Motor City casts Ben Foster, Shailene Woodley and Pablo Schreiber. Jack White to write original music and produce soundtrack

Shailene Woodley (“Ferrari,” “Big Little Lies”), Ben Foster (“Warcraft,” “The Mechanic”) and Pablo Schreiber(“Den of Thieves,” “First Man,” “SkyScraper”) will join the previously announced Alan Ritchson (“Reacher,” “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” “Fast X”) in the action thriller “Motor City.”

Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry,” “Greedy People”) will direct the picture.

Variety article: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/shailene-woodley-ben-foster-pablo-schreiber-motor-city-1235998571/

Anderson .Paak movie KPOPS to open Toronto Film Festival 2024

Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) and Jonnie “Dumbfoundead” Park (Raya and the Last Dragon) have joined the cast of K-Pops!, the film marking the directorial debut of eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak, which will headline the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024.

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Emma Thompson stars in Brian Kirk’s The Fisherwoman

Emma Thompson is set to star in Brian Kirk’s upcoming action thriller “The Fisherwoman,” Variety can exclusively reveal. In the feature, Thompson is set to play a widowed fisherman who, while trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim’s only hope.

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Jason Momoa and Jack Black star in MINECRAFT to be released by Warner Bros. May of 2025

“Minecraft,” a live-action adaptation of the wildly popular video game starring Jason Momoa, has been set by Warner Bros. to open on April 4, 2025.

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Netflix doc The Saint of Second Chances scores 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Documentary directed by Morgan Neville stars Mike Veeck and Charlie Day.

Bill Veeck, a scrappy, showmanship-savvy Major League Baseball impresario who survived grave injuries as a Marine during World War II, would make a hard act for any child to follow. But you can’t say that one of his sons hasn’t tried. That would be Mike Veeck, the subject of the peppy new documentary “The Saint of Second Chances.”

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Amazon to premiere Emma Roberts’ SPACE CADET over July 4th weekend.

The Amazon original romantic comedy, in the vein of LEGALLY BLONDE, also stars Poppy Liu, Tom Hopper, Gabrielle Union, Sebastian Yatra, Dave Foley, Kuhn Verma, Desi Lydic, Sam Robards and Andrew Call.

Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson’s ORDINARY ANGEL for Lionsgate Films scores an 83% RT certified fresh

Ordinary Angels is a true story and a remarkable one at that. Living with our two-year old granddaughter has made me especially vulnerable to dramas about young children in peril, and it didn’t take long for this one to open my tear ducts. 

https://leonardmaltin.com/ordinary-angels-cynics-beware/