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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).
Tom Holland will produce and star in a film adaptation of John Grisham's 1997 novel THE PARTNER, about a likeable young lawyer in a Mississippi law firm, who steals cash from a client who has been defrauding the government. After four years on the run, he decides to turn himself in. Jason Bateman is directing from a script by Graham Moore. Anne Hathaway and Adam Driver will star in ALONE AT DAWN, based on the true story of an Air Force officer who fought while fatally wounded to protect his team, earning a posthumous medal of honour. Ron Howard is directing. Diane Kruger and Mads Mikkelsen will star in AMI, a survival thriller about an astronaut who is stranded on a strange planet with only an AI assistant to keep him company. Director Fernando Szurman plans to shoot the film in Spain. Mel Gibson, Esai Morales, Renata Notni and Marty Lindsey will star in COYOTE, a thriller about a retired smuggler who helps a woman and her daughter avoid both traffickers and law enforcement to cross the border. Austrian filmmaker Per Prinz is making his feature directing debut with a script he wrote with Adam J Goldstein. Stephan James has joined the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, as Carl Weathers, aka Apollo Creed. The film follows Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) as he writes his 1976 classic Rocky, then refuses to sell the script unless he plays the title role. Peter Farrelly is directing. William H Macy, Nolan Gerard Funk, Meadow Williams, Ludi Lin, Cristiano Caccamo and Emanuela Postacchini will star in ETERNITY, a thriller about a conman who targets a wealthy widow on her super-yacht, then dark secrets begin to emerge. Jamie Marshall is directing. Tobias Menzes is lined up to take on a major role in the long-awaited THE BATMAN PART II, which will again star Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, Andy Serkis and Jeffrey Wright, plus Barry Keoghan as the Joker. Matt Reeves is also back as director. Zach Cherry (Severance), Kali Reis (True Detective) and Johnno Wilson (Twisted Metal) are joining the cast of Zach Cregger's new stand-alone take on the RESIDENT EVIL franchise, which also stars Austin Abrams and Paul Walter Hauser. The script is by Shay Hatten (John Wick Chapter 3). Filming starts this month in Prague. Steven Cree will write and star in BEN & LUCY, a Glasgow-set comedy drama about a comedian who is recovering from alcoholism and trying to reach out to his estranged daughter, who is falling into her father's self-destructive patterns. Robert Carlyle and Stuart Martin costar; Cora Bissett is directing. And Brad Pitt will produce a feature adaptation of Mark Ronson's coming-of-age memoir NIGHT PEOPLE, which traces his years as a struggling DJ in New York in the 1990s before he hit worldwide success with the likes of Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.
Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Debicki, Alexander Skarsgard and Peter Dinklage are teaming up for WICKER, based on a short story about a fisherwoman who lives as an outcast on the edge of her seaside community, so she orders a wicker husband. Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson are writing and directing. Plans are moving forward for Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt to reunite for a sequel to EDGE OF TOMORROW, the time-hopping sci-fi thriller that became a cult hit. Doug Liman is also back as a director; he has been working with Cruise to develop the story for the sequel. LaKeith Stanfield, Maria Bakalova and Georgina Campbell will star in DOUBLE BLIND, a thriller about a man who is trying to work out why he is having increasingly long blackout periods. John Hyams is directing from a script by F Scott Frazier. Bette Midler and Nathan Lane are joining Kristen Wiig and Jonah Hill in CUT OFF, about two siblings who need to tone down their lavish lifestyles after they suddenly stop receiving support from their wealthy parents. Hill is also directing and cowriting the script with Ezra Woods. Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will star in THE MAN I LOVE, a drama set in 1980s New York about an artist grappling with beauty, love, illness and death. Ira Sachs is writing and directing. Ben Whishaw was previously lined up for the leading role. Jeremy Irons has joined the cast of Chad Stahelski's HIGHLANDER remake, alongside Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Marisa Abela and Djimon Hounsou. It's about an immortal Scottish swordsman battling other warriors to claim special abilities. Andrea Riseborough, Caleb Landry Jones and Peter Sarsgaard will star in ZERO K, based on the Don DeLillo novel about a young man who confronts his tech billionaire father at his remote desert compound. Writer-director Michael Almereyda will shoot the film in Sao Paulo. Aldis Hodge is joining Jake Gyllenhaal in the cast of the ROAD HOUSE sequel, which Ilya Naishuller is directing. Dave Bautista and Leila George costar in the movie, which carries on the story of a former UFC fighter working as a bouncer at a Florida Keys bar. The script is by Will Beall. David Harbour is joining Pedro Pascal in BEHEMOTH, a drama about a cellist in which the story unfolds through flashbacks. Anything else about the film is being kept under wraps. Writer-director Tony Gilroy just started filming in Los Angeles. Frances Fisher, MC Gainey and Lauren Holly will star in RUBY ROAD, a road movie about a terminally ill woman who drives her school bus through the Appalachian mountains to reconnect with her estranged family. Talia Lugacy is writing and directing. And Choi Min-Sik (Old Boy) and Han So-hee (My Name) will take the Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway roles in a Korean remake of the 2015 comedy THE INTERN, about a senior citizen working for a much younger company owner. Kim Do-young is directing.
Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver have apparently been lined up to star in a film that's titled USEFUL IDIOTS. Plot details are being kept tightly under wraps. Joseph Cedar (Footnote) is directing from a script by Callie Khouri. Rumour has it that Michael B Jordan and Glen Powell are being lined up to take the lead roles as Tubbs and Crockett in Joseph Kosinski's remake of MIAMI VICE. This new film will again be set in the mid-1980s, era of corrupt cops and glamorous drug dealers. The script is by Dan Gilroy and Eric Warren Singer. Michael Mann made both the original five-season TV series and a 2006 film reboot. Josh Brolin will star in MISTER, an action comedy about a man who wakes up in a strange house covered in blood, then struggles to remember his identity as a hitman while battling a wave of assassins who were sent to take him out. Wade Eastwood is directing from a script by Nicki Cortese. Idina Menzel, Margo Martindale, Julian Dennison and Amrit Kaur are joining the cast of JUST PICTURE IT, a romantic comedy about two college students (Millie Bobby Brown and, Gabriel LaBelle) whose phones mysteriously begin showing photos from 10 years in the future. Lee Toland Krieger is directing from a script by Jesse Lasky. Damien Lewis is joining the cast of JACK OF SPADES, a gothic mystery set in 1880s Scotland that costars Josh O'Connor, Frances McDormand and Lesley Manville. Nothing else has been revealed about the plot. Joel Coen is writing and directing. Yara Shahidi (Black-ish) is joining Jason Statham in THE BEEKEEPER 2, the continuing adventures of yet another retired government assassin, this time one who returns to help catch identity thieves. Timo Tjahjanto (Nobody 2) is directing from a script by Kurt Wimmer, who also wrote the first movie. Bill Burr is joining Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong in THE SOCIAL RECKONING. This is writer-director Aaron Sorkin's sequel to The Social Network, based on newspaper articles documenting the nefarious ways Facebook uses misinformation to capitalise on its users. Lindsey Shaw (Pretty Little Liars), DJ Hale and David DeLuise will star in RESCUED, about a man who loses his job and home due to gambling and alcoholism, then makes a surprising bond with a stray dog. Hale is also making his writing-directing debut. Jeff Howard (The Haunting of Hill House) will adapt Stephen King's novella RAT for the big screen, with Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban (Mal de Ojo) directing and Jay Van Hoy (The Witch) producing. It's about a tormented writer working on his next book in an isolated cabin in Maine, where his mind begins to slip. And Rick Moranis will return to acting for Mel Brooks' SPACEBALLS sequel, a sci-fi spoof which is currently in production with director Josh Greenbaum and costars Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman, Bill Pullman, Josh Gad, Anthony Carrigan, Daphne Zuniga and George Wyner. Brooks is also reprising his role as Yogurt. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 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...  Chaos, transformation, rebirth DANCE: Andrea Pena's near-naked Bogota explores history and culture at Sadler's Wells East...  September TV Roundup SCREEN: Chief of War, Wednesday 2, Smoke, Dexter: Resurrection, The Institute, Stick, Fisk and more... 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... STAGE: Otto & Astrid bring The Stages Tour to London for one night only...
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NEWS SOURCES:
Dark Horizons.
The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety.
Deadline.
Empire.
IMDb.
Rotten Tomatoes.
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