‘The Serpent Queen’: Minnie Driver Among 10 Cast In Starz Period Drama’s Second Season

NME, actor Lucy Liu and director Eloise Singer have discussed bringing notorious Chinese pirate Chen Shih to life in VR game The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend.Set in 19th-century China, The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend follows Chen Shih – a real-world pirate who commanded hundreds of ships – on the night she rose to power.Chatting to NME from New York, Singer shared that she felt “compelled” to share Shih’s story upon realising that it wasn’t very well-known.“When I first discovered more about Chen Shih’s story, I was fascinated,” said Singer, pointing to Shih leading 70,000 men in the lead-up to the Opium Wars. “She [also] created a code of laws that meant men and women had to be treated equally on her ship, which was phenomenal.”Originally a courtesan, Chen Shih took control over a large confederation of pirates when her husband fell overboard.

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SeriesFest is gearing up for its tenth iteration and has set the first names for its lineup.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Comedian Hasan Minhaj, currently touring with a new show recounting the year he just experienced, is set to headline the 10th edition of the SeriesFest event this May in Denver. This year’s SeriesFest, an annual event focused on “championing emerging and underserved voices in episodic storytelling” (aka TV), is also set to honor Shonda Rhimes’ and Betsy Beers‘ Shondaland shingle, as well as Minnie Driver and SAG-AFTRA.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The BBC leads all producers among nominees with 22 at this year’s 2024 Rockie Awards International Program Competition, as announced Thursday by the Banff World Media Festival. The United States is tops among all countries, with 51 total, followed closely by the UK with 50. Among U.S.

King and Conqueror” has revealed additional cast members, including “The Crown’s” Luther Ford and “Game of Thrones” actor Joseph Mawle, as it begins production in Iceland. According to its official plot description, “King and Conqueror” is “the story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea.

Freed serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who allegedly murdered 20 backpackers in Asia, has been spotted amongst tourists in London.The 79-year-old French man was released from a Nepalese prison in 2022 after spending nearly two decades behind bars. Sobhraj, who inspired the hit BBC drama The Serpent in 2021, is suspected of killing at least 20 Western tourists who were travelling through Asia's "hippy trail" in the 1970s and 1980s. Now pictures show him visiting the UK wearing a false beard and wig, while he his being filmed for a documentary.

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EXCLUSIVE: “Quite a can of worms,” observed a British casting director of a scandal that, until February, was unknown to his profession. The 30-year industry veteran was talking about the practice of agents sending clients fake invitations to record self-tape auditions.

Matt Damon dated in the late ‘90s, after meeting in the film “Good Will Hunting.” The two dated for a year, and broke up right before awards season, resulting in some uncomfortable moments since the film went on to win multiple Academy Awards. By that time, Damon had already moved on and had a new girlfriend, a devastating development for Driver, who discussed her break up recently at “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” Chris Hemsworth pranks Elsa Pataky on the way to the OscarsHow Matt Damon inspired Taylor Zakhar Perez to become an actor, and why he wants to work with Oscar Isaac: EXCLUSIVEHudson shared a screenshot that shows Driver at the Oscars, with a sad expression as she watched Damon and Ben Affleck’s speech after winning best original screenplay.

Minnie Driver revealed what she would tell her 25-year-old self after her very public split from Matt Damon in 1998. “It’ll be fine,” she said during an appearance on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” Wednesday.“I wish I could have told her, ‘Honey it’s cool, you can celebrate and life’s gonna be great and beautiful and hard and amazing,'” the 54-year-old added.“’You’re going to love again, it’ll be fine.'”The British star made the remarks after Hudson, 42, showed her a throwback video that depicted the actress looking extremely sad as Damon, 53, and Ben Affleck accepted the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Good Will Hunting” in 1998.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Plummer (The Girl Before), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), Lenny Henry (The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power), Steve Pemberton (Happy Valley), Paul Kaye (Sexy Beast), Samantha Spiro (Sex Education), Lisa Faulkner (Archie) and Mary Malone (Doctor Who) are among cast to have joined Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses) in Netflix‘s Harlan Coben adaptation Missing You, which is currently filming in the UK.

A Scottish farm experience has been named among the best Easter days out in the UK.

The upcoming season of Hulu’s acclaimed comedic murder mystery series “Only Murders In The Building” will have a stacked murderer’s row of comedic talent joining an impressive cast. While talking with Entertainment Tonight on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday, cast member Eva Longoria revealed that funnyman Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover”) will also be part of the show that is currently filming.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at actor Ravi Patel (Wonder Woman 1984, Animal Patrol) suited up in Kiss Of The Con Queen, the true crime thriller inspired by the life of accused fraudster Hargobind Tahilramani dubbed the “con queen of Hollywood” after allegedly impersonating movie executives in an elaborate and high profile fraud scheme. 

Killers of the Flower Moon, The Holdovers, Past Lives and Barbie were among the film winners are the 39th Artios Awards, which the Casting Society handed out Thursday in three ceremonies spanning two continents. See the full winners list below.

The Serpent Queen season two is on the way!

EXCLUSIVE: The now-released serial killer known as The Serpent, who was played with aplomb by Tahar Rahim in the eponymous mini-series, is to appear in a Channel 4 documentary where he will face psychological and criminal interrogations over murders he was never tried for.

Guy Ritchie fans don't have long to wait until the director's latest gangster series drops on Netflix. The Gentlemen will deliver the same grit and bite of its 2019 film counterpart to a new set of unassuming characters.

Station 19 is coming back for a final season this month.