EXCLUSIVE: Ioan Gruffudd (San Andreas) has closed a deal to join Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 4, the newest installment in the hit series of buddy cop action comedies from Sony Pictures.
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EXCLUSIVE: SAG winner Hugo Weaving (The Lord of the Rings), BAFTA winner Joanna Scanlan (Notes On A Scandal), IFTA winner Ruth Bradley (Guilt), Tom Brooke (Empire of Light) and James Callis (Battlestar Galactica) have joined the season four cast of spy series Slow Horses, starring Oscar winner Gary Oldman.
Filming is underway in London on the fourth season of the well-received show, which was recently nominated for five BAFTA TV Awards.
Adam Randall (I See You) is directing the fourth season, which will “open with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House”.
The returning Slow Horses ensemble includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan, and Jonathan Pryce.
In a rare move, Apple greenlit seasons three and four even before season two had aired. Season two debuted last December and season three and four have been shot back to back.
The darkly humorous drama follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
The series is produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith (Veep) who also serves as an executive producer alongside 60Forty Films’ Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Will Smith, Jane Robertson
EXCLUSIVE: Ioan Gruffudd (San Andreas) has closed a deal to join Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 4, the newest installment in the hit series of buddy cop action comedies from Sony Pictures.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor “Younger” star Miriam Shor has been cast in Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic, “Maestro.” Shor exclusively tells Variety that she is playing actor and model Cynthia O’Neal, a friend of the legendary musician and his wife Felicia Montealegre. Cooper directed the Netflix film, co-wrote it with Josh Singer and stars as Bernstein. Carey Mulligan portrays Montealegre. “I play Cynthia O’Neal, who was a very good friend of the Bernsteins, particularly his wife, Felicia,” Shor said Thursday night at the Los Angeles premiere of her and Cooper’s latest film, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.” “I mean, that was unbelievable. Because an actor who also directs, to get to work with Bradley… he’s a savant. It’s miraculous. So that was really special, I was really grateful.”
Netflix has unveiled first-look images of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s budding romance in The Crown Season 6.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The guest list for Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday all-star concerts at the Hollywood Bowl has been significantly expanded. Sixteen additional names were announced Wednesday for the already packed two-night lineup, representing a roughly 50% expansion of a bill that was advertised with 30 stars when it first went on sale — and immediately sold out — in January. Newly added stars from the worlds of rock, country and other genres include Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Jack Johnson and fellow Texans George Strait and Gary Clark Jr. Nelson’s sole surviving fellow Highwayman, Kris Kristofferson, has also been appointed to the lineup. The son of one of those Highwaymen, Shooter Jennings, is joining the bill as well. Others freshly named to appear this Saturday or Sunday include Dwight Yoakam, Stephen Stills, Rodney Crowell, Booker T. Jones, Buddy Cannon, Daniel Lanois, Jamey Johnson, Waylon Payne and Lily Meola.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino have scored a two-season order for a series set in the world of ballet at Amazon, Variety has learned. Titled “Étoile,” the series will take place in both New York and Paris. Each season will consist of eight episodes. The official logline states that the show “follows the dancers and artistic staff of two world-renowned ballet companies, as they embark on an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions by swapping their most talented stars.” The cast for the series includes Luke Kirby (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Deuce”), Camille Cottin (“Call My Agent!,” “House of Gucci”), Simon Callow (“Outlander,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral”), Lou de Laâge (“The Innocents”), Gideon Glick (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Marriage Story”), and David Alvarez (“West Side Story”).
As The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is wrapping its five-season run, Emmy-winning creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino are prepping their next series. Prime Video has given a two-season order to Sherman-Palladino and Palladino’s Étoile, starring Mrs. Maisel duo of Luke Kirby, who won an Emmy for his work on the show, and Gideon Glick as well as Call My Agent! standout Camille Cottin, Simon Callow (Outlander), Lou de Laâge (The Innocents) and David Alvarez (West Side Story).
The most beloved anthology series on TV, “Black Mirror,” is finally returning to Netflix for Season 6. And in a new teaser, it looks like the humor, darkness, and satire are all still intact.
Former Love Island contestant Hugo Hammond has chopped off his fluffy mullet and is now rocking a GI Joe-style shaved head. Hugo, who earlier this month moved in with his girlfriend who starred in the Australian version of the ITV show, was earlier praised for his luscious locks as one fan dubbed them “glorious.” On Tuesday, the 24 year old PE teacher took to his Instagram, where he treated his 382k followers to a look at his haircut - which left him looking like a new man.The picture showed a noticeably chiselled Hugo shirtless in his bedroom as he flashed his pearly whites for fans with his visibly shorter haircut.
The Mandalorian season three has finally reached its conclusion. Just eight weeks after returning after a two-year break, the hit Disney+ series set in the Star Wars universe has wrapped up its third outing in dramatic fashion.
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The Mandalorian has become the flagship Star Wars property in recent years.Created by Jon Favreau, the first live-action Star Wars series follows lone bounty hunter Mando (Pedro Pascal) in his attempts to protect force-sensitive Grogu aka Baby Yoda.The show’s third season debuted this year, which picks up after events in spin-off The Book Of Boba Fett. Compared to the prior two seasons, the third has faced some criticism over bizarre cameos and a lack of direction.Almost certainly.
Edi Patterson, Julian Barratt, Scott Mescudi, Ellie Taylor have joined the cast of of the Paramount+ and SEGA series Knuckles, with Idris Elba set to reprise role of titular character. Adam Pally, who appeared in the most recent Sonic the Hedgehog sequel will reprise role of Walt Whipple with Rory McCann guest starring. In addition, Tika Sumpter will guest star, reprising her role as Maddie.
HBO’s acclaimed series Barry comes to an end with its fourth season.Created by Alec Berg and Bill Hader, the dark comedy drama follows hitman and aspiring actor Barry Berkman (Hader) as he attempts to escape his violent past.In the fourth season, Barry is in prison following his arrest, where he’s haunted by the words of his former acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler) and attempts to win his forgiveness.Since the show began in 2018, Barry has been nominated for 44 Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series on three occasions. Hader won Outstanding Lead Actor twice for his performance in the lead role in 2018 and 2019.Like previous seasons, the final outing spans eight episodes in total.
If Leonardo DiCaprio was ever keen on keeping his Coachella weekend outing low-key (yeah, right) he can forget about it… because of who he’s hanging out with in the desert!
HBO’s acclaimed series Barry comes to an end with its fourth season.Created by Alec Berg and Bill Hader, the dark comedy drama follows hitman and aspiring actor Barry Berkman (Hader) as he attempts to escape his violent past.In the fourth season, Barry is in prison following his arrest, where he’s haunted by the words of his former acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler) and attempts to win his forgiveness.Since the show began in 2018, Barry has been nominated for 44 Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series on three occasions. Hader won Outstanding Lead Actor twice for his performance in the lead role in 2018 and 2019.The first two episodes air on HBO in the US on Sunday April 16 at 10pm ET.
Deadline reports that Brady Corbet‘s “The Brutalist” is finally in production in Hungary after a couple of years of delays. That’s great news, but Corbet had to overhaul his starring cast due to scheduling conflicts with original cast members.
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Emmy winner Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown) and Conversations With Friends and The Favourite star Joe Alwyn are among cast confirmed for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.
Succession delivered a game-changing bombshell in the third episode of season four.In the episode titled Connor’s Wedding, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) departs on a flight to Sweden with some of his closest advisors to negotiate a new deal with Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård), while Logan’s children Roman (Kieran Culkin), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Kendall (Jeremy Strong) attend their brother’s wedding on a cruise ship in New York.While Connor (Alan Ruck) is hopeful his father will make time for a fly-by visit, Roman, Kendall and Shiv are soon informed by Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) over the phone that Logan has fallen ill during the flight and has become unresponsive.After some emotional final goodbyes over the phone, Logan is later pronounced dead when the private plane lands back on US soil. Roman, Kendall and Shiv are then faced with issuing a statement to the press and the ramifications of Logan’s death on the future of Waystar RoyCo.“I never thought that I would be crying for Logan’s death, but this episode was brutal,” one viewer wrote.
EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Baena (Chariot) will star alongside Luke Hemsworth and Morgan Freeman in the action film Gunner, directed by Dimitri Logothetis (Jiu Jitsu), which is now in production in Alabama.
“Love Is Blind” is back with season four. Hosted by double Scorpio power couple Nick and Vanessa Lachey, the social experiment blends high stakes and lowly behavior with sensory deprivation to craft deeply compelling television.