‘Scenes From A Marriage’: Production Halted On HBO Drama Starring Jessica Chastain & Oscar Isaac

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJessica Chastain’s “Ava” has skipped a theatrical release in China, but is instead to get the widest possible online outing in the Middle Kingdom. From Saturday it is available on China’s four largest generalist streaming platforms: Tencent Video, Alibaba-owned Youku, iQIYI and Mango TV.The maneuver was piloted by Los Angeles and Beijing based Leeding Media.

Dave McNary Film ReporterFour-time Oscar nominee Peter Lamont, who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for production design for “Titanic,” has died. He was 91.Lamont’s death was disclosed Friday by the official 007 account on Twitter, which posted a statement by producers Michael G.

Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin are backing Netflix in their decision to not put a fictional disclaimer ahead of The Crown for viewers.

Jon Burlingame Composer Tom Holkenborg (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), also known as Junkie XL, is scoring the upcoming Universal spy thriller “The 355,” Variety has learned.Directed by Simon Kinberg (“Dark Phoenix”), the film features a powerhouse cast of women including Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penelope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Bingbing Fan. This marks Holkenborg’s first time working with Kinberg; Chastain is also one of the producers.

Selena: The Series in the No. 1 spot, while Big Mouth steadily holds on to No.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Body Brokers, a new crime thriller written and directed by Run with the Hunted helmer John Swab and starring Jack Kilmer and Alice Englert. A release in select theaters nationwide is set for February 19, 2021.

If you follow filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts on any form of social media, two things become readily apparent. First, the man has a lovely beard.

Metal Gear Solid film adaptation, according to reports.The Star Wars actor will play Solid Snake in the film, which is currently in development at Sony Pictures with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and producer Avi Arad, as reported by Deadline.Based on the Metal Gear Solid video game created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami, the film will be written by Derek Connolly, whose major credits include Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, the Jurassic World trilogy, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, and

Oscar Isaac just landed the ultimate sandbox gig. The Golden Globe-winner is set to  portray one of the most legendary secret operatives named Solid Snake in “Metal Gear Solid,” an upcoming film based on the wildly popular videogame of the same name, according to Deadline.

Video game movies have had a tough go of it on the big screen. When this year’s Sonic the Hedgehog is probably one of the more successful adaptations, something is amiss.

Lewis Pullman, Noah Reid, Shaun Sipos and Isabel Arraiza join Josh Brolin and Imogen Poots in the Amazon series Outer Range. Pullman, Reid, Sipos, and Arraiza round out the cast of series regulars, alongside previously announced lead actors Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski and Tom Pelphrey.

Oscar Isaac is taking on a very cool new role.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s long awaited Metal Gear Solid adaptation looks to have gained some major momentum as sources tell Deadline that Oscar Isaac is attached to play Solid Snake in the Jordan Vogt-Roberts film. The movie is currently in development at Sony Pictures with Vogt-Roberts on board to direct.

Dave McNary Film ReporterOscar Isaac is attached to play Solid Snake in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ action movie “Metal Gear Solid,” currently in development at Sony Pictures.The studio announced the casting Friday. The film is based on the 33-year-old “Metal Gear Solid” video game franchise, created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami.

Rebecca Davis editorChina on Thursday announced selection of Hong Kong director Peter Chan’s sports drama “Leap” as its contender for the Academy Awards’ best international feature film competition this year.The film tells the fact-based story of the Chinese women’s national volleyball team and their travails over the course of decades, from their world championship win in 1981 to their triumph at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

James McClain She’s still in her 20s, but increasingly prolific Hollywood filmmaker Erika Olde runs her own production company — West Hollywood’s Black Bicycle Entertainment, which has bankrolled major motion pictures, among them Whitney Cummings’ “The Female Brain,” the Reese Witherspoon-starrer “Home Again,” “Woman Walks Ahead,” featuring a critically-lauded Jessica Chastain performance, and Sacha Gervasi’s “November Criminals” — and she’s already a veteran on the luxury real estate scene,