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Director Dexter Fletcher (Eddie The Eagle, Rocketman) to direct a big-screen reboot of The Saint for Paramount.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/paramount-rocketmans-dexter-fletcher-the-saint-reboot-1203505890/
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Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) is re-teaming with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson for The Banshees Of Inisheer.
The film is set on a remote Irish isle, and they will play two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship with alarming consequences for both of them.
Filming starts this summer.
https://deadline.com/2020/02/martin-mcdonagh-colin-farrell-brendan-gleeson-reteam-next-film-1202862064/
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A24 to distribute Claire Denis' (High Life) next film, The Stars At Noon.
Set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution, the film follows a mysterious English businessman and a headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Starring: Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley (Once Upon A Time in Hollywood).
https://deadline.com/2020/02/robert-pattinson-movie-a24-swoops-us-rights-claire-denis-stars-at-noon-margaret-qualley-1202862098/
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First look at Chris Hemsworth in the Netflix action film Extraction:
Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
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Gerard Butler to star in action thriller Remote Control.
Butler will portray a former war correspondent turned corporate security consultant, whose life is overturned when he receives a mysterious phone call from an unknown source. He soon uncovers the threads of a global conspiracy, finding himself drawn into a fight for his life, pursued by a powerful shadow organization and framed as a notorious international assassin. With his own identity erased, he turns to his former lover, who is also implicated in the conspiracy.
Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for EON Productions will executive produce this film.
https://variety.com/2020/film/markets-festivals/gerard-butler-remote-control-movie-1203506112/
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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss on the set of Matrix 4:
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New image from Bill and Ted Face the Music:
The Banshees of Inisheer is probably worth seeing for the title alone already.
The centers on card player Tell (Isaac) whose spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk (Sheridan), an angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel (Dafoe). Gaining backing from mysterious gambling financier La Linda (Haddish), Tell takes Cirk with him on the road, going from casino to casino until the unlikely trio set their sights on winning a World Series of poker tournament.
Starring: Oscar Isaacs, Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan and Tiffany Haddish.
This is the 5th collaboration between Scorsese and Shrader, after Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation Of Christ and Bringing Out The Dead.
https://deadline.com/2020/02/martin-scorsese-paul-schrader-the-card-counter-tiffany-haddish-tye-sheridan-willem-dafoe-oscar-isaac-1202863079/
Martin Campbell will direct Liam Neeson in the crime thriller Memory.
The film follows Alex Lewis (Neeson), an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision, but when he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target and must go on the hunt for those who want him dead. Veteran FBI agents and a Mexican intelligence liaison are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies left in Lewis' wake. With both the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, he has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing – he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move and making his objective increasingly difficult to complete.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-liam-neeson-star-memory-martin-campbell-direct-1280090
Sounds like nothing Neeson has ever done before. Still, sounds entertaining enough.
First official image of Liam Neeson in The Ice Road:
After a remote diamond mine collapses in the far northern regions of Canada, an ice driver leads an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the lives of trapped miners despite thawing waters and a threat they never see coming.
Also starring Laurence Fishburne.
He must be struggling to find new asses to kick.
First image of Nicolas Cage in the horror-thriller Wally's Wonderland:
A drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at a now condemned theme park. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronic monsters.
Robert, a bohemian London artist, returns to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife. When they find the once-beautiful villa in ruins, father and son soon find themselves at odds. Robert, hopeless at home repairs, enlists the help of a no-nonsense ex-pat neighbor, Kate. Jack, meanwhile, falls for Natalia, a young Italian chef, who restores his appetite, for her trattoria and for life.
Directed by: James D'Arcy.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Lindsay Duncan, Valeria Bilello and Micheál Richardson.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ifc-takes-us-rights-james-darcys-made-italy-liam-neeson-1280779
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/creed-3-taps-king-richard-writer-zach-baylin-1281094
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Jurassic World: Dominion is the official title of the new film ; principal photography has started yesterday.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jurassic-world-3-title-is-dominion-1281086
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Eric Bana to write, direct and star in a film based on racer Mike 'The Bike' Hailwood.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/eric-bana-write-direct-star-film-based-racer-mike-bike-hailwood-1281125
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Don Johnson, James Badge Dale and James Cromwell join John Boyega in Netflix's Rebel Ridge, directed by Jeremy Saulner (Blue Ruin, Green Room).
The movie is said to be a high-velocity thriller that explores systemic American injustices through intense action sequences, suspense and dark humor.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/rebel-ridge-netflix-john-boyega-don-johnson-james-badge-dale-1203515256/
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Paramount to make a biopic about Sammy Davis Jr.
https://deadline.com/2020/02/sammy-davis-jr-movie-charles-murray-paramount-pictures-lionel-richie-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-mike-menchel-1202867223/
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Poster for Last and First Men - Directed by the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and narrated by Tilda Swinton
Two billion years from now, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. All that is left in the world are lone monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
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STX gets distribution rights for Gunpowder Milkshake.
Follows three generations of female assassins who, over the course of a single night, fight to stop a cycle of violence.
Starring: Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Paul Giamatti, Carla Gugino and Chloe Coleman.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stx-takes-gunpowder-milkshake-north-america-latin-america-china-1280948
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The crime thriller The Little Things gets an official release date: January 29, 2021.
Two cops track down a serial killer.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto and Natalie Morales.
Directed by: John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks, The Highwaymen).
https://deadline.com/2020/02/denzel-washington-rami-malek-cop-thriller-the-little-things-stakes-out-early-2021-release-1202871083/
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Escape Room 2 delayed from August 14th to December 30, 2020.
https://deadline.com/2020/02/escape-room-2-sony-release-date-change-2020-christmas-1202870886/
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Liev Schreiber joins Will Smith & Jon Bernthal in the tennis biopic King Richard.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/liev-schreiber-joins-will-smith-king-richard-1281628
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First look at Will Smith in King Richard:
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
Also starring: Liev Schreiber & Jon Bernthal.
Release date: November 25, 2020.
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Jason Statham exits the action/comedy film The Man From Toronto.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/jason-statham-exits-kevin-harts-man-toronto-1282432
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Jon Hamm in talks to join Don Cheadle & Sebastian Stan in the crime/thriller Kill Switch.
The film is described as a 1950s crime drama set in Detroit about a trio of criminals who carry out a home invasion, only to wonder if they’ve been double-crossed when the job goes sideways. Jon Hamm is in talks to play a cop on the trio’s trail.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh.
https://collider.com/jon-hamm-kill-switch-new-steven-soderbergh-movie/
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Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men, Gravity, The Revenant, Birdman) joins the new David O Russell drama.
Plot details are still under wraps.
Starring: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie & Michael B Jordan.
https://collider.com/david-o-russell-new-movie-emmanuel-lubezki-cinematography/
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Antonio Banderas joins Tom Holland & Mark Wahlberg in Uncharted. Ruben Fleischer (Venom, Zombieland, Zombieland: Double Tap) is confirmed to direct.
Filming is due to start in 2 weeks.
Release date: March 5, 2021.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/antonio-banderas-uncharted-movie-tom-holland-1203520345/
Tom Hanks is back in World War 2, 22 years after Saving Private Ryan, in Greyhound:
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Movie-wise, it is his third: he wrote & directed That Thing You Do! in 1996, and Larry Crowne in 2011.
As for WW2 related topic, he wrote the teleplay for one episode of Band of Brothers (the first episode).
Woody Harrelson replaces Jason Statham in the action/comedy The Man From Toronto.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/woody-harrelson-jason-statham-sonys-man-from-toronto-1203529334/