A hot project just got hotter. Emmy-nominated Korean actress and model Hoyeon, who made waves with Netflix’s Squid Game, is set to make her feature debut in director Na Hong-Jin’s Korean thriller Hope.
She joins Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender.
This is the first project from acclaimed Korean director Na since 2016 hit The Wailing, and it’ll mark Hoyeon’s first starring role in a Korean project since she made her screen debut in Squid Game. >>>Details On Project |
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'Pick Up' Artist - In competition, Amazon Studios is in final talks for the package The Pick Up, with Eddie Murphy eyeing to star and Tim Story attached to direct. Sources called it a heist comedy in the vein of Bad Boys. Murphy would play a guy who is smitten with a woman and finds himself mixed up in a heist attempt. >>>7-Figure Bidding War For Script
Oh Say, Can You Stream? - The Major League Baseball season begins today, with changes on the field (a pitch clock and bigger bases among them) and more games being delivered via streaming. Apple, Amazon and Peacock are continuing their exclusive carriage, and financially challenged regional sports networks are also making a call to the direct-to-consumer bullpen. Will it be enough to keep a century-old sport relevant in the age of TikTok? >>> Changing Economic Models
South-Central Saga - A spinoff of the hit drama series Snowfall is in early stages of development at FX. If it comes to fruition, the offshoot would potentially star Gail Bean reprising her fan-favorite character, Wanda. The spinoff is a continuation of the original story as South Central LA transitions away from the nightmare of crack and into the gangster rap era. >>>Other Main Characters Introduced
Spider Sense - Oscar winning co-director/co-scribe/producer of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rodney Rothman, and former MGM exec Adam Rosenberg have inked a first-look deal with Sony Pictures. The duo is developing a film based on an original idea by Emmy winner Quinta Brunson with Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia) attached to direct. >>>"Sophisticated Storytelling "
Molding Clayface - Doctor Sleep filmmaker Mike Flanagan has pitched a feature version of Clayface over at DC, however, no word on greenlight yet. Though typically a supervillain, in the Flanagan pic, should it move forward, he wouldn’t be a bad guy.
>>>Met With Gunn & Safran
In Brief - Becky G is in early negotiations to lead Queen of Flow, a premium adaptation of Colombian telenovela La Reina Del Flow which Peacock is developing…Jay Roach has signed with UTA in all areas, moving after a long run at WME. |
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It’s the beginning of the end for Riverdale. The series kicked off its final season on Wednesday, picking up where the last moments of Season 6 left off, after the characters were suddenly transported back in time to the 1950s.
Archie, Betty, Jughead, Veronica and the rest of the gang are back in high school, in a decade that showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa says is “most associated with Archie Comics.” But while the season will certainly feel nostalgic, it also won’t shy away from the realities of the decade, Aguirre-Sacasa said.
“It would have been disingenuous to erase the real struggles and the real hardships that a lot of people in the 1950s faced, especially for our queer characters and our characters of color,” he told Deadline, adding that for Season 7 “the big bad would be the 1950s and society itself — how conformist it was, how repressive it was, how homophobic it was, how racist it was, how sexist it was.” >>>Spoiler Alert |
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Exclusive Tony winner David Alan Grier is set as a lead opposite Wendy McLendon-Covey in NBC comedy pilot St. Denis Medical. Grier will play Ron, a defeated divorcee and Emergency Department doctor who has accepted that the thrill is gone. Exclusive Looks like everyone’s favorite wisecracking MCU superhero is being joined by some old friends. Deadline hears that Karan Soni and Leslie Uggams are back with star Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming Deadpool sequel. Exclusive Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building has added Don Darryl Rivera ( Let the Right One In), Allison Guinn ( The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) & Gerald Caesarto ( Dear Evan Hansen ) to its Season 3 cast in recurring roles. Details regarding their roles are being kept under wraps. In Brief - Yul Vazquez is set as a lead opposite Danny Pino & Michael Chiklis in Hotel Cocaine, MGM+’s upcoming crime thriller from creator Chris Brancato… Ali Wong will star in and executive produce new Netflix animated series Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld… Margaret Cho has joined DJ Qualls and Marisé Álvarez in dark comedy Evilou. |
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🧒 Netflix has ordered an anime series based on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, with cast members from the 2010 cult movie expected to contribute voice work for the show.
⚖ Two days after a judge shut down the prosecution’s attempt to bring on a new special prosecutor in the Rust shooting case, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies has stepped aside and appointed a pair of special prosecutors to take over.
⚡ Ahead of the April 6 release of his Netflix dark comedy Beef, Lee Sung Jin has stepped in as screenwriter for Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts, taking over for Black Widow's Eric Pearson. The film is understood to be the MCU’s version of Suicide Squad.
🎥 Bob Yari and Marvin Peart have announced the launch of WonderHill Studios, a new production and distribution company that will operate in the independent space, focusing on film and television production, domestic film distribution, acquisitions and foreign sales.
In Brief - CNN News Central, the network’s new daytime programming blocks, will begin rollout on April 3 ... A new report from UCLA says streaming films are much more diverse than theatrical features. |
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Trending  A little-noticed vote taken by the then Disney-controlled Reedy Creek Improvement District in February "completely circumvents" the authority of a new board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to control regulations and services at Walt Disney World’s 27,000 acres near Orlando.
🔻 A little-noticed vote taken by the then Disney-controlled Reedy Creek Improvement District in February "completely circumvents" the authority of a new board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to control regulations and services at Walt Disney World’s 27,000 acres near Orlando. |
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Obituaries 🕯 Keith Reid, who cowrote the lyrics for most of Procol Harum’s original songs, died March 23 of cancer, his wife confirmed. Reid was a writer on Procol Harum’s biggest hit, 1967’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” 🕯 N’Neka Garland, a Daytime Emmy-winning longtime producer on General Hospital , has died. She was 49. Her father, William Garland, confirmed her passing on Facebook. Garland was nominated for three Daytime Emmy awards for the show, winning in 2021. 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries |
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On the Radar
Fri - NCAA Women's Final Four; PaleyFest starts
Sat - NCAA Men's Final Four
Mon - Disney annual shareholder meeting
Tue - Warner Bros. 100th anniversary; Tron ride opens at WDW |
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New Covenant - Deadline's Ted Johnson captured the moment on Wednesday when a group of prominent Democrats gathered on the Capitol steps to call for Congressional action to curb gun violence in the wake of this week's tragic school shooting in Nashville. |
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