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In a pairing that initially seems odd but eventually makes total sense, Variety reports that rapper, actor, and media personality Snoop Dogg will star in and co-produce director Luc Besson's upcoming film The Last Man. The new movie is said to be a comedic sci-fi adventure in the vein of The Fifth Element, Besson's 1997 blockbuster starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, and Gary Oldman. As of this writing, no other casting decisions have been made.

Besson and Snoop first collaborated on the 2006 live-action-animated hybrid film Arthur and the Invisibles, in which the latter voiced the character Max. According to Besson, the pair have been eager to team up on a new project ever since.

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Lon: The Professional will soon have a free new streaming home. The 1994 Luc Besson-helmed action thriller marked Natalie Portman's feature film debut in a role viewed as more controversial over time.

Lon: The Professional will hit Tubi on November 1. Written and directed by Besson, the film starred Portman alongside Jean Reno and Gary Oldman. The action thriller follows Reno's titular Lon, a professional hitman who reluctantly takes Portman's twelve-year-old Mathilda Lando under his wing after a corrupt DEA agent, Oldman's Norman Stansfield, kills her family. The movie's cast also includes Danny Aiello, Michael Badalucco, Ellen Greene, Peter Appel, Adam Busch, Joseph Malerba, Mawenn, George Martin, Keith A. Glascoe, Willi One Blood, and Jean-Hugues Anglade in a cameo role.

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Hari Dhillon has joined the ensemble of the pic “Bad Education” starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney.

Ray Romano, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Alex Wolff are also on board. Stephen Spinella, Annaleigh Ashford, Jimmy Tatro (“American Vandal”), Jeremy Shamos, Kathrine Narducci, Welker White, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Peter Appel, Ray Abruzzo, and Catherine Curtin are also appearing in the movie.

“I Think We’re Alone Now” scribe Mike Makowsky penned the script. Cory Finley, who recently helmed the Sundance darling “Thoroughbreds,” will direct.

The screenplay, which insiders say is akin to the 1999 Reese Witherspoon movie “Election,” is based on true events that Makowsky experienced at his high school.

“La La Land” producer Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik will produce alongside Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, and Oren Moverman of Sight Unseen. Makowsky is also producing the pic, which begins production in October.

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Rafael Casal has rounded out the cast of “Bad Education,” joining Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney.

Ray Romano, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Alex Wolff are also on board. Stephen Spinella, Annaleigh Ashford, Hari Dhillon, Jimmy Tatro (“American Vandal”), Jeremy Shamos, Kathrine Narducci, Welker White, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Peter Appel, Ray Abruzzo, and Catherine Curtin are also appearing in the movie.

“I Think We’re Alone Now” scribe Mike Makowsky penned the script. Cory Finley, who recently helmed the Sundance darling “Thoroughbreds,” will direct.

The screenplay, which insiders say is akin to the 1999 Reese Witherspoon movie “Election,” is based on true events that Makowsky experienced at his high school. Details behind who Casal will be playing are currently unknown.

“La La Land” producer Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik will produce alongside Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, and Oren Moverman of Sight Unseen. Makowsky is also producing the pic, which begins production in October.

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick, Managing Director Jeff Griffin and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that its production of Ivan Turgenev's A Month In The Country, starring Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling, will extend through Saturday, February 28 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. The production had been schedules to close February 22. Directed by Erica Schmidt, the cast also includes Peter Appel, Ian Etheridge, Anthony Edwards, Mike Faist, Elizabeth Franz, James Joseph O'Neil, Elizabeth Ramos, Thomas Jay Ryan, Annabella Sciorra, Frank Van Putten, Megan West and Kate Wetherhead.

Here is the ongoing episode guide for Luck Season 1 as new episode information is released by HBO. The series offers a behind-the-scenes look at horse racing and gamblings’ denizens – owners, trainers, jockeys and gamblers. Luck is from director Michael Mann and Deadwood creator David Milch. It stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.

Episodes descriptions are listed in reverse order with the newest episode first (scroll to the bottom to avoid spoilers):

Episode #5

Debut: Sunday, Feb. 26 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)

After learning that Pint of Plain, Gus’ (Dennis Farina) Irish horse, has been tentatively scheduled to race the next day, Ace forces Escalante to swap out Leon for a more experienced jockey, to Joey’s (Richard Kind) chagrin. Marcus fears for his health and wonders why he’s so attached to Jerry, while Kagle (Peter Appel), who’s been fired from the racetrack, returns from a bender looking for a handout.

Spike TV has rounded out the cast of its upcoming eight-hour drama series Kill Pit, which stars John Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlberg.

Joining the cast of the series, from Lionsgate and Mandeville, are Peter Appel (NYPD Blue), Dana Ashbrook (Deadwood), Adam Cantor, Steve Cirbus (Law & Order), Jeremy Davidson (Cold Case), Christine Evangelista ("Law & Order"; reps are Gersh Agency, Myrna Jacoby at MJ Management and attorney Lev Ginsburg), Jennifer Ferrin (Rescue Me), Leo Fitzpatrick (The Wire), Frank Grillo (Prison Break), Michael Hogan (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Michael Hyatt (Grey's Anatomy), Mike McGlone (The Brothers McMullen) and Wayne Kasserman (Law & Order: SVU).

Production on the series, which centers on a bank robbery that goes awry, starts Wednesday in Pittsburgh, with the show now set to premiere July 22.

In addition, Steve Shill has signed on to direct all eight episodes and co-executive produce.

NEW YORK -- Adam Bernstein's feature is another example of the postmodern gangster film in which a fairly straightforward plot is infused with bizarre stylization, absurdist flourishes and pseudo psychology.

Supremely weird and off-putting, Stratosphere's "Six Ways to Sunday", which could be described as the first Oedipal crime film, is the kind of quirky genre pic that goes over well at film festivals but drops like a stone in commercial release. It may benefit, however, from the presence of Deborah Harry, whose career is newly revitalized thanks to the re-emergence of her band Blondie.

Bernstein, a veteran music video director whose sole previous theatrical effort was the ill-fated "It's Pat", has adapted an acclaimed 1962 Charles Perry novel, updating it to the present and changing the setting from Brooklyn to Youngstown, Ohio, which is depicted as shabby and depressed. It concerns the burgeoning criminal career of Harold Odum (Norman Reedus), an 18-year-old recruited by the local Jewish mob when his talents for aggression and violence are revealed to them -- a result of accompanying his best friend Arnie (Adrien Brody), a mob flunkie, on a routine muscle job. The main focus, however, is the bizarre relationship between Harold and his blowzy mother Kate (Harry), who in the opening scene is seen giving her son a loving sponge bath.

Harold is taken under the wing of gangster Abie Pinkwise (Peter Appel) and mob boss Louis Varga (Jerry Adler), who delivers pearls of wisdom like "Having money and not flashing it is strictly for gentiles." Harold takes a romantic interest in Varga's beautiful maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), but the relationship is doomed by Harold's problems with dear old mom, who takes a dim view of romantic competition for her boy's attentions. By the time the complicated plot -- which also includes sidetracks such as Harold's numerous run-ins with a pair of local cops (Gregg Henry and Isaac Hayes) -- reaches its conclusion, some characters wind up dead.

In the hands of a more accomplished stylist (like, say, Jonathan Demme, who receives a "Presented by" credit here), the film might have emerged as an entertaining cult curiosity. Unfortunately, Bernstein's sluggish, often ham-fisted approach to the material robs it of whatever juice it might have possessed, and the weirdness on display is more stultifying than entertaining.

None of the performers is at their best, though Harry invests her bizarre portrayal with emotional conviction. As the disturbed Harold, Reedus is a veritable blank, though admittedly the character never really makes sense. The film gets by mainly on atmosphere, well-provided by Theresa Mastropierro's supremely grungy production design and John Inwood's lensing of several suitably bleak locations.

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Credits: Director: Adam Bernstein; Screenplay: Adam Bernstein, Marc Gerald; Producers: Adam Bernstein, David Collins, Michael Naughton; Executive producer: Charles Johnson; Director of photography: John Inwood; Editor: Doug Abel; Original music: Theodore Shapiro; Production designer: Theresa Mastropierro. Cast: Harold Odum: Norman Reedus; Kate Odum: Deborah Harry; Abie "The Bug" Pinkwise: Peter Appel; Iris: Elina Lowensohn; Louis Varga: Jerry Adler; Arnie: Adrien Brody; Madden: Holter Graham; Bill Bennett:Isaac Hayes. MPAA rating: R. Color/stereo. Running time -- 97 minutes.