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STXinternational has picked up rights to Dave Franco’s directorial debut ”The Rental”, which stars Dan Stevens (”Beauty And The Beast”) and Franco’s missus, Alison Brie (”Glow”). The Franco-Swanberg penned flick “follows two couples who embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a celebratory weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed, and they realize they may not be alone.” [More…]
A feature film based on the 2009 British miniseries ‘Unforigven’ is in the works at Netflix with Graham King producing and Sandra Bullock producing and starring. The Nora Fingscheidt-directed pic, adapted by Christopher McQuarrie, “follows Ruth Slater (Bullock) who, released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime, re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. Facing severe judgment from the place she once called home, her only hope for redemption is finding the estranged younger sister she was forced to leave behind.” [Deadline]
“Fate of the Furious” alum Scott Eastwood has joined Jason Statham and Holt McCallanay in ”Cash Truck”, the next flick for Guy Ritchie, set up at Miramax. “It’s a revenge story that shifts across timelines and between various character’s perspectives. At the center is H (Statham), a cold and mysterious character who works at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.” [More…]
Alexandra Shipp has joined Andrew Garfield in ”tick, tick…BOOM!”, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s adaptation of the autobiographical Off-Broadway show written by the late Jonathan Larson. Also starring Vanessa Hudgens and Robin de Jesus, the Netflix offering is set in 1990 and will follow Jon (Garfield), an aspiring theater composer who waits tables in New York City while writing Superbia, which he hopes will be the great American musical that will finally give him his big career break.[More…]
