Time Out!: Emma Mackey (The House of Romanov, Death on the Nile), Kaitlyn Dever (Bunny, The Giver) and Skyler Gisondo (Supergirl, Black Hole) are set to join the cast of Time Out! from directors Josh & Benny Safdie and writers Mo Buck & Chad Taylor. The film tells the story of a sitcom star forced to wear a suicide bomb vest to repay a debt to a drug dealer. Mackey will play the drug dealer's daughter who helps him carry out his plan. Dever will play the daughter of the main character (played by Patrick Wilson). Gisondo will play the actor playing the son on the show.
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Writer Jacob Jones (Get Gerogie, Tara's Web) and director Pete Docter (Calvin and Hobbes, Free Spirit) are set to team up on live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon franchise Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Julian Hilliard (Doctor Stange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It) is set for the title role - an 11 year-old genius who attempts to contact aliens. Edward Norton (The Big One, Super Grover) is set to voice the villain, King Goobot V, the leader of an alien race of gooey egg-shaped creatures. Violet McGraw (Maledicta, M3GAN) has also signed onto the film as a rival to Julian's Jimmy.
Pompeii: George MacKay (Dandelion, The House of Romanov) and Emma Watson (Northrock, Ghost Stories) are set to star the historical romance epic Pompeii, based on the novel by Robert Harris. MacKay will play a young engineer sent to oversea the aqueduct that supplies water to the towns in the region after the previous engineer vanished. He must discover what is stopping water from flowing as well as solve the mystery of his missing predecessor before it is too late. Watson will play the daughter of a wealthy land owner who forms a relationship with MacKay. Eric Bana (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, Kiss Me Katie) will also join the project as Watson's father, the villain of the piece. Francis Lawrence (Bunker 17, Synthetic) is directing the film from an adaptation by Mark Newton (Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider).
Anastasia: After a lengthy search for a leading lady, Kiernan Shipka (Tinseltown, Corndog) has landed the lead role in Anastasia, a live action update of the 1997 animated film. She will play the daughter of the Russian royal family that manages to survive the massacre of her family, but loses her memory in the process. Harris Dickinson (Atlantis: Bloodline, Hair) has been cast as her love interest Dmitri, a con artist who plans to use Anastasia to collect a reward from the girl's grandmother, only to fall in love with her in the process. Jim Carrey (Golden Girl, Thrill of the Kill), after some contentious negotiations with the studio, has agreed to play the film's villain, the undead Grigori Rasputin. After working as a director in television, documentaries and short films, actress Bryce Dallas Howard ("The Mandalorian", Dads" will make her feature-length narrative directorial debut on the project, which was written by Walter McKnight (The Monster Squad, Pocahontas).
The Maid: Amber Midthunder (Pocahontas, Twisted Metal) has been cast in the lead role of The Maid, a film based on the novel by Nita Prose. The film tells the story of hotel maid who becomes a suspect in a high-profile murder along with several other hotel staff members. Isabelle Huppert (And the Birds Rained Down, Germinal) and John Boyega (The Crow: Wings of Isaiah, Green Lantern Corps: Sinestro War) have also joined the project. Huppert will play the wealthy wife of the deceased, while Boyega will play Midthunder's love interest, a bartender at the hotel. Susanne Bier (Bird Box, Serena) directs the film from an adaptation by Rachel Hallett Hardcastle (No Promises in the Wind, Citizen).
Territory: Vince Vaughn (Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six, One for the Ages) and Grace Dove (Red Wolf, Pocahontas) are set to play a pair of detectives in Territory. The film is about a grizzled homicide detective and a young officer of a Native American tribal police force who are forced to work together to solve a murder after a body is dumped exactly on the border between the town and the reservation. Elisabeth Shue (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Tower) is set to play the wife of the murder victim - Vaughn's former police partner. S. Craig Zahler (The Punisher: Last Exit, Death in the Shadows) directs the film from an original script by Dwight Gallo (The Punisher: Last Exit, X-Men: Sinister) and Jimmy Ellis (Made Men, Norse: Valhalla).
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