Ariana Grande, Matthew Morrison, Katie Holmes and Nicholas Hoult Lend Voices to UNDERDOGS

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ariana Grande, Matthew Morrison, Nicholas Hoult and Katie Holmes are the latest stars to sign on for The Weinstein Co's English-language version of UNDERDOGS, directed by Juan Jose Campanella from a screenplay he wrote with Gaston Gorali and Eduardo Sacheri.

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They will join a voice cast featuring John Leguizamo, Eugenio Derbez, Taran Killiam, Bobby Moynihan and Chazz Palminteri.

UNDERDOGS follows "a shy but talented foosball player (Morrison) who must defend his town and the girl he loves, Laura (Grande), from the nefarious soccer player Ace (Hoult). He's aided by the figures on his foosball table, who magically come to life."

UNDERDOGS will hit theaters on April 10, 2015.

Pop star Grande, who starred on Broadway in Jason Robert Brown's '13', went on to lead Nickelodeon's Victorious and its spin-off Sam & Cat. She just released her second studio album "My Everything" this year.

Morrison is best known as 'Will Schuester' in Fox's musical dramedy series GLEE. He has starred on Broadway in South Pacific, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Light in the Piazza -- for which he received Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2005 -- Hairspray, The Rocky Horror Show and Footloose.

Holmes, who last starred on the big screen in The Giver, appeared on Broadway last year in Dead Accounts, and before that, All My Sons. Her upcoming projects include the films Mania Days and Woman in Gold.

One of Hoult's first big film roles was in About a Boy with Hugh Grant in 2002. Since then, he has appeared in the movies A Single Man, Clash of the Titans, X-Men: First Class, Warm Bodies, Jack the Giant Slayer, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. He will next be seen in Dark Places, Autobahn, Kill Your Friends, Equals, Mad Max: Fury Road and X-Men: Apocalypse.

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