Irvine Welsh Talks Adapting ‘Crime’ For BritBox & How ‘American Tabloid’ Will Focus On National Enquirer

Like a crude and profane marriage between “Falling Down” and “Joker,” movies about aggrieved and disenfranchised American white men seemingly justified with their rage about a cruel and unfair world, director Derrick Borte’s reminiscent revenge thriller “Unhinged” is deeply misguided. “Unhinged” wants to map a similar Venn diagram sweet spot where the Worst Day Ever ™, a cruel lack of empathy, and selfish incivility trigger a point-of-no-return path to unholy violence and retribution.

Daniel Kaluuya is heading to Netflix!

HBO is clearly working hard to get the upcoming adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “Between the World and Me” on TV screens this year. When it was announced that the network was working on an adaptation of the book, people were already excited enough to see this story told at a time when American politics and social discourse is dominated by the death of George Floyd and the prevalence of Black Lives Matter protests.

Before there was Survivor and The Amazing Race, there was Eco-Challenge. The ultra-endurance race created by Mark Burnett evolved as a television format first on MTV, then on ESPN, eventually making its way to Discovery and then USA.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Management and production company 42 (The Courier) is teaming with fledgling LA-based label A-Major Media to develop and produce Megan Chan Meinero’s play Good Fortune for film. New York playwright Chan Meinero is writing the adaptation.Mary Lee, previously head of film at Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment, is producing for A-Major, which she set up last year year to champion Asian-American voices in film and TV.

Lost actor Daniel Dae Kim (nearly £40,000) towards a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for prolific Asian-American actor James Hong.Hong, now 91, has appeared in well over 600 credited roles in a career spanning nearly 70 years.Most famously, he's starred in movies like Chinatown, Big Trouble In Little China, Blade Runner and Airplane!He's also had prominent voice roles in the likes of the Kung Fu Panda movies (playing Po's father Mr.

Andreas Wiseman, Tom Grater EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Van Ditthavong’s feature directorial debut All Roads To Pearla (formerly known as Sleeping In Plastic), which had its world premiere at the 2019 Austin Film Festival.

Seth Rogen has scripted and starred in any number of movies that have pulled inspiration from his life, but he says, the HBO Max time-travel farce adapted from a short story by Simon Rich, is perhaps the story he relates to most.The film stars Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a ditchdigger living in a fictional Eastern European country circa 1919.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSarah Snook was sleeping at friend’s house in her native country of Australia when this year’s Emmy nominations were announced.“He was the one who woke me up to tell me. He ran into my room,” Snook says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast The Big Ticket.

Oscar winnerAlfonso Cuarón has come on board festival bound feature The Disciple as an executive producer. Chaitanya Tamhane’sThe Disciple will be the first Indian film in almost 20 years chosen to play in main competition at any of the three major European films festivals— Berlin, Cannes and Venice.

Naman Ramachandran Endeavor and New Europe Film Sales have picked up North American and European sales, respectively, for Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane’s Venice and Toronto title “The Disciple.”The film is executive produced by Alfonso Cuaron, who mentored Tamhane after he made his feature debut with “Court.”“Court” won more than 30 awards at film festivals worldwide including best film in the Horizons section at the 2014 Venice Film Festival, where Tamhane was also awarded the “Lion Of

The classic story of Black Beauty is coming to life once again.

Naman Ramachandran A contemporary adaptation of Anna Sewell’s classic 19th century novel “Black Beauty” will premiere on Mouse House streamer Disney Plus later this year.Oscar winner Kate Winslet (“The Reader”) stars as the voice of wild mustang Black Beauty and the film features Mackenzie Foy (“Interstellar”) as Jo Green, alongside Iain Glen (“Game of Thrones”) and Claire Forlani (“Meet Joe Black”).The story turns on the classic premise in which Black Beauty, born free in the American west, is

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterKerry Washington earned an Emmy nomination for her turn as conflicted mother Mia in the Hulu drama Little Fires Everywhere which was adapted from the novel of the same name by Celeste Ng. However, it was one of three projects she received Emmy love for on Tuesday morning.

Ted Johnson After President Donald Trump went on a social media spree, advancing false claims of a coronavirus cure, Dr. Anthony Fauci defended his work against some of the attacks on him personally.On ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday, anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Fauci, “Can you continue to do your job when the president of the United States is publicly questioning your credibility in this way?”Fauci sighed and said, “I don’t know how to address that.

Dr. Anthony Fauci.