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| 'The Deputy' Duke Nicholson tangles with Julia Fox, Billie Lourd | Well Go USA released the trailer for The Deputy on Wednesday. The film comes to theaters and digital video-on-demand Sept. 25. Duke Nicholson, grandson of Jack Nicholson, plays deputy Toby Sawyer, working for Chief Kreuger (William H. Macy). The body Deputy Sawyer is supposed to be watching disappears. Billie Lourd plays a loved one of the deceased. Julia Fox plays a convenience store clerk. Devon Ross plays a goth local. Stephen Dorff and Tiffany Haddish play other officers. Matt Sukkar directs a screenplay by Carlo Bernard, adapting Victor Gischler's book. Bernard co-created Narcos for Netflix. |
| Homer Gere says his 'Shards' character will keep viewers guessing | Euphoria alum Homer Gere says he wants to keep audiences guessing until the end about the true intentions of his character Robert in the new thriller, The Shards. "I kind of kept myself guessing about him," Gere, 26, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "Not really making a decision about him, I think, was important in playing him because you don't want to feel too comfortable," he explained. "He's a reflection of each person. So, getting into his head is kind of getting into everyone else's head. I was finding Robert in every scene." Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the series adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel was created by Ryan Murphy and premieres on FX, Hulu and Disney+ Wednesday. |
| Richard Madden to star in Paramount+ medical thriller 'Trauma' | Richard Madden has landed the lead role in the new series Trauma. Paramount+ announced in a press release Wednesday that Madden, 40, will star in the new medical action-thriller from Lionsgate Television and 42 Management & Production. Madden will play Jim Marchant, a Royal Marines medic-turned-ER doctor who must fight his way through the busy London hospital where he works after terrorists take the prime minister hostage during surgery. "As he takes the hospital floor by floor, the balance of power shifts -- and the building becomes a deadly battle of strategy, nerve and survival," an official synopsis reads. Trauma is written and created by Geoff Bussetil (Slow Horses) and directed by Daniel Syrkin (Tehran). |
| Kimmie, Mallory team up in 'Tyler Perry's Beauty in Black' S3 trailer | Netflix is teasing Tyler Perry's Beauty in Black Season 3. The streaming service shared a trailer for the season Wednesday featuring Taylor Polidore Williams and Crystle Stewart. Beauty in Black is a drama series following Kimmie (Williams), a former exotic dancer who marries Horace Bellarie (Ricco Ross), a member of a wealthy Chicago family who own a haircare empire and use a strip club as a front. In Season 3, Kimmie navigates new drama, in part by teaming up with Mallory (Stewart), the wife of Roy Bellarie (Julian Horton) and the face of the family's Beauty in Black brand. "The Bellarie family has always relied on division, secrets, and people turning against one another. |
| 'Insidious' trailer brings demons 'Out of the Further' | Sony Pictures is gearing up for the release of the new film Insidious: Out of the Further. The studio shared a final trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring The Haunting of Bly Manor actress Amelia Eve. Insidious: Out of the Further is a sequel to Insidious: The Red Door (2023) and the sixth entry in the Insidious horror franchise created by Leigh Whannell and James Wan. The new film stars Eve as Gemma, a young mother who discovers she can visit The Further, "the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe." "When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn't just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. |