Minari
A24 has announced that Lee Isaac Chung’s celebrated award winner “Minari,” starring Steven Yeun, will not just be headed to cinemas on February 12th but will also arrive on PVOD services on February 26th. [Source: Twitter]
Sunny
Veteran Disney animator Kirk Wise has signed on to direct the first animated feature “Sunny” at Enderby Entertainment. Rick Dugdale will produce.
Todd Ireland will pen the screenplay based on a story by Dugdale and Brown. The story follows a boy named Sunny who must learn to control his emotions because his emotions control the sun. [Source: Deadline]
Ambulance
Garret Dillahunt (“Deadwood”), A Martinez (“Longmire”), Keir O’Donnell (“Fargo”) and Moses Ingram (“The Queen’s Gambit”) have joined the cast of the Michael Bay-directed action thriller “Ambulance” at Universal Pictures.
Said to be in the spirit of 1990s films like “Speed” and “Bad Boys,” the film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza Gonzalez in the main roles and is adapted from the Danish film “Ambulancen”. [Source: Deadline]
Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival is reportedly currently considering the option of taking place sometime between July 5th-25th as opposed to its usual May berth. Cannes organizers are also said to be considering a slight extension to the festival due to the number of strong films in the pipeline. [Source: Variety]
