Casting Roundup! Tony Shalhoub Joins FINAL POTRAIT, Nicholas Cage Leads Thriller, and More

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Broadway's Tony Shalhoub (ACT ONE), Clemence Poesy, and Sylvie Testud have joined Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer in Stanley Tucci's FINAL PORTRAIT. Depicting Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, the film is based on James Lord's book, A GIACOMETTI PORTRAIT.

Nicholas Cage has been tapped to star in MOM AND DAD, a new thriller in which two children find themselves having to survive a spree in which parents start attacking their children. With screenplay and direction by Brian Taylor, the film begins shooting in July.

Margot Robbie (SUICIDE SQUAD) will join TERMINAL, a noir tale about two hit men who encounter a mysterious woman (Robbie). Further casting has yet to be announced. Vaughn Stein will helm the film as both director and writer.

Kevin Thomas has signed on to direct David Thewlis's dark comic heist movie CROAK, which Thewlis has written and will star in. Based on the short film SUNDAY ROAST, Juliette Lewis, Zoe Kazan, Julia Garner, and Craig Roberts join the cast.

Betty Gabriel has been cast in Jordan Peele's horror-thriller GET OUT. In an unspecified role, she joins Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, and Catherine Keener in this film about a black man who pays a visit to the estate of his white girlfriend.

Source: EW

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