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Film news for the week ending 8th of April 2016
Here is our summary of the film news for the week ending 8th of April 2016. We cover the new star wars trailer and some others and take a look at the latest casting news.
The most important trailer of the week was "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story". The story is set after "Episode III" and before "Episode IV" and follows rebels on a quest to steal the plans for the Death Star.
Another important trailer was the new 'BFG' trailer which gives us a first look at the BFG as well as the other giants and their world.
A short teaser trailer for 'Independence Day: Resurgence' gives a quick preview of what to expect from the film this summer.
James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has been appointed BAFTA Vice-President for film.
Lucy Boynton will star in the J.D. Salinger biopic, Rebel in the Rye.
Amber Heard And Mary Steenburgen have signed on for the Comedy "What's the Point? (And Other Fair Questions About Marriage)."
Tracy Morgan is in talks to star with Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried In Dito Montiel's 'The Clapper',
Charlize Theron has signed on to join Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Statham in "Fast And Furious 8".
Bella Thorne is in talks to star in the coming-of-age film "Be Here Now".
Sean Penn will be voicing an Angry Birds character in the animated feature due for release in May.
Jesse Plemons joins Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike in Scott Cooper's 'Hostiles', which begins production in July.
"Office Christmas Party" has added a number of cast members: Jamie Chung, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Karan Soni have been joined by Abbey Lee and Rob Corddry.
The Boston Marathon bombing film "Patriots Day" has added cast members Lana Condor, Michael Beach, Rachel Brosnahan and Christopher O'Shea. Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze will play Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.
Miranda Richardson and Clancy Brown have joined Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany in the other Boston marathon bombing film "Stronger".
Famke Janssen is set to join the Barack Obama Film,"Barry".
Alec Baldwin and Scott Eastwood are set to star in the cop thriller "Crown Vic".
Mykelti Williamson and Russell Hornsby have signed on to join the film adaptation of Award-winning play, Fences, reprising their roles on Broadway.
Dave Bautista will star in the Blade Runner sequel, joining Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling and Robin Wright.
Hugh Dancy has joined the cast of Fifty Shades Darker, the follow up to Fifty Shades of Grey.
Jessica McNamee will play Margaret Court in the tennis biopic "Battle Of The Sexes".
Erin Richards joins the cast of "That Good Night" as production on the film adaptation of the play gets under way.
Charlize Theron, Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody; who collaborated on 2011's "Young Adult" are re-teaming on an untitled project about motherhood.
Lili Taylor, Carrie Preston, Alex Sharp and Brooke Smith join Marti Noxon's anorexia comedy 'To the Bone', based on his own experience with anorexia.
Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue will star in Stephan Elliott's "Flammable Children".
Russell Crowe joins the cast of the political spy thriller "Felt"; the film about Mark Felt who revealed himself to be the infamous "Deep Throat" that helped journalists uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
Boyd Holbrook has been cast as the main villain in Wolverine 3.
Pedro Pascal has been added to the cast for Kingsman sequel "Kingsman: The Golden Circle".
Frank De Felitta, author of the novel on which the horror film "Audrey Rose" was based and a documentary filmmaker, died at the age of 94.
Erik Bauersfeld, voice of 'Stars Wars' character Admiral Ackbar, dies at 93.
Barbara Turner, the screenwriter of features for film and television including "Petulia," "Georgia" and "Pollock" died at 79.