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Hollywood casting has a way of weaving together unexpected connections. But here’s a fun one—every actress who’s played Spider-Man’s love interest has ended up on a tennis court, at least on screen. Call it a coincidence or just a weird industry pattern, but Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone, and Zendaya have all taken a swing at playing tennis players in films.

Kirsten Dunst was the foremost to stroll onto the tennis court. After playing Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, she starred in Wimbledon (2004). The actress played Lizzie Bradbury. She is a rising tennis star, who falls for a struggling pro (played by Paul Bettany). It wasn’t just a casual sports flick—Dunst actually trained to make her moves look legit.

In 2017, Emma Stone played tennis icon Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes.

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Ever since I was a teenager, I have woken up early to see the Oscar nominations announced. Every other day, it's nearly impossible to get me out of bed before 7 am, but the day the Academy Award nominations are announced, I'm like a kid on Christmas morning. So, on Jan. 23, 2025, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter, away to my phone flew like a flash to what nominations had just come to pass.

I had already prepared myself that some movies that I personally would have nominated were not going to happen, since that would require members of the Academy to remember movies that came out before October and also see movies that maybe didn't have the budget to campaign and send screeners and would require them to sign in to...

Do you ever find that you look at lists of awards-nominated films and you just cannot figure out why some films are there? If so, don’t worry. So, from time to time, do seasoned critics.

To be fair, some people just don’t like sports films. I am not one of those people. In my experience, a well-made sports film will be thrilling to watch even if you’ve never cared for the sport in question, just as a good erotic romance will set your heart thumping even if you don’t feel the least desire for its stars. Challengers is neither. Director Luca Guadagnino reportedly brought in former world number four and accomplished coach Brad Gilbert as an advisor, and tennis enthusiasts assure me that it accurately recreates the experience of training and travelling around between tournaments. Accuracy is not everything, however, and it is not always enough.

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Ahead, tennis icon Brad Gilbert tells IndieWire how his unforgettable collaboration with this year’s Impact Award winners — Luca Guadagnino, Justin Kuritzkes, Amy Pascal, and Rachel O’Connor — helped turn the movie into a global phenomenon.

I was really happy with the work that Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor, and Zendaya put in to make their characters come to fruition on “Challengers.” They put in the work, and it was a great experience with all of them. And Luca’s vision! Tennis for all of them wasn’t something that was really on their radar.

Steven Spielberg's upcoming film is set to have a star-studded cast. Although little details are known about the legendary director's upcoming movie, its cast is shaping up as it has added a Challengers star.

Per Variety, Josh O'Connor has been cast in Steven Spielberg's new film. The Challengers actor will join Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, who have been previously announced as part of the movie. The project doesn't have a title yet but it does have a release date May 15, 2026.

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Based on the 1957 novel The Executioners, the source material has already had two more adaptations.

Spielberg will direct the film based on the script by frequent collaborator David Koepp, and it will be produced through his company Amblin Entertainment. Little information has come out about the film, whose plots are kept under wraps.

“I’ll tell you the moment I knew that Luca [Guadagnino] was the perfect director for this,” Challengers writer Justin Kuritzkes said. “He had just read the script and we were talking on the phone and Luca said, ‘I know next to nothing about tennis but I know a great deal about desire.’”

At a panel for Challengers at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles, Kuritzkes was joined by director Luca Gudagnino, producer Amy Pascal and actor Josh O’Connor.

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“What I loved about the script so much, is that it’s about three people who desperately don’t want something to happen. And they spend three years fearing that this will happen, and then it does… and they’re okay,” says Pascal. “And I think that’s really wonderful, unusual thing to make a movie about, because it’s...

Red Hour Films and Rivulet Films have rounded out the cast for their pickleball comedy, The Dink, with seven additions: Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult), Aaron Chen (Fisk), Martin Kove (The Karate Kid), Chris Parnell (Rick and Morty), Christine Taylor (Dodgeball) and seven-time Grand Slam tennis champion John McEnroe (Never Have I Ever).

As previously announced, Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Ben Stiller, and Andy Roddick will also star, with Josh Greenbaum (upcoming Spaceballs sequel) directing from a script by Sean Clements (Workaholics). Production kicked off in Los Angeles today.

The Dink follows a washed-up tennis pro who, in trying to save a club in crisis and win his father’s respect, is forced to break a solemn vow and do the one thing he swore he’d never do: play pickleball.

John Lesher and Stiller are producing through their Red Hour Films banner, alongside...

In Luca Guadagnino’s tennis thriller Challengers, stars Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor litigate their love triangle as much on the court as in the bedroom. As such, the sport has to stay interesting.

Guadagnino previously told Little White Lies he doesn’t like watching real tennis because it’s boring. “The way in which [the sport] is shown is rather undynamic,” he said. Challengers — punctuated by the camera’s near-constant frenetic motion — seems to be in part about rectifying this failing.

“Luca’s vision for this movie was making the tennis action generally very kinetic,” Challengers VFX director Brian Drewes tells The Hollywood Reporter. The camera sweeps above and below the court, jumping toward the subjects’ beautifully sweaty faces and buzzing with an immersive energy that took the internet and critics by storm upon the movie’s release. This kineticism reaches its peak at the end of the film, when the camera becomes the ball,...

Sarah Silverman appeared on David Duchovny’s Fail Better podcast this week and took the opportunity to reflect on why she dropped her formative “Sarah Silverman” character amid the political rise of Donald Trump. She explained she decided to move on from the “arrogant ignorant” character she previously embodied for more complex reasons than audiences “not laughing at my racist jokes anymore.”

“It wasn’t really a conscious, ‘Hey, that stuff doesn’t work, so I’m going to go a different way,'” Silverman told Duchovny. “I think I just very naturally started changing.

Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor were all trained by Olympic bronze medalist and former tennis champion Brad Gilbert for Challengers, impressing viewers with their on-screen tennis skills. While Mike Faist played tennis in high school, neither Zendaya nor Josh O'Connor had played tennis before Challengers. Brad Gilbert spent the most time training with Zendaya for a total of three months.

Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor are all such naturals onscreen in Challengers, their convincing performances have prompted curiosity about whether they're actually playing tennis in the romantic sports drama. Directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers enters the world of professional tennis through a heated love triangle between Zendaya's Tashi Duncan, her husband Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), and his ex-best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend Patrick Zweig (Josh O'Connor). Although Challengers is not based on a true story, Kuritzkes was inspired by the controversial championship...

Actress Zendaya’s performance in the romantic sports comedy film ‘Challengers’ left an impression on Serena Williams.

The 27-year-old actress revealed that the tennis icon, 42, has watched her latest performance as tennis player-turned-coach Tashi Duncan in the upcoming movie and she’s a fan, reports ‘People’ magazine.

Zendaya told Et, “She was like, ‘I know there definitely weren’t real (tennis) balls. She knows. She’s the best of the best. She did say that it was great considering that I had never, never touched a tennis ball before.”

Previously, Zendaya told the outlet that she was “very nervous about her seeing my tennis skills,” and apologised “in advance” to Serena and her sister Venus.

As per ‘People’, the actress had a fun back-and-forth with Venus on social media earlier in the week, and at the end of the month. She spoke about who specifically inspired her performance in the film,...

Mark Ruffalo is returning to the stage in a one-night performance of the new play Ironweed: An Evening of Art & Humanity.

Ruffalo will star opposite Jessica Hecht in a performance set for May 17 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The play is based on William Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was first published in 1983, and conceived of by Jodie Markell, who directs, and Brad Gilbert, who is the producer.

In addition to the onstage cast, the performance will include excerpts from the audio recording of the play, which is set to be released in fall 2024 and features Norbert Leo Butz, Kristine Nielsen, John Magaro, Michael Potts, David Rysdahl, Frank Wood and Katie Erbe, as well as songs by Tom Waits and an original score by Tamar-kali.

The play is set on All Hallow’s Eve in Albany in 1938. Francis Phelan, played by Ruffalo, returns to his hometown after being...

Zendaya plays a former tennis player turned coach, Tashi Duncan, in her upcoming Challengers. Following her roles in the Spider-Man franchise and Dune, Zendaya was presented with a new type of challenge for this Luca Guadagnino directorial. During a recent interview, the actress revealed that she devised a very unique plan to perfectly play the role of a tennis pro.

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It was extremely hard for the Euphoria fame to elevate her tennis playing skills to an elite level. Despite being trained by some of the most renowned names in the field, the 27-year-old struggled to crack the perfect technique. Ultimately, she devised a unique idea and saw it more as a dance, which helped her to perfectly fake it on camera.

How did Zendaya make her tennis look flawless in Challengers?

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The upcoming movie Challengers, made by the Call Me By Your Name fame Luca Guadagnino,...

Hollywood casting can be a fickle thing. But for actresses who’ve graced the silver screen as Spider-Man’s love interest, there seems to be a recurring theme – a hidden talent for tennis!

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Believe it or not, all three actresses—Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone, and Zendaya—who have portrayed Spider-Man’s love interest on the big screen share a surprising connection to the world of tennis.

It’s not merely a coincidence; each of them has actually portrayed a tennis player in different movies, following their roles in Spider-Man flicks.

Spider-Man Actresses Have Unexpected Tennis Connection

The first connection in this web of coincidence takes us back to 2004’s romantic comedy Wimbledon. Kirsten Dunst, who famously portrayed Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi‘s Spider-Man trilogy, took on the role of Lizzie Bradbury, a determined young tennis player on the verge of success.

Kirsten Dunst as...

As Zendaya walks the red carpet at Dune Part 2 with an outfit that resembles the Metropolis robot as a dominatrix, you can catch her in the trailer for the newest drama from Amazon MGM Studios, Challengers. The trailer reels you in with the dynamic of Zendaya’s tennis pro taking on two male protégés as they, too, embark on their professional tennis careers. Things get hot and heavy (then complicated) when Zendaya’s character entangles herself with both men. MGM has released the new trailer with a few new images that, interestingly, all involve a side two-shot of characters in conversation.

The official synopsis from MGM reads,

“From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist...

Zendaya is game, set, match for Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers.”

The tennis-centric drama follows Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan, a once-promising tennis prodigy whose knee injury puts her out of the game for good. However, Tashi isn’t one to shy away from a challenge: She steps in to coach husband Art (Mike Faist) and ex Patrick (Josh O’Connor), playing them off each other. Years later, though, she’s once again torn between the duo even after Patrick re-enters her and Art’s married life.

Guadagnino directs the film from a script penned by Justin Kuritzkes. Lead star Zendaya produces “Challengers,” along with Guadagnino, Amy Pascal, and Rachel O’Connor. Bernard Bellew, Lorenzo Mieli, and Kevin Ulrich executive produce.

Director Guadagnino revealed that the cast trained for three months with former professional tennis player Brad Gilbert, who served as a consultant on the film. The cast spent two to three hours playing tennis six days a week,...

Josh O’Connor became a beast while filming Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers.” The sexually-charged drama centered in the world of professional tennis stars O’Connor and Mike Faist as Zendaya’s two love interests over the course of a decade.

Faist told GQ that O’Connor was dedicated to physically transforming into the role of a tennis pro. “I watched this guy probably put on close to 10 pounds over the course of the weeks we were working,” Faist said. “He physically transformed. He’s a craftsman, and knew exactly what was required of him in the moment.”

The cast spent two to three hours playing tennis six days a week for three months with former professional tennis player Brad Gilbert, who served as a consultant on the film. The cast then spent an additional two hours at the gym daily post-practice and before rehearsals.

“If left to my own devices, I...

ESPN's coverage of the 2023 U.S. Open tennis championships kicks off on August 28, marking the cable network’s ninth year as the exclusive TV home of the Open. While professional tennis remains a comparatively niche sport in the U.S. when compared to the likes of pro-football or pro-basketball, it is a niche that is rife with fascinating personalities, grudges, conflicts of interest, and figures who are revered and others who elicit eye-rolls. That holds true for both the active players on the tour as well as those in the press booth. Hardcore tennis fans are familiar with these personalities and get a whole other level of enjoyment out of watching the matches as they call out the commentators' well-known biases, groan at the Brad Gilbert nicknames, and giggle as Pam Shriver's antics drive everyone else to distraction.

Luca Guadagnino’s real challenge: to make tennis sexy.

The “Challengers” director, according to his cast, emphasized the sensual physicality of the sport for the upcoming romantic drama. Emmy winner Zendaya plays tennis player-turned-coach Tashi who oversees her husband Art’s (Mike Faist) career, which leads them to crossing paths with Tashi’s ex-boyfriend (Josh O’Connor) and igniting a tense love triangle with queer undertones.

The trailer for “Challengers” already produced an iconic image of Zendaya, O’Connor, and Faist having a threesome.

As O’Connor teased to Empire magazine, “The tennis is the sex. Those moments are so sexy. The film is dealing with the tension before and after. The sex they’re all desperate for is on the court.”

Co-star Faist added that Guadagnino “had no knowledge of tennis” prior to the film, but that the sport itself was besides the point.

“I think he had only a...

Zendaya fans who were eagerly anticipating her new movie ‘Challengers’ will have to wait a bit longer, as the film has been delayed from its original September 15, 2023 release date to April 26, 2024. The reason for the postponement is the ongoing actors and writers strikes that have affected the film industry.

‘Challengers’ is a romantic sports comedy-drama directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Justin Kuritzkes. The film stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a tennis player-turned-coach who signs up her husband and Grand Slam champion Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) for a challenger event where he will face off against her former lover Patrick (Josh O’Connor). The film explores the rivalry and attraction between the three characters on and off the court.

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The film was set to premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival as the opening night film, but it was pulled from the event by MGM due to the labor disputes.

The fallout from the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike makes its way to the tennis court as MGM‘s sports drama Challengers defaults to 2024. Luca Guadagnino’s R-rated film starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist was scheduled to open stateside on September 15 after its Venice Film Festival premiere. However, with the strike timeline uncertain, the film is moving to April 26, 2024. In addition to postponing the film’s release, the Venice premiere is no longer happening.

Part of the reason for the Challengers’ delay is that Zendaya, who has a 200M social media outreach, cannot promote the film during the strike. Her immense popularity on platforms like Instagram will inevitably boost the film’s visibility by tapping into the targeted demographic for the steamy sports drama. To put things into perspective, Challengers garnered 150M global views in its first 24 hours. Talk about the film ignited 320 stateside conversations after the trailer was the...

The challenge of promoting “Challengers” during the SAG-AFTRA strike has upended its planned fall rollout.

Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” will no longer be making its world premiere for the opening night of the 2023 Venice Film Festival. The film, which stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist, was previously announced to be screening out of competition August 30 to kick off the 80th annual festival.

Instead, the festival will open with “Comandante,” directed by Edoardo De Angelis, instead, the festival announced on Friday. “‘Challengers,’ the movie by Luca Guadagnino that had previously been announced, will not participate at the Festival following a decision made by the production,” Venice representatives said in a statement.

In a statement provided to IndieWire, Amazon said, “After thoughtful consideration with our partners, and given the parameters that SAG-AFTRA has outlined for its membership, we have made the difficult decision to withdraw ‘Challengers’ from this year’s Venice International Film Festival.

A dramatic remix of Rihanna’s “S&m” serves as the perfect backdrop for the love triangle, sexual tension-filled trailer of Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film, Challengers, released Tuesday. The film is out Sept. 15.

The new film follows tennis star Tashi Duncan alongside her husband Art (Mike Faist) as they reconnect with a former rival Patrick (Josh O’Conner) years after the trio had a love triangle moment in their youth.

The video opens with Zendaya meeting the two boys as she begins her career as a teenager, when she...

As if the summer isn’t hot enough, Luca Guadagnino and Zendaya are turning up the heat with today’s Challengers trailer, featuring a young throuple with stars in their eyes and knives in their backs.

Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist – West Side Story), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor – The Crown) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend. As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win?

In the Challengers trailer, Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan brings boss bitch energy to the tennis court, where she...

Zendaya gets involved in the art of seduction and other games in the Challengers trailer. From director Luca Guadagnino, the upcoming romantic sports drama follows a years-long love triangle between three tennis players from their initial meeting as teenagers to their competing in a tournament to be crowned the world-famous grand slam winner. The Challengers cast includes the MCU, Euphoria, and Dune star Zendaya, West Side Story's Mike Faist, and The Crown's Josh O'Connor.

MGM has unveiled the official trailer for the film ahead of Challengers' release date this fall. Check it out below:

The Challengers trailer introduces Zendaya as the star tennis player Tashi Duncan who gets caught up in a steamy love triangle with fellow tennis players Art Donaldson (Faist) and Patrick Zweig (O'Connor). Years later, Tashi is married to Art and after suffering a serious injury becomes his coach. To spice things up, Tashi convinces...

Zendaya is down at the tennis courts in Luca Guadagnino’s latest romance. In the film, the “Euphoria” Emmy winner plays tennis player-turned-coach Tashi who oversees her husband Art’s (Mike Faist) career. But when Art winds up on a losing streak, he is forced to play against his childhood best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend (Josh O’Connor), igniting a tense love triangle with queer undertones. The film is written by Justin Kuritzkes.

Director Guadagnino revealed that the cast trained for three months with former professional tennis player Brad Gilbert, who served as a consultant on the film. The “Bones and All” filmmaker added that Zendaya’s body double was not used in the final cut of the tennis scenes.

“I think those three characters in that movie are beautifully complex and really fucked-up people that I love very much. And a sports film, why not?,” the Oscar winner previously told IndieWire.

Could Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film be a “love” story for the ages?

Guadagnino’s latest feature, “Challengers,” has finally released its first trailer, providing a highly anticipated look at Zendaya and Josh O’Connor in what’s being billed as a romantic sports comedy film.

Zendaya stars as pro tennis player Tashi opposite O’Connor and Mike Faist (“West Side Story”). “Challengers” follows Tashi and her husband, Art (Faist), as they reunite with a former rival, Patrick (O’Connor) — who also happens to be Tashi’s former lover and best friend. Tashi convinces Art to enter the Challengers tennis tournament, but once Art learns he’ll be playing against Patrick, drama — and major competition — ensues.

According to the film’s official logline, “Challengers” follows “three players who knew each other when they were teenagers as they compete in a tennis tournament to be the world-famous grand slam winner and reignite...

When tennis champion Boris Becker entered the room for a press conference in Berlin before the world premiere of the documentary about his storied career and troubled personal life, camera shutters clicked furiously and flashes flashed. He is, after all, one of Germany’s most famous native sons and a widely loved sports legend, despite a conviction for a bankruptcy-related fraud that landed him behind bars in Britain for eight months.

“I’m 55 years old and I’m very proud of the things that I’ve done. But I’ve made mistakes,” Becker told the assembled media at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday. “I’ve paid a heavy price for some of the things I did in my past. Today I’m a bit better for it. Hopefully a bit smarter. Maybe a bit more humble.”

Boris Becker celebrates winning the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship in 1985

The documentary...

Zendaya spent three months training to move like a tennis pro, and the two-time “Euphoria” Emmy winner is ready to compete in the U.S. Open according to “Challengers” director Luca Guadagnino.

The love-love dramedy stars Zendaya as a tennis player-turned-coach Tashi who oversees her husband Art’s (Mike Faist) career. But when Art winds up on a losing streak, he is forced to play against his childhood best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend, Patrick (Josh O’Connor), igniting a tense love triangle with queer undertones.

“They spent like three months working very hard,” Guadagnino told Variety of the trio of actors. “Everybody – technically, athletically.”

Former professional tennis player Brad Gilbert is a consultant on the film, working with Zendaya, O’Connor, and Faist to teach tennis.

“She’s wonderful,” Guadagnino said of Zendaya’s athleticism in the role. “I mean, wow. We edited the movie, and we almost actually don...

Zendaya has conquered acting and singing, but now it sounds likes she’s going to impress us with her tennis skills.

The “Euphoria” star trained for months for her role as a tennis player-turned-coach in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film “Challengers.”

“She’s wonderful,” Guadagnino told Variety Saturday night at the Academy Museum Gala. “I mean, wow. We edited the movie and we almost actually don’t use any of her double. She’s so good.”

The film, which Guadagnino described as a “sexy comedy,” follows Zendaya’s character as a love triangle develops while coaches her player-husband (“West Side Story” actor Mike Faist) for his big match against her ex and his childhood best friend, played by Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”).

Production wrapped in June. Former professional tennis player Brad Gilbert is a consultant on the film.

“They spent like three months working very hard,” Guadagnino said of his leads.

Exclusive: Tennis great Michael Chang, who became the youngest winner of a major tournament singles championship when he beat Ivan Lendl in the 1989 French Open at age 17, will be the subject of a ’30 for 30′ documentary by ESPN Films.

While that win turned out to be Chang’s only major title, he appeared in three more major finals and left an enduring mark competing against a formidable group of American contemporaries like Pete Sampras, Jim Courier and Andre Agassi. He had 34 wins on the Atp tour from 1988 to 2000 before retiring in 2003.

The film, titled American Son, has completed production. It is the directing debut of Jay Caspian Kang, a writer, podcaster and TV correspondent. Kang was a founding editor of Grantland, the now-defunct sports and pop culture digital brand launched by ESPN. He also contributed to Vice News Tonight during its run on HBO.

American Son will spotlight the immigrant experience...

Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the indie production company Talent Associates Ltd that was behind TV series like Get Smart and movies including Straw Dogs and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died of heart failure December 4 at his Los Angeles home. He was 87.

Talent Associates was a major force in the 1960s and ’70s, producing series including East Side, West Side starring George C. Scott, NYPD, The Glass Menagerie starring Katharine Hepburn, Eleanor and Franklin, Blind Ambition starring Martin Sheen and Get Smart. Gilbert served as executive in charge of production on several shows including Get Smart, the spy comedy that was hatched in the mid-1960s at the then New York-based company by two of its young writers, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. It premiered on NBC in 1965, ran five seasons and established Talent Associates’ L.A. base.

On the feature side, Talent Associates produced Straw Dogs,...