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Christoph Waltz and Liam Hemsworth will go head-to-head in Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s forthcoming short-form video platform Quibi’s upcoming action-thriller Most Dangerous Game. Check out the first teaser artwork above. Deadline reports that the series will explore the limits […]

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In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix announced the premiere date for “Tom Papa: You’re Doing Great!” and Quibi unveiled the title and artwork for its upcoming series starring Liam Hemsworth and Christophe Waltz.

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“Tom Papa: You’re Doing Great!” will launch globally on Feb. 4, Netflix announced. The veteran comedian aims to remind viewers to take care of themselves, embrace who they’ve become, and absorb the beauty of life in his debut Netflix special, which was filmed in front of a live audience at the Victoria Theater at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. View the trailer below.

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Quibi has unveiled the title and artwork for its forthcoming series “Most Dangerous Game.“ Starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz, the action-thriller follows Dodge Maynard (Hemsworth) who, desperate to take care of his wife, accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he...

Quibi’s upcoming action-thriller starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz now has an official title – Most Dangerous Game. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s forthcoming short-form video platform also released the first teaser artwork featuring stars Hemsworth and Waltz (see above).

The series, from Scorpion creator Nick Santora, Gordon Gray, Silver Reel Pictures and CBS Television Studios, explores the limits of how far someone would go to fight for their life and their family. Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard (Hemsworth) accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter… but the prey.

Waltz plays Miles Seller. Cast also includes Sarah Gadon, Zach Cherry, Aaron Poole, Christopher Webster, Billy Burke and Natasha Bordizzo.

Santora will write and executive produce the series. Emmy-nominated director Phil Abraham (Mad Men) will direct and also executive produce.

After months—so many months—of announcements touting shows featuring some of Hollywood's biggest stars, your first look at a scripted Quibi show is here and it's none other than Most Dangerous Game starring the one and only Liam Hemsworth. Hemsworth stars opposite Oscar winner Christoph Waltz in the new short-form series from writer and executive producer Nick Santora. In Most Dangerous Game, viewers will meet Dodge Maynard (Hemsworth), a young husband and father-to-be desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness ends his life. So, Dodge accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he learns he's not the hunter, but the prey. "This action-thriller explores...

We have good news and good news, Zoey Deutch fans. One, she and her Set It Up costar Glen Powell have another Netflix movie in the works, titled Most Dangerous Game. Two, we have a bucketload of pictures of Deutch to check out while we wait. The Hollywood legacy is a total stunner, and we're kind of, sort of, a little bit obsessed with her. Just look at her sexiest pics to see why we're so smitten. Oh, and if you hadn't noticed, her red carpet style is truly inspiring.

J.D. Dillard has signed on to helm Korean War epic “Devotion,” starring “Top Gun: Maverick” actor Glen Powell, sources tell Variety.

The film, from Black Label Media, is an aerial war epic that tells the harrowing true story of two elite U.S. Navy fighter pilots, Tom Hudner and Jesse L. Brown, during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy’s most celebrated wingmen.

Powell will star as Hudner, whose life — along with Brown’s — was chronicled in Adam Makos’ book “Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice,” upon which the movie is based. Jake Crane and Jonathan Stewart wrote the screenplay. Blm’s Molly Smith, Rachel Smith, Thad Luckinbill and Trent Luckinbill will produce.

Dillard is best known for his debut feature film “Sleight,” which premiered at Sundance in 2016 and was acquired by WWE Studios and Blumhouse. His second film, “Sweetheart,” starring Kiersey Clemons,...

Radio Silence’s Ready Or Not raises the bar for any horror comedy that dares challenge “Milton Bradley’s Most Dangerous Game.” A bloody vicious, bloody hilarious, and bloody freakin’ outrageous winner. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett roll the dice on matrimonial manhunts, but success needn’t gambler’s odds. Samara Weaving has been destined for Scream Queen glory ever since The Babysitter (then Mayhem), and Ready Or Not completes a trilogy of performances uncontested by measurements of Ellen Ripley or Laurie Strode mojo. Instructions are clear, rules cleverly adhered to and violence of the utmost remorseless brutality – 2019’s summer movie season closes on top scores.

Grace (Samara Weaving) has, or will soon have, any girl’s dream life. She’s about to wed the man of her dreams, Alex (Mark O’Brien), at his family’s extravagant estate. Champagne flows, attendees fawn over the beautiful bride, but night...

New Line has won the bidding for “Don’t Worry Darling,” a psychological thriller to from Olivia Wilde.

A total of 18 bids were submitted on the project, centered on a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath. Wilde is directing, producing and starring in the film.

Wilde’s “Booksmart” partner Katie Silberman will rewrite the original script from Shane and Carey Van Dyke. Wilde and Silberman will produce along with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment. The project will be overseen at New Line by Daria Cercek and Celia Khong.

The deal, which closed Friday Night, comes on the heels of Wilde’s acclaimed directorial debut “Booksmart,” a coming-of-age comedy about two best friends who cut loose on their last day of high school.

Wilde is currently in production on Clint Eastwood’s “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” set to release in 2020. Her...

Universal Pictures announced Saturday that the studio has canceled its planned release for the upcoming horror film The Hunt, just a day after President Donald Trump seemed to criticize the movie and “liberal Hollywood” in a series of tweets.

In the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, Universal paused their marketing push for the film, a Most Dangerous Game-inspired thriller about elites killing blue-collar people (“deplorables,” as they’re called in the trailer) for sport, Variety reports. On Saturday, Universal announced the film’s release would be scrapped entirely.

If you thought ladies' weekend at the spa was an experience you couldn't believe, wait until you check out hunting season at The Manor in this first trailer for upcoming action-thriller, The Hunt. The film follows 12 strangers who wake up in a clearing with no clue where they are or how they got there. What they also don't know is that they've been selected for one specific purpose. If you're getting serious Most Dangerous Game vibes, you're not far off.

Written by Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof with The Leftovers collaborator Nick Cuse, The Hunt is about more than just a really fancy place where people go to hunt other people - though that is definitely a major point of the plot. The film follows a group of globalist elites who have gathered at the Manor for the very first time. Their hunting plans hits a major bump when one of the people being hunted,...

She may have cracked comedy in her directorial debut, ‘Booksmart’ but Olivia Wilde know fancies taking a crack at a thriller ‘Don’t Worry Darling’.

Wilde will team up with her ‘Booksmart’ partner Katie Silberman and ‘It’ producer Roy Lee and Miri Yoon.

The film is being described as “a psychological thriller for the Time’s Up era” and will centre on a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath.

Silberman is re-writing the screenplay which was drafted by Shane and Carey Van Dyke. Wilde will also produce the film.

Also in news – Luca Guadagnino in talks to helm ‘Lord of the Flies’

‘Booksmart’ was Wilde’s first dip in the director’s chair and she absolutely nailed it with most critics hailing it as the comedy of the year. The film landed her in the top 10 of Variety’s directors to watch. She has...

Olivia Wilde will direct and produce the thriller “Don’t Worry, Darling,” with her “Booksmart” partner Katie Silberman and “It” producer Roy Lee and Miri Yoon through Vertigo Entertainment.

The project is being described as “a psychological thriller for the Times Up era”will center on an unhappy 1950s housewife. Silberman is re-writing a script by the sibling writing team of Shane and Carey Van Dyke, centered on a 1950s housewife.

“Don’t Worry, Darling” has not been set up at a studio yet. Wilde recently became attached to direct and produce an untitled holiday comedy project for Universal Pictures with Silberman.

Wilde directed “Booksmart” in her helming debut from a script by Silberman and three other writers. The coming-of-age comedy has grossed $22 million domestically since its May 24 release by United Artists and has a 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Wilde is currently in production on Clint Eastwood’s “The Ballad of Richard Jewell.

“Booksmart” director/writer duo Olivia Wilde and Katie Silberman will team up again for a comedy at Universal Pictures. The studio recently won rights to the project in a heated bidding war between six studios, according to Deadline. Universal nabbed the untitled holiday comedy based on an original pitch from Wilde and Silberman, with Wilde attached to direct and Silberman (co-writer on “Booksmart”) slated to write the screenplay. Both women will produce.

Released in late May, “Booksmart” earned rave reviews from critics and has earned over $22 million in box office returns thus far. The raunchy teen girl comedy stars Beanie Feldstein (“Lady Bird”) and Kaitlyn Dever (“Justified”) as strait-laced best friends who go to great lengths to finally let loose on their last night of high school.

In his rave review of the film out of this year’s SXSW Film Festival, IndieWire’s Eric Kohn wrote: “The best comedy of its kind since “Superbad,...

Exclusive: After a heated bidding battle that drew bids from six studios, Universal Pictures has prevailed to acquire an untitled holiday comedy pitch based on an original idea by Olivia Wilde and Katie Silberman, the team behind the critically lauded Booksmart.

Wilde is attached to direct, and Silberman, who co-wrote Booksmart, will write the script. The two of them will produce.

It is refreshing to see this level of studio enthusiasm generated after an inspiring directorial debut by the multi-hyphenate Wilde came out of SXSW to become one of the most critically acclaimed films of the young year. Booksmart has been included on most of the “best of the year so far” film lists. Backed by Annapurna and Gloria Sanchez and released by United Artists, it has grossed over $22 million so far.

Universal’s Svp of Production Sara Scott and Director of Development Lexi Barta will oversee development.

Wilde is...

When Jacob Aaron Estes’ latest film — and his first since the unmitigated disaster that was the Tobey Maguire-starring “The Details,” from 2011 — debuted at Sundance this past January, it was under the slightly video-game-esque title “Relive,” a wink at the unexpected nature of its time-traveling drama. Now the film, starring David Oyelowo and “Wrinkle in Time” breakout Storm Reid, has a new title and a chilling first trailer to help sell it.

The film is now known as “Don’t Let Go,” which speaks to another facet of its drama, a canny riff on time travel tropes. Per the film’s official synopsis, it follows “detective Jack Radcliff (Oyelowo) [who] gets a shocking phone call from his recently-murdered niece Ashley (Reid). Working together across time, they race to solve her murder before it can happen.” The film also stars Mykelti Williamson, Brian Tyree Henry, Shinelle Azoroh, Byron Mann, April Grace, and Alfred Molina.

Stars: Eric Roberts, Toshi Toda, Adrian Bouchet, Natalie Robbie, Donna Cormack Thomson, Chris Fisher, Jonathan Pienaar, Margot Wood, Andrew Dennison, Meghan Oberholzer, Ryan Kruger | Written and Directed by Mark Atkins

Syfy and mockbuster producers The Asylum are back with yet another blockbuster movie cash-in with Monster Island, their take on Godzilla: King of the Monsters… only Without Godzilla to save the day! The plots are virtually identical: in this case a deep-sea drilling expedition gone wrong uncovers a monstrous giant starfish that wrecks havoc on humanity, an awakening that is followed by even more kaiju arising and terrorising Earth – forcing a team of scientists to find the legendary creature, the Living Mountain, and get it to battle the menace.

Oh and did I mention that not only is there a giant starfish but he spews lava/magma and is probably responsible for all the worlds volcanic disasters? And we also get fire-breathing monsters,...

Glen Powell is set to star in the Stx comedy “I Want to F*** Your Brother,” sources tell Variety.

The pic is a co-production between Stx and Mwm Studios and a reimagining of the 2007 Black List script that was formerly set up at Paramount. Stx Entertainment bought the property for Powell, with “The Other Woman” scribe Melissa Stack attached to rewrite and direct. Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black and Steve Tisch from Escape Artists will produce.

The story follows a buttoned-up lawyer who gets her black sheep younger brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly becomes the toast of the town — and the object of desire of the powerful women they work for.

Powell starred opposite Zoey Deutch this summer’s surprise hit “Set it Up” for Netflix and will reteam with Deutch for the comedy “Most Dangerous Game.” He is currently filming the Jerry Bruckheimer...

Glen Powell has been tapped to star in Wanna F*** Your Brother, co-production with STXfilms and MWM Studios. The Other Woman screenwriter Melissa Stack wrote the script and is directing the film about a buttoned-up lawyer who gets her black sheep younger brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly becomes the toast of the town… and the object of desire of the powerful women they work for.

Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black, and Steve Tisch will produce for Escape Artists.

Powell is starring in the highly anticipated Top Gun: Maverick for Paramount, which lands in theaters in 2020. His other upcoming projects include the Netflix comedy Most Dangerous Game, in which he reunites with his Set It Up co-star Zoey Deutch, and Time After Time, a love story based on the novel by Lisa Grunwald.

Powell is repped by ICM Partners and Ziffren Brittenham.

Exclusive: Roth/Kirschenbaum Films has acquired rights to Lisa Grunwald’s upcoming novel Time After Time. Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall) will script it as a starring vehicle for Glen Powell, who played John Glenn in Hidden Figures, is currently shooting Top Gun: Maverick for Paramount and then stars with his Set It Up co-star Zoey Deutch in the Netflix comedy Most Dangerous Game. Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum will produce it.

Random House publishes the novel next month. It is described as a magical love story is set against the workings of Grand Central Terminal and the solar phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, which takes place when the sun rises and sets between the city’s skyscrapers aligning perfectly with the streets below.

“Joe and I have been looking for an epic romance to produce,” said Kirschenbaum, “and we believe we’ve found it with Time After Time. It’s part The Notebook,...