5th Update Sunday AM Final: With chart Paramount is reporting a second $35M weekend for its Skydance co-production of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which is easily the best sophomore frame for the Tom Cruise franchise. Depending on how you slice and dice it, M:I: Ghost Protocol had a funky platform release during the…

We now know what Lightstorm release was destined to open next Christmas: 20th Century Fox announced that they’re pushing Robert Rodriguez’s female manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel to Dec. 21, which was originally being held for a title from James Cameron’s production company.  Originally, Lightstorm’s Alita was…

Mark O'Brien has come aboard Jennifer Yuh Nelson’s teen supernatural drama The Darkest Minds from 2oth Century Fox. The film, adapted from Alexandra Bracken’s YA trilogy, follows 16-year-old Ruby (Amandla Stenberg) who, gifted with psychic abilities, breaks out of the rehabilitation camp and joins a small group of…

Supergirl actor Frederick Schmidt has joined the fleet in Paramount’s Mission:Impossible 6, the sequel to the Tom Cruise-starring franchise. Christopher McQuarrie returns as director in the film, with the plot still held under wraps. McQuarrie is producing alongside Cruise, Don Granger, J.J. Abrams and Skydance…

Mykelti Williamson, who co-starred in Paramount’s Oscar nominated film Fences, is set to join Empire‘s Bryshere Gray in Red Guerilla Entertainment’s indie drama Canal Street. Director is Rhyan LaMarr, who also co-wrote the script with Adam Key and Jon Knitter. It explores the deep-rooted divisions within the city of…

EXCLUSIVE: Irish actor Patrick Gibson, the breakout star of Netflix's epic mystery The OA, has been cast in teen sci-fi project The Darkest Minds, Fox's adaptation of Alexandra Bracken's YA trilogy. Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda) is making her live-action directing debut on the pic, which is written by Chad Hodge…

Newcomer Miya Cech is set to co-star in 20th Century Fox’s sci-fi thriller The Darkest Minds, a film adaptation of Alexandra Bracken’s popular YA novel series. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, the pic stars The Hunger Games’ Amandla Stenberg and Harris Dickenson as teenagers who develop supernatural abilities after a…

Fox has set Jennifer Yuh Nelson to make her live-action directing debut on The Darkest Minds, the first installment of the young-adult novel trilogy by Alexandra Bracken. Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps banner are producing. Chad Hodge has written the screenplay. Hodge is the creator, show runner and exec producer of TNT’s…