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Diane Lane, Jeff Daniels, and Lucy Liu are stepping out for the premiere of their new Netflix series!

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are stepping out for the night!

The full length trailer for Jeff Daniels‘ new Netflix series A Man in Full just debuted online.

Facing relentless foes and sudden bankruptcy, an Atlanta real estate tycoon must claw his way back to the top when his empire begins to crumble. That’s the premise of the new Netflix series, “A Man In Full,” starring Jeff Daniels.

promoting his Prime Video show “American Rust: Broken Justice,” in which he stars as a small town cop. “I remember when – I think it was the start of Season 3 – we started with the Boston Marathon,” he said. “We were shooting that in November.

“Dumb and Dumber” movie on the horizon – but, Jeff Daniels told The Post, it’s not in the works. “I’ve heard nothing,” Daniels, 69, said while promoting his Prime Video show “American Rust: Broken Justice,” now in its second season, in which he stars as a small town cop. Regarding the occasional unverified report that “Dumb and Dumber 3” is in the works, Daniels quipped, “You’ve got to stay off the internet.”“I talk to Jim [Carrey] occasionally.

rusty. After Season 1 aired on Showtime, the Emmy-winning actor stars again in “American Rust,” which premieres its second season March 28 on Prime Video. “I got dragged to a book reading in 2004 or something like that.

Andrew Scott stars as the infamous Tom Ripley in Netflix’s new limited series “Ripley,” which premieres on April 4. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling novels, the series begins when a wealthy man hires Ripley to travel to Italy and convince his vagabond son to return home. In accepting the job, this marks “the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder,” per the release.

UPDATED: “Nobody understands all the things you have to do when you wear a badge.” So begins the Season 2 trailer for American Rust which sees the return of Jeff Daniels‘ police chief Del Harris to fictional Buell, Pennsylvania to investigate what appears to be a widening murder conspiracy threatening the small town.

EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Roché (1923) is making his K-drama debut in Netflix‘s Queen of Tears premiering March 9. He will portray Dr. Braun, a German doctor who has an interesting relationship with the two leads.

EXCLUSIVE: Aml Ameen, who portrays Dr.Martin Luther King in Rustin, reveals that he’s in talks with Film4 and the BFI to direct and star in the sequel to holiday romance Boxing Day, his feature directorial debut — and he has a second film, a crime saga called Night and Day that he wants to make soon. 

Naman Ramachandran David Leland, the British writer, director and actor whose credits include “Wish You Were Here,” “The Borgias” and more, died on Dec. 24, according to his agents Casarotto Ramsay & Associates. He was 82.

Keanu Reeves was already a big star when Speed came out in 1994, but it was this movie that really made him an action star.

Ray Liotta played many roles throughout his career before his death last year at age 67, but there’s one even he’s surprised he didn’t take on. In a newly released interview with Deadline, completed in 2019 around the time he appeared in "Marriage Story," Liotta revealed he turned down a meeting with Tim Burton for a role in 1989’s "Batman." "I’ve been able to hang on to keep doing these movies because it’s been hard for me in my head to go, ‘Now let me be the bad guy in a comic book movie,'" Liotta said of his later career roles. When asked why he never appeared in a superhero movie, he replied, "Because I was an idiot." He said after his breakout role in "Something Wild" with Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels, "my agent called me up and said, ‘Tim Burton would like to meet you.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jeff Daniels’ musical, audio-only memoir “Alive and Well Enough” — blending spoken word, storytelling, original music and performance — is coming exclusively to Audible. All episodes of the 12-episode first season will drop Sept. 7, 2023, exclusively on Audible at this link.

EXCLUSIVE: Platform Public Relations on Tuesday announced its appointment of Jennifer Curran to the role of Vice President, Global Talent Relations & Strategy, as well as its launch of new divisions in Asia and Europe.

Addie Morfoot Contributor In Netflix’s “The Saint of Second Chances,” Academy Award winner Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”) and Jeff Malmberg (“Marwencol”) tell the story of Mike Veeck, the hard-not-to-love son of late Major League Baseball owner Bill Veeck, who gained infamy for his role cooking up the disastrous Disco Demolition Night promotion at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in the late 1970s. The elder Veeck was known for introducing fun to ballparks via giveaways, theme nights, and fireworks.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert De Niro is attached to star in a Billy Ray-penned crime drama series that is in the works at Paramount+.

Todd Gilchrist editor On Feb. 24, Ray Liotta is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, just shy of a year since his death at the age of 67. The honor comes the same week as the release of “Cocaine Bear,” the sensational based-on-a-true-story film directed by Elizabeth Banks in which he plays a character she describes as “a gangster … but he’s also an unfit grandpa as well.” That characterization also encapsulates the breadth of his accomplishments on both film and TV as an actor, which range from mobsters and tough guys to loving fathers — and plenty in between. Ahead of the ceremony, Banks tells Variety that she cast Liotta after remembering her experiences working with him on the 2011 film “The Details.”

juicy (watch the trailer above).The official synopsis for “Love & Death” describes the new HBO Max original series as “the true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore – two churchgoing couples enjoying their smalltown Texas life… until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.” Judging by the shots of a blood-splattered Olsen walking down a hall, she seems to be the one who picks up said axe.Kelley wrote the new series and Lesli Linka directed the first first four and final episode of the seven-episode limited series. Kelley is also responsible for HBO sensations “Big Little Lies” and “The Undoing.” He is currently working on a bunch of high-profile projects for various streamers, including a “Presumed Innocent” series for Apple TV+, based on the novel by Scott Turow, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and co-produced by J.J.

EXCLUSIVE: Sinclair Daniel, as well as Ashleigh Murray, Brittany Adebumola and Hunter Parrish have joined the cast of Onyx’s The Other Black Girl as series regulars. Production on the Hulu comedy begins today in Atlanta.

EXCLUSIVE: Jerrika Hinton (Hunters) is set for a major recurring role in A Man in Full, Netflix’s six-episode limited series starring Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane, from David E. Kelley and Regina King based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel.

K.J. Yossman “White Noise” director Noah Baumbach spoke about his career highlights – and low points – as well as his creative partnership with Greta Gerwig during the BFI London Film Festival on Friday afternoon (Oct. 7). Asked about the eight-year gap between making “Mr. Jealousy” and “The Squid and the Whale,” Baumbach quipped: “I thought, you know what? I really needed about eight years off.” “No, it wasn’t by design, it was by accident,” he quickly clarified. “I sort of had two careers in a way. I had this early career very quickly and I was really figuring it all out as I was doing it. I had never really been on a movie set before I made ‘Kicking and Screaming.’ But I had this sense of how a movie should be and what I wanted a movie to be. And then after ‘Mr. Jealousy’ [the way] I experienced it at the time is that I was having trouble getting things made. I think, also, I didn’t really know what I wanted to make. And I think maybe, in some ways, my ambitions sort of exceeded my ability.”

Evan Roe (Madam Secretary) and Josh Pais (The Dropout) are set for key roles opposite Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane in A Man in Full, Netflix’s six-episode limited series from David E. Kelley and Regina King based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel.

EXCLUSIVE: Diane Lane (Feud: Capote’s Women) has signed with CAA for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit) will reunite once again with his American Rust and The Looming Tower co-star Jeff Daniels in A Man in Full, Netflix’s six-episode limited series from David E. Kelley and Regina King based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel.

Lucy Liu has officially joined the limited series A Man in Full alongside Diane Lane and Jeff Daniels.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLucy Liu is the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Netflix limited series “A Man in Full,” Variety has learned exclusively.Liu will star in the series alongside previously announced leads Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane as well as cast members William Jackson Harper, Aml Ameen, Tom Pelphrey, Sarah Jones, Jon Michael Hill, and Chanté Adams.The series is based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name. Variety exclusively reported the show had received a straight-to-series order at the streamer in November 2021. It hails from David E.

William Jackson Harper (Love Life), Tom Pelphrey (Ozark), Aml Ameen (Boxing Day), Sarah Jones (For All Mankind), Jon Michael Hill (Widows), and Chanté Adams (A League Of Their Own) have been cast opposite Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane in A Man In Full, Netflix’s six-episode limited series based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel, from David E. Kelley and Regina King.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Netflix limited series “A Man in Full” has added six new cast members, Variety has learned.William Jackson Harper, Aml Ameen, Tom Pelphrey, Sarah Jones, Jon Michael Hill, and Chanté Adams have all joined the show opposite previously announced leads Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane. The series is based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name. Variety exclusively reported the show had received a straight-to-series order at the streamer in November 2021.

The acclaimed play To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be returning to Broadway and the show’s playwright Aaron Sorkin is placing blame on disgraced producer Scott Rudin.

Justin Trudeau is changing his look. On Friday, Trudeau, 50, ditched his long hair for a short cut and clean-shaven face during a children’s visit in Chelsea, Quebec.  The Canadian Prime Minister’s look quickly sparked comparisons online to Jim Carrey’s hairstyle in "Dumb and Dumber."  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau draws comparison to Jim Carrey with new haircut. (The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld and Getty Images) "I like how Jim Carrey is trending on Twitter Canada because Justin Trudeau got a haircut and folks are saying it looks like Jim’s character from Dumb and Dumber," one Twitter user wrote.

Selome Hailu To raise funds and awareness for the war in Ukraine, NBC will air primetime special “Ukraine: Answering the Call” featuring an address from president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on July 3 at 7 p.m.“Ukraine: Answering the Call” aims to respond to previous comments from Zelenskyy, who has challenged Americans to speak up about the war. The hour-long special will also feature appearances from José Andrés, Jon Batiste, Kristen Bell, Brandi Carlile, Brian Cox, Jeff Daniels, Vera Farmiga, Lena Headey, Alicia Keys, Simu Liu, Julianne Moore, Brad Paisley and Rosie Perez.

NBC has set Ukraine: Answering The Call, a one-hour primetime special aimed at education and raising funds for those whose lives have been shattered by the escalating war in the country.

Freevee has come to the rescue for American Rust. Amazon’s free ad-supported video on demand streaming service (formerly IMDb TV) has ordered a second season of the Rust Belt drama series, with Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney returning to lead the cast.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon Freevee is bringing back “American Rust” for Season 2 following the show’s cancellation at Showtime.“American Rust,” based on the Philipp Meyer novel of the same name, stars Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney. The show aired one season on Showtime in late 2021 before it was canceled in January 2022.“’American Rust’ is exactly the type of gritty and engaging storytelling Amazon Freevee audiences love, and we could not be more excited to bring this prestige series to our customers, free of charge,” said Lauren Anderson and Ryan Pirozzi, co-heads of content and programming at Amazon Freevee.