• Isabella Merced is joining the cast of Sony’s latest Marvel adaptation, Madame Web. Casting details are unknown but she joins Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney and Celeste O’Connor, with S.J. Clarkson tapped to direct. (Deadline)
• The Suicide Squad star Daniela Melchior will have a small role in the recently-wrapped Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol. 3 from director James Gunn. She is additionally set to appear in Fast X opposite the Vin Diesel-led roster with Louis Leterrier at the helm. (Deadline, Collider)
• Rachel Zegler is Lionsgate’s choice for The Hunger Games prequel/spinoff, The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. She will play Lucy Gray Baird, joining actor Tom Blyth who will play a younger Coriolanus Snow, among other characters based on the Suzanne Collins-penned novels. The film is dated for November 17, 2023. (Deadline)
• Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid will shepherd sci-fi thriller, Omega, for Sony. Blair Butler will revamp over David Crabtree’s script which sees a woman who, after helping a stranger, is imbued with a reality-warping power and forced to fend off a cabal of hitman as she learns how to come into her newfound abilities. (Deadline)