EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures, an Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to drama Gringa a film by EJ Foerster and Marny Eng. With the script penned by Patrick Hasburgh, the film stars Steve Zahn, Jess Gabor, Roselyn Sanchez, Jorge A. Jimenez, Valentina Buzzurro, Nico…
It sounds to good to be true, but it wasn’t: Actors were plucked from the hell that was the pandemic and dropped into a tropical bubble, where they would end up making The White Lotus for HBO. It would garner an astonishing 20 Emmy nominations, including one for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
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EXCLUSIVE: As production gets underway today on the John Hillcoat-directed George & Tammy with Michael Shannon playing George Jones and Jessica Chastain Tammy Wynette in a drama about their tempestuous marriage, Steve Zahn has joined the six-episode limited series. He will play George Richey, a songwriter, producer…
New Line announced a new Max Original movie today which is already filming, 8-Bit Christmas, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley, June Diane Raphael and Steve Zahn.
The comedy, directed by Michael Dowse, is set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, and follows ten-year-old Jake Doyle's (Fegley) herculean…
Alan Ball won an Oscar for his original screenplay of American Beauty, which also took the Best Picture award for 1999. Later he made his directing debut with Towelhead in 2007, but it has taken 13 years before making his second directorial effort. With Uncle Frank, he has revisited his own Southern roots to explore…
EXCLUSIVE: Actor Steve Zahn (War for the Planet of the Apes, Captain Fantastic, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) is set to star in Gringa, a father/daughter coming-of-age dramedy directed by E.J. Foerster, who previously worked as a second unit director on films including The Greatest Showman, Godzilla, and The Twilight…
ABC is not moving forward with a second season of drama series The Crossing.The Crossingpremiered April 2 with American Idol as a lead-in, but that episode of the revived singing-competition series happened to match a series-low demo rating for a regular telecast. Post-Idol, the midseason drama managed to eke out a…
Creators and executive producers of ABC's new The Crossing found themselves hand-holding TV critics Monday who worried the midseason high-concept sci-fi drama series would be pulled prematurely by a network whose primetime past is littered with gone-too-soon genre dramas.
Resurrection, which lasted two seasons on the…
Steve Zahn is set as the male lead opposite Sandrine Holt in the ABC drama pilot The Crossing. Also cast in the project, from ABC Studios, is Rob Campbell.
Written/executive produced by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, executive produced by Jason Reed and directed by Rob Bowman, The Crossing revolves around refugees from…
Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Wyatt Russell, Kris Kristofferson and Richard Linklater are in Ethan Hawke’s drama Blaze. Hawke, who also co-stars, produced and directed and even co-wrote the story based on Sybil Rosen's memoir Living In The Woods In A Tree, about Rosen’s real, life-long love Blaze Foley, the unsung…
Amazon has set a January 22 premiere for Mad Dogs, the hourlong thriller-comedy series whose pilot streamed during Amazon pilot season earlier this year. Created by Cris Cole and based on his UK show, Mad Dogs will be available exclusively for Amazon Prime members in the U.S., UK, Germany and Austria. The first…
Steve Zahn is set to play a new ape character in War For The Planet Of The Apes, the third installment of the rebooted series for 20th Century Fox. Details of his character and the plot are under wraps. He joins a cast that returns Andy Serkis as dominant ape Caesar and Gabriel Chavarria (Low Riders) and Woody…