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Former Dexter star Jennifer Carpenter has signed on to star opposite Vince Vaughn in the indie thriller Brawl in Cell Block 99. Bone Tomahawk scribe and Hit List alum S. Craig Zahler is set to direct from his own script.
David Dastmalchian and Hiam Abbass will join Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, and Dave Bautista in the follow up to Ridley Scott’s iconic dystopian sci-fi film.
An untitled comedy from How I Met Your Mother‘s Cristin Milioti and Nina Pedrad has won a pilot order from FX.
Set in rural Maine, Drunken Fireworks centers on a mechanic named Alden (Franco) and a retired mob boss who compete in a hostile Fourth of July fireworks competition.
Starz’s American Gods has added Gillian Anderson. The project reteams Anderson with executive producer Bryan Fuller after the pair previously worked together on Hannibal.
Academy Award winners Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz are in talks to star in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s forthcoming Spanish-language drama, which is being described as “a psychological thriller with a dash of Agatha Christie.”
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.
A man’s ex-girlfriend tells him she’s getting married to someone else and invites him to the wedding, where he’s forced to navigate the through the painfully funny awkwardness he now finds himself in.
Simon Pegg and Mike Myers are set to join Margot Robbie for the Vaughn Stein-directed noir-thriller, Terminal. Max Irons and Dexter Fletcher have also joined the cast.
Jeff Bridges and Taylor Kitsch have been tapped to join Summit Entertainment’s untitled firefighter film. The two will join Josh Brolin, Miles Teller and James Badge Dale.
Lucy Liu, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, Suki Waterhouse, Margarita Levieva, and Jeffrey Wahlberg have joined Future World.
Warner Bros. bought the action thriller pitch from Matias Caruso with Guy Ritchie attached to produce. Caruso, who landed on the 2013 Hit List for his script Offerings, is the writer of the upcoming horror comedy Mayhem.
Details being kept under wraps, but described as an action thriller about the end of days.
Logline: Details being kept under wraps, but described as an action thriller about the end of days.
Milla Jovovich has been added to the cast of Future World. James Franco is co-directing the project, as well as starring in it and having created the story.
Follows a young boy of noble birth who embarks on a journey though the wasteland of this future world in order to find medicine for his dying mother.
The film stars Marvel Cinematic Universe mainstays Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen of Captain America: Civil War as well as Jon Bernthal from Daredevil.
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.
Anne Heche and real-life husband James Tupper to play on-screen couple in Syfy series Aftermath, while Tim Matheson and Cynthia Nixon will play the Reagans for NatGeo.