K.T Simpson
Jon Hamm will star and executive produce in a new FOX animated comedy titled “Grimsburg”. In the 2023 premiere, Marvin Flute (Hamm) may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown or correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there’s one mystery he still can’t crack – his family. Now that he’s back in Grimsburg, a town where everyone has a secret or three, Flute will follow every lead he’s got to redeem himself with the ex-wife he never stopped loving, even if it means hanging out with the son he never bothered to get to know.
Benedict Cumberbatch will star in an adaptation of Alan Cowell’s book “The Terminal Spy”. The “Doctor Strange” star will play former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned with Polonium-210 in 2006, which Litvinenko accused the Kremlin of carrying out. [More…]
Lisette Alexis will star in a series based on Disney’s “National Treasure” film series. Told from the point of view of a young heroine (Alexis) — a DREAMer in search of answers about her family–who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about the past and save a lost Pan-American treasure, it will air on Disney+. [More…]
Forest Whitaker, Marion Cotillard, Tobey Maguire and Eiza Gonzalez are the latest to boarded the star-studded Scott Z. Burns series “Extrapolatations”. The Apple+ series tells stories of how the upcoming changes to the planet will affect love, faith, work and family on a personal and human scale. Told over a season of eight interconnected episodes, each story in the scripted series will track the worldwide battle for our mutual survival spanning the 21st century.[More…]
Vietnam-set war film “Two Wolves” has tapped “Lord of the Rings” alum Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landy Jones (“Twin Peaks : The Return”) to headline the story of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who, during the Wwr, turned against his fellow soldiers to halt the massacre of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai, and rescued survivors of the atrocities. [More…]
Action icon Dolph Lundgren will star in and direct “Wanted Man” for Millennium.Lundgren and Michael Worth penned the script. “..when a cartel shooting leaves several DEA agents dead, an ageing police officer must retrieve an eyewitness and escort her across the border. But when they learn that the attack was executed by American forces, he must decide who to trust.” [More…]
Melissa Leo (“The Fighter”) and Emma Roberts (“Scream Queens”) will star in “Returns”, the story of a young woman who returns to a fractured home 12 years after her mysterious disappearance, family secrets and old grudges haunt her joyous homecoming. [More…]
Michelle Williams and Jude Law will star in psychological horror tale “Firebrand” for director Karim Aïnouz. The pic, to be stumped at AFM next week, is et in the bloody Tudor court with a focus on Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, and the only one to avoid banishment or death. [More…]
Ana de Armas will star in “Ballerina”, a “John Wick” spin-off about a young female assassin who seeks revenge against the people who killed her family. “Live Free or Die Hard” director Len Wiseman is onboard to direct the pic, which will be offered to buyers at next week’s AFM. [More…]
Sigourney Weaver is headed downunder to star in the new series “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”. Based on Australian Holly Ringland’s international best-selling book, the Amazon Prime drama tells the compelling story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a mysterious fire, 9-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family’s past.
The trailer for “Deadlock”, a new action-thriller starring Bruce Willis and Patrick Muldoon, has been released ahead of the film’s December 3 release. Willis stars as Ron Whitlock, a wanted criminal leading a team of mercenaries on a mission of vengeance. Convinced that the government is working against them, the merciless group brutally seizes an energy plant and holds everyone inside hostage. With a nearby town on the brink of massive flooding and destruction, it’s up to one retired elite army ranger Mack Karr (Patrick Muldoon) to save thousands of innocent lives before it’s too late.
