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“Barbie” filmmaker Greta Gerwig has been announced as the president of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival running from May 14th-25th 2024. Gerwig is the first woman to lead the jury since Cate Blanchett in 2018 and the second American this decade after Spike Lee in 2021.
The news comes as “Barbie” dominated the Critics Choice Association award nominations yesterday, landing a whopping eighteen nominations and leading the field at the ceremony which will be broadcast January 14th on The CW. [Source: BBC]
Untitled Ryan Reynolds Film
Netflix has reportedly won the rights to an untitled global heist comedy vehicle that will star actor Ryan Reynolds. Dana Fox will write the script, and Simon Kinberg is producing with Reynolds. The project is said to be an ensemble vehicle in the spirit of an “Oceans Eleven”. [Source: The Wrap]
London Calling
Josh Duhamel (“Transformers”), Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”), Jeremy Ray Taylor (“IT”) and Rick Hoffman (“Billions”) will star in Canadian director Allan Ungar’s action comedy “London Calling” currently filming in South Africa. Omer Levin Menekse penned the script.
Duhamel plays a mediocre hitman who accidentally kills a relative of London’s biggest crime boss (Gillen), forcing him to go on the run far away from his own son. To get back, he makes a deal with his new employer (Hoffman) to teach that man’s socially awkward teenage son Julian (Taylor) to be a man. [Source: THR]
Best of Enemies
Amazon and MGM Studios have won the bidding war for the rights to the Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale-led “Best of Enemies” which Eric Warren Singer writes and Charles Roven produce. A theatrical release is planned.
Cooper and Bale play CIA and KGB agents respectively who formed an unlikely friendship during the Cold War in 1978 and became involved in some of the most famous spy stories of the 20th century. Amazon beat out seven other bidders for the project, with the battle down to them and Warners in the end. [Source: Deadline]
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