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• Samuel L. Jackson and Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger) will star in Reasonable Doubt, about an assistant district attorney who becomes obsessed with the man acquitted from a deadly hit-and-run case. Peter Howitt (Sliding Doors) will direct the indie from a script by Peter Dowling (Flightplan). [Variety]
• Adam Brody, Trey Songs, and Taye Diggs have joined the romantic comedy Baggage Claim, about a flight attendant (Paula Patton) desperately seeking a fiancé in time for her little sister’s engagement party. Brody will play a fellow flight attendant, along with costar Octavia Spencer. Songs and Diggs will play potential suitors. Derek Luke, Djimon Hounsou, and Jill Scott also costar. Director David E. Talbert (First Sunday) penned the adaptation of his own 2003 novel of the same name. [Variety, THR]
• Recent Oscar nominee Demian Bichir (A Better Life) and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) will join Jude Law in Dom Hemingway, about a ex-con safecracker (Law) who wants to be rewarded for refusing to be a snitch. Bichir will play the crime lord he visits in France. Richard Shepard (The Matador) is writing and directing. [Deadline]
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