Marmalade
“Stranger Things” breakout Joe Keery, Aldis Hodge and Camila Morrone will lead Keir O’Donnell’s romantic heist drama “Marmalade” which has wrapped its shoot in Minnesota.
The story centers on a naive small-town man (Keery) who ends up in jail and narrates the colorful tale of a romantic bank heist to his cunning cellmate to escape and reunite with the alluring love of his life (Morrone). [Source: Screen]
Audrey’s Children
Natalie Dormer has signed on to star as unconventional but brilliant pediatric oncologist turned healthcare hero Dr. Audrey Evans in Ami Canaan Mann’s biopic “Audrey’s Children” at Amasia Entertainment and Resonate Entertainment.
Evans is best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities. The film is set in 1970 will follow her as she is recruited to run the Oncology Department at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Julia Fisher Farbman wrote the script and filming begins in September. [Source: Deadline]
Role Play
Bill Nighy and Connie Nielsen will join Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo in Thomas Vincent’s “Role Play” at Studiocanal, Picture Company and Amazon Prime.
Seth Owen and Andrew Baldwin’s script revolves around a married couple (Cuoco and Oyelowo) whose lives turn upside down when secrets come out about each other’s pasts. [Source: Deadline]
Late Bloomers
Karen Gillan, Jermaine Fowler, Margaret Sophie Stein, Kevin Nealon and Talia Balsam will all star in the Lisa Steen-directed comedy “Late Bloomers” from We’re Doin’ Great and Park Pictures. Filming just wrapped in Brooklyn.
Penned by Anna Greenfield, Gillan plays an aimless millennial who drunkenly breaks her hip -landing her in physical therapy. There, she makes an elderly Polish BFF (Stein) who speaks no English but gives her the courage to face her mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s. [Source: Deadline]
The Deliverance
Omar Epps, Demi Singleton, Miss Lawrence and Anthony B. Jenkins have joined the cast of Lee Daniels’ exorcism thriller “The Deliverance” for Netflix.
Andra Day plays a mother who fights for her life, her faith, and the souls of her children after discovering their new home is haunted by a demonic presence. Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Aunjanue Ellis, Caleb McLaughlin and Tasha Smith co-star. [Source: Variety]
