I hereby dub May the month of Natalie Portman. More than any other star, the Black Swan actress has been spreading her wings this month, lining up promising pic after promising pic as she prepares to unveil directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness out of competition at Cannes. Now, Portman has signed on to play embattled First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Jackie, a biopic from No director Pablo Larrain.
With Hot Pursuit, her buddy comedy with Sofia Vergara, proving a hot mess at the box office after getting raked over the coals by critics, Reese Witherspoon is retreating back into dramatic territory for Pale Blue Dot.
With the success of its Psycho-inspired Bates Motel, A&E is venturing further into horror territory for its Omen-inspired original series Damien. Picking up with the future Antichrist as an adult (played by Bradley James), the series looks set to deliver deeply unsettling visuals and sinister voice-overs, if this teaser is any indication.
Subverting a classic set-up with thoughtfully elegiac conversations, uproarious sight-gags and wincingly brutal violence, Maclean has made a mean, lean Western that's more viciously entertaining and visually mesmerizing than anything in the genre since 2010's True Grit.
As part of its effort to grow the X-Men into an expansive cinematic universe, Fox has inked a deal with The Fault in Our Stars helmer Josh Boone to co-write and direct The New Mutants, a standalone spinoff that will introduce a new generation of exceptionally gifted youngsters who could potentially join forces with the X-Men in future films.
Diego Luna, the acclaimed actor-turned-director who starred in Milk and helmed Cesar Chavez, has joined the cast of Star Wars: Rogue One, Variety reports.
Unlike House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Daredevil and Bloodline, Netflix isn't making much of a promotional push for its upcoming series Between. Perhaps that's because it's a co-production with Canadian networks, which means it'll be un-bingeable, diverging from the Netflix model by launching on May 21 and releasing a new episode weekly. Let the impatient viewer rioting commence.
Though she'll be venturing to the small screen for HBO's adaptation of Big Little Lies, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman is simultaneously lining up some very promising gigs in Hollywood. Today brings word that she'll reteam with Rabbit Hole director John Cameron Mitchell for How to Talk to Girls at Parties, an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman short story.
After endearing herself to the indie crowd with offbeat rom-com Ruby Sparks, Zoe Kazan will be testing out an entirely different genre by starring in horror-thriller There Are Monsters.
Academy Award winners Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, one of the most talented husband-wife pairs in Hollywood, have both signed on to star in the Pablo Escobar biopic Escobar for EuropaCorp, the company announced at Cannes earlier today.
