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Pink Villa
3 days ago
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- Pink Villa
Scott Caan and Elizabeth Debicki Join Brad Pitt in David Fincher's Next Untitled Project
Actors Scott Caan and Elizabeth Debicki have joined Brad Pitt in an upcoming Netflix film, whose details remain largely under wraps. The project centers around Cliff Booth, the stuntman character portrayed by Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This new story is set in a later time period than the original movie. While details are tightly guarded, sources say the film draws from a script Tarantino wrote but chose not to direct. Pitt reportedly convinced him to let director David Fincher take over the project, which was greenlit earlier this year. The film's storyline may include elements from Tarantino's 2021 novel, which expanded on Cliff Booth's backstory, including the controversial death of his wife. However, it is unclear how closely the movie will follow the book. Debicki and Caan's roles have not been confirmed. Sources suggest the script includes two major female characters — one running a bar and mud wrestling venue, and another described as a trophy wife — but it's unknown whether Debicki will play either of these roles. For Caan, this marks a reunion with Pitt, having worked together in the Ocean's Eleven trilogy. Production is expected to begin in California this July. Netflix has not released any official statements regarding the new cast members. Scott Caan, son of late actor James Caan, is known for his work in television, including CBS's Hawaii Five-0 and Fox's Alert: Missing Persons Unit. His film credits include Varsity Blues and Gone in 60 Seconds. Elizabeth Debicki gained widespread recognition for her portrayal of Princess Diana in Netflix's The Crown. She has also appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Tenet, and the upcoming Maxxxine. Both actors are represented by CAA, with Caan also managed by Linden Entertainment and Sloane Offer.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Vampires and Pirates and Illegal Abalone, Oh My! Why NCIS: Sydney Is a Perfect Friday-Night Hang
It's a g'day to be an NCIS: Sydney fan, seeing as the franchise's first international spinoff has been having all kinds of fun with its sophomore run, airing Fridays on CBS. In fact, I have found NCIS: Sydney to be a perfect, often-superfun Friday-night hang, occupying — in a small way — a similar space as, say, Hawaii Five-0 or MacGyver. More from TVLine NCIS Recap: McGee's 'Dinner From Hell' Came With Quite a Show! The Equalizer Spinoff: Titus Welliver Hides Family Secrets in Backdoor Pilot's New Promo - Watch Matlock Boss Teases 2-Hour 'Pressure Cooker' Finale - Plus, Julian Gets Emotional in an Exclusive Sneak Peek For the uninitiated, NCIS: Sydney follows a team of U.S. NCIS Agents and Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers who have been grafted into a multi-national task force, to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet. The team is led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey, played by Olivia Swann (DC's Legends of Tomorrow), and her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim 'JD' Dempsey, played by Todd Lasance (Spartacus: War of the Damned). The ensemble also includes Sean Sagar (Fate: The Winx Saga) as NCIS Special Agent DeShawn Jackson, Tuuli Narkle (Bad Behaviour) as AFP Liaison Officer Constable Evie Cooper, Mavournee Hazel (Neighbours) as AFP Forensic Scientist Bluebird 'Blue' Gleeson, and William McInnes (Blue Heelers) as AFP Forensic Pathologist Dr. Roy Penrose. In a recent op-ed I did on the NCIS mothership finally breaking out of a Season 22 rut, I wrote that NCIS: Sydney is 'NCIS (or more accurately, NCIS: Los Angeles) on a low dose.' Yes, it tackles serious topics/cases like the pop star who'd been drugged into compliance by a domineering father, but it's more often the case that he series avails itself of its exotic environs — which is a refreshing departure from yet another dead petty office being found by a white rail fence. What prompted this post was Sydney's latest outing, 'Blood Is Thicker Than Vodka,' in which the discovery of an exsanguinated sailor — found in a coffin bobbing in Sydney Harbour — led Mackey, JD et al to a family that runs a trendy vodka label but also indulges itself in shots of, well, human blood. I didn't know much about sanguinarians ahead of this episode, but NCIS: Sydney, bless its out-there soul, took the subculture pretty seriously (while also allowing team members tons of 'sucks'/'fangs' wordplay). In earlier Season 2 episodes, we saw DeShawn and Evie dress appropriately for a pirate-themed wedding held aboard the actual James Craig, a 19th-century sailing ship-turned-tour boat. The procedural put a fun spin on the tried-and-true foot chase by having Evie hop onto a zip line at one stage. And a March episode revolved around the very niche, but very real, illegal abalone trade, which among other things got this Yank Googling 'abalone.' What I also love about Sydney is that, still in its early goings, the 'family'-building is still robust and fresh, with many an episode involving playful teasing, welcome insights (or at least peeks) into characters' pasts, and the occasional karaoke session to cap a case well-solved. Oh, and it teaches us all kinds of colorful Aussie/British slang! We will always need (and at this rate might always have) NCIS. The high-octane NCIS: Los Angeles, Big Easy-based NCIS: New Orleans and gone-too-soon NCIS: Hawaii will always have special places in our hearts. And Paramount+'s upcoming NCIS: Tony & Ziva promises to deliver something quite different, following two former agents as they and their daughter are chased around Europe (or at least Budapest). NCIS: Sydney, meanwhile, is the perfect medium-stakes, well-cast, gorgeous-to-look at procedural to kick off your end-of-week, Friday-night decompression in front of the of TVLine Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now The Best Streaming Services in 2024: Disney+, Hulu, Max and More
Chicago Tribune
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
‘Pulse' review: Netflix attempts its own version of ‘Grey's Anatomy'
'Grey's Anatomy' was the second most-streamed show of 2024. New episodes premiere on ABC and, 21 seasons in, the network shows no signs of stopping. It's safe to assume that will extend the show's popularity on streaming as well. So it makes sense that Netflix would want to capitalize on that audience with its own 10-episode original series called 'Pulse,' a hospital drama so similar to 'Grey's,' the young medical resident at its center even looks a little like Meredith Grey. The show comes from Zoe Robyn, who has logged time as a writer on 'Hawaii Five-0' and 'The Equalizer,' and she puts those weekly network TV skills to work here. It doesn't take a programming genius to wonder why it took so long for streamers to not only license these kinds of shows, but to create a few of their own. Max was first out of the gate with 'The Pitt,' which is suffused with unvarnished realism and so grippingly done, woe to the hospital show premiering in its wake. And in this case, there are too many similarities to overlook. Both, for example, take place over a very long shift in the emergency room. 'Pulse' abandons this construct after the first five episodes and it's a good thing, because the show isn't up to narrative challenges and limitations imposed by the premise, and improves somewhat when it settles into a more traditional episodic rhythm. Overall, the series is not as bad as I anticipated. And chances are that the average Netflix viewer currently plowing through two decades worth of 'Gray's Anatomy' will give it a try and think: Sure, why not? The series begins with a scandal: The ER's chief resident, one Xander Phillips (Colin Woodell), has been suspended after a sexual harassment complaint is filed against him. He's replaced by Danny Simms (Willa Fitzgerald), who is also the person who filed the complaint. That has everyone whispering. What the ER staff doesn't know? Danny and Xander have a messy romantic history that would make any HR department cringe. Their relationship was consensual but secret. Also, he pursued and seduced her, and then was apparently uninterested in how this affair between boss and subordinate might affect her career if and when the truth came out. If that's not a soapy storyline designed to appeal to 'Grey's Anatomy' viewers, I don't know what is. It's a problem, however, that Danny and Xander have no chemistry. As written, the roles lack the kind of magnetism that would justify putting these two at the show's center. Their drama — seen in multiple flashbacks, as well as the tension that exists in the present day — is deeply uninteresting. A quick note about flashbacks. Though always a tool used by screenwriters, they've become so pervasive in television that I would be happy to never see a flashback again because rarely do they complicate what we already know about the characters. Quit it already! What 'Pulse' does have going for it is an ensemble that's just compelling enough to compensate for the Danny-Xander dead zones. Justina Machado and Néstor Carbonell play department heads, and as the two established actors here, they give the show a confidence it's otherwise lacking. Like 'The Pitt,' the show is primarily filled with new faces. Danny's younger sister (Jessy Yates) is a doctor in the ER too, which makes for occasionally absorbing moments as the siblings navigate a shared professional setting. She's a wheelchair user (as is Yates in real life) and it's a breath of fresh air; rarely are disabled characters featured prominently on TV. Her disability isn't her primary story but the show doesn't shy away from the microaggressions she occasionally weathers from patients either. There's also the cocky senior resident played by Jack Bannon, the talented junior resident he constantly berates played by Chelsea Muirhead, and the wide-eyed, immaculately put together medical student played by Daniela Nieves. Danny's best friend is another resident played by Jessie T. Usher and he is the awkward outlier of the cast, stuck doing nothing because the show has no idea what to do with him. And in a role that deserves more screen time, the ER's no-nonsense charge nurse who keeps all the plates spinning is played by Arturo Del Puerto. The cases are appropriately unusual. An EMT is impaled. A woman has a baby on the ER's bathroom floor. They do procedures they're explicitly advised not to, but it all works out in the end. Sorry if I rolled my eyes. The Miami setting means many of the characters are bilingual in English and Spanish. That feels right. The persistent and cloying underscoring does not; the music exists to gin up emotions that aren't earned. There's a weird, unexplained detail where the doctors sometimes wear white lab coats over their scrubs, then take them off to do procedures, and then put them back on. Is this a thing that really happens in ERs? I have no idea, but it looks ridiculous. Ditch the lab coats already! I suspect Xander — and Woodell's performance — are meant to be McDreamy-esque rather than repellent. The latter wins out, but even that isn't enough to liven up the show Especially in the season's first half, 'Pulse' feels bland despite the chaos that's unfolding. Never have I seen a show try this hard to generate drama and fail so spectacularly. No one mentions money or medical insurance — not the doctors or the patients — until Episode 8, and even then it's treated as a footnote. The show's not just dull. It's visually dull. If 'The Pitt' is caffeinated competence porn, 'Pulse' is a carbonated drink gone flat. But when it remembers that it's supposed to emulate the kind of weekly medical dramas that still keep old school TV afloat — and quits with the incessant flashbacks — it's downright watchable. 'Pulse' — 2 stars (out of 4)
Los Angeles Times
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
‘Pulse' is an ER drama with a maelstrom of emotions and entanglements
If the imminent end of Max's 'The Pitt' has left you wondering what you'll do for a drama set in an emergency room, Netflix, taking your temperature, has scheduled its own ER drama 'Pulse.' Premiering Thursday, it covers some of the same traumatic territory, but it's more of a soap opera, a moderately diverting mix of bubbling relationship froth and coolly handled medical emergencies — the professional business entangled with the (very) personal, its pretty young cast never looking quite as tired as they say they are or ought to be. Created by Zoe Robyn ('Hawaii Five-0'), the series' showrunner alongside Carlton 'Lost' Cuse, it's set in what we will be reminded is Miami's 'only Level 1 trauma center,' 'the best surgical program in Florida' and 'the best Level 1 trauma center in the state.' Given the location, and the workplace, it's nearly inevitable that a hurricane would be headed their way, as indeed it is, occupying the opening three episodes (out of 10). At the center of the emotional maelstrom within the meteorological maelstrom is Dr. Danielle 'Danny' Simms (Willa Fitzgerald), a third-year resident. You know she's the central character because she's the one who gets all the flashbacks, rendered in the customary sepia tones, each introduced by a sort of heartbeat motif on the soundtrack. Like her friend Dr. Sam Elijah (Jessie T. Usher), she hopes to become chief resident when chief resident and rich kid with an obnoxious mother Dr. Xander Phillips (Colin Woodell) moves up a notch, but they promise to be cool with each other whoever it is. (No other candidates need apply.) Complicating this matter is the fact — under wraps, then not — that Danny has reported Xander to HR for sexual harassment, a situation so vaguely, slowly developed, and so contradicted by Xander and what we see in flashbacks, that viewers are within their rights to reserve an opinion. Meanwhile, Xander, though suspended pending an investigation, is brought back to help out during the storm, with Danny appointed interim chief resident by boss and unit founder Dr. Natalie Cruz (Justina Machado), the Miranda Bailey of the piece, much to everyone's confused surprise. To be sure, Xander and Danny's plotline is not the only one snaking through the series, and it's not even the most interesting — or most fun — as much as it's pushed into the foreground; their unsettled personal business becomes tiring after awhile, diminishing whatever chemistry the actors bring to the screen. (This is not Meredith-McDreamy-level heat.) Surgical resident Dr. Tom Cole (Jack Bannon), the most ostentatiously good-looking among the series' universally good-looking men, is involved with Cass Himmelstein (Jessica Rothe) — a head nurse and a person who knows what's going on, above and below her station — which does not stop him from flirting with, or flirting back at, EMT worker Nia Washington (Ash Santos). Danny has issues with her younger sister, second-year resident Dr. Harper Simms (Jessy Yates), who has issues with Danny over Danny's issues with their father. (So many problematic and absent fathers in television drama nowadays.) Serious surgical intern Sophie Chan (Chelsea Muirhead) is initially annoyed by her chirpy shadow, fancy new medical student Camila Perez (Daniela Nieves), but there will be plenty of time for better understanding. Dr. Cruz is worried about her daughter, to not say too much on that subject. Above them all is Nestor Carbonell's wise senior surgeon Dr. Ruben Soriano, the hospital Yoda. It's not always a good idea to peek behind the curtain, to see how the sausage is made, in the popular formulation. Even in a hospital, most of our real-world encounters with medical staff will be fleeting, as a doctor or nurse comes into the room with good, bad or no news, and then disappears back down the hall into what, if we are to trust television, is a gossipy dysfunctional family, rife with sexual tension, passive-aggressive volleying, seething resentments, jockeying for power and competitive doctoring — it's a trope of hospital shows (and for all I know, of hospitals) that nothing is juicier than the chance to perform surgery. But if the arguments that take place over an open abdomen on shows like this are at all realistic, a patient should be doubly glad to be unconscious when it happens. But ultimately they're people who care, and sometimes care too much, and care about one another. 'I'm a doctor, I protect people,' says Harper, not just talking about the patients. 'That's what I'm supposed to do.' Danny spends a lot of time worrying — whether she's good enough, whether she's perceived as good enough. There's a good deal of mutual analysis happening among these folks. But when a hurricane hits, or a bus goes off a bridge, or a nightclub catches on fire, and the stretchers stream in, everyone gets busy, tossing off medical terminology ('the Pringle maneuver' was new to me) with casual aplomb, and a refreshing lack of explanation, as they set to work on hearts and heartstrings.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sian Barbara Allen, Former Actress and Star of 'The Waltons', Dies at 78
Sian Barbara Allen, the beloved star of The Waltons, has died. She was 78. The actress died of Alzheimer's in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Monday, March 31, an online obituary announced. 'She lived her final year of life in North Carolina, surrounded by all of her favorite things, new friends, and more time with [her daughter] Emily than she'd had in 35 years,' the obituary stated. Allen is survived by her daughter Emily Fonseca, two sisters, Hannah Davie and Meg Pokrass, nephew, Miles Bond, ex-husband, Peter Gelblum and grandson, Arlo Fonseca, who, per the obituary, "made her laugh more than anyone could dream." Allen's sister Pokrass confirmed the news on Facebook, writing, 'My wonderful sister, actress Sian Barbara Allen died peacefully today after a long illness … This loss is too hard.' Allen starred in several 1970s and 1980s TV shows, including The Waltons, The Incredible Hulk, Hawaii Five-0, Columbo, The Rockford Files and Gunsmoke. She also appeared in films such as Billy Two Hats (1974), Love American Style, Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976). Allen was born in Reading, Penn., and attended the Pasadena Playhouse on a scholarship after graduating high school. She went on to star in several theater productions including Our Town in 1976, playing one her favorite roles, Emily Webb — and later naming her daughter after the character. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The late star earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her role in the 1972 film You'll Like My Mother and became the first woman to pen a script for the TV series Baretta in 1978. She withdrew from acting and public life to focus on politics in 1990, according to the obituary. 'Along with then-husband, Peter, and daughter, Emily, they volunteered for Jackie Goldberg's 1993 city council campaign in Los Angeles. Sian was a staunch supporter of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers and never crossed a picket line in her entire life,' the obituary further noted. Allen's daughter asked that her mother be honored with donations to the AuthoraCare collective hospice of Burlington or a local organization combating oppression. Read the original article on People
