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EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors, who is racking up awards noms for this year’s indie hit The Last Black Man in San Francisco, has been set to star opposite Glen Powell in Devotion, Black Label Media’s movie based on the true story of two elite U.S. Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. JD Dillard is directing, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired an action/comedy feature pitch by screenwriter Michael Diliberti that he will write as a vehicle for Glen Powell (Set It Up) and Jay Ellis (Insecure), who will be seen together in the upcoming Paramount sequel Top Gun: Maverick. Diliberti, whose credits include 30 Minutes Or Less, will…

Glen Powell has been tapped to star in Wanna F*** Your Brother, co-production with STXfilms and MWM Studios. The Other Woman screenwriter Melissa Stack wrote the script and is directing the film about a buttoned-up lawyer who gets her black sheep younger brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly…

EXCLUSIVE: Roth/Kirschenbaum Films has acquired rights to Lisa Grunwald’s upcoming novel Time After Time. Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall) will script it as a starring vehicle for Glen Powell, who played John Glenn in Hidden Figures, is currently shooting Top Gun: Maverick for Paramount and then stars with his Set It Up…

Glen Powell already is set to play a Korean War fighter pilot in Devotion, now he’s ready for takeoff in a more modern vehicle. The Hidden Figures and Everybody Wants Some!! actor is in negotiations to join the cast of Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount’s sequel to the 1986 smash. Powell is joining Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has optioned rights to Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, and will make a film about the true story at the center of Adam Makos’ 2015 book about two Korean War Navy pilots — one from an affluent white New England family, the other the black son of a Mississippi…

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Newell just added a number of new actors to his film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which is underway in the UK. Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Michiel Huisman (The Age of Adeline, Game of Thrones), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey…

EXCLUSIVE: Glen Powell, who portrayed John Glenn in the Best Picture nominee and box office hit Hidden Figures, has just followed his agent Joey Stanton over from CAA to sign with ICM Partners. Powell is probably best known for his breakout performance in Richard Linklater’s ode to college Everybody Wants Some!…

EXCLUSIVE: Glen Powell is in negotiations to play astronaut John Glenn and House Of Cards’ Mahershala Ali has also joined the cast in director Ted Melfi’s Hidden Figures for Fox 2000. Ali will play castmember’s Taraji P. Henson’s love interest. The film is about a team of unsung heroes in American history…

Glen Powell has joined the fleet of Sand Castle, alongside Henry Cavill, Nicholas Hoult and Luke Evans. The Iraq War drama, directed by Fernando Coimbra (Netflix’s Narcos), is based on a screenplay by Chris Roessner that details his experience as a machine gunner in Iraq's Sunni Triangle in 2003. The plot follows an…

Mexic0-born actor-singer Diego Boneta (Rock OfAges) has been cast as one of the male leads in Scream Queens, Fox's comedy-horror series created by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Also cast as a regular in the first installment of the anthology series slated for fall is Glen Powell (The Expendab…

Universal’s comedy The Nest has added actress Renée Elise Goldsberry in the role of Kim, a longtime friend of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey’s characters who throw one last house party at their parents’ pad. Goldsberry recurs as Assistant DA Geneva Pine on CBS’s The Good Wife and also recently appeared on Fox’s The Following…