Motion Picture: First Look At Rosario Dawson And LaKeith Stanfield In 'Haunted Mansion,' Roberto Clemente Biopic In The Works

Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi: Seth Rogan’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, a CG-animated feature, has found its cast. Michal Abbey will play Donatello, Shamon Brown Jr. will play Michelangelo, Nicolas Cantu will play Leonardo, and Brady Noon will play Raphael. Splinter will be voiced by Jackie Chan, John Cena will play Rocksteady, and Rogen will star as Bebop. The film will follow the turtles as they attempt to win the public’s favor and be accepted as normal teenagers by performing good deeds and heroic acts. The feature, directed by The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ Jeff Rowe and produced by Point Grey Productions, Paramount Pictures, and Nickelodeon Movies, has a release date of August 4th, 2023.

The upcoming Alien feature, from filmmaker Fede Álvarez, has cast David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Aileen Wu, Cailee Spaeny, and Spike Fearn in the 20th Century Studios’ science-fiction horror film. Although plot details are being kept under wraps, it is known that the film will follow a group of young people, as opposed to the previous Alien films focus on “adults in corporate, militaristic and scientific roles.” The film takes place in a distant colony, where the group of youths must fight for their lives against the Xenomorph alien. Alien will begin filming on March 9th, 2023 in Budapest, although a release date is currently unknown.

Adeline Rudolph has been cast alongside Jefferson White in The Crooked Man. The film, a take on Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others comics, will follow Hellboy (Jack Kesy) and a Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense agent as they find a colony led by the Crooked Man and haunted by witches. Rudolph will play Bobbie Jo Song, while White will play Tom Ferrell. The Crooked Man will be directed by Brian Taylor and written by Mike Mignola and Chris Golden, the creators of the Hellboy comics. A release date is currently unknown.

The first look at Disney’s Haunted Mansion, starring Rosario Dawson and LaKeith Stanfield, has come through the release of the first official trailer. It depicts single-mother Gabbie (Dawson), the new owner of a haunted mansion, as she teams up with a “ragtag group” in an attempt to rid her house of the paranormal. Other cast includes Chase Dillon, who will play Gabbie’s son Travis, Owen Wilson, a priest named Kent, Tiffany Haddish, a psychic, and Danny DeVito, a historian. LaKeith will play Ben, a scientist and paranormal expert. Haunted Mansion will hit theaters on July 28th, 2023.

Deadpool’s Karan Soni is joining the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse team. He will voice Pavitr Prabhakar, or Spider-Man India, an alternate universe version of the superhero. Other cast includes Shameik Moore, who will voice Spider-Man/Miles Morales, and Hailee Steinfeld, who will voice Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, and Kemp Powers, the animated feature is set to hit theaters on June 2nd, 2023.

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Comedy: Grand Death Lotto will star Awkwafina and Simu Liu, who will act alongside John Cena in the action-comedy from Amazon Studios. The film, set in California in the near future, takes place in a world where the lottery has new rules—if you kill the winner before the end of the day, you can legally claim their prize. Awkwafina will play Katie, a new L.A. resident, while Liu will play Louis Lewis, Cena’s rival. Grand Death Lotto will be the second film Awkwafina and Liu have teamed up on after their collaboration on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Grand Death Lotto’s release date is currently unknown.

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Drama: Jeymes Samuel’s The Book of Clarence’s release date has finally been set. Audiences can view Sony’s star-studded film on September 22nd, 2023. Written and directed by Samuel, the biblically-set film features LaKeith Stanfield, who will play a Jerusalem resident who tries to capitalize on Christ’s influence for his own benefit. Instead, he finds himself exploring the new faith. Other cast includes Omar Sy, RJ Cyler, Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, Teyana Taylor, David Oyelowo, Alfre Woodard, and Marianne Jean-Baptise, among others. Samuel will write and compose the score as well, and will produce alongside James Lassiter, Tendo Nagenda, and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z).

Ashanti has been cast alongside Beverly D’Angelo, William Baldwin, and Xander Berkely in Julia Verdin’s No Address. The film follows “a community of homeless people fighting eviction from their encampment.” Filming has begun in Sacramento, California. The previously announced cast includes Ty Pennington, Lucas Jade Zumann, Kristanna Loken, Patricia Velasquez, and Isabella Ferreira. Ashanti will play an Iraq War veteran with PTSD, who copes with her trauma through drug use. It is unclear when No Address will premiere.

Resistance: 1942’s producer Jonah Hirsch is working on a biopic about Roberto Clemente. The film will be based on the baseball icon’s family’s book, Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero, and will “tell his inspirational life story inclusive of both his baseball career as well as his fight for Latin American equality and social justice.” The news comes nearly 50 years after the athlete’s passing. In a statement, Roberto Clemente Jr. comments:

“I recall sitting in a meeting with our mother in the summer of 1974 about making this film, and there have been plenty of announcements over the past 50 years including major players in the industry, but nothing ever got done. Now, for the first time, we feel we found the right partners. Clemente fans have been waiting a long time for this film and we will make sure it was worth the wait.”

The cast, official title, and release date are currently unknown.

Documentary: Criterion has acquired TVOD rights for the Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes. The film, directed by Shaunak Sen, follows two brothers from Delhi, India, who spend their lives rescuing injured birds. Although a home video release date is currently unknown, Criterion has commented that All That Breathes will be available on iTunes, Apple, Amazon, and Vudu. Director Sen, on his film, comments:

“So often what we call beauty is a function of time. Because if you keep turning up and shooting, at some point life rewards you with accidents. We have our long track shots ready and if out of the blue a deflection of something comes, et cetera, that’s great. So much of documentary is a kind of radical embrace of the unscriptedness of the world.”