‘The White Lotus’: Aubrey Plaza To Star In Second Installment Of HBO Series

The crushing weight of debt and the stress of financial struggle have led many to find creative problem-solving methods. The Sundance crime drama “Emily The Criminal” explores one such story about a character pressed to the limits by a system intent on keeping her in the loop of student debt and marginalized job opportunities.

Morgan Stevens has been found dead at his home at the age of 70 after police carried out a wellness check. After a source close to the actor, who played Nick Diamond in Melrose Place, hadn't seen or heard from him for a few days, a neighbour called the police to check on him.

When is a painting series not about learning how to paint? Well, it’s when you have John Lurie running the show, as we see in the new trailer for “Painting with John” Season 2.

Jon Burlingame editorFrom the opening frames of HBO’s series “The Gilded Age,” the music of composers Harry Gregson-Williams and Rupert Gregson-Williams gives viewers a sense of the ambition and drive of “new money” in conflict with the “old money” of 1880s New York.The brothers — Harry based in Los Angeles, Rupert just outside London — generally work on different projects, and most often for features (Harry’s credits include “The Martian” and “The Last Duel,” while Rupert’s include “Wonder Woman” and “Aquaman”).But both are past Emmy nominees (“Electric Dreams” for Harry, “The Crown” for Rupert) and this is their second TV collaboration, after 2019’s Hulu series “Catch-22.” Given the sheer volume of music demanded by “The Gilded Age,” nearly six hours for the 10 episodes, they were happy to reunite professionally. “It was good to have two sets of hands on it,” says Harry.

If Emily the Criminal had been made in the 1970s, it might have been an angry drama starring Jane Fonda. If it had been made in the ’80s, it would have been a feelgood comedy starring Dolly Parton. And here we are in 2022, where it lands with its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival as a taut, gripping but nevertheless damning portrait of how much ground has been lost in the last 40 years. The setting is America, but the subject is universal: the growth of wage slavery and, in particular, the glass ceiling that exists for people, women in particular, on low income.

Things have not been going well for Emily. Some of it is just terrible luck.

Reggaeton stars Rauw Alejandro and Yandel are among the artists helping Netflix in their search for the next Latin urban music star in the reality competition series, La Firma.

The White Lotus is getting a second season on HBO and series creator Mike White is planning an anthology that will take place in a new location every season.

Joshua Jackson will star in Paramount+'s upcoming  series, joining Lizzy Caplan in the new reimagining.The new series, which is being billed as a contemporary reinterpretation of the 1987 film that starred Glenn Close and Michael Douglas, will explore fatal attraction and themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes toward strong women, personality disorders and coercive control.Jackson plays Dan Gallagher, the object of his lover's (Caplan) obsession after a brief affair. “Joshua is an incredible talent who creates beautifully complicated characters on both the screen and stage,” said Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount+ Original Scripted Series, in a statement Thursday. “He and Lizzy are perfectly matched to tell a nuanced and modern narrative about the complexities of the human psyche.

Fresh off his role in Showcase’s “Dr. Death”, Joshua Jackson will once again return to TV screens with the upcoming “Fatal Attraction” series opposite Lizzy Caplan.

Mike White’s “The White Lotus” will be filmed in Sicily, Variety has learned — confirming previous reports that Season 2 of the HBO show will take place in Italy.A source close to the show said that once again a Four Seasons Hotel will stand in for White’s fictional luxury chain of White Lotus hotels, specifically the Four Seasons San Domenica Palace in the exclusive Sicilian resort town of Taormina. (The Hawaii-based first season of “The White Lotus” was filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Maui.) According to the San Domenica Palace’s website, it’s closed to guests until April 1.Representatives from HBO had no comment.Season 2 of the dark comedy will star Michael Imperioli and Aubrey Plaza alongside recently announced cast members F.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLike the rest of us, Aubrey Plaza devoured the first season of “The White Lotus,” HBO’s buzzy social satire about insufferable vacationers and seemingly cheerful employees at a luxurious Hawaiian resort. Unlike the rest of us, Plaza was cast on the show’s second season.Beyond the chance to appear on the hit show, Plaza says she’s most looking forward to working with Mike White, who created, wrote and directed “The White Lotus.”“I was a fan of Season 1, but more importantly, I was a big Mike White fan,” Plaza said at Variety’s virtual Sundance Studio presented by Audible, where she’s on the press circuit for her coming-of-age thriller “Emily the Criminal.” Before the pandemic, Plaza and White had been collaborating on a creative project that “kind of got messed up by the COVID of it all.” “So I’m very excited to work with him,” she says.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Showtime’s audience has had enough of froufrou escapism: Now it’s teen cannibals, serial killers and loads of way-too-realistic blood captivating viewers. According to the paycabler, “Yellowjackets” — the buzzy drama with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes and plenty of fan theories — finished its first season this past Sunday as the second most-streamed series in Showtime’s history, behind the recently aired “Dexter: New Blood.”The shocking and ominous “Yellowjackets” finale sent over a million shivers down watchers’ spines, amassing around 1.3 million viewers across platforms on Sunday alone, more than doubling its audience from the season premiere.

HBO Max has recruited four more stars for the upcoming season two of their hit series, The White Lotus.

star-studded ensemble for season 2 continues to grow. On Tuesday, HBO confirmed to ET that F.

HBO’s dark comedy series “The White Lotus” was a huge surprise hit last summer. The show, from comedy veteran Mike White (“School of Rock,” “Nacho Libre”), followed a week in the life of vacationers as they relax and rejuvenate in a paradise-like resort located in Hawaii.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The White Lotus” has added four new cast members for its upcoming Season 2 at HBO, Variety has learned.F. Murray Abraham (“Amadeus,” “Homeland,”), Tom Hollander (“The Night Manager,” “Pirates of the Carribean” franchise), Adam DiMarco (“The Order,” “The Magicians,” and Haley Lu Richardson (“Split,” ” The Edge of Seventeen”) have all joined the second season of the critically-acclaimed dark comedy.The quartet joins previously announced Season 2 cast members Michael Imperioli and Aubrey Plaza. It was also previously reported that Season 1 star Jennifer Coolidge will return for Season 2, but HBO has yet to officially confirm that.