Also returning is writer-director Joe Brumm and composer Joff Bush. And Disney's next live-action remake will be TANGLED. Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) is set to direct this musical-comedy take on the story of Rapunzel, a young princess locked in a tower and rescued by a handsome thief. The script is by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Thor: Love and Thunder).
Word has it that Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan are locked in to play John, Paul, George and Ringo in Sam Mendes' ambitious four-film officially sanctioned biopic about THE BEATLES. Each movie will tell the story through the eyes of one musician, so they will intersect as the story leads to the band's breakup in 1970. Austin Butler is lined up to play the lead role in Luca Guadagnino's remake of AMERICAN PSYCHO, as a sex-and-drugs addicted Wall Street banker who imagines that he is also a brutal serial killer. The script is by Scott Z Burns (Side Effects). Michaela Coel, Ian McKellen and James Corden will star in THE CHRISTOPHERS, a black comedy about the estranged children of a famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works, so they can sell them. Steven Soderbergh is directing from a script by Ed Solomon. Jeremy Allen White has joined the cast of THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU, the big-screen continuation of the Star Wars TV series starring Pedro Pascal. White will voice Rotta the Hutt, Jabba's son. Sigourney Weaver costars in the movie, which is being directed by Jon Favreau. Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin Mckenzie, Christopher Abbott, Stacy Martin, Lewis Pullman and Tim Blake Nelson are all starring in ANN LEE, a musical based on the true story of the woman who founded the Shaker movement in 18th century England. The script is by The Brutalist's Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, this time with Fastvold directing. Rosario Dawson will produce and star in the supernatural thriller UNMERCIFUL GOOD FORTUNE, based on the play about a celebrity lawyer working on a high-profile case involving a psychic waitress who has killed 28 people to save them from an even worse death. Tirsa Hacksaw is directing. Eddie Redmayne and Brian Tyree Henry are joining Julia Roberts and Elizabeth Olsen in PANIC CAREFULLY, which is being described as a cyberterrorism thriller with the tone of The Silence of the Lambs. Writer-director Sam Esmail (Mr Robot) is keeping the plot under wraps for now. Snoop Dogg will star in and produce Luc Besson's next film, THE LAST MAN, a post-apocalyptic thriller that is apparently connected in some way to Dogg's 2009 song Last Man Standing. Dogg and Besson previously worked together on the animated feature Arthur and the Minimoys. Eddie Marsan and Eanna Hardwicke wil star in the thriller NO ORDINARY HEIST, a fictional take on the true story of the biggest cash heist in UK and Irish history, as two Belfast bank employees are coerced by a criminal gang into stealing £26.5 million to save their family. Colin McIvor is directing. And awards season is officially underway with various ceremonies and nominations announcements, plus a flurry of critics' prizes. Anora, Emilia Perez, No Other Land, Wicked, The Brutalist and Kneecap have emerged as frontrunners. So of course Shadows' Sweepstakes is now up and running, collating all of the winners in one place as the momentum builds to Oscar night.
Danielle Deadwyler and Adam Scott will star in THE SAVIORS, a black comedy about a suburban couple whose life is upended when they rent their garage to mysterious tenants. Director Kevin Hamedani is currently shooting the film in Los Angeles from a script he wrote with Travis Betz. Teyonah Parris is joining John Cena in MATCHBOX, based on the collectible line of miniature cars. It's an action movie about a group of childhood friends trying to stop a global disaster. Costars include Jessica Biel and Sam Richardson. Sam Hargrave (Extraction) is directing from a script by David Coggeshall (The Family Plan) and Jonathan Tropper (The Adam Project). Anne Hathaway will star in an AI-themed thriller written by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kieran Fitzgerald (Snowden), based on a story they created with Natasha Lyonne. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Gordon-Levitt is directing; Rian Johnson is producing. Wyatt Russell is joining Steven Spielberg's next movie THE DISH, a UFO-themed thriller that stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson. The script is by David Koepp. After this, Spielberg plans to adapt OLD MAN'S WAR, about a 75-year-old man who enlists to fight in an intergalactic battle with a genetically enhanced younger body. Bill Pullman and Daniel Zovatto are joining the thriller FAMOUS, in which Zac Efron will play both a Hollywood heartthrob and his overzealous fan. Costars include Phoebe Dynevor, Nicholas Braun, Debby Ryan and Cory Michael Smith. Jody Hill (Observe & Report) is directing from a script by Chad Hodge. Veteran actor Reed Birney (Succession) will team up with Kieron Moore (Sex Education) for BLUE FILM, about a webcam boy who discovers that he has an eerie connection with an anonymous client. Elliot Tuttle is making is writing-directing debut. Mark Duplass is producing. Andrew Matarazzo (Teen Wolf), Ronen Rubinstein (911: Lone Star) and Orlando Pineda (Monsters) will star in ROSES, a spaghetti-style Western about two 19th century outlaws whose lifelong friendship is jeopardised by a stash of cash. Alexander Rain is directing from a script he wrote with Matarazzo. Top Chilean stars Alfredo Castro (El Conde), Paulina Garcia (Gloria) and Luis Gnecco (Neruda) will voice characters in the animated feature WINNIPEG: SEEDS OF HOPE, named after the ship that carried 2,400 refugees from Spain to Chile and Argentina in the late 1930s. Gnecco is reprising his role as Pablo Neruda. Elio Quiroga is directing. Bobby Farrelly will direct DRIVER'S ED, an ensemble comedy about teens who steal their school's driver's education car and go on a road trip to help their friend win back his college freshman girlfriend. The script is by Thomas Moffett. And Chris Evans will return for AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY, probably as Steve Rogers, whom he played from 2011 to 2019, although anything is possible since Robert Downey Jr was hired to play Dr Doom in this movie. Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson is now Captain America. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 December TV Roundup SCREEN: Disclaimer, A Man on the Inside, Monsters, Perfect Couple, Only Murders 4, Heartstopper 3 and more...  This is the greatest show STAGE: Riches and Kearns are hilarious as Ball and Boe for 14 nights only at Soho Theatre...  A gleeful panto mashup STAGE: Potted Panto makes a triumphant return to Wilton's Music Hall for the holidays.  Walk away the blues DANCE: Rosas brings Exit Above, an extraordinary explosion of movement, to Sadler's Wells...
COMEDY: Larry Dean takes his
INTERVIEW: An encounter with STAGE: Tom Gaskinbrings his endearing, impressive Filibuster to Jackson's Lane... COMEDY: Paly & Jay bring their Ultimate Roadshow to London...
DANCE: Chicos Mambo bring Tutu STAGE: Emma Hemingford's new play Foreverland at Southwark Playhouse Borough... DANCE: Frontiers showcases Canadian choreographers at Sadler's Wells... DANCE: Akram Khan brings his powerful take on Giselle to Sadler's Wells... STAGE: The Sex Lives of Puppets returns for another run at Southwark until 28th Sep...
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NEWS SOURCES:
Dark Horizons.
The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety.
Deadline.
Empire.
IMDb.
Rotten Tomatoes.
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