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John Cho has joined Demian Bichir and Andrea Riseborough in Sony’s “The Grudge” reimagining.

Nicolas Pesce is directing the horror pic from his own script.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions recently acquired worldwide rights to the film. Spwa, Ghost House, and Good Universe last collaborated on Fede Alvarez’s thriller “Don’t Breathe.”

Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert will produce the film for Ghost House, with Nathan Kahane and Erin Westerman executive producing for Good Universe alongside Schuyler Weiss, Roy Lee, and Doug Davison. Romel Adam will oversee the movie for Ghost House and Brady Fujikawa for Good Universe. The pic will begin shooting in May.

The first film hit theaters in 2004 — a popular time for Japanese horror film remakes. The original adaptation starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and went on to earn $187.3 million worldwide on a $10 million budget.

Cho, best known for the “Harold & Kumar” franchise, will next star in Aneesh Chaganty’s drama “Searching,

British actress Lashana Lynch is in talks to take over DeWanda Wise’s role in Disney/Marvel’s Captain Marvel, which has Brie Larson starring as the titular character. Wise had to drop out of the film due to scheduling conflicts with her Netflix series She's Gotta Have It, which was picked up for a second season. The pic, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, will center on Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Larson), an Air Force pilot who debuted in the Marvel comics in 1968…

Dwayne Johnson is carving out more territory.

Universal and Legendary have set a June 12, 2020 release date for Johnson's Red Notice, an action-thriller the two companies picked up after a bidding war last month. So far, it has the date to itself.

The film is from director Rawson Marshall Thurber, the filmmaker behind Johnson’s Central Intelligence and upcoming Skyscraper. The Hollywood Reporter reported last month it has a proposed budget between $125 million and $150 million and sees Johnson's salary cross $20 million for the first time.

Johnson plays an Interpol agent after the most wanted art thief in the world.

Producers include...

For sale: Three-bedroom, single family house in Studio City, California. Just moments from major studios and “the famed Tujunga Village shops and restaurants.”

Oh, and don’t worry; that corpse was cleared out a long time ago.

A house used in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film “Pulp Fiction” is up for sale, according to a listing from real-estate brokerage company The Agency.

The house, built in 1936, includes two bathrooms, and according to the listing “served as the house for the character ‘Jimmy’ in the classic film ‘Pulp Fiction.'”

Noel Clarke has come on board “The Corrupted,” joining lead Sam Claflin and Timothy Spall, Hugh Bonneville, and David Hayman in the British crime thriller. Rep Crime, Eclipse Films and Riverstone Pictures said Friday that principal photography is now underway on the film, which will shoot at various locations in the U.K.

Clarke recently set up a new U.K. production company, Unstoppable. He can currently be seen in Netflix film “Mute,” and will star in Sky’s upcoming buddy cop drama “Bulletproof.”

In “The Corrupted” he plays a policeman, detective sergeant Neil Beckett. He joins a high-caliber British cast that also includes Naomi Ackie (“Lady Macbeth”), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Joe Claflin (“Grantchester”), Sam Otto (“The State”), and Akbar Kurtha (“24”). Ron Scalpello (“My Name Is Lenny”) directs “The Corrupted,” which was written by Nick Moorcroft (“Urban Hymn”).

“We have assembled a great cast of amazing actors, and

DeWanda Wise is no longer headed to the Marvel Universe.

The actress, known for her work on She's Gotta Have It on Netflix, is exiting her Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel supporting role due to scheduling conflicts with the Spike Lee series, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Brie Larson has the starring role as the Marvel superhero in the film directed by duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Jude Law will also star in the film, which is set in the 1990s and features Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury.

Ben Mendelsohn is playing the film's villain. Wise stars as Nola Darling...

Alicia Vikander’s “Tomb Raider” ran off with $2.1 million on Thursday night.

Fox’s comedy-drama “Love, Simon,” meanwhile, made $850,000 from 2,125 sites during Thursday previews. It’s expanding to 2,402 venues Friday.

“Tomb Raider,” Warner Bros. and MGM’s adaptation of the popular video game, has been projected to take in about $25 million from 3,842 locations this weekend. That will challenge the fifth weekend of Disney-Marvel’s mega-hit “Black Panther,” which will likely finish in the same territory domestically.

Vikander stars as archaeologist Lara Croft, who embarks on a journey to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance. Based on the 2013 game, the film is directed by Roar Uthaug and written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet. The cast also includes Dominic West, Walton Goggins, and Daniel Wu.

Reviewers have been split on “Tomb Raider,” which has a 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

On the March 16, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the newest Avengers: Infinity War trailer, Ava DuVernay’s new directing gig, a Clarissa Explains It All reboot, the original Ready Player One reference you won’t see […]

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Everything old is new again! Nickelodeon is currently working on a Clarissa Explains It All reboot, with original star Melissa Joan Hart set to return. Clarissa’s annoying brother Ferguson could not be reached for comment. Remember Clarissa Explains It All? It’s back, in reboot form. The Wrap reports Nickelodeon is eyeing a Clarissa reboot, and they plan to bring […]

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For as tidily as “Wild Wild Country” can be summed up — “It’s the docuseries about an Indian cult leader!” — the show overall is an incredibly dense examination of religion, immigrants, and Americans’ perception of both. As intense as it is illuminating, the six-episode Netflix series deconstructs misconceptions about cults while exposing incredibly dark secrets at the same time — and that’s where the doc finds its power: Just when you think you know what it’s about, there’s quite a surprise around the next corner.

Directed by Chapman and Maclain Way (“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”), “Wild Wild Country” focuses on what at first seems like a relatively simple conflict. Followers of an Indian spiritual guru decided to build a commune in Oregon, and their neighbors were none too pleased about it. But what started as an uncomfortable wariness of the unknown soon turned nasty, then openly hostile,

The Grudge reboot cast has a new addition: John Cho. The Star Trek actor will star alongside Andrea Riseborough and Demian Bichir in a new take on horror franchise about a curse surrounding a haunted house. As much as I’d like to just ignore a Grudge remake, the talented involved with the project is too good to pass […]

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On its surface, Augie, the story of a fitness giant who contracted Als (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), might be a downer of a documentary to watch. That would be wrong. Instead, Augie turns out to be a love story like no other and an unforgettable journey that gives us all hope. In many ways it shares some of the same attributes as the Oscar-nominated Alzheimer’s docu Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, which detailed the singer’s valiant fight against a…

Before Air Bud, before Beethoven, there was Benji, one of the most beloved (and financially successful) canine characters in cinema history — and yet, oddly enough, a name unfamiliar to an entire generation of kids who haven’t seen a new installment since 2004’s “Benji: Off the Leash!” That’s 14 long years ago, which means there’s no one in this film’s target audience (unless you count “kids at heart”) who was alive when the last film came out.

Now, thanks to Netflix, the shaggy mutt returns to the screen (although not the big one, alas) for a “Benji” reboot that proves this particular dog has more lives than most cats, more charm than most humans and more earnings potential than the proverbial golden-egg-laying goose — which might explain why Blumhouse (the low-budget genre shingle best known for horror films like “Get Out” and “Paranormal Activity”) got behind what is essentially a remake of the 1974 original,

Somehow Andrew Haigh has become one of the most down low cinematic auteur working today. He’s directed and written three critically acclaimed films in a row and guided the legendary Charlotte Rampling to her first Academy Award nomination in just his second film, “45 Years.” And yet, he somehow hasn’t become the darling of the cinephile set or, cough, “film twitter” as of yet. (And we haven’t even talked about his contributions to the landmark HBO TV series “Looking”).

It’s a phrase on billions of greeting cards, exchanged between millions of couples who may or may not mean it. “Happy anniversary.” Now it’s the title of a Netflix romantic-comedy starring Ben Schwartz and Noël Wells. But the story of a couple who grapple with their relationship on the day of their third anniversary may be more […]

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The first look trailer for Melissa McCarthy’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? is out from Fox Searchlight, a biopic detailing the literary forgery crimes of author Lee Israel. Israel, a high-profile magazine writer and celebrity biographer who had written about Estée Lauder and Tallulah Bankhead, was down on her luck and running short of money. Then she hit upon a unique scheme, forging and selling letters allegedly written by deceased writers, including Noël Coward and Dorothy…

Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy and horror movie extraordinaire James Wan are teaming for an exciting new Netflix project. Levy and Wan will combine their talents to create the coming-of-age slasher movie There’s Someone Inside Your House, adapted from the novel by author Stephanie Perkins. More on the There’s Someone Inside Your House movie below. A “coming-of-age slasher […]

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Exclusive: Another day, another sexual harassment allegation against a powerful man. This industry is making strides to right the ship, but how many women are actually being employed in this industry behind the camera? Are people just talking the talk but not walking the walk? Deadline decided investigate, looking at just how many female directors have gigs at the major studios/production entities. It’s MGM’s turn. This week, MGM announced that Madonna signed on as the…

Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Kyle MacLachlan, and Kathrine Narducci are joining Tom Hardy in the Al Capone biopic “Fonzo,” written and directed by Josh Trank.

The film is backed by Bron Studios, in association with Creative Wealth Media. Principal photography will begin on April 2 in New Orleans.

The producers are Aaron L. Gilbert for Bron; Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder for Addictive Pictures; and Lawrence Bender for A Band Apart, alongside executive producer Jason Cloth of Creative Wealth Media. CAA and Endeavor Content are handling North American rights, with Bloom working on international sales.

Capone was a ruthless mobster who ruled Chicago with an iron fist during the 1920s. He was prosecuted for income tax evasion in 1931 and imprisoned. He died at the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, of dementia.

Cardellini will play Capone’s long-suffering wife Mae, Dillon will depict his closest friend Johnny, MacLachlan will portray his doctor Karlock,

One of the more unexpected spin-offs of the last few years, Eugene Richards‘ “Thy Kingdom Come” is a pseudo-documentary pieced together from excised footage of Javier Bardem’s character Father Quintana from Terrence Malick’s 2012 film “To The Wonder.” Richards, a famous photographer in his own right, was contacted by Malick to find real people to interact with Bardem’s character.