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Horizon entertainment hired Destin Daniel Cretton for a R rated video game adaption and has met with three actresses ( Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy & Tomisin Mackenzie ) for the female lead.

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Studio Groundswell is proud to announce its next fairy tale reimagining following Tongue Tied.

 

Aurora, directed by Countdown City’s Mimi Leder, retells the story of Sleeping Beauty and follows Princess Aurora as she’s tricked into pricking her finger—but in a twist, Aurora wakes up in a dream, and she must navigate the dream world to find a way back to consciousness. Therefore, Aurora, an alleged cross between Sleeping Beauty and Lucid, reimagines the titular “Sleeping Beauty” as a far more active character than some narratives have suggested in the past. The part of Princess Aurora will be played by Thomasin McKenzie. The film is eyeing a Christmas Day Y10 release.

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[The following films have been conceived as semi-fillers at this time, so their announcements have been paired together.]

 

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Studio Groundswell will adapts Capcom's classic Onimusha video game franchise, starting with Y10's Onimusha which adapts film one in the franchise, Onimusha: Warlords. The film is an English-language Hollywood-produced movie with Japanese-American actors; the film is set in 1500s Japan and follows a warrior and a ninja who must save a princess when Inabayama Castle is overrun by demons. The film stars:

 

Ryan Potter as Samanosuke Akechi

Lyrica Okano as Kaede

Miki Ishikawa as Princess Yuki

 

Onimusha comes to theaters this March.

 

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Studio Groundswell is proud to announce an animated adaptation of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, which will be directed by Lightyear filmmaker Angus MacLane. Groundswell is eyeing an April 17th release date. No casting announcements at this time.

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Studio Groundswell will release an independent horror film during May Y10. A film by X’s Ti West, The Shell is a hard-R southern gothic zombie horror film where grotesque-looking zombies attack about twenty-five-ish people at a country river-house during an oyster roast.

 

On the poster, it’s a picture of an unshucked oyster sitting isolated on a white folding table, and there’s some blood splattered on it.

 

The film will feature chaotic zombie pandemonium and tell a story about the corruptibility of human nature, as well as the preciousness and fragility of human life.

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Studio Groundswell is proud to announce an exciting partnership with the following animation company:

 

 

Groundswell will provide Cayom audiences with a different kind of superhero by launching the groundbreaking Tatsunoko Cinematic Universe. Through this partnership, Groundswell will be creating fun, vibrant, and offbeat films in the superhero film genre. Each film will feature predominantly Asian-ethnic ensemble casts.

 

Groundswell has decided to set the franchise's tone by making Yatterman, a January Y10 release, the franchise's first film. Yatterman is about two kid geniuses named Gan and Ai, who race to thwart a group of thieves trying to steal scattered fragments of the Skull Stone (which leads to a gold deposit if combined).

 

Attached to star are:

 

[teenage Japanese-American actor] as Gan/Yatterman-1

Miya Chen as Ai/Yatterman-2

Rinko Kikuchi as Doronjo (slick, sultry leader of the Dorombo gang of thieves)

Harry Shum Jr. as Boyacky (thief)

Don Lee as Tonzura (thief)

Daisuke Tsuji as Gan's Dad

Ally Maki as Gan's Mom

Brian Tee as Ai's Dad

Keiko Agena as Ai's Mom

and Ken Watanabe as Dokurobei (the elusive Dorombo gang boss)

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Get ready for some

 

JESUS JUICE

 

a refreshing cranberry experience

 

sure to make your taste buds say,

 

"hallelujah!"

 

Kids love Jesus Juice,

 

and adults do too!

 

So go to Wal-Mart or Target

 

and buy a case of Jesus Juice

 

right now! And remember,

 

it's really just cranberry juice...

 

right?

 

Get ready to

 

REACH OUT AND DRINK FAITH

 

when Jesus Juice hits theaters on

 

NOVEMBER 20TH, Y10

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Klonoa: Door to Phantomile has been postponed indefinitely, Groundswell now confirms.

 

“Narrative similarities between Aurora and Klonoa have emerged,” says a spokesperson, “and we want each of our films to come across as unique as possible.”

 

Meanwhile, Jorge R. Gutierrez and Groundswell have come to a mutual agreement that Milk Ninja doesn’t have enough of a story to it, so that project is being shelved indefinitely. Groundswell is going back to the development board to brainstorm more original animated film concepts.

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Studio Groundswell: News Updates

 

- The Klonoa: Door to Phantomile adaptation is officially un-canceled, per sources. "We got to the ending of the game, and we're like... Yeah, this needs to be a film. Who cares if it's similar to another film?" Tenzing Norgay Trainor (Abominable) has been selected to voice Klonoa; more cast details to come soon.

 

- Groundswell is examining the prospects of finishing the Scythe trilogy. "The second film in the series, Thunderhead, might not get IMAX like the first one did, but we see financial worth in continuing the series regardless of the first film's reception." Matthew Vaughn would still direct if the second film happens.

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BREAKING

 

Niki Caro (Lumberjanes: Secret of the Eye, Mulan, Whale Rider) has been tapped to direct Studio Groundswell's Aurora.

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Studio Groundswell is ready to announce the billed voice cast of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

 

Gregory Mann as Klonoa

Keegan Hedley as Huepow

Jean Reno as Grandpa

Tracy Morgan as Balue

Priah Ferguson as Karal

Uzo Aduba as Pamela

Cedric Yarbough as King Seadoph

Rachel House as Granny

Peter Sohn as Moire

Linda Cardellini as The Moon Queen

with Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Joka

and Iwan Rheon as Ghadius

Edited August 6, 2022 by SLAM!

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Tony Todd (Candyman, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2) is set to have a role in Green Lantern Corps: Evolution. It is highly rumored that Todd will voice the creature, Parallax, a powerful ancient fear entity.

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Endless Animation has secured the rights to the popular Discworld novel, Mort. Mort is said to join the lineup of more adult skewing animation Endless Animation has in the pipeline, alongside Sleepy Hollow, Rust, Lyrical, and Cupid INC. The rating will likely be PG-13, given the novel’s material. The animation style is undecided but it’s between stop motion animation or traditional hand drawn animation. John Musker and Ron Clements (Moana, The Princess and the Frog, Aladdin) are said to be directing the project as they were initially slated to irl. The project is aiming for a Y12 release but could be pushed upwards.

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Fossil Record Collaborates with Chung and Kosemen

 

About two weeks ago, Fossil Record Studios CEO Mark Pierce cryptically alluded to "new talent" that would bolster the fledgling animation studio's reputation. Now, it seems, the identities of at least two of those people have been unofficially revealed, thanks to social media posts. Both are veteran artists who have a reputation for making the kind of offbeat work Fossil Record strives to release under its main label. 

 

Three days ago, Peter Chung (best known as the creator of the TV series Aeon Flux) tweeted "#BlackWater" and an emoji of a whale in response to a fan inquiring if he had any upcoming film or TV projects. Black Water is the title of an upcoming Fossil Record film with no set director or date, which has been described as a "hard-R animated horror movie" about a young pilot whale enduring the grindadrapp, or Faroese whaling season. While it is unknown if Chung is in fact the movie's director or if he has another role, his surreal, dark animation that made him so famous with Aeon Flux fits quite well with the movie based on what is known about it. 

 

The other collaborator, surprisingly, is not an animator or even a filmmaker at all, but Turkish science-fiction artist Cevdet Mehmet Kosemen. He is most famous as the writer and illustrator of All Tomorrows, a novel about the future evolution of humanity that became an internet sensation last year. Unlike Chung, Kosemen directly confirmed his involvement with Fossil Record, going on to say, "The rumors are true-- Snaiad is becoming a movie! I've been tapped by Fossil Record Studios for an undisclosed position." Snaiad is Kosemen's longest-running project, an online field guide to the wildlife of an alien planet. The plot of the upcoming Snaiad animated movie is unknown, as is whether or not it will employ Kosemen's signature watercolor style of drawing. 

 

While being careful not to name the new talent, Pierce spoke excitedly about them at a conference today. "We're excited to have contributors who are outside our normal wheelhouse-- people who are, as I see it, real artists, not just Hollywood animators." 

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Studio Groundswell is ready to announce some principal cast members of their upcoming satirical comedy Jesus Juice.

 

Joe Keery as a naive entrepreneur

Britt Robertson as a social media manager

Christian Navarro as a laid-back treasurer

Lee Pace as an eccentric farmer

Kingsley Ben-Adir as a sharp journalist

and Vince Vaughn as a shady televangelist

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by SLAM!

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Studio Groundswell will release a live-action Pac-Man film in Y10. Miles Teller will star as a grocery store security guard who encounters Pac-Man and teams up with him to ward off four colorful ghosts who are haunting the store. Rob Letterman (Pokémon: Detective Pikachu) has been tapped to direct, with Rosie Perez guest-starring as the store's owner.

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Nacho Vigalondo (Fiesta Loca) will direct a feel-good music biopic titled Macarena where the Latin pop duo Los Del Rio creates one of the biggest one-hit wonders in music history. Javier Bardem and Antonio Banderas star as the two singers.

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THIS FEBRUARY...

 

Zazie Beetz stars as a woman...

 

who's husband (Kid Cudi) is held hostage

by a criminal organization

[Jamie Foxx plays the kingpin]...

 

She's gonna save her husband!

 

In this original action film...

 

She's going...

 

THROUGH THE FIRE

 

(featuring Chaka Khan's "Through the Fire"

as the movie's theme song)

 

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Naomie Harris (28 Days Later..., No Time to Die, Amulet) is set to play Fawron, the lead character of Jeremy Podeswa's (Game of Thrones, The Handmaid"s Tale, Station Eleven) Skyrim: The Dragon Crisis for Phoenix Fire Entertainment.

 

The adaptation of the hugely successful Bethesda RPG video game, the first of a presumed trilogy, is set to be released on the first quarter of Y10 (possibly January or February) in IMAX.

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Endless Entertainment has finished planning out it’s Y10 schedule:

 

Endless/DC’s Fire and Ice - 2/12/Y10 - Kat Coiro (Marry Me, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law) - Superhero/Romantic Comedy - Expected Rating: R

• The next piece of Endless’ DC Universe, Fire and Ice tells the story of the superheroine duo Fire (Bruna Marquezine) and Ice (Anya Taylor Joy), two superheroine besties who are glamorous fashion models by day and superheroes by night, attempting to make a name for themselves in the superhero game. When mob-boss Blockbuster (Florian Munteanu) is behind a series of kidnapping models to create new metahuman goons, the two work to take him down as well as dealing with their newfound budding feelings for one another.

Black Dynamite in Trouble on Puppet Street - April Y10 - - Scott Sanders (Black Dynamite) - Comedy/Action - Expected Rating: R 

• After being frozen in a run in with his old enemies at HNIC, the legendary Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) finds himself in the year 2022, as he must save mankind one more time against a new enemy, That Frog Kurtis (J. B. Smoove), an evil frog puppet who has a plot to control the children of the world. But in order to do so, he must assemble a new crew to help him.

* *Endless Animation’s Rust - 3/27/10 - Genndy Tartakovsky (the Imagine? franchise, Primal) - Hand Drawn Animation/Western/Sci-fi - Expected Rating: PG-13

• Rust takes place in the 2100s in futuristic America as climate change has ravaged the planet. In order to adapt to the pollution rich environment, humans have become at least partly cybernetic as a popular new energy source dubbed Rust is being fought over. Code (Benjamin Diskin), a traveling outlaw cowboy settles in New Bolt City where in exchange for his freedom, he must deliver a shipment of Rust across the country whilst fighting other outlaws, goons, and mercenaries who want to obtain the shipment.

* *Infinite Studios’ Red Flag - April - directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (Notes From The Otherspace, Edge of Seventeen) - Drama - Expected Rating: PG-13/R

• Tracey Yang (Haley Tsu) is a high school senior, reeling from a school shooting at her high school that led to the death of her childhood friend (Millie Bobby Brown) that happened a month ago. Tracey, as she struggles with adjusting, attempts to honor her fallen friend by challenging her state’s current laws in order to make sure this doesn’t happen again at a school regardless of the odds against her, whilst coming to terms with her death. 

* *Endless Animation’s Lovely Buddies - 5/22/Y10 - directed by Ian Jones-Quartery (OK KO: Let’s Be Heroes, Steven Universe, writer of Matilda and the Night Children) - CG Animation/Sci-Fi/Dramedy - Expected Rating: PG

• The Lovely Buddies defined the world back in the 1980s, as loveable plush toys that spread love but what we didn’t know is that they’re inspired by an ancient alien species, the Lovelybuddians, responsible for upholding the balance of love across the world and feeding off of that love, going from planet to planet. However, when the Earth is deemed to have critically low love levels, the Lovelybuddians are forced to leave Earth and find a new planet… which they’ll do by making their presence known and preparing to exterminate all organic life on Earth. With a week until the scheduled destruction of Earth, a an optimistic and high ranking Lovelybuddian scientist (Ashly Burch (Heremias, The Ghost and Molly McGee)) teams up with two of Earth’s greatest scientists (Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park) and Angela Bassett (Black Panther, What’s Love Got To Do With It)), who also happen to be very bitter exes come up with a reason on why Earth should be spared. And maybe re-evaluate and redefine love and its limits along the way.

* *Infinite Studios’ Crunch Time - 6/5/Y10 - directed by David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation, the Shazam franchise) - Horror/Thriller/Satire

• Megan Brown (Amandla Stenberg) is a new VFX worker for the company Rotoscopoloco, working on the upcoming blockbuster Star Emperor. However as they are force to race to make the holiday deadline by the higher ups and most notably major studio Flint Pictures, VFX workers are being killed one by one by a unfinished CGI monster as Megan and her coworkers must work to not only finish their film but stay alive and stop the monster.

* Endless/Legendary’s Off-Road: Second Lap - 7/18/Y10 - Racing/Action-Adventure - Justin Lin (The Fast and The Furious franchise) 

• In the highly anticipated racing sequel, the World’s Racers team faces their biggest challenge yet when terrorist organization Checkmate, employs Commander Rook (Jean Claude Van-Damme) to help craft a device that will allow them to control the waters to create a storm to start over the planet. What complicates matter is Rook’s top grunt, Racer Z turns out to be the father of hero and legendary missing racer Henry Rivett (Denzel Washington)

* *Infinite Studios’ Joyride - 9/18/Y10 - Spike Lee (She’s Gotta Have It, BlacKkKlansman) - Thriller/Drama/Crime - Expected Rating: R

• DeVon and Ricky used to be the best of friends growing up but have grown apart once they hit sixth grade as Ricky got involved with the Kia Boys and DeVon took the fall to prevent Ricky from being sent to juvie again. On the eve of the last day of ninth grade, Ricky implores DeVon’s help one more time to do one last score in an attempt to save his younger brother who is being kidnapped by the Kia Boys as Ricky is in debt to them as the two steal the newest Kia which leads to a city-wide manhunt of both the police, rival gangs and the Kia Boys themselves as tensions between the two former friends rise.

* Endless Animation’s Luigi’s Mansion - 9/25/Y10 - Shannon Tindle (Netflix’s Ultraman, Kubo and the Two Strings creator) and Hamish Steele (Dead End: Paranormal Park) - CG Animation/Horror-Comedy

• Taking place about two years after Super Mario Bros., The Mario Brothers plumbing company is off to a booming success but Mario (Oscar Isaac) has decided to leave the holds to Luigi (Jay Barachel) and Princess Daisy (Zoe Kravitz) after deciding to emigrate to the Mushroom Kingdom permanently. However, Luigi receives a letter from Mario inviting him to a mansion they apparently won in the Mushroom Kingdom, but as he and Daisy decide to get some vacation time, Luigi and Daisy soon investigate this mansion to learn not only has Mario been kidnapped but the mansion is in fact haunted, with the help of Professor E. Gadd (Billy West), the trio must fight King Boo (Ernie Hudson) and his ghostly army in order to save Mario and learn about what the dastardly ghoul is planning whilst battling their own inner demons and fears. 

* *Infinite Studios’ Barracuda - 10/30/Y10 - Drama/Fantasy - Rick Famuyiwa (Dope, Static Shock) - Expected Rating: PG-13

• In this drama, Herman DeCosta, a Bajan-American grandfather (Denzel Washington) is the life of the DeCosta family, known for his razor wit and jovial attitude. However, only he, his wife and his doctors know he’s battling prostate cancer which has grown terminal, and is unable to go to Barbados to spend what is likely his last Christmas, unable to return to his home until he is scheduled to be buried. Deciding to make the most of his time left, attempts to do right by his eldest and quarreling grandchildren, by showing them about what it means to be a Bajan through both stories of the legendary and entirely-fictional Bajan heroine Barracuda (Danai Gurira) and taking them on trips, whilst coming to terms with his mortality and how to tell his family he is dying. 

* *Endless Animation’s Lyrical - 11/25/Y10 - Expected rating: R - F Gary Grey (Green Lantern Corps: Rise of the Manhunters, The Man of The Jungle, Straight Outta Compton) and Byron Howard (Tangled, Encanto) - CG-2D Animation/Musical/Drama/Romance

• Lyrical is a hard-R romantic rap musical that tells the story of a struggling rapper trying to make their name known in the world and a brilliant lyricist forming a partnership both business-wise and romantic-wise as it shows their rise and fall over the years.

• Cast: Donald Glover, Dua Lipa, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Janelle Monae, Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande, and more soon to be announced 

* *Endless/DC’s Green Lantern Corps: Evolution - 12/18/Y10 - Expected Rating: PG-13 - Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle In Time)

• Three years after the Korugar incident, the Green Lantern Corps faces lower morale as they have been finishing up the Red Lanterns, now led by Benoz (Mark Hamill), forcing the Guardians, spearheaded by Vicio (TBD) to insert more strict rules for the Green Lanterns, for the good of the galaxy keeping them from going to their home planets. John Stewart (Sterling K. Brown), a still “green” but highly skilled and highly ranked Green Lantern and former Navy SEAL, struggling with the strain of endless cosmic fighting as well as being on Earth full-time with his family. John is partnered with veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan (Sam Heughan), who has grown jaded in his pursuits of intergalactic peace and being a Green Lantern. Meanwhile, Sinestro (Joaquin Phoenix), now ruler of Korugar and creator of the new Yellow Lantern Corps, who are as heroic as the Green Lantern but have less limitations when it comes to lethal force or control. John and Hal learn that Sinestro plans to free Parallax (Tony Todd), the ancient entity of the yellow fear energy to take down the Green Lanterns once and for all, forcing the two to go outside the law and embarking on an intergalactic journey that even takes them to Earth as the must learn to get along as well as reanalyze their ideals to find their own peace if they want to save the galaxy.

* Infinite Studios’ Romance Road: Family Lanes - 12/25/Y10 - Romantic Comedy - Tina Gordon

• Amelia (Naomi Scott) and Malcolm (John Boyega) over the past two years have found love with each other and a successful fashion company, but as Malcolm plans to propose, the couple deal with an impromptu family get together between Amelia’s high class parents; Michelle (Thandiwe Newton) and Booker (Idris Elba) and Malcolm’s family (his mom, Coco (Regina Hall), his dad Jackson (Ice Cube), his rowdy siblings Diana and Junior (Lyric Ross and Keith L Williams) and wildcard grandpa Hyde (Samuel L. Jackson).

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Endless Entertainment has finished planning out it’s Y10 schedule:

 

Endless/DC’s Fire and Ice - 2/12/Y10 - Kat Coiro (Marry Me, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law) - Superhero/Romantic Comedy - Expected Rating: R

• The next piece of Endless’ DC Universe, Fire and Ice tells the story of the superheroine duo Fire (Bruna Marquezine) and Ice (Anya Taylor Joy), two superheroine besties who are glamorous fashion models by day and superheroes by night, attempting to make a name for themselves in the superhero game. When mob-boss Blockbuster (Florian Munteanu) is behind a series of kidnapping models to create new metahuman goons, the two work to take him down as well as dealing with their newfound budding feelings for one another.

Black Dynamite in Trouble on Puppet Street - April Y10 - - Scott Sanders (Black Dynamite) - Comedy/Action - Expected Rating: R 

• After being frozen in a run in with his old enemies at HNIC, the legendary Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) finds himself in the year 2022, as he must save mankind one more time against a new enemy, That Frog Kurtis (J. B. Smoove), an evil frog puppet who has a plot to control the children of the world. But in order to do so, he must assemble a new crew to help him.

* *Endless Animation’s Rust - 3/27/10 - Genndy Tartakovsky (the Imagine? franchise, Primal) - Hand Drawn Animation/Western/Sci-fi - Expected Rating: PG-13

• Rust takes place in the 2100s in futuristic America as climate change has ravaged the planet. In order to adapt to the pollution rich environment, humans have become at least partly cybernetic as a popular new energy source dubbed Rust is being fought over. Code (Benjamin Diskin), a traveling outlaw cowboy settles in New Bolt City where in exchange for his freedom, he must deliver a shipment of Rust across the country whilst fighting other outlaws, goons, and mercenaries who want to obtain the shipment.

* *Infinite Studios’ Red Flag - April - directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (Notes From The Otherspace, Edge of Seventeen) - Drama - Expected Rating: PG-13/R

• Tracey Yang (Haley Tsu) is a high school senior, reeling from a school shooting at her high school that led to the death of her childhood friend (Millie Bobby Brown) that happened a month ago. Tracey, as she struggles with adjusting, attempts to honor her fallen friend by challenging her state’s current laws in order to make sure this doesn’t happen again at a school regardless of the odds against her, whilst coming to terms with her death. 

* *Endless Animation’s Lovely Buddies - 5/22/Y10 - directed by Ian Jones-Quartery (OK KO: Let’s Be Heroes, Steven Universe, writer of Matilda and the Night Children) - CG Animation/Sci-Fi/Dramedy - Expected Rating: PG

• The Lovely Buddies defined the world back in the 1980s, as loveable plush toys that spread love but what we didn’t know is that they’re inspired by an ancient alien species, the Lovelybuddians, responsible for upholding the balance of love across the world and feeding off of that love, going from planet to planet. However, when the Earth is deemed to have critically low love levels, the Lovelybuddians are forced to leave Earth and find a new planet… which they’ll do by making their presence known and preparing to exterminate all organic life on Earth. With a week until the scheduled destruction of Earth, a an optimistic and high ranking Lovelybuddian scientist (Ashly Burch (Heremias, The Ghost and Molly McGee)) teams up with two of Earth’s greatest scientists (Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park) and Angela Bassett (Black Panther, What’s Love Got To Do With It)), who also happen to be very bitter exes come up with a reason on why Earth should be spared. And maybe re-evaluate and redefine love and its limits along the way.

* *Infinite Studios’ Crunch Time - 6/5/Y10 - directed by David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation, the Shazam franchise) - Horror/Thriller/Satire

• Megan Brown (Amandla Stenberg) is a new VFX worker for the company Rotoscopoloco, working on the upcoming blockbuster Star Emperor. However as they are force to race to make the holiday deadline by the higher ups and most notably major studio Flint Pictures, VFX workers are being killed one by one by a unfinished CGI monster as Megan and her coworkers must work to not only finish their film but stay alive and stop the monster.

* Endless/Legendary’s Off-Road: Second Lap - 7/18/Y10 - Racing/Action-Adventure - Justin Lin (The Fast and The Furious franchise) 

• In the highly anticipated racing sequel, the World’s Racers team faces their biggest challenge yet when terrorist organization Checkmate, employs Commander Rook (Jean Claude Van-Damme) to help craft a device that will allow them to control the waters to create a storm to start over the planet. What complicates matter is Rook’s top grunt, Racer Z turns out to be the father of hero and legendary missing racer Henry Rivett (Denzel Washington)

* *Infinite Studios’ Joyride - 9/18/Y10 - Spike Lee (She’s Gotta Have It, BlacKkKlansman) - Thriller/Drama/Crime - Expected Rating: R

• DeVon and Ricky used to be the best of friends growing up but have grown apart once they hit sixth grade as Ricky got involved with the Kia Boys and DeVon took the fall to prevent Ricky from being sent to juvie again. On the eve of the last day of ninth grade, Ricky implores DeVon’s help one more time to do one last score in an attempt to save his younger brother who is being kidnapped by the Kia Boys as Ricky is in debt to them as the two steal the newest Kia which leads to a city-wide manhunt of both the police, rival gangs and the Kia Boys themselves as tensions between the two former friends rise.

* Endless Animation’s Luigi’s Mansion - 9/25/Y10 - Shannon Tindle (Netflix’s Ultraman, Kubo and the Two Strings creator) and Hamish Steele (Dead End: Paranormal Park) - CG Animation/Horror-Comedy

• Taking place about two years after Super Mario Bros., The Mario Brothers plumbing company is off to a booming success but Mario (Oscar Isaac) has decided to leave the holds to Luigi (Jay Barachel) and Princess Daisy (Zoe Kravitz) after deciding to emigrate to the Mushroom Kingdom permanently. However, Luigi receives a letter from Mario inviting him to a mansion they apparently won in the Mushroom Kingdom, but as he and Daisy decide to get some vacation time, Luigi and Daisy soon investigate this mansion to learn not only has Mario been kidnapped but the mansion is in fact haunted, with the help of Professor E. Gadd (Billy West), the trio must fight King Boo (Ernie Hudson) and his ghostly army in order to save Mario and learn about what the dastardly ghoul is planning whilst battling their own inner demons and fears. 

* *Infinite Studios’ Barracuda - 10/30/Y10 - Drama/Fantasy - Rick Famuyiwa (Dope, Static Shock) - Expected Rating: PG-13

• In this drama, Herman DeCosta, a Bajan-American grandfather (Denzel Washington) is the life of the DeCosta family, known for his razor wit and jovial attitude. However, only he, his wife and his doctors know he’s battling prostate cancer which has grown terminal, and is unable to go to Barbados to spend what is likely his last Christmas, unable to return to his home until he is scheduled to be buried. Deciding to make the most of his time left, attempts to do right by his eldest and quarreling grandchildren, by showing them about what it means to be a Bajan through both stories of the legendary and entirely-fictional Bajan heroine Barracuda (Danai Gurira) and taking them on trips, whilst coming to terms with his mortality and how to tell his family he is dying. 

* *Endless Animation’s Lyrical - 11/25/Y10 - Expected rating: R - F Gary Grey (Green Lantern Corps: Rise of the Manhunters, The Man of The Jungle, Straight Outta Compton) and Byron Howard (Tangled, Encanto) - CG-2D Animation/Musical/Drama/Romance

• Lyrical is a hard-R romantic rap musical that tells the story of a struggling rapper trying to make their name known in the world and a brilliant lyricist forming a partnership both business-wise and romantic-wise as it shows their rise and fall over the years.

• Cast: Donald Glover, Dua Lipa, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Janelle Monae, Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande, and more soon to be announced 

* *Endless/DC’s Green Lantern Corps: Evolution - 12/18/Y10 - Expected Rating: PG-13 - Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle In Time)

• Three years after the Korugar incident, the Green Lantern Corps faces lower morale as they have been finishing up the Red Lanterns, now led by Benoz (Mark Hamill), forcing the Guardians, spearheaded by Vicio (TBD) to insert more strict rules for the Green Lanterns, for the good of the galaxy keeping them from going to their home planets. John Stewart (Sterling K. Brown), a still “green” but highly skilled and highly ranked Green Lantern and former Navy SEAL, struggling with the strain of endless cosmic fighting as well as being on Earth full-time with his family. John is partnered with veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan (Sam Heughan), who has grown jaded in his pursuits of intergalactic peace and being a Green Lantern. Meanwhile, Sinestro (Joaquin Phoenix), now ruler of Korugar and creator of the new Yellow Lantern Corps, who are as heroic as the Green Lantern but have less limitations when it comes to lethal force or control. John and Hal learn that Sinestro plans to free Parallax (Tony Todd), the ancient entity of the yellow fear energy to take down the Green Lanterns once and for all, forcing the two to go outside the law and embarking on an intergalactic journey that even takes them to Earth as the must learn to get along as well as reanalyze their ideals to find their own peace if they want to save the galaxy.

* Infinite Studios’ Romance Road: Family Lanes - 12/25/Y10 - Romantic Comedy - Tina Gordon

• Amelia (Naomi Scott) and Malcolm (John Boyega) over the past two years have found love with each other and a successful fashion company, but as Malcolm plans to propose, the couple deal with an impromptu family get together between Amelia’s high class parents; Michelle (Thandiwe Newton) and Booker (Idris Elba) and Malcolm’s family (his mom, Coco (Regina Hall), his dad Jackson (Ice Cube), his rowdy siblings Diana and Junior (Lyric Ross and Keith L Williams) and wildcard grandpa Hyde (Samuel L. Jackson).

Whilst missing from the year round up, Daniel Dustin Cretton (Short Term 12, Just Mercy, Avengers: Kang Dynasty, Horizon’s unknown Y10 tentpole) is being courted to direct a drama titled Advanced Placement. Details are scarce but it is said to be about the modern day school grading system as a group of high school students attempt to cheat the system.