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EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has struck its first deals for Channel 4 prison drama Screw, with networks in Australia and New Zealand picking up the series.

Shoshana Bean has joined the cast of Billy Crystal’s upcoming Broadway musical Mr. Saturday Night, producers announced today.

While it may not have won over critics, Kat Dennings‘ lastest starring role in Hulu‘s “Dollface” certainly connected with audiences. Who may that be, outside fans of Dennings’ now-defunct “Two Broke Girls” sitcom? Most likely, the show’s target audience of young female twenty-somethings.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jack Dylan Grazer (We Are Who We Are, It and Shazam! franchises) has signed with WME for representation.

Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality” by Mike Sielski (St. Martin’s Press)Serious basketball fans know the broad strokes of the Kobe Bryant story.

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is developing Triggered, a single-camera comedy from the 9JKL team of writer-producer Dana Klein, Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

The final act. The And Just Like That creative team has reportedly made the decision to remove an upcoming cameo of Chris Noth after the actor was accused of sexual assault by multiple women.

Denzel Washington has two war films opening for Christmas — one written by a certain Will Shakespeare about a fellow named Macbeth in which Washington plays the title role, and another which he directed only. The latter, A Journal for Jordan, is Washington’s fourth outing behind the camera and is as sincere and unquestioningly patriotic as anything made during the 1940s.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAs the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20.

“I am so happy with this show and how these characters have come to life,” says Hawkeye star Hailee Steinfeld of the Marvel series on Disney+.

“A Journal for Jordan” — and we don’t just mean to keep the omicron variant at bay.No, this Denzel Washington-directed love story may leave you sobbing as it explores duty, sacrifice, death and parenthood.Washington earns his audience's tears with an unrushed, unshowy style, letting an adult and very human relationship evolve on camera, skipping back and forth through years as it goes from love, birth, death and acceptance.It's the story of the real-life romance between Army 1st Sgt.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn a year-end movie landscape marked, on the one hand, by a stream of prestige adult dramas that struggle more than ever to find actual adults to see them, and on the other hand by the kind of oversize fantasy event films (“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the upcoming “The Matrix Resurrections”) whose job it now is to keep the industry alive, “A Journal for Jordan” feels like an odd movie out more than it might have, say, 20 years ago.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched all eight episodes of Season 2 of Netflix’s “The Witcher.”The ending of “The Witcher” Season 2 introduces a legion of new antagonists who are all hunting down Ciri (Freya Allan), as she becomes the No. 1 target in the Continent, thanks to her mysterious, reality-jumping powers.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the first six episodes of Season 2 of Netflix’s “The Witcher.”Season 2 of Netflix’s “The Witcher,” after being long delayed by COVID, thrusts Geralt (Henry Cavill), Ciri (Freya Allan), Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) and the rest of the cast of witchers, elves and mages into a darker world full of deadly monsters and even deadlier politics.Picking up after the Battle of Sodden Hill in the Season 1 finale, Geralt initially believes

It comes in just under the buzzer, but Denzel Washington’s latest directorial effort, “A Journal for Jordan,” has to be one of the strangest movies of 2021. Not because it’s so maudlin or rinky-dink, but because it marks his follow-up to the immense passion he poured into adapting August Wilson’s “Fences” back in 2016.