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Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: As Disney continues to figure out what to do with what to do with Fox properties they acquired in the merger, one of the biggest IPs, Deadpool, looks to be gaining momentum.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Hunters star Logan Lerman is set to join Sony’s action thriller Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt. Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon and Andrew Koji are also on board.Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch will direct and also supervise the script, which will be written by Zak Olkewicz.The film is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by bestselling author Kotaro Isaka.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterGlenn Close is the latest to join the growing ensemble of Swan Song, an upcoming Apple Original film starring Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali and Academy Award, Golden Globe Winner Awkwafina and SAG nominee Naomie Harris.Benjamin Cleary, also an Oscar winner for his short film Stutterer, wrote the screenplay and is directing the pic.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAfter spending more then a decade calling 20th Century Fox home, Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps production banner have found a new home.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterMGM is looking to bring back the classic animated character Pink Panther in a big way as it has set Jeff Fowler direct a new live-action hybrid film of the iconic character. Chris Bremner will write MGM’s modern live-action CGI-hybrid feature film reimagining with Lawrence Mirisch, Julie Andrews Edwards of Geoffrey Productions, Rideback’s Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich producing.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Through his company Olive Bridge Entertainment, Will Gluck will produce Motherf*&er, a multi-generational romantic comedy based on a true story, for Sony Pictures. The company has a first look deal with the studio.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAwkwafina has joined the cast of “Swan Song,” an upcoming Apple Original film starring Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali and Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG nominee Naomie Harris.Benjamin Cleary, also an Oscar winner for his short film Stutterer, wrote the screenplay and is directing the pic.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterFootage Films taps Power star Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Lauren London to star in the thriller Always And Forever. The psychological thriller follows the lives of four childhood friends who experienced trauma long ago at a summer camp.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate Nick Kroll is launching his first production company, Good At Business and tapped Alicia Van Couvering as is his first exec. Under his new banner, Good At Business is developing and adaptation of Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing as a TV series.Several People Are Typing is the first novel narrated entirely through Slack chats.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: One and Only Ivan star Ariana Greenblatt is set to co-star with Adam Driver in Sony’s 65. A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods will write and direct.The duo will produce under their newly formed Beck/Woods banner along with Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi, who will produce for Raimi Productions along with Debbie Liebling.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy search, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro Studios have set Steven Caple Jr. to direct the new Transformers pic in the reinvented universe.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Mason Gooding is set to star in Electric Easy, a new podcast series that will be written and directed by Vanya Asher. QCODE Media is financing and distributing.Electric Easy is a neo-noir thriller with musical elements about a futuristic world that touches on a number of timely themes such as gender identity, body modification, sexuality, race and the evolution of underground culture.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Heroes star Masi Oka is set to join the ensemble of Sony’s action-thriller Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt. Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz and Andrew Koji are also on board.Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch will direct and also supervise the script, which will be written by Zak Olkewicz.The film is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by best-selling author Kotaro Isaka.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: In what marks another A-list talent headed to Netflix, sources tell Deadline Judd Apatow has set his next comedy at Netflix. Apatow will direct and produce the untitled comedy and co-write the script with Pam Brady.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Atlanta star Zazie Beetz has rounded out the cast of Sony’s action-thriller Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt. Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry and Andrew Koji are also on board.Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch will direct and also supervise the script, which will be written by Zak Olkewicz.The film is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by best-selling author Kotaro Isaka.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterCrazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is in talks to direct Disney’s Live-action adaptation of its hit 2002 animated movie Lilo & Stitch Deadline has confirmed.Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback are producing.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After directing one of China’s biggest box-office hits of 2019, Kingdom Shinsuke Sato has found his first major domestic film as Netflix has set him to direct the action-adventure saga Water Margin. Matt Sand, who penned the Mark Wahlberg thriller Deepwater horizon, is writing the script.Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless for Screen Arcade are producing.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterGravitas Ventures has released the first trailer for Light Years, the coming-of-age comedy with Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin’s Free Association producing and Colin Thompson directing. The film follows a thirty-something-year-old as he embarks on a cosmic vision quest.Thompson also stars in the pic alongside Christopher Gray, Jennifer Lafleur, Makenzie Leigh, Russell Posner and Libby Winters.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Maria Bakalova, the breakout star of Amazon and Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.The film premiered on Amazon Prime on Oct. 23 and immediately became one of biggest streaming successes of 2020.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx is set to produce and star in Amazon’s The Burial with Maggie Betts on board to direct, in this two-handed drama where Foxx will star opposite a legendary role currently being casted. Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright penned the screenplay.Amazon Studios, Bobby Shriver Inc.