Umberto is a senior film reporter at TheWrap, covering film & television development, agencies and talent. He joined TheWrap in 2016. He has been covering the fanboy beat & breaking scoops for 20 years with numerous Hollywood trade, newspaper and magazine mentions to his credit.
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‘Moon Knight’s’ Jeremy Slater to Write ‘Mortal Kombat’ Sequel for New Line
First film was released during the pandemic simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max
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How a Firefighter-Turned-Filmmaker Gained Access to a Terrorist Rehab Center in ‘Jihad Rehab’ (Video)
Sundance 2022: “I think because of my time in Yemen, one thing I realized living there is the way to get something done is usually not to go through official channels, it’s through back channeling,” Meg Smaker tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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Jake Gyllenhaal to Star in and Produce Crime Thriller ‘Cut & Run’ for New Republic
Film centers on a group of thieves that use high-powered speedboats to rob superyachts
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Mark Wahlberg-Mel Gibson Drama ‘Father Stu’ Picked Up by Sony
The film will be released in theaters on Good Friday in April
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How Thandiwe Newton Used Her Own Experience to Shape Her ‘God’s Country’ Performance (Video)
Sundance 2022: “I felt that I had experienced those same frustrations daily,” Newton tells TheWrap’s Brian Welk
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How Oscar De La Hoya Convinced Eva Longoria Bastón to Direct ‘La Guerra Civil’ (Video)
Sundance 2022: “Hey, there’s this 25th anniversary of this epic fight that happened. We want to do a documentary about it. You want to do it?” De La Hoya told Longoria Bastón
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Shudder Acquires Sundance Psychological Horror Film ‘Speak No Evil’
Sundance 2022: Film is set for release in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland in late 2022.
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Ana de Armas Fans Sue ‘Yesterday’ Producers Over Her Deleted Scene
Fans seek $5 million in damages from Universal for “false, deceptive, and misleading advertising”
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Why ‘Aftershock’ Filmmakers Were Inspired to Make a Doc About Disparities in Maternal Health Care (Video)
Sundance 2022: “Someone would tell me a story about a sister, a friend, a cousin who had died from complications of childbirth,” Tonya Lewis Lee tells TheWrap
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ and ‘8’ Pushed Back a Year to 2023 and 2024
Production on the back-to-back sequels began in 2020
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Kirsten Dunst to Star in Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ for A24
Action epic also stars Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Cailee Spaeny
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Live-Action ‘The Aristocats’ in the Works at Disney From Writers Will Gluck and Keith Bunin
Gluck will also produce via his Olive Bridge Entertainment banner
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‘The Batman’ Is the Longest Batman Movie Ever Made
The Robert Pattinson-led reboot runs 2 hours and 56 minutes
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Jodie Foster Joins ‘Nyad’ Biopic About Cuba-to-Florida Swimmer
Annette Bening is set to star as famed long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad
