Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot have set a release date for World War II horror movie “Overlord,” starring  “Fences” actor Jovan Adepo and Wyatt Russell. The movie is scheduled for Oct. 26, 2018, The film is directed by Julius Avery (“Son of a Gun”), and...

Woody Allen’s next film will hit theaters this December, Variety has learned. “Wonder Wheel,” a drama set in Coney Island during the 1950s, will debut in limited release on Dec. 1, 2017. That pits it against “The Disaster Artist,” a comedy with James Franco about the...

Warner Bros. is negotiating with “Central Intelligence” director Rawson Thurber to helm a reboot of the “Cannonball Run” franchise. “Reno 911” stars Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant are also in talks to write the script. Andre Morgan and Alan Gasmer are producing...

Pigasus Pictures and Broad Green Pictures have set a Sept. 8 release date for romantic comedy “The Good Catholic” in theaters and VOD. Paul Shoulberg directed from his own script with Zachary Spicer, Wrenn Schmidt (“Outcast”), John C. McGinley (“Scrubs”), and Danny...

Zac Efron has come on board to star as serial killer Ted Bundy in the independent drama “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” Voltage Pictures and Michael Costigan’s Cota Films are producing with Joe Berlinger directing. Michael Werwie wrote the original...

Fox and New Regency have picked up movie rights to Andy Weir’s near-future thriller “Artemis.” Simon Kinberg and Aditya Sood are producing for Fox-based Genre Films. Weir is the author of “The Martian,” which served as the basis for the Matt Damon movie of the same...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIjL7Pn8grU   Mandy Moore dives into shark-infested waters in this summer’s open ocean survival horror, “47 Meters Down.” There have been trailers for Johannes Roberts’ take on the classic deep-sea scenario floating around, but a...

Christina Aguilera, Theo James, Rashida Jones, and Miranda Otto have joined Ewan McGregor and Léa Seydoux in Scott Free’s sci-fi romance “Zoe,” which begins shooting in Montreal on May 8. Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy”) is directing the futuristic love story from a...

The trailer for “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” the sequel to “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” has debuted, with new cast members Channing Tatum, Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, and Elton John joining returning stars Taron Egerton and Colin Firth. Matthew Vaughn the...

Amy Schumer has found her next film. Wonderland Sound & Vision and Voltage Pictures have tapped Schumer to star in their upcoming comedy, “I Feel Pretty,” from a script written and to be directed by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. The movie, set to shoot this...

While “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has yet to hit theaters, Marvel has already set James Gunn to return to write and direct a third installment. Gunn announced the news on his Facebook page on Monday, shortly before embarking on the “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are about to go where Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand have gone before. Filming began Monday on “A Star Is Born,” the latest remake of the the oft-made story of two celebrities who meet when one’s star is on the rise and the other’s is...

Ron Howard will direct and produce the contemporary economic drama “Hillbilly Elegy,” based on J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir. Howard will produce with Imagine Entertainment chairman Brian Grazer and the company’s president, Erica Huggins. Julie Oh will oversee...

In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Universal Pictures claims the top spot in spending for the second week in a row with “The Fate of the Furious.” Ads placed for the eighth...

It’s been 27 years since Richard Gere and Julia Roberts charmed their way through “Pretty Woman” and today Gere is seated in a room at the Beverly Wilshire, the very hotel where they shot the blockbuster movie. And according to Gere, that was the last time he set foot...

Imagine Entertainment and Animal Logic have formed a joint venture to produce a slate of animated and hybrid family films. The partnership will develop, produce, and finance six feature-length animation and hybrid animation projects over the next five years. “The...

Aubrey Plaza goes insane in a raucous teaser trailer for the dark comedy “Ingrid Goes West,” which shows her crashing a wedding and pepper-spraying the bride, played by Meredith Hagner, for not inviting her. The trailer depicts Plaza’s character Ingrid Thornberg...

Even though Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant” is still a couple months away, the legendary director clearly has his eyes already set on the next film in the franchise. In an interview with Fandango, it would appear as though the filmmaker accidentally revealed the...

Ridley Scott is in early development at Fox to direct and produce a “Battle of Britain” World War II movie with Matthew Orton writing the script. Fox bought the project as a pitch last year and set the project up with Scott’s Fox-based Scott Free production company...

“The Dark Tower” is widely considered to be Stephen King’s masterpiece, but its mind-bending plot and intricate special effects have delayed its transition to the big screen. Sony is banking that fans of the series of adventure novels will turn out in force this...

Attention all “Tomb Raider” enthusiasts — Warner Bros. and MGM have revealed the first look at Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft. In newly-released photos, first published in Vanity Fair, Vikander is shown taking on the role first commandeered by Angelina Jolie in the...

If virtual reality is truly the new frontier that the entertainment industry hopes it will be, then Warner Bros. and Imax want to be among the pioneers. The two companies have signed a co-financing and production agreement that will create three interactive...

Robert Downey Jr. will star in the movie “The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle,” based on the classic character who can talk to animals, for Universal Pictures. Stephen Gaghan, who most recently directed Matthew McConaughey’s “Gold,” will helm the film from his own...

“The Inbetweeners” star Simon Bird is set to make his feature film directorial debut with “Days of the Bagnold Summer,” an adaptation of Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel of the same name, to be produced by Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films. Bird will direct from...

Directors David Pimentel and Douglas Sweetland are attached to direct the animated fantasy adventure “Darkmouth” for Alcon Entertainment. They will direct from an adapted screenplay to be written by Lloyd Taylor, based on the HarperCollins Children’s Books series from...

PARIS– Uma Thurman is set to star in Lars von Trier’s “The House That Jack Built,” the Danish auteur’s anticipated thriller which will topline Matt Dillon as a serial killer. Siobhan Fallon Hogan has also joined the cast of the English-language film which will star...

Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep are set to partner on the movie “The Post,” a film centered on the Washington Post’s publication of the 1971 Pentagon Papers, sources tell Variety. Spielberg will direct with Hanks and Streep attached to star. Amy Pascal’s...

The force is strong with the cast of the still-untitled “Star Wars” Han Solo spinoff. Disney released the first photo of the cast on Tuesday morning while announcing that principal photography officially began on the film on Monday at London’s Pinewood Studios. The...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PyrgGTFp0E     Like Disney sibling Star Wars: The Last Jedibefore it, the beginning of production for Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War earned its own announcement video, teasing fans with hints of what's to come in...

Universal Studios is teaming with Brand Events to launch a live-entertainment arena tour, starting in January 2018. The show will include re-creations of some of the stunts and cars in the eight-film franchise with performance drivers and authentic digital...

Jennifer Connelly has been cast in James Cameron’s “Alita: Battle Angel” opposite Rosa Salazar, Jackie Earle Haley, Eiza Gonzalez, Lana Condor, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, and Christoph Waltz. Robert Rodriguez is directing and Cameron is producing with Jon Landau...