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Casting : Knightley for Christmas film, Colter for Sudeikis thriller

Untitled Keira Knightley Christmas Comedy

Keira Knightley will star in a new Christmas comedy for “X-Men : First Class” helmer Matthew Vaughn.

Vaughn and Trudie Styler produce the untitled Brit movie, which will reportedly fix on an extended family having a Christmas dinner in a country setting. Roman Griffin Davis (“Jojo Rabbit”) will play Knightley’s son in the film. Her husband is currently being cast. The project will mark the feature directorial debut of Camille Griffin (Griffin Davis’s mother) who has also scripted.  [More…]

 

Till Death

Mike Colter (“Luke Cage”) has joined the cast of “Till Death”, a Aharon Keshales-directed thriller starring Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lily. It follows convicted felon Jimmy (Sudeikis) who gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release from prison, he vows to give Annie (Lilly), his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life.

Ahead of shooting this month in Texas, Shea Whigham, Jeremy Bobb, Michael Paré, and Amaury Nolasco have also been added to the cast. [More…]

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