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Nava Mau earned an Emmy nomination (in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category) for her breakthrough performance as the lead character’s love interest Teri in the hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, and was named as a 2024 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort. We’ve previously heard that she will be following up her Baby Reindeer success with a role on the final season of the Netflix series You, and now Deadline has broken the news that she’s set to star in the comedic thriller The Dregs – which has something to do with a cursed wine bottle.

Before appearing on Baby Reindeer, Mau played the role of Ana on 16 episodes of the Max streaming series Generation. (16 episodes also happens to have been the show’s full run.)

Set in Tuscany, The Dregs will mark the directorial debut of writer Connor Martin. Filming is expected to begin in Italy next March.

Exclusive: Fresh off of being named to BAFTA Breakthrough’s 2024 cohort, Baby Reindeer breakout has come aboard to star in The Dregs, a Tuscany-set comedic thriller marking the directorial debut of writer Connor Martin.

Shooting in Italy in March, The Dregs centers on a friends’ trip to Tuscany that gets derailed by old wounds and a cursed bottle of Vin Santo.

Others in the cast include Benjamin Norris (Never Have I Ever), Marta Pozzan (From Scratch), Maria Grazia Cucinotta (Il Postino), and Zach Tinker (American Horror Story), who acts as executive producer.

Mike Stern developed the project and will produce through Astral Plane, with Alessandro Bertolucci serving as co-producer via Dublab It. Co-EPs include Pozzan, Jeremy O’Keefe, Marco Allegri, and Austin Aronson. O’Keefe handled casting via Jok Casting.

Stated Stern on the addition of Mau, “Nava was incredible on Baby Reindeer, and we...

The Currys and Unanimous Media have a new film to focus on: a childhood literacy documentary titled Sentenced from co-directors Connor Martin and Mark Allen Johnson.

Steph Curry will narrate the film as well as produce while his wife, Ayesha Curry, who serves as CEO of Sweet July, will produce alongside Jeff Martin from It Matters and Children’s Literacy Project. Additional producers include Unanimous Media’s Erick Peyton, the film’s co-directors and Chris Helfrich, CEO of the Curry’s foundation Eat. Learn. Play. Brian Tetsuro Ivie and Kalyna Kutny will executive produce from Unanimous Media, with Tony Kriz and Jim Gulian serving as writers.

Sentenced is described as an “immersive and vulnerable exploration of the epidemic of childhood illiteracy through a series of braided character driven stories.” Those stories will be offered from diverse adults and children who have never learned to read.

“Sentenced is a powerful project...

Country music star Jimmie Allen is set to make his feature film debut with upcoming musical “Be Alright.”

“The Goldbergs’” Hayley Orrantia will co-star, with both Allen and Orrantia in the lead roles.

In “Be Alright,” which is set in New York City in the 1960s, Orrantia plays down-on-her-luck Eve. Things start looking up when she encounters an “old friend with a new mantra” played by Allen.

In keeping with Allen’s musical style, the film is set to have a country flavor. Production will kick off this month at the Warner Bros. lot.

As well as starring in “Be Alright” (which shares a title with a track from his recent album “Tulip Drive”), Allen developed the original story and will produce and co-direct the feature alongside Chris Beyrooty.

Beyrooty wrote the screenplay with Connor Martin.

Joining the team are Emmy Award-winning “Dancing with the Stars” choreographer Tessandra Chavez, who will choreograph the dance numbers,...

Exclusive: Producer Joel B. Michaels has entered into an agreement with the family of Fritz Pollard to bring to the screen the life story of the pro football phenom who blazed a trail to become the first professional Black NFL player. Pollard was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame posthumously in 2005.

Pollard’s life story is an American biographical drama set against the backdrop of the “New Negro Movement” and the Roaring ’20s. In 1920, he became the first Black athlete to gain national notoriety by breaking the racial barrier in professional sports in America. He would go on to lead Brown University to play in the inaugural Rose Bowl game in 1916, and in 1920 he signed a pro contract and lead the Akron Pros to win the first NFL championship.

He went on to become the first Black NFL quarterback and the first Black NFL coach, all while becoming a...

Brendan Hines, Kevin Daniels and Tatjana Marjanovic In Production Of “Do Not Disturb” For The Komack Company At A Legendary Hotel In Hollywood Psychological thriller from writer/directors Christopher Beyrooty & Connor Martin has begun production this month at an undisclosed Hollywood location The Komack Company announced today that Brendan Hines, Kevin Daniels and Tatjana Marjanovic have …

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Brendan Hines, Kevin Daniels and Tatjana Marjanovic In Production Of “Do Not Disturb” For The Komack Company At A Legendary Hotel In Hollywood Psychological thriller from writer/directors Christopher Beyrooty & Connor Martin has begun production this month at an undisclosed Hollywood location The Komack Company announced today that Brendan Hines, Kevin Daniels and Tatjana Marjanovic have …

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In today's Horror Highlights, we have the Zoom Cloud Hack short film for you to watch, along with first details on Do Not Disturb, a Q&a with the composer of Followed, and updates from the Cannibal Comedian team:

Watch Zoom Cloud Hack - #91784 - The Tribe Murders: "In these trying times of Coronavirus, we wanted to stay creative and get weird. But not weird just for weird’s sake — weird as in The X-Files, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. The good kinda weird. And right now, there’s a platform that we believe to be rich in these stories: Zoom.

Matt and I were social distance talking at the beginning of the pandemic and realized that human beings are completely dependent upon technology as a means of communicating. More now than ever. And logically, we realized that even more crime would be moving over to... Zoom. In fact,...

Vinessa Shaw has signed on to co-star opposite Dermot Mulroney in Carlson Young’s directorial debut thriller, The Blazing World, as production prepares to commence outside of Austin, Texas this month. Based on Young’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival short of the same name, the film follows a self-destructive young woman who decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Young co-wrote the screenplay with Pierce Brown and will also co-star along with Udo Kier. Brinton Bryan of Greenbelt Films is handling the financing and is producing the pic with Elizabeth Avellán and Rana Joy Glickman of TealHouse Entertainment. Executive producers are Andrew Carlberg, and Ted Field and Justin Smith of Radar Pictures. Shaw, who can next be seen starring opposite Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen...

"I never really expected my life to turn out like this." Freestyle Digital Media has debuted the trailer for an indie dramedy titled Roads, Trees and Honey Bees, the feature directorial debut of young filmmaker Stephanie McBain. The film is about a trio of people on the move. Steve quits his job, gets divorced from his wife, and finds himself on a cross country journey with Connor Martin, a young, aspiring musician and his sister Sarah Martin, a college graduate who is looking for her next step. Together they embark on a journey to discover the pursuit of happiness and find their purpose in life - by driving to California. Starring Nick Nicotera, Donald Clark Jr., Nikki Leigh, Chris Mulkey, Jon Root, and Angela de Silva. This looks particularly unimpressive and forgettable, which explains why it hasn't played at any festivals or elsewhere. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Stephanie McBain's Roads,...

After launching films that follow up a cult classic, indulge in post-breakdown Charlie Sheen, and feature digital stars like Jc Caylen, Crackle has now picked up a flick led by Chevy Chase. It has joined forced with Boundless Pictures for Federal Offense, a comedy that will star Chase.

In Federal Offense, Chase will play a filterless grandpa who abets three twenty-somethings as they run from the long arm of the law. Connor Martin will serve as the film's scribe.

“From the very first moment we read the script, we knew Crackle was the right home for this project,” stated Crackle Svp of programming of development John Orlando. “Boundless Pictures and Connor Martin are the right team to create a hilarious and fresh comedy that our viewers have come to expect. Not to mention that Chevy is the icing on the cake!”

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Chevy Chase is joining the hallowed Hollywood ranks of older thespians inhabiting the role of an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed grandfather. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor will star in Federal Offense, playing a cantankerous geezer who is sprung from his nursing home by his grandson. Furthermore, the yet-uncast grandson is one of three friends on the run from drug dealers, bounty hunters, and police. Federal Offense was penned by Connor Martin, who presumably has done the hard work of contriving a reality where three fugitives making a detour to break a septuagenarian out of captivity makes any type of sense.

Boundless Pictures producer Brandon Burrows was enthusiastic about the casting, saying, “Chevy is an American icon with an expansive body of work that has made us laugh and cry for almost 40 years. He is a legend in comedy, and audiences will see a side of Chevy they’ve never ...

Chevy Chase is attached to star in Federal Offense, a raunchy comedy spec just picked up by Boundless Pictures. Newcomer Connor Martin wrote the script, which is described as having a screwball storyline that centers on three best friends who lose a drug kingpin's stash before finding themselves on the lam from gangsters, bounty hunters and the law after breaking their foul-mouthed grandfather out of his nursing home. Chase will play the grandfather. Courtney Lauren Penn and Brandon Burrows, founder and co-founder, respectively, of their New York- and Santa Monica-based Boundless shingle, will produce. “Chevy is

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