Here is a list of some of the feature-length film mandates for 2022.
Home for the summer on Long Island, an African American student comes out to his oldest and closest friend. Soon thereafter, an exclusive internship sweeps him into the world of being young and out in New York City and into a new life that will challenge his friendship and the life he once knew.
Set in WWII Britain, it deals with the women who were considered crucial after the Blitz occurred, becoming a movement that lifted morale across the country.
The project actually doubles as a reunion of sorts between Lathan and screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood, who previously worked together on Love & Basketball.
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Amy Krouse Rosenthal created a dating profile for her husband so he could find love again once she’s gone. In the moving piece, which became an instant sensation, she praises all his best qualities and the many ways she’s fallen in love with him throughout their 26 years together.
Last year’s Best Picture winner is teaming with this year’s Best Picture frontrunner. Fox 2000 has acquired the rights to the unpublished non-fiction book The Fox Hunt, with La La Land‘s Marc Platt producing and Spotlight writer Josh Singer set to adapt the story.
After the life of a Muslim peace activist in Yemen is in danger, four American activists set up a rescue mission through social media in order to save him.
While working at a Connecticut hospital, Ruth, a widowed labor/delivery nurse with 20 years of experience caring for newborns, is told not to touch the baby of a couple who are white supremacists. When the baby subsequently dies while Ruth is the only one present, she is taken to court by the couple.
Fresh off winning a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for Fences, Viola Davis has signed on to co-star alongside Julia Roberts in Small Great Things, an adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel that is coming together at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners.
Reveals how corporate America employed Broadway talent to take part in industrial shows from the 1950s to the 1980s to help motivate sales forces and educate employees on products.
Live-action remake of the 1937 Disney film, based on the Brothers Grimm fairytale.
Logline kept under wraps, but based on the Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist.
A live-action remake of the 1989 animated film.
Described as a thriller taking place in the near-future set in its own distinctive crime universe.
The story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba and Glinda, who struggle through opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard’s corrupt government and, ultimately, Elphaba’s public fall from grace.
The Bridge of Spies trio are looking to reunite for a yet-to-be-titled project about iconic newscaster Walter Cronkite and his role in influencing public opinion about the Vietnam War.
Logline kept under wraps, but the story will follow legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite’s relationship with the Vietnam War and his influence on public opinion.
Diehard gamers will be pleased to hear that producer Marc Platt is partnering with Sega to develop a big screen adaptation of the video game franchise Shinobi.
Steven Spielberg has been tapped to direct the movie adaptation of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara at Amblin Entertainment. The book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer, will be adapted for the screen by Tony Kushner.
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.
Here is the complete list of nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards, as presented by Ang Lee, Guillermo Del Toro, John Krasinski and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
Orange Is The New Black’s Laura Prepon has joined the all-star cast of DreamWorks’ adaptation of Paula Hawkin’s buzzy bestselling novel The Girl On The Train.
DreamWorks’ The Girl On The Train, has added Allison Janney to its cast. Tate Taylor is directing the adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel from a script by Erin Cressida Wilson.
Theroux is in talks to join Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, and Jared Leto in the film based on the bestselling novel by Paul Hawkins.
A slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country.
If both actors are free to shoot during that time, they may be locking down parts in the upcoming thriller.
Disney is bringing back everyone’s favorite nanny; Frank Marshall and the mouse are developing a sequel to one of the greatest children’s films of all time. Marshall, who just helmed Disney’s Into The Woods, will be directing, while John DeLuca and Marc Platt will serve as executive producers.
Kept under wraps, but takes place twenty years after the iconic 1964 musical Mary Poppins.
Haley Bennett joins Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson in the thriller based on Paula Hawkins’ novel.
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