Nearly 25 years later, Ridley Scott is revisiting ancient Rome, and it seems he picked up right where he left off.
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Selome Hailu Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone have joined the cast of Amazon Prime Video‘s “Young Sherlock” as series regulars. Fiennes — the uncle of Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who plays Sherlock Holmes — has been cast as Silas Holmes, Sherlock’s father, who is described as a “scientist, explorer and self-made businessman.” McElhone will play Cordelia Holmes, described as “Sherlock’s devoted mother, artist and matriarch of the Holmes clan.” Fiennes is best known for playing William Shakespeare in 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love” and Commander Fred Waterford in the first four seasons of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” His other prominent credits include starring in “The Mother” opposite Jennifer Lopez, the Cate Blanchett-led biopic “Elizabeth” and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “Enemy at the Gates.” Most recently, he led the James Graham play “Dear England.” Fiennes is repped by the Artists Partnership and WME.
McElhone is best known for playing Karen Van Der Beek in “Californication” for seven seasons from 2007 to 2014 and Alex Kirkman in “Designated Survivor” while it was on ABC for its first two seasons. In film, she has starred in “The Truman Show” with Jim Carrey, “The Devil’s Own” with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, “Ronin” with Robert De Niro and Jean Reno and “Love’s Labour’s Lost” with Kenneth Branagh.
Her other TV credits include “The Crown,” “The First,” and most recently “Halo” and “Hotel Portofino.” McElhone is repped by CAA and Independent Talent Group “Young Sherlock” is inspired by Andy Lane’s “Young Sherlock Holmes” books. Per the series’ official logline, “At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his
.Nearly 25 years later, Ridley Scott is revisiting ancient Rome, and it seems he picked up right where he left off.
Stranger Things.The actor became an instant fan favourite for playing Eddie Munson, the leader of The Hellfire Club, in season four of the hit Netflix series. However, his newly established following was soon left devastated when his character met a grisly demise.Despite Eddie seemingly dying, though, fans have remained hopeful that the character will somehow make a return.
Neil Young is hitting pause on his “Love Earth” tour.On Wednesday, the 78-year-old musician and his band Crazy Horse announced that they will be taking an “unplanned break” due to illness among various band members.“The Love Earth Tour has been a great experience for us so far,” Young wrote in a message posted to his website. “GREAT AUDIENCES AND MUSIC. WE HAVE HAD A BLAST!”“When a couple of us got sick after Detroit’s Pine Knob, we had to stop,” he continued.
Lexi Carson The (silent) Scream Queen has emerged. Following Lupita Nyong’o’s role as a tethered clone with a shaky voice in Jordan Peele’s 2018 film “Us,” the Academy Award-winning actor now gets completely silent for “A Quiet Place Day One,” set in a world where if you make noise, you’ll suffer a brutal death by aliens. “This genre helps us exercise emotions that we are otherwise running away from a lot of the time, we don’t get permission to be openly scared in our real life,” Nyong’o told Variety at the film’s premiere in New York City on Wednesday night.
final season of “Stranger Things,” despite the character’s tragic demise.“I might have that feeling too,” the actor, 30, told Entertainment Tonight of a potential comeback at the New York premiere of “A Quiet Place: Day One” on June 26.“Or maybe I don’t. Who knows? Maybe I do…” Quinn added. Regardless of Eddie’s fate, Quinn expressed his desire to revisit the “Stranger Things” set for Season 5.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse have announced a “big unexpected break” from their ongoing tour due to illness in the band.Last night (June 26), Young and the band took his Neil Young Archives website to announce the cancellation of their remaining shows, writing: “The ‘Love Earth’ tour has been a great experience for us so far. GREAT AUDIENCES AND MUSIC. WE HAVE HAD A BLAST! When a couple of us got sick after Detroit’s Pine Knob, we had to stop.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Neil Young announced Wednesday that the remaining dates on the tour he has been doing with his longtime backing group Crazy Horse are being canceled, due to illness hitting “a couple of us” since they last performed in May. He did not specify whether he was among those stricken. The cancellations are for shows as far as three months out from now.
Lee Young-ji has opened up about the music video of her song ‘Small Girl’, which starred EXO’s D.O., and why it was nearly different than the final product.In a livestream with television producer Na Young-seok, the rapper discussed her new single ‘Small Girl’ featuring EXO’s D.O. and its accompanying music video, which included a scene of the idol kissing her on the cheek.Lee shared that some thought that the scene was improvised, and that she initially wanted to leave things ambiguous.
Guy Ritchie‘s Young Sherlock series has cast the boy genius’s parents.
Royal Blood have covered Hozier‘s ‘Eat Your Young’ for BBC Radio One’s Live Lounge.READ MORE: Royal Blood on revisiting their debut album 10 years on: “So much has changed, but when it comes to the music, nothing has”Frontman and bassist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher drafted in a backing trio of singers to help rock up their take of the Irish singer’s title track from his 2023 EP. You can view their performance below.In the past the band have covered The Knack‘s ‘My Sharona’ and The Police‘s ‘Roxanne’ in the Live Lounge.The duo recently wrapped up their 10th anniversary gigs at O2 Academy Brixton, in which they played their self-titled debut album in full.Reflecting on the record to NME, 10 years on, Kerr said: “It’s been good looking back.
Lexi Carson Don’t take your faith for Granted. A24 has released the first trailer for its latest horror film “Heretic,” which stars Hugh Grant as a man who is visited by two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher) who he then puts through an intense series of psychological games.
EXCLUSIVE: Narges Rashidi (Gangs of London, The Girlfriend Experience) and Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale, Shakespeare in Love) are the actors who have been secretly portraying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker falsely accused of spying and detained in Iran for six years, and her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who campaigned tirelessly for her release, in a TV drama, Deadline can reveal.
Joseph Quinn, Lupita Nyong’o, Djimon Hounsou, and Alex Wolff promote their new film, A Quiet Place: Day One with an appearance atop The Empire State Building on Monday (June 24) in New York City.
Riz Ahmed is to create, star in and produce an Amazon comedy series about a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime with Modern Family EP Ben Karlin and Jax Media.
UCP is teaming with Side Naegle, Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices and Ali Krug’s Dinner Party Productions to develop a series adaptation of Chris Whitaker’s new novel All the Colors of the Dark.
Joshua Marrow currently stars on The Young and the Restless and now his son Crew Morrow will be joining the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful!
Young Thug‘s lawyer Brian Steel has been arrested mid-trial for alleged contempt of court.The attorney was held in contempt of court on Monday (June 10) for refusing to reveal his source for an alleged conversation involving Judge Ural Glanville.According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (via Rolling Stone), Steel was sentenced to 20 days in the Fulton County Jail, with the attorney ordered to serve his sentence on weekends. Though Glanville commanded Steel to start on Friday (June 14), Fox 5 reports that he was successfully granted an emergency bond by the Georgia Supreme Court and will stay out of court.
The director of Interview With a Vampire opened up about the initial blowback he received after casting Tom Cruise in the classic movie.
Emily Longeretta Romantic drama fans, unite. RomaDrama and Filmed in the South are teaming up for Halloween & Harvest Festival, bringing together fan-favorite actors from “The Originals,” “The Vampire Diaries” and beloved romantic movies seen on Hallmark Channel.
Selome Hailu The upcoming third season of “Power Book IV: Force” will be its last, according to star Joseph Sikora. But the actor, who leads the show as Tommy Egan, also seems to be teasing that a new project could come to the “Power” universe soon. With “Power Book II: Ghost” having just entered its fourth and final season, the only current “Power” series continuing at Starz is “Book III: Raising Kanan,” which was renewed for a fifth season in March.