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TikTok Enters Lucrative Micro-Drama Market

©Courtesy of TikTok TikTok, the social media platform, is reportedly planning to provide micro-drama content for television, a market that has been estimated at $1.4 billion. According to Business Insider, the company is already casting actors for the project, which was described by a TikTok staffer as “a soap-opera style project.” This development comes in…

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Aoi Yamada, Shiori Kutsuna Joins Nicolas Winding-Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’

©Courtesy of The Neon Demon Mubi has captured the rights to Nicolas Winding Refn’s new feature “Her Private Hell” for all of Latin America as well as the United Kingdom Ireland, Italy, and Spain. Neon International   will be managing the film’s distribution in North America. Winding Refn, who was born in Copenhagen in 1970 and…

Ryan Gosling Cast in Daniels’ Next Sci-Fi Action Comedy

©Courtesy of Jonathan Olley / Amazon Content Services LLC Coming off a major box office opening weekend debut, Ryan Gosling has signed on to star in an untitled sci-fi action comedy, Deadline is reporting. Oscar-winning filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as the Daniels, will develop the upcoming feature. Universal Pictures is…

NBCUniversal Exits First-Run Syndication in Major Strategic Shift

©Courtesy of NBC Universal NBCUniversal has revealed that it will step away from the first-run syndication business later this year, Deadline is reporting. Its announcement confirms that it will become the first major studio to formally abandon a model that once dominated daytime television. The decision also signals the move can become a broader industry…

BTS Commands the Global Stage as ‘BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG’ Draws 18.4 Millions Global Viewers

©Courtesy of Netflix RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook reunited on stage for the first time as a full group after a nearly four-year hiatus and brought down the (global) house. BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG drew 18.4M global viewers (Live+1), proving the group’s influence has only intensified during their time…

Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once Follow-Up Update

©Courtesy of A24 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as Daniels, have provided fans with an update on the anticipated follow-up to their 2022 award-winning “Everything Everywhere All at Once“. Daniel Kwan spoke to Collider during a recent interview about his and his directing partner’s follow-up movie, Thim AI Doc, while promoting his new…

Tarantino & Stallone Team Up to Write/Direct 1930s Gangster Series

© Courtesy of Paramount +/ Tulsa King Quentin Tarantino and Sylvester Stallone are said to be co-directors and writers of a 1930s-set gangster series, according to a new report on TMZ. The outlet states that the pair is planning to produce a six-episode limited series featuring a full array of gangster elements, including shootouts, boxing,…

‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ Star Chuck Norris Has Passed Away at 86

©Courtesy of MGM Entertainment/ The Delta Force. Chuck Norris has passed away aged 86. Norris had to be hospitalized in Hawaii on Thursday. Norris had died later that morning as revealed by his family. “It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning,” Norris’ family…

Tom Cruise Eyed to Play the Villain in Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Miami Vice’

©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Tom Cruise is rumored to be interested in playing the villain in Joseph Kosinski‘s new film adaptation of the iconic 1980s NBC series ”Miami Vice”at Universal Pictures, according to a report from scooped DanielRPK. The script for Mid-1980s Miami, written by Dan Gilroy and Eric Warren Singer, will explore both the…

‘The Last of Us’ Season 3 Casts Jason Ritter and Patrick Wilson, Promotes Three Cast Members to Series Regulars

©Courtesy of HBO Yesterday’s announcement that Patrick Wilson had joined the cast has now been followed up by the news that Jason Ritter has also been added to the cast for the third and likely final season of HBO’s TV series adaptation of “The Last of Us“. According to Deadline, Ritter, who played the role…

Netflix’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Series Adds Noomi Rapace, Ramzy Bedia, Sean Harris, Corrado Invernizzi to Cast

©Courtesy of Ubisoft Netflix’s “Assassin’s Creed” series has been extended by four more cast members. Noomi Rapace (“Lamb,” “Prometheus”), Ramzy Bedia (“Of Money and Blood,” “Haunted Minds”), Sean Harris (“Mission: Impossible,” “The Stranger”) and Corrado Invernizzi (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Ford v. Ferrari”) have joined the show in undisclosed recurring roles. “Assassin’s Creed“,…