Tag: La La Land
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Zazie Beetz Eyes Jean Seberg Film ‘Against All Enemies’ Starring Kristen Stewart (Exclusive)
“Atlanta” star Zazie Beetz is in talks to join Kristen Stewart in the Jean Seberg biopic “Against All Enemies,” sources tell Variety.It is unknown who Beetz will play in the movie. Anthony Mackie, Jack O’Connell, Margaret Qualley, and Colm Meaney are also starring. Benedict Andrews is directing from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna…
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Casting News: Sandler & Aniston Head to Netflix, Jackman Gets A ‘Bad Education’, Stan Will ‘Beat The Reaper’
Several actors are jumping aboard a few high-profile projects, and we’ve rounded them all up for your convenience. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are teaming for a new Netflix movie, Hugh Jackman might join Bad Education from a producer of La La Land, and Avengers co-star Sebastian Stan will team with director Gore Verbinski for…
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Hugh Jackman in Talks for ‘Bad Education’ From ‘La La Land’ Producer
Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Automatik’s Bad Education from Thoroughbreds helmer Cory Finley, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Plot details have not been released, however, the script was written by Mike Makowsky, who previously wrote the screenplays for I Think We’re Alone Now and Take Me. Makowsky, Fred Berger of La La Land fame, Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Sight…
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Hugh Jackman Eyes ‘Bad Education’ as Next Pic From ‘La La Land’ Producer Fred Berger (Exclusive)
Hugh Jackman looks to have found his next project as the A-list star is in talks to star in the Automatik pic “Bad Education.”“I Think We’re Alone Now” scribe Mike Makowsky penned the script. Cory Finley, who recently directed the Sundance darling “Thoroughbreds,” will direct.Though plot details are being kept under wraps, the script, which…
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Hugh Jackman In Talks To Star In ‘Bad Education’
Hugh Jackman is currently eyeing the starring role in Bad Education from I Think We’re Alone Now screenwriter Mike Makowsky and director Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds), Deadline has confirmed. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it will be based on Makowsky’s high school experience. Fred Berger (La La Land) and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Midnight Special)…
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Sarah Silverman, Judd Apatow, and Others Blast Terry Gilliam for Ill-Advised #MeToo Comments: ‘Idiotic and Dangerous’
Terry Gilliam didn’t endear himself to many when he said that #MeToo is both “silly” and turning into “mob rule,” lamenting that the movement is akin to a group of people “carrying their torches and they are going to burn down Frankenstein’s castle.” Though he clarified that Harvey Weinstein — with whom the Monty Python…
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Kristen Stewart To Play Icon Jean Seberg In Political Thriller ‘Against All Enemies’; Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie Also Star
Exclusive: Kristen Stewart is set to play iconic actress Jean Seberg in Against All Enemies, a hot and timely package that’s come together with an all-star cast. A political thriller directed by Benedict Andrews (Una), the story is inspired by true events about the Breathless pixie who in the late 1960s was targeted by the…
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Lionsgate to Develop World War II Story ‘How the Girl Guides Won the War’
Lionsgate is developing British World War II book “How the Girl Guides Won the War” with “La La Land” producer Marc Platt on board.The studio is also in talk with Walden Media to come on as a producer. It also hired “Everything, Everything” screenwriter J. Mills Goodloe to adapt the script from Janie Hampton’s book,…
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Why Director Julia Hart Wanted Gugu Mbatha-Raw For ‘Fast Color’ — SXSW
Making a splash at South by Southwest two years ago with her directorial debut, Miss Stevens, writer/director Julia Hart is back in 2018 with supernatural drama Fast Color. Co-written and produced by the director’s husband, La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz—well known for graciously turning Best Picture to Moonlight after the envelope scandal that rocked…
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Music From ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Greatest Showman’ Spurs Movie Soundtrack Renaissance
If you were to plot the successes and declines of film soundtracks on a stock chart, one might think that there was a movie-music drought or depression for much of the aughts. Indeed, there kind of was. Since the late 1990s when “Space Jam” and “Titanic” moved millions of albums, 2006’s “High School Musical,” a…