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Naomi Watts is Trapped in a Wintry Nightmare in SHUT IN Trailer

Who would’ve thought that Jacob Tremblay, the 9-year-old boy who broke our hearts in Room only to them steal them later through his adorable quirks, would’ve found a niche in horror and suspense. The actor terrifies a family with all-too-real nightmares Before I Wake, and now the new trailer for Shut In has arrived to shown him pushing Naomi Watts to the brink of insanity as a ghost child.

The trailer sees Watts as a child psychologist named Mary. She lost her husband in a freak car accident that also left her son (played by Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton) in a vegetative state. It’s during this time that she takes on a new client, a boy named Tom (Tremblay), whom she takes into her home as a foster child. However, after he races off into the wintry night and is presumed dead, Mary believes he has come back to haunt her. Is he really a ghost? Is he really dead? Is this all in her head?

Shut In is directed by Farren Blackburn (Hammer of the Gods) from a screenplay by Christina Hodson, and also features Oliver Platt as Mary’s therapist. The film is scheduled for release on November 11th.



First ‘Shut In’ Trailer: Ghost Jacob Tremblay Is Driving Naomi Watts Crazy

 

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PITCH PERFECT 3 Recruits STEP UP: ALL IN Director Trish Sie

The Barden Bellas have found a new leader. Trish Sie has just been confirmed to direct Pitch Perfect 3, three months after Elizabeth Banks, who’d directed Pitch Perfect 2, stepped down from the helming gig.

Banks remains on board as a producer and will reprise her role as a cappella commentator Gail. Also back are stars Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and Brittany Snow, as well as screenwriter Kay Cannon, who scripted both of the earlier films. Pitch Perfect 3 is slated to open on December 22, 2017.

Sie’s last feature was 2014’s Step Up: All In, but she might be even better known for her amazing music videos with OK Go including “Here It Goes Again” and “Upside Down & Inside Out.”

‘Step Up: All In’ Helmer Trish Sie Replaces Elizabeth Banks as Director for 'Pitch Perfect 3'

 

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Sebastian Stan Joins Steven Soderbergh's LOGAN LUCKY

Sebastian Stan, best known for playing the Winter Soldier in Marvel’s Captain America movies, has joined the all-star cast of Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky.

Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Hilary Swank, Katherine Heigl, Adam Driver and Seth MacFarlane are among those on the call sheet of the NASCAR-set heist movie centered on two brothers.

The movie is currently shooting in Atlanta. Mark Johnson, Gregory Jacobs and Reid Carolin are producing.

Stan will play a three-time Sprint Cup Champion NASCAR driver who is coming back into the sport after time away.

Stan recently nabbed and wrapped a starring part in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a thriller that also stars Taissa Farmiga and Alexandra Daddario. The actor, who will appear in the indie I’m Not Here with Maika Monroe and J.K. Simmons, will shoot the next Avengers installment early next year.

'Captain America's' Sebastian Stan Joins Steven Soderbergh's 'Logan Lucky' (Exclusive)

 

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Natalie Dormer Joins Mel Gibson in THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN

Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer is plotting a return to the big screen with a starring role in the upcoming Mel Gibson/Sean Penn drama The Professor and the Madman, EW has confirmed.

Adapted from Simon Winchester’s book of the same name (originally titled The Surgeon of Crowthorne), Professor and the Madman chronicles the true story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Penn is set for the role of Dr. W.C. Minor, an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane, who initially submitted approximately 10,000 entries for inclusion in a compilation curated by Professor James Murray (Gibson) in 1857. Murray’s work would later evolve to become the OED.

Dormer will play the widow of a man killed by Penn’s character. According to THR, which first reported news of Dormer’s casting, a “complicated romance” ensures as Minor attempts to help the woman’s family.

Natalie Dormer Joins Mel Gibson and Sean Penn in 'The Professor and the Madman'

 

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Stanley Tucci Confirms His Return for TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT

Stanley Tucci, who was in Deauville to receive a career tribute on Saturday, will reprise his role as Joshua Joyce in Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight.

While in Deauville, Tucci confirmed his character, Joyce, the anti-hero of Transformers: Age of Extinction, will be back in the next installment of the franchise which has just started shooting with Mark Wahlberg, Laura Haddock and Anthony Hopkins.

Tucci is one of the few American stars who made the trip to Deauville this year. Bruno Barde, the festival’s artistic director, said the recent attacks have had an impact on attendance. Another factor is timing as Deauville is sandwiched between Venice and Toronto film festivals which lure some of the biggest U.S. indie films and talent.

Stanley Tucci Confirmed to Reprise ‘Transformers’ Role in ‘The Last Knight’

 

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Sebastian Stan Joins Steven Soderbergh's LOGAN LUCKY

Sebastian Stan, best known for playing the Winter Soldier in Marvel’s Captain America movies, has joined the all-star cast of Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky.

Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Hilary Swank, Katherine Heigl, Adam Driver and Seth MacFarlane are among those on the call sheet of the NASCAR-set heist movie centered on two brothers.

The movie is currently shooting in Atlanta. Mark Johnson, Gregory Jacobs and Reid Carolin are producing.

Stan will play a three-time Sprint Cup Champion NASCAR driver who is coming back into the sport after time away.

Stan recently nabbed and wrapped a starring part in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a thriller that also stars Taissa Farmiga and Alexandra Daddario. The actor, who will appear in the indie I’m Not Here with Maika Monroe and J.K. Simmons, will shoot the next Avengers installment early next year.

'Captain America's' Sebastian Stan Joins Steven Soderbergh's 'Logan Lucky' (Exclusive)

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Relativity's THE CROW Reboot to Begin Production in January

Relativity’s The Crow reboot will begin production this January, multiple individuals have confirmed to TheWrap.

News broke last month that Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones) was in talks to star in the reboot, which Colin Hardy is directing. Momoa recently posted a photo of himself with Hardy to Instagram with the hashtag “#sealthedeal.”

The Crow reboot will be a new adaptation of James O’Barr’s cult classic comic book that was originally adapted for the 1994 film starring Brandon Lee and directed by Alex Proyas.

Like the original, the story follows Eric Draven, a murder victim who returns from the dead, seeking vengeance on those who murdered him and his fiancée with the help of a mystical bird.

However, rather than a recreation of Proyas’ film, The Crow reboot is said to be a more faithful adaptation of the comic book source material.

Relativity is emerging from bankruptcy and The Crow reboot is a priority project for the studio as it looks to rebuild its reputation in Hollywood.

Relativity’s ‘The Crow’ Reboot with Jason Moma Attached to Star to Begin Production in January (Exclusive)

 

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First Trailer for Christopher Guest's New Mockumentary MASCOTS

Christopher Guest’s sense of the comically absurd returns in full force in the first trailer for Netflix's Mascots. Guest, whose directing credits include A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and For Your Consideration, set his most recent project during the ultra-competitive 8th World Mascot Association Championships. Mascots compete for prestigious Gold Fluffy.

The cast includes regulars in Guest’s previous mockumentaries such as Ed Begley Jr., Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban and Jennifer Coolidge along with Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Matt Griesser, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins and Jim Piddock.

Mascots will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10 and will launch globally on Netflix Oct. 13.



‘Mascots’: Watch the First Trailer for Christopher Guest’s New Mockumentary [Video]

 

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First Trailer for Christopher Guest's New Mockumentary MASCOTS

Christopher Guest’s sense of the comically absurd returns in full force in the first trailer for Netflix's Mascots. Guest, whose directing credits include A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and For Your Consideration, set his most recent project during the ultra-competitive 8th World Mascot Association Championships. Mascots compete for prestigious Gold Fluffy.

The cast includes regulars in Guest’s previous mockumentaries such as Ed Begley Jr., Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban and Jennifer Coolidge along with Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Matt Griesser, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins and Jim Piddock.

Mascots will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10 and will launch globally on Netflix Oct. 13.



‘Mascots’: Watch the First Trailer for Christopher Guest’s New Mockumentary [Video]

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I thought he retired?

Soderbergh officially came out of movie directing retirement for Logan Lucky. But not really a big deal since he has been directing TV movies and TV episodes for several years prior to this.

 

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Rebecca Ferguson Joins Hugh Jackman in Musical THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

Rebecca Ferguson, who broke through with Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, has joined the cast of The Greatest Showman, Fox’s musical focusing on P.T. Barnum, the founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The actress joins Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams and Zendaya in the project that will be directed by Michael Gracey.

Jackman is playing Barnum, while Efron will portray a playwright who becomes Barnum’s right-hand man. Williams will play Jackman’s love interest and Zendaya will play a trapeze artist Efron's character falls for.

Ferguson will star as Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, who worked for Barnum in 1950.

Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, who were Tony-nominated for The Christmas Story, are writing original songs for the film.

Ferguson next stars with Emily Blunt in DreamWorks’ adaptation of The Girl on the Train. She also is part of the ensemble cast of the sci-fi thriller Life, being directed by Daniel Espinosa.

Rebecca Ferguson Joins Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron in Musical 'The Greatest Showman'

 

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Jared Hess to Direct New Shanghai Noon Movie SHANGHAI DAWN

MGM is jumping back into the saddle for a new Shanghai Noon sequel. Jared Hess, the Napoleon Dynamite director, who releases his long-delayed comedy Masterminds later this month, has signed on to direct Shanghai Dawn for MGM.

Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson are in negotiations to reprise their roles for the long-in-the-works third film in the movie series.

Details are being kept buried, but the story is by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, who wrote 2000’s Shanghai Noon and 2003’s Shanghai Knights. Theodore Riley and Aaron Buchsbaum wrote the script.

Hess broke through with Dynamite, the Sundance sensation which he also co-wrote. He also directed and co-wrote Nacho Libre, Gentlemen Broncos and Don Verdean.

'Napoleon Dynamite' Director Jared Hess Tackling 'Shanghai Noon' Sequel (Exclusive)

 

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First Trailer for Christopher Guest's New Mockumentary MASCOTS

Christopher Guest’s sense of the comically absurd returns in full force in the first trailer for Netflix's Mascots. Guest, whose directing credits include A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and For Your Consideration, set his most recent project during the ultra-competitive 8th World Mascot Association Championships. Mascots compete for prestigious Gold Fluffy.

The cast includes regulars in Guest’s previous mockumentaries such as Ed Begley Jr., Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban and Jennifer Coolidge along with Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Matt Griesser, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins and Jim Piddock.

Mascots will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10 and will launch globally on Netflix Oct. 13.



‘Mascots’: Watch the First Trailer for Christopher Guest’s New Mockumentary [Video]

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Will Smith Meets Death, Time and Love in First COLLATERAL BEAUTY Trailer

New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow Pictures have debuted the first Collateral Beauty trailer, featuring Will Smith. When a successful New York advertising executive (Smith) experiences a deep personal tragedy and retreats from life entirely, his colleagues devise a drastic plan to force him to confront his grief in a surprising and profoundly human way.

The cast includes Edward Norton, Keira Knightley, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris and Jacob Latimore (The Maze Runner), with Oscar winners Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren.

Helmed by Oscar-winning director David Frankel (Dear Diary, The Devil Wears Prada) from an original screenplay by Allan Loeb (21), Collateral Beauty has been slated for release on December 16, 2016.



Will Smith Meets Death, Time and Love in the First Trailer for 'Collateral Beauty'

 

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Greg Berlanti to Direct SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA

Greg Berlanti, best known as one of the architects of DC’s television universe, is heading to the movies. The TV showrunner is in negotiations to direct Fox 2000’s adaptation of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

An adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s YA best-seller, Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger wrote the script. An early 2017 start date is being eyed.

Described as a coming-of-age coming-out story, the plot centers on a high school junior named Simon whose sexual-orientation secret falls into the hands of the class clown. The latter blackmails the teen into playing cupid and while that unfolds, Simon tries to navigate a way that will let him come out to his friends and family, not pushed out.

Berlanti directed 2010’s relationship drama Life As We Know It, which starred Katherine Heigl, but is best known for his TV work, which ranges from Dawson’s Creek to Brothers & Sisters.The last several years have seen him devote time to adaptations of DC Entertainment comics and characters, with him writing, developing and executive producing Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow.

Greg Berlanti to Direct Coming-Out Drama 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda' (Exclusive)

 

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Selene is Back in the First International Trailer for UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS

Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment have released the trailer for Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth film in the long-running franchise which features Kate Beckinsale returning as Selene.

Theo James (The Divergent Series) returns as Selene’s ally David, reprising the role he played in Underworld: Awakening. British actors Tobias Menzies (Outlander) and Lara Pulver (Sherlock) take on the respective roles of a formidable new Lycan leader and a fiercely ambitious Vampire, and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) again plays Vampire elder Thomas.

Anna Foerster is directing. She previously directed episodes of the television series Criminal Minds and Outlander. Underworld Blood Wars will arrive in theaters on January 6, 2017.



First Trailer for 'Underworld: Blood Wars' Starring Kate Beckinsale, Theo James and Charles Dance

 

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First Intense, Action-Packed Trailer for Iko Uwais' HEADSHOT

The new action-thriller Headshot was directed by Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel, creators of 2009’s deranged horror film Macabre, and stars Iko Uwais, who portrayed the main cop in 2011’s hyper-violent The Raid and its equally mayhemic sequel 2014 sequel.

The film finds Uwais playing a nameless man who wakes up in a hospital with severe head trauma, not knowing who he is or what happened to him. Assisted by a student doctor Ailin (Chelsea Islan), who nicknames him “Ishmael” after the character in Moby Dick, he recovers and tries to regain his memory. But Ishmael’s past catches up to him, in the form of Lee (Sunny Pang), a drug lord and gang boss whose tentacles reach deep into the police and the penal system. When Ailin is kidnapped and Ishmael sets out to get her back, he finds himself pitted against an array of skilled fighters who may have been his former colleagues.

Headshot is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this week and opens in Indonesia on December 16th, there’s no US release date yet.



'The Raid' Star is Back in Action with Extreme Teaser for TIFF Thriller 'Headshot'

 

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Johnny Depp to Star in Notorious B.I.G.-Tupac Thriller LABYRINTH

After playing gangster Whitey Bulger in last year’s Black Mass, Johnny Depp is once again taking on a true-life figure, this time on the opposite side of the law.

Depp is attached to play Detective Russell Poole, the Los Angeles police detective who investigated the murders of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, in Labyrinth, sources have confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

Brad Furman, the Lincoln Lawyer helmer, is attached to direct the project, which hails from Good Films, the company behind Bryan Cranston crime drama The Infiltrator.

Christian Contreras wrote the screenplay adapting Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal.

Poole was a decorated detective who spent months investigating the murder of B.I.G., real name Christopher Wallace, eventually coming to believe that a group of “gangsta cops in his own force were not only involved but were also tied to Death Row Records and the Bloods street gang." The result was confrontations with the LAPD police chief and culminated with Poole going into early retirement in protest.

Although his turn in Black Mass netted some of his strongest reviews in years, Depp has endured a difficult summer inside and outside the theater, with his ongoing and very public divorce to Amber Heard and starring in one of the summer’s biggest bombs, Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Johnny Depp to Star in Notorious B.I.G.-Tupac Shakur Thriller 'Labyrinth' Directed by Brad Furman

 

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BOOSTER GOLD Movie Will Not Be Part of the DC Extended Universe

In May 2016, news broke that DC Comics television producer extraordinaire Greg Berlanti is working on a Booster Gold movie.

Fans of Booster Gold and Berlanti’s DC Comic television work were exciting to hear that the light-hearted character and the mind behind The CW’s television universe would both be coming to the DC Extended Universe. However, it turns out that’s not exactly the case.

Speaking to Vulture, Berlanti revealed that the Booster Gold movie will not be a part of the DC Extended Universe. "As of right now we have no connective tissue to those worlds," Berlanti said. "It'd be a separate thing."

Berlanti also added that the idea for a Booster Gold movie came after a Booster Gold television project “never got off the ground.”

Greg Berlanti Says 'Booster Gold' Movie Will Not Be Part Of The DC Extended Universe

 

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Character Posters for NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal

Focus Features has revealed four new character posters from Nocturnal Animals, which stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Karl Glusman, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen.

From writer/director Tom Ford (A Single Man) comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves. Nocturnal Animals opens in select cities November 18, in additional cities November 23 and in theaters nationwide December 9.

Nocturnal Animals Character Posters Starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal Revealed