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Playing Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice is not the first time Jeremy Strong has tackled recent American history. Before the actor became synonymous with Kendall Roy in Succession, he played parts in The Big Short, Selma and Parkland. While the actor feels a slight discomfort discussing acting choices for a film whose main subject “poses such a clear and present danger to you and I,” Strong is no less proud of the work. “I am happy with how it turned out and happy that I went for it,” he says. “I almost didn’t.”

Deadline: What made you run toward this role and this film?

Jeremy Strong: You run toward it, because it’s so dangerous. Because it’s been done before brilliantly. It was done by Al Pacino [in Angels in America] in a really definitive way, that had such an impact on me.

The Palm Springs International Film Awards will honor Edward Berger’s Catholic drama “Conclave” with the ensemble performance award on Jan. 3 at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, which runs from Jan. 2-13.

Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow, and Lucian Msamati are expected to be on hand to accept the award.

“’Conclave’ is a thought-provoking drama, one which delivers edge-of-your-seat suspense by way of its outstanding ensemble of actors including Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati and Isabella Rossellini,” said festival chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “Together, they deliver powerful and multi-layered performances in Edward Berger’s film that will mesmerize audiences throughout this award season. For these actors’ brilliant and captivating characterizations, we present ‘Conclave’ with this year’s ensemble performance award.”

“Conclave,” based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris, follows Thomas Lawrence (Fiennes), a Cardinal of waning faith who must lead the selection of...

The “Girls” creator is turning a very controversial boy’s life story into a film.

Lena Dunham is set to bring the rise and fall of Ftx founder Sam Bankman-Fried to the screen for an upcoming Apple Original film in partnership with A24. Dunham will adapt the screenplay from Michael Lewis’ New York Times bestselling book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”

Lewis’ past books “Moneyball” and “The Big Short” were also previously adapted to the screen. The official description of “Going Infinite” reads: “The book tells the story of Ftx’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center. When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this...

Earlier this year, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of fraud charges in connection to the cryptocurrency exchange Ftx in a highly-covered trial. Now, the founder’s story is going from fraud to film. Lena Dunham will write the script for an upcoming Apple Studios and A24 film chronicling Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall.

The film will be the latest Michael Lewis book-to-screen adaptation, this time lifting from Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. Lewis previously authored The Blind Side,...

Apple Original Films is set to develop “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” the New York Times bestselling book centering on Sam Bankman-Fried, with Lena Dunham set to write the screenplay, according to an insider with knowledge. The project will be co-produced and co-developed by Apple Studios and A24.

The official description is as follows:

From Michael Lewis, the #1 bestselling author of “The Big Short” and “Flash Boys,” “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon” is the story of Ftx’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center. When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks,...

Lena Dunham is working on the script for a feature about Ftx founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

The Girls creator is on board to write a film adapting author Michael Lewis’ best-selling 2023 book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. Apple Studios and A24 are producing and developing the movie that is in early development.

Bankman-Fried founded Ftx in 2019, and the cryptocurrency exchange enjoyed a rise to prominence that included the company’s commercial running during the 2022 Super Bowl. Ftx boasted endorsements from such celebrities as Tom Brady, Stephen Curry and Larry David.

In March, the disgraced crypto entrepreneur was sentenced to 25 years in prison and forced to forfeit over $11 billion following his conviction on charges of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. Bankman-Fried is appealing the conviction and sentence.

Dunham recently wrapped production on the Netflix romantic-comedy series Too Much, which she wrote and directed. She co-stars in the show alongside Megan Stalter,...

Apple and A24 have tapped Lena Dunham to adapt the Michael Lewis book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, which tells the story of failed Ftx founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The film is early development.

Going Infinite is the story of Ftx’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center. When Lewis first met him, Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side?

Lewis, whose previous books that became movies include The Blind Side, Moneyball and The Big Short, sets out to answer this question, taking readers into the mind of Bankman-Fried,...

“The Big Short” and “Don’t Look Up” director Adam McKay took to social media as Donald Trump edged closer to victory in the U.S. presidential election, saying he plans to leave the Democratic Party.

In a post on X, he shared a link for updating voter registration and wrote: “It is time to abandon the Dem Party. I’m registering Green Party or Working Families. But am open to ideas.”

McKay has previously supported the Democratic Party, and endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 and 2020. However, in 2019 he said he had also joined the Democratic Socialists of America. He has been vocal about the need for climate action and signed an open letter to Joe Biden in October 2023 calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

He criticized the Democratic Party’s election strategy in a post on X earlier in the night, writing: “Who would have guessed lying about Biden’s cognitive health for 2 yrs,...

Exclusive: Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and Billy Magnussen (Roadhouse) have been set to star in Steve Pink’s out-there horse racing comedy Chariot.

This sounds a fun one. The synopsis reads: “Paul Rovia, an oversized jockey, seeks redemption after causing a major racing accident that gets him suspended from the sport for two years. Desperate to compete in the Grand National again, Paul teams up with Kate O’Leary and her wild Centaur named Chariot. Paul and Chariot clash at first but eventually form an unstoppable duo, taking the racing world by storm.”

Pink is known for writing Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity and directed Hot Tub Time Machine, About Last Night and most recently The Wheel.

The Exchange is launching worldwide sales on the movie at the upcoming American Film Market. The sales deal was negotiated by Brian O’Shea on behalf of The Exchange and by Lastine Entertainment Lawon behalf of the filmmakers.

Billy Magnussen is used to playing a beefcake. His first big job was on the soap opera As the World Turns. In Into the Woods, his version of Rapunzel’s Prince wore leather pants even when riding a horse. He served as the resident hunk among the ensembles in Game Night and The Big Short. These castings, flattering as they might be, haven’t always reflected the man himself, a classically trained actor who has a Tony nomination (for 2013’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike).

But in his latest role, Magnussen, 39, finally has found something a little more relatable, one that simultaneously fuels his character’s ego and leaves him plagued by self-doubt.

The satirical series The Franchise centers around the ill-fated production of a fictional superhero film whose big-budget snafus (an emergency pro-feminism rewrite, disputes over which actors get the biggest superpowers) poke fun at Hollywood’s IP obsession.

For Charlize Theron, the world of media and entertainment is one of the most effective tools when it comes to commenting on the present day’s social politics. The movie star found her efforts in that field, via her Oscar-nominated role in the 2019 film Bombshell, rather impressive when it allowed her to recreate the Me Too movement in the form of a brilliant satire.

Bombshell (2019) [Credit: Lionsgate Films]

But when it came to the real Megyn Kelly – the Fox News anchor who Theron portrayed in the film – the ideologies of the two celebrity figures didn’t quite match up where they should have. Despite playing her fictional alter-ego in Bombshell and coming to understand the woman for all her flaws and courage, there remained a vast chasm of things left unsaid between the two.

Understandably, Theron and Kelly clashed in a battle of words over public platforms – transforming from being each...

Steve Carell is one of the finest comedy actors today, but this was not his goal in mind when he was starting his career. Unlike other actors who knew where they were heading when they ventured into the entertainment industry, he just went with the flow and it took him in a better direction.

Credits: Steve Carell in The Office / NBC

Fans will always remember Carell as Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom The Office, but he also had other notable works such as Foxcatcher, The 40-Year-Old-Virgin, Little Miss Sunshine, and The Big Short.

Steve Carell Wasn’t Initially a Fan of the Comedy Genre

Steve Carell made a name for himself as a comedy actor, and through the years, he has proven to be a great producer, writer, and director. Still, many will associate him with sketch comedy and flat-out funny improvisations.

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"If you dig deep enough, the inconsistencies will emerge." HBO has revealed the trailer for a documentary film titled Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, another investigative look at Bitcoin and the world of cryptocurrency. This would play well as a double feature with Alex Winter's excellent doc Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain a few years back. "In the future of money, who holds the power?" Indeed. In Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, intrepid filmmaker Cullen Hoback dives into the origins of Bitcoin and the identity of its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The captivating new doc film offers a thrilling, globe-spanning investigation, with Hoback immersing himself with key players, uncovering never-before-seen clues, and humorously unraveling Bitcoin's meteoric rise. It's executive produced by Adam McKay (director of The Big Short), Todd Schulman, Cullen Hoback, and Taylor Jones. And it'll be streaming on Max later this month. I'm always fascinated by these kind of investigations,...

Exclusive: The Fighter Oscar winner Melissa Leo has inked with Gersh for representation.

Leo recently starred in Long Gone Heroes with John Hutcherson and King Ivory, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September.

The New York City-born native who grew up in Putney and Bellows Falls, Vt, won Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars for David O. Russell’s The Fighter as Alice Ward, the matriarch to boxer Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his drug-addled brother portrayed by Christian Bale (who also an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the role). Leo also won a Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, and SAG awards for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Alice Ward.

Previously, in 2009, she was nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars for Frozen River. The Courtney Hunt directed and written movie also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay, and it won the Grand Jury...

It's bizarre to even consider, but at one point, Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei auditioned to play Penny on "The Big Bang Theory" — and while it's hard to imagine her in Kaley Cuoco's role, it's also funny to imagine an alternate universe with Tomei as the show's bubbly female lead.

Fans of "The Big Bang Theory" know there was a decent amount of strife over who would play Penny — one actress, Katie Walsh, was replaced after a badly-shot pilot didn't impress CBS — but it's definitely shocking to hear that Tomei was in the mix. In 2022, Tomei opened up about "The Big Bang Theory" and said that she did like the project, and obviously had no idea that it would be such a huge pop culture phenomenon.

"I thought it was a great script, and that's why we went so far as to check it out," Tomei told Business Insider in an...

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in October. The Peacock October 2024 schedule includes the streaming premieres of The Mouse Trap and Blackwater Lane, as well as the debut of the terrifying Peacock Originals Teacup and Hysteria!

Peacock has something for everyone, from frightful favorites like I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Fly and spine-chilling thrillers like The Craft and Jennifer’s Body to films to scare up fun for the whole family, such as the Harry Potter franchise, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and more.

Hysteria!

October also brings a taste of early noughties nostalgia with the exclusive streaming premiere of Didi and a royal reality check when Queens Court returns for season 2. Get on your dancing shoes for the premiere of Reggaeton: The Sound That Conquered the World, and don...

“Nickel Boys”, which opens the New York Film Festival on September 27, wouldn’t exist without producers Dede Gardner (Plan B) and Joslyn Barnes (Louverture Films). Both women boast enviable track records of finding, backing, and promoting rising talent, along with Gardner’s Plan B partner Jeremy Kleiner, who produced with her the Oscar-winners “Moonlight” and “12 Years a Slave,” as well as Best Picture nominees “The Tree of Life,” “The Big Short,” “Selma,” “Vice,” and “Women Talking.”

Barnes is known in the documentary space for producing Oscar nominees “Strong Island” (Yance Ford) and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” her first collaboration with Brown professor and photographer RaMell Ross. Barnes was finishing “Strong Island” when Ross showed her eight minutes of his project; she resisted at first but eventually became intensely involved in the shoot, archives, and the final edit. Ross sees the world differently than most filmmakers; his rare...

When producer David Beaubaire was an executive at Warner Bros., DreamWorks, Paramount, and Sony, he made movies like “Up in the Air,” “Dreamgirls,” “Flight,” and “The Big Short” — the kinds of original studio projects that aren’t often made today.

Development has always been a gamble, requiring many years and millions of dollars for a film that’s more likely to flop than to hit — if it ever gets made at all. It’s also become increasingly rare. Beaubaire studied 505 films released and/or to be released by major studios between 2022 and 2026 and found that the titles championed by a studio executive — someone who courted filmmakers and talent, went through rewrites, and saw it through to its release — accounted for 10 percent of the total.

Some of these films, like Paramount’s “The Lost City” and “One Love: Bob Marley,” or Universal’s “Cocaine Bear,” became modest hits. Others were intended for streaming,...

Academy Award-winning screenwriter, producer and director Adam McKay will serve an an executive producer on “Union,” an acclaimed documentary that premiered at Sundance. The film won the special jury prize in U.S. competition at the festival and received rave reviews for its look at the efforts of a group of warehouse workers to launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island.

Todd Schulman of McKay’s HyperObject Industries has also joined the film team as an executive producer. The politically charged film was directed Brett Story (“The Hottest August”) and Stephen Maing (“Crime + Punishment”). Producers Story, Maing, Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone and Martin Dicicco have worked with distribution expert Michael Tuckman and Impact Producers Red Owl to self-distribute the film theatrically, with its rollout starting on Oct. 18.

“Not only is ‘Union’ a film about the defining fight of our time; the resurgence of organized...

Ahead of its Tuesday world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Nick Hamm’s resistance epic, “William Tell,” the company announced.

The medieval action-drama stars Claes Bang. The film was written and directed by Hamm.

Inspired by the legendary tale, Bang takes on the role of William Tell, a noble huntsman whose peaceful life is shattered when the ruthless Austrian Empire invades his homeland of Switzerland. Unwilling to bend the knee before his country’s oppressors, Tell is thrust into a perilous trial, one that draws him and his family into the epicenter of a revolution that will shape the destiny of his nation.

“Nick did an amazing job with this historical epic, we’re incredibly excited to bring this legendary story to the big screen” Samuel Goldwyn Films president Peter Goldwyn said in a Tuesday statement.

Producers Piers Tempest and...

Not every child actor story turns out to be a tragedy. The Disney Channel child star to super rich adult pipeline is real, and Selena Gomez is the latest star to take it to new heights, according to a fresh report from Bloomberg. The "Only Murders in the Building" star is officially a billionaire, with a net worth of $1.3 billion dollars, but most of that money didn't come from her acting and musical career.

According to the outlet, Gomez has made her millions via a combination of acting, singing, brand partnerships, a mental health startup, and -- most importantly -- a mega-successful makeup line called Rare Beauty Brands. So, what does reportedly being richer than Zendaya or Miley Cyrus mean for the actor who first got her start on Disney's fantasy family comedy show "Wizards of Waverly Place"? Well, she can basically do whatever she wants in Hollywood.

Unlike some...

How does one become one of the most celebrated and commercially successful comedy multi-hyphenates of all time? Surely not by dropping out of college before receiving their bachelor’s degree and joining an improv comedy group, right?

Wrong. Thus was the journey for Adam McKay, the immensely talented and successful director, writer, and producer behind such classics as ‘Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,’ ‘Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,’ ‘Step Brothers,’ ‘The Other Guys,’ ‘The Big Short,’ and ‘Vice.’ McKay has had a fascinating and very versatile career, going from directing Will Ferrell at his absolute best, making people’s stomachs hurt from laughing too hard, to tackling academy-award nominated films revolving around climate change, corrupt politicians, and the recession of 2008. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read...

It has been observed time and time again that upcoming actors slowly replace the veteran ones in Hollywood. The world seems to have fallen in love with Glen Powell due to his role in Top Gun: Maverick. In the process, however, fans are now comparing Powell to Ryan Gosling.

Ryan Gosling as Ken in Barbie | Credits: Warner Bros.

With certain audiences and the kind of movies that an actor stars in, Ryan Gosling has been referred to as a ‘ladies’ man’ several times. However, fans defended the star by saying that his movies are not just meant for female audiences.

Glen Powell Is The Next Big Actor in Hollywood

Sure, Gosling has starred in movies like La La Land, The Notebook, and, Crazy, Stupid, Love which falls into the romantic side of things but that doesn’t mean he only stars in particular kinds of movies.

Glen Powell recently starred...

Tommy Wirkola’s shark film has a flashy new title and a release date. More on Beneath The Storm below.

We first heard of Tommy Wirkola’s shark film last May when we reported that Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor was in talks to join the then-untitled film.

That film now has a title: Beneath The Storm. Deadline also reports that the film is heading to US cinemas on 1st August next year, courtesy of Sony Pictures. There’s no word on a UK release but we’re sure it’ll show up on a release schedule eventually.

In May, the plot details were kept under wraps and unfortunately that hasn’t changed. All we know is that the film is directed by Wirkola, stars Dynevor and it’ll have sharks. It’s not much to go on, but fans of films like Deep Blue Sea and The Shallows have plenty to get excited about here.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon plan to tell the story of former wrestler Hulk Hogan’s highly publicized lawsuit against the now-defunct news website Gawker in their new movie “Killing Gawker.” The film will focus on Hogan’s 2012 defamation case, which resulted in a $115 million judgment against Gawker for publishing a tape of Hogan engaged in a private act without his consent.

While an upcoming biopic starring Chris Hemsworth will chronicle Hogan’s wrestling career, “Killing Gawker” will concentrate specifically on one controversial chapter – Hogan’s legal battle raising questions around privacy, freedom of the press, and tabloid ethics. Affleck and Damon, known for fact-based films like “Argo” and “The Big Short,” aim to explore this complex case and its wider implications on media and privacy.

Unlike the Hemsworth project, Hogan is not involved in “Killing Gawker.” His absence could allow a more unfiltered depiction of events. However, Bubba the Love Sponge Clem,...

Steve Carell first came to prominence as a correspondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” appearing as a regular cast member from 1999 to 2005. He left the nightly news satire to play bumbling boss Michael Scott in “The Office,” a role which brought him six Emmy nominations as Best Comedy Actor and a Golden Globe win in 2006.

After supporting roles in such films as “Bruce Almighty” (2003), “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” (2004), “Melinda and Melinda” (2004), and “Bewitched” (2005), Carell moved into leading man status playing a middle-aged man seeking to have sex for the first time in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” (2005). He received wide critical acclaim the very next year for playing a gay Proust scholar in the Oscar-winning “Little Miss Sunshine.”

Carell became an Oscar nominee himself for playing eccentric billionaire John du Pont in Bennett Miller‘s true life sports drama “Foxcatcher” (2014). He reaped a Golden Globe bid the following...

Exclusive: Convexity Films, the production company of filmmaker Richard Dewey (Radical Wolfe), has optioned the Michael Lewis book The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story for development as a narrative feature.

The deal came together following Dewey’s collaboration with Lewis on his feature documentary Radical Wolfe, about author and journalist Tom Wolfe, which adapted an acclaimed Vanity Fair article from Lewis.

Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1999, the bestseller is described as an insightful and engaging exploration of the dot-com boom and the technological innovations that fueled it. The book focuses on the life and ventures of Jim Clark, a Silicon Valley pioneer who founded three billion-dollar companies in the early days of the Internet: Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon. Through the prism of Clark’s work, Lewis provides a look at the culture of innovation, risk-taking, and entrepreneurship that defined the late 20th-century tech industry.

Now let us tell you somethin' brother, watcha gonna do when a new Hulk Hogan movie runs wild on you? *Ahem* We seem to have got a touch of the old Hulkamania for a moment there... apologies. But there is a new Hulk Hogan film in the works folks — and it's not the Chris Hemsworth one, either. Per Variety's reporting, the Hulkster's infamous courtroom battle against Gawker Media is getting the cinematic treatment from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's production banner Artists Equity, who've snapped up a screenplay based on Ryan Holiday's Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker And The Anatomy Of Intrigue. What's more, the duo's Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant is set to helm the project, currently titled Killing Gawker.

According to the Variety piece, The Big Short scribe Charles Randolph is handling the script for the film, which will centre around the $140 million...

A feature focusing on Hulk Hogan’s legal battle with Gawker Media is in the works from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s production company Artists Equity, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The shingle has acquired the screenplay for Killing Gawker from scribe Charles Randolph, who earned an Oscar for his work on 2015’s The Big Short. Killing Gawker adapts author Ryan Holiday’s 2018 nonfiction book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue.

Gus Van Sant — who previously directed Damon and Affleck in Good Will Hunting from the pair’s Oscar-winning script — is in talks to helm Killing Gawker. Affleck has been circling the role of Hogan, according to media reports, although casting decisions have not been finalized.

In November 2016, Gawker Media agreed to pay $31 million to Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, to settle the sex tape lawsuit filed by the famed wrestler...

Uhh… is this fucking play about us? You may have heard the rumors that Ben Affleck, 0f (maybe) former Bennifer fame, is in talks to play Hulk Hogan in a film about the downfall of Gawker, the former parent site of Jezebel and Splinter and thus The A.V. Club’s relative through marriage.

Back in 2012, Gawker published a leaked sex tape of former WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan that led to a lawsuit backed by PayPal co-founder and conservative firebrand Peter Thiel. The $115 million verdict ultimately led to the demise of Gawker, and there’s been a screenplay about the saga making the rounds in Hollywood for a while. According to a new report from PWInsider, the movie is now “expected to move forward in the days ahead” with the backing of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the latter of whom is eyeing the role of Hogan.

If the rumors bear out, Damon and Affleck would pick up the project, titled Killing Gawker, through their Artist Equity production company with a reported January 2025 launch in mind. Damon would also star in the film as Thiel. Update: Gus Van Sant — who previously directed Damon and Affleck in Good Will Hunting — is in talks to helm Killing Gawker.

From premieres to existing classics, there’s something for everyone to enjoy on Paramount+ this month.

The legendary RuPaul Charles is upping the stakes with all-new franchise of the Emmy-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” with the premiere of “RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars.” In this new show, 12 queens from all around the globe will compete for a grand prize and a place in the international pavilion at the Drag Race Hall of Fame.

And that’s not the only beloved property giving something new. The final season of the Paramount+ original series “Seal Team” is also set to hit the streamer this month.

Along with the new content, there are loads of existing films and shows coming to the platform, including family favorites like “We Bought a Zoo” and “Hotel for Dogs.” Staple movies like “Pulp Fiction” and “The Big Short” will also be available to watch.

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Paramount has appointed former Showtime executive Geoff Stier executive vice president of production at the motion picture group.

Stier will report to motion picture group co-presidents Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland.

At Showtime he served as senior vice president of original programming, developing and supervising production on titles including Emmy-nominated Ripley for Netflix and Fellow Travelers for Showtime and Paramount+, as well as Halo on Paramount+.

Prior to Showtime, Stier was head of US production for Fabula for Pablo Larraín and Juan de Dios Larrain; and EVP of production at Paramount from 2009-2017, when he oversaw titles like True Grit,...

Fresh off the box office success of Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, which just had the highest opening weekend in the company’s history, Neon has picked up YouTube critic Chris Stuckmann’s debut horror movie Shelby Oaks, Deadline reports this afternoon.

Neon has acquired worldwide rights to the found footage horror movie, which is World Premiering at Fantasia this week. No word yet on a wide release date. Stay tuned for more.

Horror master Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, “The Fall of the House of Usher”) recently came on board the upcoming Shelby Oaks as an executive producer. Flanagan, Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka of Intrepid Pictures have joined the team.

The cast for Shelby Oaks will include Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter), Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2), Michael Beach (If Beale Street Could Talk), Robin Bartlett (Shutter Island), Keith David (The Thing), Charlie Talbert (The Big Short), Emily Bennett (Alone With You...

Robert Downey Jr. still remains the biggest star of the MCU, although Hugh Jackman may have something to say about that when he eventually makes it to the mainstream. The actor who kicked it all off with 2008’s Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. has become synonymous with the character, and his demise in Avengers: Endgame was rued by fans all over the globe.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. | Marvel

On the other hand, Marisa Tomei also deserves flowers for the work she has done in the MCU as Aunt May for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker. Meeting her death in 2021’s No Way Home, Tomei said goodbye to the franchise. But what many might not know is that she formerly dated Robert Downey Jr. briefly, which seems to have paid off more than two decades later.

Robert Downey Jr. recommended Marisa Tomei for the role of Aunt May

Marisa...

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Casting Director Says Lady Gaga Is “Going To Blow Your Mind” In Joker 2 ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Francine Maisler, the casting director for “The Revenant,” “The Big Short,” “Little Women,” “Dune” and “The Bikeriders, is thrilled about Lady Gaga’s performance in the upcoming Musical thriller Joker: Folie à Deux.

Todd Phillips’ Joker 2 is coming to cinemas in October. It will see Joaquin Phoenix reprise his role as Arthur Fleck (The Joker) while Lady Gaga makes her DC debut as Harley Quinn.

According to Deadline, Francine Maisler revealed she had recently seen a cut of Todd Phillips’ heavily anticipated DC sequel Joker: Folie À Deux. Maisler made the revelation at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

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Maisler,...

Francine Maisler, longtime collaborator with Aaron Sorkin and Steven Soderbergh and casting director for “The Revenant,” “The Big Short,” “Little Women,” “Dune” and “The Bikeriders,” says she’s always been obsessed with performance.

“I’m always looking and seeing and my eye is taken with things,” she says.

“I love the theater,” she told an audience at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this week, recalling being “mesmerized” by actors onstage long before she had the inkling to follow her career path.

Sorkin has said, “Francine has an eye for talent like no one I’ve ever met,” to which Maisler jokes, “We fight all the time.”

The longtime New Yorker started her career working for the Actors Equity union before moving into casting and professes she’s neither competitive nor did she ever dream of going bigtime. But after a few films in which “I just kind of kept...

The 58th Karlovy Vary Film International Film Festival kicked off with a very personal milestone, commemorating 30 years since the event was taken over by the programming team of Jiří Bartoška and the late journalist Eva Zaoralová. The veteran actor, now 77, gave the festival cause for concern last year when health problems threatened to keep him away from the event. This year, however, Bartoška was the main focus of the traditionally baroque opening ceremony, taking us back to 1994 with memories of Nelson Mandela, TV’s Friends, cinema’s Pulp Fiction, and the first iterations of PlayStation and Bluetooth technology.

There followed a lengthy tribute to Bartoška at work, welcoming a veritable cavalcade of stars; names so famous that for a few minutes, it was possible to forget the festival’s unfortunate tendency to stick with Hollywood stars a tad too long into their wilderness periods (Mel Gibson and Johnny Depp spring...

Today, Prime Video released the official trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader, the new animated series from Warner Bros. Animation, Bad Robot Productions, and 6th & Idaho.

Beginning on Thursday, August 1, the series will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The series stars Hamish Linklater as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Christina Ricci as Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Jamie Chung as Harley Quinn/Dr. Harleen Quinzel, and Diedrich Bader as Harvey Dent/Two-Face.

The ensemble cast also includes Minnie Driver, Mckenna Grace, Eric Morgan Stuart, Michelle C. Bonilla, Krystal Joy Brown, John Dimaggio, Paul Scheer, Reid Scott, Tom Kenny, Jason Watkins, Gary Anthony Williams, Dan Donohue, David Krumholtz, Haley Joel Osment, and Toby Stephens.

Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant, and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce...

To date, there are 24 distinguished individuals (living and deceased) who have won competitive Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards. The Triple Crown of Acting, as it’s known — see the list below. And there’s no horsing around.

Glenda Jackson became the most recent person to join the club when she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in for “Three Tall Women” in 2018.

While the recent 77th Tony Awards didn’t produce another Triple Crown Acting champion (there was no Tony-less Oscar and Emmy winner in contention), it is possible that some unsuspecting thespian was put on course to becoming the 25th name on the list above. And so the awards plot thickens.

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I’ll appropriately start with Sarah Paulson, who accepted the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for “Appropriate.” (It marked her first Tony nomination.

Get ready to pay more for “Tulsa King,” “1883,” “Survivor,” “SpongeBob SquarePants,” and “Yellowjackets.” Paramount+ just announced it will increase its prices on August 20.

When the price hikes kick in, the ad-supported Paramount+ plan will go up $2 to $7.99/month. Subscribers who want Paramount+ with Showtime will pay another $1 to $12.99/month.

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Importantly, existing subscribers will be able to dodge some of the pain. Current Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers won’t see the increase until the next bill after September 20. Existing ad-supported subscribers get to keep their price of $5.99/month. So if you think you might want the service, it’s worth jumping into a free trial now to see if it’s worth keeping at the lower rate.

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Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys has become one of the most celebrated comic book adaptations today, but the series could have ended up being a whole trilogy of movies that came out on the big screen.

As it turns out, there was actually a plan to make a whole trilogy based on The Boys around the same time that Iron Man came out; but development didn’t push through, and fans got the show that’s currently streaming on Prime.

According to Rolling Stone, director Adam McKay was actually developing an adaptation of The Boys which they were planning to turn into a trilogy of films. Development apparently went as far as a finished screenplay and demo animatics, but it never got the greenlight because it was ‘pre-mcu Hollywood’.

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Ryan Gosling, the dreamy hunk & laudable talent, has become an emblematic figure of Tinseltown, especially after the colossal hit, Barbie. From the gripping action thriller Drive to the epic crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines, and, of course, to the financial maestro in The Big Short, his artistry spans a kaleidoscope of roles.

And who could overlook that spontaneous quip in The Big Short that had us all convinced of his impromptu prowess? Yes, this 2015 biographical crime comedy-drama, in which Gosling’s brazen remark about his “math specialist”, piqued our interest with its raw spontaneity. Rumors have long circulated that the quip in which his character calls out the Asian guy (Ted Jiang) for doing all of his math was an unscripted genius moment, leaving viewers in awe of Gosling’s acting genius.

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During Steve Carrell’s appearance on Today, anchor Savannah Guthrie talked about many topics, including an iconic movie series.

Carrell has starred in countless popular and acclaimed films like Foxcatcher, Little Miss Sunshine, and The Big Short.

One of his recent roles is his return to voicing the villain Gru in the popular Despicable Me franchise, with the fourth film arriving in early July.

While Carrell discussed that on Today, Savannah mentioned another classic set of films: Anchorman and Anchorman 2.

Carrell appeared as a main character in both films, and Savannah said she was ready for a third one to happen.

She also pleaded with Carrell about getting an Anchorman 3 film role.

Savannah asked Carrell about Anchorman 3 and her potential role

During the recent Today episode, Savannah Guthrie interviewed Carrell about Despicable Me 4 and mentioned one of his other films.

“I think one of the most- a masterpiece of cinema: Anchorman,...

Whitney Peak, one of the leads of the recent Gossip Girl reboot, has signed on to star opposite Phoebe Dynevor in Sony Pictures’ untitled shark thriller.

Tommy Wirkola, who last helmed the David Harbour-starring Christmas action movie Violent Night, is helming the feature that will begin shooting in Melbourne in July.

Plot details are being kept in the cage but it is said to revolve around a community that has to deal with shark attacks during a hurricane.

Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, who count Don’t Look Up and The Big Short, amongst their output, are producing the project via their HyperObject Industries.

On the Gossip Girl reboots, the Ugandan-born, Canadian-raised Peak played Zoya Lott, the newcomer to the machinations of the chi-chi Manhattan school at where a lot of the stories were set. She also starred opposite Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimi in Hocus Pocus 2,...

Hamish Linklater has joined Season 2 of “Gen V” at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned.

Linklater will play the character Cipher, described as “the charismatic and charming newly-appointed Dean of Godolkin University. Trained as a scientist, he’s politically brilliant, and has the trust and admiration of officials at the highest level.”

The series, a spinoff of the popular Prime Video series “The Boys,” follows the students of Godolkin University as they train to become superheroes.

Linklater joins a cast that already includes Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, and Asa Germann. Chance Perdomo had also starred in Season 1, but the actor died in a motorcyle accident in March. The producers of the series have stated his role will not be recast.

Linklater most recently appeared in the Apple TV+ series “Manhunt” in the role of US President Abraham Lincoln. His other TV roles include “Gaslit,...

HBO has given out a straight-to-series order for a single-camera comedy series starring Steve Carell from Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, Variety has learned.

The untitled, half-hour series has been given a 10 episode order. The official logline states that the show is “set on a college campus, centering on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.”

“HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV,” Lawrence said. “Getting to do a show there with Steve Carell is an immediate career highlight for Matt and me. Nothing can go wrong now.”

Lawrence and Tarses wrote the first episode of the series. Both serve as executive producers, with Carell also executive producing in addition to starring. Lawrence executive produces via Doozer Productions along with Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer. Warner Bros. Television, where both Lawrence and Tarses are under overall deals, is the studio.

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The legacy of Marvel is embedded in the arc of Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans as Iron Man and Captain America respectively and no one cares less about their impact than Christian Bale. The actor who once portrayed an iconic DC character himself – came out the other end branded as a legend who never knew where to start when it came to Marvel.

Chris Evans as Captain America in Civil War [Credit: Marvel Studios]However, with time, even that line blurred a little when Bale was cast to play Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder – a role that was rightfully inducted while the rest of the movie got butchered critically. As an official entrant into the Marvel universe, it is time to throw Bale under the microscope and study the indifference with which he handled an era of Cbm icons that had such a hold over the entire world for 11 straight years.

After breaking records and raising over $1 million on Kickstarter, YouTube critic Chris Stuckmann is making his feature directorial debut with horror movie Shelby Oaks, which we haven’t heard any updates on for a bit now. Today brings a pretty exciting one, however.

Deadline reports that horror master Mike Flanagan has come on board the upcoming Shelby Oaks as an executive producer. Flanagan, Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka of Intrepid Pictures have joined the team.

Shelby Oaks is currently in post-production, so we expect to hear more soon.

“Intrepid’s films and TV shows have inspired me for years, and it’s a dream come true to work with Mike and Trevor on my first feature,” said Stuckmann. “I’m ecstatic beyond words to partner on the release of Shelby Oaks.”

“For a film that had such a hard time getting going, it’s remarkable the doors that then opened to us,...