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Hugh Jackman will play the pirate Long John Silver in Ridley Scott's new film adaptation of the classic 1883 novel TREASURE ISLAND, a coming-of-age adventure about a young man seeking a long-lost fortune. The script is by Jack Thorne. It's official, Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino will be back for a 30-years-later ROMY & MICHELE sequel, as will returning costars Alan Cumming, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim and Julia Campbell. Joining them are Keegan-Michael Key, Rob Huebel, Breckin Meyer, Patrick Warburton and Nathan Lee Graham. Director Tim Federle is filming in Los Angeles. Henry Cavill will join Kevin Hart in an untitled action comedy that's being directed by McG. It's about rival spies who run into each other at a prenatal class where their wives become friends. Jonathan Tropper is writing the script with Adam and Aaron Nee. Elisabeth Moss will produce and star in AMERICAN FANTASY, based on the novel about a divorcee who runs into all five members of her favourite 1990s boy band when she embarks on a cruise. Bill Nighy is joining the cast of CAINE, the John Wick spinoff starring Donnie Yen as a blind assassin. Costars include Mason Thames, Dacre Montgomery and Rina Sawayama. Yen is also directing the film, which is shooting in Budapest and Hong Kong. Rosemarie DeWitt, Emmy Rossum, Ariana Greenblatt, Fisher Stevens, Michael Imperioli and Chris Bauer are joining Grace Van Patten in RUBBER HUT, about a 1992 flight attendant who scandalises her Catholic community by opening a condom shop. Hanna Gray Organschi is directing. Ashley Padilla (SNL) is joining the cast of the romantic comedy THE CATCH, alongside Emma Stone and Chris Pine. Set around a female baseball player, the plot is being kept under wraps. Dave McCary (Stone's husband) is directing. Paul Walter Hauser, Michael Pena, Boyd Holbrook, Teyonah Parris and Veronika Slowikowska are joining the cast of TURPENTINE, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Connor Storrie and Bill Camp. It's about a woman trying to clean up the mess after her son stages a robbery of the family's antique gun collection to pay off a debt. Craig Zobel is directing. Stacy Martin, Alfie Allen, Ben Hardy and Ryan McParland are joining Felicity Jones and Vincent Cassel in ELEVEN MISSING DAYS, which traces the period when mystery writer Agatha Christie vanished at the height of her fame in 1926. Bertie Ellwood (Silo) is directing. Lauren Graham, Patti LuPone and Dan Bucatinsky will join Nick Borenstein in AUGUST, a comedy about a young man who becomes convinced that his therapist's death wasn't accidental. Borenstein is also writing and directing; filming is underway in New York. Rory Culkin and Lauren LaVera will star in RED WEDDING, a horror thriller about a teen and her stepmother who are kidnapped and held for ransom, but the real threat is a murderous bride and groom on the rampage. Josh Stolberg is directing from a script he wrote with Pete Goldfinger. And Kelsey Grammer is joining ETHAN ALMIGHTY, based on the true story of an abused dog whose recovery captured national attention. Costars include Selma Blair, Brandon Routh, Sean Patrick Flanery, Trevor Donovan and Finley Slater. Tane McClure is writing and directing.
Sydney Sweeney will star in HOLLOW, reimagining the 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, about a headless horseman, through the eyes of love interest Katrina. Lindsey Anderson Beer is writing and directing. Sweeney and Margot Robbie are producing. Chris Hemsworth will produce and star in a movie based around the Tatts Finke Desert Race, an extreme two-day event in the Australian Outback featuring a range of off-road vehicles. Hemsworth is working with the race organisers to produce multiple projects around the event. Zoe Kravitz will star in the untitled new film by writer-director Megan Park (My Old Ass), which is about a woman who gets stuck taking care of her late boyfriend's children. Margot Robbie is producing. Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff will reunite for TRUST THE MAN, a thriller set during the Vietnam War as an Army intelligence officer investigates a troubled heroic soldier's past. Will Graham is writing and directing. Arnold Schwarzenegger will star in THE KELLYS, as a disgraced police officer whose wife is abducted by terrorists. So he teams up with some dodgy figures to rescue her. Liam Hemsworth costars; Brad Peyton is directing. Andie MacDowell, Kevin Bacon, Tig Notaro and Kristin Davis are joining the cast of BEACH READ, a romantic comedy about a blocked novelist (Phoebe Dynevor) who swaps genres with her writing nemesis (Patrick Schwarzenegger) from university. Yulin Kuang is writing and directing. David Harewood, Nathalie Emmanuel, Bruce Greenwood and Holt McCallany will star in HYDE, a noir-style thriller about a troubled detective who is hunting a serial killer. Writer-directors Graham and Parker Phillips are filming in Romania. Gabourey Sidibe will star in ROSE MOON, as a probation officer who begins a fling with one a paroled convict. Then the relationship spirals into obsession. Anna Kendrick will direct a feature adaptation of the novel THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO, which centres around a young journalist who interviews an ageing Hollywood star about her scandal-filled life. Liz Tigelaar and Francesca Sloane are working on the script. Anna Camp will star in the psychological thriller SERPENT, based on the novel The Serpent's Bite, about an actress who reluctantly joins her estranged family on a week-long hike through the Wyoming wilderness that of course takes a dark turn. Dito Montiel will direct a biopic about actor-filmmaker Gene Wilder, with cooperation from his family. It will cover his career from a shy theatre actor to his iconic movie roles, along with events from his personal life. Montiel is writing the script with Jeremy Roth (Love Victor). And filmmaker Matthew Miele (Always at the Carlyle) is making a documentary that traces the career of Nathan Lane across film, television and the Broadway stage. Planned appearances by his friends include Mel Brooks, Jean Smart and Matthew Broderick.
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. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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S T A G E & M O R E beyond the big screen... | |||
 Cheeky deities STAGE: Head First Acrobats are back with more sexy antics in Return of the Godz, at the Peacock until 20th June...  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... APRIL TV: Jury Duty 2, Bridgerton 4, Starfleet Academy, Bait, The Madison, Paradise 2, Rooster, more... 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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