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Ben Falcone Directing Wife Melissa McCarthy in Action-Comedy “Super-Intelligence” for New Line
It will the fourth collaboration between the husband-wife team after the upcoming comedy Life of the Party, as they make another movie from a script by The Boss writer Steve Mallory.
The Oscar-winning actor, a three-time Emmy nominee, has been having success doing shows for streaming networks following Netflix’s Bloodline and the upcoming Castle Rock series for Hulu.
Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o will produce and play Noah’s mother in the film based on the South African comedian’s book.
The Oscar-nominated actor would replace Vanessa Kirby, who played Margaret during the first two seasons of the Netflix show created by Peter Morgan (The Queen).
The fact-based series is based on a Hollywood Reporter article which unmasked Angelyne as Renee Goldberg.
The 1990s set crime drama is from executive producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
McCarthy is no stranger to playing a Boston cop, having starred in The Heat opposite Sandra Bullock. Of course, that was a comedic take on law enforcement, while this project will allow McCarthy to flaunt the dramatic chops she showed in St. Vincent.
Corporate executive Carol Peters is elected for observation by the world’s first super intelligence, an artificial intelligence that might be planning to take over the world.
Corporate executive Carol Peters is elected for observation by the world’s first super intelligence, an artificial intelligence that might be planning to take over the world.
Based on Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet, Swan Lake follows a princess named Odette who is turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse.
The funny and talented Melissa McCarthy is crossing another film first off her list: the musical. The Tracking Board has confirmed she’s set to star in Margie Claus for New Line Cinema after they acquired the pitch from McCarthy and Ben Falcone, and co-writer Damon Jones.
Frequent collaborators Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan are re-teaming for a new movie, Wrong Answer, based on a 2014 The New Yorker article by Rachel Aviv with Ta-Nehisi Coates penning the adaptation.
Donald Glover’s impressive juggling of Atlanta and Deadpool for FX (not to mention thriving film and music careers) mirrors that of Noah Hawley, who created Fargo for the network before launching the comic book adaptation Legion to great success.
Set in the underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist, the film follows two clashing detectives — one human and one puppet — who are forced to work together to try and figure out who’s brutally murdering the former cast of “The Happytime Gang,” a beloved classic puppet show.
Originally published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is set in a future where books are outlawed and “firemen” burn any that are found, though intellectual curiosity gets the better of the protagonist, who begins stashing books away to see if he can learn anything from them.
Chris Messina is teaming up with Adam Adams to star in Marti Noxon’s Sharp Objects, based on the Gillian Flynn novel, and Peters Sarsgaard has board the Jeff Daniels drama The Looming Tower on Hulu.
Community alum Yvette Nicole Brown has boarded the untitled Mayor City comedy, Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton has joined Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Nia Long is set to star in The Goldbergs spinoff.
Eva Longoria and Ken Marino are set to lead an all-star cast in Type-A, and John Larroquette may be returning to television as he boards Me, Myself & I.
Jon Cryer has been cast as the lead in the upcoming ABC pilot Losing It, Noah Wyle to star in the CBS drama pilot Perfect Citizen
Happy Endings alum Casey Wilson has landed at NBC to star opposite Busy Philipps in Tina Fey’s single camera comedy The Sackett Sisters. Several networks have been fighting to land Wilson the past few weeks before she settled on Fey’s sitcom today.
Oscar-winning actor Ellen Burstyn is set to make her directorial debut at the age of 84 with the comedy Bathing Flo, to be produced and financed by QC Entertainment.
Disney and Lucasfilm have announced fan-favorite actor Donald Glover has officially landed the role of Lando Calrissian in their upcoming Han Solo spinoff film. Christopher Miller and Phil Lord are directing the film, the second spinoff Star Wars movie, following this year’s Rogue One.
Daniel Radcliffe has landed the starring role in Beast of Burden as a drug smuggler. The movie comes from Swedish director Jesper Ganslandt with a script by Adam Hoelzel.