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Exclusive: Sugar23 today announced the hiring of Aubrey Morgan as a Literary Manager, repping writers, authors and directors.

“We are thrilled to welcome Aubrey to the Sugar23 family,” said the company’s Founder and CEO, Michael Sugar. “Her exceptional taste, unwavering dedication to her clients, and ability to identify and nurture distinctive creative voices are in perfect alignment with Sugar23.”

Previously at Mosaic Entertainment, Morgan has over a decade in representation under her belt and is known for championing bold voices as a tenacious and passionate manager. She brings with her a diverse array of TV and feature writers, including Emmy winner Ariel Levine, Talia Rothenberg (writing original feature Le Bal for Netflix), Crystal Garland (Outer Banks), Jennifer Graham Imada (Lucifer), and Max Saltarelli. Morgan also reps writer/showrunners Jaclyn Moore and Karen Kicak, bestselling author Anna Malaika Tubbs, creators and executive producers Rothrock & Weir (Our Ladies), showrunner Lindsay Weiglein (Dance Moms), and animation writer Jen McCartney (Solar Opposites).

“I am honored to work with a company that matches my fierce commitment to creative integrity,” Morgan said. “Sugar23 is at the helm of innovation in the entertainment space and I look forward to uplifting daring voices with this team.”

Morgan is the latest to join Sugar23 on the heels of James Crane, who boarded as Director of Business Development in April, as we first reported. Founded in 2017, the company’s credits on the production side include Spotlight, The Knick, The Oa, Maniac, 13 Reasons Why, I Am the Night, and The Turning Point on MSNBC, among others. It’s also been making big moves in the branded side of late through partnerships with the likes of Starbucks (on Starbucks Studios) and Fifth Season.

Exclusive: Preeminent management and production company Sugar23 has hired James Crane as Director of Business Development.

“The addition of James Crane reemphasizes Sugar23’s mission to foster deep relationships with brands and support their goals of creating meaningful, original content for broad audience consumption,” said the company’s founder, Michael Sugar. “We’re thrilled to have him on board as we navigate new and exciting partnerships in the year ahead.”

As alluded to by Sugar, Crane’s new role will see him support Sugar23’s expanding presence in the brands space through strategic networking to identify growth opportunities and partnerships. The company has recently leaned in hard toward the branded space and has experienced significant growth in the last year, with the launch of multiple brand-centric studios, as well as the The Way Upfront, an exclusive summit for brand marketers featuring early-stage entertainment projects, presented by A-List producers and talent.

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Sugar23 has signed rising British actress Hannah Dodd.

Best known for her roles as Francesca Bridgerton in the hit Netflix series Bridgerton and as Sarah Chapman in Enola Holmes 2 alongside Millie Bobby Brown, Dodd has recently established herself as one of Britain’s top young actresses to watch. Straight out of school, she landed a leading role in the Hulu series Find Me in Paris. Most recently, she starred in Paramount+’s The Road Trip and Season 3 of Bridgerton, which earned her and the cast a 2025 SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Additional television credits include Harlots, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin, and Netflix’s Anatomy of a Scandal. On the big screen, Dodd’s credits also include Marvel’s Eternals and Fighting with My Family.

Founded by Michael Sugar in 2017, Sugar23 has produced titles like Spotlight,...

Will Chris Pine be in Wonder Woman 3? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

So, here’s the deal: Chris Pine isn’t all in on returning for Wonder Woman 3. The dude seems ready to pass the torch after two films playing the legendary Steve Trevoh. Pine, who first graced the screen in Wonder Woman (2017), nailed the chemistry with Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince. That on-screen romance? It hit us right in the feels. And let’s be honest, his death at the movie’s end? Still hurts. But then came Wonder Woman 1984, and shocker—Steve was somehow back in the flesh.

But now? Pine’s throwing cold water on the “Steve Trevor Returns” hype for the next movie. Talking to Et while promoting I Am the Night, Pine gave a pretty solid “nope” on a comeback, saying, “I think Steve’s done. I think Steve’s done his bit. I wish them all the luck in the world.

Exclusive: Sugar23 has named Alec Stern Vice President of Production for Film & TV, promoting Jacob Snyder to Literary Manager.

In his new role, Stern will advance Sugar23’s focus on developing impactful content. He brings with him a breadth of experience from previous roles at Paramount Television Studios, Anonymous Content, FX, and WME. Most recently, he served as Director of Original Content at Paramount+, following his position as Director of Development at Paramount Television Studios. At Paramount, he played a key role in developing and producing standout series including The Offer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Fatal Attraction, and Rabbit Hole.

Snyder began his career at UTA before joining Sugar23 and quickly establishing himself as a rising talent. Going forward, he’ll continue to guide a dynamic roster of clients across the literary and talent departments, including working on the teams of Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Diane Lane (The Perfect Storm...

"Batman: The Animated Series" was created at Warner Bros. Animation by and for an American audience. As is common practice in American cartoons, though, the animation work was outsourced to studios in southeast Asia.

One of those subcontractors was Japan's Sunrise, the home of the "Gundam" franchise and the studio that would go on to make "Cowboy Bebop." One of the most famous and well-regarded studios in Japan, Sunrise (officially known as Bandai Namco Filmworks these days) is where several animators (such as the founders of Studio Bones) first built their careers.

Sunrise handled seven episodes of "Batman: The Animated Series" — "Pretty Poison," "The Cat and the Claw, Part I," "Heart of Steel," "I Am the Night," "The Clock King," "Off Balance," and "The Man Who Killed Batman." Sunrise itself is divided up into several smaller studios; "Batman" was handled by Studio 6. The experience apparently left an impact, though,...

Everyones looking for a missing stack of cash in Colliders exclusive trailer debut for Dead Money. The latest title to come from Samuel Goldwyn Films sees Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) as a master card player whos down on his luck. Arriving in cinemas on September 13, the first look at the Luc Walpoth (Peripheric Love) helmed feature takes audiences on a high-stakes thrill ride as Hirschs Andy and his girlfriend, Chloe try to hold onto a pile of money that isnt theirs.

TNT has had both great successes and big disappointments when it comes to their original scripted shows. Which of the current crop will be cancelled or renewed for another season? Stay tuned!

Scripted TNT shows listed: Agent X, The Alienist, Animal Kingdom, Claws, Dallas, Falling Skies, Franklin & Bash, Good Behavior, I Am the Night, The Last Ship, The Lazarus Project, Legends, The Librarians, Major Crimes, Murder in the First, Perception, Proof, Public Morals, Rizzoli & Isles, Snowpiercer, Transporter: The Series, and Will.

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Every anthology TV show has high points and low points, and that includes the best one ever made. Rod Serling's seminal 1959 series "The Twilight Zone" broke new ground in small screen storytelling week after week, delivering sci-fi tinged homilies about the human condition. The show looked to the future frequently and to the past more often than you might remember, but its best stories still feel timeless in their acute understanding of fear, loneliness, love, hatred, and mortality. While most shows have a small handful of standout episodes, "The Twilight Zone" has dozens.

And yet, it's not perfect. Any total watchthrough of the series reveals a few distinct flaws, including repetitive plot points and the show's profound inability to pull off more humorous outings. "The Twilight Zone" is a monument in television history, one that's as daring and imaginative as the medium has ever been, but some seasons of...

Inspiration can strike at any time and from any source. For some TV, the idea comes from true events throughout history.

While the storyline may get dramatized or include events that didn't occur, the true parts can be enough to inspire a story fit for entertainment.

We've found our favorite 11 TV shows based on real-life events. Find out about each story's truth, the actors who made it awesome, and where you can watch each piece.

American Crime Story (2016-ongoing)

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American Crime Story is an anthology series focusing on criminals and crimes throughout the U.S.

This series has portrayed some of the biggest criminal cases fought in the American court system, starting with the trial of Oj Simpson in American Crime Story Season 1.

Other high-profile cases covered in this award-winning series include the death of popular clothes designer Gianni Versace and the affair between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

The genre-bending detective fiction series that is quickly becoming everybody’s favorite of the year is Sugar. The Apple TV+ series created by Mark Protosevich is set in Los Angeles and it follows the story of a private detective John Sugar as he is hired by a big-time film producer Jonathan Siegel to find his missing granddaughter Olivia. While, trying to find Olivia, Sugar stumbles into something far more dangerous than he could have anticipated. Sugar stars Colin Farrell in the lead role with Amy Ryan, James Cromwell, Sydney Chandler, Nate Corddry, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and Dennis Boutsikaris starring in supporting roles. If you loved the mystery and thrill of Sugar here are some similar shows you could check out next.

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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a sci-fi drama series created by Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman.

Exclusive: Yul Vazquez (Severance) has been tapped to star opposite Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in Apple Original Films’ Camp Fire drama The Lost Bus from writer Brad Ingelsby and director Paul Greengrass, joining in an undisclosed role.

Based on Lizzie Johnson’s novel Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, the film is set during the disastrous 2018 Camp Fire that became the deadliest fire in California history. Pic will be told through the perspective of heroic bus driver Kevin McKay and schoolteacher Mary Ludwig, who helped navigate a bus full of children through a deadly wildfire, as the town of Paradise is caught in destruction and chaos.

Produced by Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, Ingelsby and Greg Goodman, the film’s EPs are Lizzie Johnson and Amy Lord. Curtis got the ball rolling on development after hearing the author on Np, reading...

Chris Pine has proven to be many things. He's Wonder Woman's soulmate, the intergalactic space captain, James T. Kirk, and special agent, Jack Ryan. He's also become one of Hollywood's biggest heartthrobs, having competed for the affection of Anne Hathaway in Princess Diaries 2 and by transforming into a spoiled, crooning prince vying for Anna Kendrick's love in Into the Woods. Across his career, Pine has covered more ground than most could dream of; floating from action films and musicals to romance, he abruptly took a left-turn into a role and genre he'd scarcely approached before. Reuniting with director, Patty Jenkins, Pine gives one of his greatest, most underrated performances in the TNT true-crime series, I Am the Night.

Connie Nielsen left FBI after the pilot episode for unknown reasons, leading to her character being replaced by Sela Ward's Dana Mosier. Nielsen's departure may have been due to her busy schedule and involvement in other projects during the time of FBI's release. Ward's exit from FBI was scripted into the season 1 finale, with her character resigning after making a risky decision. Ward joined the show under a one-year contract.

FBI replaced Connie Nielsen with Sela Ward after its pilot episode, starting a trend of short character arcs in the franchise. FBI, which currently has 6 seasons, focuses on the day-to-day operations of the New York Field Office criminal division. Nielsen's Ellen Solberg was a figurehead of the division as Special Agent in Charge. Nielsen and her character didn't have a planned conclusion in the show, and she departed suddenly without explanation.

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Not only was Nielsen replaced by Ward,...

True Detective has to be one of the most brilliant anthology mystery thriller shows ever made. Originally created by Nic Pizzolatto, the HBO series told a dark and haunting tale through the brilliant performances by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in its first season. The quality of the series took a nosedive in its second season and the third season while better from Season 2 didn’t really match the expectation that the inaugural season of True Detective set. Now, we are in Season 4 titled Night Country and with a new creative force behind the series, the fans are getting exactly what they want. So, if you have already finished the much awaited Season 4 of True Detective and are hoping for a renewal, here are some similar shows you could watch while waiting for the new season.

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Exclusive: Abigail Palmer has been promoted to Literary Manager at Navigation Media Group, the management and production company launched in 2022 by veteran lit managers James Engle & Ben C. Silverman, which reps creators in film and television.

Palmer has been with the company since 2022 and previously served as Junior Manager. Prior to that, she was an assistant and eventually coordinator at Intellectual Property Group, where she worked with notable authors and learned the business of IP. Dedicated to supporting and advocating for female, Queer, and underrepresented talent across all media formats and genres, she currently manages a roster that includes Jess Carson (The Flash), Grace Ding (Walker: Independence), Victoria González (Saved by the Bell), Kate McLaughlin and Stacey Maltin (Triple Threat).

“I am very excited for this next chapter with Navigation,” Palmer told Deadline. “I am thrilled to be connected with a company that is interested...

Adam Sherman has directed the horror comedy Dead Doll, the drama Happiness Runs, the comedy Crazy Eyes, the thriller She’s Just a Shadow, and the adventure comedy This Game’s Called Murder. With his next film, he’s returning to horror comedy territory – and Deadline reports that he has assembled an impressive cast for it. The movie is called Vampires of the Velvet Lounge, and the leads are played by Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Dichen Lachman (Severance). Their co-stars include Stephen Dorff (Blade), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Lochlyn Munro (Freddy vs. Jason), India Eisley (I Am the Night), Sarah Dumont (Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Mark Boone Jr. (Sons of Anarchy), Tom Berenger (Platoon), Timothy V. Murphy (The Fabulous Four), Sherman Augustus (Stranger Things), and Tyrese Gibson of the Fast & Furious franchise.

Said to be inspired by the likes of Shaun of the Dead and From Dusk Till Dawn,...

Up next from This Game’s Called Murder writer/director Adam Sherman is Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Deadline reports today that the cast for the upcoming horror-comedy includes a slew of stars including Blade‘s Stephen Dorff and Mena Suvari.

The horror-comedy is currently filming in Georgia and is said to be in the vein of Shaun of the Dead and From Dusk Till Dawn.

The plot follows “as a coven of the blood-suckers struggles to come to terms with the modern world and their own mortality as they are locked in a battle with a deadly foe.”

Joining Dorff and Suvari are Dichen Lachman (“Severance”), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Lochlyn Munro (“Peacemaker“), India Eisley (I Am the Night), Sarah Dumont (Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Mark Boone Jr. (“Sons of Anarchy“), Tom Berenger (Platoon), Timothy V. Murphy (The Fabulous Four), Sherman Augustus (“Stranger Things”) and...

Exclusive: Writer-director Adam Sherman (This Game’s Called Murder) has set the cast for his newest indie feature, the horror comedy Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Dichen Lachman (Severance) lead the ensemble, which also includes Stephen Dorff (Blade), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Lochlyn Munro (Peacemaker), India Eisley (I Am the Night), Sarah Dumont (Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Mark Boone Jr. (Sons of Anarchy), Tom Berenger (Platoon), Timothy V. Murphy (The Fabulous Four), Sherman Augustus (Strangers Things) and Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise).

Drawing inspiration from titles like Shaun of the Dead and From Dusk Till Dawn, the film currently shooting in Georgia watches as a coven of the blood-suckers struggles to come to terms with the modern world and their own mortality as they are locked in a battle with a deadly foe.

In addition to Sherman, producers on the project...

As FX’s Mayans M.C. wraps its final season tonight, Deadline has your exclusive look at the penultimate day of filming in Santa Clarita, California.

As the sets were being broken down to make way for a new production in the future, series co-creator Elgin James celebrated Crew Appreciation Day alongside stars J.D. Pardo, Clayton Cardenas, Carla Baratta, Emilio Rivera, Sarah Bolger, J.R. Bourne, Edward James Olmos, Gino Vento, Emily Tosta, Andrew Jacobs and Alex Barone. Maverick James who played Maverick Reyes, son of Adelita (Baratta) and Angel (Cardenas), was also part of the celebration as was Baratta’s son Diego who was inside her belly during the show’s second season and was worked into the storyline.

For the festivities, the grounds were colorfully decorated and food trucks were serving the hungry and excited masses. Pardo and Rivera hosted a raffle giving away kuttes from both Sons of Anarchy and Mayans M.

It has been seven years since the last time Chris Pine starred as Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk in 2016's Star Trek Beyond, but the actor has certainly been busy in the meantime. Pine first took up the role of Captain Kirk in 2009 for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, the first installment in a new series of Trek stories following a younger, alternate universe version of Jim Kirk and his crew. As established in that film, Abrams' Star Trek movies take place in an alternate timeline, known as the Kelvin timeline, where Romulus and Vulcan have both been destroyed.

Chris Pine plays a younger, more rebellious version of Kirk than William Shatner portrayed in Star Trek: The Original Series. Alongside Zachary Quinto's Spock and Karl Urban's Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Pine helped introduce an entirely new audience to the universe of Star Trek. Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness...

Totally Killer is an upcoming time-traveling slasher film directed by Nahnatchka Khan, who previously helmed Always Be My Maybe and Ali Wong: Don Wong. Kiernan Shipka, Julie Bowen, and Olivia Holt will star in the movie. Blumhouse and Amazon Studios will produce Totally Killer to continue a deal between the two studios in 2019.

"With Nahnatchka's vision and the exciting cast led by Kiernan Shipka and Olivia Holt, we are confident Totally Killer will resonate with our audience around the world. We could not be more thrilled to watch this story come to life and to continue our longstanding collaboration with the incredible team at Blumhouse," said Julie Rapaport, head of movies at Amazon Studios.

Here's a plot synopsis courtesy of Bloody Disgusting.

"The film follows Jamie (Shipka), whose mom, Pam (Bowen), is terrorized by the resurgence of the Sweet Sixteen Killer—a masked maniac that slaughtered a group of teenage girls in the '80s.

Exclusive: The Into the Wild actor and the star of TNT’s I Am the Night are boarding the feature Degenerate, we hear.

Luc Walpoth is directing off a screenplay by Josh Wilcox.

In the project, when a home poker game is robbed, professional player Andy and his girlfriend, Chloe, are caught up in a whirlwind 24 hours that ends with Andy playing the biggest game of his life, while both their lives hang in the balance…

Emile Hirsch has starred in such movies as Lone Survivor, Milk, Speed Racer, Lords of Dogtown and The Girl Next Door.

Eisley starred in the Patty Jenkins directed, critically acclaimed TNT mini-series, I Am the Night, opposite Chris Pine. She also co-starred in Underworld: Awakening alongside Kate Beckinsale as well as the independent film, Look Away, opposite Jason Isaacs. She can recently be seen as the lead in the feature, Every Breath You Take,...

Karen Blixen is best known for her seminal memoir, Out of Africa, the story of her time in Nairobi, Kenya. The story was adapted into a feature film, also titled Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep as a somewhat fictionalized version of Blixen. The new series, The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen, explores the author's life after she gave up her life in Africa but before she became an accomplished author. The six-part miniseries (streaming on ViaPlay) chronicles the long road to the publication of her first novel, Seven Gothic Tales, and really dives into Karen's imagination to show the author's process of using fiction to articulate her thoughts on her life and the world around her.

The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen is the result of a pitch from its star, Connie Nielsen. Best known to today's audiences as Queen Hippolyta in Wonder Woman and Zack Snyder's Justice League,...

Exclusive: Yul Vazquez is set as a lead opposite Danny Pino & Michael Chiklis in Hotel Cocaine, MGM+’s upcoming crime thriller from creator Chris Brancato.

Hotel Cocaine is the story of Roman Compte (Pino), a Cuban expatriate who fought against Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion and re-made his life in Miami. He is general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine, a glitzy nightclub, restaurant and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars and musicians.

Vazquez will play Nestor Cabal, Roman Compte’s (Pino) brother and one of the biggest suppliers of cocaine to a coke-hungry Miami population. He’s dangerous, funny, wily, and seeking reunion with his long-lost brother.

Chiklis plays Agent Zulio who will stop at nothing...

Writer and director He Shuming has signed with Sugar23, the multimedia and management company founded by Oscar-winning producer, manager and entrepreneur Michael Sugar.

The signing comes following He’s breakout debut feature “Ajoomma,” about a widow obsessed with Korean soap operas who travels abroad for the first time to Seoul, finding more than she had bargained for in the process. That movie collected several nominations and prizes on the film festival circuit. It premiered at the 2022 Busan International Film Festival in the New Currents section; was nominated at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for the Fipresci Prize for Best International Film; received four nominations at the Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, including Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actor; and won the Film AIUla Audience Award for Best Film at the Red Sea International Film Festival.

“Ajoomma” was also Singapore’s entry for...

Exclusive: Sugar23 has signed rising star Brooklynn Prince, on the heels of her new film Cocaine Bear‘s opening weekend triumph, with a current worldwide gross of $28M+ at the worldwide box office, against a production budget of roughly $30M.

The R-rated horror-comedy directed for Universal by Elizabeth Banks has broken out as one of the early success stories of 2023, affirming that original features, and those in the comedy arena, can certainly still perform in today’s marketplace. Based loosely on real events that took place in 1985, the film watches as a duffel bag’s worth of cocaine drops from a drug smuggler’s plane and winds up in a Georgia forest, becoming a favorite snack for a hulking black bear. An electric set of unfortunate souls, including Prince, Keri Russell and Christian Convery, are then subject to the animal’s murderous rampage.

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"Batman: The Animated Series" may be a wholly original take on the Dark Knight but it's also indebted to numerous inspirations. Show co-creators Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, along with writer Paul Dini, were keen to draw on not just the best of Batman's history, but cultural history in general. The goal was to produce a show that, as Dini told Syfy, depicted "a dark world, a world where crime really exists on every level." That approach would often cause them to run afoul of the Fox censors, who weren't enthusiastic about the show's mature tone. After all, this was a Fox Kids cartoon.

Thankfully, the team behind "Batman: Tas" were adept at navigating their way through the treacherous waters of Standards and Practices, maintaining their mature vision despite frequent pushback. And that extended beyond the usual stuff that gets censors riled up, such as violence or edgy language. The...

Exclusive: The management and production firm Navigation Media Group, repping creators in film and television, is expanding with the addition of Kegan Schell as Literary Manager.

Schell is a passionate advocate for queer and underrepresented talent who, at Navigation, will work with a broad range of creators in the horror and genre space. He joins from Echo Lake Entertainment, where he worked for six years. It was there that he first came to connect with Navigation’s co-founder, James Engle, while working as his assistant.

Schell brings with him a list of clients that includes Tom Hanada (Motherland: Fort Salem), Jess Carson (The Flash), Meredith Kecskemety (The Legend of Vox Machina), Alyssa & Griffin Devine (Portals), Todd Stephens (Swan Song) and Addison Heimann (Hypochondriac). While Navigation is headquartered in Los Angeles, with teams in both L.A. and Vancouver, Schell will be the first member of the company to work out of New York.

Yul Vázquez is teaming up with Forest Whitaker in the upcoming third season of Godfather of Harlem as a new series regular.

Godfather of Harlem tells a story inspired by infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from eleven years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. Season Three will find Bumpy Johnson continuing to battle for control of Harlem, with other aspirants to the throne, namely the Cuban Mafia from neighboring Spanish Harlem. Taking on the Cuban mob will put Bumpy, his loved ones, and his community in the crosshairs of not only the rival Italians, but ruthless Latin assassins and, ultimately, the CIA. Godfather of Harlem is a collision of the criminal underworld and the civil rights movement during one of the most tumultuous times in American history.

Vázquez portrays Jose Miguel Battle, a former Cuban policeman who reestablishes...

Batman: The Animated Series avoided a tiresome Batman trope by accident, and it led to some of the show’s best Batman moments. Considered one of the best Batman adaptations, Batman: The Animated Series did what many big-budget superhero films often struggle to do – it captured the feeling of a Batman comic and perfectly translated it to the screen. From the noir visuals to the more serious storytelling, Batman: Tas was a landmark not only for superhero cartoons but for animated shows in general, and it proved that the animation media could welcome more mature themes. That said, Batman: Tas was still aimed at younger audiences and had to deal with censorship.

As a show that first aired on Fox Kid’s daytime, Batman: Tas had to be very conscious of what themes it would explore and how much violence it would feature. While Batman: Tas pushed the limits...

There are plenty of lessons to learn from the '60s anthology TV show "The Twilight Zone." Lessons like "don't judge a book by its cover," and "make sure you have a second pair of glasses." Perhaps more noteworthy was the way it used its speculative elements to tackle larger social issues, using the speculative elements as allegories for the stuff they actually wanted to talk about.

For example, the 1960 episode "Eye of the Beholder" is about a woman getting plastic surgery in the hopes of looking normal, only for us to discover that the definition of normal in this society is very different from our own; the episode serves as a commentary on how beauty standards are subjective and influenced by the people around us. Another episode, "The Monsters are Due of Maple Street," serves as a not-so-subtle indictment of McCarthyism, centering around a small town that descends into paranoid madness.

Five-time Oscar-nominated production sound designer Peter J. Devlin is set for the Cinema Audio Society’s 2023 Career Achievement Award. He’ll pick up the prize at the 59th Cas Awards on March 4 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Devlin, who recently was elected as a governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, scored Sound Mixing Oscar noms for Black Panther (2018), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Star Trek (2009) and Transformers (2018), along with a Best Sound nom for Pearl Harbor (2001). He also picked up a Sound Mixing Emmy nomination for Star Trek: Picard in 2020.

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Having wrapped work on the Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever and the upcoming Chris Pine pic Poolman, his scores of sound credits also include such hit films as Bullet Train, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Ant-Man and the Wasp,...

E. Gunnar Mortensen, a camera assistant on “Transparent” and the Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show,” died on Monday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was 39.

Mortensen was a member of Local 600 for 13 years. In that capacity, he served on the National Executive Board of the International Cinematographer’s Guild since 2013 and as a co-chair of the Active Engagement Committee since 2017. His most recent work was on the upcoming feature “Your Place or Mine,” a romantic comedy with Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher.

“We have reached out to the family to offer our condolences and any support we can provide,” Icg National President Baird Steptoe, Sr. and National Executive Director Rebecca Rhine wrote in a note to members. “I know all of you share our deep sadness about this unbearable loss for Gunnar’s wife, Keely, his son, Lars, and our local, to which he gave so much,...

Exclusive: Veteran Literary Manager James Engle has launched Navigation Media Group, a management and production firm that will rep creators in film and television. Partnering with Engle is Vancouver-based Literary Manager and media investor Ben C. Silverman, whose investments include interests in distribution, production and talent management.

Navigation will look to combine a passion for creativity with established, proven, business acumen to give clients the full-spectrum guidance they need to navigate both the current and future media landscape with success. Creatives joining the company as clients include Sam Sheridan, Becca Gleason, Grant Sputore, Bret VandenBos & Brandon Willer, Michael Lloyd Green, Jem Garrard, Damien Ober, Barbara Kymlicka, Jeff Renfroe and Mark Bacci.

“I’m excited to launch Navigation with Ben,...

Exclusive: Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, has partnered with the management and creative content platform Sugar23 to establish the co-branded publishing imprint, Sugar23 Books.

The new imprint will publish culturally relevant works of fiction and nonfiction by provocative and original voices, sharing stories that lend themselves to amplification across different creative forms and platforms. The Sugar23 Books/Random House partnership will offer authors deep editorial and content development expertise, supported by Sugar23’s in-house production, experiential and branding resources, as well as Random House’s dedicated consumer insights, metadata, and integrated publicity and marketing teams.

Sugar23 will be actively involved in all aspects of the imprint’s publishing operations, from book acquisitions to the development of brand partnerships and innovative marketing strategies, including immersive live events. Sugar23 Books will be overseen by Sugar23 founder and CEO Michael Sugar and Editorial Director of Books Angela Ledgerwood, who will...

Apple has ordered the limited series “Manhunt,” which tells the story of the hunt for U.S President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

The series hails from Monica Beletsky and is based on the book “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer” by James Swanson. Tobias Menzies will star as Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s War Secretary and friend, who was driven nearly to madness by the need to catch Booth and to carry out Lincoln’s legacy. According to an individual with knowledge of the project, it will also feature Black historical figures, including Mary Simms, a former slave of the doctor who treated Booth’s injury and gave him safe harbor after his crime.

The series marks the first order under Beletsky’s overall deal with Apple, which was recently renewed. Beletsky is the writer, executive producer, and showrunner on “Manhunt.” Carl Franklin will direct and executive produce.

Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, First Wives Club) is blessing us with another all-female ensemble comedy — this one led by Meagan Good (Minority Report) and Grace Byers (Empire).

Premiering Friday, Dec. 3 on Prime Video, Harlem is a 10-episode series that follows “a group of stylish and ambitious best girlfriends in Harlem, New York City, the mecca of Black culture in America,” per the official logline. “Together, they level up from their 20s into the next phase of their careers, relationships, and big city dreams.”

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Starz’s John Wick prequel series The Continental has found its Winston Scott: Colin Woodell (The Flight Attendant, The Originals) will star as the younger version of Ian McShane’s movie character, our sister site Deadline reports.

Produced by Lionsgate Television, the three-night event takes John Wick fans back to 1975 New York City, where a young criminal named Winston Scott (Woodell) navigates the city’s nefarious underbelly in an attempt to take control of The Continental, a notorious hangout for all manner of ne’er-do-wells.

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“Wonder Woman 1984″ director Patty Jenkins didn’t mince words during a Thursday chat at this week’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. First, she spoke candidly about her experience with the sequel going straight to HBO Max day-and-date with theaters.

“It was the best choice in a bunch of bad choices at the moment” and a “heartbreaking experience,” Jenkins said, according to Deadline from a report on the ground. Like the rest of Warner Bros.’ 2021 slate, most of the studio’s 2020 titles went straight to the streaming platform. “Wonder Woman 1984” ended up being watched by nearly four million households, but Jenkins said the hybrid release was “detrimental to the movie.”

She added, “I don’t think it plays the same on streaming, ever,” and said, “I’m not a fan of day-and-date and I hope to avoid it forever.”

Jenkins, whose 2017 original “Wonder Woman” grossed more than $822 million globally...

“Havoc,” an action thriller starring Tom Hardy and Forest Whitaker, has rounded out its cast.

In addition to the previously announced Hardy and Whitaker, the Netflix movie will also feature Timothy Olyphant, “Training Day” and “The Umbrella Academy” actor Justin Cornwell, star of the upcoming Edgar Wright horror film “Last Night in Soho” Jessie Mei Li and Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann. Supporting cast members include Quelin Sepulveda, “Boogie Nights” and “Magnolia” actor Luis Guzmán, “Headshot” star Sunny Pang, and UFC mixed martial artist Michelle Waterson.

“Havoc” takes place after a drug deal gone wrong and centers on a bruised detective who must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.

Gareth Evans is writing and directing the movie as part of his recently announced deal to produce and direct...

Exclusive: Talent manager Graciella Sanchez and literary manager Zadoc Angell have been named Co-Presidents of Echo Lake Entertainment’s management division.

Their promotion to these new leadership positions comes on the heels of the division’s growth to over 20 managers.

Mike Marcus will continue to serve as Chairman of Echo Lake Management, with Partner and Founder Doug Mankoff and twenty-year vet Andy Spaulding continuing to oversee parent company, Echo Lake Entertainment.

The Beverly Hill-based management company became the first to reopen its offices on June 15. Amidst the turbulence of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has kept all of its assistants employed and even managed to grow, welcoming five new talent and lit managers.

“I am so proud of our team. Every single employee chose to get vaccinated, which made reopening all the more easy,” said Mike Marcus in a statement. “During the beginning of the pandemic, our managers stepped up, organized themselves,...

Netflix is giving viewers some more insight into The Umbrella Academy Season 3.

As part of the streamer's GeekedWeek event, it unveiled the episode titles for all ten episodes.

The episode titles, in show order, are “Meet the Family,” “World’s Biggest Ball of Twine,” “Pocket Full of Lightning,” “Kugelblitz,” “Kindest Cut,” “Marigold,” “Auf Wiedersehen,” “Wedding at the End of the World,” “Six Bells,” and “Oblivion.”

Netflix's GeekedWeek event finds the streamer zeroing in on some of the biggest genre content on movies and TV.

Production on the third season is already underway, but there's no telling when it might premiere on Netflix.

The streamer is expected to have a wealth of shows in the second half of 2021 due to many of its shows being delayed due to the pandemic.

In all likelihood, The Umbrella Academy Season 3 will not be on the air until 2022, and there will be some big changes.

It’s time for a hero when Wonder Woman 1984 arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD on 22nd March. The film is directed by Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”) in the title role. To celebrate the release, we have 5 Blu-rays up for grabs for 5 lucky winners.

The fate of the world is once more on the line, and only Wonder Woman can save it. This new chapter in the Wonder Woman story finds Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) living quietly among mortals in the vibrant, sleek 1980s—an era of excess driven by the pursuit of having it all. Though she’s come into her full powers, she maintains a low profile, curating ancient artifacts and only performing her superheroic acts incognito. But now, Diana will have to step directly into the spotlight and muster all her wisdom, strength and courage in order to save mankind from a world of its own making.

Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy are both heading to Harlem, as the latest cast additions for Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver’s new Amazon comedy.

Created and written by Oliver, Harlem is a single-camera comedy following the lives of four women — friends from their college days at NYU — as they navigate sex, relationships and chasing their dreams. Previously announced casting includes Meagan Good (Deception), Grace Byers (Empire), Shoniqua Shandai (I Am the Night), Jerrie Johnson (Good Trouble) and Tyler Lepley (The Haves and the Have Nots).

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Created by Sam Sheridan, TNT's six-part miniseries I Am The Night drew middling ratings and reviews upon its release in January of 2019. Starring Chris Pine and India Eisley, the series tracks the mysterious past of Fauna Hodel, a teenage girl in 1960s Los Angeles desperate to discover where she comes from and who her parents are.

Related: I Am The Night: 10 Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Facts

The confusing and complicated crime story is very easy to get lost in due to the circuitous twists and hairpin turns it takes with each passing episode. Even fervent fans of the show have some difficulty keeping up with certain details.

Sparrow Academy will be front and center on The Umbrella Academy Season 3.

Netflix on Monday announced the casting details for the Sparrow Academy's crop of special children, who were triggered thanks to changes in the timeline.

Justin H. Min, who plays Ben, will now be playing Sparrow #2 going forward, and Netflix has said the following about the character:

This is not the sweet Ben we know and love. This Ben is a Machiavellian tactician, wrapped up in a pretty boy body with a rumbling inner-squid.

Vicious, pragmatic, and hyper-vigilant— Ben is determined to gain his status as the leader at all costs.

Read below for the six brand-new faces...

Justin Cornwell will play Marcus, Sparrow #1.

A charming, chiseled, colossus. Honest, virtuous, and demanding, Marcus keeps the family together. Graceful but lethal, calculated but compassionate, he is as smart as he is strong.

Marcus is disciplined, rational and in control. He...

“The Umbrella Academy” has cast the members of the Sparrow Academy for the Netflix drama’s upcoming third season, the streaming service said Monday.

As fans will remember, the Sparrow Academy is a bizarro version of the Umbrella Academy, which exists in the altered timeline that the Hargreeves siblings return to in 2019 at the end of Season 2.

In this version of events, Sir Reginald Hargreeves still adopted seven of the forty-three children who were all born on the same day in 1989 to a mother who had not previously shown signs of pregnancy, however all of his adoptees are different from the Umbrella Academy members — with the exception of Ben.

The new lineup includes Marcus, a.k.a. Sparrow #1 (played by Justin Cornwell); Ben, Sparrow #2 (Min); Fei, Sparrow #3 (Britne Oldford); Alphonso, Sparrow #4, (Jake Epstein); Sloane, Sparrow #5 (Genesis Rodriguez); Jayme, Sparrow #6 (Cazzie David); Christopher, Sparrow #7.

As TheWrap previously reported, the true Umbrella Academy — Elliot Page,...

Sugar23 has raised $30 million in financing and unveiled a bench of top executives that it hopes will help the company expand more aggressively into everything from talent management to podcasting.

Founded in 2017 by Academy Award-winning producer, manager and entrepreneur Michael Sugar, the company is hoping to be something of a catch-all service provider for top talent. Not only will it represent actors, artists, showrunners and filmmakers, it will also help incubate their content and set up companies and other branding opportunities. Sugar23 has a production deal with Netflix, as well as business partnerships with the likes of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nelson Mandela Media and Time Magazine.

“The desire here is to create something much more significant than a traditional services business,” Sugar told Variety. Having been behind the careers of so many artists and also seeing this from the production side, I saw a ton of white space and missed opportunities.

Exclusive: Hannah Levien, Leland Orser and Patrick Fischler are set for recurring roles opposite Rosa Salazar on Brand New Cherry Flavor, Netflix’s upcoming horror-thriller revenge series.

Brand New Cherry Flavor is written by Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion. Based on the cult horror novel by Todd Grimson, the eight-episode series is the story of Lisa Nova (Salazar), an aspiring film director in the sun-drenched but seamy world of 1990 Los Angeles who embarks on a mind-altering journey of supernatural revenge.

Levien will recur as Christine, Orser will play Mike Nathans and Fischler will portray Alvin Sender.

In addition to Salazar, they join previously announced cast Catherine Keener, Eric Lange, Jeff Ward and Manny Jacinto.

The series is a co-production of Netflix and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group,...