New ‘Prison Break’ Series in the Works at Hulu

Deadline, All Quiet At The Western Front director Edward Berger is in talks to helm the project, which would be the sixth film in the series. The last was 2016’s Jason Bourne, which saw Matt Damon reprise the role after almost ten years.The currently-untitled film is said to be in early development at Universal, with no script.

Angelique Jackson Universal is in early development on a new movie about super spy Jason Bourne, with “All Quiet on the Western Front” filmmaker Edward Berger in talks to direct. The new movie would be the latest installment in the blockbuster franchise, which has tallied five films (four of which starred Matt Damon) and more than $800 million at the box office. Sources familiar with the project have stressed that it’s still in early development, so any grand return to the world of Jason Borne may be far into the future.

EXCLUSIVE: After his World War I epic All Quiet On The Western Front took home the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, director Edward Berger may have found his follow-up project with one of the biggest action heroes of this century. Sources tell Deadline Universal Pictures is looking to get back in business with Jason Bourne as the studio has begun early development on a new installment in the Jason Bourne franchise and that Berger is in negotiations to oversee development and direct the pic.

A new Jason Bourne movie is on the way!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Veteran actor Ciaran Hinds and Odessa Young have joined Euphoria star Jacob Elordi in the cast of premium Australian miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” Production is now under way. An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part series is love story set against the backdrop of World War II. Production is by Curio Pictures with Prime Video releasing the title in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Ethan Shanfeld Paul Briganti describes the first week of filming “Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain” as “a miserable nightmare.” The movie, which follows the “Saturday Night Live” comedy trio John Higgins, Ben Marshall and Martin Herlihy as they hunt for hidden treasure, was shot primarily in North Carolina state parks — in the sweltering summer. “There were ticks and snakes, and it was over 100 degrees and very humid. It thunderstormed a lot,” Briganti, who joined “SNL” as a director in 2016, tells Variety.

EXCLUSIVE: Prison Break fans have had quite a month.

EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Beatriz and Costa Ronin are fronting a sci-fi series for online storytelling platform StoryCo, with Halo showrunner Kyle Killen attached.

EXCLUSIVE: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is teaming up with Jorge Granier and Chris Albrecht of Rubicon Global Media to develop and co-produce the Spanish and English-language crime drama, Prey Before You Eat (w/t).

Quentin Tarantino‘s Vista Theatre in Los Feliz is opening its doors back up and will celebrate its return with a screening of True Romance.

Prison Break is currently in the early stages of development at Hulu, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The outlet reports that Elgin James, known for hs work on Mayans MC, will serve as the showrunner of the new series.Though further details are largely being kept under wraps for now, THR adds that the revival would be set in the same world as the original, which ran for five seasons between 2005 and 2017.The new episodes, however, reportedly won’t follow the central cast members of the original series, played Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller.In the original Prison Break series, Miller and Purcell portrayed brothers Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield. Lincoln is sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit, while Michael then crafts an elaborate plan to try to get his brother out of prison and clear his name.

If you have listened to The Playlist Podcast, our ‘Mayans’ podcast, or just talked to me in random conversation, you know I’m a big fan of Elgin James. He’s one of the most interesting and thoughtful filmmakers working today.

A Prison Break reboot is in the works!

“Now and Then”arrives like a gift from that glorious Abbey Road in the sky on Thursday — despite the fact that John Lennon and George Harrison died in 1980 and 2001, respectively, leaving surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to finish the long-buried track on the right side of the dirt.And if you think that it’s the result of some magical mystery trickery of AI defiling the sacred ground that is the Beatles back catalog, thankfully, you’d be wrong.While “the last Beatles song” certainly benefits from advancements in technology that allowed it to finally be released — five decades after Lennon wrote and recorded the demo at his Dakota residence on New York’s Central Park West in the ’70s — “Now and Then” is a real Beatles tune that feels like it somehow got stuck in some mop-topped time warp before the “Imagine” singer was murdered in 1980. It’s a nostalgic trip back to the Baby Boomer glory days of yesteryear.

Variety. “John and Katherine are fantastic together, and during rehearsals, they had so much chemistry,” Vallelonga, 64, told the outlet.

Foo Fighters were joined by H.E.R.

Saturday Night Live season 49 is back in its third week with a roller coaster of feels.

Ethan Shanfeld Matty Matheson, celebrity chef and star of FX’s restaurant dramedy “The Bear,” has released a free digital cookbook via WeTransfer. The book, “Cookin’ Somethin’ for College,” features 12 easy-to-make recipes geared toward Gen Z and college students. The recipes range from the “ultimate” breakfast sandwich to peanut butter instant noodles with sesame fried egg.

Timothée Chalamet has been unveiled as the host of Saturday Night Live in November.He will be joined by music trio boygenius as the episode’s musical guests on November 11. The indie trio – comprising Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker – recently released their EP, ‘The Rest’, which NME described as “compelling”.

Christopher Walken has made a surprise appearance on this year’s Saturday Night Live Halloween special.The 80-year-old actor appeared on the sketch show last night (October 28), his first time on the show since 2008. This week’s episode was hosted by Nate Bargatze with the Foo Fighters as musical guests.Walken’s character appeared to explain “the true meaning of Halloween” to Mikey Day’s President Joe Biden, who had decorated the Oval Office in time for Halloween weekend.“I’m the spirit of Halloween, the ghost of All Hallow’s past,” Walken said in the sketch.