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News Briefs: Eastwood Returns For FAST X; THE KILL ROOM Casts ‘The Unicorn’ Actress; SHE-RA Goes Live-Action; Adkins Boards VIOLENCE OF ACTION

• Universal is on the way with the first of a back-to-back finale of the Fast saga with Louis Leterrier directing Fast X, and with none other than Scott Eastwood confirmed to reprise his role from The Fate Of The Furious. He joins newly-added Alan Ritchson along with Jason Momoa, and the usual Fast cadre led by franchise main Vin Diesel for its May 2023 release. (THR) • Hitman comedy drama The Kill Room is adding Dree Hemingway to the Yale Entertainment production, which centers on a hitman named Reggie, his boss and an art dealer, and their joint money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the Reggie into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld. Nicol Paone is directing from a script by Jonathan Jacobson for a cast that also lists Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar and […]

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THE KILL ROOM Adds Joe Manganiello For Spring Production

Cameras are set to roll this Spring in New York and New Jersey for dark comedy crime pic, The Kill Room, according to Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman reporting on the addition of actor Joe Manganiello (Archenemy, Zack Snyder’s Justice League) to the cast. The film, first announced in the trades at the start of April, joins the actor with previously-cast Pulp Fiction cohorts Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Penned by Jonathan Jacobson with Nicol Paone tapped to direct, The Kill Room charts “the story of a hitman (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson) and an art dealer (Thurman) whose money-laundering scheme accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight avant-garde sensation, forcing Thurman’s character to play the art world against the underworld.” The film will hit the Cannes market in May with producer Yale Entertainment’s sales and distribution banner, Great Escape, handling international sales and co-repping U.S. rights with ICM Partners, according to […]

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