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With his Emmy-nominated series “Glow” wrapping up its second season, Marc Maron has found the project to keep him busy during the show’s hiatus.

Sources tell Variety that Maron is in talks to join Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips’ untitled Joker origin movie.

Besides Phoenix, Maron will be joining previously announced cast members Robert De Niro and Frances Conroy.

According to sources, Maron would be portraying an agent on Robert De Niro’s talk show who plays a part in booking Phoenix’s character, and eventually causing him to go mad and become the Clown Prince of Crime.

Phillips is on board to co-write and direct the Warner Bros. movie, which is set to bow on Oct. 4, 2019.

Insiders stress that Jared Leto, who starred as the Joker in “Suicide Squad,” is still on board to portray the character in the DC Universe and that this Phoenix pic has no

The “Less Than Zero” is alive at Hulu and found its leading man.

The streaming service has ordered a pilot for the TV reboot and cast “The Walking Dead” alum Austin Abrams in the role originally played by Andrew McCarthy in the 1987 feature film, a person with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.

In April, TheWrap reported Hulu had a drama in the early stages of development based on Bret Easton Ellis’ 1985 novel and the subsequent 1987 flick of the same name, starring McCarthy, Robert Downey Jr., Jami Gertz and James Spader.

“Lost” writer and producer Craig Wright is set to pen the script and executive produce the adaptation alongside author Ellis.

More to come…

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Diane Guerrero has signed on to the upcoming “Doom Patrol” series at the DC streaming service, DC Universe.

The live-action series is described as a reimagining of one of DC’s strangest group of outcasts: Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman and Crazy Jane. Led by the mysterious Dr. Niles Caulder, they’re called into action by the ultimate hero for the digital age, Cyborg. Banding together these rejects find themselves on a mission that will take them to the weirdest and most unexpected corners of the DC universe.

Guerrero will play Crazy Jane, an unlikely hero suffering from the world’s

Jack Bauer’s story may not be over at Fox just yet, as the network has a “24” prequel series in the works, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.

Longtime “24” showrunner Howard Gordon and the co-creators of the original series, Joel Surnow and Bob Cochran, are working on an idea for a prequel, which would trace the origin story of Jack Bauer, originally played by Kiefer Sutherland.

The trio are writing the story together, but there is currently no word on how soon the project would come to fruition.

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20th Century Fox had no comment when reached by TheWrap.

More to come…

Read original story ’24’ Prequel: Jack Bauer Origin Story in Development at Fox At TheWrap

Priyanka Chopra is in talks to join Universal’s adaptation of “Cowboy Ninja Viking” starring Chris Pratt.

The role was one of the more highly coveted in town and Chopra beat out a slew of talent after a chemistry test with Pratt went extremely well.

The film is based on the Image Comics graphic novel by A.J. Lieberman and illustrator Riley Rossmo. It was adapted by Dan Mazeau (“Wrath of the Titans”) and Ryan Engle (“The Commuter”). Craig Mazin wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay with an original version by “Deadpool” writers Paul Wernick and Everett David Reese.

The novel revolves around an assassin who manifests the toughest skills of three different personas: a cowboy, a ninja, and a viking.

Entertainment 360 — the production arm of Management 360 — Mark Gordon via eOne, Michael De Luca for Michael De Luca Productions, and Pratt will produce. VP of production Sara Scott will

Florence Pugh is set to star in “Herditary” director Ari Aster’s next film, which A24 is producing.

Pugh broke the news while promoting her new BBC drama “Little Drummer Girl” at this week’s Television Critics Association press tour. Production is currently underway in Budapest.

Following the success of “Hereditary,” which recently became A24’s highest-grossing movie with $70 million worldwide, the studio was quick to sign on to finance and distribute Aster’s next film.

Plot details are being kept under wraps. Aster also penned the script. Lars Knudsen is producing.

Pugh stars in BBC/AMC’s limited series “Little Drummer Girl” for director Park Chan-Wook. The series, based on a John Le Carré novel and also starring Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon, premieres in October for eight episodes.

Pugh is also the female lead in Netflix drama “Outlaw King,” which will debut on Nov. 9, directed by David Mackenzie.

After stealing scenes in both The Greatest Showman and Spider-Man: Homecoming, Zendaya's latest project is a lead role in HBO's new series Euphoria. According to Variety, the show is an adaptation of an Israeli series. After ordering the pilot in March, HBO officially picked up the series in July, adding the creators of the Israeli series as executive producers and tapping The Wizard of Lies' Sam Levinson to write all 10 episodes.

The show doesn't have a release date yet, but we do have enough information to know that it's definitely going to be interesting. Keep reading for all the juicy details about the cast, plot, and more, and stay tuned for further updates!

Freda Black, the former assistant district attorney who was featured in the documentary series “The Staircase,” has died at the age of 57.

According to the News & Observer, Black was found dead in her North Carolina home over the weekend. No cause of death has been made public, though law enforcement told the paper that her death “does not appear to be suspicious at this point.”

A Durham County assistant district attorney from the early 1990s until 2005, Black was part of the team that helped convict Michael Peterson for murder following the 2001 death of his wife.

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The Peterson murder trial was publicized by the 2004 French docu-series by filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. It was most recently repurposed as a 13-episode series by Netflix last month.

Black ran for Durham County district attorney in 2006 and 2008, but was never elected.

Exclusive: Paramount Players has set Erin Cressida Wilson to script a new version of Indecent Proposal, the 1993 Adrian Lyne-directed film about the consequences of a financially strapped couple young couple that succumbs to a $1 million offer from a rich man to sleep with the wife. Robert Redford, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson starred in the hit. The original grossed $266 million worldwide. Cressida Wilson scripted Secretary and The Girl on the Train. It will be…

Lior Raz, co-creator and star of the Israeli TV political thriller Fauda, is joining Ryan Reynolds in Six Underground, the action pic that Michael Bay is directing.

Netflix and Skydance are behind the project, which is scheduled to begin shooting next month in locales such as Italy and the United Arab Emirates.

The project, which has been described as being in the tone of Deadpool meets Mission: Impossible, centers on a group of six men and women who team up to fight evildoers. All have numerical code-names, with Reynolds’ character known as "One.” The script is from Rhett Reese and Paul ...

Peter Segal, the director of the Get Smart movie and films such as Fifty First Dates, has been tapped to helm My Spy, STXfilms’ action-comedy starring Dave Bautista.

The move keeps Segal in the fold of STXfilms, a division of Robert Simonds’ global media company STX Entertainment, as the filmmaker is already prepping Second Act, a comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, for a Nov. 21 release.

My Spy will tell the story of a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.

Jon and Erich Hoeber wrote the script....

Three-time Emmy winner Beau Bridges is set to co-star opposite Rory Scovel in Robbie, Comedy Central’s half-hour scripted comedy pilot. Written by Scovel and Anthony King, Robbie centers around a delusional small town Christian youth league basketball coach (Scovel) living in the shadow of his father until he realizes he has his son of his own that can lead him to greatness. Beau will play Robbie's father, Robbie Walton Sr., known in the community as "Coach." He is…

Elvis Presley stayed on the road until the end of his life, playing his final show at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana less than two months before his death on August 16th, 1977. But with a handful of exceptions, the gigs he played in his last years were sad, sloppy affairs where a bloated, drugged Presley struggled to remember his lyrics and get through the night without collapsing. There were brief moments of brilliance, like his performances of “Unchained Melody” near the end, but most everything from the final

As Facebook continues to face scrutiny for its role in spreading misinformation, the company announced Tuesday that it has detected a coordinated campaign to influence November’s midterm elections. Facebook divulged the findings to Congress and the White House this week, and the company says it has removed 32 pages from its network. “We’re still in the very early stages of our investigation and don’t have all the facts — including who may be behind this,” Facebook said in a blog post announcing the findings. “But we are sharing what

Two months after Weezer gave into fan demand by covering “Africa” (getting them a single in the Hot 100 for the first time in nine years), Toto returned the favor by tackling their 2001 hit “Hash Pipe” at the launch of their summer tour in Vancouver.

“We figured since we were smoking hash since before they were born, that’s the one we should do,” guitarist Steve Lukather told the crowd. “This is our tribute to Weezer, god bless ’em.”

It’s just the latest moment in Toto’s improbable renaissance over the past couple of years,

Michael Weber’s The Match Factory is on board as sales agent of Locarno Film Festival International Competition title “Wintermärchen” (A Winter’s Tale), the company announced Tuesday. The film is German writer-director Jan Bonny’s follow-up to black comedy “Counterparts,” which played in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.

“Wintermärchen” explores how social problems and emotional disorientation can result in violent right-wing terrorism. The film centers on a right-wing terror cell, whose members dream of nationwide attention. “Tommy and Becky are tired and disillusioned until Maik joins them. Overwhelmed by a complex relationship of love, hate and friendship their path of destruction leads to a series of violent crimes,” according to a statement.

The German-language film, which world premieres Aug. 10, stars Thomas Schubert, Ricarda Seifried and Jean-Luc Bubert. It was written by Jan Eichberg and Bonny, and produced by Bettina Brokemper at Heimatfilm, whose other titles include

HBO has ordered a series adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “The Time Traveler’s Wife” from Steven Moffat.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Steven Moffat, Hartswood and Wbtv on The Time Traveler’s Wife,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys. “Steven’s passion is evident in every project he’s written and we are certain that his love and respect for this mesmerizing and textured novel will make it a quintessential HBO series.”

Originally adapted into a 2009 film starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” tells the story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem.

The La Film Festival has placed a heavy emphasis on diversity in its competition film slate, with 42% of the films directed by women and 39% helmed by people of color.

The 24th edition of the festival is also positioning itself as an event for unveiling lesser-known talent. It will take place Sept. 20-28 as it moves from its traditional June slot to the fall awards season.

The Los Angeles event follow the Venice International Film Festival, which begins in late August; the Telluride Film Festival, which runs over Labor Day; and the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, which starts on Sept. 6. The festival will end just as the New York Film Festival begins.

“Our mission of finding fresh new voices from different geographical and cultural axes remains true,” said L Film Festival director Jennifer Cochis. “These storytellers are united by their ability to transport, impact and inspire audiences with the power of their craft.

For Topher Grace, playing the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” was a mentally taxing role, but, he said, he had an interesting hobby to help him detox: film editing.

In an interview with IndieWire, Grace said that spending several months playing the Kkk’s David Duke left him feeling depressed — to the point that not even the birth of his daughter during production could lift his spirits. “I was probably a terrible husband at the time,” he lamented. “It was so disturbing to go home and turn on the news to see how his ideology was affecting us at the moment.”

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Once filming wrapped, Grace took a break with an undertaking: turning Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” trilogy into a single, two-hour film. The decision by Warner Bros. and New Line

CBS CEO Les Moonves, who was the subject late last week of a report that he’d been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, won’t face charges stemming from the accusations of a woman who said that Moonves sexually abused her.

According to paperwork from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, prosecutors declined to press charges due to the statute of limitations.

The woman accused Moonves of sexually abusing her on three occasions in the 1980s.

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Ronan Farrow, who authored the New Yorker report in which six women accused Moonves of misconduct, tweeted Tuesday that the accuser involved is not one of those from his report.

“Note that these appear to stem from allegations not included in our story, from a different, additional woman,” Farrow tweeted. “(Prosecutors concluded