Filipina Acting Star Lovi Poe Launches Production Company C’Est Lovi Productions

The first trailer for Tyler Perry's upcoming Netflix drama,  is finally here. Set in the 1940s Deep South, the film follows star-crossed lovers Bayou and Leanne, whose forbidden love is the backdrop for 40 years of secrets and lies. «That was our first kiss,» Bayou says in the trailer.

season 2? You're in luck! Netflix has announced the second season of its follow-up series, , that will update viewers on where everyone ended up — including who's still together and who's not. The new season, which will consist of three 45-minute episodes, will drop Friday, Sept.

K.J. Yossman Baby Cow are the production company behind some of the U.K.’s best-loved comedy shows, including “Gavin and Stacey” with James Corden and Ruth Jones, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s “The Mighty Boosh” and “This Time With Alan Partridge” starring Steve Coogan as the cringe-worthy fictional television host. It was a prescient Coogan who founded Baby Cow alongside producer Henry Normal in 1998, long before talent-led production companies were a thing.

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Lee (Our Man from Jersey) is set to co-produce and star in the darkly comedic thriller Samson, from director Ruth Du (The Deadliest Lie). She’ll be joined in the indie’s ensemble by Will Brittain (Blow the Man Down), Emilio Garcia Sanchez (The Society) and newcomer Ryan Dance.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed the Emmy-winning husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Bryan Storkel and Amy Bandlien Storkel, as well as their non-scripted production company, Sidestilt Films.

Love Island USA is heating up!

Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay the “House of Cards” production company, MRC, $31 million after it was determined he breached his contract and was fired for alleged sexual misconduct.

Netflix has debuted the trailer for their new romantic comedy, Love in the Villa.

Netflix is previewing what might be the most awkward dating show yet.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen a rom-com clicks, that usually means it’s firing on both cylinders: romance and comedy. The sparks fly, the jokes tickle, the situations swirl. But then there’s the sort of comfort-food rom-com-of-the-week like “Wedding Season.” It features a couple of highly appealing actors, Pallavi Sharda and Suraj Sharma, in the tale of two sexy assimilated Indian Americans from Jersey City who are doing all they can to escape their parents’ legacy of arranged-marriage traditionalism.The movie has jokes, like the barbed insults the two exchange when they meet at a diner for cheeseburgers and sloppy fries after learning that their folks signed them up on the same dating app.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorAfter nine seasons on the hit TV series “The Blacklist,” actor Amir Arison’s next step is starring on Broadway in “The Kite Runner.” Which is pretty surprising for a guy who’d decided he was done with theater.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“I didn’t want to do much stage anymore,” Arison recalled on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast. Prior to “The Blacklist,” he’d appeared in several Off Broadway productions, but, he says, “I remember just depleting myself completely and not [being] sure if the rewards outweighed the toll.”The opportunity to star in “The Kite Runner” first came to Arison in the weeks before “The Blacklist” had been picked up for its 10th season, so he was low-key looking for a job.

Greg James shared his hilarious Love Island final message that got rejected by ITV bosses and it's not hard to see why.The BBC Radio 1 host said he is "not expecting the call next year" after his first attempt at a good luck message to Davide Sanclimenti and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu was declined. And now, the presenter has taken to social media to share his failed first attempt in an extremely amusing clip in which he joked "was rejected’" after he mocked Andrew’s ‘t*tgate’ He enthusiastically said: "I’m so excited for the Love Island final I can lick my own t*t… or whatever." The star continued: "Good luck to the finalists, particularly Davide and Ekin-Su.