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Russell Crowe in Talks to Join Tom Cruise in ‘The Mummy’ Reboot
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Universal may have found the next A-lister to join its monster movie universe.
Russell Crowe is in early talks to play a Dr. Jekyll-type role, with the character first making an appearance in “The Mummy” starring Tom Cruise, sources tell Variety.
While other actors — like Johnny Depp in “The Invisible Man” — will first appear in standalone projects, insiders say some of the classic characters will make cameos in “The Mummy” as a means of launching spinoff franchises.
“The Mummy” is set to bow on June 9, 2017.
The studio tapped Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan last summer to help develop a monster universe for Universal with rebooted versions of the studio’s classic monster movies. Kurtzman is also on board to direct, and will produce alongside Morgan and Sean Daniel.
As of right now, Crowe would only appear in “The Mummy” but the hope down the road is of a possible stand-alone »
- Justin Kroll
Daisy Ridley & Naomi Watts In Final Talks To Star In ‘Ophelia’; Covert Media Aboard New Take On ‘Hamlet’ – Cannes
8 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts are in final talks to star in Ophelia, a re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet through the eyes of the play’s famously doomed heroine. Covert Media has boarded to finance and handle international sales at Cannes. In Shakespeare’s play, Ophelia is one of only two female characters along with that of Gertrude. She is gradually driven mad by Hamlet’s erratic behavior towards her, especially, as well as those around him… »
Seth MacFarlane Sci-Fi Series Ordered by Fox
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Fox has given a 13-epsiode straight to series order an untitled sci-fi dramedy series from Seth MacFarlane. The “Family Guy” creator is set to star in and exec produce the series, which is scheduled to debut in the 2017-18 season.
Production on the pilot for the series, produced by 20th Century Fox TV, will begin in late 2016. MacFarlane has had a longstanding first-look deal with the studio, which, like Fox Broadcasting, is headed by Fox Television Group CEOs Gary Newman and Dana Walden.
The show, set 300 years in the future, will tell the story of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar fleet.
“I’ve wanted to do something like this show ever since I was a kid, and the timing finally feels right,” said MacFarlane. “20th and Fox have been good to me for many years, and of course, Dana and Gary have been fantastic bosses and true pals, »
- Daniel Holloway
Bruce Willis 'Death Wish' Remake Loses Directors
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Looks like Big Bad Wolves directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado have exited Death Wish, the MGM and Paramount remake of the 1974 hit that Bruce Willis will star in, reprising the reluctant vigilante made famous by Charles Bronson.
The film is based on the 1972 novel of the same name. The story follows an architect whose life is ruined after his wife his killed and his daughter is sexually assaulted. When the cops come up short, the man takes justice into his own hands by hunting down the suspects himself.
So why did Keshales and Papushado leave the project? Well its simple...“creative differences”.
Deadline got a translated social media post from the filmmakers that pretty much explains the whole situation, check it out:
Relief. Finally a bit of breathing room. You probably remember that a few months ago we were bombarded with greetings and congratulations on receiving our first Hollywood job, »
- Kellvin Chavez
Alicia Vikander, James McAvoy’s ‘Submergence’ Pre-Sold to More Than 30 Territories (Exclusive)
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Major international distributors have embarked on Wim Wenders’ buzzed-about epic romance “Submergence,” which is currently shooting with Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy.
Since unveiling the project at Berlin’s Efm, up-and-coming U.K. outfit Embankment has pre-sold “Submergence” to more than 30 territories, including Lionsgate for the U.K., Nfp & Warner for Germany, Mars and Selective for France, Antena 3 for Spain, Elevation for Canada and California for Latin America.
UTA Independent teamed with Backup to set up financing and is handling the U.S. sale.
The “Submergence” shoot is more than halfway complete after finishing its leg in France. It will wrap in Germany next week.
Adapted by Erin Dignam from J. M. Ledgard’s bestselling novel, “Submergence” stars Vikander as Danielle, an ocean explorer facing a terrifying, pioneering descent into the Arctic abyss. McAvoy plays her soulmate James, a contractor held captive by African jihadists. Facing life-or-death situations »
- Elsa Keslassy
Lee Daniels’ Fox Series ‘Star’ Sets Charles Murray as Showrunner
48 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Charles Murray has been set as executive producer and showrunner of Lee Daniels‘ Fox show “Star,” TheWrap has learned. The show was recently picked up to series for the 2016-17 season. The gig for Murray comes as part of a two-year deal that he just signed with 20th Century Fox Television, under which the writer-producer will also develop new projects for the studio. “Star” follows three talented singers who navigate the cutthroat music business on their road to success, and it stars three newcomers (Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny and Brittany O’Grady) as the young singers. Queen Latifah and Benjamin Bratt will. »
- Linda Ge
Sterling K. Brown Joins Chadwick Boseman in Thurgood Marshall Movie
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Sterling K. Brown has joined Chadwick Boseman and Josh Gad in the Thurgood Marshall drama “Marshall.”
Brown, who portrayed Christopher Darden in the FX series “The People V. Oj Simpson: American Crime Story,” will play the part of Joseph Spell, an itinerant worker newly relocated from Louisiana to Connecticut, where he is accused of the rape and attempted murder of a wealthy socialite.
The subsequent 1941 trial teamed a young Thurgood Marshall, counsel for a struggling NAACP, to Connecticut. He teamed with young Jewish lawyer Sam Friedman to defend Spell. The sensational trial, which ended with Spell being found not guilty, is set against a background of Northern racism and anti-Semitism.
Boseman is playing Marshall and Gad is portraying Friedman. “Django Unchained” producer Reginald Hudlin is directing from a a script by Michael Koskoff and his son, screenwriter Jacob Koskoff.
The film begins production this month in Buffalo, N.Y. “Marshall »
- Dave McNary
‘Big Bang Theory': How Its Ratings Are Different Than Every Other Show’s
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Everyone knows CBS’ sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” is popular. What’s stunning is just how long its popularity has lasted. The series about lovable, math-obsessed nerds is by far the biggest comedy on television, as it has been each of its past six seasons. After 205 episodes, that is nothing short of astonishing. “Bbt” – which has its season finale next week – averaged 8.4 million total viewers its first season. By the next year, that had grown to a cool 10 million. This year, in its ninth season, the show is averaging more than twice that, pulling in a whopping »
- Tony Maglio
Madonna’s Exposed Ass Is Getting Into Politics
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Yet another ass has entered the political arena — and this time it’s Madonna‘s. The “Like a Virgin” singer took to Instagram on Wednesday to defend her cheeky costume at the Met Ball Monday night, explaining that her decision to share her butt with the world wasn’t (just) about shock value — it was also political. That’s right, oppressed people of the world: That ass-flash was for you. Also Read: Wtf Is Up With Madonna? A Short Explainer “We have fought and continue to fight for civil rights and gay rights around the world. When it comes to »
- Tim Kenneally
TV News Roundup: ‘Sharknado 4’ Casts Stacey Dash, ‘Baywatch’ Alums
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Syfy has revealed celebrity cameos and “Star Wars”-inspired poster art for “Sharknado: The 4th Awakens,” and Fyi has ordered an original series from Vox Entertainment, Vox Media’s programming and development division.
Casting:
Like past installments of the cult Syfy franchise, “Sharknado: The 4th Awakens” will boast an abundance of celebrity guest appearances.
Among those making cameos in the fourth installment, set to premiere July 31, are Stacey Dash, “Shark Tank’s” Robert Herjavec and Lori Greiner, David Faustino (“Married with Children”), Cynthia Bailey (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”), Motley Crue’s Vince Neil, Wayne Newton and “Baywatch” stars Gena Lee Nolin and Alexandra Paul.
Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, David Hasselhoff and Ryan Newman will reprise their roles in “The 4th Awakens,” with Gary Busey, Tommy Davidson and Cody Linley also attached to star. The next addition in the genre saga will take place five years after the »
- Alyssa Sage
Janet Jackson Pregnant With First Child as 50th Birthday Nears
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Janet Jackson is pregnant with her first child less than two weeks before her 50th birthday, according to media reports. Et Online says the singer’s pregnancy is the reason Jackson announced in April that she would be postponing the second leg of her planned concert tour. “We’re in the second leg of the tour and there actually has been a sudden change,” Jackson said in a video she tweeted Apri 6. “My husband and I are planning our family, so I’m going to have to delay the tour. … I have to rest up, doctor’s orders. But I have not forgotten. »
- Linda Ge
Ava DuVernay Drops Out of Lupita Nyong’o’s ‘Intelligent Life’
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Ava DuVernay has exited DreamWorks’ “Intelligent Life” after joining the project as director in February, TheWrap has learned. Scheduling issues led to the decision, the insider said. Lupita Nyong’o will remain attached to star in the project, which Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Entertainment is producing. Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly wrote the script for “Intelligent Life,” which follows a U.N. employee who monitors outer space and eventually makes contact with a beautiful woman, who quite possibly is an alien. Also Read: Ava DuVernay to Direct 'The Battle of Versailles' for HBO DuVernay will next be in the director »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
‘Penny Dreadful’ Creator Talks Season 3, Vanessa’s Demons and the American West
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At the end of the second season of “Penny Dreadful,” the show’s characters were scattered to the four winds, having vanquished one formidable foe but at great personal cost. In the May 1 third-season premiere of the Showtime drama, the Victorian characters at the heart of the drama began to take their first steps out of self-imposed isolation.
But as creator John Logan explained in a recent interview, “Penny Dreadful’s” protagonists still have a long way to go before they’re reunited and able to take on the grave new challenges they’ll face this year. Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) and Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) began the new season on separate continents, two of them far from their usual London haunts. The Creature (Rory Kinnear) was shivering in the Arctic, and his creator, Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), was suffering the after-effects of yet another relationship gone wrong, »
- Maureen Ryan
‘People v. O.J.’ Star Sterling K. Brown Joins Chadwick Boseman in Thurgood Marshall Biopic (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Sterling K. Brown is switching sides in the courtroom following his acclaimed performance as Christopher Darden in FX’s hit miniseries “The People v. Oj Simpson,” as he has signed on to join Chadwick Boseman and Josh Gad in “Marshall,” the biopic about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Reginald Hudlin will direct from a script by attorney Michael Koskoff and his son Jacob Koskoff. Super Hero Films is financing the project, which Paula Wagner is producing under her Chestnut Ridge Productions banner. The film, which boasts the support of Marshall’s family, will start production this month in. »
- Jeff Sneider
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