Mark Rylance

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Oscar winner Mark Rylance and director Ciro Guerra are bringing Nobel Prize winner Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen with producer Michael Fitzgerald. The book from J.M. Coetzee was published in 1980 and won numerous awards.

Follows a magistrate of the border outpost as the reckless behavior of the Empire he serves threatens to trigger a Barbarian invasion. He begins to question imperialism when he saves a young ‘barbarian’ and realizes that all is not what it appears to be.

In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found.

Mark Rylance is close to pushing the start button on Ready Player One at Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. The Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies actor is in negotiations for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel.

Steven Spielberg has been tapped to direct the movie adaptation of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara at Amblin Entertainment. The book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer, will be adapted for the screen by Tony Kushner.

A girl named Sophie encounters the Big Friendly Giant who, despite his intimidating appearance, turns out to be a kindhearted soul who is considered an outcast by the other giants.

There’s word today that One Direction singer Harry Styles has accepted a supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming World War II action adventure pic, Dunkirk. Styles joins previously cast Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, and Oscar winner Mark Rylance.

Here is the complete list of nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards, as presented by Ang Lee, Guillermo Del Toro, John Krasinski and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

The film tells the story of the Dunkirk evacuation, which took place at the beginning of World War II. Christopher Nolan will write and direct while Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy will star.

A girl named Sophie encounters the Big Friendly Giant who, despite his intimidating appearance, turns out to be a kindhearted soul who is considered an outcast by the other giants because unlike his peers refuses to eat boys and girls.

Spotlight and Mad Max: Fury Road won big at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards over the weekend. Both solidified their status as Oscar contenders with another strong showing in a string of end of the year awards. Anne V. Coates was awarded a Career Achievement prize in honor of her storied career as an editor.

The New York Film Critics Circle have released their list for the best of the year in film, with Weinstein Co.’s Carol coming up big, earning Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. See the full list of winners here.

 
An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

 An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

The adaptation will mark the first collaboration between Disney and Steven Spielberg.

An international spy must clear his name in order to save himself from the organization that he used to work for.

An international spy must clear his name in order to save himself from the organization that he used to work for.

An international assassin is betrayed by his organization and must go on the run.

The Tony Award winner will play the titular role in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel.

Rylance as signed on for the as-yet untitled thriller.

Set in 1858, the story follows a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy who was secretly baptized and taken from his family and raised as a Christian. The story will focus on his parents’ struggle to free their son which later becomes a political battle.

The theater actor is in talks to play Johnny Depp’s dad.

Logline: Will chronicle the story of James Donovan, a prominent American attorney who was unexpectedly thrust into the center of the Cold War after being tasked by the CIA to slip past the Berlin Wall on his own and negotiate the release of the downed U-2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers.

Is the latest star to join Pierre Morel’s thriller.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A family, in rural New England, confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love over Memorial Day weekend when desire wreaks havoc.

Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.

Logline: An international spy must clear his name in order to save himself from the organization that he used to work for.

Logline: A young girl is snatched to the land of giants, where one ‘small’ giant protects her from his human-eating brethren.