Michael Winterbottom Drama ‘Shoshana’ Lands U.S. Deal

Michael Trevino and his girlfriend Bregje Heinen are getting married!!

This is the moment a hiker was saved by mountain rescue heroes after becoming stuck in the Highlands during a terrifying blizzard.

Jeremy Renner and the cast of Mayor of Kingstown are gearing up for their return to production on Season 3 of the Paramount+ drama.

Scores of people have been jailed for drugs offences in Greater Manchester in 2023. Some were part of small operations. Others were cogs in are sophisticated empires with dozens of footsoldiers - or leading from the very top.

In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo gets in the driver’s seat to discuss “Ferrari” with director Michael Mann (“Heat,” “Collateral,” “Ali”). The film is based on the real-life of Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari—the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, who is played by Adam Driver.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Molly Parker (“Deadwood,” “House of Cards”) is set to star in “Doc,” Fox’s upcoming medical procedural based on the hit Italian series “Doc — Nelle tue mani.” Parker will play Dr. Amy Elias, the chief of internal and family medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis, who must pick up her professional and personal pieces after she loses the memory of the last eight years.

Colin Jost had to put his wife Scarlett Johansson on blast during a skit on the December 16 episode of Saturday Night Live, and it was all because of Michael Che.

A doctor who named himself after a Star Wars character while dealing drugs has been jailed for a second time. Shoaib Ahmad sold fake versions of the anxiety-reducing medication Xanax, cannabis and ecstasy online.

obtained by TMZ, the “Creed” star, 36, is seen speeding down the street in his blue Ferrari. After a quick move left, the vehicle takes a sharp right before hitting a parked Kia.

Movistar Plus+ has struck deals for the Max and SkyShowtime streamers in Spain.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has picked up psychological crime drama Murder in a Small Town, starring Rossif Sutherland (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Kristin Kreuk (Smallville), for the 2024-25 season. The network has acquired U.S. rights to the series, based on the “Karl Alberg” books by L.R. Wright,, which hails from head writer Ian Weir (Edgemont), director Milan Cheylov (The Cleaning Lady) and Canada’s Sepia Films in association with Fox Entertainment and Future Shack Entertainment, the company of former USA Network President Jeff Wachtel.

Naman Ramachandran Mia McKenna-Bruce (BIFA winner for “How to Have Sex”), Louisa Connolly-Burnham (“Vampire Academy”) and Michael Fox (“Downton Abbey”) will star in “Sister Wives.” The film is a love story that follows two young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society. Kaidence and Galilee find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind.

Bosnian-Dutch director Ena Sendijarević’s satire Sweet Dreams unfolds on a plantation in the Dutch East Indies that is falling into decay in step with the crumbling of the Netherlands’ colonial power.

Elizabeth Chambers is moving on in the most modern way possible — starring in her own reality show!

Filmmaker Michael Mann always makes visceral movies; whether it’s the intensity at the heart of a tricky moral decision, the stakes centered in a high-octane heist drama, or the imperative choices felt by men pushed into dangerous corners with few options, his films are always going full-throttle. Fortunately for Mann, this works two-fold in his latest drama, “Ferrari,” a racing drama where everything is at stake for the characters and far beyond just winning a race for bragging rights or the spoils of victory.

Here’s some juicy casting news: Variety reports that Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, and Michael Shannon will star in “Nuremberg,” an upcoming historical drama.  James Vanderbilt helms and writes the film, adapting Jack El-Hai‘s “The Nazi And The Psychiatrist” for the big screen. “Nuremberg” is a co-production between Bluestone Entertainment and Walden Media, with Széchenyi Fund also financing the film.

Tom Blyth is set to follow in the footsteps of Gary Cooper, Rock Hudson and George Hamilton to star in Michael Winterbottom‘s new adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel A Farewell to Arms.

Naman Ramachandran Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams,” Netherlands’ submission in the Academy Awards international feature category, has secured North American distribution via Dekanalog. The film had its world premiere at Locarno, where it won the Pardo for best performance for Renée Soutendijk (“Suspiria”) and the second prize of the junior jury. The film debuted in North America in Toronto’s Centrepiece section and won the Silver Hugo new directors award at Chicago.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Something Special, the Seoul-based international format agency founded by format specialists Jin Woo Hwang (president and executive producer) and Kim In Soon (EVP & head of content) announce that ITV Studios has optioned the hit Korean celebrity format “Battle in the Box” for France, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. The deal was unveiled on Wednewday, the first full day of the Asia Television Forum and Market (ATF) in Singapore. “Battle in the Box,” created by Korea’s NMedia and represented globally by Something Special, has previously seen deals announced with Fremantle for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal.

Between James Mangold’s “Ford Vs. Ferrari,” Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” maybe even Ron Howard’s “Rush,” racing dramas have really experienced a new shelf life in recent years (not to mention Brad Pitt and “Top Gun: Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski are putting together their own Formula One racing drama likely sometime in 2024).