Imogen Poots Joins Amazon Series ‘Outer Range’

EXCLUSIVE: CMA Entertainment, a boutique management firm with over 20 years’ experience in developing and managing talent, will acquire Prevail Artist Management, with Prevail principal Lori Kay joining as a talent manager and producer. With the move, CMA continues to grow its management team and expand its production arm.

Clayton Davis The line between film and television have been blurred for years. Some of us thought it would be one film that would force the call, but coincidentally, it seems to be five films that encapsulate Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” (or one really long movie, depending on where you stand) that forces the question of what constitutes an Oscars vs.

Will Packer Media has tapped Netflix’s Carolyn Newman as Head of Scripted Television and Production. Reporting to Alix Baudin, President of Will Packer Media, Newman will oversee the development and production of the company’s television projects.

Foo Fighters hit the stage for Amazon Prime Video’s “Holiday Plays”, a new holiday-themed musical series hosted by Lil Nas X.

Naomi Scott is starring in a new role!

EXCLUSIVE: Chloe Coleman has joined Sony Pictures’ sci-fi thriller 65, starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt and written and directed by A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods.

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific TV creator Matt Miller is extending his long relationship with Warner Bros. TV by renewing his exclusive overall deal with the studio. As part of the new pact, Miller will executive produce Peacemaker, HBO Max’s TV spin-off of James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad movie, starring John Cena. The eight-episode series hails from Gunn, producer Peter Safran and Warner Bros. TV.

Jon Bernthal has a new show in the works!

Marvel Boss Kevin Feige announced that the title of Peyton Reed’s third Ant-Man is Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, but also that Big Little Lies actress Kathryn Newton was joining as Cassie Lang. She’s the daughter of Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang and she has the same powers as her father: the ability to shrink and grow in size. She did get her powers long after her first exposure to Pym Particles. She has the superhero alias Stature.

The dark side of the Force will be returning to a galaxy far, far away with Thursday’s announcement that Hayden Christensen will be reprising the role of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the upcoming Disney+ series “Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi”, with Ewan McGregor back in the role of the iconic Jedi master.

The dark side of the Force will be returning to a galaxy far, far away with Thursday’s announcement that Hayden Christensen will be reprising the role of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the upcoming Disney+ series “Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi”, with Ewan McGregor back in the role of the iconic Jedi master.

“The most beautiful thing of all” is what Ewan McGregor called it today in an Obi Wan featurette today during Disney Investor Day about the return of Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader.

ViacomCBS Networks International president and CEO David Lynn is stepping down after 24 years with the company, while Raffaele Annecchino has been hired in his place.

Lewis Pullman, Noah Reid, Shaun Sipos and Isabel Arraiza join Josh Brolin and Imogen Poots in the Amazon series Outer Range. Pullman, Reid, Sipos, and Arraiza round out the cast of series regulars, alongside previously announced lead actors Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski and Tom Pelphrey.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Amazon series “Outer Range” has rounded out its main cast.Lewis Pullman, Noah Reid, Shaun Sipos, and Isabel Arraiza have all been cast in the series, Variety has learned.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDisney Plus’ vice president of nonfiction originals Dan Silver has exited the streamer for a new role at Netflix, Variety has confirmed.Silver will take on the role of director of documentary feature films at Netflix. He will report to Lisa Nishimura, vice president of independent film and documentary features.Silver has a long history at the Mouse House, having held roles at Disney Plus, Marvel Entertainment, ABC News Digital, and ESPN Films.

Imogen Pootshas been cast in the upcoming dramatic thriller Outer Range. She joins  Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski and Tom Pelphrey.

Lord of the Rings TV series at Amazon.The award-winning actor is one of 20 new names announced to be joining the cast, starring in the Amazon Original series currently filming in New Zealand.Cast members alongside Henry include Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Thusitha Jayasundera, and Fabian McCallum.Showrunners and executive producers J.D.

Amazon Studios has confirmed twenty additional cast members who have joined the streamer’s The Lord Of The Rings TV series, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels. Production on the sprawling drama, which was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, is currently underway in New Zealand. It resumed in late September.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHelen Hunt has signed on for a role in the upcoming “Blindspotting” series at Starz, Variety has learned.Hunt joins previously announced series lead Jasmine Cephas Jones, who is reprising the role of Ashley from the film on which the series is based. Variety exclusively reported yesterday that Benjamin Earl Turner, Atticus Woodward, Jaylen Barron, and Candace Nicholas-Lippman will also star in the eight-episode, half-hour dramedy.“Blindspotting” centers on Ashley (Cephas