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Jonathan Lapaglia was shockingly fired from his job as the host of Australian Survivor and now he says he was blindsided by the news.

The 55-year-old actor and TV personality has been the host of Network 10′s iteration of Survivor ever since it began in 2016 and now he has been axed from the show.

“Australian Survivor has seen some of the most epic blindsides over the last 10 years, but this one might just be the craziest of them all….because it happened to me,” Jonathan began his post.

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He continued, “I received a call from the Network thanking me for all my hard work and dedication to the show but for next season they are ‘going in a different direction’. Ratings had dipped a bit recently and they wanted to do something drastic to shake things up. So for the first time ever this is not a tribe swap,...

Kelsey Grammer has inhabited Dr. Frasier Crane on television for over 40 years (though not consecutively). Starting with his first appearance on "Cheers" in 1984, the acclaimed actor has taken the beloved psychiatrist from the friendly bar in Boston where everyone knows your name to his hometown of Seattle for a long-running spinoff and back to Boston for a short-lived (but hopefully extended) stint as a Harvard professor. He even stopped by Nantucket for an Emmy-nominated appearance at the tight-knit commuter airport on "Wings."

In all those years as Dr. Crane, Grammer has acted alongside a number of incredible guest stars. In fact, he encountered multiple in a single episode of "Frasier" since many prominent performers and personalities appeared as callers on the good doctor's popular radio show. Iconic "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, rock music icon Eddie Van Halen, sitcom royalty Mary Tyler Moore, and prolific director Penny Marshall were just a...

Sean Penn expressed doubt that Woody Allen sexually abused his daughter, Dylan Farrow, and stated that he has no qualms about working with the director in the future.

In an open letter to The New York Times in 2014, Farrow came forward to accuse Allen, her adopted father, of molesting her when she was seven. The accusation came a few months after Farrow found out that Allen had begun a relationship with his then-21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. Allen has long denied Farrow’s allegations and was never charged with the crime. Four years later, Farrow wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, positing the question, “Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen?”

Allen recently said that he may not make another movie due to his “cancellation” by Hollywood.

Penn previously worked with Allen in the 1999 musical comedy Sweet and Lowdown, along with actors Uma Thurman, Anthony Lapaglia and Samantha Morton.

Possibly because he fell asleep watching The Rock on Max, President Donald Trump recently unveiled a bold new plan to reopen Alcatraz, the notorious San Francisco prison that’s been inactive for longer than Nicolas Cage has been alive.

This deeply unserious plan faces a number of major logistical challenges, from the “avalanche of lawsuits” it would invite, to the fact that the National Park Service has already spent millions preserving the historic site as a tourist destination, to the staggering costs involved with turning it back into a working prison, which have been estimated at somewhere “between $235 million and $370 million.”

Also, the island’s watery surroundings may not be quite as intimidating as they once were, considering that “hundreds of people every year participate in a 1.5-mile swim out to the island.”

It seems pretty clear that this wacky idea isn’t ever going to happen. But on the off chance that it does,...

Fan-favorite director Zack Snyder is well known for his dark, gritty take on superheroes and his slow-motion action heavy set pieces. His credits are full of features like Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the Army of the Dead films and the Rebel Moon franchise. But before he got to make any of those well-known feature films, he directed an underrated animated fantasy film which will now return to Max.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is coming to the streaming platform to give fans another peak at this animated feature based on the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series by Kathryn Lasky. The movie, written by John Orloff and Emil Stern follows a young owl Soren (Jim Sturgess), kidnapped by the evil owls of St. Aegolious, who want to turn him into a mindless soldier. He escapes with some of his friends and...

Could “Without a Trace” be the next beloved crime procedural to get the TV reboot treatment? Series creator Hank Steinberg has “some notions” about what it could look like should he get the green light.

The original “Without a Trace” ran from 2002 and 2009 on CBS, following the cases of a missing persons unit of the FBI in New York City. The series stars Anthony Lapaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Enrique Murciano and Roselyn Sánchez. The show won an Emmy Award for guest actor in a drama series for Charles S. Dutton in 2003 as well as the Emmy Award for outstanding art direction.

“If I had it my way, it might be more character-driven, shorter order, one case of the year kind of thing,” Steinberg told TheWrap in a recent interview. “That’s the way I would approach it if I can get the entities that own the material to go along with it.

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When thinking about Mike Myers, top of mind are shows and movies like Saturday Night Live, Wayne’s World, Shrek, and Austin Powers, depending on what generation. However, the Canadian comedic actor has appeared in many movies over the last several decades, including some hidden gems.

One such hidden gem is So I Married an Axe Murderer, a romantic black comedy from 1993 that is arguably one of his best movies ever. The criminally underrated film is one that fans of the actor, or silly comedy movies in general, should have on their radar. And with So I Married an Axe Murderer streaming for free on Tubi this month, now is the perfect time to enjoy it.

Mina Sundwall is only in the early stages of her career in movies and on television, but she's already accumulated a significant number of memorable and impressive performances. Born on October 23, 2001, Mina Sundwall got her career started early, appearing in an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories at the age of 11. This was followed by a two-year gap before she earned two more roles, in A Good Marriage and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Since then, Sundwall has regularly worked in film and TV, even starring in some of her projects.

Sundwall has had what is, in comparison to other actors who debuted in the 2010s, an unusually classical path to success. With streaming services offering new movies and TV shows at an almost unsustainable rate, young actors have found themselves thrust into the spotlight after only one or two performances. Sundwall is a little different. She got her start very young,...

Although it failed to captivate critics and audiences alike amid its initial release, Mixed Nuts has all the makings of a holiday classic.

Marking the movie’s 30th anniversary, co-writer Delia Ephron reflected on its cult status to Deadline as she remembered her and late sister Nora Ephron’s little-known 1994 Christmas film, “a great fun comedy that we wrote together” after the success of Sleepless in Seattle (1993).

“I do not believe it got good reviews,” she recently recalled. “I’m not someone who ever reads reviews, good or bad, so that’s not something I know what they said or anything, but I certainly know that it wasn’t initially a hit.”

Delia Ephron added, “But that is the weird thing with movies. They’re not, and then suddenly, they get this cult following of people who absolutely love them. And then I look at them again and I think,...

The best Vanessa Marano movies and TV shows include some very popular television series as well as a handful of smaller movies showing the actor's versatility. Marano was born in Los Angeles, and her mother owned the Agoura Children's Theatre, Marano and her sister got their start in acting from a very young age. Marano got her first professional acting role when she was only seven, and she has picked up several roles over her young career on television and in theatre productions.

Marano enjoyed her breakout role on the police procedural series Without a Trace, where she and her sister play Jack Malone's (Anthony Lapaglia) daughters, and her career only skyrocketed from there. She had an important recurring role on Gilmore Girls that garnered her a lot of attention, and she even won a year-long role on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Marano has...

Stephen King isn’t just an author by this point: He’s an institution, a legacy of classic horror stories that capture our imaginations, fuel our nightmares, and speak — when he’s at his best — to our shared experiences as flawed, emotional beings. The best King stories scare so many of us that we all feel connected, and even the worst are usually pretty fun.

King’s books and short stories quickly became hit movies, many of them celebrated in their time, and some flopped so hard that hardly anybody remembers them. Cataloguing every adaptation might be a fool’s errand, so we made some tough choices and decided to focus only on his theatrical releases.

And even then, there are so many King adaptations that it gets tricky. The sequels to King’s work rarely have anything to do with the source material, so they’re all disqualified. We...

Australian actor Lily Sullivan may not be an A-list star yet, but she is one well worth watching out for and her movies and TV roles prove it. Sullivan acted in her first film when she was 17 years old in a movie called Mental. Mental featured Sullivan as one of a family of five kids who are overseen by a hotheaded new nanny. Mental was released to mixed reviews upon its release in 2012.

Now 31 years old, Sullivan has gone on to be in a smattering of other projects since then. Mental was her gateway into numerous other roles that have allowed the actor to continue to have a career that, while low-profile, is worth reviewing. Throughout her film and television roles, the actor has displayed her strength in a wide array of genres. Sullivan's career continues on today, with recent work that proves even more that she is one to watch out for.

The best Miranda Otto movies and TV shows include massive Oscar and box office champions, as well as highly rated releases, showing her immense talent. Otto grew up in both Hong Kong and Australia after her parents divorced, and it was in Sydney with her dad that she developed her love of acting. As a child, she acted in stage plays and then got her first break in the 1986 World War II drama Emma's War. She attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art and began taking on film roles before graduating.

Since then, she has caught fans' attention thanks to huge movies and big television shows. While her career was slow-moving in Australia, she got a small role in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, which led to her getting more Hollywood offers. What Lies Beneath was her first big break in 2000, leading to the biggest role of her...

A few weeks back, we caught up with the voice cast of True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak during Sdcc. The blockbuster cast included Kris Carr, Anthony Lapaglia, Don McManus, and Bill Smitrovich, and they were very excited about the project. This project is the first in a series of adaptations of Max Allan Collins’ Nathan Heller novels.

On Thursday, July 25, at the Sdcc panel, producers and special guests introduced “True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak,” a new audio drama series from co-creators Robert Meyer Burnett, Max Allan Collins, and Mike Bawden. Based on the award-winning novel “True Detective,” explores the end of Prohibition, Al Capone, the Great Depression, and the assassination of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. It is being produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC (ICU), with Burnett and Bawden at the helm.

True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak is a ten-episode, fully immersive audio drama...

Adam Epstein, who won a Tony Award for producing Hairspray before he was 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible and adaptations of The Wedding Singer and Cry-Baby, has died. He was 49.

Epstein died Tuesday at Adventist Health hospital in Glendale after a brief battle with brain cancer, his family announced. He was in the midst of hosting his podcast, Dirty Moderate With Adam Epstein, when he fell ill.

When he was just 28, Epstein joined Margo Lion as a co-producer on the original Broadway production of Hairspray, which bowed in 2002 en route to collecting eight Tonys, including best musical, from 13 nominations. Originally starring Harvey Fierstein, it ran for more than 2,600 performances through 2009.

Epstein had started out on Broadway as an intern and casting assistant before serving as a production associate in 1997 on The Life, nominated for best musical. The next year, he produced...

Bad Monkey is a crime drama and dark comedy series created by Bill Lawrence. Based on a 2013 novel of the same name by author Carl Hiaasen, the Apple TV+ series follows the story of Andrew Yancy, a former Miami Police Department turned restaurant inspector as he gets caught up in a strange crime involving a human arm and a group of eccentric characters. Bad Monkey stars Vince Vaughn in the lead roles with Natalie Martinez, Michelle Monaghan, Meredith Hagner, Charlotte Lawrence, Zach Braff, Rob Delaney, Ronald Peet, and John Ortiz starring in supporting roles. So, if you liked the eccentric characters, comedic crimes, and murder mysteries in Bad Monkey here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Death in Paradise is a British-French procedural crime comedy-drama series created by Robert Thorogood. The BBC One series follows a detective inspector from London as...

I, Robot director Alex Proyas is currently in pre-production on an adaptation of Karel Capek’s seminal 1920 play, R.U.R.

Alex Proyas, director of such movies as The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and more besides, is currently in pre-production on a film called R.U.R, it’s been revealed. It’s based on the 1920 play of the same name originally written in 1920, and is famous for introducing the word ‘robot’ into the sci-fi lexicon.

Proyas has written the screenplay himself, and if the brief description published by Deadline is anything to go by, it’ll be at least somewhat close to Capek’s original story. Set in a future where robots are mass-produced on an island factory called Rossum’s Universal Robots, the technology has long since spread worldwide, largely replacing human labour. The robots’ proliferation leads to much debate about their use as slave labour, and a pressure group called...

Exclusive: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actress Mallory Jansen and Emmy and Tony Award winner Anthony Lapaglia are boarding Alex Proyas’ upcoming sci-fi satire R.U.R. opposite Lindsay Farris (Ash vs Evil Dead).

Cameras roll on Oct. 21 in Sydney, Australia.

Proyas penned the screenplay which is an adaptation of Karel Capek famous science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), published in 1920. R.U.R. follows Helena, played by Jansen, who visits the island factory of Rossum’s Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results.

Proyas is the filmmaker behind the $353M-grossing Will Smith 2004 summer hit I, Robot.

The film is being produced by Proyas, Morris Ruskin, former CAA agent Adam Krentzman, Steven Matusko and Brett Thornquest. EPs are Matthew Rhodes of The Hideaway Entertainment, Rohit Khanna,...

Producer Robert Meyer Burnett and marketing executive Mike Bawden have launched Imagination Connoisseur Media Unlimited, a production company for original genre content for dedicated fandoms.

The company’s debut project is “True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak,” a six-and-a-half-hour audio drama based on the Max Allan Collins novel “True Detective.” The ten-episode series is set in Chicago in 1932 and follows the murder of the city’s mayor while attending a Franklin Roosevelt campaign rally in Miami, Fla.

Burnett, who directs and produces “True Noir,” describes it as “a cinematic audio drama, combining traditional storytelling with modern production techniques.” The cast features more than 25 voice actors, including Jeffrey Combs (“The Frighteners”), Pj Byrne (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), Jesse Spencer (“House”), Anthony Lapaglia (“Without a Trace”) and Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”).

Alexander Bornstein composed an original score for the series. Michael McDonald oversaw the sound design.

“We’re focused on...

The Conjuring 4 has been set for a September 5, 2025 release. The next installment in the hit horror franchise will also be the final mainline movie, with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson returning as Ed and Lorraine Warren and franchise vet Michael Chaves directing. Though it will avoid potential competition from The Black Phone 2 and Mortal Kombat 2, The Conjuring 4's new release date will make for an early horror season box office battle.

With over a decade under its belt, The Conjuring 4 will bring the mainline horror franchise to a close, and the release date has now been revealed for the fourquel.

Variety has brought word that Warner Bros. has set The Conjuring 4 to hit theaters on September 5, 2025. The news also came as the studio also announced that Maggie Gyllenhaal's Frankenstein adaptation The Bride will be moving up by one week, now releasing at the end of September 2025 rather...

Bruce Timm is known for having very unique approaches to the characters he brings to life. On top of his innate understanding of comics, he also brings a sense of uniqueness to each of his projects, which has made him one of the best people in the DC Animated Universe. Unfortunately, not everyone can understand his approach very easily.

Bruce Timm’s All-Star Superman

Sometimes, the producer has to fight for his vision or explain it to the actors so that they can perfectly capture what he wants them to do. However, often, even language fails, and no amount of explanation can get the point across.

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Being the legend that he is, it would seem that Timm also has a go-to plan for such a situation, using his skills as an animator and artist.

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The CBS crime drama Cold Case was vastly underrated, with a stellar cast and thoughtfully crafted episodes. CBS is reportedly developing a new Cold Case series, which would bring back at least one actor. The potential Cold Case revival can capitalize on renewed interest in cold cases and provide a unique TV experience.

A Cold Case revival might finally get the CBS crime drama the recognition it's always deserved -- but more than that, it's exactly what would spice up a predictable genre. Detective Lilly Rush and her colleagues were a breath of fresh air when Cold Case premiered in 2003, and they developed a loyal fan base over seven seasons and more than 150 episodes because they didn't do things the procedural way.

Now CBS is reportedly developing a new Cold Case series, and there's every reason to get excited about it. The characters and storytelling are worth revisiting, especially with...

We mustn’t dwell… no, not today, not on Rex Manning Day. Today marks the 30th anniversary of Rex Manning Day, the fictional day celebrated in the Allan Moyle disaffected teen comedy Empire Records. Rex Manning Day is celebrated to honor the memory and legacy of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who on April 8th was found dead in his Seattle mansion on Lake Washington Boulevard from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after dying on April 5, 1994.

Directed by Allan Moyle, Empire Records takes place over twenty-four hours in the lives of the young employees at Empire Records when they all grow up and become young adults, thanks to each other and the manager. Dripping with attitude, pining, and real-life drama, Empire Records taps into the struggles of a generation by exploring social pressure, the importance of found family, and the power of music as a healing tool. Written by Carol Heikkinen, Empire Records stars Anthony Lapaglia,...

The 34-year-old British actor Nicholas Hoult kicked off production last week on Warner Bros. Discovery’s next big bet: “Superman” with director James Gunn and actors David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. The star of “About a Boy,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and Hulu series “The Great” recently went on Michael Rosenbaum’s “Inside of You” podcast and talked a bit about preparing for the role of the evil mastermind Lex Luthor.

First, he complimented his new boss Gunn for making the audition process fun. He said he enjoyed the “Guardians of the Galaxy” auteur’s method of “try[ing] things in the moment, just shouting out from the monitors, ‘Say this line. Do this! Do that!’”

Then he added that even though Luthor is better known for his brains rather than his brawn, Hoult has been hitting the weights. “There’s that bit in ‘All-Star Superman’ [the Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely...

Boy Swallows Universe is a heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Brisbane, Australia. Eli's childhood is filled with unfortunate circumstances, but he clings on to hope and perseveres. The series explores themes of love, unlikely relationships, and the power of hope in the face of trauma.

Netflix's Boy Swallows Universe is a heartbreaking coming-of-age story. An adaptation of author Trent Dalton's novel of the same name, the series is set in Brisbane, Australia, and follows a young Eli Bell as he grapples with the unfortunate circumstances that life has handed him. Telling the story of a young boy who tries to make the best out of the cards he has been dealt, the seven-part limited series rose to success on Netflix following its debut on Jan. 11, 2024.

Directed by Bharat Nalluri, Jocelyn Moorhouse, and Kim Mordaunt, the series stars Felix Cameron in the lead role of the young Eli Bell.

Netflix's Boy Swallows Universe is a heartbreaking, hopeful coming-of-age series set in 1980s Brisbane that quickly gained popularity and honors. The series, based on Trent Dalton's novel, preserves the essence of the source material and features a primarily Australian cast. While inspired by Dalton's own childhood, the series blends fact and fiction, with certain elements being fictionalized to add drama and mystery to the story.

Set in 1980s Darra, Brisbane, Netflix's Boy Swallows Universe is a coming-of-age limited series that quickly rose to the tops of charts and had viewers invested in the traumatic life of the young Eli Bell. The series is an adaptation of author Trent Dalton's novel of the same name. The source material, released in 2018, found widespread success, selling nearly a million copies and winning numerous accolades. Being adapted to the small screen by Netflix and finding success on the streaming platform as...

In all of Stephen King’s massive catalog, few works are as bleak as his 2010 novella collection Full Dark, No Stars. Rather than supernatural entities, these four dark tales feature human monsters and deal with the horrors that live inside the human heart. Two novellas serve as mirror images of each other, exploring the female response to predatory men. “Big Driver” follows cozy mystery writer Tess Thorne on a mission of revenge against the stranger who raped her and left her for dead. “A Good Marriage” centers Darcy Anderson, a happily married woman faced with a horrifying choice when she discovers her husband’s secret life.

Both novellas were faithfully adapted into feature films in the year 2014 – for better or worse. Premiering on Lifetime, Big Driver tackles King’s rape-revenge story with Maria Bello staring as the vigilante writer and Olympia Dukakis as her literary detective. Ann Dowd and Joan Jett...

"Boy Swallows Universe" is loosely based on a true story, but the show includes fictional events. The cast includes Felix Cameron, Zac Burgess, and Auden Ryan, among others. The story is loosely based on author Trent Dalton's childhood, with certain aspects inspired by his upbringing.

Boy Swallows Universe tells the story of Eli — a boy whose life has been complicated from the beginning due to his family's criminal activity and the dangers that follow them. Although the show features numerous unbelievable events for many, it is partially inspired by a true story. The coming-of-age limited series is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Trent Dalton, who served as an executive producer on the show. It premiered on Netflix in 2024 and received positive reviews from critics and audiences alike. Shortly following its release, the miniseries shot to the top of the streaming service's most-watched lists.

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Adapted from Trent Dalton’s 2019 novel, Boy Swallows Universe is a sprawling coming-of-age story about a precocious teen, Eli Bell (Felix Cameron), surrounded and raised by a motley crew of outlaws and outcasts in a rough suburb of Brisbane, Australia, in the 1980s. Eli’s loyal older brother, Gus (Lee Tiger Halley), hasn’t uttered a word since he was eight, and their step-father, Lyle (Travis Fimmel), is a small-time heroin dealer. Also milling about town are Slim (Bryan Brown), a convicted murderer, and Teddy (Ben O’Toole), an associate of Lyle’s with a soft spot for Eli’s loving but gullible mother, Frankie (Phoebe Tonkin).

Each of the show’s seven episodes depicts a different chapter of Eli’s colorful adolescence, a structural device that allows Boy Swallows Universe to cover ground at a lively pace. No event is dwelt on too long before, true to the reality of teen life,...

2023 was the year Frasier Crane returned to the small screen following a 20-year break. The "Frasier" revival brought Kelsey Grammer's beloved psychiatrist into the streaming era with a 10-episode series that saw the titular doctor return to Boston some 30 years after he left "Cheers" to star in his own sitcom. That sitcom would, of course, become one of the most celebrated examples of the genre, following Frasier as he started a new life in Seattle alongside his brother Niles (David Hyde Pierce), father Martin (John Mahoney), and their live-in housekeeper Daphne (Jane Leeves).

It was this supporting cast, along with Peri Gilpin as Frasier's talk radio show producer, Roz, that made the show a classic — though, calling them supporting characters isn't really fair. Despite Kelsey Grammer's not-so-modest opinion that his character was the key to the success of "Frasier," Niles, Martin, Daphne, and Roz were equally as important. Sadly,...

"We're stronger than they are. All you have to do is believe." Netflix has unveiled the full official trailer for an Australian crime thriller / dark comedy series called Boy Swallows Universe, arriving for streaming in January on Netflix worldwide. This coming-of-age story of a boy named Eli is based on the iconic novel written by Trent Dalton, adapted by the acclaimed screenwriter John Collee. Set in 80s Brisbane, Australia, a precocious boy and his selectively mute brother embark on a suburban odyssey of love, redemption and retribution after their family is torn apart by a drug lord. The story revolves around Eli Bell, a working-class boy who heads into Brisbane's underworld to save his mother. Starring Felix Cameron as young Eli, Travis Fimmel as Lyle Orlik, Simon Baker as Robert Bell, Phoebe Tonkin as Frances Bell, along with Zac Burgess, Lee Tiger Halley, Bryan Brown, Anthony Lapaglia, and Sophie Wilde.

Netflix has debuted the trailer for the upcoming Australian series ‘Boy Swallows Universe.’

An epic coming-of-age story set in 1980s Brisbane that blends the magic and innocence of youth with the brutal reality of the adult world. A lost father, a mute brother, a recovering addict mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather, and a notorious criminal for a babysitter. Eli Bell is just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to become a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way.

Adapted from Trent Dalton’s iconic Australian novel, the series explores the crossroads where a boy becomes a man, good toys with evil, and the everyday meets the extraordinary.

The series stars Bryan Brown, Anthony Lapaglia, Deborah Mailman, Simon Baker, Travis Fimmel, Phoebe Tonkin, Felix Cameron, Sophie Wilde, Lee Tiger Halley, Zac Burgess.

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The Florida Man miniseries on Netflix is a captivating blend of mystery and dark comedy set in Florida, showcasing the state's infamous reputation for odd occurrences. Unlike other Netflix shows with A-list celebrities, Florida Man stands out for its well-cast ensemble of talented actors who bring authenticity and gripping portrayals to their roles. Edgar Ramirez's portrayal of Mike Valentine, the ex-cop drawn back into Florida's crime world, is a central pillar of the series, showcasing his multifaceted character with subtlety and depth.

Florida Man is one of Netflix's most fascinating miniseries, and the Florida Man cast is a winning combination of talented newcomers and Netflix's go-to actors. The 2023 miniseries immerses viewers in a whirlwind of mystery and dark comedy set in the Sunshine State. The series follows Mike Valentine (Édgar Ramírez), an ex-cop dragged back into the underbelly of Florida's crime world. The show blends the bizarre real-life "Florida Man...

Take a trip back to the 1980s. Netflix has unveiled a teaser trailer for a first look at the Australian crime series called Boy Swallows Universe, based on the iconic novel written by Trent Dalton. It's adapted by an acclaimed screenwriter named John Collee. Set in 80s Brisbane, Australia, a precocious boy and his selectively mute brother embark on a suburban odyssey of love, redemption and retribution after their family is torn apart by a drug lord. The story revolves around Eli Bell, a working-class youth who enters Brisbane's underworld to save his mother. This trailer starts out all happy-go-lucky but gets pretty dark by the end. Starring Zac Burgess as teenage Eli, Travis Fimmel as Lyle Orlik, Simon Baker as Robert Bell, Phoebe Tonkin as Frances Bell, with Felix Cameron, Lee Tiger Halley, Bryan Brown, Anthony Lapaglia, and Sophie Wilde. This looks like it has some strong style and...

It’s Frasier Week at IndieWire. Grab some tossed salad and scrambled eggs, settle into your coziest easy chair, and join us. We’re listening.

Over the course of its 11 seasons, “Frasier” won a slew of Emmy Awards. Actually, it earned 37 out of 107 nominations, including five for guest actors ranging from Jean Smart to Anthony Lapaglia. But somehow, someway, even amidst the glut of gold showered upon Frasier’s cashmere-clad shoulders, the show’s stealth secret weapon never scored even a nomination for her 11 episodes.

“Frasier” fans know there is only one person it could possibly be: The irresistible, indefatigable, and indelible Harriet Sansom Harris as Frasier’s agent, Bebe Glazer. And Bebe was exactly the type of fast-talking snake charmer who could make that alliteration seem not just virtuosic but mesmeric.

Every Bebe episode is the best Bebe episode because Harris (who scored her career-first Emmy nomination for “Hacks...

Exclusive: Industry Entertainment co-founder Keith Addis and former Industry colleague Michael Abrams are set to launch Constellation Media Group.

Addis co-founded Addis-Wechsler in 1989 and has been at the firm throughout its evolution into Industry Entertainment. Abrams joined the company in 2009 following two years at The Endeavor Agency in New York.

Their client list includes Jeff Goldblum, Ted Danson, Dylan McDermott, Jayne Atkinson, Griffin Dunne, Jennifer Beals, Sam Waterston, Drew Tarver, Ed Begley Jr, Harry Hamlin, Dean Norris, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Dave Foley, Anthony Lapaglia, Michel Gill, Eion Bailey, Margot Bingham and director/producer Michael Uppendahl. Their new office is located in the Beverly Hills triangle.

Addis and Abrams recently Executive Produced 2 seasons of the Emmy nominated series The World According to Jeff Goldblum for Nat Geo / Disney+.

“After 34 years at Industry, Michael and I felt it was the right time to start something new and nimble to better navigate through these exciting and challenging times.

Michael Imperioli may be best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti on the TV series The Sopranos, but he has over 100 other screen acting credits and several writing credits (including multiple episodes of The Sopranos). His first writing credit came on 1999 crime drama Summer of Sam (watch it Here), which was directed by Spike Lee… and during an interview for the documentary Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories), Imperioli revealed that he visited a witch and used otherworldly means in an effort to get Summer of Sam into production!

Scripted by Imperioli, Lee, and Victor Colicchio, Summer of Sam has the following synopsis: During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders. The philandering Vinny unwittingly almost becomes a victim of the psychopath, and soon he and numerous people in his orbit — including his wife,...

Stand back, Marvel Cinematic Universe. Be gone, DC Extended Universe. The power of The Conjuring Universe compels you!

It may astonish those who aren't horror fans or haven't been paying attention, but 2013's "The Conjuring" has not only spawned two direct sequels, but two entire spin-off film franchises that are still going strong: the "Annabelle" series and "The Nun" films. In fact, the latter's latest installment — oh-so-helpfully entitled "The Nun II" — is due to haunt theaters everywhere on September 8, 2023.

If you can't quite recall where and when we last saw the only married demonologist team in the tri-county area, Ed and Lorraine Warren, or if you're having trouble separating your La Lloronas from your Valaks, fear not! The following will not only get you up to speed with the ghouls, demons, and ghosts of The Conjuring Universe, but it will also lay out the tangled timeline of the entire series in chronological order.

Kelsey Grammer is returning to the role of Frasier Crane for a Frasier revival on Paramount+, and hopefully, by now, he's figured out what to do with those tossed salad and scrambled eggs. It's been nearly two full decades since Grammer last signed off as Frasier, which ended its 11-season run in 2004. In recent years, Grammer had been working to get a revival off the ground, and it was announced last year that it was officially happening at Paramount+. Filming on the first season has since been completed and may potentially premiere on the streaming platform this fall.

So why was Grammer trying so hard to revisit Frasier, leading to this revival series happening? In a new interview with The Times, he explains how he's not so different from his Frasier Crane character, and it was perhaps inevitable for the two to have their paths cross again later in life.

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Jurassic Park x Transformers Action Figures from Hasbro

Hasbro brings together the worlds of Jurassic Park and Transformers in honor of the former’s 30th anniversary. The Jurassic Park x Transformers action figure two-pack is available to pre-order for $74.99 exclusively at Amazon. It will ship in the fall.

The Dilophosaurus transforms into Dilophocon in 20 steps, while the Jeep Wrangler Sahara transforms into Autobot JP12 in 23 steps. They come with shaving cream canister, embryo containment unit, rain hat, venom blast effect, and two blaster accessories.

So I Married an Axe Murderer 4K Uhd from Sony

So I Married an Axe Murderer will celebrate its 30th anniversary on 4K Ultra HD on July 25 via Sony. Fans will...

Distribution

Anthony Lapaglia‘s upcoming factual series “The Black Hand” is set to be distributed internationally by eOne.

The three-part series will explore Australia’s Italian community, looking at the difficulties they face, their politics, the threat of war and the mafia. According to the series synopsis, The Black Hand is the name for a gang of Italian criminals in Australia.

Alan Erson, Lapaglia, Michael Tear exec produce. Adam Grossetti and Kate Pappas produce. “The Black Hand” is directed by Kriv Stenders and written by Grossetti, Stenders and Anya Beyersdorf.

The series was produced by Wildbear Entertainment for ABC in Australia. The deal with eOne excludes Australia and Scandinavia.

“The Black Hand is truly the definition of premium factual,” said Kate Cundall, eOne’s VP for acquisitions. “We’re very excited about the opportunity to take to market a hugely popular genre like true crime with some amazing auspicious.”

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Empire Records is a classic coming-of-age comedy-drama from the '90s with a cast of actors who were relatively unknown in 1995 but went on to have successful and prolific careers in Hollywood. Directed by Allan Moyle (Pump Up the Volume), Empire Records depicts just two days at an independent record store and follows the complicated relationships of the young employees. The store is up to be sold to a large national chain, but the store’s manager plans to buy out the owner. A gambling problem, a washed-up singer, and a disgruntled customer combine to make what could be the final day of the store a very interesting one.

The movie was a commercial and critical flop. It only earned $273,000 at the box office (via Box Office Mojo), and has a 31% on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite this, Empire Records has taken on a cult fascination since its release in the mid-90s.

When it comes to love, poet Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers) has had his share of bad luck. But when he meets Harriet (Nancy Travis), he thinks he’s found “the one” – until a series of coincidences lead him to believe that Harriet might be the serial honeymoon killer “Mrs. X.” Charlie and his cop best friend (Anthony Lapaglia) must find out the truth before it’s too late in this madcap comic thriller. Disc Details & Bonus MATERIALS4K Ultra HD Disc Cast And CREWDirected By: Thomas SchlammeWritten By: Robbie FoxProduced by: Robert N. Fried, Cary WoodsExecutive Producer: Bernie WilliamsCo-Producer: Jana Sue MemelCast: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony ... Read more...

Take a look at new character posters from the live-action TV series, "Florida Man", created by Donald Todd, starring Édgar Ramírez as an ex-cop who is sent back to his home state of Florida to solve a case, with Anthony Lapaglia, Abbey Lee, Otmara Marrero, Lex Scott Davis, Emory Cohen and Isaiah Johnson, now streaming on Netflix:

"...'Mike Valentine' is a struggling ex-cop forced to return to his home state of Florida to find a Philly mobster's runaway girlfriend. 

"What should be a quick gig...

"...becomes a spiraling journey into buried family secrets...

"... and an increasingly futile attempt...

"... to do the right thing..."

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Beau Is Afraid, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Mrs. Davis and The Last Thing He Told Me.

Beau Is Afraid premiere

Joaquin Phoenix and Ari Aster debuted their new A24 film in Los Angeles on Monday, alongside co-stars Parker Posey, Zoe Lister-Jones, Armen Nahapetian, Kylie Rogers and Richard Kind.

Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix Zoe Lister-Jones, Julia Antonelli, Kylie Roger, Michael Gandolfini, Armen Nahapetian, Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Kind and Lars Knudsen

Rennervations premiere

Jeremy Renner made his return to the red carpet, three months after his snowplow accident, on Tuesday for his Disney+ series Rennervations, alongside executive producers Rory Millikin, Romilda de Luca and Patrick Costello.

Rory Millikin, Romilda de Luca, Jeremy Renner and Patrick Costello Bob Iger and Jeremy Renner

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel premiere

Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino,...

This weekend, Netflix is welcoming a true-crime documentary series, a crime comedy-drama TV series, a mystery drama miniseries, and the movie continuation of a popular TV series. Last weekend, the streaming giant added the documentary Surviving R. Kelly Part III: The Final Chapter, the action thriller The Last Stand, the Nigerian comedy A Simple Lie, and the Persian crime thriller Holy Spider, along with the comedy-drama TV series Beef, the fantasy adventure movie Chupa, and the limited TV series Transatlantic.

This weekend, Netflix will add a variety of licensed content, most notably season 2 of The CW’s All American: Homecoming, the true crime Australian series Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire, the horror thriller Lights Out, season 1 of Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian, the sci-fi movie Time Trap, the comedy-drama The Best Man Holiday, the drama movie The Mustang, and the mystery thriller The Snowman. As for original content, Netflix will bring...

One original Frasier star wants to appear in the revival, but he's well aware that it may not happen. Kelsey Grammer spearheads the Paramount+ reboot both in front and behind the screen, reprising Frasier Crane and serving as an executive producer. He has confirmed that some characters from the Seattle-based series will appear in the Frasier revival, although none of them will be mainstays.

In light of that, Anthony Lapaglia tells Globe World News Echo that he is eager to reprise his role as Simon Moon — Daphne's no-good brother in the new Frasier show. However, he is being realistic that he may not be brought back in the Paramount+ revival. Read his full quote below:

“I would do it in a heartbeat. But I’m pretty sure that I’m not in the architecture of the new [series]. I think the new one will be slightly different. John Mahoney is not there,...

Florida Man is a Netflix series created and directed by Donald Todd and starring Édgar Ramírez and Abadía Lee, is a drama in the world of mobsters full of entanglements.

An “American-style” thriller that leaves us the best and the least good of the entertainment industry: the system knows how to create a great production without risking the slightest.

Without being salient, it has all the elements of an 80’s thriller, those that didn’t go down in history and didn’t pretend to, but that gave us so many good moments.

About the Series

A film that does not want to stand out and that, full of desires to achieve in the cinematographic aspect, is born without the taste needed to be outstanding, but as a perfect television product in which good professionals get, without too much effort, “just another day at the office”.

A Florida Man tastes like a “serial” series,...

Meet Mike Valentine (Edgar Ramírez), a resourceful guy embroiled in one twisty Elmore Leonard-esque mystery after another. An ex-cop with a gambling addiction, Mike reluctantly agrees to pay off a debt to petulant Philly mobster Moss Yankov (Emory Cohen) by heading to Central Florida to find fiery Delly West (Abbey Lee), Moss’ runaway girlfriend. That task kicks off a set of comedic turns in Florida Man, a seven-episode series peppered with mighty shady characters. One of many complications Mike comes up against in the Sunshine State, where he doesn’t like to admit he’s from, is his father, retired police chief Sonny Valentine (Anthony Lapaglia). “My character’s untrustworthy,” explains Lapaglia. That’s an understatement. “He has been out of Mike’s life for quite a while, but they have a healthy distrust of each other.” Though Sonny tries mending fences, life for the pair is complicated. “Something...