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Free Guy
Taika Waititi (“Thor Ragnarok”) and actor Ryan Reynolds are co-starring in Shawn Levy’s “Free Guy” at Fox and 21 Laps Entertainment.
The Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn scripted film which fixes on a bank teller who discovers that he’s actually a player inside a video game.
Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”), Joe Kerry (“Stranger Things”), Lil Rel (“Get Out”) and Utkarsh Ambudkar (“Brockmire”) co-star. [More…]
False Positive
Pierce Brosnan, Illana Glazer and Justin Theroux will star in the A24 psychological horror movie. “Glazer (Broad City) and Justin Theroux (The Leftovers) will play a couple who are struggling to conceive a child, so they go see this fertility doctor (Brosnan), only the doctor is crazy and tricks them by getting her pregnant with his own sperm.” John Lee directs [More…]
1917
Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Richard Madden will star in Sam Mendes’ World War I movie “1917”. The film stars George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman as young British soldiers on a single day at the height of World War I.Mendes will direct from a screenplay he wrote with Krysty Wilson-Cairns. The film begins production next week in England and Scotland. [More…]
The God Committee
Paper Street Films, Phiphen Pictures and Crystal City Entertainment announced today that Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer and Julia Stiles will star in writer/director Austin Stark’s medical thriller ”The God Committee”. Colman Domingo, Janeane Garofalo and Dan Hedaya will co-star. ”The God Committee” is currently shooting in New York.
Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Vincent Morano and Jane Oster are producing for Phiphen alongside Ari Pinchot and Jonathan Rubenstein for Crystal City, and Stark, Benji Kohn, and Bingo Gubelmann for Paper Street. Joannna Meek, Ray Masucci, Erika Hampson, Richard J. Berthy, and Mark Trustin and Rames Del Hierro are Executive Producers. The Solution Entertainment Group’s Lisa Wilson is representing international rights and will introduce this project to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
”The God Committee” is a searing look into the U.S. organ transplant system, seen through the eyes of those personally involved and affected by it. The story moves between two timelines: In one, a donor heart is being flown to a NYC hospital and a transplant committee has an hour to decide which patient deserves the life-saving organ. The other, which takes place six years later, explores the impact of that one decision.
Writer/Director Austin Stark stated, “The worldwide organ shortage continues to devastate families from all walks of life. I feel honored to be working with such an incredible ensemble – anchored by Kelsey, Julia, Colman, Janeane and Dan – in my quest to humanize the transplant system and bring faces to the statistics.”
