Doug Liman Set To Direct Series Adaptation Of Bill Browder’s Russian Corruption Book ‘Red Notice’

Filmmaker James Gray (“The Lost City of Z”), who was most recently behind the Brad Pitt-led sci-fi film “Ad Astra,” is turning his sights toward a more grounded dramatic series for his next effort. Gray will be writing and directing a show based on the life of famed writer Norman Mailer, the celebrated and controversial author of such books as “The Executioner’s Song” and “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections On The Hipster.” Deadline reports that Gray’s series will be called “Mailer,” adding that the new project is based on the author J.

EXCLUSIVE: Billie Piper, star of series such as Doctor Who and Penny Dreadful, has landed her next TV gig.

On the heels of the success of HBO Max’s post-apocalyptic limited series Station Eleven, created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel, Somerville and St. John Mandel Mandel are teaming up for series adaptations of Mandel’s most recent book, The Glass Hotel, and her upcoming novel Sea of Tranquility.

Photos have emerged from the set of Tom Holland‘s upcoming Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room!

Apple TV+ has handed a nine-episode series order to Dark Matter, an adaptation of Blake Crouch’s acclaimed sci-fi novel, with Joel Edgerton attached to star and executive produce and author Crouch to serve as writer and showrunner. Matt Tolmach (Jumanji franchise) also will executive produce and Sony Pictures Television will produce for Apple TV+.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple is adapting the Blake Crouch novel “Dark Matter” as a series with Joel Edgerton set to star, Variety has learned.The nine-episode series will follow Jason Dessen (Edgerton), a physicist, professor, and family man who – one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago – is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the multiverse of lives he could have lived.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Season 2 of “Encuentros,” the weekly podcast co-produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna’s La Corriente del Golfo and streamer, MUBI, bows Wednesday, March 30 with the first episode featuring Chilean actress Antonia Zegers and Oscar-winning Mexican production designer Eugenio Caballero in conversation.In this episode titled “A Collective Memory,” Caballero and Zegers will discuss their experiences and takeaways from more than two decades of work in their respective fields.Zegers’ credits include Pablo Larrain’s “The Club,” Sebastian Lelio’s Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman” and Lucia Puenzo’s gender abuse thriller series, “La Jauria,” produced by Larrain’s Fabula. Caballero became the first Mexican production designer to receive an Oscar for art direction, thanks to Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” in 2007.  He has also worked on Alfonso Cuaron’s triple Oscar-winning “Roma,” J.A.

Big Brother star Lateysha Grace has been rushed back to hospital as her baby was struggling to breathe.The 29 year old Welsh reality TV star gave birth to baby daughter Layke when she was just 34 weeks old. And after noticing a change in her breathing patterns, Lateysha realised their could be a problem with her daughter, especially as she suffered with preeclampsia during pregnancy. Racing back to A&E with her tiny tot, the social media beauty, who also has another daughter called Wynter, posted a series of videos on her Instagram page detailing the changing situation.

A live-action feature adaptation of Voltron, co-written and to be directed by Red Notice‘s Rawson Marshall Thurber, has sparked a bidding war among both studios and streamers, Deadline can confirm.

Keith Lemon’s has confirmed Channel 4’s Fantastical Factory of Curious Craft has been axed after just one series. Keith was drafted in to present the Channel 4 series alongside Naked Attraction’s Anna Richardson, where contestants had to try and impress celebrity guests and convince them to buy their crafts. Famous faces to pop up included Nick Grimshaw, Eamonn Holmes and Martin Kemp.

Sydney Sweeney, 24, was absolutely beautiful in a pale blue bathing suit while promoting her new SOL by Jergens self-tanner on Thursday March 17. The actress was all smiles while she relaxed on a tropical beach in the sexy small bikini while holding a bottle of the new product in the new photos, which you can see here, on her Instagram. She wrote that she was “SO EXCITED to announce this partnership” with Jergens and officially be a SOLmate.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDomenico Procacci’s Fandango, the Rome shingle that originated the “Gomorrah” and “My Brilliant Friend” skeins, will be at Series Mania’s Co-Pro Pitching Forum with “The Impossible She,” about Neapolitan aristocrat Maria Teresa de Filippis who during the 1950s became the world’s first female Formula 1 driver.The only Italian project selected for these pitches, “The Impossible She” germinated from a collaboration between young director Lorenzo Sportiello –– whose credits include Netflix’s Italian original “Summertime” –– and documaker Simone Manetti who both worked with prominent screenwriter Federica Pontremoli (“We Have a Pope”). Sportiello and Manetti will each direct several of the show’s eight episodes.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Jodie Comer is to star in a series based on Jen Beagin’s upcoming book Big Swiss.

EXCLUSIVE: CCH Pounder (NCIS: New Orleans, Avatar), The Crown star Jason Watkins and Killing Eve’s Fiona Shaw have rounded out the cast for Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming big-budget adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys.

EXCLUSIVE: Ruby Stokes, who plays Francesca Bridgerton in the hit Netflix period romp, is to lead the cast of the streamer’s latest book adaptation.

EXCLUSIVE: Meg Ryan is set to direct a feature adaptation of well-received novel A Lady’s Guide To Selling Out for Netflix.

Christie Brinkley is staying young and soaking up the sun! The 68-year-old model shared a stunning Instagram shot of herself on the Caribbean beach on Sunday, taking in the bright sun at a gorgeous tropical locale. Christie was photographed walking along the beach and taking a small dip in the ocean, showing off her stunning physique in a baby blue-colored one piece swimsuit. “Grateful!” the mom-of-three captioned the post, as she also featured a sun hat hanging around her neck and kept the rays at bay with sunglasses.

Dick Cavett has been named as the recipient of Writers Guild of America, East’s Evelyn F. Burkey Award for 2022. Late Night’s Seth Meyers will present the late night host, comedian and writer with the honor at the virtual WGA Awards ceremony taking place on March 20.