‘Going Places’: Stampede Ventures Dark Comedy Adds Alysia Reiner, Mimi Kennedy & Miranda Rae Mayo

EXCLUSIVE: Jackson Pictures & Stampede Ventures teamed up to land The Debriefing, a spec script by Black Hawk Down scribe Ken Nolan based on the Robert Littell novel. They will fast track the thriller, and the plan is to get into production next year and the script will be put on submission to directors immediately.

The Netflix dark comedy “Strangers,” inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Strangers On a Train,” has added a slew of new actors to its lineup: Austin Abrams (“Dash & Lily,” “Chemical Hearts”), Alisha Boe (“13 Reasons Why”), Talia Ryder (“West Side Story,” “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”), Paris Berelc (“Hubie Halloween,” “Alexa & Katie”), Jonathan Daviss (“Outer Banks”), Maia Reficco (“Next To Normal,” “Evita,” “Kally’s Mashup”) and Ava Capri (“Love, Victor”).The new cast members join

Austin Abrams, Alisha Boe, Talia Ryder, Paris Berelc, Jonathan Daviss, Maia Reficco and Ava Capri  have joined the Netflix dark comedy Strangers. They join Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Rish Shah and Sophie Turner in the pic which will be directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Robinson also co-wrote the script along with Celeste Ballard.

And BabyJake has come through with something DIFFERENT!

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticA year ago, HBO’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” emerged as something truly special — a true-crime series with a sense of probing curiosity that extended beyond the lurid. Based on the work of the late writer Michelle McNamara, the series achieved a sort of double feat.

The relationship between a patient and his therapist takes a dark and twisted turn in the new Apple TV+ series “The Shrink Next Door” with Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd.

Whether she’s strutting on stage for RuPaul’s Drag Race or making a guest appearance on America’s Got Talent, there’s no question that Alyssa Edwards knows how to serve a look. 

Co-stars of Yorgos Lanthimos’ morbid and borderline misanthropic “The Lobster” Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell are set to reunite, rather appropriately, in the latest film from Todd Solondz: “Love Child,” recently announced for the upcoming Cannes virtual market. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is touted as a “dark and hilarious twist” on the classic Oedipus story, as a precocious child plans to rid himself of his brutish father so he can have his mother all to himself.

EXCLUSIVE: Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks) has signed on to star in The Crusades, a dramatic comedy from writer-director Leo Milano, which will shoot in Chicago this month.

HBO is developing a new half-hour series from “The Daily Show’s” Jaboukie Young-White and Issa Rae, the premium cable channel said Thursday.Inspired by the book “The Gang’s All Queer: the Lives of Gay Gang Members” by criminologist Vanessa R.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJaboukie Young-White is set to develop the book “The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members” by Vanessa R. Panfil at HBO with Issa Rae attached as an executive producer.In the half-hour series, a closeted twenty-something in Chicago, grieving a gang-related death, ditches college to find reckless closure.Young-White will write and executive produce the project.

HBO has put in development a half-hour series based on Vanessa R. Panfil’s book The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members, from Jaboukie Young-White (The Daily Show) and Issa Rae and her Hoorae productions.

Lin-Manuel Miranda has done it again! Again!The “Hamilton” creator’s blissful new movie “In the Heights,” which is based on his Tony Award-winning 2008 musical, is the best film of the year so far. It’s also easily the best movie-musical since the Oscar-winning “Chicago” from way back in 2003.

Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda couldn’t be happier about the return of Broadway.

British actress Anya Taylor-Joy has been having a bit of a hot streak lately with her massively popular Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the Edgar Wright horror film “Last Night In Solo” coming out later this year, reunited with “The Witch” director Robert Eggers for his Viking epic “The Northman,” and was recently tapped to play a young Furiosa in George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.” Now, Taylor-Joy is looking to join the comedic thriller “The Menu” for director Mark

Taylor-Joy will play a woman who travels with her boyfriend to an exclusive restaurant on a remote island to sample a serving menu from an acclaimed chef played by Fiennes. Mylod, who has directed episodes of hit HBO series like “Succession” and “Game of Thrones,” will direct from a BlackList-selected script by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy.