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“Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2” stunt actress Devyn Labella amended her sexual discrimination and harassment lawsuit against director-star Kevin Costner and his production company to add new evidence, including text messages she sent to an intimacy coordinator, regarding an allegedly unscripted rape scene she was asked to work on.

“What happened to me on that set was a reckless violation — a breach of consent and of basic workplace safety,” Labella said Wednesday in a statement to TheWrap. “I was told to lie down, and without warning or rehearsal, another actor was brought in to simulate a rape on top of me. My undergarments were exposed. I was left alone afterward, overwhelmed and in shock.

“Compliance under pressure is not consent,” she continued. “Consent cannot be given after the harm has already begun. Once the line is crossed, there is no real choice left to make. I spoke up immediately.

Landman Season 2 production is firing on all cylinders right now ahead of its looming release later this year, and one of the show’s younger stars has shared an interesting detail about the first season. Starring in the role of Cooper Norris in Landman is Jacob Lofland. Cooper is Tommy’s son, who is driven to become a Landman in his own right, like his father, but he will carve out his own path to do it. Cooper watches Armando (Michael Peña) die in the first episode during an oil rig explosion, and during a recent interview with ScreenRant at the Newport Beach TV Festival, he confirmed a frightening detail about this scene (and subsequent rig explosions) that adds new context to the incidents:

"We had a week of roughneck camp to get comfortable with the wells and rigs we were working on. By the way, it’s all real.

Landman star Jacob Lofland explained that season 1’s oil rig stunts are as real as they appear. Taylor Sheridan’s West Texas-based oil drama premiered in November 2024, introducing Billy Bob Thornton as M-tex Oil’s fixer, Tommy Norris. Lofland plays Tommy’s son, Cooper, who took after his father and worked in the West Texas oil patches in Landman season 1. Cooper takes on harrowing work hands-on, making for some of Landman season 1’s most shocking moments.

Lofland joined his co-stars Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, and Andy Garcia at Newport Beach TV Fest’s Landman - Outstanding Drama Series panel. Lofland explained that the actors attended “a week of roughneck camp” to become accustomed to the equipment they were working on, adding, “By the way, it’s all real. No green screen.”Lofland credited Landman’s stunt coordinator, saying that he felt safe the entire time that he was “up...

A stuntwoman on Kevin Costner's western epic Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 is suing the director and star, along with the film's production companies, for sexual discrimination, harassment and the creation of a hostile work environment over an alleged unscripted rape scene she was subjected to during filming in May 2023. According to the lawsuit, Devyn Labella, the lead stunt double for Ella Hunt, had to step in when Costner improvised the scene involving Hunt's character, Juliette. She claimed there was no advance notice that the violent scene was coming, she had no preparation for the scene that day, and she had not given consent. Moreover, an intimacy coordinator was not brought in per the suit, and the set was not closed off.

The "impromptu work demand" would violate both Hunt and Labella's contracts as members of SAG-AFTRA, which protect against last-minute requests for nudity or simulated sexual...

Disclaimer: This article contains a description of a r*pe scene!

Kevin Costner has landed in a huge controversy after a stuntwoman sued him alongside the other producers of ‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2‘. Devyn Labella, the lead stunt double for Ella Hunt in the 2024 movie, has filed a lawsuit against Costner and the other producers for allegedly forcing her to do an unscripted r*pe scene without maintaining protocol.

‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2‘ is the second part of the titular movie series directed and produced by Kevin Costner, who also stars as Hayes Ellison in it. Ella Hunt plays the role of Juliette Chesney in the series. After Hunt reportedly refused to film a r*pe scene, Devyn Labella was allegedly brought onto the set to do the scene without any prior information.

A detailed look into Devyn Labella’s lawsuit against Kevin Costner...

Kevin Costner and his Horizon: An American Saga franchise are already facing legal action from New Line over a cofinancing deal, and now the star/director of the Western series has been hit with a sexual harassment suit by a veteran stuntwoman over an unscheduled, unrehearsed “violent unscripted” rape scene.

Costner’s longtime attorney Marty Singer has bluntly called “shakedown” on the unspecified damages jury trial seeking complaint from Devyn Labella.

Represented by lawyers at Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai and Valli Kane & Vagnini, SAG-AFTRA member and Barbie alum Labella says she is filing “this action not only for the damages she has sustained, but to address the continued failures at the highest levels of Hollywood production companies to comprehend and address the impacts of performing in sexually explicit and violent ‘scenes’ and the need for intimacy coordination.”

Here’s what’s uncontested: Reunited with Horizon 2 Stunt Coordinator and Second Unit Director Wade Allen,...

Did Jeniifer Lopez injure Billy Campbell’s ribs? (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Back in the early 2000s, Lopez took Hollywood by storm, headlining more than 10 films, including Enough in 2002. In the thriller, she played Slim, a charming server who married a wealthy customer, only to discover the dark side of their relationship. Opposite her, Billy Campbell stepped in as Mitch, the husband Slim eventually had to fight tooth and nail to escape. And those action scenes were just as intense behind the scenes as they looked on screen.

Campbell himself confirmed it during a red carpet interview. Describing their final clash, he said, “Hammering each other! I have to say that she got the better of me. I bruised her arm — I’m pretty sure about that. And I know for a fact she bruised my ribs. She may have separated them.” No wonder he still sounded a little in awe.

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers from Season 5, Episode 14 of “Yellowstone,” “Life Is a Promise,” which premiered Sunday, Dec. 15 on Paramount Network.

It’s been a long, dusty and bloody road for the Dutton family over the past five seasons of the massively popular Western series “Yellowstone.” As the season came to a close (before a Beth and Rip spinoff launches), viewers experienced some shocking deaths over the final few episodes — including one committed by a horse. But amid the bloodshed, there was also a sense of closure for this chaotic and influential Montana family. “Yellowstone” executive producer Christina Alexandra Voros unpacked the eventful final episode for Variety.

Do you know what the original ending would be if Kevin Costner had stayed on?

I never had a specific conversation with [creator] Taylor Sheridan about where this was going to end prior to Kevin’s departure. I do know that members of...

Taylor Sheridan is taking the world by storm thanks to his to his Yellowstone series and its prequels. However, the extremely talented director has many other projects under his belt including the 2021 action thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead starring Angelina Jolie. The film revolves around the story of Finn Little’s Connor who is on the run from assassins after witnessing his father’s death.

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

Connor then finds himself with Angelina Jolie’s Hannah, a wildland firefighter, who does all that she can to keep him safe. Needless to say, there are a ton of adrenaline-pumping action scenes in the film and while Angelina Jolie is no stranger to stunts, her young co-star sure was. Luckily, he had the perfect coach and the perfect co-star to help him through it all.

Angelina Jolie’s Advice for Her Young Co-Star Finn Little and Angelina Jolie...

We’ve come a long way, baby. But we’re finally ready to start handing out the 2023 Emmy Awards, a full four months after they were initially scheduled. The successful resolutions of two strikes later, the winners of the Creative Arts Emmys will be announced on January 6 (scripted programming) and January 7 (non-scripted programming), starting at 8 p.m. Et, prior to an edited broadcast of the ceremonies airing on Fxx January 13.

Just how long have the 2023 Emmys been in the making? Well, nominees include “The White Lotus,” which hasn’t aired since December 2022. Likewise, Hulu’s “Fire Island,” “Welcome to Chippendales,” and “Hocus Pocus 2” (remember that?!) are all among the TV projects nominated, as well as more recent shows like “Poker Face.”

The Creative Arts Emmy Awards are a helpful bellwether for the Primetime Emmy Awards winners, signaling whether or not we might expect a sweep. And this season brought plenty of critical favorites,...

“Barry” will compete for the fourth and final time at the 2023 Emmys with its last season. The HBO tragicomedy has had a successful awards showing throughout its entire run, with star and co-showrunner Bill Hader nabbing two Emmys for acting (2018 and ’19) and Henry Winkler finally claiming his first Primetime trophy (2018). Even though Season 4 nabbed “Barry’s” lowest nomination tally at the Emmys, it still sustained double digits with 11 bids, including Best Comedy Series, as part of HBO’s total of the most noms for a network at 123. Read on for a closer look at Barry’s 11 Emmy nominations for Season 4.

In the comedy series race, “Barry” is the only HBO program competing. With 11 nominations, it is tied with Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” and is surpassed in sequence by Netflix’s “Wednesday” at 12, FX’s “The Bear” at 13, Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” at 14 and...

[Editor’s note: The following story contains spoilers for “Barry.”]

You’re not alone: “Barry” stunt coordinate Wade Allen also misses the days when the HBO series was about a fucked-up hitman who wanted to be an actor. The darkness of the show’s final season has only grown alongside Bill Hader’s visual style; and Episode 4, “it takes a psycho,” required Allen, production designer Eric Schoonover, special effects supervisor Ryan Riley, and visual effects supervisor Laura Hill, to create the show’s most complex — and easily one of its most horrifying — visual gags to date. Unlike the fate of Sian Heder’s “Mega Girls” franchise, which we have to imagine the studio is locking down tight, a ton of Episode 4 spoilers below.

While Barry (Bill Hader) lurks in the shadows of Sally’s (Sarah Goldberg) apartment after escaping prison, Hank (Anthony Carrigan) disposes of his would-be crime-utopia henchmen in the cold light of day — specifically the cold light of a silo filled with sand.

Halloween is the season for horror, of course. But October also means fall TV is in full swing, so it’s also the season for comedy, animation, drama, and more. TV shows of all kinds honor this spooky time of year, be it through explicit celebrations of the season or more abstract explorations of dark themes like existential dread, societal corruption, and the hubris of humanity.

Instead of just binging television horror this season — “Yellowjackets” is for winter! — why not truly frighten yourself with scary episodes of (generally) non-scary shows? “Black Mirror” regularly borders on nightmarish, but falls squarely into the sci-fi category, and still one episode haunts us like the scariest movies do. “Chernobyl” recounts real-world horror, which makes it a historical drama, but we’d argue that Episode 4 is a haunting on par with Mike Flanagan’s “Hill House.” Even comedies like “Boy Meets World” and “American Vandal...

“Stranger Things,” “Euphoria,” “The White Lotus” and “Squid Game” were the big winners on Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys.

The Creative Arts Emmys, which honor outstanding artistic and technical achievement in various television program genres, guest performances and exceptional work in the animation, reality and documentary categories, were held in Downtown Los Angeles, at the Microsoft Theater, the show spread out across two nights because of the many, many categories featured.

HBO’s “Euphoria” earned five total awards, including Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Colman Domingo, and Outstanding Choreography for a Scripted Program, tying with “Stranger Things,” which also picked up five, including for Music Supervision. HBO’s “The White Lotus” also got five, including Main Title Theme Music.

Netflix’s “Squid Game” took home four Emmys, including Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Lee You-mi.

Saturday brought big wins for music-related shows, including “The Beatles: Get Back,...

Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with HBO, for this edition we look at how director and star Bill Hader, cinematographer Carl Herse, and stunt coordinator Wade Allen have pushed the filmmaking of “Barry” to new heights.

Nothing could be in danger of looking more visually plain and unshow-y than the travails of wannabe actors in Los Angeles — even those who are reluctant hitmen. But “Barry” creator Bill Hader has always loved movies where “You’re in such a unique world that when it’s over, you’re stuck in that world.” Hader told IndieWire that he approaches filmmaking for the show from as cinematic a perspective he can, using image and especially sound to capture the thought processes and emotional plights of characters trapped by their own bad choices.

Variety shines a light on the teams you may have missed this Emmys season.

“Abbott Elementary”

Camera Operators

As fans of “The Office” know, half of the humor of a mockumentary is the camera angles, swiftly cut-ting to a reaction shot or zoom-ing in on a ridiculous moment. The cameras on ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” never miss a beat, and the operators feel like just another hilarious scene partner. — Sasha Urban

“The Great”

Food Designer

Food, sumptuous food. “The Great’s” second season served up a feast fit for royal banquets. Peter (Nicholas Hoult) and Catherine (Elle Fanning) ate their way through the Hulu show. It’s creator Tony McNamara who decides what goes on that table and production designer Francesca Di Mottola and her team who come up with the squirrels and rats and other meaty things that the cast have to eat. — Jazz Tangcay

“Legendary”

Emcee

The category is … fabulous emcees!

With four Emmy nominations for his work on Barry this year—comedy series, acting, writing and directing—Season 2 of the HBO series really allowed Bill Hader to show his riveting helming finesse across two episodes: “ronny/lily” and the finale “berkman/block”. In the nominated “ronny/lily”, Hader’s hitman Barry is trying to take out martial arts maven Ronny Proxin, only to be ambushed by the guy’s daughter, Lily, an 11-year-old karate dynamo. It’s a great chase sequence that begins in a smoky, blasé, suburban home, and continues onto the street and into a grocery store. It’s just one example of Hader’s many achievements.

What was the genesis for your Emmy-nominated episode “ronny/lily”? I hear a stunt coordinator recommended child actress Jessie Giacomazzi who knows plenty of karate.

Going into Season 2, we knew that we wanted Loach [John Pirruccello] to work with Fuches [Stephen Root] and corner Barry.

Bill Hader hasn’t been shy about his dream of becoming a film director. One of his motivations in creating HBO’s “Barry” with Alec Berg was to leverage his value as performer in order to get an opportunity to direct a couple of episodes while guiding the visual language of the show. Yet in looking back at Season 1, Hader feels like he was far too timid in the first two episodes he directed.

“I felt like on Season 1 I didn’t do a good job of some things,” said Hader when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit. “When I’d look back I went, ‘Oh man, I wish I’d stuck to my guns. I saw that in a specific way and I kind of chickened out.’ Or if someone said, “Oh, don’t you want to do it this way?’ And I went, ‘Ok,’ and...

Twenty years ago this week - Feb. 9, 1996 - the romcom-dramedy Beautiful Girls first opened in theaters. The film centers around Willie (Timothy Hutton), who returns home for his high school reunion in a small Massachusetts town. It's funny, it's heartwarming, and it features one of the better ensemble casts of the 1990s. In honor of the film's 20th anniversary, we're pulling out the yearbook and looking up the film's cast to what they've been up to over the past 20 years. Timothy HuttonHutton won Best Supporting Actor in 1981 for Ordinary People when he was only 20. To this day he's the youngest-ever...

The real-time gimmick can be a dicey proposition for filmmakers. More often than not, the result is a less-than-satisfying attempt to drum up a little extra tension at the expense of characters and story. Still, that doesn’t stop them trying, with stunt co-ordinators and second unit directors Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen hiring Aaron Eckhart to star in their switch to first unit work with Live! Grand Theft Parsons writer Jeremy Drysdale came up with the script for this one, which finds Eckhart as a disgraced cop called Kyle Penny. He’s on a mission to rescue the police commissioner’s daughter, who has been kidnapped and is being held somewhere in the city with a countdown clock of 80 minutes before she dies.If that wasn’t enough, Penny also has a deranged killer tracking him down. He’ll have to team up with an ambitious young online reporter...

Aaron Eckhart has been tapped to star in Live!, the action film from Solution Entertainment that will mark the first project in the company’s new tie-up with equity financier Fubar Films. This is the pic that second unit action directors/stunt coordinators Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen landed to make their directorial debut. Shot in real time, the Jeremy Drysdale script follows disgraced cop Kyle Penny (Eckhart) on his hunt to rescue the police commissioner’s kidnapped…...

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Aaron Eckhart has been set to star in Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen's real time action film "Live!" for Solution Entertainment. Filming begins in October.

Jeremy Drysdale's script follows disgraced cop Kyle Penny (Eckhart) on his hunt to rescue the police commissioner’s kidnapped daughter, trapped somewhere in the city with only eighty minutes to live. With a deranged killer on his heels, his only hope is teaming with a young online reporter who films the wild chase live. [Source: Deadline]

The Last Race

Joseph Fiennes, Xiao 'Shawn' Dou and Elizabeth Arends are set to star in Stephen Shin and Michael Parker's "The Last Race". Fiennes will play Scottish runner and devout Christian Eric Liddell in the project which is being dubbed an unofficial sequel to the Oscar-winning "Chariots of Fire".

'Race' portrays Liddell's life after the events depicted in 'Chariots', a time when he worked as a teacher and missionary in China.

Exclusive: The Solution Entertainment Group acquired Jeremy Drysdale's action spec script in late 2013 and has now greenlit Live! which it will produce and fully finance. Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen will make their feature directorial debut on the high-concept actioner. The Solution’s Myles Nestel (The November Man) is producing with Skip Williamson (Underworld, Gamer, Crank) of 5B Artist+Media. The project is currently casting with principal photography eyed for the…...

Yep, the headline says what you think it says. The 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Bloodsport is going to be remade, and Philip Noyce, who last directed the rather silly film Salt, is going to be behind the camera. Screen Daily says the film will follow "an American who goes to Brazil to recover from the violence he has experienced in Afghanistan who gets involved in a martial arts contest." Robert Mark Kamen (Taken, Colombiana) will write, and that's probably a good thing -- he's been through the Luc Besson action wringer, and can probably turn out a serviceable script for something like this in his sleep. In a way, this isn't even a great surprise, as a few basic martial arts movie templates are used to power a good many fight films. Bloodsport's tournament setup is one of them. But a remake of one of those templates would traditionally...

The SAG Awards sparkled. Women in beautiful dresses, perfectly accessorized; men crisply attired in suits or tuxes; and flash cameras and video everywhere—it was quite a scene. There was drama …

… and romance:

Boldface names made their way down the red carpet: the bolder the name, the faster they moved. Oops, there went Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button). Too late. But Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) did pause for a moment:

He picked up an award later that evening for male actor in a comedy series. Meanwhile, the unofficial award for cutest kids went to the ones playing adman Don Draper’s children in Mad Men. Kiernan Shipka looks sweet …

… but advised me that if she won an award (she did, as part of an ensemble), it would go next to her Tae Kwon Do trophies. Easy there tiger! Meanwhile, her cast-mate and fellow winner Aaron Hart is a handsome little fellow …

… but...

The winners for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® have been announced. The ceremony was held on Sunday, Jan. 25, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center and was simulcast by TNT and TBS. Dany Boyle's acclaimed "Slumdog Millionaire" took home the best Cast of a Motion Picture, Sean Penn won for his dramatic performance in "Milk" and Heath Ledger was recognized again for his work as 'The Joker' in "The Dark Knight." Actresses taking home top honors were Meryl Streep who impressed most again with a win for her performance in Miramax Films' "Doubt" and Kate Winslet added another award for her work on The Weinsten Company's "The Reader." As announced by the Screen Actors Guild, here are the winners: 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Recipients Theatrical Motion PICTURESOutstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Sean Penn Harvey Milk "Milk" Focus FeaturesOutstanding Performance...

Actress Annabeth Gish has given birth to a son.

The former The X-Files star and her husband Wade Allen welcomed their second child into the world on Saturday night at a hospital in Rhode Island.

The baby weighed in at seven pounds and has been named Enzo Edward Allen.

Gish and Allen are already parents to 22-month-old son Cash.