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Jeff Daniels caught everyone’s attention when he made some remarks against Donald Trump during an appearance on The View (as reported by The Things) in 2024. The actor appeared on the talk show to promote his miniseries A Man in Full, but the moment was charged with a different reason. Trump was back in the headlines, handling the fallout from the 2016 election alongside mounting legal troubles.

When asked if the president inspired any of his roles, Daniels answered “no” without hesitation, drawing a big laugh from the audience. The moment that really landed was when he compared his Dumb and Dumber character Harry Dunne to Eric Trump – a sharp joke that left the crowd buzzing. This sequence was full of sharp wit and obvious dislike, traits that Daniels hasn’t hidden when talking politics. He added:

Trump thinks the biggest thing in the world is himself, and doesn’t think...

Billy Ray is back in business on The Hunger Games.

The Oscar-nominated scribe, who put pen to paper on the blockbuster that started it all back in 2012, has been tapped to write the screenplay for the next installment of franchise by adapting Suzanne Collins’ newest bestseller The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

The news got a big reveal from the Colosseum stage inside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas during Lionsgate’s studio presentation on Tuesday morning. As previously reported, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be directed by Francis Lawrence, and it already has a worldwide release date set for Nov. 20, 2026. Also during its CinemaCon presentation, Lionsgate unveiled the animated logo for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Lawrence appeared on stage and said the book is “probably my favorite” in the blockbuster series as it marks an epic story with a “jaw-dropping twist.” He confirmed...

Jeff Daniels is stepping into Shrinking Season 3, and honestly, we’re all ears – because when this Emmy-winning powerhouse joins a cast that already boasts Harrison Ford, you know stuff’s about to get even juicier. Apple TV+ clearly isn’t playing around, adding another Hollywood heavyweight to its hit dramedy.

Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber | Credits: New Line cinema

But who’s he playing? A rival therapist? A long-lost friend? A chaotic wildcard ready to shake things up? Whatever it is, expect Daniels to bring in his signature mix of charm, wit, and emotional depth.

Jeff Daniels joins Shrinking season 3 as Jason Segel’s on-screen dad – Here’s what we know Jeff Daniels in A Man in Full (2024) | Credits: Royal Ties Productions

Apple TV+ just leveled up Shrinking Season 3. Emmy winner Jeff Daniels is stepping in to play Jimmy’s father – yes, Jason Segel’s on-screen dad. Industry sources...

Apple TV+ comedy gem Shrinkinghas added anorher Hollywood icon to its already star-studded cast. Golden Globe nominee and two-time Emmy winnerJeff Danielsjumps back into comedy for a recurring role in the third season of the very successful Apple TV+ series, which is currently in development.

Daniels will join leads Harrison Ford and Jason Segel, as well as supporting characters Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, Christa Miller, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley. The extremely popular comedy is the story of a therapist named Jimmy (Segel), who's still grieving over the death of his wife. Unable to emotionally connect with his daughter, Jimmy decides to make a few changes in his life. He becomes an unorthodox therapist, thus changing the lives of those around him, including his colleagues Gaby and Paul.

Jeff Daniels is best-recognized for films like Dumb and Dumber, Speed, The Martian, and more, as well as TV shows like The Newsroom,...

We’re about to find out where roughly half of Jimmy’s neuroses come from.

Emmy winner Jeff Daniels is joining Shrinking‘s Season 3 cast, TVLine has confirmed. He will play Jimmy’s dad in a guest arc. Our sister site Deadline first reported the casting.

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Daniels has taken home two Primetime Emmys: One in 2013 for playing cable news...

Jeff Daniels has joined the cast of “Shrinking” at Apple TV+, Variety has learned.

The actor will appear in the series’ upcoming third season, which was originally announced in October 2024. Daniels will appear in a guest star role as Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) father. Along with Segel, the cast of the critically-acclaimed dramedy also includes Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Christa Miller, and Ted McGinley.

This will be the latest TV role for Daniels in the past several years. Previously, he starred in the Showtime (and later Amazon Prime Video) series adaptation of “American Rust” as well as the premium cabler’s limited series “The Comey Rule.” He has also starred in shows like “A Man in Full,” “The Newsroom” (for which he won an Emmy in 2013), “Godless” (for which he won an Emmy in 2018), and “The Looming Tower.” Daniels is a highly-accomplished film actor, starring in...

The Boys actress Aya Cash is the latest name to join the cast of upcoming political drama Reykjavk. Cash rose to prominence in the role of white supremacist supe Stormfront on Prime Video's hit comic book adaptation, and is set to reprise her role in The Boys prequel series Vought Rising. The movie, which also stars The Newsroom actor Jeff Daniels as Ronald Reagan, will focus on a critical Reykjavk Summit between the US and the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War in 1986, and how its consequences shaped the world.

Per Variety, Cash is set to play the role of a young journalist who is tasked with covering the summit. The film will also feature Hope Davis as Nancy Reagan, Jared Harris as Mikhail Gorbachev, Branka Katic as Raisa Gorbachev, and Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons as Secretary of State George Shultz. Filming is set to begin on location in Reykjavk this week,...

“Joker: Folie à Deux” is upon us.

The sequel to 2019’s Oscar-winning, R-rated “Joker” is a different beast altogether. As Arthur Fleck (a returning Joaquin Phoenix) awaits trial for the murders he committed in the first film, he falls in love with a fellow inmate (Lady Gaga) and finds himself drawn into a song-and-dance fantasy world.

But who returns for the sequel and what new characters are introduced? Read on to find out, with our complete “Joker: Folie à Deux” cast and character guide.

Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck in “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, Joker

Arthur Fleck is back. As introduced in the first film, he was a weakling who was pushed around by his abusive mother (Frances Conroy), who used to work for the Wayne family and claimed that Arthur was the illegitimate child of Thomas Wayne. (He was not.

It’s official. Brendan Gleeson is set for a major role in the upcoming Spider-Man Noir live-action series at Amazon.

Variety exclusively reported in July based on sources that Gleeson would be a part of the show, but his role has now been fully confirmed. Exact details for Gleeson’s character are being kept under wraps, but he is believed to be playing the main villain.

Gleeson will star alongside series lead Nicolas Cage in the show, which is currently titled “Spider-Noir.” Additional cast members include Lamorne Morris, Abraham Popoola, and Li Jun Li. As previously reported, the show will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear channel and then globally on Amazon Prime Video.

Per the official logline, the show “tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.

The Spider-Noir series has cast Brendan Gleeson, hinting at a potential iconic Spider-Man villain role for him. Gleeson's potential portrayal of Norman Osborn could be perfect for the show. The Noir iteration of Norman Osborn would differentiate itself from Willem Dafoe's portrayal in the past.

Marvels upcoming Spider-Noir series just potentially cast their ideal Spider-Man villain. Spider-Man Noir debuted in the Marvel Comics in 2009, but the character became incredibly popular after his breakout appearance in 2018s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. The noir-themed take on Spider-Man operates during the years of the Great Depression and World War II, taking on a range of enemies from New York City crime lords to Nazi German forces. After the character was incredibly well-received in Into The Spider-Verse, a live-action Spider-Man Noir solo series about the character was ordered.

Spider-Noir, which is a collaboration effort between Sony Pictures TV, Prime Video, and...

More casting information has been revealed for Spider-Noir, the upcoming series starring Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir. Following the news that New Girl star Lamorne Morris had joined the cast as journalist Robbie Robertson, it's been revealed that Brendan Gleeson has taken on a major role.

Per Variety, Gleeson will be playing the villain in the series, but his exact role hasn't been revealed. The casting follows Gleeson scoring an Academy Award nomination for his role opposite The Penguin's Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin. It also comes ahead of Gleeson's return to the big screen with his mystery role in the upcoming sequel Joker: Folie Deux. As of now, only Cage, Morris, and Gleeson have been announced for the cast of Spider-Noir.

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Brendan Gleeson has joined the cast of the upcoming Spider-Man Noir series at Amazon, Variety has learned from sources.

This marks one of Gleeson’s first announced project since his Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated turn in “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Gleeson will star in the series opposite previously announced series lead Nicolas Cage as well as the recently cast Lamorne Morris. The show, now titled “Spider-Noir,” was formally ordered to series in May with Cage in the lead role. As previously reported, the show will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear channel and then globally on Amazon Prime Video.

Amazon declined to comment on Gleeson’s casting.

Per the official logline, the show “tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.

Exclusive: Paradigm has signed actor, writer and producer Steve Zissis (Togetherness) for representation in all areas.

Best known for co-creating, writing and starring on HBO’s acclaimed comedy-drama Togetherness, Zissis collaborated with the Duplass Brothers on that series, as well as their films The Do-Deca Pentathlon, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Cyrus and Baghead.

On the film side, he’s recently appeared in Bliss opposite Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek and Bad Hair from writer-director Justin Simien. Other notable credits include the Universal horror pic Happy Death Day 2 U, Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner opposite Hugh Jackman, Another Evil, and Spike Jonze’s Her.

In television, Zissis has been seen in the Golden Globe-nominated The Comey Rule (Showtime) as well as The Guest Book (TBS), I’m Sorry (TruTV), Single Parents (ABC), The League (FX), Arrested Development (Netflix), Parks and Recreation (NBC) and The Office (NBC).

Currently, Zissis...

For some reason, there has yet to be a mainstream Hollywood feature film about Donald Trump dramatizing any aspect of Trump's life, with an actor portraying him.

There have been countless documentaries about Trump, both for him and against him, and various comedians have portrayed him, including Alec Baldwin and later James Austin Johnson on Saturday Night Live.

The Comey Rule, a 2020 Showtime miniseries based on the memoirs of former FBI director James Comey, starred Brendan Gleeson as the 45th president, opposite Jeff Daniels as Comey.

At the same time, quite a few feature films, like The Oath in 2018 and Irresistible and The Hunt in 2020, have attempted to make dramatic hay out of the political controversies of the Trump years.

However, those who have not featured a Trump-based character have not referenced him directly. 

However, what the movies have avoided is a direct dramatization of any part of Trump's life,...

The following contains spoilers for A Man in Full Episode 1, "Saddlebags," now streaming on Netflix.

The Netflix miniseries A Man in Full is very much like the world it creates -- stylish, engaging, but ultimately empty. On paper, it deserves to be a smash hit: written and produced by David E. Kelley, directed by award-winners Regina King and Thomas Schlamme, and with iconic actor Jeff Daniels in the lead. However, despite its lengthy resume and how beautiful it looks, the show never connects with its audience in any way past the surface.

The six-episode limited series is adapted from Tom Wolfe's 1998 novel of the same name, so some of the problems come inherent in the source material. Wolfe is an acclaimed novelist who even influenced Marvel Comics, and he has a very specific style that may not appeal to everyone. But given the credentials of the Netflix creative team,...

Jeff Daniels' TV dominance continues with A Man in Full, his first collaboration with Netflix. The miniseries adaptation of Tom Wolfe's novel of the same name revolves around an Atlanta mogul facing bankruptcy and fighting back. Daniels found playing a morally ambiguous character "frighteningly easy" and enjoyed the challenges of finding humanity in the role.

Jeff Daniels continues his TV dominance with A Man in Full. Since holding his first major television show role with HBO's The Newsroom, the two-time Emmy winner has steadily built an impressive filmography on the small screen, starring in everything from the acclaimed Western miniseries Godless to Showtime's two-part political miniseries The Comey Rule and the American Rust adaptation. Interestingly, the new show marks Daniels' first collaboration with Netflix after multiple collaborations with Prime Video and Hulu for the acclaimed miniseries adaptation of The Looming Tower.

Much like most of his recent shows, A Man in Full...

From director Rod Blackhurst, working off a dynamite script he wrote with David Ebeltoft, Blood for Dust has been described as "Breaking Bad meets Fargo" by Variety. Not too far off, and a number of gritty neo-noir classics might also come to mind as you watch lead actor Scoot McNairy simply nail the protagonist role of Cliff, an everyman salesman who gets in too deep while trying to earn a buck amid desperate times. Aren't we all?

Taking us back to the 1990s, specifically in the tri-state area of the U.S., Blood for Dust features consistently solid performances and a thought-provoking statement about how low we might sink to make a dollar and provide for our families. We've seen this kind of story play out before, but the universal themes of economic hardship and great cast make this worth watching.

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Blood for Dust...

Frank Herbert wrote six “Dune” novels, but Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve has made it clear that after book two, “Dune Messiah,” he’s quitting the worm-ridden desert planet Arrakis, despite his box office wins and forging such fans as Steven Spielberg. As reported by Deadline, Legendary Entertainment has secured the rights to Annie Jacobsen’s nonfiction work “Nuclear War: A Scenario” as an option for him once he’s ready to return to Earth.

Jacobsen’s book, which hit stores less than two weeks ago, is the result of a decade of research resulting in a realistic, step-by-step “just what the hell would it be like if this nightmare came true.” Just reading the New York Times review is absolutely terrifying.

Her previous works include “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base,” “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America” and...

Aldis Hodge expresses support for Kingsley Ben-Adir's performance in Bob Marley: One Love, praising his approach and talent. Ben-Adir continues his trend of playing real-life figures, following acclaimed performances as Malcolm X and Barack Obama. Bob Marley: One Love is a promising exploration of Marley's legacy, and Reinaldo Marcus Green's own acclaimed history in the biographical genre adds to the anticipation.

As his former co-star's biopic return nears, Aldis Hodge shares his glowing support for Kingsley Ben-Adir's turn in Bob Marley: One Love. The upcoming movie will chronicle the life of the eponymous reggae singer, including his efforts to create positivity in his home country of Jamaica and the assassination attempt on his, his family and his band's lives. Helmed by King Richard's Reinaldo Marcus Green, the ensemble One Love cast also includes No Time to Die's Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Daniel Melville Jr., Sevana,...

Kinglsey Ben-Adir as “Bob Marley” in Bob Marley: One Love from Paramount Pictures. Kingsley Ben-Adir has become very familiar to television audiences from his appearances on the Netflix drama The Oa and the BBC series Peaky Blinders, along with a breakout role as Malcolm X in the acclaimed film One Night In Miami… Now, he’s back on the big screen playing another larger than life role, starring as legendary reggae artist Bob Marley in the new biopic Bob Marley: One Love. As he did with Malcolm X and with his role as President Barack Obama in the miniseries The Comey Rule, Ben-Adir spoke about how he took a very distinct approach to playing a real-life character like Marley and explained his process. (Click on the media bar below to hear Kingsley Ben-Adir) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Kingsley_-Ben_Adir_Bob_Markey_The_One_You_Love_.mp3 Bob Marley: One Love...

It was always going to be a dream gig. Here, the actor talks about perfecting his patois, the power of authenticity and what he learned working on the Barbie set

After about an hour chatting with me – we are in a pub near his home in the London suburbs – the actor Kingsley Ben-Adir’s thoughts turn to some tricky work he has ahead of him this afternoon. The 37-year-old is due in a studio in town, where he’ll record some last pieces of dialogue for the new biopic Bob Marley: One Love, which is scheduled to come out on Valentine’s Day weekend. Ben-Adir plays Marley in the movie. It’s a huge opportunity for him, after a career of solid supporting work, most recently in Barbie (he was one of the dimmer Kens), the Marvel show Secret Invasion (he was an alien terrorist) and One Night in Miami...

Sebastian Stan's transformation into Donald Trump in the upcoming film The Apprentice is unsettling, as shown in new images from the set. The resemblance between Stan and Trump is striking, highlighted by their similar hairstyles and facial expressions. Audiences can expect Stan to deliver a convincing portrayal of the controversial former US President in the biographical movie.

Sebastian Stan is transformed into Donald Trump in unsettling images from the set of The Apprentice, an upcoming movie about the former US President. The film will follow the biographical events of Trump's life as a real estate businessman in the '70s and '80s, chronicling his rise to power. Filming began in November, and the release date for the film is currently unknown.

Now, Page Six has released images of Stan as Trump sitting on a park bench in New York.

See Sebastian Stan transform into Donald Trump for upcoming...

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier actor Sebastian Stan will next portray a former president of the United States.

Per Deadline, Stan has just been cast as a young Donald Trump for The Apprentice, an upcoming film from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, who helmed two episodes of HBO's hit series The Last of Us and impressed critics with his most recent film Holy Spider. The Apprentice film is said to explore "Trump's efforts to build his real estate business in New York in the ’70s and ’80s, also digging into his relationship with infamous attorney Roy Cohn."

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Stan has experience with playing a well-known celebrity, as he portrayed rock star Tommy Lee in the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy.

In the most lacerating episode of Max’s dearly departed comedy The Other Two, the characters attend the premiere of a Broadway show titled 8 Gay Men with AIDS: A Poem in Many Hours. Wondering about future roles for his Method-actor boyfriend, who stars in the play, Drew Tarver’s Cary wonders, “Is there anything coming up that is prestigious and gay, but doesn’t have, like, nonstop trauma in it?”

The fact is, we’re not at a point, as a society, where we can stop telling stories of trauma. There remains a cultural need for narratives that foreground the AIDS epidemic, that acknowledge the horrors of the Holocaust and slavery. That said, if you’re going to do a trauma-fueled, decades-spanning odyssey of gay life from McCarthy to Reagan, weaving in the Red Scare and the early days of AIDS, comparisons to Angels in America are going to be inevitable.

Jeff Daniels is ready to tell his story. The actor, who has been in everything from “The Purple Rose of Cairo” to “Dumb and Dumber,” is readying his audio-only memoir, “Alive and Well Enough,” as a 12-part series for Audible, with the first season debuting in September (with a second season on the way).

According to the official release “Alive and Well Enough” “mixes storytelling, original music and performance, [and] is like nothing you have heard before.” Would it be too much to ask for several chapters devoted to the making of “Arachnophobia?”

“Audible is the only place where I get to do everything I do,” said Daniels in an official statement. “’Alive and Well Enough’ is an audio adventure of an accidental artist who one day looked up and realized he had a sense of humor, a passion for writing and stories to tell.”

Daniels, of course, is an accomplished performer,...

Barbie casting directors Lucy Bevan and Allison Jones are spilling the tea on how they landed with the perfect set of Barbies and Kens.

“We needed actors who could get the fact that our Barbies only knew pleasant things,” Jones told Vanity Fair during a recent interview.

Margot Robbie plays Stereotypical Barbie, while Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Ana Cruz Kayne, and Dua Lipa, to name a few, play different variants of Barbie.

Ryan Gosling landed the role of Beach Ken with Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, Ncuti Gatwa, and John Cena, to name a few, playing other versions of Ken.

Due to Covid restrictions, some potential Kens were not able to make the shoots in London where they would’ve had to spend three months. The directors revealed that Bowen Yang, Dan Levy and Ben Platt ultimately didn’t land a role in the film due to scheduling conflicts.

Kingsley Ben-Adir portrays reggae superstar and counterculture icon Bob Marley in the first trailer for the forthcoming biopic Bob Marley: One Love.

Set for release Jan. 12, 2024, the Paramount Pictures feature centers on the life of Marley, from the early days of his career to his death in 1981. Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) directs from a script by Zach Baylin, Frank E. Flowers and Terence Winter.

“Reggae is a people music,” Ben-Adir says as Marley in the trailer. “People coming together.”

Later, someone asks the singer, “Bob, they tried to kill you and your wife, and now you’re choosing to return to Jamaica to play a peace concert? Don’t you fear for your life?” As Marley explains, “My life is not important to me. My life is for people.”

Bob Marley: One Love co-stars Lashana Lynch as Rita Marley and James Norton as record producer Chris Blackwell. Other castmembers include Jesse Cilio,...

Kingsley Ben-Adir is really jamming now.

This month, the first trailer was released for the new biopic “Bob Marley: One Love”, with Ben-Adir starring as the iconic reggae artist.

Playing Marley onscreen is just the latest big role for the 37-year-old actor, who is swiftly rising to prominence as one of the best, most interesting actors of his generation.

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But who is Kingsley Ben-Adir?

Ben-Adir, born February 26, 1986, is a British actor. The son of a Trinidadian mother and British Jewish father, the actor was raised in the Gospel Oak neighbourhood of Northwest London.

In 2011, he graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

How did his career get going?

Fresh out of school, Ben-Adir starred in a production of Gillian Slovo’s critically acclaimed play The Riots in 2011. He...

Since Deadline formed more than 15 years ago, we’ve never lost sight of the human struggles felt by writers and everyone else during labor standoffs. Today, we proudly launch Strike Talk with Billy Ray and Todd Garner, a weekly podcast dedicated to dissecting the issues that caused talks to break off between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, this week prompting the writers to trade their pencils for picket signs.

A reckoning is upon us as writers try to keep their place at a moment when studios and streamers struggle to impose economic efficiencies to show fiscal responsibility to their shareholders, and writers struggle with things like streaming deals that have no chance for backend compensation in success, and series that have far fewer than the 22 episodes that had been the norm on the traditional networks.

In Strike Talk’s Week One episode,...

Exclusive: Argo actor Scoot McNairy is the latest to join the cast of Speak No Evil, the Blumhouse and Universal psychological horror thriller from writer-director James Watkins.

The pic revolves around a family invited for a weekend at an idyllic country house -– a dream holiday that warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. Cameras are rolling in Europe.

The James McAvoy project is based on the screenplay of the Danish psychological horror thriller Gæsterne by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup. A theatrical release is set for Aug. 9, 2024. Mackenzie Davis, who starred with McNairy for four seasons of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, also stars.

McNairy’s filmography includes Ben Affleck’s Argo, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, David Michod’s The Rover and War Machine, Lenny Abrahmson’s Frank, Zack Snyder’s Batman vs Superman, Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon,...

Robert De Niro is set to star in the Paramount+ drama series ‘Bobby Meritorious’

The series is set in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. When Avery “The Sage” Accomando (De Niro), an informant in the office’s biggest case, is poised to tear this storied institution apart, only one man can stop him: a fabled ex-cop turned prosecutor known as Bobby Meritorious.

De Niro is also set to executive produce the series which hails from scribe Billy Ray.

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Ray is writing and executive producing. De Niro will executive produce via his Tribeca Productions banner, along with the company’s Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh. Peter Gethers and Preet Bharara, a former U.S. attorney in the Sdny office, also exec produce.

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Robert De Niro is slated to star in “Bobby Meritorius,” a new crime drama in the works at Paramount+.

The series comes from Paramount Television Studios, which made a commitment to develop the show in a competitive situation. In addition to De Niro, the show is executive produced by writer Billy Ray, Tribeca Productions’ Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh, former U.S. attorney in the Sdny office Preet Bahara and Peter Gethers.

“The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is a sovereign kingdom with seemingly unlimited power and scope,” the show’s official logline states. “But now an informant in Sdny’s biggest case, Avery “The Sage” Accomando is poised to tear this storied institution apart. Only one man can stop him, a fabled ex-cop-turned prosecutor affectionately known as Bobby Meritorious. The battle between these two giants is a fight for justice itself.”

Ray is best known for writing,...

Exclusive: Robert De Niro is attached to star in a Billy Ray-penned crime drama series that is in the works at Paramount+.

The two-time Oscar winner will lead Bobby Meritorious, an original series that comes from Paramount Television Studios. Paramount made the commitment to develop the project after winning out a competitive situation.

It marks De Niro’s second TV project to emerge in a matter of weeks after conspiracy thriller Zero Day, from Eric Newman, landed a limited series order at Netflix.

The series is set amid the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which is a sovereign kingdom with seemingly unlimited power and scope. But now an informant in Sdny’s biggest case, Avery “The Sage” Accomando, played by De Niro, is poised to tear this storied institution apart. Only one man can stop him, a fabled ex-cop-turned prosecutor affectionately known as Bobby Meritorious.

Lioness is filling its ranks.

Michael Kelly has been recruited as a recurring star for Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming espionage series for Paramount+.

Lioness, which does not yet have a premiere date, is based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira), a “rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.”

Kelly will play CIA Deputy Director Byron Westfield.

He joins the previously announced series star and executive producer Zoe Saldaña, Morgan Freeman and star and executive producer Nicole Kidman, along with Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, Lamonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Jonah Wharton, Stephanie Nur, Hannah Love Lanier.

Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives. Kidman will play Kaitlyn Meade, the CIA’s senior supervisor who...

Exclusive: Kasey Inez (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Jahking Guillory (Black Lightning), Pedro Correa (The Middle) and Damon Gupton (Babylon) will topline Summer of Violence — the first feature written and directed by actress Nicki Micheaux (Lincoln Heights), which has wrapped production.

Summer of Violence is a coming-of-age pic, emerging from Micheaux’s time with the Sundance Writing Collab, which was shot in Colorado. The film from Three60 Films follows a young college grad, Naomi (Inez), who turns down law school to pursue poetry, despite her father’s objections. She subsequently struggles to survive in 1993 Denver, after being cut off by her father during a period of violent crime in the city known as the Summer of Violence. Guillory plays Naomi’s artist friend, Frank, with Correa as her boyfriend Richie, and Gupton as her father, Thomas.

Micheaux is producing the pic with her production company partner, Johnny Wimbrey, as...

Exclusive: William Sadler (When They See Us), Happy Anderson (Mindhunter) and newcomer Adia (The Midnight Club) have joined the cast of the HBO Max limited series Full Circle, from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. They join Zazie Beetz, Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, Dennis Quaid, Jharrel Jerome, Sheyi Cole and Cch Pounder.

Soderbergh will direct all six episodes of the series and serve as executive producer, with Solomon as writer and EP. Casey Silver also is an executive producer. The trio reteams after working together on the 2021 HBO Max film No Sudden Move.

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In Full Circle, an investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present-day New York City.

Sadler will be seen with Alfre Woodard in Salem’s Lot, New Line’s upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King novel. His credits include feature Unholy, miniseries The Comey Rule...

What is the proper amount of time for a scandal or traumatic event to let lie before it inevitably gets adapted by Hollywood? Recently, it feels like that window is getting smaller and smaller — within a few years we've gotten adaptations of the 2016 Trump election ("The Comey Rule") and the Roger Ailes ousting ("Bombshell"), while HBO has enough political miniseries about controversial elections to make up a small army. So it seemed inevitable with the ubiquity of the Me Too movement and the partiality that Hollywood shows towards movies about journalism and, well, itself, that we would get a movie about Harvey Weinstein.

Based on the 2019 book of the same name by New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, "She Said" chronicles the reporting of the five-month exposé that revealed the history of abuse and sexual misconduct by one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood, kicking off...

Ahead of the release of Disney+’s hotly anticipated Secret Invasion series, MCU vet Cobie Smulders is as excited for its debut it as the fans themselves are.

“I’m thrilled” to have the Marvel series premiere (on Wednesday, June 21), Smulders told TVLine while out promoting Freevee’s High School drama.

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Jennifer Ehle has joined the cast of the Paramount+ series 1923.

She will portray Sister Mary, an Irish nun who teaches at the school for American Indians in Montana that Teonna Rainwater (Amineh Nieves) attends. As prreviously announced, Sebastian Roché plays the headmaster of the school, Father Renaud.

The new installment of the Taylor Sheridan franchise will introduce a new generation of the Dutton family before the events of Yellowstone and explore the early 20th century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the Mountain West, and the Duttons who call it home.

The cast, led by Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, also includes James Badge Dale, Brandon Sklenar, Robert Patrick, Darren Mann, Michelle Randolph, Marley Shelton, Brian Geraghty and Julia Schlaepfer.

1923 is currently in production in Montana and will debut on Paramount+ in December 2022.

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Jennifer Ehle is the latest addition to the cast of the “Yellowstone” prequel series “1923” at Paramount+, Variety has learned.

Per the official description, the series “will introduce a new generation of the Dutton family and explore the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition, and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.”

Ehle will play Sister Mary O’Connor, an Irish nun that teaches at the School For American Indians in Montana. She joins previously announced cast member Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, Michelle Randolph, James Badge Dale, Marley Shelton, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Julia Schlaepfer, and Jerome Flynn.

This is the latest TV role Ehle has booked. She is also slated to appear in the upcoming Amazon series adaptation of the David Cronenberg film “Dead Ringers.” Most recently, she starred in the horror film “Saint Maud.

Secret Invasion will invade TV screens in 2023.

The highly-anticipated series was announced almost three years ago, and we finally got our first glimpse during Disney's D23 Expo.

"The crossover comic event series showcases a faction of shape-shifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years," Disney+ previously shared of the series.

Now, we have a trailer that flawlessly highlights what the show is about.

Samuel L. Jackson headlines the project, which shows off Nick Fury and Maria Hill's first meeting in years.

Maria is shocked that Nick came out of hiding for the meeting.

“This is different," he offers.

The series will follow on from 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, which revealed the versions of Nick and Maria in the flick were Skrulls.

Skrulls can shapeshift, meaning that there's a lot of possibilities in terms of storytelling.

Maria and Nick seemingly join forces to find the cause of these skrulls,...

Maria Hill somehow, finally draws Nick Fury back onto the grid (meaning, Earth) in the first trailer for Disney+’s Secret Invasion series.

But as he gruffly explains to her about his long-awaited resurfacing, “This is different.”

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Announced in December 2020 at Walt Disney Company’s Investor Day, Secret Invasion stars MCU vet Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Captain Marvel...

Veteran actor, Brendan Gleeson has joined the likes of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga on the cast of ‘Joker: Folie à Deux.’

Gleeson’s character details have not been made public.

Lady Gaga announced on social media recently that she’s joining the cast of the movie, which takes the unprecedented route of a musical, with the Oscar winner buzzed to play the Joker’s girlfriend Harley Quinn. Joaquin Phoenix is also returning as Arthur Fleck.

Phillips has been co-writing the script with ‘Joker’ co-writer Scott Silver.

Also in news – Ben Kingsley to reprise Trevor Slattery role in Marvel series ‘Wonder Man’

Filming is due to commence in December, with a release date of October 4, 2024.

Phoenix earned the best actor Oscar for the role of Arthur Fleck, a troubled man who evolves into a folk villain-type figure by the end of the story. ‘Joker’ earned 1.07 billion globally.

Gleeson is currently...

Veteran actor Brendan Gleeson is set to appear in ‘Joker: Folie A Deux’, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, who play the clown prince of chaos and his main squeeze, Harley Quinn.

Todd Phillips, who directed Phoenix to an Oscar in 2019’s ‘Joker’, returns as director.

But whereas the first film played like a comic book riff on Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’, the follow-up is a musical, albeit more in the vein of ‘A Star is Born’ than ‘West Side Story’ or ‘Singing in the Rain’, reports Variety.

Warner Bros. and DC are backing the sequel, which has a lot to live up to considering that “Joker” grossed north of 1 billion.

While much of ‘Folie A Deux’ remains shrouded in mystery, fans can safely expect the films to remain in their own independent universe.

That means the movie will likely lack any connection to either the DC Extended Universe...

Brendan Gleeson, currently generating Oscar buzz for his work in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” is about to move from the west coast of Ireland to the seedy streets of Gotham City. The veteran character actor is set to appear in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Variety has confirmed, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, who play the clown prince of chaos and his main squeeze, Harley Quinn.

Todd Phillips, who directed Phoenix to an Oscar in 2019’s “Joker,” returns as director. But whereas the first film played like a comic book riff on Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” the follow-up is a musical, albeit more in the vein of “A Star is Born” than “West Side Story” or “Singing in the Rain.”

Warner Bros. and DC are backing the sequel, which has a lot to live up to considering that “Joker” grossed north of 1 billion.

While much of “Folie à Deux” remains shrouded in mystery,...

David Yates’ Netflix film The Pain Hustlers has begun rounding out its cast, with Andy Garcia (Father of the Bride), Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek), Jay Duplass (Industry), Brian d’Arcy James (West Side Story) and Chloe Coleman (My Spy) signing on to star alongside Emily Blunt and Chris Evans.

The film billed as tonally similar to The Big Short, American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street follows Liza Drake (Blunt), a high-school dropout dreaming of a better life for her and her young daughter. Liza lands a job with a failing pharmaceutical startup in a yellowing strip mall in Central Florida. Her charm, guts and drive then catapult the company and her into the high life, where she soon finds herself at the center of a criminal conspiracy with deadly consequences.

Netflix acquired global rights to the film written by Wells Tower for 50M out of this year’s Cannes Film Festival,...

Steven Pasquale is set to star opposite Neve Campbell in the upcoming ABC series “Avalon,” Variety has learned.

The announcement of Pasquale’s casting comes just one day after Campbell’s, with Campbell set to play the lead role in the show. It hails from co-creators David E. Kelley and Michael Connelly, with the show based on a short story that Connelly wrote. It was ordered straight-to-series at ABC in February.

The series takes place in the main city of Avalon on Catalina Island, where LA Sheriff Department Detective Nicole “Nic” Searcy (Campbell) heads up a small office. Catalina has a local population that serves more than 1 million tourists a year, and each day when the ferries arrive, hundreds of potential new stories enter the island. Detective Searcy is pulled into a career-defining mystery that will challenge everything she knows about herself and the island.

Pasquale will play Detective William Claypool,...

Steven Pasquale has been tapped as the male lead opposite Neve Campbell in Avalon, ABC’s drama series based on Michael Connelly’s short story, from David E. Kelley, A+E Studios and 20th Television.

Avalon, which received a straight-to-series order from ABC, takes place in the city of Avalon on Catalina Island, where L.A. Sheriff’s Department Detective Nicole “Nic” Searcy (Campbell) heads up a small office. Catalina has a local population that serves more than 1 million tourists a year, and each day when the ferries arrive, hundreds of potential new stories enter the island. Detective Searcy is pulled into a career-defining mystery that will challenge everything she knows about herself and the island.

Pasquale will play Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective William Claypool. Intelligent, head strong and good-humored, Claypool is called to Catalina to investigate a terrifying discovery on the island.

Avalon is created and executive produced by Kelley,...

Although British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation in July and will remain in power until his party chooses a leader, his legacy of incompetence will stick with him for years, if not the rest of his political career. But like Trump, who has received many kinds of satirical treatments— several actors parodying his oafishness on “Saturday Night Live”— and a kind of biopic treatment—Brendon Gleeson portraying the former last guy on “The Comey Rule”— Boris Johnson is getting a kind of biopic treatment in “This England,” starring BAFTA and Academy Award-winning actor/director Kenneth Branagh in the lead role.

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Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will ramp up early next year, it has been announced.

New details dropped during Marvel's turn at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, and it's hard not to be a little excited.

Phase 5 is set to launch with the third Ant-Man movie, subtitled "Quantumania."

That flick will hit theaters on February 17, 2023, so we don't have that long to wait.

Secret Invasion, a new drama set in the MCU, follows in the spring.

The cast includes Cobie Smulders (reprising her Maria Hill role), Kingsley Ben-Adir, Olivia Colman (The Crown), Ben Mendelsohn (The Outsider), Samuel L Jackson (Nick Fury), and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones).

On the big screen, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 launches May 5, continuing the new phase of the MCU.

Loki Season 2 is on tap for summer, as well as the first season of Hawkeye spinoff Echo.

No confirmed dates for those shows, which...