Chris Willman Music WriterA documentary about the creative pairing of Carole King and James Taylor has been commissioned by CNN and HBO Max, with Frank Marshall set as director and producer, the two companies announced Friday.
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EXCLUSIVE: Willie Pep biopic Pep, starring James Madio (Band of Brothers), Keir Gilchrist (Atypical) and Ron Livingston (Office Space), will go before cameras next month, in the famed boxer’s hometown of Hartford, CT.
Robert Kolodny (Netflix’s Procession) is directing the film, from a script by Steve Liff, with Madio starring as the featherweight champion, inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
The sports drama picks up with Pep in 1965, at a time when the limelight has
Chris Willman Music WriterA documentary about the creative pairing of Carole King and James Taylor has been commissioned by CNN and HBO Max, with Frank Marshall set as director and producer, the two companies announced Friday.
MONSTA X will be making their return with new music next month.On October 18, Starship Entertainment announced that the six-member group are gearing up for their next release, which is projected to drop next month.A representative from the agency told the South Korean news outlet Newsen that “MONSTA X are preparing for a domestic comeback aiming for late November”.
111 million globally since its Sept. 17 release, the Korean dystopian drama has, as to be expected, exploded into a real-life phenomenon — with weird and wacky, sometimes disappointing or occasionally dangerous results.St.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLeonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions has teamed with Singapore’s Golden Ratio Films and Canada’s Blisspoint Entertainment to shoot “Pep,” a biopic of legendary mid-20th century featherweight boxer Willie Pep.The film is poised to begin production in Hartford, Connecticut, Pep’s home-state, with Robert Kolodny directing from a screenplay by Steve Loff.Pep, born Guglielmo Papaleo, had an extraordinarily long career spanning 26 years and nearly 2,000 rounds as
Squid Game later this month.According to a report by The Korea Times, the St. John’s Hotel in Gangneung, Gangwon Province will be hosting a real-life version of Squid Game on October 24.
Disney has pulled back the curtain on its slate of Asia-Pacific films and TV shows set for its two-year-old streaming service. Among the fare set to run on Disney+ is Rookies, a romantic drama set at an elite police academy that stars K-pop sensation Kang Daniel, and Blackpink: The Movie, a documentary about the popular K-pop group tied to its fifth anniversary.
SPOILER ALERT: A key plot point in the ending of Netflix phenom “Squid Game” will be revealed by reading further.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSingapore-based distributor and producer Clover Films has partnered with Taiwan’s Machi Xcelsior Studios for the worldwide theatrical rights (except Taiwan and South Korea) to Giddens Ko’s “Till We Meet Again.”The film is a fantasy romance starring Kai Ko (“You Are The Apple Of My Eye”), Gingle Wang (“Detention”) and Vivian Sung (“Our Times”) that recently garnered eleven nominations at the Golden Horse Film Awards.The producers will retain the rights in Taiwan.
Community.The pair played Annie Edison and Abed Nadir respectively in the hit sitcom for six seasons, with the show airing its final episode in 2014.On Instagram, Brie posted a video showing the pair posing and balancing together in the outdoors. The caption reads: “First time working together again since Community… feels like home.”Brie and Prudi are currently filming romantic comedy Somebody I Used To Know, directed by Brie’s husband Dave Franco.
Pierce Brosnan’s final outing from 2002 begins with Bond being tortured in a North Korean prison camp for a year and only gets worse from there.You’ll start to notice a trend that an actor’s last time playing Bond is often his worst. Writers throw everything at the wall to distract from the fact that their 007 is disenchanted, sleepy and, frankly, a bit long in the tooth.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOne quoted William Shakespeare and Bertolt Brecht. Another spoke of paradigm shifts in cinema.
Former “Desperate Housewives” co-stars James Denton and Teri Hatcher are set to reunite this holiday season in Hallmark Channel’s original movie “A Kiss Before Christmas.” Denton also executive produces the made-for-TV movie.“A Kiss Before Christmas,” which will be part of Hallmark’s annual “Countdown to Christmas,” marks the first time any two “Desperate Housewives” cast members have acted together again since the series ended in 2012.The logline, below, is pure Christmas magic.Real estate
The Spanish Film Academy has picked Fernando León de Aranoa’s comedy-drama The Good Boss as its entry for the International Oscar race this year.
Pep Guardiola said he had joked with James Milner about the Liverpool right-back's lucky escape from a second yellow card in the draw with Manchester City.
PlayStation game developed by Naughty Dog, the series takes place 20 years after a fungal plague has destroyed civilization.
Kate Hudson is still in the early planning stages on her wedding.
Daniel Craig has earned his stripes, so to speak. The actor has been made an honorary Commander in the British Royal Navy ahead of the premiere of his fifth outing as James Bond in No Time to Die. The actor’s new rank is the same as that 007 holds in the films.