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The upcoming Netflix supernatural drama “The Boroughs” has added six new cast members.

Rafael Casal, Dee Wallace, Ed Begley Jr., Jane Kaczmarek, Eric Edelstein, and Mousa Hussein Kraish have all joined the show, which hails from creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews and boasts the Duffer brothers among its executive producers.

They join previously announced cast members Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman will all star in the eight-episode series, which was greenlit at the streamer back in April 2023.

The series’ logline states, “In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.”

Casal is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Wallace is repped by Amsel Eisenstadt Frazier & Hinojosa Talent Agency and Kramer Management. Begley is repped by Innovative Artists and Constellation Media Group.

Natalie Burn Joins Anthony Hopkins In ‘Eyes In The Trees’

Exclusive: Natalie Burn (Til Death Do Us Part) has joined Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ashley Greene in sci-fi thriller Eyes in the Trees. She will play the role of Marcy, a seasoned military veteran who reluctantly agrees to join former teammates for a final mission. They are dispatched to investigate the work of Dr Moreau’s enigmatic successor, Dr. Addis, a brilliant yet mysterious geneticist. Soon, the team finds their resolve tested as they delve into a world of chilling and dangerous experiments taking place on a remote island. Shooting is taking place on location in Thailand. Burn recently starred opposite Jason Patric and Cam Gigandet in action-comedy Til Death Do Us Part and was in period action flick The Last Redemption, which stars Angus Macfadyen and Kevin Sorbo. She also completed shooting comedy Dashing Through the Snow...

The Netflix supernatural mystery series “The Boroughs” from creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews and executive producers the Duffer brothers has set a star-studded main cast.

Variety has learned that Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman will all star in the eight-episode series, which was greenlit at the streamer back in April 2023. It was also revealed that Ben Taylor will direct multiple episodes, including the first, in addition to executive producing.

The series’ logline states, “In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.”

Molina will play Sam in “The Boroughs.” Molina is known for his roles in films like “Frida,” “Boogie Nights,” and his appearances in multiple “Spider-Man” films. Davis will play Renee. She previously appeared in the Netflix series “Glow” and in films like “Beetlejuice,...

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ashley Greene, Thomas Kretschmann and Praya Lundberg have joined the cast of Anthony Hopkins starrer “Eyes in the Trees.” Palisades Park Pictures is launching worldwide sales on the sci-fi thriller ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film, a modern reimagining of H.G. Wells’ novel “The Island of Doctor Moreau,” stars two-time Academy Award winner Hopkins. The cast also includes Golden Globe winner Rhys Meyers, Greene, Kretschmann and Lundberg.

“Eyes in the Trees” follows “a video journalist and his film crew who embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race. Vince Henway (Meyers) and his former protégé-turned-ex Channing Arneau (Greene) lead their crew into the heart of Monkey Ko off the coast of Thailand. Also known as ‘The Island of Death’ to the locals, the island...

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Thomas Kretschmann, Ashley Greene and Praya Lundberg have joined Anthony Hopkins on the sci-fi thriller and H. G. Wells reimagining Eyes In The Trees. Palisades Park Pictures is launching worldwide sales heading into Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

Timothy Woodward Jr. will direct from a screenplay by B. Harrison Smith, Mike Manning, and Dominic Burns inspired by Wells’s The Island Of Doctor Moreau.

The story follows a video journalist (Meyers), his former protegeé (Greene) and a film crew who trek into an isolated forest in Thailand on an island known to locals as “The island of...

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point), Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga), Thomas Kretschmann (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) and Praya Lundberg (The White Lotus) have signed on to star alongside Anthony Hopkins in Eyes in the Trees, a sci-fi thriller serving as a modern reimagining of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, on which we were first to report.

Ashland Hill has also come aboard to finance alongside Bgg Capital, with Palisades Park Pictures launching worldwide sales ahead of the Toronto Film Festival. The film is set to enter production in Thailand later this year.

Eyes in the Trees follows a video journalist and his film crew as they embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race. Vince Henway (Meyers) and...

Exclusive: Industry Entertainment co-founder Keith Addis and former Industry colleague Michael Abrams are set to launch Constellation Media Group.

Addis co-founded Addis-Wechsler in 1989 and has been at the firm throughout its evolution into Industry Entertainment. Abrams joined the company in 2009 following two years at The Endeavor Agency in New York.

Their client list includes Jeff Goldblum, Ted Danson, Dylan McDermott, Jayne Atkinson, Griffin Dunne, Jennifer Beals, Sam Waterston, Drew Tarver, Ed Begley Jr, Harry Hamlin, Dean Norris, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Dave Foley, Anthony Lapaglia, Michel Gill, Eion Bailey, Margot Bingham and director/producer Michael Uppendahl. Their new office is located in the Beverly Hills triangle.

Addis and Abrams recently Executive Produced 2 seasons of the Emmy nominated series The World According to Jeff Goldblum for Nat Geo / Disney+.

“After 34 years at Industry, Michael and I felt it was the right time to start something new and nimble to better navigate through these exciting and challenging times.

For as much as autumn in Hollywood is film festival season (and usually the Emmys, as well), it’s also a time typically jam-packed with fundraising events, from the A-list Academy Museum and Lacma galas to charity dinners toasting celebrity honorees. But like almost everything else in the industry, many such events have been put into question by the actors and writers strikes — SAG-AFTRA in particular has noted that actors cannot do charity gala red carpets if there are any studio/streamer logos on the step-and-repeats, and studios are often sponsors.

A handful of charity events — including the HollyRod DesignCare Gala and Project Angel Food groundbreaking ceremony — have successfully happened with big names in attendance since the actors strike began July 14, and the Academy Museum gala (set for Oct. 14, with honorees Meryl Streep, Michael B. Jordan, Oprah Winfrey and Sofia Coppola) and Hollywood-loved Baby2Baby gala (set for Nov. 11) are...

Oceana celebrated its fifth annual Rock Under the Stars event Saturday night, highlighting ocean conservation with support from Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Mary Steenburgen, Sam Waterston and headlining performer Gladys Knight.

The event, held at the Los Angeles home of Oceana board president Keith Addis and wife Keri Selig, had a particularly urgent message when tied with climate change, especially via this summer’s extreme heat and the Maui wildfires that have recently ravaged the island.

“We do what we do because things are going to be getting worse and worse,” Danson, an Oceana board member, told The Hollywood Reporter. “One of the reasons we keep doing what we’re doing is with climate change, the waters are heating, the fish are swimming north, corals are dying, so we feel an urgency to make sure we manage the fisheries that are so stressed out. If they’re being fished at the limit,...

For Oceana, its 16th annual SeaChange Summer Party, taking place Saturday, July 22, represents a full circle moment.

The ocean-conservation nonprofit is set to celebrate Morgan Freeman as its guest of honor at the fundraiser, which takes place at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort & Club in Dana Point, California. It was just six years ago that Freeman joined Oceana on Capitol Hill to urge action on a bill to ban the buying and selling of shark fins.

Cut to December 2022: Congress passed the legislation, and Joe Biden signed it, a major move toward protecting sharks, who are hunted relentlessly for their fins, which are the chief ingredient in shark-fin soup.

“We’re honoring [Morgan Freeman] for really being there when we needed him ­— standing with us and our campaigners and introducing legislation that’s now law,” says Andrew Sharpless, the CEO of Oceana, which worked along with the Humane Society on...

ReviewThe film is by no means a ‘grand return’ for Lal Jose. But it is still a gripping crime thriller that pulls off several twists and turns, aided by convincing performances from its lead actors.Lakshmi PriyaCourtesy: YouTube/ Manorama Music SongsThey say there is a kala hridayam (artist’s heart) inside every khaki uniform. Suja and Glyna, both civil police officers and the best of friends, would not disagree. After standing under the sun and overseeing traffic all day, Suja (Darshana Sudarshan) comes back to the women’s police quarters to make Instagram reels with Glyna (Vincy Aloshious), her housemate who is deployed at the local police station. They sing and dance to their heart’s content, shooting videos for their Instagram page (rather unoriginally called insta_sisters), revelling in the joy and comfort of each other’s friendship. It is into this happy, calm dynamic between the two friends...