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Exclusive: Max Beesley, Douglas Hodge, JJ Feild and Betty Gabriel have joined John Krasinski in the cast of the new Jack Ryan movie at Amazon MGM Studios. Also on board are Sienna Miller and Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly, returning cast from Amazon’s Prime Video series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Gabriel also appeared in the third and fourth seasons of the series.

Capitalizing on the success of the series, the film marks the next stage in the evolution of the franchise and is produced in association with Paramount Pictures and Skydance. Krasinski and Allyson Seeger are producing via Sunday Night. Andrew Form is also producing.

Andrew Bernstein, who served as an executive producer and director on Season 2 of the series, is directing the film from a script penned by Aaron Rabin and Krasinksi. Skydance’s David Ellison and Dana Goldberg are executive producing alongside John Kelly, Carlton Cuse...

It’s a full weekend at NBC for Saturday Night Live star Heidi Gardner, the latest celeb to appear in a Sunday Night Football promo.

The Kansas City native hyped up the Chiefs ahead of their hometown game against the Los Angeles Chargers while jamming out to Natasha Bedingfield’s ‘Unwritten’ in the network’s opening spot for Sunday’s event.

“Life is really what you make of it, like well, being a Chiefs fan,” she said after putting on vinyl of ‘Unwritten’ by the Grammy nominee.

“You can think of it as entirely unpredictable or completely foreseeable,” Gardner continued. “Unbelievably spectacular or just the same thing over and over and over again. I’m talking about winning.”

The promo featured clips of the Chiefs’ back-to-back wins at Super Bowl Lvii and Lviii.

Life as a Chiefs fan is pretty great… just ask Saturday Night Live's Heidi Gardner. pic.

Sienna Miller and John Krasinski will soon be sharing the screen!

On Wednesday (December 4), it was announced that the 42-year-old actress has signed on to star in the upcoming Jack Ryan movie that’s currently in the works at Amazon MGM Studios.

Keep reading to find out more…According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project is “being described as the next evolutionary step of the adventure series that proved to be a hit for the company and will feature several actors from the show reprising their roles, including Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly.”

Along with reprising the titular role, John, 45, will also be producing the movie with Allyson Seeger, his Sunday Night production company partner.

The movie will be directed by season two executive producer and director Andrew Bernstein with Aaron Rabin, co-executive producer and writer on season four, writing the screenplay.

In a recent interview, Sienna reflected on the...

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, the adventure series that proved to be a hit for Amazon MGM, is heading to the movies.

The company is developing a feature film that will see series topliner John Krasinski return to the titular role as the intrepid CIA analyst. Wendell Pierce (The Wire) is also set to return, while Michael Kelly (House of Cards) is in negotiations to come back as well.

Andrew Bernstein, who served as an executive producer and director on season two of the series, will direct the feature, which has a script penned by Aaron Rabin, who served as a co-executive producer and writer on season four.

Jack Ryan was based on the characters and so-called “Ryanverse” created by author Clancy, but placed in modern times. It ran for four seasons on Amazon Prime Video, where it is ranked among Prime’s top three most watched series globally.

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You might have to wait a while to get an appointment with Lindsey Ferrentino — her diary is looking pretty packed.

The playwright and screenwriter has become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand creatives and is, at this very moment, writing a staggering five films for Netflix, including an adaptation of a book by celebrated fantasy author Rebecca Yarros.

The Florida-born Ferrentino, 36, sat down for coffee with THR in sunny central London to discuss her extensive slate of projects on the horizon. On Thursday, her newest production, The Fear of 13, opens on the city’s West End with Adrien Brody in the lead. It tells the true story of Nick Yarris, who spent 22 years on death row before his exoneration.

The show is based on a 2015 documentary by filmmaker David Sington. Adapted for the stage by Ferrentino, tickets at the 251-seat Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden sold out in two hours.

The sci-fi horror A Quiet Place franchise is heading to New York with its latest entry, A Quiet Place: Day One, which is set to reach theatres on June 28th – and with that release date just a few weeks away, Empire has published an interview with director Michael Sarnoski, who earned a lot of positive attention with his feature directorial debut Pig (watch it Here) a few years ago, in which he discusses what it was like to enter the world that was created by John Krasinski, the director of A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place: Part II.

Sarnoski said, “When [Krasinski] first brought me onto the project, his directive was, ‘Can you bring some of that Pig touch to the A Quiet Place universe?’ What he wanted was to see someone else play in the sandbox that he had created. Finding those differences was exciting. It wasn’t something that we leaned away from.

The sci-fi horror A Quiet Place franchise is heading to New York with its latest entry, A Quiet Place: Day One, which is set to reach theatres on June 28th – and with that release date just four weeks away, a promotional featurette has arrived online, giving several cast members the chance to talk about what this movie has in store for us. You can check it out in the embed above. A Quiet Place: Day One just got its rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board this week: it’s a PG-13 for terror and violent content/bloody images.

While John Krasinski directed the previous two films, he is producing A Quiet Place: Day One and has passed the helming duties over to Michael Sarnoski, director of the Nicolas Cage drama Pig (watch it Here). Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special) was attached to write and direct A Quiet Place: Day One for a while,...

Kevin Hart wiped away tears on stage as he looked up from the bronze bust on a pedestal to the trio of comedy legends who had come to witness his professional highlight.

In the VIP balcony of the Kennedy Center opera house, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle sat side by side, watching Hart accept the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy Sunday night.

“I didn’t start doing what I was doing to get awards,” Hart said. “I just fell in love with the idea of comedy.”

Hart rose from the open mics and comedy clubs of his native Philadelphia to become one of his country’s most recognizable performers — honing a signature style that combines his diminutive height, expressive face and motormouth delivery into an arena-packing stand-up act. He became the latest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in a raucous ceremony...

Blame it on the shoes. Jennifer Lopez took a little tumble at the American Music Awards on Sunday night during her performance of "Louboutins." But she like totally meant to trip! "Did I trip a little bit? I don't even remember," Lopez, joked on Monday morning during an interview with Ryan Seacrest on Kiis FM. "Yeah, I meant to do that. That was part of the choreography." While she was joking about it being apart of the choreography, she actually had a good sense of humor about the whole thing. "The measure of things isn't what happens when...