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Joel Edgerton will produce and star in his script Felony for director Matthew Saville. Accordng to Variety, the film, “centers on a decorated police officer driving home after a celebration drink with his team following the long waited bust of a major gang. He runs a young cyclist off the road. As he gives CPR to the child, fellow officers arrive to take his statement — and he tells them a lie about the accident that will change all their lives.”
Steve Carrell is attached to The Untitled Acme Warehouse Project, which “revolves around the warehouse that holds all of the zany products of the Looney Tunes universe, all bought from the fictional Acme Corporation.” No word yet if this is a live-action/animation project like Space Jam or Looney Tunes: Back in Action, or if it’s a purely live action project without the involvement of the Looney Tunes characters.
Morgan Freeman might be teaming up with Robert DeNiro and Michael Douglas in Last Vegas which is, “about four friends of retirement age who reunite in Sin City for one last blowout at the bachelor party of the only one of the pals who has stayed single.”
Jude Law will star with Richard E. Grant in the London-set black comedy Dom Hemingway from writer/director Richard Shepard (The Matador). Law will play the larger-than-life title character, a funny, profane and dangerous safecracker with a loose fuse who is, “back on the streets of London after 12 years in prison, it’s time to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut.”
Liam James will star in The Way, Way Back, the directorial debut from Academy Award winning screenwriters Jim Rash and Nat Faxon (The Descendants). The film, “follows a teenager (James) who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his unattentive mother (Toni Collette) and cheating stepfather (Steve Carell) during summer vacation. He finds acceptance at a local waterpark where he secretly works during the week, and garners the confidence to stand up to his step-dad while healing his relationship with his mom.” The film also stars Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney.
Dimension Films will be releasing Compulsion, a thriller from Egidio Coccimiglio starring Carrie-Anne Moss and Heather Graham. “Based on the South Korean film 301, 302, Compulsion centers on two neighbors dealing with obsessions that have taken over each of their lives. One woman is vivacious and calculating, consumed with such a large desire for validation that she imagines herself a star in a made-up cooking show. The other woman, a former child star, is a reclusive anorexic. Their relationship to one another and to food eventually boils over.”
John Woo working on Day of the Beast, an English speaking remake of the 1963 film Youth of the Beast. Director Seijun Suzuk’s original film focused on the dealings of yakuza. According to Variety, the Tokyo-set remake, “follows a Western outsider with a grim past as he becomes embroiled in a global turf war between a vicious new breed of yakuza and old school Russian mobsters.”
The film adaptation of Nick Horby‘s A Long Way Down has added another cast member. Imogen Poots rounds out the quartet of Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Emile Hirsch as strangers who meet at the top of a London skyscraper on on New Year’s Eve with the intent of killing themselves. As they interact, their thoughts of suicide subside.
British comedian Steve Coogan will star in Northern Soul, a film focusing on the underground music movement in Northern England during the seventies. The story, “follows the tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.”
Oliver Cooper, who made a splash earlier this year in Project X, will co-star with Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck in the gambling thriller, Runner, Runner. According to EW, “Timberlake plays Richie Furst, a Princeton student who gets pulled into the world of online gambling in order to help bankroll his expensive education. Cooper will play Andrew Cronin, a twentysomething Ivy League computer nerd who gets hired along with Furst to work for Ivan Block (Affleck), an online gambling billionaire who works out of Costa Rica and whose business is even less legitimate than it first seems.”
Richard Dreyfuss has joined the cast of Squatters, which “tells the story of a young homeless couple in Venice Beach who move into a mansion in Pacific Palisades. When the owners come home early from vacation, things get complicated. The ensemble also includes Thomas Dekker, Gabriella Wilde, Lolita Davidovich, Nancy Travis, Evan Ross, Luke Grimes and Andrew Howard.
Max Greenfield (Schmidt on Fox’s The New Girl) has joined the cast of David Wain‘s They Came Together opposite Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler. “The pic centers on an executive who threatens to shut down a small mom-and-pop shop but unexpectedly fall in love with the shop’s owner. Greenfield will play the younger brother to Rudd’s character.”
Chris Pine has co-written and will star in Mantivities. “Pine wrote the script with his buddies Will Greenberg, Drew Howerton, Robert Baker, Ian Gotler and Tony Liebetrau. Michael Patrick Jann is attached to direct. The comedy focuses on a group of friends in their early 30s, all in various stages of permanent adolescence. They get together with the aim of helping one of them grow up.”
Larry David will star in a semi-improv movie helmed by Greg Motolla (Superbad). The treatment is coming from Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm collaborators Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel. Pretty, pretty good.
John Cusack might be joining Elijah Wood as the nemesis in the psychological thriller Grand Piano. In the film, Wood’s character, a piano virtuoso who had retired early due to stage fright, finds himself forced to literally play for his wife’s life after she is kidnapped.
Nick Nolte is joining Kate Beckinsale, who will play the titular character in The Trials of Cate McCollough. In the film from writer/director Karen Moncrieff, Beckinsale will portray a recovering alcoholic lawyer who becomes convinced that a woman was framed for murder.
