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Simon Pegg and Kate Mara will star in the high-stakes thriller ”Inheritance” for director Vaughn Stein. Highland Film Group is introducing the high-stakes thriller — set to explore what happens when the patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives — at AFM. [More…]
New Line has picked up ”Dear David”, based on a ghost story by BuzzFeed contributor Adam Ellis that went viral. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback will produce along with BuzzFeed Studios’ Lauren Dolgen and Hieu Ho.Mike van Waes is writing the script based on a story by Van Waes and exec-turned-screenwriter Evan Turner, a ghost tale centering on a dead boy that was haunting Ellis and following him around. [More…]
Director Antoine Fuqua (“The Equalizer”) is in negotiations to helm ”Infinite”, a time-spanning action thriller for Paramount about a group of near-immortal men and women who are reincarnated over the centuries and known as “the Infinite.” In order to defeat an evil mastermind who has designs to destroy the planet, the group has to reluctantly rely on one man, a schizophrenic who will have to learn that all his vivid dreams are actually memories from past lives, in order to defeat the villain. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce. [More…]
Bette Midler is in negotiations to portray Bella Abzug opposite Julianne Moore in “The Glorias: A Life on the Road.” Film tells of Gloria Steinem, leading spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the 1960s and ’70s. Alicia Vikander is in talks to play Steinem in her 20s and 30s. Julie Taymor is directing the movie for June Pictures. [More…]
Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman look to team for the thriller “The Secrets We Keep”. Yuval Adler will direct from a script by Ryan Covington. Rapace will play a woman rebuilding her life along with her husband in New York after World War II — and when they encounter an eerily familiar man, their life starts to unravel as they wonder if he could be the officer who was one of their chief tormentors at a concentration camp. Kinnaman is in talks to play the mysterious but somehow familiar stranger. [More…]
John Malkovich, Michael Kenneth Williams and Vivica A. Fox have joined Liam Hemsworth and Vince Vaughn in Clark Duke’s feature directorial debut “Arkansas.” The film follows a pair of low-level drug runners in the Dixie Mafia, portrayed by Hemsworth and Duke, who live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin, played by Vaughn, whom they’ve never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, deadly consequences ensue. Principal photography began this week in Alabama. [More…]
Tom Hanks promises that “Toy Story 4” will leave us all with a good case of the sniffles. “The way you record Toy Story, you’re in a room with the team that has created it. When I went in for my last day of recording, I wanted to have my back to them, because usually you’re facing him so you can look right up and you can talk about it. But I didn’t want to see them and I wanted to pretend they couldn’t see me. When I realized what they were going for, I realized, ‘Oh, this is a moment in history.’” [More…]
Aml Ameen (”The Maze Runner”, ”Sense8”) has been tapped to play Remy, the lead character in ”Inside Man 2”. The U.S. Federal Reserve is robbed by a highly organized and cleverly orchestrated team of crooks. With dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour siege, an NYPD hostage negotiator (Ameen) and a federal agent join forces to rescue the hostages and foil the heist. The title will be released on Netflix. [More…]
Peter Capaldi (“Doctor Who”), Taron Egerton (“Kingsman”), Rosamund Pike (“Jack Reacher”) and Gemma Chan (“Crazy Rich Asians”) have all joined the voice cast of the BBC and Netflix’s upcoming two-part adaptation of Richard Adams’ dark children’s classic “Watership Down”. [More…]
The sequel to “Frozen” has a new release date. Disney announced on Thursday that “Frozen 2” has been moved up one week, and will now hit theaters on Nov. 22, 2019. It was previously dated for Nov. 27.
