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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

"Guardians of the Galaxy" composer Tyler Bates is set to return for director James Gunn's upcoming sequel to the Marvel space adventure. Gunn has completed work on the screenplay for the film which is said to be more emotional than the first. [Source: Collider]

Q: A Love Story

Lionsgate is in negotiations for the film rights to Evan Mandery's 2011 time-travel romance novel "Q: A Love Story". Matt Tolmach, Francis Lawrence, Erwin Stoff and Pouya Shahbazian would produce.

The story revolves around an unsuccessful New York writer calling off his wedding to the titular Q after a warning delivered by his supposedly future self. He's then visited by an array of his future selves with contradictory advice about life. [Source: Variety]

Calabrese Mob

"Black Mass" scribe Mark Mallouk has been set to script a film about extortionist and hitman Frank Calabrese Sr and the crime family he ran...

Exclusive: Black Label Media has set Black Mass scribe Mark Mallouk to script a film about Frank Calabrese Sr and the crime family he ran out of Chicago that was known as The Outfit. The story will be driven by Kurt Calabrese, the son who was brought into the crime game by his father, and watched as his brother, Frank Jr., volunteered to become an FBI informant — and didn’t ask for compensation or a sentence reduction — helping to bring down his father when the made man…...

Producer-financier Black Label has hired Mark Mallouk for the story based on the Kurt Calabrese life rights.

Calabrese’s father Frank Calabrese Sr was an extortionist, street loan lender and hitman with the Chicago mafia who forced his children into the business when they were barely in their teens.

Eric Shepherd and Jeff Chianakis will co-produce with Black Label co-founders Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill and Trent Luckinbill.

Production company Tool Of North America and content creator Humble have started principal photography on North in Detroit. Matt Ogens directs the post-apocalyptic adventure starring Jacob Lofland, Sophie Kennedy Clark and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Kyle Lierman and Ogens co-wrote the film, a Mother + Father production in association with 77 Films.

Visiting his mother's house in working-class Cleveland on May 6 around 4:30 in the afternoon, a gregarious Ariel Castro greeted his family warmly. "The first thing he said was 'Familia!' " his brother-in-law Juan Alicea, 63, tells People. After a meal of rice and beans and pork chops, "He and I were in the yard breaking up dirt in the garden with his two grandchildren," says Alicea. "He was talking about how he wanted to get it done because he didn't want to have to come back and do it tomorrow. Then he kissed his mom goodbye and said, 'I love you,...