Alien: Out of the Shadows: More big names have joined the latest Alien anthology film in the form of Glenn Howerton (Plastic Man, No Laughing Matter), Connie Nielsen (circumstances of Time, Red Planet), Chris Messina (Girl/Girl, "The Sinner") and Adam Beach ("Nez Perce", Days Without End. Howerton will play an engineer on the mining vessel the story is set on, Nielsen will play the ship's captain, Messina a security officer, and Beach will play a pilot. Rupert Wyatt is directing the film from a script by Carl Flimmer.
The King of Hearts: Billy Crudup (Born in Brooklyn, Should've Been Here), Linda Cardellini ("Lady of the House", The Curse of La Llorona), Sean Harris (Solution, Hellraiser) and Bridget Regan (Devil's Gate, Crimson Fox) have all joined the highly anticipated medical drama, The King of Hearts, starring Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. Crudup will play a patient in nedd of a heart transplant, with Cardellini set as his wife. Harris will play a South African heart surgeon, and Regan will play a young doctor. Bennett Miller is directing the film, which is written by Chad Taylor.
Whammy: Of all the subjects for an animated film, writer Jacob Jones (Greenwater Amusements, Oh Deer) has chosen to base a film around Whammy, the little red cartoon creature from the game show Press Your Luck which ran from 1983-1986. Lewis Black (The Last Laugh, Inside Out) will voice the titular creature. Amy Poehler (Odette, "Parks and Recreation") and John Cena (Zoe Maye, But What Am I?) will also lend their voices to the animated adventure. Thurop Van Orman (The Angry Bird Movie 2) is set to direct the animated feature.
1965: Coming off the relative success of the big-budget sci-fi film Mr. Earthling, the next film from writer Meirad Tako (Hotel California, Mr. Earthling) will be a low-budget drama set in his native Indonesia titled 1965. It will star a cast of relatively unknown actors, at least outside of the country: Dion Wiyoko, Laura Basuki, Vino G. Bastian, Morgan Oey. Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar (Gundala, A Copy of My Mind) will direct the film.
Hex: The Cult of Cain: Brad Pitt (Hex, Hands on a Hard Body) is set to return to the role of Jonah Hex, the DC Comics Old West bounty hunter. This time around he will find himself in the city of Gotham, a far cry from the plains setting of the first film. This time around writer Jimmy Ellis (Should've Been Here, Lady Red) has written the film. Chan-wook Park (Hex, Blackbird) is returning as director.
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