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Dexter to Return on Showtime

AlexGherzo | Oct 15, 2020 | 3

Now’s the time to buy stock in plastic. Deadline reports that Showtime is bringing back its hit show Dexter as a limited series. Based on Jeff Lindsay’s novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter (and diverging from the sequels), Dexter starred Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, a forensics expert for the Miam...

Clint Eastwood Will Direct and Star in No Macho

AlexGherzo | Oct 2, 2020 | 2

The Man with No Name is saddling up once again. Deadline exclusively reports that Clint Eastwood will star in and direct a film adaptation of No Macho for Warner Bros. Based on the novel by N. Richard Nash – who co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Schenk – No Macho is about a former rodeo star &he...

Joker and Life Imitating Art

AlexGherzo | Aug 31, 2020 | 0

“Life imitates art” is one of those clichés that people rattle off with such regularity that one typically just nods along whenever it’s uttered. But this past year, new life has been breathed into the rote chestnut, and it’s come at the hands of the increasingly violent left. All around th...

Stephan James to Star in American Son

AlexGherzo | Aug 28, 2020 | 0

According to a Deadline exclusive, Stephan James, star of the Oscar-winning If Beale Street Could Talk, will appear in crime thriller American Son for Paramount. An adaptation of French film The Prophet, American Son is about a prisoner who becomes the protégé of a powerful gangster and builds an ...

Death on the Nile Trailer Arrives Online

brettstevens | Aug 19, 2020 | 2

Agatha Christie’s iconic detective Hercule Poirot is back on the case as the first trailer for Death on the Nile has arrived online. As with 2918’s Murder on the Orient Express, the film is directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also produces and plays Poirot, and costars Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer, a...

Joey King to Star in Bullet Train with Brad Pitt

AlexGherzo | Aug 3, 2020 | 0

Joey King has a train to catch. Deadline exclusively reports that the star of Netflix’s The Kissing Booth and its sequels will appear in David Leitch’s in-development thriller Bullet Train. Bullet Train is based on a Japanese book called Maria Beetle by Kôtarô Isaka, about five assassins on on...