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  • Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook to lead Apple movie ‘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 movie from Apple Original Films.

    The movie, which will be co-directed by Kristin Gore and her Grammy Award-winning husband Damian Kulash, will also feature Australian actor Geraldine Viswanathan in a pivotal role, Apple said in a press release.

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

    It is inspired by the craze in the ’90s that saw the plush animals toys collected as financial investments due to their prospective resale values.

    The story pulls back the curtain on the absurdities and injustices of the American Dream – particularly the female relationship to it.

    It’s a celebration of the women who helped power Ty Warner’s success, whose strengths and good instincts shaped and amplified the phenomenon, but whose names are not on the Beanie Babies’ heart-shaped tags, as per the official logline.

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

    Galifianakis will also serve as an executive producer on the project.

  • Keri Russell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson cast 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 venture “Cocaine Bear”. Described as a “character-driven” thriller, the film is penned by Jimmy Warden.

    Plot details are currently under wraps, but the story is inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985, reported Deadline. Lord Miller’s Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood are producing the movie along with, Brian Duffield and Brownstone Productions’ Banks and Max Handelman.

    Universal Pictures is the studio behind the project. Production is set to begin in August in Ireland.

  • Elizabeth Banks to tackle pilot of Peacock series ‘Red Queen’

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

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

    Banks will also executive produce the series along with her husband Max Handelman through their banner Brownstone Prods.

    “Red Queen” is set in an alternate near-future America where democracy is replaced by a monarchy led by a group of humans with superpowers who rule with an iron fist over those without powers.

    It will follow Mare, a fiery young woman born to poverty without powers, is doing the best she can to survive and protect her family when she discovers the unthinkable: She somehow has powers too.

    The shocking discovery turns her world upside down and catapults the unlikely hero to become the face of a revolution for the oppressed while searching for the truth behind the greatest mystery of all — how she became so powerful in the first place.

    Beth Schwartz and Aveyard co-wrote the pilot and will executive produce the project, with Schwartz also serving as showrunner.

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

  • Elizabeth Banks-led sequel series to ‘The Flintstones’ in 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 in the show.

    Fox network announced on Tuesday that it was developing a reboot of the sitcom, which will be titled “The Bedrock” and pick up the story 20 years later, reported Entertainment Weekly.

    The original series focused on the exploits of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, their daughter, Pebbles, their pet, Dino, and their neighbors Barney and Betty Rubble, along with son Bamm-Bamm.

    The series ran for six seasons.

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

    “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,” said Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn in a statement.

    “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 will be written by Lindsay Kerns, who will also serve as an executive producer.

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

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

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

    Banks will reportedly play the role of Joy, a traditional 1960s housewife who unexpectedly gets pregnant. She then finds the Janes, an underground abortion movement led by Virginia (Weaver).

    The group saves her life and gives her a sense of purpose: to help other women take control of their destinies.

    The film is being produced by Robbie Brenner, Kevin McKeon and David Wulf. Michelle Campbell Mason, Schore, Sethi, Lee Broda, Erica Kahn and Judy Bart will serve as executive producers.

  • Elizabeth Banks set to direct thriller Cocaine Bear

    By Express News Service
    Actor-director Elizabeth Banks is all set to helm a thriller film titled Cocaine Bear for Universal.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Banks will direct the film with filmmaker duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller serving as the producers.Written by Jimmy Warden, Cocaine Bear is described as a character-driven thriller inspired by true events that took place 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 filled with more than 70 pounds of cocaine that was dropped from an airplane by a local drug smuggler, Andrew Thornton.

    The bear was later found dead of an apparent drug overdose.

    Further plot details of the movie are yet to be known, however, the film is expected to start shooting later this year.Aditya Sood, who brought the project at Universal, will also produce along with Brian Duffield, Lord and Miller.