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Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jeremy Bobb, Anthony Carrigan, and others roped in for 'The Stalemate'
"The Continental" actor has joined the star cast of the upcoming comedy film, titled "The Stalemate". Alongside Bobb, actors (The Blacklist), Paul Sparks (House of Cards), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Giorgia Whigham (13 Reasons Why) and Tony Hale (Veep), have boarded the project, according to the entertainment news outlet Deadline. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Directed by Nicholas Arioli, "The Stalemate" is headlined by , Manny Jacinto, and Fiona Shaw. It follows a robber (Jacinto) and sheriff (Foster) who, out of bullets and far from town, must negotiate their way out of an absurd, unending chase in the Old West. The film is produced by Molly Conners and Amanda Bowers through Phiphen, Andrew Bosworth of Warden Shortbow, and Cari Tuna.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ami Canaan Mann on Directing Natalie Dormer as a Heroic Real-Life Doctor in ‘Audrey's Children' and What She Learned Watching Her Dad Direct ‘Heat'
'Audrey's Children' — in theaters Friday via Blue Harbor Entertainment — tells the true story of pediatric oncologist Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), who upended medicine with a new treatment of Neuroblastoma, an often-deadly childhood nerve cancer, all while standing up for herself in her field and caring for her young patients. With a script from Julia Fisher Farbman, the film is directed by Ami Canaan Mann, whose storytelling extends to many different genres in both features (the romantic drama 'Jackie & Ryan,' the crime story 'Texas Killing Fields') and television ('The Blacklist,' 'Power,' 'House of Cards'). Mann opens up about the documentary that influenced her style on 'Audrey's Children,' the role that inspired her to work with Dormer and what she learned working on the set of 'Heat' with her father, Michael Mann. I was sent the script, and there's a scene where the main character, Dr. Audrey Evans, is talking to one of her patients, a child at the hospital, and she's trying to help this child understand their own mortality as a mode of preparation. I thought to myself when I read that scene, 'My God, no adult wants to be in that position with a child, particularly a child whose life you're trying to save, and you're aware that you may fail.' I just thought it was such an egoless thing to do, and she did that as a pediatric physician daily, for decades. To me, that's real heroism and somebody whose story I would like to tell. More from Variety Blue Harbor Acquires U.S. Distribution Rights to Historical Biopic 'Audrey's Children' (EXCLUSIVE) Natalie Dormer, Assaad Bouab to Star in Celyn Jones Thriller Series 'Minotaur' (EXCLUSIVE) 'The Wasp' Review: Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer Play Old Friends With Fresh Grievances I heard an interview with Peter Weir, who is a hero of mine, and he was talking about casting, and he was talking about how the idea is to discern the spirit of the character that you need in order to pull the narrative forward. Casting is really trying to figure out which actor can embody that and already has that spirit. Meryl Streep can do absolutely everything, and every one of her characters has an essential Meryl that she carries with her. For Audrey, I knew we needed somebody who had an emotional and intellectual passion and fire. At the same time … it sounds counterintuitive, but her spirit could also hold incredible softness and empathy with children. I saw the remake of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' and there's a shot of Natalie and she has this power in her shoulders, and at another moment she turned very slowly to the camera. I was like, 'Oh, that's her.' Weirdly, my biggest reference might be Barbara Kopple's 'Harlan County, USA,' in the gritty realism, the textural symphony that she has in that film. It's a documentary, but it's a deep dive into a very specific world with incredibly human characters and a humane ethos towards the narrative overall. That's really what I was trying to go for in terms of the visual lexicon of this movie, that it was a textural world that felt like a real world. If it felt visually consistent because of the subject matter, it would be easy to go in a way that was a little bit too soft. If you can make the world visually consistent and compelling, perhaps the audience would want to stay with you through that hour and a half. That was the puzzle. That was the directorial challenge. Part of that was the visual language of film, making it seductive so that you wanted to be there. All of that was informed by it essentially being a character study. The criteria was anything that happened visually in terms of shot design, performance — I'm a pretty camera-heavy director because I come from a photography background — so all the composition, everything was coming from an awareness of the character herself, who just happened to be a woman who was pediatric oncologist, who happened to work with kids who had cancer. It was a story about a woman, a brilliant thinker, and watching how she moves in a flawed, and sometimes not flawed, way. It wasn't so much words of advice, because my dad and I just talk about dad-kid stuff. We actually don't talk about films a whole lot, and I knew I wanted to work with him on one movie from the beginning to the end. The timing worked out so that it happened to be 'Heat.' I didn't actually work for him, I worked for the line producer as an assistant. He had another assistant who did assistant-y stuff, so I was sort of the, 'Ami, go figure out the gyroscopic helicopter mount, now go figure out the infrared, coordinate with people in Folsom Prison so we can send Bob and Val to go there to interview inmates.' I eventually directed second unit. What that did, though, was allow a distance from the show, from the directorial heart of it, but just close enough to see everything. Watching an A director move from beginning to end through an entire project, and watching that project evolve and watch his approach to it evolve … not so close that I wasn't seeing everything I could see, but not so far away that I couldn't watch that trajectory. Watch the trailer for 'Audrey's Children' below. 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CairoScene
09-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Ahmed Ezz to Star in Global Multi-Million Dollar Action Series
Salah El-Juhaini, writer of 'Welad Rizk' and 'El-Khaleya', leads the series with Daniel Knauf, Sean Hennen and Lucas O'Connor. Production has begun on an eight-episode action miniseries starring Ahmed Ezz alongside a cast of international stars. With a budget of over USD 25 million, the project is being backed by the General Entertainment Authority (GEA) and Riyadh Season, in partnership with AlHisn Big Time Studios, MBC and Sela Studios, a leading entertainment and hospitality company in Saudi Arabia. The series is penned by Salah El-Juhaini, a prominent Egyptian screenwriter who worked on 'Welad Rizk' (2015) and 'El-Khaleya' (2017), with contributions from international writers Daniel Knauf, the creator of HBO's 'Carnivàle' and a key writer on 'The Blacklist', Sean Hennen, known for his work on action and crime dramas, and Lucas O'Connor, a writer and producer who also worked on 'The Blacklist' and other thriller projects. AlHisn Big Time Studios is a state-of-the-art film production facility located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia which has been designed to oversee the entire filmmaking process, from scriptwriting to editing, sound management, and graphics creation. The studio has been utilised for various film projects, including 'The Seven Dogs' movie starring Karim Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Ezz. More than three international directors, who have yet to be announced, will share directing duties for the series. Filming is set to commence after the second quarter of 2025.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alan Tudyk Won't Play Clayface in Live-Action Film — Plus, the Latest on Booster Gold and 8 Other TV Series
More than two years after revealing their initial plans for the TV series that will help populate their new DC Universe, DC Studios CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran met with the press to offer some candid updates on what's still moving forward, what has been slowed by a 'bumpy road,' and what is brand-new to the mix. It was also confirmed that although Alan Tudyk winningly voices Clayface on both Harley Quinn and Creature Commandos, and one objective of the new DCU is to have voice actors on animated series also play the live-action version in film, Tudyk will not be leading the recently announced Clayface movie penned by Mike Flanagan. Per Variety, Gunn said that Tudyk won't make the leap to the big screen since Clayface wasn't a 'primary role' for the multi-talented actor. More from TVLine HBO's Green Lantern Series Adds The Blacklist Alum as Villain Sinestro Creature Commandos Recap: Who Didn't Survive the Finale? Who's New for Season 2? Plus, Grade It! James Gunn on Creature Commandos' Silhouetted Reveal of the New DCU's Batman: 'I'm Not Ready to Commit' As for previously announced and new DC TV projects: 🦸🏽♀️ Waller, the Peacemaker/Suicide Squad spinoff starring Viola Davis, 'has been a bumpy road' and has yet to land the right script, per THR. 🦸♂️ The live-action Booster Gold series had been waiting on a showrunner who'd expressed some interest, but… 'maybe he fell out of love, maybe he got busy,' and 'we had to pivot,' Safran said per THR. But it is still in development. 🦸🏻♀️ Paradise Lost, which Safran (per Deadline) described as a 'Games of Thrones-ish story about Themyscira, the home of the Amazons and the birthplace of Wonder Woman,' is still in the works. 🦸♂️ Any second season of The Penguin is very TBD (Colin Farrell just told Variety, 'I'm in no rush. I have no deep desire to do it'), while the live-action Lanterns is on track for a 2026 release date. 🦸🏻 A Blue Beetle animated series, which follows the events of the 2023 live-action movie, is on track for a greenlight 'really soon,' per Deadline. 🦸♂️ DC has greenlit three 'younger-skewing' animated series, detailed by Variety: My Adventures With Green Lantern, which follows a high school student whose life is upended when 'a Green Lantern Power Ring falls from the sky' and chooses her 'to be its champion'; DC Super Powers, set at Alliance School for Heroes and following students Lightning, Flash, Plastic Man, Aquagirl, Green Lantern and Terra; and Starfire, an origin story for eponymous future Teen Titans member. Want SCOOP on any of the TV shows above? Email InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Blue Bloods' Spinoff Starring Donnie Wahlberg a Go at CBS
CBS is heading back to the world of Blue Bloods — at least partially. The network has given a straight-to-series order to a drama titled Boston Blue, which will see Donnie Wahlberg reprising his Blue Bloods role as Danny Reagan. The new show — CBS is calling it a 'universe expansion' of Blue Bloods — is set to premiere in the 2025-26 season. It will follow Danny as he leaves New York and takes a position with the Boston police — where he's partnered with Detective Lena Peters, the daughter of a prominent law enforcement family in the city. More from The Hollywood Reporter Dunkin's Epic Super Bowl Ad Starring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Strong and Bill Belichick Is Actually a 7-Minute 'DunKings 2: The Movie' Short Film Judge Grants CBS Temporary Restraining Order Against Sony in 'Jeopardy!'-'Wheel of Fortune' Suit Sony Escalates 'Jeopardy!'-'Wheel of Fortune' Beef With CBS The order for Boston Blue comes two months after Blue Bloods ended a 14-season run on CBS. The series was one of the network's most watched dramas for most of its run, and Wahlberg (among other castmembers) has said in interviews that he would have happily continued making the original series. Although the new series is set in the same world as Blue Bloods, it notably has a different creative team. Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis (The Blacklist, Alert: Missing Persons Unit) will serve as showrunners and executive produce with Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed of Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Wahlberg. CBS Studios is producing the new show. Boston Blue will join the Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country (also from Bruckheimer), in CBS' 2025-26 lineup. The network has also renewed Matlock for a second season, with decisions on the bulk of its scripted lineup still to come. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise What the 'House of the Dragon' Cast Starred in Before the 'Game of Thrones' Spinoff
