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Jennifer Jason Leigh, Randall Park, Eli Roth and more join Vanessa Kirby thriller Night Always Comes

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Netflix has just added quite a collection of actors to its upcoming thriller Night Always Comes starring Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning). The film is an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel of the same name from director Benjamin Caron (Sharper). Kirby plays Lynette, a woman who is trying to make a better life for […]

Jeffrey Wright cast in The Last of Us season 2

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HBO has announced Jeffrey Wright (The Batman) has joined the second season of The Last of Us, the hit series that is an adaptation of Naughty Dog’s successful and beloved video game franchise. This will not be Wright’s first foray into the world of The Last of Us. He voiced and provided motion capture for the character Isaac […]

Netflix acquires legal drama Monsanto starring Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern

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News has come from the Cannes Film Festival that Netflix has bought Monsanto, a legal drama based on a true story that stars Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick), Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Brave New World) and Laura Dern (Big Little Lies). Monsanto is directed by John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks), who also co-wrote the […]

Echo Valley adds Kyle MacLachlan, Fiona Shaw and Edmund Donovan

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Apple has just added to its cast for the upcoming thriller Echo Valley from Beast director Michael Pearce. According to Deadline, Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Fiona Shaw (IF) and Edmund Donovan (Civil War) will join Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney and Domhnall Gleeson in the film. Echo Valley follows Moore’s Kate Garretson living a rather secluded life on a farm she uses […]

Arsher Ali and David Morse cast in We Were Liars adaptation

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Amazon’s series adaptation of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars has added Arsher Ali (Funny Woman) and David Morse (The Green Mile) to its ensemble cast. The announcement comes from Deadline and Variety, respectively. Written by Lockhart in 2014, We Were Liars is “a tragic love story and an amnesia thriller set on a privately owned island off […]

Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage’s Brothers acquired by Amazon MGM

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Amazon MGM has bought the action comedy Brothers starring Josh Brolin (Dune: Part Two) and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones). The film will have a limited theatrical release before premiering on Prime Video. Brothers tells the story of “a reformed criminal (Brolin) whose attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother (Dinklage) […]

Tom Blyth says returning for more Hunger Games prequels is a “no-brainer”

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Last fall saw a return to the world of Panem with an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, featuring Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow years before he became Panem’s fearsome tyrant. Now Blyth has spoken about a potential return to The Hunger Games, saying stepping back into the role of […]

Edie Falco to return as Nurse Jackie in sequel series

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Dexter Morgan isn’t the only Showtime character to get a new series as Variety reports a sequel series to Nurse Jackie is in development with Edie Falco reprising her iconic role for Amazon Prime Studios. A new Nurse Jackie was rumoured to be in development last year, but this is our first official word of its existence as well […]

Rupert Friend cast in Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World movie

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The next Jurassic World film from director Gareth Edwards has added another to its cast. Rupert Friend is the latest to join the next installment in the long-running franchise. Friend most recently starred in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City and is known for his roles in Obi-Wan Kenobi, Homeland, Anatomy of a Scandal and Hitman: Agent 47. Friend will star alongside Scarlett Johansson […]

Holly Hunter is the first to join Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series

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There is a new Star Trek series on the way and it has cast its captain. According to Variety, Holly Hunter (Succession) is the first to join the cast as the Starfleet captain leading its Academy for cadets. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will follow “a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream […]