After helming “Jurassic World” — and then sitting out for its sequel, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” — Colin Trevorrow is set to return to direct the third pic in the series, which he is currently co-writing with Emily Carmichael. Entertainment Weekly broke the...

Paramount and Todd Garner have signed a two-year first-look deal for Garner’s Broken Road Productions. Garner formed Broken Road in 2005 and has produced 18 films. He inked a two-year first-look deal with Covert Media covering co-financing and co-production in 2016...

Steven Spielberg is planning to start shooting the untitled fifth Indiana Jones movie for Disney in the U.K. in a little more than a year. He made the disclosure Sunday night at the Rakuten TV Empire Awards, where he was on stage to receive a Legend of Our Lifetime...

Elisabeth Moss will star with Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish in the mob drama “The Kitchen” for New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment. “Straight Outta Compton” writer Andrea Berloff will direct from her own script, based on the comic book series by Ollie Masters...

A striking first image from “Judy” shows Renee Zellweger playing show business legend Judy Garland in a biopic from Pathé, BBC Films and Ingenious Media. Principal photography is now underway on the picture, which is being shot in London. The movie is set in the late...

Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, Pedro Pascal and Adria Arjona are starring in J.C. Chandor’s crime thriller, the long-in-development project known as “Triple Frontier.” Netflix announced Monday that the currently untitled project begins...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzcaR1N0pTI While celebrating the best of film from the past year, the Oscars also gave a sneak peek at the upcoming “Mary Poppins Returns” during a commercial break Sunday night. In the clip, a storm blows through the streets, catching...

Tiffany Haddish will star with Tika Sumpter and Omari Hardwick in Tyler Perry’s comedy “The List.” Perry is directing from his own script and producing. Paramount Players has already set a Nov. 2 release date for the film. Haddish will portray a wild woman who gets...

Queen Latifah will star in the inspirational true-life drama “Hope’s Wish.” Production will start on April 9 in North Carolina. Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson made the announcement on Monday. Los Angeles-based finance...

While engaging with fans on Twitter Tuesday, “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn revealed a major plot point from the films — Groot is dead, and Baby Groot is his son. What started out as a debate over who to save between Groot and porgs from “Star Wars: The...

Haley Bennett, who gained acclaim for “The Girl on the Train” and “The Magnificent Seven,” and German star Matthias Schweighoefer are in talks to take key lead roles in writer/director Jonathan Jakubowicz’s “Resistance,” alongside Jesse Eisenberg. The movie follows...

Universal and Legendary are teaming up on Dwayne Johnson’s action comedy, “Red Notice,” winning a bidding war for the project. Warner Bros. New Line, Paramount and Sony were also involved in seeking to land the heist thriller project, which has Rawson Marshall Thurber...

Sony Pictures is moving forward with a sequel to “Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle,” with writers Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner in negotiations to pen the script. The sequel would bring back Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan to reprise their...

Selena Gomez will voice a role in Universal’s “The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle.” The project stars Robert Downey Jr., while Tom Holland, Emma Thompson, and Ralph Fiennes round out the voice cast and Antonio Banderas and Michael Sheen will portray live-action characters....

STX Entertainment and China’s Alibaba Pictures will partner to co-develop and co-produce the sci-fi action movie “Steel Soldiers,” with Robert Zemeckis producing. STX will handle U.S. and international distribution, while Alibaba retains rights in Greater China. Plans...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZNBFcwd7zc Cable gets his moment in the limelight in the action-packed “Deadpool 2” trailer released by Fox on Wednesday. “I was born into war, bred into it,” Josh Brolin’s new villain says in the footage. “People think they understand...

Julianne Moore and her husband, writer-director Bart Freundlich, are teaming on a remake of Susanne Bier’s 2006 drama “After the Wedding” with plans to cast the two lead roles as women, set in and around New York. Cornerstone Films has come on board to handle...

Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley (“Gandhi,” “Schindler’s List”) and Monica Bellucci (“Spectre”) will co-star in “Spider in the Web,” a counterespionage thriller helmed by Eran Riklis (“Lemon Tree”). The movie will shoot in Belgium and the Netherlands this spring. The...

Kaya Scodelario will play Carole Ann Boone, the ex-wife of serial killer Ted Bundy, in the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” Zac Efron is starring as Bundy opposite Lily Collins, who will play his longtime girlfriend. John Malkovich is portraying...

Alex Ross Perry directing from his own script. Moss will lead an ensemble cast and produce the film, alongside Matthew Perniciaro and Michael Sherman of Bow and Arrow, Adam Piotrowicz, and Perry. Moss will star as Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock...

John Cena is in talks to star in Paramount’s “Duke Nukem” movie, a big-screen version of the long-running video game franchise. The project is set up at Paramount-based Platinum Dunes, which is operated by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller. No director or...

It looks like it’s time for Pixar fans to find their super suits, as Pixar released new concept art and cast photos ahead of “Incredibles 2.” The Facebook page for “The Incredibles” posted 11 images of character concept art paintings alongside photographs of the voice...

John Malkovich has joined the cast of the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” as Judge Edward Cowart about the 1979 murder trial of serial killer Ted Bundy. Cowart presided over the trial and sentenced Bundy to death. The trial was nationally...

After being courted for several months, Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Quentin Tarantino’s untitled Charles Manson movie, sources confirmed to the media DiCaprio will play an aging, out-of-work actor in the film. Margot Robbie, meanwhile, is being eyed for the role of...

Warner Bros.-DC Entertainment’s superhero movie “Shazam!” has been set for an April 19, 2019, release date. The film stars Zachary Levi, who plays the titular superhero, and Asher Angel, who plays Billy Batson, a young boy who turns into Shazam when he utters the...

Romanian boxer Florian Munteanu has joined Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in “Creed 2,” sources confirmed to the media, with production expected to start in spring 2018. Along with Jordan and Stallone, Munteanu also joins Tessa Thompson, who will also return...

CASTINGS Vin Diesel is in early talks to star in Sony’s “Bloodshot” science-fiction movie project, based on the Valiant comic character. “Bloodshot” would be produced by Neal Moritz through his Original Films alongside Valiant’s Dinesh Shamdasani. Moritz is a producer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=PJBmeqpw3DY You’re telling me the king of a third world country runs around in a bulletproof catsuit?” asks Martin Freeman’s Everett K. Ross at the beginning of the latest “Black Panther” trailer. The spot, released...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUL6wMpMWw Murder abounds in Fox’s new trailer for “Red Sparrow,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as an icy spy. The studio released the trailer on Monday following a TV spot that aired during the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Lawrence...

Warner Bros. has released new photos of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” featuring Jude Law as a young Albus Dumbledore and Johnny Depp as a young Gellert Grindelwald. “The Crimes of Grindelwald” is the sequel to 2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzmztaedBdU Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair turn lethal in the new teaser for “Mom and Dad.” “They brought you into this world,” the trailer warns. “Now, they can take you out.” Written and directed by Brian Taylor, the black comedy...

Daniel Day-Lewis’ fashion drama “Phantom Thread” has performed impressively in its platform release with a projected $616,000 at four locations in its first eight days. “Phantom Thread,” which opened Christmas Day, grossed $305,000 over the four-day Friday-Monday New...

Paramount has set a March 27, 2020, opening for its third “G.I. Joe” movie and dated “Dungeons & Dragons” for July 23, 2021. The studio also announced Monday that it has set “Micronauts” for Oct. 16, 2020. None of the films have directors or stars attached. The...

A great many people who now know the term “a cappella” probably didn’t before “Pitch Perfect,” in 2012, charmed and annoyed and tickled us with its happy skewed fusion of sunburst harmony and junior-catfight kitsch. Yet the “Pitch Perfect” franchise hasn’t always...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=MFWF9dU5Zc0 Warner Bros. unveiled the highly anticipated official trailer for “Ocean’s 8” on Tuesday morning. Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Danny Ocean (played by George Clooney in the...

MGM and Warner Bros. have tapped up-and-coming director Steven Caple Jr. to direct Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in “Creed 2,” sources tell the media, with production expected to start in spring 2018. Along with Jordan and Stallone, Tessa Thompson will also...

Seth Rogen will play legendary anchor Walter Cronkite in the upcoming film “Newsflash,” centered on CBS’ coverage of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. David Gordon Green is directing the drama from Ben Jacoby’s script. Former Warner Bros. production...

Timothy Woodward Jr. was born too late. Clearly the kind of enterprise that enabled this actor-turned-director to make no less than 13 features in the last five years for his own production company would’ve been ideally deployed in a “golden age” Poverty Row studio....

Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams are hatching plans for a new “Star Trek” movie at Paramount. Details of the pitch are currently being kept under wraps. Tarantino and Abrams will wait until a solid script is in place before committing further, but sources tell the...

It was judgment day for “The Greatest Showman.” The brass at 20th Century Fox and a cadre of financiers were descending on New York City to decide whether or not to give the greenlight to a musical biopic about circus impresario P.T. Barnum — one that by 2015 had been...

Bradley Whitford, Toby Kebbell, and Scoot McNairy have joined Karyn Kusama’s crime thriller “Destroyer,” starring Nicole Kidman, Tatiana Maslany, and Sebastian Stan. The project begins shooting next week in Los Angeles from a script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi....

Twentieth Century Fox Film is working on a follow-up to “Murder on the Orient Express,” developing Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile.” The studio has hired “Orient Express” screenwriter Michael Green to return for “Death on the Nile.” It has not yet signed a deal...