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Exclusive: Walk Like A Duck Entertainment and Renegade Entertainment have entered into a two-picture financing and co-production deal, tapping veteran second unit director, stunt choreographer and fight coordinator Chris Brewster as the director for the first film under the deal, titled Relentless. The deal follows Wlad’s participation in Renegade’s recently released features Dig and Slayers, starring Renegade principal Thomas Jane.

Chris Brewster, Thomas Jane

Relentless is a Taken-style action-thriller in which Jane will play Charlie Thorne, a former U.S. Army Green Beret living off the grid who is forced back into action when smugglers steal his boat, leaving him for dead and attempting to kill a young girl he has befriended. In the cross-fire of warring crime gangs, Thorne re-enters battle, fighting to rescue the young girl, while combatting his own internal demons.

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Exclusive: Professional basketball player Jarnell Stokes has signed on to exec produce three indie features: Friedrich Moser’s doc How to Build a Truth Engine, writer-director Chadd Harbold’s thriller Private Property, and writer-director Matthew Greene-DeLange’s family film, Skelly.

How to Build a Truth Engine follows award-winning journalists in the fight against fake news, conspiracy theories and disinformation. Stokes is exec producing the film, which is currently in production, alongside Smokehouse Pictures’ George Clooney and Grant Heslov.

Private Property is a remake of the 1960 noir film of the same starring Ashley Benson, Shiloh Fernandez, Logan Miller, Frank Whaley and Jay Pharoah, which Redwire Pictures is producing. The project is currently in post-production with plans for a 2022 release.

Also in post is Skelly, which centers on a boy struggling to come to terms with death following the loss of his grandfather. Brian Cox, Torrey DeVitto, John Palladino and Judah Abner Paul star in the film,...

Exclusive: Torrey DeVitto is making her small-screen return in the upcoming Hallmark holiday film The Christmas Promise, her first TV project since departing from NBC’s Chicago Med in May. Dylan Bruce and Patrick Duffy are also set to star.

DeVitto will portray Nicole in the film, a woman who learns to deal with grief with the help of her grandfather (Duffy) and a carpenter named Joe (Bruce), who she hires to renovate the home she was to share with her fiancé.

The Christmas Promise, for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, begins production this week in Vancouver. It will premiere on the network as part of its “Miracles of Christmas” programming though no premiere date has been announced as of yet.

It’s the third film from producing partners Kathy Kloves and Risa Shapiro, following the successes of their previous Hallmark films Love At First Glance and It Was Always You,...

Exclusive: As NBC’s Chicago Med is heading into its seventh season, the medical drama is bidding farewell to two original cast members, Yaya DaCosta and Torrey DeVitto. DaCosta already has lined up a new series starring role on Fox’s Our Kind Of People. Meanwhile, DeVitto has joined the cast of indie feature Skelly.

The departures come as the initial contracts of Chicago Med’s original cast are coming up at the end of Season 6. I hear DeCosta opted to leave at the end of her contract and quickly received an offer for the lead in Our Kind Of People.

The other Chicago Med original cast members, led by S. Epatha Merkerson and Oliver Platt, are expected to return for Season 7, sources said. Merkerson is believed to have closed a new deal, with the remaining actors, including Platt, Nick Gehlfuss, Brian Tee and Marlyne Barrett, in various stages of...

When it comes to rewarding the best comedic cast on television, the SAG Awards often simply go with the biggest cast. Recent winners like “Orange is the New Black” (2014-2016), “Glee” (2009), “Desperate Housewives” (2004-2005) and “Ally McBeal” (1998) all prevailed thanks in part to having the most cast members on the voting ballot. Interestingly enough, all four of these were also hour-long dramedies, which suggests SAG voters are more apt to give the prize to large casts when they’re also in large productions.

What does this statistic mean in terms of predicting the 2018 SAG Awards? “Orange is the New Black” once again boasts the biggest comedy cast with a record-setting 45 men and women nominated for the Netflix prison series. That’s up from 37 cast members in 2016, 34 in 2015, and 40 in 2014. Of this year’s other nominated ensembles, Netflix’s “Glow” consists of 18 cast members, followed by HBO’s “Veep” at 15, ABC...

If you found yourself turning to Google to learn more about the actor who plays Josh on Orange Is the New Black, you're not alone. As you binge-watched season five, the guard who stripped during the talent show probably caught your eye for obvious reasons, but let's not forget about the guy who actually won that talent show simply because he's hot. Actor John Palladino plays Josh, a PR rep for the company that owns Litchfield, and thanks to some interesting plot lines, we've already been blessed with a few shirtless scenes. Learn more about the handsome Orange Is the New Black actor, then check out fun pictures of the cast hanging out in real life.

Recently ,CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Good Wife" episode 3 of season 7. The episode is entitled, "Cooked," and it turns out that we're going to see some pretty interesting and drama filled stuff go down as Alicia and Lucca combine forces in an attempt to take down a designer drug dealer in court, and more. In the new, 3rd episode press release: Alicia And Lucca Work Together On A Complicated Court Case Involving A Designer Drug Dealer, On "The Good Wife," Sunday, Oct. 18. Press release number 2: Alicia and Lucca will work together on a complicated court case involving a designer drug dealer. Also, Eli is going to encourage Alicia and Veronica (Stockard Channing) to participate in a mother/daughter cooking show to help Peter's campaign with disastrous results. Stockard Channing returns as Alicia's mother, Veronica. Guest stars features: Korey Jackson (Carl Wolfe), Christopher McDonald...

Peter Sarsgaard is Stanley Milgram in Michael Almereyda's Experimenter Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the Dream Hotel Midtown on the Ph-d Terrace for the Magnolia Pictures, Montblanc and Cinema Society reception, Jim Gaffigan, John Leguizamo with Justine Maurer, Taryn Manning, Lori Singer, Emily Tremaine, John Palladino, Anthony Edwards, Bob McDonough, Winona Ryder and Peter Sarsgaard with Maggie Gyllenhaal turned out before the New York Film Festival première of Michael Almereyda's Experimenter at Alice Tully Hall.

When I arrived, Michael and I spoke about the great loss of Chantal Akerman.

Sasha Milgram chats with Michael Almereyda Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In the elevator with me going up to the reception was Sasha Milgram. Later on, after we talked a little, she asked me "Where is Michael?" I went to fetch the director, who was very happy to speak with her. Sasha was a great advisor to get all the details right about her husband,...