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Newcomer Lana Condor has been added to the cast of the Peter Berg-directed Boston Marathon bombing movie, Patriots Day starring Mark Wahlberg.
UPDATE (4.7.16): Paramount has come out on top in the fight for T.J. English’s The Corporation with a stunning seven figure offer. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson will produce through their Appian Way banner, with Benicio Del Toro set to star.
Comedic actor Rob Corddry has joined the rapidly growing cast of Office Christmas Party. Actors Oliver Cooper and Andrew Leeds have also joined the guest list for the DreamWorks feature.
The holiday comedy Office Christmas Party just tapped Jamie Chung, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Karan Soni to join the cast. The three will join Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston, Kate McKinnon, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn, Abbey Lee and Randall Park.
Kevin Bacon is the latest to join the cast of the Boston Marathon bombing movie Patriots Day starring Mark Wahlberg.
Michelle Monaghan is the latest to join the growing cast of the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day. The actress is set to play Carol Saunders, the wife of Sgt. Tommy Saunders played by Mark Wahlberg.
Vincent Curatola is the latest actor to join the growing cast of Patriots Day, the CBS Films and Lionsgate feature about the Boston Marathon bombing.
10 Cloverfield Lane star John Goodman has been added to the cast of Peter Berg’s Patriot’s Day. He joins Mark Wahlberg and J.K. Simmons in the drama based on the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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.
J.K. Simmons has been tapped to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the Boston Marathon bombing drama, Patriots’ Day. The movie will be based on the true events of the bombing and the five day search that led to the capture of suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston will reunite for the holiday season in Office Christmas Party. T.J. Miller and Kate McKinnon will also star in the DreamWorks ensemble comedy about an office party that has gone awry.
The Oscar-nominated producer behind The Social Network and Syfy’s Childhood’s End has joined the long-in-development feature reboot of the original 1970s series. De Luca will team with producers Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark to jumpstart the project for Universal.
A group of enthusiastically overweight dads get a wake-up call when a member of their group has a heart attack, forcing them to abruptly change their hard-drinking and hard-eating lifestyle.
Ted scribe Wellesley Wild and his Family Guy cohorts Kevin Biggins and Mike Desilets have sold a feature comedy pitch about a group of dads who get a wake-up call when a member of their group has a heart attack.
The Big Short star is pulling double duty on the comedy pic, said to be Old School set on a backpacking trip across Europe. Carell will be working from a script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra.
A 40-something guy reunites with his old college friends to take the European vacation that he never had in his youth.
Having recently won a Golden Globe for The Martian and Alien: Covenant in pre-production, Ridley Scott isn’t taking a break anytime soon when it comes to filmmaking. However, his next project may take him out of space and bring him back to Earth. He is currently circling a film adaptation of the British cult TV series, The Prisoner.
Robert Lynn’s dynamic new action spec Designated Survivor has quickly spread like a wildfire through town, landing at six major territories.
Lennon’s & Garant’s script will have Fleisher helming and Neeson starring.
Logline is kept under wraps, but from the casting, title and writers, it would seem to be a comic vigilante film.
The hot new spec The Virginian from writer Michael Russell Gunn is making its way into every major studio in town. In the tone of Braveheart and The Patriot, the story follows the life of George Washington.