Phillipa Soo Joins Elisabeth Moss In Apple’s ‘Shining Girl’ Thriller Series

The two-time Oscar nominee and 2x Golden Globe winner will play Prosecutor Leaward in the Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro film Killers of the Flower Moon which Martin Scorsese is directing. This is the first time that John Lithgow has starred in a Scorsese movie.

CHICAGO -- Paul Johnson, a Chicago house music disc jockey and producer who scored a hit with his 1999 track “Get Get Down,” has died from complications of COVID-19. He was 50.Johnson died Wednesday morning at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Chicago, where he was hospitalized with COVID-19 on July 17, said Camille Harry, one of his agents.“Paul Johnson fought up until the very end.

Rapper DaBaby has been dropped from this year’s Music Midtown lineup after receiving backlash for homophobic remarks.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has added Beth Lacke (Chicago Med, Hope Springs Eternal), Stephen Louis Grush (Chicago P.D., The Alienist), and Cass Buggé (Better Things, Yes Day) to its upcoming sci-fi drama series Lightyears in recurring roles.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is ruthless in Netflix’s trailer for “KATE”.

Dave Grohl was joined on stage by his daughter Violet during Foo Fighters‘ headline set at Lollapalooza 2021 last weekend (August 1).The rock giants were nearing the end of their set at the Chicago festival when Violet joined them on stage for a high-energy cover of X’s ‘Nausea’.The track was the first cover to be recorded by the pair and also served as a nod to their family history – X’s D.J.

Zooey Deschanel has joined TikTok and did it with a splash.

according to WTWW.However, by Friday, the Chicago Department of Public Health announced new mask recommendations in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raising the city’s transmission rate status to “substantial.”“Based on the latest advice from the Chicago Department of Public Health, Lollapalooza will require masks in any indoor spaces at Grant Park beginning Saturday,” the festival tweeted on Friday.

Naman Ramachandran Veteran producer and former Disney UTV MD Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP is teaming with Premnath Rajagopalan of Blue Monkey Films for multi-season espionage thriller series “Panthers.” The series will be directed and showrun by Rensil D’Silva (“24: India”), whose thriller “Dial 100,” starring Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta and Sakshi Tanwar and produced by Sony Pictures Films India and Alchemy Films, is debuting Aug. 6 on streamer ZEE5.

Lauren Ash as Diane Dunbrowski. Diane has always been and always will be the life of the party, even when the party has long since been over.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered the adult animated series “Chicago Party Aunt,” inspired by Chris Witaske’s Twitter account of the same name.Netflix has ordered 16 episodes of the half-hour series, with the first eight slated to drop on Sept. 17.

Netflix continues to expand its animation slate with a 16-episode series order to Chicago Party Aunt, a half-hour adult animated comedy from Chris Witaske (What Men Want), Jon Barinholtz (Superstore), and Katie Rich, who also star, Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment and Titmouse (Big Mouth, Human Resources).

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJai Courtney has been cast in the Amazon series “The Terminal List” opposite Chris Pratt, Variety has learned.The series follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability.

Actress Michelle Monaghan has been tapped to lead a brand new psychological thriller series from Netflix that will see the actress play identical twins, who essentially swap lives as adults and leads to some terrible consequences along the way, according to the streamer.

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s Chicago Med is leaning into Dr. Dean Archer’s controversial promotion to interim chief of the ED by upping Steven Weber to series regular. The news comes after the explosive Season 6 finale in May that saw power-hungry Dean continue to dangerously bend the rules to suit his agenda.

EXCLUSIVE: A pandemic read has led to a series order at Netflix. The streamer has greenlighted The Night Agent, a political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller. Seth Gordon is set to direct the first episode of the series, which comes from Sony Pictures Television Studios where Ryan and Gordon are under overall deals.

The music of the late rapper Juice WRLD, the Chicago rapper who died tragically of a drug overdose at age 21, will be the inspiration for an upcoming animated film currently in development. Announced today in Deadline, the as-yet-untitled project will be scripted by Jaboukie Young-White, a comedian who has written for Big Mouth and American Vandal and appears as a correspondent on The Daily Show.