John Wick spinoff series will cost more than the first two John Wick films

New IndieWe’ll probably spend the next decade or so speculating on the impact certain films might have made had they not been released in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. One movie that could have had a bigger splash was “The Water Man” (RLJE Films), David Oyelowo’s impressive directorial debut.

Abrams and Katie McGrath’s production banner is under a mega overall deal.Bad Robot continues to have a number of titles either in production, ordered or in the development stage at HBO and HBO Max, produced by Warner Bros. TV through Abrams’ WarnerMedia overall deal.

Toronto International Film Festival announced today films included in the TIFF Docs presented by A&E IndieFilms, Wavelengths and Midnight Madness programmes and exciting, recently confirmed additions to the Special Presentation and Contemporary World Cinema programmes.

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series has officially wrapped filming its first season, and Amazon celebrated the news by announcing a 2022 premiere date and sharing the first official look at Middle-earth. Set during the Second Age, which is thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s and, the still-untitled series will follow “an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth” when it debuts on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorCrooked Media, the podcast company formed by a trio of former Obama staffers, continues to spread its wings beyond its progressive-politics roots.The company’s new development slate spans entertainment, pop culture, history — and a show about whether the internet is rotting people’s minds.Coming this fall is weekly interview show “Offline,” hosted by co-founder Jon Favreau, as a spinoff of Crooked’s popular flagship series “Pod Save America.” In the new podcast,

EXCLUSIVE: Clea DuVall (Veep) and Charlie Plummer (All the Money in the World) are set for key recurring roles in Showtime’s upcoming anthology series The First Lady, starring Viola Davis — who also executive produces — Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Cathy Schulman serves as showrunner. Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce.

Naman Ramachandran Veteran producer and former Disney UTV MD Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP is teaming with Premnath Rajagopalan of Blue Monkey Films for multi-season espionage thriller series “Panthers.” The series will be directed and showrun by Rensil D’Silva (“24: India”), whose thriller “Dial 100,” starring Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta and Sakshi Tanwar and produced by Sony Pictures Films India and Alchemy Films, is debuting Aug. 6 on streamer ZEE5.

DaBaby is trying to get himself out of the mess he got himself into at the Rolling Loud music festival on Sunday night. The rapper was feeling a little too free on stage when he decided to go on a hateful homophobic rant.

EXCLUSIVE: Charles Murray, a writer and producer whose wide-ranging credits include Sons of Anarchy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Luke Cage, has set a slate deal with Redbox Entertainment spanning six films over three years.

Peacock has given the green light to the Days Of Our Lives spinoff!

After its restricted but still strong 77th edition, the Venice Film Festival is back with a vengeance, with what might be its most exciting line-up in years – a far cry from the bizarre announcements of this year’s TIFF (which boasts… “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” of all things). This morning in Rome, the line-up of the forthcoming 78th edition was announced in full, ahead of its planned opening on 1 September.

What would summer be without some good company and some cracking tunes especially when this summer is shaping up to be a scorcher?

EXCLUSIVE: Accomplished German actress Christiane Paul (Counterpart) and Carter Redwood (The Long Road Home) round out the series regular cast of FBI: International, the upcoming third series in Dick Wolf’s hit FBI drama franchise on CBS. They will play the remaining leads opposite recently cast Luke Kleintank, Heida Reed and Vinessa Vidotto in the series, which is slated to air as part of an FBI Tuesday lineup.  FBI International will launch Sept.

WarnerMedia loves the idea of making a franchise film and then immediately spinning it off into a series on HBO Max. Executives have said this much in interviews, and we’ve already seen this being put into action with “Peacemaker” being spun off of “The Suicide Squad.” And soon, it’s going to happen with “Dune.” That is, if the new showrunner for the spinoff series sticks around.

Strictly Come Dancing just around the corner, his name has been thrown into the ring as a potential contestant vying for the Glitterball Trophy this autumn. With the announcement of this year's casting beginning any day now, reports are suggesting he could be the first celebrity to feature on the BBC programme.

Jordan Moreau Audible is diving deeper into the bizarre, real-life events of the hit podcast “Dirty John” with “The First Wife: John Meehan’s Reign of Terror,” a new podcast launching on July 22.“Dirty John” was created by Wondery and the Los Angeles Times in 2017, and the podcast followed the web of lies and manipulation by John Meehan as he began a relationship with businesswoman Debra Newell after meeting online.