Michelle Monaghan: Last News

Netflix hit thriller drama “Echoes,” but it’s a tad darker than the Hayley Mills classic. Michelle Monaghan plays identical twins who have switched places every birthday since they were kids into adulthood, tricking husbands and children. But, the twisted ritual goes wrong one year when they find themselves as prime suspects in a murder, puzzling a local cop who can’t figure out who did it.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has snapped up North American and UK rights to the horror film Blood, from award-wining director Brad Anderson (The Machinist, The Call). While the feature will be released to both theaters and digital platforms, a release date has not yet been disclosed.

The success of monster hits such as Squid Game, Netflix’s most popular series ever, as well as Money Heist, All of Us Are Dead, Elite and Lupin, has proven that there is no language barrier for non-English-language series to become global phenoms.

Echoes, a mystery limited series from up-and-coming Australian TV creator Vanessa Gazy has surged in viewing in its first full week of release. Launching with little fanfare, the series, starring Michelle Monaghan and executive produced by 13 Reasons Why‘s Brian Yorkey, logged 68.5M hours viewed during the week of Aug. 22 jumping from #5 last week to #2 in Netflix’s weekly Top 10 for English-language series. It pushed The Sandman (53.8M) to #2 in its fourth week after a three-week reign at #1.

RSVP required. Singleton, a TV and film director, screenwriter, producer and USC alumnus, died April 29, 2019 at the age of 51. He graduated in 1990 from the SCA’s Filmic Writing program, which is now called the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television. While at USC, he won the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award, given to a promising film school student, two years in a row: first in 1988 for his script “Twilight Time,” then the following year for the script of “Boyz n the Hood,” which he wrote as his senior thesis on a campus library computer.

EXCLUSIVE: PlayStation Productions and Scott Free Productions have launched development on Gravity Rush—a film based on the 2012 action-adventure video game of the same name, which Anna Mastro (Secret Society of Second Born Royals) is attached to direct from a script by Emily Jerome (Panopticon).

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIt’s all too easy to understand the appeal of a show like “Echoes” to a streaming service like Netflix. From creator Vanessa Gazy and showrunners Quentin Peeples and Brian Yorkey (“13 Reasons Why”), “Echoes” feels like “Firefly Lane” and “Behind Her Eyes” collided to create a melodrama as deeply strange as it is quickly ingestible. Its seven episodes fly by fast enough to distract from the fact that they only barely make sense.

Michelle Monaghan fans will be seeing double with the actress portraying twins Leni and Gina in the new Netflix limited series Echoes.The streaming service released the first trailer and poster for the seven-episode series, which hails from creator Vanessa Gazy (Eden) and showrunnersBrian Yorkey (13 Reasons Why) and Quinton Peeples (Runaways).The new limited series also stars Matt Bomer, Daniel Sunjata and Ali Stroker, debuting August 19. Double:Michelle Monaghan fans will be seeing double with the actress portraying twins Leni and Gina in the new Netflix limited series Echoes Poster:The streaming service released the first trailer and poster for the seven-episode series, which hails from creator Vanessa Gazy (Eden) and showrunners Brian Yorkey (13 Reasons Why) and Quinton Peeples (Runaways) Debut:The new limited series also stars Matt Bomer, Daniel Sunjata and Ali Stroker, debuting August 19The trailer begins with Gina insisting, 'There's something you're not telling me,' but Leni says, 'There's not,' before they both wish each other a happy birthday.They both say, 'Another year,' as it appears that they're both naked together,' when the plot thickens as Jack Beck (Matt Bomer) calls Gina and tells her, 'Leni's missing.' We see missing person's signs posted for Leni, as Jack explains, 'She may have been taken,' which naturally upsets Gina.

Michelle Monaghan’s secret double life has gone awry in Netflix’s new series, “Echoes”.

EXCLUSIVE: John Ortiz is set for a key recurring role opposite Vince Vaughn in Apple TV+ drama series Bad Monkey, written and executive produced by Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence. He replaces Arturo Luis Soria who had been originally cast in the role. 

Manori Ravindran International EditorKISS takes the stage in the first exclusive clip to emerge from hotly anticipated musical biopic “Spinning Gold.”The long-gestating movie about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart — directed by his son Tim Bogart and now in post-production — has finally landed, and is being screened to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival market this week.Founded in 1974 by Neil Bogart, Casablanca Records was the home to KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People and Parliament Funkadelic, among others. The company contributed the first smash extended single to clubs and radio stations all over the world with Summer’s 17-minute 1975 banger “Love to Love You,” and released 289 albums from more than 140 artists.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“Black Site” director Sophia Banks is hoping her new $10 million action thriller “Black Site” is the little movie that could.“We’re not trying to be an $80 million action movie but we want to make this genre accessible for people,” Banks tells me. “It OK to shoot an indie action movie. As long as you take people on a good ride, then that’s all we want.

EXCLUSIVE: Cutting Edge Media Music has inked a slate partnership deal with Asbury Park Pictures, which will see it fund five of the company’s films, in exchange for the corresponding original music publishing rights. Cutting Edge’s latest deal comes on the heels of its successful, multi-year slate partnership deal with Thunder Road, of which Asbury Park is an expansion launched by Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee.

Vince Vaughn looked ready for his closeup when in the South Florida heat.The 52-year-old actor was dressed in a pale yellow floral tropical print shirt, faded green chinos, sneakers and dark sunglasses as he filmed scenes for his new TV series, Bad Monkey on Tuesday.The show is based on the Carl Hiassen thriller by the same name. On set: Vince Vaughn looked cool and casual in the South Florida heat, dressed in a pale yellow floral tropical print shirt, and faded chinos as he filmed scenes for his new TV series, Bad Monkey on TuesdayThe True Crime actor will play Andrew Yancy, a former police detective demoted to restaurant inspector in Florida.

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Fuhrman has joined Castle Rock Entertainment as EVP and Head of Business Affairs.  

Jason Clarke plays Hatchett, the world’s most dangerous criminal being held in a labyrinthine-like, top secret CIA site. But when he decides to escape, the officers in charge are lured into a high stakes game of cat and mouse as they try to put a stop to his deadly agenda.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBill Lawrence’s upcoming Apple series “Bad Monkey” has found three new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.L. Scott Caldwell, Ronald Peet, and Charlotte Lawrence will all appear in the series, joining a cast that includes Vince Vaughn, Michelle Monaghan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Meredith Hagner, Rob Delaney, Arturo Luis Soria, and Natalie Martinez.The series, based on the Carl Hiaasen novel of the same name, tells the story of Andrew Yancy, (Vaughn) a one-time detective demoted to restaurant inspector in Southern Florida.

EXCLUSIVE: Just days after she became available following the cancellation of NBC’s Ordinary Joe, Natalie Martinez has been tapped as a series regular opposite Vince Vaughn in the Apple TV+ drama series Bad Monkey, written and executive produced by Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence. Martinez replaces Ana Villafañe who had originally been cast in the role. Recastings are unfortunate but inevitable part of the business that could be for various of reasons. In this case, I hear the character had been written older than Villafañe’s age, leading to the decision to replace her.

Blumhouse and Prime Video have won world rights to Sundance horror-drama Nanny, we can reveal.

Angelique Jackson Sundance 2022’s top prize winner, filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu’s “Nanny,” has been acquired by Blumhouse and Prime Video.The companies jointly secured worldwide rights for the horror-drama, which premiered to rave reviews at Sundance in January, before ultimately winning the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, making history as the first horror film to take the festival’s top honor. Jusu is also only the second Black woman director to win the award.Written and directed by Jusu, in her feature directorial debut, “Nanny” follows a Senegalese woman named Aisha (Anna Diop) who recently immigrated to America.

J. Kim Murphy Robert Downey Jr. and writer-director Shane Black are reuniting once again.