Want to know what’s in theaters this week? Catch these exciting new releases on the big screen:
Oscar-winning actor Adrian Brody (The Pianist) stars in Clean, which is out in theaters this weekend. The crime thriller is about a a trash collector with a secret violent past, which suddenly comes back to haunt him when he becomes entangled with a local crime boss. Also out this Friday: Michel Franco’s latest feature, Sundown. The drama stars Oscar-nominated actor Tim Roth (Rob Roy) as a wealthy man who inexplicably chooses to stay behind and continue his vacation following news of a death in the family.
Get your tickets for those and other new movies here.
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
New Line plans Mortal Kombat 2: More like More-tal Kombat, right? Deadline reports that New Line is moving ahead with a sequel to last year’s Mortal Kombat. The follow-up to the video game adaptation will be scripted by Jeremy Slater, co-writer of the 2015 Fantastic Four movie and head writer of Marvel’s upcoming Moon Knight series. The hire isn’t surprising given that James Wan produced the first movie and, as we shared last week, he is also working with Slater on the latter’s directorial debut, Thread.
Dwayne Johnson’s secret video game movie: Speaking of video game movies, Dwayne Johnson has one in the works, but he won’t divulge any details on the project. The wrestler-turned-actor tells Men’s Health magazine the title will be announced later this year, and it’s something he’s been playing for years. He also claims it is “one of the biggest, most badass games” and that they’re focused on delivering “a great movie” from this secret source material. Start making guesses of what it could be for now.
Jake Gyllenhaal is looking to Cut & Run: Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred in the video game movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, is now set to star in a heist film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eagle Eye screenwriter John Glenn is behind the spec script for the project, titled Cut & Run, and Gyllenhaal will also be a producer. The plot involves a band of thieves who regularly rob yachts using high-powered speedboats but eventually steal from the wrong group of people.
Kirsten Dunst to star in Civil War: Kirsten Dunst, who is currently riding a wave of awards buzz for her supporting performance in the Western drama The Power of the Dog, will move onto a very different sort of auteur-driven genre project. Variety reports she will star in a near-future-set action movie from Ex Machina and Annihilation helmer Alex Garland titled Civil War. Little else is known about the feature, which will co-star Stephen McKinley Henderson and Cailee Spaeny, both of whom were in Garland’s TV miniseries Devs, and it will be distributed by A24.
An Office reunion: Steve Carell is heading to work for John Krasinski, his former co-star on the hit sitcom The Office, and we may also get to see the actors reunited on screen. According to Deadline, Carell has joined the cast of If, which Krasinski wrote and will be directing. Krasinski is also expected to appear in the secretive fantasy film, alongside Ryan Reynolds, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw and additional newcomers to the project Louis Gossett Jr. and breakout Minari child actor Alan Kim.
The Aristocats go live-action: According to one song in the 1970 Disney animated feature The Aristocats, “ev'rybody wants to be a cat.” Well, a bunch of actors may have the opportunity to be a cat, or portray one at least, in a live-action reimagining of the movie. Deadline reports of the latest-announced remake of a Disney animated classic, which is in development with filmmaker Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit) and writer Keith Bunin (Pixar’s Onward) both working on the screenplay. The plot of the original version involves the kidnapping of a family of fancy felines in Paris.
