Month: December 2024

The Hollywood Reporter shared that director Zack Snyder has a new project lined up at Netflix centering on the Los Angeles Police Department.

Snyder will co-write the feature with Kurt Johnstad, whom he previously collaborated with on the 300 and Rebel Moon movies; while Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller will produce under their Stone Quarry banner.

Deadline reported that the as-yet untitled film takes place in “a high-stakes world of life and death,” following an elite LAPD unit as it is “relentlessly confronted with the unforgiving collision of law and morality.”

Snyder said in a statement: “Years ago, Dan Lin and I had a conversation about our shared interest in telling a compelling and visceral character-driven story set within the intense, complex and captivating landscape of the LAPD. It’s a conversation that has stuck with me. So, as you would expect, I’m very excited to now have the opportunity to partner with Dan, along with the rest of my amazing partners at Netflix, in developing this story.”

Snyder’s other Netflix projects include the animated series Twilight of the Gods, which premiered in September.
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Zack Snyder is set to direct a new feature film for Netflix, centered around the Los Angeles Police Department. He is co-writing the script for the currently untitled action film with frequent collaborator Kurt Johnstad (“300,” “Atomic Blonde”).

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Deadline Hollywood reported that Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway has signed on to star in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel, Verity, in what will be a reunion between Hathaway and her ‘The Idea of You’ director Michael Showalter. Hathaway, Hoover and Showalter will also serve as producers of the film.

“Verity” was self-published in 2018 and spent months on the New York Times best-sellers list and selling more than 1 million copies in 2023 alone.  Hathaway will portray Verity Crawford, ‘a famous author who is unable to finish her thriller novel after a car accident leaves her badly injured and incapacitated. So her husband Jeremy offers a struggling writer named Lowen a huge sum of money to complete the remaining books in the series. Lowen accepts the gig but uncovers dark secrets in the process — including an unfinished manuscript that hints at chilling admissions about Verity and her family’s past — leaving Lowen to determine if Verity is a gifted fictionist or deranged psychopath.’  The roles of Jeremy and Lowen have yet to be cast.

Hoover’s novel “It Ends With Us” became a box office hit over the summer. The film, directed by and starring Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively, grossed $349 million globally; while a film version of Hoover’s book “Reminders of Him” is in the works at Universal Pictures.

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Viola Davis will be honored with the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille award, with past recipients including Walt Disney, Robert Redford and Oprah Winfrey.

The Globes posted on social media: “Honoring her powerful storytelling and inspiring legacy, she has delivered performances that will resonate for generations. We are thrilled to share that @violadavis will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award Don’t miss the #GoldenGlobes hosted by @nikkiglaser LIVE Sunday, January 5, 2025 on @cbstv and @paramountplus!”

Said Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne: “Viola Davis is a luminary whose profound talent has continuously shifted the lens through which we see and understand film. Presenting her with the 2025 Cecil B. DeMille Award is not only an honor but a reflection of our admiration for her relentless dedication to her craft and her monumental impact on the industry,  Viola’s courage in portraying complex, powerful characters has broken barriers and paved new paths, making her an emblem of excellence and an ideal recipient of this prestigious award.”

Davis was given awarded the Golden Globe for her role in Fences, and has several other past. nominations. The actor will be honored at a special dinner on Jan. 3, alongside the Carol Burnett award honoree, Ted Danson.

The Golden Globes, hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, will take place Jan. 5 and air live at 8 p.m. EST on CBS. The show will also stream on Paramount+.

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The new Apple TV+ series Cape Fear will star Javier Bardem, who also joins Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg as executive producers on the project.

Apple TV+  gave a series order to a series adaptation of “Cape Fear,” created by Nick Antosca and based on both John D. MacDonald’s novel “The Executioners” (which inspired the 1962 feature of the same name directed by J. Lee Thompson from storyboards devised by original director Alfred Hitchcock); as well as the 1991 remake directed by Scorsese.

Per the official logline, “A storm is coming for happily married attorneys Amanda and Steve Bowden when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. In Cape Fear, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Amanda and Steve Bowden when Max Cady (played by Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. The 10-episode series is a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century.”

Bardem recently portrayed José Menéndez in Ryan Muphy’s Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menéndez Story, and also appeared in the recent ‘Dune’ films.

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Lady Gaga is joining the Season 2 cast of Netflix’s hit series Wednesday, currently in production in Ireland.  Deadline confirmed that Gaga will share the screen series star Jenna Ortega, but no details about Gaga’s role were made immediately available.

Lady Gaga is coming off of her starring role in Joker: Folie a Deux. Her acting credits include A Star Is Born, House of Gucci and two seasons of FX’s American Horror Story.

New episodes of Wednesday are expected to premiere next year; the series also co-stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, with Season 2 additions to the cast including Billie Piper, Steve Buscemi, Noah Taylor and Joanna Lumley.

See the Season 2 teaser trailer of Wednesday: HERE.

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