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There’s a lot buzzing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival that’s running from May 13 through the 24. But the films with flashy premieres at the festival are just the tip of the iceberg, what with the market, Marché du Film, running concurrently and over 5,000 films being offered up to distributors. There are still a lot of titles up for grabs, so SSN is wading through the titles to pick the most bankable out of the lot for U.S. audiences.
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In other news, Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann team up again, an Oscar winner circles J.K. Rowling’s
Harry Potter prequel, Drew Goddard’s new project, a brand new
Arabian Knights and director Luke Greenfield’s dream project with his hero, Steven Spielberg. Read on for more.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Jackson will play a biochemistry professor attempting to thwart the other-worldly predator discovered deep within the earth. Simon West is directing the sci-fi thriller, a remake of the 1958 classic about an alien life form that threatens a small town. The film will shoot this fall and subsequent casting announcements are anticipated to follow shortly.
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Matt Bomer has joined the cast of Antoine Fuqua’s high octane project, which already stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Wagner Moura, Haley Bennett and Jason Momoa. With a script written by John Lee Hancock and Nic Pizzolatto, the new version’s story kicks off when a woman (Bennett) hires a disparate group of gunslingers to protect her town from rampaging bandits that are led by a robber baron.
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Mills wrote
20th Century Women, which is set in Santa Barbara during the summer of 1979, and tells the story of a mother who’s trying her best to raise her teenage son. Navigating life and love, sex and freedom, men and women isn’t easy as Dorothea looks for answers from two other remarkable women in her life. Each from a different era of the 20
th Century, these three women seek to find what it means to be a man and help set Jamie on the right course.
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Tucci’s new film,
The Final Portrait, stars Geoffrey Rush, and chronicles the friendship between American art critic James Lord (Hammer) who agrees to sit for a portrait by his friend, noted Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti (Rush). Unfortunately, though the two knew each other socially, Lord wasn’t quite prepared for the demanding nature of the artist at work and the experience tests their relationship to the limit. Tucci also wrote the film.
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Stephen Pasquale and Malcom-Jamal Warner are the latest to join the project, with Pasquale as Mark Fuhrman and Warner as OJ confidant A.C. Cowling. They join a cast that includes John Travolta (Robert Shapiro), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Simpson), Sarah Paulson (Marcia Clark), David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian), Courtney B. Vance (Johnnie Cochran), Connie Britton (Faye Resnick), Selma Blair (Kris Jenner), Billy Magnussen (Kato Kaelin) and Jordana Brewster (Denise Brown).
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Based on the New Yorker article by David Grann, the story follows a murder investigation that turns to clues found in a book about an eerily similar crime. Alexandros Avranas is directing, Brett Ratner and John Cheng are producing with David Gerson (“Skiptrace”), while
Ida producer Ewa Puszczynska will serve as co-producer. Jeremy Brock penned the script.
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The film had previously been scheduled for August 21st, then was moved to some time in 2016, but now the studio has firmed up a June 3rd, 2016 release. Film is a lit adaptation from British author Jojo Moyes (who penned the original script based on her 2012 novel) along with Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber. It tells the story of a small-town girl and wheelchair-bound boy who share a series of life-changing adventures when he hires her as his caretaker.
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Universal Pictures has released the latest look at the third installment in the franchise, which is set 42 years before the events of the first
Despicable Me. It features the voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney and Steve Coogan, and opens July 10.
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