Film News Roundup: Production Starts on Will Smith’s Thriller ‘Gemini Man’

In today’s film news roundup, Ang Lee starts shooting Will Smith in “Gemini Man,” “I Think We’re Alone Now” gets U.S.

distribution and Liz Biber leaves Global Road.Production StartsAng Lee has begun shooting on the long-delayed thriller “Gemini” Man, starring Will Smith as an elite assassin targeted and pursued by a mysterious young operative who seemingly can predict his every move.Producers are Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison.

Also starring are Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen and Benedict Wong.

Paramount will open “Gemini Man” on Oct.

4, 2019.

Smith began posting images Tuesday on his Instagram account.Lee became attached to the project in 2016.

His most recent film was “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” for which he used an unprecedented shooting and projection frame rate of 120 frames per second — five times faster than the normal rate of 24 frames per second.

He won Academy Awards for directing “Brokeback Mountain” and “Life of Pi,” and

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