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Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are in talks to star in Damien Chazelle’s upcoming feature for Paramount.

Currently untitled, the film is reported to be a prison drama expected to shoot later this year. Chazelle will direct from his own script and produce with Olivia Hamilton for their Wild Chickens Productions company.

Since winning the lead actor Oscar for Oppenheimer last year, Murphy has starred in Berlin festival opening night entry Small Things Like These. He recently filmed The Immortal Man, the feature version of his long-running Peaky Blinders TV series, for Netflix.

Craig most recently starred in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer,...

Claude Lelouch, the Oscar-winning director of “A Man and a Woman,” is getting ready to direct “Finalement…,” his next film which he says will be a sort of sequel to his BAFTA-nominated film “Happy New Year” and “L’aventure, l’aventure.” The lighthearted movie will reteam Lelouch with Metropolitan FilmExport which is co-producing with Lelouch’s banner Les Films 13, and will distribute in France.

Scored by popular French singer Ibrahim Maalouf, “Finalement…” will boast a large ensemble cast of French stars, including Kad Merad (“Baron Noir”), Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone”), Sandrine Bonnaire, Raphael Mezrahi, Michel Boujenah and Barbara Pravi.

Merad will play a powerful lawyer who sees his life take an unexpected turn after a health issue removes his ability to lie and forces him to speak without any filter. Merad’s character embarks on a road trip across France, from Paris to the Normandie, to the Mont St Michel, Avignon...