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Jared Leto is set to star in Darren Aronofsky’s next film project, Adrift. The two talents previously worked together twenty years ago on Requiem for a Dream. That film helped launch their careers, and it’s pretty cool to see them working together again on a new project.

Adrift is set up at Blumhouse Pictures, and it’s based on a short story by Koji Suzuki, who wrote The Ring. The story is set in “the dead calm of the open sea, where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but soon he discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a ‘Ghost Ship’.”

This is a project that Leto has been pursuing over the past ten years, so it’s nice to see that everything worked out with that. Aronofsky and Luke Dawson will be writing the script.

Before Aronofsky directs Adrift, he will helm The Whale with Brendan Fraser for A24. It’s great to see Aronofsky lining up multiple film projects! It’s been a few years since he’s made a movie.

Source: Deadline

The Power: Tim Robbins to replace Rainn Wilson in Amazon’s new sci-fi drama

According to Deadline, Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River) has officially signed on for the role of Daniel Dandon in Amazon Prime Video‘s forthcoming series adaptation of The Power, based on award-winning author Naomi Alderman’s 2016 thriller sci-fi drama novel of the same name. Robbins will be replacing The Office alum Rainn Wilson, who dropped out of the project due to scheduling conflicts that were caused by the ongoing pandemic.

Robbins’ Daniel Dandon is being described as a self-righteous and self-important Republican governor of Washington state and a constant thorn in the side of the Democratic mayor of Seattle, Margot Cleary-Lopez, who is being portrayed by Leslie Mann.

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Created by Alderman, The Power series is a 10-episode feminist thriller that will be told in a subversive and multi-stranded narrative. It tells the story of when all teenage girls in the world suddenly gain the power to electrocute people at will. They soon discover that their newfound ability is something that is hereditary, inbuilt, and impossible to take away.

The book’s official synopsis reads: “The world is a recognizable place: there’s a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power–they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.”

Pick up a copy of the book here!

Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, Blockers) will be portraying the role of Mayor of Seattle Margot Cleary-Lopez, who is known to the public as a loving wife and doting mother to three kids. Vital, charming, and incredibly smart, Margot comes to see that power resides with strength rather than authority. As her career takes flight, it’s her husband Rob and daughter Jos who privately feel the effects of her success most keenly; for one of them, where previously there was conflict, now comes a greater understanding, and for the other where there was love, comes hurt and betrayal.

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Alderman will be leading the series’ all-female writers’ room and will also be co-writing the screenplay. It will be executive produced and co-written by Alderman, Claire Wilson, Whit Anderson (Ozark), Stacy Osei-Kuffour (Watchmen, PEN15), and Rebecca Levene along with story consultant Sarah Quintrell (Ellen).

The Power is a production by Jane Featherstone’s Sister Pictures (Chernobyl). The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Reed Morano and Naomi de Pear will also be serving as executive producers with Morano set as the director. The series will also be produced by Tim Bricknell.

(Photo by Morgan Lieberman/Getty Images)

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Netflix says that Bridgerton is shattering their viewing records with 82 million households tuning in its first 28 days.

Seth MacFarlane has jumped on board a new TV series project to develop and he’s teaming up with Amy Pascal for it. They will be adapting Elan Mastai’s novel All Our Wrong Todays and it will air on Peacock.

The series is described as a “mind bending time travel love story that explores alternate versions of ourselves in dramatically surprising and often unexpected ways.”

It will tell the story of Tom Barren’s world, set in 2016, “where technology has solved all of humanity’s problems—there’s no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocadoes. Unfortunately, Tom isn’t happy. He’s lost the girl of his dreams. And what do you do when you’re heartbroken and have a time machine? Something stupid. Finding himself stranded in a terrible alternate reality, Tom is desperate to fix his mistake and go home. Right up until the moment he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and the woman who may just be the love of his life. Now Tom faces an impossible choice. Go back to his perfect but loveless life. Or stay in our messy reality with a soulmate by his side. His search for the answer takes him across continents and timelines in a quest to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his future is supposed to be.”

That sounds like it’ll be quite an epic time-traveling journey. I’m not familiar with the book, but it sounds like it’ll make a great series!

The series is being written by the author of the novel, who is also a writer and supervising producer on NBC’s This is Us. Seth MacFarlane, Erica Huggins, and Amy Pascal are executive producers.

Source: Deadline

Ethan Hawke reuniting with Derrickson & Blumhouse for The Black Phone

Four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke is looking to keep his upcoming dance card full as the soon-to-be Marvel Cinematic Universe star has signed on to reunite with Sinister co-writer/director Scott Derrickson and producer Jason Blum for their upcoming adaptation of The Black Phone, according to Deadline. Hawke will star alongside Emmy-winning Justified vet Jeremy Davies.

RELATED: Scott Derrickson Tapped to Helm Blumhouse & Universal’s Black Phone

Based on the 2004 novella of the same name from Joe Hill, who will also executive produce the film, the logline for the source material reads as follows:

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She’s also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945.  Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn’t easy to make friends when you’re the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. John Finney is locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead.

Click here to purchase Hill’s novella and Derrickson and Hawke’s first collaboration Sinister!

In addition to directing the project, Derrickson is adapting the story with frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill, both of whom will be reuniting with Blumhouse following their fan-favorite 2012 box office hit horror film Sinister starring Ethan Hawke, which the two wrote together and Derrickson helmed. The film’s box office success spawned a sequel the two wrote together but handed the directorial duties off to Ciaran Foy, though it would see lower box office returns and was panned by critics and audiences alike.

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Derrickson and Cargill will produce the project via their Crooked Highway Productions banner alongside Jason Blum for his eponymous production banner, while Universal and Blumhouse will distribute. Black Phone has also already begun building its cast as Mason Thames (For All Mankind) and Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4) have both signed on to star in the film.

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Four new DC Showcase animated shorts to release in 2021-2022

Beloved DC characters Kamandi, The Losers, Blue Beetle, and Constantine are the focus of four new DC Showcase animated shorts for release by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in 2021-2022.

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Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, and inspired by characters and stories from throughout the iconic DC canon, the all-new quartet of shorts will be included on upcoming releases of DC Universe Movies, with exception of the lengthier Constantine short. The Constantine short will serve as the anchor for a compilation set to be distributed in 2022.

All four new DC Showcase shorts are produced by Rick Morales (Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge).

Directed by Matt Peters (Justice League Dark: Apokolips War) from a script written by Paul Giacoppo (Young Justice, Star Wars: Resistance), Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! will be the first of the new shorts to be released. The post-apocalyptic thriller will be attached as a bonus feature to Justice Society: World War II in Spring 2021.

Launched in 2010, DC Showcase was originally comprised of four animated shorts: The Spectre (2/23/2010), Jonah Hex (7/27/2010), Green Arrow (9/28/2010), and Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam (11/9/2010). An additional short, Catwoman (10/18/2011), was attached the following year to the release of Batman: Year One. For 2019-2020, DC Showcase returned with five shorts: Sgt. Rock (8/6/2019) Death (10/22/2019), The Phantom Stranger (3/17/2020), Adam Strange (5/19/2020), and the interactive Batman: Death in the Family (10/13/2020).

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Actors featured on DC Showcase shorts have included Malcolm McDowell, James Garner (in his final performance), Jerry O’Connell, Linda Hamilton, Karl Urban, Gary Cole, Alyssa Milano, Bruce Greenwood, Thomas Jane, Michael Rooker, Eliza Dushku, Neal McDonough, Ariel Winter, Danica McKeller, George Newbern, Michelle Trachtenberg, Charlie Weber, Arnold Vosloo, Leonard Nam, Jamie Chung, Peter Serafinowicz, and Michael Rosenbaum.

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In Variety’s review of Promising Young Woman, the critic admits that Carey Mulligan is fine actress, but wonders if the role was intended for Margot Robbie instead.

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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run sets PVOD & streaming date

Just over a month ahead of the streaming platform’s official rebranding, Paramount Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for the forthcoming The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and officially set its premiere on Paramount+ and PVOD platforms for a limited time for March 4 alongside the premiere of the first six episodes of spin-off series Kamp Koral. The new trailer can be viewed below!

RELATED: Kamp Koral Sneak Peek Previews Paramount+’s SpongeBob Spinoff

Are you ready for some sea-nanigans? Get ready to #BringGaryHome with The #SpongeBobMovie: Sponge on the Run, premiering March 4!

Rent it from AppleTV, Prime Video, Vudu and other digital stores.

Also streaming on @paramount_plus pic.twitter.com/NgD2UFMQRn

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) January 28, 2021

The film, previously titled It’s a Wonderful Sponge, will be the first 3D computer-animated SpongeBob movie, which is being described as a love letter to the franchise’s original creator Steven Hillenburg, who passed away last November, as well as the fans of the show, not to mention the fictional residents of Bikini Bottom.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run will feature a score by Hans Zimmer and original songs by Ali Dee. The film will also be featuring the voices of Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians) and Reggie Watts (Tuca & Bertie). In addition, pop star legend Cyndi Lauper and co-writer Rob Hyman are working on original songs for the film. It is being produced by Paramount Animation in collaboration with Nickelodeon Movies and United Plankton Pictures.

Since its debut in 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has become the most widely distributed property in Viacom International Media Networks history, seen in more than 208 countries and territories, translated in 55+ languages, and averaging more than 100 million total viewers every quarter. This marks the third feature-length adventure, after 2004’s The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie, and 2015’s Sponge Out of Water.

RELATED: Kamp Koral: SpongeBob SquarePants Spinoff Greenlit by Nickelodeon

The project is being directed by Tim Hill and produced by Ryan Harris with choreography by Mia Michaels and is set to hit Paramount+ on PVOD platforms for a limited time on March 4 alongside the first six episodes of Kamp Koral while the latter half of its season will debut at a later date.

 

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Disney+ has released a new teaser revealing the official premiere date for The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.

Amy Adams’ production company Bond Group has teamed up with A24 to adapt author Anna North’s bestselling novel Outlawed to series. The feminist Western novel was released just weeks ago, and it went instantly to the top of the New York Times Bestseller list.

“Outlawed follows a young midwife through her initiation into the notorious Hole in the Wall gang and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.”

Adams and Stacy O’Neil will executive produce for Bond Group Entertainment and the company’s Kate Clifford will co-produce. Adams executive produced HBO’s high-profile miniseries Sharp Objects. Bond Group is currently in pre-production on Kings of America for Netflix and in development on Willa of the Wood with Entertainment One.

I will have to add this book to my reading list. Does it sound like an interesting series to you?

via: Deadline