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Miley Cyrus masks up while stepping out with Lil Nas X and other friends on Friday night (February 19) in Malibu, Calif.

Billy Ray has every intention of shamelessly plugging the actors who populated his Showtime series, The Comey Rule, at every opportunity that presents itself this awards season.

David Robb Labor EditorOscar-nominated screenwriter and The Comey Rule writer-director Billy Ray is urging WGA West members to mobilize through the guild’s political action committee to “rid the Senate” of GOP incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in next month’s dual runoff races in Georgia.Loeffler and Perdue “are fairly loathsome,” he said today in a mass email to the guild’s members.

Billy Ray I often wonder what would happen if Donald Trump got to make a movie about Hollywood, instead of the other way around. Of course, he’s been writing it for years.

(CNN)One of best days Jeff Daniels ever had on a film or TV set was a day he was reliving what was very likely one of James Comey's worst. In Showtime's "The Comey Rule," premiering Sept.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmShowtime airs the battle between ex-FBI Director James Comey and President Donald Trump and the investigation into Russian election meddling depicted in The Comey Rule on Sunday and Monday. This after a ViacomCBS changed a shocking decision to relegate the $40 million star-studded series to January, Billy Ray holds court on the place both men will occupy in history.

Though the original film is 70 years old, Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” remains one of the most influential films ever to be released. To this day, you still hear descriptions of new films and TV projects as “Rashomon”-esque, as the style used to tell the mystery at the heart of the film has inspired so many copycats.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAmblin Television’s TV series based on “Rashomon” has landed at HBO Max for development.The project, which has been in the works since late 2018, will not be a direct adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film, but will retain the key plot device.

Peter White Television EditorHBO Max has boarded a television drama inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon.The series, which is in development at the streamer, is being written by Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and Virgil Williams (Mudbound) and produced by Amblin Television.The project has been in the works for around two years after the television arm of Steven Spielberg’s company announced that it had secured the rights to create a new series inspired by the film.Opus7

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“I imagine we will be on his radar and I think it is likely the IRS will start auditing my taxes, but that’s just a guess,” The Comey Rule director Billy Ray said  today on how Donald Trump will react to the upcoming Showtime event series.

The Comey Rule almost didn't premiere before the 2020 presidential election. The cable network originally slated the four-hour drama for late November, but shortly after creator Billy Ray publicly expressed his "disappointment" with the scheduling decision, Showtime reversed course and moved up the premiere of The Comey Rule to late September.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough “The Comey Rule” is debuting just slightly more than a month ahead of the 2020 presidential election, creator-director Billy Ray did not make the series to change anyone’s vote.“The reason I did this was because I felt that the Russians had had a profound and unhappy effect on our political process in 2016 and I wanted the American public to know about that before they went to the polls in 2020,” he said during a virtual panel for the

Midnight Sky singer Miley Cyrus is opening up about her relationship with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, as well as an unfortunate accident. The 27-year-old Wrecking Ball singer who just broke up with Cody Simpson after 11 months of dating, spoke out on The Joe Rogan Podcast on Wednesday (September 2).

While the filmmakers behind Showtime’s two-part “The Comey Rule” have clearly overestimated the public’s desire for— uhhh, gestures in the general direction of anything and everything in entertainment vaguely resembling the Trump Shitshow, any ancillary offshoots (see the Fox News portrait “The Loudest Voice”) and generally, politics in the corrosive age of toxic politics— writer/director Bill Ray’s “The Comey Rule” does open up with a good, if simplistic, bit and intriguing question.

The political biopic is a time-honored tradition in Hollywood. However, normally, those stories are told well after the person has left office or even passed away.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterShowtime has officially released a trailer for upcoming two-night limited series “The Comey Rule,” featuring Jeff Daniels as former FBI director James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Trump. The miniseries, written and directed by Billy Ray and adapted from Comey’s book “A Higher Loyalty,” premieres on Sunday, Sept.

Pick a Donald Trump scandal? Pick your poison cause there’s so damn many of them. But the one that arguably kicked-off everything, that led to the Mueller trial and the case for impeaching the President—which of course happened, even if the partisan Republicans didn’t vote to find him guilty—is the firing of Ex-FBI Director James Comey.

October 3, 2019There was a frenzy in mid June when the first picture of Gleeson in his Trump character appeared online. The catch was it was merely the unmistakable silhouette of the current US president rather.Needless the say it left fans wanting more and today those pictures were shared by Vanity Fair along with a longer trailer.Speaking of Gleeson’s ability to take on Trump, scriptwriter Billy Ray said of him: ‘You have to have presence, and a singular kind of dynamism.

Noah Cyrus has made her new singles a family affair.

Billy Ray Cyrus had great things to say when speaking about his daughter Miley Cyrus and how much he admires her “spirit.”“She’s a giver. She believes that we’re all put here for a reason, and that’s to give back to our fellow man,” the “Old Town Road” artist, 58, told Us Weekly exclusively on Friday, June 26, while promoting his partnership with Busch.

“The Comey Rule,” initially slated to debut in late November, will now air on Sunday, Sept. 27, and Monday, Sept.

The Comey Rule, Showtime's buzzy upcoming drama about former FBI director James Comey and his publicly turbulent relationship with Donald Trump, before the 2020 presidential election after all. Showtime has announced a new premiere date for the two-part, four-hour limited series after director Billy Ray criticized its original, post-election debut date. The Comey Rule will now air on back-to-back nights, Sunday, Sept.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmA day after The Comey Rule writer/director Billy Ray released a letter to the cast lamenting the decision by ViacomCBS to slot the limited series until after the presidential elections in November, Showtime has just announced an about-face.

Will Thorne Staff WriterShowtime has officially moved the premiere date for its miniseries about former FBI Director James Comey and his tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump to prior to the presidential election.The move comes after backlash from the cast and crew, expressed in a letter written by series writer and director Billy Ray.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterShowtime’s upcoming miniseries “The Comey Rule” could soon be changing premiere dates.The show, which details former FBI Director James Comey’s tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump, was originally scheduled to debut in late November. That would put it after the U.S.

was first to report on the upcoming move and added that “Comey Rule” director Billy Ray was unhappy with the initial decision to have it air after the election.Also Read: 'The Comey Rule': Get Your 1st Look at Brendan Gleeson as Trump in Showtime Limited Series (Photo)“We all were hoping to get this story in front of the American people months before the coming election,” he wrote in an email to the cast, per the Times.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Reflecting the collective disappointment of the  cast of a $40 million limited series The Comey Rule after ViacomCBS gave a surprising post presidential election Showtime air date for the button drama about the clash between ex-FBI Director James Comey and President Donald Trump, writer/director Billy Ray wrote and circulated a letter of apology.When the network revealed that the series would air over two nights in late November, speculation was

Billy Ray Cyrus is always ready for a family jam session! The country crooner chats with ET's Rachel Smith about how his family is coping with quarantine and what he's doing to give back amid this troubling time.

Just last week Noah Cyrus dropped her new song, Young & Sad, and later during an Instagram Live session, the 20-year-old opened up about how the lyrics of her song are connected to her elder sister Miley Cyrus. She spoke about what it was like growing up in the shadow of her famous sibling. Noah is the youngest daughter of Billy Ray and Tish. In the song, Noah comments about how different she is from her sister.   

Bachelor Nation won't be heading to Stagecoach anytime soon. While the country music festival was originally scheduled for this weekend, the event in Indio, Calif.

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The country music star is doing his achy bakey part.

From director Clint Eastwood and writer Billy Ray comes this involving true story about the 1996 Olympic Park bombings in Atlanta where the Richard Jewell of the title, a well-liked, local law enforcement-respecting security guard comes under suspicion of planting the bomb which killed two people and injured 111.

Miley Cyrus' "Bright Minded" Instagram live stream on Tuesday (March 24) featured none other than her famous father, Billy Ray Cyrus.

Andy Serkis stars alongside his daughter in a new Netflix series – but they are far from the first father-daughter pairing to share a screen.

Keeping their distance. Miley Cyrus and her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, both attended the WME pre-Oscars party in Los Angeles on Friday, February 7, but the former couple didn’t cross paths.