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  • Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook to guide Apple film ‘The Beanie Bubble’ 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actors Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks and “Succession” star Sarah Snook are set to headline “The Beanie Bubble”, an upcoming film from Apple Original Films.

    The film, which might be co-directed by Kristin Gore and her Grammy Award-winning husband Damian Kulash, may also function Australian actor Geraldine Viswanathan in a pivotal function, Apple mentioned in a press launch.

    “The Beanie Bubble” is predicated on Zac Bissonette’s ebook “The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute”.

    It is impressed by the craze within the ’90s that noticed the plush animals toys collected as monetary investments attributable to their potential resale values.

    The story pulls again the curtain on the absurdities and injustices of the American Dream – notably the feminine relationship to it.

    It’s a celebration of the ladies who helped energy Ty Warner’s success, whose strengths and good instincts formed and amplified the phenomenon, however whose names aren’t on the Beanie Babies’ heart-shaped tags, as per the official logline.

    The movie might be produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Karen Lunder of Imagine Entertainment.

    Galifianakis may also function an government producer on the venture.

  • Keri Russell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson forged in Elizabeth Banks’ ‘Cocaine Bear’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actors Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are set to star in actor-filmmaker Elizabeth Banks’ second directorial enterprise “Cocaine Bear”. Described as a “character-driven” thriller, the movie is penned by Jimmy Warden.

    Plot particulars are presently underneath wraps, however the story is impressed by true occasions that occurred in Kentucky in 1985, reported Deadline. Lord Miller’s Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood are producing the film together with, Brian Duffield and Brownstone Productions’ Banks and Max Handelman.

    Universal Pictures is the studio behind the undertaking. Production is ready to start in August in Ireland.

  • Elizabeth Banks to deal with pilot of Peacock collection ‘Red Queen’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Elizabeth Banks will play a serious supporting and direct the pilot episode of upcoming collection “Red Queen”.

    According to Variety, NBCUniversal-backed streaming service Peacock has began creating the drama, based mostly on the best-selling YA fantasy novel by Victoria Aveyard.

    Banks may also govt produce the collection alongside along with her husband Max Handelman by means of their banner Brownstone Prods.

    “Red Queen” is about in an alternate near-future America the place democracy is changed by a monarchy led by a bunch of people with superpowers who rule with an iron fist over these with out powers.

    It will comply with Mare, a fiery younger lady born to poverty with out powers, is doing the very best she will be able to to outlive and defend her household when she discovers the unthinkable: She in some way has powers too.

    The stunning discovery turns her world the other way up and catapults the unlikely hero to develop into the face of a revolution for the oppressed whereas looking for the reality behind the best thriller of all — how she grew to become so highly effective within the first place.

    Beth Schwartz and Aveyard co-wrote the pilot and can govt produce the mission, with Schwartz additionally serving as showrunner.

    The mission will likely be co-produced by Warner Bros Television and Universal Television.

  • Elizabeth Banks-led sequel collection to ‘The Flintstones’ within the works

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Classic ’90s sitcom “The Flintstones” are getting a reboot with actor-director Elizabeth Banks set to executive-produce and lend her voice within the present.

    Fox community introduced on Tuesday that it was creating a reboot of the sitcom, which shall be titled “The Bedrock” and decide up the story 20 years later, reported Entertainment Weekly.

    The authentic collection centered on the exploits of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, their daughter, Pebbles, their pet, Dino, and their neighbors Barney and Betty Rubble, together with son Bamm-Bamm.

    The collection ran for six seasons.

    In the reboot, Fred is about to retire and his now-twentysomething daughter, Pebbles (voiced by Banks), about to start her profession.

    “As the Stone Age gives way to a shiny and enlightened new Bronze Age, the residents of Bedrock will find this evolution harder than a swing from Bamm-Bamm’s club,” reads the logline.

    “Long before the Simpsons and Springfield, the Griffins and Quahog or even when the Belchers started serving burgers on Ocean Avenue, there were the Flintstones and Bedrock,” mentioned Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn in an announcement.

    “Their imprint on the animation universe is undeniable and the idea of adapting it for today’s audience is a challenge we here at Fox are very much looking forward to taking on with Warner Bros., Elizabeth, and Lindsay. No pressure whatsoever, really.”

    The script shall be written by Lindsay Kerns, who can even function an government producer.

  • Wunmi Mosaku to star reverse Elizabeth Banks in ‘Call Jane’

    By Express News Service
    Lovecraft Country actor Wunmi Mosaku has been roped in to star reverse Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Mara, and Rupert Friend, in an unbiased film titled Call Jane.

    According to Deadline, Call Jane will probably be a girls’s rights drama directed by Phyllis Nagy. The movie will probably be primarily based on a script by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi.

    Banks will reportedly play the position of Joy, a conventional Nineteen Sixties housewife who unexpectedly will get pregnant. She then finds the Janes, an underground abortion motion led by Virginia (Weaver).

    The group saves her life and provides her a way of goal: to assist different girls take management of their destinies.

    The movie is being produced by Robbie Brenner, Kevin McKeon and David Wulf. Michelle Campbell Mason, Schore, Sethi, Lee Broda, Erica Kahn and Judy Bart will function govt producers.

  • Elizabeth Banks set to direct thriller Cocaine Bear

    By Express News Service
    Actor-director Elizabeth Banks is all set to helm a thriller movie titled Cocaine Bear for Universal.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Banks will direct the movie with filmmaker duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller serving because the producers.Written by Jimmy Warden, Cocaine Bear is described as a character-driven thriller impressed by true occasions that passed off in Kentucky in 1985.

    It was reported in 1985 by The New York Times {that a} 175-pound black bear consumed the contents of a duffle bag stuffed with greater than 70 kilos of cocaine that was dropped from an airplane by an area drug smuggler, Andrew Thornton.

    The bear was later discovered lifeless of an obvious drug overdose.

    Further plot particulars of the film are but to be identified, nevertheless, the movie is anticipated to begin taking pictures later this yr.Aditya Sood, who introduced the challenge at Universal, may also produce together with Brian Duffield, Lord and Miller.