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This Saturday, January 11, 2025, at 10:00 Pm Et/Pt, 48 Hours presents an in-depth investigation into the real-life courtroom drama surrounding Renard Spivey, the TV bailiff accused of murdering his wife. In this powerful episode, 48 Hours contributor Natalie Morales sits down with Spivey for his first television interview, where he opens up about the case, the trial, and his wife’s death.

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Renard Spivey, who was known to viewers as the bailiff on Justice for All with Judge Christina Perez, was charged with the 2019 killing of his wife. According to Spivey, the shooting occurred during a heated argument over a gun, which he claimed went off accidentally. “I was really scared because… you never put your finger on the trigger unless you’re prepared to shoot,” he recalls in the interview. Spivey insists that his police training kicked in, and in an attempt to disarm his wife,...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of November titles. The Tubi November 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals, some series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi November 2024 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

Tubi Originals...

Plot: Follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive. Inspired by the New York Times bestselling novel “Stinger” by Robert McCammon.

Review: The name James Wan attached to a production likely makes you think you are in for something similar to The Conjuring or Insidious. The filmmaker has become synonymous with scary movies as much as he has directed big-budget tentpoles like Aquaman and Furious 7. Still, his prowess as a producer has fostered several cool projects under his Atomic Monster banner in recent years. The new series Teacup carries Wan’s name recognition but is the brainchild of Ian McCulloch. Inspired by the Robert McCammon novel Stinger, Teacup is a unique and original foray into genre storytelling that combines horror, science fiction, and family drama for a creepy drama series that is much...

Robert McCammon's cult classic horror novel Stinger is getting the screen treatment, with a twist, from Ian McCulloch in Teacup. Prior to the Peacock horror show, McCulloch had primarily worked as a recurring writer and executive producer in the world of television, having contributed to the likes of NBC's Chicago Fire, Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone and the short-lived Stephen Dorff neo-Western drama Deputy. While only a writer for 23 episodes of each, McCulloch was a consulting producer for far more of each series, with Chicago Fire being his biggest tenure for all 23 episodes of season 4.

With Teacup, McCulloch takes a very unique approach to adapting McCammon's novel, doing away with a large amount of it and instead focusing the story on three families on a rural Georgia farm rather than a small town. The families find themselves trapped by a circle painted by the mysterious McNab, a man wearing a...

Peacock is developing a limited series about Thomas Randolph called “The Thing About Tommy,” sources tell Variety.

In April, Randolph was sentenced to at least sixty years in prison for the murder of his wife and the man he hired to kill her. This was not his first conviction or his first deceased wife, however; Randolph is also known as Black Widower for having been married six times, with four of his wives ending up dead, though he maintains his innocence.

The true crime series will be written by Bruce Marshall Romans, who has previously written and produced on “Shantaram” on Apple TV+, “Deputy” on Fox and “Messiah” and “Marvel’s The Punisher” on Netflix.

Romans serves as executive producer alongside Jason Blum, Chris Dickie and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse and Liz Cole for NBC News Studios. Universal Content Productions is the studio.

“The Thing About Tommy” comes after NBC’s...

Exclusive: Another true crime limited series franchise, The Thing About..., is looking to join the likes of American Crime Story, Monster and Dr. Death. Peacock is developing The Thing About Tommy, from writer Bruce Marshall Romans and the companies behind the 2022 NBC limited series The Thing About Pam, NBC News Studios and Blumhouse, sources tell Deadline. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

The Thing About Tommy is inspired by the true story of Thomas Randolph, nicknamed “Black Widower,” who has been married six times and four of those wives ended up dead.

Like The Thing About Pam, which chronicled Pam Hupp’s involvement in the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, The Thing About Tommy stems from Dateline’s coverage of the case. (The venerable NBC newsmagazine profiled Randolph in the multi-part series The Widower.)

After premiering on NBC, The Thing About Pam, starring Renée Zellweger as Hupp,...

Peacock has revealed the official Teacup trailer and key art, which give you a new look at the horror-thriller series that will premiere with two episodes on October 10. Two new episodes will debut every week through Halloween.

Teacup follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together to survive a mysterious threat. It is inspired by Robert McCammon’s New York Times bestselling novel Stinger.

Ian McCulloch is the showrunner and an executive producer. James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster, Francisca X. Hu, Kevin Tancharoen, director E.L. Katz (The Haunting of Bly Manor), and author Robert McCammon also executive produce.

The cast includes Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman, Chaske Spencer, Kathy Baker, Boris McGiver, Caleb Dolden, Emilie Bierre, and Luciano Leroux. The eight-episode series comes from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.

“When Atomic Monster first approached me about creating a series...

At the San Diego Comic-Con today, Peacock revealed the horror-thriller series Teacup. The first two episodes will premiere on Thursday, October 10. They will be followed by two episodes weekly through Halloween.

Teacup follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together to survive a mysterious threat. It is inspired by Robert McCammon’s New York Times bestselling novel Stinger.

Ian McCulloch is the showrunner and an executive producer. James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster, Francisca X. Hu, Kevin Tancharoen, director E.L. Katz (The Haunting of Bly Manor), and author Robert McCammon also executive produce.

The Teacup cast includes Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman, Chaske Spencer, Kathy Baker, Boris McGiver, Caleb Dolden, Emilie Bierre, and Luciano Leroux. The eight-episode series comes from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.

“When Atomic Monster first approached me about creating a series adaptation of Robert McCammon’s Stinger—a no-holds-barred,...

Exclusive: Pancho Mansfield has reunited with his old eOne boss John Morayniss and former colleague Carolyn Newman.

Mansfield, who was President, Global Scripted Television at eOne, has struck a first-look producing with Blink49 Studios, the production company that Morayniss co-founded in 2021.

In that former role, Mansfield oversaw eOne’s scripted slate, which includes Showtime’s Yellowjackets, Paramount+’s A Gentleman in Moscow, HBO’s Sharp Objects, ABC’s The Rookie and spinoff The Rookie: Feds, Freeform’s Cruel Summer, Fox’s Deputy, HBO’s Run and Netflix’s The Recruit.

Mansfield has already set his first project with Blink49 Studios, which is backed by Fifth Season, the company formerly known as Endeavor Content. He is working on a problem-solving procedural with writer and producer Andrew Miller, who recently worked on Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Before working at eOne, Mansfield had his own banner that had a first...

Tucked away in the mountainous backroads of rural Washington lies the sleepy town of Jericho Ridge. At the local police station, Deputy Tabby Temple is gearing up for her overnight shift despite a busted ankle slowing her down. As the senior officer left on duty, Tabby had to juggle responding to calls, watching the front desk, and keeping an eye on the intoxicated offender locked away in the holding cell. Little does she know that the long night ahead will test her limits in ways she never expected.

When Tabby’s colleagues start disappearing while out on patrol, things take a dangerous turn. A suspicious repairman at the station may not be who he claims, and soon Tabby finds herself cut off and under siege, right where she thought she was safest. Outnumbered and injured, she’s the last line of defense between the town and whatever threat is closing in.

Red Right Hand is an action thriller starring Orlando Bloom and Andie MacDowell, now streaming on Hulu. The film received mixed reviews, with a 50% critics' score and a 72% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The cast includes notable actors such as Scott Haze, Garret Dillahunt, Mo McRae, James Lafferty, Brian Geraghty, Chapel Oaks, Kenneth Miller, and Nicholas Logan.

Red Right Hand has a solid cast of big stars and newcomers that help bring this action thriller to life. Directed by Ian Nelms and Eshom Nelms, Red Right Hands centers on Cash, a man trying to live a quiet life in the Appalachian Mountains. However, when a vicious mob boss pulls him back into her schemes, Cash discovers just what he is capable of, especially when it comes to protecting his family. The Orlando Bloom movie came out in February 2024 and is now streaming on Hulu.

Though Red Right Hand did not...

Exclusive: Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer is bulking up its Season 3 cast with 4 new actors joining the fold: Merrin Dungey, Allyn Moriyon, John Pirruccello and Philip Anthony-Rodriguez.

They join returning stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller, Becki Newton as Lorna, Jazz Raycole as Izzy, Angus Sampson as Cisco and Yaya DaCosta as Andrea Freemann. The recurring cast also includes Neve Campbell, Elliott Gould, Krista Warner, Fiona Rene and Devon Graye.

Dungey will portray Judge Regina Turner, a former public defender who is younger and more progressive than most judges in the district, but whether that’s a benefit to Mickey or not remains to be seen. Moriyon plays Eddie Rojas, a fitness buff who needs a very good lawyer. Luckily, Mickey can help him and then offers him the opportunity of a lifetime. Pirruccello plays William Forsythe, a seemingly non-threatening prosecutor that...

Chicago P.D. has added a notable new character for the upcoming episode, Escape.

In addition to Officer Dante Torres (played by Benjamin Levy Aguilar) finally getting screen time, several new characters get introduced on February 7.

As advertised in the new Chicago P.D. episode promo, Intelligence aims to take down the city’s biggest drug lord.

Torres must go undercover during the new episode to get more information, allowing the writers to showcase the character again.

For the first three episodes of Chicago P.D. Season 11, Torres has been furloughed to spend time with his mother.

Now, Torres returns for a case that could take a few episodes to resolve.

Who plays Gloria Perez on Chicago P.D.?

Actress Yara Martinez has been called on to play the role of Gloria Perez on the February 7 Chicago P.D. episode.

She is featured in many episode images that have been released, as well as the television promo running on NBC.

Debbie's son, Julian, is a fan-favorite on 90 Day: The Single Life and viewers are curious to know more about him. Julian is a police officer and has had acting experience in shows like MacGyver and Saints & Sinners. There are rumors that Julian may be dating fellow cast member Jen Boecher, potentially creating a new franchise couple in 90 Day: The Single Life.

90 Day: The Single Life star Debbie Aguero’s son, Julian B Lin, is a fan-favorite who has viewers taking an interest in wanting to know everything about him. Debbie is a 67-year-old from Sugar Hill, Georgia who is an artist and sells semi-precious jewelry. Debbie was in a relationship with the 24-year-old Oussama Berber from Morocco upon her debut. Oussama and Debbie parted ways when she found out he was with her for a Green Card only. Debbie is currently looking for a new man in the spin-off and,...

Karen Ceesay, known for recurring roles in The Walking Dead and Stranger Things, has signed with The Green Room Talent for management.

Ceesay appeared in Season 2 of Netflix’s Stranger Things in the role of Lucas’ mom Sue Sinclair, later reprising the character in a couple of episodes of Season 4. Prior to that, Ceesay played Bertie on AMC’s The Walking Dead, appearing between Season 6 and Season 10 for a total of 14 episodes.

Other acting credits include Hulu miniseries The Girl from Plainville, the NBC sitcom Young Rock, the Fox series Deputy, the CW show Black Lightning, the OWN series Greenleaf and the Fox series The Gifted.

Ceesay has also appeared in Clairvoyance the Ellis Files, Satisfaction, Resurrection, Army Wives, Reed Between the Lines, One Tree Hill, Drop Dead Diva and Somebodies.

As a co-producer and writer, Ceesay has worked on the digital series Intersection, a dark comedy written in a diverse,...

Exclusive: Daniel Zolghadri (Y2K), Shane Paul McGhie (Poker Face), Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World) and Michael Imperioli (The White Lotus) are attached to star in Last Days of Basic Cable, a new film from renowned, rising director Max Winkler (Flower).

Written by Adam Wilson and Justin Taylor, the indie set toward the end of the 1990s watches as four twenty-somethings navigate romance and life in a small New England college town. Zolghadri will play aspiring writer Aaron, with McGhie as his roommate Jason, Barden as Jason’s girlfriend Jessica, and Imperioli as Bob, a drugged out taxi driver who befriends Aaron.

Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger will produce the film via their Bona Fide Productions banner. No word yet on when production might kick off.

Best known for his starring role in the A24 coming-of-age film Funny Pages, produced by Josh and Benny Safdie,...

The explosive growth of film and television production in New Mexico has broadened perceptions about its eclectic landscape in a short amount of time, but despite increasingly well-documented evidence to the contrary, some misconceptions stubbornly persist.

“One of the main comments I hear is ‘I didn’t know New Mexico has trees,’” says Amber Dodson, director of the state’s film office.

While the state’s natural elements are undoubtedly beautiful and have stood in as a range of locales for countless film and TV productions, they’re only one factor in the state’s transformation from a short-term production location to a true hotspot for studios looking to put down roots.

New Mexico first established its production tax incentives in 2003, at the same time many states discovered the economic benefits of attracting entertainment industry business. State leadership quickly began developing infrastructure to support production.

“We wanted to change New...

Legendary Naughty by Nature rapper Anthony “Treach” Criss has joined the upcoming action film, “The Getback,” set to air on Tubi this year. “Veep” alum Sufe Bradshaw has also joined.

“The Getback” tells the story of Mal Cooper (Theo Rossi), an ex-cop-turned-bounty hunter hired to bring in a slippery accountant whose testimony is crucial to the trial a major gang boss. The pair must work and trust each other to slip by crooked killer cops and mercenaries out for blood.

Treach plays Alonzo Beaumont, “a notorious gangster awaiting his trial date in jail, whose entire case may (or may not) depend on the successful retrieval of his flighty accountant,” per the official description.

Bradshaw meanwhile plays Mal Cooper’s former partner, Detective Hatch, who helps Cooper from inside the police to learn who is trying to have the witness murdered.

Treach is no stranger to acting. His credits date back...

Dermot Mulroney, Shane Paul McGhie and Kim Coates will be joining Tubi’s actioner “The Getback” alongside the previously-announced Theo Rossi.

Rossi leads the film as Mal Cooper, a bounty hunter who must retrieve a con artist criminal accountant and keep him alive. Upon finding the criminal, the two have to work together to escape cops and mercenaries on a mission to kill them.

Mulroney is joining the film as Chief Joe Milazzo, Cooper’s ex-employer. His credits include “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “August: Osage County,” “Young Guns” and the upcoming horror film “Scream VI.”

McGhie is also part of “The Getback” ensemble, having acted previously with Rossi in the film “American Skin.” McGhie has also worked on “Deputy,” “What Men Want” and “Unbelievable.”

Coates is joining the cast after having played opposite Rossi in “Sons of Anarchy.” Coates is also featured in “Bad Blood,” “Goon,” “Godless” and the upcoming mini-series “White House Plumbers.

Exclusive: Kimberly Harrison (The Crossover) has been tapped as showrunner for Hulu’s limited series about Sammy Davis Jr. from Lee Daniels and 20th Television, which stars Elijah Kelley as the Candy Man.

Written by Daniels and Thomas Westfall based on Will Haygood’s biography, In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr., and inspired by Alex Haley’s interview of Davis, the yet untitled eight-episode series explores the entertainer’s life through the lens of his racial identity and his complex relationship with the Black community.

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It centers on Davis (Kelley), who rose from childhood stardom on the vaudeville stage to become one of the most famous African American entertainers of the 1950s and ’60s (and the only Black member of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack). At the same time, he spent most of his career surrounded by controversy and ridicule – over...

Actor David Oyelowo stars as real-life 'Old West' lawman "Bass Reeves" in a new limited MTV Entertainment TV series from "Yellowstone" co-creator/showrunner Taylor Sheridan, currently shooting in Texas, co-starring Dennis Quaid as 'Sherrill Lynn', a 'Deputy US Marshall', streaming in 2023 on Paramount+:

"...born a slave, Reeves gained his freedom following the Civil War, learning several native languages...

"...before becoming the first black deputy to serve west of the Mississippi River. 

"Assigned as a deputy U.S. marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, Reeves served there until 1893. 

"In addition to being a marksman with a rifle and revolver, Reeves developed superior detective and impersonation skills during his long career. 

"When he retired in 1907, Reeves had on his record over 3,000 arrests of felons, killing 14 outlaws to defend his life..."

"We're excited to develop our 'Bass Reeves' project," said Chris McCarthy, MTV Entertainment Group. 

"As the first Black deputy U.

Have you watched "Knives Out" and "Glass Onion" and found yourself in desperate need of more tales of murder from writer/director Rian Johnson? Or perhaps you've binge-watched both seasons of "Russian Doll" and are ready for another show where Natasha Lyonne attempts to solve a mystery with a lackadaisical attitude and some sharp wit. Or maybe you just want to see Adrien Brody, Stephanie Hsu, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ron Perlman, Benjamin Bratt, Chloë Sevigny, Lil Rel Howery, Clea Duvall, Tim Blake Nelson, and a whole clown car of other acclaimed actors all in one place.

If any of the above apply, then "Poker Face" might be the show for you. Created, written, and directed by Johnson, the 10-episode case-of-the-week murder mystery series stars Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a casino hostess turned detective with an uncanny ability to know whether or not someone is telling the truth. While that might sound...

Based on Robert McCammon‘s Stinger, Peacock has just announced that they’ve given a straight-to-series order to an untitled horror series that will be produced by James Wan.

Being referred to at this time as “Untitled Ian McCulloch Project,” the series comes from Atomic Monster and UCP, with Ian McCulloch (“Yellowstone”) writing and exec producing.

The series follows a disparate group of people on a ranch who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat.

Stinger takes place during a single twenty-four-hour period in Inferno, Texas. Inferno is a town in trouble, driven to the brink by racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed.

Atomic Monster’s James Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett will executive produce alongside director (101) / executive producer E.L. Katz, writer / executive producer Ian McCulloch and executive producer / author Robert...

Exclusive: Kim Harrison, executive producer and co-showrunner of The Crossover, has signed an overall deal with 20th Television, the studio behind the upcoming basketball drama series for Disney+.

Under the pact, Harrison will develop new projects for 20th TV in addition to her work on The Crossover, which is based on the best-selling novel by Kwame Alexander. She serves as co-showrunner on the series alongside Alexander and Damani Johnson who wrote the pilot script together.

“Kim’s an incredibly skilled storyteller and a creative force, who delivers incomparable character work, and who possesses a unique and fresh voice, said Karey Burke, President, 20th Television. “She has proven to be an invaluable member of the studio’s The Crossover creative team as co-showrunner, and we are so very excited to continue our creative partnership with her for many years to come.”

The Crossover introduces teen brothers Josh and Jordan Bell, widely considered basketball phenoms.

Last month, we learned that Lionsgate is funding a horror film based on the novel Creepers (pick up a copy Here) by First Blood author David Morrell. At the time, it was said that Skylan Brooks (The Darkest Minds) would be one of the film’s cast members – but Deadline reports that Brooks is no longer involved with the project. Taking over the role he was going to play is Shane Paul McGhie, who is best known for playing the role of Landon in After and After We Collided. (McGhie then passed the role over to Chance Perdomo for After We Fell.)

Creepers tells the story of

a group of young urban explorers who plan to investigate an old, boarded up, seemingly abandoned hotel, only to encounter danger at every turn in the form of a competing group of hostile urban explorers seeking to find a legendary hidden treasure as...

Exclusive: Blink49 Studios, the Endeavor Content-backed company founded by John Morayniss, is staffing up its scripted television department.

The company has named Lindsay Tolbert as VP, Scripted Television and promoted Alix Steerman to Manager, Scripted Television.

Tolbert has been working with the company since February in a freelance capacity and starts her new role reporting to former Netflix exec Carolyn Newman, who is EVP, Global Scripted Programming.

She previously served as VP, Development at David Ayer’s Cedar Park Entertainment, which was behind Fox’s Stephen Dorff-fronted drama Deputy. She was also Director of Development at eOne Television, joining from The Mark Gordon Company, where she worked on series including Designated Survivor and the Criminal Minds spinoff, Beyond Borders.

Steerman has been a co-ordinator at the company since the start of the year, having previously served as TV co-ordinator at Circle of Confusion. She has also worked with Roadmap Writers,...

Denise Richards (“Paper Empire”) and AnnaLynne McCord (“90210”) are set to join “Encanto’s” Carolina Gaitàn in a new female-led drama thriller series, “Second Chance,” Variety can exclusively reveal.

Alexis Ren (“Deputy”) and Tiffany Hines (“Magnum P.I.”) will also star.

Set to debut worldwide later this year, “Second Chance” is a 10-part series that tells the story of three domestic cleaning workers and their clients as they struggle to overcome their pasts and grapple with the challenge of creating a better future.

Gaitàn plays service worker Marianna in the series, who finds herself navigating “extraordinary and dangerous situations” alongside her two friends Shira (played by Ren) and Jackie (played by Hines).

The series will grapple with topics including diversity, LGBTQ rights, immigration, women’s equality and organized crime as well as focusing on themes such as perseverance, identity and love, with the three female lead characters drawing on their...

Exclusive: Stephen Dorff (Old Henry), John McEnroe (Ocean’s Eight), Gina Gershon (Emily the Criminal) and Luka Sabbat (Grown-ish) have signed on to star alongside Vito Schnabel in the dark comedy The Trainer, which Tony Kaye (American History X) is directing from a script by Schnabel and Jeff Solomon.

The film, heading into production Tuesday after nearly a decade in development, is based on an original story by Schnabel. It unfolds over eight days of sleep-deprived chaos and follows Jack (Schnabel), a down-on-his-luck fitness expert living with his mother in Los Angeles, who takes a maniacal swing at fame and fortune, trying to realize his version of the American dream. Julia Fox, Steven Van Zandt and Taylour Paige are also set to star. Details with regard to the characters the new additions to the cast will be playing have not been disclosed.

Schnabel, Kaye and Jeremy Steckler are producing, with George Paaswell serving as executive producer.

Dorff recently appeared in Potsy Ponciroli’s Western Old Henry, and on Fox’s Deputy. He’s also previously been seen in films including I’ll Find You, Leatherface, The Iceman, Somewhere, Public Enemies, World Trade Center, Cold Creek Manor, Zoolander, Blade and I Shot Andy Warhol. Additional TV credits include True Detective and Star.

McEnroe, the former pro tennis player, currently narrates Netflix’s coming-of-age comedy series Never Have I Ever. He’s previously appeared in films including Ocean’s Eight, Freak Show, Jack and Jill, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Wimbledon, Anger Management and Mr. Deeds, and on such series as Kenan, 30 Rock and Curb Your Enthusiasm. During his career in tennis, he established himself as the only male player to win upwards of 70 titles across singles and doubles competitions.

Gershon will soon be seen in the thriller Emily the Criminal from Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She’s also appeared in such films as Rifkin’s Festival, Cagefighter, American Dresser, The Little Mermaid, Blockers, 9/11, Staten Island Summer, Killer Joe, P.S. I Love You, Slackers, The Insider, Guinevere, Palmetto, Face/Off, Showgirls, The Player, Cocktail and Pretty in Pink. Her TV credits include New Amsterdam, Betty, Riverdale, Red Oaks, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Z Nation, Elementary and Rescue Me. Other upcoming films in which Gershon is set to appear include Aleta Chappelle’s romance Love Extreme, Dylan K. Narang’s comedy Tapawingo and Eli Roth’s adaptation of the video game Borderlands.

Sabbat is best known for portraying Luca Hall on Freeform’s Grown-ish. Additional credits include Lena Dunham’s Sundance 2022 feature Sharp Stick and Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die.

Dorff is represented by ICM Partners and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; McEnroe by Img and International Artists; Gershon by Artists First and Schreck Rose Dapello; and Sabbat by CAA and attorney Marios Rush.

Karrueche Tran has signed with sister companies M88 and Uncmmn for representation, Variety has learned exclusively.

The companies will work in tandem to grow Tran’s work across film, TV, fashion, and in the digital space.

Tran currently stars in Peacock’s drama series “Bel-Air,” a reinvention of the beloved sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” She is best known for her starring role in the critically-acclaimed TNT drama “Claws,” appearing in the role of Virginia throughout the show’s four season run. “Claws” officially came to an end with the series finale on Feb. 6. Tran also made history as the first Aapi lead actress winner at the Daytime Emmys for her work in the web series “The Bay.”

Other acting roles include “Deputy” at Fox, “The Last Og” at TBS, and the film “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.” Her other on camera work includes co-hosting the Golden Globes red...

Exclusive: Bess Rous will round out the cast of Chris McKay’s Universal monster movie, Renfield.

She joins an ensemble that includes Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez and Shohreh Aghdashloo, as previously announced.

The film based on an original story outline by Robert Kirkman centers on Renfield (Hoult), who has grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula’s (Cage) lackey. The henchman finds a new lease on life and maybe even redemption when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina).

Bess will play Caitlyn, a member of a support group for people in toxic relationships.

Ryan Ridley penned the script. McKay is producing the film shooting in New Orleans with Skybound Entertainment’s film team, including Kirkman, David Alpert, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst, with his producing partner Samantha Nisenboim exec producing.

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to the WWII-era romantic drama I’ll Find You from director Martha Coolidge. The Anthem Sports & Entertainment company plans to release the title starring Adelaide Clemens (To the Stars), Leo Suter, Stephen Dorff, Connie Nielsen and Stellan Skarsgård in theaters and on demand on February 25.

Inspired by true stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 1940s, I’ll Find You centers on the tender, music-infused relationship between Robert (Suter) and Rachel (Clemens) that is forged when the pair meet as music school students—he, a promising singer and she, a violin prodigy. While Robert is torn away from Rachel following the German invasion of Poland, he vows to find her, no matter the cost.

David S. Ward and Bozenna Intrator penned the script for the film, which was shot on location in Poland and New York. Intrator also produced it alongside Lukasz Raczynski, Zbigniew John Raczynski and Fred Roos, with Alexander Roos exec producing.

“I’LL Find You is a beautiful romance film set against the harsh background of World War II,” said Gravitas Ventures’ Manager of Acquisitions, Brett Rogalsky. “What director Martha Coolidge was able to do with these elements is truly impressive, and we’re excited to be able to bring this film to the public.”

“From the beginning I loved the theme in this film that music has an almost magical power to heal,” added Coolidge, “and that it can inspire and move all people even those at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.”

Coolidge is an Emmy nominee and DGA Award winner who has previously directed films including Material Girls, The Prince and Me, Angie, Lost in Yonkers, Rambling Rose, Plain Clothes, Real Genius and Valley Girl, along with episodes of such series as Siren, Angie Tribeca, Madam Secretary, The Night Shift, Psych and Weeds.

Gravitas Ventures was founded in 2006 and sold to multi-platform media company Anthem Sports & Entertainment in November. Recent releases from the company include Michael Lembeck’s Queen Bees; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend, starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, and Jason Segel; Vanguard, directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan; and Andy Tennant’s The Secret: Dare to Dream, starring Katie Holmes. Gravitas has also recently acquired titles including Adrian Martinez’s feature directorial debut iGilbert; the Kathy Bates drama Home, from writer-director Franka Potente; family adventure film The King’s Daughter, starring Pierce Brosnan; Jason Pollock’s doc Finding Kendrick Johnson; and The Accursed, a horror film marking the feature directorial debut of writer-directors Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michell.

ABC has announced additional cast for Promised Land, its upcoming Latinx family drama starring John Ortiz and Christina Ochoa. Yul Vazquez (The Outsider), Julio Macias (Selena: The Series), Ariana Guerra (Helstrom), Kerri Medders (Seal Team) Tom Amandes (A Million Little Pieces), Natalia del Riego (How To Get Away With Murder) and Miguel Angel Garcia (Deputy) are set for heavily recurring roles in the drama series.

Created and written by Matt Lopez and directed by Michael Cuesta, Promised Land is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.

In addition to Ortiz and Ochoa, cast also includes Bellamy Young, Cecilia Suárez, Augusto Aguilera, Mariel Molino, Tonatiuh, Andres Velez, Katya Martín and Rolando Chusan.

Vazquez plays Father Ramos. A Catholic priest, Father Ramos has compassion and good humor tinged with a certain world-weariness. Apparently just another man of God, he knows quite...

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Studio Babelsberg, the historic German studio that recently hosted “The Matrix Resurrections” production, has been acquired by Tpg Real Estate Partners.

The company, which is part of global alternative asset firm Tpg, first revealed plans to acquire a stake in the studio in September via Trep’s acquisition of Babelsberg’s main shareholder, Filmbetriebe Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (Fbb), which was controlled by Carl L. Woebcken and Christoph Fisser. As part of that deal, Fbb launched a public tender offer to acquire a majority of the shares in Studio Babelsberg, which went through in October.

All closing conditions of the transaction have now been fulfilled, the companies have said, with Woebcken and Fisser continuing to hold a minority stake in the studio.

Studio Babelsberg now sits within Trep’s global studio platform, Cinespace Studios, which is the second largest sound stage operator in North America and, with Babelsberg in the fold,...

It has been some time since a slasher sequel has had such expectation stalking it. But after David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween revitalised the franchise, Halloween Kills marks the next step in Green and fellow screenwriters Danny McBride and Scott Teems’ follow-up trilogy to the John Carpenter landmark. Premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival, the film would receive very polarising responses, a matter that remained when it was released in cinemas and streamed on Peacock simultaneously. However, were these (admittedly rather asinine) criticisms of “Empty anarchy”, “a middle movie”, “too much like a Halloween sequel” on point? Well, as we approach the home video release of the Extended cut in January, we can tell you…no they weren’t.

The story stays in 2018, and shortly follows the events whereby masked killer Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney and Nick Castle) was caught by Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and...

David Arquette and Scott Foley are joining Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale and Christina Hendricks in the film “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.” The charming and comical story of redemption, adapted by author Gabrielle Zevin from her own New York Times best-selling novel, begins shooting this month in the U.S. in Cape Cod.

Hans Canosa is directing from Zevin’s novel, which has sold over five million copies and been translated into 38 languages. Bcdf Pictures’ Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady are producing alongside Kelsey Law, Canosa and Zevin. Bcdf’s Brice Dal Farra, Nayyar, Hale and Hendricks are executive producers. Mister Smith Entertainment is handling sales on the film.

The life of A.J. Fikry (Nayyar) is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare edition of Poe poems,...

Exclusive: Rob Schneider has joined the cast of writer-director Rick Bieber’s indie, Dead Wrong.

He’ll star alongside Cress Williams (Black Lightning), Katrina Bowden (30 Rock), Derek Smith (What/If), Chelsea Debo (Separation), Rosalie Ward (Saints & Sinners), Chet Hanks (Your Honor) and Joshua Bitton (Red Riding Hoods).

The crime drama based on K.E. Clark’s novel Deadly Instinct follows Billy Evans (Smith), a narcissist of psychotic proportions who, blinded with jealousy over the wealth accumulated by his best friend and local mob boss (Hanks), schemes to steal his infant son to obtain a multi-million dollar settlement from the hospital’s insurance company. In so doing, he ignites a chain reaction that overwhelms the lives of his now suicidal wife (Bowden), her nymphomaniacal younger sister (Debo) with whom he’s having an affair, a deeply indebted gambling and alcoholic lawyer (Schneider), a Brooklyn born bookmaker/pimp...

Well, things could get interesting very soon.

Big Sky Season 2 Episode 2 was all about setting up the long game, which appears to be an eventual showdown with a woman and a man who aren't at all familiar with the beauty of Montana or the people that inhabit it.

They are ready to make waves, and it's only a matter of time before they make new enemies out of Cassie and Jenny.

This show has no problem dropping a bunch of new characters on the audience and then watching us try to connect all the dots.

They did it throughout Big Sky Season Season 1, and that trend is continuing here. There have been about nine new characters introduced to us within the first two hours alone, and before we even figure out their names, we are scrambling to figure out how they fit into the narrative.

And man, it gets hard...

Exclusive: Akende Munalula (The Salon), Shacai O’Neal (Black Lightning), Lily Keene (Deadwood: The Movie) and Margot Catherine Terry (9-1-1) have joined Showtime drama pilot Coercion as series regulars opposite Sydney Chandler. Sydney Park and Tyrone Marshall Brown also star in the wiip-produced drama.

Written and directed by Susannah Grant, Coercion is inspired by the life of Rebecca Bender, a national leader on and survivor of sex trafficking.

Coercion depicts Bender’s (Chandler) escape from the world of sex trafficking after six years, her struggles to return to a “normal” life, and her emergence as a confident, funny and impassioned advocate for justice.

Munalula will play Dev, a successful, wealthy Las Vegas-based human sex trafficker. O’Neal will play Mia, a sex worker. Keene will play Didi, also a sex worker. Terry will play Lexi, the young daughter of Rebecca (Chandler).

2020-21 Showtime Pilots & Series Orders

Executive producing Coercion are Grant,...

Veteran producer Bibby Dunn has been promoted to president of Mark Gordon Pictures.

In the expanded role, Dunn will run production and development, produce scripted film and television content, manage sales across broadcast, cable and streaming, and oversee operations of the company’s three offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.

“Bibby is a fantastic developer, a meticulous and tenacious producer and a wonderful human being most of all,” Gordon said, announcing Dunn’s promotion. “I have watched her grow and thrive over the past 8 years, and there is no one I would rather have lead our team of producers into the next chapter of our company.”

Dunn was instrumental in the launch of Mark Gordon Pictures in March 2020, following Gordon’s exit as President and Chief Content Officer of eOne in 2019.

“I’ve learned so much from Mark over the years and am honored to take on this...

Producer Bibby Dunn has been promoted to President of Mark Gordon Pictures. In the expanded role, Dunn will run production and development for the company, produce scripted film and television content, manage sales across broadcast, cable and streaming, and oversee operations of the company’s three offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.

“I’ve learned so much from Mark over the years and am honored to take on this new role at Mark Gordon Pictures,” Dunn said. “Just as Mark’s work has never been defined by any one genre or type, what I love about the company we are building is that everyone has a voice, and because of that we have an eclectic selection of projects that reflect our interest and passions. I am excited to be working alongside him and our fantastic team of producers as the company continues to grow into its next iteration.

Exclusive: Shane Paul McGhie (Deputy) and Karimah Westbrook (All American) have signed on to star in Panorama, a short film exec produced by former New York Giants player Spencer Paysinger and the NFL team’s current defensive end, Leonard Williams.

The film, written and directed by former theater director Scott Felix, is described as a sense-bending drama that tells the story of Sam (McGhie), a young man grieving the unexpected loss of his Mother (Westbrook). Upon being hit by a car, Sam is catapulted into a near death experience where his Mother guides him through various chapters of his life.

Panorama also stars Thomas Q. Jones (Luke Cage), Myles Cranford (Mindhunter), Maleah Goldberg (On My Block) and Krystian Alexander Lyttle (Foster Boy).

Jordan Orsak, Jevin Lee, Jp Hughes and Dane Morck are set to produce the short, which is heading into production in Los Angeles. Paysinger and Williams exec produce alongside McGhie.

Exclusive: Brandon Thomas Lee (The Hills: New Beginnings), Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) & Diane Gaeta (Adopt a Highway) will co-star opposite Chance Sanchez in his debut feature, Zero Road, which recently wrapped production.

The dramatic feature examines a preternaturally intelligent young man’s (Sanchez) descent into an underbelly of drug running and violence. It’s based on the writer-director’s experience growing up in poverty in the American Midwest, with a mother who suffered from meth addiction.

In the film, produced by Sanchez, Colin Floom and Mark David, Lee plays Russ, a small-time drug dealer with magnetic charm, who guides Sanchez’s protagonist into the criminal underworld he’s made his home.

Rathbone plays Gene, a mysterious auto mechanic masterminding a drug operation out of his shop, with an inexplicable intellect that reveals a calamitous past.

Then, there’s Gaeta, who plays Sanchez’s tortured mother, Laura.

Lee has appeared, on the film side,...

Exclusive: Filming has begun in Thessaloniki, Greece, on noir thriller movie The Enforcer with cast additions including Mojean Aria (See), Zolee Griggs (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), Alexis Ren (Deported), and Aaron Cohen (John Wick: Chapter 2).

Previously announced as starring are Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth and rapper 2 Chainz.

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

Directed by Richard Hughes (Found) and written by W. Peter Iliff (Point Break), the film is produced by Rob Van Norden, Yariv Lerner, Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger and Les Weldon of Millennium Media and Natalie Burn of Born to Burn Films. Executive producers for Millennium Media Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson and Trevor Short.

Entertainment One is expanding its leadership team, bringing on board Gabriel Marano as an executive vice president of scripted television, where he will oversee the development of all of the company’s Hasbro IP.

Concurrently, Jacqueline Sacerio, eOne’s current exec VP of scripted TV, will expand her responsibilities and shepherd the company’s first-look ad pod deals. Sacerio and Marano report to Pancho Mansfield, president of global scripted television.

“We’re delighted that Gabe is joining us as we expand our leadership team. With his impeccable taste, tremendous breadth of experience and great working relationships across the industry, he will be a wonderful asset, and I couldn’t be happier to work with him again,” said Mansfield.

Marano was most recently a senior VP of drama programming and development at Fox, supervising the development and production of new and returning scripted series for Fox, including all seasons of “9-1-1” and “9-1-1: Lone Star.

Following the first wave of cancelations since the spread of the deadly 'Covid-19' virus, more TV series have been killed off, including shows from Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, Fox, A&e, USA, Pop TV, Starz, CBS All Access, History, Paramount and a whole lot more:

Canceled Series

ABC

American Housewife

Rebel

Mixed-ish

For Life

The Baker and the Beauty, 1 season

Single Parents, 2 seasons

Bless This Mess, 2 seasons

Emergence, 1 season

Schooled, 2 seasons

Kids Say the Darndest Things, 1 season

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., 7 seasons

Strahan, Sara and Keke, 2 seasons

United We Fall, 1 season

Stumptown, 1 season

Adult Swim

The Venture Bros., 7 seasons

Amazon

Bosch, 7 seasons

Goliath, 4 seasons

Utopia, 1 season

AMC

NOS4A2, 2 seasons

The Walking Dead, 11 seasons

Better Call Saul, 6 seasons

The Walking Dead: World Beyond, 2 seasons

CBS

The Unicorn

All Rise

Criminal Minds, 15 seasons

God Friended Me, 2 seasons

Carol's Second Act, 1 season

Man With a Plan, 4 seasons

Broke, 1 season

Tommy, 1 season

CBS All Access

Interrogation,...

The “Joe Exotic” series at Peacock is rounding out its cast with the addition of Brian Van Holt, Variety has learned.

Van Holt will star as John Reinke, the zoo manager at Joe’s zoo, a loyal worker and friend until things go too far. Reinke famously appeared as himself in the hit Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.”

Van Holt joins previously announced series stars Kate McKinnon, who will play Carole Baskin, and John Cameron Mitchell, who will play Joe Exotic.

Van Holt recently starred in the Fox cop drama “Deputy” opposite Stephen Dorff. His other TV credits include “John From Cincinnatti,” “The Bridge,” and “Cougar Town.” On the film side, he is known for his roles in “Black Hawk Down,” “House of Wax,” “Swat,” and “Den of Thieves.”

He is repped by Paradigm, Luber Roklin, and Morris Yorn.

Based on the Wondery Podcast of the same name, “Joe Exotic” centers...

Exclusive: Mark Gordon Pictures has acquired the rights Stephen McGinty’s forthcoming book, The Dive with plans to develop as a feature film and has tapped Edward Hemming to adapt. Mark Gordon and Beth Pattinson will produce for Mark Gordon Pictures.

“I’m delighted to be working with Mark, Beth and Ed as they adapt The Dive into a movie,” McGinty said. “The story of the rescue of Pisces III is one of the great tales of ocean adventure: when a band of blue-collar workers from Canada, America and Britain pulled together to rescue two men from a crushing depth never attempted before. I’ve long been an admirer of Mark’s extensive filmography – from Saving Private Ryan and Speed to Steve Jobs and Molly’s Game and feel confident that The Dive is now in the best possible hands.”

Based on a true story, The Dive recounts the harrowing...

Bull star Yara Martinez has grabbed the lead role in drama Good Egg, from writer-director Nicole Gomez Fisher.

Martinez is set to play a high school drama teacher who, after failed attempts at in vitro fertilization to conceive a child, is forced to consider an unconventional egg donor scenario that plunges her into a dangerous and exhilarating adventure with her husband.

Good Egg is produced by Dorottya Mathe, Fisher and Martinez, who also stars as Isabelle Colón on the CBS series Bull. Martinez’s other credits include the Fox police drama Deputy, Amazon’s reboot of the popular superhero franchise The Tick, and having co-starred opposite Gina ...

Bull star Yara Martinez has grabbed the lead role in Good Egg, an in-vitro drama from writer-director Nicole Gomez Fisher.

Martinez is set to play a high school drama teacher who, after failed attempts at in vitro fertilization to conceive a child, is forced to consider an unconventional egg donor scenario that plunges her into a dangerous and exhilarating adventure with her husband.

Good Egg is produced by Dorottya Mathe, Fisher and Martinez, who also stars as Isabelle Colón on the CBS series Bull. Martinez’s other credits include the Fox police drama Deputy, Amazon’s reboot of the popular superhero franchise The Tick, and having ...

Exclusive: Netflix’s multi-camera comedy series from Jack Dolgen, Doug Mand and Kourtney Kang has rounded out its lead cast with the addition of Olivia Macklin, Michael Hsu Rosen and Cinthya Carmona. They will star opposite Emily Osment and Gregg Sulkin in the project, created and written by Dolgen and Mand and directed by Pamela Fryman.

The Untitled Dolgen/Mand/Kang Project centers on a snooty, self-proclaimed intellectual (Osment) forced to move in with her carefree sister and her sister’s lovably eccentric friends, played by Sulkin, Hsu, Rosen and Carmona.

Macklin will play Claire, scatterbrained optimist and the world’s worst waitress (although the customers love her). She lives a carefree life, surrounded by her best friends. Claire is excited at the prospect of finally bonding with her older sister, Chelsea. Like, really really really really excited!