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Casting : Crowe, Schwartzman, Roberts, O’Brian, Lachman

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The Pope’s Exorcist

Russell Crowe will star in the new Julius Avery supernatural thriller, which is eying a September start of production.

The “Thor : Love and Thunder” actor will portray real-life figure Father Gabriele Amorth, a priest who acted as chief exorcist of the Vatican and who performed more than 100,000 exorcisms in his lifetime. [More…]

 

The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Bored to Death” actor Jason Schwartzman will play Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman, the host of the 10th Hunger Games and ancestor to Caesar Flickerman, in the new “Hunger Games” prequel. [More…]

 

Madame Web

“Scream 4” star Emma Roberts has boarded Sony’s latest stanadlone “Spider-Man” universe movie.

Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced and Tahar Rahim are already onboard the the S.J. Clarkson directed superhero pic [More…]

 

Love Lies Bleeding

Katy O’Brian, Dave Franco, Ed Harris and Jena Malone have joined Kristen Stewart and Anna Baryshnikov in the Rose Glass-directed romance. [More…]

 

Joe Baby

Dichen Lachman (Severance), Willa Fitzgerald (Reacher), Ron Perlman (Nightmare Alley) and Harvey Keitel will star in the noir feature “Joe Baby” for director Steven Brand. t

“The film based on Drew Fine’s novel centers on Lachman’s character of the same name—a “collector” for a private investigator, searching for a way out of her unfulfilling and sometimes violent life. When Joe takes on a case to help the savvy daughter of a real estate mogul recover money she was conned out of, she is also approached by an unorthodox FBI Agent who is looking into the cold case murder of Joe’s hit-man father. When Joe discovers the two cases may be related, she is soon caught up in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game in which she must face her violent past in order to live another day.” [More…]

Trailers : The Invitation, Wrong Place, Surface, Beneath Us All

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