Elisabeth Moss has played her fair share of women on the edge, but she’s taking it to a whole other level in “Shirley”, portraying writer Shirley Jackson.
20.05.2020 - 19:09 / variety.com
By Klaritza Rico
The Variety Streaming Room is hosting a special screening of the first episode of AMC’s “Dispatches From Elsewhere,” followed by a Q&A with creator and star Jason Segel and cast members Eve Lindley and André Benjamin. The screening and Q&A will take place on June 2 at 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET.
Variety’s Michael Schneider will moderate the exclusive Q&A with the cast and discuss the first season.
“Dispatches From Elsewhere” is a ten-episode series centered around four
Elisabeth Moss has played her fair share of women on the edge, but she’s taking it to a whole other level in “Shirley”, portraying writer Shirley Jackson.
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVTBS has ordered seven episodes of Tournament of Laughs, a virtual comedy competition series hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis. It’s set for premiere Sunday, June 21.Tournament of Laughs will feature 32 comedians facing off in a single-elimination bracket-style tournament, with each episode featuring multiple match-ups.
By Mike Fleming Jr
The always stunning Cara Delevingne covers Variety’s Pride 2020 issue — and gets personal about her coming out.
For “Shirley” director Josephine Decker, Elisabeth Moss was always the “top choice” to play author Shirley Jackson in her drama.
Josephine Decker's prickly, unnerving “Shirley,” is set mostly in the Bennington, Vermont, home of the reclusive writer Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) and her husband, the literary critic Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg). But it also takes place in the gothic, heightened realm of one of Jackson's own stories.
By J. Kim Murphy
Best known for providing the voice and motion capture performance for Jar Jar Binks in the “Star Wars” prequels, actor Ahmed Best is ready to re-enter the “Star Wars” universe as the host of the kids’ game show “Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge”.
Ashley Benson spent her Memorial Day with rumoured new beau G-Eazy.
Game of Thrones stars, Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are reuniting to feature in an upcoming vampire thriller. Filmmaker Max Barbakow has been roped in to direct the movie titled Good Bad & Undead. The popular series featured Jason as Khal Drogo and Peter played the role of Tyrion Lannister. While both the actors got to work with Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen in the series, Jason’s character said goodbye to the show in the first season, whereas Tyrion survived till the end.
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By Klaritza Rico
Tristan Thompson has gone on the offensive against Kimberly Alexander, after the woman has been claiming that he’s the father of her five-year-old son, even after he took a paternity test that said he wasn’t the dad. The NBA player has now filed a civil suit against her for libel after she called him a “deadbeat dad” and is asking for damages, in addition to paying his legal cost for filing the lawsuit against her.
Everybody just take a deep breath and pause for a minute!
It’s been five years since the film Mad Max: Fury Road drove into theaters and Charlize Theron is remembering her time on the set of the film in an incredibly sweet way. The Oscar-winner, 44, took to her Instagram account on May 14, marking five years since the Oscar-winning film’s release.