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Briefs : Demeter, Animated Dead, League of Their Own, new trailers & more!

Check out the trailer for Sony’s “Don’t Breathe 2”, opening August 12

David Dastmalchian, Liam Cunningham, Aisling Franciosi and Javier Botet, playing the title role, have been cast in André Øvredal’s “Last Voyage of the Demeter”.
The film, set on the ship that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London in Bram Stoker’s classic ‘Dracula’, is now in production in Berlin. [More…]

Jason Axinn’s “Night of the Animated Dead” has cast Josh Duhamel as Harry Cooper, Dule Hill as Ben, Katharine Isabelle as Barbara, James Roday Rodriguez as Tom, Katee Sackhoff as Judy, Will Sasso as Sheriff McClelland, Jimmi Simpson as Johnny and Nancy Travis as Helen Cooper. The film hits home entertainment platforms in the fall via Warner. [More…]

Nick Offerman (“Parks & Recreation”) will play Casey ‘Dove’ Porter – the Coach of the all-female baseball team – in Amazon’s series adaptation of the ’90s movie “A League of Their Own”. [More…]

Lionsgate’s “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”, in which Nicolas Cage plays a version of himself, will hit theaters on April 22, 2022. [More…]

Jesse L. Martin, Danielle Panabaker, and Candice Patton have all signed on for an eighth season of “The Flash”. [More…]

“Dumbo” star Nico Parker is in talks to play the daughter of Gabriel Luna’s character in the small screen adaptation of the game “The Last of Us”. [More…]

The “Black Panther” sequel has officially begun production at Pinewood Studios in Atlanta. [More…]

And finally today, new trailers have hit for “Don’t Breathe 2”, in theaters this August, Disney’s “Jungle Cruise” out July 30, Amazon’s “Cinderella” – which releases September 3, and “Animosity”, the newly unearthed first film from “Velocipastor” director Brendan Steere, out in July.

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