Delroy Lindo on his titanic performance in 'Da 5 Bloods'

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that Evil Doghouse Studios has secured the rights to the popular Norwegian book series about eco-terrorist Rino Gulliksen written by author Lars Lenth.Norwegian director Geir Henning Hopland (Netflix’s Lilyhammer, Magnus) and screenwriter Rolf-Magne Golten Andersen (Magnus, Cabin Life) are attached to the project, which is currently in development as a scripted series.Lenth’s book series follows lawyer Leonard Vangen and

Linda Cristal, the Golden Globe-winning actress who portrayed Victoria Cannon, the wife of Leif Erickson's character, on the 1967-71 NBC WesternThe High Chaparral, has died. She was 89.

Linda Cristal, the fiery and humble Argentine-born actress who became a star and pioneer for minority and women performers after fleeing to the U.S. as a child, has died.

Peter White Television EditorABC is to shoot five pilots once production can safely resume and is rolling three projects to next year.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersThe network is picking up the cast options for the five projects that it has committed to producing this year through to September 30.This includes dramas Rebel, starring Katey Sagal and Andy Garcia and Delroy Lindo’s Harlem’s Kitchen, as well as comedies Bossy, which was formerly known as Kids Matter Now,

reported to The New York Times by son Jordan Wexler.Cristal had built a career as an actress during the 1950s in Mexico’s film industry when she was cast in an English-speaking role in 1956’s “Comanche,” directed by George Sherman and starring Dana Andrews.Film and TV credits throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s included roles in “Rawhide,” “Seven Sins,” “The Alamo,” “The Tab Hunter Show” and “Iron Horse,” among others.

Linda Cristal was an actress who starred as Victoria Cannon in the popular Western series “The High Chaparral” from 1967 to 1970.A native of Argentina, Cristal began her acting career at home and in Mexico before transitioning to U.S. movies and TV.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Documentary filmmaker Alex Holmes is going from the world of boat racing in his critically acclaimed pic Maiden to the world ofcycling with Last Rider, which chronicles the story of Greg LeMond. The director will team with MRC Non-Fiction for the production.

Peter White Television EditorNetflix dramatic comedy Dead to Me doubled down on darkness in its second season.

the Oscar winner has four black men in their sixties meet up for a happy present-day reunion at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.The buds — called the “Bloods” — are back to their former battlefield, we learn, to retrieve the remains of the fifth “Blood,” Stormin’ Norman (“Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, in flashback).So, this must be Lee’s reckoning-with-’Nam film, you think.

The initial batch of reviews are in for Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods. Lee directed, co-wrote and produced the film, which follows four African-American vets that return to Vietnam later in life.

Few comebacks have been as satisfying as what 2018’s “BlacKkKlansman” wrought. The film netted the esteemed and oft-misunderstood director Spike Lee a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, reminding many of his potent cinematic eye.

Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka In Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, actor Jonathan Majors joins a stacked cast that includes Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Chadwick Boseman — but he is no stranger to starring in acclaimed films and TV series alongside some of the best names in the biz.Majors’s talent has been seen Scott Cooper’s Hostiles, the Yann Demange-directed White Boy Rick, the Dustin Lance Black docudrama miniseries When We Rise.

By Ramin Setoodeh