Warner Bros. "has purchased the original feature pitch" of Dante's Inferno from screenwriter Dwain Worrell, Deadline.com reported, adding that the "project has the studio excited by its scale and franchise potential." Gianni Nunnari's Hollywood Gang and Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road will produce it together.
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A "trunk full of new images" and "a revealing new TV spot" have been released for Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp and based on the book Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, Indiewire reported. The cast includes Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, Dakota Johnson, Juno Temple, W. Earl Brown, Corey Stoll, Julianne Nicholson, Adam Scott and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) from a script by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth. Black Mass hits theaters September 18.
