Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley pose together at the photo call for their film Stars At Noon in Cannes, France on Thursday (May 26).
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“Reacher” Season 2 have arrived courtesy of star Alan Ritchson, who revealed which Lee Child book will serve as the source material for the Prime Video series’ second season.Posting on Instagram, Ritchson held up a copy of “Bad Luck and Trouble,” the 11th book in the Jack Reacher series, confirming that the second season will indeed be based on the Reacher story first published in 2007.The story focus for Season 2 will be as follows: When the members of Reacher’s old military unit start turning up dead, Reacher has just one thing on his mind — revenge. Additionally, sources with knowledge confirm to TheWrap that actress Maria Sten (“Swamp Thing”) will return for Season 2, reprising the role of Frances Neagley after appearing in the show’s first season.Production on “Reacher” Season 2 is due to begin this fall, after the show was renewed merely three days after its first season debuted on Prime Video. “Reacher” ranked among Prime Video’s top five most-watched series ever in the U.S.
and globally, and Season 1 was one of the most-binged Original series ever on Prime Video, with many fans devouring all eight episodes in its first 24 hours of release.When TheWrap spoke with Ritchson about his take on the character for Season 1, the actor revealed the Jack Reacher book he most hopes to adapt in the near future: “I’ve got a list of books I want to see made. I should be so lucky… One of my favorites is ‘Die Trying.’ I would love to make that at some point.”While Season 2 won’t be tackling the second novel in Child’s series, if the next season is anywhere near as successful as the first, perhaps Ritchson will get his wish soon enough.The series is a new take on the popular Lee Child hero after Tom Cruise filled the role in two
.Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley pose together at the photo call for their film Stars At Noon in Cannes, France on Thursday (May 26).
“The Stars at Noon” finds the French filmmaker Claire Denis shooting in Panama doubling for Nicaragua; directing a cast of Yanks, Brits, and assorted Central Americans; and working from a script switching between Spanish and English. Internationally coproduced Towers of Babel such as this aren’t at all uncommon at the Cannes Film Festival, but the errors in translation all over this disappointing foreign-relations drama run deeper than simple differences of ethnicity or language.
Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley are stepping out for the premiere of their new movie at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival!
A new film by Claire Denis is always a cause for excitement. And fans of the French director are in for a treat in 2022, with two new films from Denis premiering this year.
Six years ago today, the trailer for then-new NBC drama series This Is Us was blowing up, breaking records with about 80 million views in 12 days. It was a precursor to the show’s phenomenal six-season run which ended tonight with the series finale, titled “Us.”
LIVE – Updated at 09:58Day Two of the French Open featured an all-star line-up with Emma Raducanu making her senior debut on clay as she overcame an almighty scare against Czech qualifier Linda Noskova. Raducanu trailed by a set and a break at one stage in a gruelling match that lasted over two and a half hours, but the Briton eventually prevailed 6-7 7-5 6-1 to seal her place in the second round. There was good news on the British front for Cameron Norrie too, who made it safely through to the second round with a straight sets victory over Manuel Guinard.
Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: Do not read unless you have watched “Tarrare,” the Season 3 finale of “Atlanta.” The Season 3 finale of “Atlanta” is styled after the quirky and comforting French rom-com “Amélie,” though this version is weirder and grosser.The episode is titled “Tarrare” after the 1700s French solider who was famous for a medical condition that made him constantly hungry — he was able to eat his own body weight in meat, and was also rumored to engage in cannibalism. In “Atlanta,” that hunger belongs to Van (Zazie Beetz), who becomes so unsure of who she is that she has a nervous breakdown, engulfing herself in a French alter ego complete with an accent, a boyfriend, an apartment and a job in a butcher shop that serves human hands.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAlain Attal, the French producer behind the upcoming $73 million movie “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom,” is teaming with Studiocanal on Thomas Bidegain’s survival drama “Suddenly,” which will star Gilles Lellouche (“The Stronghold”) and Melanie Thierry (“En Therapie”).Currently in pre-production, “Suddenly” will mark the sophomore directing outing of Bidegain, whose co-screenwriting credits include “Stillwater,” “The Sisters Brothers” and “A Prophet.”The project was previously set up as an English-language project with Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby set to star. Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories was also a co-producer on the project and is no longer attached.Attal told Variety that Bidegain re-worked the script with Valentine Monteil to make the €14 million ($14.7 million) film with a French cast and produce it entirely out of France with Attal’s Tresor Films and Studiocanal, which is financing, handling international sales and French distribution rights.
Woody Allen, Gerard Depardieu and Johnny Depp all walk into a restaurant.That’s not the beginning of a bad joke — the three controversial men are looming over a favorite eatery in the South of France, and have been for years.La Pizza Cresci, a famous spot frequented for decades by Hollywood players who have visited the Cannes Film Festival, has immortalized the trio in a large mural of cinema legends.The portrait is on the restaurant’s second floor, opposite sweeping views of the French Riviera. As guests snack on plates of pasta and creamy burrata, they can’t help but make eye contact with an illustrated Allen (who was accused of rape by his then 7-year-old adoptive daughter, Dylan, in 1992) seen playing the clarinet.
Amazon Prime has unveiled a tennis drama from Line of Duty producer World Productions as part of its UK Showcase event, along with two fresh documentaries and casting news, as the streamer reveals £1BN ($1.2BN) spend since 2018.
Amazon Prime Video’s Reacher will see a familiar face as Maria Sten returns for the action series’ second season.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKinology has dropped the trailer for “Alma Viva,” the feature debut of French-Portuguese actor-turned-filmmaker Cristèle Alves Meira which is world premiered today Cannes’ Critics Week. The Paris-based sales banner already hosted a press and industry screening for the film today and earned some strong reviews. “Alma Viva” follows Salomé, a little girl who returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorAlain Berliner, who directed the BAFTA-nominated and Golden Globe-winning “Ma vie en rose,” is in pre-production on feature documentary “Bardot,” about French actor, singer and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot. Bardot is giving the project her full support, and will narrate the film herself.“Bardot” is produced by Julien Loeffler, James Kermack and James Barton-Steel at Featuristic Films (“Laurent Garnier: Off the Record,” “Afghanistan”), teaming with Nicolas Bary (“Trouble at Timpetill,” “Little Spirou”) at TimpelPictures.
The stars of Conversations with Friends are stepping out to promote their new show!
Lannister on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” has joined Kiefer Sutherland in “Rabbit Hole,” Paramount+ announced on Tuesday. The original series from CBS Studios stars Sutherland as John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, who is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.Also joining the cast are Meta Golding (“Empire”), Enid Graham (“Mare of Easttown”), Jason Butler Harner (“Ozark”), and Walt Klink (“Arctic Circle”).
That’s her man. Taylor Swift shared a subtle display of support for boyfriend Joe Alwyn as his new TV show, Conversations With Friends, premiered on Hulu.