EXCLUSIVE: The director isn’t giving anything away about his next film “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton and shoots in March. But he has plenty to say about not being done with Mad Max, how there is value in blockbuster franchises (“I watch all of them”), and his ongoing search for depth in storytelling.
Ron Leibman, who won a Tony Award for his role as Roy Cohn in 1993’s Angels In America: Millennium Approaches and co-starred with Sally Field in the 1979 Oscar-winner Norma Rae, has died.
Leibman also won an Emmy for his role as Martin ‘Kaz’ Kazinsky in the crime drama Kaz.
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The Expansestars Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar and Frankie Adams took the stage at CCXP and didn’t waste any time thanking the fans for supporting the show that was canceled by Syfy after three seasons and moved to Amazon for season four.
“You get to know that what you’re doing is important, is cared for…
A celebration of the life of Jack Gilardi, an ICM agent for 68 years, will take place this Monday, December 9, at 7:00 PM at Paramount Studios.
Industry friends are welcome to attend, but must RSVP to obtain a drive-on to the Paramount lot. The RSVP email is Gilardimemorial@icmpartners.com.
Gilardi passed away…
Cynthia Erivo is transformed into the late, great Queen of Soul in a first-look photo from Genius: Aretha, the upcoming biographical series from National Geographic and Fox 21 Television Studios.
See the photo below.
Erivo, a Tony Award winner for Broadway’s 2015 The Color Purple and the star of this year’s Harriet…
Peter Sarsgaard has been added to the cast of The Batman, Warner Bros and DC’s latest take on the superhero franchise. Director Matt Reeves tweeted out the news Friday, while not revealing any character information. But he does join a pic toplined by Robert Pattinson as Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as…
Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious franchise) is set for a recurring role in Lisey's Story, Apple's eight-hour limited series written and executive produced by Stephen King. Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Joan Allen and Dane Dehaan star in the series, which hails from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros…
Game of Thrones and Iron Fist alum Finn Jones and Pico Alexander (Home Again, Catch-22) are set to star opposite Hailee Steinfeld in the second season of Apple’s half-hour comedy series Dickinson, from wiip, Anonymous Content and Sugar23, Deadline has learned. Season 2 is currently in production in New York.
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In his early 20s Michael Apted began assisting on a film called Seven Up!, little realizing it would turn into the most ambitious documentary project ever undertaken. It focused on a group of seven-year-old British schoolchildren from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, and became such a sensation on British television…
The doldrums of December are here and is standard following the lucrative Thanksgiving-Black Friday period most major distributors abstain from opening any wide entries, except for STX which is handling animated feature Playmobil, which isn’t looking so hot with a 3-day of $905K, one of the lowest openings ever for a…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
