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Operation Finale grows with additional casting

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MGM’s Nazi-hunt drama Operation Finale, starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, has gained several more actors for its cast according to Deadline. Chris Weitz (A Better Life) is directing from a script by Matthew Orton. It is currently filming in Argentina. Joining Isaac and Kingsley in the film are Ohad Knoller (Munich), Greg Hill (The Wolfman’s […]

The CW is developing Roswell reboot

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Roswell will be returning to television as The CW has decided to reboot the sci-fi series. The network will develop the reboot with The Original’s Carina Adly MacKenzie executive producing and writing the series. Roswell originally ran for three seasons, with the first two airing on The WB before moving to UPN for its final season from […]

Colm Meaney joins the cast of Tolkien

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Colm Meaney has joined the cast of the upcoming J.R.R. Tolkien biopic, Tolkien. He joins X-Men: Apocalypse’s Nicholas Hoult and To The Bones‘ Lily Collins in the film with, Dome Karukoski directing from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. Per Deadline, Meaney will portray Father Francis, one of Tolkien’s school teachers. Tolkien will […]

Beetlejuice 2 gets a new writer

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The long-in-development Beetlejuice 2, the sequel to Tim Burton and Michael Keaton’s cult hit, has gained a screenwriter over at Warner Bros. Per Deadline, the studio has hired Mike Vukadinovich (Rememory) to pen the script with Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg producing. Burton and Keaton have not signed any deals for the sequel yet, but Deadline […]

X-Men spinoff Gambit gets a Valentine’s Day 2019 release date

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With Fox’s X-Men franchise branching out its universe with spin-offs such as Deadpool and The New Mutants, one film that has been frequently delayed since it was first announced is Gambit, with Channing Tatum starring as the Cajun mutant. Now, however, 20th Century Fox has finalized a release date for the film. Following Deadpool‘s ‘romantic’ lead, Gambit will be released on February 14th, 2019. […]

Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built release date moved up

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CBS Films has slightly changed the title of the upcoming Helen Mirren-headlined supernatural thriller Winchester, now calling it Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built as well as moving up its release date from February 23rd 2018, to February 2nd. The move was apparently made because of the other films Winchester would be up against on its original […]

Tyler Perry cast in Dick Cheney biopic as Colin Powell, Lily Rabe to play Liz Cheney

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Deadline has revealed another addition to the cast of Adam McKay’s untitled Dick Cheney film, a biopic on the U.S.’ Vice President under George W. Bush, with Tyler Perry set to portray Colin Powell, Bush’s Secretary of State. Powell played a very important part in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He pushed for Bush to invade […]

Red band trailer for Blockers starring Leslie Mann, John Cena and Ike Barinholtz

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A red band trailer has been released for the upcoming comedy Blockers, starring Leslie Mann, John Cena and Ike Barinholtz. The film is helmed by Kay Cannon, making her directorial debut after writing the Pitch Perfect franchise, and produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver through their Point Grey Pictures banner. The film, previously titled The Pact, […]

Josh Boone writing script for Stephen King’s The Talisman

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This year has been a pretty big one for fans of Stephen King’s works. The Dark Tower and It were released earlier this year and on the television side there is the upcoming Castle Rock series while Mr. Mercedes has been renewed for a second season. Fans have more to look forward to, however, as Variety has reported Amblin Entertainment has […]