Warner Bros Dates Melissa McCarthy Comedy ‘Superintelligence’ & Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Just Mercy’

Warner Bros Dates Melissa McCarthy Comedy ‘Superintelligence’ & Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Just Mercy’

Warner Bros has slated a December 25, 2019 release date for Melissa McCarthy-starring action comedy Superintelligence, which Ben Falcone will direct. Written by The Boss scribe Steve Mallory McCarthy, the pic follows Carol Peters (McCarthy), a former corporate executive whose unfulfilled life is turned upside down when she is selected for observation by the world’s first super-intelligence.

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The Michael B. Jordan legal drama, Just Mercy, which WB acquired from Broad Green Pictures, will be released January 1, 2020. Directed by Daniel Cretton, the film is an adaptation of Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 memoir on his first case, Walter McMillian, a young black man sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit. Despite his air-tight alibi, McMillian was convicted spent six years on death row before being exonerated.

In addition, the studio also announced the release date for an untitled Conjuring Universe film which will be bow July 3, 2019, though, at this moment, not much is known about the pic.