Adam McKay To Host & Produce Basketball-Meets-Politics Podcast ‘Death At The Wing’

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the production company behind Netflix’s hit drama Narcos, is lining up its next trip south of the border.The company, which also produces Amazon original El Presidente, is developing Spanish-language drama series Los Últimos Análogos (w/t).

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with PTSD who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.Subscribe to

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBarcelona’s Gadea Films, co-producer of Laura Herrero Garvin’s Mexico City-set documentary “La Mami,” a hit at IDFA, is reaching across the Atlantic once more, linking to Colombia’s Rara Colectivo Audiovisual on the production of Cordelia Alegre’s “La Unión.”Put through this year’s Screen-Incubator at the Madrid Film School (ECAM), “La Unión” marks yet another feature debut from a Barcelona-based female director, this time a fiction film.“La Unión”

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsStar Trek star Gates McFadden is no stranger to exploring new planets and galaxies as Dr.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAMC has ordered a stop-motion animation dramedy that hails from Steve Conrad and the team at “Robot Chicken” producer Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.The series is titled “Mega City Smiths.” The story, unfolding via the stop-motion animation of baby dolls repurposed as a grown-up cast of characters, hinges on an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of fictional metropolis Mega City’s most famous magnate.

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Imperative Entertainment is set to launch its first podcast in both English and Spanish. The Red Note/La Nota Roja will debut Sept.

Sony Music has tapped director Adam McKay, actor David Tennant and several other personalities for podcasts as it looks to build out its audio offerings. The record label revealed Wednesday during the IAB Podcast Upfronts that it plans to release nearly 40 new shows this year.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After playing Magic Johnson for Adam McKay in his upcoming HBO Los Angeles Lakers series, Rob Morgan is now ready to join McKay’s next feature film as the veteran actor is set to join Jennifer Lawrence in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up.

After breaking out on popular Hulu series Normal People, Daisy Edgar-Jones has been tapped to star in the filmFresh. The Legendary project will be the feature directorial debut of Mimi Cave, a music video veteran who has worked withVance Joy, Danny Brown and Tune-Yards, among others.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerDaisy Edgar-Jones, one of the stars on Hulu’s breakout drama, Normal People, has signed on as the lead in the Legendary social thriller Fresh, from screenwriter Lauryn Kahn and first time feature director Mimi Cave.Details about the film’s storyline are being kept under wraps.Legendary acquired the project earlier this year with Hyperobject Industries’ Adam McKay and Kevin Messick attached to produce.

Dave McNary Film Reporter“Normal People” star Daisy Edgar-Jones has signed on for the lead role in Legendary’s social thriller “Fresh.”The project is based on Lauryn Kahn’s script with Mimi Cave directing. Legendary, which announced the Edgar-Jones casting on Tuesday, is keeping the film’s storyline under wraps.

Mexico.”But the Mexico City dance hall, like other bars and nightclubs, has been fully or partially shuttered for more than five months due to the coronavirus pandemic and its owners say they are in debt and may have to close and demolish it.Patrons, some of whom show up in the zoot suits of the 1940s, say the loss to the city's social and cultural life would be irreparable.