Academy Award-winning Room star Brie Larson is reportedly in early talks to play Captain Marvel – and she’s the studio’s number one choice for the role.
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Academy Award-winning Room star Brie Larson is reportedly in early talks to play Captain Marvel – and she’s the studio’s number one choice for the role.
David Strathairn is set to star opposite Brenton Thwaites in a new Christian drama An Interview with God. Perry Lang will helm the project with a script from Ken Aguado.
UPDATED: Rising French filmmaker Fabien Dubois has signed with Ramses Ishak, Mike Sheresky and Mike Esola at UTA shortly after signing with manager Jon Kanak of Magnet Management in an extremely competitive situation.
William Eubank will sit in the director’s chair for the Fox aquatic thriller Underwater. The film comes from a 2015 Hit List spec by Brian Duffield.
Launch Pad Pilots Competition mentor Anslem Richardson has landed a spot in the writers room of the Shawn Ryan and Eric Kripke action drama Timeless.
The Golden Globe-nominated actress is set to star in Universal’s Who Invited Her?, a comedy about a woman who invites herself to her male best friend’s bachelor party. She will produce alongside Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea.
Launch Pad alum Matthew Tente, whose spec Burn Run is heating up the town this week, marks the first official signing for Chris Bender’s newly formed Good Fear.
2015 Launch Pad Pilot Competition winner David Hoffman has joined the writers’ room on the upcoming Shawn Ryan and Eric Kripke series Timeless premiering this fall on NBC.
UPDATE 06.06.16: After generating serious heat on the market for the past week, Mitchell LaFortune’s Burn Run has sold to Thunder Road Pictures after the Sicario production company laid down an aggressive bid to snag the spec from the former intelligence officer.
Mom’s Allison Janney and Modern Family’s Ed O’Neill are in negotiations to star in Once Upon a Time star Jennifer Morrison’s feature directorial debut.
Nicole Kidman’s banner Blossom Films has landed the rights to Joseph Wilde’s Cuddles. The play premiered in the UK in 2013 before having a run in New York as part of Brits Off Broadway.
Galileo and Pope Urban VIII are set to battle it out on the big screen as Gulfstream Pictures has announced they are adapting Richard N. Goodwin’s play The Hinge Of The World.
Described as “a comedy about the tragedy of what could have been,” Long and Smulders will lead a cast that also includes Peter Gallagher, Luiz Guzman, and Kristen Schaal in the film from writer-director Ryan Eggold.
Shane Black is moving on from the action and comedy of The Nice Guys and heading into some stormy weather with Category 5. Black will produce the film that follows a group of thieves who plan to rob the island of an El Chapo-type before a huge storm hits.
Snow, best known for her role in the hit musicals Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2, is set to star in and produce the romantic comedy with Cranium Entertainment and Eclectic Pictures.
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The film, which channels sci-fi wonder and mystery of J.J. Abrams’s Super 8, is based on the popular 2013 children’s book.
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The 2016 Cannes Film Festival kicks off this week, and we’ve got your guide to the exclusive parties and events going down on The Croisette. Get exclusive info on over 60 parties, events, lounges and panels! (This list will be updated as the event goes on!)
Warner Bros.’ female-centric Ocean’s 11 reboot might be on the verge of making its next big score, as we’re hearing that Lawrence has landed at the top of producers’ shortlist of actresses to potentially star opposite Sandra Bullock.
UPDATE (05.12.16): Sony has closed on a pre-emptive deal for The Final Six, which has publishing bids heating up. The town has been buzzing over this red hot book proposal from author Alexandra Monir.
Justin Kanew, perhaps best known as a former contestant on the CBS hit reality series The Amazing Race, has set up a new action comedy with Voltage Pictures.
Suicide Squad star Jared Leto is in discussions to join Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner and Ben Hur’s Jack Huston in Emmanuel Benbihy’s forthcoming Berlin, I Love You.
Bethlehem helmer Yuval Adler is headed to Salem Village, the supernatural horror from STX Entertainment.
One of the world’s most famous crime novelists may, once again, be headed to the big screen. Columbia is in development with an action-adventure take on Agatha Christie from writer Tom Shepherd.
Banks will star in and produce the Universal comedy from writer Victoria Strouse with Behind the Mask creator Josh Greenbaum set to direct.
Kim has landed a role in Sony’s The Dark Tower, which is based on the best-selling series from Stephen King. Kim joins a growing cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, and Abbey Lee.
Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris, and Elizabeth Olsen are in talks to star in the dramedy Kodachrome, based on a 2010 New York Times article by A.G. Sulzberger. Shawn Levy is set to produce.
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