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The rumour mill is swirling about Jake Schreier's new X-MEN movie. Adding to speculation that Sadie Sink is playing Jean Grey is word that Odessa A'zion has been lined up as Rogue, while Peter Claffey (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) is said to be up for Beast. Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo are writing the script. Kevin Hart and Ice Cube are set to return for a third RIDE ALONG comedy, 10 years after the last movie. These are the continuing adventures of a security guard who gets involved in action chaos while shadowing a police officer. Tim Story is back as director, which Daniel Gold writing the script. Eve Hewson will star opposite Channing Tatum in ISLE OF MAN, which is set around the world's longest-running motorsport event, the TT motorbike race. Reid Carolin is directing, while the producers include Tatum, Carolin and Brad Pitt. Heidi Gardner, Alex Moffat and Frankie Faison are joining the cast of the romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Stephen Merchant, which is now filming in New York. It's about a workaholic British man who hires a woman to play his wife at business events. Merchant is also directing and cowriting with John Butler. Rachel Sennott is joining the cast of KOCKROACH, alongside Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz and Alec Baldwin. It's about a guy who transforms himself into a terrifying boss to take on the New York mob. Director Matt Ross started filming in Australia this week. Josh Charles has joined the cast of THE 99'ERS, which tells the story of the US women's soccer team's triumphant appearance at the World Cup. The cast includes Zoey Deutsch, Emily Bader, Emilia Jones, Isabelle Fuhrman and Alessandro Nivola. Nicole Kassell is directing. Kim Dickens, Rob Corddry and Paul Sparks are joining the psychological thriller AN INNOCENT GIRL, alongside Kerry Washington, Colman Domingo, James Marsden and Chloe East. It's about an ambitious women seduced by a high-powered couple in Washington DC. Jaume Collet-Serra is directing. Chris Sullivan, Lily Santiago, Alice Halsey, Sydney Lemmon, Peter Macon and Jefferson White are joining ALLY CLARK, in which Viola Davis travels from New York to Louisiana to Alaska to investigate the suspicious death of a close friend. Costars include Benjamin Bratt and Jason Clarke. Phillip Noyce is directing. Noah Hawley (Alien: Earth) will direct a remake of TERRIFIED, the 2017 Argentine horror about a police officer who consults paranormal investigators to look into strange events in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood. Original writer-director Demian Rugna is helping to develop the project. And Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein (Final Destination: Bloodlines) will direct a film based on the groundbreaking videogame METAL GEAR SOLID, which combines combat and espionage in a sci-fi setting. The duo is also developing an animated VENOM movie and a sequel to their 2018 hit FREAKS.
Cameron Diaz will star in a sequel to the 1989 comedy TROOP BEVERLY HILLS, which starred Shelley Long as a socialite trying to bond with her daughter by taking over her Girl Scout group. Clea DuVall is writing and directing. Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba and Golshifteh Farahani will be back for more rogue mercenary action in EXTRACTION 3. There's no word yet on where this thriller will be set, after Bangladesh and Georgia. Sam Hargrave will also be back, as will producer-writers Joe and Anthony Russo. Meanwhile, Farahani will also star alongside Felicity Jones, JK Simmons, Noemie Merlant, Alfre Woodard, Jason Schwarzman, John Turturro and Andre Holland in THE THING THAT HURTS, about a group of patients that meet up in Paris at the funeral of their noted psychoanalyst. Arnaud Desplechin is directing from a script he cowrote with Kamen Velkovsky. Anthony Mackie, Dafne Keen, Stephen Bauer and Anthony Del Negro will star in BARRACUDA, an action thriller about a man who travels into Mexico to rescue a teenager who is being held hostage in a nightclub. Director Neil Burger has just started filming in New Mexico. Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Tom Waits and John Ratzenberger have joined the voice cast of the animated noir sci-fi mystery RAY GUNN, which is set in an alternative 1940s metropolis. Writer-director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) calls it a cross between The Maltese Falcon and Buck Rogers. Nick Offerman is joining the cast of ELDEN RING, based on the fantasy videogame in which players attempt to retake the land their ancestors were banished from long ago. Also starring are Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw and Cailee Spaeny. Alex Garland is writing and directing. Emilia Clarke, Natascha McElhone, Victoria Pedretti and Marlon Williams will star in WHEN DARKNESS LOVES US, a dark drama about a pregnant woman who must learn to survive when she becomes trapped in a cave system. For 15 years. James Ashcroft (The Rule of Jenny Pen) is directing. Tyga, Mike Epps, David Allen Greer, Madison Bailey, Ashton Sanders, Clifton Powell and Apollonia will star in BABY, YOU'RE A STAR, a musical drama set in 1989 as an ambitious young musician tries to find his way into the industry. Arrad Rahgoshay is directing from a script by Tyga and Curtis Bryant. Jane Alexander, Marco Pigossi and Kanoa Goo will star in LILIAN, NEXT DOOR, a comedy-drama about a former CIA operative who worms her way into the lives of the gay couple living next door. Director Janice Engel starts filming this month in Nova Scotia. Writer Tim Atkin based the script on his own experiences. Selma Blair, Sean Patrick Flannery, Brandon Routh and Trevor Donovan will star in the drama ETHAN ALMIGHTY: ETHAN'S LAW, based on the true story of a dying abandoned dog that was nursed back to health, sparking new animal welfare laws. Director Tane McClure starts filming in Kentucky later this month. Award-winning Indian actor Allu Arjun (Pushpa: The Rise) will star in RAAKA, an action fantasy epic about a warrior who is trying to restore balance to the universe before faith is extinguished forever. Costars include Deepika Padukone, Mrunal Thakur and Janhvi Kapoor. Atlee (Jawan) is writing and directing. And Adria Arjona, Grace Van Patten, Eva De Dominici and Sydney Chandler are reportedly in the running to play the alien queen Maxima in James Gunn's Superman sequel MAN OF TOMORROW, which again stars David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Isabela Merced and Nathan Fillion, plus Aaron Pierre and Lars Eidinger.
Jenna Ortega is rumoured to have taken the lead role in a new GREMLINS movie, reviving the franchise that launched in 1984 and had a sequel in 1990. Chris Columbus is directing the new film, and also producing again alongside Steven Spielberg. Scott Mescudi will write, direct and star in DOE, which follows a man living on the streets of Hollywood over 24 hours as he deals with addiction and survival issues. Costars include Mark Webber, Brandon Perea, Leah McNamara and Brandon Scott. Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi, is also recording original songs for the film. Justice Smith, Alexandra Shipp, KJ Apa, Ashley Park and Josh Brener are joining Nick Jonas and Kathryn Newton in WHITE ELEPHANT, a horror film about friends whose Christmas gift exchange descends into a violent competition. Eli Craig is directing and cowriting with JT Billings. Meanwhile, Newton is also joining Storm Reid, J Smith Cameron, Owen Painter and Dove Cameron in HOT YEAR, a thriller about childhood friends whose bond is strained when they plot revenge against an ex-boyfriend. Writer-director Roxy Sophie Sorkin starts shooting next month in Oklahoma. Michael Pena, Chris Messina and Esai Morales are joining Sam Rockwell and Maisy Stella in TUMOR, about a private eye with a fatal brain illness struggling with his grip on reality as he searches for a politician's missing daughter. Will Bridges (All of You) is directing. Andy Serkis will reprise his role as Alfred alongside Robert Pattinson in THE BATMAN: PART II. Also returning are Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright and possibly Barry Keoghan, plus Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan. Matt Reeves is also back as writer-director. Filming starts in Britain in June. Lin-Manuel Miranda will direct a film adaptation of Dave Malloy's a cappella stage musical OCTET, which centres around the members of an internet addiction support group that meets in a church basement. Malloy is adapting the screenplay. Director Jake Schreier will reteam with Beef writers Lee Sun Jin and Joanna Calo for the new X-MEN movie, which is being set up as a complete reboot. Calo also cowrote Schreier's Thunderbolts, which suggests that this film might take a similarly rag-tag approach to Marvel's mutants. Zach Shields (Godzilla x Kong) is joining director Zach Cregger to write GLADYS, a prequel recounting the back-story for Amy Madigan's character from Weapons. Madigan is likely to return, although a younger version of character will offer a juicy role for another actor. Unlikely rumour has it that Emerald Fennell may direct a remake of BASIC INSTINCT, the 1992 thriller about a detective investigating a murder that involves a seductive novelist. Original screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has written the new script, which he describes as a return to the sex-filled style of his 1990s films.
Margot Robbie will produce and perhaps star in DIE ALIVE, about a woman who finds herself having to take care of the children she didn't know her boyfriend had. Megan Park (My Old Ass) is writing and directing. Wagner Moura is replacing Oscar Isaac to star alongside Kristen Stewart and Elisabeth Olsen in FLESH OF THE GODS, about a wealthy couple in 1980s Los Angeles that becomes entangled with a mysterious woman and her hard-partying friends. Panos Cosmatos (Mandy) is directing from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker. Odessa A'zion, Cherry Jones, Benedict Wong and Ewan Mitchell are joining the cast of FONDA, the new film from writer-director Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall), which also stars Allison Janney, Mia Goth, Andrew Scott, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Frank Dillane. It's a psychological thriller that deals with grief and obsession. Pete Davidson will star in TOMMY KARATE, a biopic about the notorious mob enforcer Thomas Pitera, a martial arts enthusiast who may have murdered as many as 60 people and is currently serving a life sentence. Paul Walter Hauser will play the federal agent who tracked him down. Justin Chon is directing from a script cowritten by Davidson. Annette Bening and Andy Samberg will star in 42.5 YEARS, a romantic comedy about a man who wakes up after decades in cryogenic stasis and wants to reunite with his now much-older girlfriend. Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz are directing from a script by Seth Reiss. Emory Cohen, Katelyn Rose Downey, Suzanna Son and Fabien Frankel are joining the cast of an untitled bachelor party horror film by Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith (The First Omen). The cast includes Emma Corrin, Josh Hutcherson, Havana Rose Liu, Hunter Schafer and Caleb Landry Jones. Tan France, PJ Byrne, Zarna Garg and Andrew Schulz have joined the comedy CLASHING THROUGH THE SNOW, about rival colleagues (Michelle Randolph and Christopher Briney) travelling cross-country to get home for Christmas during a storm. Costars include Lukas Gage and Julia Fox. Carlson Young is directing. Nina Concepcion, Barbara Crampton, Bashir Salahuddin and Michael Strassner are starring in RUTHIE JOINS A DEATH CULT, a black comedy about a lonely young woman who stumbles into a shady religious group. Director Kyle Kenyon cowrote the script with Concepcion. Kathryn Bigelow is lined up to direct UNARMED, about a double amputee who works as a psychiatrist at a military medical centre, helping veterans with severe injuries return to civilian life. The script is by Eric Roth and Denis Johnson. And Nora and Lila Zuckerman (Poker Face) are writing the eighth SCREAM movie, which is unsurprisingly in the works after the seventh movie broke all records for the long-running franchise. Presumably, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and their younger sidekicks will be back. << NEWER NEWS | |
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