THR's Drama Actor Roundtable; The Summer Box Office Crisis; 'Morning Show' Recruits Marion Cotillard for S4; 'Longing' Review

[View on web]( [New reader? Subscribe]( June 06, 2024 What's news: Shane Smith is back at Vice Media. A new book in The Hunger Games series will drop in 2025. Paramount+ has renewed Criminal Minds: Evolution. Universal and Mattel are developing a Monster High feature. Tom Sandoval and Chrishell Stause will appear in Traitors S3. — [Abid Rahman]( Do you have THR's next big story? Confidentially share tips with us at [tips@thr.com](. THR's Drama Actor Roundtable ►"The worst thing that can happen is you suck." THR's award-winning Roundtable Series continues, up next are the drama actors. Jon Hamm (Fargo, The Morning Show), Nicholas Galitzine (Mary & George), Matt Bomer (Fellow Travelers), David Oyelowo (Lawmen: Bass Reeves), Clive Owen (Monsieur Spade, A Murder at the End of the World) and Callum Turner (Masters of the Air) sit down with THR's [Lacey Rose]( and debate all the big questions including what’s worse, a sex scene or a single tear? And who really listens to their agents’ advice? [The roundtable.]( —ICYMI Part 1. Here's the full uncensored video of THR's Drama Actress Roundtable featuring Jennifer Aniston, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, Brie Larson, Anna Sawai, Sofía Vergara and Naomi Watts. [The roundtable.]( —ICYMI Part 2. And here's the full uncensored video of THR's Comedy Actress Roundtable featuring Quinta Brunson, Michelle Buteau, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Ego Nwodim, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig. [The roundtable.]( The Summer Box Office Crisis ►Is the sky really falling this time? With fewer big movies out as a result of the Hollywood strikes, THR's [Pamela McClintock]( writes that theatrical revenue is plummeting every week as fans grow accustomed to staying at-home. [The analysis.]( —Boardroom to newsroom. Shane Smith is back at Vice Media. The brash co-founder of Vice will become a correspondent for Vice News, returning to a role creating content for the media brand, which filed for bankruptcy protection a year ago, and laid off much of its staff earlier this year in a major restructuring. Smith will also host a podcast for Bill Maher’s Club Random Studios Network called Vice News: The Truth. The video podcast, which will occasionally feature Maher, will debut this summer. [The story.]( —Return to Panem. Suzanne Collins and her publisher Scholastic on Thursday announced that a new installment in The Hunger Games series will be released next year. The new book — the fifth in the series — will be called Sunrise on the Reaping, and is set for release March 18, 2025. Sunrise will take place 24 years before the events of the first novel The Hunger Games, “starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell,” per Scholastic. [The story.]( —New waiver. As Hollywood continues to adjust to the steady march of AI into the business, SAG-AFTRA has debuted a waiver for performers who are working on personalized audio commercials incorporating the technology. The actors union’s “Dynamic AI Audio Commercials Waiver,” announced to members on Tuesday, seeks to manage how voice performances from union members are used and compensated in AI-assisted ads that change according to the specific listener or the context. [The story.]( —🤝 Sold! 🤝 Banijay U.K. has acquired production company Caryn Mandabach Productions, producers of the global hit Peaky Blinders. Caryn Mandabach has plans to pivot to a first-look development and producer agreement with Banijay U.K. under her newly formed Conduit Productions umbrella. It means that CMP’s slate of projects and back catalog transfers to Banijay. The group will manage all future series, spinoffs and brand ventures resulting from that IP, including the recently-announced Peaky Blinders movie officially in the works at Netflix. [The story.]( —"Her body has been shattered." Hallmark star Mamie Laverock is "fighting hard every day" after she fell from a five-story balcony last month and underwent multiple surgeries. The 19-year-old When Calls the Heart actress' family wrote on their GoFundMe page that the actress remains in "tremendous pain" but "continues to not give up." [The story.]( 'Morning Show' Recruits Marion Cotillard for S4 ►🎭 L'émission du matin 🎭 The Morning Show has announced a big get for season four: Marion Cotillard is joining the cast of the Apple TV+ series. The Oscar winner joins the starry ensemble of the Apple TV+ media series that is led by executive producers Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, along with season three stars Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Greta Lee, Jon Hamm and Nicole Beharie. [The story.]( —Ice to survive. A docuseries with “unprecedented access” to top NHL stars is coming to Amazon Prime Video. The streamer has picked up a still-untitled docuseries from Drive to Survive producer Box To Box Films and NHL Productions that will follow some of the biggest stars and teams in the sport. Among the players being featured in the series will be Edmonton Oilers stars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl; Boston Bruins teammates David Pastrnak and Jeremy Swayman; New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba; Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes, among others. [The story.]( —Unconventional family. Amazon Prime Video is developing Off Color, a semi-autobiographical comedy created by and starring Theater Camp breakout Owen Thiele. The project counts showrunner Brian Gallivan, Ilana Glazer, and former Comedy Central execs Kent Alterman and Sarah Babineau among its exec producers. Off Color is based on Thiele’s unconventional adopted family. The logline reads, "He’s gay and Black, they’re all Jewish, his mom should be on Real Housewives and his cousin’s a former party girl turned Rabbi-in-training." [The story.]( —Back for more. Paramount+ has ordered a third season of Criminal Minds: Evolution, a continuation of CBS’ long-running Criminal Minds that features much of the original show’s cast and is headed by longtime showrunner Erica Messer. The renewal comes a day before Evolution’s second season premiere. The show’s second season (and 17th in the main Criminal Minds franchise) begins shortly after the events of the season one finale (though in the real world, it’s been 16 months since it last aired). [The story.]( —Back in the chair. One of the original coaches on The Voice is making a return to the show. Adam Levine will take a spot in the red swivel chair for the NBC talent competition’s 27th season in spring 2025. The Maroon 5 frontman departed The Voice in 2019 after serving as a coach for the show’s first 16 seasons. Levine will be joined by country star Kelsea Ballerini, who will make her full-time coaching debut; John Legend, who will take his 10th turn in the red chairs; and Michael Bublé, who is joining the show in the fall. [The story.]( —Another goner. The CW is cutting ties with another of its pre-Nexstar original series. The network announced Wednesday that the forthcoming third season of All American: Homecoming will be its last. The college-set spinoff of All American is set to premiere July 8. The news comes a few days after The CW renewed All American for a seventh season — albeit for a shorter run (13 episodes) than most of its past seasons. [The story.]( —🎭 New Christie adaptation 🎭 The BBC and BritBox are adapting Agatha Christie's mystery novel Towards Zero. The three-part series stars Anjelica Huston, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland and Mimi Keene and has been adapted for the screen by Rachel Bennette. Sam Yates directs. The murder mystery, now filming, takes place in England in 1936, as a toxic love triangle ensues while a troubled detective attempts to solve a web of lies before another victim meets their fate. [The story.]( —🎭 Full cast reveal 🎭 Controversial Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval, Selling Sunset's Chrishell Stause and Britney Spears’ ex-husband Sam Asghari are among the reality TV names who have been tapped for the third season of Peacock’s breakout competition series Traitors. A YouTube reveal by series host Alan Cumming announced the full cast that also includes Zac Efron’s brother Dylan, Bob the Drag Queen and professional wrestler Nikki Garcia. [The story.]( How 'Bad Boys 4' May Remind Viewers of the Oscars Slap ►Played for laughs. Will Smith can’t escape the reminders of his infamous Oscars slap, even in Bad Boys: Ride or Die. For THR, Tatiana Tenreyro writes that the fourth film in the Bad Boys franchise features a moment reminiscent of the actor’s onstage altercation with Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, but this time Smith is the one being slapped. Warning: Spoilers! [The story.]( —School's in session. Universal and toy brand Mattel are teaming up on a Monster High feature that will be produced by Akiva Goldsman. The Monster High toy line debuted in 2010 and centered on the teenage children of monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman, as they grow up and deal with the trials and tribulations of high school. This is the latest in a flurry of deals between Mattel and Hollywood studios as it continues to exploit its IP following the $1.446b success of last year’s Barbie. [The story.]( —🎭 Filling out 🎭 The ever-busy Tyler Perry has rounded out the cast for his next Netflix movie, Straw. Taraji P. Henson, Sherri Shepherd, Teyana Taylor, Glynn Turman, Sinbad, Rockmond Dunbar and Mike Merrill have boarded the film about a devoted single mother facing unfortunate events that send her down an unexpected path. Perry will write and direct Straw, the latest film out of his multi-year, first look deal with Netflix and set to shoot in Atlanta. [The story.]( —🎭 Beck on call 🎭 Saturday Night Live veteran Beck Bennett has joined the cast of James Gunn’s inaugural DC Studios movie, Superman. Sources say that Bennett will play one of the notable reporters at The Daily Planet. The feature is currently in production in Atlanta with David Corenswet starring as Clark Kent/Superman, and Rachel Brosnahan playing Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane. The cast also includes Nicholas Hoult as villain Lex Luthor. [The story.]( —Snapped up. Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer follow-up, the Irish drama Small Things Like These, has landed at Lionsgate for North America, the UK and Ireland. Directed by Tim Mielants, the period drama is adapted from the novel of the same name by Irish writer Claire Keegan — who also wrote the source material for Colm Bairéad’s Oscar-nominated drama The Quiet Girl — and plays out in a small Irish town in 1985 in the weeks before Christmas. [The story.]( —🎭 Two more 🎭 Baby Reindeer breakout Jessica Gunning and Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan are the latest additions to the upcoming film adaptation of Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree. The actresses join Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy in the feature based on The Faraway Tree series of novels for children which tells the story of Polly (Foy) and Tim Thompson (Garfield) and their children, Beth, Joe and Fran, who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. [The story.]( Film Review: 'Longing' ►"A memorial service that goes on way too long." THR's Frank Scheck reviews Savi Gabizon's Longing. Writer-director Gabizon remakes his 2017 Israeli film, this time set in Canada, that stars Richard Gere as a man dealing with the death of a teenage son he never knew he had. [The review.]( —"Hagiography, but fascinating." For THR, Caryn James reviews Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton's Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge. In this Hulu doc, which opened Tribeca, the designer and fashion icon reflects on her life and loves. 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