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Julia Roberts will produce and star in HOME ECONOMICS, based on the forthcoming novel by Katy Hays (The Cloister), who is writing the film's script. The plot is being kept under wraps. Marc Platt (Wicked) is also producing. Emilia Jones and Alison Oliver will star in BAD BRIDGETS, a dramatic thriller about two sisters who escape the famine in 19th century Ireland seeking a new life in New York. But mayhem awaits. Rich Peppiatt (Kneecap) is directing. Jack Quaid, Sam Worthington, Jaeden Martell, Jai Courtney and LaMonica Garrett will team up for BLOOD ON THE PROMONTORY, a Western drama about five convicts who are shackled together as they escape through the mountains after a bank robbery. Ray Mendoza is directing. Nicholas Braun is joining the cast of Ruben Ostlund's THE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM IS DOWN, about passengers dealing with seemingly interminable boredom on a long-haul flight. The ensemble includes Keanu Reeves, Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Bruhl, Lindsay Duncan and Julie Delpy. Meanwhile, Reeves is voicing the title character in Japanese filmmaker Masashi Kawamura's stop-motion animated action thriller HIDARI, which expands the 2023 short into an epic feature. It's about a man who channels his grief into a quest for vengeance. Paapa Essiedu, Maxine Peake and David Fielder will star in LAUNDREAMS, a short film that traces the coming-of-age of two young women who have never left their hometown near Sheffield. Amber Gadd and Evie Ward-Drummond are writing and directing and costarring. Maggie Grace and Steve Howey will star in the horror thriller FIONA, about a lonely doctor in rural America who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is channelling the powers of Mother Nature. It's based on Soren Narnia's podcast Knifepoint Horror; Nicholas McCarthy is directing. Cuba Gooding Jr, Luke Ford, Keith Duffy, Christian Lavin, Alberto Cowboy and Qymira will star in the action thriller LOTUS. Filipino filmmaker Pedring Lopez is directing and cowriting with Rex Lopez. There's no word yet on the plot. Filming is set to take place in the Philippines and Brazil this autumn. Mena Suvari, Jean Evans, Steph Tolev, Jack Picking and Rodney J Hobbs will star in the comedy THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE, about a high school valedictorian who eats a psychedelic edible and begins body-swapping with those around her. Jenna Milly is writing and directing. Cathy Moriarty, Martin Kove, Willow Shields, Alexa Pena-Vega, Sebastian Amoruso, Nikki Roumel and James Patrick Stewart will star in the thriller BOOT LAKE, about a young woman who returns to her small hometown and discovers a diary that reveals buried memories. Christian Del Grosso is directing. Michael Bay will produce and direct a film based on the forthcoming book that chronicles the rescue of two American pilots who were shot down in Iran during Operation Epic Fury this past April. The book is by journalist Mitchell Zuckoff. And Veep creators Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell are working on the script for the fourth PADDINGTON movie. Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin are likely to be back.
Matt Damon is replacing Ryan Gosling in the new film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once). All that's known about the project is that it's a sci-fi comedy set in both the 1980s and the present day, with elements of climate change, time travel and superheroes. Renate Reinsve will star in French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love's next film IF LOVE SHOULD DIE, a biopic about groundbreaking writer-philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. It picks up her story from the start of the French Revolution in the late 1780s until her death in London in 1797, shortly after the birth of her daughter Mary, who would go on to write Frankenstein. Meanwhile, Reinsve's Sentimental Value costar Inga Ibsdottir Lilleaas and Brit Lower (Severance) are joining Peter Sarsgaard and Caleb Landry Jones in ZERO K, about a tech billionaire who is preparing to put his dying wife in cryo-stasis while his estranged son starts a new relationship with a single mother. Director Michael Almereyda is filming in Sao Paulo. Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver and Vanessa Kirby will star in TOMORROW IS A DRAG. There's no word yet on the plot, but this is the first film from acclaimed writer-director Kenneth Lonergan in more than a decade. Brian Tyree Henry is joining the cast of THE BATMAN: PART II. Robert Pattinson is back, as are Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright and Andy Serkis, plus Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan and Charles Dance. Matt Reeves is also returning as writer-director. Filming starts in Britain in June. Snoop Dogg and Brandon Perea will star in THE FAITH OF LONG BEACH, about a street fighter raised in a group home who tries to become a professional boxer. Eric Amadio is writing and directing. Jenna Ortega will star in LILY MAY B, the next dream-like movie from French filmmaker Leos Carax. It's about three secretive young people who meet each other in a post-apocalyptic landscape and go in search of their identities. Quinta Brunson will play BETTY BOOP in a film she is producing with Mark Fleischer, grandson of Boop's creator Max Fleischer. The film will follow Max as he grapples with commercial and creative pressures to launch one of the world's first animated icons, who then develops a life of her own. Ciaran Hinds is joining Channing Tatum and Eve Hewson in ISLE OF MAN, a drama set around the island's iconic TT motorbike race. Director Reid Carolin begins filming this week on location. And Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will produce NO WAY OUT, based on the true story of a group of British soldiers who find themselves under siege in Helmland province during the Afghanistan war. Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) is writing the script.
Colman Domingo, Nicholas Hoult, Noah Jupe and Emma Corrin will star in THE SERVANT, a reimagining of the 1963 classic written by Harold Pinter, a psychological thriller set in 1950s New York as a privileged British man gets caught in a power play with his butler. Francis Lee (Ammonite) is writing and directing. Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez and Michael Fassbender will star in Brady Corbet's mysterious new project THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, with a story that's said to span 150 years but is primarily set in the 1970s. Apparently, the film will be 4 hours long. Filming starts this summer in Portugal. Amy Madigan and Chris Cooper will star in I PASSED THIS WAY, based on the 1927 novella about lawman Pat Garrett and his deputy as they search for a bank robber in New Mexico. Costars include Thomas Mann, Ron Perlman, Cameron Monaghan and Ted Levine. Writer-director John Sayles will start filming in the autumn. David Jonsson, Connor Storrie and Tom Burke are joining Gracie Abrams in PLEASE, the next project from filmmaker Halina Reijn (Babygirl). Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it's rumoured to be a dark comedy about masculinity and violence. Will Smith will star in the action thriller SUPERMAX, as an FBI agent who is investigating a murder that took place in the world's most secure prison. David Gordon Green is directing from a script by David Rosen and David Weil. Melissa Leo will star in the thriller THE MANNEQUIN, which is described as a propulsive serial killer procedural with a big twist in the tale. Sean Byrne (Dangerous Animals) is writing and directing. Ben Stiller, Nicholas Galitzine and Bella Maclean will star in A MATTER OF TIME, a fantasy in which an unlikely angel convinces a shut-in to sacrifice himself for the greater good, sparking a romance. Harry Bradbeer (Enola Holmes) is directing. James Franco has joined the cast of JOHN RAMBO, the First Blood prequel starring Noah Centineo as the young soldier fighting in Vietnam. Costars include David Harbour, Yao, Jason Tobin, Quincy Isaiah, Jefferson White and Tayme Thapthimthong. Jalmari Helander is directing. Natalie Dormer is joining Riz Ahmed and Mark Wahlberg in the thriller THE BIG FIX, about an Interpol agent who uncovers a major match-fixing scandal and launches an investigation of Fifa. Balthasar Kormakur is directing from a script by Justin Haythe and Guy Bolton. And Adam Sandler and friends are taking another holiday to make a third GROWN UPS movie. There's no word yet on who from the ensemble will return: Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Kevin James, Maria Bello, David Spade, et al. Kyle Newacheck is directing.
Florence Pugh will produce and star in THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, about a woman who finds herself in a library in between life and death, exploring the various lives she could have lived. Garth Davis (Lion) is directing from a script by Laura Wade and Nick Payne. Jonathan Bailey will join Natalie Portman in PUMPING BLACK, a psychological thriller about an aging cyclist whose partnership with a power-hungry doctor takes a dark turn in the run-up to the Tour de France. Mimi Cave is directing. Olivia Colman and Russell Tovey will team up for WILD BIRD, playing 1990s fashion editor Isabella Blow and her designer protege Alexander McQueen. Set during an imagined road trip, the short film will be directed by Andrew Haigh from a script by Tovey. FKA Twigs will play Josephine Baker in a biopic that traces the life of the iconic jazz artist and civil rights activist. Maimouna Doucoure is directing. The project has the support of Baker's children. Filming is scheduled to start in the autumn. Renee Zellweger, Sissy Spacek and Mia Threapleton will star in A WOMAN IN THE SUN, a drama about a bartender whose life is upended when her mother becomes seriously ill just as her daughter unexpectedly returns to live at home. Julia Cox (For My Forever) is writing and directing. Isabelle Huppert, Adam Bessa, Dali Benssalah and recording artist Raye will star in LINEAGE, about a man trying to rebuild his life after a stint in prison, but his brother pulls him back into the criminal underworld. Director Yann Demange plans to start filming in London in August from a script by Edna Walsh. Ayo Edebiri, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Finn Wolfhard, Rachel House and Alex Jayne Go will voice characters in Bong Joon Ho's first animated feature ALLY, which recounts the adventures of a piglet squid who dreams of starring in a wildlife documentary. Felicity Jones will play Agatha Christie in ELEVEN MISSING DAYS, a noir thriller based on the true story of the British author's mysterious disappearance at the height of her fame in 1926. Vincent Cassel costars; Bertie Ellwood (Silo) is directing from a script by Ernesto Foronda (Better Luck Tomorrow). Stephanie Hsu, Hannah Waddingham and Guy Pearce will star in THE TELLER, a crime thriller about a bank teller who is manipulated by an FBI agent into robbing her own bank. But this is only part of a much larger con. Ben Ripley is making his feature writing-directing debut. Laurence Fishburne, James Badge Dale, Elena Anaya and Spencer Garrett will star in INTERFERENCE, a crime thriller set in Spain as an American expat finds his life upended when he's arrested for crimes he insists that did not commit. Mel Rodriguez II is writing and directing. Liam Neeson, John Cleese and Matthew Modine will star in the romantic fantasy THE SPLENDID THING, about a successful novelist who is struggling to finish his new book when characters from his previous books come to life around him. Modine is also directing and cowriting the script with Stephen Wallis. And Gerard Butler will star in THE NEST, an action thriller about a sniper who must face up to a terrorist threat in order to save his family and a stadium full of fans at the World Cup. The script is by newcomer Aaron Benjamin. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 June TV Roundup SCREEN: Half Man, The Four Seasons 2, The Comeback 3, the finales of Hacks, Euphoria and The Boys, and more...  Joyful mischief DANCE: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo celebrate their 50th anniversary on a delightful UK tour until 24th June...  Art, absinthe and anarchy STAGE: The Lost Estate immerses us in 1890s Paris for Chat Noir!, in West Kensington through the summer...  We own this city STAGE: Mark Gatiss leads Brecht's electrifying The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at RSC Swan until 30th May... DANCE: Jefta van Dinther's hypnotic Remachine at Sadler's Wells East... DANCE: Bullyache's A Good Man Is Hard to Find at Sadler's Wells East... INTERVIEW: talking with Bill Condon and Tonatiuh about Kiss of the Spider Woman... DANCE: Shobana Jeyasingh's We Caliban, a twist on The Tempest at Sadler's East... DANCE: Dorrance Dance's explosive The Center Will Not Hold at Sadler's Wells... STAGE: Stephen Brower's Palatable Gay Robot at Udderbelly Boulevard... FEB TV: The Beauty, Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things 5, The Night Manager 2, Wonder Man, Industry 4, more... INTERVIEW: Rohan Kanawade talks about his acclaimed romance Cactus Pears... STAGE: Where There Is No Time grapples with art and commerce, at Seven Dials...
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