Manny Jacinto Eying Role in 'Freaky Friday 2' Alongside Lindsay Lohan & Jamie Lee Curtis

EXCLUSIVE: Greta Lee is the latest to join the growing ensemble for Kathryn Bigelow‘s next film at Netflix. The untitled thriller also stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris and Gabriel Basso. Bigelow will direct. Netflix had no comment on the casting.

Lindsay Lohan is kicking off production for Freaky Friday 2!

Freaky Friday 2 has officially started filming, and we’ve got a complete rundown of who is involved!

, who has been pushing for a harder than anyone else for years.Back in October 2022, Curtis revealed she had for Freaky Friday 2, hoping to play a “sexy grandma” alongside OG costar . “Let me be the grandma, let me be the old grandma who switches places, so then Lindsay gets to be the sexy grandma who’s still happy with Mark Harmon in all the ways you would be happy with Mark Harmon,” Curtis said during an appearance . “I would like to see Lindsay be the hot grandma, and I would like to see me try to deal with toddlers today.

2003’s “Freaky Friday,” which just began shooting. On Monday, Walt Disney Studios posted a photo of Lohan and co-star Jamie Lee Curtis outside of their trailers holding hands and beaming.“The Colemans are back and coming to theaters in 2025! The sequel to Freaky Friday is now in production!” the post said.In a nod to the plot of the mother-daughter body-swap comedy, Lohan, 37, sat outside Curtis’ trailer, and Curtis, 65, perched in front of Lohan’s.The more-than-two-decade-old previous film grossed $160 million worldwide (off a $26 million budget) and was the 20th top movie of the year at the domestic box office.In the story, based on Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel, a mom named Tess (Curtis) and her daughter, Anna (Lohan), are shocked to wake up in each other’s bodies.

Emily Longeretta Jesse Lee Soffer is back in the Dick Wolf world — but not as Jay Halstead. Soffer has nabbed a series regular part in Season 4 of “FBI: International,” which airs on CBS. He previously portrayed Detective Halstead on ten seasons of NBC’s “Chicago P.D.” He left the show in 2022.

Lindsay Lohan and her husband, Bader Shammas, have been ringing in holidays and birthdays together since they found love. The iconic actress has been enjoying her life as a mother and wife and has never looked happier.

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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor At the Monte-Carlo TV Festival Saturday, Lee Jung-Jae, one of the stars of new Disney+ series “Star Wars: The Acolyte,” spoke with Variety about how he prepared for his role as Jedi Master Sol, the strengths of Leslye Headland, the show’s creator, as a showrunner, and the relationship between Sol and Amandla Stenberg’s characters.Lee, who won a Primetime Emmy for “Squid Game,” says that for 50% of “The Acolyte” role he drew inspiration from previous depictions of the Jedi Masters, and “for the remaining 50% I tried to find something that was appropriate to Sol – something that would only incarnate him.” He also consulted with an expert in “Star Wars” lore at Lucasfilm.In “The Acolyte,” the Jedi Masters are shown to be flawed. How does the show present this? “In ‘The Acolyte,’ what it tries to say is that anyone can make mistakes, but you have to accept the mistakes that you make, and put effort into correcting them or developing yourself, because any human being has some unstable thinking,” Lee says.

Once a cheater, always (allegedly) a cheater! We’re talking about you, Tom Sandoval!

EXCLUSIVE: Manny Jacinto (The Good Place) is the latest thesp in talks to join Disney‘s long-awaited sequel, Freaky Friday 2, sources tell Deadline.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the recently-combined genre giants, will produce a new film from “Evil Dead Rise” director Lee Cronin at New Line Cinema.Cronin will write and direct the top secret project, one that has been suggested will remain in his horror wheelhouse. The Irish filmmaker will also produce the project through his label Doppelgängers.New Line, a Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group label, has dated the film for an April 2026 release.

Hunter Ingram “Is it a gift or is it not a gift that you can only play the age you are?” It’s a rhetorical question Diane Lane asks — but doesn’t pretend to have the answer to — and also a thought she embraces. “I am grateful for it,” she says. “And I’m optimistic that I’m at the right age to play some interesting people.” Interesting is one of the many things that could be said about Slim Keith.

No wonder Lindsay Hubbard is super pissed at Carl Radke! Not only did he end their engagement on camera during the eighth season of Summer House, but he called off their wedding just three months before their nuptials in Mexico, meaning she lost SO much money!

After 20 years, a graphic novel series, a feature film and a video game, it’s no wonder that Bryan Lee O’Malley was hesitant to dive into another adaptation of his Scott Pilgrim series. After what he describes as a “jokey” conversation with BenDavid Grabinski, the two decided to flip the script and take the Netflix series in an entirely new direction for Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.

Do you remember the 2004 TV film “Sucker Free City?” Probably not. Despite being directed by Spike Lee, the film debuted with very little fanfare.

Julia Butters has landed another big role!

Katcy Stephan Things are about to get freaky for Julia Butters. The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” standout has joined the cast of Disney’s “Freaky Friday” sequel, sources tell Variety. The project was officially confirmed in March, with Nisha Ganatra tapped to direct.

Julia Butters is in talks to join the Freaky Friday sequel at Disney. While no other cast has been confirmed, sources say Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are in talks to reprise their roles from the original pic. Late Night director Nisha Ganatra is on board to direct.

Tom Sandoval has lost yet another person in his corner…