Sundance-Premiering Dark Comedy ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying,’ Produced By & Starring Daisy Ridley, Secures SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement

During this year’s Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm finally gave some definitive news about what to expect on the big screen with the galaxy far, far away. We have a movie from Dave Filoni, which is expected to be an “Avengers”-style convergence of all the live-action TV shows.

After years of the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise gathering dust on the shelf, Netflix has decided to revive it for, at least, one more adventure. And even though we are still likely pretty far away from its eventual 2024 release, we do have our first look at Eddie Murphy returning to his iconic role as Axel Foley, courtesy of Empire.

For many people, Daisy Ridley will always be known as the star of the most recent “Star Wars” sequel trilogy films. Even though those ended in 2019 and she has gone on to make other films, the proverbial stink of “Star Wars” lingers all around Ridley to this day.

Sometimes I Think About Dying which first premiered at Sundance earlier on this year. Daisy Ridley leads the cast of the movie which has had a US street date announced for 26th January 2024.Lost on the dreary Oregon coast, Fran (Daisy Ridley) finds solace in her cubicle, listening to the constant hum of officemates and occasionally daydreaming to pass the time.

Former President Barack Obama made mention of the end of Hollywood’s labor strife at a special screening on Friday of Rustin, the Netflix biopic of civil rights Bayard Rustin made by he and former First Lady Michelle Obama‘s Higher Ground Prioductions.

The actors are set to vote on the tentative agreement with the studios after the SAG-AFTRA national board approved the deal.

The SAG-AFTRA strike is officially over, and new details about the union’s new contract with TV and film studios have been revealed!

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA‘s new contract is worth more than $1 billion over three years. But the union did not get one of its top priorities: a share of revenue from each streaming platform. Fran Drescher, the union president, made that her top priority, arguing it was essential to transform the contract to keep up with a transformed industry.

President Joe Biden weighed in on the tentative agreement to resolve the SAG-AFTRA strike, pointing to it as an example of how “collective bargaining works.”

Ellise Shafer U.K. entertainment unions Bectu and Equity are celebrating the tentative agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP that is set to end the longest actors strike in Hollywood history. In an announcement on Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA said that the 118-day strike would officially end on Thursday at 12:01 a.m.

EXCLUSIVE: Venk Potula has been confirmed for The Black List fellow Nerris Nevarez-Nassiri’s upcoming indie musical Key Change.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director Todd Turner’s film The December Cross starring Jennifer Esposito (Fresh Kills), Kellan Lutz (Twilight), Judd Hirsch (The Fablemans), Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things), Neal McDonough (Minority Report), Mila Harris (No Exit), and Stelio Savante (Infidel), has landed a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement to start principal photography in Kentucky.

A24’s Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features expands to 60 from six and two new indies have wide debuts — What Happens Later from Bleecker Street, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens at 1,400 locations and Daisy Ridley-starring The Marsh King’s Daughter from Roadside Attractions at over 1,000.

EXCLUSIVE: Guy Pearce (Prometheus) and DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion) are attached to star in supernatural thriller Killing Faith, with Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction) in final negotiations to join.

The cast of the upcoming The Hunger Games prequel movie hasn’t been able to promote the film all summer long due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, but now they can thanks to an interim agreement!

EXCLUSIVE: Emmanuelle Chriqui and Hayes MacArthur have been set to star in A Love Like This, an indie romantic drama directed by John Asher based on an original screenplay by Jeffrey W. Ruggles. The project was recently granted a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement allowing it to move forward.

Nick Clement After making a promising directorial debut with 2021’s Western “Old Henry,” filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli is back with the twisted black-comedy thriller “Greedy People,” which harkens back to classic neo-noirs like Sam Raimi’s “A Simple Plan” while sampling the idiosyncrasies of a Coen brothers’ film. The original script, by Mike Vukadinovich (Showtime’s “Kidding”), piles on the narrative swerves, yet never at the expense of logic or motivation, showing off a macabre sense of humor with sharp dialogue. “I read close to 150 scripts in the 10 months after we finished ‘Old Henry,’ and only a few of them made a lasting impression.

Paul Rudd is one of the most likable actors working today. Jenna Ortega, on the other hand, is one of the most popular, thanks to her role in Netflix’s “Wednesday.” A24 is hoping that bringing them together for an upcoming dark comedy, “Death of a Unicorne,” could be a massive hit.

Saoirse Ronan is about to become a horrible teacher. Well, maybe not in real life—though her future plans are completely up to her—but definitely in the new film, “Bad Apples.” READ MORE: ‘Foe’ Trailer: Garth Davis’ Latest With Saoirse Ronan & Paul Mescal Premieres At The 2023 New York Film Festival According to Deadline, Saoirse Ronan is set to star in Jonatan Etzler’s upcoming English-language debut, “Bad Apples.” The film is based on Rasmus Lindgren’s novel, “De Oönskade,” and tells the story of a struggling teacher who finds herself in a tricky predicament when she traps her worst student in her own house.

Lionsgate, a non-AMPTP company, has secured a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement for its upcoming tentpole, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Deadline has confirmed.