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Neon has landed the North American right to Ryan Gosling starrer The Actor. Duke Johnson is behind the movie based on best-selling novelMemoryby Donald E.

Katcy Stephan Universal Pictures is shifting its wide release of of Blumhouse’s “Wolf Man” from Oct. 25, 2024 toJan. 17, 2025.

Leigh Whannell’s reimaging of Universal classic The Wolf Man from Blumhouse is dashing from its Oct. 25 release date this year to Jan. 17, 2025.

Neon has formed a strategic financial partnership with Ken Kao’s Waypoint Entertainment, the ​​full-service production company behind The Favourite and The Nice Guys, to deliver a slate “of bold, genre-spanning films for savvy theatrical audiences,” the distributor said. The partners will focus on larger indies in the $10+ million range.

EXCLUSIVE: Sierra/Affinity is handling foreign sales on Neon’s horror pic, Cuckoo, at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.

André Holland (Passing) and Gemma Chan (Don’t Worry Darling) will top Neon‘s The Actor, the second feature (and first in live-action) from Oscar-nominated Anomalisa helmer Duke Johnson, which has wrapped production. Holland takes over the male lead from Ryan Gosling, who was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts but remains aboard the project as an executive producer.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Celine Sciamma's Berlinale Contender 'Petite Maman'Johnson, who directed the stop-motion animated “Anomalisa” along with Kaufman, wrote the script with Stephen Cooney.Gosling is also producing “The Actor” alongside Waypoint Entertainment’s Ken Kao. Johnson will produce with Abigail Spencer under their Innerlight Films production banner.

Ryan Gosling is set to star in The Actor, an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake's novel Memory.

EXCLUSIVE: In what shapes up as a hot package for the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, Ryan Gosling has committed to star in The Actor, with Duke Johnson directing a script he wrote with Stephen Cooney, based on Donald E. Westlake’s hard boiled novel Memory.

By Justin Kroll

Ryan Gosling is reportedly set to star and produce a film version of Andy Weir’s novel currently titled Project Hail Mary. Weir is the author behind the fantastic The Martian, which was turned into a movie by Ridley Scott with Matt Damon in the lead. The new story is about a lone astronaut in space who is the only person who can save Earth.

After “First Man,” Ryan Gosling is taking on another astronaut movie.

By Mike Fleming Jr