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Fox is making making some changes to its calender.

The studio has given its Murder on the Orient Express follow-up — an adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile — a Nov. 8, 2019 release. The Kenneth Branagh-backed project will go up against Disney’s holiday film comedy Nicole, starring Anna Kendrick.

Moving from summer to a holiday slot is Alita: Battle Angel, which has been pushed to Dec. 21. The crowded date is already occupied by Warner Bros.' Aquaman, Paramount's Bumblebee spinoff and the Will Ferrell-John C. Reilly comedy Holmes & Watson.

Shane Black's Predator reboot is switching places with fellow Fox title The Darkest Minds,...

Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker are in talks to join John Travolta in the action-thriller “The Poison Rose.”

George Gallo will direct from a script he wrote with Richard Salvatore, based on Salvatore’s novel of the same name. Salvatore will produce through his March on Productions with Jeff Elliott (“Imperium”), Oscar Generale (“Speed Kills”), and David Ornston.

Christian Mercuri of Blue Box International, a division of Capstone Group, will be commencing sales at the European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival. BondIt Media Capital and Sherborne Media Capital are providing financing for the picture.

Ella Bleu Travolta, John Travolta’s daughter, also stars in the film. She will portray the daughter of Travolta’s character, Carson Philips. The Travotlas last appeared together in the comedy feature “Old Dogs.”

Gallo, whose credits include “Midnight Run” and “Bad Boys,” recently wrapped the biopic “Bigger” for producers Steve Lee Jones and Scott Lastaiti.

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Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish will star in New Line Cinema and DC’s “The Kitchen,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Haddish’s deal is done, while McCarthy is in final negotiations for the project. Andrea Berloff will make her directorial debut with the female mob story, with a screenplay she wrote based on the 2014 comic book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. “The Kitchen” will be set in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the 1970s and will follow an FBI sweep that catches mob leaders, and while they are under arrest, their mob wives take over to run...

As Los Angeles hosts its first NBA All-Star shindig in seven years, LeBron James is prepping a Hollywood bash of his own.

The megastar and his SpringHill Entertainment partner, Maverick Carter, are producing a new House Party, which will revive the Kid ’n Play–fronted New Line comedy franchise that started in 1990 and was followed by sequels in 1991 and 1994. Atlanta’s Stephen Glover and Jamal Olori will pen the screenplay.

“This is definitely not a reboot. It’s an entirely new look for a classic movie,” James tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Everyone I grew up with loved House Party. To...

Deadpool director Tim Miller and Brian Michael Bendis, one of the biggest authors in the comic book world, are teaming for an X-Men spinoff.

The duo are developing a project called 143, which will be set in the X-Men universe, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Bendis, who wrote various X-Men comics during his almost 20 years at Marvel, will write the script, while Miller will direct.

143 is a code name for the project which sources say will focus on the character Kitty Pryde, a mutant who can phase through objects. The character was played by Ellen Page in 2006's...

Aviron has given an awards-season release date of Sept. 28 to “Serenity,” starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway.

“Serenity” centers on a fishing boat captain (McConaughey), who is forced to grapple with his mysterious past after a glamorous woman (Hathaway) crashes up against his simple life on a small island in the Caribbean and leaves him questioning his reality. Jason Clarke (“Mudbound”), Djimon Hounsou (“In America”), and Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) co-star in the film.

“Serenity” was written and directed by Steven Knight. He previously helmed and wrote “Locke” with Tom Hardy, and penned the scripts for “Dirty Pretty Things” and “Eastern Promises.” The producers are Guy Heeley and Greg Shapiro.

Paul King, the director of the whimsical and acclaimed Paddington movies, has set his sights on another British literary title to adapt.

King is in final negotiations to direct Willy Wonka, a re-imagining of Roald Dahl's classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, being developed by Warner Bros.

King would be reunited with David Heyman, the producer of the Paddington movies.

Wonka is the infamous and eccentric owner of a chocolate factory who figured prominently in Dahl’s 1964 book and its follow-up, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. He was also the caretaker of the Oompa-Loompahs, the short humans whom...

Keira Knightley and Matt Smith are set to star in the real-life spy thriller Official Secrets from Mark Gordon and eOne.

The feature centers on British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun (Knightley), who, during the immediate run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint U.S.-U.K. illegal spying operation against members of the Un Security Council.

Oscar winner Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) will direct the film, which is set to begin shooting next month in England. Sara and Greg Bernstein penned the feature that is based on the novel, The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War, by Marcia and...

Kevin Williamson, the creator of Scream, Dawson’s Creek and The Vampire Diaries, has signed a first-look deal with Miramax, the production banner that is being rebuilt by CEO Bill Block, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Under the deal, Williamson will develop what the company calls "high-level motion picture genre content." More precise details were not revealed.

Williamson created the Scream horror franchise and wrote the 1990s horror movies I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Faculty. More recently, he developed the long-running vampire sudser The Vampire Diaries and created gritty shows such as The Following and Stalker.

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You might’ve already forgotten about “Den Of Thieves,” the low-rent “Heat” ripoff that opened a few weeks ago starring Gerard Butler. At first glance, the poorly reviewed movie looked like the nail in the coffin for the actor, whose recent run of movies have included Things You Didn’t See such as “Geostorm” and “A Family Man.” However, it appears that Stx Entertainment is still very much #TeamButler, despite “Den Of Thieves” opening in third place on its debut weekend.

Oscar Isaac may not have the biggest role in Alex Garland’s new science-fiction thriller “Annihilation,” but he certainly has one of the most important. Playing the mysteriously ill husband of Natalie Portman’s lead character presented its own unique challenges, but filming “Annihilation” was even crazier for Isaac since he was also shooting “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” at the very same time on the very same studio lot in London. Isaac told /Film that he would literally walk between both sets, sometimes arriving on the “Annihilation” set while still in character as Poe Dameron.

“I would shoot something in the morning and then have a little bit of down time and then switch it up,” Isaac said. “So that was wild…I think I visited, too, still dressed up as Poe on the set. It reminded me a little of “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,” when he’s on

Well here’s some unexpected news: Den of Thieves 2 is happening. The heist thriller opened in theaters about a month ago and apparently overperformed, as Deadline reports that a Den of Thieves sequel is materializing with Gerard Butler and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson returning and O’Shea Jackson Jr. in negotiations to reprise his role as well. Writer/director Christian Gudegast is also returning, writing the script for the sequel based on an original idea, as are producers Tucker Tooley, Mark Canton, and Alan Siegel. Diamond Film Productions is financing and Stx will handle worldwide distribution. The story of …

The low-budget, indie drama “Black Kite” charts five decades of political turmoil in Afghanistan through the eyes of a hapless kite maker, the middle generation of a sadly doomed dynasty. More well-intentioned than accomplished, this second feature from Kabul-born, Canadian helmer Tarique Qayumi suffers in comparison to “The Kite Runner,” Marc Foster’s richly detailed screen translation of Khaled Hosseini’s beloved bestseller. But despite its shortcomings of script and performance, the film has a certain middlebrow festival appeal, considering its exotic locations and winsome child players. Certainly, multihyphenate Qayumi deserves credit for his deft use of archival footage and animation, which provide useful context and historical background.

The heavy-handed opening moments are a bit of a turn-off, and work against audience identification, as we see that things won’t end well for the film’s protagonist, Arian (sober Haji Gul, who can’t make his ingenuous character credible). Bloody and bowed, he is sentenced

The fetid effluence of sewage water is the major leitmotif of Ahmed Fawzi Saleh’s debut feature “Poisonous Roses,” an elliptical drama of two siblings, set within the hellish alleyways of Cairo’s unsavory tannery district. Best viewed as a fictional spinoff from the director’s superb 2010 documentary “Living Skin,” which depicted life in the same (or similar) workshops, the film is a mood piece that fitfully plumbs a sister’s obsessive love for her listless brother, who’s looking to escape Egypt. Atmospheric at the cost of narrative coherence, “Roses” is notable for the way it depicts a quasi-surrealistic netherworld via visually arresting shots of a queasy austerity. Festival programmers clued in to the small but distinctive Egyptian independent scene should come calling, while the French coin involved could translate into additional bookings.

The narrow semi-paved maze of streets in Cairo’s old tannery sector are difficult to square with the modern world: blackened waste pours out

Exclusive: They are thick as thieves and coming together for yet another heist: Gerard Butler, Tucker Tooley, Mark Canton, Alan Siegel, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and director Christian Gudegast with O’Shea Jackson, Jr. (who is in negotiations) have pacted to return for a sequel to the heist thriller Den of Thieves. The project, which will be distributed by Stx worldwide and financed by Diamond Film Productions, is being written by Gudegast from an original idea. Den of Thie…

Tessa Thompson has signed on to portray Doris Payne, a woman who gained notoriety for her luxury jewelry heists from stores around the world.

Thompson, whose credits include “Thor: Ragnarok,” “Creed,” and “Westworld,” will also produce the currently untitled film with Codeblack Films’ Jeff Clanagan. Codeblack is launching the project after having obtained Payne’s life rights.

The film is conceived as a high-concept action-drama in the vein of “Catch Me if You Can” and “The Thomas Crown Affair.” Codeblack Films’ Candice Wilson will oversee the project.

In her six-decade long career, Payne, who is now 87, would enter jewelry stores posing as a well-to-do woman looking for a diamond ring and ask to see an assortment of items. Using her charm, she would eventually cause the clerk to forget how many pieces were outside the cases and leave with one or two pieces.

Payne’s criminal record dates back to the 1950s. She was arrested

We have been teased a movie featuring “Girls Trip” star Tiffany Haddish, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and it’s going to be hard to consider any other project from the pair until it happens. But greatness rarely comes quickly, so far now, this developing new movie has our attention.

Deadline reports that Haddish will team up with Melissa McCarthy for the true crime drama “The Kitchen.” The’s right — drama.

Figure skater Adam Rippon has become a fan favorite in this year’s Winter Olympics, making a name for himself with his endearing interviews and his bronze medal-winning performance in Monday’s team competition free skate. As the first openly gay winter Olympian from the United States, Rippon has been outspoken about Lgbt issues and open about the struggles he faced growing up.

Recently, he even caused a stir in the political sphere when he refused to meet with Vice President Mike Pence, saying in a USA Today interview: “If it were before my event, I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they aren’t a friend of a gay person but that they think that they’re sick. I wouldn’t go out of my way to meet somebody like that.

Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan — former Israeli spy and current head of New Regency films — gave illicit bribes accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli police declared Tuesday night in a shock announcement. They will recommend both men, as well as an Israeli publishing tycoon, be officially charged with bribery.

Tuesday’s announcement offered the latest twist in a multi-year scandal that has plagued Israel’s right-wing prime minister. Its plot reads like one of Milchan’s own films, centering around hush-hush gifts of expensive pink champagne, thousand-dollar cigars and face time with Hollywood elite in exchange for tax breaks worth billions of shekels. At the heart of the so-called Case 1000 was the question of whether a high-placed Hollywood executive — later revealed to be Milchan — lavished Netanyahu and his wife Sara with expensive gifts and A-list access in exchange for political favors.

On Tuesday night, police answered that question, potentially signaling the end of Netanyahu’s decades

The Bingeworthy™ Breakdown is an occasional look at new TV shows. Over 500 scripted seasons of TV are expected to air in 2018, and to help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we’re going to give you the lowdown to help you work out whether it’s worth tuning in every week for them or waiting to binge later. Today we look at HBO’s “Here And Now.”

Allow me to lead by an example you should refuse to follow: every single thing about “Here and Now” is obnoxiously self-important, narratively grating and rote with faux intellectualism through which every character is charged with the need to be the smartest person in the room.