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Disney’s The Lion King passes $1 billion at the global box office

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Director Jon Favreau’s The Lion King has become the fourth Disney-released movie to pass $1 billion at the global box office, reaching the milestone in less than three weeks.By today (Wednesday) The Lion King has grossed $361 million domestically, with a further $639 million from international markets. It joins Captain Marvel ($1.128 billion), Avengers: Endgame […]

Abigail Breslin to play Matt Damon’s daughter in Stillwater

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Following on from last week’s casting of Matt Damon (The Martian), it has now been announced that Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) has also signed on to appear in director Tom McCarthy’s (Spotlight) next film Stillwater.The project, which McCarthy has written with Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre, sees Damon playing an oil rigger from Oklahoma […]

Paul Walter Hauser joins Disney’s Cruella

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I, Tonya and BlacKkKlansman star Paul Walter Hauser is in negotiations to join Disney’s live-action 101 Dalmatians prequel Cruella, with The Wrap reportedly that he is being eyed for the role of Roger Dearly.Emma Stone (La La Land) is attached to portray the young, pre-villain Cruella de Vil, while Emma Thompson (Howards End) has been […]

Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon join Black Bear

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Aubrey Plaza (Child’s Play), Christopher Abbott (Catch-22) and Sarah Gadon (True Detective) have been cast in Black Bear, a new thriller from director Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries, Always Shine).The film sees Abbott and Gadon as “an expecting couple who are confronted with an out-of-town guest Abigail (Plaza), a filmmaker suffering from writer’s block who […]

Michael K. Williams, Melissa Leo, Frank Grillo and more join thriller Body Brokers

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Michael K. Williams (When They See Us), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Frank Grillo (Avengers: Endgame), Alice Englert (Them That Follow) and Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys) have been cast in Body Brokers, a crime thriller from writer-director John Swab (Let Me Make You a Martyr, Run With the Hunted).Body Brokers tells the true and untold […]

Ryan Reynolds teases Phase 5 MCU debut for Deadpool

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Although Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox doesn’t seem to have impacted Marvel Studios’ plans for Phase Four of the MCU, Kevin Feige did tease the introduction of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men during the studio’s big panel at San Diego Comic-Con.When and how that will happen remains to be seen, but Deadpool star […]

Jason Momoa set for Netflix revenge thriller Sweet Girl

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Deadline is reporting that Jason Momoa has signed on to headline the action revenge film Sweet Girl for Netflix, marking the Aquaman star’s second collaboration with the streaming service after the period drama series Frontier.Sweet Girl is being directed by first-time filmmaker Brian Andrew Mendoza and follows “a devastated husband who vows to bring justice […]

First look at Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg from upcoming biopic

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Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we’ve got a first look image from the upcoming biopic Seberg, which stars Kristen Steward (Charlie’s Angels) as Jean Seberg, the American actress who became an icon of the French New Wave thanks to her role in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic Breathless.“Whenever you do a movie about a real person — […]

Duncan Jones gives an update on his Rogue Trooper movie

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Back in July of last year, it was announced Moon and Warcraft director Duncan Jones is teaming with Rebellion, owner of the iconic British comic 2000AD, to develop a feature adaptation of Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons’s Rogue Trooper.During an interview with Entertainment Weekly to discuss the tenth anniversary of Moon, Jones has now provided […]