‘The Tsugua Diaries’ Review: Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro Get Meta in a Wry, Sly Lockdown Film With a Difference

Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticStunning performances from Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland humanize Simon Stephens’ new play “Morning Sun,” an earnest if bland love letter to a kind, selfless but fundamentally unremarkable woman.Falco has some emotionally searing moments that left me weak in the knees with admiration for both the writing and the performance.

An aspiring Corrie star has plastered her face on a billboard at Media City in a bid to be cast in the soap.

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal has begun worldwide sales on writer-director Cédric Klapisch’s “Rise” (En corps) at the virtual American Film Market this week.A story of resilience set in Paris and Brittany, “Rise” traverses the the worlds of classical and contemporary dance with a young woman’s journey from success to rock bottom, and back again.The cast includes emerging actor and dancer Marion Barbeau, Pio Marmaï (“How I Became a Super Hero”), Denis Podalydès (“Anaïs in Love”), François Civil

Marion Cotillard and Kit Harington are joining the cast.

“Army of Thieves” has major “him?!” energy, and that’s part of the charm, for a little while at least. Of all the bad-asses and gritty heroes introduced in Zack Snyder’s Netflix zombie epic “Army of the Dead,” played by the likes of Dave Bautista, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, Ella Purnell, the last character you’d expect to get a prequel-spin-off was the harmless German safecracker Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer), him with his high-pitched squeals whenever zombies were near.

We’ve seen Irish legend and myth be turned into twee little creatures in novels and on-screen. However, Irish fairies are far from Tinkerbell.

EXCLUSIVE: In a development that makes for as hot a package as you’ll find at the Virtual American Film Market, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Andrea Riseborough and Josh O’Connor will join Kate Winslet in Lee, the Ellen Kuras-directed film about the wartime experiences of Lee Miller.

EXCLUSIVE:  Producers Charlie Matthau and Michael Zoumas have secred the rights to Alyson Noël’s upcoming 2022 Simon & Shuster novel, Field Guide to the Supernatural Universe.

K.J. Yossman “The Punisher’s” Amber Rose Revah and “Belfast” actor Victor Alli have joined Peacock’s new Matthew Fox series “Last Light.”As Variety revealed, Fox stars in the dystopian series, based on Alex Scarrow’s book of the same name, opposite Joanna Froggatt (“Downtown Abbey”).

Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga) and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) are leading the cast of Sky Original Movie Last Train To Christmas, which is being written and directed by Julian Kemp.

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners, which manages stars including Emilia Clarke, Bradley Cooper, Gabrielle Union and Michael Fassbender, is getting into the audio space.

Sarah Snook is married!

Jason Gotay has married his longtime love Michael Hartung!