‘Constellation’: Euro Team Behind Apple TV+’s Space Drama Talk Almost Casting Jeff Bridges, Zero Gravity Shooting & $270,000 Space Suits — Seriencamp

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has turned to the producers of Emmy-winner 9/11: One Day In America to tell the story of the Vietnam War.

Addie Morfoot Contributor In “Porcelain War,” U.S.-based director Brendan Bellomo and Ukraine-based artist-director Slava Leontyev worked together to tell the story of porcelain artists whose lives are turned upside down by the terrors of the war in Ukraine. The film follows Leontyev and fellow artists Anya Stasenko and Andrey Stefanov, who all opt to help their countries fight off the Russian invasion. Despite daily shelling, Stasenko finds resistance and purpose in her art, Stefanov takes the dangerous journey to get his young family to safety abroad, and Leontyev becomes a weapons instructor for regular people who have become unlikely soldiers.

Editors Note: This review was originally published September 1, 2023 after the film’s world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The movie was originally to be released in December 2023 by 20th Century Studios before being derailed by the Hollywood strikes. Focus Features is now distributing and released it in theaters Friday.

In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo goes on a joyride with one of the stars of “The Bikeriders.” The film follows the members of a Chicago-area biker gang from their innocent inception in the 1960s to their descent into a darker underworld.

Jeff Nichols’ newest film, The Bikeriders, has some true elements to it. Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Norman Reedus, Boyd Holbrook, Toby Wallace and more have finally hit the big screen after a new distribution deal and release date postponed the movie’s release in 2023. Butler stars in the film as Benny, a man who loves motorcycles and finds himself drawn to the Chicago Vandals, a club of bikers that frequently gathers to drive around and be in community.

The “space race” of the 1950s and 60s conjures images of the gleaming Sputnik satellite, Soviet scientists in crisp white coats and sharp-nosed rockets rising into the sky with fiery splendor. But, the reality of the USSR’s space program — which narrowly beat the US to send the first man to space — was far more down-to-earth writes John Strausbaugh in his new book, “The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned” (out now, PublicAffairs). Strausbaugh paints an amusing portrait of rockets and spacecrafts held together with little more than bubblegum and shoe strings — and tight-lipped publicity campaigns. In this excerpt, he writes of Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian cosmonaut sent into space. On the morning of April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin fell out of the sky onto a quilt of farmland growing wheat and rye in the Russian village of Smelovka.

The Struts have announced ‘The Grand Union’ UK and European tour with Barns Courtney – check out all details below.The Derby band are now gearing up to tour in the UK this September, where they’ll be stopping by cities such as Leeds, Manchester, and Newcastle before finishing their tour with a show at London’s Roundhouse on October 6.From there, they’ll also be visiting European cities like Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Prague, with the EU leg of their tour concluding at Milan’s Fabrique on the 21st.The Struts will also be bringing Aylesbury’s Barns Courtney as their special guest for their UK/EU tour. Courtney has previously toured with the band for their headline American tour for their fourth album, ‘Pretty Vicious‘.Speaking about the tour, frontman Luke Spiller shared: “We are really looking forward to getting back out and bringing our best show to date alongside our longterm friend and partner in rock, Barns Courtney.

Lionel Messi has inspired millions of children around the world with dreams of becoming soccer stars. Including his oldest son Thiago, who he shares with Antonela Roccuzzo. The young athlete has already begun to carve his own path in the competitive sport.

Agnieszka Holland, who won the special jury prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival for her film Green Border about refugees on the Polish-Belarussian border, believes it serves as “collective psychotherapy” for those affected by the situation.

Jon Burlingame Dorsay Alavi spent nearly 20 years following jazz great Wayne Shorter with a camera before she was ready to unveil her three-hour Amazon Prime documentary, “Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity.” The 12-time Grammy winner was one of jazz’s most acclaimed composers and saxophone players. He died last year at the age of 89. “Wayne was just one of those people that invited you into his life,” Alavi tells Variety.

Selome Hailu After a fourth-month, worldwide search, the Amazon Prime Video drama “House of David” has found its cast of biblical figures. Michael Iskander will lead the series as David. The Egyptian American actor is best known for originating the role of Aaron in “Kimberly Akimbo,” which in 2023 won the Tony Award for Best Musical.

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the third and final season of Sweet Tooth on Netflix.

In a scene worthy of one of his animated works, Terry Gillam took to a stage covered in crashed paper planes at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Sunday to receive its honorary Cristal award and give a masterclass about his animated works.

Glen Powell is opening up about casting Adria Arjona in their new movie Hit Man!

Elizabeth Banks has one of her best roles to date in A Mistake, the New Zealand-set medical drama that had its world premiere Friday night at the Tribeca Festival.

Raising two young boys as a single dad is a hard task for anyone, but Jeff Brazier has gone above and beyond. When his ex-partner Jade Goody passed away in 2009 to cervical cancer, Jeff was granted sole custody of sons Bobby and Freddie, 19, and the trio have shared an unbreakable bond ever since. But one thing's for sure, the 45 year old - who split from Jade in 2004, five years before her death - has never shied away from encouraging his sons to talk about their mum.

Terry Gilliam hasn’t shot a movie since 2018’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a film that took him nearly 30 years to make. So let’s call the seven years between that movie and Gilliam’s upcoming “The Carnival At The End Of Days” a well-deserved break.

Netflix fans are obsessed with a new crime drama starring Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

K.J. Yossman Writer and director Gene Fallaize, who helmed Kevin Spacey’s first post-acquittal feature “Control,” has set his next project, a thriller titled “Nightmares.” Written by Fallaize, the film is based on a “true story that became the basis one of the greatest horror movies of all time, following a journalist attempting to uncover the truth behind several unexplained deaths,” according to the synopsis. Casting is already underway with the film scheduled to begin production in London and L.A.

Who could imagine Suits without Donna?