Deadline reports Dune: Part Two’s Austin Butler has been tapped to star in The Whale filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing, for Sony Pictures. The film, adapted from Charlie Huston’s book of the same name, centers on, “a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the…… Read More…
Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick in 2018’s ‘A Simple Favor’ – LionsgateA sequel to the 2018 film A Simple Favor is officially in the works.Amazon MGM Studios announced Wednesday that director Paul Feig and stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively will reprise their roles for A Simple Favor 2, a co-production with Lionsgate.Other cast returning…… Read More…
Monica Schipper/Getty ImagesIn the latest installment of the Director’s Guild of America’s Director’s Cut podcast, Steven Spielberg put Dune franchise director Denis Villeneuve up with some of the most famous filmmakers of all time.Spielberg called it “an honor” to sit and talk with the director and showed that by immediately heaping historic praise on him.…… Read More…
StarzGood news for fans of Starz’s Power universe: The network announced Wednesday it has given an early fifth season renewal to Power Book III: Raising Kanan. The show explores the early life of fan-favorite character Kanan Stark, originally played by 50 Cent in the flagship series.Season 4 of Raising Kanan is currently in production in New York City.”We know…… Read More…
Searchlight PicturesA teaser debuted Wednesday for Kinds of Kindness, the follow-up to Poor Things from its director, Yorgos Lanthimos, and producer/star Emma Stone.Their fellow Poor Things alums Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley also star, as do Jesse Plemons, Hunter Schafer, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn and Mamoudou Athie.The teaser opens on Stone recklessly driving a sports car, followed by shots of…… Read More…
Roy Rochlin/Getty ImagesLea Michele announced on Instagram Wednesday that she is expecting her second baby with husband Zandy Reich.”Mommy, Daddy and Ever are overjoyed,” the actress and singer captioned a profile photo of her cradling her exposed baby bump; the latter refers to their son, who was born in 2020.The post got more than 212,000…… Read More…
HBO MaxEngines on a long-in-development fourth Star Trek film with the reboot cast of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban and Zoe Saldaña are warming up again with the co-creator of Max’s The Flight Attendant behind the keyboard.In an extensive feature story on the booming state of the Star Trek universe on both the big…… Read More…
Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicOn Wednesday, Peacock announced that Jessica Biel will star in and produce the thriller series The Good Daughter for the streaming service. Based on Karin Slaughter’s book of the same name, Biel will play Charlotte Quinn. She and her sister Samantha “have spent the last twenty-eight years trying to piece together the lives that…… Read More…
NetflixGood Times, the classic Norman Lear sitcom, gets animated in a new trailer from Netflix.Curb Your Enthusiasm’s J.B. Smoove, Community’s Yvette Nicole Brown, black-ish alumna Marsai Martin and more lend their voices to the project, which was co-produced by the late TV icon’s production company, Steph Curry’s Unanimous Media and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door.According to…… Read More…
Jeff Spicer/Getty ImagesWhile promoting his next project, Guy Ritchie’s action film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer spilled some tea about the next Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean movies.The latter, Bruckheimer tells ComicBook.com, will be a “reboot,” which could be perceived as sinking the hopes of fans who were hoping Johnny…… Read More…