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Where are all the Reacher fans? Its spinoff, which was given a series order back in October 2024 by Prime Video, has finally revealed its official title. Oh, but that's not all. There's even more exciting news. New casting additions have been announced! Keep reading for all the juicy details.

When the Reacher spinoff series was announced last year, it was confirmed that the show would focus on fan-favorite character Frances Neagley, Reacher's trusted confidante and long-time colleague. Danish actress Maria Sten was also announced to reprise the role.

Additionally, Nick Santora, the executive producer and showrunner of Reacher, teamed up with Nicholas Wootton to develop the series. The pair had previously worked together on the crime drama Prison Break. Executive producers on the spinoff include Santora, Wootton, Lee Child, Don Granger, Sam Hill, Adam Higgs, Lisa Kussner, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell.

At the time of the spinoff's announcement,...

For Werner Herzog, cinema is an active art, participatory one in which the creation of a work requires the practitioner to actually live (or have already lived) it, as if truth comes most compellingly from an artist’s firsthand experience with their subject matter. Herzog’s fiction films are intrinsically linked to his documentaries in that, in both cases, the German auteur is often not simply the storyteller but, also, a willing and essential participant, his presence fundamentally, messily tangled up in the final product.

So it goes with Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Herzog’s 1972 tale about an expedition of Spanish conquistadors through Peru’s jungles and down the treacherous Huallaga river. A saga of adventurers—led by Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski)—driven headlong into annihilation by their hubris and desire for immortality, it’s the first of Herzog’s many features in which his (anti-)heroes...

Exclusive: Matthew Del Negro (City on a Hill) is joining season 3 of Mayor of Kingstown.

Del Negro will play the role of Will Breen, a charming, seemingly good natured corrections officer at the Kingstown Women’s Prison. He will recur for five episodes.

The 10-episode third season of the Paramount+ drama series will premiere Sunday, June 2. In Season 3, a series of explosions rock Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob sets up shop in the city, and a drug war rages inside and outside prison walls. The pressure is on Mike McLusky (Jeremy Renner) to end the war but things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the Mayor’s attempts to keep the peace among all factions.

Most recently, Del Negro co-starred as Detective Chris Caysen on Showtime’s City on a Hill opposite Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge.

Peacock’s upcoming limited series adaptation of “Long Bright River” starring Amanda Seyfried has added six to its cast in recurring roles.

Dash Mihok, Britne Oldford, Matthew Del Negro, Harriet Sansom Harris, Patch Darragh, and Perry Mattfeld have all joined the series.

They will appear alongside Seyfried and previously announced cast members Nicholas Pinnock, Ashleigh Cummings, Callum Vinson and John Doman.

Based on the book of the same name by Liz Moore, the series is described as a suspense thriller that tells the story of “Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.”

Mihok will recur as Eddie, while Oldford will play Aura. Del Negro will play Simon, with Sansom Harris as Mrs. Mahon, Darragh as Sergeant Kevin Ahearn, and Mattfield as Paula.

Peacock’s limited suspense thriller Long Bright River, based on the New York Times bestseller by Liz Moore, has added six in recurring roles: Dash Mihok (Ray Donovan), Britne Oldford (Dead Ringers), Matthew Del Negro (City on a Hill), Harriet Sansom Harris (Hacks), Patch Darragh (Succession), and Perry Mattfeld (In the Dark).

Mihok plays Eddie, with Oldford as Aura, Del Negro as Simon, Harris as Mrs. Mahon, Darragh as Sergeant Kevin Ahearn, and Mattfeld as Paula. As previously announced, Amanda Seyfried and Nicholas Pinnock lead a cast, also featuring Ashleigh Cummings, Callum Vinson, and John Doman.

The show follows Seyfried’s police officer, Mickey, as she patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.

Nikki Toscano and Liz Moore are writing and exec producing, with Toscano serving as showrunner.

“The Missing” has added Matthew Del Negro (“City on a Hill”) to its cast, TheWrap can exclusively reveal. He will play the recurring role of Peter Hanning, a self-made billionaire, in the David E. Kelley Peacock adaptation of Israeli crime writer Dror A. Mishani‘s novel, “The Missing File.”

Previously announced cast includes Juliana Canfield (“Y: The Last Man”) as New York Police Department rookie detective Janine Harris, Karen Robinson (“Schitt’s Creek”) as the straitlaced Captain Helen Davies and Michael Mosley (“Ozark”) as veteran cop Earl Malzone. Recurring guest stars are Steven Pasquale, Stephanie Szostak and Tony Curran.

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The eight-episode drama — written, showrun and executive produced by Kelley (“Big Little Lies”) — follows NYPD Detective Avraham (Jeff Wilbusch), “whose belief in mankind is his superpower when it comes to uncovering the truth. Guided by a deep...

Matthew Del Negro (Scandal) has signed on for a key recurring role in the upcoming second season of Amazon's original drama series Goliath. Del Negro will play Danny Loomis, a charismatic yet devious political operator and consiglieri to the city's power elite under the guise of being a "financial analyst". The new season of Goliath is executive produced by Lawrence Trilling (Parenthood). The series' cast is led by Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo), who in January won the Golden…...

Over the years, Matthew Del Negro has been in pretty much every show you can imagine: “The Sopranos,” “The West Wing,” “Law & Order,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “NCIS,” “Teen Wolf,” “United States of Tara” — the list goes on. But when he landed a relatively small role in a big TV show, his life was turned upside down in the best possible way. Now his character is marrying Cyrus Beene, the fictional chief of staff on Shonda Rhimes‘ juggernaut “Scandal,” a move that took everyone by surprise, Del Negro included. “It’s exactly how I saw it happening,” Del Negro joked...

Mistresses hunk Matthew Del Negro has landed a recurring role on the upcoming season of Scandal, EW has learned exclusively.

Del Negro, whose credits also include NCIS: La and Criminal Minds, will join the cast in a secret, yet juicy role. The actor is the latest new addition for season 4, which also includes guests Sonya Walger, Portia de Rossi, Mary McCormack, and Josh Randall.

Scandal returns Sept. 25 at 9 p.m. Et on ABC.

When you begin exploring the work of director Werner Herzog some (if not most) will argue Aguirre, the Wrath of God is likely the best place to start. Though I don't think you get the full picture of this portion of Herzog's career without including Fitzcarraldo or the documentary My Best Fiend, which came another 12 years later, detailing Herzog's work with Aguirre star Klaus Kinski. Without Kinski, Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo and, most likely, Herzog would not be the same. With that in mind, know this is the first review in a coming triptych, meant to build off one another to the point an entire picture begins to form. History, in this case, cannot be ignored. Considered an entry in the West German New Wave, Aguirre is very loosely based on the accounts of Spanish Dominican monk Gaspar de Carvajal (played in the film by Del Negro) as well as the life...

Chris Messina premiered his directorial debut Alex of Venice at the Tribeca Film Festival, and told Uinterview that he had a good friend help him direct the scenes he acted in.

Messina, who currently stars as Danny Castellano on The Mindy Project, pulled double duty on the Alex of Venice set as director and actor. The new director opened up about working on both sides of the camera in an exclusive interview with Uinterview.

“It’s hard to do, but I love doing it,” Messina said when asked about making the transition from acting to directing.

Messina also revealed that finishing the film in post-production was extremely difficult because he was back at work on The Mindy Project. Messina said he would be on set all day and then work on Alex of Venice on the side, essentially working “two full time jobs.”

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Matthew Del Negro will soon get mixed up in Ringer.

The actor (The Sopranos, The United States of Tara, Rizzoli & Isles) will appear on multiple episodes of The CW drama, according to EW, as FBI Agent Grady Torrance. Look for the character to cross paths to be an enemy of Agent Machado's at the bureau.

Ringer Winter Premiere Promo

Ringer, as teased above, does not return with new installments until January 31. Del Negro will premiere on March 6.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, still Buffy the Vampire slayer to her loyal fans, made a successful return to series TV this fall with the new CW drama Ringer. Gellar, who plays two roles on the show, Bridget a woman on the run from the mob, and Bridget's wealthy twin sister Siobhan, who also has a bounty on her head, welcomed a new character to the lineup, Matthew Del Negro of The United States of Tara. EW reported yesterday that Del Negro, who also played recurring characters on Rizzoli & Isles, The West Wing and The Sopranos, joined the CW series as Agent Grady Torrance.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, still Buffy the Vampire slayer to her loyal fans, made a successful return to series TV this fall with the new CW drama Ringer. Gellar, who plays two roles on the show, Bridget a woman on the run from the mob, and Bridget's wealthy twin sister Siobhan, who also has a bounty on her head, welcomed a new character to the lineup, Matthew Del Negro of The United States of Tara. EW reported yesterday that Del Negro, who also played recurring characters on Rizzoli & Isles, The West Wing and The Sopranos, joined the CW series as Agent Grady Torrance.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, still Buffy the Vampire slayer to her loyal fans, made a successful return to series TV this fall with the new CW drama Ringer. Gellar, who plays two roles on the show, Bridget a woman on the run from the mob, and Bridget's wealthy twin sister Siobhan, who also has a bounty on her head, welcomed a new character to the lineup, Matthew Del Negro of The United States of Tara. EW reported yesterday that Del Negro, who also played recurring characters on Rizzoli & Isles, The West Wing and The Sopranos, joined the CW series as Agent Grady Torrance.

The CW’s Ringer won’t return with new episodes until Jan 31, but here’s something to look forward to: the Sarah Michelle Gellar show has cast Matthew Del Negro (The Sopranos, The United States of Tara) in the recurring role of Agent Grady Torrance. He will cross paths with Agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell) and is Machado’s nemesis at the bureau. Agent G is described as cocky, slick, and smooth — and, we’re told, will handle his new investigation according to his own agenda. His first appearance is scheduled for the March 6 episode.

Del Negro was most recently seen on TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles,...

Neighborhoods may change, but the intolerant attitudes of some insular communities go on. One hopeful person's charming new environment is another's hellhole of stifled dreams and crushing family pressures.

There are a few worthy notions in debut filmmaker Frank Ciota's low-budget drama set in Boston's Little Italy, but the story line is uninvolving and the performances are unable to keep one fully engaged. With not-the-best sound and overly conservative direction, "The North End" nonetheless kept the attention of audiences at the Santa Barbara (Calif.) International Film Festival.

With a background in advertising, Ciota made several short films in the early 1990s and then teamed with his screenwriter brother Joseph to create "The North End". Part homage and part social critique, the film sticks close to the bars and sidewalks of the titular neighborhood.

Headliner Frank Vincent ("Casino") plays Dom Dibella, a North Ender who made it to Hollywood as an actor playing bad guys and has returned to reprise the role of mob godfather in real life. Community elder and general of the local troops, he leads the way in bemoaning the intrusion of yuppies and "Moroccans" in the 'hood.

Two of the invaders are Harvard graduates Freddie (Matt Del Negro) and Mac (Mark Hartmann), who end up falling for beguiling local beauty Danielle (Lina Sivio). Freddie is an aspiring filmmaker on a quest to make a documentary about the changing local scene, while Mac is a successful investment banker who recently broke up with his fiancee.

Neither choose to heed the warning that many protective males with guns and bad attitudes await those who defile an Italian woman and treat her wrong. Believing their ethnicity is most strongly reflected in the maternal side of one's family, these macho guys also reserve the right to physically intimidate or discipline their own mothers, sisters and wives given the proper circumstances.

Young and heading toward a career in modeling, Danielle wants none of it. But jealous Mac is prone to violence, and she soon realizes her mistake. Jumping in when he gets a chance, quiet and thoughtful Freddie is an Italian kid who has evolved beyond the "traditional" values of Dom DiBella. He makes quick headway with Danielle, and disaster looms on several fronts.

Overall, "The North End" is believable enough but not unique or particularly challenging. It's hard to get behind the characters, and the banter of bigots grows wearisome -- even if there are a few good laughs included. Sivio, Del Negro and Hartmann give it their best, and they all have memorable moments.

THE NORTH END

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Director: Frank Ciota

Producer: Michael King

Screenwriter: Joseph A. Ciota

Director of photography: Jonathan Bekemeier

Art director: Matt Hankey

Editor: George Chiochios

Music: Adam Steinberg

Color/stereo

Cast:

Dom Dibella: Frank Vincent

Freddie: Matt Del Negro

Danielle: Lina Sivio

Mac: Mark Hartmann

Running time -- 98 minutes

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