{"id":848203,"date":"2026-08-08T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848203\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:28:21","slug":"quick-news-blur-bluefly-mime-naruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848203\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick News: Blur, Bluefly, Mime, Naruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/quick-news-blur-bluefly-mime-naruto.jpg\" data-caption=\"Warner Bros. Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/quick-news-blur-bluefly-mime-naruto.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"quick-news-blur-bluefly-mime-naruto\"\/><\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Blur<br \/>Russian filmmaker Kirill Sokolov (\u201cThey Will Kill You\u201d) has been set to direct the feature \u201cBlur\u201d which is dubbed a \u201cmother-daughter story involving teleportation\u201d.  Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/they-will-kill-you-sci-fi-action-movie-blur-netflix-1236660987\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Bluefly<br \/>Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas will star in the Nimr\u00f3d Antal-directed sci-fi action thriller \u201cBluefly\u201d which will shoot later this year in Australia.  David Frigerio, William Eubank and Carlyle Eubank penned the script.<\/p>\n<p>Deep in the Congo, a grieving UN translator is pulled onto a black-ops mission to recover a downed aircraft that isn\u2019t supposed to exist. As a Special Ops team pushes upriver through militia-held territory, the recovery becomes a descent \u2014 and the closer they get to the craft, the clearer it becomes that they were never meant to bring it home. [Source: HFG]<\/p>\n<p>Mime<br \/>Sony Screen Gems has picked up Nikyatu Jusu\u2019s supernatural horror feature \u201cMime\u201d starring John David Washington (\u201cTenet\u201d).  Filming begins in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a New York City apartment complex in the middle of a heat wave blackout, specifics of the plot are under wraps.  Stephen Herman wrote the screenplay based on his original idea.  Scott Derrickson, Matt Tolmach and Camilla Grove produce. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/john-david-washington-camila-grove-mime-screen-gems-1237027793\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Naruto<br \/>\u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d helmer Destin Daniel Cretton\u2019s live-action \u201cNaruto\u201d movie aims to go into production in the first half of 2027.  Cretton has been attached to the project, set up at Lionsgate, for some time. 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Pictures BlurRussian filmmaker Kirill Sokolov (\u201cThey Will Kill You\u201d) has been set to direct the feature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-848203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}