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Amazon acquired Uncle Frank, the Alan Ball-directed drama that has been one of the early buzz sales titles at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Deal was $12 million for worldwide rigths. This was done in competitive bidding with several others in the mix. That matches the amount Searchlight Pictures paid late Sunday for…

Alan Ball is in Sundance today to premiere Uncle Frank, a drama set in 1973. An 18-year old and her NYU professor uncle take a road trip to their South Carolina home to bury the prof's father, who rejected his son when he learned he was gay. The trip will rear up past trauma that Frank has done his best to suppress…

In another Disney+ news reveal in Hall H at Comic-Con. Marvel boss Kevin Feige revealed the logo and news for the new series WandaVision. He brought out Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch) and Paul Bettany (Vision) to talk about the new series which will be “like nothing you ever seen before” in the MCU. After discussing…

Paul Bettany has been living in Disney’s world of late, reprising his role as Vision in Marvel’s mega-blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War and suiting up as villain Dryden Vos in Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story which began international rollout this week and releases domestically today. The latter is a reteam for…

That was quick. Paul Bettany is out of the running to play Prince Philip in Season 3 of Netflix’s The Crown, Deadline has confirmed. Deadline reported over the weekend that Bettany was in active negotiations for the role as a replacement for Matt Smith, who played the character in the first two seasons. It’s not…

EXCLUSIVE:  Directed by Saul Dibb, Journey’s End is a WWI drama based on the play of the same name based by  R.C. Sherriff. In the exclusive clip, we see Sam Claflin as a war-weary Captain Stanhope, leading men into battle. The film also stars Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge, and Paul Bettany…

Today on Force Friday, Star Wars Han Solo director Ron Howard tweeted out a photo of Paul Bettany with the message, “The Outer Rim just got a little bit wilder #PaulBettany #Force Friday”. Seth Rogen responded to Howard on Twitter saying, “If he’s just visiting he dresses funny.” Howard followed it up with the second…

Debuting on August 1 with a two-hour premiere, Discovery's excellent and riveting Manhunt: Unabomber probes the real story of how Ted Kaczynski's 17-year reign of terror was finally brought to an end. Having killed three people and injuring nearly two dozen in mail bomb attacks spanning 1978-1995, the child prodigy…

Sam Worthington says he held off as long as possible meeting FBI agent and criminal profiler Jim Fitzgerald, whom he portrays in Discovery Channel's Manhunt: Unabomber, because Fitz, a profiler, would have been profiling Worthington, as the actor was trying to profile Fitz. Worthington did, he said, read Fitzgerald's…

True-crime stories are all the rage on TV at the moment, and now Discovery is giving us a first look at its eight-part limited series about Ted Kaczynski’s one-man war against modern society. Here is the first trailer for Manhunt: Unabomber, which follows the FBI's famed hunt for the deadliest serial bomber in…

Discovery said today it will premiere its scripted anthology series Manhunt: Unabomber with a special two-hour episode Tuesday, August 1 at 9 PM. The series depicts the true story of the FBI's famed hunt for the Unabomber, the deadliest serial bomber in history. Sam Worthington and Paul Bettany star as FBI agent Jim…

EXCLUSIVE: Keisha Castle-Hughes is in negotiations for a role in Discovery Channel’s upcoming FBI crime drama Manifesto. She will play Tabby, a street agent who partners with FBI special agent Jim “Fitz” Fitzgerald (by Sam Worthington). She has no experience in the department but is studying psychology, so they put…