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Kristen Bell Joining STXfilms’ Musical Comedy “Fantasy Camp”
Bell starred in STX Entertainment’s hit comedy Bad Moms and its 2017 sequel A Bad Moms Christmas with the Sid Karger-scripted Fantasy Camp returning her to her musical background from Frozen.
Gong Li and Jet Li join the live action film based on the 1998 animated feature, which will be directed by Whale Rider director Niki Caro.
Garland will write, direct and exec. produce the pilot about a female computer engineer investigating the disappearance of her boyfriend at a San Francisco tech company.
Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo are producing the vigilante superhero movie with a plot that’s being kept under wraps.
The 2017 novel by Karen Dionne would put the Oscar-winning Swedish actor in the role of a woman born from the union of her mother with the man who kidnapped her, and Vikander’s character decides to get revenge for their treatment.
30West and STXinternational are teaming to finance and handle international sales with STX distributing the film in the UK and Ireland and bringing it to the European Film Market in Berlin to seek out buyers. CAA and Endeavor Content are handling U.S. sales.
Outrider would be Schwarzenegger’s first ongoing television role other than his season hosting The Celebrity Apprentice. It’s odd timing for the announcement coming after Amazon’s announcement of a new Conan the Barbarian series yesterday.
Shankman recently directed the pilot for Step Up: High Water which premiered on YouTube Red and will likely follow this comedy with Disenchanted, the sequel to the Amy Addams musical for Disney.
Payne and his production partners are joined by director Miguel Arteta, writer Roberto Benabib (Weeds) in this venture to adapt the Dutch series Holland’s Hoop.
The Harry Potter producer will bring Andrea Levy’s 2010 novel to British television, while an unrelated three-part A Christmas Carol will be the first of a series of Dickens adaptations for the Taboo duo.
Gyllenhaal will play a financial reporter who travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit a wealthy friend (Cumberbatch), only to get sucked into a plot to fake his friend’s death.
“Sinister 2’s” Ciaran Foy directs the Black List psychological horror film to be released in Jan. 2019.
Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban (The Similars) will direct the adaption by Ben Poole with Ehren Kruger and Daniel Bobker (The Ring) producing.
The other directors involved in the horror anthology are David Slade, Ryuhei Kitamura and Alejandro Brugues.
The real-life thriller will tell the story of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing Christian extremist who killed 77 people with his 2011 terrorist acts. It will be filmed in Norway with a $20 million budget under the eye of producer Scott Rudin, who nabbed the rights to release the film through his Netflix features division.
