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Filming is underway on The Ridge, a new six-part psychological thriller, a co-production between BBC Scotland and Sky New Zealand Originals. The series, shot in both New Zealand and Scotland, will air later this year. Here’s the Lowdown: The Ridge stars Scottish actress Lauren Lyle as Mia, who travels to New Zealand […]

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Exclusive: Black Bear’s management arm has signed writer, director, actor, and producer Jordan Firstman, whose credits include Sundance 2023 black comedy Rotting in the Sun.

Firstman first rose to prominence by sharing short skits, impressions, and impersonations on Instagram Live during the Covid-19 pandemic.

He is also known for writing for Alia Shawkat’s Search Party and he was a consulting producer on Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth. As a filmmaker, Firstman directed the narrative short Men Don’t Whisper, which was shortlisted for the Grand Jury Prize at both Sundance and SXSW in 2018. He has also written for Comedy Central’s The Other Two and directed multiple episodes of the Peabody-nominated Sundance TV series This Close.

On the acting side, Firstman joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2022 via Ms. Marvel on Disney+. He also recently appeared in FX’s Dave and the Netflix comedy You People with Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy.

Bold and the Beautiful early weekly spoilers find Taylor Hayes determined to keep her family from learning her heartbreaking secret in the week of September 23-27, 2024. Check out the latest spoilers for the CBS daytime drama.

Bold and the Beautiful Early Weekly Spoilers: Taylor Hayes Keeping Massive Secret

On Bold and the Beautiful this week, Taylor Hayes admitted to Li Finnegan that she’s in heart failure and is dying. Furthermore, she made Li swear not to tell anyone. She doesn’t want her family to ever know because she doesn’t want to be a burden.

She just wants to spend what time she has left with her family. However, her daughter, Steffy Forrester, can tell he’s hiding something. She tries to get it out of her but Taylor won’t budge.

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Of course, Taylor thinks she’s protecting her family and making the most of the time they have together.

Technically, Billy Magnussen got his big break in an off-Broadway production when his performance prompted Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep to vouch for his first big role. From that point on, it was Into the Woods and across some of Hollywood's biggest box office hits, from Disney to James Bond, though Magnussen holds a special place for independent filmmaking. In fact, the actor is so passionate about the moviemaking process he launched his own production company, HappyBad Bungalow, and is currently planning on filming his directorial debut, The Ridge, soon.

Back in May last year, it was announced that No Time to Die star Billy Magnussen would be making his journey into the world of directing with his first feature project, The Ridge. Featuring a strong trio including his Game Night and Reunion co-stars Lamorne Morris and Chace Crawford alongside Jordan Firstman, the film is a survival thriller set in the Wyoming mountains where a trip to a bachelor party turns into a fight to stay alive against the rugged terrain. Since the initial announcement of the title and its cast, however, there's been little word about the status of filming or when it could be released. Collider's Steve Weintraub asked Magnussen about the project during a wider interview for his film Coup! with Peter Sarsgaard, and the first-time director detailed why the process has been so long and when cameras will finally get rolling.

Billy Magnussen has been keeping busy with some exciting projects of late, between preparing for his directorial debut The Ridge, and filming for the live-action Lilo & Stitch and the starry A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. However, the first of his upcoming works that may see the light of day could be the revenge thriller Violent Ends which he leads opposite Alexandra Shipp. The Southern revenge thriller was first announced last year after wrapping production in Northwest Arkansas and, according to the No Time to Die star, it's not far off from making the rounds on the festival circuit. During a wider interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub for Coup!, he teased exactly where audiences will be able to see his latest role first and shared a few insights on what it's all about.

Oble has picked up international distribution rights for “The Ridge,” a six-part psychological thriller the Paris-based studio and distributor will co-produce with New Zealand’s Great Southern Television (“One Lane Bridge”) and Sinner Films. The project will be presented at this week’s Mia co-production and drama pitch forum.

Created by BAFTA Scotland winner David Murdoch and acclaimed novelist Nora Chassler, co-written by Alan Campbell and Jess Sayer and commissioned by Sky Originals New Zealand and BBC Scotland, “The Ridge” follows a troubled young Scot from Glasgow to rural New Zealand, where she soon becomes enmeshed in a far-reaching plot.

Fleeing addiction and leaving behind a professional life in tatters, the young Mia accepts a wedding invitation from her estranged sister – only to find the would-be-bride dead upon arrival. Caught up in grief, and pulled by a dark attraction to her late-sister’s fiancé, Mia soon uncovers the wider tensions...

Lucy Liu (Strange World, Shazam! Fury of the Gods) and Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) have joined two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (No Time to Die, Big Eyes, Inglourious Basterds) in Old Guy, the upcoming action comedy from Simon West (The Expendables 2, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider).

West directs and produces the feature, which was written by Greg Johnson (The Son) and recently wrapped in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where it was filmed on location, with support from Northern Ireland Screen. Highland Film Group is co-financing the action comedy and handling worldwide rights.

Old Guy follows aging contract killer Danny Dolinski (Waltz), who still believes he’s the best at what he does. Stuck at a dead end but vying for the love of club manager Anata (Liu), Danny is thrilled when The Company pulls him back into the field, but only to train Gen Z newcomer Wihlborg (Hoffman), a prodigy assassin with an attitude.

Germany, Australia, Latin America among regions sold.

Highland Film Group has released the first look image and announced territory sales on the action thriller Gunner starring Morgan Freeman and Luke Hemsworth, which recently wrapped production in Alabama.

Dimitri Logothetis directed the film from a script by The Fast And The Furious franchise creator Gary Scott Thompson.

Hemsworth plays the title role of Special Ops veteran Lee Gunner, who takes his sons on a family fishing trip and must rescue them after they stumble upon a drug running operation and get kidnapped by the son of a jailed kingpin (Freeman).

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The star of films including Game Night, Bridge of Spies, and No Time to Die, Billy Magnussen will make his directorial debut with the thriller The Ridge, THR reports today.

Billy Magnussen will also star in the film alongside Lamorne Morris, Chace Crawford (The Boys, Gossip Girl) and Jordan Firstman.

“The Ridge follows Dez (Morris), a sensitive city dweller who travels to Wyoming with his friends (Crawford and Firstman) to meet his fiancé’s brother — and true outdoorsman — Grady (Magnussen). When Grady puts Dez to the test, it sets the two men at odds with one another, and they engage in an explosive feud that causes their truck to crash and tumble from a ridge. Leaving the men injured in the wilderness and fighting against the harsh elements, they must set aside their differences and band together in order to make it out alive.”

Mike Anderson, John Clavier and Will Lowell wrote the screenplay.

It looks like Billy Magnussen is ready to step behind the camera, as The Hollywood Reporter states that the actor will make his directorial debut with the survival thriller, The Ridge, a story about a man who travels to Wyoming with his friends in order to meet his fiancé's brother. Both men don't get along with each other, causing a heated feud to grow between them. Things would escalate until they find themselves involved in a horrible car accident that throws them into the titular ridge. They must leave their differences aside if they want even the slightest bit of hope of getting out of there alive.

Actor Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die) is set to star in the survival thriller The Ridge – and not only that, but will also be making his feature directorial debut with this project! Production is set to take place in the United States later this year, and Magnussen has already assembled the rest of the lead cast members: Lamorne Morris (Fargo), Chace Crawford (The Boys), and Jordan Firstman (You People).

Scripted by Mike Anderson, John Clavier, and Will Lowell from a story Anderson and Clavier crafted with Magnussen, The Ridge has the following synopsis: When Dez (Lamorne Morris) travels to Wyoming with his friends (Chace Crawford and Jordan Firstman) to meet his fiancé’s brother Grady (Billy Magnussen), the sensitive city dweller is put to the test by Grady, a true outdoorsman. This sets the two men at odds with one another, and they engage in an explosive feud that...

Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die, Game Night, Bridge of Spies) is set to make his feature directorial debut with the survival thriller The Ridge.

Magnussen will also star in the film alongside Lamorne Morris (Fargo, Woke), Chace Crawford (The Boys, Gossip Girl) and Jordan Firstman (You People, Rotting in the Sun). Produced by Mandalay Pictures (Ben Affleck’s Air), Highland Film Group is launching international sales at Cannes.

Written by Mike Anderson, John Clavier and Will Lowell, from a story by Magnussen, Anderson and Clavier, The Ridge follows Dez (Morris), a sensitive city dweller who travels to Wyoming with his friends (Crawford and Firstman) to meet his fiancé’s brother — and true outdoorsman — Grady (Magnussen). When Grady puts Dez to the test, it sets the two men at odds with one another, and they engage in an explosive feud that causes their truck to crash and tumble from a ridge.