A24 and Chernin Entertainment have set their sights on a new, star-studded, R-rated musical comedy titled F*cking Identical Twins, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
The film is said to be a subversive twist on The Parent Trap, telling the story of two successful but rival businessmen who figure out that they are identical twin brothers and decide to trade places to get their divorced parents back together – yes, even as grown a*s men.
F*cking Identical Twins is written by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who also wrote the songs with Karl Saint Lucy. Jackson and Sharp will also star in the musical, with Borat director and Seinfeld alum Larry Charles directing.
The cast announced so far includes Nathan Lane (Only Murders in the Building, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels), Megan Mullally (Will & Grace, The DisasterArtist),SNL’s Bowen Yang and hip-hop superstar Megan Thee Stallion in her acting debut.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine,Encantoand In The Heights star Stephanie Beatriz will star opposite The Vampire Diaries’ Paul Wesley in the upcoming horror-thriller film History of Evil, Deadline reports.
The film follows a family on the run from a corrupt state, as they take refuge in a safe house with an evil past – a terrifying last stop on a near-future Underground Railroad. History of Evil is written and directed by Iranian-American filmmaker Bo Mirhosseni, with Shudder boarding the film. XYZ films and Two & Two Pictures are producing.
“We are thrilled to be working with XYZ and Two & Two Pictures as we continue to spotlight new and emerging storytellers within this genre, and Bo’s thrilling film debut is no exception,” said Emily Gotto, VP Global Acquisitions and Co-Productions at Shudder. “We are excited to have such talents as Stephanie and Paul on board to bring these dynamic characters to life and look forward to sharing the film with Shudder members.”
Filming is due to begin in spring this year, which likely means a release date at the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023.
M. Night Shyamalan’s next horror-thriller feature, titled Knock at the Cabin, has cast Rupert Grint.
Deadline reports that the Harry Potter and Servant star (an Apple TV+ series also produced by Shyamalan) and Old‘s Nikki Amuka-Bird join the previously announced Dave Bautista (Army of the Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy). As always with films by the King of Twists, any and all details of the much-anticipated project are being kept under lock and key, in a vault, inside a bunker, buried underground.
This marks Rupert Grint’s first lead role in a big-budget film for many years. He is currently in production on season 4 of Servant, and will next be seen starring in Guillermo del Toro’s anthology series for Netflix, Cabinet of Curiosities.
Knock at the Cabin releases in cinemas February 3rd, 2023.
After getting a taste for speed in F9: The Fast Saga, John Cena is back for more in TheFast and Furry-ous. The Peacemaker star has been tapped to appear in the live-action and CG animation feature Coyote vs Acme, a Warner Bros. film centring on the Looney Tunes character, Wile E. Coyote.
Wile E. Coyote is the devious, hungry coyote who repeatedly attempts to catch and eat the Road Runner, but is only successful in catching the blue bird on rare occasions. Every episode, the coyote will hatch absurdly complex plans and build impossible contraptions in order to try and catch his prey, and these will usually backfire in extreme, comedic fashion. Many of the items he uses for his traps are mail-ordered from the Acme Corporation.
Coyote vs Acme will tell the story of a down-on-his-luck lawyer (the human kind) who takes on Wile E. Coyote as a client in his lawsuit against Acme over its defective products. To make matters more complicated, the attorney soon finds out that Acme is being represented by his former boss.
That ex-boss will be played by Cena, though we don’t yet know what other cast members will join him. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowsfilmmaker Dave Green will direct the picture, with Chris DeFaria and James Gunn producing. Samy Burch writes the latest draft of the script, which is set on the 1990 New Yorker article “Coyote v. Acme” by Ian Frazier.
With a full trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 only released last week, Paramount has already confirmed that a third Sonic film is currently in early development, in addition to a live-action series centring on the Idris Elba-voiced Knuckles, a character who will debut in the upcoming sequel. The series is set to launch next year, with a creative team yet to be announced – though Elba will reprise his voice role.
Sega CEO Haruki Satomi stated: “We are delighted to announce that the third Sonic theatrical film and the first live-action Sonic series for Paramount+ are being actively developed. We’ve got a remarkable partnership with Paramount, and we are excited to continue expanding the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise with them. 2022 is shaping up to be a significant year for the franchise with the second film being released this April, as well as Sonic Frontiers, the highly anticipated video game title, coming this holiday. Sonic has been beloved by fans across the world for over 30 years and we look forward to continuing to bring memorable moments and experiences to them for many years to come.”
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 joins an impressive line-up of movie projects at Paramount studios, including a fourth Star Trek film starring Chris Pine, and a third A Quiet Place instalment.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 releases April 8th in the US, and April 1st in the UK. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 does not yet have an anticipated release date.
Finally, Chris Pine’s Enterprise crew is getting back together for a fourth outing. The J.J. Abrams-reboot, which begun in 2009, follows James T. Kirk (Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) in their early Starfleet years and takes place in an alternate reality, allowing the franchise to break from established continuity.
No casting deals on the new film have yet been confirmed, but Paramount will soon be entering negotiations for Pine, Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana and John Cho to reprise their respective roles from the trilogy as Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Bones, Uhura and Sulu. This is a long-awaited breakthrough for this fourth big screen outing, following a number of stumbles involving talent in front of and behind the camera.
This time, it’s WandaVision director Matt Shakman who will direct, with Josh Friedman (Avatar 2) and Cameron Squires (WandaVision) rewriting a script from Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel).
Abrams announced the news: “We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new Star Trek film that will be shooting by the end of the year that will be featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take Star Trek into areas that you’ve just never seen before. We’re thrilled about this film, we have a bunch of other stories that we’re talking about that we think will be really exciting, so can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up. But until then, live long and prosper.”
The as yet untitled Star Trek instalment will land in cinemas December 22nd, 2023.
True Blood alum Ryan Kwanten and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (who is again nominated this year for his role in Being the Ricardosand was most recently seen in Spider-Man: No Way Home)will star in supernatural horror film Glorious, Deadline reveals.
The film, which is almost completed, follows a young man (Kwanten) who is spiralling out of control after a messy breakup. His situation only worsens when he finds himself locked inside a rest stop bathroom with a mysterious figure (Simmons) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As he tries to escape, he realises he is an unwilling player in a much bigger, graver situation than he first thought.
Rebekah McKendry (All the Creatures Were Stirring, Psycho Granny) directs from a script by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull (Chopping Block) and David Ian McKendry.
James Norrie of AMP International, which has launched sales on the project, promises that “Glorious is so deliciously bonkers that people are going to be talking about it for years.” Meanwhile, McKendry adds that “Glorious speaks to my love of cosmic horror, gore, absurdist humour, philosophy, and the type of transgressive movies that leave you thinking, ‘I can’t believe I just saw that.'”
After years of relative inactivity, Lord of the Rings fans are getting their fill of exciting new content: not only did Super Bowl Sunday see the trailer released for the upcoming Amazon seriesThe Rings of Power, but we now hear that The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (first announced in June 2021) anime movie has been set for April 12th, 2024.
The movie from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation explores and expands the untold story behind the fortress of Helm’s Deep, delving into the life and blood-soaked times of one of Middle-earth’s most legendary figures, the mighty King of Rohan, Helm Hammerhand. Thee War of the Rohirrim takes place 250 years before the events of Peter Jackson’s trilogy; The Two Towers included a lengthy battle sequence taking place at Helm’s Deep.
There’s a whole week of suspense as Horror Channel bring us Killer Thriller Week in March. As well as the UK TV premiere of Paradise Cove and the channel premiere of Cop Car starring Kevin Bacon, there are a host of great thrillers to keep you on the edge of your seat. There are also films to keep you behind the seat with four terrifying UK TV premieres: the late Johnny Kevorkian’s brilliant Await Further Instructions, the brutal Wired Shut, the remake of Castle Freak, and the zombie movie Deadsight. Want more? How about the channel premieres of the fantastic A Good Woman in Hard to Find, The Elijah Wood horror-comedy Cooties, and the German survival shocker Prey.
Await Further Instructions
Transmission dates:
Saturday, March 5th – Prey (2021)
Sunday, March 6th – Wired Shut (2021)
Friday, March 11th – A Good Woman is Hard to Find (2019)
Saturday, March 12th – Await Further Instructions (2018)
Following an initial teaser – packaged as a post-credits scene in Spider-Man: No Way Home–, we finally have a full trailer for the much-anticipated, Endgame-scale MCU entry, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Strange looks to deal with the consequences of his actions from No Way Home, including terrifying creatures, characters from alternate timelines, and shattering realities all wrecking havoc on our world. As anticipated, this means major cameos… including who appears to be Patrick Stewart’s Professor Charles Xavier! Does this mean the X-Men might be folded into the main continuity? Probably not, but a fan can dream.
However, it does look like Multiverse of Madness will be introducing the Multiversal Illuminati, a secret organisation of the worlds’ greatest minds and leaders of the main areas of the Marvel universe, who get together whenever there’s a world-ending threat.
And from the appearance of Ultron centurion-looking robots escorting Strange, it also looks like the presence of the Iron Legion is teasing the introduction of an Iron Man variant (Tom Cruise’s Tony Stark, perhaps?). After all, the Illuminati has included Iron Man, Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Namor, Black Bolt, Black Panther, and more, so it’s not much of a stretch.
The trailer also shows Sinister Strange, and teases who could be Defenders Strange as some of the alternate Stephen Strange’s. There’s multiple Wanda’s, the promise of Scarlet Witch’s villain arc, shots of Ta Lo, what could be a return to the TVA, the introduction of America Chavez/Miss America, and a burning figure that could either be Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel or WandaVision‘s Monica Rambeau. There’s even the briefest glimpse of an animated universe as Strange and America fall through Star Portals.
With all that, this 28th franchise entry certainly opens up a whole host of new avenues for the future of the MCU. Basically, this full trailer reaffirms that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is going to be the biggest crossover event to date.
Watch the trailer below. Multiverse of Madness lands in cinemas May 6th.
