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Universal has set a January 15, 2021 release date for 355, the ensemble spy thriller that came together during last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The pic directed and co-written by Simon Kinberg stars Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Fan Bingbing. The hope is to launch a franchise based…

EXCLUSIVE: One day into production in Europe on the global spy thriller 355 that he hatched with Jessica Chastain for Universal, FilmNation and Freckle Films, Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films is quietly exiting his overall film deal at Fox this month. That brings to an end a 20-year run where he has worked steadily, pretty…

Netflix has snatched up The Division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures’ film adaption based on the popular Tom Clancy online-only, role-playing video game, which was released in 2016 and currently has more than 20 million players. The follow-up game, The Division 2, was just released in March. The announcement of Netflix’s…

The international spy thriller 355, which was the biggest deal at last year’s Cannes, has added Avengers: Endgame‘s Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramirez, and set a July 8 production start in Paris, London and Morocco. Scripted by Simon Kinberg and scripted by Theresa Rebeck, the film is a global espionage thriller that…

Andrew Garfield is set to star opposite Jessica Chastain in biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which is set up at Fox Searchlight and has Michael Showalter attached to direct. Chastain had been developing the project and will produce the project alongside Kelly Carmichael through their Freckle Films banner with Gigi…

Jessica Chastain and Ava DuVernay are taking HBO to task for what they say is the premium cabler’s insensitivity to rape and race on the blockbuster Game of Thrones. Following Sunday’s “The Last of the Starks” episode, Chastain on Monday criticized the show for using the rape and torture that Sophie Turner's…

The Golden Globes will be handed out Sunday, and Jessica Chastain and Sam Rockwell are set as the first presenters. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the announcement on the pair, who appeared together in 2017’s Woman Walks Ahead, on Twitter this morning: EXCLUSIVE: The HFPA is proud to announce that Sam…

The Accidental Tourist Oscar winner Geena Davis and Joan Chen are boarding Tate Taylor’s Eve from Voltage Pictures and Freckle Films. The plot and a majority of character roles are being kept under wraps, but in the movie, Jessica Chastain's title character works for the leader of a black ops organization played by…

EXCLUSIVE: Legends of Tomorrow's Falk Hentschel is to star alongside Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, Common and Jon Malkovich in action drama Eve. Hentschel, who plays Hawkman in Greg Berlanti's DC universe, joins the film, which is being directed by The Help director Tate Taylor. Few details of the plot are known…

The Help director reportedly has stepped in to direct Voltage Pictures’ Eve after the project’s original helmer exited. Matthew Newton left the production after news resurfaced about his pleading guilty to assaulting his girlfriend 11 years ago in his native Australia. Eve reunites Chastain with…

Matthew Newton has exited as director of the Jessica Chastain-starring Eve, a character-driven action movie that the Aussie also wrote. Chastain announced the film August 1 which she is producing via her Freckle Films along with Voltage Pictures. The news of Newton’s hire caused a backlash against the project and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne are in advanced negotiations to star in The Good Nurse, a thriller based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Tobias Lindholm is set to make his English-language feature directing debut. BRON Studios, run by Aaron L. Gilbert, has come…