Pups Alone
Dolph Lundgren, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rob Schneider, Keith David, Nicholas Turturro, Eric Roberts, Danny Trejo, Jerry O’Connell and Malcolm McDowell will star in Alex Merkin’s live-action Christmas canine crime caper “Pups Alone”.
Lundgren plays the primary antagonist Victor VonManure, the conniving and obnoxious next-door neighbour to the inventor of a dog collar that translates canine thoughts into words. When Victor hires two inept thieves to steal the invention, the neighbourhood dogs catch wind of the plan and try to stop the would-be robbers. [Source: THR]
Monstrous
Christina Ricci has scored the lead role in the supernatural thriller “Monstrous” by director Chris Sivertson and screenwriter Carol Chrest. Colleen Camp also stars.
The story centers on a traumatized woman fleeing from her abusive ex-husband with her 7-year-old son. In their new, remote sanctuary they find they have a bigger, more terrifying monster to deal with. [Source: THR]
Bingo
Joshua Caleb Johnson (“The Good Lord Bird”) has scored a key role alongside Adriana Barraza in the Blumhouse and Amazon Studios feature “Bingo”. Gigi Saul Guerrero helms and co-wrote the film.
The story follows a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified in the barrio of Oak Springs. However, their beloved bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself. [Source: Variety]
Kimi
Byron Bowers (“The Chi,” “Concrete Cowboy’) is set to join Steven Soderbergh’s feature “KIMI” which will premiere exclusively on HBO Max. David Koepp penned the script and will produce it along with Michael Polaire.
The story follows an agoraphobic tech worker who discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime during an ordinary data stream review and tries reporting it up the chain of command at her company. Meeting with resistance and bureaucracy, she realizes she will have to do the thing she fears the most – leave her apartment. [Source: Deadline]
