EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Rebel, the latest feature from Belgian directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life), which is screening in the Midnight Section at the 75th Cannes Film Festival this month.
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Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentWhen the Kardashians were ready to begin their new show, everything was kept top secret. Even the producers in discussions to be hired on the show didn’t know what series they were being interviewed for.“When we were interviewing showrunners, I wouldn’t ever say what it was for,” executive producer Ben Winston tells Variety.
Winston, one of the partners at production company Fulwell 73, says he met with over 50 potential showrunners throughout the process, and wouldn’t reveal that the project was with the Kardashians until the prospective producers got to the third meeting.“We said, ‘It’s about a group of six billionaire businesswomen, who are connected in some way and they all run the incredible companies.’ People were like, ‘Wow, that’s an amazing story.’ And then I would say that they are sisters, and everyone was like, ‘Oh my god, that sounds like the most fascinating family.’ They weren’t thinking it was a famous family,” Winston shares. “That’s the approach that we wanted to have.” “If I was pitching a documentary series,” Winston continues, “That is about six women who all run incredibly successful businesses, have amazing family interactions, live in Los Angeles, are some of the most famous, most followed people in the world and they happen to all be related, you’d say, ‘Well, that can’t be true.’ But that’s who the Kardashians are.
You’ve got to step out of the Kardashian brand to look at it and go, ‘Well, that’s unbelievable.’ That’s a documentary within itself. And then, when you find out that it is the Kardashians, then you look at it a bit differently.”Ultimately, Danielle King — an Emmy-nominated producer who has executive produced a slew of unscripted projects,
.EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Rebel, the latest feature from Belgian directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life), which is screening in the Midnight Section at the 75th Cannes Film Festival this month.
EXCLUSIVE: Filming on Hulu’s new series Saint X shut down Friday in the Dominican Republic after several crew members, including the key grip and members of the electric unit, walked off the set, Deadline has learned.
Fish out of water, mistaken identities, and different worlds colliding are some of the most common romantic comedy tropes, and Hulu‘s upcoming “The Valet” manages to hit all of those chords at once. When a starlet and a valet have to pretend to be in a relationship with one another, chaos ensues — making it a rom-com you don’t want to miss.
Fish out of water, mistaken identities, and different worlds colliding are some of the most common romantic comedy tropes, and Hulu‘s upcoming “The Valet” manages to hit all of those chords at once. When a starlet and a valet have to pretend to be in a relationship with one another, chaos ensues — making it a rom-com you don’t want to miss.
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew W. Marlowe and Terri Edda Miller, who created the CBS series The Equalizer based on the 1980s show, are stepping down as showrunners of the hit drama starring and executive produced by Queen Latifah after two seasons. Joseph C. Wilson, who has been on the show since the first season, and Adam Glass (The Chi) have been named new showrunners for Season 3.
Joey King will be starring in another Hulu limited series!
Total harmony! Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are in a great place with their families after their wedding, an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
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Mom, you’re embarrassing him! Jaden Smith has always had a difficult time with Jada Pinkett Smith’s desire to share all of the nuances of the family’s drama with the world.
Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentThe Kardashians appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday for Blac Chyna’s long-awaited trial against the famous family, which continues to set off fireworks with day two of jury selection, even before opening arguments have began.Blac Chyna, a model and influencer whose real name is Angela White, was previously engaged to Rob Kardashian with whom she shares a 5-year-old daughter. The pair starred in their own E! reality show together, “Rob & Chyna,” which aired for one season in 2016.
After directing “The United States Vs. Billie Holiday,” Lee Daniels is returning to the world of period biopics with a new dramatic series focused on singer/actor Sammy Davis Jr., one of the most charismatic and accessible black entertainers of the last century.
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Levine (Nine Perfect Strangers) has been tapped to direct the pilot and executive produce Hulu limited series Tell Me Lies, based on Carola Lovering’s novel. Additionally, Gabriella Pession (Station 19), Edmund Donovan (Gossip Girl) and Natalee Linez (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) have been cast in recurring roles opposite Grace Van Patten in the series executive produced by Emma Roberts.
The Kardashians are back on the TV screen after a several-month break from filming. Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian, along with Kris, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, have returned with their new series "The Kardashians" on Hulu after ending E!'s "Keeping up with the Kardashians." The show was filmed in the fall of 2021. At the time, Kim was preparing to host "Saturday Night Live" while going through a divorce with Kanye West, Khloe was managing a co-parenting relationship with Tristan Thompson, Kourtney was in the middle of her new relationship with her now fiancé Travis Barker, Kylie was pregnant, and Kendall had COVID-19.
Jessica Biel is returning to television, but you might not know it from the images. She's nearly unrecognizable as the real-life axe murderer, Candy Montgomery, who she portrays in Hulu's new series "Candy."A post shared by Candy On Hulu (@candyonhulu)The actress' long brown tresses are long gone, replaced instead by short, curly hair. "Meet Candy," she captioned a photo promoting the series.Hulu described Jessica's character as "a 1980s housewife and mother who did everything right — good husband, two kids, nice house, even the careful planning and execution of transgressions — but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom.
A deadly secret. Jessica Biel plays a housewife with a killer instinct in Hulu’s upcoming miniseries Candy, based on a shocking true crime story from the 1980s.
Jessica Biel gets herself into deep trouble as Candy Montgomery — who may or may not be involved in the death of her best friend — in the trailer for Hulu’s new true crime series “Candy.”The show follows Biel’s Candy, a 1980s housewife and mother, who is seeking freedom from conformity in her life, taking up an affair with her friend’s husband.But, when Lynskey’s character ends up dead, suspicion falls on Candy.“Candy” stars Biel, Lynskey, Timothy Simons, Pablo Schreiber and Raúl Esparza.It will launch on Hulu Monday May 9, and air across five nights. The finale airs May 13.Three-time Emmy nominee Robin Veith (“Mad Men,” “The Act”) wrote the pilot script.