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Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger have joined GIRL GROUP, the comedy starring Rebel Wilson as a singer kicked out of her band by members Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls), Ashley Roberts (Pussycat Dolls) and Shaznay Lewis (All Saints). So she forms her own group instead. Wilson is also writing and directing. Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans will star in BUT WHEN WE DANCE, as a pianist and the head of a primary school who learn, on the same day, that they both have Parkinsons. It's not being described as a romance, but we can perhaps assume it is. John Madden is directing. Chase Infiniti will star in THE JULIA SET, as a young maths genius who is recruited to join an elite course that will prepare her for a fiercely difficult mathematics competition. Costars include Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and Christopher Briney. Niki Byrne is writing and directing. Melissa Barrera is joining John Travolta in BLACK TIDES, a survival thriller about a man who is trying to reconnect with his daughter and grandson when their sailboat is attacked by a pod of orcas. Director Renny Harlin is now filming in Spain. Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) will star in TWICE OVER, a romantic comedy about two people who unexpectedly reconnect, stirring up some long-forgotten feelings. Director Alena Lodkina wrote the script with Miles Allinson and will shoot the film in Australia. Josh Hartnett will star in ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, an action thriller about a retired bank robber who returns to crime in order to pay his daughter's Harvard tuition. But his big heist becomes entangled with a reality TV show that needs a ratings boost. Tommy Wirkola is directing from a script he wrote with John Niven. Adria Arjona and Callum Turner will star in ALONE TOGETHER, about a British filmmaker who embarks on an offbeat journey of self-discovery amid a series of personal crises. Ben Sharrock (Limbo) is directing from a script by Florian Zeller (The Father). Camila Cabello, Adriana Barraza and Langston Kerman are joining the cast of CUT OFF, a comedy about siblings (Jonah Hill and Kristen Wiig) struggling to survive when their wealthy parents (Bette Midler and Nathan Lane) stop their allowance. Hill is also directing. Sam Richardson, Ben Schwartz, K Callan, Mark Duplass and Rob Corddry are joining Cameron Diaz in BAD DAY, the action comedy about a woman fighting to keep a promise to her daughter on the worst day of her life. Costars include Ed O'Neill, Danielle Brooks and John Higgins; Jake Szymanski is directing. Annabelle Wallis is joining the cast of PEDRO PAN, alongside Paz Vega, Andy Garcia, Nestor Carbonell, Danny Pino and Allen Leech. It's based on the true-life rescue of 14,000 children from Castro's indoctrination in Cuba. Richie Adams is directing. Alicia Witt, Skeet Ulrich, Jon Heder, Megan Suri, Natasha Leggero and Pete Holmes will star in THE BIG KILL, a horror comedy about a group of longtime friends who are staying in an isolated cabin after a funeral. Then a killer strikes. Todd Berger is directing from a script by Daniel Radosh (The Daily Show). And Colman Domingo will voice the Cowardly Lion in WICKED: FOR GOOD, the concluding half of the story, which opens next month. Jon Chu directed the two movies at the same time, with an ensemble cast that includes Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Bowen Yang.
Stanley Tucci, Simona Tabasco and Victor Belmondo will star in MASTERPLAN, a thriller about a veteran thief who audaciously sets out to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. And the cohorts he hires don't know that they're actually his children. Director Thomas Vincent started filming this week on location in France and Italy. Nia Long and Larenz Tate will reteam to star in a still-untitled romantic drama inspired by Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite album. The plot is being kept under wraps. Eugene Ashe is directing from a script he wrote with Kay Oyegun. Ben Foster will play daredevil Evel Knievel in THE STUNT DRIVER, which follows Canadian stuntman Ken Carter (Jay Baruchel) as he prepares to jump a rocket-powered car over the mile-wide St Lawrence River in the late 1970s. Ed Helms costars; Michael Dowse is directing. Paz Vega, Andy Garcia, Nestor Carbonell, Danny Pino and Allen Leech will star in PEDRO PAN, a thriller based on the true story of a group of people in Miami who lead an operation to rescue 14,000 children from Castro's indoctrination programme in Cuba. Director Richie Adams starts filming next month in Mexico. It's official, Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez will be back for the long-gestating sequel RED, WHITE AND ROYAL WEDDING, following on the romantic antics of a British prince with the son of the US president. Presumably Stephen Fry and Uma Thurman will also be back as the powerful parents. Jamie Babbit is directing. Greg Kinnear is joining the cast of ETERNITY, about a con man who targets a socialite on her yacht but ends up engulfed in deadly secrets. Costars include William H Macy, Berenice Marlohe, Nolan Gerard Funk, Ludi Lin and Meadow Williams. Jamie Marshall is directing. Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby) has joined the cast of BEHEMOTH, alongside Pedro Pascal and David Harbour. It's the story of a cellist told through flashbacks. Writer-director Tony Gilroy is currently filming in Los Angeles. Toby Kebbel, Jay Duplass, Tracey Letts and PJ Byrne have joined the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, which dramatises Sylvester Stallone's fight to star in the now-classic boxing movie. Also on board are Anthony Ippolito, Stephan James and Matt Dillon. Peter Farrelly is directing. Cheech Marin, Dean Norris, Teresa Ruiz and Katie Tripp are joining COYOTE, alongside Mel Gibson, Esai Morales, Renata Notni and Marty Lindsey. It's about an ex-smuggler forced back into action on the US-Mexico border. Per Prinz is directing from a script he wrote with Adam J Goldstein. Meanwhile, Norris and Stephen Dorff are joining Darby Lee-Stack and Cole Sprouse in ELASTIC HEARTS. The only details about this project are that its an intimate character-driven drama set in contemporary America. Danish writer-director Milad Schwartz Avaz is currently filming.
Annette Bening and George Clooney will star in a romantic drama based on Amy Bloom's acclaimed book IN LOVE: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND LOSS, which explores a real-life couple's decision to end their lives on their own terms. Paul Weitz is directing. Jim Carrey is lined up to play George in a live-action movie based on the classic 1960s animated sitcom THE JETSONS, about a lively family living in a groovy space-age future. Colin Trevorrow is lined up to direct from a script he cowrote with Joe Epstein. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a biopic about iconic Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi, who rose to fame after playing Dracula in the 1930 classic. The script is by Scott Alexander and Larry Karascewski, whose film Ed Wood explored Lugosi's final years (Martin Landau won an Oscar for the role). Emma Thompson, Hugh Jackman, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bryan Cranston, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chris O'Dowd and Hong Chau are voicing characters in THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, an animated comedy about a shepherd who reads whodunits to his flock every night, sparking them to begin investigating a real murder. Kyle Balda (Minions) is directing. Cosmo Jarvis, Jamie Bell, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller and Woody Norman are joining Andrew Garfield and Katherine Waterston in THE UPRISING, which is set during the Peasants' Revolt in 14th century England as ordinary people challenge Richard III. Paul Greengrass is writing and directing. Al Pacino, Kiefer Sutherland and Ever Anderson will star in the action thriller FATHER JOE, about a priest in 1990s Manhattan who declares war on a powerful mob boss. Barthelemy Grosmann is directing from a script by Luc Besson. Wunmi Mosaku is joining the cast of THE SOCIAL RECKONING, Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network sequel starring Mikey Madison as a Facebook engineer who works with a journalist (Jeremy Allen White) to blow the whistle on the misuse of information. Jeremy Strong and Bill Burr costar. Emma Roberts will produce and star in EXPIRATION DATES, based on the book about a woman whose relationships always end just as predicted in cryptic notes. Then one man refuses to accept his fate. Novellist Rebecca Serle is writing the script. Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) will join the action thriller ARCHANGEL, alongside Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt and Shea Whigham. It's about a retired soldier who lives quietly in Wyoming designing weapons for a secret government agency. Presumably, chaos ensues. Will Eubank is directing. Meanwhile, Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen (Vikings: Valhalla) will play Jesus in Mel Gibson's two-part sequel THE RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST. Costars include Rupert Everett, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Mariela Garriga and Pier Luigi Pasino. Filming is underway in Rome.
Lady Gaga has joined the cast of the DEVIL WEARS PRADA sequel, alongside the returning Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci, plus Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, Simone Ashley and Tracie Thoms. Director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna are back as well. Scarlett Johansson is being lined up to play Mother Gothel in Disney's live-action remake of TANGLED, the animated musical retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale. Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) is directing from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Cynthia Erivo will lead the voice cast of BAD FAIRIES, an animated musical about a subversive group of sprites that sets off a rebellion. The score is by Isabella Summers (Florence & The Machine), with songs by Six composers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Matt Dillon is the latest to join the cast of I PLAY ROCKY, the biopic starring Anthony Ippolito as Sylvester Stallone and Stephan James as Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the 1976 classic. Dillon will play Sly's dad Frank. Peter Farrelly is directing. Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Aimee Lou Wood and Anna Sawai are joining Sam Mendes' four-film BEATLES biopic, as Ringo Starr's wife Maureen, Yoko Ono and George Harrison's wife Pattie. Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan are playing John, Paul, George and Ringo, plus Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney. Omari Hardwick, Anika Noni Rose, Jasmine Guy and Reggie Lochard will star in the coming-of-age film SHADOW DANCE, about a teen boy (Tavon Olds-Sample) who is thrown out of his home for being gay. Then while living on the streets of New York, he dreams of dancing with Alvin Ailey's company. Kelley Kali is directing from a script by Lochard. Burn Gorman and Brittany O'Grady are joining the cast of the third JUMANJI movie, alongside returning stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, Danny DeVito, Bebe Neuwirth and Alex Wolff. Jack Kasdan is also back as director. Danielle Vasinova (The Madison) is joining Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga and Jim Parsons in THE LEADER, based on the true story of the Heaven's Gate cult, which committed the largest mass suicide in the US. Michael Gallagher is directing. Amelia Brantley Emily Deschanel, Keith Kupferer, Samuel Hunt and Grant Jordan will star in MONKEY BREAD, about an aspiring 30-something actress who takes a job babysitting for her idol, which shows her the truth about the life she always wanted. Brantley is also writing and directing. And Megan Fox is joining FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2, playing the villainous Toy Chica. Returning cast members include Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio and Theodus Crane. Emma Tammi is again directing from a script by videogame series author Scott Cawthon. << NEWER NEWS | |
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 A dreamy odyssey DANCE: Hofesh Schechter leads the audience on a surreal journey to the Theatre of Dreams at Sadler's Wells...  September TV Roundup SCREEN: Chief of War, Wednesday 2, Smoke, Dexter: Resurrection, The Institute, Stick, Fisk and more...  Chaos, transformation, rebirth DANCE: Andrea Pena's near-naked Bogota explores history and culture at Sadler's Wells East...  A joyous fusion DANCE: Acosta Danza celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhilarating explosion of rhythm at Sadler's Wells...  You’ve been framed DANCE: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Vlaemsch (Chez Moi) explores the complexities of his 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... DANCE: Botis Seva's Until We Sleep defies gravity at Sadler's Wells East...
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