She’s the first actress of color to land a key role in Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars spinoffs.
Alden Ehrenreich has won the role of Han Solo in the Unt. Han Solo Star Wars Spinoff to be directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord.
It’s official: Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford will re-team for Indiana Jones 5, according to Disney. The studio is calling it “a fifth epic adventure in the blockbuster series.”
UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.
A massive bidding war is underway right now as some of Hollywood’s biggest players compete for the rights to Lost City of Z author David Grann’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon. A-listers are attached and studios are swarming as the year’s biggest bidding war gets underway!
Along with a short clip revealing principal production has gotten underway, it has also been announced that Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern, and Kelly Marie Tran have been added to the cast.
Disney and Lucasfilm have narrowed down the search for the starring role of their untitled Star Wars Han Solo spinoff film. Among the names on the shortlist are a mix of familiar faces of young Hollywood as well as up and coming actors who have the potential to fill the shoes and charisma of the character originated by Harrison Ford.
After weeks of speculation, Del Toro has confirmed that he will play a villain in a galaxy far, far away.
The Collector is being offered the chance to play the big bad in eighth installment of the franchise.
Kept under wraps, but focuses on the adventures of a young Han Solo.
Set immediately before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, it tells the story of how the rebels got their hands on the plans to the Death Star, as well as depicting the first victory won by the rebel alliance and alluded to in the opening crawl to the first film in the Star Wars saga.
Logline: Set in 1942 in Prague, the tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but a continuation of the adventures of archeologist Indiana Jones.
Logline: A low-level crook must break out of jail to save his family from his former cellmate and confidante, who, it turns out, is a sadistic serial killer.
Industry executive shuffle of the last week.
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Logline: Nazi prison camp POWs decide to compete in their own Olympics after the 1940 summer games are cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.
Logline: Story follows a journalist who witnesses a famous business mogul committing murder.
Kennedy/Marshall Reaches out to Paramount to Revive An Amazing Sci-fi Epic 15 years in development…
Logline: Follows the true story of the Colombian politician and presidential candidate who was taken hostage by a terrorist organization and held captive until her rescue six and a half years later.
Logline: A little boy discovers a family of little people living under the floor boards of his house.
Logline: The story of U.S. Airways Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the airline pilot who safely landed on the Hudson River in 2009.
Logline: When a young boy steals a book called The Neverending Story, his life becomes inextricably linked to the protagonist of the story, a young warrior who must save the world of Fantastica.
Logline: Story centers on a youth soccer club made up of international refugees who settled in Clarkston, Georgia.
Logline: Story tells the epic tale of a friendship between a boy and a horse, who are separated, but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.
Logline: Two cops, a father-and-son team who can’t stand each other, are assigned to an investigation to infiltrate an outdoor adventure group/therapy camp for fathers and sons.
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