Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney are teaming up for a new movie at Apple.
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EXCLUSIVE: We’re not quite done yet with the European Film Market packages, with a nice one coming together at the eleventh hour as Oscar winner Riz Ahmed and Baby Driver star Lily James have been set to lead thriller Relay for director David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water).
Pic is being produced by Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk (John Wick franchise), Sigma’s Gillian Berrie (Outlaw King) and Mackenzie, and Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman (The Imitation Game).
Black Bear International is launching the project at the EFM in Berlin, which as a whole has drawn a strong lineup of pre-sale projects. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group will co-rep domestic on this one.
In Relay, Sound of Metal and Venom star Ahmed will play Tom, a world class “fixer” who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from potential client Sarah (James), needing Tom’s protection just to stay alive, the rules quickly start to change.
Script comes from Justin Piasecki and Mackenzie. Filming is due to start in New York and New Jersey in April.
Executive producers include Black Bear’s Michael Heimler and John Friedberg, Thunder Road’s Erica Lee and Charlie Morrison. Black Bear is financing.
James recently starred in Hulu’s Pam & Tommy and recently wrapped on crime comedy Providence with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and wrestling drama The Iron Claw with Zac Efron. The Night Of and Nightcrawler star Ahmed won an Oscar last year for short film The Long Goodbye and was Oscar-nominated for The Sound of Metal.
Mackenzie’s credits include
Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney are teaming up for a new movie at Apple.
Florence + The Machines are going to cover a classic 90s rock song for the soundtrack of US mystery drama Yellowjackets' much-hyped second season.
Alex Gibney, the Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker behind “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” will next set his sights on Elon Musk with “Musk,” described in the official announcement as “a definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.”“I have been working on this film, off and on, for some time and am hugely excited about it,” said Gibney in an official statement. “I am delighted by this extraordinary group who are working with me.
season 1 and, Jasmin Savoy Brown is back with new installments in both franchises. First, she'll reprise her fan-favorite role as Mindy Meeks-Martin in, which moves the action from Woodsboro to New York City as she and the other returning survivors face off with Ghostface once again, before appearing as Taissa Turner in the second season of the hit Showtime series. While speaking with ET's Rachel Smith, the 28-year-old star teased what's in store for both projects. «I'm not prepared for what's to come… I can't even get into it,» Brown says when asked about the second season of, which premieres at the end of March, just weeks after the theatrical debut of on March 10. While she'll be seen trying to survive another encounter with a masked killer during the latest installment in the slasher franchise, fans are also eagerly waiting to see what happens to Brown's character, who is one of the survivors of a plane crash that stranded her and her soccer teammates in wilderness, as winter sets in during the new episodes of the twist-filled drama series.
on Monday, following Seth Rogen's announcement of the star-studded voice cast at the Kids' Choice Awards over the weekend. Rogen is a producer on the film, set to hit theaters Aug. 3, and also voices mutant warthog Bebop, alongside a young cast of talent as the turtles: Micah Abbey (Donatello), Shamon Brown Jr.
Angelique Jackson CAA has signed “Industry” and “Rye Lane” star David Jonsson for representation. News of Jonsson signing with CAA comes just hours after the actor was confirmed to be part of the cast of the yet-to-be-titled “Alien” movie, written and directed by Fede Alvarez. 20th Century Studios announced that Jonsson would be among the actors joining Cailee Spaeny in the sci-fi film — the ninth in the franchise started by Ridley Scott, who is returning to produce. According to a new plot synopsis provided by the studio, the film will follow “a group of young people on a distant world, who find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe.” Also officially joining the project are Archie Renaux (“Shadow and Bone”), Isabela Merced (“Rosaline”), Spike Fearn (“The Batman”) and Aileen Wu (“Away From Home”).
says, shooting a sex scene with your real-life spouse is a better idea in theory than in reality. Promoting her new series on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Keough explained that the show's producers “thought it would be so funny” if her character's one-night-stand was played by Keough's actual husband, Ben Smith-Petersen. Unfortunately, the intimate scene didn't go quite as smoothly as anticipated.“I think that they were thinking that it would be less awkward,” Keough told Meyers, “And then we got there and we were like, ‘This is really uncomfortable.’” She added, laughing, “For one, I've never had pretend sex with my husband.” The actor explained that normally for a scene like this, she'd meet her acting partner and then just get down to business like professionals.
, Lily James, , and Jourdan Dunn. The partnership will focus on instilling beauty lovers with inner and outer confidence, and will surely add up to makeup magic. “Bella is a generation-defining talent at the forefront of the cultural zeitgeist and I am so excited to reveal our creative partnership,” Tilbury, founder, chairman, and chief creative officer of the , said via press release.
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The 2023 SAG Awards were full of fun and quirky moments.
Seven months after landing the highly coveted top jobs at Warner Bros. Motion Picture studios, Co-Chairpersons Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were bestowed with the PGA Milestone award tonight and paid respect for their mega industry mentors, remembered emotionally their cinematic NYC and New Jersey youths, and gave a huge shoutout to their new boss, Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Receiving the SAG Life Achievement Award on Feb. 26 has a special meaning to Sally Field. “It’s my tribe,” she says of her fellow actors. “It’s the group I most wanted to be respected by and to be included in, and that means a lot to me.” And while she says she has yet to write her speech, that’s understandable — the actor has been busy with promotion for her latest film, “80 for Brady,” now in theaters. Field joins the likes of Robert De Niro, Sidney Poitier and Rita Moreno who have previouslybeen bestowed with the honor. Field spoke about her career, working with Lee Strasberg and being a sports fan with Variety.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor James Corden aims to leave the late-night stage in a big way. CBS plans to broadcast the last hour of its “The Late Late Show,” which Corden has hosted since March of 2015, on Thursday, April 27, and will add a primetime special that night to help mark the occasion. Tom Cruise will reunite with Corden for one big sketch to air during the primetime special. Cruise has previously joined Corden on “The Late Late Show” for segments include daredevil stunts such as piloting fighter jets and skydiving. In this new meeting, Corden will have Cruise take part in an epic musical performance during “The Lion King” at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.
THR, would focus on two female detectives called Sasha Starsky and Nicole Hutchinson who solve crimes while trying to find out who framed their fathers for a crime they didn’t commit and sent them to prison.Every article mentions the ‘original’ actors by name. So why not just reboot Paul and me—as a couple of old farts solving piddly-ass crimes at the assisted living facility where we would now live? Who can do Starsky and Hutch better than him and me?No decisions would be made before the scripts come in, but it sounds like Soul and Glaser, who are both 79 now, could be written in as their original characters.
EXCLUSIVE: JoJo Siwa has signed on to star opposite Jade Pettyjohn (Little Fires Everywhere) in the horror-thriller All My Friends Are Dead from Saw 3D writer Marcus Dunstan.
EXCLUSIVE: Neon is in pole position to win North American rights to Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe horror-thriller Longlegs in the first sizeable domestic deal of this year’s EFM.
Lily James is just one of the big names attending the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards in London on Sunday evening, and the actress looked stunning when she made her entrance on the red carpet.The Cinderella actress wore a white Tamara Ralph gown which had a daring cross-hatch detail across the bust, making her overall look beautifully eye-catching. Lily smiled for photographs on the red carpet before her way into the ceremony, which is being held at the Royal Festival Hall.WATCH: Princess Kate's incredible BAFTA looks from over the years It comes soon after the Mamma Mia actress was spotted reuniting with her ex-boyfriend, Matt Smith earlier this week.
EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear International has closed a raft of international deals on EFM titles Longlegs and Fred & Ginger, we can reveal. The two projects were among the most in-demand with foreign buyers and the deals account for the lion’s share of each film’s budget.
Naman Ramachandran “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” star Sydney Sweeney communicated with the real-life Reality Winner to portray her in Tina Satter’s “Reality,” which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival. The film, which contains verbatim dialogue from the unedited transcript of an FBI audio recording, follows a tense 90 minutes in the life of whistleblower Winner as the FBI interrogate at her home in 2017. Winner, a former U.S. Air Force member and National Security Agency translator, was sentenced to five years in prison after she leaked an intelligence report to the media. “I had the honor and privilege to be able actually communicate with Reality. I was able to Zoom with her — Tina connected us — and I would text her throughout the process,” Sweeney told a press conference at Berlin on Saturday.
Riz Ahmed and Lily James are joining forces for the contemporary thriller “Relay,” which will be presented to buyers at European Film Market in Berlin.David Mackenzie, who helmed the Oscar-nominated “Hell or High Water,” will direct from a script he wrote with Justin Piasecki. Production begins in New York and New Jersey in April 2023.“Relay” stars Ahmed as Tom, a “fixer” whose specialty is brokering major payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten to ruin them.