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Streaming has given many films a second chance, especially those that didn't make a profit at the box office or didn't get a release at all. Laura Dern's crime drama is among them.

In 2018, Dern starred in Blood Diamonds' Edward Zwick's biographical crime drama Trial by Fire, which was recently released on Netflix. The film was based on Cameron Todd Willingham's real-life case, and used David Grann's 2009 The New York Times article "Trial by Fire" as a base. Now, the movie has found a second life on streaming and has become a hit on Netflix, Tudum reports.

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For the week between Feb. 10 and 16, Laura Dern's Trial by Fire debuted in the fourth spot in Netflix's Top 10 in the U.

The Equalizer Season 2, Episode 5 features new additions Michael Reagan (Lovecraft Country) and James Ciccone (The Deuce) to its growing cast of guest stars.

The latest episode of the action-packed crime drama from CBS, "Haunted Heights," dials in the Halloween vibes as Robyn McCall gets called in to investigate a mysterious death that occurred inside a haunted apartment building. 

The Equalizer Season 2, Episode 5 premiered on CBS on October 27.

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Star Wars: The Acolyte is anything but a limited series. Showrunner Leslye Headland recently shared how many seasons she has envisioned for the Disney+ original series set to premiere on June 4.

In an interview with Collider, Headland was asked how many seasons The Acolyte would need to tell the full story she has envisioned for these characters. "At least three," she said. "At least. I mean, I'd love to keep doing it forever. She revealed that she would be happy to do more than three, adding, "This is my dream job. I'm saying three because I'm hoping they'll allow me to do that, but if I could snap my fingers, it would just be, this is my job until I retire. I actually can't think of a higher creative or career peak than working on Star Wars. So, I really am good. I don't really need to do anything else.

Netflix’s forthcoming drama Black Rabbit, starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law, is filling out its cast.

Oscar winner Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Odessa Young and Robin De Jesús will have regular roles in the limited series, which comes from creators Zach Baylin and Kate Susman. Seven actors — Amir Malaklou, Don Harvey, Forrest Weber, Francis Benhamou, Gus Birney, John Ales and Steve Witting — will have recurring parts. They join the two stars and the previously cast Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Sopé Dìrísù, Dagmara Dominczyk and Chris Coy.

Bateman and Law will play brothers in Black Rabbit. Law’s character, Jake, is the owner of a New York hotspot, and when he lets his turbulent brother (Bateman) back into his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that that threaten everything he’s built.

Among those dangers, based on descriptions for some of the new castmembers, is the criminal underworld.

Amanda Plummer of “Pulp Fiction” and “Star Trek: Picard” fame and veteran thesps James Russo and Ulrich Thompson (“The Celebration”) have joined Uwe Bolls’s forthcoming migrant crisis thriller “Run.”

Set to start shooting in Croatia on April 17, the film focuses on a group of desperate migrants as they reach the Italian coast after a perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea and the impact of their arrival on locals and tourists.

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The film boasts a large ensemble cast that also includes Marcus Henderson (“Get Out”), BAFTA-winning actor Barkhad Abdi (“Captain Philipps”) and Costas Mandylor (the “Saw” franchise).

“Run” follows the individual storylines of migrants as they seek to avoid police as well as those of locals and tourists who get caught up in the events through the course of a day, culminating in a violent escalation.

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A new look at Carrie-Anne Moss' Star Wars: The Acolyte character, Jedi Master Indara, has been released. The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland has also opened up about Moss' The Matrix character Trinity serving as inspiration for Indara.

Empire debuted the new Star Wars: The Acolyte image, which shows a close-up look of Jedi Master Indara, who has her green lightsaber ignited and is staring off into the distance, possibly ready to engage in combat with the off-screen individual. The image was accompanied by a quote from Headland, who confirmed that Indara is "very much inspired by Trinity" and that it was a "no-brainer" to cast Moss as the character if it meant seeing "Trinity with a lightsaber." Headland continued, "I personally wanted to see someone who had the highest status you could imagine in a Force-fu fight – somebody that would come in and you immediately would be like, 'Oh, that...

Exclusive: Bankside Films has boarded international sales rights to Caroline Lindy’s Sundance Midnight movie Your Monster, starring Melissa Barrera (Scream).

In Your Monster, after her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco (Barrera) finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming, monster living in her closet.

Barrera stars with Tommy Dewey (Perry Mason), Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus), Edmund Donovan (Hightown) and Kayla Foster (The Deuce).

The film is a feature debut for Lindy, who directs and also wrote the screenplay. Lindy’s previous short Aspirational Slut received the 2022 SXSW Narrative Shorts Audience Award.

Bankside Films will be screening the film to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin following its Park City debut last month. WME Independent is handling domestic.

The Merman Films production was financed by Bombo Sports & Entertainment. Producers are Kayla Foster and Lindy, along with Shannon Reilly of Bombo,...

The channel will broadcast out-of-the-box sports like kickball, wiffleball, pillow fighting, sign spinning, and more.

At long last, ESPN and ABC have made ESPN8: The Ocho a permanent viewing option for fans of bizarre and unusual sports. In the past, the worldwide leader in sports has made the “seldom-seen sports” channel a special event to fill in the gaps when sports coverage was especially light, as it did in early August. However, ESPN has officially launched an around-the-clock, free ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channel that fans can watch on the ABC app or on the ABC website.

The channel is ESPN’s first Fast offering and is available via ABC’s app and website alongside other “unlocked” channels. Inspired by the satirical channel featured in the movie “Dodgeball,” the channel will air unusual sports and competitions not found on traditional ESPN outlets. Espnu has previously shown ESPN8: The...

Exclusive: The Dtla Film Festival has set the full feature lineup for its 15th edition, taking place at Regal L.A. Live from November 1-5, announcing the Jack Huston starrer Hail Mary as its opening night film.

Also starring Angela Sarafyan, Natalia del Riego, and Benny Emmanuel, the film from Rosemary Rodriguez is described as a genre-bending retelling of the Mary and Joseph story following an undocumented, pregnant migrant’s journey to make it safely across the U.S. border.

Nicki Micheaux’s Summer of Violence will serve as Centerpiece film for the fest, being put on in accordance with SAG-AFTRA strike guidelines, with Deborah Attoinese’s Women in Fire to close it out. Additional feature highlights include the sci-fi rom-com Molli and Max in the Future starring Zosia Mamet, Aristotle Athari, and Okieriete Onaodowan; Maxim Pozdorovkin’s animated doc The Conspiracy featuring voice actors like Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber,...

Summer’s tentpole rumble continues this weekend with Paramount’s seventh Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which is heat-seeking $155 million at the worldwide box office for its opening frame, $100M of that offshore.

The movie reps a concentrated reboot by the studio of the long-in-tooth robots-in-disguise franchise, which has suffered in latter installments from declining ticket sales. This is the second Transformers movie not directed by Michael Bay after 2018’s Bumblebee (though Bay still produces), and looks to distinguish itself from the fray with its introduction of the robotic animals from the Hasbro franchise. Creed II director Steven Caple Jr. is at the helm and the movie stars In the Heights’ Anthony Ramos and The Deuce and Judas and the Black Messiah’s Dominique Fishback. The pic cost a net $195M co-financed by Skydance.

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In her first major television series, Rachel Weisz takes on not one, but two characters. Dead Ringers, a new show from Prime Video, adapts David Cronenberg's 1988 film of the same name for the modern era, replacing Jeremy Irons' twin male gynecologists with Weisz's Beverly and Elliot. The pair are seeking funding for a cutting-edge fertility clinic that will give them total control over their research, but this kind of control could result in them pushing the boundaries of ethics in the medical field.

Alice Birch, who has worked on shows including Succession, Normal People, and Conversations with Friends, executive produces the new series. While Weisz takes on double-duty as the star of the show, the cast of Dead Ringers is full of heavy hitters like Jennifer Ehle, Emily Meade, Poppy Liu, Michael Chernus, and Britne Oldford.

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The Axe is back, as Damian Lewis is set to return as fan-favorite Bobby Axelrod for the upcoming seventh season of Showtime‘s acclaimed drama series Billions. Lewis will appear in six of the 12 episodes when the show returns later this year. Production is currently underway in New York City on the hit series, which also stars Emmy-winner Paul Giamatti (Lodge 49), Corey Stoll (The Deuce), and Maggie Siff (Mad Men). In addition, Toney Goins, who plays Philip, has been upped to series regular for Season 7. The seventh season will see alliances turned on their heads as old wounds are weaponized and loyalties are tested. As betrayal takes on epic proportions and enemies become wary friends, Bobby Axelrod returns, increasing the stakes as they grow from Wall Street to the world. Billions also stars David Costabile (Soulmates), Asia Kate Dillon (Orange is the New Black), Condola Rashad (Master of None), Jeffrey DeMunn...

Rachel Weisz takes her double-lead role as twins to a new level of closeness in the first look photos for Prime Video’s upcoming horror series “Dead Ringers.”

The six-episode psychological series, which premieres April 21 on Prime Video, stars Weisz as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, twins whose intimacy exceeds traditional bounds as the siblings share “drugs, lovers and unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes,” according to the official logline. As the pair makes it their mission to modernize women’s health care by challenging antiquated practices, they fall into an morally gray area of medical ethics.

The first-look photos showcase Weisz assuming her double-lead role as Beverly and Elliot conduct their daily lives side-by-side despite moments of isolation when one twin heads into the hospital or the lab or catches up with a romantic partner.

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Rachel Weisz plays a pair of twins in first look images from Prime Video’s Dead Ringers TV show. David Cronenberg’s original 1988 thriller Dead Ringers starred Jeremy Irons as a pair of identical twin gynecologists becoming involved with a film actress seeking fertility treatments. Now Dead Ringers is getting a reboot show, with Weisz playing gender-swapped versions of the original movie’s mysterious mutation-obsessed twin doctors.

The Dead Ringers reboot was actually announced all the way back in 2020, and only now have first look images from the project arrived (via Vogue).

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Featuring Weisz in her dual role as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, the images are every bit as mysterious and vaguely creepy as one might expect from a reboot of a Cronenberg thriller.

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Prime Video’s “modern take” on David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers will have you seeing double this April, it was announced on Tuesday morning.

The streamer has set a Friday, April 21 release date (for all six episodes), as well as released some first photos of star and EP Rachel Weisz playing Obgyn twins Beverly and Elliot Mantle in the psychological thriller.

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Prime Video is diving back into the complex world of The Peripheral for a second season. The streamer renewed the sci-fi drama, based on William Gibson’s bestselling novel, for a second season but didn’t confirm a targeted premiere date.

“We are thrilled to continue the journey into Season Two and delve deeper into the incredible world that Gibson created,” stated Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, Kilter Films. “On behalf of Scott Smith, Vincenzo Natali, and the entire team, we’re grateful to our partners at Amazon and, most of all, to the fans.”

Season one starred Chloë Grace Moretz (The Miseducation of Cameron Post), Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Gary Carr (The Deuce), Eli Goree (One Night in Miami…), Louis Herthum (Westworld), and JJ Feild (Turn: Washington’s Spies). T’Nia Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Charlotte Riley...

Flynne Fisher’s complicated future will continue to unravel: Prime Video has renewed The Peripheral for Season 2, the streamer announced Thursday.

“We are thrilled to continue the journey into Season 2 and delve deeper into the incredible world that [author William] Gibson created,” creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan said in a statement. “On behalf of Scott Smith, Vincenzo Natali and the entire team, we’re grateful to our partners at Amazon and, most of all, to the fans.”

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Prime Video has picked up a second season of The Peripheral, the Chloë Grace Moretz starrer that’s based on the best-selling novel of the same name by William Gibson.

Season one bowed on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide in October. The Peripheral is produced by Amazon Studios and Warner Bros. Television, in association with Kilter Films.

“We are thrilled to continue the journey into Season Two and delve deeper into the incredible world that Gibson created,” said Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, Kilter Films, in a statement. “On behalf of Scott Smith, Vincenzo Natali, and the entire team, we’re grateful to our partners at Amazon and, most of all, to the fans.”

“William’s mind-bending story in partnership with the brilliant minds of Scott and Jonathan and Lisa, produced an unforgettable journey for our global audience and we are thrilled with how they embraced the series,...

Michael Ealy joins ‘Power Book II: Ghost’ season 4 (Photo Credit: Dewayne Rogers)

Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost will return for a fourth season. The network announced the early renewal of the critically acclaimed drama ahead of its season three premiere on March 17, 2023.

Starz also announced Michael Ealy has joined the show’s cast as a series regular for the fourth season.

Per Starz: “Ealy joins the cast as Detective Don Carter, a rising NYPD officer who was on track to become Police Commissioner until his wife was killed in a crossfire between rival drug gangs. Vowing to make the streets safer, Carter traded in his tie for a kevlar vest and now leads an elite NYPD drug task force that elicits concrete results against drug-related violence. While his achievements are noteworthy public recognition, nothing can bring back his lost love.”

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The trend of canceling projects in production continues to haunt fans of content providers in the U.S.

According to Variety, the embattled AMC has canceled 61st Street Season 2 and Invitation to a Bonfire.

The cancellations come as AMC is in belt-tightening mode, much like several other companies.

The news for 61st Street comes after production on the second season is completed, which is even more aggravating for fans of the series who invested time in the first season.

As you will likely recall, the drama series was picked up for two seasons when it landed a formal order in 2019.

The first season aired in 2022 but didn't perform as well as expected.

However, AMC shared first-look photos for the second season following the first season finale.

The series starred Emmy®-winner Courtney B. Vance (The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Lovecraft Country), Emmy®-nominee Aunjanue Ellis (When They See Us,...

The teaser for Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost season three warns nothing can prepare fans for the new season. The teaser also features Monet asking, “Are you with me or against me?” and Tariq admitting he’s not sure who he can trust. There’s a lot to unpack in just a 45-second video.

Starz confirmed season three will premiere on Friday, March 17, 2023 at midnight via the Starz app and at 8pm Et/Pt on Starz.

Season three stars Michael Rainey Jr. (Power) as “Tariq St. Patrick,” Mary J. Blige (Mudbound) as “Monet Stewart Tejada,” Shane Johnson (Power) as “Cooper Saxe,” and Gianni Paolo (The Fosters) as “Brayden Weston.” Cliff “Method Man” Smith (The Deuce) is “Davis MacLean,” Larenz Tate (Ray) is “Rashad Tate,” Berto Colon (Orange Is the New Black) is “Lorenzo Tejada,” Woody McClain (The Bobby Brown Story) plays “Cane Tejada,” and Lovell Adams-Gray (Coroner) is “Dru Tejada.

It still feels a little surreal that not only has Charlie Cox returned as Daredevil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that we’re getting a whole new series with Daredevil: Born Again. Deadline announced today that Margarita Levieva (The Deuce) and Sandrine Holt (American Gigolo) have joined the cast of Daredevil: Born Again in what are said to be major roles.

As you might have guessed, exactly who Margarita Levieva and Sandrine Holt are playing in Daredevil: Born Again is being kept under wraps, but Deadline hears that they’ll be playing love interests for the leads. In addition to Charlie Cox, Daredevil: Born Again will also feature the return of Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin. Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark) also recently joined the cast of Daredevil: Born Again. Margarita Levieva starred in all three seasons of HBO’s The Deuce and also appeared in...

Exclusive: Margarita Levieva (The Deuce) and Sandrine Holt (American Gigolo) are set for major roles opposite Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio in Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s upcoming revival series on Disney+, sources tell Deadline.

Written and executive produced by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, the new installment centers on Cox’s title character Daredevil, otherwise known by the name Matt Murdock, an attorney by day and crimefighter by night. D’Onofrio reprises his role as mob boss Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin.

Details about Levieva’s and Holt’s characters are being kept under wraps; I hear they may be playing love interests for the leads. Reps for Marvel, Levieva and Holt declined comment.

In addition to Cox and D’Onofrio, Levieva and Holt join previously cast Michael Gandolfini. The 18-episode season of Daredevil: Born Again is slated to premiere in 2024, four years after the original Daredevil series ended its run on Netflix after three seasons.

Apple Original Films has released a full trailer for Emancipation, which stars Will Smith, was directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and will premiere on Apple TV+ on Dec. 9, a week after its theatrical debut.

Penned by William N. Collage and inspired by the 1863 photos of “Whipped Peter,” taken during a Union Army medical examination and published in Harper’s Weekly, Emancipation tells the triumphant story of Peter (played by Smith), a man who escapes from slavery by relying on his wits, unwavering faith and deep love for his family, and then embarks on a quest for freedom.

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Prime Video dropped the latest trailer for The Peripheral, the long-gestating sci-fi drama from Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s Kilter Films that’s based on the bestselling novel by William Gibson. The cast and producers made an appearance at New York Comic-Con today to hype the series that premieres Oct. 21.

“When I read the book Count Zero [by Gibson], it felt like a first hit of acid. I never experienced anything like the worlds that Gibson created,” Nolan told convention goers Saturday. “I’ve watched every filmmaker rip off all the ideas, myself included, from his works and no one actually had the guts to go and adapt from the source. For us, it felt like coming full circle.”

The Peripheral stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) as Flynne Fisher, a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart,...

New York Times best-selling author William Gibson released the official teaser trailer for the Prime Video upcoming sci-fi drama series ‘The Peripheral’, starring Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass), Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Gary Carr (The Deuce), Eli Goree (One Night in Miami), Louis Herthum (Westworld), JJ Feild (Turn: Washington’s Spies), T’Nia Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders), Alexandra Billings (The Conners), Adelind Horan (The Deuce), Alex Hernandez (UnReal), Katie Leung (Chimerica), Julian Moore-Cook (Peaky Blinders), Melinda Page Hamilton (Messiah), Chris Coy (The Deuce), and Austin Rising (Alt).

The first episode will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on October 21, with one new episode rolling out weekly every Friday through December 9, 2022.

The Peripheral centers on Flynne Fisher (Moretz), a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future; until...

Prime Video has released the first trailer for The Peripheral, the long-gestating sci-fi drama from Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s Kilter Films. It’s based on the bestselling novel by William Gibson.

Premiering Oct. 21, 2022., The Peripheral stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) as Flynne Fisher, a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future, until the future comes calling for her.

The drama also stars Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Gary Carr (The Deuce), Eli Goree (One Night in Miami), Louis Herthum (Westworld), JJ Feild (Turn: Washington’s Spies), T’Nia Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders), Alexandra Billings (The Conners), Adelind Horan (The Deuce), Alex Hernandez (UnReal), Katie Leung (Chimerica), Julian Moore-Cook (Peaky Blinders), Melinda Page Hamilton (Messiah), Chris Coy (The Deuce), and Austin Rising (Alt).

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FX has rounded out the cast of The Sterling Affairs, its limited series about the downfall of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling amid the team’s drive to win a championship under coach Doc Rivers. Cleopatra Coleman (Dopesick) has been tapped to star as Sterling’s mistress V. Stiviano.

Also cast are Kelly AuCoin (Billions) as former Clippers president Andy Roeser and Austin Scott (A Jazzman’s Blues), J. Alphonse Nicholson (P-Valley), Sheldon “Shel” Bailey (Game Shakers), Sarunas J. Jackson (Insecure) and Charlie McElveen (The Deuce) as the NBA players caught up in the shocking events. Scott will play Blake Griffin, Nicholson will portray Chris Paul, Bailey will play D’Andre Jordan, Jackson will portray Matt Barnes, and McElveen will play JJ Reddick.

They join previously announced leads Laurence Fishburne as former Clippers head coach Doc Rivers, Ed O’Neill as Donald Sterling, and Jacki Weaver as Sterling’s wife Shelly.