EXCLUSIVE: Aubrey Plaza is joining Oscar winner Michael Caine in Lina Roessler’s feature directorial debut Best Sellers . The story follows a has-been author, played by Caine, who is on a wild book tour with a young editor, Plaza, trying to save her father’s boutique publishing house. Caine’s miserable and sharp-witted author just wants to live out his days in peace with a bottle of scotch, a cigar and his orange Tabby cat, but Plaza’s hopeful editor pulls him out of his reclusion. The project is based on Anthony Grieco’s original screenplay, which won a 2015 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting award, and will be an official Canada-UK co-production, produced by Arielle Elwes ( Braid ), Cassian Elwes ( Mudbound, The Butler ), Petr Jákl ( xXx, Ghoul, Medieval ) and Wayne Marc Godfrey ( The Foreigner, Wind River ) on the UK side and Jonathan Vanger ( Wishing Tree Productions: Miss Sloane ) and Pierre Even ( Item 7: War Witch, The Hummingbird Project ) on the … [Read more...] about Aubrey Plaza Joins Michael Caine In ‘Best Sellers’
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Paul Ben-Victor To Play Mob Enforcer Tony Spilotro In ‘The Legitimate Wise Guy’
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Ben-Victor is set to join Harvey Keitel, Emile Hirsch and Ruby Rose in the George Gallo-directed mobster drama The Legitimate Wise Guy , which tells the true story of Tony Spilotro, a feared mob enforcer from the crime syndicate known as the Chicago Outfit. Ben-Victor will step into the role of Spilotro. Based on an original screenplay by Nicholas Celozzi and Jim McGrath, the film chronicles Spilotro, who ran the Chicago Outfit which rose to power in the 1920s under the notorious Al Capone. Spilotro overlooked the outfit’s skimming operations in Las Vegas. While there, he met a young man aspiring to make it big in Hollywood as an actor. The mob boss mentors and lures him into his criminal world. Celozzi serves as producer for Monaco Films alongside Richard Salvatore for March on Productions. Michael Sportelli of Monaco Films and Freddy Braidy serve as executive producers. Ben-Victor most recently appeared in roles in Martin Scorsese’s The … [Read more...] about Paul Ben-Victor To Play Mob Enforcer Tony Spilotro In ‘The Legitimate Wise Guy’
‘National Parks’: Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut & Blu Hunt Join ABC Drama Pilot
EXCLUSIVE: Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut ( Cruel Summer ) and Blu Hunt ( The New Mutants ) are set as series regulars opposite Billy Campbell, Angel Parker and Gerardo Celasco in National Parks , ABC ’s drama pilot co-written and executive produced by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner. The project hails from Costner’s Territory Pictures Entertainment, 20th Television and A+E Studios. Co-written by Costner, Aaron Helbing and Jon Baird and to be directed by Anthony Hemingway, National Parks follows a small group of elite national parks service agents as they solve crimes while protecting the parks — which, while being known for their sweeping, beautiful landscapes, also attract a vast array of criminal activity. Chestnut will play Penny Stanton, a rookie ISB Special Agent eager to take on any challenge and prove herself capable both in physical prowess and with her ability to solve problems by making human connections with others. Hunt will portray Nore Yazzie, a … [Read more...] about ‘National Parks’: Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut & Blu Hunt Join ABC Drama Pilot
Michael K. Williams’ ‘Black Market’ Returns To Vice TV After Five Years As Part Of Bumper Docuseries Renewals
EXCLUSIVE : Michael K. Williams is returning to the Black Market for the first time in five years after Vice TV renewed his illicit docuseries. The first season of the show, which saw The Wire star journey into the dangerous world of gunrunners, poachers, drug addicts and illegal gambling dens, aired in 2016. He subsequently starred in series such as Netflix’s When They See Us and HBO’s Lovecraft Country and also appeared as Bob Dylan in Apple’s Beastie Boys Story. Williams will now continue the work of season one and look at the conditions from which black markets arise and the cultural reasons behind why they persist, from carjacking in Newark, NJ to the poaching of abalone off the coast of South Africa. Related Story Thom Beers Plants CBD Reality Series ‘Kings Of Kush’ At Vice TV “After a busy period of back-to-back projects, I’m incredibly excited to rejoin my Vice family in taking a deeper dive behind telling the narratives of these … [Read more...] about Michael K. Williams’ ‘Black Market’ Returns To Vice TV After Five Years As Part Of Bumper Docuseries Renewals