French filmmaker Benjamin Rocher is looking to have Mel Gibson star in his upcoming action-adventure pic Every Other Weekend. The Academy Award-winning director is in talks to star in the film which is expected to star filming in France later this year.
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Mel Gibson will star in The Professor and the Madman with Sean Penn in early negotiations to join him. Apocalypto writer Farhad Safinia is set to direct from his own screenplay, which he has adapted from Simon Winchester’s 1998 book.
Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson will star in the series, which will be directed and co-written by Mel Gibson. Kevin Bacon, meanwhile, joins Jill Soloway’s new series, while Walter Goggins replaces Joe Manganiello over at History.
James Gunn took to social media to announce the start of principal photography today at Atlanta’s Pinewood Studios of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2. Gunn also confirmed the casting of Kurt Russell, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, and Pom Klementieff.
The sequel to the massively successful Creed is slowly becoming a reality as MGM is circling a release date of November 2017. The spin-off of the boxing franchise was a hit among audiences and critics and also earned Sylvester Stallone his first Golden Globe win as Rocky Balboa.
Kurt Russell is being considered to play Chris Pratt’s father in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy sequel. Russell would join Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, as well as newcomer Pom Klementieff.
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Bill Hader will play opposite Sally Field in the Thanksgiving family dramedy The Birches, written and to be directed by Academy Award-winning writing duo Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
Open Road Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Garry Marshall’s Mother’s Day. The romantic comedy stars Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, and Kate Hudson as mothers and follows their lives leading up to the titular holiday. Jason Sudeikis is also set to star.
