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Martin Scorsese is executive producing the feature.

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00:00Want more Adam Sandler? Well, you got it. The actor will star in Uncut Gems, the next film

00:05from the Safdie brothers. Plot details for Uncut Gems are being kept under wraps,

00:09but the movie is set in New York's Diamond District. For the feature, the Safdies are

00:13reteaming up with A24, which distributed their last film, Good Time, starring Robert Pattinson.

00:18Martin Scorsese is executive producing, along with Emma Tillinger-Koskow.

00:22Sandler was last seen in Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories, and will next star in the

00:27Netflix comedy The Week Of, Opposite Chris Rock, which hits the streamer on April 27.

00:32Let me turn it on for you. Better? Yeah.

00:36OK, let's turn it on.

00:38But that's not all. Last week, it was announced that Sandler and Jennifer Aniston will co-star

00:42in a comedic whodunit for Netflix. The pair last shared the screen in the 2011 comedy

00:47Just Go With It, and are set to reunite in the ensemble comedy titled Murder Mystery.

00:51The movie follows a New York City cop, played by Sandler, as he finally takes his wife,

00:55played by Aniston, on a long-promised European trip. A chance meeting on the flight gets them

01:00invited to an intimate family gathering on the superyacht of an elderly billionaire.

01:04But when the billionaire is murdered, the couple become the prime suspects in a modern-day whodunit.

01:09The script comes from White House downrider James Vanderbilt.

01:12Murder Mystery continues Sandler's relationship with Netflix, where he has an exclusive production deal.

01:17So, will you be checking out Adam Sandler's next movie The Week Of when it hits Netflix later this month?

01:21And are you ready for even more Adam Sandler? Be sure to let me know all your thoughts in the comments.

01:25Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.