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Cole Hauser has no idea why “Yellowstone” has finally become the sexy hot thing on TV. Along with most of heartland America, he has known that the grizzly and gamy cowboy show has been a good watch since its debut on Paramount Network in 2018.

The pandemic may have something to do with it. With sprawling Montana (and Utah) landscapes, outlandish outlaw behavior, pretty ponies, and perpetually-handsome Kevin Costner as its lead, “Yellowstone” has all the ingredients of a hit escapist show. Recognition has come in the form of ratings, with about 14 million total viewers tuning in to the Season 4 premiere of “Yellowstone,” and 15 million total viewers glued to their screens for its conclusion. And now, it has become an awards contender, with a Screen Actors Guild Award nod in the outstanding performance by an ensemble drama series category.

Hauser, who portrays Rip Wheeler, the bruiser and the fixer of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch,...

Courtney B. Vance (American Crime Story: The People vs. Oj Simpson), Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico) and Elizabeth Debicki (The Tale) have been tapped for major roles opposite Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jonathan Majors and Wunmi Mosaku in HBO’s high-profile straight-to-series drama Lovecraft Country, from Misha Green, Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television.

Penned by Green based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Black (Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George (Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. Thus begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

Vance’s George Black, has always been more like a father to Atticus (Majors). Warm, funny,...

As a special exclusive for Daily Dead readers, we have Carl Kelsch’s new short film, For My Facebook, available to watch now. Also in today’s Horror Highlights: Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan Blu-ray / DVD release details, info on Europe’s 4K Uhd Blu-ray release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and a Q&A with Restoration director/co-writer/co-star Zack Ward.

Exclusive: Watch the Short Film For My Facebook: Press Release: “It all started with a funny image that popped in writer/director Carl Kelsch’s head: a play on words that yielded the final shots of ‘For My Facebook’ (To say more would spoil the ending). With only a few directing credits under his belt, he recruited jack-of-all-horror-trades Louie Cortes (Dir. of Attack of the Brain People, writer of Blood Slaughter Massacre) to do Sound. Kelsch, who also operated the camera, got input from Cortes on blocking and framing.

Time sure flies by! I've been following Aunjanue Ellis' career probably since "High Incident," the 1990s ABC police drama series she co-starred in, that was canceled after 2 seasons). It's kind of odd to now see her playing someone's mother - specifically, 29-year-old Nicole Beharie's mother, in Fox's "Sleepy Hollow." We're all aging; a fact of life, for better or worse. Ellis joined the cast of  "Sleepy Hollow" over the summer, to play another surprising figure from Abbie's (Nicole Beharie's) past -  as already noted, her mother, who's supposed to be long-dead. She makes her first appearance on the show during tonight's episode, which, as TV Line...

Check out the new trailer and clip for That's What I Am, starring Ed Harris, Chase Ellison, Molly Parker and Daniel Roebuck. That's What I am is a comedy directed and written by Michael Pavone, writer of Anthony Lapaglia and Kevin Pollak starrer Chameleon, who's mostly known for TV credits including The Client, High Incident and Prison Break. Also in the cast are Randy Orton, Daniel Yelsky, Alexander Walters, Mia Rose Frampton and Amy Madigan. Set in California against the backdrop of the mid-sixties, That’s What I Am is a coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison), a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers...

Check out the new trailer and clip for That's What I Am, starring Ed Harris, Chase Ellison, Molly Parker and Daniel Roebuck. That's What I am is a comedy directed and written by Michael Pavone, writer of Anthony Lapaglia and Kevin Pollak starrer Chameleon, who's mostly known for TV credits including The Client, High Incident and Prison Break. Also in the cast are Randy Orton, Daniel Yelsky, Alexander Walters, Mia Rose Frampton and Amy Madigan. Set in California against the backdrop of the mid-sixties, That’s What I Am is a coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison), a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers...

Check out the new trailer and clip for That's What I Am, starring Ed Harris, Chase Ellison, Molly Parker and Daniel Roebuck. That's What I am is a comedy directed and written by Michael Pavone, writer of Anthony Lapaglia and Kevin Pollak starrer Chameleon, who's mostly known for TV credits including The Client, High Incident and Prison Break. Also in the cast are Randy Orton, Daniel Yelsky, Alexander Walters, Mia Rose Frampton and Amy Madigan. Set in California against the backdrop of the mid-sixties, That’s What I Am is a coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison), a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers...

Check out the new trailer and clip for That's What I Am, starring Ed Harris, Chase Ellison, Molly Parker and Daniel Roebuck. That's What I am is a comedy directed and written by Michael Pavone, writer of Anthony Lapaglia and Kevin Pollak starrer Chameleon, who's mostly known for TV credits including The Client, High Incident and Prison Break. Also in the cast are Randy Orton, Daniel Yelsky, Alexander Walters, Mia Rose Frampton and Amy Madigan. Set in California against the backdrop of the mid-sixties, That’s What I Am is a coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison), a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers...

I Am Number Four hits cinema screens this week and Jez had a quick chat with director DJ Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) about working with Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay, collaborating with Oscar-winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro and why 3D conversions suck.

Can you tell us a little about the movie?

I think I Am Number Four is a real fun science fiction romp with a real strong character, Number Four who’s….the reason I did the movie is because I really love the character. He’s this disenfranchised alien trying to figure out who he is and ultimately as he works his way through life he find a place which he thinks could be a place he’d like to stay and he realises that his destiny has a far greater calling than that and when he falls in love in this little town, all these legacies and all...

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On NBC’s The Event, actress Lisa Vidal plays the first-ever Latin American first lady, a role that brings her a lot of pride.

But it’s her off-screen role — that of mom to Scott, 17, Max, 12, and Olivia, 7 — that fulfills her most.

“When I’m home, I’m just mom,” the 45-year-old tells People Moms & Babies.

“We’re a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.” So what types of things does she do?

1. She’s a total soccer mom

“All three of my kids play soccer,” she shares. “Each one of them started from...

• When you have too many high profile projects going on at once and wear one too many hats (producer, director, etc) then it just makes sense to peg new talent to execute your other projects. Dreamworks were pleased with the returns on Disturbia – it’s easy to see why Steven Spielberg might have been smitten as well. Variety is reporting that Shia Labeouf and director D.J. Caruso are re-pairing for a thriller set to shoot this fall. Penned by Dan McDermott and based on an original idea by Steven Spielberg, this will get a reworking by Hillary Seitz. Eagle Eye should see Labeouf play a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination,

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