Richard Gadd will take his next series to HBO and the BBC. The two outlets will co-produce Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer, which was a breakout success for Netflix and sparked waves of conversation over its based-on-a-true-story tale of an alleged stalker of Gadd. The new series is currently titled Lions and will follow a …
Paramount+’s Dexter prequel cast keeps getting more impressive. Emmy winner Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed onto Dexter: Original Sin, which follows a young Dexter Morgan (Patrick Gibson) as he becomes an avenging serial killer in Miami. “Sarah Michelle Gellar is a pop culture icon who perfectly rounds out our best-in-class cast featuring Christian Slater and Patrick …
Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness has, for the first time, publicly commented on allegations that they were abusive on the set of Netflix‘s smash hit makeover series. The grooming expert was caught in the centre of a Rolling Stone investigation in March this year which claimed Van Ness had “rage issues” and that subsequent …
ESPN is giving an award to Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Harry will receive the 2024 Pat Tillman Award for Service at this year’s ESPY Awards, which will be held July 11 on ABC, and be hosted by tennis legend Serena Williams. The Tillman award is “given to a person with a strong connection …
Rosario Dawson is lending her voice to Terminator Zero, the Terminator reboot that already has Timothy Olyphant, star of FX’s Justified, set to voice the killer Terminator robot. Dawson (Ahsoka, Common Ground) has nabbed the role of Kokoro, an advanced artificial intelligence and Japan’s answer to Skynet. If brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power …
If you want to breathe new life into a horror movie built around silence as the only means of surviving an alien invasion, there are countless worse ideas than relocating the story from smalltown U.S.A. to over-populated New York City. Opening screen text over an aerial shot of Manhattan accompanied by the cacophonous sounds of …
Iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert will be honored at this year’s Lumière Festival in Lyon with the prestigious Lumière Award for her contribution to cinema. “Her career encompasses an immense part of the history of contemporary cinema,” the Institut Lumière, which oversees the festival, said of the French star of Elle, 8 Women, and The …
Andrew Lincoln will make a long-awaited return to British television in ITV‘s newly-commissioned Cold Water. Joining The Walking Dead star in the six-part thriller will be Ewen Bremner (Our Flag Means Death, Trainspotting), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Eve Myles (Hijack, Keeping Faith). Written by playwright David Ireland and produced by Sister, …
For their feature debut, In the Land of Brothers, young Iranian directors Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi, turned their cameras on Iran‘s community of Afghan refugees, the millions of people who have fled decades of war in Kabul to find shelter across the border in the “land of their brothers.” Amirfazli and Ghasemi’s drama follows …
Bill Cobbs, the convincing character actor who had pivotal turns in such films as The Hudsucker Proxy, Sunshine State and Night at the Museum, has died. He was 90. Cobbs died Tuesday night of natural causes at his home in Riverside, his publicist, Chuck I. Jones, told The Hollywood Reporter. A native of Cleveland who excelled at comedy as well …