EXCLUSIVE: Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone) will lead the cast of Gulfstream Pictures’ romantic comedy Upgraded, from actor-director Carlson Young (The Blazing World), which has entered production in the UK.
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EXCLUSIVE: We’ve just learned about the remaining cast for Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate’s adventure horror thriller Creepers with Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, Laurence O’Faurain, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Skylan Brooks and Kai Caster joining.
The film, which begins production this week in Bulgaria, is directed by music video and commercial filmmaker Marc Klasfeld.
Creepers follows a group of young urban explorers who plan to investigate an old, boarded-up, seemingly abandoned hotel, only to encounter danger at every turn in the form of a competing group of hostile urban explorers seeking to find a legendary hidden treasure – as well as a supernatural being who wreaks havoc on all.
Manley will play Rick, the official leader of the Creepers; Rudolph will play Diane, the unofficial leader of the group, and Rick’s rebellious, defying, impulsive girlfriend; Reale will play Cora, a parkour expert and the key in the group who opens doors wherever they’re closed while keeping everyone honest; O’Faurain will play Balenger, a mysterious, brooding, powerful stranger with a secret and who isn’t who he says he is; Hamilton will play Tod, leader of the Scavengers, a rival urbex group and who is particularly cruel and vicious; Botet will play the supernatural Pale Creature whose domain is the abandoned Paragon Hotel; Brooks will play Vernon, the 4th Creeper, a wise-cracking tech-nerd who is not doing a good job of hiding his true feelings for Cora; and Caster will play JD, once a Creeper, but exiled after breaking their code and further betraying them by joining the rival Scavs.
Klasfeld said, “We have assembled a truly amazing cast for Creepers who share the incredible passion of myself and Jordan to
EXCLUSIVE: Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone) will lead the cast of Gulfstream Pictures’ romantic comedy Upgraded, from actor-director Carlson Young (The Blazing World), which has entered production in the UK.
Christopher Vourlias Croatia’s Drugi Plan and Bulgaria’s Agitprop, two of the leading production outfits in Southeast Europe, have been attached to co-produce the upcoming drama series “Sabre,” a political thriller revolving around the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic produced by Belgrade-based This and That Productions.Created by Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić, the series will star Serbian-Danish actress Danica Curcic, known to international audiences for her lead role in the Netflix psychological thriller “The Chestnut Man,” as a reporter investigating the shocking murder.The companies announced the deal on Monday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where This and That’s “Bad Blood” and Drugi Plan’s “The Silence” were among the top Balkan drama series vying for Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony in the Bosnian capital on Sunday night. “Sabre” was first pitched in Sarajevo three years ago during the CineLink Drama co-financing forum, where it was named best drama project.
Ashley Hume “Never Have I Ever” executive producer Mindy Kaling, showrunner Lang Fisher and the stars of the Netflix coming-of-age dramedy celebrated the debut of its third season at the Westwood Village Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday night.The show follows Indian American teenager Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she copes with the sudden death of her father while also navigating complicated relationships with her family members, romantic interests and peers at her high school in L.A.’s Sherman Oaks neighborhood.The cast and crew had not previously been able to attend an in-person premiere for the hit series, which debuted shortly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The excitement was palpable as hundreds of fans lined the streets around the theater and cheered on the arrival of the stars. “I feel like I’m at the Oscars,” Kaling told Variety.
Kate Aurthur editorLionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer — in his regular weekly letter to the staff — has vowed that the company will prioritize and protect the reproductive rights of its employees.In the letter, which was obtained by Variety, Feltheimer noted that Lionsgate already has strong protections in place “to safeguard employees from discrimination, harassment, bullying and invasion of privacy,” and wrote that after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June, which overturned Roe v. Wade, “it has become necessary to develop strong policies and add to our comprehensive benefits to protect our employees’ reproductive rights as well.” Feltheimer’s letter is copied in full below.The Lionsgate show “P-Valley,” which airs on Starz, is filmed in Georgia, where abortion is forbidden as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected.
The trailer for Netflix‘s new “subverted Hitchcock-ian dark comedy” film, Do Revenge, has just debuted online.
Michaela Zee editorMaya Hawke and Camila Mendes are out for vengeance in the official trailer for “Do Revenge.”Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (“Someone Great”), the gen-Z dark comedy stars Mendes (“Riverdale,” “Palm Springs”) as Drea and Hawke (“Stranger Things,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) as Eleanor, two teenage girls who work together and devise a plan to go after each other’s tormentors. Former queen bee Drea wants to get back at her ex-boyfriend for leaking her sex tape, while alt girl Eleanor is after the peer who spread a false rumor about her and made her a social pariah. “I don’t want to make her pay,” Hawke says in the trailer. “I want to burn her to the ground.” Starring alongside Hawke and Mendes are Alisha Boe, Austin Abrams, Rish Shah, Talia Ryder, Ava Capri, Jonathan Daviss, Maia Reficco and Paris Berelc, with a special guest appearance by “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner.
Things are heating up in the sequel for “365 Days”.
Netflix has dropped the first trailer for returning Indian anthology series Delhi Crime. Season 2 of the drama is due to premiere globally on August 26. Check it out above.
Netflix has bagged Thomas M. Wright’s tense Cannes thriller The Stranger and will premiere it globally in October.
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.
if but when.This also solidifies Universal Studios’ filmmaker-first approach, as they join a group that includes Jordan Peele, M.
For Hyperion Pictures, one of their three most successful movies is “The Brave Little Toaster,” For Pixar, “Toy Story 3” is ranked as the second most successful. While they’re both successful animated children’s movies, the most prominent similarity between the franchises is that they are both rooted in loyalty, friendship, perseverance, and courage.
The trailer for Peacock‘s new series Everything I Know About Love has just debuted online.
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer – watch it below.Cillian Murphy leads the cast as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project.The teaser features narration from a variety of characters, describing Oppenheimer’s impact as “the man who moved the Earth” alongside shots of Murphy as the historical figure.“You gave them the power to destroy themselves,” a voice says.
, the Marilyn Monroe movie starring de Armas as the Hollywood icon. Netflix dropped the first trailer for the hotly-anticipated film on Thursday, showing snippets of de Armas recreating some of Monroe's most unforgettable moments—including, yes, the time she stood over a subway grate in that white dress.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Blonde is not your average Marilyn Monroe biopic (of which there are many).
Ana de Armas. As if the pre-released photos weren’t enough, fans finally get to see de Armas fully transform into Norma Jeane Mortenson, also known as Marilyn Monroe. The black-and-white trailer opens with the big reveal of Marilyn (de Armas) as she comes out of her dressing room after someone knocks on her door.
“Watch by all, seen by none,” teases the first trailer for Netflix’s “Blonde,” the Ana de Armas-starrer that takes an up-close look at Marilyn Monroe like we’ve never seen her before. Per the Netflix logline: “Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe.
It feels like we’ve been waiting years and years for “Blonde,” director Andrew Dominik’s long-gestating, long-awaited Marilyn Monroe biopic, based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Starring Ana de Armas as the blonde bombshell and Hollywood icon, “Blonde” boldly reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, exploring the split between her public and private selves.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix has dropped the official trailer from Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” an NC-17 biopic starring Ana de Armas as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. The movie, based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, will world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.“Blonde” reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, from her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements.