Alfre Woodard Boards ‘The Porter’ CBC/BET+ Railway Worker Series

Alan Cumming had some choice words when asked to join “Harry Potter”.

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has set its first scripted Canadian Amazon Original series, The Lake. Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black), Julia Stiles (Hustlers, The Bourne Identity) and Madison Shamoun (#blackAF, Black-ish) star in the half-hour comedy, produced by Amaze (Carter). Set in cottage country, it will film in northern Ontario from August to September for a 2022 launch on Prime Video.

Cocktail star Bryan Brown and War & Peace’s Greta Scacchi are to play two strangers trekking on the road in the Australian outback in a new Australian drama series.

When AppleTV+ launched in the early winter/late fall of 2019, one of their biggest flagship shows was “See,” a post-apocalyptic thriller starring Jason Momoa, about a world where most people have gone blind or partially blind and live in primitive tribes.

When AppleTV+ launched in the early winter/late fall of 2019, one of their biggest flagship shows was “See,” a post-apocalyptic thriller starring Jason Momoa, about a world where most people have gone blind or partially blind and live in primitive tribes.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Killing Eve” writer Isis Davis is on board the first project out of “Tehran” executive producer Julien Leroux’s new company, Paper Entertainment.Drama “Your Eyes” is in development at Paper, with Davis set to serve as writer.

third in the line of succession to the British crown.The animated series features an all-star cast who lent their voices to characters living in Buckingham Palace.Janetti, 55, stars in the series as the fictionalized George.

Joaquin Phoenix has undergone another physical transformation for a role.

EXCLUSIVE:  A busy week here for Judy Greer. Earlier we reported that she was starring in the indie film LA Bound, and today we hear she will play Mrs. G. in the Nicholas Ma directed feature Mabel. 

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorOctavia Spencer has joined “Right to Try,” a documentary short about an HIV cure treatment trial, as a producer through her production company Orit Entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter’s What If? from Orion Pictures has set Eva Reign, Abubakr Ali and Renee Elise Goldsberry to star in Porter’s feature directorial debut which begins production today in Pittsburgh, PA. Courtnee Carter, Kelly Lamor Wilson, and Grant Reynolds round out the cast. 

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaKevin Lewis will follow up “Willy’s Wonderland” by directing “The Accursed,” a new horror movie about demonic possession that its creators predict will be like if “Sam Raimi and Dario Argento had a love child and James Wan was its uncle.”Mena Suvari (“American Beauty”), Sarah Grey (Netflix’s “The Order” and DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow”), and Alexis Knapp (“Pitch Perfect” franchise) head up the cast, which also includes Meg Foster (“The Lords of Salem”)

Scarlett Johansson was brought to tears over Ever Anderson playing a younger version of Natasha Romanoff in Black Widow.

Alfre Woodard will star in the first season of BET+ and CBC’s “The Porter”.

Prince George won't go to boarding school full-time like his dad, a royal commentator says. Kate Middleton and Prince William set tongues wagging when they began scoping out new schools and possible homes in the Berkshire area earlier this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Bear Grylls’ production company The Natural Studios, the JV with Banijay, has set Escape From Pretoria director Francis Annan to helm its first scripted movie, a contemporary reworking of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Lebogang Mashiane has been discharged from hospital