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Tubi has released the official trailer for Buzzkill, its new Tubi Original horror comedy premiering exclusively on the free streamer Friday, September 25, as part of this year’s Terror on Tubi lineup. The film centers on a group of sorority sisters trapped with a vengeful killer. Party girl Nora finds that the drunker she gets, […]
Mr. & Mrs. Smith has cast another of its titular characters. Yonatan Gebeyehu has boarded the upcoming second season of the Prime Video spy drama, which has been filming in Los Angeles County, Deadline reports. He joins fellow Mr. Smiths Mark Eydelshteyn and Matt Rogers, who were previously cast as characters using the alias. On […]
Malachi Kirby, the BAFTA-winning Small Axe star recently seen leading the Disney+ series A Thousand Blows, is starring in the revenge thriller Uncle, Variety reports. The film, from writer-director Joe Marcantonio (Kindred), recently wrapped production and also stars newcomer Freya Harvey. WestEnd Films, handling world sales, has released a first-look image featuring Kirby and Harvey […]
Paul Schrader, the Taxi Driver screenwriter and director of First Reformed, says his long-in-development crime noir Three Guns at Dawn will now be made entirely with AI-generated performers, after claiming no Black actors wanted to appear in the film because it lacked positive Black characters. Schrader wrote the script years ago, during the Hollywood writers’ […]
A series adaptation of romance author Kennedy Ryan’s Before I Let Go has received a series order from Peacock, Deadline reports, after being in development at the NBCUniversal streamer for more than three years. The series will now be written by From Scratch co-creators Attica Locke and Tembi Locke, who will serve as showrunners, alongside […]
Starz has released a teaser trailer and first-look images for the final season of P-Valley, confirming the hit strip club drama will conclude with its upcoming third season more than four years after Season 2 concluded on August 14, 2022. Season 3 premieres with two back-to-back episodes on December 4 and will consist of nine […]
FX has released the full trailer for American Horror Story: 13, offering the deepest look yet at the anthology’s 13th installment ahead of its Thursday, September 24 premiere, following the franchise’s returning ensemble previously confirmed in the season’s teaser. The new footage gives the first real glimpse into the season’s opening episodes. The premiere, “13,” […]
Adrienne Warren is set to star in the upcoming Off Broadway musical adaptation of Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel that spawned two classic Hollywood films. The musical features a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, an original score by EGOT winner John Legend, marking his first musical as a composer, and […]
Alexandra Metz (The Pitt) has joined the cast of Will Trent for Season 5, taking on the series regular role of Birdie Palmer. Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling Will Trent book series, the show follows Special Agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who was abandoned at birth […]
Mike Epps, one of Netflix’s most popular stand-ups and the star of its sitcom The Upshaws, is expanding his relationship with the streamer via My Father’s Son, a new comedy series he will star in and executive produce alongside Chris “Comedian CP” Powell, the rising Detroit stand-up whose life inspired the project, Deadline reports. The […]