‘Justified: City Primeval’ Producer Sony Hires High-Threat Specialists For Chicago Set After Shooting; Bullets Also Hit ‘Chicago Med’ Set In Separate Incident

Momma Perez is feeling very homesick – both for Los Angeles AND Miami! So… we surprise her with an outing to a Cuban restaurant in Las Vegas that we had never been to before. Is it authentic? Disappointing or did it deliver? We are very discerning and let you know the truth! Then, Perez goes on an adults-only excursion to see RuPaul’s Drag Race LIVE: Las Vegas at the Flamingo! Does the Sin City stage version please fans of the TV show? Is it an embarrassment? We let you know all our thoughts! Watch!

Kaley Cuoco is surrounded by fans in the Berlin apartment where she’s living as she shoots the movie “Role Play,” in which she plays an assassin. “I’m doing all this crazy stuff, and I’m covered in blood!” she says enthusiastically about the role, as she describes (with considerably less ardor) experiencing the heatwave that’s fried Europe this summer.But being hot is a sidebar conversation with Variety — the main topic is Cuoco’s HBO Max comedic thriller “The Flight Attendant,” for which she was nominated for the second year in a row for lead actress in a comedy.

Another update to the Anne Heche crash story…

Chase Mishkin, the Broadway producer whose roster of productions scored two Tony Awards (for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and Memphis), died July 24 at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.

Sony Pictures Classics has announced October-December release plans for The Return of Tanya Tucker; Salavatore: Shoemaker Of Dreams; The Son; Living; and Turn Every Page.

The set of Justified: City Primeval just can’t catch a break.

A post shared by Alec Baldwin (@alecbaldwininsta)The comments stem from a bizarre incident on Aug. 5. According to reports, Anne initially crashed her blue Mini Cooper into the garage of a Los Angeles apartment complex around 11 a.m.

The Punisher, saying she received the information from a fan.Speaking during a panel at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) on Sunday (August 7), Dawson was asked by a fan what it was like working with Charlie Cox on Daredevil, when she appeared to let slip that another series of The Punisher with Jon Bernthal is in the works.“I found out yesterday that The Punisher was happening again,” Dawson said. “I feel like it’s my second chance because it was the only one of the [Netflix Marvel] shows that I wasn’t in and I love Jon Bernthal.

Amid Anne Heche’s ongoing recovery following her involvement in a car accident, several of her famous friends and exes are sharing their support.

Actress Anne Heche has been hospitalized with burns after crashing her car into a Los Angeles home, Deadline has confirmed. The news was first reported by TMZ.

Tiffany Cross and comedian Wanda Sykes — have already slammed the network for reportedly hiring Griffin.Who will be the next co-host of @TheView? The wait is finally over! Find out only on @TheView this THURSDAY at 11e|10c|p on ABC! pic.twitter.com/xvLHqgin2ZBorn in Los Angeles on June 15, 1989, Griffin is the daughter of two journalists. Her father, Joseph Farah, was the executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, then an editor at Northern California’s the Sacramento Union.Her father is of Syrian and Lebanese descent.

FX Chairman John Landgraf was asked about the July 21 shooting incident on the Chicago set of the network’s upcoming limited series Justified: City Primeval. As Deadline first reported, the incident involved cars whose occupants were engaged in a gunfight smashing through safety barricades. It led to a temporary production halt and the implementation of additional security measures, including bringing in a trained hostage negotiator and his team, which includes former members of the Navy SEALs and Army Rangers.

Ariel Winter left Hollywood for the other coast, as did other celebrities, including James Van Der Beek, who also moved during the Covid-19 era. The list may be long, but among those early defectors were Hallmark’s Alexa PenaVega (and her frequent on-screen partner and husband Carlos PenaVega), who recently opened about about the whys behind saying goodbye to Tinseltown.  As it turns out, there were myriad reason the couple left Hollywood, but chief among them was her husband’s mental state.

Lollapalooza Festival.Chicago’s very own music extravaganza welcomed the heavy metal icons for an unforgettable performance of their greatest hits for the first time since their last appearance at the festival in 2015.The band even gave a special shoutout to Netflix’s hit show “Stranger Things” which helped introduce an entirely new generation to Metallica’s music.The show famously featured the band’s hit track “Master of Puppets” in season 4, which instantly went viral and racked up millions of listens on streaming platforms.And none other than frontman James Hetfield expressed gratitude to the show’s producers for feating the track.“Forty-one years to still be up here kicking your asses and you still kicking ours … we were born to do this and we’re glad we’re still doing it,” Hetfield told the crowd before asking how many first-timers were in the audience.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBuoyed by the reception at Fantasia of his feature debut, “All Jacked Up and Full of Worms,” one of the fest’s buzz titles, Chicago-based writer-director Alex Phillips has set his follow-up, “Anything That Moves.”The announcement comes just after “Worms” won a special mention at the 2022 Fantasia Awards, unveiled July 25.Slated to shoot in Feb. 2023, in another fillip for Phillips’ burgeoning career, “Anything That Moves” is produced by Eddie Linker, a seminal figure on Chicago’s film scene who has executive or associate produced notable work from high-profile independent directors.These take in Joe Swanberg (2017 Netflix Original “Win It All,” with Jake Johnson); Alex Ross Perry (2015’s psychological breakdown tale “Queen of Earth, with Elizabeth Moss; 2018 Brooklyn ensemble portrait “Golden Exits”); Josephine Decker (Sundance and Berlin player, “Madeline’s Madeline”) and Zach Clark (2016 SXSW hit “Little Sister”).

EXCLUSIVE: Benjamin Levy Aguilar has been promoted to series regular for Season 10 of NBC’s Chicago P.D. He will reprise the role of Dante Torres who, fresh off patrol, comes to Intelligence as a rookie.