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Exclusive: George Clooney’s long-awaited adaptation of The Boys in the Boat looks to be gearing up production as sources tell Deadline, Clooney has rounded out his cast with Joel Edgerton, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Luke Slattery, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban and Hadley Robinson joining Callum Turner, who was previously announced. MGM, Spyglass and Smokehouse are partnering on the production with Clooney directing and Mark L. Smith writing the script.

Based on No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown’s 2013 novel The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the pic will tell the triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men’s rowing team, who stunned the world by winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Clooney and his Smoke House Pictures partner Grant Heslov are producing the project with Spyglass executive producing. Clooney...

1. FleeThe official release poster for Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated refugee memoir Flee—the one you might have seen more often than this—isn’t half bad: the film’s subject, Amin, is revealed in the elongated ascenders of the title, as if behind bars, while a happy memory of him as a child slips freely into the poster’s negative space. And, to be honest, the design I have chosen as my favorite movie poster of the year (this is the original Swedish version but a US version of this design has been seen in the wild) doesn’t express Flee half as well as that other one does. Its it-takes-a-village cast of characters promises something different from the film itself, which is a lean and harrowing and often solitary odyssey from Afghanistan to Denmark, and from childhood to manhood. That said, I can’t stop loving this poster...

When the pandemic arrived just a few months after Dave Benton released his last album as Trace Mountains, the singer-songwriter decided to turn the terrible timing into a creative opportunity.

“It was certainly disappointing to not be able to tour in support of Lost in the Country,” Benton tells Rolling Stone. “But at the same time I love just jumping immediately back into the process of making a record…I feel like I hit a groove with it so much [more easily] because I had no downtime or break from writing songs.

Black Sabbath are expanding their masterful Vol. 4 album, home to fan favorites “Snowblind” and “Changes,” with several discs of rarities and previously unreleased music for a super deluxe reissue, out February 12th.

The box set, which comes either in four-cd or five-lp packages, contains 20 never-before-issued outtakes, live recordings, and the original album remastered.

The bonus material includes six outtakes, including an instrumental version of “Under the Sun,” all of which engineer Steven Wilson has mixed for the release. It also includes alternate takes of several songs with false starts and fly-on-the-wall studio dialogue.

New Order have paired their recent single “Be a Rebel” with a new video that reunites the group with Spanish filmmakers Nysu.

“We’d previously worked with Nysu from Madrid when they created a memorable video for us to go with ‘Restless,’ and their imagination and creativity with film really struck a chord with the band,” New Order said in a statement. “For ‘Be a Rebel,’ it has been great to team up with Nysu again, and their inspirational treatment and unique aesthetic compliments the track with a very original vision.

New Order have dropped “Be a Rebel,” their first new song since they released 2015’s Music Complete.

On the buoyant synth-pop track, Bernard Sumner sings of optimism and embracing self-love, despite challenging times. “Take a look at yourself/You may not be the same as everyone else/You’re just different, that’s Ok/We all follow our own way,” he sings on the chorus. “And if you find that they won’t listen/Then they’ve got nothing to say/So don’t get mad and don’t feel sad/Be a rebel.

New Order will release a comprehensive box set of their second album, Power, Corruption and Lies — which broke them into the U.K. Top 10 — this fall.

In addition to a remastered version of the album, the group has dug deep into its vaults to provide a holistic look at the making of the album. The set includes an LP, two CDs, two DVDs and a book and will drop on October 2nd.

The band also included previously unreleased writing sessions, Peel sessions and instrumentals, in addition to many of the...

Metallica’s second go-round with the San Francisco Symphony will feature on an upcoming live album and concert film documenting the band’s S&M2 shows.

Recorded September 6th and 8th, 2019, at San Francisco’s Chase Center — the first-ever concerts at that new arena — the gigs found Metallica collaborating with the symphony for the first time since 1999. The 20-song concert boasted symphonic versions of Metallica hits, including at least one track from each of the band’s 10 studio albums.

Due out August 28th and available to preorder now, S&M...

We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.

With Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow’s first true singing test, expanding to theaters nationwide this Friday, we at The Scorecard Review thought it appropriate to have this week’s Top 7 center around those brave and talented thespians whom have actually sung, have actually used their own voices, in a major motion picture. In a time ruled by technology, where professional singers could have easily been hired, rendering these thespians Ashlee Simpsonian, those on this list instead opted to “do it for real,” and in the end, successfully proved to the world that they were genuinely talented singers themselves.

For this Top 7, I’m only picking my one favorite from a film, no double dipping. So John C. Reilly, Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones — you’re out!

I’ve also limited this list to 21st century performances, and only to actors-turned-singers, not singers-turned actors.

Come on, showbiz, step it up: The best trailer of the week was for a book. A friggin' book! Now, that book just so happens to be Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which was immediately picked up by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov so it will become a movie, but we're two months from summer; we should have better trailers coming our way now.

In addition to the book, we get a look at Disney's next animated fairy tale and a longer version of The Runaways trailer and Prince of Persia, as well.

Whole bunch of effects dancing around in the new Prince of Persia trailer

The Runaways looks better and better

You know what's awesome? Honest Abe killing vampires with an axe

Early teaser for Tangled, Disney's renamed Rapunzel movie

Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the psychological thrilla Shelter...

Jay Lowi is prepping for a January start in Oregon on Something Wicked . The Hollywood Reporter describes the plot as a psychological thriller about a young man protecting his gal from the same unknown predator that may have killed her parents. Joe Colleran will produce his screenplay with financing from Chambers Prods. Jai Khanna and Scott Chambers will serve as exec producers on the feature, set for a January shoot in Oregon. Lowi previously directed Tangled , starring Rachel Leigh Cook, and the sequel Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough .

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chambers Productions is gearing up to shoot the psychological chiller Something Wicked. Jay Lowi (pictured) will direct from a script by Joe Colleran, who also produces.

The movie is about a young man trying to protect his girlfriend from a mysterious predator that has killed her parents. Wicked is set to begin filming this coming January in Oregon; Lowi’s previous movies include the thrillers Tangled and Wild Things: Diamonds In The Rough.

Jay Lowi (Dimension's "Tangled") will direct "Something Wicked," a psychological thriller about a young man determined to protect his girlfriend from an unknown predator after her parents are killed.

Joe Colleran will produce his screenplay with financing from Chambers Prods. ("The Sisters" starring Elizabeth Banks and Maria Bello).

Jai Khanna and Scott Chambers will serve as exec producers on the feature, set for a January shoot in Oregon.

Disney-owned cable channel SoapNet has acquired 12 movies from Disney-ABC Domestic TV to air Sundays at 10 p.m. beginning Dec. 2. The package includes six Walt Disney Studios theatricals -- Miramax's Full Frontal, Deception, Kiss of Fire and Tangled, Touchstone's My Boyfriend's Back and Hollywood Pictures' A Pyromaniac's Love Story -- as well as six telefilms, including Dangerous Indiscretion, Deadly Sins and Double Cross, which are making their basic cable premieres. Additionally, SoapNet will run a marathon of the six-episode first season as well as the second-season premiere of ABC's drama October Road on Nov. 24, following the series' Nov. 22 season launch on ABC.

Ryan Reynolds, who toplined the Artisan Entertainment release National Lampoon's Van Wilder, has teamed with one of the producers of the film, Jonathon Komack Martin, to form the production company Dark Trick Films. Reynolds and Komack Martin will run the Beverly Hills-based operation, with Mike Eitelman serving as senior vp production. The trio could not be reached for comment Wednesday. The company does not yet have a studio deal. Reynolds, repped by Original's Jonathan Perry and attorney Jeanne Newman, has starred in Finder's Fee, Dick and the TV series Two Guys and a Girl. Komack Martin also produced Tangled and Held Up and was a co-producer on Sprung and Pinocchio's Revenge.