EXCLUSIVE: Danny Ramirez is the latest to join the cast of Universal Pictures and Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85 movie starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler. Kosinski will direct the latest feature adaptation of the classic ’80s crime series, which has a script by Dan Gilroy. Alden Ehrenreich, Camila Morrone and Whitney Peak recently joined the cast.

Miami Vice ’85 explores the glamour and corruption of mid-1980s Miami in an all-new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode of the landmark Universal Television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking. The movie will be filmed for Imax and is set for release on May 19, 2028. Production will begin this year. It us unknown who Ramirez is playing in the pic.

The film is produced by Dylan Clark/Dylan Clark Productions and Kosinski. Gilroy’s script is based on characters created by Anthony Yerkovich from the series he executive produced with Michael Mann; Eric Warren Singer wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay. EVP Production Development Sara Scott and Creative Executive of Production Development Christina Hoffrogge will oversee the project for the studio.

Ramirez recently wrapped production on Todd’s Haynes’ De Noche opposite Pedro Pascal as well as Baton, which he also directed and penned. He can be seen next in Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday.

He is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, Brillstein Partners and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman.

EXCLUSIVE: Sasha Calle (The Rip) is set for a major role opposite Jamie Foxx in Deadlocked, the new action film from Amazon MGM Studios that we announced earlier this month.

Directed by Nikhil Bhat, Deadlocked follows a grieving former Marine serving jury duty who is forced back into action when the trial of the century turns into a deadly hostage situation as the defendant’s daughter seizes the courthouse to free her father.

The film, written by Eric Scot Anderson (The Black Fox) and Matt Takejiro Bosack (CBS’ NCIS: Hawai’i), and based on their original idea, is being made for streaming. Producers include Fred Berger for Range, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Dave Caplan for C2, and Jamie Foxx for Foxxhole Productions. AJ Bourscheid, Liz Destro, Paul Currie and Corinne Foxx serve as executive producers.

Booking one major studio gig after another in recent years, Calle is coming off a role opposite Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in The Rip, Joe Carnahan’s crime thriller for Netflix, which released in January and remained in the top 10 global film list for six weeks. She can currently be seen starring opposite Colin Farrell in the second season of Apple TV’s neo-noir series Sugar and will next be seen opposite Scarlett Johansson in Mike Flanagan’s take on The Exorcist for Universal, releasing in theaters on March 12, 2027.

Calle made her feature film debut as Supergirl in Warner Bros.’ The Flash, becoming the first Latina actress to portray the superhero in a major studio film. Other film credits include Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses, as well as Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s In the Summers, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and Directing Award for U.S. Dramatic Film in its 2024 premiere at Sundance.

Earlier in her career, Calle won a Daytime Emmy for her work on The Young and the Restless. She is repped by CAA, Luber Roklin, and Del Shaw Moonves.