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Julianne Moore, Halle Bailey, Paul Giamatti, Havana Rose Liu and Bernadette Peters will star in the next movie by writer-director Jesse Eisenberg. It's about a shy woman who is cast in a community theatre musical, and she completely loses herself in the role. Eisenberg also wrote the songs for the musical; filming is underway in New Jersey. Jessica Chastain will star in the horror movie INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE, based on the novel about a young girl whose family is tormented by a supernatural entity she calls "other mommy". Rob Savage (The Boogeyman) is directing from a script by Nathan Elston (Succession); James Wan is producing. Glen Powell will team up with Judd Apatow to write a comedy about a country-western star whose life goes into free fall. Powell will also star in the film, while Apatow is directing. There are no more details about the still untitled project. Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgard will team up for MOSQUITO BOWL, based on the true story of four top college American football players who enlisted in the Marines after the 1941 Pearl Harbour attack. They played a legendary game while preparing for the Japanese invasion of Okinawa. Peter Berg is directing and also writing the script with Mark L Smith. Vera Farmiga is joining Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey in BILLION DOLLAR SPY, a thriller set at the height of the Cold War, based on the real-life experiences of a Russian who passed thousands of top-secret Soviet documents to the US. Amma Asante is directing from a script by Stephen Gaghan. Judy Greer, Harvey Guillen, Douglas Hodge, Anna Sawai and Pete Holmes are joining the cast of the comedy drama (SAINT) PETER, which stars Christian Convery as a teen struggling to cope with the fact that everyone at school believes that his big brother is an actual saint. Josh Klausner is writing and directing; Peter Farrelly is producing. Michael Shannon will play legendary American football player and coach Bill Parcells in the inspirational drama MR IRRELEVANT. David Corenswet has the title role as John Tuggle, who made a huge impact on the New York Giants. Isabel May costars. Jonathan Levine is directing from a script by Nick Santora. Andy Nyman, Tim McInnerny and Rose Williams will star in SPIDER ISLAND, a horror comedy about a group of young people who head off for a sunny beach holiday and encounter some very nasty critters. Christopher Smith (Creep) is directing from a script by Christopher Jolley and David Quantick. Ed Helms, Paulina Alexis and Jana Schmieding will star in SMUDGE THE BLADES, which centres on an under-18 indigenous hockey team that goes all out to win their violent league championship before their star players age out of eligibility. Cody Lightning is costarring, directing and cowriting with Samuel Miller. Josh Holloway will produce and star in the Western thriller FLINT, based on the Louis L'Amour novel about a businessman who travels home to New Mexico, where he gets caught up in a violent conflict that forces him to face up to his violent past. Ryan Whitaker (After) is writing and directing. Philip Barantini will reteam with Adolescence writer Jack Thorne to direct THE ALCHEMIST, based on the beloved Paul Coelho novel about a shepherd boy from Andalusia who sets off on an epic journey to find a priceless treasure hidden inside the pyramids in Egypt. And Leonardo DiCaprio will produce MONOLITH, a documentary about the impact of Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking 1968 classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Written with novelist Arthur C Clarke, the film has predicted and shaped scientific and social changes. Stevan Riley (Listen to Me Marlon) is directing.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Britt Lower, David Dasmalchian and Anna Baryshnikov will star in the psychological horror thriller SENDER, which writer-director Russell Goldman is adapting from his 2022 short Return to Sender. It's about a woman who gets caught up in an e-commerce scam that becomes terrifyingly personal. Curtis is also producing. Michael B Jordan will produce and perhaps star in THE HOUSE OF LAST REGRET, based on the novel about an American who buys a house in an Italian village for just one euro, then discovers that it was home to some nasty secrets. Samuel L Jackson will star in the Western thriller MAN OF WAR, as a retired general who returns to his Georgia hometown and launches a battle against racism, gentrification and corruption. Tim Story is directing from a script by Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air). Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Michael Pena are the latest to join Nicholas Stoller's untitled comedy about an ex-con (Zac Efron) who takes a TV courtroom set hostage, blaming the judge (Will Ferrell) for ruining his life. The cast includes Regina Hall, Jimmy Tatro and Billy Eichner. John Turturro will star in THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, about a career thief who finds himself in a desperate race against time. Not much else is known about the film. Actor-turned-filmmaker Noah Segan is writing and directing. Rian Johnson is producing. Emma D'Arcy is joining Tom Cruise in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's untitled new film, which is about a powerful man desperately trying to prove that he is the world's saviour before the disaster he has created destroys civilisation. Filming is underway in London from a script cowritten with Birdman writers Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone. Xochitl Gomez (Doctor Strange) and Maite Perroni (Triptych) will lead the cast of DON'T FORGET, a musical about a young Mexican-American who teams up with her workaholic mother to take her grandmother back to her rural Mexican village while she can still remember it. Kimberly McCullough is directing. Steve Guttenberg will play a real-life serial murderer in KIDNAPPED BY A KILLER, about a 15-year-old girl who discovers that she was abducted as a baby and raised by the man who killed her mother. Costars include Rachel Stubington (Shrinking) and Jana Kramer (One Tree Hill). Lee Gabiana is directing. And Warner Bros is doubling down on sequels and remakes moving forward, with further Beetlejuice, Minecraft, Matrix and Lord of the Rings movies, as well as follow-ups to older classics like Gremlins, The Goonies and Practical Magic. And Sam Wrench (The Eras Tour) will direct a remake of The Bodyguard, written by Jonathan A Abrams (Juror #2).
Robert Pattinson is lined up to play the villainous Scytale in DUNE: MESSIAH. Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Jason Momoa and screenwriter Jon Spaihts will be back for this third film in Denis Villeneuve's trilogy. Villeneuve says he won't adapt any more of Frank Herbert's books. Jenna Ortega, Glen Powell, Emma Mackey and Samuel L Jackson will star in JJ Abrams' untitled 1980s-style adventure fantasy. Plot details remain under wraps, as filming is set to start next month in London. This is Abrams' first film as director in nearly seven years. Danielle Deadwyler will produce and star in THE STREET, based on the classic 1946 novel by Ann Petry about a single mother who is raising her 8-year-old son in 1940s Harlem while grappling with poverty, racism and sexism, all while never giving up on the American Dream. Emma Thompson, Kieran Culkin, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons and Charlie Plummer are being lined up to star in sequel/prequel THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING. Culkin would be the young Caesar Flickerman (previously Stanley Tucci), with Fiennes as Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland/Tom Blyth), Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Plummer as Haymitch (Woody Harrelson). Meanwhile, Plemons is also lined up to play the villain in Shawn Levy's still untitled STAR WARS movie, a stand-alone project that takes place after Episode IX. Ryan Gosling and Jodie Comer are reportedly in the cast already. The script is by Levy and Jonathan Tropper. Keke Palmer, Lily James and Psalm West are joining the voice cast of THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 3, alongside the returning Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride and Rachel Bloom. The last movie's directors John Rice and Thurop Van Orman are also back on board. Alexandra Daddario and Finn Whitrock will play Kitty and Milton Hershey in the biopic HERSHEY, about the philanthropic couple who created the American chocolate empire. Director Mark Waters starts filming next month from a script by TM Hayes and Sharon Paul. Harry Melling is joining the cast of BUTTERFLY JAM, a drama set in New Jersey's Circassian subculture, where a teen must decide whether to pursue his dream of becoming a wrestler or work as expected at his family's diner. Also on board are Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough. Kantemir Balagov is directing. Takehiro Hira (Shogun) has joined the cast of KAROSHI, alongside Cynthia Erivo, Teo Yoo and Isabel May. Written and directed by Takashi Doscher, the film is being described as a corporate thriller with a samurai twist. Filming starts in June. And Michael Sarnowski (A Quiet Place: Day One) will write and direct a live-action film based on the videogame DEATH STRANDING, set in a post-apocalyptic time when supernatural creatures roam the Earth. The story centres on a courier delivering supplies that reconnect people.
Jodie Comer is being lined up to join Ryan Gosling in Shawn Levy's new STAR WARS movie. The project is said to be a standalone story set after Episode IX, but there's no word yet on the plot. Levy wrote the script with Jonathan Tropper. Jake Gyllenhaal will return for a sequel to ROAD HOUSE, although it looks like his The Covenant director Guy Ritchie might take over to helm this one, as Doug Liman has bowed out. The move will continue the story of the UFC fighter who becomes a bouncer at a bar in Florida. Gabrielle Union is joining the cast of FORBIDDEN FRUITS, about a woman who runs a secret cult in the basement of a mall store. Costars include Alexandra Shipp, Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Lola Tung and Emma Chamberlain. Meredith Alloway is directing. John Travolta, Mandy Patinkin and Dermot Mulroney will star in NOVEMBER 1963, a thriller set in 48 hours around the assassination of John F Kennedy. In addition, Robert Carlyle will play Jack Ruby, while Jefferson White is Lee Harvey Oswald. Roland Joffe is directing. Rosanna Arquette and Ashton Sanders will star in the thriller CORPORATE RETREAT, about a group of company executives whose team-bonding trip to the countryside turns into a battle for survival. Aaron Fisher is directing from a script he wrote with Kerri Lee Romeo. Alec Baldwin will star in THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, a twisty drama about an aspiring film editor who begins to doubt her reality when the movie she is working on begins to reflect what's happening in her own life. Victoria DeMartin is writing and making her feature directing debut. Daryl McCormack, Lola Pettigrew, Joe Cole, Anthony Boyle and Jay Lycurgo will star in I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING, based on the novel about five friends who grew up together and are now in their 30s, grappling with their expectations about their lives. Clio Barnard is directing from a script by Edna Walsh. Marcus Scribner (Black-ish) and Maxwell Cunningham (Top Dog) are joining Clarence Maclin in the drama IN STARLAND, which centres around a middle-aged man in a small town who meets a group of bright young sparks. Actor Ray Panthaki is making his feature directing debut, and also cowriting the script with Jason Kavan. Lenny Abrahamson will direct an adaptation of the comic book series LOVE EVERLASTING, which mixes horror and sci-fi genres in its story about a woman who is transported to another timeline the moment she falls in love. Jane Goldman (Kingsman) is writing the script. And Billy Ray is returning to The Hunger Games franchise to write the script for the next prequel SUNRISE ON THE REAPING. The story centres on a younger version of Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson's character in the original films). Ray wrote the very first film in the series. Francis Lawrence is back to direct this one. OLDER NEWS >> | ||
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