Cast is rounding out on Lionsgate’s recently announced untitled race relations feature with Janelle Monáe. Joining Monáe are Eric Lange (Escape At Dannemora), Jena Malone (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt 2), Jack Huston (American Hustle), Kiersey Clemons (Dope), Tongayi Chirisa (American Horror Story), Gabourey Sidibe…

Hunger Games actress Jena Malone and American Gods’ Pablo Schreiber are attached to as leads in Lorelei, the first feature written and directed by AFI graduate Sabrina Doyle. The Florida Project producers and Freestyle Picture Company partners Kevin Chinoy and Francesca Silvestri are producing the pic with Moonlight…

Setting out in the development of The Public, his latest feature, Emilio Estevez knew he faced an uphill battle — particularly in terms of financing. “Obviously when you're talking to studios and independent companies about making a film about the library, and about mental illness and homelessness, you can just watch…

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution arm of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, has secured the U.S rights to horror thriller Angelica, written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. The film, which stars Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, and Tovah Feldshuh, will be released in…

Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Jena Malone and musician Che “Rhymefest” Smith have signed on to co-star in the Emilio Estevez-directed socially conscious ensemble dramedy the public. Currently in preproduction, the film is set to begin principal photography in mid-January on location in Cincinnati. Written by and…

Diane Kruger has been set to star in Fatih Akin's In the Fade (Aus Dem Nichts), the helmer’s next film after Why We Took The Car. It will mark the first German-language project for Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, FX’s The Bridge), who was born in Germany. It begins shooting in the fall in Akin’s hometown of Hamburg…

Brenton Thwaites has been set to star in Office Uprising, a zombie action comedy being directed by Steven C. Miller from a script by Ian Shorr and Peter Gamble. The Exchange has boarded to sell the pic worldwide at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. The pic centers on of the world’s leading arms…

Girls alum Alex Karpovsky is in advanced negotiations to star in Claire, Rilean Pictures’ remake of Éric Rohmer’s 1982 French comedy Le Beau Mariage (“The Good Marriage”). Karpovsky would star opposite Jena Malone in a story centered on an eccentric twentysomething woman living in Long Island with her aunt and teenage…

As production nears, Nicolas Winding Refn continues rounding out his cast for The Neon Demon, the horror tale that’s being co-financed and co-distributed by Gaumont and Wild Bunch. Deadline reported last week that Abbey Lee was the director’s choice to join Elle Fanning in the female-led scarer. Gaumont and Wild Bunch…

Nicholas Braun (The Perks Of Being A Wallflower) has joined Tina Fey and Margot Robbie in Paramount's Fun House, an adaptation of Kim Barker’s wartime memoir Taliban Shuffle. Fey plays a journalist and self-confessed adrenaline junkie who recounts her six years of reporting on terrorism and international affairs in…

EXCLUSIVE: For Ellen helmer So Yong Kim has set Jena Malone and Riley Keough to lead Lovesong, the tale of best friends Sarah (Keough) and Mindy (Malone) who take off on an impromptu road trip with Sarah’s young daughter in tow and see their deep BFFship develop into a surprising romance – despite the fact that Mindy…

Joaquin Phoenix plays a drug-fueled investigator in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's first film since 2012's The Master. Inherent Vice follows detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigating the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend in early-’70s Los Angeles. Owen Wilson, Josh Brolin, Benecio Del Toro, Katherine…