Showtime Reveals “The Comey Rule” Trailer
And there you have it, our first look at Brendan Gleeson channeling Donald Trump in Showtime‘s The Comey Rule. The miniseries is based on former FBI Director James Comey‘s best-selling book “A Higher Loyalty,” adapted and directed by Billy Ray. The new trailer not only reveals our first good look at Ray’s new series but also that, per his request, it will be premiering before election day, over two days on September 27 and 28.
Watch The Entire Opening Scene to Season 2 of “The Umbrella Academy”
What you need to handle the mid-week doldrums is a shot of The Umbrella Academy straight into your veins. The opening scene to the delightfully bizarre, beautifully constructed Netflix series is available to do just that, and it starts off with a bang.
The opening scene begins with Aidan Gallagher’s Number Five touching down in Dallas. He’s looking for his lost siblings, but the first thing he finds is that the Cold War has gone suddenly hot;
“Watchmen” Tops List of 2020 Emmy Nominations
Your 2020 Primetime Emmy Award nominees have been announced. The full list is available here. The Emmys are currently scheduled to air on ABC on September 20 with Jimmy Kimmel hosting. What form the ceremony will take is, like just about everything this year, subject to change. What we do know is that Kimmel and the Emmy producers are putting on some kind of show, and they’ll be celebrating a truly remarkable year on the small screen (all hail the most nominated show of the year,
Showtime Developing Series About Mafia’s First Family
If you were going to put together a new series based on the history of organized crime in America, we feel confident you really couldn’t do a better job than Showtime is currently doing. Granted, it’s still early days here, but the network is in the early stages of developing a series from Goodfellas and Casino co-writer Nicholas Pileggi, Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter (he also wrote and executive produced a little show called The Sopranos),
How DP Nancy Schreiber Sidesteps Voyeurism for a Naturalistic Look in “P-Valley”
If you think you’re in for a sexy, easygoing watch with P-Valley, Starz’s new series on the life and times of the employees of a Mississippi Delta strip club, expect an emotional awakening. The show’s creator, Laurence Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall, first brought P-Valley to life as a critically well-received play, “Pussy Valley.” Hall’s television adaptation may be less explicitly titled, but it retains the nuance of a work fit for the stage,
“We Are Who We Are” Trailer Reveals Luca Guadagnino’s Lush New HBO Series
Well, this looks like a series we need about now. Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria filmmaker Luca Guadagnino makes his TV debut with a brand new series for HBO. The premium cable giant has revealed the first trailer for We Are Who We Are, an eight-episode series set on a U.S. military base in Italy. The show stars Jack Dylan Grazer as a quiet,
Netflix Orders “The Witcher” Prequel Series
If you enjoyed The Witcher as much as we did, you’ll be pleased to hear that the universe of everyone’s favorite monster-slayer (played by Henry Cavill) just got bigger. Netflix has ordered a six-part limited prequel series titled The Witcher: Blood Origin, which will take us back to the very first Witcher and the moment when the worlds of monsters, men, elves, and more converged.
Blood Origin is set 1200 years before the events in The Witcher and will take place in the world of elves.
Amy Roberts on the Subtly Changing Fashion in Season 3 of “The Crown”
The third season of The Crown, Netflix’s lavish, semi-fictionalized series about Queen Elizabeth II and her family, sees the monarch, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret entering middle age. Claire Foy hands off the role of Elizabeth to Olivia Colman, with Helena Bonham-Carter and Tobias Menzies joining the cast as her sister and husband. Kicking off in 1964 with a Soviet spy scandal ripped from the headlines and ending with the Queen’s 1977 Silver Jubilee,
The Top 5 European Filming Regions to Visit This Summer
For many, containing the coronavirus means this will be a travel-free summer, but for many in the broader European region, travel opportunities are opening back up. With some judicious planning, there’s plenty to do, even if you can’t make it to your preferred, farthest-flung destination. Enter film tourism: though you might be stuck a bit closer to home, trips arranged around visits to real-life locations familiar from films and television offer another form of escapism,
How Director Mimi Leder Shaped Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show”
Hollywood has become somewhat more diverse since the eighties when director Mimi Leder became the first woman to graduate from the American Film Institute. And yet, as her latest drama The Morning Show illustrates, some male entertainment moguls still give talented women a hard time. Originally inspired by Brian Stelter’s book “Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV,” showrunner Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) re-tooled the Apple TV+ series as a #MeToo saga centered on the firing of popular infotainment anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) for sexual misconduct.
Emmy-Winning Director Randy Wilkins on Capturing His Mentor Spike Lee
Randy Wilkins is a three-time Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and editor from the Bronx who has edited a handful of Spike Lee joints, including She’s Gotta Have It and Rodney King for Netflix. But for his latest project, Apple TV’s Dear… the tables were turned, and Wilkins was tasked with interviewing and directing Spike Lee, his longtime mentor.
“It was weird,” Wilkins says. “There was pressure for sure.
“Saturday Night Live” Wants to Resume Filming in Studio 8H—Just No Audience
Some hopeful news—Saturday Night Live is working out a way to possibly return to their legendary studio, 8H, in NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center next season. The catch is that this would likely be without a live studio audience. Variety has the scoop that executive producer Lorne Michaels and NBC are hoping to find a way to get cast and crew back to the studio to produce SNL in-house (perhaps not all of them at the same time,
5 Outrageous Hays Code Rules Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” Breaks
Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood on Netflix is a dreamy, inspiring, and triumphant glimpse at what mainstream storytelling might have accomplished if female, Black, and queer artists had been openly driving the narrative on our screens since the 1940s.
Like many of the actors in Hollywood, Dylan McDermott plays a character within a character. McDermott’s Ernie West dallies on the fringes of the entertainment scene but is never able to break into the industry until his former employees ascend the movie studio ladder and collaborate on the most groundbreaking script to hit Tinseltown.
Naya Rivera: Former Co-Stars and More Pay Tribute
By now you’ve heard the tragic news that Glee star Naya Rivera died at the age of 33. She was boating with her 4-year-old son on Lake Piru in Southern California. It’s devastating news.
As a Grammy-nominated singer and actor, Rivera was best known for playing cheerleader Santana Lopez on Glee. Rivera recently starred in the TV adaptation of Step Up, which had recently moved to Starz for its second season.
“Star Wars: The Bad Batch” Animated Series to Debut on Disney+
Breaking news about upcoming shows and first-look deals involving streaming services seems to be moving at a breakneck pace, doesn’t it? The latest comes courtesy of Disney+, which has ordered the Lucasfilm animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The series is slated to premiere in 2021 and expands the streaming service’s Star Wars-related projects.
One of the most prolific folks working in the Star Wars world,
Idris Elba Signs First-Look Deal With Apple
Apple has added one of Hollywood’s biggest stars to its growing roster of boldfaced names. Idris Elba and his Green Door Pictures have signed a first-look deal with Apple TV+ to develop and produce a variety of projects for the streaming service. Elba started Green Door Pictures back in 2013 in order to develop projects with a diverse cast of talent in front of and behind the camera. Elba has starred in Green Door Pictures projects,
“Star Trek: Lower Decks” Trailer Reveals Interstellar Animated Comedy
Well, this looks delightfully silly. CBS All Access revealed the first trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks, a new animated series that tweaks the formula of the legendary franchise in more ways than one. Lower Decks is focused on the support crew of one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos. Your main characters are whatever the opposite of Vulcan would be (William Shatner?).
It’s the year 2038,
Cinematographer Armando Salas on the Seductive Aesthetics of “Ozark”
The third season of Netflix’s Ozark sees Marty and Wendy Byrde (Jason Bateman and Laura Linney) dig into their life in Mississippi, where they now own one casino, and a sticking point in their marriage is the risk associated with acquiring another. With the Byrdes still laundering money for Omar Navarro (Felix Solis), the head of a Mexican cartel, and working alongside bloodthirsty lawyer Helen Pierce (Janet McTeer), the series’ third season retains the cool blue and green tones of earlier episodes but adds new aesthetic dimensions via a deeper look at the Navarro compound and flashbacks to Marty’s youth.
Javicia Leslie Makes History as the New Batwoman
When we spoke to Batwoman composer Sherri Chung, she expressed excitement over where the CW show would head in the upcoming season. Despite losing the talented Ruby Rose as Kate Kane/Batwoman, Chung was confident in the show’s approach to finding a new lead. “What I think is great is that it sounds like they’re going to treat this as Kate Kane leaving Gotham, and a new character comes in to carry the torch as Batwoman,”
How “Insecure” Editor Nena Erb Finds the Perfect Moment
“I’m not ready to go to restaurants,” Insecure editor Nena Erb told me while we were on the phone discussing her career, and, of course, life in the midst of a global pandemic. Yet for Erb, whose career has conditioned her to solitude, she’s making the most of her forced isolation by helping bring up the next generation of young editors. “I was able to work at home for about the first month of the pandemic,
