Universal's movie adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen has cast The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg to play the role of Alana. Dear Evan Hansen opened on Broadway in 2016 and it won six Tony Awards including Best Actor in a Musical for Ben Platt and Best Musical. The musical's about...
Universal is working on another monster universe film just months after the success of Elisabeth Moss’ Invisible Man. The studio is attached to the remake of 2010’s Werewolf with Ryan Gosling set to star. The script is based on an original pitch by Gosling and is penned by Orange Is...
Jessica Alba has been tapped to lead Netflix’s forthcoming feature Trigger Warning.  The action-thriller will be directed by Mouly Surya from a script by Josh Olson and John Brancato. Surya is best known for helming the Cannes entry Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts. Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are producing,...
While virtually nothing is known about M. Night Shyamalan’s next movie, we can finally update that the filmmaker has rounded out its cast.  Variety reports  Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, and Vicky Krieps are in negotiations to star in the forthcoming feature.  Scanlen is best known for playing...
Ryan Reynold and Shawn Levy team again got a new time travel feature.  The film set at Skydance will be directed by Levy and will star Reynold. Levy will also produce alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger of Skydance. According to Variety, Reynolds will star as a man who...
Chris Pine is in talks to star as the lead in Paramount Pictures’ reboot of The Saint. Variety confirms that Pine is in negotiations to star in the studio’s remake the film based on a 1920s book series of the same name by Leslie Charteris. The reboot will be directed by...
Maddie Ziegler has been cast in The Fallout joining You star Jenna Ortega.  Ziegler will star in the teen drama from filmmaker Megan Park who will write and direct the feature. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Fallout centers on high schooler Vada (Ortega) who must navigate the emotional fallout...
Amazon’s television adaptation of Pretty Things will star Nicole Kidman,  Variety was first to report that the Oscar-winning actress will star as one of the leads in the series based Janelle Brown’s novel of the same name.  In Pretty Things, “Two wildly different women—one a grifter, the other an heiress—are brought...
Ryan Reynolds is in talks to star and produce a live-action feature adaptation of the arcade game Dragon’s Lair for Netflix. Dragon’s Lair was originally released for arcades in 1983. It features Dirk the Daring, a knight who sets out to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe and...
Ryan Gosling is set to star in another astronaut movie.  Multiple outlets report that the actor will produce and star in Project Hail Mary. The film will adapt a story from The Martian author Andy Weir. It is also reported that MGM is in exclusive talks for the film’s rights...