Attachments (Film)

Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World 2 is looking to add Toby Jones and Rafe Spall to the cast. The two are currently in negotiations to join Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in the sequel to the dinosaur box office hit.

The ninth season of HBO’s popular comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm has added Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen to their growing cast. The husband and wife will reprise their roles as themselves and will join core cast members Lary David, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, and Susie Essman.

Sterling Road Films’ Untogether starring real-life sisters Jemima and Lola Kirke has added Billy Crystal and Jennifer Grey to the cast. The project is written and directed by best-selling author Emma Forrest, who will be making her feature directing debut.

Emmy award-winning actor Rami Malek is ready to “rock you.” The Mr. Robot actor has been tapped to play the legendary rock star Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody directed by Bryan Singer.

Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Arquette and The Diary of a Teenage Girl breakout star are set for Kirsten Dunst’s movie adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. The two will join previously announced cast members, Dakota Fanning and Jesse Plemons as well as Stacy Martin.

Game of Thrones star Ciaran Hinds has joined the DC Extended Universe as the villainous Steppenwolf in the upcoming superhero team-up pic Justice League.

The star of Barry Jenkins’ critically acclaimed Moonlight, Trevante Rhodes has landed his next gig in director Nicolai Fuglsig’s adaptation of Doug Stanton’s book Horse Soldiers. He will join Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, and Michael Pena in the war drama.

One of the hottest European projects out of AFM, Annette, has announced the addition of some star power with Adam Driver and Rooney Mara attached to star. The feature is described as a music-filled drama from cult French director Leos Carax.

It was announced today at the American Film Market, which is currently taking place in Santa Monica, that Samuel L. Jackson is in final negotiations to join the film Inversion.

Ghostbusters helmer Paul Feig is circling the director’s chair for Mindy Kaling’s forthcoming comedy set in the world of late night talk shows. Kaling wrote the script which was recently acquired by Fox 2000 and she will star in the project alongside Emma Thompson.

Robert A. Heinlein’s sci-fi war novel Starship Troopers may be heading to theaters again as Columbia Pictures has a remake in the works. Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, who penned the Baywatch remake starring Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson, have been brought on to write the script.

Sony Pictures may have found the director for The Girl in the Spider’s Web in the up-and-coming Fede Alvarez. Known for the successful thriller Don’t Breathe, Alvarez is the top choice for the long-gestating sequel to 2011’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo directed by David Fincher.

Yesterday it was announced The Raid director Gareth Evans was taking on the period thriller Apostle as his next project and now the film has found its lead in Beauty and the Beast’s Dan Stevens. He is currently in negotiations for the film, which Evans will both write and direct.

The 2012 Richard H. Dillon book Hatchet Men is being turned into a feature film by The 33’s Michael Thomas and Australian writer Morgan Duncan, who will also both co-produce. Will Yun Lee will star.

Crime thriller Hangman has cast Al Pacino, Karl Urban, and Brittany Snow. Johnny Martin is set to direct with a script from Michael Caissie and Charles Huttinger.

After finding success with The Raid, director Gareth Evans has found his next project with the period thriller Apostle. Evans will take on writing and directing duties, with the feature looking at a March 2017 production start.

The upcoming Disney family comedy film Magic Camp has found its leads in Adam DeVine and Jeffrey Tambor. Mean Girls director Mark Waters is set to direct the project.

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has tapped another star from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to join his upcoming film The Current War. Spider-man: Homecoming star Tom Holland is set to join Doctor Strange‘s Benedict Cumberbatch in the Weinstein Company drama about the battle between George Westinghouse and rival Thomas Edison to create a sustainable electricity system and market it to the U.S.

Lars von Trier’s next feature film, The House that Jack Built, has cast Matt Dillon in the lead role alongside Bruno Ganz.

Academy Award-winning actor J.K. Simmons and Golden Globe winner Martin Sheen have been tapped for the animated adaptation of The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island at Legacy Classics and Shout! Factory.

Ben Briand’s action-thriller Fever Heart has booked Alexander Skarsgard and Cara Delevingne to star. Briand directs with a script he co-wrote with Kevin W. Koehler.

Johnny Depp has landed a co-starring role in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel alongside Eddie Redmayne. The film is expected to begin production early next year.

Director Nicolai Fuglsig’s adaptation of Doug Stanton’s book Horse Soldiers has enlisted Michael Pena to join Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon in the war drama. Fuglsig will direct the script adapted by Peter Craig and Ted Tally.

The all-star cast of the Ava DuVernay-directed A Wrinkle in Time continues to grow with Zach Galifianakis. The comedian/actor is in talks to join the adaptation of the Madeleine L’Engle novel.

Emmett/Furla/Oasis has tapped Olivia Wilde to star in A Vigilante. The project is written and directed by Sarah Daggar Nickson with production set to begin in February.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them actor Katheirne Waterston has joined Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, and Nicholous Hoult for The Current War. She will play Marguerite Erskine, the wife of Shannon’s George Westinghouse.

Writer-director Dan Fogelman has tapped Oscar Isaac to star in his upcoming film Life Itself. Isaac is set to play a key role in the multi-generational love story that weaves together a number of characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back.

Just a few weeks after parting ways with Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool 2, director Tim Miller has moved over to Sony to executive produce Sonic the Hedgehog reuniting Miller with longtime collaborator Jeff Fowler, who will make his feature directorial debut with the project.

After finding success with Maleficent, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book, Disney is continuing to adapt their animated library for new projects as they put a live-action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into development.

A24 is currently in final negotiations with Riley Keough to step into the female lead role opposite Andrew Garfield in the Los Angeles-set noir crime thriller Under the Silver Lake written and helmed by It Follows director David Robert Mitchell.