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Film Briefs : Butler, Oppenheimer, Jacko and Anna Nicole Smith biopics, Cheaper by the Dozen trailer & more!

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Gerard Butler is circling the Derek Kolstand (“Nobody”) scripted film adaptation of author Jim Lindsay’s “Just Watch Me”.

The first in the Riley Wolfe book series, “Just Watch Me” follows Wolfe, ”a master thief and expert in disguise who targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent. The likeable bad guy teams up with a master forger named Monique and a team of expert thieves on a job that will make history. Producers are aiming to shoot the film in Q4, 2022.” [More…]

 

“Amazing Spider-Man” actor Dane DeHaan has boarded Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” at Universal. Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie and Josh Hartnett star in the film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin.[More…]

 

Nina Dobrev (“The Vampire Diaries) has boarded Renny Harlin’s “The Bricklayer” starring Aaron Eckhart.

Filming shortly in Europe, the pic goes like this “someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.” [More…]

 

The Graham King produced Michael Jackson biopic has had its rights snapped up by “Saw” shingle Lionsgate. [More…]

 

A Holly Hunter starring biopic on Anna Nicole Smith is in the works with sales expected to kick off at EFM. “Hurricana” will chart how ”in an attempt to save Smith’s life, her devoted therapist, Khristine (Hunter), embarks on a 36-hour odyssey in which she unknowingly delivers the fatal blow. Producers describe the project as exploring the “immense hurricane-like force that was Anna Nicole Smith, and the fateful string of events that led Anna to destroy everything in her path, including herself and those closest to her.”  Betty Gilpin has been in discussions to play the title role. [More...]

 

A new trailer for Disney Plus’s “Cheaper by the Dozen” has been released.

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