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Disney Branded Television’s animated series Firebuds from Emmy-winning creator and executive producer Craig Gerber (Disney’s Elena of Avalor and Sofia the First) follows a team of young first responders and their talking vehicle sidekicks. Two upcoming episodes, titled “Cleft Hood” and “All That…

Prodigal Son and La Bamba actor Lou Diamond Phillips has played a number of characters of different ethnicities throughout his career – from Mexican  to Native American to Filipino American. While his previous roles may not have been the most ethnically authentic, the mixed race Filipino actor says there can be a…

EXCLUSIVE: Lou Diamond Phillips has rounded out the ensemble of Amblin Partners’ family comedy, Easter Sunday, which is based on the stand-up comedy and life experiences of comedy star Jo Koy and is set around a family gathering to celebrate Easter Sunday. Also joining the previously announced Eva Noblezada Brandon War…

Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired the North American rights to the Brian A. Metcalf-directed Adverse which will debut in theaters January 23, 2021, followed by a release on media platforms through Lionsgate Home Entertainment Adverse stars Thomas Nicolas as a rideshare driver who discovers his…

Prodigal Son isn’t your basic procedural. The Fox show, which is very much a father-son story with a serial-killer twist, brings family dysfunction to a whole new level. During the TCA panel for the new series, executive producers Sam Sklaver, Chris Fedak and Sarah Schechter were joined onstage by series stars Tom…

Lou Diamond Phillips, Aurora Perrineau and Frank Harts have been cast as series regulars in Prodigal Son, Fox’s police drama pilot from Deception creator Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros TV. In addition, Lee Toland Krieger (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) is set to direct the pilot and…

EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Iron Man 2), Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Young Guns), Penelope Ann Miller (Riverdale, Carlito’s Way), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Goonies), Kelly Arjen (Strange Ones) and Thomas Ian Nicholas (Please Give, Rules of Attraction) will star in Adverse, an indie…

Zosia Mamet (Girls) and Lou Diamond Phillips will join the cast of FX hit You’re The Worst, the show’s creator Stephen Falk announced at TCA. Falk said the show’s lead Aya Cash, who plays Gretchen, had “found” Mamet, adding, “she cast her.” Mamet will play Heidi, Gretchen’s estranged childhood friend. The pair will…

Lou Diamond Phillips has landed a guest-starring role for a meaty upcoming story arc on NBC’s Blindspot. He’ll appear in a recurring basis as Saúl Guerrero, a feared criminal and pivotal character from Bethany Mayfair’s (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) past that will send shock waves through the FBI. Phillips’ character was…

Lou Diamond Phillips has signed to play notorious Los Angeles serial killer Richard Ramirez in The Night Stalker, an indie drama from writer-director Megan Griffiths. Production is slated to begin this summer on the pic, which takes place during Ramirez’s notorious 1984-85 killing spree that earned him the moniker…

The international trailer to The 33, Patricia Riggen’s film about the 2010 Chilean miner drama, has been released and there’s some haunting images here. Similar to how Oliver Stone brought us inside the Twin Towers during 9/11 in World Trade Center, Riggen thrusts us in the midst of the miners’ devastating…

EXCLUSIVE: Just a day after the announcement of a new Broadway revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic The King And I comes word that the title star of the Tony-winning 1996 revival, Lou Diamond Phillips, is stepping in to reprise his performance in an Australia tour of the lavish Christopher Renshaw…