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EXCLUSIVE: Here is a project that’s coming together we hear: Alcon Entertainment‘s Canyon starring Oscar nominee Don Cheadle.

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Amini (Lucky Hank) is set for a major recurring role on James Wan‘s untitled espionage techno-thriller series at Peacock, starring Simu Liu.

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Amini (Lucky Hank) is set for a major recurring role on Copenhagen, James Wan‘s previously untitled espionage techno-thriller series at Peacock, starring Simu Liu.

EXCLUSIVE: Following his scene-stealing hosting job on Saturday Night Live, Bill Burr looks to have found his next feature project. Sources tell Deadline that Skydance Sports has closed a development deal with Burr to write, direct, produce and star in the feature film Born Losers.

UPDATE, with additional casting: Producers have confirmed that Michael McKean will join the cast of Broadway‘s upcoming revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross revival, joining the previously announced Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and McKean’s old Better Call Saul cast mate Bob Odenkirk.

Better Call Saul almost had Bob Odenkirk dabbling in his emo phase.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael McKean will join the previously announced Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin and Bill Burr in the upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.

Following the end of Succession, Kieran Culkin is headed to Broadway!

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will star in the upcoming revival of David Mamet’s lauded play “Glengarry Glen Ross.” The production is scheduled to open on Broadway in the spring of 2025. Patrick Marber, who recently won the Tony for Tom Stoppard’s World War II-set “Leopoldstadt,” is directing the show, which takes place in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers. Things become ruthless when they’re given the news that whoever sells the most wins a car and whoever sells the least is out of a job.

Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will hit the Broadway stage next year in a revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his Emmy nomination for Hacks, Christopher Lloyd has been set to return for Universal Pictures and 87North’s action sequel Nobody 2.

Sharon Stone is set to join Universal Pictures and 87North’s Nobody 2 starring Bob Odenkirk. Timo Tjahjanto is set to direct the film, and the screenplay is written by Derek Kolstad, Aaron Rabin, Odenkirk and Umair Aleem. Universal Pictures will release Nobody 2 in theaters on Aug. 15, 2025.

Ryan Gosling has won numerous awards throughout his acting career, and he's now finally been nominated for an Emmy Award. However, he hasn't been nominated for one of his hit films - instead it is for his role in a Saturday Night Live episode. Following the hit Beavis and Butt-Head sketch in April, in which Ryan, 43, starred as Beavis, he has been nominated in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series category at this year's Emmys.

Now that the second batch of Emmy nominees has been announced, many TV watchers may want to play catchup after the double Hollywood strikes delayed the 2023 ceremony to January 2024, and the shows that came out between 2023 and 2024 will now be recognized in the second ceremony this year.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor It’s serious — “The Bear” just broke the Emmy record for a comedy series. The second season of the hit FX series, which aired in June 2023, led the tally for comedy series with 23 nominations, including outstanding comedy series.

Bob Odenkirk has opened up about why he believes he lost out on the role of Michael Scott in the US version of The Office to Steve Carell.The Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad actor had been considered one of the favourites for the role during the casting process, before eventually losing out to Carell.And now, in an appearance on the Office Ladies podcast, he has given what he believes is the reason that the producers felt that Carell was the better fit.“I am, in a strange way, a very earnest person for a person in comedy,” he said. “I am oddly earnest, and… it’s one of the reasons I think Steve Carell is a better, you know — is the one who got the role.”Odenkirk continued by pointing out that it is not the only time he has lost out on a role to the Anchorman star. “It’s because he’s better at being genuinely fun.

Steve Carell‘s portrayal of Michael Scott on The Office is the sort of comedy gold that fans are still talking about years after the show’s conclusion.

both still going strong in their ninth decade — reunited on the red carpet Thursday. In photos, they look like they’re in high spirits, hugging and sharing smiles. They were gathered to celebrate as Burnett left her hand and footprints in cement at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre – joining past Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Poitier, and Van Dyke’s “Mary Poppins” co-star Julie Andrews.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Die Hard 2, has died aged 86.The actor died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles on May 30, as confirmed by his sister-in-law to The Hollywood Reporter.Born in Denver, Colorado on January 3, 1938, Bower’s acting career spanned five decades, with his first on-screen appearance being in two episodes of US detective drama The Rockford Files.He also starred as two separate characters, Rex Barker and Dr. Curtis Willard in the historical drama series The Waltons.His later work on the small screen would include appearances in The X-Files, The West Wing, Criminal Minds and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, in which he played Heinrich “Pop-Pop” Landgraf, the grandfather of Dennis and Dee Reynolds.Bower’s film career saw him appear in multiple successful movies, including Die Hard 2, in which he played the janitor who helps Bruce Willis’ John McClane foil the attempted terrorist attack at the airport.Throughout his career he played several law enforcement figures, for example Sergeant O’Car in his second film, The Dain Curse, Detective Walsh in Split Decisions, Sergeant Cally in Raising Cane and FBI Agent Mullins in 2002’s High Crimes, starring Morgan Freeman.Bower himself left acting for a brief period to work as a private investigator in Boston, working alongside O.J Simpson’s defence attorney and member of the ‘dream team’, F.

Tom Bower, the veteran character actor best known for prominent turns on The Waltons and in Die Hard 2, has died. A family member confirmed the news to Deadline’s sister publication The Hollywood Reporter. He was 86.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and DGA Award-winning actor, director, writer and producer Ben Stiller has signed with WME in all areas.