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EXCLUSIVE: Ed Skrein (Deadpool) has replaced Rupert Friend in Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic Rebel Moon for Netflix, following Friend’s exit from the project due to scheduling conflicts, with Cleopatra Coleman (Dopesick), Fra Fee (Hawkeye) and Rhian Rees (Nope) also signing on for roles. The actors join an ensemble that…

Panelists at the press conference for Ana Lily Amirpour's Venice Film Festival competition title Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon today said they have experienced feeling like an outsider, a theme that runs through the story. The film follows a girl with unusual and dangerous powers who escapes from a mental asylum and…

Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Christopher Nolan and others have proved that with the right director and approach, there is still great life to be found in stirring World War II movies — from Saving Private Ryan and Letters From Iwo Jima and Hacksaw Ridge to Dunkirk. But in the case of special effects…

EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has begun in New Orleans on Ana Lily Amirpour's Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, with Korean actress Jun Jong-Seo, the breakout from Cannes 2018 hit Burning, making her English-language debut alongside previously announced Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) and Craig Robinson (This Is The End)…

Eva Green, Kathy Bates and Ed Skrein are attached to star in sci-fi thriller A Patriot, which Brian O’Shea’s The Exchange will launch world sales on in Cannes. Currently in pre-production, the movie’s screenplay comes from Dan Pringle (K-Shop) and Toby Rushton (Monsters) with Pringle also attached to direct. Project…

Ed Skrein has joined Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning in the second installment of Disney's Maleficent franchise, which Joachim Ronning is directing. Skrein will play a villain in the film that’s based on the nemesis first introduced in the studio's 1959 fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Jez Butterworth and Linda Woolverton…

Netflix has acquired global rights outside of China to Tau, the sci-fi thriller starring Maika Monroe, Ed Skrein and Gary Oldman. The deal for the Federico D'Alessandro-directed pic was made during the American Film Market by Bloom, which is repping international sales, and its new parent Endeavor Content, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco and Ed Skrein have come aboard If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to his Best Picture Oscar winner Moonlight. Based on James Baldwin’s novel, the drama follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover's innocence while carrying their…

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actress Chloe Bennet took to Instagram to praise Ed Skrein for exiting the Hellboy reboot after a whitewashing backlash, but one commenter decided to put the focus on the Chinese-American actress, criticizing her for changing her name to Chloe Bennet from her birth name Chloe Wang. The user…

Last week, Ed Skrein was excited to announce he would be playing the character of Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming Hellboy: Rise Of The Blood Queen. In the comics, the character is of Asian heritage, and the news prompted immediate backlash from the Asian Pacific American community. Today, Skrein took to Twitter…

The latest casting of Ed Skrein in the upcoming Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen has raised a lot of eyebrows — specifically in the Asian American community. The British actor is set to play the role of Ben Daimio, who, in the Mike Mignola comic books, is a Japanese American whose heritage has a heavy influence on his…

Maika Monroe and Ed Skrein have boarded Federico D' Alessandro’s sci-fi thriller Tau, with Waypoint Entertainment financing under their first look deal with Addictive Pictures. Noga Landau scripted the Black List project. David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) and Kevin Turen (The Birth of a Nation) will produce under their…