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EXCLUSIVE: 2x Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk has closed a deal to return for Nobody 2, a sequel to the acclaimed 2021 action thriller from Universal Picturesand 87North.

Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us) will direct from a script by Derek Kolstad (John Wick, Nobody), Aaron Rabin (Jack Ryan), Odenkirk, and Umair Aleem (Kate). Kelly McCormick and David Leitch are returning to produce through 87North’s first look deal with Universal, as are Odenkirk, Marc Provissiero through Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, and Braden Aftergood through Eighty Two Films.

This Valentine’s Day, Oscar® winner Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Loki) rockets into his first major leading man role as an unlikely hero, a seemingly mild-mannered realtor with a dark secret that he is desperate to leave behind. Spoiler alert: He won’t.

From 87North—producers of the groundbreaking action films Nobody, Violent Night, Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde and The Fall Guy—comes a visceral, high-octane story of wrath and revenge.

Quan stars as Marvin Gable, a realtor working the Milwaukee suburbs, where ‘For Sale’ signs bloom. Gable receives a crimson envelope from Rose (Oscar® winner Ariana DeBose; West Side Story, Argylle), a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead. She’s not happy.

Now, Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly warzones. With his brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu; Tomb Raider, Warcraft), a volatile crime lord, hunting him, Marvin must confront the choices that haunt him and the history he never truly buried.

The film features a killer soundtrack and impressive and diverse cast that includes former NFL running back and Super Bowl champion Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch (Bottoms, 80 for Brady), Mustafa Shakir (Emancipation, Luke Cage), Lio Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love., Lucy), Rhys Darby (Jumanji: The Next Level, Yes Man), André Eriksen (Violent Night, The Trip) and Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Perry Mason).

Produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, Love Hurts is written by Matthew Murray (Sheltered, CloudStreet: Soaring the American West) & Josh Stoddard (Warrior, Kaleidoscope) and Luke Passmore (Archenemy, Slaughterhouse Rulez). Guy Danella (Violent Night) is also producing. The executive producer is Ben Ormand.   Making his feature film directing debut on Love Hurts is acclaimed veteran stunt coordinator and fight coordinator JoJo Eusebio, whose credits include some of the greatest action films of the past decade including Black Panther, The Avengers, the John Wick films, The Matrix Resurrections, Violent Night, The Fall Guy and Deadpool 2. Eusebio also served as the second-unit director on Deadpool 2, Violent Night and Birds of Prey.

EXCLUSIVE from deadline.com:

Riley Keough (The Terminal List) is set to star in and executive produce Under the Bridge, Hulu’s limited series based on Rebecca Godfrey’s book.

Keough will play the late author Godfrey in the adaptation of the 1997 true story of 14-year-old Reena Virk, who went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In the book, Godfrey takes readers into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls and a boy accused of the savage murder, revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.

Godfrey (Keough) was a rebellious novelist who returned to her hometown of Victoria, BC, in 1997 and immersed herself in the too-strange-to-believe case of Virk’s murder. As a young woman herself, Godfrey was entrusted by the teenagers accused of the crime and gained unique access to the story. Her increasing fascination with the case — and the killers — drew her down the same path as Truman Capote while writing In Cold Blood.

Keough will executive produce Under the Bridge with Gina Gammell via their production company, Felix Culpa.

From ABC Signature, the limited series is executive produced by Samir Mehta and Liz Tigelaar, who will also serve as showrunners. Quinn Shephard is adapting the book and executive producing. Godfrey, who died last month at 54, was an executive producer on the series and will be getting the credit posthumously. Other EPs are Stacey Silverman and Geeta Vasant Patel, who will also direct.

Featured Cast:

Riley Keough (Daisy Jones and The Six); Lily Gladstone (Certain Women); Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife); Ezra Faroque Khan (Without Sin); Vritika Gupta (Say Goodbye) ; Javon Walton (Euphoria); Aiyanna Goodfellow (The Outlaws); Chloe Guidry (The Last Tycoon) and Izzy G (AJ and The Queen).

Streaming on @PrimeVideo 10/6

Thirty-five years after the shocking murders of three teens, an infamous killer returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. When 17-year-old Jamie comes face-to-face with the masked maniac, she accidentally time-travels back to 1987. Forced to navigate the unfamiliar culture, Jamie teams up with her teenage mother to take down the psycho once and for all.

Director: Nahnatchka Khan.

Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Charlie Gillespie, Olivia Holt.

Writers: David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver.

Producers: Blumhouse, Fierce Baby Productions, Amazon Studios.

MGM has acquired one of the hot Cannes Film Festival acquisitions titles, director Sean Penn’s father-daughter coming-of-age drama “Flag Day,” marking the lead film debut of his daughter Dylan Penn (“Elvis & Nixon”), which will have its world premiere on the Croisette. (Check out our full list of 2021 Cannes acquisitions here.)

Thirty years ago, Cannes veteran Penn premiered his first film as a director, MGM’s “The Indian Runner,” in 1991, and has continued to bring his films to the festival throughout, from Best Actor-winning “She’s So Lovely” to eventual Oscar-winner “Mystic River” and “The Last Face.” He also served as the president of the jury in 2008.

Playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) adapted Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Hearing the love and enthusiasm that Mike and his team at MGM have for bringing the movie to audiences was especially gratifying for the amazing good karma it represents,” said producers Bill Horberg and Jon Kilik. “He was the first person we spoke to about developing the book with Jez as a movie for Sean Penn many moons ago. Dreams do come true.”

Photo Credit: Allen Fraser

Sometimes the man you don’t notice is the most dangerous of all.

Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, The Post, Nebraska) stars as Hutch Mansell, an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life’s indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody.

When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake (Gage Munroe, The Shack), is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca (Connie Nielsen, Wonder Woman), seems to pull only further away.

The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch’s long-simmering rage, triggering dormant instincts and propelling him on a brutal path that will surface dark secrets and lethal skills. In a barrage of fists, gunfire and squealing tires, Hutch must save his family from a dangerous adversary (famed Russian actor Aleksey Serebryakov, Amazon’s McMafia)—and ensure that he will never be underestimated as a nobody again.

Nobody is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry), from a script by Derek Kolstad, the narrative architect of the John Wick franchise, and co-stars legendary Emmy winner Christopher Lloyd as Hutch’s father and multi-hyphenate musician-actor RZA as Hutch’s brother, whose own hidden talents aid Hutch in his quest for vengeance.

The film is produced by Kelly McCormick, p.g.a, and David Leitch, p.g.a., the filmmakers of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde, for their company 87North, by Braden Aftergood, p.g.a. (Hell or High Water, Wind River), for his Eighty Two Films, and by Bob Odenkirk and Marc Provissiero (Hulu’s PEN15) for Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. The film is executive produced by Derek Kolstad, Marc S. Fischer, Annie Marter and Tobey Maguire.

CAST

Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Aleksey Serebryakov and Christopher Lloyd

DIRECTOR

Ilya Naishuller

WRITER

Derek Kolstad

PRODUCERS

Kelly McCormick, David Leitch, Braden Aftergood, Bob Odenkirk, Marc Provissiero

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Derek Kolstad, Marc S. Fischer, Tobey Maguire

When 15-year-old Jules Mathis comes home from school to find a strange girl sitting in her kitchen, her psychiatrist mother reveals that Mae is one of her patients at the hospital and will be staying with their family for a few days. But soon Mae is wearing Jules' clothes, sleeping in her bedroom, edging her out of her position on the school paper and flirting with Jules' crush. And Mae has no intention of leaving.

Created by Daria Polatin

Starring: Emily Deschanel, Sam Jaeger, Gerardo Celasco, Madeleine Arthur and Xaria Dotson

Easter Sunday IN THEATRES NOW!! Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar from a screenplay by Ken Cheng. The project centers around Jo Koy, as he attends a family gathering to celebrate Easter Sunday. The film is based on Jo Koy's life experiences and stand-up comedy.

Starring Dennis Quaid, Betty Gilpin, Marg Helgenberger, Kat Prescott and Henry Lau.

Directed by Gail Mancuso.

Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners has just completed principal photography on the sequel “A Dog’s Journey.” Tailored for the Chinese market, the film sees Henry Lau, Marg Helgenberger, Betty Gilpin, and Kathryn Prescott join Dennis Quaid in the cast.

“A Dog’s Journey” is the follow-up to 2017’s “A Dog’s Purpose,” which portrayed a single dog’s spirit incarnated through the lives of four separate canines. Both films are based on the inspirational novels by W. Bruce Cameron. Dennis Quaid reprises his role as the owner of the dog Bailey, voiced again by Josh Gad.

“A Dog’s Purpose” was a surprise hit in China, where Alibaba was a marketing and distribution partner. China delivered $88 million of the film’s $196 million global cumulative, compared with $65 million from North America.

Gail Mancuso is directing from a screenplay by the writing teams of W. Bruce Cameron & Cathryn Michon and Wally Wolodarsky & Maya Forbes. Gavin Polone is producing the film. “A Dog’s Journey” will be distributed by Universal Pictures in the U.S., with a May 19 opening, and select international territories.

Photo Credit: Chris Helcermanas-Benge

Starring Keanu Reeves, Ana Ularu and Pasha Lychnikoff.

An American diamond merchant travels to Russia to sell rare blue diamonds of questionable origin. As the deal begins to collapse he falls into an obsessive relationship with a Russian cafe owner in a small Siberian town. As their passion builds, so does the treacherous world of the diamond trade from which he is unable to extricate himself. Both collide as the American man desperately looks for escape in a world with no exit.

Photo Credit: Allen Fraser

Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Dominic Cooper.

Directed by Peter Howitt.

In Chicago, the ambitious prosecutor Mitch Brockden is happily married with Rachel Brockden and they have a baby daughter. One night, Mitch goes to a bar to celebrate with his friend Stuart Wilson and other colleagues and when he is trying to take a cab, he sees two men snooping around his brand new SUV. He decides to drive home and accidentally hits a man on the street. He calls 911 in a phone booth and drives home, leaving the man on the street. On the next morning, Mitch learns on the news that a man called Clinton Davis was found with the body of the man in his van and claimed that he was helping the stranger in a hit-and-run. However the Police Detective Blake Kanon believes that Clinton is a wanted serial-killer. Mitch believes that the man is innocent and helps him in his trial and Clinton is declared not-guilty. But soon Mitch discovers how dangerous Clinton is and now his family is jeopardized.

Photo Credit: Allen Fraser

Cult of Chucky, also known as Child's Play 7: Cult of Chucky, is an American horror film and the seventh instalment in the Child's Play franchise.

Chucky returns to prey upon Nica (Fiona Dourif), who's been confined to an asylum for four years. Chucky's nemesis from the original Child's Play, Andy (Alex Vincent), tries to save Nica, but first he has to deal with Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), Chucky's devoted former wife. Directed by Don Mancini.

Photo Credit: Allen Fraser

Starring Jennifer Tilly, Fiona Dourif and Brad Dourif.

Directed by Don Mancini

Serial killer Charles Lee Ray once again returns in the form of a "Good Guy" doll in this sixth installment of the Child's Play franchise. Series creator Don Mancini returns to direct from his own script, which finds Chucky in the home of a fractured family with whom he has a decades-old grudge with.

Photo Credit: Chris Helcermanas-Bdenge

Sony is firms up the cast for its Grudge remake with the addition of two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver, Betty Gilpin, star of the Netflix series GLOW, William Sadler, and Frankie Faison. The group joins previously announced cast Andrea Riseborough, Demian Bichir, John Cho and Lin Shaye as filming is scheduled to start in May.

Nicolas Pesce is attached to helm the piece, a reimagining to 2004 version (based on the 2002 Japanese original Ju-on) that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as a nurse in Tokyo who is afflicted by a curse that created uncontrollable homicidal rage.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has the worldwide distribution rights while Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert will produce for Ghost House with Romel Adam overseeing production for the company. Executive producers Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane and Erin Westerman alongside Schuyler Weiss, Roy Lee, Doug Davison, John Middleton, and Andrew Pfeffer. Also overseeing the project is Brady Fujikawa from Good Universe.

Starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Line Verndal and Gil Bellows.

Written by Patricia Fogliato and David Mortin.

Directed by David Mortin.

Canadian Screen Award Nomination for Achievement in Period Costume Design.

A poor young Scandinavian immigrant couple winds up in Canada in search of prosperity, but the hardship of the Great Depression takes a toll in a way they never feared when they went in search of the dream.

Photo Credits: Michael Marshall and Allen Fraser

Starring Nisreen Fouar, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass and Alia Shawkat.

Directed by Cherien Dabis.

Sundance Film Festival Official Film Selection & Winner of Humanitus Award.

Cannes Film Festival Winner FIPRESCI Prize.

Tribeca Film Festival Winner Women of Worth ’Vision’ Award.

Muna, a single mother in Ramallah, has applied for a visa to the US. When it comes, her son Fadi, an excellent student, convinces her they should go. After an incident at customs begins their exile badly, they join Muna's sister and family in Illinois. Muna needs a job: although she has two degrees and 15 years' experience in banking, she settles for work at White Castle, telling the family her job's at a nearby bank. It's spring, 2003, and the US invades Iraq. While friends come from unlikely places, Fadi meets prejudice at school. How he'll respond to it and to American youth culture and how Muna will sort things out with her family are the rest of the story. Tragedy or hope?

Photo Credits: Rebecca Sandulak and Sandra Soke

The Capture of the Green River Killer is a 2-part television film that tells the story of the Green River Killer serial murders between 1982 and 1998.

Gemini Nomination for Achievement in Period Costume Design.

The film is based on David Reichert's book, Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer. The film's biggest departure from the book is a fictional inclusion of two teenage girls, one of whom, Helen "Hel" Remus (Amy Davidson), is a young runaway who decides to turn to prostitution to escape her mother's abusive boyfriend, in a sympathetic storyline to honor Ridgway's victims. Detective Dave Reichert (Tom Kavanaugh) works the murder cases and stays on the case from beginning to end, including extensive interviews with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy (James Marsters). In the movie he and another officer face the killer, Gary Ridgeway (John Pielmeier) after tracking his truck down because it was seen picking up a missing woman.

Photo Credit: Terry Wowchuk

Starring Rob Lowe, Elizabeth Mitchell and Oscar Nuñez.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Florida District Attorney prosecutes Casey Anthony in an murder trial that shocked and enraged the American public.

Photo Credit: Allen Fraser

Starring Jared Keeso, Sarah Manninen, Aiden Devine, Stephen McHattie, Mitchell Kumen and Ian Tracey.

Written by Tim Cherry.

Directed by Jeff Woolnough.

Gemini Nomination for Achievement in Period Costume Design.

Chronicles the life of Don Cherry, from playing minor league hockey to coaching the NHL's Boston Bruins.

Photo Credits: Allen Fraser and Gary Barringer

Starring Jared Keeso, Sarah Manninen, Tyler Johnson and Stephen McHatie.

Directed by Jeff Woolnough.

The continuation of an iconoclastic and extraordinary career as Don Cherry moves on to become a legendary hockey broadcaster. Uncovering who Don Cherry really is, the events that shape his past and the key moments in his life that allow him to continue to stay relevant to people today.

Photo Credits: Allen Fraser and Gary Barringer

Starring Lee Lee Sobieski, Jacob Tierney, Lothaire Bluteau, Michael Eklund and Tricia Helfer.

Directed by Robert Cuffley.

Alberta, a mousy young woman with the survival skills of a snail, loses cash that isn't hers, so she runs from her small town to Seattle where her old babysitter, Celene, lives - a dominatrix with a classy apartment and a life plan. She lets Alberta stay. Alberta gets a job as a checker at a supermarket and becomes fascinated with Celene's work. While vamping in one of Celene's costumes, Alberta ruins it; to make the money to pay Celene back, Alberta contacts Paul, who's sent Celene a tape asking to be a client. Alberta poses as Celene, fitfully playing the part when thugs burst into Paul's apartment looking for $500,000 he stole. Alberta is over her head. Is there any way out?

Photo Credits: Sandra Soke, Rebecca Sandulak & Thomas Fricke

Starring Devon Sawa, Gina Holden and Sarah Lind.

Directed by Steven R. Monroe.

Taking place years after The Haunting of Molly Hartley, who now, as an adult, has fallen under the possession of an evil spirit and must be exorcised by a fallen priest before the devil completely takes her.

Starring Lin Shaye and Robert Englund.

Directed by Travis Zwarny.

A girl and her friends play a mysterious game that summons a horrifying creature known as the Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.

Starring Sophie Nélisse, Maria Bello & Callum Keith Rennie.

Directed by Dominic James.

When a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl.

Photo Credits: David Bukach

Starring Kyle Massey, John O’Hurley, Munro Chambers, Robert Picardo and Curtis Armstrong.

Directed by John Putch.

A Christmas Elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town, and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the Elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks, and return the sleigh to Santa in time to save Christmas.

Illustration by Barb Hicks

Photo Credits: Chris Helcermanas-Benge

Starring Ed Asner, Malcolm McDowell, Debi Mazar and Eddie Steeples.

Directed by Pete Hewitt.

The Baxter Family relocates from sunny California to Maine, 8-year-old Finn Baxter is convinced the new house is haunted by notorious gangster/bootlegger, Jimmy "Deadleg" Gravano, who passed away inside the residence while being asphyxiated in his own bed. Terrified and stricken, Finn decides to set up traps to capture this "christmas spirit," which prove to be useful against three bumbling art thieves (Malcolm McDowell, Debi Mazar, Eddie Steeples) who target the household in search of a highly valuable painting previously owned by Gravano. Now home alone with his sister (Jodelle Ferland) while his parents are stranded across town attending a holiday party, can Finn acquire the courage to protect his sister and domicile while matching wits with a trio of determined thieves?

Illustrations by Mary C. Nemeth

Photo Credit: Allen Fraser

Starring Candace Cameron Bure, Tom Skerritt and Oliver Hudson.

Directed by Mel Damski.

A WWII era nurse is transported in time to 2016 and meets a man who helps her discover the bonds of family and that the true meaning of Christmas is timeless.