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Molly Gordon (Life of the Party), Rob Morgan (Just Mercy), Spencer Garrett (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Kirk Bovill (Vice) and newcomer Delante Desouza have joined the cast of HBO’s pilot about the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers.

Written by Max Borenstein (Godzilla), the untitled Showtime Lakers project is based on Jeff Pearlman’s nonfiction book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.

Executive producer Adam McKay is directing the pilot, which chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined its era both on and off the court.

Gordon will play Linda Zafrani, whose intelligence and savvy have earned her a position in the Forum Office, but the arrival of new ownership—Jerry Buss and his ambitious daughter Jeanie—requires her to navigate a complicated web of personal and professional relationships.

Joanne Froggatt, Damon Herriman.

Joanne Froggatt and Damon Herriman head the cast of The Commons, an eight-hour drama commissioned by Stan.

Created by showrunner Shelley Birse (The Code) and produced by Diane Haddon for Playmaker Media, the character-driven thriller set in the near future starts shooting in Sydney next week.

Jeffrey Walker is the set-up director, working with Rowan Woods and Jen Leacey.

Scripted by Birse, Matt Ford, Michael Miller and Matt Cameron, the plot is said to play out at the intersection of climate change and the cutting edge of biotechnology, dealing with the “heroism inside us all when our backs are against the wall.”

Graham Yost is among the executive producers together with Playmaker’s David Taylor and David Maher, Stan’s chief content officer Nick Forward, Fred Golan and Birse.

Forward tells If: “It’s a hugely ambitious project that deals with some big themes. It’s...

The heavy roster of Specialties heading to theaters in the post-Labor Day period is ebbing a bit this weekend. Cuba Gooding, Jr. makes his debut as writer-director with thriller Bayou Caviar, in which he stars with Famke Janssen and Richard Dreyfuss in a day and date bow this weekend via Gravitas Ventures. Sundance fest debut documentary Studio 54 is the second recent theatrical feature by Matt Tyrnauer, following this summer’s Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Zeitgeist opens the title about the legendary New York nightclub in, of course, New York, before heading West next week. Vertical Entertainment is opening drama-thriller A Crooked Somebody directed by Trevor White and starring Rich Sommer, while Music Box is spearheading SXSW’s Finnish metal music-comedy, Heavy Trip.

A couple of studios are also giving their movies a limited start, including Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz starrer, Loving Pablo from Universal, while...

So many VOD-centric dramas call to mind the direct-to-video Blockbuster fodder of yesteryear that it’s actually refreshing to come across one that’s more reminiscent of a cleverly plotted TV-movie from primetime of the 1970s. It’s quite easy to imagine “A Crooked Somebody” airing as an “ABC Movie of the Week” during the Polyester Era with, say, Monte Markham and Robert Culp doing yeoman service in the lead roles and a good 20 minutes or so shaven from the narrative to allow for commercial breaks. On the other hand, it’s even easier to simply enjoy it as a satisfyingly crafted entertainment that doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel, but does take a few surprising detours from well-trodden genre paths.

Rich Sommer (of TV’s “Mad Men”) hits all the right notes on a scale ranging from smooth operator to desperate prevaricator as Michael Vaughn, a minor league...

In today’s trailer round-up, we take a look at an international trailer for the upcoming animated remake of The Grinch starring Benedict Cumberbatch, a psychological thriller called A Crooked Somebody, a supernatural horror movie called Along Came the Devil, a Kevin Smith TV series called Hollyweed, and Ordeal By Innocence, a new Agatha Christie adaptation coming to […]

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Vertical Entertainment has set an Aug. 14 digital and VOD release for the pandemic thriller “Patient Zero,” starring Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer and Stanley Tucci.

The film, which was developed and produced at Sony’s Screen Gems, is also arriving in select theaters on Sept. 14.

The story takes place after a super-virus has turned humankind into highly intelligent, streamlined killers. Smith portrays an asymptomatic victim who can communicate with the infected and must lead the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure. Agyness Deyn and Clive Standen (“Vikings”) also star.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky from a screenplay by Mike Le, “Patient Zero” was produced by Vincent Newman and executive produced by Glenn S. Gainor and Steve Norris. The film was shot in 2015 in London.

Smith’s credits include “Dr. Who,” Netflix’s “The Crown,” and “Mapplethorpe,” which was bought this week by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Dormer stars in “Game of Thrones,...

"Think about the opportunity you're sitting on here." Vertical Entertainment has released an official trailer for an indie crime drama titled A Crooked Somebody, the latest film from director Trevor White (Jamesy Boy). This film originally premiered back at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2017, but is only now getting a release this fall. A Crooked Somebody stars Richard Sommer as a man whose father was a minister, now working as a cheesy spirit medium. But one day he's kidnapped and realizes there's an opportunity: he sets out to become a celebrity TV psychic by solving the mystery of a high-profile crime in the national spotlight. The cast includes Clifton Collins Jr., Amanda Crew, Ed Harris, Gillian Vigman, Amy Madigan, Randee Heller, and Joanne Froggatt. This looks fun and twisted and interesting, maybe worth a watch. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Trevor White's A Crooked Somebody, direct from YouTube...

Clifton Collins Jr. has been one of the most exciting reliable actors in film and TV for decades, so it's been a whole lot of fun watching his star rise with the popularity of Westworld. Today we're happy to debut the new trailer for A Crooked Somebody, the new crime drama that looks to give the actor another plum role as as a murderer who kidnaps a psychic in the hopes of redemption -- but there's a problem, the medium (Richard Sommer) is a fraud, and he sees his unstable captor as an opportunity to become a celebrity …...

Exclusive: Clifton Collins Jr., who currently co-stars on HBO’s series, Westworld, has signed on to play opposite Lucas Hedges and Shia Labeouf in Honey Boy, which Alma Har’el is directing from the screenplay co-written by Labeouf.

Loosely based on the Transformers star’s relationship with his father, the pic follows a child star (Hedges) attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father (Labeouf) over the course of a decade. “Honey Boy” was Labeouf’s childhood nickname.

A Quiet Place star Noah Jupe is attached to play the younger version of Labeouf.

Collins will play Tom, a strong-chinned ex-stuntman who serves as a mentor/big brother figure to the young star. He’ll also be seen in the upcoming indies A Crooked Somebody, with Ed Harris, and Lucky Day opposite Nina Dobrev.

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones from Automatik is producing Honey Boy with Daniela Taplin Lundberg of Stay Gold...

Did you know there is a new movie premiering at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival that feature the onscreen reunion of “Westworld” stars Ed Harris and Clifton Collins, Jr.? Hollywood is always full of surprises, isn’t it?

Trevor White’s “A Crooked Somebody” centers on Michael (“Mad Men’s” Rich Sommer), a psychic con artist who becomes entangled with a career criminal (Collins, Jr.) who is haunted by one of his murder victims from 20 years earlier.

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Exclusive: Rich Sommer and Clifton Collins Jr star in A Crooked Somebody, the Trevor White movie that has its world premiere Wednesday at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Joanne Froggatt, Amanda Crew, Amy Madigan, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan also star in the pic, which is being sold at the fest by CAA. Watch a clip above. Sommer (Mad Men) plays Michael Vaughn, a self-professed psychic who travels town-to-town to help provide people closure with their deceased loved ones. One…...