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EXCLUSIVE: Following the acclaim of the comedy Dumb Money, director Craig Gillespie and Sony Pictures are reteaming on another film in where money plays a factor in the central story. In a competitive situation, Sony has acquired Daniel Casey’s untitled heist spec screenplay, with Gillespie set to direct and Plan B producing.

George Clooney‘s hints about a possible “Ocean’s 14” movie wasn’t the only heist film to make the news yesterday. Deadline reports that Netflix won out over seven other studio bidders for a Ryan Reynolds global heist comedy.

It seems like anytime a bidding war breaks out these days, the only ones who can truly win it are Netflix, Amazon, or Apple, the streamers with essentially the biggest coffers. And true to this posit, Apple has won another big one in “Two For The Money,” a heist thriller with an enticing package: Charlize Theron and Daniel Craig starring with filmmaker Justin Lin (“Fast & Furious 6” “F9,” and “Star Trek Beyond”) directing.

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a hot pitch deal in the works that has Ryan Reynolds attached to star and produce with Simon Kinberg. There are seven big bids on the table right now, after a day’s worth of pitching to studios and streamers.

authorities?” Ashley, now 38, told The Post. “I sat with it for a day. Then I realized that, if he is not Tom Randele, I am not Ashley Randele.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is returning for more of The Gold.

What would you do to become rich beyond your wildest dreams? A crew of thieves attempt their biggest score in “Lift.” This determined team is led by mastermind Cyrus Whitaker, played by Kevin Hart; it’s up to Whitaker to keep them on track, but nothing ever goes as planned. The result is a fast-paced ride that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats.

Culprits kicks off where most stories end, after a high-stakes heist.The Disney+ show follows a crew of elite criminals who go their separate ways after their mission – that is until the gang find themselves being killed off one by one.The eight-part series picks up with one member of the crew, Joe (played by Misfits star Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) who has since relocated to the States.Three years after the heist he’s living with his two kids and fiancé Jules, who has no idea about Joe’s previous life or UK identity. Canadian actor Kevin Vidal plays Jules and says it’s life imitating art between him and his character.

One of France's most prolific art thieves has revealed how he pulled off France's biggest art heist in the latest Netflix true crime documentary, The Spiderman Of Paris.

Ellise Shafer Before the world premiere of long-awaited sequel “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” at the BFI London Film Festival, the team behind the Aardman production revealed that they set out to make a “feminist classic” that is also an “homage to heist films.” “Dawn of the Nugget” comes 23 years after the original “Chicken Run” was released. In the sequel, Ginger (Thandiwe Newton) and Rocky (Zachary Levi) embark on another dangerous adventure when daughter Molly (Bella Ramsey) flees their idyllic island home for the mainland.

What would you do for money? The question gets even more complicated when $156 million is on the line. “Your Lucky Day” sees one such group fighting over a life-changing lottery win; soon, their conflict turns even more violent as a deadly hostage situation unfolds.

DPR IAN has released a new track titled ‘So I Danced’.The visual for the new track follows the singer as he enters a whimsical, vibrant world where he leads a heist with a faceless figure, spiralling further into insanity. In pursuit of him, however, is a masked man, who is later revealed to be another version of himself.“I left all the water running at home / Then drove around with a car that we stole / All of a sudden they just wanted to know / How I really feel / So I just danced,” he sings in the refrain.‘So I Danced’ is the second song DPR IAN has released from the forthcoming EP ‘Dear Insanity…’, following last month’s ‘Peanut Butter & Tears’.

French actress Mélanie Laurent has really taken her career into her own hands in the last few years. While she really turned heads with one of the lead roles in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII movie “Inglourious Basterds” and immediately grabbed Hollywood’s ear—starring in films like “Beginners,” “Now You See Me,” “By The Sea” and Michael Bay’s “6 Underground”— she also quickly turned to her own projects and became a filmmaker almost as soon as she popped up onto the global stage.

French actress Mélanie Laurent has really taken her career into her own hands in the last few years. While she really turned heads with one of the lead roles in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII movie “Inglourious Basterds” and immediately grabbed Hollywood’s ear—starring in films like “Beginners,” “Now You See Me,” “By The Sea” and Michael Bay’s “6 Underground”— she also quickly turned to her own projects and became a filmmaker almost as soon as she popped up onto the global stage.

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who touts 1.4 million followers on TikTok, is not suspected of taking part in the June 26 robbery of the Berger jewelry store in the upscale Antara shopping center in Mexico City, Jam Press reports.But Mendoza is being held at Santa Martha Acatitla on “concealment by reception,” according to El Universal. Her romantic partner is the suspected mastermind of the spree.“Yulissa, you are not alone,” banner-toting supporters chanted outside the prison Tuesday.“You see, you feel, Yulissa is innocent” was another rallying cry.The protesters claim Judge Víctor Elías Pacheco violated Mendoza’s human rights by locking her up for a recommended period of two months while the investigation is carried out, Jam Press reports.

EXCLUSIVE: African streamer Showmax has greenlit a Kenyan crime drama set in the aftermath of a heist gone bad. Scroll down for a teaser.

Whether it’s the flat white lighting and washed-out color grading that gives The Delinquents the look of a ‘70s TV serial, or the fact that much of it is set in a mountain swimming beach where people claim to see apparitions, there is an undercurrent of genuine oddity running beneath this long, complex film. Screening at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section for innovative or personal cinema, Rodrigo Moreno’s story begins with a bank robbery. The very ease with which this crime is committed is odd in itself: Moran (Daniel Elias) simply walks into the bank vault, puts a pile of American dollars in his gym bag and goes home. Not what you expect in a heist film, but here is the point. Over the next three hours, Moreno will deconstruct the genre with the calm focus of a safecracker taking apart a lock.

Jessica Kiang Most of us know the illicit rush of the sick day slyly pulled when you’re not really sick. The turning you ignore on your commute, but that one day, for no real reason, you take. Oh, that sudden, intoxicating sniff of freedom! It’s perhaps the closest thing that many of us get as adults to the ceaseless adventure we thought, as children, we’d be living. Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno’s delightful “The Delinquents” knows the feeling too. Over the course of its droll, meandering, indefinably strange three hours, it may well persuade you that the crazy thing is not to break from your normal routine. The crazy thing is to ever go back. Filmmakers have long been attracted to the heist format for the high drama it can generate, but Moreno begins his movie with a bank robbery so banal it’s hard to believe that’s actually what is going on. And yet, at the end of a workday in a basement lock-room, here is balding bank worker Morán, played with a perfectly defeated air of middle-management moral relativism by Daniel Elias, packing wads of notes into a concealed duffel bag. The vault is no gleaming piece of “Mission: Impossible” engineering, but a scuffed, scruffy cell in which the note-counting machine keeps getting stuck mid-riffle. Even the vault door looks like it’s fed up of being a vault door, and is only continuing to function as such because that is all it knows. 

The Cannes Film Festival can be daunting. Sure, there are always 25-plus titles you know, but dozens of titles you’ve never heard of and don’t know if they’re worth seeing or covering.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has put Bandidos, a thriller series about an underwater heist, into production.

Having consumed witchetty grubs, waded through fish guts, and endured being buried alive, nine brave stars are returning for another round of I'm A Celebrity-style torture, ready to face new challenges, push their limits, and test their mettle in the jungle once again. Meanwhile, let's not forget the iconic moments from their previous seasons that catapulted the celebs to even greater fame. Each campmate has a standout moment that will live with them forever, and with I'm A Celebrity...

the fury when we first meet the London-dweller. If anything, she still has a lot to learn in martial arts, until she can outstrip the unsuccessful laughing stock lens many seem to view her through.

EXCLUSIVE: Crime heist drama series Vanda is headed to Hulu. The U.S. streamer will be the exclusive SVOD home to the series, an international co-production from Legendary, indie producer SPi and Spain’s La Panda.

misdemeanor petty theft for stealing $854 worth of comic books on Oct. 4, 2022, a spokesperson for the San Diego City Attorney’s Office told The Post Thursday.Buffer, 55, must pay back Southern California Comics the value stolen and stay away from the store, the city attorney’s office said.He was sentenced to one day in custody, where he will report to jail to be booked and released, and serve one year of probation.He must also serve 12 hours of community service and take an anti-theft course.Jamie Newbold, the owner of Southern California Comics, told The Post he was happy to see the case behind him.“This man stressed me out, stressed out my employees, we remained stressed out,” Newbold said.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Netflix has set the launch date for Part 3 of “Lupin,” its popular heist series starring Omar Sy, for Oct. 3. Louis Leterrier, who’s just been tapped to helm the next installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, is back in the director’s chair for the third part of “Lupin,” which will come more than two years after Part 2. As previously reported, the new season of “Lupin” started filming in the French capital in November 2021, so the launch comes a good deal of time after Part 2 debuted in June 2021. Sy is reprising his role as Assane Diop, a character inspired by the world-famous gentleman thief and master of disguise, Arsène Lupin. The cast will also bring back Ludivine Sagnier and Clotilde Hesme, among others.

EXCLUSIVE: Cedric the Entertainer (The Neighborhood), Sophia Ali (Uncharted), Gregg Henry (Guardians of the Galaxy), Adhir Kalyan (United States of Al), Reno Wilson (Good Girls) and Jamie Lee (Crashing) will topline Above The Line, an independent dark heist-comedy from director Jeffrey Scott Collins. Others set for roles include Dylan Playfair (Letterkenny), Jackson Pace (The Walking Dead), John Way (Sweet Sunshine), Suzy Nakamura (The West Wing) and Jordan Claire Robbins (The Umbrella Academy).

40 miles from Central London — wasn’t the kind of place to keep police on the edge of their seats in suspense. But in the early hours of Feb. 22, 2006, a call came in that rocked local law enforcement — and shortly after, an entire nation.

Catherine Bray The various elements of writer-director-star Louis Garrel’s low-key comic crime caper don’t sound that original at first glance. The audience-friendly plot involves a troubled thirtysomething, Abel (Garrel), lured by family connections into assisting with a heist in order to protect those he loves. In addition to this conscience-plagued hero, the cast of characters include Abel’s free-spirited mother (Anouk Grinberg), a reformed — or is he? — ex-con (Roschdy Zem), a manic-pixie dream girl-esque female lead (Noémie Merlant) and various shady underworld sorts mostly restricted to hiding in the shadows. But this film is a slightly slipperier customer than a topline summary would suggest, with tonal shifts that shouldn’t work, but somehow do. Fans of the likes of Maren Ade’s 2016 comedy-drama Toni Erdmann or Alex van Warmerdam’s 2013 psychological thriller Borgman may recognize a kindred sensibility.

Sports Illustrated Studios & 101 Studios has partnered with future Hall of Famer Stephen Curry and his Unanimous Media to produce a narrative film and a documentary about the All Star Café. The projects will be based on Jon Wertheim’s 2020 Sports Illustrated article.

EXCLUSIVE: Raúl Castillo (The Inspection), Tony Cavalero (The Righteous Gemstones), Melonie Diaz (The First Purge) and Josh Brener (Silicon Valley) are set to topline Cold Wallet — a crypto-heist thriller from director Cutter Hodierne (Fishing Without Nets), which has wrapped production.

Production is underway on the new Prime Video series “The Sticky,” with Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr leading the cast of the true-story heist comedy. Inspired by the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist,” the story follows the 2011 theft of 70% of the global maple syrup supply – about $13 million U.S.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Newly-minted Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis is set to guest star in the upcoming Amazon comedy series “The Sticky.” It was previously announced that Curtis would executive produce the series, which was ordered at Amazon in April 2022. In addition, Guillaume Cyr (“Louis Cyr,” “The New Life of Paul Sneijder”) has joined the show in one of its lead roles alongside Margo Martindale and Chris Diamantopoulos. Production is now underway on the series in and around Montreal. As previously announced, the series is inspired by the true story of the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist,” in which 70% of the world’s global maple syrup supply was stolen.

Naman Ramachandran New York-based film and TV studio and streaming network FilmRise has acquired North American distribution rights to true-crime documentary feature film “The Thief Collector.” Directed by Emmy winner Allison Otto (“The Love Bugs”), the film follows one of the most audacious and puzzling art thefts of a generation. In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s seminal work, “Woman-Ochre,” was sliced from its frame and stolen off the walls of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, disappearing into the desert. Over 30 years later, in a remote town in New Mexico, the $160 million dollar painting was rediscovered in the unlikeliest of places – the home of an eccentric married couple, both schoolteachers, with a keen eye for great works but a very unconventional method of collecting them. The film features Glenn Howerton co-creator, director, writer and star of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

Dennis Harvey Film Critic “Righteous Thieves” ends with its protagonists having a wee festival of self-congratulation, sipping champagne as they promise themselves — and perhaps threaten viewers — they’ll have more adventures like the one that’s just wrapped. Their delight is not infectious, because this dopey caper’s prior 90 minutes have been rather like hoisting a flute of promised champers only to taste flat Fresca.  Director Anthony Nardolillo and writer Michael Corcoran’s film strikes a pose of sly ingeniousness throughout that is uncorroborated by any actual cleverness, surprise, wit, tension, thrills or much else you’d hope for in a high-end-heist tale. The “righteous” part — that our heroes are reclaiming artworks stolen by Nazis long ago — feels no less superficial than everything else in this uninspired genre piece. Lionsgate opens it in seven U.S. theatrical markets March 10, simultaneous with digital and on demand release. 

EXCLUSIVE: Cazzie David (The Umbrella Academy), Jon Rudnitsky (SNL), Karan Soni (Deadpool franchise), Oliver Cooper (Red Oaks), Taylor Hill (Babylon) and Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) will lead the heist comedy Stealing Pulp Fiction, marking the feature debut of writer-director Danny Turkiewicz, which has wrapped production in Los Angeles.