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Film Casting: MORTAL KOMBAT, BAYWATCH, Bill Murray in GHOSTBUSTERS Remake

Neighbors 2

Jonah Hill’s younger sister Beanie Feldstein has joined the cast of “Neighbors 2” along with “Dope” actress Kiersey Clemons

Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Ike Barinholtz and Carla Gallo are all returning for the sequel, and this time, they’ll be joined by Chloe Moretz.

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Universal and Good Universe reunited the original team of director Nicholas Stoller and writers Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien. That trio is credited with writing the script, along with Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

Ghostbusters

Actor Bill Murray will appear in Sony’s new “Ghostbusters”

The nature of Murray’s role in the new movie is not yet known.

Mortal Kombat

Furious 7 director James Wan is stepping in to produce the MORTAL KOMBAT reboot currently underway at New Line and Broken Road.

The in-demand director of The Conjuring and Insidious: Chapter 2 has been brought over to uppercut some new life into the previously stunted picture.

The script, being penned by Mortal Kombat: Legacy writer Oren Uziel and The Expendables writer Dave Callaham, centers around a seemingly harmless guy who realizes his potential when he finds himself caught in the middle of a cross-dimensional battle between the warriors of Earth and the monsters of Outworld. Now, in order to stop the world from total destruction, he must win the martial arts tournament known as ‘Mortal Kombat’.

Baywatch

Zac Efron is suiting up in red bathing trunks and hitting the beach.

Efron is in negotiations to star opposite Dwayne Johnson in Paramount’s Baywatch, the big-screen take on the 1990s television series about California lifeguards.

After years of development, the project seems to finally be ramping up and in recent weeks adding Seth Gordon as director.

The story centers on a by-the-book and very serious lifeguard (Johnson) who is forced to team up with a young rule-flouting hothead (Efron) in order to save their beach from environmental destruction at the hands of an oil tycoon. Damian Shannon and Mark Swift wrote the most recent draft.

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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