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‘The Chi’ Actor Cortez Smith Signs With Agent & Manager

EXCLUSIVE: Cortez Smith, best known for playing Nuck on Showtime’s hit series The Chi, has signed with Exclusive Artists Agency for representation and Untamed Artists LA for management. Smith has portrayed Nuck, the street-savvy, master manipulator villain on the show for six seasons. The eighth and final season of Lena Waithe’s drama series premiered late May on Paramount+. Born and raised […]

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‘Killing Castro’ Footage: First Look At Al Pacino As A CIA Operative In Tribeca Movie Starring Diego Boneta As Fidel Castro

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage of Al Pacino in political thriller Killing Castro, which is getting its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The feature “reimagines Fidel Castro’s 1960 Harlem stay as a charged encounter between surveillance and solidarity. As converging forces close in, a young translator is pulled into a tightening web of power and […]

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Florence Pugh Starrer ‘The Midnight Library’ Heading For Cannes Market’s Biggest Deal With Multiple Studios Chasing

EXCLUSIVE: Florence Pugh fantasy drama The Midnight Library, which will be directed by Lion filmmaker Garth Davis, is being chased by multiple studios in what will likely be the biggest deal out of this year’s Cannes market. We understand Paramount, Focus and Sony are in the mix for domestic and select international markets on the circa $70M movie, […]

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Andrew Scott & George MacKay Lead Voice Cast Of Russell Tovey’s Debut Novel ‘Starlings’, Which Is Being Published By Audible

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Scott (All Of US Strangers) and George MacKay (1917) have been set to lead the voice cast in Russell Tovey’s (American Horror Story: NYC) debut novel Starlings, which is being published as an Audible Original. Set in the heart of Clapham in London, the drama will explore family estrangement and queer identity. Release is set […]

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Zach Braff & Esther McGregor Tribeca Drama ‘Clean Hands’ Gets North American Deal

EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Vertical has acquired North American distribution rights to drama Clean Hands, the latest feature from writer-director Jake Allyn (Ride). Zach Braff, Esther McGregor, Abigail Spencer, Holt McCallany and Lucas Till star in the film which explores America’s war on drugs from the opposing eyes of […]

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CAA & Finch & Partners Aim To Recreate Cannes Future Of Film Symposium In Venice, Doha & Other Locations

EXCLUSIVE: CAA teamed up with Charles Finch’s Finch & Partners to host an exclusive film symposium in Cannes and the teams are now eyeing an expansion of the event to other festivals/cities including Venice and Doha. Additional locations are also being discussed, alongside a return to the same venue in Cannes next year. The private […]

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