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UPDATE 03.18.16 The Max Landis spec Bright has been part of a very lengthy bidding war between studios, but Netflix has come out on top with a commitment of $90 million for the package.
Italian filmmaker Francesco Munzi is set to direct a yet-to-be-titled New York City-based crime thriller about the dangerous and lucrative underworld of cargo theft.
Rosamund Pike Will star opposite Christian Bale in the period drama Hostiles written and directed by Scott Cooper, who recently helmed Black Mass and worked with Bale in Out of the Furnace.
Robert Redford and Jason Segel are the latest to sign on to Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery. Segel will be replacing Nicholas Hoult who recently left the project due to scheduling conflicts.
Director Martin McDonagh has tapped Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell to star in his third feature film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The director’s follow up to Seven Psychopaths also stars Frances McDormand.
Meghann Fahy has been added to the growing cast of the Jessica Chastain vehicle, Miss Sloane. The film follows a top lobbyist in Washington D.C. as she pushes for tighter gun control laws.
Jake Johnson is set to star in the untitled reboot of The Mummy. The movie is setting up Universal’s plan to build a interconnected franchise of classic monster movies.
Noah Baumbach has tapped Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller to star in his next feature Yen Din Ka Kissa, which is already filming in New York.
Annabelle Wallis is in talks to join Tom Cruise in the Universal’s untitled reboot of The Mummy which has been dubbed as an “epic action-adventure.”
J.K. Simmons will step into the DC comic book movie world as Gotham City’s Commissioner Gordon in the forthcoming Justice League.
Zendaya has been tapped to star in Marvel and Sony’s highly anticipated untitled reboot of Spider-Man.
Lasse Hallstrom will bring his directing magic to the live-adaptation of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, the classic holiday tale by E.T.A. Hoffman.
Robert Rugan has been tapped to direct MGM’s Kidrobot, an adaptation of the hip street art and fashion-oriented toy brand. Details about the storyline have been kept under wraps, but the movie will be live-action.
The Universal astronaut comedy The Something starring the trio of funnymen Seth Rogen, Zach Galifianakis, and Bill Hader will be released on May 26, 2017, during Memorial Day weekend.
SXSW 2016 boasts an impressive list of headlining films — some of which will be making their world premieres. Here is our guide to some of the big-banner films showing at this year’s festival, from Linklater to Pee-Wee.
John Carney is being courted to direct STX Entertainment’s Russ and Roger Go Beyond, a film about the time when sexploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer and late film critic Roger Ebert teamed up to make Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Fuller House is the “mom jeans” of sitcoms. It means well, but it is so corny at times that you just can’t handle it. But in the end, there’s so much after-school special love that you drop all your skepticism and give it a great, big hug.
Josh Hartnett has been tapped to play former Olympic hockey player Eric LeMarque in the Scott Waugh-directed 6 Below. Madison Turner, Waugh’s assistant and former stuntman, penned the script.
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.
Bill Block has scored a first-look production deal with Warner Bros. under his Billblock Media banner. The veteran producer has hit the ground running with the two-year deal and is developing World War 3 with Sam Raimi
The movie adaption of the beloved Disney ride, It’s a Small World has found its writing team in Tim Rasmussen and Vince Di Meglio.
The Big Short writer-director Adam McKay and partner Will Ferrell have picked up the rights to Jessica Pressler’s acclaimed New York Magazine piece. McKay, Ferrell, and Jessica Elbaum are producing under their Gloria Sanchez banner.
The Disney Channel is preparing to release the TV movie remake of the 1987 Chris Columbus classic, Adventures in Babysitting. Not exactly the remake treatment the original film deserves, since it might just be one of the best movies of all time. Okay, one of the best babysitting movies of all time.
Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, and Callie Hernandez are the latest recruits for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the mastermind behind the the Broadway juggernaut, Hamilton, is one spoonful of sugar away from joining the cast of the untitled Mary Poppins sequel at Disney.
On the subject of diversity, John Oliver kept things simple on Last Week Tonight by saying what everyone already knows: Hollywood has been whitewashing since the dawn of celluloid.
The infamous Murder House from American Horror Story is now renting on AirBnB, though we’re not sure who would want to stay there. From The Simpsons house on Evergreen Terrace to Don Draper’s Manhattan digs, here’s a list of 10 other TV homes we’d like to see listed on AirBnB.
Fresh off of the wild success of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds has already jumped into his next project — and Salma Hayek and Elodie Yung are joining him. The three will star together in The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which is set to start production in April.