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EXCLUSIVE: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack? Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted for Jake Schreier to…

HBO Genera+ion actor Justice Smith has joined Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan in Apple Original Film and A24’s Sharper.  Smith will play Tom, a bookstore owner in New York City in the Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka penned movie which ranked on the 16th annual The Black List. Sharper follows a con artist…

UPDATE, with Generation trailer: From executive producers Daniel Barnz, Zelda Barnz and Ben Barnz, Generation is the new kid on the HBO Max block. The new series may deal with the authentic lives of the modern teenager, from social media to sexuality and gender identity, but Generation is no Euphoria, said star Justice…

Michelle Rodriguez and Justice Smith are set to star alongside Chris Pine in the film adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons, Hasbro's popular game franchise from Wizards of the Coast. Hasbro/eOne and Paramount are jointly producing and financing the pic, with eOne distributing in the UK and Canada and Paramount in the rest…

EXCLUSIVE: The Lena Dunham-produced HBO Max teen dramedy Generation has rounded out its robust cast with series regulars Justice Smith, Chloe East, Michael Johnston, Uly Schlesinger, Haley Sanchez, Nava Mau, Nathanya Alexander, Lukita Maxwell and Chase Sui Wonders. Sam Trammell joins the cast as a recurring…

I will confess right off to being way out of the demo for the new live-action/CGI hybrid Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Pokémon‘s appeal escaped me. However, having laughed at some of the footage shown at CinemaCon last month, my hopes were a little higher than I might have expected. Alas, the end result — despite a nice…

In the new trailer for the forthcoming Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment pic Detective Pikachu we are thrown into the world of Pokemon featuring Ryan Reynolds voicing the titular character and Justice Smith as his newfound friend. And it’s all set to the adrenaline-pumping classic “I Need A Hero” by Bonnie…

EXCLUSIVE: Hearts Beat Loud director Brett Haley has been set to helm All the Bright Places, with Justice Smith joining Elle Fanning to star in the film adaptation of Jennifer Niven’s YA novel, which is ramping up again behind the Mazur/Kaplan Company and Echo Lake Entertainment. Liz Hannah (The Post) has come aboard…

The official Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer has been released, following a teaser clip last week. The next installment of the long-running dinosaurs-on-the-loose series is directed by Juan Antonia Bayona and co-written by franchise resurrector Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, the latter also co-writer of…

In the grand tradition of trailers for trailers, the official Twitter account for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom released a tease ahead of the release of the full trailer on Thursday. The clip features Chris Pratt running away from dinosaurs in a panic while Bryce Dallas Howard and Jurassic newbie Justice Smith look…

Justice Smith, who starred on Netflix’s musical drama The Get Down, has been set as the lead of Legendary’s live-action Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu. The project, originally tipped by Deadline in summer 2016 amid the heat of the Pokemon Go craze, is being directed by Rob Letterman from a script by Nicole Perlman…