The long-awaited return of “Russian Doll” is finally here.
15.02.2022 - 23:21 / deadline.com
HBO announced today that Academy Award winner Barry Levinson’s latest film, The Survivor, starring Ben Foster, will premiere on the premium cabler on April 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)—subsequently becoming available for streaming on HBO Max.
The HBO Original is based on Alan Haft’s book, Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano. It tells the incredible true story of Haft (Foster), who after being sent to Auschwitz, survived not only the unspeakable horrors of the camp, but the gladiatorial boxing spectacle he was forced to perform with his fellow prisoners for the amusement of his captors. Unbeknownst to those who try to destroy him, Haft’s will to survive is driven by his quest to reunite with the woman he loves.
Levinson previously directed the HBO films Paterno, The Wizard of Lies and You Don’t Know Jack, which amassed a combined 21 Emmy nominations—and reteamed with Foster after casting him in his first film, Liberty Heights.
The script for The Survivor was penned by The 100‘s Justine Juel Gillmer. Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die), Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie), Saro Emirze (Wilsberg), Dar Zuzovsky (Hostages), Danny DeVito (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and John Leguizamo (Latin History for Morons) round out the cast.
Levinson and Scott Pardo (Hope & A Little Sugar) produced with New Mandate Films’ Matti Leshem (The Shallows), BRON Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert (Bombshell, Monster), and Baltimore Pictures’ Jason Sosnoff (Paterno, The Wizard of Lies). Foster and DeVito exec produced alongside Joel Greenberg, Brenda Gilbert, Steven Thibault, Ashley Levinson, Anjay Nagpal, Ron McLeod, Jason Cloth and Richard McConnell.
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The long-awaited return of “Russian Doll” is finally here.
Natasha Lyonne, which dropped its first season in early 2019, will premiere its sophomore installment on April 20, the streaming service announced Monday. The announcement was made in a trippy 30-second video featuring Lyonne in various states and settings.Season 2 is set four years after Nadia (Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) escaped mortality’s time loop together. According to the official synopsis, the series will «continue to explore existential thematics through an often humorous and sci-fi lens.» Discovering a fate even worse than endless death, the new season finds Nadia and Alan digging deeper into their pasts through an unexpected time portal located in one of Manhattan’s most notorious locations.
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Prime Video’s teen survival drama The Wilds will return for Season 2 in May.
Prepare to head back to the wilderness.
Sony revealed a number of release-date moves tonight, including taking the Jack Black-Ice Cube comedy off the schedule, dating the Sandra Oh horror pic Umma for next month and confirming the Tom Hanks-led remake A Man Called Otto for Christmas Day, as Deadline reported last week.
EXCLUSIVE: Vice TV today unveiled Devoured, a six-part true crime docuseries set in the world of food, that will be narrated by Emmy-winning actor Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men, The CW’s Supergirl), premiering on February 21st at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
s! On Thursday, Netflix announced the premiere dates for the upcoming two-part season 4 of the hit sci-fi series. Volume 1 of season 4 will premiere on May 27, while Volume 2 is set to be released on July 1. And this isn't the only news. The Duffer Brothers, who created the hit show, announced that season 5 would be its last. Matt and Ross Duffer penned a note to fans, calling season 4, the show's «most challenging» thus far. The team also described season 4 as «the beginning of the end.» «Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for.
One of HBO’s highest profile upcoming series is The Last of Us, based on the widely popular 2013 PlayStation game of the same name. The premium network is yet to set a premiere date for the series, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, which hails from Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin and The Last Of Us creator Neil Druckmann.
Pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi, will land at HBO Max in March.
The action-packed new trailer for Tarik Saleh’s “The Contractor” has been released.
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime and Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment have acquired U.S. distribution rights to the Tarik Saleh directed action movie The Contractor starring Hell or High Water stars Chris Pine and Ben Foster.
David Mackenzie’s “Hell Or High Water” was, pun intended, a high watermark for genre filmmaking in 2016. The low-budget neo-Western became a critical darling straight out of the gate after it premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival that year.
Bill Hader's dark comedy, , has set a return date.Season 3 of the HBO series will kick off Sunday, April 24, it was announced Tuesday.The new season, which will also be available to stream on HBO Max, consists of eight episodes.The latest chapter finds Barry (Hader) desperate to leave his violent past behind in favor of his newfound passion and attempting to untangle himself from the world of contract killing and fully immerse himself in acting. But getting out is messy.
HBO Max will serve up its Julia Child drama series, Julia, this March.
The Tourist,” starring Golden Globe nominee Jamie Dornan (“Belfast”). Dornan stars as a British man who is pursued by a large tank truck in the Australian outback, ending with him waking up in the hospital with no memory of his identity. As people from his past follow him around, he begins to look for answers.The cast also includes Danielle Macdonald (“Dumplin’”), Shalom Brune-Franklin (“Line of Duty”), Damon Herriman (“Mindhunter”), Alex Dimitriades (“Total Control”), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (“Eurovision Song Contest”), and Kamil Ellis (“Bushwacked!”).“The Tourist” was written by Emmy and Golden Globe winners Harry and Jack Williams (“Baptiste”), who also executive produce alongside Christopher Aird (“Liar”).
Apple TV+ has formalized a series order for The New Look, a World War II-set drama about fashion icons Christian Dior and Coco Chanel starring Emmy winner Ben Mendelsohn and Oscar winner Juliette Binoche. The project comes from Bloodline and Damages co-creator Todd A. Kessler and Apple Studios. It marks the first series from the newly formed television producing partnership of Kessler and veteran producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, Salt).