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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Nicolas Cage has been set to star in horror-thriller Longlegs for Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan’s C2 Motion Picture Group.
Plot details are being kept under wraps on the project, which producers say will be in the vein of classic Hollywood psychological thrillers.
Osgood Perkins (Gretel & Hansel) wrote the script and will direct with C2 Motion Picture Group producing and fully financing.
Producers are Nicolas Cage along with his production company Saturn Films (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Pig), Dan Kagan (Significant Other), Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious), Dave Caplan (The End We Start From) and Chris Ferguson (Child’s Play).
Joker exec Jason Cloth and La La Land producer Fred Berger of Automatik are executive producers. UTA and CAA Media Finance are co-repping worldwide sales on the film.
Cloth and Caplan’s C2 Motion Picture Group is currently in production on Azrael, the action-horror film starring Samara Weaving and directed by Evan Katz, and recently wrapped The End We Start From starring Jodie Comer, directed by Mahalia Belo, and made alongside Hera Pictures, SunnyMarch, Anton, BBC Film and the BFI.
Cage is coming off movies Pig, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Butcher’s Crossing.
Cage is represented by WME and Stride Management. Osgood Perkins is represented by CAA and Grandview. Dan Kagan is represented by UTA. C2 Motion Picture Group is represented by Loeb & Loeb and UTA.
Ready for the new year? ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX have all announced their 2023 midseason lineups — including new TV series and returning favorites.
Phyllis Carlyle, a casting director and manager who worked with such big names as Willem Dafoe, Jude Law and Geena Davis who later produced the hit films Seven and The Accidental Tourist, has died. She was 80.
The Chase star Mark Labbett stunned fans as he showed off his slimmed down physique on Loose Women as he revealed his medication aided his weight loss.
EXCLUSIVE: Jaeden Martell (It), Maxwell Jenkins (Lost in Space) and Sadie Soverall (Fate: The Winx Saga) have signed on to star alongside Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage in the survival action-thriller Sand and Stones from Highland Film Group, which will enter production in Dublin, Ireland next week.
We’ve seen Nicolas Cage do nearly anything and everything throughout his career in movies, but we’ve never really seen the actor take on a traditional Western. That’s about to change.
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Derek Haas, co-creator of NBC’s Chicago Fire and who also helped develop Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med, is stepping away from the One Chicago Franchise and Wolf Entertainment, Deadline has confirmed. He will exit next year when the current TV season concludes.
British actor Mark Strong (Kingsman) has signed on to star opposite Joel Kinnaman in the action thriller The Silent Hour for AGC Studios and Meridian Pictures.
EXCLUSIVE: The Chicago-based artist incubator OTV Studio has rebranded as Breaking Light Studio.
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand actress Emma Roberts is in final talks to join Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush in action-comedy Verona Spies, which will be directed by comedy veteran Frank Coraci, known for movies including The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Dune: Part Two) is set to lead psychological thriller The Pack, we can reveal.