#Film Production

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• 🇺🇸 Imani Lewis & Laya DeLeon Hayes Set For Queer Coming-Of-Age Film ‘Pure’ From First-Time Feature Director Natalie Jasmine Harris — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Imani Lewis (First Kill) and Laya DeLeon Hayes (The Equalizer) have attached to star in Pure, the debut feature from writer-director Natalie Jasmine Harris. Expanding on Harris’ short film ...

  Related: #LGBTQ+ Representation, #Coming-of-Age
• 🇺🇸 Netflix Drops Millie Bobby Brown’s ‘Perfect’ After She Exits Olympics Movie Over Creative Differences — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Netflix’s Olympic gymnastics drama “Perfect” is no longer moving ahead at the streamer after Millie Bobby Brown exited the project due to creative differences, sources have confirmed. Brown was set to...

  Related: #Entertainment Industry, #Streaming Services
• 🇺🇸 AI-Assisted Captain James Hook Feature in Works at Moonmax (EXCLUSIVE) — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  AI studio Moonmax has unveiled a slate of features signifying a push into more mainstream film production, including a project based on J. M. Barrie’s famed pirate antagonist, Captain James Hook. The ...

  Related: #AI Innovation, #Literary Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 Cameron Diaz & Stephen Merchant Rom-Com Adds Frankie Faison, Alex Moffat & Heidi Gardner — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Frankie Faison and Saturday Night Live alums Alex Moffat, and Heidi Gardner have joined the cast of Amazon MGM Studio’s untitled romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Stephen Merchant, ...

  Related: #Casting, #Romantic Comedy, #Streaming Content
• 🇺🇸 Tyga Sets First Leading Film Role In ‘Baby, You’re A Star’; Also Producing & Co-Wrote Musical Drama Co-Starring Madison Bailey & Ashton Sanders — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated artist Tyga is set to make his feature debut in a starring role in Baby, You’re a Star, a coming-of-age musical drama that he’s also producing and wrote wit...

  Related: #Career Transition, #Music Industry
• 🇺🇸 Rachel Sennott Joins Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz & Alec Baldwin In ‘Kockroach’; Filming Begins Next Week — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: I Love LA star and writer Rachel Sennott has booked a key supporting role alongside Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz and Alec Baldwin in Matt Ross’ feature Kockroach, which begin...

  Related: #Casting Announcement, #Literary Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn’ Adds Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson & Tom Waits To Voice Cast – First Look — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Netflix and Skydance Animation announced today that Ray Gunn, their new animated feature from two-time Academy Award winner Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), will feature the voices of Sam Roc...

  Related: #Animation, #Entertainment Industry
• 🇺🇸 ‘Severance’ Star and Four-Time Oscar Nominee Jane Alexander to Lead Comedy-Drama ‘Lillian, Next Door,’ WME Independent Boards Sales — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Jane Alexander (“Kramer vs. Kramer,” “All the President’s Men,” “Severance”), a four-time Academy Award nominee and two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, is set to star in “Lillian, Next Door. The fil...

  Related: #Casting, #Independent Cinema
• 🇺🇸 Sam Asghari Wraps Starring Role in Action Short Inspired by Iranian Refugee Stories (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Sam Asghari has wrapped his starring role in the action thriller short, “The Good American.” Asghari stars as Ben, an Iranian refugee and rideshare driver in Los Angeles who becomes entangled in a cri...

  Related: #Refugee Narratives, #Career Development
• 🇺🇸 Phoebe Dynevor Talks Fighting Sharks in ‘Thrash’ and the Mystery of Her New M. Night Shyamalan Movie — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The demanding role for the shark survival thriller required wearing a pregnancy belling and plunging into freezing water: “I ended up really making friends with a hot hose that would go into my wetsui...

  Related: #Actor Challenges, #Career Transition
• 🇺🇸 Anthony Mackie & Dafne Keen To Star In Action-Thriller ‘Barracuda’ For Director Neil Burger; Filming Begins This Week With Robert Zemeckis Exec-Producer — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie (Captain America) and Dafne Keen (Deadpool & Wolverine) are starring in action-thriller Barracuda, which gets underway this week in New Mexico. Divergent, Limitless and The I...

  Related: #Action-Thriller Genre
• 🇺🇸 ’Roma’ Producer Pimienta Films, Amazon MGM Studios Wrap Shoot on ‘Drama King,’ Featuring ‘The Night Manager’ Star Diego Calva and ‘Narcos: Mexico’ Villain José María Yazpik (EXCLUSIVE) — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Principal photography has wrapped on “Drama King” (“El rey del drama”), the new Mexican dramedy produced by Nicolás Celis’ Pimienta Films (“Roma,” “Emilia Perez”) which has collaborated for the first ...

  Related: #Entertainment Industry
• 🇺🇸 ‘Project Hail Mary’ Co-Directors Break Down How They Got Meryl Streep On Board With Surprise Cameo Voice Role — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Meryl Streep truly can do anything — including provide an automated voice to a spidery-rock-like alien in Project Hail Mary. The Ryan Gosling sci-fi film from co-directors and collaborators Chris Mill...

  Related: #Celebrity Cameo
• 🇺🇸 Bringing Rocky to Life: How ‘Project Hail Mary’ Puppeteer James Ortiz Created the Movie’s Lovable Alien — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. Instead, he was playing off ...

  Related: #Character Design
• 🇺🇸 Oscar Winning ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ Director David Borenstein Lines Up Next Project With PBS, Reunites With Danish Team for ‘Living in Our Heads’ (EXCLUSIVE) — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Earlier this week, American director David Borenstein was supposed to pitch his next project at CPH:DOX’s prestigious Forum platform. He had to pull out at the last minute, however, but for a very goo...

  Related: #Director Collaboration
• 🇺🇸 Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Gere Airplane Thriller ‘Left Seat’ Moving Ahead with Germany Shoot — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The contained feature centers on a woman who must take control of a small plane after the pilot falls unconscious.

  Related: #Thriller
• 🇺🇸 Takashi Miike’s Charli Xcx & Milly Alcock Film Adds Hailey Benton Gates To Cast As Cameras Roll; Live Nation Studios Boards As Exec Producer — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Cameras are rolling in Japan on Takashi Miike’s Untitled Kyoto movie starring Charli xcx, Milly Alcock, Norman Reedus, Kiko Mizuhara and Show Kasamatsu. Hailey Benton Gates, who recently st...

  Related: #Entertainment Collaboration
• 🇺🇸 Pictanovo, Film France-CNC Bring U.S. Studio, Production Execs to Hauts-de-France on Series Mania Tour — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  As Series Mania returns to Lille, one of Europe’s key TV fest and industry events, France’s regional and national screen bodies are using the event to sharpen another pitch: Lille region Hauts-de-Fran...

  Related: #International Collaboration
• 🇺🇸 What the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Learned From a Firing — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.

  Related: #Creative Collaboration
• 🇺🇸 Tokyo-Set Neon-Noir ‘One More Night to Live’ Unites Philippine Production Powerhouses Fusee and Studio 360 (EXCLUSIVE) — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Philippine production companies Fusee and Studio 360 have formed a strategic partnership, unveiling their first collaboration – “One More Night to Live” (“Kon’ya Daremo Shinanai”), a Tokyo-set action ...

  Related: #International Collaboration
• 🇺🇸 Stephen Feder Joins Disney Live Action As SVP, Production — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Feder has joined Disney Live Action as SVP, Production. Most recently at Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, where he was a founding member and held a first-look deal spanning film ...

  Related: #Executive Appointment
• 🇺🇸 The Hardest Scene to Craft in ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Didn’t Involve Any Blood at All — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — the directing team known as Radio Silence — visit IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about staging a 14-person expository scene early in ...

  Related: #Horror Genre
• 🇺🇸 Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity Unveils Writers’ Room In-House Development Initiative — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Artists Equity is unveiling its Writers’ Room program, an in-house development initiative focused on cultivating original screenplays. The program invites writers to pitch film ideas across a range of...

  Related: #Creative Development
• 🇺🇸 Popularity of Labubu dolls sparks production of live-action and CGI Labubu movie — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Chinese toy company Pop Mart has announced that a live-action and CGI Labubu movie is in early development with Sony Pictures, multiple news outlets report.

  Related: #Toy Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 Producers Pact With Isabel Allende to Adapt Her ‘Dos Palabras’ Short Story into an Animated Short — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Producers Pilar Flynn and Rafael Agustín have pacted with famed Chilean novelist Isabel Allende to craft an animated short based on her short story “Dos Palabras” as an animated short film. Canada’s I...

  Related: #Literary Adaptation, #Animation
• 🇺🇸 ‘They Will Kill You’ Cast Joined Under One Condition: “Please Don’t Make It Camp” — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Zazie Beetz, Myha'la and Patricia Arquette star in the horror-comedy film that Warner Bros. releases later this month following its SXSW premiere.

  Related: #Artistic Vision
• 🇺🇸 Jason Bateman Directing Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson in Netflix’s ‘The Cackling of the Dodos’ — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Jason Bateman, who has explored the darker side of humanity in “Black Rabbit” and “Ozark,” will return to Netflix to direct “The Cackling of the Dodos,” the story of a small-town farmer who discovers ...

  Related: #Streaming Entertainment
• 🇺🇸 Jason Bateman to Direct Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell in ‘The Cackling of the Dodos’ — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Netflix is behind the original crime thriller that was written by novelist Rye Curtis.

  Related: #Hollywood Casting
• 🇺🇸 Jason Bateman To Direct Woody Harrelson & Sam Rockwell In Netflix’s ‘The Cackling Of The Dodos’ — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  During a Netflix presser today, the steamer’s Dan Lin and Jinny Howe announced a new feature directed by Jason Batman, The Cackling of the Dodos The feature puts Netflix back in business with the EP/s...

  Related: #Netflix
• 🇺🇸 Rebecca Ferguson Only Has One Scene in ‘Dune 3,’ Admits to Having “a Lot of FOMO” — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The Lady Jessica actress discusses her lack of screen time in the highly anticipated sequel.

  Related: #Actor Experience