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Exclusive: Jameela Jamil (The Good Place) and Won Ji-an (Squid Game) have been tapped for key roles in Pyongyang Home Video, a new drama inspired by true events, which centers on two North Korean sisters reenacting Hollywood movies to escape the perils of their young lives.

Hailing from Imagine Entertainment and South Korea’s Desert Bloom Pictures, the film will be directed by award-winning Korean filmmaker Yoon Sung-hyun (Bleak Night).

The story follows sisters Nari (Ji-an) and Hana, who have grown up watching illegal Hollywood films. Following their forced escape from North Korea, when their neighbor tips off the police about their father’s black market VHS business, the sisters use their imagination to escape into fantastical reenactments of their favorite films, in order to survive the journey. Five years later, older sister Nari finds an unlikely ally in American talk show host, Serena (Jamil), who promises to reunite the siblings on live television.

Exclusive: Innovative Artists Entertainment has inked producer-director-actress Melissa Joan Hart for acting, producing, directing, and crossover work in public appearances and conventions.

Hart is well known for her series Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Clarissa Explains It All, and also won a People’s Choice Award for her work on Melissa & Joey. She also led the Netflix family sitcom series No Good Nick opposite Sean Astin. Recently she co-starred in and produced the Netflix feature A merry Little Ex-Mas which will be coming out this December; that pic starring Alicia Silverstone as well as Hart.

As a director and producer, Hart’s credits include The Goldbergs, Schooled, The Big Show Show, Young Sheldon, Santa Bootcamp, and the iCarly reboot.

Hart continues to be managed by Gilbertson Entertainment and attorney David Tenzer.

This signing is on the heels of vet lit agents Andy Patman, Martin Spencer and Martin To joining Innovative from A3 last year,...

Jameela Jamil is opening up about her struggles before landing her first acting role.

The 39-year-old actress was a TV presenter and radio show host in the UK before moving to Los Angeles with a plan to work as a screenwriter.

However, her agents told her an upcoming comedy series was looking for a British actress and she auditioned, eventually landing the role in The Good Place, which premiered in 2016.

In a new podcast interview, Jameela revealed how little she had in her bank account before landing that role.

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“I just didn’t want to be on TV anymore ever again, and I wanted to be a writer and a DJ, and so I just f—ed off,” she recalled on David Tennant Does a Podcast With…

The actress explained how she joined her then boyfriend on tour.

“And then I ran out of money and so I said,...

Over the last several years, Netflix has established itself as a top contender in the cutthroat business of holiday productions. This past year alone saw the release of highly-successful, viewership-drawing titles like Chad Michael Murray’s Magic Mike-esque Christmas flick, The Merry Gentleman, Lindsay Lohan’s latest themed project with the streamer, Our Little Secret and Simon Otto’s animated holiday comedy, That Christmas. With the 2024 holiday season now behind us, the platform is stepping up to the plate to remind us that 2025’s jolliest time of the year isn’t too far away by announcing the release window of their star-studded holiday feature, A Merry Little Ex-Mas. As a gift to subscribers everywhere, the streamer has revealed that the Alicia Silverstone (Clueless)-led rom-com is set to unwrap itself onto Netflix this Fall.

Netflix unveiled their feature slate for this year, dating a handful of titles, along with some first look photos and teasers to come this morning. For all the headlines that they’ve cut back on their feature slate, what’s clear below is that the streamer continues to commit to event films.

Among those pic’s receiving premiere dates, either specific or general, are the Stephen Chbosky directed comedy Nonnas starring Lorraine Bracco, Linda Cardellini and Drea de Matteo, the long-awaited Charlize Theron Skydance action sequel The Old Guard 2, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, the Gareth Evans action thriller Havoc, Fear Street: Prom Queen, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon cop thriller Rip, The Woman in Cabin 10, Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow’s next untitled movie, and the highly anticipated Rian Johnson threequel Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.