Emily Longeretta It’s hard to imagine the world of entertainment without Jean Smart. With “Hacks” and “Mare of Easttown” bringing her back to the forefront in the recent years, some call it a Jean Smart renaissance — but that’s not really the case.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cree Cicchino and Felix Mallard have landed supporting lead roles in New Line’s film adaptation of John Green’s No. 1 New York Times best seller Turtles All the Way Down for HBO Max, Deadline has learned.
The duo joined already cast Isabela Merced in the Hannah Marks directed feature.
Turtles All the Way Down tackles anxiety through its 17-year-old protagonist, Aza Holmes. It’s not easy being Aza, but she’s trying… trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, and a good student, all while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts that she cannot control. When she reconnects with Davis, her childhood crush, Aza is confronted with fundamental questions about her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope in the face of her mental illness.
Cicchino will play the role of Daisy, while Mallard will portray Davis.
The novel debuted as an instant No. 1 bestseller, seeing rights sold in over 30 countries, and more than 2 million copies in print. The book was featured on numerous ‘best of the year’ lists including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Vulture, Pop Sugar, the A.V. Club, BookPage, Booklist, School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. Turtles All the Way Down is John Green’s follow-up novel to his worldwide sensation The Fault in Our Stars, which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best seller list and was chosen as TIME‘s No 1 Fiction Book of 2012 with a feature adaptation that grossed over $307M WW in 2014. Green’s books have sold over 20 million copies and have been translated in dozens of languages.
New Line/HBO Max picked up the project from Fox 2000 when the division shuttered. HBO Max has become a destination for
Emily Longeretta It’s hard to imagine the world of entertainment without Jean Smart. With “Hacks” and “Mare of Easttown” bringing her back to the forefront in the recent years, some call it a Jean Smart renaissance — but that’s not really the case.
EXCLUSIVE: New Line has picked up the rights to Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestselling novel In Five Years for HBO Max and set No Good Deed scribe Aimee Lagos to adapt. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce.
The final episodes of Netflix’s hit series Ozark are coming soon and the cast stepped out for a big premiere this week!
HBO Max will release Menudo: Forever Young, a new documentary about the Latin American boy band from filmmakers Angel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings) and Kristofer Ríos (Havana Skate Days), on June 23. The premiere will follow the project’s debut at the 2022 Tribeca Festival on June 11.
Cherie Blair is heading to the Monaco Streaming Film Festival at the end of May to discuss project The Rock Pile.
Katie Holmes is excited for the premiere of “Alone Together.” The actress, director, and writer shared on her Instagram the news that her film would premiere at the Tribecca Film Festival, one of the most emblematic cultural events in New York City.Get power suit inspiration from Katie Holmes who has master the lookKatie Holmes goes on a New York walk with her camera in handHolmes shared the news via her Instagram, where she thanked her co-actors and collaborators for the experience. “I am so honored and excited to share our film,” she wrote The film festival will take place in the city.
On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver turned the heat up on the campaign of Pennsylvania Senate candidate and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Today Show star Jenna Bush Hager has revealed the emotional moment she burst into tears when her twin sister Barbara went into labor six weeks early.MORE: Jenna Bush Hager pays emotional tribute to Hoda Kotb amid heartacheJenna and Barbara, who are about to release their upcoming children's book, The Superpower Sisterhood, are extremely close and Jenna shared that when she got the phone call she "started bawling" before remembering that it was "not helpful" and she wneeded to "stay calm".WATCH: Jenna Bush Hager praises mom Laura Bush after sharing emotional story about daughters"Of course, I was nervous for her and knew that she was unprepared physically — meaning she didn't have the diapers or the nursery set up," the mom-of-three told People."But she was, of course, prepared because I think she has all the love to give."MORE: Hoda Kotb left stunned by Jenna Bush Hager's stunning on-air appearanceBarbara and husband Craig Coyne welcomed their first daughter, Cora Georgia, on 27 September 2021, but she gave birth in Maine instead of the planned hospital in New York.Barbara also shared the poignant moment that she realized she had given birth in the hospital that was named after her late grandmother, whom Barbara was also named after. The twins are very close"I went there to visit [Cora, who remained in NICU] and looked over on the wall, and it said Barbara Bush Children's Hospital," Barbara shared."So, in many ways, it felt divine that she was born in Maine near where we were married and where we have so many memories as a family."Cora stayed in the NICU for four weeks.
Patricia MacLachlan, author of the best-selling and award-winning 1985 children’s book Sarah, Plain and Tall and its sequels that were turned into three popular early 1990s Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movies starring Glenn Close, died March 31 at her home in Williamsburg, Mass. She was 84.
Addie Morfoot ContributorStory Syndicate, the production house founded by Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary powerhouse couple Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, is bulking up its development and production team with a new hire, a promotion and a first-look deal with producer and investigative journalist Amy Herdy.The New York-based production company, which launched in 2019, was behind several popular docs and docuseries in 2021, including Garbus’ “Becoming Cousteau” (National Geographic), Orlando von Einsiedel’s “Convergence: Courage in a Crisis” (Netflix) and John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” (Nat Geo).Jon Bardin, most recently Story Syndicate’s head of creative, has been named head of documentary and nonfiction. Bardin, who has been at the production company since its inception, has served as a producer or executive producer on Story Syndicate documentaries including Jesse Moss’ “Mayor Pete,” Erin Lee Carr’s “Britney Vs.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, has been found guilty of manslaughter after stabbing a homeless man to death.The incident happened on August 1 2017, when Creole (real name Nathaniel Glover) encountered John Jolly, a 55-year-old homeless man, on the street in midtown Manhattan. Glover ended up stabbing Jolly twice in the chest with a steak knife. He died in hospital shortly after.The next day New York City police arrested Glover and charged him with second-degree murder.“To tell the truth, I thought he was gay and because I thought he was gay, and he was saying that to me, ‘what’s up,’ I was thinking that he was thinking [that] I was gay,” Glover said in a videotaped interview with police.“So I was a little annoyed by that.
On the heels of the success of HBO Max’s post-apocalyptic limited series Station Eleven, created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel, Somerville and St. John Mandel Mandel are teaming up for series adaptations of Mandel’s most recent book, The Glass Hotel, and her upcoming novel Sea of Tranquility.
EXCLUSIVE: Vivian Bang, the co-writer and star of the Sundance Film Festival debut White Rabbit, has boarded the New Line ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max.
Gallery: A Boy Named Sue! Remembering country legend Johnny Cash. . . (BANG Showbiz)Ahead of the LP's release later this year, the Grammy-nominated artist will release the singles ‘Every Little Moment’ and ‘Freedom’ on April 8.
Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan are enjoying a day out together!
Apple announced on Wednesday that Jemima Kirke of Netflix’s “Sex Education,” and HBO’s “Girls”, and Nico Tortorella of Hulu’s “Younger,” and AMC’s “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” have joined the cast of its limited series “City on Fire” from “Gossip Girl” duo Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.Ashley Zukerman, Xavier Clyde, Max Milner, Alexandra Doke, Omid Abtahi, Kathleen Munroe and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” star John Cameron Mitchell have also been added as series regulars.They join already announced cast Chase Sui Wonders as a murdered NYU student and Wyatt Oleff as her friend who stops at nothing to solve her death.Kirke plays Regan, the daughter of a Manhattan real estate scion who strives to succeed on her own; Tortorella is William, a brilliant, but self-destructive artist living in Manhattan; Zukerman is Keith, Regan’s husband; Clyde is Mercer, William’s boyfriend who moved to New York from rural Georgia to write the next great American novel. Musician Milner is Nicky Chaos, a charismatic activist and revolutionary with a group of followers who wage war against the 1%; Doke is Sewer Girl, who’s part of Nicky Chaos’ crew; Abtahi is Detective Ali Parsa, the workaholic detective assigned to Samantha’s case; Munroe is Detective PJ McFadden, a no-nonsense cop working the case alongside Detective Parsa, and Mitchell is Amory, an influential and ruthless executive in Manhattan.The Apple Studios murder mystery is based on the novel of the same name by Garth Risk Hallberg, and set in 2003 while police are also trying to catch a serial arsonist.Principal photography is underway in New York City.“City on Fire” is produced by Apple Studios for Apple TV+.