Lifetime Announces ‘The Christmas Setup’ and ‘A Sugar & Spice Holiday’ Casts

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe sophomore season of Warrior premieres October 2 (that’s tonight) on Cinemax and actor Dustin Nguyen returns as a series regular in the role of the big baddie Zing, who was introduced at the end of the first season.

is Hallmark Channel, after all.)Canning’s real-life backstory rivals any of her fictional TV movies.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill poked fun at one of his own projects as he labelled the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden “the worst thing I’ve ever seen”.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDrive-ins are coming to Hollywood.Post 43, the historic American Legion memorial clubhouse on Highland Avenue, is launching a drive-in screening series in its parking lot on Oct. 3 with “E.T.

HBO is teaming up with Rock the Vote— and enlisting talent including Spike Lee, Samantha Bee and Jay Ellis— to encourage Americans to share why they're voting in the 2020 fall elections.

Meghan Markle wants to see Americans utilize their right to vote. The Duchess of Sussex appeared alongside her husband, Prince Harry, during Tuesday night's TIME100 television special, which highlighted the magazine's most influential people—those who have defined 2020 thus far.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures Content Group is set to land international rights to Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia following the film playing opening night at this year’s TIFF.HBO has domestic rights to the project, which is a filmed version of the acclaimed Broadway show, and is set to release stateside on October 17.Universal PCG is now tying up a deal for all international rights and is eyeing a roll out from November.

The world needs something to lift its spirits. 2020 has been rough, to say the least, with a global pandemic leaving so many people tragically dead, political turmoil in governments around the world, and civil unrest as systemic racism becomes headline news.

Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), along with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) on behalf of the studios.

Billie Eilish was the special guest for the final episode of The Office actor Brian Baumgartner’s podcast about the US version of the sitcom.The 12-episode An Oral History Of The Office launched as a Spotify exclusive in July, and traces the show’s development from a proposed remake of Ricky Gervais’ UK version, to a present day favourite on streaming services.The show’s final episode focussed on The Office‘s continuing appeal to younger viewers, with Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone on the

announcing two holiday films centered on a gay romance and an Asian American family, Lifetime is unveiling casts for both.the network's first Christmas movie with a central LGBTQ storyline, will star real-life married couple  (and (). Joining them in the feel-good holiday film will be and .The film was written and directed by members of the LGBTQ community.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorLifetime has set the cast for The Christmas Setup, its first holiday movie with a lead LGBTQ storyline, and A Sugar & Spice Holiday, its first movie centered on an Asian American family.

Yep, festival season is a little weird this year, but if the currently-ongoing Venice Film Festival and just-started Toronto International Film Festival are any indication, the 58th New York Film Festival is going to be just as good, albeit enjoyed from a safe distance.

Spike Lee and David Byrne aren’t an obvious pairing. While the former’s oeuvre, for the most part, features unflinching stories about Black life in America, the latter became a hero to white college-educated teens everywhere.

just really has no part in any discussion of the work of Byrne or of director Spike Lee, who turned the former Talking Heads front man’s Broadway show into a film that premiered at the slimmed-down TIFF on Thursday, and will come to HBO in October.

Hollywood veteran Kevin Spacey is being sued.

in October 2017. The second is anonymous in the case.Both men say they were 14 when - star of films including The Usual Suspects, American Beauty and Seven - allegedly assaulted them, and are suing him for unspecified damages, claiming they have suffered psychological damage.In a case filed in New York, Rapp says Spacey invited him to a party at his apartment in Manhattan in 1986.