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EXCLUSIVE : Mark Ivanir , the Ukrainian-Israeli actor who has starred in The Good Shepherd and Netflix series Away , has joined the cast of Season 4 of German crime drama Babylon Berlin . Deadline understands that he will recur in the new season, which is produced by Tom Tykwer’s X Filme Creative Pool in co-production with ARD Degeto, WDR, Sky, and Beta Film. It airs on Sky in Germany and the UK, while Netflix streams the series in the U.S. Centering on German author Volker Kutscher’s character, police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch), the lavish German-language series about 1920s and ’30s Berlin has scored record ratings in Germany and has sold into more than 90 markets by Beta Film. Ivanir has recurred on shows including Homeland , Transparent, and The New Pope , as well as appearing in films including The Terminal and Get Smart . He is repped by A3 Artists Agency and Thurline. … [Read more...] about ‘The Good Shepherd’ & ‘Away’ Actor Mark Ivanir Joins The Cast Of Sky/Netflix German Series ‘Babylon Berlin’

EXCLUSIVE : George Clooney and Julia Roberts have committed to a re-team in Ticket To Paradise , a romantic comedy that Ol Parker will direct for Universal Pictures and Working Title. The film will shoot later this year. Parker directed for Universal Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , and wrote the script with Daniel Pipski. Clooney and Roberts will play a divorced couple that teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title will produce alongside Sarah Harvey and Deborah Balderstone. Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov will produce alongside Roberts and her Red Om Films’ teammates Lisa Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill. This deal is important to those wondering when film studios are going to stop selling pricey star packages to streamers because of the uncertainty of the theatrical marketplace, and once again step up to considerable … [Read more...] about George Clooney & Julia Roberts Re-Team In ‘Ticket To Paradise;’ Ol Parker Directs For Universal, Working Title

EXCLUSIVE : Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman and Oscar-nominee Florence Pugh are set to star in A Good Person , written and to be directed by Golden Globe-nominee Zach Braff . The film will follow Allison (Pugh), whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. In the following years, it is the unlikely relationship she forms with her would-be father-in-law (Freeman) that helps her live a life worth living. CAA Media Finance is arranging financing and will represent domestic rights. Rocket Science is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming virtual Berlin market. The film reunites Braff with screen icon Freeman, who starred in the actor-filmmaker’s last directorial outing, Going In Style . The Warner Bros movie remake took $85M at the global box office in 2017. Braff most recently directed on Apple hit Ted Lasso . Se7en and Million Dollar Baby star Freeman is in post on action-comedy The … [Read more...] about Florence Pugh & Morgan Freeman To Star In Zach Braff-Directed ‘A Good Person’, Rocket Science & CAA Launch Sales — EFM

A new Jeepers Creepers movie is on the way. Screen Media has acquired the rights to Jeepers Creepers: Reborn , which will serve as the fourth entry in the creature feature franchise. What's more, this is said to be the first entry in a new planned trilogy of movies involving The Creeper. According to a new report, Jeepers Creepers: Reborn will be distributed worldwide by Screen Media. No firm release date has been set but a fall 2021 release is currently anticipated. The movie has already been filmed, with production taking place in December and January. Production took place in Louisiana. A synopsis has also been released, which reads as follows. RELATED: Jeepers Creepers 4 Script Has Already Been Written "The film unfolds as the Horror Hound festival holds its first ever event in Louisiana, where it attracts hundreds of geeks, freaks and die-hard horror fans from far and wide. Among them is fanboy Chase and his girlfriend Laine, who is forced to come along for the ride. … [Read more...] about Jeepers Creepers: Reborn Is Coming in Fall 2021 to Kick Off a New Trilogy

Punk music has always been about individuality. Although skinheads and fascists have periodically tried to co-opt and homogenize the genre over its 50-year history, they have always failed, because the true spirit of punk begins with an original thought, a unique life story, and the poetic philosophies that truth is beauty and that the pomp and artifice of pop music are a distraction from expressing something deeper. At its core, punk is the people’s rock & roll. Perhaps that’s one reason why the genre appeals more broadly than some other styles of rock to people from every background, and why there have been strong black voices in the genre almost from the beginning, whether it was drummer D.H. Peligro railing against Reagan with the Dead Kennedys or guitarist Rocky George sending up blind capitalism on Suicidal Tendencies’ “Join the Army.” Anyone can play punk, and everyone is welcome, so why not just do it? Here is a decades-spanning selection of 15 bold songs by vital black … [Read more...] about Music at Home: 15 Great Punk Songs by Black Artists