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Here is the first trailer for The Water Man, the directorial debut from David Oyelowo. The Golden Globe-nominated actor also stars in the film alongside Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis, Amiah Miller, Alfred Molina and Maria Bello. RLJE Films and Netflix acquired the film this year, with RLJE set to release the film in…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Tuesday night’s episode of CBS’ NCIS. After three seasons portraying Dr. Jacqueline “Jack” Sloane on NCIS, Maria Bello said farewell to Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the CBS procedural in Tuesday night’s episode. As reported last July, Bello planned to exit the series in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Maria Bello has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. For the past three seasons, Bello has been starring opposite Mark Harmon on CBS’ long-running procedural drama series NCIS. The actress, who joined at the start of Season 15 with a three-year contract, will be leaving the show during the…

Actress and producer Maria Bello is bringing a virtual-reality project to UCLA for a limited run. Dean Teri Schwartz and the Department of Theater at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television present a Special Event: Maria Bello's The Sun Ladies VR Project, which premiered at Sundance last year. The…

Bringing his first feature to the Toronto Film Festival in 2002, Keith Behrman is back this year with Giant Little Ones, a film inspired by tragic events in recent Canadian history. “About five years ago in Canada, kind of in a month, there were about three or four kids who committed suicide because they were being…

“The idea that I was excited about was the idea of empowered women. The idea that women facing the most extreme violence would use force against that violence, which we never really see,” said Maria Bello, producer of virtual reality documentary The Sun Ladies, which follows a troop of Yazidi women fighters. After…

Maria Bello has joined the cast of CBS’ long-running drama NCIS as a new series regular opposite Mark Harmon for the upcoming 15th season. Bello is coming off a co-starring role opposite Billy Bob Thornton on the first season of the Amazon drama series Goliath. It is unclear whether she will appear in the second…

Kyle MacLachlan has joined Maria Bello and Josh Wiggins in the new young adult drama Glo from writer/director Keith Behrman (Flower & Garnet). Glo, which is currently shooting in Canada, is also known as The Giant Little Ones and is a drama about the lives of two popular teenage boys and best friends since childhood…

EXCLUSIVE: Maria Bello, Jessie star Debby Ryan and Jacob Batalon, who can currently be seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming, have come aboard MGM/Likely Story/FilmWave’s upcoming YA romantic drama Every Day. The Get Down’s Justice Smith and Lucas Jade Zumann (20th Century Women) round out the cast as production is underway…

Director David F. Sandberg has, up until now, had a helming career made for YouTube. His output has consisted of several hair-raising if similar shorts meant to demonstrate he can turn out the horror movie cliches with the best of them. Now one of those shorts has been turned into a full-length feature, Lights Out…

Dr. Stacy Smith, director of USC's Media, Diversity, and Social Change Initiative, announced tonight that she will be releasing a "ground-breaking" study later this year that she said will "test all the assumptions" that go into making a profitable motion picture. Speaking on a panel at the SAG-AFTRA headquarters on…

In 2013, Bob Nelson earned an Oscar nomination for a gem of a character-driven comedy called Nebraska. It took about a decade for that one to make it to the screen, but, wasting no time, he is making his feature directorial debut — at nearly age 60! — with a new script, The Confirmation. It might not be in the same…