Two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver is set to star in Sony's contained horror thriller 65 from producer Sam Raimi and the writers of A Quiet Place. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods will direct from their own original screenplay, which is said to feature a supernatural twist. Driver will play an opioid addict who has become a hopeless shadow of his former self. He's involved in some kind of catastrophic accident, and the only other person to emerge from the crash is a 9-year-old girl who speaks a different language. The two of them must work …
Mulan filmmaker Niki Caro has signed on to direct Beautiful Ruins for Sam Mendes' Neal Street banner and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, the studio announced Tuesday. The film is based on Jess Walter's bestselling novel, and will be adapted by scribes Mark Hammer and Chiara Atik, working off an earlier draft from Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. Set in an Italian seaside village in 1962, the story follows a charming young man who runs a hotel with no guests -- that is, until an American starlet -- Elizabeth Taylor, I presume -- arrives fresh from the set of Cleopatra and …