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Tom Holland Confirms He Will Play Fred Astaire in Upcoming Sony Biopic
“Spider-Man” star Tom Holland is swapping his web-shooters for dancing shoes. The 25-year-old officially confirmed on Sunday that he’ll portray legendary actor, dancer and singer Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic for Sony. In a recent profile for GQ, Oscar-nominated producer Amy Pascal teased that she wanted Holland for the part of Astaire in the forthcoming movie, as well as another trilogy of “Spider-Man films.” But during an interview with AP, at an event promoting the upcoming “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Holland confirmed that he’ll step into the entertainer’s dance shoes for the project, which is still in its early stages. “The script came in a week ago,” Holland told…
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Jonah Hill to Star in Martin Scorsese’s Grateful Dead Biopic, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Lethal Weapon 5 and four different Marvel movies. This WEEK’S TOP STORY JONAH HILL TO DEPICT JERRY GARCIA IN SCORSESE’S GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) For many movie fans, director Martin Scorsese may be synonymous with crime films like Goodfellas (Certified Fresh at 96{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}), Casino (Certified Fresh at 79{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}), and The Irishman (Certified Fresh at 95{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}), but there is another side to Scorsese that dates back to some of his earliest work. In 1969, Scorsese was on the scene at Woodstock as one of the assistant directors of the 1970…
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Leonardo DiCaprio to Star as Cult Leader Jim Jones in New Biopic, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Midnight Run, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!, and the Road House remake. This WEEK’S TOP STORY LEONARDO DICAPRIO TO PORTRAY CULT LEADER JIM JONES IN NEW BIOPIC (Photo by Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection) The last time we saw Leonardo DiCaprio in a theatrically released feature film was in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Certified Fresh at 85{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}). Although that film was primarily about the friendship between a cowboy TV star and his stuntman best friend (Brad Pitt), the cult led by Charles Manson also figured heavily in the film’s…
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