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Exclusive: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster has added three in Veronica Falcón, May Calamawy, and May Elghety.

The trio joins previously announced cast members Jack Reynor and Laia Costa.

Production is currently underway in Ireland and Spain on the Atomic Monster and Blumhouse film for New Line Cinema. Cronin is also producing under his Doppelgängers banner. Plot details remain under wraps — but it is about a Mummy, and I’m sure a tomb is involved.

A native of Mexico City, Falcón starred in Blumhouse’s supernatural thriller Imaginary, directed by Jeff Wadlow as well as The Forever Purge. She played Trader Sam opposite Emily Blunt & Dwayne Johnson in Disney’s Jungle Cruise. She starred in A Million Miles Away alongside Michael Peña and starred in the film adaptation of the global bestseller book Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda,...

Exclusive: Filmmaker George Tillman Jr has signed with Kaplan/Perrone for management. Tillman’s feature directing credits include The Hate U Give, Men of Honor, Notorious, Faster and Soul Food. Tilman is currently percolating The Prince of New York, based on the New York Times article and bestselling book My Name isTani. It tells the remarkable true story of a young Nigerian boy’s journey from refugee to chess champion. The script was adapted by Steve Conrad and Michael Starrbury.

With longtime State Street partner Bob Teitel, Tillman Jr also produced Bob Marley: One Love and Barbershop, and they were executive producers on the Dee Rees-directed Mudbound. In addition to directing features, Tillman has directed television projects including ABC’s For Life, Starz’ Power, Netflix/Marvel’s Luke Cage, NBC’s This Is Us, and Disney’s Emmy winning show The Crossover. State Street currently has an overall feature deal with Paramount.

Chris Perfetti and Joy Sunday (Wednesday) have joined HBO‘s seven-episode limited series Dtf St. Louis from writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad.

They join the previously announced cast that includes Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini and Richard Jenkins.

Dtf St. Louis, currently in production, is about a love triangle among adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.

Perfetti will portray “Tiger Tiger” and Sunday will play “Jodie.”

Dtf St. Louis is executive produced by Conrad; David Harbour; Jason Bateman; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch for Escape Artists; Molly Allen; Bruce Terris; Michael Costigan for Bateman’s Aggregate Films; Jennifer Scher for Elephant Pictures; Kristina Wenson for Bravo Axolotl; and MGM Television.

Perfetti stars as a series regular on ABC’s Abbott Elementary, currently in its fourth season and recently renewed for a fifth. In the hit comedy,...

As a director, Ben Stiller is a wily one. After skimming the surface of Gen-x disillusionment with his debut feature "Reality Bites," the son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara made his name helming silly-smart films whose zany exteriors belie their depth. Take his 1996 comedy "The Cable Guy." Though it initially proved to be something of a divisively dark curiosity (Roger Ebert actually listed it among his picks for the worst movies of its year), it's since undergone a reevaluation and is now regarded as being prescient in its satirization of the public's true crime obsession. Stiller's 2001 fashion industry burlesque "Zoolander" has likewise become a full-fledged cult classic, while his edgy takedown of Hollywood ego and excess, "Tropic Thunder," is just as audacious now as it was when it first arrived in 2008.

In contrast to their barbed social commentary, these films are pretty broad when it comes to their humor and characterization.

As Netflix's original spy series The Recruitheads toward its Season 2 premiere on January 30, 2025, Amazon Prime Video has an underrated yet recommendable rival in Patriot. Beyond the obvious espionage angle, dark comedy and morbid humor link the two spy shows, transcending the crime genre to tell a personal story. In The Recruit, Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) takes center stage. Meanwhile, it's John Tavner's (Michael Dorman) time to shine in Patriot.

Whether binging all 18 episodes before or after The Recruit Season 2 hits Netflix, Patriot will undoubtedly fill the painful absence left in the former's wake. While Patriot may take on more of an international scope involving skirmishes abroad and The Recruit focuses on daily departmental protocols, both feature elaborate, must-see plots involving the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Take heed Recruit fans, Patriot is the next best TV destination.

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Richard Jenkins has been tapped to co-star opposite Jason Bateman and David Harbour in Dtf St. Louis, HBO’s seven-episode limited series from writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad.

The darkly comedic series is about a love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.

Jenkins plays a police detective who is investigating the death.

Conrad executive produces Dtf St. Louis alongside Harbour; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch for Escape Artists; Bateman, Molly Allen, Bruce Terris and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films; Kristina Wenson for Bravo Axolotl; James Lasdun, and MGM Television.

Jenkins, a two-time Oscar nominee, was recently seen in Netflix’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, earning an Emmy nomination for his performance. His next project is Prime Video’s drama series Criminal.

Dead To Me alum Linda Cardellini has signed on for a lead role in Dtf St. Louis, a seven-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Jason Bateman and David Harbour from writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Patriot).

The darkly comedic series, whose title refers to the social media acronym for “down to f*ck,” is about a love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.

Cardellini will play Carol.

Dtf St. Louis has evolved from the Steve Conrad limited series project My Dentist’s Murder Trial, which HBO put in development more than two years ago with Harbour and Pedro Pascal attached to star and EP. It was a true-crime drama about Kingston, NY, dentist Dr. Gilberto Nunez (Pascal), who went to trial for allegedly killing his friend Tom Kolman (Harbour).

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Linda Cardellini has lined up her next gig at HBO: She’s set to join the cabler’s upcoming limited series Dtf St. Louis helmed by Patriot creator Steve Conrad.

The dark comedy follows “a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead,” according to its official logline. Details for Cardellini’s character were not immediately available.

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Jason Bateman and David Harbour are Dtf. The notoriously funny and occasionally scary actors have signed onto a new, darkly comedic limited series about a middle-aged love triangle gone wrong, from showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad for HBO. The show is currently titled Dtf St. Louis.

For those who may not be hip to the social media lingo at play in the title, Dtf stands for "down to f**k."

According to Deadline, Dtf St. Louis is actually an evolution of an earlier project from Conrad and Harbour called My Dentists Murder Trial. HBO greenlit that series two years ago, with Harbour and Pedro Pascal also attached to star and executive produce.

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HBO has given a series order to Dtf St. Louis, a seven-episode dark comedy “about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead,” according to the cabler’s official logline.

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David Harbour and Jason Bateman — the latter of whom is replacing Pedro Pascal, who was originally on board when the project was first reported in 2022 — will star in and executive-produce the limited series. Writer, director and showrunner Steven Conrad will also executive-produce. Additional EPs include Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Molly Allen, Bruce Terris, Michael Costigan, Kristina Wenson and James Lasdun.

HBO has greenlit the limited series “Dtf St. Louis” with Jason Bateman and David Harbour set for two of the lead roles, Variety has learned.

HBO has given the series a seven-episode order. The show was originally announced as being in development back in 2022 with Harbour and Pedro Pascal attached to star and executive produce. The project was originally inspired by the James Lasdun New Yorker article “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation.”

However, according to an individual with knowledge of the project, the creative direction of the series evolved over time and is now based on a wholly original idea with no connection to the original article. In addition, Pascal is no longer attached in any capacity. He remains in business with HBO, though, with the second season of “The Last of Us” set to debut in 2025.

The official logline for “Dtf St.

David Harbour and Jason Bateman will lead the cast and executive produce the limited series “Dtf St. Louis,” which just landed a series order at HBO.

Described as a “darkly comedic” limited series, “Dtf St. Louis” follows a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, ending in one of the individuals involved winding up dead. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

The show is written, directed and executive produced by showrunner Steven Conrad. Other EPs include Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch for Escape Artists; Molly Allen, Bruce Terris, Michael Costigan for Bateman’s Aggregate Films; Kristina Wenson for Bravo Axolotl, James Lasdun and MGM Television.

“We are tremendously excited to work with the brilliant auteur Steve Conrad, whose singularity of vision lies central to all his work as a storyteller,” Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO Programming and head of HBO Drama series and films,...

Jason Bateman and David Harbour are getting involved in a love triangle.

The Ozark and Stranger Things stars are set to topline an HBO limited series called Dtf St. Louis. The seven-episode show comes from creator and showrunner Steven Conrad (Wonder, Prime Video’s Patriot). Bateman and Harbour are also executive producers.

“We are tremendously excited to work with the brilliant auteur Steve Conrad, whose singularity of vision lies central to all his work as a storyteller,” said Francesca Orsi, executive vp HBO Programming and head of HBO drama series and films. “With David Harbour and Jason Bateman at series center, two masterful titans in their own right, we couldn’t be more emboldened by the journey ahead and look forward to sharing this special, emotionally provocative piece with the world come time.”

HBO describes Dtf St. Louis as a dark comedy “about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise,...

HBO has greenlighted Dtf St. Louis, a seven-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Jason Bateman and David Harbour from writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad.

The darkly comedic series, whose title refers to the social media acronym for “down to f*ck,” is about a love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.

Dtf St. Louis has evolved from the Steve Conrad limited series project My Dentist’s Murder Trial, which HBO put in development more than two years ago with Harbour and Pedro Pascal attached to star and EP. It was a true-crime drama about Kingston, NY, dentist Dr. Gilberto Nunez (Pascal), who went to trial for allegedly killing his friend Tom Kolman (Harbour).

There is no dentist in Dtf St. Louis, which comes from the same creative and producing team: writer,...

Quick Links What Is Wonder About? How Wonder Could Possibly Be Considered "Underrated" The Importance of the Film in This Day and Age Discover why Jacob Tremblay's heartwarming role in "Wonder" is considered underrated. "Wonder" offers a realistic and relatable coming-of-age story with a meaningful message. The film teaches valuable lessons on tolerance, acceptance, and the importance of supporting one another.

Jacob Tremblay is certainly making a splash in the industry, and we don't just mean with his role as Flounder in the live-action version of The Little Mermaid. This child actor made his film debut in Smurfs 2 where he played Blue Winslow, but his big breakthrough came when he starred alongside Brie Larson in the horrifyingly realistic psychological drama Room. Since then, Tremblay has pretty much been full speed ahead with his acting career.

He has starred with some of the biggest names in the business, such as Peter Dinklage,...

Motion picture agent vet Spencer Baumgarten died peacefully at his home Monday evening, Deadline has learned. He was 62.

Baumgarten’s cause of death, we hear, was due to complications from leukemia (Aml).

Known as a fierce advocate for his clients for over three decades, Baumgarten’s clients throughout his career included Jon Favreau, Gore Verbinski, Rodrigo Bernardo, Heather McGowan, Steve Conrad and many others.

Baumgarten began his career in the entertainment business in 1988 as an assistant to Joe Rosenberg, thereafter spending time at Endeavor, CAA and ICM. He joined ICM Partners in 2016 and left in September 2019 as Motion Picture Co-Head and Partner to form Smb Entertainment, a management and production company. At ICM, Baumgarten was involved with the teams for such clients as John Woo, Roberto Orci, actress Jingchu Zhang, and filmmaker Joseph Kahn, among others.

He is survived by his partner Kimberly Boyd; former spouse Lara, an attorney at...

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The ongoing restructuring at Warner Bros. Discovery may be affecting one of its most valuable franchises.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin says a couple of potential spinoffs of the megahit have been “shelved,” though others remain in active development. Writing on his blog, Martin attributed the delays to “all the changes at HBO Max.”

Martin wrote that he’s working on “several of the other [Game of Thrones] successor shows that we’re developing with HBO. (Some of those are moving faster than others, as is always the case with development. None have been greenlit yet, though we are hoping … maybe soon. A couple have been shelved, but I would not agree that they are dead. You can take something off the shelf as easily as you can put it on the shelf. All the changes at HBO Max have impacted us,...

Exclusive: Pedro Pascal, star of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, is heading to CAA.

The Chile-born actor was previously with WME.

It comes as Pascal is on a bit of a roll, having played the title character in the Star Wars series from Jon Favreau, and its sister series The Book of Boba Fett and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent alongside Nic Cage.

He starred as Javier Peña in Netflix’s Narcos as well as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Other film credits include Wonder Woman 1984, Judd Apatow’s The Bubble, Triple Froniter and Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

Next up, he is playing the lead in HBO’s The Last of Us, an adaptation of the hit video game from Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin, and he is set to headline true-crime limited series My Dentist’s Murder Trial alongside David Harbour, which is in the works at HBO,...

"House of the Dragon" has taken the world by storm. It has proven to be more than just a successor to "Game of Thrones," HBO's flagship series based on George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels. The prequel is based on the Dance of the Dragons civil war, which divided House Targaryen forever. Adapted from Martin's "Fire & Blood," which explores the complete history of the Valyrian noble house, the series focuses on the inevitable war of succession between Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Prince Aegon Targaryen for the Iron Throne.

George R.R. Martin handpicked screenwriter Ryan Condal to helm "House of the Dragon." While the writer currently serves as showrunner on the series, it wasn't the only "Game of Thrones" prequel he wanted to work on — Condal made a pitch of his own to HBO, based on a story from Martin that he loved best.

Television is going through a very fantastical moment.

“House of the Dragon,” the new prequel series for “Game of Thrones,” just premiered on HBO and HBO Max to boffo numbers, and next week “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” premieres on Prime Video, pitting two of the most well-known (and lavishly produced) fantasy properties on the planet. But if you never read the source material or watched earlier entries in the respective series, this could be all Greek (or Elvish) to you. With remarkably similar marketing campaigns, it’s undoubtedly confusing which is which (and whether or not there are actually witches in either show).

Let us break down the biggest differences between the two shows since, as Electric Light Orchestra once noted, confusion is such a terrible thing.

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When House of the Dragon first premieres on Aug. 21 on HBO, Game of Thrones fans should find a lot of it quite familiar. Just like the flagship series upon which it’s spun off from, House of the Dragon is a big endeavor. The show features a sprawling cast of King’s Landing schemers, tons of twists and turns, and more dragons than the side of a 1970s panel van.

If anything, House of the Dragon could end up feeling as epic or more so than Game of Thrones despite adapting a smaller section of George R.R. Martin’s source material. Interestingly enough, however, the showrunner behind it originally had a much smaller, more intimate vision of Martin’s Westeros.

House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal (formerly of Colony and Rampage) has a lengthy history with George R.R. Martin’s epic novels.

“I found George’s books back...

Pedro Pascal and David Harbour at set to team up on the HBO limited series ‘My Dentist’s Murder Trial’ which is currently in development.

Pedro Pascal & David Harbour set for limited series ‘My Dentist’s Murder Trial’, the true story focuses on how Dr. Gilberto Nunez was indicted for the death of his friend, Thomas Kolman.

Both Pascal and Harbour will executive produce in addition to starring. Steve Conrad will write and executive produce in addition to directing the pilot. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch of Escape Artists will also executive produce along with Bruce Terris, Molly Allen, James Lasdun, and MGM Television. Taylor Latham of Escape Artists will co-executive produce.

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David Harbour and Pedro Pascal are set to appear in a new limited HBO series called "My Dentist's Murder Trial," Variety announced on July 26. The show will be based on a New Yorker article by James Lasdun, "My Dentist's Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation," which unfurled the true saga of how dentist Dr. Gilberto Nunez was charged with (and eventually acquitted of) the murder of his friend Thomas Kolman.

Harbour and Pascal are also both executive producing the series, which has been acquired by HBO, and the script will be written by Steve Conrad, who will also executive produce and direct the first episode. Other executive producers include Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Bruce Terris, Molly Allen, James Lasdun, and MGM Television.

Harbour most recently appeared in the fourth season of "Stranger Things," making a triumphant return as Hopper after being presumed dead at the end of the previous season.

David Harbour and Pedro Pascal are reportedly teaming up to star in the limited series My Dentist’s Murder Trial for HBO. According to Variety, the show, which is currently in development, is inspired by the New Yorker article, “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation,” by writer James Lasdun. The article tells the true story of how Dr. Gilberto Nunez was indicted for the death of his friend, Thomas Kolman. James Lasdun (Credit: Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images) Pascal and Harbour are currently attached to executive produce the series in addition to starring. Meanwhile, pilot director Steve Conrad will pen the script and executive produce alongside Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Bruce Terris, Molly Allen, Lasdun, and MGM Television. The series will be co-executive produced by Taylor Latham. This isn’t the first major HBO role for Pascal who is currently set...

Jim Hopper and the Mandalorian are teaming up to tell a true-crime story with bite.

David Harbour (Stranger Things) and Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) have been tapped to executive-produce and star in the HBO limited series My Dentist’s Murder Trial, our sister publication Variety reports.

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“Stranger Things” star David Harbour is set to co-lead upcoming HBO limited series “My Dentist’s Murder Trial” opposite Pedro Pascal. The show is currently in development.

Inspired by James Lasdun’s New Yorker article “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation,” the series tells the true story of how Dr. Gilberto Nunez (Pascal) was indicted for the death of his friend, Thomas Kolman (Harbour).

Both Pascal and Harbor will executive produce the series, with Steve Conrad writing, executive producing, and directing the pilot. Conrad is also attached to write the adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” prequel novel “Tales of Dunk & Egg,” as Variety reported.

Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch of Escape Artists will also executive produce along with Bruce Terris, Molly Allen, James Lasdun, and MGM Television.

Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) and David Harbour (“Stranger Things”) will star in HBO’s upcoming limited series “My Dentist’s Murder Trial.”

The series, which is currently in development, is based on the true story of Dr. Gilberto Nunez’s indictment in the death of his friend Thomas Kolman. The case was the subject of a James Lasdun-penned New Yorker article titled “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation.”

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Harbour most recently appeared in Season 4 of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and Marvel’s “Black Widow.” Pascal appeared as his “Mandalorian” character, Din Djarin, in Disney+’s “The Book of Boba Fett” earlier this year and will headline HBO’s upcoming adaptation of the popular video game “The Last of Us.”

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HBO is developing My Dentist’s Murder Trial, a limited series, starring and executive produced by David Harbour (Stranger Things) and Pedro Pascal.

Written by Steve Conrad, who is set to direct the pilot episode, My Dentist’s Murder Trial is inspired by James Lasdun’s 2017 New Yorker article “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, false identities, and a lethal sedation.”

The true crime story chronicled in the article centers on Dr. Gilberto Nunez who in 2015 was indicted for killing his friend Thomas Kolman by getting him “to ingest a substance that caused his death.” There were also two forgery counts, including Nunez posing as a C.I.A. agent. Nunez, who had had an affair with Kolman’s wife Linda, stood trial in 2018 where he was found not guilty of murder but guilty on fraud charges, which led to a prison sentence.

Pedro Pascal and David Harbour at set to star together in the limited series “My Dentist’s Murder Trial” currently in development at HBO, Variety has learned.

The series is inspired by the James Lasdun New Yorker article “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation.” The article told the true story of how Dr. Gilberto Nunez was indicted for the death of his friend, Thomas Kolman.

Both Pascal and Harbour will executive produce in addition to starring. Steve Conrad will write and executive produce in addition to directing the pilot. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch of Escape Artists will also executive produce along with Bruce Terris, Molly Allen, James Lasdun, and MGM Television. Taylor Latham of Escape Artists will co-executive produce.

Pascal is set to star in the HBO series adaptation of the video game “The Last of Us” in the lead role of Joel.

George R.R. Martin has officially confirmed that the much-rumored Game of Thrones spinoff centered on Jon Snow’s character is currently in development.

“There is a Jon Snow show in development,” the author whose A Song of Ice and Fire series inspired the series wrote on his website, but also emphasized that it has not received the green light from HBO yet. The working title is simply Snow.

Martin also confirmed that three other spinoffs are also in development. “There are four live-action successor shows in development at HBO. Word...

The Game of Thrones sequel starring Kit Harington will be called Snow, and it has all been instigated by the actor, author George R.R. Martin says.

“Yes, there is a Jon Snow show in development,” Martin wrote Thursday on his personal blog. “Our working title for the show is Snow.”

In the entry on his blog, the author on whose books the award-winning HBO blockbuster was based, teased out a few more details of the potential series, which seems to be much further along than previously presumed.

For one thing, reiterating what GoT star Emilia Clarke told the BBC on Wednesday, Martin says that it was Harington himself who initiated the idea for the new show. The scribe once called the “American Tolkien” by Time magazine also revealed that Snow is partially staffed up.

“Yes, it was Kit Harrington (sic) who brought the idea to us,” the self-described “way too busy,...

Last week, news broke that HBO was in development on a “Game of Thrones” sequel series centered around Kit Harington’s Jon Snow character, the latest in a large suite of projects being developed that have their start in the world created by George R.R. Martin and dramatized by the blockbuster series (which concluded in the summer of 2019). Now, both Martin and Daenerys Targaryen herself Emilia Clarke are talking about the new series and its somewhat surprising origins.

According to Martin, who posted about the news on his website’s Not-a-Blog section, the project is codenamed “Snow” and has been development as long as the other “Game of Thrones”-adjacent series that HBO is developing, which are “Ten Thousand Ships” (from Amanda Segel), “Sea Snake” aka “Nine Voyages” (from “Rome” creator Bruno Heller) and a show centered around characters Dunk and Egg, from “The Pursuit of Happyness” writer Steve Conrad.

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You know nothing about HBO’s post-Game of Thrones plans.

The network has entered into early development on its first sequel to its blockbuster fantasy drama: A live-action spinoff series centered on the fan-favorite character Jon Snow, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Kit Harington is attached to reprise the role should a series move forward. The actor was twice nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of an action hero who struggles to uphold his family’s noble values in a brutal world.

In Thrones’ eighth-and-final season, Jon Snow discovered his true name was Aegon Targaryen, a potential heir to the Iron Throne. In the series finale, he was exiled from Westeros and journeyed North of the Wall with the Wildlings to leave his old life behind.

Since completing his work across eight seasons of Thrones, Harington has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,...

“A Song of Ice and Fire” author George R.R. Martin promises he’s still working to finish his book series, but explained in a new blog post that a number of “Game of Thrones” spinoff series have taken up much of his time lately.

“The Winds of Winter,” the planned sixth novel in Martin’s book series, on which the HBO series “Game of Thrones” was based, has been in the works since at least 2011. In a Wednesday post on his blog, Martin admits while he made “a lot” of progress on the book in 2020, he made “less” in 2021. “But ‘less’ is not ‘none,’” Martin added.

Why did he make less progress in 2021? Because he was busy working on various “Game of Thrones” spinoff series in the works at HBO and HBO Max. The first, “House of the Dragon,” has wrapped filming and while HBO has yet to officially greenlight any additional shows,...

George R.R. Martin sent a raven Wednesday with updates on his highly anticipated new projects on his blog.

The 73-year old fantasy author behind “Game of Thrones” (and creative contributor to the just-dropped “Elden Ring” video game) cast some light on the numerous “GoT” prequel series that are in the works. Perhaps more importantly to his O.G. fans, he confirmed that he is still plugging away at his long-delayed novel “The Winds of Winter,” the sixth of seven planned doorstopper books in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series from which “Game of Thrones” and the entire Westeros mythos derives.

“Winds of Winter,” which was originally due to be published in 2016, is still coming, he says, but as a way of excusing himself for its absence, he wrote that Westeros is bigger than just one project now. But working in that world is his “number one priority,” he said.

Fantasy writer George R.R. Martin took to his blog Wednesday to offer updates on his many Game of Thrones spinoff series, and books including the long-awaited The Winds of Winter, among other projects. He also shared his thoughts on early cuts of HBO’s prequel series House of the Dragon, which he says is “coming soon.”

“House Of The Dragon has wrapped in London and is now in post-production,” he wrote. “What I have seen, I have loved. I am eager to see more.”

Martin says he is developing GoT spinoff series across live-action and animation, for HBO and HBO Max, respectively. “No, can’t tell you how many,” he said. “But it is my hope that a number of these shows will get on the air.”

Those on the live-action side he could speak to included a series centered on the character Corlys Celaryon, for which Rome creator-showrunner Bruno Heller has written the pilot; Nymeria series Ten Thousand Ships, for which showrunner Amanda Segel has delivered “a couple of drafts”; and a Dunk & Egg series from Steve Conrad, based on his novella series Tales of Dunk and Egg, the first season of which will adapt Martin’s novella, The Hedge Knight. “My team and I have had some great sessions with Steve and his team, and we really hit it off. He’s determined to do a faithful adaptation of the stories, which is exactly what I want; these characters and stories are very precious to me,” wrote Martin. “Contrary to what you may have read on line, the show will not be called Dunk & Egg, which could be mistaken for a sitcom by viewers unfamiliar with the stories. We’re leaning toward A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms for the series title, though The Hedge Knight has its partisans as well.”

On the animation side, Martin would only speak to a series set in Yi Ti, a region in the far east of the continent of Essos, the working title of which is The Golden Empire. “We have a great young writer on that one too, and I think the art and animation is just going to be beautiful,” wrote Martin. “I would tell you more if I could. I don’t think I can say a word about the other animated shows. Not yet.”

Martin said that he’s seen comments online questioning how involved he is in the upcoming Game of Thrones projects, sharing that “the answer is: a lot.”

“It’s my world, and while I have been working closely with some fantastic writers and showrunners, ultimately it is up to me to try to keep the canon… well, canonical…,” said Martin, “and to do all I can to help make the new shows great. (And I love these stories too).”

Martin also confirmed today that he is “still working” on The Winds of Winter, the anticipated sixth novel in the epic series A Song of Ice and Fire on which Game of Thrones was based. “I made a lot of progress on Winds in 2020, and less in 2021…” he wrote, “but ‘less’ is not ‘none.’ ”

In addition to Winds, Martin is currently writing “the second volume of Archmaester Gyldayn’s history, Fire & Blood”, with “a couple hundred pages” down and “a long way to go”; as well as “an illustrated, condensed version of Fire & Blood” done with Elio Garcia, Linda Antonsson and Raya Golden, and another book that he describes as “a Who’s Who in Westeros.”

While Martin maintains that “the world of Westeros, the world of A Song Of Ice & Fire” remains his top priority, he’s also currently at work on series including Roadmarks for HBO, Dark Winds for AMC, Wild Cards for UCP and Peacock, and the short film Night of the Cooters from director Vincent D’Onofrio, which he says “should be finished this month.”

Airing between 2011-2019, Game of Thrones was an epic fantasy series created for HBO by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss that saw nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, with an ancient enemy returning after being dormant for millennia. House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events of that series and will tell the story of the House Targaryen, associated with GoT characters including Emilia Clarke’s dragon-taming Daenerys.

House of the Dragon is coming to HBO this year.

But we already knew that, right? HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys told Deadline that they are currently in talks with the team behind the dragons to figure out exactly when to launch the spinoff fantasy series and admits that the network was cautious about revealing a date before due to the impact of Covid on production.

The prequel series, which comes from George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, has now finished production and fans should expect an update soon. It stars Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy and Fabien Frankel. Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best and Sonoya Mizuno also feature.

“One of the reasons why we’re trying to be cautious about it is when you’re shooting a show that big during a pandemic, especially with the last round [with] a...

The new book “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers” by journalist James Andrew Miller is the gift that keeps on giving for fans of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” The book features extensive interviews with author George R.R. Martin about the beloved fantasy series that ended in 2019 — but has a raft of prequels and spinoffs coming down the pipeline.

The world of Westeros is returning to HBO in the new year with the prequel series “House of the Dragon,” and that’s not at all. Just this week, news broke that Steve Conrad has been hired as the writer and executive producer of a second spinoff series titled “Dunk & Egg.” There are also reports that HBO is in development on two animated series set in the “Thrones” universe. And according to the book, back in 2017, Martin was surprised to learn just how many prequels HBO had in the cards.

The world of “Game of Thrones” is returning to HBO in the new year with the prequel series “House of the Dragon,” and that’s not at all. Just this week, news broke that Steve Conrad has been hired as the writer and executive producer of a second spinoff series titled “Dunk & Egg.” There’s also reports that HBO is developing two animated series set in the “Thrones” universe. One spinoff that isn’t seeing the light of day is the the first one that HBO announced, the pilot for which was shot and then scrapped. According to former WarnerMedia entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt, that single episode cost the network over $30 million.

“They had spent over $30 million on a ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel pilot that was in production when I got there,” Greenblatt said in the new HBO book “Tinderbox” (via Insider). “And when I saw a cut of it...

The “Game of Thrones” prequel series “Tales of Dunk and Egg” at HBO has found its writer, Variety has learned from sources.

Steve Conrad has been tapped to serve as writer and executive producer on the potential series under his Elephant Pictures banner. As Variety exclusively reported in January 2021, the one-hour show would be based on the series of fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, which follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Dunk) and a young Aegon V Targaryen (Egg) 90 years prior to the events of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

Reps for HBO and Conrad declined to comment.

Conrad previously created the Amazon series “Patriot” as well as the current AMC stop-motion animation series “Ultra City Smiths.” He also co-created the Epix neo-noir series “Perpetual Grace Ltd” starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Jimmi SImpson. Conrad directed multiple episodes of all three shows. On the film side,...

Emmy- and DGA Award-winning actor, director, writer and producer Ben Stiller, and his production company Red Hour have inked with UTA in all areas. Stiller was previously with WME. This marks a return for Stiller to UTA, the firm having repped him earlier in his career.

The actor and filmmaker counts $3 billion at the WW box office. His credits include major feature franchises such as Meet the Parents and Night at the Museum, the animated Madagascar films, the cult comedy Zoolander, and critically acclaimed arthouse hits such as The Royal Tenenbaums and Flirting With Disaster, and Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, While We’re Young and Netflix’s The Meyerowitz Stories, in addition to the hit comedies There’s Something About Mary and the Oscar nominated Tropic Thunder, which he starred in, directed, co-wrote, and produced under his production company, Red Hour.

Stiller is currently in post on the Apple+ workplace thriller, Severance,...

"Ultra City Smiths", created by Steve Conrad and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, starring Kristen Bell, Kurtwood Smith ("RoboCop"), Bebe Neuwirth ("Frasier"), Alia Shawkat, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Damon Herriman and Melissa Villaseñor, is the new comedic stop-motion animation series, streaming July 22, 2021 on AMC+:

"...an investigation takes place into the mysterious disappearance of an 'Ultra City' magnate...

"...as two intrepid detectives follow the case, rallying to fight against their city's dangerous corruption...

"...at a high cost to themselves and their families, all in pursuit of a gentler place to call home..."

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As if made to prove that film noir isn’t one genre, but all the genres, Steve Conrad’s “Ultra City Smiths” tackles its many creative departures with captivating verve, gliding from crime saga to sporadic musical to stop-motion animated whodunit, all while imbuing each with a spirit so bleak it makes the new series’ dreamy dancing between absurd comedy and moving drama absolutely stunning.

And yes, there is dancing — oh, is there ever.

While describing the AMC+ series’ plot may prove as futile as launching a standalone streaming service for a network whose biggest hits are available elsewhere, I, too, will give it a go. “Ultra City Smiths” is set in Ultra City, a Manhattan stand-in filled with sports arenas like Addison Square Garden, newspapers like “The Ultra City Times” spelled out in a familiar Old English font, and prison ferries shipping in from Rucker’s Island. The island metropolis is also a dark,...

Neither of Steve Conrad’s quirky television genre exercises — Amazon’s Patriot and Epix’s Perpetual Grace, Ltd — was a blockbuster, but both shows have dedicated fan bases inspired by the writer-director-producer’s artfully convoluted dialogue, off-kilter eye and eccentric casting choices.

It might have been possible to predict that Conrad would follow those dramas with a noir musical-mystery populated by stop-motion baby dolls, but only if you previously watched the leaked pilot for Timms Valley, an earlier stop-motion comic-thriller that IFC, a network prone to programming for audiences in the tens of thousands, still deemed too odd to go to ...

Neither of Steve Conrad’s quirky television genre exercises — Amazon’s Patriot and Epix’s Perpetual Grace, Ltd — was a blockbuster, but both shows have dedicated fan bases inspired by the writer-director-producer’s artfully convoluted dialogue, off-kilter eye and eccentric casting choices.

It might have been possible to predict that Conrad would follow those dramas with a noir musical-mystery populated by stop-motion baby dolls, but only if you previously watched the leaked pilot for Timms Valley, an earlier stop-motion comic-thriller that IFC, a network prone to programming for audiences in the tens of thousands, still deemed too odd to go to ...

Take the tense mystery and suspense of David Fincher and mix it with a stop-motion animation style that feels reminiscent of the puppetry of Team America: World Police, and you have some idea of what to expect from AMC’s new series Ultra City Smiths. Created by Steve Conrad (Patriot) and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (Robot Chicken, […]

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AMC+ released today the highly anticipated trailer and key art from the upcoming new half-hour, stop-motion, animated baby doll series, Ultra City Smiths premiering Thursday, July 22 on AMC+. Created by Steve Conrad, who serves as showrunner, and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the Ultra City Smiths story unfolds via […]

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In the wake of the pandemic, shows have gotten inventive, many eschewing actors entirely in favor of finding unique ways to tell stories with animated methods. Case in point: the upcoming AMC+ series “Ultra City Smiths,” which released its first trailer below and looks to be a fun / bizarre, murder-mystery told with stop-motion animation and baby dolls.

The plot synopsis per AMC:

From AMC Studios and created by Steve Conrad and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios “Ultra City Smiths” unfolds via the stop-motion animation of baby dolls repurposed as a grown-up cast of characters. The series hinges on an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of fictional metropolis Ultra City’s most famous magnate (Smith).

Two intrepid detectives (Jimmi Simpson and Da’Vine Joy Randolph) follow the case, rallying to fight against their city’s dangerous corruption, at a high cost to themselves and their families, all in pursuit of a gentler place to call home.

This summer’s San Diego Comic-Con once again invites fans to sit on their couches and enjoy the pop culture extravaganza from the safety of their homes. There is one difference from last year’s virtual event, however: It will be an abbreviated one, taking place over three days, from Friday, July 23 through Sunday, July 25 — but there are still a bevy of TV show panels on the lineup, which will be streaming for free via YouTube.

Note: Yes, there will again be a DC Fandome virtual event this year (on Oct. 16), where in 2020 shows such as The Flash, Titans, Batwoman...

Taking part in this year's Comic-Con@Home? You won't want to miss AMC's killer lineup of panels, including The Walking Dead, Creepshow, V/H/S/94 and much more!

New York, NY – July 7, 2021 – AMC Networks announced today its extensive lineup of panels at this year’s Comic-Con@Home, which runs from July 23 to July 25, including The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Ultra City Smiths, Doctor Who, Creepshow, and anthologies Slasher: Flesh & Blood, Horror Noire and V/H/S/94. AMC Networks’ panels from Comic-Con@Home will be available on AMC+ the day after the Comic-Con debut.

Panel details below (in chronological order):

V/H/S/94

Panel Time: Friday, July 23 at 1:00 Pm Pt

The Shudder Original Film V/H/S/94 marks the return of the infamous “found footage” anthology. Moderated by Richard Newby of Fangoria and The Hollywood Reporter, the panel will feature co-creator Brad Miska,...