Amy Brenneman, coming off a starring turn on HBO’s The Leftovers, has been cast as a lead opposite Lily Rabe and Enrique Murciano in Deadlier Than the Male (working title), TNT's drama pilot produced by Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and Turner's Studio T.
Written by Harriet Warner, Deadlier Than The Male follows a…
“You’re 1 for 2,” Jimmy Kimmel joked Sunday night, sitting alongside The Leftovers and Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof at the Paramount Theater. Following a screening of the Leftovers series finale in front of a packed house, the series’ creative team and stars joined Kimmel for a celebratory, irreverent conversation…
EXCLUSIVE:Paulist Productions has optioned the script Wendy And The Lost, a debut feature film screenplay by TV writer-producer Carol Barbee, and has attached Amy Brenneman to star. The romantic comedy, to be directed by Iain B. MacDonald, marks a reteam of Barbee and Brenneman, who executive produced and toplined…
Another popular CBS drama star is returning to the network as the lead of an hourlong pilot this season. Judging Amy‘s Amy Brenneman, coming off a starring turn on HBO’s The Leftovers, is set to headline The Get, CBS’ drama pilot from 11.22.63 developer/showrunner Bridget Carpenter.
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“I wasn’t looking to produce,” Amy Brenneman said about Heartbeat, the upcoming NBC medical drama she’s executive producing.Â
“But I know what makes a good role,” said the actress who couldn’t even consider the lead in Heartbeat as a female cardiothoracic surgeon given her obligations to HBO’s The Leftovers. Heartbeat …
Here’s our first look at the sophomore season of HBO’s Sudden Departure series The Leftovers. The show is getting a creative reboot, with a new supporting cast and new location — the little town of Jarden. It’s been more than three years since 2% of the world's population just up and vanished, Rapture-style — that’s…
EXCLUSIVE: The Sudden Departure event at the heart of the mythology of freshman HBO dramaThe Leftovers is spreading to the cast. I have learned that a large portion of the fourteen regular cast members in Season 1 — virtually all in supporting roles —  won’t be returning in Season 2 as the series is undergoing a…
Private Practice and Judging Amy alumna Amy Brenneman has joined the cast of Damon Lindelof's HBO drama pilotThe Leftovers, directed by Peter Berg. Also cast as a regular in the project, based on Tom Perrotta's book, is Emily Meade (Gimme Shelter). The Leftovers takes place after the Rapture happens but not quite…
Amy Brenneman and Jess Weixler have joined Annette Bening, Ed Harris and Robin Williams in the Arie Posin-directed romantic drama Look Of Love. Posin wrote the script with Matthew McDuffie. Mockingbird Pictures' Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis are producers. The film begins shooting April 9 in Los Angeles.
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EXCLUSIVE (UPDATED BELOW): There’s been no announcement yet. But Ann Blanchard is already being accused of breaking Hollywood protocol by not first informing those agents repping her Mosaic Media Group’s TV management clients of her change of employment. Instead, she’s calling those clients today and trying to…
I’m told that the actors behind that SAG petition drive for “affected member” voting have made what they’re calling a “significant change” in their proposal to soften its impact. As you know, DHD has been active in this debate by letting actors post their positions pro and con this idea of an earnings threshold for…
