EXCLUSIVE: Neal McDonough (The Flash) and Casey Cott (Riverdale) will headline the sports drama Black Spartans, written and to be directed by Ben Cory Jones (Insecure), which is heading into production in Atlanta this fall.
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EXCLUSIVE: Griffin Dunne (This Is Us), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Richard Benjamin (Michael Crichton’s Westworld), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why) and James Norton (Little Women) will lead the cast of an as-yet-untitled film from writer-director Noah Pritzker (Quitters).
Others joining the ensemble include Eisa Davis (Mare of Easttown), Marcia Jean Kurtz (If Beale Street Could Talk), John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos), Lou Taylor Pucci (You), Echo Kellum (Grand Crew), Ian Owens (Shrill), Pedro Fontaine (Spider), Simon Van Buyten (Chaussée d’Amour), Nate Mann (Licorice Pizza), Zora Casebere (On the Rocks) and Rachel Zeiger-Haag (Monsterland).
The film from Play Book Productions and Pimienta Films—marking Pritzker’s follow-up to the 2015 dramedy, Quitters—will center on Dunne’s character, Peter Pearce. Overwhelmed by his pending divorce from Maria (Arquette) and the declining health of his father (Benjamin), Peter plans a getaway to Tulum, insistent he knows nothing of his sons’ (Heizer and Norton) plans to be there at the same time for a bachelor party.
The film shooting on location in Tulum and New York City was cast by Emmy nominee Douglas Aibel (The Staircase). Academy Award winner Bruce Cohen (American Beauty) will produce through his company Play Book Productions, alongside Nicolás Celis of Pimienta Films (Birds of Passage) and Alexandra Byer of Rathaus Films (De Lo Mio).
Dunne is an Oscar-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor and filmmaker recently seen playing Nicky Pearson on NBC’s This Is Us, and on Prime Video’s Goliath. Also coming up for the multi-hyphenate is the drama Junction with Sophia Bush, Michaela Conlin and Jamie Chung.
Arquette is an Emmy nominee who starred alongside Dunne in Martin Scorsese’s After
EXCLUSIVE: Neal McDonough (The Flash) and Casey Cott (Riverdale) will headline the sports drama Black Spartans, written and to be directed by Ben Cory Jones (Insecure), which is heading into production in Atlanta this fall.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe New York component of this fall’s consciousness-raising Global Citizen Festival will bring together artists as stylistically diverse as Mariah Carey, Metallica, Maneskin, Rosalia, Mickey Guyton, Charlie Puth and the Jonas Brothers — with a “bonus Jonas,” as it were, in the form of Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the activist who’ll host for the live audience in Central Park Sept. 24 as well as an ABC broadcast special the following night.The stars will shine as brightly far away from Manhattan, as well, in Accra, Ghana, where the other half of the event will go down — also on Sept.
The line-up for this year's Global Citizen Festival has been revealed with two line-ups split across two cities: New York and Ghana's capaital Accra. 2022 marks 10 years of Global Citizen, which this year is urging world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ahead of the G20 and COP27 to “invest $600 million into the future of women and girls, close the annual $10 billion climate financing shortfall, deliver $500 million to help African farmers respond to the global food crisis, and provide urgent relief from crushing debts to end extreme poverty now.” Read Next: SZA joins Doechii on “Persuasive” remix The Accra line-up for Global Citizen features Usher, SZA, Tems, Stormzy, H.E.R., Gyakie, Sarkodie, and Stonebwoy.
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new installment, titled “Big Sky: Deadly Trials,” sees newly appointed sheriff Beau Arlen (Jensen Ackles) joining the duo’s efforts to maintain order in town. But when a local backcountry trip led by likable outfitter Sunny Barnes (Reba McEntire) goes awry, the trio faces their most formidable mystery yet, and no camper is to be trusted.Most recently, Arquette finished filming a fun cameo role in Jason Woliner’s untitled Peacock series executive produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Caviar.
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