Following a Sundance Film Festival debut in January, Netflix unveiled Come Sunday, its true-life religious story of the Rev. Carlton Pearson, over the weekend on its streaming service and in some theaters. I caught it Sunday (naturally), but the low-energy dramatics didn’t grab me, with the exception of the lead…
Coming to TCA on the day President Donald Trump’s new chief of staff sacked Trump’s new White House communications director for telling the New Yorker‘s Washington correspondent that Trump’s White House chief strategist engages in autofellatio and other revelations, Martin Sheen was just doomed to take Trump…
Grace and Frankie tells the story of two older women (Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) dealing with the aftermath of their husbands (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston) falling in love with each other. Creator and showrunner Marta Kauffman said during an ATX Television Festival panel today that season 4 will be "really about…
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Sheen is set to appear in the indie film Princess of the Row, from writer-director Max Carlson. The pic is set in the streets of Los Angeles’ impoverished Skid Row and follows 12-year-old Alicia Willis who, bouncing around the sometimes abusive foster care system, will stop at nothing to run away and…
EXCLUSIVE:Martin Sheen is taking on the role of famed Pentecostal televangelist Oral Roberts in Come Sunday, the film based on a true story which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a renowned evangelical minister in Tulsa, OK who stirs up controversy with his revelation that there is no hell. The film is being directed by…
Martin Sheen and J.K. Simmons have boarded the animated feature The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island as voice cast for Legacy Classics and Shout! Factory. The pic is currently in production. Sheen steps into the role of James Alden, and Simmons will voice Dr. Moore.
The picture is the first of three new animated films…
Investigation Discovery is jumping into the OJ fray with a new true-crime docu-series it has unveiled just ahead of the network’s upfront presentation in New York. The network said today it is kicking off production on Hard Evidence: OJ Is Innocent, a six-episode series executive produced and narrated by Martin Sheen…
The BBC has released a first look at the final episodes of Top Gear (see below). They were shelved amid the suspension of host Jeremy Clarkson, which resulted in his contract not being renewed for the popular motoring show. Footage that was shot before the kerfuffle will be unveiled fully on BBC2 within the next few…
Comedy series Grace And Frankie has gotten a second season on Netflix. It will debut in 2016. The news was revealed tonight on an FYC panel at L.A.’s Pacific Design Center that included series co-creators and executive producers Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris, along with series stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Marti…
Marsha Hunt, one of the last living Hollywood performers caught in the anti-Communist fervor of the 1950s blacklist, will be honored next month with the inaugural Marsha Hunt for Humanity Award at a Hollywood screening series founded by Kat Kramer.
Kramer is the daughter of liberal icon Stanley Kramer, who helped end…
Ben Kingsley and Short Term 12‘s Brie Larson are joining Daniel Radcliffe in Killer Films’ Brooklyn Bridge. The Douglas McGrath-helmed drama is inspired by the true story of Washington Roebling, the civil engineer responsible for overseeing the construction of the iconic NYC bridge. Kingsley will play Roebling’s…
Don’t be alarmed: That’s not a real dump the children are picking through in the trailer for Stephen Daldry’s Trash. That would be hazardous. So, the production reconstructed one while shooting in Brazil. The Oscar-nominated helmer’s fifth directorial after 2011’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, which also nabbed a…
