Tara's World: Victoria Pedretti will have more company in her second appearance as Tara with Will Chase ("Dopesick", "The Crowded Room"), Isabella Ferreira (Gray Matter, Love Victor) and professional wrestler Luis Martinez aka Damien Priest all signing on to round out the supporting cast of the project. Lynne Ramsay directs from a script by Jacob Jones.
Deathstroke: The latest DC Comics Universe production has added tough guys like MMA fighter Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone (Lights Out, Terror on the Prairie), actor/bodybuilder Mark Rhino Smith (The Harder They Fall, The Hurricane Heist) and Emilio Rivera (Flamin' Hot, Mayans M.C.) to its supporting cast. Cerrone will play a member of HIVE, Smith will play a villainous henchman and Rivera will play a cruel prison warden. John McTiernan directs from a script by APJ and Jimmy Ellis.
Fragments of Heart: Harris Dickinson (Anastasia, Atlantis: Bloodline) and Thomasin McKenzie (Under the Influence, The Pull of the Stars) are set to headline the World War I romance, Fragments of Heart from director James Gray (Kingmaker Chronicles, Atlantic City) and writer Ben Collins (Becoming Carole Lombard, Vampire). Dickinson will play a soldier injured during a battle, while McKenzie will play his love interest, a war nurse.
Magic: David Dastmalchian (Desert Dreams, Bunker 17) has signed on for his biggest role to date, taking on the lead role in Magic, a new adaptation of William Goldman's novel - which was previously adapted in 1978 starring Anthony Hopkins. Dastmalchian will play Corky Withers, a struggling magician who turns around his career when he adds a ventriloquist dummy to his act. Alison Pill (The Maid, "Star Trek: Picard") and Ernie Hudson (The Crow: Resurrected, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) have joined the film as well. Hudson will play Corky's manager while Pill will play Corky's childhood crush he starts a romance with. Director Riley Stearns (Dual, The Art of Self-Defense) makes his LRF debut on the project, which has been written by Jack Brown (The Crow: Midnight Garden, The Tomb of Dracula).
The Big Top: Writer Lon Charles (Starkweather, Harvard Psychology) has stepped away from the gritty true story films he is known for an tackled an animated family film, The Big Top. The film tells the story of a group of circus animals who leave their cruel ringmaster behind and start a circus of their own. Macaulay Culkin (Changeland, "The Righteous Gemstones") will voice a mouse who inadvertently becomes the leader of the new circus, Laura Dern (The Hippie Preacher, Particle) will voice a kind-hearted chimpanzee struggling to find a talent, F. Murray Abraham (The Hulk 2, The Mobster's Violin) will voice an elderly tiger who becomes the brains behind the new circus and Brian Tyree Henry (The Watsons Go to Birmingham, Drawing Dion) will voice an elephant who wants to walk the tightrope. Scott Mosier (The Grinch) has been hired to direct the animated adventure.
Redhead: Karen Gillan (Red Sonja: Blood + Bone, Pirate Latitudes) and Garrett Hedlund (X-Men: Sinister, The Devil's Revenge) have signed on to headline a new horror/thriller from director Scott Cooper (The Nest, Escape the Unknown). Gillan will play a young woman in the 1950s who becomes the target of a series of gruesome murders of beautiful young red-haired women. Hedlund will play Gillan's love interest, a kind music teacher who tries to keep her safe. Billy Cruder (The Incredible Shrinking Man, Camping) penned the script.
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