12th July 2018
Heathers - Now Airing in Some Parts of Europe
Thanks to Mitchell Green for the heads up.
Through HBO, Heathers is now airing in Spain, Finland, Sweden, Hungary,Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Croatia and Czech Republic starting July 11(Heathers was meant to premiere July 10 in the US before its cancellation by the Paramount Network).
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11th July 2018
Blindspot - Season 4 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Joins Cast
Blindspot is adding to its Season 4 ranks, casting Oscar nominee Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in a top-secret recurring role, TVLine has exclusively learned.
The actress will appear throughout the NBC drama’s fourth season as Madeline Burke, though further details about the character are being kept under wraps. An episode count for the role has also not been determined.
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Power - Season 6 - Gary Lennon Promoted to Co-Showrunner
EXCLUSIVE: Just over a week after its well watched Season 5 premiere, Power is plugging in for next year with executive producer Gary Lennon set to become co-showrunner with Courtney Kemp.
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Tell Me a Story - Zabryna Guevara & Dorian Missick Join CBS All Access Fairytale Thriller
Gotham alum Zabryna Guevara and Dorian Missick (Animal Kingdom) are set for key roles in CBS All Access’ straight-to-series psychological thriller Tell Me a Story, from Kevin Williamson and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
Guevara will play Detective Renee Garcia, a measured detective who operates by the book. While tough and unrelenting, she is not without empathy. She’s the type of detective who trusts her instincts but knows hard evidence is paramount — exactly the type of cop you would want on a case.
Missick portrays Sam, the ringleader of a group of criminals who is steadfast in his unlawful ways. Calculating, intense and undeterred, Sam has managed to fly under the radar and will go to any length to keep it that way.
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MOVIES: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween - Trailer
Confess - Israeli Web Series Adaptation from Julie Delpy in Development at AMC
Julie Delpy is working on bringing the Israeli web series “Confess” to AMC.
Variety has learned exclusively Delpy is developing an adaptation of the web series for the cabler, which she will write and executive produce. Jake Witzenfeld and Moshe Rosenthal, the creators of the original series, will also executive produce.
“Confess” is an anthological series set in Tel Aviv, but Delpy’s version will be set in the United States. Like the original, it will explore the current hook up culture and how digital media is changing people’s private lives.
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MOVIES: RoboCop Returns - New Installment from Neill Blomkamp in Development by MGM
EXCLUSIVE: MGM is developing a new installment of RoboCop and has set District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to helm the picture, which is titled RoboCop Returns. The studio hopes to revive a franchise that began with the Paul Verhoeven-directed satirical sci-fi action thriller that Orion released in 1987. Original writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner are producing and exec producing, respectively. Justin Rhodes, who co-wrote the Terminator film that Tim Miller is shooting, will rewrite the script that Neumeier and Miner wrote years ago as a planned sequel to Verhoeven’s hit, an installment that never happened. That duo is creatively involved in moving forward their creation for the first time since the original.
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MOVIES: Extinction - Trailer feat Michael Peña, Lizzy Caplan and Mike Colter
MOVIES: Sierra Burgess Is A Loser - Trailer feat Shannon Purser, Noah Centineo, RJ Cyler & More
When Calls The Heart - Season 6 - Chris McNally & Kevin McGarry Join Cast
According to Deadline, Chris McNally (Supernatural) and Kevin McGarry (Heartland) have joined the cast of Hallmark Channel’s drama series, When Calls the Heart for the upcoming sixth season.
McNally will play Lucas Bouchard, a charming gambler and saloon owner who is hiding more than a card up his sleeve. McGarry is Nathan Grant, the epitome of the strong, silent type and takes all his responsibilities to heart as the new Mountie in town.
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10th July 2018
MOVIES: It: Chapter Two - Taylor Frey Joins Cast
EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Frey has landed his first studio feature. The actor, whose credits include The Carrie Diaries and Gossip Girl, has been cast in New Line’s IT Chapter Two in the role of Don Hagarty who, in the Stephen King novel, is in a relationship with Adrian Mellon (who will be played by Xavier Dolan in the film).
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The Dragon Prince - Animated Series from Avatar: The Last Airbender Writer Coming to Netflix
Avatar: The Last Airbender headwriter Aaron Ehasz has paired with Netflix for #TheDragonPrince, a new animated series about two human princes who forge an unlikely bond with the elfin assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands. pic.twitter.com/HsIkyyD2fj— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) July 10, 2018
Game of Thrones - Prequel Pilot to Film in Belfast This October
The pilot for George R.R. Martin’s recently greenlit Game of Thrones prequel is set to start filming in Belfast in October.
The fantasy drama spin-off, which Martin said has a working title of The Long Night, is reportedly set to film at The Paint Hall in Belfast’s Titanic Quarters. The studio has been used to film the main Game of Thrones series and is also home to the Superman TV prequel Krypton and set to house a Star Wars spin-off next year.
The move, which was first reported by local newspaper the Belfast Telegraph, will be another major boon for the region, which has had strong links with the HBO drama since it began.
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Tell Me a Story - Davi Santos to Co-Star in CBS All Access Fairytale Thriller
Davi Santos is set for a major role in CBS All Access’ straight-to-series psychological thriller Tell Me a Story, from Kevin Williamson and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
Written by Williamson, Tell Me a Story, which co-stars Billy Magnussen and Kim Catrall, takes the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves “The Three Little Pigs,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “Hansel and Gretel” into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.
Santos will play Gabe, a damaged and vulnerable young man with abandonment issues. When his sister Hannah (Dania Ramirez), his only family, enlisted in the Army, Gabe found himself lost in a lifestyle filled with sex and drugs in an attempt to shut out his reality. But when he finds himself in an irrevocable situation, he turns to his sister for help and they both embark on a deadly chase for survival.
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See - Jason Momoa to Star in Apple Series
Jason Momoa is lining up his post-Aquaman work.
A month after exiting The Crow reboot, the Game of Thrones grad has been tapped to star in Apple's drama series See.
See is described as an epic, world-building drama set in the future. Momoa will star in a lead role as Baba Voss, a fearless warrior, leader and guardian. Additional details about the eight-episode drama are being kept under wraps.
Written by Oscar nominee Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Peaky Blinders), Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Red Sparrow) will direct the series.
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Santa Clarita Diet - Season 3 - Stephen Full to Recur
Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet has tapped Stephen Full (Dog With a Blog, I’m in the Band) to recur during Season 3 as Janko, a suspicious desk clerk at the Serbian Consulate.
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MOVIES: Life Itself - Trailer feat Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Olivia Cooke & More
MOVIES: The Favorite - Teaser Trailer feat Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone & More
MOVIES: The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Trailer feat Chloë Grace Moretz
9th July 2018
Central Park 5 - Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga and John Leguizamo to Star in Ava DuVernay's Limited Netflix Series
THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES TO LAUNCH IN 2019
· Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga and John Leguizamo Join Cast of Ava DuVernay's Central Park Five
· Central Park Five is a limited series created by Academy Award(R) Nominee Ava DuVernay. DuVernay will also write and direct the narrative series which will be four episodes.
· Based on a true story that gripped the country, Central Park Five will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. The episodes will focus on the five teenagers from Harlem -- Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. The series will span from the spring of 1989, when each were first questioned about the incident, to 2014 when they were exonerated and a settlement was reached with the city of New York.
· Emmy Award Nominee Michael K. Williams (The Wire, The Night Of) will play Bobby McCray, devoted father of accused teen Antron McCray.
· Academy Award(R) Nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Bates Motel) will play Elizabeth Lederer, the Manhattan Assistant District Attorney and lead prosecutor on the case.
· Emmy Award Winner John Leguizamo (Bloodline, John Wick) will play Raymond Santana Sr., the father of accused teen Raymond Santana Jr.
· Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King from Participant Media, Oprah Winfrey/Harpo Films, Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh from Tribeca Productions and Ava DuVernay will executive produce the limited series.
· The limited series will premiere globally on Netflix in 2019.
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Catch-22 - Julie Ann Emery to Recur in Hulu Limited Series
Preacher‘s Julie Ann Emery is for a recurring role opposite George Clooney and Christopher Abbott in Catch-22, Hulu’s high-profile limited series, directed and executive produced by Clooney. Hugh Laurie, Kyle Chandler also star in the series, written by Luke Davies and David Michôd based on the seminal Joseph Heller novel.
Set in Italy during World War II, Catch-22, from Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, follows the story of the incomparable, artful dodger Yossarian (Abbott), a bombardier for the U.S. Air Force, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service.
Emery will play Marion Scheisskopf, who’s married to Scheisskopf (Clooney), but having an affair with Yossarian (Abbott). Earthy and beautiful, she’s passionate but bored. Restless. A little sad, even. Yet alone with Yossarian, she’s mischievous and playful. She connects with him. It’s mental and intellectual as well as physical. She made a huge mistake marrying the awful Scheisskopf, and dreams of a bigger life.
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The Righteous Gemstones - Adam Devine Joins HBO's Televangelist Comedy Pilot
Adam Devine is about to get, well, divine.
The actor and comedian has signed on for a lead role in the recently-ordered HBO comedy pilot “The Righteous Gemstones.” He will star opposite previously announced cast members Danny McBride, John Goodman, and Edi Patterson. The series tells the story of a world famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work, all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Devine will play Kelvin Gemstone, the youngest son of Eli (Goodman) and Amy Leigh. Described as “the edgy one,” he’s caught in the middle of the giant personalities that are Jesse (McBride) and Judy Gemstone (Patterson) and has branded himself an outsider to the church, feeling his methods are too hardcore for mainstream religion. Kelvin doesn’t have bigger ambitions for the head seat at the table but focuses his efforts on the eradication of Satan and dark forces from everyday life.
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Everything's Gonna Be Okay - Kayla Cromer, Maeve Press & Adam Faison Join Freeform Comedy Pilot as Production Begins
FREEFORM BEGINS PRODUCTION ON JOSH THOMAS’ ‘EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE OKAY’ PILOT
KAYLA CROMER, MAEVE PRESS AND ADAM FAISON JOIN AS SERIES REGULARS
Today, Freeform officially begins production on the pilot “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” in Los Angeles. Written by Josh Thomas, the creator of the critically acclaimed, heartwarming dramedy-series “Please Like Me,” the half-hour comedy pilot introduces Nicholas (played by Thomas), a neurotic 25-year-old who suddenly has to grapple with the loss of his father while figuring out how to be a guardian to his two teenage half-sisters.
Joining Thomas as series regulars are newcomers Kayla Cromer (“South of Hell”) who will portray Nicholas’ 17-year old half-sister Matilda, a witty, wide-eyed musician who is on the autism spectrum; Maeve Press (“Theresa Is a Mother”) will portray 14-year-old comedic oddball Genevieve, who is the youngest of the siblings and the most dramatic; and Adam Faison (“Liberty Crossing”) rounds out the cast portraying Alex, Nicholas’ love interest who finds himself in the middle of family drama.
Thomas created the concept, wrote and stars in the pilot with David Martin, Jon Thoday, and Richard Allen-Turner serving as executive producers for Avalon Television. Stephanie Swedlove and Kevin Whyte also serve as executive producers. Produced by Avalon Television and Freeform Studios, it will be distributed internationally by Avalon Distribution. The pilot is directed by Rebecca Thomas (“Stranger Things”).
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Tell Me Your Secrets - Kat Willis to Recur in TNT Thriller
Friday Night Lights alum Kat Willis has booked a recurring role opposite Lily Rabe, Amy Brenneman and Hamish Linklater in TNT’s thriller drama series Tell Me Your Secrets (fka Deadlier Than the Male). Created and written by Harriet Warner (Call the Midwife) and produced by Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Turner’s Studio T, Tell Me Your Secrets revolves around a trio of characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past: Emma (Rabe) is a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, John (Linklater) is a former serial predator desperate to find redemption, and Mary (Brenneman) is a grieving mother obsessed with finding her missing daughter, Theresa (Baker). As each of them is pushed to the edge, the truth about their pasts and motives grows ever murkier, blurring the lines between victim and perpetrator. Willis will play Diana Lord, a woman trying to balance her charity work with her struggle to parent a privileged daughter she can’t control.
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Kidding - Grace Song to Recur in Showtime's Jim Carrey Comedy Series
Newcomer Grace Song is set for a recurring role opposite Jim Carrey in Showtime’s upcoming half-hour comedy series Kidding. Created by Dave Holstein, and directed by Carrey’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind helmer Michel Gondry, Kidding is a dark comedy about Jeff aka “Mr. Pickles” (Carrey), a children’s television icon who has to deal with a imploding personal life. Song will play Eliza, a 19-year-old college student who lives next door to Jeff.
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MOVIES: Wonder Park - Teaser Trailer
7th July 2018
Ingress: The Animation - Animated Series Coming to Netflix This October
“Ingress,” the original mobile phone augmented reality game created by the team behind “Pokemon Go,” is getting its own animated series this fall, company founder John Hanke told Variety.
“Ingress: The Animation” will created by animation studio Crafter under the direction of noted computer-graphics artist Yuhei Sakuragi and with character design by “Neon Genesis Evangelion’s” art director Takeshi Honda. Fuji TV is working with Netflix to deliver the anime worldwide.
“The anime peers into the ‘Ingress’ universe and allows viewers to see a part of that universe that is uniquely expressed,” Hanke said in an interview earlier this week.
The show takes place in the world of “Ingress” where exotic matter is leaking into the world through portals. That matter can influence people in different ways. Some gain a sort of super mental power. The show focuses on Makoto and Sarah, two people impacted by the matter. Makoto can touch things and see their history. Sarah can see certain aspects of time and space. The two are thrown together after something happens to Sarah and Makoto, who is a police officer, is brought in to figure it out. The duo end up on the run together away from a third, mysterious character named Jack. The three get pulled into Ingress’ Enlightened versus Resistance battle, but are also trying to figure out the motives behind a corporation that seems to be abusing exotic matter to experiment on humans and do “bad things,” Hanke said. This new antagonist will also appear in the new “Ingress” game.
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5th July 2018
Aggretsuko - Renewed for a 2nd Season by Netflix; New Anime Series Ultraman; Kengan Ashura & More Announced
NETFLIX ANNOUNCES NEW ANIME SERIES ULTRAMAN AND KENGAN ASHURA AND RENEWS AGGRETSUKO FOR A SECOND SEASON
Premiere dates announced for GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle, Dragon Pilot, Castlevania Season 2 and Cannon Busters
Los Angeles, Calif. - July 5, 2018 - Today, as part of their NETFLIX❤ANIME panel at Anime Expo, Netflix announced two new anime series, along with the renewal of popular series Aggretsuko for a second season, as well as date announcements and first look images for upcoming titles in their growing anime slate, including the following:
New Series ULTRAMAN will launch in Spring 2019
An action drama centered around a man possessing the spirit and DNA of the legendary hero “Ultraman” as he wears a metallic ultra suit and fights against evil.
Production Company: Production I.G, Sola Digital
Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki
New Series Kengan Ashura will launch in 2019
Kazuo Yamashita is an ordinary fifty-six year old man who one day is summoned by the chairman of his company and hired as a gladiator. He learns that these hired gladiators engage in battles called “Kengan Matches: to protect the corporate rights of the businesses they represent. Kazuo Yamashita is assigned to battle a mysterious Kengan fighter named Ohma Tokita. Both men join the “Kengan Zetsumei Tournament” with the hope of winning the spot as chairman of the Kengan Organization.
Production Company: LARX ENTERTAINMENT
Directors: Seiji Kishi (Assassination Classroom)
Writer: Makoto Uezu
Aggretsuko will return for a second season in 2019
Everyone’s favorite death metal panda is back! Retsuko will return to Netflix for Aggretsuko Season 2. Produced by Fanworks and featuring a character originally created by Sanrio, the creator of Hello Kitty, season two of Aggretsuko is coming to Netflix.
Writer / Director: Rarecho
GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle will launch on July 18, 2018
The sequel to GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters, this epic re-imagining of the Godzilla world in a futuristic setting pits humans and robots against the biggest Godzilla ever seen in an interplanetary struggle for survival.
Production Company: Polygon Pictures, TOHO
Story / Writer: Gen Urobuchi
Directors: Koubun Shizuno, Hiroyuki Seshita
Dragon Pilot will launch on September 21, 2018
Recently stationed Air Self-Defence Force rookie Hisone Amakasu is chosen by a dragon concealed within Gifu Air Base to be his pilot.
Studio: Bones
Writer: Mari Okada
Director: Hiroshi Kobayashi
Cannon Busters will launch on April 1, 2019
The show follows the adventures and exploits of S.A.M, a high-end friendship droid who’s joined by a quirky, discarded maintenance robot and a brash, deadly fugitive. Together, the unlikely trio embarks on an unforgettable journey in a fantastic and dangerous world in search of S.A.M’s best friend, the heir to a kingdom under siege.
Creator / Director / Executive Producer: LeSean Thomas
Premiere dates announced for GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle, Dragon Pilot, Castlevania Season 2 and Cannon Busters
Los Angeles, Calif. - July 5, 2018 - Today, as part of their NETFLIX❤ANIME panel at Anime Expo, Netflix announced two new anime series, along with the renewal of popular series Aggretsuko for a second season, as well as date announcements and first look images for upcoming titles in their growing anime slate, including the following:
New Series ULTRAMAN will launch in Spring 2019
Production Company: Production I.G, Sola Digital
Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki
New Series Kengan Ashura will launch in 2019
Production Company: LARX ENTERTAINMENT
Directors: Seiji Kishi (Assassination Classroom)
Writer: Makoto Uezu
Aggretsuko will return for a second season in 2019
Everyone’s favorite death metal panda is back! Retsuko will return to Netflix for Aggretsuko Season 2. Produced by Fanworks and featuring a character originally created by Sanrio, the creator of Hello Kitty, season two of Aggretsuko is coming to Netflix.
Writer / Director: Rarecho
GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle will launch on July 18, 2018
Production Company: Polygon Pictures, TOHO
Story / Writer: Gen Urobuchi
Directors: Koubun Shizuno, Hiroyuki Seshita
Dragon Pilot will launch on September 21, 2018
Studio: Bones
Writer: Mari Okada
Director: Hiroshi Kobayashi
Cannon Busters will launch on April 1, 2019
Creator / Director / Executive Producer: LeSean Thomas
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Castlevania - Season 2 - Premiere Date Revealed
Returning October 26 on Netflix
Raise hell. Season 2 is a bloody nightmare. Join our awakening October 26, only on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/gtXU0iP2VA— Mr. Belmont (@Castlevania) July 6, 2018
MOVIES: Gundam - Live-Action Adaptation Based on Anime in Development at Legendary
A live-action Gundam movie is in the works.
Legendary Entertainment will co-produce a feature based on the the popular anime from the Japanese animation studio Sunrise. The announcement was made Thursday at the 2018 Anime Expo, which is taking place in Los Angeles.
The original Gundam series, which began in 1979, is set in the Universal Century, an era in which people have emigrated to space colonies because of a growing population on Earth. Eventually, the people living in the colonies seek their autonomy, and launch a war of independence against the people on Earth. Battles are fought by piloting robots known as mobile suits.
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UnREAL - Season 4 - Binge Release at Stan Australia - Premiere Date Revealed
All Episodes Binge-Releasing Exclusively to Stan Australia July 17.
#UnREAL fans! @ConstanceZimmer has a VERY exciting announcement to share... #UnRealonStan pic.twitter.com/UjxyjVx1Cv— Stan. (@StanAustralia) July 5, 2018
NOS4A2 - Jahkara Smith Set to Recur in AMC’s Supernatural Horror Drama
YouTube star Jahkara Smith (aka Sailor J) has signed on for a recurring role in AMC’s supernatural horror drama NOS4A2, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joe Hill. The project, produced by AMC Studios in association with Michael Eisner’s Tornante Television, was created by Jami O’Brien (Fear The Walking Dead, Hell On Wheels) who will serve as showrunner. It’s set for debut in 2019.
NOS4A2 introduces Vic McQueen, a young, working class artist who discovers she has a supernatural ability to track the seemingly immortal Charlie Manx. Manx feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – a twisted Christmas Village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic must strive to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.
Smith will play Maggie Leigh, Iowa’s bubbly, purple-haired librarian with a Scrabble Bag portal to the universe.
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MOVIES: Hobbs and Shaw - Idris Elba to Star as the Villain in Fast and Furious Spinoff
Idris Elba is in final negotiations to play the main villain in “Hobbs and Shaw,” the “Fast and Furious” spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham.
“Deadpool 2” director David Leitch is on board to helm, with Johnson and Statham reprising their roles as special agent Luke Hobbs and criminal mastermind Deckard Shaw, respectively. “Fast and Furious” architect Chris Morgan penned the script, with production set to commence this fall.
The film will see the often-at-odds pair teaming up. Sources say Elba’s character is the antagonist the duo will go up against.
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3rd July 2018
Lost - Evangeline Lilly Not Interested in Reboot
“There’s a rumor every year that they are going to reboot Lost,” the actress says. “The thing about reboots and remakes is that I don’t like them in general, period. I want people to leave Star Wars alone! I did love Rogue One, as an aside. But for the most part, I don’t usually love them. I feel like it’s just tainting something that’s precious. I’ve said I don’t want to do things in the past and I’ve done them — you know, never say never — but sitting where I am today, my assumption is no.”
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MOVIES: Child's Play - Chucky the Doll Remake in Development with It Producers
MGM is remaking Child’s Play, the 1980s horror movie centering on a toy doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, with It producers David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith.
MGM is fast-tracking the project, which has Lars Klevberg, the Norwegian filmmaker behind the horror movie Polaroid, in the director’s chair as it heads toward a production start in Vancouver this September.
Tyler Burton Smith — who has written video games and wrote Kung Fury 2, now in production — penned the script.
Directed by '80s and '90s horror mainstay Tom Holland and co-created by Don Mancini, Child's Play told the story of a popular toy doll named Chucky that becomes possessed and terrorizes a single mom and her son, as the killer needs the son’s body to jump into before his transference to the doll becomes permanent.
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MOVIES: Psych: The Sequel - On Hold Due to Stars Conflicting Filming Schedules
Although a rep for USA/UCP declined to comment, TVLine has learned that talks had been underway to potentially shoot a second movie later this year. But the pic was pushed due to scheduling conflicts with leads James Roday and Dule Hill (Roday stars in the new ABC drama A Million Little Things, while Hill is busy with USA’s Suits, where he was recently promoted to a series regular).
I hear USA/UCP remain interested in making the unofficially-titled Psych: The Sequel, provided a production window opens up that works for the franchise’s main players.
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MOVIES: Fast and Furious Spinoff - Vanessa Kirby to Co-Star
With her reign as Princess Margaret on Netflix’s acclaimed series “The Crown” officially over, Vanessa Kirby is taking her talents to the big screen. The British actress is in final negotiations to star opposite Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in “Fast and Furious” spinoff, “Hobbs and Shaw.”
“Deadpool 2” director David Leitch is on board to helm with Johnson and Statham reprising their roles of special agent Luke Hobbs and criminal mastermind Deckard Shaw, respectively. Kirby will play an MI-5 agent and Shaw’s sister.
“Fast and Furious” architect Chris Morgan penned the script with production set to commence this fall. Plot details are vague, but the central idea is that the film would see the often-at-odds duo team up. Johnson, Statham, and “Fast and Furious” producer Neal Moritz will produce.
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MOVIES: Top Gun: Maverick - Miles Teller to Co-Star
Miles Teller will star opposite Tom Cruise in the long-in-the works sequel that sees Cruise reprising his role as the hotshot pilot with the call sign Maverick.
Joseph Kosinski, who directed Cruise in sci-fi thriller Oblivion, is directing the movie, which is also bringing back Val Kilmer's rival pilot code-named Iceman.
Teller beat out Nicholas Hoult and Glen Powell for the role. Dylan O'Brien and Austin Butler were among those in the mix in a previous stage.
Teller will now play the son of Maverick's wingman and best pal, Goose. Played by Anthony Edwards in the Tony Scott-directed original, the character provided an emotional spine to the movie when he is killed by accident and Maverick blames himself.
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MOVES: The Many Saints of Newark - Alan Taylor, to Direct The Sopranos Prequel
Think that Sopranos prequel doesn’t have a director yet? Fuggedaboutit. Alan Taylor, who helmed multiple episodes of the original HBO series along with Game of Thrones and the feature sequels Thor: The Dark World and Terminator: Genisys, has landed the gig.
As Deadline reported exclusively in March, New Line bought a screenplay penned by The Sopranos creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, who also wrote episodes of the HBO mob drama starring James Gandolfini. The Many Saints of Newark is the working title for a feature prequel set in the era of the 1960s race riots in that New Jersey city.
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MOVIES: Little Women - Greta Gerwig Eyeing Retelling of Classic as Next Project with Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet in Talks to Star
Following her critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig is eyeing “Little Women” as her next directing gig.
A-listers Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet are in talks to star in Columbia Pictures’ retelling of the American classic with Florence Pugh also in talks to star. The movie would mark a reunion for Gerwig, Ronan and Chalamet. The young actors starred in 2017’s coming-of-age comedy “Lady Bird.”
The roles are unknown at this time as some castings are still being worked out. Sources tell Variety the studio is expected to test a handful of actresses opposite Stone for the role of Beth before the July 4 holiday.
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MOVIES: It: Chapter 2 - Table Read Cast Photo
Back to Derry with these Losers. 🎈#ITMovie pic.twitter.com/dvg0fEP9Ts— IT Movie🎈 (@ITMovieOfficial) July 2, 2018
