‘Godfather Of Harlem’: Rome Flynn Expanding Notorious Drug Lord Frank Lucas’ Origin Story In Season 4

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s Chicago Fire will welcome a new chief when Season 13 premieres and it’s not who was teased in last season’s finale—they’re shaking things up.

Tony Mordente, who made his mark on Broadway as a dancer and choreographer, played the hot-headed Jet named Action in the 1961 film West Side Story and later segued into a long and busy career as a director of such TV series as Family Ties, Walker Texas Ranger and 7th Heaven, died June 12 in Henderson, Nevada, following a brief illness. He was 88.

commented on Variety’s post Tuesday.“An incredibly talented and professional actress and then there’s Kim Kardashian,” another wrote.“It’s disappointing to see the continued focus on celebrity culture over substantive conversations in the entertainment industry. There are countless talented actors deserving of recognition beyond the realm of tabloid headlines,” a third critic shared. Now, the outlet’s editor-in-chief is clarifying what happened behind the scenes.

Lionsgate Television is developing the series The Envoy based on the June 2024 Vanity Fair article “Take No Prisoners” from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Adam Ciralsky.

EXCLUSIVE: Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran, is ready to tell her story in a big way.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Eternal City’s glitterati celebrated Sofia Coppola on Wednesday at an American Academy in Rome gala in the 17th century Villa Aurelia on Janiculum Hill. The Oscar-winning director of “Lost in Translation,” “Marie Antoinette,” “Bling Ring” and, most recently, “Priscilla” was honored with a McKim Medal that “marks the profound relationship between Italy and the United States and recognizes the works of individuals who have contributed to the intense artistic and humanistic dialogue between the two nations,” as a statement put it.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “13-foot tall Black Man in Oakland.” That’s how “I’m a Virgo” creator Boots Riley pitched his latest show to actor Jharrel Jerome. “This is the wildest title to an email I’ve seen. I don’t know what he’s talking about,” Jerome tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast.

North West is sharing her take on mom Kim Kardashian‘s acting skills.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Countless stories have been told about the male-dominated culture of drug kingpins such as Pablo Escobar and Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, but little has been written about female Columbian drug lord Griselda Blanco. “Every story you’ve ever heard about Griselda is that she’s a demon and monster, but it’s never that simple,” says “Griselda” executive producer and showrunner Eric Newman.

Kim Kardashian‘s acting resume will feature a second collaboration with Ryan Murphy, and we just got some big details about the project!

K.J. Yossman Last month Eddie Marsan faced a happy dilemma: two high-profile projects in which he co-stars –Apple TV+ series “Franklin” led by Michael Douglas and Sam Taylor Johnson’s highly-anticipated Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black” – were both being released on the same day, April 12, in Marsan’s native U.K. (“Back to Black came out in the U.S.

Netflix’s Seine-set Shark thriller Under Paris could be taken off the platform within days of its release on June 5 due to legal proceedings brought by a writer-director who claims it was developed without his knowledge from an original idea he registered with France’s rights management body SACD in 2011.

opened up to the “Today” show about the incident. Although he turned himself in on Feb. 1, he was allegedly in possession of the substances a year ago on Feb.

Derek Lawrence After spending more than a decade of their lives spearheading the phenomenon that was HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” David Benioff and D.B. Weiss weren’t necessarily in a rush to return to the world of adaptation. Neither had taken the quick plunge into Liu Cixin’s Chinese science-fiction epic “The Three-Body Problem” when the proposal of a series was first presented to them, despite it already sitting unread on Weiss’ Kindle.

Editors note: Running until the final general election results come in, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Deadline’s political editor Ted Johnson and executive editor Dominic Patten, the podcast features commentary and interviews with top lawmakers and entertainment figures. At the same time, you can follow all the news in the Biden & Trump rematch and more on the ElectionLine hub on Deadline.

hit with sexual assault allegations, according to reports. Depardieu, 75, dined at an outside table at Harry’s Bar with two women Tuesday afternoon when the infamous Rino Barillari, 79, allegedly snapped photos at the Via Veneto-located cafe.A columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica, Gianni Riotta, who was present when the alleged attack took place, claimed that Barillari had been asked multiple times to stop taking photos, according to The New York Times.As the famed photographer went to leave the bar, one of the women sitting with the French film star, Magda Vavrusova, allegedly followed Barillari into the street while shouting at him.Depardieu then reportedly confronted Barillari “and hit him, hit him, hit him.”“There was a lot of blood,” Riotta said.Magda Vavrusova’s lawyer, Delphine Meillet, told the outlet that Barillari had “violently pushed” her, touching her chest with his arm, before the attack and that Depardieu was defending her when he fell and “slid” into the Messaggero newspaper photographer.

CANNES – The “Anora” in Sean Baker’s latest creation is actually the birth name of Ani (Mikey Madison), a private dancer who works in a pretty nice strip club in New York City. Sure, the hours ain’t ideal, and there’s that long subway ride back to the rundown duplex she shares with her sister in Brighton Beach, but she’s not complaining.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The Mediterrane Film Festival, held in the Maltese capital of Valletta, returns for its second edition between June 22-30 with a revamped programming structure led by new artistic director Teresa Cavina. The inaugural Golden Bee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema will be awarded to British filmmaker Mike Leigh, following last year’s Memorandum of Understanding between the British and Malta’s film commission to enhance the collaboration between the countries’s screen industries.

Carlos Aguilar The lasagna-obsessed feline with a near-pathological aversion to Mondays, who first came into popular consciousness in the late ‘70s as a comic strip, is a diluted version of himself in “The Garfield Movie.” Not only is his suave apathy mostly replaced by an excessive excitedness with only sporadic glimpses of his endearingly negative qualities, but this Garfield jumps off trains, stages a heist, and is subjected to trite physical comedy by way of numerous predictable action sequences. The ordeal mimics a rehashed plot from the dull “The Secret Life of Pets” franchise with Garfield forcefully plugged in.

Emmerdale star Amy Walsh has got her trip off to a good start as she ditched the UK with her actress sister as they rpepare to support their Girls Aloud star sibling Kimberley Walsh.