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Witherspoon will star in and produce
Tink for Disney, with
Finding Dory co-writer Victoria Strouse at work on a script. The unexplored side to the occasionally temperamental sprite will fill a story that has yet to be specified and there’s no director on board right now. This will be a more modest film than the lavish spectacle of the Angelina Jolie-starring fairy tale revamp.
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The
A Most Violent Year and
Ex Machina star, who will also be featured in
Star Wars: The Force Awakens when it opens in December, leads
Show Me a Hero, a six-hour mini-series from
The Wire creator David Simon. Simon co-wrote with William F. Zorzi, and Paul Haggis directs. Winona Ryder, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Bob Balaban, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, and Jim Belushi also star in the mini, which explores race in 1960s Yonkers, New York.
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Paramount Pictures has announced the released date for the follow up to the 2013 apocalypse thriller, which starred Brad Pitt as a family man recruited to prevent the zombie apocalypse. The sequel is set to arrive in theaters June 9th, 2017 with Pitt returning in the starring role.
Juan Antonia Bayona is set to direct the sequel from a script by Steven Knight.
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The man who directed the studio’s
The Help is returning to helm the adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ novel. Erin Cressida Wilson is writing the script, which tells of an alcoholic woman who, devastated by a recent divorce, spends her daily train ride fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house her train passes every day. But she may come to be involved in their affairs when she comes home covered in blood after a black-out drinking episode.
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Fast-growing company nailed down the rights at Cannes, setting it for a release later this year. Bryan Cranston stars as undercover U.S. Customs agent Robert Mazur, who became a pivotal player for drug lords in the 1980s after cleaning their dirty cash by trading on mob connections to become confidant to the international underworld, and the bankers who enabled them. Diane Kruger, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, Yul Vazquez and Amy Ryan co-star.
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Craig Borten has come on board the project to write the screenplay based on the IDW comic series, though the working title of the film is now
Inherit the Earth. Andrew Adamson is attached to direct the film, which tells of a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies has only one chance at recovery – a team of robots that must protect and clone a lone surviving human baby.
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Gabrielle Union has signed on to
Sleepless Night, a remake of French thriller
Nuit Blanche. Union will play the ex-wife to Foxx’s character, a dirty cop who must reclaim a bag of stolen drugs to save his kidnapped son’s life. But he’s pursued by both sides of the law. Baran bo Odar will direct the film, which shoots in Atlanta and Las Vegas.
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As a companion o the cover feature running in this month’s
GQ, the
Jurassic World star gets loaded on Fireball whiskey and tries to explain how to act. It’s about as funny as it sounds.
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Lionsgate has unveiled the first full trailer for Eli Roth‘s new film, which stars Keanu Reeves as a family man who is seduced and tortured by two psychotic women. Lorenza Izzo and Ana De Armas co-star alongside Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand and Colleen Camp. The studio has not yet set a release date.
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The Oscar-nominated, 107-page screenplay by Dan Gilroy, dated November 27th, 2012.
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