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Jaume Collet-Serra directed the horror thriller The Woman in the Yard, which has pulled in just $17 million at the global box office since reaching theatres last month, but back in December he brought us the action thriller Carry On, which quickly became one of the most popular movies on the Netflix streaming service. There has been talk of a sequel – but before any Carry On follow-ups get rolling, Variety reports that Collet-Serra and Netflix will be working together on the dramatic psychological thriller An Innocent Girl.

Michael Mohan, the director of The Voyeurs and Immaculate, wrote the original screenplay for An Innocent Girl, and Marc Guggenheim, who created the DC Comics-inspired TV shows Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, has since come in to handle revisions. The project has the following logline: When a young and ambitious woman is seduced by a high powered D.C. couple, she’s drawn...

Netflix is reteaming with Carry-On director Jaume Collet-Serra on new psychological thriller An Innocent Girl, Variety reports today.

Immaculate director Michael Mohan penned the script, with current revisions by Marc Guggenheim.

The official logline for An Innocent Girl reads, “When a young and ambitious woman is seduced by a high powered D.C. couple, she’s drawn into a dangerous world of sex, power and murder.”

No additional plot details or casting has been revealed at this time.

The reunion between Netflix and Collet-Serra should likely come as no surprise, as Carry-On was touted by the streamer to be the second-most watched film of all time with 172.1 million views. The thriller, set over Christmas at Lax, stars Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman.

Jaume Collet-Serra is keeping very busy lately. The filmmaker’s latest, The Woman in the Yard, is currently playing in theaters. Upcoming survival thriller Play Dead, which is...

Jaume Collet-Serra is set to direct the dramatic psychological thriller “An Innocent Girl” for Netflix.

The film’s official logline reads, “When a young and ambitious woman is seduced by a high powered D.C. couple, she’s drawn into a dangerous world of sex, power and murder.”

Michael Mohan (“Immaculate”) penned the script, with current revisions by Marc Guggenheim.

Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter will produce “An Innocent Girl” for Berlanti /Schechter Films, marking the latest project out of their production company’s creative partnership with Netflix. Marc Guggenheim, Mike McGrath and Scott Greenberg serve as executive producers.

Collet-Serra most scored the second-most watched film of all time on Netflix with “Carry On,” starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman. With 172.1 million views, the Christmas-set action thriller has been viewed for over 344.1 million hours.

Collet-Serra told Variety in January he’d be open to a sequel to the high-octane airport film.

Five months passed between the audition and callback for “Red, White & Royal Blue” star Taylor Zakhar Perez, but it only took a few days to secure his role as Alex Claremont-Diaz once he spoke to producer Sarah Schechter and co-writer, director, and executive producer Matthew Lopez.

“I’m at my cousin’s wedding and David Rapaport calls me and said, ‘Hey, Sarah Schechter wants to chat with you about this project.’ And I said, ‘Oh, I auditioned for that so long ago.’ He said, ‘Yeah, they’re trying to find their Alex. They want to talk to you,'” Perez recalled. “I had a great chat with Sarah. I had a great chat with Matthew. Then I flew back two days later and had the camera read with Nick [Galitzine] on Zoom.. .they said the next day, ‘Can you get to London in four days?'”

As part of the...

Paul Feig is still waiting for Universal to give him the chance to make his monster movie Dark Army, a project that was first announced back in 2019. But while he waits, he’s keeping and busy, and Deadline reports that he might have just found his next directing gig. A film adaptation of the Riley Sager thriller novel The House Across the Lake (pick up a copy Here) is set up at the Netflix streaming service, with Feig and Laura Fischer producing for Feigco and Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti, and Mike McGrath producing for Berlanti-Schechter Films – and it’s said that Feig is considering directing the film himself.

Whoever ends up directing The House Across the Lake will be bringing the following story to the screen: Casey Fletcher is a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press. She retreats to the peace and quiet of her...

Exclusive: Netflix has closed a deal to develop the 2022 bestselling Riley Sager novel The House Across the Lake, developing as a potential directing vehicle for Paul Feig. The pic will be produced by Berlanti-Schechter Films and Feigco, with Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti and Mike McGrath producing for Berlnti and Feig and Laura Fischer for Feigco.

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In The House Across the Lake, Casey Fletcher is a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press. She retreats to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce,...

Simu Liu and Sterling K. Brown are the latest additions to “Atlas,” the sci-fi action thriller starring and produced by Jennifer Lopez.

Abraham Popoola (“The Great”) is also joining the Netflix and Nuyorican Productions project.

As TheWrap previously reported, Lopez will play an intelligence analyst who gets stuck on a distant planet and is forced to fight inside a military-grade mech suit in order to save humanity. “San Andreas” filmmaker Brad Peyton will direct, with Aron Eli Coleite building on an original script by Leo Sardarian.

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Producers include Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson for Asap Entertainment; Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures; Jennifer Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, and Benny Medina for Nuyorican Productions; and Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for Berlanti/Schechter Films. Mike McGrath will executive produce the film.

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Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings star Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown and Abraham Popoola are joining Jennifer Lopez in Atlas, a sci-fi thriller for Netflix.

Brad Peyton will direct Liu as a villain in the drama about an intelligence analyst who gets stranded on a distant planet and must learn to fight inside a military-grade mech suit in order to survive.

The screenwriter is Aron Eli Coleite, who worked off an original script by Leo Sardarian.

Atlas falls under the creative partnership between Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions and Netflix where Lopez, producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and longtime manager Benny Medina will produce a slate of films, TV series, scripted and unscripted content, with a focus on projects that support diverse female actors, writers and filmmakers.

The producer credits on Atlas are shared by Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson for Asap Entertainment...

Exclusive: After establishing himself as one of the key pillars of the next phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Simu Liu is ready to show some edginess. Sources tell Deadline that he is set to play the antagonist in Netflix’s Atlas starring Jennifer Lopez. Sterling K. Brown and Abraham Popoola have also landed key roles in the pic, which is being directed by Brad Peyton. Aron Eli Coleite is writing the most recent draft of the script based off Leo Sardarian’s original screenplay.

Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell are producing for Safehouse Pictures along with Peyton and Jeff Fierson for Asap Entertainment as well as Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina joining through Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions. Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter have also recently joined as producers via their Berlanti/Schechter Films. Mike McGrath will exec produce, with Courtney Baxter and Matt Schwartz co-producing.

The film follows Atlas,...

This month marks both the 74th anniversary of David Bowie’s birth and the fifth anniversary of his death. In honor of the occasion, the Bowie camp released previously unheard covers of Bob Dylan’s “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” and John Lennon’s “Mother” that were cut in 1998 for projects that never came to fruition. The Dylan song was just months old at the time, but Bowie already flagged it as a classic worthy of a reinterpretation.

Bowie recorded many covers throughout his long career. Sometimes he was putting...

Production has commenced on Free Guy, an adventure-comedy from 20th Century Fox starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Shawn Levy.

Shooting in Boston, Free Guy co-stars Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Taika Waititi, Joe Keery (Stranger Things), and Utkarsh Ambudkar (Mulan); and tells the story of a lonely bank teller who discovers he is actually a background character in the open-world videogame Free City.

Free Guy is produced by Levy, Reynolds, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners). Dan Levine (Arrival), Mary McLaglen (Red Sparrow), Josh McLaglen (Logan), George Dewey and Mike McGrath are executive producing.

Free Guy is set for release, by Disney, on July 1st 2020.

Production has commenced on Free Guy, an adventure-comedy from 20th Century Fox starring Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, POKÉMON Detective Pikachu) and directed by Shawn Levy (the Night At The Museum trilogy, Stranger Things).

Shooting in Boston, the film co-stars Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Taika Waititi (Avengers: Endgame, What We Do In The Shadows), Joe Keery (Stranger Things), and Utkarsh Ambudkar (Mulan).’

Free Guy tells the story of a lonely bank teller who discovers he is actually a background character in the open-world videogame Free City.

Free Guy is produced by Levy, Reynolds, Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon, Riverdale), Sarah Schechter (Riverdale, Doom Patrol), and Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners). Dan Levine(Arrival), Mary McLaglen (Red Sparrow), Josh McLaglen (Logan), George Dewey and Mike McGrath are executive producers.

Levy’s creative team includes director of photography George Richmond (Rocketman, Kingsman: The Secret Service), Emmy Award winning editor Dean Zimmerman (Stranger Things,...

Detective Pikachu is being hailed as one of the few good video game movies, and it nearly beat Avengers: Endgame this past weekend at the box office. Today, Ryan Reynolds continues his love for video game based cinema with a first look at Free Guy. Only, this isn't based on any particular video game, and it will be a very different kind of movie from Detective Pikachu.

Production has commenced on Free Guy, an adventure-comedy from 20th Century Fox starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Shawn Levy. Shooting in Boston, the film co-stars Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Taika Waititi, Joe Keery (Stranger Things), and Utkarsh Ambudkar (Mulan).

Free Guy tells the story of a lonely bank teller who discovers he is actually a background character in the open-world video game Free City.

Free Guy is produced by Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter,...

Exclusive: In spirited bidding, Amazon Studios won an auction for the Casey McQuiston novel Red White & Royal Blue, an unexpected power couple romance. Ted Malawer is set to adapt. Berlanti Productions will produce. Amazon prevailed over bidders that includes Village Roadshow, Paramount, and Warner Bros.

Book is a big-hearted romantic comedy in which First Son Alex falls in love with Prince Henry of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends. First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations.

Exclusive: A wild chase has ended with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions being chosen as the producers to shepherd a movie adaptation of Be More Chill, a Broadway-bound musical that became a viral sensation with young audiences even before its recent Off Broadway staging. Already, music from the high school-set sci-fi musical has generated an unprecedented amount of song streams.

Watch a couple samples from the Off Broadway production below.

I’m told that many producers chased this one over the past couple of days. Among the producers I’ve heard were Color Force’s Nina Jacobson, Imagine Entertainment, Michael De Luca, Marty Bowen’s Temple Hill, Scooter Braun, Jennifer Todd and Bob Zemeckis’ ImageMovers. Next step will be to enlist a studio. Both 21 Laps and Berlanti have their first look deals with Fox.

The musical has music and lyrics by Joe Iconis (NBC...

Exclusive: BlacKkKlansman scribes Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz have set their next film. Fox 2000 has acquired the true-crime pitch Thacher Island. The duo are set to write, and Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are producing. The story is based on Casey Sherman’s 2013 bestseller Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob’s Most Feared Assassin, about the exploits of the notorious Boston mob enforcer Joe “The Animal” Barboza. Sherman previously authored The Finest Hours, which was adapted into the film directed by Craig Gillespie.

Although he was of Portuguese descent, Barboza got the idea he might be accepted into La Cosa Nostra if he killed enough men and took on the most diabolical hits. Barboza’s brutal rise came during one of the deadliest mob wars in U.S., and he took particular joy in the most gruesome crimes — to the point that the mob betrayed him and set him on the run.