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Starz is developing a drama series centered on the life of African Warrior Queen Nzinga with American Gods’ Yetide Badaki set to star in the main role.

One of the British aristocracy’s most notorious scandals of the 20th century is forming the basis for a new BBC miniseries.

Steve Howey has landed the male lead in True Lies, the CBS drama pilot adaptation of James Cameron’s 1994 action comedy movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. The casting of the Schwarzenegger role restarts the project after the network hit pause on the 20th Television-produced pilot in March, rolling it to off-cycle.

Since it opened the Cannes Film Festival in July, presumably by now you’ve heard all about “Annette,” the avante garde rock opera musical by the great Leos Carax (“Holy Motors“) featuring the music of the avante-pop band Sparks (featured in Edgar Wright‘s recent documentary “The Sparks Brothers“) and featuring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard.

Kerry Washington will star in and produce the feature film adaptation of Diane Cardwell’s memoir “Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life” for Netflix, the streamer announced on Tuesday. The film is a co-production with Liza Chasin’s 3dot Productions, Washington’s Simpson Street and Aevitas Entertainment.

Zola helmer Janicza Bravo has been tapped to direct and executive produce FX pilot Kindred, an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s influential novel, with newcomer Mallori Johnson set to star.

Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, and Riley Keough will star in Manodrome, a film written and to be directed by South African director John Trengrove, marking his English-language debut. Pic package will be presented to buyers and financiers during the Cannes virtual market just getting underway.

One of the most anticipated films of 2021, “Annette,” is opening the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival next month. “Annette” marks the first English-language film from visionary director Leos Carax (“Holy Motors“), with music by Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael, recently featured in Edgar Wright’s terrific documentary, “The Sparks Brothers.” “Annette” stars Adam Driver, and Marion Cotillard is based on Sparks’ original story.

Annie Ilonzeh is set as the lead in NBC drama pilot Getaway, from The Blacklist duo John Davis and John Fox and Universal TV, a division of Universal Studios Group.

There is no shortage of films about the difficulties of being an artist. But when you have a film about the creative difficulties of being a musician that features a cast led by Alia Shawkat and Eiza Gonzales, suddenly it doesn’t matter if the premise seems familiar.

To say Garth Davis has experienced an interesting filmmaking career is an understatement. After breaking out in a big way with his Oscar-nominated feature, “Lion,” he experienced some issues finding release for his follow-up, “Mary Magdelene.” And then, after the film finally was released, the filmmaker surprisingly landed the coveted gig as director of “Tron 3.” But before he jumps over to Disney, he is set to tackle a sci-fi drama, “Foe,” which features a pretty stacked cast.

It’s the Jonas Brothers like you’ve never seen them.

Shameless star Jeremy Allen White is to lead FX pilot The Bear.

ABC just dropped the new teaser for upcoming drama “Queens”.

EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Rolando Chusan is set as a lead opposite John Ortiz in ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land.

EXCLUSIVE: Tonatiuh (Vida) is set as a lead opposite John Ortiz in ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land.

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has come aboard to star in and executive produce Free Agents, a sports heist thriller that Deon Taylor will direct for Lionsgate. Taylor wrote the script with Joe Bockol and came up with the story.

Cecilia Suárez (The House of Flowers) and Augusto Aguilera (Too Old To Die Young) are set as leads opposite John Ortiz in ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land.

John Ortiz (HBO’s Togetherness) has been tapped as a main lead of ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land.

If you’re a film fan and know your Irish actors, you’re probably very familiar with the last name Gleeson. There’s Brendan Gleeson, a damn fine veteran actor.

The final days of high school are fodder for dozens of films over the years. Typically, things don’t work out well for those teens that are shedding their high school lives in favor of becoming adults.

Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone were clearly eager to star in “Thor: Love and Thunder”. 

EXCLUSIVE: Angel Parker (Marvel’s Runaways) has been cast as a lead opposite Billy Campbell in National Parks, ABC’s drama pilot co-written and executive produced by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner. The project hails from Costner’s Territory Pictures Entertainment, 20th Television and A+E Studios.

Shawnee Smith (the Saw franchise), Dean Winters (30 Rock), Emmy winning actor Chris Elliott, and Oscar nominee Bruce Dern are set to star in Christmas vs The Walters, an indie holiday comedy from JARS Media Group, Sparkd Films, and Novakovic Brothers Films. Caroline Aaron (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Betsy Beutler (Last Call and Scrubs), Paris Bravo (Bad Therapy), Nate Torrence (She’s Out Of My League), Jack McGee (Moneyball), and Emmy winner Richard Thomas will also lead the ensemble cast.

EXCLUSIVE: Let’s Make A Deal host Wayne Brady is to guest star in Showtime’s American Gigolo pilot.

Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield bring their immense talent to Shaka King’s new film, “Judas And The Black Messiah”.

“Bridesmaids” is one of the most iconic comedy films of the past decade. The raunchy comedy not only featured a breakout performance from Melissa McCarthy but also served as the launching point for Kristen Wiig’s Post-‘SNL’ career.

Under normal circumstances, the release of a new movie with an all-star cast including George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen would be met with excitement and anticipation.

Freeform has ordered a pilot for Single Drunk Female starring Your Honor’s Sofia Black-D’Elia and The Breakfast Club’s Ally Sheedy.

Matt Rife (Wild ‘N Out) and Clare Grant (Changeland) are set to star in psychological thriller The Private Eye, along with Eric Roberts (Runaway Train), Erik Griffin (Workaholics), Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther), Eugenia Kuzmina (The Gentlemen), Elijah Boothe (Luke Cage), Jihad Reeves (All American), King Chip (Shootouts), Lexy Panterra (Boo 2! A Madea Halloween) and newcomer Elliot. Jack Cook directed the pic from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hope Ayiyi, Santino Ramos, and Patrick Roe.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are filmmakers that really have earned our trust over the past several years. Thanks to films like “The LEGO Movie,” the ‘21 Jump Street’ franchise, and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” these filmmakers have the benefit of the doubt no matter what the project is.

Mike Fleming Jr, Andreas Wiseman EXCLUSIVE: In what becomes one of the hot packages of AFM, Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff will star in Molly and the Moon, an original musical that How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays & Craig Thomas scripted, and they will direct.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerJamie Foxx is back at Netflix with Day Shift, a vampire hunter feature which is being directed by first-time feature director JJ Perry.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Michael Ealy (Stumptown) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley in Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from David Cornue, Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and 20th Television.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital.

Legendary actress and singer Jenifer Lewis says her sex addiction in the ’80s was “dangerous.”

An aspiring writer gets close to reclusive author J.D. Salinger in the literary drama “My Salinger Year” and ET Canada has your exclusive first look at the trailer for the film.