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Hey, Sean, it’s Evan.” That’s how the phone calls always started with the late Evan Wright. What followed were long, twisting conversations that could last for hours. Evan gave to get. He wanted to dig into your life and was willing to share his inner dialogue and past, too. It was a fair trade-off. I wasn’t special; Evan was like this with everyone. It’s what made him such a gifted reporter — he wanted to know the secrets and thoughts of anyone who crossed his path. But...

Socialite-turned-businesswoman Paris Hilton turned heads late in June when she bluntly testified to the House Ways and Means Committee about being sexually abused and “force-fed pills” after her parents shipped her off at 16 years old to the Provo School for so-called troubled teens. Of course, turning heads and grabbing headlines is the point for Hilton. But here, the attention she garnered was political and personal, as over the past five years, she’s become the famous face representing thousands of activists dead set on taking down the billion-dollar troubled teen industry that’s featured in filmmaker Tara Malone’s new documentary, which is trending this week on Max.

For Malone, who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter by telephone as her series was trending on Max, will always be an inspiring catalyst for the growing movement seen in her three-part, three-hour series, Teen Torture, Inc. Weaving together survival tales from generations...

Evan Wright, a writer and journalist whose 2004 book on the Iraq War, Generation Kill, was adapted into an HBO miniseries, died July 12 in Los Angeles by suicide, his family confirmed.

Born in Ohio, Wright earned a degree from Vassar College before entering journalism. In the mid-‘90s, Wright worked for Hustler, serving as entertainment editor and reviewer. He later wrote for Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, developing a knack for immersion journalism, spending long periods with people or a subculture to gather information.

Wright covered Neo-Nazis, organized crime figures, and others, but his best-known work came as a result of his military reporting. Embedded with the U.S. Marines during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, his accounts of the war for Rolling Stone earned Wright a National Magazine Award for Reporting.

It also led to his book, Generation Kill, a chronicle of a small group of soldiers’ experience in the invasion. The...

Evan Wright could write about anything.

The celebrated journalist, who died by suicide last weekend at the age of 59, was best known for his war zone reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq during the early 2000s. His three-part series for Rolling Stone, “The Killer Elite,” won a National Magazine Award for reporting and served as the basis for his monumental 2004 book, Generation Kill. The book was later turned into an acclaimed HBO miniseries of the same name.

During his years as a Rolling Stone contributor, Wright also profiled celebrities and athletes — including Shakira,...

Award-winning reporter and author Evan Wright, who was known for immersion journalism on American subcultures and writing the book Generation Kill, which he helped adapt into the HBO miniseries of the same name, died by suicide last week. Wright was 59.

According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Wright died by suicide on July 12 from a gunshot wound to the head at a residence in L.A.

In the weeks before his death, Wright had been promoting the new Max documentary, Teen Torture, Inc., in which he is interviewed about his time in The Seed, a South Florida-based so-called “scared straight” program for at-risk adolescents. In posts on X.com over the past week, Wright wrote about the experience and the kinship he feels with fellow survivors of the controversial programs, many of which have been shut down and reexamined as the lifelong trauma that can result from the extreme...

Evan Wright, the National Magazine Award-winning journalist and longtime Rolling Stone contributor whose reporting on the Iraq War served as the basis for the book and television series Generation Kill, has died at the age of 59. Wright’s wife confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. The cause of death was suicide.

As a writer for Rolling Stone, Wright journeyed to war zones like Afghanistan and Iraq, delivering harrowing first-person reporting from the battlefields. Wright’s series of articles on Iraq — where he was embedded with a U.S. Marine Corps. battalion...

David Simon is developing a new series at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively.

Simon is attached to write and executive produce the drama project, currently titled “The System.” Lily Thorne and Larissa MacFarquhar will also write and co-executive produce, with Kiese Laymon also attached to write.

The project is based on a series of New Yorker articles written by MacFarquhar. The official description states that the show “will examine the foster care and child protective service systems from the viewpoint of family court judges and lawyers, as well as social workers, caretakers, mothers, and the children themselves, and will probe the risks and benefits of removing children from families of origin.”

Should the project move forward, it would be Simon’s ninth HBO series. He is perhaps best known for his work on the critically-acclaimed series “The Wire,” which aired for five seasons at the premium cabler. He most recently...

In August 2001, Kyle Hausmann-Stokes had just graduated from high school and wanted to escape the confines of his native Wisconsin. So he enlisted in the Army. Then 9/11 happened, and the teen would eventually head to Iraq, where he became a paratrooper. As his three-year enlistment was about to end, he was hit with a stop-loss order, an involuntary extension of active duty.

“I’m crushed. I have these big plans to go to film school,” Hausmann-Stokes remembers. “I get a call one night that the colonel wants to see me in his office. I was known throughout the battalion as the film guy. I was always secretly making films of our airborne jumps and our jungle warfare training. The colonel said, ‘I think you might be destined for something different than going to war with us right now. I’ve made arrangements for you and only you to be exempt from this stop-loss.

Actor Bill Skarsgård is known for his roles in blockbuster films such as the It franchise and was recently seen in last year’s John Wick: Chapter 4. The Swedish actor is part of the Skarsgård family, with his father Stellan Skarsgård, and brothers Alexander, Gustaf, and Valter Skarsgård also being actors.

In October 2023, Bill Skarsgård was reportedly arrested in Sweden after he was found possessing marijuana. The Castle Rock star was reportedly caught at Stockholm’s international airport and arrested. The actor was reportedly sentenced to a fine earlier this week, with no arrest or probation.

Bill Skarsgård Was Arrested For Marijuana Possession In Sweden Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in the It franchise

Bill Skarsgård is known for playing the role of Pennywise, the clown and main antagonist of the It franchise. The actor was known for his creepy performance and earned universal acclaim for the role. He began...

Gary DeVore, the screenwriter of movies including Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Raw Deal and Back Roads, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field, went missing in June 1997, sparking a major manhunt.

DeVore’s mysterious disappearance has never been truly solved and there have been a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the subject including one that the CIA may have played a role in whatever happened to him.

This story is the subject of Witnessed: Fade to Black, an eight-part podcast from Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, in association with Stowaway Entertainment, which premieres its season finale next week. There’s also been an interesting revelation since the show debuted; Gary’s wife Wendy DeVore recently discovered over 50 scripts and treatments, written by DeVore, and Wendy and Stowaway’s Jeff Singer are now working to see if there’s a second life for these scripts.

Titles include Hurricane Chaser, Deadlocked and Hard Rock,...

Exclusive: Veteran British director Susanna White has revealed she’s working on a feature film based on her teenage life set against changes in the fashion world, as she gears up for today’s launch of Apple TV+ period drama The Buccaneers.

White is developing an untitled script for the BFI, the first time she has written a feature script herself, and the plot is based on her personal coming of age story. “It’s the story of me at 13, set in the world of fashion in early 1970s,” she told Deadline in an interview. “It’s very fun, sexy and hopefully moving.”

We hear the film will follow 13-year-old Gingernut as she grows up with the fur trade’s decline playing out in the background. The plot will see her trying to make sense of her parents’ dysfunctional relationship and include themes of family, growing up, betrayal, love and loss.

Director Scott Derrickson’s Joe Hill adaptation The Black Phone was a hit in theaters last year, so it comes as no big surprise that The Black Phone 2 has officially been confirmed.

Universal and Blumhouse will release The Black Phone 2 on June 27, 2025!

No word yet on whether or not Derrickson will return to direct. Stay tuned.

Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke (Sinister, Boyhood, Training Day), in the most disturbing role of his career, starred in the suspenseful thriller The Black Phone, which is based on the short story by Joe Hill. The film came from Blumhouse and director Scott Derrickson, who brought us Sinister and Doctor Strange.

From producer Jason Blum, and written by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill (Sinister, Dr. Strange) with Derrickson directing, The Black Phone stars Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan, The House That Jack Built, Lost), James Ransone (It Chapter Two, Generation Kill), Mason Thames (For All Mankind,...

Keeping it in the family is very much a Hollywood tradition at this point, and in the 21st century acting families are still thriving. Whether it be Cuba Gooding Jr.’s son Mason joining the cast of the last two Scream movies, Lily-Rose Depp leading The Idol, Maya Hawke becoming a fan favorite in Stranger Things, or Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory) roaming the bridge of the Enterprise in Star Trek, there’s always a new generation of nepo babies lurching from crib to screen.

But one man is overwhelmingly leading the pack in terms of famous male offspring these days. A man who could conceivably consider the Kardashians his Warios. And that’s Stellan Skarsgård.

A Swedish gentleman well into his 70s with an effortlessly friendly demeanour and a soothingly craggy face, Skarsgård now has eight children, and it’s a solid bet that if you see the name...

One thing you might not know about Tubi is that they release A Lot of Tubi Original movies, many of them horror movies. They don’t seem to get nearly as much recognition as the vast archives of catalogue titles that you can find streaming – always for free! – on Tubi at any given time, but you might like to know that a brand new one just debuted over there today.

It’s titled Cabin Girl, and it’s now streaming only on Tubi.

In the latest Tubi Original horror movie, “When an influencer moves into an isolated cabin, she soon discovers its dark history and becomes haunted by a troubled spirit.”

Rose Lane Sanfilipo stars in the movie alongside Austin Scott, Lee Tergesen, and Michael Rispoli (The Sopranos).

Cabin Girl is directed by Jon D. Wagner, producer of various recent horror movies including The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt, and...

If it looks like Alexander Skarsgård is having the time of his life playing Lukas Matsson, the swinging-dick tech mogul trying like hell to outmaneuver the Roy boys — while rocking a gold jacket and limited-edition kicks, no less — in Succession, it’s because he very much is.

“I’m havin’ a blast,” the towering Swede tells Rolling Stone.

Though the 46-year-old actor had already embodied memorable characters in a trio of other critically-acclaimed HBO series — sexy vampire Eric in True Blood; an abusive husband in Big Little Lies; a Marine...

The Wire creator David Simon has become one of the many writers/producers whose overall agreements have been suspended because of the strike.

Simon announced via Twitter Monday that HBO just suspended his deal “after 25 years of writing television for them.” Besides The Wire, Simon wrote on Generation Kill, Treme, The Deuce, The Plot Against America, Show Me a Hero and We Own This City.

#WGAStrong. On the day that HBO called to suspend my deal after 25 years of writing television for them, I was doing the write thing. pic.twitter.com/WMWZbXAp41

— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 8, 2023

The language in the overall deal suspension letters varies slightly — from “suspended engagement” (NBCUniversal) to “suspended services” as all notify showrunners that the compensation they receive under their term deals have been suspended effective May 2 when WGA went on strike following the expiration of the guild’s contract...

eOne and Crime Story Media have partnered with LAist 89.3, Los Angeles’ number one NPR station and podcast company Acast to present the original podcast series, Night Raid. Night Raid tells the story of a chaotic 2014 Swat raid on a home in San Gabriel that resulted in the death of Pomona Police Officer Shaun Diamond and the incarceration of David Martinez.

While the critical moments in the operation occurred in a matter of seconds, the story spans decades - from a contentious relationship between the Atf and a motorcycle club in the the 70’s to two explosive murder trials in 2019 and 2022.

Each week, the series unpacks aspects of that story using interviews, testimony reenactments, and jailhouse and police recordings.

The series is hosted by Molly Miller, who wrote the CrimeStory.com series, “Mongol – The Trial of David Martinez,” upon which the podcast is based. Crime Story Media’s Publisher and Editor,...

Apple Original Films and Skydance Media’s The Family Plan is thrilled to welcome Michelle Monaghan to the cast of the upcoming film. The Gone Baby Gone and Mission: Impossible – Fallout star will co-star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the action-comedy helmed by Simon Cellan Jones and written by David Coggeshall.

The plot for The Family Plan revolves around a suburban father who takes his family on the run after his past comes back to haunt him. Monaghan’s role is unconfirmed, though she’ll likely play Wahlberg’s wife.

Monaghan is no stranger to action after appearing in films like The Bourne Supremacy and several movies in the Mission: Impossible franchise, including Mission: Impossible III, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout. She played Maggie Hart, the ex-wife of Detective Martin Hart, in the first season of HBO’s True Detective and Eva Geller in the Netflix TV series Messiah.

One of this year’s best horror films, Scott Derrickson‘s The Black Phone is coming to DVD and Blu-ray on August 16, but you won’t have to wait until next week to bring the film home.

Beginning Right Now, The Black Phone is available on Digital and streaming exclusively on Peacock. That means if you subscribe to Peacock, you can watch the film free of charge!

Meanwhile, here’s everything you need to know about the physical/digital release…

Exclusive Bonus Features on Blu-raytm, DVD & Digital:

Deleted Scenes Is This America Now? No Dreams Ethan Hawke’S Evil Turn – Dive deeper into the character of The Grabber and how Ethan Hawke was able to transform into this unnerving villain. Answering The Call: Behind The Scenes Of The Black Phone – Take a behind-the-scenes look into the most pivotal elements of The Black Phone production, including adapting the story and achieving...

One of my favorite (and certainly the most unnerving) movies that screened at this year's Overlook Film Festival, Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone (co-written by C. Robert Cargill and based on the short story of the same name by Joe Hill) is heading home to Digital on August 12th, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on August 16th via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Below, we have a look at the Blu-ray / DVD cover art and details on the bonus features, including deleted scenes and a feature-length commentary by Derrickson.

Also, in case you missed it, go here to catch up on our previous coverage of The Black Phone, including Heather Wixson's review and Michelle Swope's video interviews with the cast and crew!

From the Press Release: Universal City, California, August 5, 2022 – Never talk to strangers. Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke, in the most disturbing role of his career,...

There are some new eligible gentlemen joining the cast of the Apple TV+ series inspired by Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel “The Buccaneers.”

The newly announced cast members are Josh Dylan, Guy Remmers, Matthew Broome and Barney Fishwick. They join previously announced star Christina Hendricks.

Dylan will play Lord Richard Marable, a repressed English lord who got swept up in a holiday romance with fiery American heiress Conchita. Fishwick will play his brother, the elusive and mysterious Lord James Seadown.

Remmers is Theo, Duke of Tintagel, England’s most eligible bachelor. Broome will play Guy Thwarte, a charming English playboy and guaranteed adventure for the night.

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Christina Hendricks Joins Apple TV+ Series Inspired By Unfinished Edith Wharton Novel ‘The Buccaneers’

The series, which is currently untitled,” is from creator and writer Katherine Jakeways, with Susanna White directing.

A logline for the show reads: “Girls with money, men with power.

Exclusive: Two-time Tony nominee Stark Sands, currently starring in the Toronto production of the Broadway-bound musical & Juliet, has signed with Bill Butler & Michelle Kittrell at Industry Entertainment for management.

Sands, who was was Tony-nominated in 2007 in the Best Featured Actor/Play category for Journey’s End and in 2013 as Best Actor/Musical for Kinky Boots. Other Broadway credits include To Kill A Mockingbird and American Idiot.

TV credits include Six Feet Under and Generation Kill (both HBO), Fox’s Minority Report and CBS’ NYC 22, among others. Films include Pretty Persuasion, Flags of Our Fathers, Inside Llewyn Davis and Steven Spielberg’s The Post.

His current project, & Juliet, is an Olivier Award-winning musical with a book by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read and music from five-time Grammy-winning “Roar” songwriter and producer Max Martin. Producers recently announced that the musical, currently playing in Toronto, will begin Broadway previews October 28 at the...

Christina Hendricks has lined up a new starring role. The “Mad Men” alum has joined the cast of the Apple TV+ series inspired by Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel “The Buccaneers.”

Hendricks will play Mrs. St. George, mother to buccaneers Nan and Jinny. “As a girl she was the belle of the ball herself, before she even dreamt of having money. Then when her husband struck gold on Wall Street, she found herself wealthy beyond her wildest dreams but in real danger of being the kind of social-climbing outsider that used to bemuse her. Above all else, she wants her daughters to be happy, but soon they’ll discover that marriage might not be the key to that happiness… for any of them,” per the streamer.

The series, which is currently untitled,” is from creator and writer Katherine Jakeways, with Susanna White directing.

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Apple TV+ is headed to the Gilded Age with an as-yet-untitled drama based on Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel The Buccaneers.

Kristine Froseth (The Society), Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why) and Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell) are set to star in the eight-episode series, which hails from writer Katherine Jakeways (Tracey Ullman’s Show). It centers on “a group of fun-loving young American girls who exploded into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash,” according to the official logline. “Sent to secure husbands and titles, the Buccaneers’ hearts are set on...

Apple TV+ has given an eight-episode series order to a one-hour drama inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel The Buccaneers, with Kristine Froseth (The Assistant), Alisha Boe (When You Finish Saving The World), Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell), Aubri Ibrag (Dive Club), Imogen Waterhouse (The Outpost) and Mia Threapleton (Shadows) cast as the buccaneers.

Written by series creator Katherine Jakeways and directed by BAFTA winner Susanna White, the as-yet untitled series is currently in production in Scotland.

The official logline: Girls with money, men with power. New money, old secrets. A group of fun-loving young American girls explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a refreshing disregard for centuries of tradition.

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Apple may have found its version of The Gilded Age and Bridgerton.

The tech giant and streamer has gone straight to series on an eight-episode drama inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel, The Buccaneers. The series stars Kristine Froseth (The Assistant), Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why), Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell), Aubri Ibrag (Dive Club), Imogen Waterhouse (The Outpost) and Mia Threapleton (Shadows). Production is already under way in Scotland.

The series, from writer and creator Katherine Jakeways (Tracey Ullman’s Show), revolves around a group of fun-loving young American girls who exploded into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that — and saying ‘I do’ is just the beginning.

BAFTA nominee Beth Willis (Doctor Who...

Jon Huertas was in Puerto Rico when he learned that he was suddenly unemployed—the series he starred in, Castle, had just been canceled by ABC after eight seasons. As a seasoned actor, he knew this was par for the course. But little did he know that what was coming up next for him would change his life and his career. Huertas went on to land the role of Miguel Rivas on the NBC hit This Is Us across the show’s six seasons, and through that new opportunity, was able to make his dream of becoming a director a reality.

What was the audition process like to get the role of Miguel in This Is Us?

When I came home from Puerto Rico, I auditioned for potential roles in Ozark, One Day at a Time and This Is Us. The casting directors for This Is Us loved me for the role of Mike,...

Ah, how much it can hurt to be really, really, really ridiculously good-looking.

“Zoolander” alum Alexander Skarsgård told The Sunday Times that it took years to be taken seriously as an actor due to his movie-star looks.

“I don’t really know if that was the reason I wasn’t getting roles,” the “Big Little Lies” star said. “Starting out in Sweden, there was stuff about being tall and blond. But most people here are tall and blond.”

Skarsgård continued, “Still, after my first job, I was on a stupid ‘sexy hunky hot list’ and then people didn’t take me seriously. If you want characters with depth but have been labeled ‘a dude who takes his shirt off,’ you’re not going to get those offers.”

Skarsgård has been named Sweden’s Sexiest Man Alive five times…and counting. And heavy wore that crown: “I was questioning...

Renée Zellweger has lined up another TV role with NBCUniversal. Variety has learned exclusively that the actress is set to star in the drama “Avenger Field” that is in development at Peacock.

The one-hour drama series, which hails from MGM Television, tells the story of those that established a clandestine all female US Airforce program called the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) to battle Hitler from home. Inspired by the true story of Wasp leader Jackie Cohran (Zellweger) and the diverse group of women who fought the system, skeptics and even sabotage to bring everyone home safely.

Felicia D. Henderson is attached to serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer via WaterWalk Entertainment. Susanna White will direct and executive produce. Zellweger will executive produce with Carmella Casinelli under their Big Picture Co. banner. Steve Stark and Stacey Levin of Toluca Pictures, Emily Rose and Jill North of North Rose Pictures,...

Exclusive: Oliver Trevena has signed on to star alongside Aaron Eckhart and Nina Dobrev in the action-thriller, The Bricklayer, which is heading into production in Europe next month.

In the film from director Renny Harlin, based on the novel by Noah Boyd, someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.

Hanna Weg and Matt Johnson penned the script. G-Base’s Alan Siegel, Butler and Danielle Robinson are producing with Eclectic Pictures’ Heidi Jo Markel, and Millennium Media’s Jeffrey Greenstein, Les Weldon, Jonathan Yunger, Yariv Lerner and Rob Van Norden. Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson and Tanner Mobley from Millennium are serving as exec producers.

With a reputation for nuanced color tones and tweaks that may evoke a suffocating Buckingham Palace in “The Crown” or a ghostly time shift in “Last Night in Soho,” Asa Shoul, senior colorist at Warner Bros. De Lane Lea in London, is increasingly tough to book.

A veteran of post production on some 50 feature films, Shoul began at Framestore in 1994 as a telecine colorist before going on to score a BAFTA TV craft award for Netflix hit series “The Crown,” and has worked on Emmy-winning history miniseries “Shackleton” and “Generation Kill” for HBO.

With a body of work also including “The Constant Gardener,” “United 93,” “Ex Machina” and “Baby Driver,” it’s no surprise Shoul is one of the 14 nominees for a new EnergaCamerimage Film Festival prize, the FilmLight color awards, an honor the U.K. post company launched to highlight the critical work of the industry’s top colorists.

“The Wire’s” Felicia Pearson and Ed Burns are teaming up to develop a limited series based on Pearson’s life, Variety has learned exclusively.

The show is currently titled “A.K.A. Snoop” and would delve into the hardship Pearson endured growing up in Baltimore. Burns and Pearson are co-writing the series. Burns will executive produce along with Philip Michelson of Moondog Films. No network or streaming service is currently attached.

Born three months premature to a crack addicted mother, Pearson was given little chance of survival at birth. She ultimately grew up as a gay Black woman in a foster home in a neighborhood plagued by drugs and violence. She dealt drugs as a teenager before being convicted of second degree murder and spending over six years in prison.

After her release, she met “The Wire” star Michael K. Williams, who brought her to the set. She was subsequently written into the show,...

Watch a Clip from Saloum: "U.S. Fantastic Fest Premiere Saloum is a cool and kinetic genre shifting supernatural thriller in which a legendary trio of on-the-run mercenaries carrying a stolen gold bounty and a kidnapped drug lord take refuge in a remote and mystical area of Senegal, where creepy curses and sinister ancestral forces unleash hell on them all.

Uniquely inspired by African-Carribean folklore and mysticism as well as western and action/horror hybrids such as From Dusk Till Dawn and Predator, Saloum was written & directed by acclaimed African filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot and is the producing debut of Senegal-based filmmaker / entrepreneur Pamela Diop.

Saloum also marks the feature film debut for their new pan African production company Lacme Studios, founded in 2019 by the film’s creative team of Jean Luc Herbulot and Pamela Diop.

Writer/Director: Jean Luc Herbulot (Netflix’s Dealer, Canal + Afrique’s Sakho & Mangane...

Exclusive: Georgina Reilly (City on a Hill) and Wilson Bethel (All Rise) are set to star in director Marian Yeager’s upcoming indie, Match Me If You Can.

The romantic comedy written by Betsy Morris centers on Kip Parsons (Reilly), a female computer nerd who declares war on online dating services when she’s rejected by one as “unmatchable,” becoming a reluctant spokeswoman for all the frustrated singles out there. Riley Detamore (Bethel), the programmer and mastermind behind the dating service, wants to know why Kip is trashing his company, so he sets up a chance run-in. This produces an awkward chain of mishaps, ending with no answers and leaving them both feeling an undeniable spark.

Yeager is producing the film with Monica Lund. The project is scheduled to go before cameras in Austin, TX in late October.

Reilly most recently recurred on Showtime’s City on a Hill and...

Jon Huertas is the first actor on the podcast to talk extensively about the “Bms Technique” for preparation. He plays Miguel on This Is Us. His past credits include Castle, Generation Kill, and the new film Initiation. He tells an amazing story about botching an audition so badly that he felt a formal apology was necessary (of course he landed the role). He talks about the importance of making different choices with every take, his mission, on the other side of the camera, to create content about Latinx people that completely avoids stereotypes, and much more! Back To One can […]

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Jon Huertas is the first actor on the podcast to talk extensively about the “Bms Technique” for preparation. He plays Miguel on This Is Us. His past credits include Castle, Generation Kill, and the new film Initiation. He tells an amazing story about botching an audition so badly that he felt a formal apology was necessary (of course he landed the role). He talks about the importance of making different choices with every take, his mission, on the other side of the camera, to create content about Latinx people that completely avoids stereotypes, and much more! Back To One can […]

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“The Comey Rule” premiered on Showtime over two nights on September 27 and 28 of last year telling the story of James Comey’s (played by two-time Emmy winner Jeff Daniels) tenure as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The two-part limited series frames Comey’s time as the head of the FBI through two of the most high profile investigations the agency conducted. The first is the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary and Comey’s decision to announce that the investigation was being reopened (due to a connection with former congressman Anthony Weiner) less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election. The second part of the series examines Comey’s navigation of the agency’s investigation into the campaign of President Donald Trump (played by Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson) and possible connections it had with the Russian government.

“Succession” Season 3 at HBO has added Alexander Skarsgård to its cast.

Skarsgård will play Lukas Matsson in the third season of the critically-acclaimed series, who is described as a successful, confrontational tech founder and CEO. He joins a cast that currently includes Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, Peter Friedman, Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Ruck, Rob Yang, and more.

Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall (Strong) at the end of Season 2, Logan Roy (Cox) begins Season 3 in a perilous position. Scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances, tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.

Skarsgård is no stranger to HBO audiences, having won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role in Season 1 of “Big Little Lies.” He also previously starred in the HBO series “True Blood” and “Generation Kill.” His recent TV roles include...

While a premiere date for the highly awaited third season of “Succession” has yet to be set, there is some happy news for fans of the HBO drama about the crumbling family surrounding a titanic media mogul. Alexander Skarsgård will be joining the cast this upcoming season, which is now in production, in a recurring guest role as Lukas Matsson, a confrontational CEO and tech founder.

Meanwhile, the new season also has a logline courtesy of HBO: “Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) at the end of Season 2, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) begins Season 3 in a perilous position. Scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances, tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.”

Created by Jesse Armstrong, “Succession” was last seen on HBO with the finale of Season 2 in October 2019, in which Kendall publicly blames his father for the company’s acrimonious legal dealings,...

James Ransone has been cast in Scott Derrickson’s upcoming film for Blumhouse and Universal, The Black Phone. Derrickson and frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill adapted the script based on Joe Hill’s short story. Derrickson, Cargill and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film. Universal and Blumhouse will present the Crooked Highway production. Joe Hill is an executive producer.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Rex/Shutterstock Scott Derrickson ‘Doctor Strange’ Launch Event, Westminster Abbey, London, UK – 24 Oct 2016

James Ransone has created indelible performances on the big and small screens as well as the stage, performing in a wide variety of projects that span from intimate indies to blockbuster genre films.

Ransone starred in It Chapter Two as Eddie Kasprak, one of the members of “The Losers Club,” opposite Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader, et al. His performance in the movie garnered such praise as “James Ransone...

Based on the short story of the same name by Joe Hill, The Black Phone is shaping up to be quite the Sinister reunion, as James Ransone (who played Deputy So & So in 2012's Sinister and Ex-Deputy So & So in Sinister 2) has joined Ethan Hawke (who played Ellison Oswalt in Sinister) in the cast of the new Scott Derrickson film that he co-wrote with C. Robert Cargill:

James Ransone has been cast in Scott Derrickson’s upcoming film for Blumhouse and Universal, The Black Phone.

Derrickson and frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill adapted the script based on Joe Hill’s short story.

Derrickson, Cargill and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film. Universal and Blumhouse will present the Crooked Highway production. Joe Hill is an executive producer.

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James Ransone has created indelible performances on the big and small screens as well as the stage,...

Faye Dorn is joining Merman Television in the newly created role of head of drama. She joins from Fifty Fathoms and Tiger Aspect, where she has been executive producer of “Domina” for Sky Studios.

Dorn will work alongside Merman co-founders Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford, with a remit to oversee the development and production of original dramas and further build on the company’s scripted content output.

Merman’s recent TV projects include “There She Goes” for BBC Two/Britbox, “This Way Up” for Channel 4/Hulu, “Motherland” for BBC Two, “Frayed” for Sky One/ABC Australia, “Women” on the Verge for W/RTE2, “Catastrophe” for Channel 4/Amazon and “Divorce” for HBO. Upcoming projects include “Frank of Ireland” for Channel 4/Amazon and “Housebroken” for Fox. Merman recently co-produced its first feature film, the Phyllida Lloyd-directed “Herself,” which premiered at Sundance.

Dorn was previously executive producer of drama at Big Talk,...

David Simon is an Emmy-winning writer and producer whom critics have praised for decades, but to date the only Emmys he has won were Best Miniseries and Best Movie/Mini Writing for “The Corner” back in 2000. Can he finally get back into the winner’s circle with his latest limited series “The Plot Against America” with its timely subject matter?

That’s right, Simon hasn’t won an Emmy in 20 years, which means he didn’t win for “The Wire,” he didn’t win for “Treme,” he didn’t win for “Generation Kill,” he didn’t win for “Show Me a Hero,” and he hasn’t won for “The Deuce.” Of all those slights, “The Wire” probably looks the most egregious in hindsight since it is remembered as one of the most accomplished dramas of television’s post-“Sopranos” golden era. He did receive two writing nominations for it — one...

Legendary Global, former HBO and Starz chief Chris Albrecht’s international TV venture with Legendary, has partnered with Spanish outfit ESPotlight to develop and produce more than 10 premium scripted shows a year.

Their first project together is La Treintena, a six-part comedy-drama about four twentysomething women in Barcelona who are coming to terms with coronavirus confinement. It stars Mireia Oriol, Paula Malia, Marta Vives and David Solans, and is entirely funded by Legendary Global.

Founded by Anxo Rodriguez, ESPotlight is the content arm of agency Alter Ego Talent House, which represents actors, directors and writers in Spain. Its roster includes Alex Rodrigo, a director on Netflix hit Money Heist,...

Creative geniuses David Simon and Ed Burns have struck thought-provoking gold again.

This time, Simon and Burns set their sights on xenophobia and fascism starting on The Plot Against America Season 1 Episode 1.

No, the six-episode HBO miniseries isn't set in Donald Trump's America (although it certainly could be). However, it's clear that this allegory targets a divided modern America.

Instead, the series, based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name, is set in an alternative America, where hero aviator Charles Lindbergh rides an isolationist, fascist platform to the Presidency in 1940.

The story is effectively told through the experiences of a Jewish family who start out enjoying their lives in Newark, N.J.

Herman Levin, an insurance agent, was the head of the household and was living the American dream. He had just  been offered a promotion at work, and was mulling the idea of moving his family...

Burbank, CA – Two fan-favorite HBO television series will be available in their entirety when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Silicon Valley: The Complete Series boxset on DVD ($89.99 Srp Us / $169.99 Srp Canada) and The Deuce: The Complete Series boxset on DVD ($79.99 Srp Us / $109.99 Srp Canada) on May 26, 2020.

Additionally, the Silicon Valley: The Complete Sixth Season DVD and The Deuce: The Complete Third Season DVD will both be available the same day-and-date courtesy of Warner Archive Collection. Warner Archive releases are found at wb.com/warnerarchive and your favorite online retailer.

“Following the highly successful run of both Silicon Valley and The Deuce on HBO,” said Rosemary Markson, Whbe Senior Vice President, Television Marketing. “Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is thrilled to bring the complete series boxsets of each show to fans this spring so they can relive and collect their favorite show.”

Silicon Valley is a comedy series set in the high-tech...

Exclusive: Rome and Generation Kill executive producer Anne Thomopoulos is reuniting with her former HBO boss Chris Albrecht at Legendary Global.

Thomopoulos has joined the joint venture between Legendary and Albrecht as a partner, and comes from CAA’s Global Television department. She has been tasked with focusing on identifying and acquiring international content that Legendary Global can develop, produce and finance for local and global platforms.

Thomopoulos and Albrecht are reuniting after a successful run together at HBO, where Albrecht served as chairman and CEO and Thomopoulos created and oversaw the network’s dramatic series department. Kicking off with Oz, she first established HBO’s miniseries division with projects including From the Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers and The Corner, before going on to exec produce Rome and Generation Kill.

She subsequently served as exec producer on Camelot for Starz, where she had a first-look producing deal.

HBO has released the full official trailer for its upcoming limited series “The Plot Against America,” set to premiere this March.

Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns. Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States and wins.

HBO released the teaser trailer for the limited series back at the end of January, revealing just how tense things would get in the lead-up to Lindbergh’s election. The official trailer, however, includes more about the aftermath...

Mather Zickel (Masters of Sex) has booked a recurring role opposite Kevin James on Netflix comedy The Crew, starring and executive produced by The King of Queens alum. Written by Jeff Lowell, The Crew is set in a Nascar garage and stars James as the crew chief. When the owner steps down and passes the team off to his daughter, James finds himself at odds with the tech-reliant millennials she starts bringing in to modernize the team. Zickel will play Beth’s (Sarah Stiles) boyfriend Frank. Zickel is known for his work on series such as Masters of Sex, House of Lies and most recently I Love You America with Sarah Silverman. He is repped by The Rosenzweig Group, Abrams Artists Agency and attorney Lev Ginsburg.

Chance Kelly (Generation Kill) is set to recur on ABC’s legal drama series For Life, from Hank Steinberg,...

HBO has released the trailer for its upcoming limited series “The Plot Against America,” set to premiere this March. You can watch the two-minute preview below.

Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States.

Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns.

The trailer actually does a little more than simply tease the impending conflict that would occur with a Lindbergh presidency in this world. Like the novel, the story and the trailer follow Herman Levin (Spector...