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…
Disney-Pixar today unveiled the all-new voice cast of The Good Dinosaur, the long-in-the-works pic that showed footage at Cannes and hits theaters Thanksgiving week. Raymond Ochoa will play Arlo, an Apatosaurus who is separated from his family when he falls into a raging river and is swept hundreds of miles away. He…