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Natasha Liu Bordizzo is set to star alongside Christoph Waltz and Liam Hemsworth in an untitled action-thriller series at Quibi from Scorpion creator Nick Santora. Here’s the logline: Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard (Hemsworth) accepts an offer to…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a hot AFM package. I can reveal that Christoph Waltz and Lily Collins will star with Bill Skarsgard in Gilded Rage, a dramatic thriller about the real-life murder of a Manhattan hedge fund manager. Charlie McDowell (The Discovery, The One I Love) is directing. XYZ Films is financing and producing the…

Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz is set to co-star opposite Liam Hemsworth in Quibi’s Untitled Action Thriller from Scorpion creator Nick Santora, producer Gordon Gray, Silver Reel Pictures and CBS Television Studios. In the series, desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his…

Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz is set to return as James Bond adversary Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed Bond 25. Waltz was first introduced as Blofeld, the mastermind of the global criminal organization, in the 2015 film, Spectre. He joins returning franchise players including star…

Woody Allen has lined up a starry, largely European cast for his next movie, which has a working title of Wasp 2019. The cast includes Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, Louis Garrel (The Dreamers), Sergi López (Pan’s Labyrinth), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In), Wallace Shawn (Manhattan) and Gina Gershon (Blockers). Mediap…

As long as we are stuck waiting for the upcoming four sequels to Avatar, we might as well have a little fun, and that is what co-writer/producer James Cameron, director Robert Rodriguez and company do with the action comic book flick, Alita: Battle Angel. The delightfully corny, noir-ish dialogue says it all: “She has…

Taika Waititi, Christoph Waltz and Naomi Watts are among the talent who will sit on the Venice Film Festival’s main jury beginning August 28. They are joining last year’s Golden Lion winner, Guillermo del Toro, who is president of the panel. Also on board are Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang; Danish star…

Alexander Payne had the distinction of opening this year's Venice Film Festival with his new film Downsizing, which followed last year's La La Land in a first-night slot that is often seen as a launching pad for awards season titles. Starring Matt Damon, the film takes place in a world where Norwegian scientists have…

UPDATED with press conference details: Alexander Payne's Downsizing splashed onto the Lido this morning as the Venice Film Festival gets underway. The sci-fi comedy was met with applause at the first press screening inside a jammed Sala Darsena — and the laughs were hearty from the international audience for what is a…

Vanessa Redgrave is set to join Christoph Waltz for his directorial debut Georgetown, the crime drama inspired by the true story of Albrecht Muth who was convicted in 2011 for murdering his much older socialite wife in Washington D.C. Cornerstone Films is overseeing international sales, with ICM handling U.S. rights…

I haven’t seen the film so I’ve no idea just how far it derivates from the original pulp novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, but the latest trailer for The Legend of Tarzan suggests it’s going to be closer to King Kong than Lord Greystoke. (Obviously, there are apes in the original stories, but the tone of this is much…

A young bride. A dashing portraitist. A suspicious older husband. A tough nun. And a booming market for tulip bulbs in 17th century Amsterdam. That sets the scene for Tulip Fever, and now the Weinstein Company has released the first trailer for the pic. Alicia Vikander plays the married woman who begins a passionate…