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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the ending of Succession, season 2.  There have been few more compelling TV villains in recent years than Logan Roy, the ruthless media mogul and patriarch at the center of HBO’s lauded drama Succession. Brian Cox, who stars as Roy, yesterday scored one of season 2’s…

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major plot details about the Season 2 finale of HBO's Succession. Similar to how Michael Corleone declared “It was you, Fredo” in Godfather II, when it came to last night’s “blood sacrifice” in the season 2 finale of HBO’s Succession, “This Is Not For Tears”, it was always papa…

As Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society begins pulling you back back back to a cultural moment that rivals our own in meanness, division and barrel-scraping crumminess, Brian Cox would seem to have the toughest job on Broadway. Portraying the accidental president who succeeded the martyred one only to land waste deep…

Lightyear Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to the Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun-directed drama The Etruscan Smile starring Brian Cox. The pic will be released November 1 in New York and Los Angeles just in time for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run. A theatrical rollout is slated for the spring of…

Robert Schenkkan's Broadway-bound The Great Society, his second LBJ play following the celebrated All The Way, has completed casting and set an opening night for Tuesday, October 1 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Joining the previously announced Brian Cox (as Lyndon B. Johnson) will be Marchánt Davis as Stokely…

He may not have sought nor did he accept a return to the White House, but Lyndon B. Johnson is coming back to Broadway: The Great Society, a companion play to Robert Schenkkan’s Tony-winning All The Way, will begin performances in September, with Brian Cox as the 36th President of the United States. Also in the cast…

We thought casting was complete on Neil Gaiman's forthcoming adaptation of Good Omens but it turns out there's more… Brian Cox has joined as the voice of Death. The Succession actor is the latest A-list name to join the Amazon Prime Video original. This comes a month after Sherlock and Patrick Melrose star Benedict…

Mamie Gummer, Madeline Brewer, Violet McGraw and Brian Cox have been added to the cast of Separation, joining Rupert Friend in the pic, a supernatural thriller directed by A Devil Inside helmer William Brent Bell. The film takes on the horrifying consequences of divorce, and is being described as a cross between Kramer…

It is near impossible to watch a single minute of Succession and not immediately begin thinking about Rupert Murdoch and his sharp-clawed clan. Which is a big part of the problem with the HBO series debuting Sunday, led by Brian Cox as an aging media mogul refusing to relinquish power to his competing offspring…

The Succession is near. HBO today set a 10 PM Sunday, June 3, premiere date for its drama series directed and executive produced by The Big Short's Adam McKay. It revolves around the Roy family  —  Logan Roy and his four children  —  which controls one of the biggest media and entertainment conglomerates in the world…

HBO’s Succession debuting in June, about the uneasy transition of power in a high-profile media family is not about Rupert Murdoch, series creator EP/Showrunner Jesse Armstrong insisted Thursday at TCA, when asked pointedly. Question was understandable given that his much-praised 2011 screenplay about Murdoch became…

EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has acquired U.S. rights to Churchill, a new drama about Winston Churchill and the 1944 D-Day invasion that turned the tide of World War II in Europe. The plan is to release the Jonathan Teplitzky-directed pic in June, coinciding with the invasion’s anniversary. Brian Cox stars as…