K.T Simpson
Ahead of the season 1 finale this week, Apple TV+ has announced an early season two renewal of “The Afterparty,” the broadly acclaimed and hit murder-mystery comedy series from Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award winners Chris Miller and Phil Lord, and TriStar TV and Sony Pictures Television. The news arrives ahead of the eagerly anticipated season one finale, which will premiere globally this Friday, March 4, on Apple TV+.
Musician Jack Harlow will play the Woody Harrelson role in a remake of “White Men Can’t Jump”. Calmatic, the upcoming “House Party” director, helms from a script by Kenya Barris and Doug Hall. [More…]
Netflix is making a feature film version of Chris Leslie-Hynan’s novel “Ride Around Shinin”. Rodney Barnes will produce with Jonah Hill producing. Book tells the story of a young white chauffeur and his wealthy Black employer, a professional basketball player; a discomfiting portrait of envy and obsession. [More…]
Matt Reeves says there’s definitely a possibility that characters from “The Batman” will appear in the Colin Farrell-starring HBO Max series that features his Penguin character. Reeves says the reason he decided to tackle “The Penguin” series was because “There’s a great Penguin story that’s an American Dream-Scarface story of a guy who is underestimated; how nobody thinks he’s capable of doing anything, who believes in himself with a visceral violence.” [More…]
Bill Burr is writing, directing and starring alongside Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine in Miramax comedy “Old Dads.” [More…]
Doug Ellin’s “Entourage” follow-up will be titled “Ramble On”. In it, Charlie Sheen, Kevin Connolly and Kevin McConnolly will play themselves in a drama “about Hollywood veterans looking to reinvent their voices alongside up and comers looking to establish their own.” Also onboard are Martin Sheen, Kimiko Glenn, Bre-Z, John C. McGinley, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Zulay Henao, Mark Cuban, James Hiroyuki Liao, Harvey Guillén, Ana Ortiz, Sara Sanderson, Mikaela Hoover and Adam Waheed with a guest appearance by Entourage alum Emmanuelle Chriqui. [More…]
Robert Downey Jr and Shane Black’s “Parker” film adaptation has added “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” producer Joel Silver to its creative team. The plan is to do a series of films and TV projects based on the character, introduced in the ’60s in Donald E.Westlake’s novels, to be portrayed by Downey. The first project emerging from the deal will be the film “Play Dirty”, in which we’re introduced to a “professional thief who approaches his job with a straightforward, no-nonsense work ethic. He’s a craftsman. He’s brutal, brilliant. He’s also deadly. He’s whatever it takes to get the money and get away clean.” [More…]
Australian soap “Neighbours”, which introduced the world to budding stars Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Jason Donovan, Margot Robbie, Russell Crowe, and Peter O’Brien has been axed after Network 10 failed to find another co-financer. The series will wrap production in June with the last episodes set to air in August. Ian Smith and O’Brien are set to make appearances in the last few episodes. [More…]
Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff will join Dave Bautista and Rupert Grint in M. Night Shyamalan’s next, “Knock at the Cabin”. [More…]
Kal Penn (“Harold & Kumar”) will star alongside Tim Allen in Disney+’s upcoming “The Santa Clause” series. “In the sequel series, Scott is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s suddenly starting to lose his Santa magic, and more important, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the North Pole. With a lot of elves, children and family to please, Scott sets out to find a suitable replacement Santa while preparing his family for a new adventure in a life south of the pole.” Penn “will play Simon Choksi, an ambitious game inventor and product developer and a devoted single father. Simon can talk the tech-mogul talk but can’t walk the walk, and his dreams of being the next Bezos falls drastically short. But all that changes after a visit to the North Pole.” [More…]
A few new trailers today : Shudder’s “Night’s End”, premiering march 31, has been released, as has one for “All the Old Knives”,starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton, Opening in theaters and globally on Prime Video on April 8, 2022, “You Won’t Be Alone” starring Noomi Rapace, in theaters on April 1, 2022, and Gravitas Ventures’ “The Institute”, releasing March 22nd on home entertainment platforms.
