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Yahoo
2 days ago
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Rachel Brosnahan to Lead ‘Presumed Innocent' Season 2 at Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has landed an Emmy winner to lead the next season of its legal thriller Presumed Innocent. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan has signed on to star in season two of the series from David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot. Brosnahan will also be an executive producer. More from The Hollywood Reporter Patricia Arquette on If Cobel Did a Better Job Than Mr. Milchick, and Why Mrs. Selvig Is So Bad at Recycling 'The Studio' Guest Star Martin Scorsese Thought a Scene Was "Wrong" But Didn't Want to Be a "Backseat Director," Says Creator 'Echo Valley' Review: Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney Star in Apple TV+'s Satisfyingly Tense Domestic Thriller The first season of Presumed Innocent, based on Scott Turow's novel, starred Jake Gyllenhaal as a prosecutor accused of killing a colleague. In renewing the series, Apple TV+ opted to make it an anthology rather than continue following Gyllenhaal's character (the actor will remain an executive producer on season two). The coming season is inspired by Dissection of a Murder, a novel by Jo Murray that's set for publication in July 2026 from Pan Macmillan. Details of the show's plot are being kept quiet; the publisher's description of the novel says it follows a young lawyer defending the accused killer of a well-respected judge. Bad Robot and David E. Kelley Productions produce Presumed Innocent in association with Warner Bros. TV. Kelley and Erica Lipez (The Morning Show) will be co-showrunners on season two, executive producing with Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich for Bad Robot, Matthew Tinker of David E. Kelley Productions, Dustin Thomason, Gyllenhaal (via his Nine Stories company) and Brosnahan. Turow is a co-exec producer. Brosnahan earned five Emmy nominations for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, winning best lead actress in a comedy in 2018. She plays Lois Lane in director James Gunn's Superman, due in theaters July 11; her credits also include House of Cards, Manhattan and The Amateur. She is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Schreck Rose and the Lede Company. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
Yahoo
4 days ago
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‘Etoile' Canceled at Amazon After One Season — Despite Two-Season Order
Amazon's Prime Video has canceled Étoile after a single season — even though the streamer had initially asked for two. The news comes about six weeks after the series, from Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, premiered its full eight-episode season. Étoile is set in the world of ballet and centers on the heads of historic but struggling companies in New York and Paris (played by Maisel alum Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who decide to swap their principal dancers. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'The Better Sister' Stars React to Murder Mystery Reveal: "They Totally Threw Me Off and I Was There" 'Lee Soo Man: King of K-Pop' Director and Subject Talk New Prime Video Documentary "It's Just for the Pure Love of This Art Form": 'THR Frontrunners' Panel With 'Étoile' Showrunners Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino Prime Video gave the show a two-season, straight-to-series order in 2023 as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was in its final season. Such deals often have contingencies, however, by which a streamer or network can opt out after part of a multi-season order. That was the case with Étoile. In the three weeks of Étoile's release for which data is available, the show has not dented Nielsen's top 10 streaming charts. That would make a second season of the pricey series, which filmed on location in New York and Paris, a tough sell. Amazon MGM Studios, which produces the show and where the Palladinos have an overall deal, is also going through a leadership change: Former studio head Jen Salke, who greenlit Étoile, left Amazon in late March (though she struck a producing deal on her way out). TV chief Vernon Sanders and film boss Courtenay Valenti continue to run their respective divisions, now reporting directly to Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and the studio, rather than Salke. Along with Kirby and Gainsbourg, Étoile stars Gideon Glick, Lou de Laâge, David Alvarez, Ivan du Pontavice, Taïs Vinolo, David Haig, LaMay Zhang and Simon Callow. Sherman-Palladino and Palladino executive produced the series with Dhana Rivera Gilbert. Scott Ellis was co-EP. Deadline first reported the news. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
New York Post
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
NYC Ballet principal dancer Unity Phelan moonlights as a TV star on ‘Étoile': ‘Cherry on top'
Unity Phelan's acting resume has range, to say the least. In the last six years, she's appeared in a brutal and bloody blockbuster action film, a mind-bending auteurist drama and a fizzy TV comedy series. But the projects have one thing in common: In all of them, she wears ballet shoes. Advertisement Phelan, a principal with the New York City Ballet, has become Hollywood's ballerina. 5 Unity Phelan, a principal with the New York City Ballet, appears on the Prime Video series 'Étoile.' She was an assassin-in-training in 'John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,' starring Keanu Reeves, a dancing dream in a hallway in Charlie Kaufman's 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' and now a sidelined star in 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino's 'Étoile' on Prime Video. Advertisement 'This is all a cherry on top,' Phelan, 30, told The Post after a New York City Ballet rehearsal. 'It's the best whipped cream topping to a career I could imagine.' And she's had quite a career. Critics have called the five-foot-eight dancer 'incandescent.' Born in Princeton, NJ, Phelan studied at the Princeton Ballet School from a young age, while also nurturing a passion for musical theater. 'I loved Broadway, and I grew up singing,' she said. 'My whole family — everybody sings. My dad's in a choir, my sister's in a choir, my parents met singing.' Advertisement So, while learning how to pirouette, Phelan also refined her belting and jazz squares. 'I went to a camp called Ghostlight Theater Camp [in Maine] religiously as long as I could until I got into New York City Ballet,' she added. 5 From an early age, Phelan loved singing and Broadway — even going to theater camp during the summers. Getty Images Those acting chops she picked up years ago have finally come in handy in 'Étoile,' an eight-episode series about the creative and romantic hijinks at two ballet companies: The Metropolitan Ballet Theater (a stand-in for the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center) and Le Ballet National in Paris. Advertisement Phelan plays Julie, a star dancer who's replaced after she topples over while foolishly filming a TikTok video in high-heel Louboutins. 'It's the first time I've spoken on camera and actually acted and worked on scenes,' she said. 'The other ones I danced in I was primarily silent and did some acting with my face, but not with my voice. And so this was a tester for me.' 5 Gideon Glick, who plays choreographer Tobias Bell, 'has become a close friend of mine,' Phelan said. ©Amazon/Courtesy Everett Collection Off-camera, Phelan got useful tips from Tony Award-nominated Broadway star and 'Maestro' actor Gideon Glick, who plays eccentric choreographer Tobias Bell. 'Gideon has become a close friend of mine,' she said. 'We had a couple scenes together. We got to hang out a lot. He's amazing and so much fun and was so giving.' The more-experienced actors had to pick up some new tricks, too. The non-dancers, like Glick, 36, and French actress Lou de Laâge, as world-renowned ballerina Cheyenne Toussaint, had their own beginner ballet classes, Phelan said. They worked hard to create an unusual dance story. Often backstage ballet dramas, such as the psychological horror movie 'Black Swan,' are pitch dark and filled with vicious personal vendettas and body dysmorphia. Sherman-Palladino told Phelan 'Étoile' would be different. 5 Phelan continued to dance in cities around the world during the three-month shooting process of 'Étoile.' Penske Media via Getty Images Advertisement 'Amy, from the beginning, she was, like, 'I'm so excited you're gonna be here,'' she recalled. ''We're not gonna do anorexia. We're not gonna do dancers stab each other in the back. We're not going to do the lipstick on the mirror in the dressing room. We're going to be as true to form as it can be while still making it dramatic.'' Phelan added that, while heightened, 'Étoile' really does look a lot like what actually goes on backstage at the David H. Koch Theater. 'Obviously it's dramatized,' she said. 'But there's moments of it where I'm like, 'Yep, that happens and that's very real and that is a lot like what our day is.'' 5 Amy Sherman-Palladino promised Phelan 'Étoile' wouldn't be the same old dark ballet show. Getty Images for Jazz At Lincoln Center Advertisement Phelan, a cheerful workaholic, kept a packed schedule during the three-month filming process. She danced at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Vail Dance Festival in Colorado, as well as in Saratoga, Mexico and Copenhagen. But the 'Étoile' experience was a special one. 'It's still crazy to me that I got to be a part of this as an actor,' Phelan said. 'It's really cool.'
