OHMYGOSSIP — Selena Gomez is in talks to produce a reboot of the 1980s rom-com classic ‘Working Girl’.
According to Deadline, the ‘Only Murders in the Building’ star is in final negotiations to revive the 1988 Mike Nichols flick, which starred Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver.
The critically-acclaimed blockbuster told the tale of Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith), a secretary whose idea is stolen by her boss, only for her to steal it back by pretending she has her boss’ job.
The screenplay is being adapted by Ilana Pena, who is known for her work on Disney+’s ‘Diary of a Future President’.
It’s reported that the reboot could be released on Hulu.
At the time of writing, there is no director attached or cast.
It’s not known if the 30-year-old singer-and-actress will have a role in the film as well as producing.
Selena started her career on kids TV series ‘Barney and Friends’ before starring in Disney’s ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ and she recently admitted it was “frustrating” when she later attempted to move into grown-up acting roles.
She said: “I felt like it was very difficult for people to take me seriously. I have slowly pushed through that, and I’m really glad, but it was very frustrating. I felt like a joke, you know?”
Selena made the move from child star after ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ ended in 2012 and one of her first breakout roles was in crime drama ‘Spring Breakers’ opposite another former Disney star Vanessa Hudgens.
She has since been able to carve out a career for herself post-Disney and her most recent project is Hulu TV series ‘Only Murders In The Building’, in which she plays Mabel Mora.
Selena also previously served as executive producer of the Netflix teen drama ’13 Reasons Why’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Warner Bros has scrapped ‘Batgirl’.
Although the movie – starring Leslie Grace as the titular heroine – has completed shooting, Warner Bros reportedly made the decision to scrap it after it was received poorly by test audiences.
A source told The New York Post’s Page Six: “They think an unspeakable ‘Batgirl’ is going to be irredeemable.”
However, Warner Bros has blamed the cancellation on a “strategic shift” in leadership, which also saw ‘Scoob! Holiday Haunt’ axed.
A Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement: “The decision to not release ‘Batgirl’ reflects our leadership’s strategic shift as it relates to the DC universe and HBO Max. Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor and this decision is not a reflection of her performance. We are incredibly grateful to the filmmakers of ‘Batgirl’ and ‘Scoob! Holiday Haunt’ and their respective casts and we hope to collaborate with everyone again in the near future.”
Along with ‘In The Heights’ actress Leslie, 27, in the titular role, ‘Batgirl’, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, had a star-studded cast, including J.K. Simmons, Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton in a return to the role of Batman.
‘Batgirl’ was initially set to be a HBO Max release, and was being considered for theatrical distribution.
Speaking previously about his role as Commissioner James Gordon in ‘Batgirl’, Simmons, 67, called the movie a “treat” and indicated that would will be plenty of “domestic” scenes with his on-screen daughter Barbara Gordon/Batgirl.
Simmons told Collider: “‘Batgirl’ was a treat, for a number of reasons. My little bit in ‘Justice League’ was, at the time, meant to be, ‘Look, we’re gonna introduce this guy and we’re gonna see more of him in the future.’ I didn’t have a whole lot to do.
“In ‘Batgirl’, because of the relationship between Commissioner Gordon and his daughter, it’s much more of a domestic aspect of Jim Gordon. We do get to see some fun, out in the street… Well, I’m gonna stop now because I really don’t wanna do any spoilers.
“But it was fun to the stuff with Leslie Grace, who plays Batgirl, and get to portray a different aspect of Jim Gordon, other than as Commissioner Gordon.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Snoop Dogg is set to star in ‘The Underdoggs’.
The 50-year-old rapper will also produce the upcoming MGM comedy through his production company Death Row Pictures, with Kenya Barris, Mychelle Deschamps, Constance Schwartz-Morini and Jonathan Glickman also producing.
The movie tells the story of NFL superstar Jaycen ‘2Js’ Jenning (Snoop), who agrees to coach a youth football team to rehabilitate his image after he has a run-in with the law.
Snoop said: “The Underdoggs is a real personal project for me considering that I’ve been coaching football for 15+ years with the Snoop Youth Football League that I started with my long-time business partner Constance Schwartz-Morini. Giving back to the community through football has taught us so many invaluable life lessons that we’ve been able to share with kids in similar situations like mine when I was growing up. My hope is that this movie will shed light on the realities that kids and adults face in the hood and within the complex world of football.”
Chris Brearton, MGM’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “Snoop’s longtime commitment to his community via his youth football league is hugely inspiring to all of us at MGM. We are thrilled to be working alongside this incredible creative team to bring this great comedy to moviegoing audiences, and to further MGM’s commitment to the theatrical exhibition when it [is released] next October.”
Charles Stone will direct the movie, which has been written by Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis based on an original idea from Dogg and Schwartz-Morini.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Brad Pitt says there was a “beautiful symmetry” to reuniting with David Leitch for ‘Bullet Train’.
Leitch was Pitt’s stunt double on the 1999 movie ‘Fight Club’ so when he approached Brad to star in ‘Bullet Train’, which he directed, Brad, 58, jumped at the chance.
Pitt told The Hollywood Reporter: “He trained me for those fights and in a way he [was] helping me develop the character; now he’s a director with his own voice and own vernacular and I’m serving him, he’s the boss. So there was a beautiful symmetry for two old friends.”
The movie features a Japanese bullet train full of assassins, with Brad playing retired hitman Ladybug, and he admitted his character is “the chump” of the film.
He said: “He’s the chump of the movie, it’s fair to say, and he’s been on hiatus and he’s just coming back in the game and trying to do things. He’s had a little bit of therapy, read a self-help book and had a few epiphanies and he’s going to try to find a win-win with these sociopaths.”
And Leitch is excited for people to see a new side to Pitt.
He explained: “I think people hadn’t seen Brad like this in a long time, maybe ever. He was dying to do comedy and when we sent him this script I think he responded and saw the things that we saw in it. It has great characters, especially [his character] Ladybug. He was laughing halfway through it and said, ‘I can do this. Leichty let’s do it. Leitchy let’s do it!’”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Alexander Skarsgard and Judy Greer have joined the cast of Michael Shannon’s directorial debut.
Skarsgard, 45, and Greer, 47, will star in ‘Eric Larue’, the film adaptation of Brett Neveu’s play, according to Deadline.
Tracy Letts, Alison Pill, Kate Arrington, Paul Sparks, and Annie Parisse are also part of the ensemble cast for the film, which is currently in production in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The movie is based on Neveu’s 2002 play of the same name and the playwright also wrote the screenplay.
It will follow the mother of a 17-year-old boy who shot and killed three of his classmates.
Shannon previously said: “‘Eric Larue’ has so much to say about our country, about the way we try (sometimes quite ineptly) to deal with the trauma of living here, which is so insidious because it does not present itself overtly in concrete terms most of the time. Like most great stories, Eric Larue plays at the macro and a micro level simultaneously. When I read the screenplay, I immediately knew I had to direct it. I saw it. I heard it. I could feel it. And I wanted to make sure that it received just the right touch in all its aspects, because at the end of the day, it is an extraordinarily delicate thing.
“I find it interesting to align with artists possessing the most vivid imaginations, the most stringent yet empathetic senses of morality, and the most passionate and rigorous disciplines to create worlds and stories that contribute to our experience and understanding of what it is to be a human being in this day and age and, particularly, this country.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Brad Pitt has praised Ana de Armas’ “phenomenal” Marilyn Monroe performance in ‘Blonde’.
The 58-year-old actor revealed the movie was in development for 10 years with his production company Plan B but it was only when Ana was cast that they could finally move forward.
He told Entertainment Tonight: “It was 10 years in the making. It wasn’t until we found Ana that we could get it across the finish line. She is phenomenal in it. That’s a tough dress to fill.”
‘Blonde’ is a fictional account of Marilyn’s life, based on the 2000 novel by Joyce Carol Oates.
Along with Ana, 34, the movie also stars Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody, Julianne Nicholson, Xavier Samuel and Evan Williams.
Although Ana has been blasted for keeing her Cuban accent to play Monroe, she insisted she wants to defy traditional casting in Hollywood.
She said: “I do want to play Latina. But I don’t want to put a basket of fruit on my head every single time. So that’s my hope, that I can show that we can do anything if we’re given the time to prepare, and if we’re given just the chance, just the chance. You can do any film – ‘Blonde’ – you can do anything. The problem is that sometimes you don’t even get to the room with the director to sit down and prove yourself.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kathy Bates and Liza Koshy have joined the cast of a currently-untitled star-studded Netflix rom-com.
Nicole Kidman, 55, Joey King, 23, and Zac Efron, 34, were previously announced for Richard LaGravenese’s flick, which he penned with Carrie Solomon.
The movie, as reported by Deadline, tells the tale of a “surprising romance which kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity.”
The ‘American Horror Story’ star and 26-year-old YouTube personality-and-actress Liza’s roles are not known at this time.
Kathy’s other upcoming movies include starring alongside Dame Maggie Smith and Laura Linney in ‘The Miracle Club’.
Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s flick tells the story of a riotous group of women who go on a pilgrimage from Dublin to France. The journey allows them to discover their friendship and their own personal miracles.
The 74-year-old star will also star in ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’, Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s best-selling novel.
She plays the titular character’s grandmother, Sylvia.
The Oscar-winner, John Malkovich and Lewis Pullman also lead the cast of ‘Thelma’ by Ken Kwapis.
The film “recounts the true story of the mother of John Kennedy Toole (Pullman), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his masterpiece, and his mother Thelma (Bates) made it her life’s mission, through outrageous gamesmanship, to see the book published. She eventually succeeded in getting the manuscript into the hands of writer Walker Percy (Malkovich), who became the novel’s champion. It would be published in 1980, eleven years after Ken’s death, thereafter becoming a widely celebrated cult classic.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — James Franco is set to star as Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Miguel Bardem’s ‘Alina of Cuba’.
The ‘Disaster Artist’ actor has landed the role with the blessing of Castro’s daughter, Alina Fernández Revuelta, who the upcoming movie is about.
She defected to Spain and was a strong critic of her father, who died in 2016, aged 90.
Mía Maestro will play Natalia ‘Naty’ Revuelta, the socialite Castro has an affair with.
Ana Villafañe was previously cast as Alina.
As reported by Deadline, the film “follows the true-life story of Cuban exile turned social advocate, Fernandez, whose birth was the result of the tryst between Revuelta and Castro. Revuelta sacrificed her and her physician husband’s personal belongings and finances to help fund the start of the communist revolution. Fernandez learned that she was Fidel Castro’s daughter at the age of 10 when after years of secret visits to her home, her mother finally revealed that ‘El Comandante’ was her biological father. Alina grew to become one of Castro’s most outspoken critics, arrested on more than one occasion for trying to leave, and was classified as a dissident forbidden to travel outside of Cuba. Ultimately, she defected to Spain in 1993, an event that drew headlines from every major news network around the world, before she made Miami her permanent home.”
The script comes from Jose Rivera and Nilo Cruz.
John Martinez O’Felan, the project’s lead creative producer, said: “Since the inception of the film, our focus has been to produce an artistic piece of modern Hispanic history, with the vision for the project as being truly inclusive through uniting actors and creatives from both intergenerational and recent Latin roots from the US, Latin America, and the world. That said, casting Ana and Mia were no-brainers because, besides the trajectory of their past work, one represents modern Cuban-America and the other Argentina. After watching Ana’s reel and auditioning her, it became evident she was perfectly suited and had a great voice to carry the material, and Mia’s work in the past with Jose spoke for itself and screamed writer/actress reunion.”
The casting of Castro was a “challenging process” and Franco was chosen for having a “similar facial structure” to the late Cuban revolutionary.
The producer added: “Finding and convincing James Franco to play Castro, was a fun and challenging process and has been the collaborative work of the universe, because our director’s original order was to find an actor who holds a close physical resemblance to the real Castro to build from, along with finding someone Alina Fernandez would strongly endorse. To get there on such a tough look to cast, we used Fidel Castro’s ancient Galician heraldry as our focal compass, and then combed through the entire ranks of actors with Latin roots in Hollywood to find someone who has a similar facial structure. In executing a close search into our hopefuls through the eye of Spanish and Portuguese genealogy which the Galicians held, we found that James, by far, had the closest facial likeness of our Industry’s leading actors, meaning that the focus would be to build out his character accent and we’d have a stunning on-screen match to intrigue audiences and bring the story to life with true visual integrity. Altogether, working with such a supportive and exciting cast has been a true blessing to our team and project.”
Filming will take place in Cartagena and Bogota and kick off on August 15.

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