The Toronto Film Festival said Wednesday that Netflix ’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery , Rian Johnson ’s follow-up to his hit 2019 murder mystery pic, will world premiere at this year’s edition of the festival, which runs September 8-18. No firm date has been set for the premiere. Knives Out , which grossed $311.6 million worldwide when it bowed in November 2019, also had its world premiere that year at TIFF. Daniel Craig returns to the film franchise as gentleman detective Benoit Blanc, who this time travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. The A-list cast this time includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick and Madelyn Cline along with Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista. Johnson directed and wrote the pic and produces with his producing partner Ram Bergman. Netflix has been slowly rolling out info for its franchise since it landed it a blockbuster deal … [Read more...] about Rian Johnson’s ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ To World Premiere At Toronto Film Festival
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Kate Winslet Lines Up Next Limited Series For HBO; Adaptation of Hernan Diaz’s Bestseller ‘Trust’
Fans of Mare of Easttown may not have to wait too much longer for another HBO limited series starring Kate Winslet : The two-time Emmy winner is set to star in and produce an adaptation of Hernan Diaz’s 2022 novel Trust . HBO acquired the recent bestseller from Riverhead Books in a competitive situation. The book is about a wealthy financier who is dissatisfied by a novel based on his life and his wife’s portrayal, so he asks a secretary to ghostwrite his memoir and set the record straight. The secretary, however, grows uncomfortably aware that he is rewriting history—and his wife’s place in it. Told in four different voices and genres, Trust is a narrative puzzle that subverts the notion of truth and who gets to define it. Diaz will also executive produce the project. Winslet, who won her second Emmy starring in HBO’s Mare of Easttown , is about to start filming Lee , the true story of fashion-photographer-turned-war-correspondent Lee Miller. She is … [Read more...] about Kate Winslet Lines Up Next Limited Series For HBO; Adaptation of Hernan Diaz’s Bestseller ‘Trust’
Aaron Sorkin ‘Camelot’ Postpones Broadway Opening Until Spring 2023
The Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot with a new book by Aaron Sorkin will arrive on Broadway next spring rather than this fall, producers announced today. Camelot , which will reteam Sorkin (who is writing the book based on the original Alan Jay Lerner book) with his T o Kill A Mockingbird director Bartlett Sher, will now begin previews at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater on Thursday, March 9, 2023, with an official opening on Thursday, April 13, 2023. The production previously had been set to begin performances this November. No reason was given for the rescheduling. Based on The Once and Future King by T.H. White, Camelot , Lerner and Loewe’s 1960 follow up to their My Fair Lady , is, as described by the production, “a story about the quest for democracy, striving for justice, and the tragic struggle between passion and aspiration, between lovers and kingdoms.” This musical features such characters as King … [Read more...] about Aaron Sorkin ‘Camelot’ Postpones Broadway Opening Until Spring 2023
‘La Unidad’ Co-Creators Dani De La Torre And Beto Marini Eyeing Spinoff And Crafting Female-Led Thriller For Atresmedia Cine
EXCLUSIVE: The creators of Movistar+’s La Unidad ( The Unit ) are considering a spinoff of the Spanish counter-terrorism drama series, and are working on a female-led thriller for Atresmedia Cine. Details on Dani de la Torre and Beto Marini’s latest projects are scarce, but Deadline understands development is underway on the feature, with the spinoff at an early stage of gestation — dependent on the outcome of the upcoming third season. La Unidad , from Buendia Estudios, is set to shoot its third season in Galicia, continuing to focus on a Spanish anti-terrorism unit as attempts to stop attacks on Spain. The series stars the likes of Nathalie Poza, Michel Noher and Marian Alvarez. Following the neutralization of Season 2’s big threat, part of the team led by Carla Torres is in Afghanistan. Their objective is to meet with an infiltrator who has information about a possible attack in Spain, but the visit coincides with the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, … [Read more...] about ‘La Unidad’ Co-Creators Dani De La Torre And Beto Marini Eyeing Spinoff And Crafting Female-Led Thriller For Atresmedia Cine
Hulu Musical Series ‘Up Here’ Casts Kate Finneran, John Hodgman, Brian Stokes Mitchell & More
EXCLUSIVE: The Hulu comedy Up Here starring Mae Whitman ( Good Girls ) and Carlos Valdes ( Gaslit ) has completed casting on several of the leading and recurring roles. The musical romantic comedy from 20th Television and Old 320 Sycamore Prods. is set in New York City in 1999 and follows an ordinary couple (Whitman as Lindsay and Valdes as Miguel) as they fall in love while discovering the single greatest obstacle to finding happiness together might just be themselves. Original songs for the series are from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Series regulars include Kate Finneran ( The Gilded Age ) as Joan, the unfailingly proper, appearance-fixated mother of Lindsay; John Hodgman ( Blindspot ) as Tom, Lindsay’s danger-obsessed father and chief coroner of Chittenden County, Va.; Andréa Burns ( West Side Story ) as Rosie, Miguel’s mother; Sophia Hammons ( Under Wraps ) as Celeste, Lindsay’s rule-following, risk averse best friend from seventh grade; and … [Read more...] about Hulu Musical Series ‘Up Here’ Casts Kate Finneran, John Hodgman, Brian Stokes Mitchell & More