As the first member of Cameo’s talent to join the board, the Basketball Hall of Famer and entrepreneur will help represent talent at the executive level and grow the platform’s roster globally. “As a former athlete, I’ve experienced first-hand the challenges and opportunities in my journey to leverage my personal brand into businesses off the […]
Black was last seen in theaters with Jumanji: The Next Level, and is set for the highly anticipated Borderlands feature adaption, playing beloved character Claptrap. Sakurai’s past credit includes directing and executive producing The Eric Andre Show for Adult Swim, and recently directing episodes for the second season of FX comedy Dave and BJ Novak’s […]
Jeff Chan, who directed the original Code 8 sci-fi flick, will helm the sequel, with Robbie Amell reprising their roles. Code 8: Part II, from Collective Pictures, sees a teenage girl with abnormal abilities after witnessing the murder of her brother seek the help of an ex-con . The original Code 8 thriller was set […]
Bullet Train — based on the popular Japanese book Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka — boasts a high-profile cast led by Brad Pitt. The story centers on a group of hitmen and assassins with conflicting motives on a train in Tokyo. Oh Hell No, directed by Kitao Sakurai after Sherman falls in love with Will’s […]
When viewers last tuned into The Morning Show, the anchors played by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon offered a searing on-air takedown of the broadcast network home to their fictional TV morning show. The new footage sets the Morning Show team on a new course, with veteran anchor Alex Levy that she will not be […]
20th Television has signed the Vanity Fair contributing editor and her aptly named production company to a first-look producing deal. As its title suggests, Impeachment will chronicle the events that led to the first impeachment of a sitting president in over a century. “As our team has gotten to know Monica through her involvement with […]
Midway through production on the 2020 season of The Bachelorette, the franchise alum fielded a call from producers to take over the starring role from Claire Crawley, who had unexpectedly exited early after finding love. During a time of controversy and uncertainty for the hit ABC and Warner Horizon franchise after the problematic season of […]
Cephas Jones, who had a small part in the original film, now takes center stage, on Sunday capping off a whirlwind week of Blindspotting events while her fiancé Anthony Ramos also had the biggest few days of his career with the release of In The Heights. While the movie took a masculine view, “This is […]
Set in 1945, Immortal tells the story of ex-soldier Aatami, played by Helander’s long-time collaborator Jorma Tommila, who discovers gold in the deep wilderness of Lapland. Petri Jokiranta, who has also produced Helander ́s two previous features, is producing the film through Subzero Film Entertainment. Anderson, also seen in The Revenant, In the Heart of […]
Revolving around the intersecting fates of three Tampa dwellers — a fresh-faced ingenue, the hustler who seduces her and an ex-convict readjusting to life on the outside — writer-director Tyler Riggs’ feature debut has a ripe, palpable sense of place and a pair of magnetic leads in Nisalda Gonzalez and Matthew Leone as the young lovers. […]
Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan estimates the sequel end its run with $19.9 million, which would be 24 percent behind the first Peter Rabbit film’s 2018 total of $26.3 million in China. It’s possible that the strong word of mouth for Peter Rabbit 2 — it’s currently scoring 9.3 on Maoyan and 7.4 on Douban — […]
Ned Beatty, who made an indelible first impression in Deliverance before turning in noteworthy efforts in Nashville, Network and Homicide: Life on the Street as one of the most respected character actors of his time, has died. On television, Ned Beatty was at his best as Det. Beatty had an excellent basso profundo singing voice, […]
Following his mid-life professional transition from semi-successful chef to rousingly successful author and global gadfly, Bourdain had an appeal that was inextricably linked to the impression he gave the audience that we knew him, that we were privy to his thoughts and reflections and, therefore, to something deeper and more personal. Many of the people […]
The calm, measured tones of Luke Kirby’s voice as Ted Bundy are first heard in No Man of God on a recording of one of many interviews conducted by FBI agent Bill Hagmaier in the early days of the Bureau’s profiling unit, established to unlock the psychology of serial murderers and rapists. In a movie […]
The original film — with its environmental themes and superhero tropes subverted a la Deadpool, but with a grade-Z budget — went on to be Troma’s biggest hit, and the character became a mascot for the company. Bacon has played an array of bad guys and shady characters over his long career, including in comic […]
The merger of Evolve and GEI will expand the reach of the mayor’s program beyond Los Angeles to other cities in the United States and around the world, according to Garcetti’s office. “We started GEI not even a year ago and Blake and I have been so thrilled and humbled both by the interest in […]
The family drama, to be shopped to international buyers at Cannes by Rocket Science, will see Moore and Haynes reunite for the sixth time after collaborations that include Far from Heaven. The film begins 20 years after a notorious tabloid romance between Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe and as their twins are to graduate […]
Unlike most of Millar’s other works, the superhero comic, with a story that spans decades and prequel titles, had a deep character bench from which to draw, and Netflix saw it as a way to further its own universe-building ambitions to compete with Disney IP heavyweights Marvel and Star Wars. The series was plagued with […]
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal’s screenplay took big thematic swings and Carlos López Estrada’s direction was full of bombastic flourishes — part dark comedy, part musical, part polemic, part Bay Area travelogue. Starz’s new TV adaptation of Blindspotting lacks what was probably the primary source of the movie’s appeal, namely the rapport between longtime friends […]
The film, which will have its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, marks Dylan Penn’s debut in a lead actress role. “We were immediately captivated by Sean’s film — the outstanding performances from the entire cast lead of course by Dylan and Sean, Jennifer’s incredible life story and the great care the entire […]