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Selena Gomez and Timothee Chalamet will voice the lead characters in the animated adventure NOT ALONE, about a botanist developing a plant-fuelled rocket with an introverted mechanic. Then they encounter a group of aliens. Brett Goldstein, Allison Janney, Rob Brydon, Jamie Demetriou, Lamorne Morris and Diane Morgan are also in the cast. Eric Guillon (Despicable Me 3) is directing. Tom Holland is making a film with Danish writer-director Tom Vinterberg. They first worked together on a Prada advert last year, and haven't released any details about their new project. Vinterberg's last feature was 2020's award-winning Another Round. Nia Long and Ice Cube will reteam for ARE THEY GONE YET?, a second sequel to Are We There Yet? The first two films followed a ladies' man taking on the children of his girlfriend-then-wife. The script is by Chris Hazzard and Mike Fontana. Glen Powell will star in the dark thriller HOMEWRECKERS, about a woman who tries to add spark to her marriage by reliving her romance with a younger AI version of her husband. Craig Gillespie is directing. Elizabeth Banks is producing a film adaptation of the children's series THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS, and will play the teacher Ms Frizzle, who takes her class on outrageous field trips each day. Rob Letterman (Detective Pikachu) is directing. Lily James will star in the horror thriller SEASONS, based on a short story about a husband and wife who buy their dream home, then discover that it is full of ancient spirits that demand seasonal rituals. Drew Hancock (Companion) is directing. Sirens costars Meghann Fahy and Glenn Howerton will reteam for THE GIRLFRIEND, about a man who hires an escort to be his wife's best friend after she moves to a new town with him. Natalie Morales is directing from a script by Howerton and Rich Appel. Taika Waititi and Jemane Clement are working on WE'RE WOLVES, a sequel to their 2014 mock-documentary What We Do in the Shadows, which of course sparked a six-season America-set sitcom in the intervening years. The new film will centre around Rhys Darby's werewolf Anton. Acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Holland will direct BERLINWEH: YEARNING FOR A HOME, a biopic about screen icon Marlene Dietrich. The German-born star was a singer, actress and fierce anti-Nazi activist. The script is by Ingo Rasper. And Romeo Beckham will make his acting debut in the romantic drama FORTY LOVE, as an upstart rival to a tennis superstar. Costars include Catherine Deneuve, Paul Kircher, Guillaume Canet and Benjamin Voisin. Fashion photographer Pierre-Ange Carlotti is making his directing debut.
Cher and Bob Geldof are lined up to voice roles in FLY SQUAD: FIRST STRIKE, an animated Australian adventure centring around a team of insects that takes on the evil owner of a chemical plant. The script is by Anthony Maley. Kate Hudson and Ana de Armas will star in the thriller PALM GROVE, about a woman who discovers that her husband has a double who also lives in their exclusive Miami neighbourhood. Kornel Mundruczo is directing from a script by James Morosini. Keanu Reeves will star in a new Lego movie that's being developed by filmmaker Josh Cooley, who previously worked with Reeves on Toy Story 4. All that's known about the film is that it will be a live-action/animation hybrid. Everything else is being kept under wraps. Kylie Minogue and Quentin Tarantino are teaming up for TANGLED UP IN BLUE, which also stars Jason Isaacs, Allison Williams, Sofia Boutella and RZA. Details are being kept under wraps. Jamie Adams is writing and directing. Kevin Bacon will star in the thriller SUMMONER, as an exorcist who confronts a demon in an isolated witness protection location, with horrific repercussions. Jeremy Slater is writing and directing. Sandra Oh and Charles Melton are joining Matt Damon in the next film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once), which is being called a sci-fi action comedy set both in the 1980s and today. Plot details are being kept under wraps, of course. Halle Bailey, Ansel Elgort, Chris Bridges, Alan Ritchson, JB Smoove and CeeLo Green are voicing characters in GROOVE TAILS, an animated musical adventure following a young mouse who dreams of fame as a dancer in New York. Bob Logan is directing from a script by Johnny Mack. Jeff Daniels is joining Brendan Fraser in STARMAN, a thriller about a visionary scientist who is stranded millions of miles from Earth when a Mars mission goes awry. Josh Wakely is writing and directing. Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place) will star in and write the crime thriller GRACE, about a deaf teen whose family's violent secret past begins to create serious problems that she needs to address. And Jim Carrey may reprise his title role for a sequel to 2000's HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. It's difficult to imagine where this story can go, but Curb Your Enthusiasm writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel are officially working on the script.
Naomi Ackie is joining Maika Monroe and Keir Gilchrist in THEY FOLLOW, the It Follows sequel, which will continue the story of the creepy supernatural haunting. David Robert Mitchell is writing and directing. Toni Collette is joining Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels and Joel Edgerton in the untitled new film from writer-director Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The plot is being kept under wraps, but it is being described as an AI thriller. The story is by Natasha Lyonne. Nicholas Galitzine will star in Gus Van Sant's next film, playing top 1980s supermodel Hoyt Richards, who lost millions when he became involved with the abusive Eternal Values doomsday cult. His escape from the group is documented in the series Bring Me the Beauties. Daniel Kaluuya will reteam with Judas and the Black Messiah director Shaka King for THE PARLAY, an action thriller costarring Teyana Taylor. There's no word yet on the plot. LaKeith Stanfield is joining Jonathan Bailey in an untitled drama that traces the landmark courtroom trial relating to the harm caused by Monsanto's most popular pesticide Roundup. John Lee Hancock is directing. Wagner Moura is joining Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper in their OCEAN'S ELEVEN prequel. Robbie and Cooper are playing the parents of Danny Ocean (George Clooney in the original films). Robbie is also producing; Cooper is directing. Michael J Fox will voice the lead role in DRAGOONS, an animated adventure about an anonymous corporate worker who is mysteriously transformed into a fearsome dragon and discovers that this is his true form. Shea Wageman (Charlie the Wonderdog) is directing. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rudy Pankow will star in THUD, a supernatural comedy in which the devil and the grim reaper have a meet-cute at a destination wedding they are intending to disrupt. Mali Elfman (daughter of Danny) is directing. Geena Davis is joining Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth in THE KELLYS, an action thriller about a disgraced New York cop trying to rescue his family after they are abducted by terrorists. Brad Peyton is directing. Ariana Greenblatt will star in EGG BABY, a romantic comedy about a teen who must coparent an egg for a class assignment with the school's pampered quarterback. Natalia Anderson (Black-ish) is directing from a script by Sawyer Perry. Tracey Ullman and Stephen Fry have joined the voice cast of HEXED, alongside Hailee Steinfeld and Rashida Jones. It's about a quirky teen girl who discovers secret magical abilities that propel her into a magical realm where she feels seen for the first time in her life. Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand are directing. And Sean Penn will write and direct a film about the violent uprising at the US Capitol on 6th January 2021, recounting the story from the perspective of one of the police officers. Bradley Cooper is apparently being lined up to star.
Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube will be back for 24 JUMP STREET, nearly 15 years after 22 Jump Street. That movie's writer Rodney Rothman (Into the Spider-Verse) is directing this one, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller producing. Jennifer Lawrence will star in ONE MONTH MARK, a romantic comedy about a woman who has never made it past a month in a relationship and a man who has never been single for longer than a month. The script is by newcomer Sophie Fleur de Bruijn. Miles Teller will star in COPPERHEAD, a thriller about a federal agent who teams up with a veteran detective to find out the dirty members of an elite task force. John Swab (King Ivory) is directing. James Norton, Ben Schwartz, David Morrissey, Leanne Best, Harry Lloyd and Adam Pally have joined the four-film biopic THE BEATLES. Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan play the pop icons, with Anna Sawai, Saoirse Ronan, Aimee Lou Wood and Mia McKenna-Bruce as the women in their lives. Sam Mendes is directing. Maggie Gyllenhaal will write and direct CREATION LAKE, based on the novel about a freelance spy who goes undercover in an environmental collective in France, then begins to doubt her own morality. Willem Dafoe and Michael Douglas are reuniting with Oliver Stone for WHITE LIES, his first narrative feature in a decade. It's a multi-generational story about family connections. Shot in Thailand and Italy, the cast includes Josh Hartnett, Homer Gere, Ellen Barkin and Leila George. Camille Cottin, Veronica Llinas, Peter Lanzani, Soledad Villamil and Valeria Lois will star in VILLAFLOR, a political thriller based on the true story of a woman in Argentina who takes a stand against the government when her son is arrested and disappears. Santiago Mitre (Argentina 1985) is writing and directing. Mike Colter and JoJo Levesque will star in the romantic drama THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU, about a former child reality show finalist hiding from her past as a barista when she meets a jazz pianist. John Zaring is writing the script. Sean Astin will star in WILL TO WIN, as the coach to a teen (newcomer Isabel DeRoy-Olson) who, after suddenly losing her parents, embraces her Native American heritage and joins the boy's baseball team at her school. Lorraine Bracco and Jeremy Piven costar. Director Sean McNamara is currently filming in Oklahoma. Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso/Rooster) is joining the romantic comedy HELLO & PARIS, alongside Kate Hudson, Javier Bardem and Steve Zahn. It's about a novelist who starts a long-distance relationship with a landscape artist in France. Elizabeth Chomko is writing and directing. Elias Koteas, Mark O'Brien, Carmen Christopher and Jamie McShane will join Gaby Hoffman and David Harbour in LITTLE ONE, a dark comedy about a child whose sudden change in behaviour begins to unravel a perfect family. Alex Kavutskiy is writing and directing. And eight-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close will be presented with an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November. Other honourees include Ridley Scott, producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, and animator Floyd Norman. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
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