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Exclusive: Scott Bakula will star opposite Ariana DeBose in this fall’s Off Broadway presentation of the storied musical The Baker’s Wife, producer Classic Stage Company announced today.

The rare revival of the Joseph Stein-Stephen Schwartz 1976 musical will begin previews at the Csc’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater on October 23, ahead of a November 11 opening. The limited engagement runs through December 14.

Bakula will star as baker Aimable Castagnet alongside the previously revealed (by Deadline) DeBose, who will play his wife Genevieve.

Best known for his star turns on TV’s Quantum Leap, NCIS: New Orleans, Star Trek: Enterprise and Men of a Certain Age, Bakula began his career on the stage. He made his Broadway debut in 1983, starring as Joe Dimaggio in Marilyn: An American Fable. In 1988, he earned a Tony nomination for his starring role in the Broadway musical Romance/Romance.

In 2024 Bakula returned to the New York stage...

Another familiar face is joining the cast of Watson for its second season. Today it was reported that NCIS: Hawai’i alum, Noah Mills, was signing on for a spot on the CBS series led by Morris Chestnut. The casting marks a reunion between the pair after they previously worked alongside one another on NBC’s one-season-running drama, The Enemy Within. Set for a premiere on Monday, October 13, the title is just one of the highly-anticipated projects that will appear on the network this fall alongside others, including Season 1 of the Donnie Wahlberg-led spin-off Blue Bloods and Season 3 of Justin Hartley’s run as Colter Shaw in Tracker.

Season 2 is already heating up with the recent announcement that Trainspotting alum, Robert Carlylewill join the call sheet as the legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. As for Mills, he’ll appear in the production as Beck Wythe, a Pittsburgh native who...

Film financier William Santor, best known for bringing Hollywood titles such as The Baker (2022) and The Retirement Plan (2023) to his adopted home of the Cayman Islands, died December 28. He was 50.

Santor’s death has been confirmed by the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service in multiple local media reports. The Canadian-born financier was found unresponsive at his home on the island and was later taken to the Cayman Islands Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Officers are investigating.

In a statement to Deadline, the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said it is “carrying out an investigation surrounding the sudden death of a 50-year-old-man who is a Canadian citizen residing in the Cayman Islands.”

“The matter is an active investigation and all investigative lines of enquiries are being carried out,” the statement continued.

Deadline has contacted Productivity Media, Santor’s former company, for further comment.

Santor co-founded Productivity Media alongside producers John Hills...

Film finance and production company Productivity Media Inc. has suspended its CEO amid a probe over allegations of financial mismanagement, the company tells The Hollywood Reporter. It recently informed investors that its executive team had brought in auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers to check its books and review loans.

“We can confirm that there is an ongoing confidential investigation and that William Santor is currently on a temporary leave of absence,” a representative said.

Multiple sources tell THR that at least some producers on Pmi productions — independent films with budgets typically under $10 million — have not been paid their full fees and believe distribution efforts may be imperiled by the issues now under review. “It is the company’s policy not to comment on these types of alleged contractual matters in a public forum,” the Pmi representative said.

Santor, the founder of Pmi, didn’t respond to a request for comment. He’s long operated Prosapia,...

Dominican producer Cristian Mojica and filmmaker Yoel Morales will pull double duty at this year’s Locarno, where their SXSW Audience Award-winning film “Bionico’s Bachata” will screen in the Open Doors section and their next project, “The Baker,” will participate in the Match Me! forum.

Mojica and Morales produce through their label Mentes Fritas Film Production, which is currently in development on the project and has plans to shoot in late 2025.

The 1925-set film turns on Marco, who immigrates from the Dominican Republic to inherit his uncle’s bakery in Italy, unaware that he will face intense internal conflicts and rivalries with neighboring businesses of a century-long war. His ascension gets complicated with violent crimes and unexpected alliances as he strives to revive the bakery’s legacy.

According to Morales,”‘ The Baker’ is a wild film about a Dominican baker who will have to face the horror of the...

Exclusive: Ron Perlman and Rupert Everett have signed to co-star in Thomas Michael’s upcoming romantic dramedy Out Late revolving around the unlikely romance between a macho, blue-collar Italian widower and a retired dancer.

Paris and L.A.-based WTFilms will launch sales on the film at Cannes.

Michael will direct from a screenplay co-written with Paolo Mancini. The feature reunites the writing team with Perlman, who starred in their 2022 action thriller The Baker alongside Harvey Keitel.

Perlman will play recent widower Angelo who is forced to confront a deeply hidden personal truth when he meets and strikes up an unlikely friendship with openly gay dancer Edmond. Though he’s never had the courage to admit it to himself, let alone his family, church and community, Angelo is gay.

When Angelo’s adult children and friends start to suspect he is dating a man, they do everything they can to...

Break is the latest sports drama and thriller set in the world of pool, and Collider is delighted to exclusively bring the first trailer for the new movie to our readers. Break features a talented ensemble cast, including Darren Weiss, known for his roles in Inside Man and Tin Soldier; Victor Rasuk from Reasonable Doubt and Netflix's The Baker and The Beauty; Jeff Kober of The Walking Dead and Sons of Anarchy fame; and Caleb Emery, who has made his mark in Good Girls and Hunters. The film also features the likes of Patricia Belcher, Braedyn Bruner, Uriah Shelton, Wendy Braun, Suzen Baraka, and newcomer Petra C. Matheson.

The Baker. Mendel. Rabbi. Three iconic roles created by beloved stage veteran Chip Zien. The last of those three comes from “Harmony,” the new musical from Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, which played its final performance on February 4. But closing notices be damned; Zien is giving the performance of his life in this juicy role. The actor somehow missed out on Tony nominations for those other classic characters, but after a Broadway career that has spanned five decades, voters simply mustn’t pass up the chance to give this actor his very first Tony nomination.

Zien first came to prominence for originating the role of The Baker in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” in 1987. Though that classic musical received 10 Tony nominations (including a lead actress victory for his co-star Joanna Gleason as the Baker’s Wife), Zien was not one of them. This was the start...

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The most anticipated films of 2024Clockwise from bottom left: Madame Web (Sony Pictures), Inside Out 2 (Disney/Pixar), Dune: Part 2...

Clockwise from top left: Uncharted (Sony Pictures Releasing), The Baker (Darius Films/Productivity Media), Deliver Us (Magnet Releasing)Image: The A.V. Club

To begin the new year with something new, Hulu has added some under-the-radar movies as well as a few big-budget favorites from the past few years to its streaming library.

As the aftereffects of the writers’ and actors’ strikes hit streaming in a big way, there’s not a lot of new content to offer subscribers early in 2024. Hulu still has some interesting things to offer in January, though.

The biggest new Hulu Original series in the new year is Death and Other Details, a locked room murder mystery starring Mandy Patinkin as Rufus Cotesworth, who is said to be the world’s greatest detective – at least in this universe. In the new series, Cotesworth comes to the rescue when an unfortunate soul is killed on lavish Mediterranean ocean liner, and he has to team up with the prime suspect (Violett Beane) to solve the crime.

The big Original movie premiere in January is Self Reliance, which follows a middle-aged dude (Jake Johnson) who gets randomly invited into a limo by Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg, and is soon offered...

The first Ron Perlman performance I saw was in HellBoy, and since that day, he has fascinated me as an actor. Sam Shepherd, actor-playwright, once said about Harry Dean Stanton, the great character actor, that he is one of those actors who knows his ‘face is a story.’ I would extend that compliment to Ron Perlman, whose entire body is a story in a sense. The long face, the heavy set, those intense beady eyes—his entire body lends itself to a mysterious subtext that the filmmaker might not even have hoped to communicate. Perlman has generally been seen as a force to be reckoned with, and indeed he is, but in The Baker, he gets to apply his craft to tell a touching story about a grandfather and granddaughter, bringing out a tender side of him. He doesn’t need to do much, as he does everything with just...

Apple TV+, which launched two months ago, has its first truly inspiring series in Little America, a lovely and emotive series about the lives of immigrants in America.

Little America, debuting Jan. 17 with all eight episodes, is a scripted anthology in which each standalone episode is based on a true story that was originally featured in Epic Magazine. Each episode (which mercifully are half-hours) not only has a new story and a new cast, but is also helmed by different writers and directors. It’s a clever choice: The immigrant experience isn’t universal, and the series reflects that truth...