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Stapleview, the producer of TikTok’s first longform sketch comedy show, is expanding its horizons.

The company is relaunching itself in the fall with a slate of half-hour shows that will run on several social platforms, including TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Stapleview, headed by Sam Grey and Daniel Lantsman, will premiere five shows in the fall and is starting production on three more.

“Ultimately, it comes down to empowering talent that can speak authentically, not only to digital natives but to all fans of comedy. This is the heart of what we are developing and producing,” Grey and Lantsman said in a statement. “The magic is combining talent discovery and having a clear understanding of how digital platforms are the new networks for fans of comedy. As our partnership and company grows with exceptional advisors and investors who believe in us and our path, it’s exciting to be at...

The Gotham Film & Media Institute has set The Woman King filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood and Audible, Inc.’s Founder and Executive Chairman Don Katz as the latest pair of honorees to be feted at the 32nd annual Gotham Awards, taking place live and in person at NYC’s Cipriani Wall Street on November 28.

Prince-Bythewood will receive the Filmmaker Tribute, with Katz set for the Innovator Tribute.

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Prince-Bythewood is an award-winning writer, director and producer who was also recently named by American Cinema Editors as this year’s recipient of their Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award. She most...

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Zachary Quinto is going method.

The actor has teamed with blockbuster author James Patterson to co-create and executive produce a new Audible Originals series titled The Method. Described as an original thriller, the series will be released exclusively on Audible on Oct. 13.

Written by Patterson with Michael B. Silver, The Method centers on Brent Quill (Quinto), a frustrated actor trying to take his game to the next level. When he learns about the intensive Method acting process, he dives in deep and lands a lead role in a TV series about a brutal serial killer.

But when the Method’s controversial techniques start to take over Brent’s psyche, the lines between real life and acting begin to blur dangerously. Quinto leads a voice cast will also feature the talents of Stephanie Beatriz, Lil Rel Howery, Judith Light, Margot Martindale, Justine Lupe, Jack Davenport,...

When movie fans hear the phrase "method acting," they likely associate the phrase with the horror stories of actors like Jared Leto making the set of "Morbius" an absolute nightmare, or the continued trend of romanticizing the extreme lengths actors go to prepare for "Batman" films. The ethics of method acting has been highly debated for years, with actors like Jon Bernthal and Andrew McCarthy both speaking out against the abuse of the practice, and the public's misunderstandings about what method acting actually entails. Method acting is built upon the principles of Konstantin Stanislavski, with groundbreaking theater educators Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Sanford Meisner developing their own techniques to enhance "The Method."

The latest actor to throw in their two cents is Andrew Garfield, who recently expressed his feelings on method acting during an interview with Variety. "There [have] been a lot of misconceptions about what method acting is, I think,...

The Mediapro Studio has unveiled first key cast for Season 2 of crime thriller “The Head,” one of its biggest international hits, with John Lynch and Katharine O’Donnelly reprising their lead roles as biologist Arthur Wilde and young doctor Maggie Mitchell.

They will be joined by the Spanish actor of Armenian-Lebanese origin Hovik Keuchkerian who shot to fame playing Moscow in “Money Heist,” as well as Ireland’s Moe Dunford (“Vikings”), Sweden’s Josefin Nelden (“The Restaurant”) and British thesp Olivia Morris (“Hotel Portofino”). More substantial name cast will be announced in upcoming weeks.

A huge global hit for The Mediapro Studio, the production-distribution arm of media giant Mediapro, “The Head” is heralded by the company as a model for high-end success: It clinched some 25 distribution deals and aired in 90 countries, allowed The Mediapro Studio to retain a large part of the IP and promised to become the basis for a franchise.

She’s probably best known for her Emmy-Nominated performance as FBI secretary Martha Hanson on FX’s critically acclaimed series The Americans, and now Alison Wright has breathed life into another complex character in yet another hit series—Ruth Wardle on TNT’s Snowpiercer. In this hour, she gives us a peek under the hood of her craft and we get closer to understanding how she’s able to bring such naturalism and depth to all her performances. She talks about her early fascination with “The Method” that led her to the Lee Strasberg Institute, her “thought-linked” approach to the text which she developed over […]

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She’s probably best known for her Emmy-Nominated performance as FBI secretary Martha Hanson on FX’s critically acclaimed series The Americans, and now Alison Wright has breathed life into another complex character in yet another hit series—Ruth Wardle on TNT’s Snowpiercer. In this hour, she gives us a peek under the hood of her craft and we get closer to understanding how she’s able to bring such naturalism and depth to all her performances. She talks about her early fascination with “The Method” that led her to the Lee Strasberg Institute, her “thought-linked” approach to the text which she developed over […]

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We're watching all 17 of Montgomery Clift's films for his centennial. Here's Juan Carlos...

After starring in The Search, Red River, The Heiress, and The Big Lift, all but one of them either a critical or commercial success, Montgomery Clift reached an even great peak in 1951 with George Stevens’ A Place in the Sun. It was the adaptation of a novel and play, both called An American Tragedy, that were in turn inspired by the real-life murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in 1906. The story, already made into a 1931 pre-Code drama as An American Tragedy, took on a life of its own in its 1951 form. A Place in the Sun's now classic tale of doomed romance and class divide proved a crucial success in the careers of all of its key players, winning six Oscars in a tight battle for Best Picture with An American in Paris.

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Viacom’s Spanish-language remake of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (Atrapa a un Ladron) has caught its lead cast, signing up two top talents from Spain and Argentina.

The new series will star Argentinean actor Pablo Echarri (The Method, Burnt Money) as ex-burglar Juan Garay, alias "The Cat." Spanish actress Alexandra Jimenez (Kiki, Love to Love, Super Lopez) will co-star as the police inspector wife of Juan, Lola Garay.

The show is the first original co-production between Viacom International Media Networks Southern and Western Europe, Middle East and Africa and Viacom International Studios Latin. It will air on select ...

The truth is, that despite common belief, horror is not dominant at all as a genre in Asia; in fact the only time it ever was, was during the J-horror explosion. However, a number of very interesting productions in the realm of the extreme do continue to be produced, while this year, “One Cut of the Dead”, a zombie movie, became one of the most impactful productions of the year, for various reasons, with the same applying to “Dukun”, a Malaysian film which was completed in 2007, but managed to be screened only this year, due to its controversial nature.

Nevertheless, here are the best horror/splatter/thriller movies of 2018, in random order. By thriller, we mean the part that leans towards the horror, not films like “I Saw the Devil”, for example. “Liverleaf” does not fall exactly under this category, but the gore involved allowed us to include it in...

AMC’s’ McMafia is about the Russian underworld, but co-creator James Watkins says the crime drama also mirrors current political scandals in the Us and UK.

“What’s very interesting is the show has been very close to home in the UK and they’re talking about a new mafia law in terms of seizing illicit assets in the UK, in terms of going after some of those criminals that are hiding and parking assets in housing,” Watkins said Sunday during Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy event.

McMafia stars War and Peace’s James Norton as a banker trying to escape his father’s ties to the Russian mob. David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum), Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones), Aleksey Serebryakov (The Method) and Maria Shukshina (Terrorist Ivanona) also star in the series.

McMafia is co-produced by the BBC, AMC, and Cuba Pictures, in association with Twickenham Studios.

While the...