The Tiger’s Apprentice
Michelle Yeoh and Sandra Oh along with Brandon Soo Hoo, Bowen Yang, Sherry Cola and Kheng Hua Tan will join the already cast Henry Golding in “The Tiger’s Apprentice” at Paramount Animation. Pixar animator Carlos Baena makes his feature directing debut on the film opening February 10th 2023.
Based on the 2003 book by Lawrence Yep, the story tells of a boy in San Francisco who meets a shape-shifting talking tiger named Mr. Hu (Golding) and under his tutelage and protection is introduced into a magical world that includes an ancient phoenix, an exiled dragon (Oh) and a clan of evil-doers. [Source: Heat Vision]
Lakewood
Naomi Watts will team with “The Quiet American” and “Clear and Present Danger” helmer Phillip Noyce on the thriller “Lakewood” which begins filming this week in Ontario from a script by Chris Sparling (“Buried,” “Greenland”). Watts plays a mother who desperately races against time to save her child as authorities place her small town on lockdown. [Source: Variety]
The Prom
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix film adaptation of “The Prom” will release on December 11th with a new poster on Instagram effectively serving as a cast list. Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Keegan-Michael Key, Andrew Rannells and Kerry Washington co-star in the musical about four Broadway actors who travel to a conservative Indiana town to help a lesbian student banned from bringing her girlfriend to her high school prom. Murphy directed the film adaptation while Martin and Beguelin wrote the screenplay.
The Big D
HBO is developing the drama series “The Big D” which has “American Horror Story”alum Lily Rabe as an executive producer. Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann will serve as writers and co-executive producers.
Set during a hot and hotly contested summer in Dallas 1980, the show follows a triangle of women as their lives collide to unearth a secret past involving the city’s would-be First Lady, Pat Pangburn, and her mysterious bout of amnesia. [Source: Variety]
No Time To Die
A new featurette has arrived from Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as James Bond in “No Time to Die” ahead of its November release. Titled ‘Meet Safin,’ it’s an introduction to Rami Malek’s very Bond-ian villain in the new project.
Boasting facial scarring and a porcelain mask, the mysterious character seems to have unlimited resources and is developing a dangerous new technology that will kill millions but will save the world in his eyes and so justifies the deaths.
