While he serenaded the country alongside his U2 bandmate The Edge on The Late Late Show on Friday night, it appears Bono has been working on another project.
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Musician Benjamin Earl Turner is among the cast set for Starz’ TV adaptation of Blindspotting, the feature film from Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs.
Turner is joined by Shameless actors Atticus Woodward and Jaylen Barron and Good Trouble’s Candace Nicholas-Lippman in the eight-part series. Casal will also reprise his character Miles in a recurring role for the series, while Justin Chu Cary will also reprise his role as Tin.
Produced by Lionsgate Television, the series starts production in Oakland
While he serenaded the country alongside his U2 bandmate The Edge on The Late Late Show on Friday night, it appears Bono has been working on another project.
Nearly 1.1 million voters in Georgia have already cast their ballots in the two Senate runoffs next month that will decide which party controls the upper chamber. Fast Facts Between mail ballots and early in-person votes, more than 1.12 million votes have been cast in the two January runoffs Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will face Democrats Rev.
Naman Ramachandran Deepa Mehta’s “Funny Boy” will no longer compete in the Academy Awards’ international feature film category and will instead be submitted for consideration in the best picture and general entry categories.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has informed “Funny Boy” producer Telefilm Canada that the film does not meet the Academy’s eligibility requirements for the international feature film category due to the amount of English dialogue in the film.“Although we
EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Animation has extended its relationship with Joel Crawford, director of The Croods: A New Age. The studio has made a first-look development and directing deal with Crawford, an animation vet, in a deal made by Margie Cohn, President, DreamWorks Animation. This comes after the Croods sequel was released in theaters and will be premiering on Premium VOD on Friday.
Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety has announced it will continue its multi-year partnership with Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival with Variety’s 93rd Academy Awards International Feature Shortlist Roundtable in 2021. The virtual panel will feature the director, writer or producer of the Oscars’ shortlisted International Feature Films and be moderated by Variety’s Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis.
HBO has ordered a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film Irma Vep with Alicia Vikander on board to star and exec produce.
UK Indie Pic Sets CastEXCLUSIVE: Crissy Rock, Paul Barber and Kayleigh-Paige Rees will lead the cast of UK indie movie Kate & Jake. The pic is being helmed by Jack McLoughlin, his feature debut, and is based on the filmmaker’s own experiences of love and loss.
Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Taraji P. Henson is making her feature directorial debut the Bron Studios’ drama Two-Faced in which she’ll also star.
link.“Milo was a gift for my 12-year-old granddaughter who is absolutely heartbroken.”Sadly, low welfare puppy dealers are increasingly using the pandemic as an excuse for the public not the meet puppies with their mothers.Milo was originally listed with a white puppy who was relisted on Gumtree just an hour after Milo was purchased, under another name and in another area.Scottish SPCA chief superintendent Mike Flynn said:“We are saddened to hear of Milo’s passing and our thoughts are with his
Jimmy Fallon and Andrew Rannells are saying “Good riddance” to 2020 with an epic musical.
I recently wrote "The Queen of Tuesday," a book largely about Lucille Ball, and my research uncovered something most fans would be scandalized by. Lucille Ball, the national icon most associated with wholesome 1950s America, got caught up in radical politics.
Itty bitty Daveed Diggs and a dwarf-sized dog are a double dose of Disney cuteness.
Continuing its effort to bolster stories from historically underrepresented communities, The Black List is teaming with MGM to launch a two-year feature film script writing partnership to discover new voices. The initiative is committed to identifying new writers who want to tell original stories with universal appeal for the big screen. The Black List founder Franklin Leonard revealed the news on CNBC on Thursday.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Blindspotting” series at Starz has cast several key roles as production kicks off in Los Angeles and Oakland, Variety has learned exclusively.Along with previously announced series lead Jasmine Cephas Jones, the eight-episode, half-hour dramedy will also star Benjamin Earl Turner, Atticus Woodward, Jaylen Barron, and Candace Nicholas-Lippman.
Christopher Vourlias Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons” will represent Belarus in the best international feature film race at the 2021 Oscars, Variety has learned.The WWII drama, which world premiered in the Panorama strand of the Berlin Film Festival this year, stars Nahuel Perez Biscayart (“Beats Per Minute”) as a Belgian Jew who narrowly avoids execution by a Nazi firing squad when he claims to be Persian.
Mark Ruffalo is amongst the many celebrities and fans, who took to social media to pay a heartbreaking tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who would have been 44 on November 29, 2020. The Black Panther star sadly passed away in August this year after a four year battle with colon cancer, as revealed by his family in a statement on Twitter."Thinking of your passion, love, and your light today, @ChadwickBoseman.
a range of measures to improve performance, say November's performance has been better. In October, although patients requiring ' category one' care - for life-threatening injuries and accidents - were responded to in an average of just over eight minutes, this was still above the seven-minute target and higher than last year's average.
Naman Ramachandran The Irish Film and Television Academy has selected Tom Sullivan’s Irish-language feature “Arracht” as Ireland’s entry for the 2021 Oscars’ best international feature film category.The film is set in 1845 on the eve of the Irish famine. Fisherman Colmán Sharkey takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest.
Also Read: 'The Last of Us' Voice Actor Says Josh Brolin Should Star in Upcoming HBO Series“Craig and Neil are visionaries in a league of their own,” Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO programming, said. “With them at the helm alongside the incomparable Carolyn Strauss, this series is sure to resonate with both die-hard fans of ‘The Last of Us’ games and newcomers to this genre-defining saga.
Peter White Television EditorHBO has given a series order to The Last of Us, the adaptation of the Playstation video game, from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin, video game creator Neil Druckmann and Game of Thrones exec producer Carolyn Strauss.The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television in association with PlayStation Productions, Word Games, and Naughty Dog.