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Sydney Sweeney in Final Talks to Star in Live-Action GUNDAM Movie for Legendary Pictures

Sydney Sweeney is in final negotiations to star in the live-action Gundam movie coming together at Legendary, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Details as to the part Sweeney is playing are under wraps for now, as is the film’s plot. Reps for Legendary declined to comment.

As reported first by Deadline last fall, Sweet Tooth showrunner Jim Mickle is set to direct the new Gundam, co-developed between Legendary and franchise owner Bandai Namco Filmworks, from his own script. Mickle will also produce with his partner Linda Moran through their production company Nightshade.

The pioneer of the sci-fi subgenre known as “mecha,” revolving around giant fighting robots, Gundam is a long-running multimedia franchise which kicked off with anime series Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979. Legendary Entertainment announced its development of a Gundam film in the spring of 2021, with Jordan Vogt-Roberts coming aboard as the initial director for the project following his work with the studio on its hit Montersverse installment Kong: Skull Island.

Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the franchise generates over $600 million annually, including with the sale of plenty of merchandise. Mickle’s feature adaptation of Gundam will be the first in live-action.

Sweeney is coming off of turns in the hit horror film Immaculate and the TIFF-premiering Ron Howard thriller Eden. Upcoming, she’ll be seen in Apple’s thriller Echo Valley, premiering June 13, as well as the untitled biopic on boxer Christy Martin, Euphoria Season 3, Lionsgate’s The Housemaid, Colman Domingo’s Scandalous! and more.

The InSneider was first to the news of Sweeney’s Gundam negotiations.

Sydney Sweeney Circling Legendary’s ‘Gundam’

Sydney Sweeney is circling the 'Gundam' movie in development at Legendary, sources have confirmed to Deadline.

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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 5 Officially Moving Forward with Keanu Reeves and Director Chad Stahelski

After years of speculation about the franchise’s future, John Wick: Chapter 5 is officially moving forward at Lionsgate. Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski are both back for the feature, following the previous installment, which ended with the death of the titular assassin.

Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson announced at CinemaCon on Tuesday that the studio is in development for a fifth installment in the action film franchise. Lionsgate is developing the movie with Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, franchise director and producer Stahelski and producer-star Reeves.

“Keanu, Chad, Basil and Erica would not return unless they had something truly phenomenal and fresh to say with these characters and this world,” Fogelson said about the franchise that has collected more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. “We can’t wait for audiences to see where the journey takes us next.”

Added Iwanyk and Lee in a joint statement, “It’s so important to get this story right and give John’s story the proper next step. It’s exciting to take the first step on that road.”

John Wick: Chapter 4 hit theaters in 2023 and surpassed $440 million at the global box office. The film ended with Ian McShane’s Winston and Laurence Fishburne’s Bowery King standing at a grave showing Wick’s name.

The franchise kicked off with the original John Wick in 2014, with Reeves starring as the titular hit man who gets pulled back into the criminal underworld after retiring. Spinoff film Ballerina hits theaters June 6, while new series John Wick: Under the High Table is in development from executive producers Stahelski and Reeves.

‘John Wick 5’ Set With Keanu Reeves and Director Chad Stahelski

The news comes as Lionsgate's spinoff film 'Ballerina' is set to hit theaters this summer.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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Sydney Sweeney in Final Talks to Star in Live-Action GUNDAM Movie for Legendary Pictures

Sydney Sweeney is in final negotiations to star in the live-action Gundam movie coming together at Legendary, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Details as to the part Sweeney is playing are under wraps for now, as is the film’s plot. Reps for Legendary declined to comment.

As reported first by Deadline last fall, Sweet Tooth showrunner Jim Mickle is set to direct the new Gundam, co-developed between Legendary and franchise owner Bandai Namco Filmworks, from his own script. Mickle will also produce with his partner Linda Moran through their production company Nightshade.

The pioneer of the sci-fi subgenre known as “mecha,” revolving around giant fighting robots, Gundam is a long-running multimedia franchise which kicked off with anime series Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979. Legendary Entertainment announced its development of a Gundam film in the spring of 2021, with Jordan Vogt-Roberts coming aboard as the initial director for the project following his work with the studio on its hit Montersverse installment Kong: Skull Island.

Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the franchise generates over $600 million annually, including with the sale of plenty of merchandise. Mickle’s feature adaptation of Gundam will be the first in live-action.

Sweeney is coming off of turns in the hit horror film Immaculate and the TIFF-premiering Ron Howard thriller Eden. Upcoming, she’ll be seen in Apple’s thriller Echo Valley, premiering June 13, as well as the untitled biopic on boxer Christy Martin, Euphoria Season 3, Lionsgate’s The Housemaid, Colman Domingo’s Scandalous! and more.

The InSneider was first to the news of Sweeney’s Gundam negotiations.

Sydney Sweeney Circling Legendary’s ‘Gundam’

Sydney Sweeney is circling the 'Gundam' movie in development at Legendary, sources have confirmed to Deadline.

deadline.com

I am unconvinced that Sweeney will ever have a ton of range as an actress but she is definitely a hard worker. Pretty savvy from the business side too.

 

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Sam Mendes' The Beatles Cast Assembled at CinemaCon; All Four Beatles Movie Will Be Released on April 2028

Sam Mendes showed up toward the end of Sony‘s CinemaCon presentation Monday to reveal details of how his four Beatles movies will go down. All four will be released in theaters in April 2028 in what is the first “bingeable moment in cinema,” said Mendes (Sony Motion Pictures boss Tom Rothman’s words).

Mendes also confirmed the cast, which we all know: Joseph Quinn is George Harrison, Paul Mescal is Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan is Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson is John Lennon.

Mendes wouldn’t confirm which order the movies would roll out. He also mentioned it would take him more than year to shoot all four movies. “I’m getting Avatar flashbacks” Rothman jokingly cried.

Said Mendes, the Beatles “redefined the culture and stayed with you for a lifetime,” calling them perhaps “the most significant band of all time.”

“I had been trying to do a film for years, but I finally gave up” because he felt the “story was too big for one film” and a TV series didn’t seem quite right. “There had to be a way to tell the epic story for a new generation … I can assure you there is still plenty left to explore and I think we found a way to do that.”

The actors then quoted the Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” song, saying “It’s wonderful to be here, it’s certainly a thrill, you’re such a lovely audience, we’d like to take you home with us.”

Deadline was first to report on the quartet of castings over a year ago, noting that Mendes conceived the grand vision of interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view.

The official logline for The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event is: “Each man has his own story, but together they are legendary.” Mendes, Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor of Neal Street will produce along with Alexandra Derbyshire in association with Apple Corps for Sony Pictures.

Sam Mendes’ ‘The Beatles’ Movies, All Four Of ‘Em, Are Coming Out In April 2028; Cast Confirmed – CinemaCon

Sam Mendes at CinemaCon 2025 announced that all four of his Beatles movies will come out in April 2028 and he confirmed the cast.

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New Trailer for KARATE KID: LEGENDS Starring Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio

 

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Val Kilmer, Known for Top Gun, Batman Forever and Tombstone, Passes Away at 65 Due to Pneumonia

Val Kilmer, the charisma-oozing leading man who lost himself portraying such tormented, self-loathing characters as Jim Morrison, gunslinger Doc Holliday and Batman during his all-too-brief career, died Tuesday. He was 65.

Kilmer, who came to fame for playing the competitive naval aviator Tom “Iceman” Kazansky alongside Tom Cruise in Tony Scott’s 1986 mega box-office hit Top Gun, died of pneumonia in Los Angeles, his daughter, actress Mercedes Kilmer, told The New York Times.

He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015, and Val, a stirring documentary about his life that premiered at Cannes in July 2021, showed him needing a breathing tube.

Raised in the San Fernando Valley in the shadow of Hollywood, Kilmer also was known for his meaty performances as Robert De Niro’s nasty henchman in Michael Mann’s Heat (1995); as Marlon Brando’s insane assistant in John Frankenheimer’s The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996); as the suave crook Simon Templar in Phillip Noyce’s The Saint (1997); and as the homosexual detective Gay Perry in Shane Black’s tribute to film noir, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005).

Kilmer also impressively channeled Elvis Presley in Scott’s True Romance (1993), written by Quentin Tarantino, and porn star/cocaine addict John Holmes in Wonderland (2003).

He was married to British actress Joanne Whalley from 1988 until their divorce in 1996. They met while working together on Willow and wed months later.

In Oliver Stone‘s The Doors (1991), Kilmer, with long brown hair and skintight black leathers, was eerily realistic as Morrison, the L.A. band’s iconic frontman who succumbed to drugs in 1971 at age 27. The actor took months to prepare for the role, and he recorded his baritone voice against the backing of original Doors master tapes for the film.

The soundtrack “combines Morrison’s original vocals and new vocals by Val Kilmer so seamlessly that there is never, not even for a moment, the sensation that Kilmer is not singing everything we hear,” Roger Ebert wrote in his review.

“That illusion is strengthened by Kilmer’s appearance. He looks so uncannily like Jim Morrison that we feel this is not a case of casting, but of possession. The performance is the best thing in the movie — and since nearly every scene centers on Morrison, that is not small praise. Val Kilmer has always had a remarkable talent, which until now has been largely overlooked.”

Kilmer also was quite compelling with his scene-stealing turn as the doomed Holliday, a sickly alcoholic who’s quick on the draw, in the modern Western classic Tombstone (1993).

“He works harder than most actors to make it look believable,” Tombstone director George Cosmatos told the Los Angeles Times in 1993. “He’s in the ranks of the great actors in America like [Al] Pacino or De Niro.”

Kilmer then took the cowl vacated by Michael Keaton to star as the moody Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever (1995). The film raked in $336 million at the global box office, and only Toy Story grossed more that year.

“For me, Val Kilmer was the best Batman,” Schumacher once said, even though they reportedly clashed on the set. (Frankenheimer also didn’t get along with Kilmer; after Dr. Moreau, he said that the two things he would never do again were “climb Mount Everest and work with Val Kilmer again.”)

On Batman Forever, “Everything was different about this job than I’d experienced before,” the actor told Entertainment Tonight in 1995. “The size of the character and how strange it was that Michael Keaton had decided not to do it — I just said yes, without reading the script.”

When he and Warner Bros. couldn’t agree to terms, Kilmer was one and done as Batman, opting not to return for Schumacher’s Batman & Robin (1997) as George Clooney stepped in.

In his first film, Kilmer starred as rockabilly teen idol Nick Rivers in the daffy spy spoof Top Secret! (1984) from Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. (He also was dating Cher around this time.)

He made an ABC Afterschool Special called One Too Many, in which he played a teenage alcoholic alongside Mare Winningham, then portrayed a lazy laser-technology whiz kid in Real Genius (1985), from director Martha Coolidge.

When Scott approached him for Top Gun, Kilmer said he wasn’t interested. “I told Tony at the meeting, ‘Frankly, I don’t like this.’ I loved what I’d seen of his work, but I just didn’t want to do that movie,” he recalled in the Times interview. “He said, ‘Don’t worry, your hair will look great.’ He thought that would make a difference. He was infectious that way.”

For many fans, Iceman was his signature role: “People talk about it pretty much every time I go to an airport,” he said.

Kilmer also provided the voice of K.I.T.T. in a new version of TV’s Knight Rider in 2008-09; played opposite Nicolas Cage in Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); portrayed the bad guy Cunth for laughs in MacGruber (2010); starred for Francis Ford Coppola in Twixt (2011); was a creepy building superintendent in The Super (2018); and directed, wrote and starred as Mark Twain in Citizen Twain, a one-man show that he brought to stages around the country and then to the big screen.

Val Kilmer, Actor Revered for Playing Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65

Charismatic and versatile, he also won praise for memorable roles as Iceman in 'Top Gun' and Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone,' but his unpredictable behavior ruffled some feathers in Hollywood.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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Official Teaser Trailer for THE NAKED GUN Starring Liam Neeson

Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world! Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) follows in his father's footsteps in THE NAKED GUN, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and from producer Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Family Guy). Joining the case are cast Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, with Danny Huston. Only in theatres August 1st.

 

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M3GAN Gets an Upgrade and Faces Another Killer Robot in M3GAN 2.0 Trailer

Two years after M3GAN, a marvel of artificial intelligence, went rogue and embarked on a murderous (and impeccably choreographed) rampage and was subsequently destroyed, M3GAN’s creator Gemma (Allison Williams) has become a high-profile author and advocate for government oversight of A.I. Meanwhile, Gemma’s niece Cady (Violet McGraw), now 14, has become a teenager, rebelling against Gemma’s overprotective rules.

Unbeknownst to them, the underlying tech for M3GAN has been stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno; Ahsoka, Pacific Rim: Uprising), the ultimate killer infiltration spy. But as Amelia’s self-awareness increases, she becomes decidedly less interested in taking orders from humans. Or in keeping them around.

With the future of human existence on the line, Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN (Amie Donald, voiced by Jenna Davis) and give her a few upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal. As their paths collide, the original A.I bitch is about to meet her match.

 

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Final Trailer for THE ACCOUNTANT 2 Starring Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal

 

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First Teaser Trailer for TRON: ARES Starring Jared Leto

 

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Final Trailer for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING

 

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They should remake Stargate

 

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Official Trailer for Wes Anderson's THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

 

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Official Trailer for Gareth Evans' HAVOC Starring Tom Hardy, Forest Whittaker

 

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Official Trailer for Wes Anderson's THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

That is exceedingly Wes-Andersony.

 

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That is exceedingly Wes-Andersony.

Feels like they're parodying those A.I. Wes Anderson parody trailers.

 

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Feels like they're parodying those A.I. Wes Anderson parody trailers.

At least the dude can laught at himself.

 

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That is exceedingly Wes-Andersony.

Wes Anderson out Wes Anderson'd himself.

 

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Official Trailer for Wes Anderson's THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

Really looking forward to this.

Like pretty much everything about Wes Anderson’s movies.