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Broadcasting live from Rosewood Residences Beverly Hills on Friday, January 24, the show will air across multiple YouTube and Twitch channels, with additional talent participation from locations around the globe. On that list are comedians and content creators Rhett & Link, who will chime in from Park City, Utah as the 2025 Sundance Film Festival kicks off.

A partnership between interactive fundraising platform Tiltify and organizations including Real Good Touring, WCPG, and CMPS, the event will see funds distributed through the Tiltify Impact Fund to the likes of the LAFD Wildfire Emergency Fund, California Fire Foundation, World Central Kitchen, Baby2Baby, and CORE. Others participating include actors Edwin Hodge, Janina Gavankar, Mehcad Brooks, Jimmy Akingbola, Dante Basco, Rob Reiner, Ricky Whittle, Soleil Moon Frye and Garcelle Beauvais; musicians such as Ryan Cabrera, Walk the Moon’s Nick Petricca, Shannon K, and Constantine Maroulis; and content creators like Markiplier, Ethan Nestor, Imane “Pokimane” Anys, Arin Hanson, The Try Guys, Nihaachuu, Ranboo, Pointcrow, Peachjars, Amy Nelson, and Shubble.

“By uniting the creator community along with TV, music, and film celebrities in a modern-day telethon, we hope to support the heroes battling the blazes and aid the communities beginning the challenging process of healing and rebuilding,” said Tiltify CEO Michael Wasserman.

Ahead of the broadcast, LA Wildfire Relief LIVE has raised nearly $350,000, with $100,000 donation made by YouTuber Sean ‘Jacksepticeye’ McLoughlin. Already, tennis star Taylor Fritz has also gotten involved, donating his first round prize money from the Australian Open to the effort.

According to the latest reports, the Los Angeles wildfires have burned through more than 40,000 acres of land, with 12,000 structures destroyed and more than two dozen fatalities confirmed. For more information on Tiltify’s LA Wildfire Relief Campaign, and to donate, hit the link. https://tiltify.com/@tiltify-impact-fund/lawildfires

2025 SAG Awards Nominations

Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries
Kathy Bates / Edith Wilson – The Great Lillian Hall
Cate Blanchett / Catherine Ravenscroft – Disclaimer
Jodie Foster / Det. Elizabeth Danvers – True Detective: Night Country
Lily Gladstone / Cam Bentland – Under the Bridge
Jessica Gunning / Martha – Baby Reindeer
Cristin Milioti / Sofia Falcone – The Penguin

Female Actor in a Drama Series
Kathy Bates / Madeline Matlock – Matlock
Nicola Coughlan / Penelope Featherington – Bridgerton
Allison Janney / Vice President Grace Penn – The Diplomat
Keri Russell / Kate Wyler – The Diplomat
Anna Sawai / Toda Mariko – Shogun

Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Adam Brody / Noah Roklov – Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson / Charles Nieuwendyk – A Man on the Inside
Harrison Ford / Paul – Shrinking
Martin Short / Oliver Putnam – Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White / Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto – The Bear

Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Kristen Bell / Joanne – Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson / Janine Teagues – Abbott Elementary
Liza Colón-Zayas / Tina – The Bear
Ayo Edebiri / Sydney Adamu – The Bear
Jean Smart / Deborah Vance – Hacks

Female Actor in a Leading Role — Motion Picture
Pamela Anderson / Shelly – The Last Showgirl
Cynthia Erivo / Elphaba – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón / Emilia/Manitas – Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison / Ani – Anora
Demi Moore / Elisabeth – The Substance.

Jean Smart Wins Her 2nd Golden Globe For Female Actor In A TV Comedy Or Musical For ‘Hacks’: “I Never Thought I’d Be So Happy To Be Called A Hack”

“I never thought I’d be so happy to be called a hack,” said Smart in accepting her award. “I have the most brilliant showrunners, I have a cast and crew that were sent from heaven, especially my co-star Hannah Einbinder. You know without Eva there would not be a Deborah, and also the rest of our brilliant cast and crew and everybody at Max and Universal for unbelievable support over the years. We’re in the middle of Season 4 and we’re still having a ball, so thank you all so much for supporting the show and loving the show.”

In Hacks Season 3, a year after parting, Deborah Vance (Smart) is riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava (Hannah Einbinder) pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles.

Cast also includes Paul W. Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo, and Lorenza Izzo.

Hacks is created and showrun by Emmy winners Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky. It is executive produced by Downs and Aniello via their Paulilu banner, Statsky via First Thought Productions, as well as Emmy winners Michael Schur via Fremulon, David Miner for 3 Arts Entertainment and Morgan Sackett.

Smart bested fellow nominees Kristin Bell for Nobody Wants This, Quinta Brunson for Abbott Elementary, Ayo Edebiri for The Bear, Selena Gomez for Only Murders in the Building and Kathryn Hahn for Agatha All Along.

John Capodice, ‘General Hospital’ and ‘Ace Ventura’ Actor, Dies at 83

Capodice’s passing was confirmed by a listing on New Jersey’s Pizzi Funeral Home website. A cause of death was not disclosed. “John was a devoted husband, father and grandfather and will be missed by all who had the pleasure to meet him,” the obituary reads.

Born on December 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, Capodice was a member of the US Army from 1964 to 1966, serving in Korea. After returning to the U.S., he began his acting career, appearing on stage, television, and in many films.

His first on-screen role came in the late 1970s when he starred as Lloyd Lorn in six episodes of the ABC soap opera Ryan’s Hope. He would go on to appear in numerous other classic TV series, including Kate & Allie, Moonlighting, Seinfeld, Murder, She Wrote, Murphy Brown, Law & Order, Will & Grace, and many more.

In 1994, he joined General Hospital as Carmine Cerullo, appearing on and off until 1996. He continued to pop up on TV shows throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, including Six Feet Under, The West Wing, Everybody Hates Chris, CSI, Monk, and Without A Trace.

On film, Capodice was best known as the dismissive police officer in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). His other film roles included Q (1982), Family Business (1989), The Doors (1991), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), Naked Gun 33+1?3: The Final Insult (1994), Speed (1994), Independence Day (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998).

In more recent years, he provided a voice for the animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) and appeared in five episodes of the 2024 streaming series Conversation With Mobster.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Settle Divorce Over 8 Years Later

In new court docs, obtained by TMZ, Angelina signed off on their long-running divorce on Christmas Day and filed the paperwork Monday ... with Angie forgoing spousal and family support from Brad.

The documents do not include an agreement regarding the former couple's 6 children together ... but only 2 of the children, twins Knox and Vivienne are minors.

Angelina's lawyer, James Simon tells TMZ ... "More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family. This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over."

The ex-A-list couple -- famously dubbed "Brangelina" in the press -- settled their contentious divorce after hinting that the end was near earlier in the year ... when their respective legal teams exchanged final financial disclosures -- which is something that usually happens shortly before divorcing parties reach a final resolution.

And it's about time -- as Angie filed for divorce all the way back in September 2016, citing irreconcilable differences at the time.

While they were only married for 2 years before splitting -- they had been domestic partners for almost 10 years prior to tying the knot ... so yeah, they were together a long time.

Brad and Angelina first meet back in 2004 while making the big screen "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" remake. However -- as Brad was still married to Jennifer Aniston at the time -- the twosome didn't get together as an official couple until 2005.

Brad quickly moved in with Angie amid news of his separation -- eventually welcoming six kids into their family -- including Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.

Shortly after Angie filed for divorce, she accused Brad of physically abusing at least one of his children -- although, he always denied the claims and was later cleared by authorities in an investigation. It's been something Angie has continued to litigate in the years since.

By 2019, the exes were declared legally single by a judge ... as their divorce case was dragging on and on. Their divorce proceedings aren't Brad and Angelina's only legal drama, however ... remember, they're also in the middle of a nasty lawsuit over their French winery.

BA sued AJ after she sold her share of their winery to a Russian oligarch's company without his permission, which he said was a no-no. While Brad faced a recent legal win in this case -- the situation is far from over ... lately, they've been going back and forth over NDA claims.

With the divorce now over and done with, ya gotta imagine the winery case might, perhaps, follow suit ... at least one would hope, anyway. To be continued ...

‘Turbulence’: Olga Kurylenko, Jeremy Irvine, Hera Hilmar & Kelsey Grammer Lead Altitude Action-Thriller

The film reunites the team behind 2024 action film No Way Up, including director Claudio Faeh (Northmen: A Viking Saga) and writer Andy Mayson, who also produces.

The synopsis reads: “Young married couple Zach and Emmy decide to take a hot air balloon trip across the Italian Dolomites to rekindle their relationship. When they and pilot Harry are joined by a third passenger, Julia, events unfold in ways they could never imagine five thousand meters in the air.”

The film was shot on location in the Dolomites and London, with studio shooting at Twickenham studios. It is now in post-production.

Will Clarke and Andy Mayson (Altitude) produce alongside and Molly Conners and Amanda Bowers (Phiphen). Altitude is handling international sales.

Executive producers are Altitude (Mike Runagall, Gursharn Khaira and Laura Wilson), Phiphen (Richard J. Berthy and Jane Sinisi), Head Gear and Metrol Technology (Phil Hunt and Compton Ross), Green & Blue (Frank Kaminski and Philip Nauck), M2 Media Post (Michael Bassick and Michael Laundon), Twickenham Studios (Sunny Vohra, Superna Sethi and Andrew Boswell), Leeshon Alexander, Peter Iliff, Rick Dugdale, Claudio Faeh and Jeremy Irvine.

Olga Kurylenko is represented by Independent Talent Group and Agence Adequat, Irvine by Independent Talent Group, UTA and Schreck Rose, and Hilmar by 42, Rogue Management and CAA. Grammer is represented by UTA and Vault Entertainment.

Golden Globes 2025 Nominees

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Keira Knightley, Black Doves
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Anna Sawai, Shogun

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along
Jean Smart, Hacks

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE ON TELEVISION
Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Dakota Fanning, Ripley
Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Allison Janney, The Diplomat
Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Zendaya, Challengers

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II.

Jackée Harry guests on The Neighborhood 12/9/24

“Welcome to the Wicked Stepmother” – Tina discovers her father has age-related impairments, making it crucial to reunite him with his wife. Meanwhile, Daphne gets her first little baby boo-boo, on the CBS Original series THE NEIGHBORHOOD, Monday, Dec. 9 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Glynn Turman guest stars as Otis, Tina’s father. Jackée Harry guest stars as Loretta, Otis’ wife.

2024 Critics Choice Awards TV Nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander (Starz)
Kathy Bates – Matlock (CBS)
Shanola Hampton – Found (NBC)
Keira Knightley – Black Doves (Netflix)
Keri Russell – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Anna Sawai – Shogun (FX / Hulu)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Moeka Hoshi – Shogun (FX / Hulu)
Allison Janney – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Nicole Kidman – Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+)
Skye P. Marshall – Matlock (CBS)
Anna Sawai – Pachinko (Apple TV+)
Fiona Shaw – Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Natasia Demetriou – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Bridget Everett – Somebody Somewhere (HBO | Max)
Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO | Max)
Kristen Wiig – Palm Royale (Apple TV+).

Additional Broadway Casting Announced For Jonathan Groff’s ‘Just In Time’ Bobby Darin Musical

Producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost announced the casting today. With a book by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, music supervision and arrangements by Andrew Resnick, choreography by Shannon Lewis and based on an original concept by Ted Chapin, Just In Time, developed and directed by Alex Timbers, will open Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre, with previews beginning Friday, March 28, 2025.

For the production, Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre will be transformed “into an intimate night club where the great American entertainer’s meteoric journey – from soaring highs to crushing lows – is brought to life by Groff, a cast of 16, and features a live on-stage band performing Bobby Darin’s iconic hits” including “Beyond the Sea,” “Splish Splash,” “Dream Lover,” and “Mack the Knife.”

Stephen Schnetzer on Returning to ‘Days of Our Lives’ as Steve Olson After 45 Years

The actor, who made his daytime debut in 1978, was thrilled to be invited back to his first soap home. “I was very enthusiastic about it,” begins Schnetzer. “They had reached out on a couple of occasions to see if I’d be interested in doing limited roles and stuff and it just didn’t work out. But this time, I was really excited to go back and it was just great to see how many people were still there from when I was there.”

As Julie Williams’ (Susan Seaforth Hayes) younger brother, Steve comes home to Salem for the memorial for Doug Williams, played by Bill Hayes, who passed away in January. Though Schnetzer and Seaforth Hayes weren’t in touch, “as soon as I knew I was going back, I asked for her email address and reached out to her and we talked and chatted,” he shares. “I just reminded her how important she and Bill were to me. It was my first time on camera. I had done mainly classical repertory theater for eight years. That was the first time I did camera work and they were very gentle, kind, and supportive. It took me longer than any actor I’ve seen to get used to working in front of the camera. I was still projecting to the back wall of a 1,000-seat theater, but they were always very gracious, supportive, friendly, and warm and that didn’t change when I returned.”

The on-screen siblings fell into an easy rhythm and Schnetzer reports that the character came back to him quickly, even though it had been over four decades. “It was like getting on a bicycle,” he relays. “Steve was a charming rogue, a schmoozer, a charmer, a manipulator, but there was a heart there and the heart showed up in the relationship with Susan’s character, Julie. It was so sweet to work with Susan again, and I really love that they gave me a couple of interesting episodes to play. I really appreciated that.”

Schnetzer is coy about whether his alter ego has changed since the ‘70s. “Well, that would remain to be seen,” he winks. “These two episodes will still have question marks about him and it will demonstrate people’s suspicions about him. Julie will remain steadfast in her feeling about his integrity. I don’t want to get any more specific than that.”

As for Seaforth Hayes, Schnetzer marvels at her skills during the taping of the funeral scenes. “Susan gave such a great eulogy at Bill’s real memorial that they asked if they could build an episode around that and she gave the same eulogy [on camera], with minor tweaks, and she killed it,” he raves. “I mean, that woman has a mind like a steel trap. Totally impressed. One-take Seaforth Hayes.”

He also has high praise for the scripted goodbye to Doug. “They did it right,” Schnetzer opines. “They brought a lot of the legacy people back. Those are tricky episodes, especially when it’s a big cast, but the head writer and writing staff did a terrific job.”

Reconnecting with old pals when the cameras weren’t rolling was another high point for Schnetzer. “I love our business,” he reflects. “I love what I do. I have the greatest affection for most of the people I’ve worked with. I’ve been so blessed, cast after cast, so it was just warmth and love. When you’re still standing decades after you first worked with someone, there’s a commonality, there’s a bond that doesn’t need to be spoken and that’s what it felt like. It was great to see Deidre [Hall, Marlena Evans] and Suzanne [Rogers, Maggie Horton Kiriakis]. Josh’s [Taylor, Roman Brady] face lit up, he was so happy to see me. I didn’t know he cared [Laughs]. And then all the ghosts in the place — Bill [Hayes] and Jed Allan [Don Craig], Mac Carey [Tom Horton] and Frances Reid [Alice Horton].”

He also found some familiar faces who he worked with at his other soap homes — One Life to Live (as Marcello Salta from 1980-82) and Another World (as Cass Winthrop from 1982-1999). “It was great to see Judi Evans [Bonnie Lockhart; Paulina Cory, AW] and Matt Ashford [Jack Deveraux; Drew Ralston, OLTL]. Matt was on One Life for a moment when I was there and Judi, she hasn’t changed a bit. She brought her pet chicken by and it was great! She wants me to be on the show.”

Schnetzer, who is based in Florida, wouldn’t say no to another go-round in Salem. “I would certainly be interested in doing it,” he allows. “A 3-to-6 month story would be a lot of fun and I definitely would do that.”

Paul Wesley To Star In Ukrainian War Thriller Series ‘Unspoken’

Paul Wesley, who stars in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is heading into its third season, and is best known for starring in The Vampire Diaries, will star in the six-part limited series.

Created by Polish writer Filip Syczy?ski, who wrote with Ukraine’s Zhanna Ozirna, the series comes from Polish production company Match & Spark alongside LA-based 5X Media, which has just boarded the project as a co-producer and marks the latter’s first European-based scripted series.

Set against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the series follows the journey of Paul (Wesley), an ex-soldier turned taxi driver in Poland. After receiving a desperate call from his wife in Kyiv on the day of the invasion, he races against time, crossing borders to guide his family to safety amid chaos and unimaginable terror. Over the phone, he leads them through a landscape of fear and violence, intensifying the sense of urgency as they grapple with survival in the face of insurmountable odds.

Inspired by true events occurring on the day of the Russian invasion, the series will follow Paul’s quest across war-torn terrain but through his own inner battles of redemption and resilience.

David Straiton, who has directed episodes of Magnum P.I., The Good Doctor and MacGyver, will direct the series, which is a four-nation co-production between Poland, Ukraine, Germany and the U.S. Straiton has made a number of volunteer trips to Ukraine to assist the International Legion.

It will be shot primarily in English with some Ukrainian and Polish. Production is set to begin in Eastern Europe in the winter of 2025-26. It will be exec produced by Anna Rozalska and Tarik Hachoud for Match & Spark, Alon Shtruzman and Limor Gott Ronen for 5X Media, Dmytro Sukhanov for Toy Cinema, Natalia Libet for 2Brave Productions and Saar Yogev for Electric Sheep.

Wesley said, “In a world stricken by war, I’m passionate about bringing the human side of this conflict to life through the lens of one man and his family. I hope viewers connect with Paul’s struggle and take away something meaningful about life, values and resilience from his journey and a renewed understanding of the human spirit under pressure.”

Match & Spark’s Anna Rozalska added, “Our producing partners welcome Paul Wesley on board this passion project. We’re thrilled to have 5X bring its impressive creative and sales skills to Unspoken and help deliver this great series to the world. With David Straiton lending both his directing vision and his experience on the ground in Ukraine, we have every element in place to bring this gripping and meaningful series to life.”

5X Partner Limor Gott Ronen said, “5X Media is thrilled to join such an incredible group of talent to tell this incredibly timely story- Unspoken captures a universal family story in a world of conflict, daring to take audiences deep into the personal toll of modern warfare – and stand as the first series of its kind to confront these themes within the context of the Ukrainian conflict.”

Helen Gallagher, ‘Ryan’s Hope’ Stalwart and Broadway Triple Threat, Dies at 98

Gallagher died Sunday at a hospital in Manhattan, Edith Meeks, executive and artistic director at New York’s Herbert Berghof Studio, told The Washington Post. Gallagher taught a class in “Singing for the Musical Theater” there for years.

The radiant singer, dancer and actress received her first Tony in 1952 for her portrayal of showgirl Gladys Bumps in a revival of the Rodgers & Hart musical Pal Joey, then landed another in 1971 for her turn as flapper Lucille Early, another wise-cracking character, in a revival of Busby Berkeley’s No, No, Nanette.

“When Miss Gallagher sings the blues of a lovelorn wife with piece of chiffon and a chorus of properly epicene tailor’s dummies, she makes the good old days come alive once more,” Clive Barnes wrote in his Nanette review for The New York Times, referring to her performance of “Where Has My Hubby Gone Blues.”

The Bronx-reared star received another Tony nomination in 1967 for playing the dancer Nickie in the original Broadway production of Sweet Charity, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse; later, she took over for Gwen Verdon in the title role and sang the show-stopping “Big Spender.”

Gallagher worked with many of the great Broadway choreographers of the past 70 years, Fosse, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Gower Champion, Anton Dolin, Donald Saddler and Robert Alton among them. Asked at a Lambs theatrical club event in February 2019 what they all had in common, she replied, “Temperament. People that are associated with dance and the teaching aspect of it are never known for their sweetness and kindness.”

In all, Gallagher appeared in nearly two dozen shows, from 1944 through 1981, on the Broadway stage.

On Ryan’s Hope, which aired from July 1975 to January 1989, her Maeve, a native of County Cork, Ireland, and mother of three, helped husband Johnny (Bernard Barrow) run a New York City tavern called Ryan’s across the street from a hospital.

During its run, she learned how to do an Irish jig and often sang “Danny Boy,” closing the show by singing the iconic ballad from a seat atop the bar. (Watch the emotional scene here.)

“Ryan’s Hope was the best,” Gallagher said in 1997. “First of all, it was a half-hour show — wonderfully cast and wonderfully written. There were plenty of times when it was boring, but as a rule, it was really interesting — the people were centered and had work to do. It wasn’t just a matter of sitting around on couches talking about your emotional problems. There was a life going on in that place, maybe because it was centered on a bar. It was just magic.”

She won Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding actress in a drama series in 1976, 1977 and 1988, and in 2010 the website We Love Soaps placed her No. 10 on its list of the 50 Greatest Soap Actresses.

After Ryan’s Hope was canceled, she soldiered on in other daytime serials, playing Hannah Tuttle on NBC’s Another World in 1989, Nurse Harris on ABC’s All My Children in 1995 and Maude Boyland Hayes on ABC’s One Life to Live in 1997-98.

The daughter of a banker, Gallagher was born in Brooklyn on July 19, 1926, and then raised in Scarsdale, New York, and the East Bronx. By the time she graduated from St. Frances of Rome grammar school, she already had been studying dance for four years.

“I was so shy, but on stage I was totally free, there was a sort of absolution there, to do what you couldn’t in life,” she told the Times in 1971.

The 5-foot-2 Gallagher studied at the American School of Ballet, and in 1944 she made her Broadway debut in the Cole Porter musical revue Seven Lively Arts, performing in a number composed by Igor Stravinsky.

She danced and had a speaking role in the Comden-Green musical Billion Dollar Baby; danced in the original 1947-48 production of the Lerner & Loewe musical Brigadoon, choreographed by de Mille; and was featured alongside Nanette Fabray and Phil Silvers in High Button Shoes, choreographed by Robbins.

“I was not an Agnes de Mille dancer,” she once said. “I was the girl in the third line — there were two lines of girls and then me — because she couldn’t stand the way I danced. Agnes wanted ethereal, legato movement, which was so foreign to me. With Jerry Robbins, I was able to catch what he wanted, which was the hyper, jitterbugging energy of what was going on in the streets.”

Gallagher reunited with Fabray for the 1951 musical Make a Wish (book by Preston Sturges). After Pal Joey, she played the title role in the 1953 Jule Styne-Ben Hecht musical Hazel Flagg (Jerry Lewis adapted her part for his 1954 movie Living It Up) and replaced Carol Haney as Gladys Hotchkiss in the original 1954-56 production of The Pajama Game, directed by George Abbott and Robbins and choreographed by Fosse.

From 1955-57, she starred in revivals of Guys and Dolls — she played Adelaide opposite Walter Matthau as Nathan Detroit — Finian’s Rainbow, Brigadoon and Oklahoma! (as Ado Annie, one of her favorite roles), then starred in Mame as the frumpy Agnes Gooch.

She took her final Broadway bow in 1981 in Sugar Babies but starred as actress Tallulah Bankhead in a 1984 production in the Hamptons.

On the big screen, Gallagher appeared in Kirk Douglas‘ Strangers When We Meet (1960) and with Christopher Walken in James Ivory’s Roseland (1977).

In 1956, she married Frank Wise, a stagehand she had met when she was in The Pajama Game. At the Lambs event, she related that they once went to the theater to see Verdon perform, at which point he told her, “I’ve got to admit, she’s got something you don’t have,” she recalled.

‘The Neighborhood’ Adds Jackée Harry & Erinn Hayes as Season 7 Guest Stars

In an exclusive first announcement, TV Insider can reveal that Harry will play Tina’s (Tichina Arnold) stepmother, Loretta in the episode airing on December 9, “Welcome to the Wicked Stepmother.” In the episode, Tina’s father (Glynn Turman) visits, and she discovers he has age-related impairments, making it crucial to reunite him with his wife, but Tina doesn’t have a good relationship with Loretta.

The pair have an estranged relationship due to the fact that Tina has always blamed Loretta for swooping in way too soon after her mother died and marrying her vulnerable father. And so, it takes a while for Tina to admit and finally consider that maybe Loretta does really love her father.

Meanwhile, Hayes will play Clara, the head of a very prestigious and very exclusive preschool with the educational philosophy that “‘wrong’ is a four-letter word.” This approach clashes with Marty’s (Marcel Spears) philosophy, which is that some things, including what they’re teaching at the school, are unquestionably wrong.

Clara will appear later this season, but stay tuned for more details on the episode she’ll appear in during the weeks ahead.

Harry is best known for playing adoptive mom Lisa to Tia and Tamera Mowry’s characters on the beloved comedy Sister, Sister, which aired from 1994 to 1999. Her other television roles have included parts in Designing Women, That’s So Raven, 2 Broke Girls, Everybody Hates Chris, Pose, Family Reunion, and Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me. This guest role alongside Arnold will mark a reunion of sorts as they both appeared on Everybody Hates Chris.

Meanwhile, Hayes is known for her work on Children’s Hospital, Kevin Can Wait, Huge in France, Medical Police, The Goldbergs, Gaslit, and many more.

Don’t miss Harry and Hayes when they guest star on The Neighborhood as Season 7 continues on CBS.

William H. Macy Joins Thomas Jane & Armie Hammer In Western ‘Frontier Crucible’, Filming Underway

Also starring are Myles Clohessy, Eli Brown, Eddie Spears, Zane Holtz, Ryan Masson and Australian newcomer Mary Stickley. Masson has replaced Jonah Kagen.

As we previously revealed, this is the comeback movie of Hammer who hadn’t acted in a film or series since his career was derailed three years ago by allegations of abuse. Investigations into the allegations were later dropped by authorities.

Pitched by producer Dallas Sonnier (Bone Tomahawk) as Reservoir Dogs meets Bone Tomahawk, and set in the Arizona Territory of the 1870s, the film follows a former soldier (Clohessy) with a tragic past who is thrown into an uneasy alliance with three outlaws (Jane, Hammer and Masson), a beautiful woman (Stickley), and her wounded husband (Brown), in an attempt to survive the elements and hostiles of the western frontier.

Sonnier’s outfit Bonfire Legend is behind the film which will be directed by Travis Mills (The Pendragon Cycle) and adapted from the 1961 western novel Desert Stake-Out by Harry Whittington. Maxime Alexandre (Shazam!) will be the cinematographer.

David Guglielmo and Lillian Campbell are producing with Mills. Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk are executive-producing for Bonfire Legend alongside Jane and his producing partner Courtney Lauren Penn for Renegade Entertainment, and Sefton Fincham. Preston Poulter is executive-producing and financing the picture with Bonfire Legend. Guglielmo is also handling casting

‘Wolfs’ Sequel At Apple Not Moving Forward

Director Jon Watts told Collider in an interview the film would not be happening.

“I don’t know what I’m directing next, and I don’t think there’s going to be a Wolfs sequel,” Watts told the outlet in an interview.

Deadline first reported that the original film would be moving from a full theatrical release to a limited one and an immediate premiere on Apple TV+. It was also reported at the time that a sequel was in development but that is now not the case.

The film also stars Amy Ryan and follows two rival fixers who cross paths when they’re both called in to help cover up a prominent New York official’s misstep. Over one explosive night, they’ll have to set aside their petty grievances and their egos to finish the job.

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Jennifer Hudson, Kylie Minogue & Billy Porter Join Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Lineup

The Parade also will feature appearances by Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and 2X Oscar Nominee Cynthia Erivo, and Cole Escola. Additionally, for the first time, choreographer Shay Latukolan has come on board to choreograph dance performances for the arrivals of Tom Turkey and Santa Claus, and more.

NBC‘s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is set to air live Thursday, Nov. 28 from from 8:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. ET/PT. It will also simulstream on Peacock and have an encore on NBC at 2 p.m. ET/PT.

Brad Pitt, Who “Doesn’t Like To Do Press,” Will Do “World Tour” To Promote ‘F1’, Producer Jerry Bruckheimer Says

“Brad is really invested in this movie,” Buckheimer said during an appearance at Liberty Media‘s investor day in New York. “He doesn’t like to do press, but I think we’ll take him on a world tour where he’ll be glad to show his efforts in driving and acting in this movie.”

Formula One was acquired in 2016 by Liberty. The company, controlled by media billionaire John Malone, invited Bruckheimer to its investor meeting to drum up enthusiasm for the film project, which was made with its co-operation. It is the latest screen promotion for the auto racing circuit, following the multi-season success of Drive to Survive on Netflix. The streamer is also getting set to release limited series Senna, a scripted take on the late F1 driver Ayrton Senna.

Directed by Top Gun: Maverick‘s Joseph Kosinski, F1 is scheduled for theatrical release on June 27, 2025.

Asked about the plan for premieres of the film preceding its commercial bow, presumably meaning festival berths at Cannes or the like, Bruckheimer kept his cards close to the vest.

“That’s up for discussion,” he said. “I think we’re going to show it in Monaco, to the drivers and the F1 teams and then we’ll have premieres in New York and London and a bunch of other cities.”

One aspect of the project that has drawn industry attention is the shape of its theatrical run. Apple has been recalibrating its film release plans of late after seeing mixed results from several big-budget projects over the past year. As Deadline exclusively reported last summer, the tech giant shifted Wolfs, Pitt’s recent teaming with George Clooney, to a limited one-week theatrical release before a streaming debut on Apple TV+. Initially, it was envisioned going wide after its world premiere in Venice.

“It’s going to be everywhere around the world – Imax theaters, where you’re going to get the huge experience that Imax gives you,” the producer said.

Bruckheimer teased the texture of the film, which he said is in keeping with “process” films and series he has produced over the course of his career.

F1 drivers, he said, “are booked every five minutes. It’s unbelievable what their life is like. The physical toll that it takes on them, the amount of training that they have to do, you never see that. But we’ll certainly show you some of that in the movie. I love to make what I call process movies. I’ve done it over and over again. I had a TV series called CSI that takes you behind the curtain and shows you what the world is really like and that’s what our movie does. You get inside the world of F1 and you see how it actually works. But there’s a lot of wonderful dramatic stories I keep telling.”

William H. Macy Boards Raja Gosnell’s ‘Too Many Crooks’ As Film Mode Entertainment Launches Sales – AFM

Craig Berenson (Snakes on a Plane) and J. Todd Harris (Chicago 7) are producing the picture, written by Eddie Richey (Phoenix) and directed by Raja Gosnell (Never Been Kissed, Big Momma’s House, Scooby Doo).

Film Mode Entertainment (FME) has acquired global rights to the movie, which is currently in pre-production, and will launch sales on the title at the AFM next week.

Macy and FME President Clay Epstein also take executive producer credits on the crime caper which is based on a Donald Westlake short story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Edgar (Edgar Alan Poe) award for Best Short Story in 1990.

Westlake has been acknowledged by many writers and fans of crime fiction as one of the masters of the genre. Too Many Crooks was published internationally, including in Playboy Magazine.

“We’re thrilled to be launching Too Many Crooks at AFM and to be working with Todd and Craig on another stellar feature film,” said Epstein.

“The movie is the perfect combination of commercial viability and quality content, with a gripping, highly entertaining story, a team of expert filmmakers, and the unmatched talent of William H. Macy leading the cast.”

Macy’s character John Dornhoefer is a recently-released career criminal on parole, set on pulling off another bank robbery. With his trusted, but disheveled sidekick, Andy Karp, the plans start to take shape.

The meticulously planned operation takes an unexpected turn when they discover the bank is already being robbed.

The quick-minded Dornhoefer seizes an opportunity to protect the hostages, outsmart the gunmen, and sweet talk FBI agent Carol Reed who is the lead hostage negotiator. But bad habits die hard and while he may save the day, it’s still the money that could make it all worthwhile.

“Craig and I have loved Eddie Richey’s script for some time, and when you envision William H. Macy in the lead it all comes beautifully together with Bill’s wit, pathos, and relatability,” said producer Harris.

Late American writer Westlake wrote more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books over his career, specializing in crime fiction especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres.

Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hardboiled Parker (published under the pen name Richard Stark), and John Dortmunder, who featured in a more humorous series.

He was a three-time Edgar Award winner and was one of few writers to win Edgars in three different categories (1968, Best Novel, God Save the Mark; 1990, Best Short Story, Too Many Crooks; 1991, Best Motion Picture Screenplay, The Grifters).

Many of his works went on to become feature films featuring icons of the big screen like Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, George C. Scott, Jean Luc Goddard, Christopher Lloyd, Antonio Banderas, André Holland and Gemma Chan, to name just a few.

Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, an Emmy and SAG Award winning actor and theatre, film and TV writer Macy was seen most recently in Disney’s Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes; Amazon’s Ricky Stanicky, directed by Peter Farrelly; the independent feature film Maybe I Do; the Hulu mini-series The Dropout, and starred in the Showtime series Shameless, for which he was nominated twice for a Best Actor Emmy Award and has won twice for the SAG Award.

Macy is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company. He is repped by Atlas Artists and Independent Artist Group. Raja is represented by Independent Artist Group.. Film Mode Entertainment is repped by Lon Haber & Co.

Revelations’ Morgan Freeman, Lori McCreary Tune Up Chuck Berry’s 98th Birthday With TV Series Deal

“Chuck Berry was more than a musical legend — he was a revolutionary spirit whose influence shaped the course of modern music and culture. It is an immense honor to partner with the Berry family to bring his story to a worldwide audience,” Freeman and McCreary said in a statement. “Through this collaboration, we aim to celebrate his groundbreaking legacy, sharing not just his music but the remarkable journey behind it. Together, we want to ensure that Chuck’s spirit continues to inspire future generations, reminding the world of the indelible mark he left on us all.”

The singer-guitarist’s widow, Themetta Berry, said she was “excited to partner with Revelations to bring this story to life, as are my children, grandchildren and entire family. Morgan and Lori’s track record of bringing important stories to the screen in a way that is genuine and authentic compelled me to work with them. This project will be an important part of paying tribute to Charles as part of the CHUCK100 celebration.”

The CHUCK100 is a series of events that began in the singer’s hometown of St. Louis. The campaign will include tribute events, new releases of Berry’s music, and activations leading up to the 100th anniversary of his birth on October 18, 2026.

The first phase began at the Chuck Berry House of Evolution Festival last month, an event replete with career memorabilia from Berry’s career including one of his iconic Cadillacs, and video presentations that highlighted the singer’s remarkable influence on music. The event was part of a larger effort to honor Berry’s legacy through music, storytelling and cultural tributes.

Known for hits like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybellene” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” Berry’s showmanship and guitar acumen has him regarded as an influence on the likes of the Beatles and Rolling Stones. As Bob Seger famously sang, “all of Chuck’s children are out there, playing his licks.”

Indie Drama ‘Cup of Jo: The Patron Saint of Desperate Cases’ Reveals Lead Cast As Production Wraps

Written and directed by Nick Martinez, the film centers on Jo (Polish), a single mother who begs, borrows, and steals to provide her son, Nick (Rick), with a better life than she had, with little help from her ex-husband Matt (Steiner) or her mother Ruth (Barrett).

The film’s producers are Kali Ruth, Barnaby Dallas, Jessica Olthof (Surrender), and Darren Haruo Rae (Nisei). Larry Schapiro (One Fast Move) executive produces the Roann Films project. Cup of Jo: The Patron Saint of Desperate Causes is in post-production and is eyeing a festival circuit run.

Polish is known for her recurring role of ‘Julia’ on TNT’s Animal Kingdom, and the series Bring on the Dancing Horses opposite Kate Bosworth. Her feature work includes American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally, opposite Al Pacino, and The Astronaut Farmer opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen. She is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment and Buchwald.

Rick was most recently a series regular in the Paramount+ series 1883 starring as ‘John Dutton’, in the prequel to Yellowstone, from creator Taylor Sheridan. He also portrayed the younger version of Richard Madden on the Russo Brothers’ Prime Video series Citadel. He is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment and Paloma Model & Talent.

Steiner’s notable credits include Netflix’s The Perfect Date, CBS’ NCIS, and Camila Cabello’s “Liar” music video, which has amassed over 130 million views on YouTube. He recurred on HBO’s Euphoria as ‘Aaron Jacobs’, brother to Jacob Elordi’s character. Additional credits include the Mason Novick-produced comedy We Broke Up starring opposite Aya Cash, the Tribeca Film Festival selection No Running opposite Taryn Manning, the HBO Max holiday feature A Hollywood Christmas, and Hulu’s reboot of White Man Can’t Jump. He is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment.

Barrett’s credits include recent stints on Peacock’s The Thing About Pam, Starz’ Heels, Showtime’s Billions, and NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She performed in several Off-Off Broadway productions before being cast in her first leading film role in Mission Hill, re-released as No Expectations. She is repped by Vamos Talento and Frontline Management.

Nicholas Pryor Dies: Soap Veteran & ‘Risky Business’ Actor Who Recurred On ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Was 89

Fellow actor Jon Lindstrom announced the news on social media, saying in part: “Nick was an Actor’s actor, and an exceptional friend. … He was a mentor, a sounding board, a trusted confidant, and even a father-figure beyond, yes, playing my own father on #GH and #PortCharles.” See his full post below.

Pryor racked up nearly 175 screen credits and half-dozen more on Broadway. After getting his screen start guesting on such 1950s and early ’60s TV series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Doctors, he played Tom Baxter in more than 75 episodes of the NBC daytime drama Another World. That led to a starring role on The Nurses, a 1965-67 continuation of CBS’ The Nurses, which had ended in 1965.

He then was cast in a starring role on the first season of CBS sudser Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and later had guest shots daytime soaps All My Children and The Edge of Night.

Pryor did some big-screen work in the mid-1970s including car-race romp The Gumball Rally along with TV miniseries at the height of their heyday, including The Adams Chronicles and Washington: Behind Closed Doors. He had a small but memorable role in the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! as Mr. Hammen, a soon-repentant eater of the fish plate, complete with airsickness bag and amplified hurling sound effect.

By the early ’80s, Pryor was a regular TV guest star, appearing on such popular shows as M*A*S*H, Eight Is Enough, Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons, Falcon Crest, St. Elsewhere, Knight Rider Moonlighting and Who’s the Boss?

His first regular TV role came in NBC’s drama The Bronx Zoo, starring as a decent but often insufferable high school vice principal opposite his boss, Ed Asner, whose job he coveted. It lasted one season in 1987-88.

During that decade, Pryor continued to land film roles, including as Cruise’s dad in the future A-lister’s breakout 1983 pic Risky Business and in The Falcon and the Snowman, starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn.

Pryor continued to work steadily in film and TV during the 1990s, landing a recurring role as Chancellor Milton Arnold on Fox’s primetime hit Beverly Hills, 90210. He appeared in more than two dozen episodes from 1994-97. He also guested on many hit shows that decade, including Growing Pains; L.A. Law; Matlock; Chicago Hope; Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman; The Practice; Silk Stalkings; Diagnosis Murder; Party of Five; and Murder, She Wrote, among others.

In 1997, he was cast as Victor Collins on ABC’s General Hospital spinoff Port Charles — a role he would play in nearly 350 episodes through 2002.

After the turn of the century, Pryor appeared in guest roles on series such as NYPD Blue, That’s Life, Strong Medicine, Without a Trace, October Road, Hart of Dixie and Nashville. His final screen roles came in 2021, with Marvel’s Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the big-screen sequel Halloween Kills.

Pryor also appeared in several Broadway productions, including 1950s plays The Egghead, Love Me Little, The Highest Tree and Howie and later the ’70s shows That Championship Season and Thieves.

Justin Chambers guests on all-new episode of Accused

Guest Cast: Taylor Schilling as “April Harris,” Justin Chambers as “Tyler,” Danny Pino as “Jake Harris,” Luca Thunberg as “Wyatt Harris,” Carolyn Scott as “Candace.”

‘Ripple’: Frankie Faison, Julia Chan, Ian Harding & Sydney Agudong Lead Cast Of Hallmark+ Series

Created by Michele Giannusa (The Dead Girls Detective Agency), Ripple revolves around four strangers whose lives start to serendipitously intersect.

Set in New York City, the series follows the four — Walter (Faison), Kris (Chan), Nate (Harding) and Aria (Agudong) — who have unknowingly crossed paths many times but never met. As they each face life’s challenges, their actions create a ripple effect that ultimately connects them. Ripple delivers a powerful message of hope: just wait for the rainbow, some of the best things in life can’t happen without the storm.

“Walter, Kris, Nate and Aria are the heart of Ripple and it was essential that we get it right in casting those roles,” said Kelly Garrett, VP Programming at Hallmark Media. “Frankie, Julia, Ian and Sydney are magic as our core four. We cannot wait for them to guide viewers through this romantic look at life and humanity in New York City.”

Production on Ripple is underway in Toronto. The hourlong drama series is slated to premiere on Hallmark+ in 2025.

Ripple is executive produced by Giannusa, Joni Lefkowitz (New Girl, Jane the Virgin) who also serves as showrunner, Jocelyn Hamilton (Burden of Truth) and Darren Giblin as well as Amanda Tapping (Supernatural) who also serves as supervising director and pilot director.

Faison, best known for his work in The Wire, Banshee, Coming to America, and Do the Right Thing, received a lead actor Gotham Award for The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain. He most recently appeared on television in Apple TV+’s Hello Tomorrow! and The Rookie: Feds and in Till and Lucille on the film side. Faison is repped by Sweeney Entertainment and Del Shaw Moonves.

Chan most recently played the series regular role of Annabelle in Netflix limited series Archive 81. She also starred in the CW’s Katy Keene and on Bell Media’s Saving Hope, among others. Chan is repped by Thruline Entertainment, Buchwald and GGA in Canada.

Harding played Ezra on all seven seasons of Pretty Little Liars. He was recently seen on the big screen in the James Mangold-directed Ford v Ferrari. He’ll next be seen in the TV miniseries Holidazed and in the Stephen Herek-directed Our Little Secret alongside Lindsay Lohan and Kristin Chenoweth. Harding is repped by Gersh and Authentic Talent & Literary Management.

Agudong will next be seen in Disney’s live-action Lilo and Stitch movie, which is eyeing a 2025 release. She can currently be seen as the lead in the adventure film At Her Feet, and in psychological thriller Ether, in which she stars and executive produces. Agudong is repped by Gersh, AEFH Talent Agency, Trilogy Talent Management, Inc. and attorney Howard Fishman of HWHM+F.

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Jean Smart To Host ‘SNL’ Season 50 Opener

Smart, fresh from her Emmy win over the weekend, will host the show on September 28 with another Emmy attendee, musician Jelly Roll, who sang as part of the In Memoriam tribute.

Elsewhere, Nate Bargatze, Ariana Grande, Michael Keaton and John Mulaney are set as hosts as SNL kicks off with five consecutive shows.

Bargatze, who returns for his second turn a year on from his first, will host on October 5 with Coldplay as musical guest. Grande, who will be joined by Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie Nicks, hosts on October 12. Keaton will be joined by Billie Eilish on October 19 and former SNL star Mulaney returns to host on November 2 with Chappell Roan as musical guest.

Coldplay have appeared eight times; Grande returns for her second spot as host; Nicks is also back for a second time as musical guest, more than thirty years on from her first; Keaton returns for his fourth time as host; Eilish will mark her fourth time as musical guest and Mulaney is hosting for the sixth time.

Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. SNL will mark its 50th anniversary with a live primetime special on Sunday February 16.

‘The Young & The Restless’ Casts Valarie Pettiford As New Amy Lewis

Deadline has learned that veteran TV actress Valarie Pettiford will take over the role that was first created by Stephanie E. Williams in 1983. Details on why Amy is returning are being kept under wraps for now.

Pettiford’s first air date as a recurring character is Tuesday, October 29. This marks her return to daytime after portraying Sheila Price on One Life to Live from 1990-94.

Pettiford is currently a series regular on the BET+ series The Family Business and has a recurring role on CBS’ The Equalizer. She’s also set appear in the upcoming holiday movie, Too Many Christmases.

Her extensive TV credits include The Mandalorian, The Blacklist, The Baxters, A Discovery of Witches, and Half & Half for which she received three NAACP Image Award nominations for her role as Dee Dee Thorne.

In 1999, Pettiford received a Tony nomination for her role in the Broadway production of Fosse. She’s directing and creating new works with business partners Mary Ann Lambs and Marissa Palley for live theater, and is developing for television and film under her Scared Flight Productions banner.

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‘Salem’s Lot’ Trailer: Lewis Pullman’s Hometown Stalked By A Vampire In Max-Bound Adaptation Of Stephen King Classic

In Salem’s Lot, author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

Others in the cast include Alfre Woodard, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk, and John Benjamin Hickey.

While some feared the New Line title would be shelved by Warner Bros Discovery after pivoting away from theaters, à la Batgirl, the project was officially set to premiere on Max back in March.

Dauberman directed the pic from his own script and served as executive producer. Producers included James Wan and Michael Clear for Atomic Monster; Roy Lee for Vertigo; and Mark Wolper.

A cornerstone of horror maestro King’s oeuvre, Salem’s Lot marked the author’s first major foray into vampire fiction and his second published novel, after Carrie. The book laid the groundwork for King’s shared universe, as characters and locations from Salem’s Lot would go on to appear in later works like The Dark Tower series. It was previously adapted into a CBS miniseries, directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, all the way back in 1979.

Samara Weaving, Kyle Gallner, Kyra Sedgwick & Jon Gries Leading Romantic Crime-Thriller ‘Carolina Caroline’ With Filming Underway

The film follows the story of a young woman (Weaving) who skips her small town — in search of her estranged mother (Sedgwick) — alongside a charismatic con man (Gallner) on the run from the law. The duo leave a wave of crime and passion behind them as they hustle their way through the Southeast.

Written by Tom Dean and directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier (Dinner In America). Producers include Bee-Hive Productions’ Stephen Braun (Sacramento), Star Thrower Entertainment’s Tim & Trevor White (King Richard), The Wonder Company’s Eric B. Fleischman and Chris Abernathy (Sacramento) and Create & Complete Entertainment’s Chris Ward.

Verve Ventures, CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-representing worldwide rights.

Executive producers include MacPac Entertainment’s Jan McAdoo and Brittany Kahan Ward & Trent Hubbard. Star Thrower executive Laena Carroll will co-produce.

Rehmeier and Gallner re-team for the first time since Rehmeier’s Sundance 2021 feature, Dinner In America, in which Gallner starred. Braun and Fleischman also supported that film. The director’s most recent film, the MRC/T-Street comedy Snack Shack, was released theatrically by Paramount/Republic.

Said Rehmeier: “Samara and Kyle are delivering truly electric, nuanced performances, equal parts thrilling, romantic, comedic and moving. It’s been inspiring working with them Kyra Sedgwick and Jon Gries, as well as my regular core crew of artists and the entire incredible team on this project.”

Weaving is repped by CAA, 111 Media and Johnson Shapiro. Gallner is represented by Paradigm and attorney Stewart Brookman. Sedgwick is represented by CAA, Range Media Partners, and Schreck Rose. Gries is with Innovative and Lovett Management. Rehmeier is repped by Verve and Ziffren. Bee-Hive is represented by Verve. Star Thrower is represented by CAA.

Television Academy and ABC Announce Presenters Slated for 76th Emmy Awards

The 76th Emmy Awards, produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, will broadcast live on ABC SUNDAY, SEPT. 15 (8:00-11:00 p.m. EDT/5:00-8:00 p.m. PDT), from the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles and will be available for streaming on Hulu Sept. 16-22.

The diverse lineup of talent represents critically acclaimed television series, Emmy-nominated programs across many viewing platforms and genres, and Emmy nominees — all tapped to celebrate television excellence on the esteemed awards show.

Talent includes the following:Christine Baranski — Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Kathy Bates
Meredith Baxter
Candice Bergen
Gael Garcia Bernal
Matt Bomer — Nominee, Outstanding Actor In A Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Zach Braff
Connie Britton
Nicola Coughlan
Billy Crystal
Viola Davis
Giancarlo Esposito
Colin Farrell
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Lily Gladstone — Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
Selena Gomez — Nominee, Outstanding Actress In A Comedy Series
Dulé Hill
Ron Howard
Brendan Hunt
Joshua Jackson
Allison Janney
Don Johnson
Mindy Kaling
Jimmy Kimmel — Nominee, Outstanding Talk Series, Outstanding Writing For a Variety Special, Outstanding Variety Special Live (Winner)
Padma Lakshmi
Greta Lee — Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
John Leguizamo
George Lopez
Diego Luna
Jane Lynch — Nominee, Outstanding Host for a Game Show
Steve Martin — Nominee, Outstanding Actor In A Comedy Series
Nava Mau — Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie
Reba McEntire
Janel Moloney
Ebon Moss-Bachrach — Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Niecy Nash-Betts
Taylor Zakhar Perez
Mekhi Phifer
Melissa Peterman
Da’Vine Joy Randolph — Nominee, Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
Sam Richardson
Maya Rudolph
Richard Schiff
Martin Sheen
Martin Short — Nominee, Outstanding Actor In A Comedy Series
Jean Smart — Nominee, Outstanding Actress In A Comedy Series
Jimmy Smits
Antony Starr
Gina Torres
Dick Van Dyke
Susan Kelechi Watson
Damon Wayans
Kristen Wiig — Nominee, Outstanding Actress In A Comedy Series
Henry Winkler
Bowen Yang
Steven Yeun

In addition, there will be special appearances from Olympic gold medalist swimmer Caeleb Dressel and Olympic bronze medal-winning rugby player Ilona Maher.

‘Accused’: See Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy in First Season 2 Teaser

Returning with its collection of intense and topical human stories of crime and punishment, Accused will debut its second season on Tuesday, October 8 at 8/7c. And the teaser, above is offering a first glimpse at the star-studded roster of performers helping to bring these stories to the screen.

The thought-provoking thriller — based on BBC’s crime anthology series — tackles a different crime in different cities with different stars each week, and viewers are brought into the courtroom at the beginning of every episode as a new defendant stands trial. The catch? Fans don’t know how the defendant ended up there.

Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, the show serves as a mirror to the times we’re currently living in through emotional plotlines which are teased in Season 2’s official promo, above. The teaser offers a glimpse at real-life husband and wife William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman in their roles from the premiere episode titled, “Lorraine’s Story.”

Additionally, fans can catch a glimpse of other stars including returning performer Michael Chiklis alongside Taylor Schilling, Justin Chambers, Nick Cannon, Patrick J. Adams, Ken Jeong, Debra Winger, Christine Ebersole, Mercedes Ruehl, and Danny Pino. Along with unveiling the first Season 2 teaser, Fox also announced that Cobie Smulders, Vella Lovell, Dina Shihabi, and Isabel Arraiza will join the ensemble for more Season 2 stories.

At the end of these tales, audiences discover how an ordinary person gets caught up in extraordinary circumstances to end up in the predicament that they find themselves in. It exhibits how one decision can impact the course of that life and the lives of others forever. Don’t miss it for yourself, catch the teaser, above, and stay tuned for more on Accused as we approach the show’s Season 2 premiere.

‘Dancing With the Stars’ Is Back in the Ballroom With an All-New Celebrity Cast

This season’s celebrities and professional dancers are as follows (in alphabetical order):

Super Bowl Champion Danny Amendola with partner Witney Carson
Notorious ankle bracelet fashionista Anna Delvey with partner Ezra Sosa
From “The Bachelor,” Joey Graziadei with partner Jenna Johnson
NBA Champion Dwight Howard with partner Daniella Karagach
TV star Chandler Kinney with partner Brandon Armstrong
Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher with partner Alan Bersten
Model and cover girl Brooks Nader with partner Gleb Savchenko
Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik with partner Rylee Arnold
Reality royalty Phaedra Parks with partner Val Chmerkovskiy
Movie star Eric Roberts with partner Britt Stewart
TV icon Tori Spelling with partner Pasha Pashkov
From “The Bachelorette,” Jenn Tran with partner Sasha Farber
Sitcom and movie actor Reginald VelJohnson with partner Emma Slater

The pairs will be judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts, including Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough.

“Dancing with the Stars” is produced by BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions.

DANNY AMENDOLA – Danny Amendola is a former NFL wide receiver who played 13 seasons and is a two-time Super Bowl Champion as a member of the New England Patriots. Amendola was recently inducted into the Texas Tech Red Raiders Hall of Fame in 2024. His professional football career in the NFL began when he signed as an undrafted free agent with the Dallas Cowboys in 2008. After one year on the practice squad with Dallas and Philadelphia, he got elevated to the active roster with the St. Louis Rams in 2009. He became a breakout star in St. Louis before signing a five-year contract with the New England Patriots in 2013. While in New England, Amendola became a trusted receiver of quarterback Tom Brady and a fan favorite known for making his biggest plays and having his best games when the stakes were highest in the NFL playoffs. Amendola retired from the NFL in 2021.

ANNA DELVEY – Anna Delvey is an artist, fashion icon and infamous NYC socialite who gained international attention after Netflix purchased the rights to her story and developed it into the 2022 miniseries “Inventing Anna.” Delvey’s life story has been the subject of several other television shows, interviews, podcasts and theater productions. Some view her as a cunning scam artist, while others see her as a charismatic and ambitious entrepreneur who took advantage of New York City’s social elite in an effort to open a prestigious art studio. Her case has also sparked discussions about wealth, privilege and social climbing in modern society. Her story continues to captivate the public’s imagination.

JOEY GRAZIADEI – A 29-year-old teaching tennis pro from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Joey Graziadei is most well known as the Bachelor from season 28 of the ABC hit show of the same name. With his loyalty, thoughtfulness and compassion, Graziadei won the hearts of America and, ultimately, his fiancée, Kelsey Anderson. Now that finding love has been checked off his to-do list, Graziadei keeps busy spending time with family, traveling the world, and raising awareness for causes he’s passionate about like cancer research.

DWIGHT HOWARD – Dwight David Howard II is one of the NBA’s most charismatic veteran players. Playing basketball 19 years professionally as one of the greatest players in the NBA, he has made a global impact across the lives of people around the world. He is an NBA Champion, eight-time NBA All-Star, eight-time All-NBA Team member, five-time All-Defensive Team member and a three-time Defensive Player of the Year. He holds the record for having the most dunks in NBA history along with being the only player in NBA history to earn the honor of Defensive Player of the Year for three consecutive seasons.

Howard is also an entrepreneur, filmmaker, community leader, media figure and philanthropist. Expanding his focus over the past few years, he is currently the co-owner of a professional basketball league in Asia with plans to go global. He is an avid traveler, dedicated father and global ambassador of basketball internationally bringing smiles to everyone he encounters around the world.

CHANDLER KINNEY – Chandler trained at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy and the Los Angeles Ballet Academy, and discovered acting at age 9. Currently, Kinney can be seen starring in the HBO Max series “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin” and “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.” She also portrays Willa in the Disney Channel musical film franchise “Zombies.” Previously, she was in FOX’s “Lethal Weapon,” FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum,” the CW’s “90210,” Amazon’s “Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street,” “The Haunted Hathaways” for Nickelodeon, and Disney’s “Girl Meets World” and “K.C. Undercover.”

ILONA MAHER – Ilona Maher is a Team USA Rugby Sevens bronze medalist and two-time Olympian, having represented the United States in Paris 2024 and Tokyo 2020. Maher is a viral sensation across social media for sharing her authentic and witty journey as a professional female athlete to help grow the game of rugby and promote body appreciation. An ambassador for ChildFund Rugby, an organization that uses integrated rugby and life skills to help young people from vulnerable communities across the world overcome challenges, Maher traveled to Laos to help in their mission of inspiring positive social change.

BROOKS NADER – Brooks Nader is a supermodel and actress, known for her impeccable style and captivating presence. Through campaigns, runway shows, branded partnerships, strategic collaborations and more, Nader’s career has continued to skyrocket since she made her debut in the 2019 edition of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Throughout her career, Nader has worked with esteemed brands and fashion houses. Most recently, in May 2024, she was named a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Legend and featured on the cover of the magazine for the second time in celebration of the magazine’s 60th anniversary.

STEPHEN NEDOROSCIK – Stephen Nedoroscik, more popularly known as the “pommel horse guy,” is a distinguished American gymnast. At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, he captured America’s heart by helping the U.S. Men’s Gymnastics team secure their first team medal (bronze) in 16 years. He also won an individual bronze medal on the pommel horse. Beyond his athletic achievements, Nedoroscik is a passionate advocate for men’s gymnastics and works to raise awareness for the sport. He is also dedicated to supporting individuals with low vision, using his platform to promote inclusivity and accessibility in the gymnastics community and beyond.

PHAEDRA PARKS – Phaedra Parks is a successful attorney, businesswoman, author, mortician, television personality, motivational speaker, social activist, certified reiki master healer and mother to two young sons. As managing partner of The Parks Group, Parks practices law in the areas of entertainment, intellectual property rights, and civil and criminal litigation. Parks has been an on-air legal analyst for media outlets including NBC, Fox, CNN, truTV, EXTRA and Entertainment Tonight. As a television personality, she has appeared on “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” “Ultimate Girls Trip,” four-time Emmy® Award-nominated and People’s Choice Award-winning series, “The Traitors” as well as “Will Trent.”

Parks earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Wesleyan College, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Georgia as well as a degree in mortuary sciences from Jefferson State College.

ERIC ROBERTS – Eric Roberts is a Georgia native, whose first professional acting job in front of a camera was “Another World” at age 19 in New York. He entered into features in “King of the Gypsies” at 21 and earned multiple Golden Globe® nominations and an Oscar® nomination. One of his favorite jobs was the portrayal of Junior in Danny McBride’s “Righteous Gemstones.” He has also made proud appearances in music videos from The Killers, Keaton Simons, Akon, Ja Rule, Mariah Carey, Rihanna and numerous artists from around the world.

TORI SPELLING – Tori Spelling is best known for playing Donna Martin on the long-running hit show “Beverly Hills 90210,” which she also executive produced. She created, executive produced and starred in the long-running series “Tori and Dean,” the spinoff series “sTORIbook Weddings,” as well as “True Tori,” HGTV’s “Tori & Dean: Cabin Fever” and “At Home With Tori.” Spelling is also a five-time NY Times bestselling author with her first (of six) memoirs, “sTORI Telling,” reaching No. 1 and being named the best celebrity autobiography of 2009. She has also authored the children’s book “Presenting Tallulah,” as well as the coffee table, party planning book “CelebrTORI.” Spelling has had multiple product lines and she currently hosts two podcasts on iHeart, “90210MG with Jennie Garth,” and her own podcast “MisSPELLING,” which she also executive produces.

JENN TRAN – Jenn Tran is a sweet and compassionate woman who has dedicated her life to helping others and is currently studying to become a physician assistant. The bilingual Vietnamese beauty currently resides in Miami; and when she’s not studying, the 26-year-old Bachelor Nation fan favorite loves reading, paddleboarding and traveling whenever she has the chance.

REGINALD VELJOHNSON – Reggie VelJohnson is the iconic TV dad from the sitcom “Family Matters” and well known as Al Powell in “Die Hard” and “Die Hard 2.” He was recently the TV dad on five versions of Progressive’s national commercial campaign and sings on the Planters Christmas commercial. He recently costarred in the indie feature “Roswell Delirium,” played the lead in the TV movie of the week “Ghost of Christmas Always,” had a recurring role on Disney+ “Turner & Hooch” and was featured in the leading role in the indie feature “Christmas Lottery.”

He also appeared in the mega successful feature “Avengers: Endgame,” “The Prayer Box” and “The Very Excellent Dundee.” Additionally, VelJohnson guest starred on CBS’s “Mom,” ABC’s “Station 19,” “Sydney to the Max,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Ryan Hanson Solves Crimes on Television” and “Ray Donovan; was the lead in the Lifetime movie “Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta”; and was a recurring character on “Hart of Dixie.”.

Neil Patrick Harris & Jane Krakowski Join Starry Cast Of Robert O’Hara’s Off Broadway Play ‘Sh*t. Meet. Fan.’

The MCC Theater production will begin previews on Thursday October 10, with an opening night set for Monday October 28. The engagement at MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater runs through Sunday November 17.

Based on the 2016 film Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese, Shit. Meet. Fan. unfolds in real time as a group of long-time friends gather to play a game on the night of an eclipse, with each person required to share the contents of their phones – out loud – with the rest of the group. As the synopsis reads, “With the cocktails flowing among grownups who refuse to grow up, outrageous secrets and skeletons begin to emerge… Shit. Meet. Fan. Are they ready for the ensuing chaos? Are you?”

O’Hara’s previous plays include the comedy Bootycandy and MCC’s BLKS. He directed Jeremy O. Harris’ hit Off Broadway and Broadway satire Slave Play.

Both Harris and Krakowski have appeared in numerous New York stage productions. Harris’ recent credits include Into The Woods, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and Hedwig And The Angry Inch, while Krakowski won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Carla in 2003’s Nine. Her other Broadway credits include Grand Hotel, Company, Once Upon a Mattress, Tartuff and Starlight Express.

‘Frasier’ Season 2 Trailer Gives Sneak Peek of Frasier Back on Radio in Seattle

Frasier returns on Paramount+ on Thursday, September 19, with two episodes. The rest of the season will drop weekly. The revival sees Frasier in the next chapter of his life after he returns to Boston to face new challenges, forge new relationships, and—with hope— finally fulfill an old dream or two. The aforementioned Seattle-themed episode will see him return to his radio roots at KACL.

And as the trailer shows, it’s so good to have him back there. The new video offers a look at some of the comedic moments to come back in Boston as well. There’s surely fun to be had at whatever gathering is going on at Frasier’s apartment, there’s an 18 lb. expensive ham, and more. Plus, Olivia (Toks Olagundoye) seems ready to join a girls night, admitting, “Haven’t had one of those in a while. it’s usually just me and those two grumpy Muppets over there.” Watch the trailer above.

As for what brings Frasier back to Seattle, he “feels like he has some unfinished business there,” executive producer Joe Cristalli previously told TV Insider. “We knew we wanted to see Gil [Edward Hibbert], ‘Bulldog’ [Dan Butler], and Roz [Peri Gilpin]. We wanted to find an organic reason for him to go to Seattle and see McGinty’s again. He’s there to help Roz with a tribute special to [radio station] KACL.”

In addition to Grammer, Frasier stars Jack Cutmore-Scott as Frasier’s son, Freddy; Nicholas Lyndhurst as Alan, Frasier’s old college buddy turned university professor; Olagundoye as Olivia, Alan’s colleague and head of the university’s psychology department; Jess Salgueiro as Eve, Frasier and Freddy’s neighbor; and Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew, David. In addition to Gilpin, Butler, and Hibbert, Season 2 guest stars include Dan Butler (Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe), Edward Hibbert (Gil Chesterton), Rachel Bloom (Phoebe), Yvette Nicole Brown (Olivia’s sister), Greer Grammer (Roz’s daughter Alice), Patricia Heaton (Holly), Harriet Sansom Harris (Bebe Glazer), and Amy Sedaris (Dr. “Doc” Stathos).

Frasier comes from writers Chris Harris and Joe Cristalli, who executive produce with Grammer, Tom Russo, and Jordan McMahon. The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Grammer’s Grammnet NH Productions. Legendary director James Burrows returns to direct two episodes. The series is filmed in front of a live studio audience at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

John Aprea Dies: ‘The Godfather Part II’ & ‘Full House’ Actor Was 83

According to his manager Will Levine, Aprea died of natural causes on Monday, Aug. 5 at his Los Angeles home, where he was surrounded by family.

Born March 4, 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey, Aprea made his onscreen debut in 1968’s Bullitt, alongside Steve McQueen. He went on to one of his most memorable performances as Young Tessio in The Godfather Part II (1974) after auditioning to play Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola‘s original 1972 film.

Aprea once said working with Coppola and actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro was “the high point” of his career, adding, “I was surrounded by the best in The Godfather.”

He also appeared in such films as The Stepford Wives (1975), New Jack City (1991), The Game (1997), Dead Man on Campus (1998) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

In 1989, Aprea was cast on the NBC soap opera Another World, playing Lucas Castigliano. The character of Lucas was paired with Felicia Gallant (Linda Dano). He had previously worked with Dano when they played siblings on The Montefuscos.

Aprea had a recurring role on Full House, and later Fuller House, as Jesse’s (John Stamos) father Nick Katsopolis. His TV credits also include The Gangster Chronicles, Matt Houston and Knots Landing, as well as episodes of Wonder Woman, Three’s a Crowd, The A-Team, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Fall Guy, Falcon Crest, Tales from the Dark Side, Night Court, Melrose Place, Saved by the Bell: The New Class and The Sopranos.

Aprea’s Knots Landing co-star Paul Carafotes paid tribute to the late actor on Saturday. “We had lots of laughs,” he wrote in part. “We met on the set of CBS television show Knots Landing, 1987, over 40 years ago. Many will miss this man! Rest old friend. I’ll see you on the other side.”

Soap star Judi Evans Dishes on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and Opens Up About Managing Grief After Losing Her Son and More

The Daytime Emmy-winner, who also got into the drama on Guiding Light, Another World, and As The World Turns spoke to WW/FFW about her 42-year run in daytime, creating romance with Wally Kurth, and getting goofy with pals like Deidre Hall. Evans also opened up about how her husband, her friends, and Bonnie Lockhart’s wacky adventures have kept her going in the wake of losing her son in 2019.

When Judi Evans landed the role as Guiding Light’s Beth Raines back in 1983, it put her on the map and earned her a 1984 Daytime Emmy at just 19. After three years of hustling and studying acting, that first role was a game changer… sort of.

“Getting that job was a dream, but I can’t tell you how many people said, ‘You’ll never make it. This is not for you. You should do something else,’” she recounts. “Since I was 22, I’ve heard nothing but, ‘There are not a lot of roles for a woman your age,’ so it’s always been an uphill climb. I just keep scraping along.”

Evans’ determination took her to Days of Our Lives, where she assumed the role of Adrienne Johnson-Kiriakis in 1996 and after many epic adventures, also created the role of Bonnie.

Along the way, there was a sidestep to Another World, where she played Paulina Cory from 1991 to 1999, as well as a stint as As the World Turns’ Maeve Stone — and four decades later, Evans is still making us laugh and cry as Salem’s beloved Bonnie.

“I have so many wonderful memories,” Evans marvels. “I’ve played such dramatic, angst-ridden characters. Bonnie is a great diversion from that, even though she does have that emotional side. She’s been through a lot, she’s struggled, she’s made bad decisions, she’s had to pay for them. Hopefully, she’s learned from them, but she’s still a little bit wacky. It’s so fun.”

Evans has been actually performing since her childhood on the road with The Evans Family Circus — and it turns out her days of clowning around with her family were the perfect preparation for soap operas.

“In a traveling circus, you’re entertaining people in a new city every day — whether it’s death-defying emotions or wacky, wild comedy,” she explains. “Much like a soap, you’re basically doing an entire play or movie every day, and even though you’re doing similar stuff, you have to make it very different to make it interesting for yourself and for the audience.”

“In the circus, you’ve got animals pooping on you and you’re falling all over each other,” she laughs. “You’re always ready for an accident. And you know what? I’ve actually had animals pooping on me on soaps, too! See, it’s pretty much the same.”

While Evans has played two very different characters in Salem, both Adrienne and Bonnie ended up with the same handsome local, Justin Kiriakis. That means the actress has spent much of her career creating romance and drama with Wally Kurth, who also does double duty as General Hospital’s Ned Quartermaine.

“I adore that man,” Evan shares. “We’re always in each other’s lives, even when we’re not working together, because we’re very good friends. It’s been wonderful to watch a great young man turn into a great gentleman, a great friend and a great partner. We’ve had a lot of adventures . . . but not nearly enough!”

Evans admits she’s gotten lucky with her leading men – including Michael Luciano, who she married in 1993.

“I also worked a lot with Brian Dattilo, Vincent Irizarry, Tom Eplin . . .” she lists. “It’s like I hit the lottery with friends that I’ve worked with, so I feel pretty fortunate.”

For the record, that lottery doesn’t just include soap hunks! In addition to making girlfriends as she soap-hopped around, Evans has come of age with a powerhouse cast of Salem women — including icon Deidre Hall, who plays both Marlena and her doppelganger Hattie.

When Evans learned Bonnie would join Hattie in the show’s soap within a soap, Body & Soul, she immediately called Hall to celebrate their onscreen reunion.

“We got so excited and tickled,” she shares. “Normally we’re moving so fast we barely say hi on set, but this gives us time to sit together and run lines. And yes, we ARE really running lines, but we also just get to have fun and be mischievous! Deidre’s such a wonderful friend, so working together is like eating ice cream with a topping on a topping.”

Having recently turned 60, Evans is doing her best to enjoy life, but she’s not exactly celebrating. While she’s recovered from a serious accident and a COVID battle that almost cost her her legs, she doesn’t expect she’ll ever get over losing her son, Austin, who died in 2019 at just 23 years old.

“I miss him every single minute, every single day,” Evans shares. “It’s always there, but it doesn’t stop me from helping other people enjoy life, or from enjoying it with them. My husband and my animals, they give me some purpose and certainly joy. And I’m lucky to have great friends who pull my focus. I would go to the ends of the earth for them, and they’ve gone to the ends of the earth for me.”

Like many Days of Our Lives fans, Evans also finds solace in escaping into her stories. “I’m always grateful for work, but even more so now, because it gives me a distraction,” she says. “I get to be someone else for a little while, which is a great relief. When I’m in an emotional storyline, it lessens my therapy bills. I love it when I get to cry every day! But also, it’s great to get to do comedy.”

Evans has also found joy in the Body & Soul reboot — which, in classic Days of Our Lives camp, has Salem locals taking on unexpected roles in their favorite soap opera and featured Bonnie stumbling and then nailing her audition for Kassandra.

“This has been quite a challenge, because it’s a character playing a character,” Evans says.

“But I’ve got some scenes coming up with Rob Wilson Scott, who plays Alex, and we had a blast! We were tickled . . . and I hope the audience will be, too.”

With Bonnie, Hattie and Leo involved, the Body & Soul story promises to be a wild ride, but Evans tells INSERT MAGAZINE it’s also a chance for Days of Our Lives to share some insider laughs with fans.

“In a way, we’re showing a bit of the behind-the-scenes of making a soap, but we’re also poking fun at our business,” the daytime vet explains. “Sometimes, soap storylines are hard to relate to, so we laugh a lot. It’s a way to let that go, so we can fully commit to what we’re doing.

“Now, we’re letting the audience in on our joke, so I hope you like it . . . and if you hate it, I hope you’re still entertained, because that’s what we’re here for!” Evans says with a smile. Her positivity against all odds and her joy in her work is truly infectious, and we can’t wait to see what she does next on Body & Soul.

Hallmark+ To Kick Off In September With Premiere of ‘The Chicken Sisters’ & ‘Celebrations With Lacey Chabert’

Additional premieres will drop through the month, with three new installments of The Jane Mysteries starring Jodie Sweetin (Fuller House) and Stephen Huszar (Navigating Christmas), and a Love on the Danube movie trilogy featuring Nazneen Contractor (Charmed), Wes Brown (Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up), Jessica Sipos (Betty’s Bad Luck in Love), Dan Jeannotte (Sense and Sensibility), Sarah Power (Good Witch), Brendan Penny (Chesapeake Shores) and Catherine Disher (Good Witch).

Hallmark Media announced the launch of the service in July. The new platform will cost $80 a year and offer the “very best of Hallmark with new exclusive content and membership benefits program,” said President and CEO Mike Perry at the time. That price includes e-cards and “surprising gifts.”

Created for television and executive produced by Annie Mebane (Shrinking, Atypical, The Goldbergs), The Chicken Sisters is an eight-episode family drama starring Schuyler Fisk (Sam & Kate), Genevieve Angelson (The Handmaid’s Tale), Lea Thompson (Back to the Future) and Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me!) as the women at the heart of the restaurant rivalry. James Kot (Virgin River), Margo Martindale (Justified) narrates. It’s based on the NY Times Bestseller and Reese’s Book Club selection The Chicken Sisters.

Following the first episode, new episodes premiere every Thursday starting on September 12.

As previously reported, Celebrations with Lacey Chabert is a new aspirational series executive produced and hosted by Chabert. Known for her multitude of starring roles in Hallmark movies over the years, Chabert will bring her passion for celebrating everyday heroes to this 10-episode series. The show follows Chabert as she surprises deserving individuals who are making a positive impact in their communities with the celebration of a lifetime. Following the first episode, new episodes premiere every Thursday.

Other series planned for the service include holiday limited series Holidazed and Mistletoe Murders; the reality competition series Finding Mr. Christmas; a docu-style dating series hosted by Ashley Williams; a home renovation show hosted by Luke Macfarlane; and new movie trilogy called Groomsmen that’s inspired by the success of The Wedding Veil. .

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‘Freaky Friday’ Sequel Gets Official Title; Jamie Lee Curtis & Lindsay Lohan Tease What’s To Come

The second installment will be called Freakier Friday, stars Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis announced at D23 on Friday night.

“It’s more fun, it’s more emotional, and it’s all for you guys,” Lohan told the audience at the Honda Center during Disney’s Entertainment Showcase. “Seriously, the only reason we are back here doing this because of your love. That is why.”

Curtis added that “it feels like picking up where we left off, which is really beautiful.”

As they spoke, a few behind-the-scenes photos were shown on the massive screen, including a recreation of the iconic moment where Lohan and Curtis’ mother-daughter duo realize they’re body swapped in the original film.

Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao are all set to return for the sequel to the 2003 $160.8M grossing global family pic. It will also star Sophia Hammons, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Jordan E. Cooper as new additions.

Nisha Ganatra (The High Note, Late Night) is directing. Kristin Burr and Andrew Gunn are producing.

The Mark Waters directed early millennium movie followed an overworked mother and her daughter who do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other’s life for one freaky Friday. The movie was a reboot of the 1976 Disney movie starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.

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Apple Original Films Sets Sequel To George Clooney-Brad Pitt Drama ‘Wolfs’ By Jon Watts As Film Pivots To Limited Theatrical Release Before Apple TV+ Bow

At the same time, Apple has changed its plan for Wolfs to have a wide theatrical release before it lands on Apple TV+. It instead will receive a limited theatrical release September 20, and then debut globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 27.

Apple confirmed the release pivot, but sources said it does not signal a change in its hybrid strategy of a streaming service release preceded by a wide theatrical with P&A that was undertaken with Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon. Apple will stick to the wide theatrical release on its other film starring Pitt, the Formula One drama F1, which is directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The Instigators, the Doug Liman-directed heist caper film that stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, is in limited release this week before premiering Friday on Apple TV+.

Apple will make decisions based on the marketplace; its recent release, Fly Me to the Moon, did not fare well theatrically despite having Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in the starring roles. That film was released by Sony, which is also handling distribution on Wolfs.

Apple’s next big feature after that, the Steve McQueen-directed WWII drama Blitz, will get a limited theatrical release November 1. Sources said Wolfs is a crowd pleaser that has tested strongly, but this was felt the best strategy to ensure the biggest audience for a star driven film on the Apple TV+ streaming site.

In Wolfs, Clooney plays a professional fixer hired to cover up a high-profile crime. But when a second fixer (Pitt) shows up and the two lone wolves are forced to work together, they find their night spiraling out of control in ways neither expected. The cast also includes Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan, Richard Kind and Zlatko Buri?. The film is produced in partnership with Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures and Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.

Watts, who is making his first original film since his breakthrough Cop Car, after directing the Spider-Man Homecoming trilogy with Tom Holland and Zendaya, produces Wolfs with Dianne McGunigle; Clooney produces alongside Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov; and Pitt produces alongside Plan B partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. Order of producers is Pitt, Dede Gardner, Kleiner, Heslov, Clooney, Watts and McGunigle. Michael Beugg is executive producer.

“Wolfs is the kind of big event movie that makes Apple TV+ such an exceptional home for the best in entertainment,” Apple Original Films head of features Matt Dentler said in a statement. “With George and Brad’s remarkable and engaging chemistry under Jon Watts’ extraordinary direction, ‘Wolfs’ blends all the great elements of comedy, action, and drama into a hugely entertaining movie that will leave audiences ready for what’s next. Releasing the movie to theaters before making it widely available to Apple TV+ customers brings the best of both worlds to audiences, and we’re excited to see fans embrace the movie as we start working with Jon on the sequel.”

Courtney Thorne-Smith & Stella Gregg To Lead New Lifetime Movie ‘He Slid Into Her DMs’

Alicia Coppola (Jericho, Why Women Kill) will make her directorial debut with the project premiering Saturday, September 28 at 8/7c as part of Lifetime’s Fall Ripped from the Headlines movie slate.

Inspired by actual events, 17-year-old Berni’s (Gregg) life seemed perfect from the outside; she’s popular, dating the captain of the basketball team, heading to NYU in the fall, and is a burgeoning social media influencer. However, it all is a façade. Berni’s life is a complete mess; her best friend is betraying her behind her back, she’s struggling to gain more followers. She needs to hit her social media goals to potentially financially help her single mother, and her boyfriend Zak (Parks) breaks up with her because she spends more time on her phone than with him.

Before eventually getting back together with Zak, Berni strikes up a friendship with Mason, an online fan, and agrees to sell him private photos. However, things turn deadly when Mason shows up on her doorstep, causing her mom Leah (Thorne-Smith) to make a tragic decision that ends up destroying Berni’s carefully crafted public image.

He Slid Into Her DMs is produced for Lifetime by Cartel Pictures. Stan Spry and Eric Woods serve as executive producers. Alicia Coppola directs from a script written by Erica Lane, Christina Kelly Holmes and Lydia Genner.

Thorne-Smith is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency and Joel Rudnick. Gregg is repped by Reel Talent Management and LA Talent. Coppola is represented by Leslie Allan-Rice Management and attorney Derek Kroger. Parks is represented by CGEM Talent, Artists United Agency and Attorney Mark Temple.

CNN Originals To Launch New Travel Series Featuring Celebrity Hosts

With the working title My Happy Place, the series will feature the celebrities as “they venture to a personally meaningful place in their lives,” the network said.

Alan Cumming, Taraji P. Henson, Simu Liu, Billy Porter, Octavia Spencer and Questlove are on the roster of hosts.

The series is the latest travel offering from CNN Originals. The network earlier this year featured Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico. That followed the two seasons of Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. The series was dropped in 2022 as the network scaled back originals from outside suppliers, and Tucci has since taken the show to National Geographic.

CNN Originals has since ramped up again. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent for CNN Originals and creative development for CNN Worldwide, said that My Happy Place is “a fresh take on the genre, with iconic personalities guiding our viewers on these revealing journeys.”

The executive producers of My Happy Place are Andrew Fried, Jamie Granet Bederman, Sarina Roma and Jane Yusim for Boardwalk Pictures, along with Entelis, Lyle Gamm and Katie Hinman for CNN Original Series. Alexandra Lowry is showrunner and an executive producer.

‘Frasier’ Sets Season 2 Premiere Date On Paramount+

The show’s first season received three primetime Emmy nominations this morning including Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour), Outstanding Cinematography For A Multi-Camera Series (Half-Hour) and Outstanding Picture Editing For A Multi-Camera Comedy Series.

The new Frasier follows Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) in the next chapter of his life after he returns to Boston to face new challenges, forge new relationships and – with hope – finally fulfill an old dream or two.

Season 2 will see Frasier return to his radio roots at KACL in Seattle for an episode. The episode will feature previously announced guest stars stepping back into their roles from the original Frasier including Dan Butler as Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe, Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton and Harriet Sansom Harris as Frasier’s delightfully devilish agent, Bebe Glazer.

The series also stars Jack Cutmore-Scott as Frasier’s son, Freddy; Nicholas Lyndhurst as Alan, Frasier’s old college buddy turned university professor; Toks Olagundoye as Olivia, Alan’s colleague and head of the university’s psychology department; Jess Salgueiro as Eve, Frasier and Freddy’s neighbor; and Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew, David.

Peri Gilpin, who starred in the original Frasier and Season 1 of the revival, will reprise the role of Roz Doyle in Season 2. Greer Grammer is set to play Roz’s daughter Alice. Additional guest stars also include Rachel Bloom, Yvette Nicole Brown, Patricia Heaton and Amy Sedaris. James Burrows also returns to direct two episodes.

The series hails from writers Chris Harris and Joe Cristalli, who executive produce with Grammer, Tom Russo and Jordan McMahon. CBS Studios produces Frasier in association with Grammer’s Grammnet NH Productions and is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution outside of the Paramount+ markets.

Emmy Nominations 2024

Abbott Elementary • ABC • Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions and Fifth Chance in association with Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television
Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues

Only Murders In The Building • Hulu • 20th Television
Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora

Loot • Apple TV+ • Universal Television in association with Apple
Maya Rudolph as Molly Novak

Hacks • HBO | Max • Universal Television in association with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment
Jean Smart as Deborah Vance

Fellow Travelers • Showtime • SHOWTIME Presents a Fremantle and Showtime Studios Production
Matt Bomer as Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller

Baby Reindeer • Netflix • A Netflix Series / A Clerkenwell Films Production
Richard Gadd as Donny

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans • FX • FX Productions, 20th Television
Tom Hollander as Truman Capote

Ripley • Netflix • Showtime and Endemol Shine North America in association with Entertainment 360 and Filmrights for Netflix
Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley

The Gilded Age • HBO | Max • HBO in association with Universal Television and Neamo Film and Television
Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijn

The Morning Show • Apple TV+ • Media Res in association with Apple
Nicole Beharie as Christina Hunter

The Crown • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix
Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana

The Morning Show • Apple TV+ • Media Res in association with Apple
Greta Lee as Stella Bak

The Crown • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix
Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret

The Morning Show • Apple TV+ • Media Res in association with Apple
Karen Pittman as Mia Jordan

The Morning Show • Apple TV+ • Media Res in association with Apple
Holland Taylor as Cybil Richards

Mr. & Mrs. Smith • Infidelity • Prime Video • Amazon MGM Studios, Big Indie Pictures
Michaela Coel as Bev

The Crown • Sleep, Dearie Sleep • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix
Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II

The Morning Show • Update Your Priors • Apple TV+ • Media Res in association with Apple
Marcia Gay Harden as Maggie Brener

Mr. & Mrs. Smith • Couples Therapy (Naked & Afraid) • Prime Video • Amazon MGM Studios, Big Indie Pictures
Sarah Paulson as Therapist

Mr. & Mrs. Smith • Double Date • Prime Video • Amazon MGM Studios, Big Indie Pictures
Parker Posey as Other Jane

TCA Award Winner

Jean Smart To Produce Confederate Flag Drama Series In Works At Max With Kristen SaBerre Set To Write & EP

The Untitled John Hawkins Project will be written and executive produced by Kristen SaBerre (The Good Lord Bird, Knightfall) and produced by Jean Smart and Angeliki Giannakopoulos at Smart’s SmartAngel Entertainment. Hawkins will serve as co-executive producer and consultant.

Hawkins discussed his historic decision to not carry the flag in a 2020 interview with Jackson, Mississippi television station WLBT.

”I was not going to carry that flag,” Hawkins said. “I understood what it represented. I understood that for some students, for some people who embraced the flag that it was the symbol of school spirit for them. I also knew that there were other motives, in terms of people that supported the flag that were more consistent with the original intent which was an oppressive symbol representing slavery and I did not want to be a part of that; I do not want to be associated with that and was thankful that the university supported me in my efforts to say no, with respect to that, and of course subsequently proceeded to disassociate itself with that flag.”

SaBerre most recently developed a series adaptation of the bestselling suspense novel Pretty Little Wife at Amazon Studios, alongside Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin, with Gabrielle Union attached to star and executive produce. She previously served as a co-executive producer on the 4400 revival for The CW. SaBerre is repped by Paradigm, Grandview, and Miles Metcoff at Morris Yorn.

Smart is a five-time Emmy winner, including back-to-back Lead Actress in a Comedy Series trophies for her role as Deborah Vance on Max’s Hacks, which is heading into its fourth season. On the film side, Smart was most recently seen in drama Wildflower, alongside Kiernan Shipka, Alexandra Daddario and Dash Mihok, and in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. She is repped by WME and Untitled Entertainment.

‘Night Court’ Adds Wendie Malick To Season 3 As New Prosecutor

Well, Julianne is new to most but not to Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), her former love interest. She is described as “a reformed convict” who is “a sophisticated, savvy woman and accomplished attorney who also knows how to make a shank out of a spoon.” She will keep everyone in the courthouse on their toes. The position of prosecutor was left vacant following India de Beaufort’s exit from the series in late May.

Headlined by Melissa Rauch and original series star John Larroquette, in Night Court, the eternally optimistic Abby Stone (Rauch) follows in the footsteps of her revered late father, Judge Harry Stone, as she takes on the challenge of overseeing the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court. Abby always sees the best in people and her passion for justice is undeniable. In her quest to bring order and dignity to the court and reign in its colorful crew of oddballs, she enlists former night court district attorney Dan Fielding to serve as the court’s public defender.

From executive producer and writer Dan Rubin, Night Court is based on the original hit series that ran for 9 seasons on NBC. Executive producers also include Melissa Rauch, Winston Rauch, John Larroquette, Mat Harawitz, Lon Zimmet, Lindsey Shockley and Mona Garcea. The series is produced by Rauch’s After January Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Malick received four Cable Ace Awards for her role in the HBO comedy Dream On, and garnered a Golden Globe and two Emmy Award nominations for her role in Just Shoot Me! Additional credits include TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland, NBC’s Frasier, CBS’ Good Company and Rush Hour, also for CBS, as well as recurring roles on Netflix’s The Ranch, ABC’s American Housewife, NBC’s This Is Us and ABC’s NYPD Blue. Recent roles include Apple’s Physical, CBS’ Young Sheldon and Apple’s Shrinking. She is repped by Innovative Artists and Marcia Hurwitz Management..

Fox Anthology Series ‘Accused’ Adds Taylor Schilling, Justin Chambers & Danny Pino To Season 2

They join the previously announced actors Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Nick Cannon and Michael Chiklis. The project reunites Pino and Chiklis who most recently co-starred in the MGM+ series Hotel Cocaine.

From FOX Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, Accused is a collection of intense, topical human stories of crime and punishment. Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, each episode is a fast-paced provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city with an entirely original cast. The series is based on the BBC BAFTA Award-winning crime anthology of the same name created by Jimmy McGovern.

Schilling, Chambers and Pino will star in “April’s Story” where a nurse commits a crime that changes the trajectory of her life. Schilling will play ‘April,’ Chambers will play ‘Tyler’ and Pino will play ‘Jake.’

Accused is developed for American TV by Howard Gordon who executive produces with Gordon, Alex Gansa, David Shore, Erin Gunn, and Daniel Pearle. Gordon and Pearle serve as co-showrunners. Milan Cheylov, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, All3Media America’s Jacob Cohen-Holmes, Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, Roxy Spencer and Louise Pedersen for All3Media International also EP.

Schilling is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress best known for her starring role as Piper Chapman in the Netflix original series, Orange Is The New Black, which ran for seven seasons. She most recently starred in Jason Katim’s Apple TV+ series Dear Edward and as porn star Erica Boyer in the Hulu limited series Pam & Tommy. She will next be seen in the indie feature film, Queen of Bones opposite Martin Freeman, Julia Butters and Jacob Tremblay. She is represented by Untitled Entertainment, Gersh and GGSSC Law Firm.

Chambers is best known for his portrayal of “Dr. Alex Karev” in the Shonda Rhimes medical series Grey’s Anatomy. He was on the show across 16 seasons. His credits also include Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights with Ben Foster, The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, HBO’s Hysterical Blindness as Uma Thurman’s love interest and Broken City with Mark Wahlberg. Most recently, Chambers played “Marlon Brando” in the Paramount+ limited series The Offer. He is represented by Gersh, Anonymous Content and attorney Darren Trattner.

Pino currently stars as the general manager of the Mutiny Hotel and Club, “Roman Compte,” in the MGM+ series, Hotel Cocaine. Before that, he completed his run in the fifth and final season of FX’s Mayans M.C., where he starred as “Miguel Galindo” and directed two episodes. Additionally, he played opposite Amy Adams in Stephen Chbosky’s film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen and portrayed NYPD detective “Nick Amaro” in four seasons of Law & Order: SVU. Pino also recently completed the short film, Unión De Reyes, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in. He is repped by CAA and manager Geordie Frey.

Brad Pitt ‘F1’ Movie Revs Up Promo Engines A Year Before Release With Teaser – Watch

In the trailer, Pitt’s F1 driver tells his engineer, played by Kerry Condon, “We need to build our car for combat,” specifically a car that can beat the rivals on the corners, not the straights.

The fast-paced pov teaser is set to Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” The trailer ends in a cliffhanger, arguably, knowing that there’s plenty of peril in the sport.

Ford v. Ferrari, which starred Matt Damon and Christian Bale, proved that star-studded race car movies with great characters can work at the box office, that pic opening to $31.4M stateside in 2019 and finaling at $117.6M domestic, $225.5M global. That seemed to end the curse set by the 2013 Ron Howard directed, Chris Hemsworth starring Rush which did less than $27M at the domestic B.O.

The title to F1 was made official two days ago, with the teaser dropping. Pitt returned over the weekend to shoot the movie at the British Grand Prix in full racing suit.

Deadline first reported that the F1 package was snapped up by Apple for $130 million-$140 million, before above-the-line compensation.

Pic also stars Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia and Samson Kayo.

Kosinski directs and produces the feature alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films; Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment; and Lewis Hamilton under his Dawn Apollo Films banner. The film is made in collaboration with Formula 1 and the F1 community, including the 10 F1 teams and their drivers, the FIA and race promoters. Copper CEO Penni Thow serves as executive producer.

Brad Pitt's movie about Formula 1 will simply be called 'F1'

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is a co-producer of the project, which collected footage at F1 circuits around the world this year and last.

Footage was taken at Silverstone — home of the British Grand Prix — and at the Hungaroring near Budapest; as well as the historic Spa Francorchamps in Belgium; Japan’s popular Suzuka track; and Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina circuit.

In the film, the 60-year-old American plays a former driver who returns to F1 alongside a rookie teammate, who is played by London-born actor Damson Idris. Their fictional team is called APXGP.

C. Thomas Howell & Michelle Hurd Join Romantic Western ‘Where The Wind Blows’

Shooting this summer in Montana, the film follows Chase (Donovan), a rugged cowboy and solitary drifter who closed off his heart long ago — until the day he impulsively does a kindness for a beautiful young woman (Elaine), and everything changes in three days.

John Schimke will direct from his script written with Fyffe and Mike Maden. Producers are Schimke, Ashley Elaine and Don Paul with AE Productions, Inc., and Brandon Smith and Eden Matson at Nova Vento Entertainment. Ricki Maslar, CSA is handling casting.

Previously seen in films like The Outsiders, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Red Dawn, Howell has most recently been seen on shows like SEAL Team and Obliterated, along with films like Netflix’s comedy Old Dads directed by and starring Bill Burr. Up next, he’ll be seen starring in Sean McNamara’s historical drama Reagan.

Known for her role as Raffi Musiker on Star Trek: Picard, Hurd has also held major roles on series like Blindspot, Hawaii Five-0, Daredevil, The Glades, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, among others. Most recently seen in Sony’s hit rom-com Anyone But You, her other most recent film credits include the indies Kemba and Inheritance. Past film credits include Bad Hair, Being Frank and Girl Most Likely, to name a few.

Howell is represented by Innovative Artists and Management Production Entertainment. Hurd is repped by Independent Artist Group and TMT Entertainment Group.

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Apple Original Films’ Formula 1 Brad Pitt Movie Lands Summer 2025 Global Theatrical Release With Warner Bros

The F1 package was snapped up by Apple for $130 million-$140 million, before above-the-line compensation.

Pic will get a June 25, 2025 offshore release. Imax venues are included in the mix for the latest from the Top Gun: Maverick filmmaker and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment is also producer with 7x F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton’s Dawn Apollo Films banner. The movie was made in collaboration with Formula 1, with filming taking place at races on the sport’s calendar.

Pitt plays a former driver who returns to Formula 1, alongside Damson Idris as his teammate at APXGP, a fictional team on the grid, the feature has been shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competes against the titans of the sport. Also starring are Academy Award-nominee Kerry Condon, Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem, and Emmy Award-winner, Golden Globe Award nominee Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia and Samson Kayo.

Kosinski directs and produces the feature alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films; and Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment, and Lewis Hamilton under his Dawn Apollo Films banner. Academy Award-nominee Ehren Kruger (Top Gun: Maverick) penned the screenplay. Copper CEO Penni Thow serves as executive producer.

Television Critics Association Awards Nominations

Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary” – ABC (2022 Winner in Category)
Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear” – FX
Renée Elise Goldsberry, “Girls5eva” – Netflix
Devery Jacobs, “Reservation Dogs” – FX
Jean Smart, “Hacks” – HBO | Max (2021 Winner in Category)
Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear” – FX

Kristen Stewart To Play Astronaut Sally Ride As Amazon MGM Studios Nears Limited Series Deal For ‘The Challenger’; Amblin, Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing EPs With Stewart; Maggie Cohn Writing

Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions developed and brought the project to Amblin and is executive producing with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and Stewart through the latter’s Nevermind production label. Amblin’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey are also exec producers.

Maggie Cohn will serve as the writer and showrunner; her credits include American Crime Story, The Staircase and Narcos: Mexico. This has been the hot property on the TV auction block this week, and Amazon is close to tying it down.

The series is based on The New Guys, a book written by Meredith E. Bagby, who partners with Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler in Big Swing. They are also executive producers.

In some ways, this has the tapestry to tell the successor story to The Right Stuff, which was based on Tom Wolfe’s book about the culture clash that occurred when the cockiest world’s best fighter pilots jumped into the space race that America was engaged in with the Russians. Bagby tells the story of a group that was called by their predecessors ‘The F*cking New Guys,’ as NASA sought to diversity its pilots and crew for the space shuttle program. Ride was the first woman and the first member of the LGBTQ+ community to fly into space. Also in that program was the first Black and Asian American astronauts, and a married couple. They passed all the rigorous tests to become top of the class, and egos, ambition and romance were part of the cultural clash. They were also quite brilliant.

In 1983, Ride became the first American woman to fly on the space shuttle, and became an instant celebrity. That joy was short-lived, however, when three years later the space shuttle Challenger blew apart 73 seconds into its ascent, killing all seven members of the crew. Ride then became the only astronaut to become part of the Rogers Commission, a presidential commission to investigate the disaster, and it later came out that she pinpointed the problems with O-rings that became stiff at low temperature, and that turned out to be the reason for the explosion. Ride died from cancer at age 61 in 2012, a true American hero.

The hope will be to get this ready to time the series in proximity of the Challenger disaster anniversary. That happened 38 years ago, on January 28, 1986. For Stewart, this continues a career evolution which started after the Twilight Saga films, in which she has established herself as a most watchable actress with range.

In a moment where not a lot is selling in the marketplace, how does a plum package like this happen? Sedgwick explains this was a truly homegrown project, and not one that happened overnight:

“This is something we’ve worked on at Big Swing since 2017, me, Meredith and Valerie, about this new class of astronaut recruited by NASA in the early 1970s,” she said. “Sally Ride was among them, and the focus is this newly recruited wild, feral group of astronauts who were all very diverse. And then on an Oppenheimer track, it also tells the story of the Rogers Commission that investigated the Challenger disaster that Ride took part in. Growing up in Florida, Meredith Bagby was obsessed with space and the shuttle, and she also watched the Challenger explode. Meredith got hundreds of hours of interviews with the members of that class, and we have relationships with all those living astronauts and they will be part of our brain trust on the show.

“She wrote the book and it went on the bestseller lists,” Sedgwick told Deadline. “We wanted so much to tell this story as a limited series. Our goal at Big Swing is to tell familiar stories with a new perspective and point of view. I had a relationship with Maggie Cohn, and she fell in love with the book. Valerie had this dream of having Kristen Stewart, and after more than a year of trying to get Kristen this book through back channeling, she read it and she fell in love. Getting Kristen and Maggie was incredible, for a company nobody really knows yet. We are three girls with a dream.

“Then we thought, what better than to bring in Steven Spielberg to help tell this awe-inspiring story of the astronauts who inspired space travel for a new generation? They helped us prepare the pitch that went out to the marketplace, and it has been extremely competitive and we are close to a deal.”

Making Stewart the centerpiece was also interesting in that TV was not an obsession for her.

“She has never done television, but when she read this she became obsessed with telling the story of Sally Ride from her own unique perspective that I won’t even try to paraphrase because she is so eloquent about it,” Sedgwick said. “She was so stunning in these pitch meetings and that was a huge part of why it has been so competitive. She’s so compelling and was so rabid about telling this story about an American hero who had to hide who she was, in that time.

“Who better to play Sally Ride than one of the great actors of her generation? As they say in Hollywood, passion wins the day. Her passion for being an executive producer is vast. As dogged as we were about getting the script to her, she has been that dogged about getting it sold in the marketplace.”

Even though Sedgwick herself is most closely associated with the role of the closer, it was Stewart who played that role in the pitch process.

“Right now when everyone is saying that nobody is buying anything, she would not listen and nor would we because if we had listened to all the times we were told this would be too hard, we would never have gotten this off the ground. Amblin spoke first, Maggie was great, and then they passed it to me, I was the one to pass to Kristen and was the one who got to kvell about her because I’d just seen Love Lies Bleeding. We were all in it to win it.”

Auction was brokered by WME (which reps Stewart and Amblin) and CAA (which reps Sedgwick, Big Swing and Cohn). Bm-

‘Hacks’ Renewed For Season 4 At Max After Season 3 Finale

Max has renewed comedy series Hacks, starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, for a fourth season.

The news comes hours after the finale of the third season – titled “Bulletproof” – dropped on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service.

Season three of the show, which comes from creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky, launched on May 2.

Smart’s Vance begins the season riding high off the success of her standup special while Einbinder’s Ava pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles. However, they obviously pair up again and [SPOILER ALERT], Vance may or may not have just scored a massive late-night win.

Season two of the show launched in May 2022 but a confluence of events delayed production on season three. Firstly, there was Smart’s health issues. She went in for a successful heart procedure in February 2023. Production resumed in May, nine weeks after stopping for Smart’s procedure and recovery, and then shot for a day before the Writers Guild of America announced its intention to strike beginning May 2. Then there was the actors strike, which ended in November 2023.

Aniello told Deadline about season three, they’ve “given Deborah her white whale”.

“It’s giving her what she wanted for so long, but at what cost?” added Statsky. “What we’re setting up is that Deborah is now on the biggest stage of her career.”

The trio of creators have long said that they pitched a five season arc for Hacks, so as long as things go to plan, there’ll be another renewal this time next year. They already know the ending, as well, per Deadline’s cover story.

The show also stars Carl Clemons-Hopkins as Vance’s COO Marcus, Downs as agent Jimmy LuSaque Jr., Megan Stalter as agent assistant Kayla Schaefer, Rose Abdoo as Vance’s estate manager Josefina and Mark Indelicato as her personal assistant Damien.

The first two seasons of Hacks were both nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the Emmys but lost out to Ted Lasso. Smart, however, won both years for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Aniello, Downs and Statsky won for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2021 with Aniello also winning for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series that year.

Married couple Downs and Aniello exec produce via their Paulilu banner, Statsky via her First Thought Productions shingle. Michael Schur exec produces for Fremulon, alongside David Miner for 3 Arts Entertainment and Morgan Sackett. It is produced by Universal Television.

Sarah Aubrey, Head of Max Original Programming, quote: “We congratulate Hacks’ brilliant cast and crew, and our partners at Universal Television. Hacks is a masterfully crafted comedy delivering laughs and sharp insights about the vulnerability and joy of sharing a dream. The creative team behind this singular show is not only brilliant but also a joy to work with. We couldn’t be happier to give viewers another season with Deborah, Ava, and the rest of the Hacks family.”

Erin Underhill, President, Universal Television quote: “Hats off to Jen, Lucia and Paul for crafting a world as compelling and poignant as it is clever and funny. We applaud our outstanding cast, who made it easy to fall in love with these flawed, hilarious and deeply human characters, and we thank everyone at Max for a terrific partnership over the first three seasons and counting. We can’t wait to deliver more Hacks to fans around the world.”5

Susan Sarandon, William H. Macy & Marcia Cross To Star In Indie ‘Exit Right’

Marking Morgan’s narrative debut, the film centers on Jan Randall (Sarandon), whose brain — affected with inoperable cancer — makes her deeply afraid of being trapped inside. Refusing to take medications that would reduce her final days to a hospital bed, she moves into a tent in her backyard. Determined to give her one last gift, her husband John courageously takes her on a trip around the world — on foot, in their own hometown, for what is truly the trip of a lifetime.

Sarandon’s Jan Randall is adventurous, confident and strong-willed. She retired after a successful career as a journalist, with both local and national recognition, and is fashionable without trying, bringing humanity and passion into everything she does.

Macy plays John Randall, who is recently retired from the accounting department of a furniture company. He stays close to home and his life is practical. He likes things tidy and simple, with ironed jeans and a no-risk outlook on life…and his favorite color is beige.

Cross will play Monica Freeman, the estranged sister to Jan Randall, who is deeply contemptuous of John and determined to secure for her sister all the comforts modern medicine can provide.

Ed Glauser will produce through Garrick Street Productions. Sarandon and Macy will executive produce, along with Garrick Street’s Lawrence Aldridge and Michael Shyjka.

In a statement to Deadline, Morgan shared, “This story is personal to me on many levels. As we age, who gets to influence how we die? Who do we want by our side? How do we define love or family or community? Bringing a story like this to the world is a life-long dream fulfilled for a little boy who sat in the theater every weekend, waiting to see life unfold on a screen.”

An Oscar winner most recently seen in films like the hit Vertical rom-com Maybe I Do and DC’s Blue Beetle, Sarandon will next be seen starring opposite Bette Midler, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph in the Bleecker Street comedy The Fabulous Four, out July 26. Other upcoming projects include Tyler Perry’s Netflix war drama Six Triple Eight and the Stephen Chbosky film Nonnas with Vince Vaughn.

Repeatedly Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated for his starring role on Showtime’s Shameless, Macy is currently in theaters with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which has thus far grossed over $303M worldwide. Also recently starring in the acclaimed Prime Video comedy Ricky Stanicky, the actor will next be seen in Sean McNamara’s survival pic On Fire, Clint Bentley’s drama Train Dreams, and Season 2 of Fox’s Accused.

Emmy-nominated for her role on Desperate Housewives, Cross has most recently been seen on the series Monarch and You.

A News & Documentary Emmy nominee, Morgan’s feature credits as a director include the docs Scrum, Tomorrow’s Hope, Soufra, and Storied Streets.

Garrick Street Productions, a division of iGeneration Studios, most recently produced the Netflix drama My Life with the Walter Boys, which spent 21 days as the streamers #1 scripted series and was quickly renewed for a second season. TV projects in development include the Spanish Civil War drama Villa Paz, which has The Handmaid’s Tale EP Matthew Hastings attached as showrunner; Diva, based on the life of French heroine Julie Maupin; and the thriller Knife Edge, based on Simon Mayo’s bestselling novel.

Sarandon is represented by Atlas Artists; Macy by Atlas Artists and IAG; and Cross by Untitled Entertainment and Industry Entertainment.i

Netflix Greenlights “Next Iteration” Of ‘Life On Our Planet’ Series With Narrator Morgan Freeman, EP Steven Spielberg

The as-yet-untitled show from Silverback Films and Amblin Documentaries will “tell the story of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs – where they came from, why they mattered, how they evolved and how they met their ultimate fate.”

Season 1 of Life on Our Planet examined not only the dinosaurs, but the rise of invertebrates, mammals, plants, and other life forms across billions of years of evolution up until the present. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) returns to craft the visual effects and animation; Grammy Award-winner Lorne Balfe is back as composer.

“It is an extraordinary privilege to bring the most iconic creatures in Earth’s history to the screen,” said Dan Tapster, showrunner at Silverback Films. Speaking of the new iteration of the show, he said, “This series, covering 170 million years, will immerse viewers in the awe-inspiring world of dinosaurs, capturing the majesty and drama of their lives in unprecedented detail.”

Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, executive producers and presidents of Amblin Television & Documentaries, added, “We couldn’t be more excited to partner again with our good friends at Silverback, Netflix and ILM as we transport audiences back in time to the age of the dinosaurs and bring these wonderful extinct creatures back to life in all their beautiful glory.”

Nick Shoolingin-Jordan is directing the new series; executive producers are Spielberg, Keith Scholey, Darryl Frank, and Justin Falvey. Freeman, the Oscar-winning star of Million Dollar Baby, The Shawshank Redemption, and Driving Miss Daisy, has been nominated for an Emmy twice in the category of Best Narrator, for his work on Our Universe and March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step.

Life on Our Planet, which premiered on Netflix last October, runs 8 episodes. The streamer has ordered four episodes of the upcoming dino-centric iteration.æ×»^—‰.B”éš.ÿ0Ôõ¸ß.Öe¾)û0ØŸ›ë23A]&ž.=ê2í.ö+›ê2A}%ð/a]f

Elizabeth MacRae Dies: ‘General Hospital’ & ‘Gomer Pyle: USMC’ Actor Was 88

After graduating, MacRae pursued a career in acting and auditioned for Otto Preminger’s production of Saint Joan in 1956. Although she didn’t land a role, she continued to pursue acting. She moved to New York City where she studied with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio and gained experience in off-Broadway productions.

MacRae landed her first television role playing a witness in the courtroom series The Verdict Is Yours. Over a career that spanned 25 years, MacRae would be featured in television shows like Route 66, Surfside 6, Rendezvous, The Fugitive, Judd for the Defense, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, I Dream of Jeannie, The Andy Griffith Show, and many more.

One of her most prominent roles was in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., where she played Gomer’s girlfriend Lou-Ann Poovie.

MacRae also appeared in soaps like General Hospital, where she played Meg Baldwin starting in August 1969. She remained on the ABC daytime soap until 1973, when the character was killed off. Other soaps MacRae starred in were Another World, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light, and Search for Tomorrow.

MacRae’s film credits include Live in a Goldfish Bowl, Everything’s Ducky, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, and Frances Ford Coppola’s The Conversation.

She continued to work in television and featured in shows like Kojak, Barnaby Jones, and Rhoda. MacRae’s last film credit was in 1989, where she played a reporter on Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!

Following her acting career, MacRae and her husband, Charles Day Halsey Jr., moved to North Carolina and, years later, returned home to Fayetteville.

She is survived by five stepchildren, Terry Halsey, Peter Halsey, Hugh Halsey, Cate Halsey, and Alex Halsey Topper.

Duke Nicholson, William H. Macy, Tiffany Haddish, Stephen Dorff, Jake Weary & Julia Fox Set For Action-Thriller ‘The Deputy’ From ‘Narcos’ Co-Creator

The film is directed by Matt Sukkar in his feature directorial debut and written by Narcos co-creator and co-writer Carlo Bernard based on the eponymous novel by Victor Gischler.

The official synopsis reads: “Part-time Deputy Toby Sawyer (Duke Nicholson) is jolted awake by Chief Krueger (William H. Macy) and assigned to guard a dead body until the coroner arrives. When the corpse mysteriously vanishes, Toby launches a frantic search and unwittingly discovers decades of wrongdoing…and several cops who have turned a blind eye, including Deputy Billy Banks (Stephen Dorff) who pressures Toby to ignore his findings. Only Deputy Amanda Jackson (Tiffany Haddish) appears trustworthy. Desperate to keep his job, Toby must unravel the town’s deep web of corruption before he and his career end up as dead as the missing cadaver.”

Pic is being produced by David Lipper and Robert A. Daly Jr under their Latigo Films banner (Freud’s Last Session), Mark Canton (300), and Dorothy Canton (Arthur The King) of Canton Entertainment, and Ryan Winterstern of Applewood Studios (Land of Bad).

They are joining Hicham Benkirane, who sourced and developed the project, and is producing via his HBK F.C. banner (Interstate), alongside Brendan Thomas (The Cat and The Moon) and Sukkar. The film is executive-produced by Victor Gischler, Carlo Bernard, Tiffany Haddish, William H. Macy, Daisy Burnham and Highland Film Group.

Highland Film Group is co-financing and handling worldwide rights. Production is set to start in September in “the American South”.

“We are excited to be working with seasoned filmmakers with such impressive credentials as Mark Canton and Carlo Bernard. We are confident that The Deputy will deliver all the action and thrills Victor Gischler infused in his novel. And it’s wonderful to be supporting Duke Nicholson as he launches his career – we believe he has a big future!”, said Highland Film Group CEO Arianne Fraser.

Nicholson is repped by Management Production Entertainment and Deborah Klein at Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Macy is repped by IAG and Atlas Artists; Haddish is repped by UTA and Brillstein; Dorff is repped by Atlas Artists; Weary is repped by Gersh; Fox is repped by WME and Framework; Sukkar is repped by Luber Roklin, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, et al.

Brad Pitt Countersued in Winery Case, Allegedly Made It a Personal Piggy Bank

The actor just got slapped with a countersuit by Tenute del Mondo ... which Brad already sued by claiming they had no right to receive Angie's shares in Chateau Miraval, and which has been dragging on in court for a while.

In new court docs, obtained by TMZ, Tenute has now filed its own claim against Brad and his company -- alleging they have been using Chateau Miraval as a personal piggy bank for years ... and cutting into their own bottom line as new co-owners of the winery.

Tenute claims Brad has been siphoning tons of cash from the winery business to fund his own ventures and passion projects ... including using more than $1 million to renovate a pool that only he uses, as well as paying for a recording studio, a cosmetics line and a gin brand he's investing in.

Tenute says BP and co. have been hiding much of this activity in the books ... and that even now, Brad won't fork over the full finances.

They're claiming Brad has also shut them out of the business operations in general -- and is making their involvement with winery next to impossible as he continues to battle his estranged wife in court. Of course, they've been going back and forth at length for a while.

Tenute is asking for major damages. We've reached out to Brad's team ... no word back yet.

update 3:14 PM PT -- Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ, Brad Pitt's side is scoffing at Tenute's countersuit -- as they feel they only tried getting into the Chateau Miraval biz because of his name-recognition and deep involvement with the company ... which they're now trying to smear.

We're told Chateau Miraval is only as successful as it is because of how Brad has run it -- and the notion he plundered it for his own personal gain is absurd and nonsensical ... as it would only hurt him if he did the things they're claiming he did.

Bottom line ... we're told BA feels Tenute (a subsidiary of Stoli Group) is blowing hot air that it's tried litigating in other courts to no avail -- and that Brad isn't sweating their accusations.

Lea Thompson and Wendie Malick to Head The Chicken Sisters Adaptation at Hallmark

A family drama with southern charm and romance, the eight-episode Chicken Sisters series is set in the fictional town of Merinac, “where a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants — Mimi’s and Frannie’s — has left the founders’ families fractured and the locals taking sides,” reads its official description. “When popular cooking competition show Kitchen Clash comes to town, this could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are spilled and feathers get ruffled.”

Lea Thompson (Switched at Birth) and Wendie Malick (Hot in Cleveland) will star alongside Schuyler Fisk (Castle Rock) and Genevieve Angelson (Good Girls Revolt). Annie Mebane (Shrinking) serves as executive producer and showrunner.

“Annie Mebane blew us away with her vision for The Chicken Sisters — her unique spin and enthusiasm for this fried chicken feud had us excited from Day 1,” EVP of programming, Hallmark Media, Lisa Hamilton Daly said in a statement. “And talk about a dream cast! Schuyler, Genevieve, Lea and Wendie are the perfect actors to lead this witty and heartfelt story. We are confident that each episode is going leave our viewers craving more and more.”

Added Mebane: “When I read The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell’Antonia, I fell in love with these characters. On the surface, the show is about two restaurants competing on a reality show, but it’s about the baggage we pass down through the generations and learning to unpack it. I love telling this multigenerational story focused on women: their frustrations, their desires, and ultimately, their healing. We’ve assembled an incredible cast, and we can’t wait to welcome audiences to Merinac.”

Thompson most recently starred in the CW/CTV series The Spencer Sisters, which is not expected to return for Season 2, the actress revealed on Instagram.

‘Accused’ Brings Back Michael Chiklis, Adds Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy & Nick Cannon In Second Season

Michael Chiklis — who was featured in Accused‘s first episode when it premiered in January of 2023 — will return for the second season of the drama developed by Howard Gordon. The show’s set to air at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays this fall on Fox.

Joining the former Vic Mackey on the new season is Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Nick Cannon. It’s not clear, for now, what roles the actors will play in the anthology, which features different stories of crime and punishment told from the defendant’s point of view.

In his episode from season 1, Chiklis played a frightened dad who had to confront the realities of his troubled son’s behavior. The star of The Shield went on to direct “Jack’s Story,” another gripping tale from season one that wrestled with the realities of a post-Roe v. Wade world.

Accused was renewed in March of 2023. It’s based on BBC’s British series, which was created by Jimmy McGovern. It’s from Sony and is co-produced with Fox.

Besides Chiklis, the first season also starred Abigail Breslin, Whitney Cummings, Margo Martindale, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Wendell Pierce, Rachel Bilson, Jack Davenport, Molly Parker, Rhea Perlman, Betsy Brandt, Keith Carradine, Aisha Dee and Jason Ritter.

Brad Pitt security guard alleges Angelina Jolie told couple’s kids to ‘avoid’ dad during custody visits

In the latest filing in the winery war, a former guard for the couple alleges in a declaration that Jolie was “overheard” by security staffers telling the couple’s kids to avoid Pitt during custody visits with their dad.

Tony Webb — a veteran of the UK’s Royal Marines and British Army’s Special Air Service who later went into private security — says in court documents filed on Thursday by Pitt’s lawyers that, “Between 2000 and 2020, I provided varying degrees of personal security for Angelina Jolie and her family, and I currently provide services for Brad Pitt.”

Webb alleges that his job when he worked for the couple included, “running security for [Jolie] and the family whenever they left the United States,” as well as getting people to sign NDAs for Jolie, including hotel staffers.

After Pitt and Jolie split in 2016, Webb’s firm, SRS Global, continued to provide security for the “Maleficent” star and her children. (The stars were in a nearly five year legal battle for custody of their six kids.)

Webb recalls that after Pitt and Jolie broke up, his business relationship with Jolie went south when Webb was told by Jolie’s assistant, Michael Vieira, that two independent contractors for his security firm “might be testifying in the family court case.”

Webb says in the court docs that Jolie’s assistant then, “asked me to stop these two individuals from testifying. I understood that Mr. Viera was making this request on behalf of Ms. Jolie.”

Webb adds that, “I explained to Mr. Vieira that I had no power to stop them because they were independent contractors and not employees of SRS Global. Mr. Vieira then told me that his call should serve as a reminder that those individuals had entered into non-disclosure agreements with Ms. Jolie and that I should remind them of that and tell them that if they testified in the family law case, Ms. Jolie would sue them.”

Webb further states in LA Superior Court papers filed by Pitt’s lawyers, “I communicated this message to the two individuals over the phone and they both told me that they planned to testify. One of the two individuals, Ross Foster, specified that he intended to testify regardless of the NDA, if he received a court subpoena. When Mr. Foster told me this, he also told me that if asked, he would testify about statements he overheard that Ms. Jolie made to the children, encouraging them to avoid spending time with Mr. Pitt during custody visits.”

He says that in the end, “I understand that Mr. Foster and the other individual mentioned above were, in fact, subpoenaed, and that both did, in fact, testify in the Jolie/Pitt family law case.”

Last month Jolie’s side argued in court papers that she shouldn’t have to turn over all her past NDAs to her ex in their epic war over their $500 million winery.

She claimed that Pitt wanted her to sign an unfairly “onerous” and “expansive” NDA, “covering Pitt’s personal misconduct, whether related to Miraval or not,” in order for her to sell her stake to him.

The exes’ deal fell through over the NDA, she claims, before Jolie then instead sold her shares to a Stoli subsidiary. She has also alleged that he he was trying to silence her from speaking about allegations he was abusive to her and their family.

But Pitt alleges she unfairly sold the stake out from under him. As part of their ongoing legal war, Pitt, 60, wants Jolie, 48, to hand over all her past NDAs — which she has argued against in court docs.

Pitt’s side says in their latest court papers that Jolie has hatched a “ploy to turn this business dispute into a sideshow about family court matters.”

And that, “Her hook is to allege that she was justified in terminating an imminent deal for Pitt to purchase her interest in Château Miraval, and in doing so breach her obligations not to sell to a stranger without his consent, because Pitt’s lawyers asked for an NDA to be included in the deal papers.”

His side further says that, “Jolie then uses Pitt’s NDA proposal as an excuse to introduce into this case the unfortunate circumstances related to the dissolution of the couple’s marriage, claiming that the proposal engendered an ’emotionally devastating’ reaction in her that caused her to back out of the deal and sell to Stoli because it would have purportedly silenced her ability to speak about the personal matters.”

Pitt’s legal filing by John Berlinski of Bird Marella argues that, “Jolie apparently thinks she can gain a tactical litigation advantage if she makes this case about family issues, so she has turned the NDA proposal into the very heart of this case.”

Pitt is asking the court to unwind Jolie’s 2021 sale of her stake in Chateau Miraval to Stoli billionaire Yuri Shefler claiming it breached an agreement the pair had in place for her to sell to him.

A hearing in the LA case is taking place on May 16, we’ve reported. A full trial is not expected this year.

The Hollywood exes have been fighting over the vineyard they purchased in 2008 ever since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016.

The duo was married at the same French estate, but Jolie and the kids have not gone back since 2016.

Morgan Freeman, Olivier Marchal, Simone Ashley To Be Feted At The Monte-Carlo TV Festival: Fan Events Set For ‘NCIS’ And ‘Little House On The Prairie’

It had already been announced that civil war drama The Gray House, which Freeman exec produced with Kevin Costner, Leslie Greif and Lori McCreary, will have its world premiere at Monte-Carlo.

The Honorary Golden Nymph, the Festival’s highest distinction, will be presented to the French actor and director Olivier Marchal (36 quai des Orfèvres, Braquo), at the Festival’s closing ceremony. Simone Ashley, whose credits include Bridgerton and Sex Education, will receive the Golden Nymph for Most Promising Talent.

Events for fans and public include an Anniversary Tea Party to mark the 50th anniversary of the primetime drama Little House on the Prairie. Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Brian Dietzen and Wilmer Valderrama will be in town for a behind the scenes event for NCIS, which is celebrating its 1000th episode.

An industry strand will have execs chewing over topics including the repercussions of last year’s strikes, coproduction, and the use of AI.

There will be public screenings for the drama projects in official competition, which features nine scripted series, hailing from France, Israel, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, the U.S., the UK. The Festival also has a news and current affairs section.

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Angelina Jolie rips Brad Pitt for ‘abusive’ NDA request as $500M winery war escalates

Jolie’s lawyers claim in newly filed court docs obtained by Page Six that a recent motion by Pitt asking to see Jolie’s NDAs with any third parties is “expensive,” “wasteful,” “unreasonable” — and even “abusive.”

Jolie, 48, has argued in court docs that Pitt, 60, asked her to sign an expansive NDA in their scuttled Miraval deal because he was trying to silence her from speaking about allegations he was abusive to Jolie and their family, including on a flight from France to California in 2016.

Jolie has alleged previously: “While Pitt’s history of physical abuse of Jolie started well before the family’s September 2016 plane trip from France to Los Angeles, this flight marked the first time he turned his physical abuse on the children as well. Jolie then immediately left him.”

The “Maleficent” star is also claiming in new court papers that turning over other NDAs she has signed would be an invasion of privacy for the other parties — presumably including movie studios, brands and employees — revealing “contracts that include Jolie’s compensation or compensation she paid to third parties.”

Jolie’s side has claimed Pitt wanted Jolie to sign an unfairly “onerous” and “expansive” NDA, “covering Pitt’s personal misconduct, whether related to Miraval or not,” in order for her to sell her stake to him.

The exes’ deal fell through — over the unfair NDA, she claims — and Jolie then sold her shares to a Stoli Group subsidiary. Pitt has opposed the Stoli deal and alleged she unfairly sold the stake out from under him.

Earlier this month, Pitt’s team filed documents in LA Superior Court stating Jolie should disclose other NDAs she has entered into with third parties, including her own personal staff. The “Fight Club” actor’s side has said these other NDAs will shed light on whether Jolie truly found Pitt’s non-disclosure agreement request to be “the deal-ender she subsequently alleged it to be.”

But in the new court papers, Jolie’s lawyers respond: “Pitt apparently intends to argue that, over the past two decades, Jolie had or at least considered other NDAs with other people and entities, about other matters not in any way connected with Pitt’s abuse. He says he wants to argue that since Jolie considered and/or entered other NDAs over her lengthy career, his proposed NDA covering his spousal and child abuse couldn’t possibly have been the reason the deal collapsed.”

Jolie’s lawyers further state: “To effectuate this plan, Pitt now demands that Jolie review every contract she has ever considered or entered over the last two decades to see if any contained any form of NDA (both non-disparagement and non-disclosure).”

Jolie’s side argues turning over such exhaustive documents would also reveal private info on others, violating their rights.

“By their nature, Pitt’s Requests seek to intrude on Jolie’s privacy,” says Jolie’s new filing. “The Requests seek contracts between Jolie (or any of her entities) and any other person or entity. Most, if not all, of these agreements will be employment-related contracts that include Jolie’s compensation or compensation she paid to third parties.”

The documents also argue, “These third parties have their own privacy rights, and Pitt is not giving them any notice whatsoever to allow them to protect their rights.”

The papers say that Pitt’s latest NDA request is “simply not relevant to this case.”

Jolie’s lawyers also say that, “Forcing Jolie to spend the time and expense of gathering and producing all of this documentation is expensive, wasteful, and unreasonable — and the latest manifestation of Pitt’s abusive conduct toward Jolie. The Court should not allow it.”

A hearing is taking place on May 16, we’ve reported. A full trial is not expected this year.

The Hollywood exes have been fighting over the vineyard they purchased in 2008 ever since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. A legal war over the estate has been playing out in courts in California and Luxembourg.

Jolie’s team further states in their arguments that: “Pitt’s motion illustrates the harm and humiliation victims of domestic violence face in Court. Because Jolie dares to raise the issue as a defense in this case, Pitt seeks to dig up nearly two decades of contractual relationships to supposedly ‘impeach’ her reaction to Pitt’s attempt to cover up his abuse.”

The papers also state: “Pitt wants to argue that Jolie entered NDAs with others, so there was no harm in Pitt demanding an NDA to cover his abuse. But there is a fundamental and obvious difference: In none of those other NDAs was Pitt trying to silence abuse of his own family. The Court should not validate this dangerous argument. This case will be decided by evidence concerning Miraval and the dealings between Pitt and Jolie — not by Jolie’s dealings with third parties on topics having nothing to do with Miraval’s sale. Pitt’s motion should be denied.”

Jolie has said in legal filings that she and her family have never returned to the chateau since 2016, days before she filed for divorce. The duo — who wed in 2014 — share kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox.

Paul Murphy, an attorney for Angelina Jolie, told us, “For Pitt to equate common NDAs covering confidential information employees learn at work, with him attempting to cover up his history of abuse, is shameful. This case is not about NDAs in general, but is about power and privilege. All Angelina wanted was separation and health. He seems to always insist on a continuance of a fight. She deserves peace after all these years.”

Per documents previously obtained by Page Six in 2023, Pitt previously alleged his “vindictive” ex-wife sold her shares of Château Miraval in spite of him after he was granted joint custody of their six children, though the decision was later overturned.

A source familiar with the “Moneyball” star told us of Jolie’s most recent filing, “This is a basic business dispute over Miraval into which she has repeatedly injected personal matters that have nothing to do with the case and are detrimental to the family.”

The source added: “All that Brad requested was a totally limited standard non-disparagement agreement to protect the value of Miraval, for which he was ready to spend tens of millions of to keep in the family.”

Sydney Lemmon & Romy Reiner To Topline Dark Fashion World Satire ‘The Philosophy Of Dress’

Shooting this month in New York City, pic’s ensemble also includes Eric Roberts (Inherent Vice), Marcia DeBonis (Sometimes I Think About Dying), Jake Weary (Animal Kingdom), Lou Liberatore (Burn This), Jonathan Higginbotham (Slave Play), Clara McGregor (Bleeding Love), Vera Bulder (About That Life), model Jake Lively, fashion icon Amy Fine Collins and NYU Tisch freshman Gabriella O’Reilly.

The Philosophy of Dress is an examination of female friendship and viral ambition set in NYC’s cutthroat downtown fashion scene. Part American Psycho and part Devil Wears Prada, the film follows two young designers as they test the limits of obsession, creation, and betrayal. Jz Tinneny will produce, with Lemmon and Potash exec producing.

Previously seen in Todd Field’s Oscar-nominated drama Tár, as well as films like Firestarter and Velvet Buzzsaw, Lemmon has additionally appeared on such series as Succession, Fear the Walking Dead and Hulu/Marvel’s Helstrom.

Past credits for Reiner include Kenya Barris’s starry Netflix rom-com You People and HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Lemmon is repped by Paradigm, Sugar23, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Reiner by Hyperion Talent Agency and Luber Roklin Entertainment; Roberts by Sovereign Talent Group; DeBonis by Innovative Artists; Weary by Gersh; Liberatore by Talent House; Higginbotham by Gersh and Anonymous Content; McGregor by Paradigm, Elevate Artist Management in Paris, Range Media Partners, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; and Bulder by Luber Roklin Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Don’t Miss the Another World 60th Anniversary Reunion Luncheon!

On Saturday, May 4, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the AW Cast Reunion/Fan Luncheon will be held at Tarrytown House Estate on the Hudson in Tarrytown, NY. The afternoon will kick off with a reception followed by a luncheon, a Q&A session, and finally, a meet and greet with the actors. In addition, the event will also include a silent auction with proceeds being divided equally between Upstate Lung Cancer, National Cervical Cancer Coalition, Lancaster Chapter, and the American Federation for Suicide Prevention, NYC Chapter.

“I’m excited about the event,” Linda Dano (Felicia) told Soap Opera Digest. “I think everyone who loved Another World is coming. It’s such a wonderful event. It’s just a wonderful thing for all of us. We get together and talk about the old days and laugh and cry and whatever we do, but I’m sure it’s going to be lots of fun. I’m looking forward to it a lot.”

Created by Irna Phillips and William J. Bell, AW followed the lives and loves of the residents of Bay City for 35 years. During its time on NBC, AW produced two spin-offs, Somerset and Texas, and even expanded to 90-minute episodes for a time. Sadly, the final episode of the soap aired on June 25, 1999, but fans still have many fond memories of their time visiting Bay City every weekday.

For more details on the Cast Reunion/Fan Luncheon and to purchase tickets, please click here or you can E-mail AWcelebration2024@yahoo.com. This is one afternoon no AW fan will want to miss!

Anne Heche's Estate Struggling to Pay Off $6 Million in Debts, Son Says

Homer Laffoon is the administrator of his late mom's estate, and he filed docs with the court saying the probate case isn't ready to close yet because it is still dealing with claims from several creditors.

He says her estate has a "modest bank account, royalty payments, and other residual income from pre-death projects" -- such as money from her posthumous memoir "Call Me Anne" -- but, apparently, it's not enough to cover all the claims.

There are apparently millions in creditor claims, with 3 of them filed for a whopping $2 mil each.

One of the claims is from the couple who owned the home Anne crashed into, leading to her death ... and there's another from the woman who was renting the property.

Even Anne's ex, Thomas Jane, is in the mix, seeking $149,106.04, according to docs.

Laffoon says he's actively engaging in attempts to negotiate appropriate settlements of the claims ... and is "cautiously optimistic the creditor claims can all be resolved fairly and without litigation."

As we reported, Anne had a fiery collision when she drove into an L.A. home back in 2022.

The crash left her with an anoxic brain injury, from which her rep said she would not recover. Anne passed away when she was taken off life support.

Charlie Day, Billy Eichner, Gabby Beans, Talia Ryder & 9 Others Join Ethan Coen’s ‘Honey Don’t!’

As previously announced, Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans will lead the ensemble. Details as to the film’s plot are currently under wraps, though it’s said to be in the same vein as Coen’s comedy Drive-Away Dolls, starring Qualley, which Focus released earlier this year. Production is currently underway in New Mexico.

Coen is directing from his script written with wife Tricia Cooke, the veteran editor who cut such Coen Brothers classics as The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, also co-writing Drive-Away Dolls. Pic’s producers are Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Coen, Cooke, and Robert Graf.

Day is represented by CAA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Eichner by UTA, 3 Arts, PJ Shapiro, and Ziffren Brittenham; Abova by Paradigm, AFA Prime Talent, and Accelerate in the UK; Jacnier by Kreativ Media Partners; Beans by TalentWorks and Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Ryder by UTA and Untitled Entertainment; Connolly by Paradigm and Authentic Talent and Literary Management; Hall by Independent Artists Group, Diarmuid Quinn at TourDForce, and Granderson Des Rochers; Swayze by David Shapira & Associates; Pafchek by The Park Agency and 23 Management Group; Browne by the Lisa Lax Agency; Carstoiu by Presley Talent and ADS Management.; and Antidormi by AKA Talent Agency, manager Nils Larsen of Integral Artists, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

Kunal Nayyar, Eva Longoria & Billy Porter Among Ensemble Of Gurinder Chadha Musical ‘Christmas Karma’

Nayyar will star as Scrooge in pic alongside an expansive cast, including Eva Longoria, Boy George, Billy Porter, Hugh Bonneville, Leo Suter, Charithra Chandran, Pixie Lott, Danny Dyer, Bilal Hasna, Allan Corduner, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rufus Jones, Eve, and Nitin Ganatra.

Chadha wrote the pic and is producing alongside directing, with music by Take That alum Gary Barlow alongside Shaznay Lewis and Nitin Sawhney. Financing for Christmas Karma is from Civic Studios. Gurinder Chadha, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, and Amory Leader will produce. Zygi Kamasa, Anushka Shah, Paul Mayeda Berges, Sophia Pedlow, and Hannah Leader will serve as executive producers.

Christmas Karma is the fifth scripted project from British distributor True Brit Entertainment, which was formed in November 2023. The feature also sees Chadha’s return to the big screen following her time working on the Indian historical television series Beecham House. Her last feature film, Blinded by the Light, inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, debuted at Sundance in 2019. Warners Bros acquired the pic for multiple territories.

“Just as I have enjoyed Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life for many years, my aim with Christmas Karma is to create a festive classic for our times and for generations to come,” Chadha said. “I’m over the moon to be working with Zygi Kamasa who has supported me on this film from the onset – and True Brit, which truly celebrates British cinema. I am blessed with such a great diverse Cast and eclectic Music team – the soundtrack will be banging, influenced by Gospel, Bhangra, Carols, and classic pop songs. You will not be able to sit still.”

Kamasa added: “Gurinder has an incredible ability to tell such interesting contemporary British stories. It’s been over 20 years since we made Bend It Like Beckham together and this film has all those hallmarks of heart, comedy, drama, and an incredibly feel-good ending. It will be a celebration of multi-cultural London set to an incredible set of songs written by Gary, Shaznay, and Nitin, using musical genres from Rap, to disco to Bhangra, and will be the ultimate Christmas movie which we will release in December 2025. It really is the perfect fit to the range of British films we will release at True Brit.” p

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Billy Dee Williams On Actors Wearing Blackface: “If You’re An Actor, You Should Do Anything You Want To Do”

The Star Wars actor appeared on Bill Maher’s podcast and recalled Lauren Olivier’s performance in 1965’s Othello, where the actor wore blackface.

“When he did ‘Othello,’ I fell out laughing,” Williams said of Olivier on the Club Random podcast. “He stuck his ass out and walked around with his ass, you know, because Black people are supposed to have big asses.”

He continued, “I thought it was hysterical. I loved it. I love that kind of stuff.”

Maher mentioned that actors could not wear Blackface today, to which Williams said, “Why not? You should do it. If you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do.”

The podcast’s host noted that Williams “lived in a period where you couldn’t play the parts you should’ve played.”

“The point is that you don’t go through life feeling like, ‘I’m a victim,'” Williams added. “I refuse to go through life saying to the world, ‘I’m pissed off.’ I’m not gonna be pissed off 24 hours a day.”

Williams famously portrayed the role of Landon Calrissian in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. The actor reprised his role in 1983’s Return of the Jedi and again in 2019’s Rise of Skywalker.

In an interview with The Guardian earlier this year, Williams said he didn’t “think in terms of Black” about the characters he portrays in media.

“I never think of myself in terms of the only Black character. Everybody else might think of it that way. In my reasoning in my own head, I’m just a character,” he said. “A character has certain qualities that make a character a winning character in a movie or a character that is not able to translate very well. I’ve been able to translate very well across the board.”

Brad Pitt Calls BS on Angelina Jolie's Restrictive NDA Argument in Winery War

The exes are still warring over Miraval, the French winery they co-own, and Brad just filed docs in that dispute ... refuting Angie's claim she walked away from an agreement to sell her share of the winery to Brad, because he insisted she sign a strict NDA.

In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Brad doesn't deny wanting her to sign one, but he says there's nothing onerous or broad about the NDA he presented her. In fact, he says it's pretty rich for Angelina to complain, because her lawyer "proposed an even broader, mutual non-disparagement clause" to Brad in connection with their divorce.

As for why he wanted her to sign one for the Miraval deal -- he says it's just good business sense. According to the docs, they both agreed an NDA was necessary to "protect the reputation of the Miraval brand."

Translation: Brad didn't want to buy her half of Miraval, and then have her trash him in public, thereby, hurting the business.

In these new docs, filed Thursday in L.A., Brad asks the judge to force Angie to hand over other NDAs she's signed, plus the ones she's asked other people to sign -- all to prove there's nothing especially bad about the one he proposed.

As we reported, Angelina filed docs of her own on Thursday ... accusing Brad of physical abuse during their marriage -- and before the infamous 2016 private jet altercation with their kids. Brad has denied that allegation.

Angelina Jolie's Lawyers Claim Brad Pitt's 'Physical Abuse of Jolie' Started Before Their 2016 Plane Incident

As part of the former couple's ongoing legal battle over their French winery Château Miraval, on April 4, the actress's legal team filed a motion seeking to release communications they say would prove Pitt, 60, would not let Jolie, 48, sell her share of the winery to him unless she agreed to a "more onerous" and "expansive" NDA.

Within the new filing, Jolie's lawyers make the claim: "While Pitt's history of physical abuse of Jolie started well before the family’s September 2016 plane trip from France to Los Angeles, this flight marked the first time he turned his physical abuse on the children as well. Jolie then immediately left him."

"This is a pattern of behavior — whenever there is a decision that goes against the other side they consistently choose to introduce misleading, inaccurate and/or irrelevant information as a distraction," a friend of Pitt familiar with the litigation over the years tells PEOPLE.

"There was a lengthy custody trial that involved the entire history of their relationship and a judge who heard all the evidence still granted him 50/50 custody."

According to Jolie's side, the winery lawsuit would not have happened if Pitt had purchased Jolie's share when she made the offer. However, Jolie's lawyers claim Pitt refused the deal unless it came with the NDA and suggest the actor feared that sealed documents included in their separate, years-long custody battle could be made public without the NDA.

"Jolie’s sealed filing, which included emails, summaries of the family’s expected testimony and other evidence, caused Pitt to fear that the information could eventually become public," her lawyers write, adding that Pitt wanted Jolie to "contractually bind herself to that silence" about his alleged "personal misconduct, whether related to Miraval or not."

A June 2023 filing from Pitt's legal team, however, claims Jolie was the one who suggested an “even broader non-disparagement clause” as part of the deal, and Pitt’s team presented a “narrower” one “intended to protect the business.”

“The clause also made clear that there would be no limitation on Jolie’s ability to speak in connection with Pitt and Jolie’s divorce or custody proceedings. It specifically provided: This commitment shall however not limit the ability, for any Party, to make any claims, filings or testimony in any legal proceedings.”

A source on Pitt's side said in June 2023 that "the non-disparagement clause in the contract" was a "totally standard" business transaction; meanwhile, a Jolie source claimed Pitt "refused to complete the Miraval sale with Jolie unless she agreed to being silenced about the abuse."

Jolie's attorney Paul Murphy said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE April 4, "Mr. Pitt refused to purchase Ms. Jolie’s interest when she would not be silenced by his NDA. By refusing to buy her interest but then suing her, Mr. Pitt put directly at issue why that NDA was so important to him and what he hoped it would bury: his abuse of Ms. Jolie and their family. After eight months of delays, this motion asks the Court to force Mr. Pitt to finally produce that evidence."

Separately, another source maintains to PEOPLE that Jolie "does not want to be raising any of these facts, and she is doing it only because Pitt’s lawsuit against her is forcing her to defend herself."

The source adds that "if this does go to trial, [Jolie] will be forced to use that evidence in the trial whether she wants to or not."

In 2022, Pitt sued Jolie and her former company Nouvel for selling her half of the winery and going against an agreement he said they'd made about not selling without getting approval from the other. Pitt has accused Jolie of intentionally keeping him in the dark about her sale to Tenute del Mondo, whose parent company is spirits manufacturer Stoli Group, owned by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler.

He said that sale "jeopardizes the reputation of the business that Pitt so carefully built."

Back when Jolie's legal team brought up the 2016 plane allegations in a response filed in October 2022 for the winery case, a source close to Pitt said, "It's incredibly sad that she continues to rehash, revise and reimagine her description of an event that happened six years ago, adding in completely untrue information to try to get additional attention for herself at the expense of their family."

Pitt was never charged following an investigation into allegations of abuse on the Sept. 14, 2016, flight.

In the latest filing, Jolie's lawyers write that the actress "never pressed charges as she believed the best course was for Pitt to accept responsibility and help the family recover from the post-traumatic stress he caused."

Pitt and Jolie, who were declared legally single by a judge back in 2019, share six kids: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 17, and 15-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.hs

Stephen Schnetzer Returns To DAYS OF OUR LIVES!

Reflecting on his DAYS run to Digest in 2019, Schnetzer groaned, “Oh, my God, I was so awful! I had been doing eight years of theater. Here I am projecting to the back wall of the film studio and the boom is right above you. It took me longer to get comfortable in front of a camera than anybody I ever saw in the 22 years I was in daytime. They were very patient. Susan [Seaforth Hayes, Julie] and Bill Hayes [ex-Doug] were lovely. It was recurring. I was there for a year and a half. It was a nice, gentle entry. And then I had [Franco] Zeffirelli hire me to do a Broadway show. Because I was recurring and because they didn’t lock me down to a contract, I was able to say bye-bye and come back East.”

Due to DAYS’s long production lead time, Schnetzer won’t appear on the show until this fall.

Jennifer Leak Dies: ‘Yours, Mine And Ours’ Actress And Soap Star For ‘The Guiding Light’, ‘The Young And The Restless’ And ‘Another World’ Was 76

Leak was dealing with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurological disease, in her final years.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Jennifer Leak’s passing. She wasn’t just my screen sister in ‘Yours, Mine and Ours,’ but also my beloved first wife. Jennifer was a remarkable woman, strong, lovely, and incredibly talented. My deepest condolences go out to her husband of 47 years, James D’Auria, and their multitude of friends.”

Yours, Mine and Ours featured Matheson as Mike, the son of Henry Fonda’s Frank Beardsley, while Leak portrayed Colleen, the daughter of Lucille Ball’s Helen North. The movie was about a blended family of 18 children.

Leak was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1947, and started her screen career with the Mike Nichols-directed pilot for Wojeck in the mid-1960s. She later was cast in Nichols’ The Graduate, but had to drop out because of immigration complications.

Leak’s was also a soap operas regular. She played Gwen Sherman on The Young and the Restless, Olive Springer Gordon Randolph on Another World, and Blanche Bouvier on Guiding Light.

Leak had largely retired from screen acting by the mid-1980s, working as a sales agent for a real estate company.

She was married to Matheson from 1968 to 1971, and wed D’Auria in 1977. She is survived by her husband and brother.

Ron Harper, ‘Land of the Lost’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ Actor, Dies at 91

Harper died Thursday of natural causes at his home in West Hills, his daughter, Nicole Longeuay, told The Hollywood Reporter.

After understudying for Paul Newman on Broadway, Harper portrayed Det. Bert Kling alongside Norman Fell, Robert Lansing, Gregory Walcott and Gena Rowlands on the 1961-62 NBC cop show 87th Precinct, based on the novels of Ed McBain.

He played Jeff Conway, the husband of Connie Stevens’ character, on the 1964-65 ABC sitcom Wendy and Me, also starring George Burns, who produced the show and appeared as the owner of the apartment building in which the young couple lives.

Next up for Harper were turns as the son of Jean Arthur’s lawyer — they both portrayed lawyers, in fact — on CBS’ The Jean Arthur Show in 1966 and Lt. Craig Garrison on the World War II-set Garrison’s Gorillas, which aired on ABC in 1967-68.

All four never made it to a second season, with 87th Precinct lasting 30 episodes, Wendy and Me 34, The Jean Arthur Show 12 and Garrison’s Gorillas 26.

In 1974, Harper finally seemed to have a hit on his hands when he landed the role of astronaut Alan Virdon on CBS’ Planet of the Apes. The series, after all, had come on the heels of the five Planet of the Apes movies and starred Roddy McDowall, who was in four of the films, as a chimpanzee.

However, the high-cost show, which also starred Jim Naughton as an astronaut, performed poorly in its Friday night slot and was canceled, with just 14 episodes airing.

“Our Planet of the Apes stories degenerated into The Fugitive with fur. I think that’s one of the things that curtailed what should have been a longer run,” Harper said in an interview for Tom Weaver’s 2008 book, I Talked With a Zombie.

Harper then joined Sid and Marty Krofft’s Land of the Lost in 1976 for its third and final season, stepping in for Spencer Milligan to play the family’s Uncle Jack on the NBC sci-fi show. He was on just 13 episodes, but those showed up often in repeats over the years.

“The stories were very good,” Harper said in 2005. “Each generation of children as they come up and are exposed to it like those stories and remember them, pass them right on. I have about three tapes, and I’ve been showing them to my daughter since she was 5. And she still, of all my series, loves Land of the Lost best.”

Ronald Robert Harper was born on Jan. 12, 1933, in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh. He graduated from Turtle Creek High School and earned a scholarship to Princeton University, where he did two seasons of summer stock. He then was offered a fellowship to Harvard Law School.

“I kept saying to myself, ‘Should you waste your good education being an actor?’ And that little voice within me kept saying things like, ‘What do you want to take that fellowship to Harvard Law for? Be an actor. Starving is fun,’” he said in 1966. “And like the fool that any actor has to be, I listened to that dumb little voice.”

He studied with Lee Strasberg, served in the U.S. Navy and in 1959-60 was Newman’s understudy in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Elia Kazan. He got to play opposite Geraldine Page four times one week when Newman was ill.

“In my last performance of it, I saw Paul in the audience,” he recalled in 2015. “If he was not feeling too well, he was feeling a little bit better. He was a wonderful, sweet guy. I think he probably felt generous enough to say, ‘Let Ron do one or two of the performances.’”

After that, he appeared on installments of such shows as Tales of Wells Fargo, Thriller, Wagon Train and The Tall Man before landing on 87th Precinct.

Harper returned to Broadway in 1972 in 6 Rms Riv Vu and did lots of soap operas, among them Another World, Loving, Capitol, Generations, Where the Heart Is and Love of Life.

His résumé also included the movies The Wild Season (1971), The Odd Couple II (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001) and TV guest stints on The Big Valley, Remington Steele, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, Walker, Texas Ranger, The West Wing and Cold Case.

In addition to his daughter, survivors include his son-in-law, Daniel; granddaughters Ronnie and Harper; and ex-wife Shirley. His first wife was actress Sally Stark.

Lori McCreary & Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment Prepping ‘Ear Hustle’ Docuseries Based On Prison Life Podcast

Co-hosted by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created and produced in prison. A two-time Peabody Awards finalist, National Magazine Awards finalist, and Pulitzer Prize finalist downloaded more than 78 million times, the show is made by a team both inside and out of San Quentin State Prison in California, traversing stories such as finding romance, grappling with a life sentence, trying to parent via 15-minute phone calls, getting out and starting over, and beyond.

With the series to be directed by Erika Cohn, the two-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker behind New York Times Critics Pick Belly of the Beast, Revelations aims to capture authentic, raw and surprising stories of prison life by delving even deeper into narratives that have resonated with listeners worldwide.

Cohn will also serve as an executive producer, along with James Younger, McCreary, and Kelly Mendelsohn for Revelations Entertainment. Poor and Woods will also serve as executive producers.

Renowned for its commitment to elevating under-served voices, Revelations was behind the hit series Madam Secretary as well as films like the award-winning Invictus and 5 Flights Up. Accolades include an Emmy nomination for The Story of God, three Emmy noms for Through the Wormhole, a Peabody Award for the ESPN 30 for 30 episode “The 16th Man,” and an Academy Award nomination for Freeman in the film Invictus.

Freeman, McCreary, and Revelations are represented by CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

GH’s Rena Sofer Mourns the Death of Her Family’s Dog, Alfie

“I have too much to say. But I have no words right now. It’s all just so much pain,” wrote Sofer. “Yesterday was the most devastating yet expected day. But it was too soon.”

Alfie and his sister, Mega, were the first dogs that Sofer rescued, back in 2017 when she was playing THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL’s Quinn. Over the years, the actress and Bookstaver (as well as their daughter, Avalon) have opened up their home to several other rescue dogs and have fostered countless other canines. Alfie’s death comes eight months after the family lost one of their other rescue dogs, Princess Carolyn, in July 2023.

“I only had my boy for seven years and eight days. Cancer stole him from me, from Sandy, from Avalon, and from his sister, Mega. From everyone who knew and loved him,” Sofer continued. “I love all my dogs, but without remorse, Alfie was my favorite. My heart and soul dog. I am destroyed and numb. The greatest gift we ever gave each other was each other. I will miss you forever and ever and ever.”

“We have had many, many dogs, but Alfie was Rena’s baby boy and true love,” shared Sofer’s husband.

“He was only alive for seven years, but they were beautiful,” Bookstaver said of Alfie’s life with the family.

In a sweet video, Sofer cried while kissing Alfie’s head while hugging Mega with her other hand. “That’s your brother,” she laughed through her tears.

Fran Drescher, Alex Borstein, Kyra Sedgwick, Raney Aronson-Rath To Be Honored At NY Women In Film & Television Awards

Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of PBS Frontline, whose doc 20 Days in Mariupol won an Oscar Sunday, will receive the Enid Roth Award for Excellence in Journalism. The Made in NY Award from Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment will be presented to actress, writer, and producer and star of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Alex Borstein.

Honorees also include actress Critics Choice Award and BAFTA Rising Star Award-nominated actress Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place), who will receive the Loreen Arbus Changemaker Award; Michèle Stephenson (Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project), a filmmaker, artist and author, awarded the Nancy Malone Directing Award.

Cardinal (Killers Of The Flower Moon, Smoke Signals), and Latasha Gillespie, head of Global Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility for Amazon MGM Studios will also be honored.

The annual awards luncheon, set for March 27 at Cipriani 42nd Street, is the 44th editions of the organization’s flagship event. CBS Sunday Morning contributor, comedian, actress ?Nancy Giles? will serve as emcee.

“In a year, when Lily Gladstone the first Native American to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar – there is a drum beat we cannot miss – our industry is slowly transitioning and women are finally being recognized for their contributions,” said NYWIFT CEO Cynthia Lopez.

“After a tumultuous year in our industry marked by the reckoning of two strikes by creative workers, we’re excited to welcome the media community back to the Muse Awards to celebrate all that was accomplished through collective action this year,” added board president Leslie Fields-Cruz.

Drescher, a defender of women’s health, civil liberties, diversity and inclusion, is serving her second term as national president of SAG-AFTRA, the largest entertainment union in the world, after leading one of the longest strikes in the group’s history.

Borstein (who won an Emmy as Lois on long running animated Family Guy) starred as Susie Myerson in five seasons of filmed in New York Maisel, winning two Emmys. She starred for three seasons in HBO’s American version of the British series Getting On.

Aronson-Rath has grown PBS’ flagship investigative journalism series into a multi-platform organization, including expanding into theatrical documentaries that have earned multiple Academy Award ?nominations, including the win on Sunday.

Indigenous actress Cardinal is a SAG Award nominee who appeared most recently in Killers of the Flower Moon and Marvel series, Echo. She’s appeared in over 120 film and TV projects from Dances with Wolves to Legends of the Fall and Smoke Signals.

Sedgwick, last seen in Amazon series The Summer I Turned Pretty, just wrapped production on Connescence, written and directed by Michael J. Weithorn. She recently directed Space Oddity,starring Kyle Allen and Alexandra Shipp, and directed an episode of HBO’s upcoming The Girls on the Bus. Previous film roles include Singles, Phenomenon, The Game Plan, The Edge of Seventeen and Born on The Fourth Of July.

Stephenson, a social justice lawyer with Haitian and Panamanian roots, focuses on narratives of resistance and identity centered on the experiences of communities of color in the Americas and the Black diaspora with Oscar-shortlisted docs Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, and short Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games). Her feature doc American Promise was nominated for three Emmys and won the Jury Prize at Sundance. She co-directed The Changing Same, a virtual reality trilogy series on racial terror Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Interactive Media Innovative category. She is currently in post-production on a feature on the Black Power movement in Canada.

Simmonds first emerged as the star of Todd Haynes’s film Wonderstruck opposite Julianne Moore. Upcoming projects include a series based on Sara Novíc’s novel, True Biz; portraying Helen Keller in Wash Westmoreland’s film Helen & Teacher; and the action thriller Ballerina Overdrive.

And Gillespie, head of DEI for Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video and Freevee, created the entertainment industry’s first Inclusion playbook, which was standardized into the greenlight process.

Past recipients of MUSE awards include Sharon Stone (last year), Sandra Oh, Rashida Jones, Rachel Brosnahan, Gloria Estefan, Ann Dowd, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Mary-Louise Parker, Anne Sweeney, Martha Stewart, Robin Wright, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, America Ferrera, Laura Dern, Julianna Margulies, Blythe Danner, Victoria Alonso, Gabourey Sidibe, Debi Mazar, Martha Plimpton, Cicely Tyson and Lucy Liu.

Jane Krakowski guests on Elsbeth

After the loathed co-op board president (guest star Linda Lavin) of a luxury pre-war building falls off her balcony to her death, Elsbeth and Kaya are called to the scene to dig for a lead when they meet Joann (guest star Jane Krakowski), a high-powered Manhattan real estate broker with huge clients and even bigger secrets.

When a larger-than-life reality TV star is found dead in her bathtub, Elsbeth and Kaya investigate the circumstances around her death to determine if it was an accident or murder. As they get deeper into the events surrounding her demise, they meet Skip Mason (guest star Jesse Tyler Ferguson), the mercurial producer behind the popular, guilty-pleasure reality series “Lavish Ladies,” who becomes a prime suspect after he is accused of going to dangerous lengths to concoct “good TV.”

Malachy McCourt Dies: ‘Ryan’s Hope’ Actor, Brother Of ‘Angela’s Ashes’ Author Frank McCourt Was 92

The brother of Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela’s Ashes memoirist Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt left an indelible mark on New York City’s Irish American community. As the owner of the quintessential 1950s Irish pub Malachy’s on Third Avenue in Manhattan – McCourt would often call it the city’s first singles bar, since he welcomed unaccompanied women to the establishment – the Brooklyn native became one of the city’s great story-tellers, regaling patrons from longshoremen to the actor Richard Harris with blarney, rugby talk and biographical anecdotes.

His way with words would hold him in good stead through a wide-ranging career path that included acting, writing, talk-show hosting and politics.

Born Malachy Gerard McCourt in Brooklyn on September 20, 1931, McCourt and his siblings were uprooted by parents Malachy and Angela McCourt to Limerick, Ireland. When his alcoholic father, a former member of the IRA, deserted the family after two years, leaving mother Angela to raise four of their surviving seven children in poverty, a harrowing tale detailed in Frank McCourt’s 1996 memoir Angela’s Ashes. (Frank McCourt died in 2009)

Malachy McCourt, who returned to New York at age 20, would later write his own memoirs including A Monk Swimming (1998), an account of his life in Limerick that picks up where Angela’s Ashes leaves off, and in 2000, Singing My Him Song, which recounts his later (sober) life as a husband and father. Other writing includes a history of the Irish ballad “Danny Boy.”

An occasional guest on Jack Paar’s Tonight Show and sometime host of New York radio programs, McCourt also acted on stage (he co-wrote and co-starred in A Couple of Blaguards with brother Frank); movies The Molly Maguires (1970), The Brink’s Job (1978), Brewster’s Millions (1985), Starman (1987), and The Devil’s Own (1997), among others; and such TV series as Oz, Tales of the Unexpected and Remember WENN.

McCourt appeared on numerous New York-based soaps, including One Life To Live, Search For Tomorrow and Another World, but will best be remember for his annual Christmas appearances on All My Children as the possibly angelic Father Clarence and, most especially, in the recurring role of bartender Kevin MacGuinness throughout the entire 14-year run of Ryan’s Hope.

Bringing a outsized touch of Irish authenticity to the Washington Heights-set soap, McCourt’s Kevin was best friend to bar owner Johnny Ryan (Bernie Barrow) and truth-telling thorn-in-side to the trouble-making family in-law Delia (Ilene Kristen). In all, McCourt appeared in 217 episodes of the 1975-1989 series.

Offscreen, McCourt waged a high-profile, if ultimately losing, political battle in 2006 when he ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate. An outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq, McCourt was an early and vociferous proponent of allowing gay and lesbian groups to march in New York’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

In addition to wife Diana, McCourt is survived by daughter Siobhan McCourt; sons Malachy Jr., Conor and Cormac; stepdaughter Nina Galin; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandson. e

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Lindsay Lohan Says ‘Freaky Friday’ Sequel With Jamie Lee Curtis Is Happening: “We Are Both Excited”

While being interviewed on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM show, Lohan confirmed that a follow-up to the 2003 film was in the works.

“I won’t say that yet. I don’t want to say too much,” Lohan told the host after he asked if there was a timeline for production to start on the film.

Lohan and Curtis have been open to starring in a sequel. Back in October 2022, Curtis was asked on The View if she would reprise her role opposite Lohan and said she was “creatively wide open” to do so.

Curtis even had an idea as to what the Freaky Friday sequel could look like, saying, “Let me be the grandma, let me be the old grandma who switches places, so then Lindsay gets to be the sexy grandma who’s still happy with Mark Harmon in all the ways you would be happy with Mark Harmon.”

“I would like to see Lindsay be the hot grandma, and I would like to see me try to deal with toddlers today. I want to be a helicopter parent in today’s world,” Curtis added.

Freaky Friday is based on a 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers about a mother and a daughter whose bodies are switched following a magical Chinese fortune cookie. Curtis and Lohan were the mother-daughter duo, with Harmon playing Curtis’ fiancé in the film.

The 2003 film that starred Lohan and Curtis was the third film adaptation of the novel, following a 1976 film that starred Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster and a 1995 television movie with Shelly Long and Gaby Hoffmann. Disney Channel most recently adapted Freaky Friday into a musical movie in 2018 starring Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff.

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