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Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s Margie Claus starring Melissa McCarthy will fly into theaters on Nov. 12, 2027. The pic has also set its additional voiceover cast with Jim Gaffigan as Santa, Andrew Scott as Jack Frost along with Annie Mumolo, Georgette Falcone, Octavia Spencer, Gary Farmer, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Cedric Yarbrough, and Maria Bakalova. Cole Escola was previously announced. Directed by Kirk DeMicco from a screenplay by Ben Falcone and Damon Jones, Margie Claus will also have original songs written and produced by Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling artist Meghan Trainor along with Falcone and Jones. In the pic, Santa Claus goes missing…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. production company Mighty Aphrodite Pictures has secured an option agreement to make an authorised narrative feature drama based on the life and legacy of U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén. Developed in collaboration with the Guillén family, the project will chronicle the life of the young army recruit whose 2020 disappearance and murder at Fort Hood sparked a nationwide outcry and calls for reform within the U.S. military. The film seeks to celebrate Guillén’s life while honoring the tireless advocacy of her family, whose campaigning inspired lasting legislative change and amplified the voices of military families. Guillén had long had…

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Perlman, one of the creators and stars of Showtime’s critically acclaimed comedy series Flatbush Misdemeanors, has wrapped on the NYC shoot for an untitled coming-of-age comedy marking his feature directorial debut. Starring up-and-comers Romo Lee (The Kindergarten Teacher) and Lucas Adler (The Plague), the film is adapted from Perlman’s award-winning short Cramming, with a new plot. It follows two desperate eighth graders at an elite NYC prep school who recruit a crew of misfits to shut down their school, one day at a time, in hopes of evading finals forever. Perlman directed from his own script. Billed as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Election,…

There’s a big shock in the film comms sphere and that’s Warner Bros EVP of Communications Katie Martin Kelley, who was Motion Picture Chairs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy’s right hand, is heading to Netflix as VP Communications where she’ll oversee Dan Lin’s feature film portfolio. Martin Kelley starts on Sept. 8 and will report to Dani Dudeck, Netflix Chief Communications Officer. This is the second known high-level WBD executive to leave recently amid the uncertainty surrounding the company’s pending acquisition by Paramount. Last month, Pia Barlow, EVP Originals Marketing for HBO Max, joined Amazon MGM Studios as VP of Series…

Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are reprising their roles from Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion for the sequel. The duo was at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event in Anaheim, California, to preview Romy and Michele 2, which they both executive produce. With the sequel premiering 30 years after the original was released, Sorvino explained why she thinks the comedy has withstood the test of time. “People tell me that it means a lot to them. Fans tell me that it’s their comfort movie, or it was the movie that made them feel okay about being themselves in high…

For a movie about a superhero who can literally climb walls, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is seemingly interested in what happens when Peter Parker (Tom Holland) puts them up himself. Still reeling from the loss of the people closest to him, Peter has convinced himself that being alone is the price of being Spider-Man, and production designer Charles Wood had the task of making that isolation visible. That meant giving Peter a new apartment that could feel like both a refuge and a prison, with a view of the New York life he can see but can’t quite join. Elsewhere…

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Keoghan, the Oscar-nominated actor set to play Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes’ The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, has signed with CAA. Keoghan is currently in production on the biopics, where he stars opposite Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon. Each film is told from the perspective of a different band member. All are slated for release in April 2028. Keoghan will next be seen in Lemonade, directed by Kim Bartley, as well as Kantemir Balagov’s English-language debut Butterfly Jam, opposite Riley Keough and Harry Melling, which premiered as the opening-night…

Matthew McConaughey has starred in multiple rom-coms, but there’s one in particular that he says still makes him money even after 20 years. In a new interview, the actor said that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days still brings him money in residuals after all these years. “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is the gift that keeps on giving,” McConaughey said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I think it’s probably my favorite romcom I’ve done.” He added, “And it still pays the best mailbox money of any film I’ve ever done. By far. By…

After showing genuine talent opposite her father Adam Sandler in 2023’s Netflix comedy, You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, Sunny Sandler 100% confirms that talent runs in the family with another Netflix film produced by Happy Madison (her father’s production company) and right in line with the heartfelt coming of age films the Sandler dynasty is turning out along with the expected more raucous comedies. Don’t Say Good Luck is based on a true story that actually happened to screenwriter Laura Hankin, who wrote the first draft and collaborated on the script with Jordan Horowitz and the…

Paramount has set a release date for its remake of the 1981 cult horror film Possession from Smile‘s Parker Finn. The film, starring Callum Turner and Margaret Qualley, will open wide in theaters on June 11, 2027. It’s set to open against Universal Pictures’ How to Train Your Dragon 2. Written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, the original Possession starred Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill as a married couple in Cold War-era West Berlin whose relationship spirals into supernatural terror. A landmark of arthouse genre cinema, the film won Adjani the prize for Best Actress at Cannes. Turner and Qualley will star as the couple in…