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The long-in-development project Five Against a Bullet has found its new star in action veteran Jackie Chan. Joe Carnahan is still set to direct and is also doing rewrites on the script from the original scribe, The Three Musketeers’ Alex Litvak.

A story about the lengths a mother’s love goes for her child as it follows Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage and raising her daughter Zoe in conjunction with her ex-husband Zoe means everything to her mother, but when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle takes matters into her own hands.

The Rob King-directed sci-fi action pic The Humanity Bureau has tapped Nicolas Cage for the lead role. The Academy Award-winning actor will join Sarah Lind, Jakob Davies, and Hugh Dillon in the pic set in the year 2030 when global warming has wreaked havoc in parts of the American Midwest.

Imperative Entertainment has set Gavin O’Connor to helm Atlantic Wall with Bradley Cooper attached to star. The project is a WWII drama picked up by Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas as a pitch from Hit List alum Zach Dean.

A teen leaves college to enlist in the Army shortly after the 9/11 attack, despite protests from his parents.

Pitch Perfect scribe Kay Cannon is getting to make her feature directorial debut with The Pact and has tapped John Cena, Leslie Mann, and Ike Barinholtz to star. The project hails from Seth Rogen’s Point Grey and DMG Entertainment.

New Girl star Jake Johnson is developing single-camera comedy Catalina with his home network Fox. Johnson penned the pilot with Max Winkler and Mary Fitzgerald. The project is described as Weekend at Bernie’s set on Catalina island.

The official Star Wars website made a big announcement today with the news that Emilia Clarke has joined the cast of the highly anticipated Han Solo spinoff film. She joins previously cast Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover.

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey is currently in negotiations to land a critical role in White Boy Rick from director Yann Demange. The film is based on a spec by Logan and Noah Miller, which landed on both 2015 Hit List and 2015 Black List.

The upcoming pic The Pretenders has taken a huge step forward after being circulated around Hollywood for the past three years. James Franco has signed on to direct the romance and up-and-coming actors Jack Kilmer, Shameik Moore, and Jane Levy have signed on to star.

British author Neil Gaiman is teaming with production company Angry Films to develop a new fantasy series called The Building for Fox, with 20th Century Fox TV as the studio. The series is based on the digital film Parallels, written and directed by Chris Leone.

Two brown girls dream of being dancers, but only one has talent, while the other has grand ideas.

Electric Entertainment has nabbed Steve Altiere’s sci-fi fantasy spec, Countdown and has set Independence Day: Resurgence writer/producer Dean Devlin to direct. The story centers on a boy fascinated by space travel who recruits his friends and an eccentric NASA engineer to hatch an unbelievable plan to try and save his dying father.

The spec script Holland, Michigan was recently acquired by Amazon Studios with Peter Dealbert set to produce. Written by Andrew Sodroski, the thriller centers on a housewife in the midwest who suspects that her husband is having an affair. As the story unfolds, she learns that her husband might be leading a secret life.

Sitcom star Jim Parson continues to add to his very full workload as he attaches himself to produce and star in Brother Orange for BuzzFeed Motion Pictures and Warner Bros. The film is inspired by the real events after BuzzFeed’s editor Matt Stopera’s cellphone was stolen.

A BuzzFeed editor has his cell phone stolen and it has made its way to China. A year later, random pictures begin appearing on his photo stream, including a number of pictures of a serious-looking man in front of an orange tree.

Warner Bros. and DC Films are moving right along with their Harley Quinn spinoff as they have brought on Shut In screenwriter Christina Hodson to pen the script.

The cast for Kenneth Branagh’s remake of Murder on the Orient Express continues to add A-list names to its manifest. The latest to board the pic is Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz who will join the massive cast that includes Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Michael Pena, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., and Josh Gad.

The mystery/thriller set in 1950s Morocco is about a woman named Alice Shipley who tries to leave both her past and her college roommate behind after the man she intends to marry suddenly dies. Years later, she reconnects with that same roommate, Lucy, and then Alice’s husband disappears.

The mystery/thriller set in 1950s Morocco is about a woman named Alice Shipley who tries to leave both her past and her college roommate behind after the man she intends to marry suddenly dies. Years later, she reconnects with that same roommate, Lucy, and then Alice’s husband disappears. The mystery leaves Alice to wonder if Lucy is as dangerous as she thinks or whether she is imaging things.

An engineer creates an android that takes her place when life gets difficult, but she must deal with the consequences when the robot becomes self actualized.

Academy Award-nominated actress Jessica Chastain is set to play tough New York City street cop with extraordinary powers in Painkiller Jane, an adaptation of the graphic novel series written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada.

The life of activist Donna Hylton is set to make its way to the big screen in A Little Piece of Light with Rosario Dawson set to star.

Ghostbusters director Paul Feig has found his next project as he teams up with Charlie Kesslering for a feature comedy revolving around a female engineer. The spec, Turned On, was written by Kesslering who is currently assistant to The Late Late Show host James Corden.

Set in the ’80s, two college friends fall in love with the same girl, creating a decade spanning, very unique love story between the threesome.

The writing duo of Neil Widener and Gavin James have signed on to pen Lionsgate’s Now You See Me 3. Jon M. Chu, who directed the second installment, is attached to helm the third movie in the magician heist franchise.

Logline: Tasked with finding a game changing take for the sixth Jason Bourne movie, Tom Milton goes deep down the rabbit hole of cracking the story. With the guidance (and abuse) of a professor from his past and Bourne himself, Tom begins workshopping scenes that begin to bleed into real life in unexpected ways.

An adaptation of the acclaimed French graphic novel Naja written by Jean-David Morvan and illustrated by Bengal is in the works from Thunder Road Pictures, Entertainment 360, and Nickel City Productions with J.P. Davis penning the script and Cedric Nicolas-Troyan directing.

35 years later, Max Landis is set to remake his father’s comedy-horror classic, An American Werewolf in London for Universal Pictures. The Walking Dead’s David Alpert and Robert Kirkman are set to produce with their Skybound Entertainment banner.

Gin Phillips’ forthcoming novel Beautiful Things is on its way to the big screen. Margot Robbie is teaming with Warner Bros. under her LuckyChap Entertainment banner for the adaptation with producer Denise Di Novi.