Focus Features has released the trailer for writer-director Miranda July's Sundance comedy Kajillionaire starring Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins and Gina Rodriguez. Winger and Jenkins play con artists Theresa and Robert, who have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Wood), to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger (Rodriguez) into joining their next scam, only to have their entire world turned upside down. The film was produced by Plan B's Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, as well as Youree Henley. If you …

Stranger Things breakout Millie Bobby Brown has signed on to star in an adaptation of Tess Sharpe's YA novel The Girls I've Been that she'll also produce alongside Ozark's Jason Bateman. Brown will play Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist who picked up many of her mother's tricks and has become a master manipulator in her own right. When she goes to the bank with her ex-boyfriend Wes and secret girlfriend Iris, the three of them are taken hostage by two bank robbers -- who quickly learn they have no idea who …

Oscar winner Julianne Moore is set to produce and star in the latest Apple-A24 collaboration Sharper, which will find her playing a con artist targeting billionaires in Manhattan. There's no director attached yet, but the spec script hails from The Sitter scribes Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, who will produce alongside Moore and her filmmaker husband Bart Freundlich, as well as Erik Feig of Picturestart. A24 will serve as the studio, though the film is expected to be released on Apple TV+. [caption id="attachment_650054" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via 20th Century Fox[/caption] Apple acquired the …

Throughout film history, there have been some truly memorable con men (and women)! We take a look at some of the greatest.

One of my top-ten most anticipated films of the fall is New Line's The Good Liar, which pairs acting legends Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren for the first time together on the big screen. I just love this kind of twist-filled movie, where you're never quite sure who is playing whom. Either way, it's clear that these two lost souls deserve each other. McKellen plays Roy Courtnay, a career con artist who can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish (Mirren) online. As Betty opens her home and life …

One of my top-ten most anticipated films of the fall is New Line's The Good Liar, which pairs acting legends Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren for the first time together on the big screen. I just love this kind of twist-filled movie, where you're never quite sure who is playing whom. Either way, it's clear that these two lost souls deserve each other. McKellen plays Roy Courtnay, a career con artist who can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish (Mirren) online. As Betty opens her home and life …

A Hollywood con artist is being hunted down by the FBI after she impersonated Marvel Studios' long-time executive producer Victoria Alonso.