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The 16-episode hour-long drama is written, directed, and produced by Perry. The cast includes Taylor Polidore Williams (Divorce in the Black; Snowfall) as the lead role of Kimmie.
Decker Sadowski (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Shane West (ER, The Dirty South) are set to star in Katherine Dudas’ horror comedy Theater Is Dead.
Reba McEntire‘s Untitled NBC Comedy pilot has added three to its expanding cast including Tokala Black Elk (Yellowstone), Rex Linn (Young Sheldon) and Pablo Castelblanco (Alaska Daily).
Production has begun on the new Netflix series The Gringo Hunters in Mexico City and the core cast has been revealed. They include José María Yazpik (Narcos, Madame Web), Sebastian Roché (1923, The Young Pope), Harold Torres (ZeroZeroZero, El Chapo) and Mayra Hermosillo (Narcos: Mexico, Thursday’s Widows).
Eleven years sober, five years after the death of his wife, cinema's go-to tough guy is learning to embrace life’s softer side.
"1923" stars Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as Jacob and Cara Dutton, the former of whom serves as the Montana Commissioner of Agriculture. Villains and dreamers alike populate the world of "1923," and one such villain is Father Renaud, played by Sebastian Roché. Renaud operates the brutal residential school that is a site of mental torment and physical abuse for Native American girls.
As usual, the Dutton Ranch bunkhouse fronted no shortage of macho energy either, particularly in flashback scenes in which the teenaged Rip Wheeler (Kyle Red Silverstein) dealt with an unexpected romantic rival in his pursuit of the college-bound Beth Dutton (Kylie Rogers).
Said rival was the cocksure ranch hand known as Rowdy. If you've seen Season 5 of "Yellowstone," you know the actor who portrayed Rowdy brought loads of swagger to the role. That actor's name is Kai Caster.
As the football hardman returns to his country roots, he listens to birdsong and shows both palpable grief and an obsession with hedgehogs. How endearing.
Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) and Tony Shalhoub (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) will lead the cast of the upcoming feature film The Wonder Yard from writer Beth Curry. Lauren Miller Rogen (Like Father) is set to direct.
Elevate Entertainment will produce alongside LYLAS Pictures. Concourse Media has attached to finance and handle worldwide sales, repping domestic sales alongside CAA.
“Zack Morris, for instance, is wonderfully charming as the star quarterback, Isaiah. Acting as a funny, brave, and all-around encouraging individual, his portrayal circumvents the stereotypical aspects of the classic self-centered "jock," the low-test scores notwithstanding. This refreshing take helps to endear Isaiah with viewers, making his initial "exposure" to a deadly object that much more meaningful.”
Sarah Gustafsson has signed with Elevate Entertainment for representation.
The Swedish-Moroccan actress had her first major breakthrough as a series regular in the series Eagles, a Swedish teen-drama from Stefan H. Lidén and New Stories reminiscent of Skam and Friday Night Lights.
James Jordan (Special Ops: Lioness, Yellowstone) has signed with Elevate Entertainment for representation.
Early in his career, Jordan secured TV guest-starring roles in shows like the CW’s Veronica Mars, Fox’s 24, HBO’s True Blood, CBS’ CSI and ABC’s The Mentalist. He also began building film credits starring in movies like The Endless, Seraphim Falls and Destroyer opposite Nicole Kidman.
R.L. Stine's book series Goosebumps is headed for the television screen once again, and it's looking spookier than ever!
The newest TV adaptation of Goosebumps, premiering on Disney+ and Hulu on Oct. 13, follows five high schoolers as they investigate the death of Harold Biddle, a teen who died 30 years ago. But, as they plunge deeper into the mystery, they unearth dark secrets about their parents' past.
Just a day after announcing Black, White, & Blue as his first film under a four-picture deal with Amazon inked back in November, Tyler Perry has named Divorce in the Black as his second. Starring in the pic, which Perry will direct and produce from his script, are Meagan Good (Harlem), Taylor Polidore (Snowfall), Cory Hardrict (All American: Homecoming), Joseph Lee Anderson (Young Rock), Shannon Wallace (City on a Hill), Richard Lawson (For Colored Girls) and Debbi Morgan (Power Book II: Ghost).
In a competitive situation, Australian actor James Mackay has signed with Elevate Entertainment.
Mackay made his feature film debut in Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) starring alongside Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce. On the television side, Mackay starred as Steven Carrington in the CW series Dynasty, now streaming on Netflix.
Ex-footballer and Hollywood ‘hardman’ Vinnie Jones is to front a new series for discovery+; Vinnie Jones: The Wild Life (w/t).
The series will see Vinnie and his farming family “build, bond and banter as they look to the future of the estate, establishing new conservation methods and the reintroduction of species and building habitats to attract new wildlife.”
D.K. Uzoukwu, Telma Hopkins, Jay Wilkison and Norah Murphy have joined the cast of Amazon Freevee’s Clean Slate as series regulars. They join previously announced stars Laverne Cox and George Wallace.
Uzoukwu will play Louis, a closeted gay choir director at the local church who the older female congregants insist on trying to fix up. He’s a close childhood friend of Desiree, and the only person who gives her a genuinely heartfelt welcome home.
Deadline then revealed more cast members, including Serinda Swan (Marvel’s Inhumans), Ferdinand Kingsley (The Sandman), and Rory Cochrane (CSI: Miami). Swan will play special investigator Karla Dixon, Kingsley will play undercover mercenary A.M., and Cochrane will play private defense contractor security head Shane Langston.
Set in a retro-future world, Hello Tomorrow! centers around a group of traveling salesmen hawking lunar timeshares. Crudup stars as Jack, a salesman of great talent and ambition, whose unshakeable faith in a brighter tomorrow inspires his coworkers, revitalizes his desperate customers, but threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him.
Even though she’s been working in the entertainment industry since she was 15 years old, Weaver became a more recognizable star in Hollywood at the age of 50 after Oscar-nominated roles in Animal Kingdom (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and Kevin Costner’s TV series Yellowstone (2018).
As proud lead sponsor of both the England and Wales teams, EE has turned to one man who knows exactly what it’s like to be caught in both camps ahead of the big game. As a passionate England fan and former Wales captain, nobody knows that feeling better than fearsome former pro and actor, Vinnie Jones.
There was plenty of heartbreak along the 10-episode journey of 1883, so that made the happy ending — at least, we hope it stays that way — for Thomas (LaMonica Garrett) and Noemi (Gratiela Brancusi) that much sweeter.