Keanu Reeves Reportedly Eyeing Role in Ruben Ostlund's 'The Entertainment System is Down'

While Greta Gerwig’s Academy Award-nominated “Barbie” was the highest-grossing film of 2023, as we’ve seen over the course of the last year, it angered and irritated many. From Oliver Stone to Kelly Reichardt to Ruben Östlund, seemingly everyone had a take on “Barbie” they were willing to share.

Ellise Shafer The second annual Cannes Investors Circle has revealed its lineup, including films from Ruben Östlund and Lorcan Finnegan. Taking place at the Marché du Film during the Cannes Film Festival, the Investors Circle showcases 10 never-before-seen films in various stages of development to an exclusive group of film financing experts and investors.

EXCLUSIVE: Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger are embarking on a quest to find the origins of human creativity, which will be chronicled in a docuseries for Roku. The friends, longtime collaborators and Arch Motorcycle co-founders are headlining and executive producing the series, tentatively titled The Arch Project.

Idris Elba is reacting to news that Keanu Reeves is joining the Sonic the Hedgehog universe as the voice of Shadow for the third installment of the film saga.

What’s Keanu Reeves up to in his post-“John Wick” period?  Well, he’s not quite done with the character yet; he’ll reprise it briefly in the upcoming spin-off “Ballerina,” in theaters next summer.  But Variety reports the actor is in talks to star in a project that’s sure to be an eyebrow-raiser: Ruben Östlund‘s follow-up to his second Palme d’Or winner “Triangle Of Sadness.” READ MORE: ‘Barbie’: Ruben Östlund Says “Mattel Bought Off An American Auteur” & Updates Next ‘Entertainment Down’ Satire Östlund has been teasing “The Entertainment System Is Down” for a while now, but it sounds like he’s finally gearing up to film it. It’s another social satire for the Swedish auteur, about a long-haul flight where the entertainment system stops working, leading passengers to fly into rages.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Keanu Reeves is in talks to star in two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund’s highly anticipated next feature “The Entertainment System Is Down,” Variety has learned. While the exact plot of the movie remains under wraps, Östlund has teased it several times as a social satire set on a long-haul flight on which the entertainment system isn’t working, sparking chaos and rages among passengers.

Variety‘s 2024 Legal Impact Report. For editorial questions, please contact Sharareh Drury at [email protected]. Spicer: Partner and Head of Media & Entertainment PracticeGriffith, Miller, Roman: PartnersThe four Century City attorneys worked $2 billion in transactions in the past year.

Keanu Reeves is set to voice the character of Shadow in the upcoming movie Sonic The Hedgehog 3.As reported by Variety, the John Wick star will voice the character in the next instalment of the film series, adapted from the popular video game.In the game series, Shadow is an anthropomorphic hedgehog with black fur, and is somewhat of an antagonist.Reeves will be joining a star-studded cast, with the previous films featuring Ben Schwartz as Sonic, Jim Carrey, James Marsden and Idris Elba among others.The upcoming film, scheduled for a US release on December 20, 2024 will see many of the cast reprising their roles from the previous films. The sequel will draw inspiration from the early ’00s video games, Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog.The franchise was commercially successful, with the combined global box office for the first two films being $725.2million.The first film, which had its theatrical release in February 2020, became the sixth highest-grossing film of 2020, and the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in North America until 2022, when it was surpassed by its sequel.In a three-star review of the second movie, NME wrote: “Schwartz was born to voice Sonic.

Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant are enjoying a rare night out!

Keanu Reeves is joining Sonic the Hedgehog 3!

Brent Lang Executive Editor From hit man to hedgehog. “John Wick” leading man Keanu Reeves will voice Shadow in “Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” a source confirmed to Variety. He joins a cast that includes Ben Schwartz as Sonic, as well as Jim Carrey as the villainous Dr.

Given its wobbly beginnings, it’s wild to see how far Paramount’s “Sonic The Hedgehog” franchise has come. Based on the popular SEGA video game from the ’90s, the series seemed dead on arrival— or even before arrival.

Gary Windass is now keeping a secret from his wife Maria after seemingly putting his bad boy ways behind him in Coronation Street. The reformed character arrived in Weatherfield in 2008, marking actor Mikey North's big break.

Aziz Ansari revealed that his “Good Fortune” co-star Keanu Reeves was hobbling on crutches in January because he tripped on a rug in his trailer.Ansari, 41, elaborated on Reeves’ fractured kneecap injury at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.“About, I don’t know, 15 days into shooting with me, I was like, ‘Hey, just go chill in your dressing room for 15 minutes.’ And he tripped on a rug,” said Ansari, who co-wrote and co-directed the movie with Reeves.“He’s like, ‘Aah, my knee.”Ansari said that Reeves, 59, didn’t let his injury get in the way of filming, however.“He still filmed everything except some scenes where we needed him to do salsa dancing, which we need to pick up.“He was like, ‘I’ll do it!’ We’re like, ‘Keanu, calm down. We’ll do the salsa dancing once your knee’s healed.'”Ansari said that Reeves did not “go to the hospital or anything” after injuring his kneecap.“He’s done those ‘Wick’ movies, all the ‘Matrix ‘ stuff.

Carolyn Giardina Three-time Oscar-nominated director Chris Sandlers and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o previewed unfinished footage of DreamWorks Animation‘s “The Wild Robot” at CinemaCon — what Sandlers says took inspiration from Disney classics and Hayao Miyazaki’s work, resulting in an original virtual style that he described as “a Monet painting in a Miyazaki forest.” Based on Peter Brown’s book, the story follows Roz, a robot voiced by Nyong’o, who is accidentally marooned on an uninhabited island. There, the city robot meets and learns from the animals in her new environment. In this rich world, a fox meets and advises Roz.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Ana de Armas is out for blood in “Ballerina,” the upcoming spinoff to Lionsgate’s successful “John Wick” franchise. And she’s got a question for Keanu Reeves. “How do I start doing what you do?” de Armas asks the legendary hit man.

just weeks after bashing him during her short-lived stint on “Celebrity Big Brother UK.”Speaking on her family’s podcast “The Osbournes,” Sharon doubled down on her decision to critique the former “Late Late Show” host. Admitting that she and her longtime pal Louis Walsh “got into so much s–t” for revealing their opinions, Sharon’s son Jack Osbourne added, “You weren’t a f–king saint — you went after everyone as well.”“All I said was Anna Wintour’s a c–t,” Sharon chimed in, before Kelly Osbourne noted that it wasn’t just the Vogue Editor-in-Chief Sharon took aim at.“You f–king went off at James Corden,” Jack said, noting that his mom’s comments about him were “fair.”“That’s fair,” Sharon said.

Mel Gibson is crediting friend Robert Downey Jr. for being “generous and kind” after he was shunned from Hollywood.

Jack Dunn “Hire different.” That was the challenge posed to the entertainment industry by Judi Uttal, president of the Orange County Aspergers Support Group, at the inaugural Autism in Entertainment Conference on Friday morning. As head chair, she welcomed in a colorful audience of over 100 skilled neurodivergent filmmakers, ready and willing to take their shot at show business. “You are the cream of the crop,” Uttal stated in her opening remarks.

Emily Longeretta Not even the “9-1-1” cast was in the know when it came to Buck’s (Oliver Stark) sexuality. One day after the 100th episode of the procedural ended with Buck sharing a kiss with Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.), cast member Angela Bassett revealed she was also very surprised. “I just saw it today! I was a little behind, so I had to thankfully I could go to Hulu and catch up on it,” Bassett told Variety‘s Marc Malkin at the launch event for Hulu on Disney+.