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After a cameo at Wednesday night’s “La Casa de Papel: El Legado” global fan event streamed from Madrid, Becky G has dropped the full-length video of her reggaeton cover of “Bella Ciao,” an Italian anti-fascist protest song co-opted by the “Money Heist” gang as a resistance anthem of their own.

“I have always loved ‘La Casa de Papel’ (Money Heist) and the way this show connected with millions of people across the world,” said the singer in a statement released with the video. “‘Bella Ciao’ is an iconic song and marks an important moment in the series, so being asked to reimagine it and be a part of the ‘Casa de Papel’ world is truly an honor. From recording the song to shooting the video, I hope everyone enjoys this cover as much as I do!”

The video release comes just ahead of Netflix’s launch...

Game of Thrones vet Jacob Anderson is sinking his teeth into a bloody new role: The actor will star in AMC’s Interview With the Vampire series as the titular vamp Louis, our sister site Variety reports.

In the Anne Rice novels, Louis de Pointe du Lac relates the story of his life to a reporter, in particular how he was turned into a vampire and then mentored by Lestat de Lioncourt (played by Sam Reid in the series). Louis was portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 1994 feature film.

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We’ve seen quite a few thrillers about the rise of a lowly criminal through the ranks of the underworld. Most famously, this can be seen in Brian De Palma’s classic, “Scarface.” However, the new film, “Snakehead,” aims to put a different spin on the tried-and-true formula.

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As seen in the trailer for “Snakehead,” the film follows the story of a young Asian woman that comes to America in search of the classic American Dream, though she’s not sure exactly what that means.

Continue reading ‘Snakehead’ Trailer: Evan Jackson Leong’s TIFF-Bound Crime Thriller Arrives In October at The Playlist.

Irish gang drama Kin, premiering September 9 on AMC+, unveiled a deadly first trailer and key art for the series today.

The clip zeroes in on a devastating war that has begun by a murder in a family where loyalty is paramount.

Starring Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne (Herself), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), and Ciarán Hinds, Kin charts the lives of the Kinsellas, a small but tight-knit crime family embroiled in a war against a powerful drug kingpin, Eamon Cunningham (Hinds).

A boy is killed and his family embark on a gangland war with an international cartel – a war that is impossible to win.

It’s David and Goliath. Out-numbered, out-financed and out-gunned, the Kinsellas find themselves holed up in their Dublin stronghold while their businesses fail, and family members and associates are picked off.

But they have something the cartel does not: the unbreakable bonds of blood and family.

Kin...

In the world of television, certain genres are tried and true. Police and hospital procedurals, workplace dramas, and family comedies, for example, have all been iterated countless times since the medium’s inception. Since the early-aughts success of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” the family crime drama has become yet another of these staples, with shows like “Boardwalk Empire,” “Peaky Blinders,” “Narcos,” and “Animal Kingdom” trodding similar territory.

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Now, AMC+ is adding their own contribution to this growing tradition with “Kin,” a Dublin-set gangland saga centering around a fictional crime family called the Kinsellas.

Continue reading ‘Kin’ Trailer: Charlie Cox And Aidan Gillen Star In Dublin-Set Crime Drama From AMC+ at The Playlist.

AMC Networks has set fall premiere dates for new and returning series across its AMC, AMC+, Acorn TV, AllBlk, BBC America, Shudder, Sundance Now, SundanceTV and WeTV. Newly revealed dates include the new seasons of Doctor Who, Creepshow and new series such as Ragdoll, Kin and Ultra City Smiths.

AMC announced dates at Comic-Con last month its spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead (Season 7) and The Walking Dead: World Beyond (final Season 2).

Here are the AMC Networks premiere dates announced this morning (all times Et/Pt):

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My Life is Murder, Season 2

Monday, August 30

Starring award-winning actress Lucy Lawless, this fun, charming series returns for an eagerly-anticipated second season with all-new riveting mysteries, now set in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand (season one was based in Melbourne). My Life Is Murder brings retired detective Alexa Crowe (Lawless) back to her Kiwi roots, where she’s...

Exclusive: Producing and financing company Bron Studios has hired Juliana Janes as Vice President of Development for Television.

She will report to Bron Studios President of Television, David Davoli, and will work with him and EVP of Television, Samantha Thomas, to build and oversee the domestic development pipeline. Janes is based in Los Angeles.

“Juliana’s strong sense of story, great taste, and character as a human being embody all of the things we strive to find when hiring an executive,” said Davoli. “Her experience and reputation with talent, agencies and broadcasters will be crucial for us as we look to scale up the domestic television slate.”

Janes is a film and television executive with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. She joins Bron after leading television initiatives at Gulfstream Pictures, where she managed all aspects of development and production for Gulfstream’s overall television deal with Wbtv.

Paul Mescal emerged as one of the breakout stars of 2020 thanks to his performance in BBC and Hulu drama “Normal People.”

Ireland has seen a slew of such acting talent establish themselves in recent years, like Jessie Buckley with her star turn as the pregnant wife of a doomed Russian fireman in “Chernobyl” and Barry Keoghan, who won attention with lead roles in two 2017 films, “Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “Dunkirk.” Keoghan is now BAFTA-nominated for “Calm with Horses,” as is Niamh Algar, whose credits include “The Virtues” and “Raised by Wolves.” Elsewhere Domhnall Gleeson has made a name for himself as General Dux in recent “Star Wars” films, and also in “The Revenant” and “Ex Machina.”

Among the new generation of actors to watch are Fionn O’Shea, chosen as one of the Berlin Film Festival’s Shooting Stars of 2021. A “Normal People” alumnus, O’Shea will next be...

Exclusive: In just two short years, Davita Scarlett has emerged as one of Robert and Michelle King’s Mvp writer-producers, simultaneously serving as a co-executive producer on two of the duo’s series, The Good Fight for Paramount+ and Evil for CBS. Scarlett now is joining the talent roster of CBS Studios, which is behind The Good Fight and Evil, signing a multi-year overall deal to develop new projects for the studio targeting all platforms.

“Davita has been doing incredible work on two of our most cherished shows, so we leapt at the chance to formalize our relationship further and be a part of bringing her storytelling to life,” said Bryan Seabury, EVP Drama Development for CBS Studios.

Scarlett is a co-executive producer in her third season on The Good Fight as well a co-ep in her second season on Evil.

Most recently, she developed her pilot Kin, a multi-generational family drama,...

AMC+ has picked up a trio of foreign crime dramas to premiere in the U.S., AMC Networks announced Thursday.

“Kin,” starring Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne and Aidan Gillen; “Too Close,” starring “Chernobyl” alum Emily Watson; and “Cold Courage,” starring John Simm, will all roll out on the streaming service later this year. “Cold Courage” will be the first to debut on Thursday, March 11, with the other two to follow later this year.

“Cold Courage,” produced by Lionsgate, is an adaptation of the series of novels by Finnish journalist Pekka Hiltunen. The series centers on Mari, a fierce psychologist, and Lia, a shy graphic artist, who are drawn together through the “Studio” — a clandestine group of like-minded people operating off the grid, dedicated to righting the wrongs of the powerful, influential and corrupt. Simm, Caroline Goodall and Arsher Ali star in the series from writers David Joss Buckley and Brendan Foley.

AMC+ announced on Thursday that it has has acquired the rights to three crime drama series: Cold Courage, Kin and Too Close.

The first to premiere on the streaming service is Lionsgate’s Cold Courage, which will hit AMC+ on Thursday, March 11. Based on the award-winning and best-selling novels from Finnish journalist Pekka Hiltunen, Cold Courage follows two women as they collide during a series of murders in present-day London. Mari (Pihla Viitala), a fierce psychologist, and Lia (Sofia Pekkari), a shy graphic artist, are drawn together through the “Studio” – a clandestine group of like-minded people operating off the grid, dedicated to righting the wrongs of the powerful, influential and corrupt.

John Simm appears as populist politician Arthur Fried and joins fellow cast-members Caroline Goodall and Arsher Ali. Jakob Eklund, Peter Coonan and Matteo Simoni also star.

The series was adapted for the screen by David Joss Buckley and Brendan Foley.

Exclusive: Bron Studios’ TV Group said Thursday that it has hired Samantha Thomas as EVP and Emma Fleischer as creative producer, as the division continues to ramp up its slate. Thomas will oversee creative for Bron’s active slate of productions from development through post, while Fleischer will work directly on productions, overseeing on-the-ground efforts. Both previously worked in the world of Marvel TV.

Both will report to Bron Studios’ television group president David Davoli.

Fleischer is currently in Ireland on the set of Kin, Bron’s multi-part crime drama starring Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne and Aidan Gillen which is currently filming. Near a shooting start in London is the English-language remake of the French series Call My Agent! (Dix Pour Cent), which Bron is producing with UK-based Headline Pictures in association with Turbine Studio.

“I am fortunate to have Samantha and Emma, two incredible executives, working with me to...

Banijay France has entered a joint venture with seasoned French industry player Malika Abdellaoui to launch Marathon Studio, as part of its strategy to ramp up its output in the scripted landscape.

Abdellaoui was previously managing director of Newen Distribution, the production and distribution company owned by French’s biggest TV network TF1 Group. Prior to joining Newen, Abdellaoui was deputy director of TV sales at EuropaCorp, as well as senior acquisition manager at the Disney Channel for France and Emea. Abdellaoui will be the majority shareholder of Marathon Studio. Banijay France’s CEO François de Brugada pointed out that Marathon is a renowned brand name in France and “is one that Banijay has owned for some time.” Marathon was a subsidiary of Zodiak Media, which was bought by Banijay in 2016.

Banijay France also recently tapped French film and TV veteran Dominique Farrugia to take the leadership of Banijay’s production label EndemolShine Fiction,...

Dead By Daylight‘s next major update is shaping up to be one of its best yet.

As revealed earlier this week, the upcoming chapter in Behaviour Interactive’s asymmetrical fright fest is titled A Binding of Kin and brings with it two brand new playable characters. The first of these, Élodie Rakoto, is a survivor described by the developer as cunning, smart and haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her parents. Resolved to uncover the circumstances that led to their likely death, Rakoto has turned to the occult for answers, a path that has ultimately led her down a dangerous path indeed.

As for the headline killer joining Dead by Daylight‘s existing cast of unspeakable monstrosities, The Twins – Charlotte and Victor Deshayes – have formed familial bonds so strong that their lives have become symbiotic in nature, to the extent that both share a body. While considered a single...

Finnegan’s ’Nocebo’ received €750,000, the highest single award this quarter.

New projects from filmmakers Lee Cronin and Lorcan Finnegan are among several new productions being backed by Screen Ireland in its latest round of funding decisions.

Cronin (The Hole In The Ground) will direct the psychological thriller Box Of Bones from a screenplay he co-wrote with Stephen Shields, to be produced by Wild Atlantic Pictures (Black ’47).

Box Of Bones tells the story of Alice, a devoted young woman who battles to save her fiancé from his conviction that a supernatural entity is trying to possess his body. Wild Atlantic Pictures...

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ and Scandinavian streamer Viaplay have lined up a slew of talent including Game of Thrones and Project Blue Book star Aidan Gillen and Daredevil’s Charlie Cox to star in crime drama Kin.

The series charts the lives of a fictional Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and speaks to the enduring unbreakable bonds of blood and family.

It comes from international TV division of Joker producer Bron Studios and The Man In The High Castle producer Headline Pictures.

Gillen, who also stars in Peaky Blinders, and Cox, who also featured in Boardwalk Empire, are joined by Clare Dunne (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Maria Doyle Kennedy (Outlander), Emmett Scanlan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Sam Keeley (68 Whiskey) and Ciarán Hinds (The Terror).

Principal photography has begun in and around Dublin on the series, which is supported by Screen Ireland and the Broadcast Authority of Ireland.

Maisie Williams will be back on Stateside television imminently, doing what she does best: getting revenge on those who have wronged her.

HBO Max has acquired the Williams-fronted dark comedy Two Weeks to Live, which is slated to drop on Thursday, Nov. 5, TVLine has learned. (Across the pond, the British series aired on Sky earlier this year.)

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Described as a “comic tale of love and revenge,...

The inaugural edition of Magnetic Series, held during this year’s Riga Iff, provided an opportunity to discuss the opportunities and the future of non-English drama series. On 16 October, the Riga International Film Festival (15-25 October) hosted the inaugural edition of a brand-new international pitching and networking event called Magnetic Series, which included two panels and two conversations about how to produce and acquire independent, non-English-language drama series, as well as the challenges posed by the outbreak. The one-day event opened with speeches from the Director of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, Kaspars Rožkalns, the Director of the National Film Centre of Latvia, Dita Rietuma, and Tet’s Entertainment and Media Director, Inga Alika-Stroda. The first panel, moderated by Deadline’s journalist Tom Grater, was entitled “Future Perspective. How to Produce Independent Non-English Drama Series” and saw the participation of five speakers, namely Danish TV series Next of Kin’s co-creator.

Prepare to become friends with Christina Milian. As an actress, entrepreneur and mother, the "Am to Pm" singer has never been busier. But in the middle of quarantine, Christina wanted to find a creative way to connect with her fans. What came next was a new Kin series titled Really, Truly, Maybe. In the series trailer released to E! News exclusively, Christina promises a behind-the-scenes look into her life. And yes, there will be plenty of special guests including boyfriend Matt Pokora. "This time has been a blessing in disguise for us as a family," Christina exclusively shared with E! News. "We've been able to spend quality time together like never before. Being able to have...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Black Is King (Beyoncé)

Four years ago, Beyoncé dropped the film version of Lemonade, which brought together directors Kahlil Joseph, Jonas Åkerlund, Mark Romanek, Melina Matsoukas, and more to deliver a visual album that, like many of her works, had an immense cultural impact. She is now returning with Black Is King, a film in production for an entire year that reimagines the tale of The Lion King through the perspective of the Black experience. Now available on Disney+, we imagine it’ll be the most-watched film of the weekend.

Where to Stream: Disney+

Bull (Annie Silverstein)

There’s not much to do around Kristyl’s (Amber Havard) hard...

Exclusive: Tia Mowry, who stars in Netflix comedy Family Reunion, is developing her own family-style clip show after teaming with Kin and Jukin Media.

The actress is working up Tia Mowry’s Challenge Accepted with the two companies as a pilot.

It will feature weekly home challenges with audience members encouraged to participate by submitting their own challenge videos. It will showcase humorous moments that families have experienced during quarantine and Mowry’s own family members will make surprise cameos. Mowry and her executive Tiegen Kosiak are producing.

It comes after Mowry started working with digital media company Kin in 2017 on Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix, which has over 2.6M fans on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram TV. She also has a spin-off show with Facebook Watch called Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix Presents Comfort Kitchen, which debuted late last year.

Jukin Media produces user-generated entertainment and operates digital video properties including FailArmy,...

Kaitlyn Bristowe is going to be the third Bachelorette to compete on “Dancing with the Stars” and she’s already received some tips from the last one, Hannah Brown.

“She said, ‘Get rest while you can.’ I’m like, oh boy! She’s like 10 years younger than me, so… I pulled my back the other day trying to do a squat. I might be in trouble!” Bristowe said on her Kin web series “9 to Wine with Kaitlyn Bristowe” (watch above). “I’m going to take all the advice Hannah can give me. I actually know a few other people who’ve been on the show too. … I’m going to listen to her and I’m going to rest and take care of myself, and I’m not going to take on as much as I usually do in life because my passion has always been dancing.”

Brown, 25, won Season 28 last year,...

Blake Lively will star in “Dark Days at the Magna Carta,” a post-apocalyptic thriller that’s being developed at Netflix as a possible trilogy.

Michael Paisley will write the screenplay for “Dark Days at the Magna Carta,” set amid a catastrophic event and centering on a woman going to extreme lengths to survive and save her family. Paisley broke into the business by working in the CAA mailroom. He became a production assistant last year on Netflix’s “The Witcher.”

Lively is also producing the thriller through her B for Effort production banner, along with Kate Vorhoff. Shawn Levy will produce through his 21 Laps company with partner Dan Cohen.

Lively was most recently seen in the action-thriller “The Rhythm Section,” which was a major disappointment for Paramount earlier this year with $6 million in worldwide box office. Her notable film credits include “The Age of Adeline,” “The Shallows” and “A Simple Favor.

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has teamed with Warner Bros. Pictures to develop Daniel Casey’s supernatural thriller “The Pinkerton” as a feature film.

The movie will be the first original film project for Bad Robot under a five-year mega-deal the company signed with WarnerMedia in September.

The studio is keeping the logline for “The Pinkerton” under wraps. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was established in the United States by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. He claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Peter Dodd is overseeing for Warner Bros.

Casey is the screenwriter on Universal’s upcoming “Fast and Furious” sequel, “F9,” which opens May 22. He worked with Abrams the thriller “10 Cloverfield Lane.” His writing credits also include the Jack Reynor sci-fi thriller “Kin” and the Joe Carnahan-directed “Leo From Toledo” with Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo. He’s repped by Writ Large.

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Netflix has unleashed the trailer for its latest comedy series aimed at teens and nostalgic adults, and it’s called “I Am Not Okay With This.” Based on a 2017 graphic novel by Charles Forsman, the series comes from the director/executive producer of Netflix cult favorite “The End of the F***ing World,” Jonathan Entwistle, and producers on the streamer’s wildly popular “Stranger Things,” a vibe that “I Am Not Okay With This” is clearly grooving to. And as a kind of superhero origin story set among grade-schoolers coming into puberty, it’s got a John Hughes vibe, also. Check it out below.

Unfolding across seven 30-minute episodes that will drop on February 26, the series stars Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff (also from “It”), Sofia Bryant (“The Good Wife”), and Kathleen Rose Perkins, Aidan Wojtak-Hissong (“Falling Water”), and Richard Ellis (“Veronica Mars”). It’s the irreverent origin story that follows a teenage girl,...

This week’s one-two punch of the Golden Globes and SAG Awards nominations have thrown awards season prognosticators into a frenzy, but they actually help to provide some clarification for the streaming wars.

HBO received nine SAG Awards nominations Wednesday morning; meanwhile, Warner Bros. Television, also owned by AT&T, was among several studios that tied for second place with four SAG Award nominations. Given that these award-nominated properties will have a direct line of distribution to AT&T-owned streaming, their success bodes well for the 2020 launch of HBO Max.

HBO was among the studios behind well-received projects such as “Chernobyl,” “Barry,” which each received two SAG Award nominations; though critics and viewers were divided on the final season of “Game of Thrones,” the show still earned three nominations. HBO’s production successes were also elevated by “Big Little Lies” and “True Detective,” which each received one nomination. “Big Little Lies...

This week’s one-two punch of the Golden Globes and SAG Awards nominations have thrown awards season prognosticators into a frenzy, but they actually help to provide some clarification for the streaming wars.

HBO received nine SAG Awards nominations Wednesday morning; meanwhile, Warner Bros. Television, also owned by AT&T, was among several studios that tied for second place with four SAG Award nominations. Given that these award-nominated properties will have a direct line of distribution to AT&T-owned streaming, their success bodes well for the 2020 launch of HBO Max.

HBO was among the studios behind well-received projects such as “Chernobyl,” “Barry,” which each received two SAG Award nominations; though critics and viewers were divided on the final season of “Game of Thrones,” the show still earned three nominations. HBO’s production successes were also elevated by “Big Little Lies” and “True Detective,” which each received one nomination. “Big Little Lies...

It’s been a banner year for Hello Sunshine: The Reese Witherspoon-founded production company behind HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” scored six Golden Globe nominations Monday morning. Hello Sunshine and its two shows about strong women served as a bright spot in the historically male-dominated Golden Globes, which this year snubbed female filmmakers in a variety of critical film categories.

Hello Sunshine, which Witherspoon founded in 2016, has quickly made a name for itself in prestige television. The studio says it is focused on telling stories and creating content that celebrates women, and, so far, Hollywood has recognized its efforts; “Big Little Lies’” three Golden Globe nominations Monday come on top of the five the show received last year.

As for “The Morning Show,” the Apple TV+ tentpole scored three Golden Globe nominations Monday. The recognition could help Apple TV+ and Hello Sunshine maintain...

Jack Reynor has officially joined Tom Holland in the upcoming Russo Brothers film Cherry.The film based on the bestselling novel by the same name from author Nico Walker, a former Army medic who returned from Iraq with extreme un-diagnosed Ptsd and fell into opioid addiction and began robbing banks. Principal photography is set to start in Cleveland this fall.

From Anthony Russo and Joe Russo’s Agbo Films and Hideaway Entertainment, the film also stars Ciara Bravo (Red Band Society) Bill Skarsgard (It), Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), Jeff Wahlberg (Dora and the Lost City of Gold), Michael Gandolfini (The Deuce) and Kyle Harvey (The After Party).

The Russo Brothers will direct the script adapted by Jessica Goldberg (Hulu’s The Path) and co-written by Angela Otstot (The Shield). The Russos will also produce alongside Chris Castaldi and studio president, Mike Larocca under their Agbo Films banner, as well as CEO,...

Rodney Crowell could have spent a lifetime writing an album about Texas. In a way, he has. Though the Grammy-winning Americana storyteller left the Lone Star State for Music City in 1972, he’s returned to it time and again for inspiration in the decades since, from his 2001 LP The Houston Kid to his 2011 memoir Chinaberry Sidewalks. But Crowell owes his latest album, Texas, to a song called “Brown & Root, Brown & Root,” and a conversation it started between him and Steve Earle.

“I wrote that back in the Seventies and Steve learned it.

After last weekend saw the weekend box office top the same weekend in 2018 for the first time all year, this weekend looks as if it is going to be tight on that front. Disney and Marvel's Captain Marvel is certain to top the weekend yet again as it pushes over $260 million domestically in just ten days while Paramount debuts the animated feature Wonder Park, Lionsgate and CBS release Five Feet Apart and Focus releases the near-future thriller Captive State. Also looking at a top ten finish is Lionsgate's release of No Manches Frida 2, the sequel to the 2016 feature that debuted with over $3.6 million from just 362 locations. At the top for a second weekend in a row will be Disney's release of Marvel's Captain Marvel, which debuted with a strong $153.4 million last weekend and has been pacing relatively similarly to The Hunger Games since release. That, plus the -...

Peter Kang, who was formerly co-president of production with Lionsgate, is joining Sony’s Columbia Pictures as the studio’s Evp of production, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap.

He will start his new position at Columbia on March 18 as part of the studio led by Sanford Panitch. Kang joins Columbia’s other EVPs Ange Giannetti, Palak Patel and Jonathan Kadin. He’ll work on a Columbia slate that includes “Men in Black: International,” “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the reboot of “Charlie’s Angels” and the sequel to “Zombieland,” among others.

Kang joined Lionsgate in 2016 and oversaw a slate that included “The Spy Who Dumped Me,” “A Simple Favor” and “Kin.” He was co-president along with Bobby Cohen, who exited Lionsgate last fall.

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Prior to his work with Lionsgate,...

Finn Wolfhard and Carrie Coon are in talks to join the cast of Jason Reitman’s “Ghostbusters,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Much of the plot remains under wraps, but it follows a single mom and her family. Coon is in talks to play the mom, while Wolfhard would play her son.

Reitman is directing and also co-wrote the screenplay with Gil Kenan. Reitman’s father, Ivan Reitman (who also directed and produced the original film) will produce. The film is expected to go into production this summer and is slated for release summer 2020.

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It will be the second official sequel following 1988’s “Ghostbusters 2.” The film will have no connection to the female-led 2016 film directed by Paul Feig that starred Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Coon most recently starred in “Kin” and “Widows,...

Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine banner has inked a deal with Starz to develop “Kin,” Variety has learned.

The multi-generational family drama comes from “Queen Sugar” and “Constantine” writer Davita Scarlett, who developed the project with Chester Jones III. Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine film and TV head Lauren Neustadter are on board as executive producers alongside Scarlett.

“The opportunity to work in partnership with Davita Scarlett as well as Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine on this series is serendipitous,” Starz president of programming Carmi Zlotnik said in a statement. “Hello Sunshine puts women at the forefront of the stories they are telling, and that fits perfectly into Starz’s overall programming strategy to offer compelling content that appeals to female audiences.”

Witherspoon described Scarlett’s script as “utterly original, complex, and incredibly nuanced.”

“She deftly explores issues around identity and the secrets family members keep to protect themselves and one another.

When I interviewed the directors of the under-seen and underrated science fiction film Kin, they told me a story about Michael B. Jordan, who served as a producer on the project. “Michael’s the guy that goes up for and steals all the white roles; he prides himself on it, as he should,” director Josh Baker […]

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There’s no denying this one: Lionsgate’s film division had a dismal year at the box office, topping out at $388 million — the company’s worst domestic box office performance since 2011.

The brightest spots on Lionsgate’s slate were two modestly budgeted films with female leads: Paul Feig’s thriller “A Simple Favor,” which earned $53.5 million domestically, and Anna Faris’s remake of “Overboard,” released under the Pantelion Films banner to just $50.3 million.

The Sundance acquisition “Blindspotting” garnered some major critical acclaim, but little else. And the company took big losses on the Mila Kunis-Kate McKinnon comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me” and the sci-fi film “Kin.”

Lionsgate also missed the bullseye with one of its priciest bets: the $100 million-budgeted “Robin Hood,” which has managed just over $30 million so far at the domestic box office. The fantasy adventure starring Taron Egerton has also underperformed overseas, though it still awaits a release in China.

Michael B Jordan

The actor is in serious awards contention for his role in “Black Panther,” but also most recently starred in “Creed II,” “Fahrenheit 451” and “Kin.”

Josh Brolin

We all know Josh Brolin played the villain in both “Deadpool 2” And “Avengers: Infinity War” (which is a feat in itself), but he also starred in “Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado” and “The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter.”

Tessa Thompson

Thompson seems to have been in every movie this year, and that’s for good reason: She starred in “Annihilation” alongside Natalie Portman, as well as “Sorry to Bother You,” “Little Woods,” “Furlough” and “Creed II.”

Patrick Wilson

Wilson is now just making the rounds as King Orm in James Wan’s “Aquaman,” but the actor also starred in “Insidious: The Last Key,” “”The Commuter,” “The Nun,” “Nightmare Cinema” and he is currently filming the Untitled “Annabelle” film.

Michael B. Jordan is currently being embraced as the star of “Black Panther” and the “Creed” franchise, but he’s been in the business for 20 years — the last five of which have catapulted the 31-year-old actor to a previously unknown level of stardom. And now that he has it, he intends to exploit that power to the best of his abilities.

“It’s fucking insane, bro,” he said. “All my friends and family are like, ‘Mike, you gotta let your mind catch up to where you are.'”

Where is he? Apparently, everywhere. He’s at the end of an extraordinary year that will see him Oscar campaigning for “Black Panther” — the Marvel movie with a nearly all-black cast that has a real shot at multiple nominations, including Best Picture (and may even be the frontrunner). “Creed II,” which he executive produced, further minted Jordan as an A-list lead, and has already earned $100 million worldwide.

Lionsgate’s “Robin Hood” is turning out to be this year’s biggest blockbuster bomb, with a $14 million five-day opening against a budget of just under $100 million.

This year’s Thanksgiving weekend has provided the most lucrative box office ever. But even with all the record-breaking success, there have been some failures in 2018. Most of those bombs, like Paramount’s “Annihilation” and Fox’s “The Darkest Minds,” have had low-to-mid-level budgets that have reduced how much of a financial hit their studios have taken.

With a global launch of just $22.8 million, “Robin Hood” has had the worst start for any film this year with a budget of $90 million or higher. It’s another flop on top of several for Lionsgate, including the sci-fi film “Kin” ($9.9 million grossed against a $30 million budget), and the Kate McKinnon/Mila Kunis spy comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me” ($75 million/$40 million budget). So far this year,...

Happy Halloween, everyone! While I know it’s a bittersweet feeling that our favorite holiday is finally upon us, that doesn’t mean we have to bid the horror genre farewell any time soon. In fact, there are a ton of great genre films hitting VOD and a variety of digital platforms throughout the month of November, which should help with the sting of it no longer officially being the spooky season.

November’s digital releases kick off on Friday with Possum, Welcome to Mercy, and Monster Party, and then just a few days later, get ready for Death House, Kin, The Heretics, Beyond the Sky, and Blood, Sweat and Terrors on November 6th. One week later, the cyber thriller Searching hits various platforms (and is definitely worth a watch), and there are a few more titles making their digital debuts that day as well: Blue My Mind, Lasso, and Bloody Ballet.

In a new issue of the magazine, Zoë Kravitz has spoken openly with Rolling Stone about her experiences with sexual harassment in Hollywood. The actress revealed she was harassed by an unnamed director early on in her career when she was around 20 years old. Kravitz decided not to name the director, but she did get into some of the specifics of his inappropriate behavior.

“I definitely worked with a director who made me very uncomfortable,” Kravitz said. “I was young — maybe 19 or 20 — and we were on location, staying at the same hotel. And it was full-on: ‘Can I come inside your room?’ Just totally inappropriate. And then he’d do things like come to the makeup trailer and touch my hair. Or say, ‘Let me see your costume — turn around?’ It’s just never Ok for someone to do that. Especially when they’re in a position of power.”

Kravitz...

Michael B. Jordan is more than just an actor, and his rapidly expanding Hollywood portfolio speaks to a performer eager to leave his mark on all sorts of projects. It doesn’t hurt that he’s been inspired by a few of the entertainment industry’s most successful and formidable talents, including LeBron James and Jay-Z.

In the new cover story for Vanity Fair, Jordan’s big ambitions are top of mind, including his plan to be, in the words of journalist Joe Hagan, nothing less than “a one-man movie studio whose every move has a dollar sign attached to it and for whom nothing is left to chance.” Jordan is well on his way to that, too, bolstered by “multi-million-dollar endorsement deals, his own production company, and a new marketing-and-consulting start-up in the works.”

He’s currently building out his production company as “an engine for movies and TV...

Black Panther star Winston Duke has joined Mark Wahlberg in the Netflix movie Wonderland, an adaptation from Robert B. Parker's detective novel series, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The casting follows Duke, whose scene-stealing work in Black Panther earned him breakout status, closing a deal to also star in Heroine, an action thriller from Paramount Players. Daniel Casey, who penned the recent grounded sci-fi movie Kin, is set to direct the project, which he also wrote.

The story for Wonderland comes from the New York Times best-selling Spenser book series and follows a man fresh out of prison who is sucked back into Boston’s ...

Black Panther star Winston Duke has joined Mark Wahlberg in the Netflix movie Wonderland, an adaptation from Robert B. Parker's detective novel series, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The casting follows Duke, whose scene-stealing work in Black Panther earned him breakout status, closing a deal to also star in Heroine, an action thriller from Paramount Players. Daniel Casey, who penned the recent grounded sci-fi movie Kin, is set to direct the project, which he also wrote.

The story for Wonderland comes from the New York Times best-selling Spenser book series and follows a man fresh out of prison who is sucked back into Boston’s ...

Paramount Players has signed “Black Panther” star Winston Duke to board its action-thriller “Heroine.”

Dan Casey will direct “Heroine” from his own script about a mother who witnesses a kidnapping by a white nationalist gang. Duke will portray her vigilante neighbor.

“Heroine” is being produced by Matt Kaplan through his Ace Entertainment production company, which has a first-look deal with Paramount Players. A spring shoot for “Heroine” is being planned.

Duke portrayed the villainous M’Baku in Marvel’s “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” Duke is also attached to star in Jordan Peele’s horror film “Us” along with Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker.

Duke is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. Prior to scoring the M’Baku role, he appeared on “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Person of Interest,” “Major Crimes,” and “Modern Family.” Casey wrote the script for Lionsgate’s recent sci-fi thriller “Kin,...

Winston Duke, whose scene-stealing work in Black Panther earned him breakout status, has closed a deal to star in Heroine, an action thriller from Paramount Players.

Daniel Casey, who penned the recent grounded sci-fi movie Kin, is set to direct the project, which he also wrote.

The story focuses on a mother and domestic abuse survivor who moves into a new neighborhood for a clean start, only to fall into new danger when she witnesses a kidnapping by an Aryan gang.

Duke will play her neighbor, a tragic figure who turns out to be much more than she expected.

Ace Entertainment’s Matt ...

Winston Duke, whose scene-stealing work in Black Panther earned him breakout status, has closed a deal to star in Heroine, an action thriller from Paramount Players.

Daniel Casey, who penned the recent grounded sci-fi movie Kin, is set to direct the project, which he also wrote.

The story focuses on a mother and domestic abuse survivor who moves into a new neighborhood for a clean start, only to fall into new danger when she witnesses a kidnapping by an Aryan gang.

Duke will play her neighbor, a tragic figure who turns out to be much more than she expected.

Ace Entertainment’s Matt ...

Last year’s Labor Day box office was a bad one for movie theaters, posting the lowest total for the four-day weekend since the turn of the century. But thanks in good part to Warner Bros.’ “Crazy Rich Asians,” this Labor Day weekend is seeing a substantial rebound.

After a $22 million three-day total, the Jon M. Chu romantic comedy is expected to push its weekend numbers to $28.5 million today, while the combined grosses for all films this weekend is estimated to be at least $121 million. That’s a 24 percent increase over last year’s $97.8 million.

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That also means that this summer’s total box office gross should close out at $4.37 billion, up 16 percent from last year’s 11-year low of $3.77 billion. That doesn’t include the opening week of “Avengers: Infinity War,” which...

[Editor’s note: This post contains major spoilers for “Kin.”]

When Jonathan and Josh Baker’s feature-length debut, the imaginative sci-fi thriller “Kin,” unspools its final ten minutes, it comes packed with some genuine surprises. It’s not just that the film’s finale adds a new dimension to the story that has preceded it or that it opens up the possibility for a film franchise, but it’s who makes both of those things possible. It’s all thanks to a surprise cameo from one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, a star who doesn’t just appear in the film, but also executive produced it, totally in secret.

“This is a secret we’re trying to keep until opening weekend, and it’s already been real tough to do it,” Jonathan Baker told IndieWire in a recent interview.

Even fans of the film’s initial inspiration — the 2014 short film “Bag Man,” which the brothers wrote and directed — will likely be surprised by what happens.

It was a big weekend for milestones as Crazy Rich Asians continued its stellar run, finishing atop the weekend box office for the third weekend in a row and topping $110 million domestically.

Meanwhile, Sony's Searching delivered a strong performance in expanded release while Paramount's Mission: Impossible - Fallout made a big splash in China and Disney and Pixar's Incredibles 2 became only the ninth film ever to top $600 million at the domestic box office.

At the top of the domestic weekend box office, WB's Crazy Rich Asians delivered a three-day gross totaling an estimated $22.2 million, which marks just a 10% drop compared to last weekend as the film's domestic gross now totals over $110 million.

The film is expected to generate around $28 million for the four-day holiday for a domestic gross topping $116 million. The film's overseas cume is now just shy of $20 million after bringing in an estimated $10.4 million from 24 markets,...