The only white character in the live action remake of Aladdin is up for a spin-off movie, even though the star of the film apparently can’t get a job. That has the internet hopping mad at the injustice of it all.
Just days after Mena Massoud, the star of the billion-dollar grossing live-action Aladdin, revealed that…
EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max’s adaptation of Alissa Nutting’s Made For Love has added Billy Magnussen (Aladdin, Maniac, Velvet Buzzsaw) to the mix as a series regular. The tragicomedy follows Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirtysomething woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to an unstable, needy…
Count Corey Stoll and Billy Magnussen in for New Line’s Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. They join Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal and Vera Farmiga.
Except for Nivola playing Dickie Montisanti, most of these roles are being kept secret. Magnussen is set, and Stoll is still in final talks.
The HBO…
EXCLUSIVE: Catastrophe co-creator and star Sharon Horgan is eying another potential starring vehicle at Amazon. The streaming network has given a script-to-series commitment to a comedy series to star Horgan and Billy Magnussoen (Game Night). It hails from Horgan, John Hamburg (Meet the Parents) and his frequent…
Based on the new trailer for Kevin Williamson’s upcoming CBS All Access series, Tell Me a Story, it seems like the man who wrote Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and co-created TV’s The Vampire Diaries, is back to horror form with a new modern twist. He even said so himself Sunday during the CBS All Access…
Tell Me a Story, CBS All Access’ upcoming psychological thriller series based on classic fairy tales like the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, will launch, appropriately enough, on Halloween – Wednesday, Oct. 31.
The launch dates was announced today at CBS’ TCA presentation day by Julie McNamara…
Billy Magnussen (Game Night) is set for a lead role in CBS All Access’ straight-to-series psychological thriller Tell Me a Story, from Kevin Williamson and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment. In addition, Liz Friedlander (Conviction) has been tapped to direct and executive produce the first two episodes.
Written by…
EXCLUSIVE: Billy Magnussen is set to board the New Line/Warner Bros. comedy Game Night which stars Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams. Pic centers around a group of couples who are caught up in a very real game night. They get together regularly to play games, but this particular night turns into a real murder mystery…
Billy Magnussen (Into The Woods), Philip Ng (Once Upon A Time in Shanghai) and Yu Xia (The Painted Veil) are toplining Groundswell Productions’ Birth Of The Dragon, the pic about the legendary 1965 fight between Shaolin Master Wong Jack Man and a young Bruce Lee. Production gets underway tomorrow in Vancouver with…
Billy Magnussen, who plays Kato Kaelin in FX’s upcoming 10-hour limited series American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, is expanding his relationship with the network with another project about events from Los Angeles’ recent history. Magnussen has been tapped as one of the leads of Snowfall, FX’s drama pilot…
EXCLUSIVE: Julia Stiles has joined the cast of The Great Gilly Hopkins, an adaptation of Bridge To Terabithia author Katherine Paterson’s novel of the same name. The Book Thief‘s Sophia Nelisse is playing young protagonist Gilly, who dreams of being reunited one day with her mysterious and exotic mother. Stiles will…
Major casting news forThe Money, HBO's David Milch drama about wealth and corruption among the super elite. Billy Magnussen has been cast as a series regular, in the role of Greg Castman — the middle, and favorite, child of mogul/patriarch James Castman (Brendan Gleeson), who wields power and influence to expand his…
