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Max has released the official trailer announcing a release date for Hacks season 4. Since 2021, the Emmy-winning comedy series has chronicled the journey of veteran stand-up comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) as she enlists the help of recently canceled comedy writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) to revitalize her aging act. Together, they navigate both the comedy industry and their own personal struggles with plenty of ups and downs along the way. Hack season 4 will also feature Paul W. Downs, Carl Clemons-Hopkin, Helen Hunt, Tony Goldwyn, and Kaitlin Olson.

Now, Max has unveiled a new trailer confirming that Hacks season 4 will debut on April 10 at 9 pm Et. After various productions in Los Angeles were temporarily stalled following the wildfire, the comedy show will return with a season that promises more sharp wit, drama, and chaos as Deborah and Ava struggle to get along while trying to get their late-night show off the ground.

David Tennant, Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones will lead a new ITV Studios-commissioned series about the U.K.’s phone-hacking scandal, The Hack.

Written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials), the seven-part drama is produced by the team from Mr Bates vs The Post Office — a show that set Britain alight with its exposure of gross maltreatment and a miscarriage of justice when hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly accused of theft and fraud due to a faulty computer system (the show’s impact led the U.K. government to announce new legislation to exonerate the wrongly convicted subpostmasters).

Set between 2002 and 2012, The Hack interweaves two real-life stories, including the work of investigative journalist Nick Davies (Tennant), who uncovered evidence of phone-hacking at the Rupert Murdoch-owned publisher News Group Newspaper, specifically the News of the World tabloid.

Running parallel is the story of the...

Founded in 2004, the comic book publishing company Dynamite Entertainment got started with a comic book continuation of Sam Raimi’s 1992 horror comedy classic Army of Darkness. Soon after, they started publishing a book that starred the popular sword-and-sorcery character Red Sonja. Over the years, Dynamite has sent a lot of Army of Darkness crossover comics into the world, having hero Ash Williams cross paths with the likes of Herbert West, Re-Animator; Darkman, the Marvel Zombies, Xena: Warrior Princess, the characters from Hack/Slash, Vampirella, Kiss, and Elvis Presley (from Bubba Ho-Tep), among others. Now, to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, Dynamite is having Ash and Red Sonja team up for the crossover comic book mini-series Red Sonja vs. The Army of Darkness!

SuperHeroHype reports that Red Sonja vs. The Army of Darkness will find wise-cracking Deadite slayer Ashley “Ash” J. Williams hurled through time and space. This time, however,...

It is not uncommon for TV stars to direct episodes of the series on which they appear. Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan and David Ogden Stiers all directed more than one episode of "M*A*S*H;" Peter Bonerz became a prolific director of television shows and films after directing 29 episodes of "The Bob Newhart Show;" and Penny Marshall might never have brought us such big screen classics as "Big" and "A League of Their Own" had she not started out directing on "Laverne & Shirley."

For the directing curious, the set of a long-running television show is a great place to cut one's teeth, so it's no surprise that two members of the Jeffersonian Institute Medico-Legal Lab found their way behind the camera during the 12-season run of "Bones." The most frequent guest in video village was David Boreanaz, who played the hard-charging FBI Agent Seeley Booth. He...

Although it's undeniably a horror game, Slitterhead plays a lot more like an action RPG, in which players live or die by the strength of their party members. There's a good reason for all that bloodshed: Slitterhead is the work of multiple Team Silent alumni, including series creator Keiichiro Toyama and longtime sound designer Akira Yamaoka. Even so, Slitterhead has a lot more in common with Toyama's later works, with clear shades of Siren and Gravity Rush coming through in its gameplay.

To that end, most of what players will be doing in Slitterhead involves hopping from body to body, possessing different people and using their unique abilities to solve puzzles and fight grotesque enemies. When it comes to fighting, no one's better than its eight Rarities, extra-special humans with strong wills who are able to summon bloody weapons in battle, maintaining a shred of their free will even when possessed by Hyoki.

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for The Simpsons season 36, episode 1

Although its biggest twist suddenly re-framed all of these events, The Simpsons season 36 premiere included numerous series-shaking twists and revelations. The Simpsons season 37 renewal has not yet been announced, but it certainly seems like the series will remain a TV staple for a lot longer. After hitting a critical nadir around seasons 32-32, The Simpsons turned its fortunes around with tighter, funnier seasons 34 and 35. These character-centric outings were lauded as a return to form for the series, prompting think pieces from everywhere from YouTube to Vulture about whether The Simpsons was finally good again.

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The Simpsons season 36 episode 1 began by revealing that the outing was the long-awaited Simpsons series finale, but was this announcement real?

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The 1990s anime boom was a major moment for popular culture in general, but it helped supplement the Pokmon craze sweeping the world, leading to impressive and comparable franchises following suit, including Medabots, a real forgotten gem. The term Pokemania is recognizable for anybody spending their youth from the late 90s through the early 2000s. The Game Freak adaptation wasn't the only anime to capitalize on a Japanese video game franchise, with Medabots being a fond memory for many 90s kids as an action-packed introduction to anime.

Medabots' anime adaptation comes from Bee Train, a studio later known for excellent series such as Blade of the Immortal, .hack, and Igpx: Immortal Grand Prix. The anime is based on the Imagineer Medarot portable RPG series, which first launched on the Game Boy and WonderSwan systems in 1997 and 1999, featuring one-meter tall robots powered by Medals competing with other robots for parts. While...

Mark Harmon just shared a touching tribute to a longtime co-worker from his days on NCIS. Mark learned of the passing of his friend and spoke about how important he was to the show throughout its run.

Here is who died and what Mark Harmon had to say about the loss.

Mark Harmon Honors Fallen NCIS Co-Worker

Mark Harmon noted the death of a longtime member of the NCIS production team. Former showrunner, writer, and executive producer George Schenck died on Saturday, August 3, at the age of 82. Schneck joined the production of NCIS in 2003, when the show began, and wrote dozens of episodes.

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Schenck was a consulting producer and writer alongside his career writing partner Frank Cardea for the first eight seasons. He became an executive producer in Season 9. Schenck became a co-showrunner with Cardea in 2016 after Gary Glasberg died. He had to deal with...

George Schenck, who served as a writer, producer and/or co-showrunner on NCIS during the CBS drama’s first 15 seasons, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles, a network spokesperson announced. He was 82.

He and Frank Cardea shared a creative partnership for 40 years. In addition to collaborating on NCIS, they created the 1982-83 CBS adventure series Bring ‘Em Back Alive, starring Bruce Boxleitner; the 1984-86 CBS crime show Crazy Like a Fox, starring Jack Warden and John Rubinstein; and the 1991-92 ABC drama Pros and Cons, starring James Earl Jones and Richard Crenna.

After writing nearly 50 episodes of NCIS starting with show’s inaugural season in 2003, the pair were elevated to co-showrunners in November 2016 following the sudden death of Gary Glasberg two months earlier. “It’s with heavy hearts that we assume his duties,” they said at the time.

“So sorry to hear the news on George,” NCIS star...

Exclusive: ABC’s multi-cam comedy pilot Forgive & Forget has added Sean Rodriguez Marquette (The Goldbergs), Diana Maria Riva and Kimia Behpoornia (Abbott Elementary) to its leading cast. The project comes from Punky Brewster duo Eugene Garcia-Cross and Robin Shorr.

The show, which comes from 20th Television, follows the perennial life of the party Hank (Burrell). After an unexpected diagnosis, Hank reconnects with his responsible adult son Ben (Rodriguez Marquette) in hopes of making new memories together.

Rodriguez Marquette will play Ben, Hank’s responsible adult son. After Hank receives an unexpected diagnosis, Ben reconnects with his father in hopes of making new memories together. Riva will play Maria, Hank’s lively ex-wife and Ben’s nostalgic and affectionate mom.. Behpoornia will play “Izzy,” Hank’s confident and blunt memory care therapist.

Garcia-Cross will write with Shorr as the showrunner. They will executive produce...

With Season 3 approaching its end, many Hack fans wonder when Season 4 might be released.

The show follows a legendary comedian, Deborah Vance (played by Jean Smart), who realizes she needs help to keep her career alive. It turns out the best solution to that is teaming up with a struggling young comedy writer, Ava Daniels.

While their current dynamic is not the same at this point in the show’s run, the duo remains the heart of the show.

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As part of the celebration of twenty years of Hack/Slash, a new Zoop campaign has been launched for Hack/Slash: The Card Game: "Fan-favorite “Slasher” villains from the series’ 20-year history will terrorize 1-6 players in a pulse-pounding deck building card game that recreates some of the most beloved moments from twenty years of this fan-favorite series!" We have an exclusive look at the trailer for the game, along with details on the upcoming release:

Hack/Slash remains one of comics most-beloved long running female fronted franchises, spanning over two decades, with multiple crossovers with other horror heroes. The most recent story arc Back to School by Zoe Thorogood was one of the most unanimously acclaimed series published last year, proving that Cassie’s work is far from done!

Players will play as Cassie Hack and Vlad, building up their decks with powerful attacks, combos, and special moves. The...

Rachel Lindsay became the first Black Bachelorette in Season 13, but before that, she was on Nick Viall’s Season of The Bachelor. ABC fans know she was an attorney, but is she also a paid actor? Read on to find out what they discovered.

Rachel Lindsay Was A Success Story But Lost Her Love, Bryan

Just about everyone raved about ABC casting the elegant attorney as The Bachelorette lead. They liked that she was intelligent and beautiful, and it was about time that some diversity happened in the Bachelor Nation franchise. She became engaged and married to her rose winner, Bryan Abasolo, a chiropractor, but sadly, it all fell apart, and there’s a bitter divorce going on.

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Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo seemed to live separate lives. While she worked as a special correspondent for Extra, it seemed that she dropped that...

My biggest concern before watching Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut was: what if the documentary ends up making me feel miserable? Because of the title, it did seem like an extended version of one of those preachy health commercials, which do nothing but scare you about your own health. But Hack Your Health turned out to be much different and definitely better than that. It surely didn’t make me feel worried. In fact, I would say that the very informative documentary is actually a pleasant watch. Let’s take a closer look.

What Happens in the Documentary?

It was evident from the title that the documentary was going to be about the gut. Staying true to that, Hack Your Health doesn’t waste a minute to get into the point. It begins by telling the audience that the gut is much more than the organ from...

Palworld's latest patch removes cheats and exploits, making the game harder for players who have gotten used to exploiting bugs. The patch fixes bugs such as infinite loading screens and reset clocks, improving the overall gameplay experience. The patch notes are brief, but promise more fixes in the future and can be checked out by players on the Steam version.

No one said Palworld would be easy, but as of now, it's harder than ever before. The new game puts an Ark-like, survival twist on the classic monster-collecting Pokémon formula. Between battling powerful Pals, keeping the base stocked, and just generally staying alive, it can prove a challenging experience, especially in the early game when players are still getting used to its many systems. It's still far from perfect, and very much in early access. But that's not always such a bad thing.

Cheats, exploits, and hidden features can make Palworld easier.

Andre Braugher died following a brief battle with lung cancer.

His publicist, Jennifer Allen, confirmed the cancer diagnosis to The New York Times Thursday — four days after the beloved actor passed away at the age of 61. (According to a 2014 New York Times Magazine profile, Braugher, a former smoker, had quit “years ago.”)

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Obituaries are never easy to write, but this one hits particularly hard given the feeling of so much great work still to come: Andre Braugher, who made a name for himself playing a variety of authority figures in dramas and comedies has died following a brief illness. He was just 61.

André Keith Braugher was born in Chicago in 1962. The prodigious student attended the prestigious St. Ignatius College Prep in his hometown, then earned a BA from Stanford University and a master*s degree from Juilliard — he received scholarships to all three schools.

He considered medicine as a career but saw performing as more exciting. His initial work, as with so many others, was on the stage, in Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park productions in New York City, playing parts in various productions over the years.

His film career was solid, including roles in Glory, Primal Fear, Spike Lee's Get On The Bus,...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Captain Holt Dies At 61 (Picture Credit: Facebook)

Andre Braugher, popularly known for his role as Captain Ray Holt in the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, passed away on Monday. The actor has not only won the hearts of the viewers but multiple award nominations for his excellent work as well. He has also been a part of some Holywood movies and worked as a supporting actor.

Andre’s breakthrough role was in Homicide: Life on the Street, for which he even won a Primetime Emmy in the category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He received another Emmy for playing Nick Atwater in ‘Thief.’ He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Thief and another for ‘Gideon’s Crossing.” Scroll below to get more deets on the late actor.

As per Deadline’s report, Andre Braugher died from a brief illness. He was 61 years of age.

Andre Braugher, who starred in the laugh-out-loud television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Homicide: Life on the Street, passed away on Monday. He was 61.

Braugher’s publicist, Jennifer Allen, confirmed the news of his passing to Variety.

Andre Braugher shined as Captain Raymond Holt on the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. By far, my favorite character in the series, Braugher’s performance as the stoic and sinisterly sassy Captain Holt is the stuff of legend. Alongside his co-stars, Braugher helped lead the series from 2013 until 2021. Not typically known for his comedic chops before landing the role of Captain Holt, Braugher left his comfort zone in the rearview to surprise everyone with an unforgettable and consistently hilarious performance.

A Chicago native, Braugher excelled at playing cops with integrity on television. He began his career playing a detective opposite Telly Savalas in a string of Kojak telefilms. Before long, he landed a pivotal role in Glory,...

Refresh for latest… André Braugher was an actor’s actor — one who absorbed a character and, like a superstar athlete, made the cast around him better.

As the showbiz community digests the terrible news of his death today at 61, reactions from friends, former castmates and others are hitting social media. Read a sampling of them below.

The versatile Braugher was a two-time Emmy winner and 11-time nominee who amassed more than 100 TV and film credits over a 35-year screen career. He started out playing a detective opposite Telly Savalas in a string of Kojak telefilms, and during that era Braugher hit the big screen with a key role in Glory, Edward Zwick’s 1989 Civil War-set film starring Matthew Broderick that would land Denzel Washington his first Oscar.

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Andre Braugher, two-time Emmy-winning actor of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Homicide: Life on the Street, has died at the age of 61. The actor died on Monday following a brief illness, his longtime publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed to Rolling Stone.

Throughout his career, Braugher garnered numerous accolades and his roles spanned television and film as he took on complex characters, traversing drama to comedy.

Born in Chicago on July 1, 1962, Braugher graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in theatre. He later attended Juilliard School and earned a Masters of Fine Arts.

Andre Braugher, the dynamic actor known for his outstanding work on such shows as Homicide: Life on the Street and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has died. He was 61.

Braugher died Monday after a brief illness, his longtime rep Jennifer Allen told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death turned out to be lung cancer.

Braugher starred as master interrogator Det. Frank Pembleton on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street for the first six seasons of the show’s acclaimed 1993-99 run, then played another cop, Capt. Raymond Holt — this time against type and for laughs — on the 2013-21 Fox-nbc sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

He won his first Emmy in 1998 for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for Homicide after a season that featured one of its most memorable episodes, “Subway.” That was a two-hander in which Pembleton tries to unearth whether a man (Vincent D’Onofrio) pinned between a Baltimore subway train...

Emmy-winning actor Andre Braugher, whose illustrious TV career included roles on Homicide: Life on the Street and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has died at the age of 61. He passed away Monday following a brief illness, his publicist Jennifer Allen confirms to TVLine.

Born in Chicago, Braugher made his film debut in the 1989 Oscar winner Glory and appeared in a series of Kojak TV movies before landing the role of interrogation specialist Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street. Acclaimed for its gritty portrayal of crime and punishment on the streets of Baltimore, Homicide ran for seven seasons,...

Andre Braugher, the two-time Emmy-winning actor who starred in the hit television series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died Monday after a brief illness. He was 61.

Braugher’s publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed the news of his death to Variety.

Braugher was known for his role as the upright Captain Raymond Holt on the police procedural comedy series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” from 2013 until 2021. His character’s stoic and no-nonsense personality but deep sense of humanity made him an instant fan favorite of the show, especially when paired with Andy Samberg’s hotshot Det. Jake Peralta in a scene.

He won a lead actor Emmy for his role as Detective Frank Pembleton on NBC’s “Homicide: Life on Street” in 1998, his last year on the series. Braugher’s intense performance made him one of the breakout stars to emerge from the critically beloved police drama that hailed from Barry Levinson,...

André Braugher has died. The two-time Emmy-winning star of series including Homicide: Life on the Street, Men of a Certain Age and Brooklyn Nine-Nine was 61.

Braugher, whose first film role came alongside Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington in the Ed Zwick-directed Glory, died Monday after a brief illness.

While Braugher peppered his résumé with comedies, many will remember him for his ferocious portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC drama Homicide: Life on the Street. Put him in “the box,” sweating out and outsmarting crime suspects in the interrogation room, and you were looking at a weekly dose of tour de force acting, as good as it got on television during that time. He won an Emmy for that show he starred in from 1992-98. His wife, Ami Brabson, recurred as Pembleton’s wife on Homicide.

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Exclusive: David Morse (The Chair), Bill Heck (Locke & Key) and Jaklyn Bejarano have been set to star in Santa Rita Film Co.’s La Gloria, a drama exploring the humanity and political abstractions surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border. The latter came aboard following a nationwide casting search in Mexico.

The film set in South Texas, which is currently shooting in the area, follows the story of Carson Tidwell (Morse), an embittered and isolated rancher who mistakenly shoots a young, pregnant migrant girl named Irena (Bejarano) who is crossing his property. Confronted with his actions and threatened with a criminal investigation, Carson must decide whether to help Irena recuperate on his ranch or face criminal charges led by his son (Heck), an agent for the U.S. Border Patrol.

Christopher Young’s script is based on the personal experiences of Joseph Todd Walker, who is directing, in his feature debut.

The Resident might have come to an end, but Matt Czuchry, who played Dr. Conrad Hawkins on the Fox medical drama, has already booked his next gig. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Czuchry is set to join the upcoming 12th season of American Horror Story (AHS). However, there are no details as of yet on Czuchry’s character or how many episodes he’ll appear in. Season 12 is expected to begin filming in May 2023. The cancellation of The Resident was confirmed on Thursday, April 6, three months after the show’s sixth season finished airing. Czuchry played the lead role of Conrad Hawkins, the titular Resident who starts off as a senior resident internist and later becomes a chief resident at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. Czuchry’s also known for playing Logan Huntzberger on The WB television series Gilmore Girls from 2005 to 2007 and Cary Agos on the CBS drama The Good Wife...

David Morse is one of the most respected veteran actors working in the business. St. Elsewhere, The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard, Dancer In The Dark, House, Hack, The Green Mile, to name just a few of his past credits, and now a Tony nomination for his incredibly powerful performance in How I Learned To Drive, which he has reprised with Mary-Louise Parker 25 years after they first did it off-Broadway. I talk to him about the differences in these two incarnations, particularly one important and significant moment he arrives at toward the end of the play. He explains how […]

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David Morse is one of the most respected veteran actors working in the business. St. Elsewhere, The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard, Dancer In The Dark, House, Hack, The Green Mile, to name just a few of his past credits, and now a Tony nomination for his incredibly powerful performance in How I Learned To Drive, which he has reprised with Mary-Louise Parker 25 years after they first did it off-Broadway. I talk to him about the differences in these two incarnations, particularly one important and significant moment he arrives at toward the end of the play. He explains how […]

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Exclusive: Longtime Good Doctor executive producer Liz Friedman has been named co-showrunner on the ABC medical drama for next season alongside The Good Doctor developer and executive producer David Shore, who has served as showrunner for the past five seasons.

The Good Doctor, whose Season 5 finale airs this coming Monday, already has been renewed for a sixth season. It comes from Sony Pictures Television and ABC Signature.

“I have worked with, and shared my burdens with, and depended on Liz for years,” Shore said. “Very much looking forward to enjoying all the great things she is going to do with the show.”

Friedman, who started her career with an unpaid internship at Sam Raimi’s Renaissance Pictures — which led to jobs as Raimi’s assistant, and later an executive there, developing and producing Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules — transitioned to writing when she was hired...

Cutting the cord on pay-tv subscriptions in favor of streaming services isn’t new anymore. Neither are antennas and over-the-air programming. But for those who never quite lived in the antenna age, it’s been quite the discovery. “There’s some great anecdotal stories of how millennials and younger people think it’s an illegal hack,” Neal Sabin, Weigel Broadcasting vice chairman, told TheWrap for this week’s edition of Office With a View. “They grew up with cable, and it’s like how can something like this be free?” Sabin explained. “And then you just have to roll your eyes and say, ‘Let me tell you how things started. Let me tell you what everybody had until cable came along. They had free television with an antenna and you paid for it by watching commercials.’ So that’s what we’re back to.” For years, consumers have been ditching...

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Andre Braugher has joined the cast of “She Said,” the film retelling of the investigation into sexual assault and harassment perpetrated by Harvey Weinstein.

Braugher will play New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet, who oversaw groundbreaking reporting from journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. Their 2017 probe led to Hollywood mogul Weinstein’s disgrace and criminal prosecution, and sparked the #MeToo movement. The film is based on Kantor and Twohey’s subsequent bestseller “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.”

In 2014, Baquet became the first Black executive editor of the New York Times. The reporters have spoken frequently about the dramatic moment that Baquet hit publish, posting the piece to the Times’ website, following weeks of pressure and obfuscation from Weinstein.

Previously announced cast includes leads Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as Twohey and Kantor, as well as Patricia Clarkson. Production is currently underway. The...

The Málaga Festival’s Spanish Screenings, the only dedicated Spanish film sales and promotion market in Spain, is determined to grow, adapting to industry’s demands for its 15th edition, which will run Oct. 20-23.

Part of Málaga’s far larger Málaga Festival Industry Zone (Mafiz) umbrella of initiatives, the Spanish Screenings will host for the first time ever a Regional Film Hub, aimed at giving Spanish regions a space from which to promote their films.

Málaga’s industrial centerpiece will also renew its sidebar Next From Spain, offering exhaustive information of the Spanish film releases scheduled for 2022 and 2023, meeting an increasing demand.

“Next From Spain and Neocine-Málaga sections have been for many years at the service of Spanish producers, providing them with a space to screen trailers/teasers of their next films. Spanish Screenings 2021 now responds to the demand of buyers, festival programmers and national and international distributors,...

Actor David Morse joins Josh and Joe to talk about his favorite movies.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Slaughter Rule (2002)

Dancer In The Dark (2000)

A History Of Violence (2005)

The Indian Runner (1991)

Inside Moves (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Death Wish (1974) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary

The Virtuoso (2021)

The Crossing Guard (1995)

Prototype (1983)

Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991)

Seven Beauties (1975)

Swept Away (1974)

Mimic (1997)

Hannibal (2001)

Mean Streets (1973)

Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary

The Godfather Part II (1974) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary

Being There (1979) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary

The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)

A Shot In The Dark (1964) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary

Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Papillon (1973)

Straight Time (1978) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Wait Until Dark (1967) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Catch 22 (1970) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary

Desperate Hours (1990)

The Bounty...

One of the more bizarre news stories of the last few years was the public assassination of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother by two mysterious young women in a crowded Malaysian airport. Already newsworthy enough, only stranger when the accused claimed they were duped into thinking their actions were part of a prank reality-tv show rather than being party to a political murder.

A Sundance 2020 selection, Ryan White’s documentary Assassins delves further into how this story unraveled and intertwined with human trafficking, geo-political intrigue, and North Korea’s clandestine dynamics. As its trailer suggests, White’s film centers the possible culpability of these young women and dissects their role in this web of involved factions and agendas. White has directed projects about subjects ranging from Dr. Ruth Westheimer to Prop 8, and has never shied away from subjects that are both deeply humane and relevant to this time. And...

Anthony Chisholm, the actor who played Burr Redding on HBO’s prison drama Oz, has died at the age of 77. Although no cause of death was immediately given, his passing was confirmed by The Katz Company.

Best known for his recurring work on Oz‘s last three seasons, Chisholm starred in a total of 23 episodes from 2001-2003. His other TV credits include Law & Order: Svu, High Maintenance, Random Acts of Flyness, Hack and last year’s Hulu drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga.

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Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards.

A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.

Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.

The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.

Full list of nominations:

Best Single Documentary – Domestic

The Family Secret

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Update, writethru: Nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards have been announced this morning in London with Warner Bros’ Joker in the lead at 11 mentions. The Todd Phillips-directed $1B+ worldwide grosser that just scooped a Best Actor Golden Globe for Joaquin Phoenix is followed by Martin Scorsese’s Netflix pic The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood from Sony. Focus Features’ Downton Abbey, a big box office hit based on the beloved British TV series, was entirely shut out. (See the full list of nominees below.)

Also figuring heavily in the races unveiled today are Sam Mendes’ Golden Globe Best Picture Drama winner 1917 with nine nods. Including that film and the three leaders above, the Best Picture race is rounded out by Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite. Bong is also in the Best Director field along with Mendes, Scorsese, Phillips and Tarantino.

In Outstanding British Film,...

Chris Hilton.

Essential Media co-founder and CEO Chris Hilton has quit following a restructure and cost cutting program at the group’s Australian and New Zealand business.

Greg Quail, formerly the firm’s chief content officer/executive producer, has replaced Hilton as CEO in charge of operations spanning North America and Australasia.

There have been six redundancies in the Sydney office including Sadhana Jethanandani, head of production, Australia/ Nz, head of marketing Denise Anderson, two legal and two admin staff.

Brendan Dahill, who joined as general manager for Australia/Nz last October continues in that post. So do head of non-scripted David Alrich, VP scripted Michelle Hardy and Sam Griffin, who joined recently as head of documentaries and specialist factual.

The restructure was flagged last week by the group’s Canadian parent Kew Media, which blamed the under-performance of Essential’s Australian business for an overall 5.3 per cent drop in...

Anika Noni Rose will guest star on Hulu’s upcoming adaptation of “Little Fires Everywhere,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Rose will play a character named Paula Hawthorne who is described as a renowned photographer and art professor in New York who becomes a mentor to Mia when she is young. Mia is portrayed by Tiffany Boone in flashback and Kerry Washington in the present-day version of the story.

Rose will appear in two episodes: the series premiere and the sixth episode, and is said to be a “big player” in Mia’s arc.

Rose’s recent television credits include “Power,” “The Quad,” “Roots,” “Bates Motel,” “Hack” and “The Good Wife.” She is also known for film work including “Assassination Nation”; “Everything, Everything”; “For Colored Girls”; “Dreamgirls” “Just Add Water”; “From Justin to Kelly” and the animated projects “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and “The Princess and the Frog.” Rose was the...

CBS is eyeing “cost-effective” original programming that it can air on Saturday evenings ahead of 48 Hours.

The broadcaster largely airs repeats on Saturday night between 8pm and 10pm ahead of the news/documentary show that has run since 1988.

But CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl said he was personally invested to find a show for Saturdays.

“We do very well with original programming at 10pm with 48 Hours and I would like to crack the code earlier in the evening and find something that is cost-effective but can still drive some audiences,” he said.

Kahl, speaking at the TCA summer press tour, added, “Saturday night is a unique issue; there is lower viewership on Saturday but it is a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you don’t put great shows on, no one is going to come.”

In the past, CBS has used Saturdays to air original drama with the second season of Hack,...

Bloodshot is getting reloaded in a big way. The unstoppable machine-man assassin is on his way to the big screen for the first time next February with star Vin Diesel and Sony’s bid to start a new superhero universe with the characters of Valiant Comics. And then there’s the news today out of Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle that Valiant will roll out a new upgraded Bloodshot series launching in September.

Valiant has brought in writer Tim Seely and artist Brett Booth for the series that will seek shelf synergy with the ramping feature film. The covers will be illustrated by Declan Shalvey. Then a trade paperback collecting the first three monthly issues arrives in December. Below, you’ll find an exclusive preview of Booth’s highly polished artwork from the project.

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May 25 will mark thirty years to the night when little Tommy Westphall gazed into a snow globe and revealed to nearly 23 million TV viewers that six seasons of heartbreak, joy, love, loss, emergencies and “Stat!”s – in short, St. Elsewhere – had been the daydream fancies of a young autistic boy. The revelation angered some, charmed others and, either way, capped the groundbreaking medical drama with the most audacious finale in TV history.

But the shock ending wasn’t St. Elsewhere‘s only legacy, far from it. As the similarly themed ER would in the following decade, St. Elsewhere was early ground for a generation of up and coming actors, including Mark Harmon, Howie Mandel, Bruce Greenwood, Cynthia Sikes and two men who, three decades on, would share a stage on Broadway in one of American theater’s greatest plays: David Morse and Denzel Washington (the brilliant Dr. Phillip Chandler) are both Tony-nominated for their roles – featured and leading, respectively – in The Iceman Cometh, George C. Wolfe’s staging of the Eugene O’Neill classic. Morse plays the regret-filled, death-obsessed ex-anarchist Larry Slade, through whose eyes we watch the arrival of the born-again (sort of) salesman Hickey (Washington), whose annual visit to a Greenwich Village gut-bucket dive bar dredges up long-dormant feelings among the dump’s dead-end alcoholic habitués.

Deadline recently spoke to Morse about, among other things, the experience of reuniting with his long-ago co-star, whom he hadn’t seen in the 30 years since St. Elsewhere faded to white. Since then, Washington, of course, has become one of Hollywood’s beloved and bankable stars, while Morse, among the most talented actors to emerge from TV’s golden Hill Street-Elsewhere era, has led a remarkable and prolific career. To list just a very few of his credits, the 64-year-old actor, who lives in Philadelphia with his wife, has appeared in films such as The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker and World War Z, TV including Hack, Treme, True Detective and Blindspot, and such stage productions as How I Learned To Drive and The Seafarer.

In addition to The Iceman Cometh, Morse’s 2018 will include Showtime’s upcoming Escape at Dannemora, the Ben Stiller-directed limited series about the real-life 2015 prison break in upstate New York.

Here, Morse talks about Iceman, Elsewhere, Dannemore and Denzel, among other things.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

Deadline: I read somewhere that you had to be talked into The Iceman Cometh…

David Morse: Well, last summer I was doing a weeklong workshop of a play that (later) opened in London, and I wound up getting an offer for that and Iceman at the same time, and I was doing two series at the same time – Blindspot and something for Showtime called Escape at Dannemora. The schedule just couldn’t work out for the London thing…I quickly read Iceman, which I’d seen a couple times, and I just was not…I just didn’t feel very excited. I just didn’t get it when I read it. But the people who represent me very wisely said, You should read this again and really think about it. Which I did, and it started to become clear to me what actually is really good about this character.

Deadline: When I first heard about the casting, of course I thought it was designed as a re-teaming of you and Denzel Washington, but that’s not correct?

Morse: No. It’s just the way the world works, you know, for this play coming together. I don’t think it was consciously in anybody’s mind, this sort of re-teaming. It’d be funny to say it was re-teaming at all, considering St. Elsewhere had a cast of 20 people, or 21 people or 17 people depending on the season. Denzel and I did a lot together on St. Elsewhere, but certainly we weren’t a team on it.

Deadline: Had you stayed in touch? Did working together bring up memories?

Morse: It was really an interesting process because we hadn’t seen each other in so long and we did have a history. Clearly we’ve both been through a lot in our life – I mean he’s become a worldwide icon. He’s more than just a great actor. He’s really a symbol in a lot of ways in this world, for a lot of people, and rightfully so. I, obviously, have not had that experience, but I’ve done plenty of work, so we bring all of that together [to play] two characters who are kind of contentious in this play. It’s great for the characters, but it was also a unique experience that I’m grateful for.

Deadline: You’ve done more than “plenty of work.” How do you go about combining theater, TV, film, so successfully? Is it something you plan long-term, or do you do things case-by-case?

Morse: I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career I said I would never do television at all, then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did St. Elsewhere and all those TV movies. So I should have learned my lesson there. I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film.

Now my only plan really is to find the best people to work with and the best material to work with. That sounds like what everybody will say, but I’ve been lucky to be able to do that.

Deadline: We talk about being in a TV golden age now, and we can trace a lot of it back to St. Elsewhere – the multi-character story arc, the subject matter that it tackled. Were you thinking at the time, This is groundbreaking?

Morse: You know, Denzel and I both had the same experience when we decided to do that series. Hill Street Blues actually came out the year before St. Elsewhere, but they were developed at the same time, Bruce Paltrow on one and [Steven] Bochco on the other. They’d been partners on the White Shadow and it just happened that Hill Street came out first. St. Elsewhere got accused of kind of stealing the Hill Street formula, but story-wise I think the St. Elsewhere writers went way beyond what Hill Street did, in terms of the challenges they took on and the way they told stories.

And you’re right – a lot of what we see now has its roots in those writers on both those shows really, but I think especially, in a lot of ways, St. Elsewhere, just because of the range of the storytelling and the topics they took on. I think we knew at the time.

Other shows like Lou Grant, the other Mtm shows, were good, but they were nothing like St. Elsewhere, and when [Denzel and I] read [the script] we both thought there’s no chance this show’s going to go. It’s just too good for TV. It will do 13 episodes and we’ll take our money and go back to New York and do what we want to do. But there we were six years later, still doing St. Elsewhere.

Deadline: Let’s move up to Iceman. Had you ever done any O’Neill?

Morse: My only experience of having done O’Neill was a stage reading series of Iceman at the Shubert Theater in Boston. I don’t know what was in their minds but they decided to do the full length Iceman Cometh, a five hour stage reading, and they asked me to play Hickey in it, or read Hickey, which I did…I was with a really good group of actors, and you would think from doing that reading I would have had an appreciation for Larry Slade, but I think I was just so focused on Hickey then that I really didn’t get the other characters…There really is a genius to this play, and it just takes us deeper and deeper all the time the more we do it.

Deadline: How was this production shaped? There was some trimming…

Morse: When we got to rehearsal George gave us a script with almost all the stage directions gone, and there was at least half an hour of cuts. People have forever talked about the repetition in the play and I think what George wanted to do was spare the audience some of that repetition, particularly with my character and the young Parritt character. A lot is repeated in there – with Hickey too – and George just tried to cut it to the real story and not burden the audience with stuff we didn’t really need. The O’Neill Trust approved all of it.

Deadline: How easy, or difficult, is it for you to transition from one medium to the other, from TV to the stage, say?

Morse: Well, I grew up in theater. It’s what I did first and I really, really love it, but after I did How I Learned to Drive [1997-98, Off Broadway], I didn’t do another play for 10 years. It was just at a period when it was too much on my family and my wife. So I went 10 years and was sort of despairing that I would be forgotten, and then The Seafarer came along.

There were things I had to sort of relearn when I did Seafarer. Things that I felt I knew because I’d been on stage a lot, but Conor McPherson, who directed it, actually called me out on it at one point. He said, We’re not doing a movie. We don’t have the intimacy of a film or television. I started realizing there was not just a vocal language to this but a body language, and it was hard. But he gave me a little kick in the pants and it was good he did, and since then I’ve been conscious of that.

Deadline: You live in Philadelphia. What are the logistics of that, working in this business?

Morse: They get a place for me to stay in New York. I get to go home one day a week and see my wife. Part of the problem when I was doing How I Learned to Drive is I would see my kids one night a week for six months and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the ’94 Northridge earthquake.

Deadline: What can you tell us about the Showtime series Escape at Dannemora, directed by Ben Stiller? It’s based on the real life 2015 prison escape in upstate New York…

Morse: No one had ever successfully escaped from that prison and the way they did it was just fantastic and phenomenal, and you’ll see that in this miniseries. You can’t believe what these guys did to get out of there. Benicio del Toro and Paul Dano play the two prisoners who escaped, and Patricia Arquette is playing the woman who was in a very physical relationship with these guys and helped them escape. I play a corrections officer who worked there and helped them escape but didn’t know that he was helping. He actually went to prison for it. He got out recently. He did not want to talk. I offered.

Ben Stiller directed all the episodes, which was amazing. Herculean. I mean, holy crow. I’ll say it again, it was herculean. The story does not make the prison system in Dannemora look very good, or the governor look very good, and they could’ve just shut us out and not let us anywhere near the real prison, but [Governor Andrew Cuomo] wisely allowed us to do that and had his story and the whole thing told. He let us actually shoot inside the prison, which is a fantastic place. I mean, fantastic as in visually fantastic.

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Few television series — especially those just unspooling their long-awaited ninth season — would be bold enough to trade on the concept that absolutely nothing has changed over the intervening years. Characters grow, situations change. But Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is not just any television series.

Six years after the HBO series wrapped its eighth season, Hollywood’s favorite malcontent is back, and he’s the exact same curmudgeon audiences love (and his friends love to hate). The Larry David of “Curb” doesn’t evolve, and never learns, and HBO has even made that the backbone of the show’s marketing campaign: This season’s official trailer literally boasts that “nothing has changed.”

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Amanda Waller has always been at the heart of Suicide Squad – but now that’s about to change. Suicide Squad #11 ended on a cliffhanger; Waller’s legacy is crumbling around her, a renegade Squader is striving to destroy everything she’s built, and – most shocking of all – the issue ended with Waller shot in the heart. It was a suitably dramatic opening for Rob Williams’ “Burning Down The House.”

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