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Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang to Star in Remake of Ang Lee’s ‘The Wedding Banquet’

Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang have been selected to star in an upcoming remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romcom The Wedding Banquet. The reboot will be directed by Andrew Ahn from a screenplay by Ahn and James Schamus. The screenplay for the 1993 movie had been co-written by Lee, Schamus, and Neil Peng. According to…

Frank Darabont May Direct Stranger Things’ S5 Episodes

©Courtesy of DarkStar Pictures Legendary horror writer-director Frank Darabont is in talks to come out of retirement to helm two episodes of the upcoming final season of Stranger Things. Film critic Jeff Sneider revealed the news on The InSneider. On the television side of his career, the Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker is best known for developing…

Storyline Revealed For Angelina Jolie’s Cancelled Cleopatra Movie

©By the Sea. Screenwriter Brian Helgeland has revealed the plot details for his canceled Cleopatra movie, which would have starred Angelina Jolie as the titular Egyptian queen. The scribe, who won an Oscar for penning L.A. Confidential, started writing a screenplay for a new Cleopatra film in 2011 for Sony Pictures. Emmy winner David Fincher…

Shogun May Not Return for a Second Season on FX

© 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved. Despite popular and critical acclaim, Shogun may not be returning for a second season on FX, says showrunner and co-creator Justin Marks. Marks told The Hollywood Reporter this week that the production team may have run out of creative juice to expand on what James Clavell had written in his…

Academy Updates Rules and Campaign Protocols For 2025 Oscars

The Academy’s Board of Governors has released the new official awards rules and campaign promotional regulations that it will implement for the 97th Oscars, IndieWire is reporting. The biggest change is the expansion of the theatrical requirements for the Best Picture category for the movie industry’s most prestigious awards ceremony, which will be held on…

John Travolta Rumored to Rejoin Nicholas Cage for ‘Face/Off’ Sequel

© 1997 Paramount HE. All rights reserved. Though casting for Face/Off 2 has not yet been officially announced, it’s been confirmed that Nicholas Cage will be returning for the sequel to the action film originally directed by John Woo. Now it’s rumored that John Travolta, who co-starred with Cage in that original 1997 movie, has agreed…

‘The Blair Witch Project’ Cast Ask Lionsgate For Retroactive Residuals and Consultation on Future Projects

©Photo by Artisan Entertainment – © 1999 Artisan Entertainment Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams, the stars of the original The Blair Witch Project, have come together to release a public response and proposal to Lionsgate, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The news comes after the studio recently announced a partnership with Blumhouse to reboot…

Keanu Reeves Teams with “The Triangle of Sadness” Helmer Ruben Östlund

©Courtesy of Siberia, Saban Films  Keanu Reeves is reportedly being considered for the starring role in Ruben Östlund’s new film The Entertainment System is Down, which will likely begin shooting later this year. Though plot details are still sketchy, Variety is reporting that the film will follow a planeload of passengers who must deal with…

Sony and Apollo Discuss Joint Bid to Acquire Paramount Global

Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra is in talks with Apollo Global Management about making a joint bid to acquire Paramount, Deadline is reporting. The news comes as Skydance/Redbird Capital is also in exclusive talks with Paramount Global’s majority shareholder, National Amusements, to take control of the studio. Sony and Apollo’s offer is reportedly an…

Steven Spielberg Developing New UFO Movie

©Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Steven Spielberg is reuniting with successful genre screenwriter David Koepp to develop a new UFO movie, Variety is reporting. The duo previously worked together on such high-profile films as Jurassic Park and its first sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, as well as the last two…

Martin Scorsese Talks About Jesus and Frank Sinatra

@Courtesy of Life Itself As if making a film about Jesus Christ weren’t enough, Martin Scorsese is reviving plans to make his long-delayed biopic about Frank Sinatra, with Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly being considered to play the iconic crooner. The 81-year-old auteur is currently working on a film about Jesus that is based on a book by…