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During the Texas shoot for 12 Mighty Orphans, Martin Sheen was reunited onscreen for the first time with his Apocalypse Now co-star Robert Duvall. Since working together on that 1979 classic, Sheen had stayed in touch with the Oscar winner to some extent. But they hadn't spoken, prior to their time together on the…

12 Mighty Orphans, a Spotlight Narrative entry at Tribeca Fest, is a film that looks and feels like it might have been made in the 1930s Depression era in which it is set. You half expect Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney to show up any minute, like in Boys Town. In the cynical exploitative social media-driven world we…

Hollywood is taking on homelessness head on. The People Concern, one of Los Angeles's largest housing and social services agencies, will hold a virtual fundraiser this Friday, June 4, to help benefit homeless Angelenos and other local human right causes. The live, online charity event will be hosted by Emmy…

"See the whole board," a chess-instructing Martin Sheen's President Josiah Bartlet tells Rob Lowe's Sam Seaborn in HBO Max's A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote. Originally uttered in 2002's “Hartsfield's Landing” episode of the multiple Emmy winning political drama, the Aaron Sorkin penned words hang…

For the first time in 17 years, the cast of The West Wing will reunite, along with creator Aaron Sorkin and executive producer/director Thomas Schlamme, for a special benefit stage presentation of a 2002 episode on HBO Max. The Oct. 15 reunion will support When We All Vote, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen have joined 12 Mighty Orphans, the drama that stars Luke Wilson as legendary Texas football coach Rusty Russell. Ty Roberts is directing from a script he wrote with Lane Garrison from the acclaimed book by Jim Dent. At an orphanage perched atop a hill overlooking Fort Worth…

Every killer has a signature, so let’s solve a murder. Here’s an extended trailer for Prodigal Son, the upcoming Fox drama starring Tom Payne as the crime-solver and Michael Sheen as his dear old dad — who was one of the country’s most notorious killers. Malcolm Bright (Payne) knows how killers think and how their…

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…