Rupert Friend Joins New Line’s Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Companion’ From ‘Barbarian’ Team

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline spoke to leading international sales firm Playtime about why it made sense to join new European film and TV studio Vuelta Group, which we revealed earlier this morning.

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Hello and Welcome to the Scene 2 Seen podcast. I am your host Valerie Complex and today we are talking to writer, director Celine Song.

Maya Hawke has said she has “mixed” feelings about her character Robin having a girlfriend in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things.In the show’s fourth season, Robin navigates her crush on Vickie (Amybeth McNulty) with help from close friend Steve (Joe Keery). It culminates in a scene where Robin and Vickie make sandwiches together, leaving the door open for a potential relationship in season five.Speaking about the possible romance to Yahoo Entertainment, Hawke said she wasn’t entirely sold on the idea.

Alanis Morissette’s musical “Jagged Little Pill” took home two trophies at New York City’s Winter Garden Theatre.Now, nearly two years later, Morissette is heading west to Newark, NJ’s Prudential Center for a one-off concert on Thursday, June 22 at 8 p.m.She’ll be joined by fellow singer-songwriter and ’90s icon Aimee Mann.And if you need last-minute tickets to catch the “Ironic” singer live, “You Oughta Know,” inventory is still available.While no Mori-sseats are overwhelmingly cheap, we found some going for as low as $95 before fees on Vivid Seats.Better yet, if you want to get closer to the action, floor seats can be snagged for $135 before fees.Want to see Alanis and Aimee live together in the Garden State?Here’s everything you need to know and more.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best prices on standing room only, lower-level and floor seats for the June 22 Prudential Center concert can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

Amidst a disrupted industry at the start of the Covid pandemic, the hope amongst producers Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler and David Hinojosa was simply to stay engaged. This, they accomplished by reading the best scripts at their disposal — among them Past Lives, which would mark the feature debut of playwright Celine Song.

Naman Ramachandran A video on the possible successor to 92-year-old media baron Rupert Murdoch is the latest effort from U.K.-based political campaign group Led By Donkeys. Titled “The Murdoch Succession,” the video, which is under 10 minutes and projected on a New York highrise, is narrated by “Succession” star J. Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri Kellman in the smash hit series. Via his company News Corp, the billionaire Murdoch is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing and television outlets around the world, including The Sun and The Times in the U.K., The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post in the U.S. and Fox News, through the Fox Corporation.

Executives of Regal parent Cineworld, led by CEO Mooky Greidinger, have agreed to a payout in the $30 million range, Deadline has confirmed, in the event that they leave leave the company as it prepares to exit Chapter 11.

Scarlett Johansson has already shared a lot about naming her son Cosmo.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are gearing up for their latest team-up.The couple stepped out at the New York City premiere at the Alice Tully Hull at Lincoln Center on Tuesday night to promote Wes Anderson's newest film featuring an A-list ensemble. Hanks plays Stanley Zak, father to Jason Schwartzman's war photographer Augie Steenbeck, while Wilson is also featured in the film.The star-studded cast also features Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Steve Carell, Hong Chau, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, Matt Dillon, Maya Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Jake Ryan and many more. It received a six-minute standing ovation at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last month.«I'm going to say we throw ourselves into the loving hands and the delightful care of Mr.

Martyn Ford (“Shao Kahn”), Desmond Chiam (“King Jerrod”), Ana Thu Nguyen (“Sindel”), and Damon Herriman (“Quan Chi”) have been cast in the sequel to New Line’s hit 2021 action adventure “Mortal Kombat” based on the blockbuster video game franchise, New Line announced on Thursday morning.The new additions join a cast which include Karl Urban as “Johnny Cage,” Tati Gabrielle as “Jade,” and Adeline Rudolph as “Kitana.”The returning cast from “Mortal Kombat” includes Lewis Tan as “Cole Young”; Jessica McNamee as “Sonya Blade”; Josh Lawson as “Kano”; Tadanobu Asano as “Lord Raiden”; Mehcad Brooks as “Jax”; Ludi Lin as “Liu Kang”; Chin Han as “Shang Tsung”; Joe Taslim as “Bi-Han” and “Sub-Zero”; Hiroyuki Sanada as “Hanzo Hasashi” and “Scorpion”; Max Huang as “Kung Lao.”Simon McQuoid, who directed the 2021 film, is set to return. Jeremy Slater (“Moon Knight,” “The Umbrella Academy”) wrote the screenplay for the sequel.The previous film was a new adaptation of the popular video-game franchise that offered a grittier, more violent take on the material than the 1990s films.

“I like when I’m working on something that I don’t understand,” says 7x Oscar nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson on how he cracked his new off-kilter comedic period opus, Asteroid City, which hits theaters in New York and LA this Friday. The Focus Features release goes wide on Friday, June 23.

New Line has rounded out its cast for Mortal Kombat 2, with Martyn Ford (Red Sonja), Desmond Chiam (Joy Ride), Ana Thu Nguyen (Suka) and Damon Herriman (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) coming aboard for roles.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Carolines Entertainment has tapped Horizon Sports & Experiences as its agency of record to develop sponsorship, brand activation, experiential and hospitality strategies to engage audiences across a variety of platforms on behalf of the 2023 New York Comedy Festival. HS&E, part of Horizon Media, will provide sponsors its full suite of data and analytics services and solutions. The 19th annual festival is slated to return in November. In an era when a writers strike has advertisers wringing their hands about how to align their brand messages with new comedy content, the festival, which started in 2004, may provide an alternative, says Neal Gluckman, HS&E’s senior vice president and head of sales, in an interview. “Brands still need to be out there,” he says, and the festival attracts a young, engaged base and also generates a lot of social-media content as comedians, venues and fans share their expereinces.

Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are enjoying a night out!

Addie Morfoot Contributor At Tuesday’s New York’s premiere of Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” the star-studded cast had plenty to say about Hollywood’s writers strike. Scarlett Johansson, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston and Rupert Friend revealed how they really feel about the face off between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers while walking the beige carpet at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. “Whatever happens moving forward will forever change how revenue is determined,” Johansson told Variety. “It’s a thing that has needed to happen for a long time, that we’ve been talking about for a long time, and it’s finally reached this breaking point. It’s important for all of us creatives to unite and support this massive shift so we can get over to the other side, which we will.”

“Asteroid City” co-stars Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend like to make their promotional tour fun.

Charna Flam Netflix has released the first official trailer for the satirical conspiracy film “They Cloned Tyrone,” starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, Golden Globe winner John Boyega and Teyonah Parris. “They Cloned Tyrone” will premiere on Netflix on July 21. Ahead of its streaming release, the movie will debut at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) on June 14. The film wrapped in April 2021, according to Boyega’s Instagram account. Per the film’s official logline, “A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio (Boyega, Parris and Foxx) onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.”

The 2023 Tony Awards took place last night and there were so many moments that happened backstage that you didn’t get to see on TV.

Linda Yaccarino, whose jump from a longtime exec perch at NBCUniversal to CEO of Twitter on the eve of the upfronts last month still has the industry abuzz, posted a thread to explain the motivation behind the move.