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Boardwalk Empire alum Aleksa Palladino is set for a lead role opposite Russell Crowe in Showtime's upcoming eight-episode limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, played by Crowe. A Blumhouse Television and Showtime co-production, the untitled series (ka Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes is based…

Oscar-nominated Naomi Watts is set to star as anchor Gretchen Carlson opposite her longtime friend Russell Crowe in Showtime’s upcoming limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes. Oscar winner Crowe plays Ailes in the project, which is set to start production next month. Emmy nominee Kari Skogland (The Handmaid'…

“I love you,” the small-town Baptist pastor tell his son, “but we cannot see a way that you can live under this roof if you’re gonna fundamentally go against the grain of our beliefs.” And when 19-year-old Jared admits to his folks, “I think about men — I don’t know why,” he is faced with an ultimatum: Attend a…

Going back to the Sopranos, HBO has demonstrated a gift for grandly celebrating its new product, with its premieres serving as lavish exercises in self-congratulation. Still there was a palpable tension at Tuesday night's party for Sharp Objects at the Dome – a sense that the fate of this new series carried more than…

Showtime has given an eight-episode order to a limited series about Roger Ailes, with Oscar winner Russell Crowe set to star as the controversial Fox News founder in his US television debut. The as-yet untitled series (fka Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes), a Blumhouse Television and Showtime…

John Oliver announced he was shuttering his HBO late-night show after Russell Crowe thanked him for spending so much money on his divorce auction by giving the money to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital for creation of the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward. Oliver previously mopped up some of the top items Crowe had…

John Oliver and Last Week Tonight gang coughed up $7K in the winning bid for that jockstrap Russell Crowe wore in Cinderella Man.  The HBO host wants to send it to the last remaining Blockbuster store in Anchorage, Alaska, to help save it from extinction.  The buy, revealed in Sunday’s show, may not have been a…

Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Captain Fantastic actor George MacKay and have signed to star in director Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang, along with Nicholas Hoult and Essie Davis. The script is by Shaun Grant, based on Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel, and follows notorious bushranger Ned Kelly…

It came down between Focus Features and Netflix in the chase to land Boy Erased, and Focus Features landed the star-cast package Deadline scooped on June 8. Focus, which recently worked closely with Edgerton on the Jeff Nichols-directed Loving, won the provocative film that Edgerton scripted and will direct based on…

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple distributors are bidding for Boy Erased, a provocative drama Joel Edgerton has scripted and will direct based on the memoir by Garrard Conley. Edgerton will star with Manchester By The Sea‘s Lucas Hedges, and Edgerton is courting Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman for supporting roles, I’m told…

Tom Cruise runs again in this new trailer for Universal’s The Mummy, but what’s new here is the backstory – the way backstory – that explains how Sofia Boutella’s Egyptian princess got all wrapped up in the horror story. “She will not stop until she has re-made our world,” explains Russell Crowe’s know-it-all to…

“Hello American Cinematheque. Let’s grab this night by the pussy,” said host Russell Crowe as he opened the festivities honoring Sir Ridley Scott Friday night at the Beverly Hilton with the 30th American Cinematheque Award. “Before we begin I have been asked to make sure that each and every one of you are properly…