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Easily one of the most versatile character actors working today, J.K. Simmons  has over an impressive 200 acting credits – and counting – when you search him out on iMDB. But as he tells me in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side, “about 40% of them are voiceovers”.  We laugh about that…

Taking on the story of the marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz would seem to be a project full of landmines. After all, this pair was starring in a legendary sitcom, I Love Lucy, that was watched by a mind-boggling 60 million people a week. Ball was perhaps the most famous face on the planet. When it was announced…

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe nominee Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) are set to star in college sports drama National Champions, we can reveal. Homecoming and 21 Bridges star James will play a star quarterback who ignites a players strike hours before the biggest game of…

Starz has released the official trailer for the second season of sci-fi thriller Counterpart, and set a December premiere date for its return. Season 2 will debut day-and-date Sunday, December 9 in the U.S. and on Starzplay in the UK and Germany. The 10-episode second season introduces new series regular Betty Gabriel…

Ever since his stint on those six seasons of Oz, there are more than a few people in the world (and I would include myself among them) who would you tell you there is almost no such thing as too much JK Simmons. Well, there is a double dose of Simmons in Starz's complex and compelling conspiracy drama…

The JK Simmons-starring Counterpart was set to debut January 21 next year, but it looks like Starz will being using some Outlander bounce to get its doppelgänger-centered thriller series off the launchpad. The premium cabler today said the pilot for the Justin Marks-created spy drama will have a preview after the…

The German term “doppelgänger” is a perfect description of the core of the JK Simmons led Counterpart and now viewers will get to learn exactly why in just over two months. Starz announced today that the Berlin set thriller with the Oscar winner and Olivia Williams will premiere on January 21, 2018. Also today, the…

Jacqueline Bisset (Dancing on the Edge), Stefan Kapicic (Deadpool), Jacqueline Antaramian (Madame Secretary), Liv Lisa Fries (Zurich), Christiane Paul (The Wave), General Hospital alum Ingo Rademacher and Marco Khan (10,000 BC) have joined Counterpart, Starz's upcoming spy thriller, in recurring roles. From MRC…

Mido Hamada (Emerald City) is set as a series regular and Kenneth Choi (American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson) will recur on Counterpart, Starz's upcoming straight-to-series drama from MRC, Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. Described as an espionage thriller with a metaphysical twist, Counterpart is the…

Production has begun on Counterpart, Starz's upcoming straight-to-series drama from MRC, Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. Ulrich Thomsen (Banshee) joins the cast of the series that stars J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, and Harry Lloyd. The Imitation Game's Morten Tyldum executive produces and directed the first…

Holy sands of time! It’s Batman Day, DC Entertainment’s official celebration of the Dark Knight’s birthday, and as the internet blows up with tributes to the co-holder of the title for world’s most well-known superhero, Batman v. Superman director Zack Snyder has given the world its first glimpse at his version of two…

If we learned anything from the global financial meltdown of 2007-08, the scariest supervillains in the world aren’t necessarily terrorists or renegade military dictators but accountants. Cue Warner Bros’ upcoming action thriller The Accountant, which takes this idea to its logical extreme. Starring Ben Affleck in the…