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Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Showtime limited series “Fellow Travelers” is rounding out its cast.Variety has learned exclusively that the series has cast Will Brill, Chris Bauer, Erin Neufer, Matt Visser, and Christine Horne. in recurring roles. They join previously announced series leads Matt Bomer, Jonathan Bailey, and Allison Williams and series regulars Jelani Alladin, Noah J.

Katcy Stephan Ali Abbasi has signed with UTA for representation. Abbasi’s fourth feature, “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong and Maria Bakalova, premiered in Competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, marking his third Cannes selection. The film, which follows Donald Trump’s rise through the real estate industry in the ’80s with the guidance of lawyer Roy Cohn, earned a fair amount of attention this awards season despite its trouble finding mainstream distributors.

EXCLUSIVE: Ali Abbasi has signed with UTA. The filmmaker coming off The Apprentice will continue his career with the agency repping him in all areas in the US, and continues to be repped by Lark in the U.K.

The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards celebrated the best performances of the year in both movies and television.

Ali Abbasi, the director of the Donald Trump film The Apprentice who exited his US reps CAA and Entertainment 360 in the aftermath of an ugly incident that took place at a Golden Globes afterparty, has issued a statement explaining himself.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Acclaimed director Ali Abbasi has lost his high profile U.S. representatives following a groping allegation by an A-list star. “The Apprentice” filmmaker is no longer a client at CAA and Management 360, Variety has confirmed, following events that transpired after this year’s Golden Globes.

EXCLUSIVE: Ali Abbasi, director of the Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, has parted ways with his U.S. reps at CAA and Entertainment 360, Deadline has learned.

To say that Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, stars of The Apprentice, have been riding a rollercoaster together would be something of an understatement. From sleepless nights contemplating embodying a young Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn, to a Cannes Film Festival premiere filled with high hopes, a cease and desist from Trump himself, deafening silence from U.S. distributors, a reprieve from Briarcliff Entertainment, a highly combustible release on the eve of the U.S. Presidential election, and now an Oscar nomination each, they might well be suffering from whiplash.

EXCLUSIVE: The Apprentice is heading back into theaters after scoring two Oscar nominations for its stars Sebastian Stan in Best Actor and Jeremy Strong in Best Supporting Actor.

Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong, who played on-screen brothers for four seasons on “Succession,” both scored Oscar nods in the Best Supporting Actor category on Thursday. Culkin, 42, is nominated for his role as cousin Benji in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” while Strong, 46, earned his after portraying Roy Cohn in the polarizing Donald Trump biopic, “The Apprentice.”Other actors in their category are Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”) and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”).

Succession actor Jeremy Strong has spoken about his latest role, playing Bruce Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau in the biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere.Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen, who finds himself at a difficult point in life while recording his sixth album, 1982’s ‘Nebraska‘. Landau is credited by many with influencing the music legend artistically and personally.“It’s honestly been one of the greatest working experiences I’ve ever had” Strong told Deadline. “(Landau) has a lot to do with who Bruce is”.

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biopic about a young Donald Trump at the Marrakech Film Festival.The 64-year-old actor, who has won two Academy Awards, spoke during a press conference Tuesday and accused the Oscars of being “afraid” of embracing “The Apprentice” starring Sebastian Stan as the president-elect, 78.“The Academy have exercised really extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being part of the bigger world of expression, and in fact, have largely been part of limiting the imagination and very limiting of different cultural expressions,” said Penn, per Variety.The “Mystic River” star, who was casually chain-smoking during his rant, said the Oscars and other award ceremonies should be viewed as “television shows first.”“So I don’t I get very excited about what we’ll call the Academy Awards [except for] when a film like ‘The Florida Project,’ or ‘I’m Still Here,’ or, you know, ‘Emilia Perez,’ of the things that are likely to happen this year,” he explained. Penn then addressed the controversy over Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” which is not expected to be a major contender during awards season, despite receiving an 8-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.“When something sneaks through, it’s to be celebrated,” said Penn.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind this awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Apprentice, the Ali Abbasi-directed drama about the formative years of Donald Trump based on the feature-screenwriting debut of journalist Gabriel Sherman.

Donald Trump never followed through on threats to take The Apprentice to court, but star Sebastian Stan has certainly experienced personal praise and a public rebuffing from his fellow A-Listers and their PR teams over the controversial biopic.

Playing Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice is not the first time Jeremy Strong has tackled recent American history. Before the actor became synonymous with Kendall Roy in Succession, he played parts in The Big Short, Selma and Parkland. While the actor feels a slight discomfort discussing acting choices for a film whose main subject “poses such a clear and present danger to you and I,” Strong is no less proud of the work. “I am happy with how it turned out and happy that I went for it,” he says. “I almost didn’t.”

Bono‘s Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark musical.The U2 frontman and The Edge scored the Broadway production which first opened in 2011. Ahead of its launch, it was hit by a series of setbacks including injuries to cast members, financial problems and scathing reviews.It eventually broke Broadway records to become the highest single-week grossing show of all time at the time at the turn of 2012, before the production closed two years later.Speaking to NME in a new interview with Succession star Jeremy Strong, when asked if either of them ever met any musicians they admire, Stan said: “I actually auditioned, never got it, but I auditioned for the Spider-Man musical that Bono wrote the music for.“I did a workshop and at one point they were like, ‘Oh, Bono is gonna be watching it.

Succession, has told NME that he’s definitely on the cast for upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere.Rumours first emerged in May that he was up for the part of Jon Landau, The Boss’s longtime manager, but were never officially confirmed by Strong’s team. Now he says he’s rubber-stamped the deal – and revealed his favourite Springsteen record to boot: 1982’s stark, introspective gem ‘Nebraska’.“It just always spoke to me, there’s a melancholy to it,” he said.

Donald Trump’s early years as a real estate developer and his friendship with Roy Cohn, was scouting for distribution. Armed with this kind of reception, Abbasi believed he would soon have Netflix, or one of the prominent indie studios, knocking on his door. But though “The Apprentice” drew interest from the usual suspects, there were no offers — not even a lowball one.

Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan as the businessman and former U.S. president, is skipping its planned release in cinemas in the United Arab Emirates — and also Kuwait — possibly for political reasons. Ali Abbasi’s film, which follows Trump’s rise to fame and his time learning from influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn (played by Jeremy Strong), was scheduled to debut in United Arab Emirates cinemas on Oct.

Former President Donald Trump‘s least favorite movie can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to advertising during a seminal interview on his favorite network. Fox News turned away an ad for The Apprentice that Briarcliff Entertainment chief Tom Ortenberg tried to place during Wednesday night’s interview with Kamala Harris. It’s the first formal sit-down at the network by the standing Vice President and Democratic candidate for president, and Bret Baier will conduct it as part of his nightly show Special Report.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to rail against “The Apprentice,” the new movie from director Ali Abbasi that centers on Trump’s rise as a real estate businessman in New York City under the mentorship of Roy Cohn. Sebastian Stan plays Trump in the film, with Jeremy Strong starring as Cohn and “Borat 2” Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova playing Trump’s first wife, Ivana. “The Apprentice” opened in theaters Oct.