‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’: Alex Kurtzman & Jenny Lumet Talk About Their Sci-Fi Sequel Series & Tom Cruise’s ‘The Mummy’[Bingeworthy Podcast]

EXCLUSIVE: Glee star Dianna Agron and Reacher actress Maria Sten have been set to lead sci-fi podcast series Narcissa.

Star Trek: Picard composer Jeff Russo says he tweaked the streaming series’ main theme for the just-concluded second season in order to capture the current tone of Jean-Luc Picard’s latest adventures in the final frontier.

Deadline’s Sound & Screen, a showcase of television’s most moving and lauded original music from some of the industry’s top-most talent, has lifted the baton for its second edition tonight live and in person at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

EXCLUSIVE: Original Star Trek character T’Pring is making a return in Strange New Worlds. We’ve confirmed Gia Sandhu (The Mysterious Benedict Society) will be reprising the role in the upcoming new series, premiering tomorrow, May 5, on the streaming service. She can be seen briefly in the trailer, which you can watch below.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBerkeley, California-based visual effects and animation production company Tippett Studio, helmed by two-time Oscar winner Phil Tippett, is expanding into Canada with its first satellite office in Toronto, which will be called Tippett Canada. The company’s recent projects include “The Book of Boba Fett,” Season 2 of “The Mandalorian,” Marvel Studio’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” all three on Disney+, and Season 2 of “Locke and Key” on Netflix.Tippett’s Toronto operation, which will house a fully functioning post-production studio, will be headed by Gary Mundell, president of Tippett Canada, and current COO of Tippett Studio.

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Paramount+ is to launch in the UK and South Korea next month and will be in India next year, Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish has revealed in the past hour.

Star Trek, and later his Emmy-winning turn as Denny Crane in Boston Legal.“Can you imagine? If you fall you’re going to die because millions of pounds of water will dump over you. They talk about what happens underneath, and how you have to hold your breath, and all that.

Director Alex Kurtzman is not a fan of his film The Mummy.

On this episode of Deadline’s Scene 2 Scene Podcast, I talk with Oscar nominated actors Chiewtel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris about the Showtime sci-fi series, The Man Who Fell To Earth. In tune with the theme of the show, the three of us share our their experiences with otherness (which is defined as the quality or fact of being different.), and being an outsider.

The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman has called the 2017 film the “biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally”.Tom Cruise starred in the Universal franchise film, which was shunned by critics and underperformed at the box office with a $410million (£345m) global taking.“I tend to subscribe to the point of view that you learn nothing from your successes, and you learn everything from your failures,” Kurtzman recently said on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast.“And The Mummy was probably the biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally.”Kurtzman went on to say “there’s about a million things I regret” about the film, but he also said “it gave me so many gifts that are inexpressibly beautiful.“I didn’t become a director until I made that movie, and it wasn’t because it was well-directed – it was because it wasn’t.

starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomi Harris, is based on the 1976 movie starring David Bowie and Candy Clark — which made a splash with its onscreen nudity and trippy take on a humanoid who arrives on Earth in a bid to save his planet from extinction.“It’s kind of about what’s happening today in its depiction of a planet that’s dying from a drought,” Clark, 74, told The Post about director Nicolas Roeg’s film, which was based on Walter Nevis’ 1963 sci-fi novel. “It’s definitely the highlight of my acting career.”“The Man Who Fell to Earth” began shooting in New Mexico in July 1975.

“I was taken by all of the themes that Alex and Jenny had put into this story,” says Chiwetel Ejiofor of Showtime’s The Man Who Fell To Earth series from Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman. “Themes that really are relevant today. I’m mean are right up to the minute really, in how we engage with each other in our human connections, but also our connection with our planet..”

The first film that was due to kickstart Universal’s monster cinematic universe (which was to include Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp), was The Mummy (2017) starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman.

stays thirsty.Justin Falls (Harris) is called to retrieve him because hers is the only name he knows. Having no idea who he is, she looks at him and leaves him at the precinct.

When it comes to recent Hollywood franchise failures, there’s none worse than Universal‘s short-lived Dark Universe and the film that sank it, Alex Kurtzman‘s 2017 film, “The Mummy.” And what a disaster that movie was. Critics reviled the film, audiences chose to keep going to “Wonder Woman” and the latest “Pirates Of The Caribbean” movie instead, and the film tanked at the box office.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticMore than 45 years after “The Man Who Fell to Earth” opened with a melancholy David Bowie crash-landing in a Kentucky lake, Showtime’s new sequel series sends Chiwetel Ejiofor spiraling into the New Mexican desert to finish what he started. The connection between the 1976 film and this 2022 show is clear from the beginning, even before Bill Nighy shows up as the older version of Bowie’s character, Thomas Newton.

Chiwetel Ejiofor is ready for MCU fans to head back into the multiverse in the upcomingWith fans just a few weeks out from seeing what epic new adventures Marvel's Phase Four has in store, Ejiofor shared with ET's Will Marfuggi what viewers can expect from due out May 4.«It’s pretty bonkers, and it’s going to be really exciting,» shared the actor, who plays sorcerer Karl Mordo in the franchise. «It’s been a real joy to bring that team back together, and Sam [Raimi, director of the sequel] made me sort of the leader for this film, and, you know, I just think his work is so extraordinary and has been for so long.

Camera are rolling on an ITV drama that tells the true story of Britain’s biggest ever police manhunt.

Sasha Urban editorNATPE has revealed the winners of its 18th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles for the first time, on June 2 at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.This year’s winners include actress and “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg, star and producer Amy Poehler, retiring talk show personality Maury Povich, writer-director Alex Kurtzman, Warner Bros. Television Group chairman Channing Dungey, producer and former network exec Jeff Sagansky and actor-producer-director William Shatner.The Tartikoff awards are normally held in January at the NATPE convention in January, but this year’s event was scrapped due to the rising rate of COVID-19 cases at the start of the year.