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Anna Marie de la Fuente Chile’s Clara Films and Barcelona-based VFX studio Unbound Hub have forged a strategic development pact for the upcoming dystopian TV series, “Numana.” Created by Argentine writers Jesica Arán (“Pájaros Negros”) and Soledad Velasco (Disney+’s “Dreaming High”), the project participated at  Conecta Fiction’s High End Pitch session. “We are thrilled to partner with Unbound Hub in the development of ‘Numana,’” said producer Clara Larrain of Clara Films.  “Nowadays, investors fear unpredictable budgets that a series like this can mean, so having Unbound Hub on board this early will be instrumental not only in bringing our dystopian vision to life, but in reducing risk.”

“Satire is a dangerous game In Hollywood,” Billy Wilder once observed. “It invites self-immolation.” Still, the satiric spirit looms large in many of this year’s buzzworthy movies: American Fiction, Poor Things, Saltburn, Air, The Holdovers and even Barbie.

Michaela Zee Ridley Scott is reflecting on his decision to step down from directing the “Blade Runner” sequel due to a scheduling conflict with 2017’s “Alien: Covenant.” “I shouldn’t have had to make that decision,” Scott said in a recent Empire interview. “But I had to. I should have done ‘Blade Runner 2.’” After being attached to the project, Scott announced in 2014 that he would no longer direct the “Blade Runner” sequel, instead choosing to helm the sci-fi horror film “Alien: Covenant,” starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup and Danny McBride.

Ridley Scott is looking back and opening up about not being able to direct the Blade Runner sequel. The filmmaker had been announced by Alcon Entertainment back in 2011 to helm the follow-up to the 1989 film that starred Harrison Ford.

Marvel Studios has released its first set pic for the upcoming instalment of its first Avengers film, “Captain America 4”.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentWoody Harrelson will reteam with “Triangle of Sadness” director Ruben Östlund for his next film “The Entertainment System is Down.” The Oscar-nominee broke the news during the press conference for “Triangle of Sadness” at Cannes on Monday, the morning after the movie world premiered in competition.In “Triangle of Sadness,” Harrelson plays a rabid Marxist who is the captain of a cruise for the super-rich. The yacht sinks, leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, marooned on an island.

Some of the biggest names in film, television and the Broadway stage won’t be making the coveted pilgrimage to Radio City Music Hall this June when the 75th annual Tony Awards are handed out, as such high-profile performers as Daniel Craig, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Katrina Lenk, Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch and Patrick J. Adams were not among the nominations announced this morning.

Flying Over Sunset will end its limited engagement Broadway run three weeks earlier than planned, producer Lincoln Center Theater announced today. The musical, which imagines a meeting of the three real-life figures Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant, will play its final performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 16.

Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticIn the midst of the deadly dull 1950s, Hollywood celebs Cary Grant, Claire Booth Luce and Aldous Huxley escape their ennui by dropping acid. No serious sex is involved and no one rushes out on a frantic candy run but much witty chitchat ensues in “Flying Over Sunset,” a stylish new Broadway musical by James Lapine (book), Tom Kitt (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics).Nowadays, people may do psychedelic drugs to celebrate a birthday.

Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Clare Boothe Luce – a grouping that might sound more like the set-up for a joke than the premise of a musical – were, in real life, proponents of lysergic acid diethylamide, what we’d now call early adopters.

To say that Lionsgate’s sci-fi film “Voyagers” never honors its true nature would be overstating the case and unfair to filmmaker well-intentioned Neil Burger’s latest directorial effort.

CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on 22 November 1963. No one noticed because John F Kennedy was assassinated the same day.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine star s new show has been cancelled after just one season, according to Deadline.  in an adaptation of the famous novel by Aldous Huxley, which premiered on the streaming service Peacock in the US and on Sky One in the UK. Speaking to Deadline, a spokesperson for Peacock said: "There will not be Season 2 of Brave New World on Peacock. David Wiener created a thought-provoking and cinematic adaptation.

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Variety, the Wolf of Wall Street-star is setting up a new television series adaptation of the author’s lesser known final work, Island. DiCaprio’s Appian Way is reportedly developing the series alongside In Good Company Films.Published in 1962, the novel is a counterpart to Huxley’s most famous novel, Brave New World.

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to produce a small screen adaptation of Aldous Huxley‘s novel Island.The actor will develop the project as part of his production company Appian Way along with bosses at Good Company Films. The series is inspired by the Brave New World author’s final book, which debuted in 1962.The story focuses on a journalist, who is shipwrecked on the fictional utopian island of Pala in the Indian Ocean.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLeonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and In Good Company Films are developing the utopian series “Island,” based on Aldous Huxley’s novel “Island.”Huxley’s final book, published in 1962, follows a cynical journalist shipwrecked on the fictional utopian island of Pala in the Indian Ocean.

The cast and crew of “Brave New World” took part in a panel for Comic-Con @ Home where they discussed the show based on Aldous Huxley’s novel of the same name.

Meet Linda. #BraveNewWorld is streaming now on @peacocktv!A post shared by Demi Moore (@demimoore) on Jul 15, 2020 at 10:29am PDTAlas, the Brave New Look likely wasn't permanent, but rather a temporary transformation for Moore's role as Linda in a new TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which just premiered on NBC's new streaming service, Peacock.

Demi Moore has transformed herself for her latest role. The 57-year-old Golden Globe nominee showed off a new hairdo on Instagram on Wednesday.

Peter White Television EditorThere’s something quite apt about a book that explores the issue of instant gratification becoming the centerpiece of a new streaming service.This is Brave New World and it launches today on Peacock.Showrunner David Wiener tells Deadline that he was struck by how prescient author Aldous Huxley’s 1932 book was.

Peacock is officially here and teeming with loads of original content for your enjoyment, including the dystopian drama Brave New World, which is based on Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name, and the anticipated Psych: The Movie sequel Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.  The streaming platform will also soon be delivering a special treat for fans of Dick Wolf's iconic procedural shows.

premiering Wednesday on Peacock.“There are some scripts that you just read and immediately know you have to do,” Findlay, 30, tells The Post. “I knew I had to play Lenina Crowne.”“Brave New World” is based on the classic 1932 Aldous Huxley novel of the same name.

Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. With the number of choices — and sheer confusion — facing viewers, here’s highlights of what the newcomer is offering.

It feels almost like a prerequisite for a prestige cable or streaming service to have a dystopian sci-fi show in their line-up, and NBC Universal’s Peacock, launching on July 15, is not about to be the exception. It may take plot points and the name of Aldous Huxley’s classic anti-utopian futurist tale “Brave New World” but make no mistake about it: this adaptation owes more to the televised dystopias of the last decade than the original source material.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley on your required reading list in high school, prepare to see it as you never expected.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Aldous Huxley was writing “Brave New World” in 1931, he was envisioning a futuristic world in which humans were genetically engineered into a caste system. Those who were deemed the most intelligent were on top — the aptly named Alphas — but no one looked around or within to question why things were like this or if it was the best way.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPeacock will premiere nine new series among 20,000 hours of content when it launches July 15.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Brave New World,” a TV adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel, takes place in a fictional universe in which pleasure and indolence are the paramount virtues; individuals in the upper echelon of society (served by those bred to be beneath them) spend their existences in a pursuit of leisure one might call single-minded if we suspected any of these poor creatures had much to call a mind at all.

Is it nearly 30 years since Demolition Man came out? This minor classic took the Rambo-esque antics of Sylvester Stallone and put them in a blender with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The result is a genuine Hollywood oddity.

The upcoming series Brave New World has been given a premiere date – July 15!

Peacock has announced its first round of originals set to premiere this summer! NBCUniversal announced Thursday that the new streaming service, which is already available for Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Flex customers, will offer an entertaining slate of brand new shows when Peacock officially launches nationally on July 15.

By Will Thorne

A show based on the novel Brave New World is heading to Sky and NowTV in 2020.

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Talk about pressure! Tony Yazbeck’s feeling it. It’s not easy playing Cary Grant, the man he calls “the greatest movie star of all time.”