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Seven Seconds star Zackary Momoh has joined the cast of Warner Bros’ The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep. Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson star in the film that follows an adult Danny Torrance, who previously survived his father's murderous rampage at the Overlook hotel. When Dan meets a tween girl with the same…

Karan Kendrick, who can soon be seen in Fox’s The Hate U Give, has landed a significant role in the Warner Bros film, Just Mercy, which will open January 17, 2020. The pic stars Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, and Jamie Foxx. Destin Cretton is directing. The feature is based on Bryan Stevenson's 2014 memoir on his…

EXCLUSIVE: Code Black and Revenge actress Emily Alyn Lind has boarded Warner Bros.’The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep as Snakebite Andi who is a member of the nomadic psychic groups the True Knot who feed off the ‘steam’ of those children gifted with ‘the Shining’. Rose the Hat, the True Knot’s leader, has her main…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Greenwood is joining Warner Bros.’ Stephen King The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep in the role of Dr. John. The description of Greenwood’s character is being kept under wraps. Deadline exclusively broke the news about Doctor Sleep as well as its castings which Mike Flanagan wrote and is directing. Ewan…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Stephen King The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep has tapped young actress Kyliegh Curran in the role of Abra Stone, a girl who has the gift of ‘The Shining’. Deadline exclusively broke the news about Doctor Sleep as well as its castings which Mike Flanagan wrote and is directing. Ewan McGregor…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off Mission: Impossible Fallout, Rebecca Ferguson is being set for a plum role in the Men in Black spinoff. She has separately closed her deal to play the scary Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep, based on the Stephen King novel that continues the story line King started in The Shining. Ferguson, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is setting Carl Lumbly to play Dick Halloran and Alex Essoe to play Wendy Torrance in Doctor Sleep, the continuation of the storyline from The Shining. Those are the roles that Scatman Crothers and Shelley Duvall played in the Stanley Kubrick-directed original, if you are keeping score at home. M…

Warner Bros is in talks with Ewan McGregor to play Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep, the Mike Flanagan-directed continuation of the storyline that began in the Stanley Kubrick pic The Shining. The studio put the film on a fast track after the outsized grosses of another Stephen King bestseller adaptation, It. It was…

In the wake of director Damian Szifron being moved off of the Mark Wahlberg feature adaptation of ’70s TV series, Warner Bros. is moving Six Billion Dollar Man from May 31, 2019, to June 5, 2020 as the studio looks for a director. There was buzz that it was Mel Gibson, but  we’re hearing that’s not true. Warner Bros…

EXCLUSIVE: After the out-sized grosses on the Stephen King novel adaptation It, Warner Bros has put it sequel to King’s The Shining on the fast track. Mike Flanagan has been set to direct Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of the 2013 King novel that picks up the life of the Redrum kid Danny Torrance when he is in his 40s…