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Bridgerton breakout Phoebe Dynevor has signed on to exec produce and star in the Amazon film The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne, Deadline has confirmed. The thriller based on Jonathan Stroud’s book of the same name will be directed by James Bobin (The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Muppets). It’s set in a fragmented…

Eugenio Derbez (Instructions Not Included, Overboard) will star and produce Netflix‘s Lotería, a family film inspired by the titular card game popular in Latin America and the United States. The actor and comedian will portray a recently widowed father who discovers an old family deck of Lotería Don Clemente cards…

James Bobin is in talks to direct Clue, the live-action feature adaptation of the Hasbro board game in the works at 20th Century Studios with Ryan Reynolds aboard. The Disney-run studio had previously been in talks with Jason Bateman to direct and act in the movie, but that is no longer the case. Reynolds remains…

EXCLUSIVE: Action Man, Britain’s answer to G.I. Joe, is getting his movie closeup. Paramount Players is developing a film based on the Hasbro military figure doll set, and Brian Robbins’ division has just set James Bobin to direct it. Paddington 2‘s Simon Farnaby will write the script, and Hasbro is producing. Bobin…

A possible crossover between the 21 Jump Street and Men In Black franchises first revealed as a result of the 2014 Sony hack is apparently still in motion with Flight of the Conchords and The Muppets director James Bobin in very early talks to direct, Deadline has confirmed. 21 & 22 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and…

James Bobin directed Disney‘s successful reboot The Muppets and is shooting the follow-up to that one now. Now he’s talking with the studio to helm Alice In Wonderland 2, another Disney sequel. This time it’s one of the studio’s all-time biggest moneymakers: the 2010 Tim Burton-directed pic starred Johnny Depp and it…

Taking a page from the quick-cut teaser trailer done by director David Fincher for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the makers of The Muppets have generated their own to promote the family comedy that premieres November 23 through Disney. James Bobin directs and Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Chris Cooper…

British director-writer-producer James Bobin, co-creator/director of Flight of the Conchords and series director of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Da Ali G Show, has signed a first-look deal with HBO to develop and produce comedy projects through his shingle, The Honourable Company of Gentleman Film-Makers. Bobin’s longtime…