Film Casting: THE EMIGRANTS, SPIDER-MAN, Jamie Foxx in BLINK

Shadowhunters

Alan Van Sprang has been cast as a recurring guest star in ABC Family’s straight-to-series drama Shadowhunters.

Van Sprang will play Valentine, a mysterious Shadowhunter wielding immense power. His stoic, charming, and confident presence allows him control over his many followers. To seek out what he wants, Valentine executes anyone in his way, never thinking twice about it.

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The Forest

Natalie Dormer and Chicago Fire‘s Taylor Kinney star in the film…Jason Zada is making his feature debut based on an original idea from David S. Goyer.

Sarah Cornwell and Nick Antosca wrote the script for The Forest…the story follows Sara, a young American who goes in search of her mysteriously disappeared twin sister. Despite warnings to “stay on the path,” Sara enters the forest determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate, only to be confronted by the angry and tormented souls of the dead who prey on anyone who wanders that way.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

Gary Anthony Williams has joined the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, where he’ll star as one of the franchise’s longstanding villains, ‘BeBop’. A mutated pig almost always paired off with a fellow mutant, ‘Rocksteady’, Bebop is a henchmen of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle arch villain Shredder (and thus is a quasi-member of the Foot ninja clan.) In TMNT 2, he’ll start off as a punk street thug member of a ragtag gang of misfits who acts as if he’s intellectually superior, but isn’t.

The Magnificent Seven

Matt Bomer has joined the all-star cast of MGM’s remake of The Magnificent Seven.

the new version’s story kicks off when a woman (Haley Bennett) hires a disparate group of gunslingers to protect her town from rampaging bandits that are led by a robber baron.

Bomer will play the woman’s husband, a man who tries to stand up to the robber baron.

Jackie

Natalie Portman has signed on to star as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie, a new biopic from Pablo Larrain

The film will follow the first four days in Jackie Kennedy’s life after the assassination of her husband, President John. F. Kennedy.

The Blob

Samuel L. Jackson will now don a lab coat in Simon West’s remake of 1958 sci-fi classic The Blob.

The thriller…will see Jackson play a biochemistry professor attempting to thwart the other-worldly predator discovered deep within the Earth.

Underworld 5

Kate Beckinsale is back for more Underworld action.

The actress has signed on to reprise her vampire character, Selene, in the fifth installment in the franchise

Directing the movie is Anna Foerster

Cory Goodman wrote the script, whose plot details are being kept shut in a coffin but which is said to focus on a new and younger generation of vampires and werewolves who are locked in a seemingly never-ending battle between supernatural races.

Theo James…is attached to reprise his character as he fulfills an option agreement.

Fanny’s Journey

Cecile de France will star in “Fanny’s Journey,” a WWII-set drama…directed by Lola Doillon

The movie unfolds during World War II and tells the true story of 13-year-old girl who with her little sisters and eight other Jewish children who were being sheltered and managed to flee to the Swiss border and avoid the deaths camps.

Shinji Aoyama’s True Horror Story

Currently titled “Shinji Aoyama’s True Horror Story,” the film is based on documented events about an estranged Japanese couple who venture into a plantation estate and experience a series of supernatural phenomena.

Shinji Aoyama…will shoot in early 2016

Li Na: My Life

Peter Chan Ho-sun will produce and direct “Li Na: My Life” a biopic of the tennis player who is the only Chinese to have ever won a Grand Slam.

Dog Eat Dog

Nicolas Cage is to star in “Dog Eat Dog,” a crime thriller being directed by Paul Schrader.

Writers are Matt Wilder and Schrader

“Dog Eat Dog” is a contemporary crime thriller about a trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Los Angeles, who are hired for a kidnapping. When the botched abduction goes awry and gets completely out of control, the cons find themselves on the run, vowing to stay out of prison at all costs.

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Source: Hollywoodreporter, Variety, Deadline, Latino-review