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Hulu released an official trailer for its new Mike, a series from Steven Rogers (I, Tonya) and 20th Television that chronicles the life of controversial heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson. It premieres Aug. 25.

Sure, the story of infamous former boxer and heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson has been told before, but perhaps never like “Mike,” a deep dive Hulu series from director Craig Gillespie and the creative team behind the sports drama “I, Tonya.” The eight-episode limited series will launch on August 25 on Hulu, and we’ve finally got our first look at the series featuring “Moonlight” star Trevante Rhodes in the lead role of “Mike.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHulu’s “Pam & Tommy” takes audiences back to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll in 1990s Los Angeles. It was a pre-9/11 world, when “the internet hasn’t robbed us of our privacy,” points out production designer Ethan Tobman. “The rest of the world adores us and wants to be us.

For all the shock and awe that the Hulu series Pam & Tommy has to offer on the tortured romance of Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson and priapic Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, creator/EP Robert Siegel, EP D.V. DeVincentis and EP/episodic director Craig Gillespie saw a whole other, higher layer in the couple’s story.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actorJohn Magaro, who landed a Gotham Award nomination for his starring turn in Kelly Reichardt’s 2019 Western First Cow, for representation in all areas.

Lily James poses alongside her Pam & Tommy co-stars Sebastian Stan and Seth Rogen as they arrive at Deadline Contenders Television at Paramount Studios on Sunday (April 10) in Los Angeles.

Apple TV+ has set a June premiere date for the Season 2 premiere of its praised dark comedy series Physical. The streamer also released first-look photos of the new season (see above and below).

EXCLUSIVE: After helping tell the crazy behind-the-scenes story of the leaked Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape in Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, director Craig Gillespie looks to have found another wild true story to adapt for the big screen. Sources tell Deadline Gillespie has signed on to direct MGM’s feature adaptation of New York Times best-selling author Ben Mezrich The Antisocial Network. The book tells one of the biggest news stories of 2021, about a ragtag group of amateur investors, gamers and Internet trolls who brought Wall Street to its knees. MGM landed the rights to Mezrich’s book proposal back in January, only a week after the true-life story began taking shape on Wall Street and quickly made it a priority at the studio by tapping Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo to adapt.

Jenny Beavan won an Oscar tonight in the Best Achievement in Costume Design category for her work on Disney’s Cruella.

The Bingeworthy boys, Mike DeAngelo, and Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez, are back to talk about all of the TV news and shows that are worth your time. This week finds our hosts digging into one of the best shows of the year – Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy.” After the discussion, writer/director/actor Lake Bell stops by to talk about directing her episodes of “Pam & Tommy,” Episode 4, “The Master Beta,” and Episode 7, “Destroyer of Worlds.” LISTEN: John Lurie Talks ‘Painting with John’ Season 2 [Bingeworthy Podcast] “Craig Gillespie and I worked together…I was an actor for him on ‘Million Dollar Arm,’ and so we had a rapport,” said Bell.

“Pam and Tommy”Wednesday, February 2, HuluThis based-on-a-true-story miniseries dramatizes the events surrounding the release of the weirdly groundbreaking sex tape that inadvertently starred Pamela Anderson (then a Playboy pinup and star of syndicated hit “Baywatch”) and Tommy Lee (drummer for ’80s heavy-metal act Mötley Crüe). Lily James plays Anderson and Sebastian Stan plays Lee, each actor disappearing completely into their respective roles, both physically (thanks, in part, to uncanny prosthetic makeup effects and never-ending fake tattoos) and psychologically, as they go through the emotional roller coaster of having a private tape leaked and becoming a commercial phenomenon.

much better people now; we are not, say, as ignorant of sexism or racism or economic disparity as those rubes from a past decade were. We might not come out forgiving O.J.

Without even going into spoilers or knowing too much about the series, all it takes is one watch of the trailer for “Pam & Tommy” to know the Hulu series is going to be wild. Hell, the story on paper is almost too strange to believe.

Variety. (Insert your own joke here about why it required so many puppeteers.)The scene received what Siegel called “gentle pushback” from Hulu executives.“There was gentle pushback, because you’ve got to push back a little when a talking penis is presented to you,” he said. “But Hulu was extremely supportive.”The scene was not actually Siegel’s idea — he simply brought the original vision to life.“As much as I’d like to take credit for that, I was simply adapting a chapter from [Lee’s] memoir,” Siegel said.

Pam & Tommy as Tommy Lee’s penis.The actor, best known for roles in The League, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place and Big Mouth, will voice the former Mötley Crüe drummer’s penis in a scene during the second episode of the Hulu series.The scene, inspired by a passage in Lee’s memoir Tommyland, sees the musician (played by Sebastian Stan) engage in a “heart-to-heart talk” with his penis to discuss whether he’s falling in love after meeting Pamela Anderson (Lily James).Speaking to Variety about the scene, writer Robert D. Siegel said: “I think it might be a first [for television].

The story of “Pam & Tommy” will be a lot more surreal than the trailers have let on.

upcoming Hulu miniseries about Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s tumultuous, sex-fueled marriage would be scandalous, but they probably didn’t know it would be this outrageous.While the Lily James- and Sebastian Stan-fronted series “Pam & Tommy” won’t hit streaming screens until Feb. 2, the actors recently opened up about a particular scene in Episode 2 that will surely be NSFW.The pair spoke to Variety in a lengthy story about the eight-episode series and what viewers should expect.One sequence shows the Mötley Crüe drummer meeting Pamela and discussing with himself if he has actually fallen in love.He then has a pep talk with his genitalia.

The late-‘90s were an exciting, somewhat frightening time for people with an internet connection. Everything seemed like it was brand-new, and most of the fun things you did back then are heavily frowned on today.

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency, Bold Films and Permut Productions’ Chippendales movie, which tells the wild story about the male exotic dancing enterprise, is gaining momentum. Sources tell Deadline that Seth Rogen and Elle Fanning are in talks to join the cast.

Pam & Tommy has arrived. And Lily James is truly unrecognizable as . From director Craig Gillespie, the eight-episode series Pam & Tommy stars James as Anderson, as Tommy Lee, and also includes Seth Rogen, Taylor Schilling (Orange Is the New Black), and Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation).The comedy-drama chronicles the relationship between Baywatch star Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Lee, who married less than a week after they met in 1995.

Pam & Tommy – check it out below.Lily James and Sebastian Stan will star as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in the new original limited series for Hulu, which is set to come out on February 2 next year.Also included in the cast are Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling and Andrew Dice Clay, while Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg executive produced the eight-episode series.

Angelique Jackson Emma Stone will be back for more dramatic fashions and dastardly deeds, officially closing a deal to star in the upcoming “Cruella 2.”News of the sequel’s development broke in early June, just weeks after the live-action adaptation of the Disney animated classic opened in theaters.

The Suicide Squad, has joined the director’s next untitled film opposite Tom Hanks, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robbie’s role is believed to be in a supporting capacity – although plot details are unknown.Filming will begin in Spain later this month, with the project written and directed by Anderson.This marks Robbie’s debut in an Anderson flick, following scene-stealing turns in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street, Craig Gillespie’s I,

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that New Regency has boarded Craig Gillespie’s Chippendales film project starring Dev Patel as co-financier with Bold Films.

The latest photo of Lily James from the set of the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee biographical series Pam & Tommy will make fans do a double take. The English actor, 32, is the spitting image of the blonde bombshell in new photos obtained by the Daily Mail, taken from the set of Craig Gillespie’s highly-anticipated Hulu miniseries in Los Angeles this week.

Indie filmmaker Hannah Fidell is circling back to her roots. While she has made relationship dramas like “6 Years,” the Netflix comedy, “The Long Dumb Road,” and directed plenty of TV (“Casual,” “The Act,” “Sorry For Your Loss“), her latest project is the most ambitious of her career.

Emma Stone starrer ‘Cruella’ got a release a few weeks ago and garnered tremendous response from the fans as well as critics. Emma Stone’s performance as the Disney anti-hero received overwhelming praise from people around the globe.

“The good thing about evil people is you can always trust them to do something, well, evil.” Of course, there’s a metaphor in there about movie studios, but we’ll let you figure that one out. Regardless, following the success of “Cruella” in theaters and Disney+, Disney is already developing a “Cruella 2” sequel.

Cruella is already in the works at Disney, according to reports.As noted in The Hollywood Reporter, a sequel to the Emma Stone-starring film is in “early development” with the publication reporting that Cruella director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Tony McNamara expected to return for the follow-up.Cruella debuted on May 28 in cinemas and on Disney+ and has earned £34 million ($48.5 million) globally so far.In a statement, a Disney spokesperson said: “We are very pleased with Cruella’s box

Fresh off the release of “Cruella”, Disney is already prepping for a sequel.

No surprise here: Disney is capitalizing on last weekend’s success of Cruella in theaters and on Disney+ Premier, with a sequel already in the works with the pic’s director Craig Gillespie and writer Tony McNamara looking to team again.

A “Cruella” sequel is in the works at Disney, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap.While the studio is in early development on the sequel, director Craig Gillespie and writer Tony McNamara are expected to return for the follow-up film. The first film was also co-written by Dana Fox.“Cruella” debuted on May 28 in theaters and Disney+, and it has earned $48.5 million globally so far — it also received positive reviews.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterThe world may have been a more wholesome place before Cruella De Vil, but Disney cannot get enough of her.Before “Cruella” — the live-action prequel to the animated feature “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” — has even entered its second weekend, Disney is already in early development on a sequel, with director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Tony McNamara both expected to return.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDirector Craig Gillespie doesn’t want to reveal too much about “Pam & Tommy,” his upcoming Hulu series about Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s marriage and infamous sex tape, but he certainly offers a good tease or two.“The scripts are pretty amazing,” Gillespie said while promoting his latest film, Disney’s “Cruella.” “It’s going to be a wild, shocking [and] painfully sad ride.”The series, currently shooting, stars Lily James (“Downton