Kevin Hart, Girls Trip scribe Tracy Oliver and Korean powerhouse CJ Entertainment are teaming up on an English-language remake of CJ’s Korean box office smash Extreme Job for Universal Pictures. Hart is eyeing a starring role in the comedy, which has been picked up by Universal for world rights. Oliver will script. Ext…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Cosby Show star Geoffrey Owens is joining the cast of CJ Entertainment horror remake Hide And Seek. Owens will play a head of security who helps protect a family from attacks. As we revealed earlier this week, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Jacinda Barrett (Bloodline), Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Jacinda Barrett (Bloodline), Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) and Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) will lead cast in CJ Entertainment’s horror-thriller remake Hide And Seek. Principal photography begins this week in New York City. Actor-director Joel David Moore (Youth In Oregon)…

Shamier Anderson, who starred in Syfy’s TV adaptation of the comic book series, Wynonna Earp, is set to co-star opposite Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan and Sebastian Stan in the Drake Doremus-directed drama, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles. Doremus has directed films such as Like Crazy, starring Anton…

EXCLUSIVE: Playing House and The Odd Couple‘s Lindsay Sloane has boarded Drake Doremus’ untitled Shailene Woodley movie which CJ Entertainment is developing, financing and producing. The pic set in current day Los Angeles follows Daphne (Woodley), a thirtysomething woman navigating love and heartbreak over the course…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park International has come aboard CJ Entertainment's horror/thriller remake Hide and Seek, which Joel David Moore adapted and is directing. Cameras roll on Nov. 26 in New York City. Hyde Park is handling all foreign rights. Huh Jung directed and wrote the original 2013 movie (released…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Little Lies star Shailene Woodley, 50 Shades of Grey and A Private War star Jamie Dornan, Captain America‘s Sebastian Stan and Criminal Minds veteran Matthew Gray Gubler have been set to lead Drake Doremus' next movie, which gets underway in Los Angeles this week. CJ Entertainment is developing…

Korean distribution and production powerhouse CJ Entertainment is launching a specialty genre label – 413 Pictures. The Snowpiercer producer, which is growing its U.S. footprint, plans to develop, produce and finance 2-4 English-language genre films a year, along with 4-5 local-language Asian titles. The label will…

EXCLUSIVE: Like Crazy director Drake Doremus is to direct romantic-drama Aurora for Korean production and distribution powerhouse CJ Entertainment, I can reveal. The Handmaiden and Snowpiercer backer CJ, which is ramping up its multi-territory production slate, is developing, producing and financing the movie, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher has been tapped to write the screenplay for CJ Entertainment’s English-language remake of Derek Nguyen’s Vietnamese gothic horror pic The Housemaid. Fletcher, whose screenplay for the Lee Daniels-directed Precious won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in…

EXCLUSIVE: Joel David Moore has been set to adapt and direct Hide and Seek, an English-language remake of the 2013 Korean horror-thriller that is now in the works at CJ Entertainment. The original, written and directed by Huh Jung, grossed more than $35 million in Korea when it was released by Next Entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: Snowpiercer producer CJ Entertainment is to develop a feature film based on French book The Vanished after optioning the remake rights. Korean firm CJ Entertainment is to develop, finance and produce the Japanese-language adaptation, based on a non-fiction book by journalist Léna Mauger and photographer…