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Update, Aug. 19: Universal’s R-rated Seth Rogen-Bill Hader-Zach Galifianakis space comedy has rocketed off next year’s Memorial Day schedule; in fact it’s completely off the calendar.  We originally heard about this last week when Rogen was on Howard Stern, but it wasn’t clear what the fate of the production was; Uni…

Taylor John Smith (Wolves) has booked a role in Hunter Killer, starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. The action thriller centers on an American submarine commander sent deep in Russian waters to save the country’s elected president in the midst of a military coup. Smith will play a sonar man on the sub. Donovan…

EXCLUSIVE– Jodie Comer, best known for her turn as the 22-year-old mistress/homewrecker in BBC’s ratings phenomenon Doctor Foster, has landed the plum title role in The White Princess, the sequel to the acclaimed historical TV drama The White Queen. The series will be a Starz production, which will air it in the U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Adding another big movie to its slate, Sony Pictures has committed to co-finance with Skydance Media Life, the tentatively titled Daniel Espinosa-directed Mars mission thriller that will star Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Rebecca Ferguson. The film re-teams Reynolds with Deadpool writers Paul Wernick…

EXCLUSIVE: What’s next for Ryan Reynolds after the record-setting Deadpool opening? Reynolds is in talks to star with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation‘s Rebecca Ferguson in Life, a Skydance Productions film that Daniel Espinosa will direct from a script by Reynolds’ Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese…

Cinedigm has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Anton Corbijn's Life, which stars Dane DeHaan as James Dean and Robert Pattinson as Life magazine photog Dennis Stock. The pic’s story is told from Stock’s perspective as he meets and profiles Dean in 1955 for the magazine, turning out some of Dean's most iconic…