Film Casting: FREE FIRE, AKIRA, Yvonne Strahovski in ALL I SEE IS YOU [Updated]

Connor4real

James Buckley will make his U.S. feature debut in Connor4real…Buckley will play Sponge, a member of Andy Samberg’s entourage.

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Shot Caller

Evan Jones has joined the cast of Shot Caller for writer-director Ric Roman Waugh…Jones will play Chopper, a PEN1 gangster and confidant of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

The Painter

Peter Heller’s novel The Painter is packaging up with The Fighter scribe Paul Tamasy writing the script and Gabriela Cowperthwaite directing…The Painter focuses on a famous artist with a blinding temper who returns to a quiet life after serving time for shooting a man in a Sante Fe bar. That is until he sees a hunting guide beating a small horse, and the artist soon finds himself on the lam, suspected of murder.

Christine

Timothy Simons has joined Rebecca Hall and Michael C. Hall in director Antonio Campos’ indie drama “Christine,” which chronicles the final months of a depressed news broadcaster who infamously committed suicide on live television in the 1970s

Simons will play Steve Turner, the news station’s foppish weatherman, who is friendly with Christine.

Love Letters to the Dead

Catherine Hardwicke is in talks to direct another YA phenomenon, Ava Dellaira’s “Love Letters to the Dead”

Dellaira adapted her own debut novel, which was published in April 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers. The story follows a teenage girl named Laurel who’s assigned to write a letter to a dead person for her English class. She chooses her late sister’s favorite musician, Kurt Cobain, who also died young. Inspired by the cathartic assignment, she sets out to fill a notebook with letters to dead celebrities such as Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Judy Garland and Amelia Earhart, among others. The letters help Laurel process her feelings and grief surrounding her older sister’s sudden and mysterious death.

Fist Fight

Ice Cube and Charlie Day are in talks with New Line Cinema to climb in the ring for Fist Fight, a comedy from scribes Van Robichaux and Evan Susser.

The pic is in the tone of the ’80s cult hit Three O’Clock High but a grown-up version: Day plays a mild-mannered English teacher who is put to the test when one of his colleagues (Ice Cube) who thinks he is trying to get him fired challenges him to a fist fight after school.

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Update

Collateral Beauty

Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara will star and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will make this his follow-up directing effort to the Sundance favorite.

The plot centers on a New York advertising executive who experiences a deep personal tragedy. When his colleagues devise an unconventional plan to break him out of his depression, the plan works, but not in a way that anyone imagined.

Collateral Beauty’s script is written by Allan Loeb.

The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter

Josh Brolin and Danny McBride are set to star in The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter…Jody Hill is directing a script he co-wrote with McBride and John Carcieri.

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