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Carmen Ejogo
Just when you thought there isn’t room for another movie about a music legend, Born to be Blue comes out. The Robert Budreau-directed film about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker is a music biopic that is fine, but forgettable.
Billy Crudup is circling a role in Alien: Covenant, the latest installment of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi opus. The movie is said to be part of a prequel trilogy that started with Prometheus.
Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, and Callie Hernandez are the latest recruits for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.
A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker’s musical comeback in the late 60’s.
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
Voight joins Eddie Redmayne, who leads a cast consisting of Alison Sudo, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Katherine Waterston, Jenn Murray, and Samantha Morton. Fantastic Beasts, which began production in August, follows Redmayne’s Scamander as he travels to NYC documenting magical creatures and encountering fellow wizards.
Story focuses on the historic–and often violent–marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.
Logline: Centers on the legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, picking up late in the musician’s life, when, after years of drug abuse, he stages a comeback.
The star is in negotiations to play Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife.
Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez have joined as well.
Logline: Set 70 years before Harry Potter, follows magizoologist Newt Scamander, who arrives in New York City to find and document magical creatures.
Logline: Set in the near future, America has reduced crime by allowing one day when people can commit crimes without punishment. When a man tries to get revenge, he comes across a group of people in need and fights to help them get back home before they’re killed in the purge.
Musical prodigy, Sparkle struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother, she tries to balance a new romance with music manager, Stix while dealing with the unexpected challenges her new life will bring as she and her two sisters strive to become a dynamic singing group during the Motown-era.
Green is joined by Carmen Ejogo and Tika Sumpter in the musical drama remake.
Logline: Story focuses on the historic–and often violent–marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.
Logline: Loosely based on the musical group “The Supremes” the story follows the Williams sisters, as they rise from their humble beginnings as choir singers in Harlem to become the most successful girl group of their time.