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Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi will team up for PLACE TO BE, a comedy drama about an elderly woman who hits the road with a middle-aged man, travelling from Chicago to New York to return a racing pigeon that got lost. Kornel Mundruczo is directing. Kerry Condon and Woody Harrelson will star in GIANT, a remake of the 2013 Chilean drama Lion's Heart, a comedy about a lawyer who falls for a much shorter man. The original filmmaker Marcos Carnevale will direct from a script by Gonzalo Maza. Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey will star in BILLION DOLLAR SPY, based on the true story of a Soviet electronics engineer who became a valuable spy, passing on documents about missile systems during the final yeas of the Cold War. Amma Asante is directing from a script by Stephen Gaghan. Steve Buscemi is the latest actor to join WILD HORSE NINE, the next film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The cast includes Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, Parker Posey and Tom Waites. Described as a thriller, the plot is being kept under wraps. Catalina Saavedra will star in A DECOROUS WOMAN, about a middle-aged hairdresser in Chile who, after her daughter moves abroad, finds comfort by becoming involved in her clients' gossipy stories. Natalia Luque is directing. Joan Chen and Lewis Pullman are joining the cast of REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, about a lonely janitor who works at an aquarium, where a giant octopus helps her find her son, who was lost at sea. Already on board are Sally Field, Beth Grant and Colm Meaney. Olivia Newman (Where the Crawdads Sing) is directing. Adarsh Gourav and Shanaya Kapoor will star in TU YAA MAIN, a thriller that blends survivalist action with a romance between people from different social backgrounds. Bejoy Nambiar (Shaitan) is directing from a script by Abhishek Bandekar. Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) has joined the cast of the fourth SPIDER-MAN film starring Tom Holland. Details about the project are very thin, including who else from the cast (or the Avengers) will be appearing. Destin Daniel Cretton is directing from a script by Steve Ditko, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) is making another biopic, this time about Tiger Woods. Based on the book THE TIGER SLAM, the film may be produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. And of course now there are rumours that King Richard star Will Smith may take the title role. And Jack Huston will direct JOSEPH MERRICK, a biopic about the man who was studied for his various physical deformities. His story was of course previously dramatised in David Lynch's 1980 classic The Elephant Man. Mike Medavoy is producing this new film.
Cynthia Erivo will star in KAROSHI, which is being described as a corporate thriller with a samurai twist. Costars include Isabel May (1923) and Teo Yoo (Past Lives). Takashi Doscher (Only) is directing. Adrien Brody is joining Leonardo DiCaprio in EVEL KNIEVEL ON TOUR, a biopic about the daredevil motorbike rider. Damien Chazelle is directing. Apparently, Brody is playing a sports writer who so enraged Knievel that he broke his arm with a baseball bat. Charli XCX is apparently being lined up to play the White Witch in Greta Gerwig's new series of movies based on THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. Mikey Madison has also been mentioned for a role in the films. Taylor Russell will star alongside Michael B Jordan in a new remake of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, about a wealthy playboy who steals art as a hobby, then falls for an insurance investigator. Jordan is also producing and directing the film. Sterling K Brown will narrate the documentary BETTER THAN THEY FOUND IT, which traces the careers of Black coaches who became leaders in America's pro-football league. Tarana Harris Mayes is directing. Michelle Monaghan and Adam Scott will join Robert De Niro in THE WHISPER MAN, about a widowed crime writer who turns to his retired-cop father for help when his young son is kidnapped. James Ashcroft is directing. Simon Rex and Natalie Lind will star in HALLOWEEN STORE, a horror comedy about a group of people who are trapped inside a costume shop overnight with a killer on the loose. Shane Dax Taylor (Murder Company) is directing; Keenan Thompson is producing. Jimmy Tatro and Michelle Randolph are the latest to join the cast of SCREAM VII, which again stars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding, plus Celeste O'Connor, Mckenna Grace, Anna Camp and Joel McHale. Kevin Williamson is directing from a script by Guy Busick. Cristin Milioti has joined the voice cast of the animated feature IN YOUR DREAMS, about siblings who travel into a fantasy world that comes from their dreams in a quest to create the perfect family. Also on board are Simu Liu, Craig Robinson, Omid Djalili, Gia Carides and Elias Janssen. Alexander Woo is directing. And Austin Abrams will star in WHALEFALL, a survival thriller based on the novel about a scuba diver who is swallowed by a sperm whale. Screenwriter Brian Duffield is making his directing debut.
Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith will star in an untitled film by writer-director Jesse Armstrong (Succession). It's about a group of billionaire friends who get together as a global crisis unfolds. Filming starts this month in Utah, and it will be released just a month later. Vin Diesel is saying that he's up for playing Groot again for a stand-alone movie that will follow the character to his home on Planet X. Diesel has voiced the character since 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, as Groot has appeared in various Marvel movies and TV shows. Cosmo Jarvis is the latest new cast member on board Christopher Nolan's ambitious adaptation of Homer's 8th century classic THE ODYSSEY. The ensemble includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Samantha Morton, Elliot Page and Corey Hawkins. Kathryn Newton will join Samara Weaving in the sequel to READY OR NOT, the blackly comical horror thriller about a wedding day that turns into a game-playing nightmare. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpon and Tyler Gillett and writers Guy Busick and R Christopher Murphy are all back on board. Jennifer Ehle, O'Shea Jackson Jr, Chet Hanks and Spencer Garrett are joining Lily Gladstone and Bryan Cranston in LONE WOLF, a thriller about a marine vet who finds herself caught up in a conspiracy to commit a political assassination. Director Mark Pellington is filming in New Mexico from a script by Tom Chilcoat. Giancarlo Esposito, Aya Cash and Jessica Harper have joined Allison Williams in KILL ME, about a guy (Charlie Day) who wakes up in a bathtub, apparently after trying to kill himself. But he begins to doubt that story and sets out to discover the truth. Writer-director Peter Warren is filming in Utah. Matthew Modine is the latest new cast member to join the next GODZILLA X KONG movie, alongside Dan Stevens, Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O'Connell and Delroy Lindo. Director Grant Sputore starts filming next month in Australia from a script by David Callaham. Country musician Clay Walker has come on board to play the legendary Randy Travis in the biopic FOREVER AND EVER AMEN. Casting is underway to find rising star actors to play Travis as a preteen and in his 20s. Andrew Hyatt is writing and directing. Game Night directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are now developing a film based on the vintage board game MONOPOLY. This will be their second Hasbro-based film, after Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. And Werner Herzog will make his first animated feature adapted from his novel THE TWILIGHT WORLD, which is based on the real life of a Japanese soldier who was stationed on a remote island in the Philippines during World War II and refused to surrender until 1974. The book was adapted for the stage in 2023.
Word has it that Timothee Chalamet will star in ICHABOD, Disney's live-action remake of its 1949 animated short based on the classic story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, about a schoolmaster in 1790 who is terrified by the tale of a headless horseman. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Current War) is directing. Al Pacino is joining the cast of DEAD MAN'S WIRE, alongside Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Myha'la and Cary Elwes. It's about a man who in 1977 took his mortgage company's president hostage, demanding justice. Gus Van Sant is directing. Honor Swinton Byrne and Rory Fleck-Byrne will star in DO MOSQUITOS BITE IN WINTER, a drama exploring the breakup of a family through the perspective of a 9-year-old girl (Hoard's Lily-Beau Leach). Anne-Sofie Lindgaard is writing and directing. Luke Evans, Aaron Paul and Daniel Zovatto are joining Russell Crowe in BEAR COUNTRY, an action thriller about a club owner caught between cartel bosses and corrupt federal agents. Also in the cast are Nina Dobrev and Teresa Palmer. Director Derrick Borte is currently filming in Australia. David Arquette is the latest returning cast member playing a previously deceased character in SCREAM 7, alongside Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell, Matthew Lillard, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding, plus Celeste O'Connor, Mckenna Grace, Anna Camp, Joel McHale, Mark Consuelos and Ethan Embry. Kevin Williamson is directing. Cheyenne Jackson, Olivia Rose Keegan, Tony Chung and Aaron Kingsley Adetola in CHINESE SCHOOL, a coming of age comedy that will mix live-action, animation and music to tell the story of a Chinese American teen (newcomer Toby Chau) whose dream girl is an all-American churchgoer. William Kwok is writing and directing. Breakout Sing Sing actor Charence Maclin will lead the cast of IN STARLAND, a generational drama about a middle-aged man in a small town who meets a group of young, inventive creators. Actor Ray Panthaki is making his feature directing debut, and also cowriting the script with Jason Kavan. Will Yun Lee, Abby Miller, Jon Huertas and Brooklynn Prince will star in CALIFORNIA SCENARIO, an intergenerational story that weaves together romance and drama around Isamu Noguchi's eponymous sculptural garden. James Takata (This Is Us) is directing from script he wrote with Dara Resnik (Daredevil). Mohana Krishnan (It Lives Inside), Sophie Telegadis (One Stupid Thing), Lilah Pate (Outer Banks) and Aidan Laprete (The Wilds) will join Molly Shannon, Kumail Nanjiani and Sam Nivola in DRIVER'S ED, a comedy about teens who steal their school's car to go on a road trip. Bobby Farrelly is directing from a script by Thomas Moffett. And Oscar-winner Mikey Madison has several potential projects lined up, including a role in the Marvel universe, Greta Gerwig's series of Narnia movies and an adaptation of a novel by Colleen Hoover, who wrote It Ends With Us.
Zendaya is joining the cast of SHREK 5, voicing Shrek and Fiona's daughter. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy will be back. But there's no word yet on who else might be returning. Franchise veterans Walt Dohrn and Conrad Vernon are directing. Isabella Rossellini is joining Joan Collins in THE BITTER END, a biopic that recounts the story of Wallis Simpson, the divorcee who married King Edward VIII, forcing him to renounce the throne for her. Mike Newell is directing from a script by Louise Fennell. Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler will team up for DEEP CUTS, based on the novel about two music obsessives who fall in love during the 2000s, confronting issues from their childhoods and their ambitions for the future. Sean Durkin is writing and directing. Isabelle Huppert, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Ray Winstone and newcomer Tarquin Cameron will team up for BURNT PIANO, based on an Australian stage play about a bookstore owner in the late 1980s on a mission to meet iconic writer Samuel Beckett in Paris. Fred Schepisi is directing from a script by playwright Justin Fleming. Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen and Orlando Bloom will all be back for THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM, a prequel to the original trilogy. Andy Serkis is back as Gollum, and is also directing the film. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens are also involved. JK Simmons will reteam with Harsh Times director David Ayer and Burn After Reading costar Brad Pitt for HEART OF THE BEAST, about a veteran and his retired combat dog struggling to survive in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash. The script is by Cameron Alexander. Stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze will make his feature acting debut in THE BREADWINNER. The plot of the film is being kept tightly under wraps. Eric Appel will direct; Bargatze is also producing the film and writing the script with Dan Lagana. Josh Duhamel will direct and star in PRESCHOOL, about two men who go to war to enrol their children in an elite preschool. Costars include Michael Socha, Antonia Thomas, James Cosmo, Charity Wakefield and Fenella Woolgar. Filming is underway in London from a script by Richard D'ovidio. Sam Nivola is joining the cast of Bobby Farrelly's comedy DRIVER'S ED, which starts filming in North Carolina next week with costars Molly Shannon and Kumail Nanjiani. It's about a group of teens who steal their school's driver education car for a road trip to reunite a high school senior with his college-freshman girlfriend. And James Watkins (Speak No Evil) will direct and Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House) will write CLAYFACE, a film centred around the Batman villain who can change his shape. Apparently this version will centre around a B-movie actor who starts taking a substance that will make him more successful, but it transforms him into a monster. << NEWER NEWS | |
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