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Mark Rylance is close to pushing the start button on Ready Player One at Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. The Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies actor is in negotiations for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel.

Warner Bros. has made it official: Ben Affleck will direct and star in a standalone Batman movie. The news was confirmed by studio CEO Kevin Tsujihara at CinemaCon on Tuesday.

Logline kept under wraps, but it is expected to continue the story of 2014 original.

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.

Warner Bros. is shifting a couple of things around when it comes to the release dates of two of their most highly-anticipated films: Wonder Woman and The Jungle Book: Origins. The studio also announced release dates for two other DC comic book movies.

Aaron Stockard is set to adapt Bunker Hill for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Pearl Street Films. The book was written by Nathaniel Philbrick and acquired by Warner Bros. in 2013.

The unique, untold American gangster story of Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (“El Padrino”), the leader of the “The Corporation” – also known as “The Godfather.”

Kevin James has been tapped to star in 44, a feel-good and inspirational true story of Joey Williams, a 44-year-old Tennessee family man who returns to college in order to fulfill his dream of playing collegiate football.

A 44-year-old Tennessee family man returns to college in order to fulfill his dream of playing collegiate football.

Simon Pegg is in talks to join Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One. He would join previously cast Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn.

Wonder Woman screenwriter Jason Fuchs has been tapped to write yet another DC adaptation, which suggests that Warner Bros. has confidence in the work he’s done on the Gal Gadot solo feature.

The Tropic Thunder scribe has been tapped to write and direct Warner Bros.’ relaunch of the Cannonball Run franchise. The film will mark Cohen’s feature directorial debut.

There’s word today that One Direction singer Harry Styles has accepted a supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming World War II action adventure pic, Dunkirk. Styles joins previously cast Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, and Oscar winner Mark Rylance.

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!

Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.

A ridiculous twist on overblown action movies, with a story centered on a chicken and a hen who must cross a super highway to save their daughter from a fried chicken company.

Bill Block has scored a first-look production deal with Warner Bros. under his Billblock Media banner. The veteran producer has hit the ground running with the two-year deal and is developing World War 3 with Sam Raimi

Tye Sheridan has landed the coveted lead role in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One. Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, and DreamWorks are collaborating to make the film based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline.

Paradigm and Benderspink are out with a hot new action-thriller with serious franchise potential, and it’s officially into the first round of territories, with more soon to come…

The holiday season may be over but it is clearly still on everyone’s mind as we can confirm that Brian Sawyer & Gregg Rossen’s spec Guess Who’s Coming To Christmas is now in three territories and more on the way!

A middle-class suburban mixed race father (think The Rock or Ice Cube) finds his conservative world turned upside down when his daughter comes back from college with her new fiance… hip-hop star, Killer B.

Steven Spielberg has found his villain for the feature adaptation Ready Player One offering the role of the main antagonist to Ben Mendelsohn. He would star opposite Olivia Cooke who was previously cast as the female lead.

An update of the classic Looney Tunes cartoon featuring a savvy Mexican mouse who can outsmart and outrun his rivals.

After directing this year’s Oscar-buzzing Black Mass, Scott Cooper is now looking to make his next project White Knight from Warner Bros. Cooper is in talks to rewrite and direct the project.

Robert Lynn’s dynamic new action spec Designated Survivor has quickly spread like a wildfire through town, landing at six major territories.

After making a splash with his Best Foreign Language Oscar submission The Wave, Norway’s Roar Uthaug will helm the much-anticipated Tomb Raider reboot for Warner Bros., MGM and GK Films.

Margaret Qualley has been cast as the female lead in Warner Bros.’ Death Note, the adaptation of the popular manga series. She is set to star opposite Nat Wolff.

Nelson Greaves and Sam Chalsen, staff writers for FOX’s Sleepy Hollow, have been brought on to rewrite the Spy Hunter adaptation for Warner Bros., based on the classic arcade game.

Wonder Woman may be adding to the Amazons of Paradise Island, with Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman in talks to play a high-ranking warrior opposite Gal Gadot in the DC film. Patty Jenkins is directing the film due out in June 2017.