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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Paul Walter Hauser Lands Lead Role in ‘The Ballad of Richard Jewell’
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on Marie Brenner’s 1997 Vanity Fair profile of the Olympic Park bombing suspect
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‘GI Joe’ Movie Spinoff ‘Snake Eyes’ Pushed to Fall 2020
“Micronauts” also gets pushed from Oct 16, 2020 to June 4, 2021
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Jaume Collet-Serra Eyed to Direct ‘Black Adam’ For New Line
The film will star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the “Shazam” antihero
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Tom Holland’s Video Game Adaptation ‘Uncharted’ Scores 2020 Release Date
“10 Cloverfield Lane” director Dan Trachtenberg is set to direct
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Paradigm Hires Motion Picture Lit Agent Ryan Saul and TV Lit Agent Katt Riley
Both will be based in the agency’s Los Angeles headquarters
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Brian Tyree Henry in Talks to Join Emily Blunt in ‘A Quiet Place 2’ (Exclusive)
John Krasinski is directing the sequel
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Prodigy PR Promotes Rob Fleming, Jason Kasperski to Partner Status
Their new titles will be partner and EVP of Film, and partner and EVP of corporate communications, respectively
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Robert Pattinson Lands Lead Role in Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’
Previously, both Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult were strong contenders for the coveted role
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‘Batman’ Comic Writer Tom King to Co-Write ‘The New Gods’ Screenplay With Ava DuVernay (Exclusive)
King is coming off the multi-Eisner award-winning comic series “Mister Miracle,” which features the New Gods
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Ella Purnell Joins Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’ as Dave Bautista’s Daughter (Exclusive)
Ana De La Reguera (“Everything, Everything,” “Goliath”), Theo Rossi (“Luke Cage,” “Sons of Anarchy”) and Huma Qureshi (“Kaala”) round out the rest of the cast
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Harrison Ford on Who Should Play Indiana Jones After Him: ‘Nobody! When I’m Gone, He’s Gone!’
“This is a hell of a way to tell Chris Pine this. I’m sorry, man,” added Ford
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Daniel Craig to Undergo Ankle Surgery for Injury Sustained While Filming ‘James Bond 25’
“Production will continue whilst Craig is rehabilitating for two weeks post-surgery,” said the official James Bond Twitter account
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‘John Wick’ Creator Derek Kolstad to Adapt Video Game ‘Just Cause’ for Constantin Film
Kolstad recently sold his pitch for the action movie “Booker” to Sony
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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Gets Summer 2021 Release Date
“John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum” is Lionsgate’s biggest opening since “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2”
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Does ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Have a Post-Credits Scene?
With the Infinity Saga coming to an end, does the film have a post-credits scene to give us a glimpse of what’s next in the MCU?
