The casting directors for the Marvel Cinematic Universe have the Midas touch. Every role that they cast is golden!
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EXCLUSIVE: Ruchi Narain was obsessed with ABC‘s early 2010s drama Revenge — so much so that she spent years trying to land the rights to remake the Mike Kelley show in India.
“I was addicted to the show,” she recalled during an exclusive interview. “From when I saw episode one a decade ago, I thought that this is it — something that should be taken to the Indian audience.”
Now that’s finally come to pass, with Disney+ Hotstar in December ordering a remake, Karmma Calling, from R.A.T. Studios. Narain has the led the adaptation process, and the screenwriter and director has told Deadline the story of how she approached the trials and tribulations of porting the Hamptons to Mumbai high society.
But first, it’s worth exploring exactly how the series came about. Narain, known for hit Indian films such as Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Netflix’s 2020 feature Guilty, had begun talking to the Star India network about securing the rights in the mid-2010s. Execs at the channel, which was then owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, liked the idea and began working on an agreement with ABC’s parent, Disney.
However, several “restrictions” mean that a deal fell through. And though the U.S. show was a loose adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ out-of-copyright classic 19th century novel ‘The Count of Montecristo,’ directing adapting the book was never an option for Narain. “I had already worked hard on it and I was upset, but I was sure I wouldn’t do it without the rights,” she said. “I wanted to retain the essential writing of the show so I said, ‘I guess that’s it.'”
That wasn’t it, though. Fate played a powerful hand a few years later when Disney acquired 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets — including Star — in 2019. Suddenly, the
The casting directors for the Marvel Cinematic Universe have the Midas touch. Every role that they cast is golden!
Morrissey has cancelled his concerts commemorating the 20th anniversary of ‘You Are The Quarry’ due to “unforeseen circumstances”.The musician was scheduled to perform two shows in California celebrating the 2004 album, namely on January 26 at Anaheim, California’s Honda Center, and the following day, on January 27 at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum.However, last night (January 25), the two venues took to X to announce that the shows will not proceed due to “unforeseen circumstances”, and that “tickets will be automatically refunded to purchasers”.pic.twitter.com/p6noCHTcpY— Honda Center (@HondaCenter) January 25, 2024pic.twitter.com/BHir1IQzrs— The Kia Forum (@thekiaforum) January 25, 2024Morrissey is noted to have a history of cancelling shows. Last April, he pulled the plug on his concert scheduled for London’s Crystal Palace on July 9, before announcing a tour of the UK and Ireland during the same month of the Crystal Palace show.
After seeing its Martin Scorsese pic Killers of the Flower Moon, depicting the “Reign of Terror” in Osage territory, score 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Apple has announced new grants to the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in support of Indigenous storytelling and the preservation of Native American history.
The movie Queenpins is currently becoming a hit for Netflix, but no, it was not made for the streaming service.
Brianna Ghey's mother has branded her daughter's killers as 'cowards' as she said it was a 'massive relief' knowing they are to be locked up for a long time.
Ozzy Osbourne is planning “two more shows to say goodbye” before he fully retires from performing live.That’s according to the former Black Sabbath frontman’s wife and manager Sharon, who spoke about Ozzy’s future during her Cut The Crap show at London’s Fortune Theatre on Sunday (January 21).“He won’t tour again but we are planning on doing two more shows to say goodbye as he feels like, ‘I have never said goodbye to my fans and I want to say goodbye’,” she told journalist Jane Moore (via Music News).Sharon continued: “His voice is still absolutely perfect. And all the time he has been off he still does his singing lessons.
Everyone is talking about the movie Gone Girl right now thanks to the popularity of the new Netflix true crime docu-series American Nightmare.
Early in Yance Ford’s visual essay “Power,” he tells the audience that the film to come either requires “curiosity” or “at least suspicion” from the viewer. It’s the type of bold claim that might pack a punch as a rhetorical hook, especially for a documentary that dives into the cultural, social, economic, and political history of policing in the United States.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story hints at a major cameo in the Sundance Film Festival premiere “Freaky Tales,” which debuted on opening night. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s electrified the opening night of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival with “Freaky Tales,” a genre-driven anthology movie that tells four interconnected stories in 1987 Oakland, California. The movie is a return to indie filmmaking for Fleck and Boden, who made a name for themselves as the directors of indie hits like “Half Nelson” before they jumped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with “Captain Marvel.” “It was great to come back to the indie film world in a lot of ways,” Boden said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible.
K.J. Yossman “10 Lives,”an animated comedy set to premiere at Sundance, tells the story of a pampered cat called Beckett (voiced by British comedian Mo Gilligan) who undergoes a series of transformations – both physical and emotional – while learning a lesson about love. The all-star cast includes “Bridgerton’s” Simone Ashley, “Love, Actually” star Bill Nighy and One Direction heartthrob Zayn Malik in his first feature film speaking role (he plays a pair of dopey henchmen, Cameron and Kirk).
Bethesda and MachineGames have shared the first full trailer for Indiana Jones And The Great Circle as part of Microsoft’s most recent Xbox Developer Direct – check it out below.The 3-minute gameplay video sees Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones headbutt Nazis, explore crypts, assemble ancient puzzles and use his whip to escape life-threatening situations as he tries to uncover the truth about The Great Circle. Despite the likeness to Ford, he hasn’t returned to voice Indiana Jones with Troy Baker stepping up instead.“Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and The Last Crusade,” reads the game’s official description.
Lizzie McGuire reboot was before it could see the light of day, and we finally know what miss Lizzie () got up to in her thirties.Over on TikTok, Lizzie McGuire reboot staff writer decided to reveal details from the first three scripts, which Disney allegedly decided for their audience. “I’d be doing a disservice to everyone by limiting the realities of a 30-year-old’s journey to live under the ceiling of a PG rating,” Duff on Instagram in February 2020.
EXCLUSIVE. When the alternative book of film trivia is written, a page will be dedicated to the influence of Leonard Nimoy’s paranormal-themed late-’70s TV show In Search of… on director siblings. It was here that Albert and Allen Hughes first heard about Britain’s most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, beginning an obsession with Victorian London that resulted in their 2001 horror-drama From Hell. And for David and Nathan Zellner, the cultural impact was very similar. “We loved that show,” recalls David. “As kids, there wasn’t much out there, that we were exposed to, that covered those sorts of things. They’d cover the Loch Ness monster, everything. I remember one about plants, wondering if they were able to think and what kind of music they’d like to listen to. They got really obscure with some of the subjects, but we loved that show. We loved the vibe of it. And that’s where we first learned about Bigfoot…”
Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you’ll see Da’Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore her hair when she played Louise “Weezy” Jefferson in the classic TV comedy The Jeffersons.
EXCLUSIVE: Banijay is ramping up efforts to find new properties for its array of scripted labels, appointing experienced industry exec Hannah Griffiths as its first ever Head of Adaptations.
Abbott Elementary” star and creator Quinta Brunson took home the Emmy for best actress in a comedy series on Monday night. “I don’t even know why I’m so emotional. I think, like, the Carol Burnett of it all,” Brunson said, beginning to choke up at the top of her acceptance speech.
Turns out, it’s a longer, stranger trip. While LSD is often associated with 1960s hippies and Timothy Leary, that’s not the whole story. “The first era of global experimentation with consciousness-expanding substances took place much earlier than commonly thought, in the 1920s through the 1950s, rather than the 1960s and 1970s,” Benjamin Breen writes in his new book, “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science” (out Tuesday). “Put another way: Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first psychedelic era. They ended it.” In this excerpt, Breen, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writes of actor Cary Grant — who reportedly tripped on LSD 100 times — and Connecticut Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce experimenting with psychedelics well before hippies got trippy. Throughout 1959, psychedelic therapy captured the public’s attention in a way it would not again until the 2020s.
Naman Ramachandran Telugu-language Indian superhero film “Hanu Man” has emerged as a hit and is adding screens in North America. The film is set in the fictional village of Anjanadri and follows Hanumanthu, who miraculously awakens Hindu god Lord Hanuman’s power after being involved in an accident near the sea.
The cheapest way to watch Oppenheimer right now is through a $5.99 rental, but you’ll soon be able to stream the movie for free.
Prince Harry is to be be inducted into the "Living Legends of Aviation" to honour his work in the British army.