EXCLUSIVE: Men In Blazers, the football/soccer podcast company set up by Jeopardy exec producer Michael Davies and Roger Bennett are going on tour.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Whitesell (Hold the Dark) and Daniel Jun (The Fall of the House of Usher) have boarded Monarch Media’s thriller Valiant One in supporting roles. The pair will star alongside the previously announced Chase Stokes, Lana Condor, Desmin Borges and Callan Mulvey.
The film currently in production in Vancouver watches as a U.S. helicopter crashes on the North Korean side of the DMZ. With tensions between the North and South already on the verge of war, the surviving U.S. Army non-combat tech soldiers must work together to protect a civilian tech-specialist and find their way across the DMZ, without the possibility of U.S. military support.
Whitesell will play Private First-Class Jonah Ross, an adrenaline junkie who grew up on video games, now faced with his first contact with the enemy. Jun is set for the role of Wilson Lee, a Korean American Infantry Specialist raised in California. The athletic and capable but unconfident young man doesn’t speak Korean, but for the few words he picked up from his immigrant grandmother.
Steve Barnett is directing from a script by Eric Tipton, which is based on the former’s original idea. Producers include Bernie Goldmann and Monarch principals Barnett and Alan Powell. Monarch principal Vicky L. Patel is serving as exec producer.
Whitesell is perhaps best known for his work on such small-screen titles as Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, CBS All Access’s The Twilight Zone, Riverdale, Beyond and The 100, among others. Notable film credits include Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark opposite Jeffrey Wright and Riley Keough, 20th’s crime mystery Bad Times at the El Royale opposite Dakota Johnson and Chris Hemsworth, the Temple Hill feature The Kill Team opposite Alexander
EXCLUSIVE: Men In Blazers, the football/soccer podcast company set up by Jeopardy exec producer Michael Davies and Roger Bennett are going on tour.
EXCLUSIVE: The ensemble for Greg Berlanti’s mysterious Apple Original Project Artemis has continued to expand, with the addition of up-and-comer Donald Elise Watkins (Emergency). The anticipated film scripted by Rose Gilroy will have Watkins star alongside the previously announced quintet of Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Ray Romano and Anna Garcia.
The next year is expected to be massive for Jonathan Majors. Not only is he the co-lead in the upcoming drama, “Creed III,” but he also happens to be the villain of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” as well as the overall next Marvel big bad.
Aubrey Plaza recently returned to the small screen with a lead role in the second season of HBO‘s “The White Lotus.” Now, Plaza has another big TV show on the way that also marks her debut in the MCU. READ MORE: ‘Agatha: Coven Of Chaos’: ‘Heartstopper’ Star Joe Locke Cast In Marvel’s Upcoming Disney+ Series Variety reports that Plaza joins Kathryn Hahn for the upcoming Marvel Studios series “Agatha: Coven Of Chaos” at Disney+.
Principal photography has begun in Croatia on the action thriller Canary Black, starring Kate Beckinsale and Rupert Friend (Anatomy of a Scandal). Production has also shared the first-look image from the project, which you can check out above.
One Ranger is non-stop action and it’s so much fun watching Thomas Jane being dropped into the center of London as a Texas Ranger, having to face the likes of John Malkovich and his MI6 team.”“One Ranger” is produced by Corey Large and Bernie Gewissler. Thomas Jane and Courtney Lauren Penn are executive producers on behalf of Renegade Entertainment.Jane most recently appeared in the Amazon FreeVee drama series “Troppo,” which he also executive produced through his Renegade Entertainment banner.
EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that Lionsgate has acquired the upcoming action-thriller One Ranger, which stars Thomas Jane and John Malkovich.
EXCLUSIVE: Amy Smart, Matt Davis, Ne-Yo, Billy Zane and Greer Grammer are set to star in writer/director Anna Elizabeth James’ Blunt.
Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor It’s such a great idea, and so seemingly obvious, that it’s hard to believe no one had already thought of it: A line of horror and rock-themed pet products bearing the name Freak on a Leash, one of the most popular songs by long-running nu-metal pioneers Korn. “These premium products are created for all, paying homage to the horror and rock music we love,” singer Jonathan Davis, who created the line in partnership with promoter Danny Wimmer Presents and the non-profit animal rescue Take Me Home, wrote in an Instagram post. The series, announced last week, launches on Oct. 28 but had a preview at a special tent at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento. As the photos below show, the line runs from classy but low-key collars and leashes bearing just the logo, to items that more fully live up to the name, such as severed-hand or eyeball plushies.
Michael B. Jordan's Adonis Creed is back in the ring for the third time, and this round is even more personal than the last.On Tuesday, the highly anticipated trailer for the Jordan-led boxing drama was released, and fans finally got a proper introduction to Jonathan Majors' Damian. The film picks up four years after the events of finding Adonis and his wife, Bianca (Tessa Thompson), comfortably successful in their life as they happily raise their daughter, Amara (Mila Davis-Kent) — who was born in the previous installment — in Los Angeles.
Michael B. Jordan versus Jonathan Majors in the first trailer for “Creed III,” and who will win this brawl is anybody’s guess. MGM and United Artists Releasing debuted footage from the upcoming boxing sequel on Tuesday morning. Jordan returns as Adonis “Donnie” Creed, son of Rocky Balboa’s fiercest opponent, Apollo Creed. But the actor isn’t just throwing punches at Majors’ antagonist Damian “Dame” Anderson in the film, “Creed III” also marks Jordan’s directorial debut. Just as “Rocky” star Sylvester Stallone went on to helm four of the franchise’s films, Jordan stakes his own claim behind the camera with an ambitious take on the material.
The debut trailer for Creed III just dropped and it’s putting Michael B. Jordan against Jonathan Majors.