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Johannes Haukur Johannesson will join Vin Diesel in “Bloodshot” for Sony Pictures, TheWrap has exclusively learned.

Aside from Diesel, who is starring in the film, Johannesson, who played Lem in the sixth season of “Game of Thrones,” joins the likes of Toby Kebbell, Michael Sheen, Eiza González, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and “Outlander’s” Sam Heughan for the project. Johannesson will play a villain in the film.

The studio will start principal photography in July on the first film to feature Diesel in a live-action superhero role. The film will also reunite Diesel with “Fast and Furious” mega-producer Neal Moritz. This is the first time that Moritz and Diesel have worked together outside of the “Fast and Furious” franchise. Dan Mintz, founder of Dmg Entertainment is the executive producer. Dmg recently acquired the entirety of Valiant Entertainment’s IP.

“Little Women” is drawing big talent.

Following her critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated directorial debut, “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig is eyeing “Little Women” as her next directing gig.

A-listers Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan, and Timothee Chalamet are in talks to star in TriStar’s retelling of the American classic with Florence Pugh also in talks to star. The movie would mark a reunion for Gerwig, Ronan, and Chalamet. The young actors starred in 2017’s coming-of-age comedy “Lady Bird.”

Ronan would play the protagonist Jo, Stone would portray Meg, Streep would play Marmee, Chalamet would play Laurie Laurence, and Pugh would play Amy. Sources tell Variety the studio is expected to test a handful of actresses opposite Stone before the July 4 holiday for the role of Beth.

The project has been set up at TriStar for some time, with Amy Pascal set to produce. Andrea Giannetti will oversee the production for Columbia Pictures.

The “Jurassic Park“/”Jurassic World” franchise is well-known for recycling beloved characters in its sequels. ‘The Lost World‘ saw the return of Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) as a main character, and “Jurassic Park III” saw the return of Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) as a main character and Ellie (Laura Dern), for a brief cameo.

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Emily Beecham has taken a leading role in one of the segments in “Berlin, I Love You,” the anthology feature that will consist of 10 romance-themed stories set in the German capital. She joins a stellar cast in the picture, including Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley and Jim Sturgess.

Beecham is known for playing the Widow in AMC’s hit martial-arts action series “Into the Badlands” and for her starring role in “Daphne.” She landed best actress awards at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Turin Film Festival for that part, as well as Bifa and Empire Award nominations. She was also in the Coen brothers’ movie “Hail, Caesar!”

In “Berlin, I Love You,” Beecham appears in a segment called “Me Three,” directed by Stephanie Martin (“Wild Horses”) and Claus Clausen. She plays Hannah, a woman in an abusive relationship, who by chance meets another woman in a colorful Berlin launderette and strikes up a friendship.

Sony’s “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” has opened with a solid $2 million at 2,669 North American locations on Thursday.

Lionsgate’s basketball comedy “Uncle Drew” launched with $1.1 million at 2,200 sites in previews.

Universal’s sophomore frame of “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” is expected to dominate the weekend with another $60 million to $75 million. The Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard-led tentpole has pocketed $193.4 million in its first six days domestically and about $800 million worldwide.

Disney’s third weekend of “Incredibles 2” will finish in second place with $40 million to $50 million. The animated sequel has taken in a blockbuster $384 million in its first two weeks domestically.

Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro return in the action-drama “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” — a sequel to 2015’s “Sicario.” Forecasts have predicted an opening between $10 million to $13 million at 3,055 locations. That’s on par with the original film, which debuted with $12 million and finished with $47 million domestically.

Steven Hilliard Stern, a writer, director and producer whose work included the Elliott Gould-Bill Cosby comedy The Devil and Max Devlin, died Wednesday in Encino, his daughter Melanie Stern announced. He was 80.

Stern helmed episodes of shows like Serpico, McCloud, Quincy M.E. and Hawaii Five-O and directed more than three dozen telefilms, including Miracle on Ice, about the 1980 gold-winning U.S. hockey team, and 1983's Still the Beaver, which reunited the cast of the sitcom Leave It to Beaver.

Stern also wrote and directed Running (1979), a drama starring Michael Douglas and Susan Anspach (she co-starred in The Devil and Max Devlin, which he produced, as ...

Exclusive: Blumhouse Productions and Automatik are teaming up to co-produce the feminist horror-thriller Run Sweetheart Run, in association with Quiet Girl Productions.

Shana Feste whose latest movie Boundaries recently opened and world premiered at SXSW last March, and also wrote and directed the Sundance Film Festival world premiere The Greatest, penned the script for Run Sweetheart Run and will direct. In Run Sweetheart Run, a blind date turns violent and the woman has to get home on foot through Los Angeles as she’s pursued by her date.

Jason Blum, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Automatik) and Feste (Quiet Girl) will produce. Jen Besser (Boundaries) will executive produce. Bea Sequeira is overseeing the project for Blumhouse. Casting will begin shortly with production slated for this autumn.

Feste is represented by CAA and Sean Marks at Marks Law Group. Automatik has been behind such genre pics as Sinister 1 and 2 and the Insidious franchise with Blumhouse.

Steven Hilliard Stern, a writer, director and producer whose work included the Elliott Gould-Bill Cosby comedy The Devil and Max Devlin, died Wednesday in Encino, his daughter Melanie Stern announced. He was 80.

Stern helmed episodes of shows like Serpico, McCloud, Quincy M.E. and Hawaii Five-o and directed more than three dozen telefilms, including Miracle on Ice, about the 1980 gold-winning U.S. hockey team, and 1983's Still the Beaver, which reunited the cast of the sitcom Leave It to Beaver.

Stern also wrote and directed Running (1979), a drama starring Michael Douglas and Susan Anspach (she co-starred in The Devil and Max Devlin, which he produced, as ...

For a season of TV that delivers, “Glow” Season 2 has a soundtrack to match.

It wouldn’t be a story set in the ’80s without at least one needle drop like The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” (though this writer held out a tiny bit of hope they’d somehow use the “working as a waitress in a cocktail bar” remix). But like the show it’s backing, this season’s collection of songs is a nice bit of zagging where other series covering the era typically zig.

A non-album Madonna track? An incredible Aretha Franklin cover? End credits songs from The Jesus and Mary Chain and Yaz to open up the season? A blink-and-miss-it appearance from ’80s punk band The F.U.’s? That’s a solid list, even before you get to the deep-ish Genesis cuts.

Of course, this is all before talking about the true

Few if any living playwrights have been as successful for as long as Terrence McNally. “Every Act of Life” provides a predictably starry, rather standard, but satisfying overview of a prodigious career that is still going full-steam as the writer nears his ninth decade. It may require posterity to deliver a film that really weighs McNally’s influence, strengths, and weaknesses as a dramatist; Jeff Kaufman’s feature is more of a biographical valentine, aimed squarely at fans already somewhat knowledgeable about the subject’s life, works, and times. It should play well wherever such aficionados can be found — which is to say, anywhere Broadway and gay theater have a loyal base.

Opening with footage of McNally receiving a Tony — one of four won so far — for “Master Class” in 1996, this straightforward bio then backtracks to the start of a strictly chronological hagiography. Our protagonist traces lifelong “feelings of not

“We have willingly chosen to go backwards to a world full of ignorance and distrust fuelled by intolerance.”

Tim Robbins kicked off the 53rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 29-July 7) with a politically charged speech attacking Donald Trump.

The Shawshank Redemption star was receiving the festival’s Crystal Globe on Friday (June 29) for outstanding contribution to world cinema.

In his acceptance speech during the opening ceremony at the Hotel Thermal, Robbins told the audience that he auditioned for the role of bully Biff in Back To The Future, saying: “We are living through a Marty McFly moment. We have gone back to the 1950s.

“Love, Cecil” demonstrates how a documentary can be a magical experience. I went into the film barely having heard of Cecil Beaton, who (as I learned) was one of the most incandescent photographers who ever lived. The reason I state my ignorance in such blunt terms — hey, I’m a film critic, not a photography scholar — is that for me, as I suspect will be the case for many others, the movie’s splendor lies in the sensation of being washed over by an elated experience of discovery.

The documentary tells the story of Beaton’s life, and it’s a moving and majestic one that spans many of the revolutions in perception that defined the 20th century. Yet “Love, Cecil” is rooted in the mind-bendingly eclectic splendor of Beaton’s images. He was a visionary fashion photographer, a fearless journalist of war, an indelible chronicler of celebrity, and — through

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Exclusive: Almost two weeks after enlisting television writers from over 60 series in a campaign to stop the separation of families at the southern border, One Day at A Time and Vida will be taking to the streets of Los Angeles tomorrow with Laverne Cox, Jane The Virgin cast members and John Legend in the downtown Families Belong Together – Freedom for Immigrants March. Odaat leads Justina Machado and Isabella Gomez will be onstage at the rally at La City Hall on…

On the June 29, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest tv and film news, including Cobra Kai, Doctor Strange 2, Kevin Feige, Greta Gerwig, Michael Moore, Rian Johnson, Star Wars, Indiana Jones 5, and DisneyToon Studios. […]

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Because life imitates art, all is not well aboard the Snowpiercer. To hear Scott Derrickson tell it, his involvement with the pilot of TNT’s series based on Bong Joon-ho’s movie of the same name — itself an adaptation of a French graphic novel called “Le Transperceneige” — has come to an end due to creative differences. In a tweet, the “Sinister” and “Doctor Strange” helmer said the feature-length pilot he directed “may be my best work,” but that the new showrunner has a “radically different vision” — and so he’s chosen not to direct the reshoots.

“The 72-page Snowpiercer TV pilot script by @Josh_Friedman is the best I’ve ever read. The feature-length pilot I made from that script may be my best work,” Derrickson wrote. “The new show runner has a radically different vision for the show. I am forgoing my option to direct the extreme reshoots.”

Earlier this year,

In today’s film news roundup, the “Men In Black” spinoff rounds out its cast, “93Queen” gets distribution and a Moe Berg documentary is in the works.

Castings

Les Twins, Kumail Nanjiani, and Rafe Spall have join the ensemble cast alongside Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, and Liam Neeson of Sony Pictures’ “Men in Black” spinoff.

The movie has started shooting in London. F. Gary Gray is directing the movie from a screenplay by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are producing; Steven Spielberg is executive producing, David Beaubaire is overseeing for Sony.

The film is slated for release on June 14, 2019. Les Twins are Laurent Nicolas Bourgeois and Larry Nicolas Bourgeois, a self-taught duo who became well known when their street dancing videos where uploaded to YouTube. They went on to become the star dancers on the Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil.

Netflix just ordered a sci-fi martial arts crime series called Wu Assassins starring The Raid‘s Iko Uwais, and if that string of words isn’t enough to get you excited, you might want to check your pulse. One of the best action films of the last decade is The Raid, starring Iko Uwais as a man who kicks and punches […]

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In 2016, Fxx renewed the comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for a 13th and 14th season, which will tie it with The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running live-action comedy series in American television history. So we knew the show was coming back, but last year’s season 12 finale left things in a […]

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Having learned nothing from Westworld, Disney Imagineering went ahead and built stunt robots that can flip through the air, and probably eventually rebel against their cruel human masters. It’s likely these high-flying bots will be used in Disney’s Star Wars land, or possible upcoming Marvel attractions. Disney Stunt Robots In the video above, you can see the […]

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