EXCLUSIVE : Charlie Weber ( As Sick As They Made Us , How to Get Away with Murder ) will star alongside Ryan Phillippe and Kate Bosworth in The Locksmith , a crime thriller helmed by veteran first assistant director Nicolas Harvard , which is currently in production in New Mexico. The film centers on Miller (Phillippe), a thief fresh out of prison after a job gone bad who tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-girlfriend, Beth (Bosworth), who is now a police detective. Determined to make a clean start, he is forced to use the only skills he has, as a gifted locksmith, to make ends meet. But things soon get complicated after an unexpected kidnapping and from there, take a tumultuous turn. Weber will play Garrett, a real estate developer with a dark secret who keeps dirty cops and politicians on his payroll. John Glosser, Joe Russo & Chris LaMont, and Ben Kabialis penned the screenplay, based on an original story by Blair Kroeber. …
Richard Jenkins On His Failing Patriarch In ‘The Humans’, Shooting ‘Nightmare Alley’ & “Literally Going Mad” In Quarantine
Every actor knows where they were when the pandemic hit in 2020. Some were lucky enough to finish up before the hammer came down, some were in the middle of production, but it’s unlikely that many, like Richard Jenkins , were about to shoot their last scene. Jenkins was in Toronto at the time, preparing to wrap his role as Ezra Grindle in Guillermo del Toro’s remake of Nightmare Alley . “We stopped in March,” he recalls. “I had one scene left, and we pulled the plug.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, when he returned in October, he was forced to quarantine in his hotel for two weeks. “By that I mean I couldn’t go out,” he says. “At all. Try that sometime. Somebody said, ‘How are you doing?’ and I said, ‘Well, I’m marking the days on the wall in my own feces.’ That’s how I was doing: I was literally going mad. I wore a path in the carpet, walking in circles like those animals in the zoo that just keep going around and around.” That sense of claustrophobia would have …
Sarah Hyland & Harvey Guillén To Star In Scripted Rom-Com Podcast ‘Bone, Marry, Bury’ From Dear Media
EXCLUSIVE : Dear Media , the female-focused podcast company, is moving into scripted audio series for the first time with a romantic comedy starring Sarah Hyland and Harvey Guillén. The Modern Family star and the What We Do In The Shadows star are leading the cast of Bone , Marry , Bury , which has been developed in partnership with RomComPods. The series, which will be released in February 2022, follows 26-year-old Allie, played by Hyland, who’s closing out the worst year of her life after recently being fired, dumped, and evicted. It starts with Allie on New Year’s Eve, where she plans to get wasted and leave this mess of the year behind. Little does she know that the NYE party she’s about to attend will be life-changing but not for the reason she thinks. Through the omniscient narrator, her best friend Gabe, played by Guillén, that by the end of the month, Allie will Bone, Marry, and Bury three different people… and they’re all at this party. It …
Tommy Lane Dies: ‘Shaft’ And ‘Live And Let Die’ Actor, Stuntman Was 83
Tommy Lane , an actor and stuntman who appeared in such classic films as Shaft and Live and Let Die , died at Fort Lauderdale’s Florida Medical Center on Monday, following a long battle with COPD. He was 83. Confirming his passing to Deadline was his daughter, Kamala Lane. Born on Dec. 17, 1937 in Liberty City, Miami, FL, Lane was primarily active as an actor from the 1960s through the 1990s. In Gordon Parks’ classic private eye thriller Shaft , he played gangster Bumpy Jonas’ (Moses Gun) hitman, Leroy, who is memorably dragged up steps and thrown out of a window by Richard Roundtree’s detective John Shaft. In Guy Hamilton’s 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die , starring Roger Moore, he portrayed Adam, a gangster and enforcer reporting to Yaphet Kotto’s Mr. Big and Julius Harris’ Tee Hee. Lane’s film credits also include Ossie Davis’ Cotton Comes to Harlem , Buzz Kulik’s action comedy Shamus starring Burt Reynolds, Bill Gunn and Lawrence Jordan’s …
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‘Generation Ecstasy’: History Of Club Drug Explored In Six-Part Docuseries From ‘Undone’ Producer Submarine
EXCLUSIVE : Submarine , the company behind Amazon’s animated drama Undone , is to explore the history of ecstasy in a new docuseries. The company, which is also behind Richard Linklater’s Netflix feature film Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure , has optioned upcoming book XTC: A Biography , from journalists Philippus Zandstra and Wietse Pottjewijd, and is developing a non-fiction series. The six-part series, known as Generation Ecstasy , will explore how a failed German medicine found its way into the Netherlands, going on to become both a cultural phenomenon and a major societal issue. Charting the international story of ecstasy through the recent social and cultural history of the Netherlands, it explores the vast popularity, power and destructive force of this beloved party drug. It will look at how the Netherlands, which has always been at the forefront of legalising drugs is on the brink of becoming a narco-state as the biggest global producer and …
‘Undone’ Producer Submarine Adapting Matt Haig’s Sci-Fi Novel ‘Echo Boy’, Starts Filming Second Season Of Amazon Animated Series In LA
EXCLUSIVE : Submarine , the company behind Amazon’s animated drama Undone , has found its next animation drama project – an adaptation of Matt Haig’s sci-fi novel Echo Boy . The company has optioned the book, which was published in 2014 by Corgi, will be developed as a hybrid of live action and animation. Submarine co-founder Femke Wolting told Deadline that it is talking to a few writers before taking the project out to pitch. Echo Boy is a murder mystery set in the future in a world of robots. It takes place in the year 2115, when the life of teenager Audrey Castle is shattered after her parents are murdered by a malfunctioning Echo — humanoid robots designed to assist with every aspect of daily life. However, when Audrey crosses paths with a thinking, feeling Echo prototype named Daniel, she is forced to grapple with her prejudices, fears, and the idea of what it means to be human. Tommy Pallotta, who co-developed the animation technique used in A …
ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ Bans “Live” Gunfire On Set In Wake Of Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting
Following Thursday’s deadly shooting on the set of Alec Baldwin ’s Rust , ABC ’s The Rookie has banned “live” guns on set going forward. Showrunner Alexi Hawley announced the new policy in a memo to staff Friday, first obtained by THR. Deadline has confirmed Hawley wrote the memo and the policy has been implemented by producer Entertainment One and ABC Signature. “As of today, it is now policy on The Rookie that all gunfire on set will be Air Soft guns with CG muzzle flashes added in post,” Hawley wrote. “There will be no more ‘live’ weapons on the show. The safety of our cast and crew is too important. Any risk is too much risk.” Airsoft guns are replica toy guns used in airsoft sports. The entertainment industry is reeling following the tragic shooting Thursday on the New Mexico set of indie Western Rust . Director of Photography Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza injured when a prop gun held by Baldwin discharged. Baldwin spoke out …
Kaun Banega Crorepati 13: Can You Answer This Rs 25 Lakh Question That Stumped 9-Year-Old Arunodai Sharma?
In Kaun Banega Crorepati 13 's Student's Week Special episode nine-year-old kid Arunodai Sharma, who had successfully answered four questions in the previous episode, continued the game last night. Although Arunodai guessed the Rs 25 lakh question's answer right, he didn't want to take risk and hence, quit the game. The kid managed to win Rs 12.5 lakh. The question that made him win Rs 12.5 lakh is: Who is credited with the invention of this type of pen? Options given were: Lewis Waterman, Alexander Fleming, John Loud, Richard Trevithick. He took expert's help to answer the same. The correct answer is: Lewis Waterman. The 13th and Rs 25 lakh question that stumped Arunodai is: Which of these is the name of the rocket engine that has been used in India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles and will also be a part of the Gaganyaan programme? Options given were: Vikas, Vishwas, Vijay and Varun. Since he didn't know the correct answer and didn't have any lifeline, …
Laura Jane Grace Calls ‘Day Old Coffee’ ‘The Worst Song I’ve Ever Written,’ Unveils Caffeinated Music Video Anyway
The average person might drink three cups of coffee a day, but Laura Jane Grace has them beat in the new video for “Day Old Coffee” from her latest EP At War With the Silverfish. “This is the worst song I’ve ever written but the video turned out really good,” Grace said. Directed by Chris Bauer and Richard Louis Ulrich, the video stretches just over 90 seconds. In that time, Grace racks up a floor full of mugs through the constant reheating of her day-old coffee while she waits for songwriting inspiration to strike. “Day Old Coffee” is a snapshot of everyday life for the rock singer. Elsewhere on At War With the Silverfish , the writing is far less domesticated. Grace even describes them as “songs of late night madness and loneliness, orphan songs that came wandering in looking to feed like insects.” It’s versatile work. “As a songwriter, I push myself to keep writing songs — even if it’s not for a specific purpose — as a way to stay grounded and stay feeling productive …