Production on Aziz Ansari’s feature helming debut Good Fortune has been suspended amid the writers strike, Deadline has confirmed. WGA pickets forced a shutdown of the Keanu Reeves-Seth Rogen pic Thursday night.
Production on Aziz Ansari’s feature helming debut Good Fortune has been suspended amid the writers strike, Deadline has confirmed. WGA pickets forced a shutdown of the Keanu Reeves-Seth Rogen pic Thursday night.
EXCLUSIVE: While there isn’t any WGA picketing going on over here on the Croisette before the black-tie clad motion picture industry, the guild is sending shockwaves by staying home: Good Fortune, the Aziz Ansari feature directorial debut which is being sold by Lionsgate here at Cannes, saw its physical production paused last night by WGA protestors. We’re told that the production only shuttered for one day.
Aziz Ansari is making his feature directorial debut with Good Fortune at Lionsgate, a movie he’ll also write and star alongside with Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen. Lionsgate will launch sales for the pic at Cannes next month, which is also when cameras roll in LA. The storyline is under wraps.
If Loot co-creator Alan Yang had his way, Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series would drop tomorrow.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is developing Koreatown, a one-hour drama set in L.A.’s Koreatown from writer-executive producer Gene Hong (Magnum P.I.), Alan Yang (Loot) and Universal Television.
If you don’t know Apple TV+’s “Little America” yet—nominated by BAFTA, Independent Spirit, NAACP Image, and GLAAD Media Award for many accolades— there are plenty of reasons why you should. First and foremost, all the talent involved.
Apple TV+ comedy series “Loot,” about a billionaire entering a new chapter in her life after a painful divorce.And, for the most part, it’s a slick and entertaining ride. Premiering June 24, the series, created by Matt Hubbard (“30 Rock”) and Alan Yang (“Master of None”), revolves around Molly Novak (Rudolph), who’s celebrating her 45th birthday with her husband John (Adam Scott) — who throws her a lavish party and gifts her a new yacht with multiple pools (she suggests using the smallest pool for her dogs, Mary Kate and Ashley). When Molly discovers that John has been cheating on her with a younger woman, they divorce – and since they didn’t have a prenup, Molly is now one of the wealthiest women in the country. Newly single, she parties it up and becomes tabloid fodder for antics including falling into a pool at a party and giving a waiter a lap dance (in her defense, she thought he was Sting). She’s surprised to learn that she has a charitable foundation, led by the intimidating Sofia (Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, “Pose”), who is not happy that Molly’s post-divorce spiral is generating bad press.
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Animal Pictures, the production company founded by Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne, has signed a first-look deal with Apple TV+.
, Maya Rudolph gets to shine as Molly Novak, who finds her perfectly lavish life turned upside down after her husband, John (Adam Scott), unexpectedly betrays her and files for divorce after 20 years together. While the series created and executive produced by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard features several standout moments for the former as Molly attempts to climb her way out of rock bottom, there’s no funnier moment in the first three episodes than when the character unexpectedly appears on .“She just gets a ton thrown at her all at once,” Rudolph tells ET about Molly, who then “picks herself up and just dives into the challenge and the change” as she attempts to move forward in her life. In the third episode, “Hot Seat,” John questions his ex-wife’s substance in a new interview, forcing Molly and Sofia Salinas (Michaela Jaé Rodriguez), the manager of the foundation where she now works, to hit back.
Comedy shows have gotten a little dark of late, with bleak scenarios or introspective sad-com direction replacing belly laughs. Even Apple TV+’s crowning jewel “Ted Lasso” leaned toward heavier material in its second season.
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIn one of the only times anyone’s told Molly (Maya Rudolph) the hard truth in the decades since her husband (Adam Scott) became a billionaire, she’s stuck in a private jet hangar somewhere in the middle of Oklahoma. Having just tried essentially to airlift the staff of her foundation, which she only realized existed after very messy public divorce, to Miami for the weekend, Molly’s forced to face the fact that she’s been living in a completely different reality from 99.9% of the rest of the world.“Your life is different from everyone else’s here.
Tales of the Walking Dead” will premiere Sunday, August 14 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+, with the first two episodes streaming that same night on AMC+.
For an actress as busy as Maya Rudolph, she keeps a pretty low profile. Since her iconic turn in 2011’s “Bridesmaids,” the versatile veteran has rarely taken on a leading part.
Padma Lakshmi Guest ColumnistI look forward to the day there are many more Asian American TV creators and filmmakers who get the chance to tell multifaceted stories with bigger budgets. It’s great to see every ethnicity popping up in regular scenes in films and television just going through regular, everyday problems, and not just addressing problems related to being that ethnicity. I’m going to open this up a bit to include some of my favorite Asian characters from TV, as well as some of my favorite Asian directors and films:TV creators and characters:1.
Conan O’Brien is getting a huge payday thanks to his podcast empire.
EXCLUSIVE: John Cho rounds out the Season 2 ensemble cast of Apple TV+’s hit murder mystery comedy series The Afterparty, from Oscar winners Chris Miller and Phil Lord.
Apple TV+ has a new workplace comedy starring Maya Rudolph and it’s premiering very soon!
Maya Rudolph is starting over.The actress leads Apple TV+'s new workplace comedy series, , which launches with its first three episodes Friday, June 24. Subsequent episodes will drop weekly on Fridays.The 10-episode series, which hails from Alan Yang () and Matt Hubbard (), also stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Ron Funches, Nat Faxon and Joel Kim Booster.It follows billionaire Molly Novak (Rudoph), who seemingly has the dream life, complete with private jets, a sprawling mansion and a gigayacht. But when her husband of 20 years betrays her, she spirals publicly, becoming fuel for tabloid fodder.
The series is set in a cutting-edge biotech research company, following an introverted, socially-challenged son who goes to work for his very successful, wildly eccentric father in order to save him from disaster. “We are very excited to be working with Victor, Rob and John Owen,” Tracey Pakosta, Netflix head of comedy, said in a statement.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterRob Lowe and his son, John Owen Lowe, have teamed with Victor Fresco on the Netflix comedy series “Unstable,” Variety has learned.The Lowes will star in the series and also co-created it with Fresco, with all three serving as executive producers. It is set in a cutting-edge biotech research company, following an introverted, socially-challenged son who goes to work for his very successful, wildly eccentric father in order to save him from disaster.
Olivier Martinez (Unfaithful) is set for a heavily recurring role opposite Maya Rudolph in Apple’s untitled half-hour comedy series from Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. Created and written by Yang and Hubbard, the series follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but $87 billion.
EXCLUSIVE: Christine Ko, who starred in Alan Yang’s Tigertail and currently plays Emma opposite Dave Burd on his FX comedy series Dave, has signed with WME to be represented in all areas.
Parks and Recreation star Rob Lowe and writer Alan Yang are set to host a new podcast revealing secrets behind the show.The pair will join forces on Parks and Recollection, according to Entertainment Weekly, which will launch later this month.The podcast will feature appearances from cast and crew members from the show, and will lift the curtain on some of fans’ most beloved moments from the show.A trailer for Parks and Recollection teases an argument about whether Andy and April should be
Multi-platform media company Macro, which focuses on representing the voice and perspectives of Black people and people of color, has promoted two key executives.
“Sunnyside” star Joel Kim Booster has joined the cast of the untitled Maya Rudolph comedy at Apple TV+, the streamer announced Thursday.Picked up straight-to-series back in March, the series stars Rudolph as Molly, a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but $87 billion.Booster will play Nicholas, Molly’s loyal assistant.
Joel Kim Booster is set as a lead opposite Maya Rudolph in Apple’s half-hour comedy series from Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. Mj Rodriguez also stars.
Writer-producers Bridget Kyle and Vicky Luu are staying in business with Universal Television. The duo have signed a two-year deal at UTV, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop and produce projects for a multiple television platforms.
A long-rumored Season 3 of Netflix’s Master of None finally came to fruition this year, with Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s comedy series returning to the streamer in May. It had been four years since Season 2, which followed the series’ Season 1 debut in 2015 that won writing Emmys for Ansari and co-star Lena Waithe.
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticFour years after the last episode of “Master of None,” a new season will premiere and feel nothing like the show that preceded it.When Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s series first debuted in 2015, it was one of Netflix’s early critical successes and an early indication of how storytelling on the streaming platform could be distinctive from broadcast and cable offerings.
The new season of Master of None drops on Netflix on May 23 and it may not be the comedy that you are used to seeing — and that’s a good thing.
It’s been a minute since audiences were treated to a new season of Netflix’s Emmy-winning Master of None created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang. Netflix said last month that it will finally debut a third season of the comedy May 23 — though it may not be something fans of the series would expect. In fact, it might go beyond expectations.
MJ Rodriguez didn’t have to wait long for her next role.
Pose‘s Michaela Jaé (Mj) Rodriguez is set to star alongside Maya Rudolph in Apple TV+’s half-hour comedy series created by Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterMj Rodriguez will star opposite Maya Rudolph in an upcoming Apple comedy series that hails from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, Variety has learned.The series was ordered at Apple in March. It follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars.
In one of the worst-kept secrets in TV, all the rumors are true—Netflix’s Emmy-winning comedy series, “Master of None,” is returning in May with a brand-new season, four years after the end of the previous. But even though we all knew this was happening, it appears that series creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang had some surprises up their sleeves.
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