Exclusive: Sugar23 has signed Charlie Tahan, the actor, writer, and director best known for his breakout starring role on Netflix’s Ozark, for management.
For a refresher, the Emmy-winning Ozark follows the seemingly ordinary financial planner, Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), who becomes entangled in a dangerous world of money laundering and drug cartels. When a scheme goes awry, he’s forced to relocate his family from Chicago to the remote Ozarks in Missouri to launder money for a cartel, working to outmaneuver local criminals, corrupt officials, and his own fractured family dynamics.
Tahan’s character is Wyatt Langmore — cousin of Julia Garner’s Ruth — a member of a local crime family who proves an intelligent and introspective fan favorite, in spite of his troubled upbringing. His work as part of the ensemble earned him three SAG Award nominations between 2019 and 2023.
Most recently seen starring alongside Christian Bale in Scott Cooper...
For a refresher, the Emmy-winning Ozark follows the seemingly ordinary financial planner, Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), who becomes entangled in a dangerous world of money laundering and drug cartels. When a scheme goes awry, he’s forced to relocate his family from Chicago to the remote Ozarks in Missouri to launder money for a cartel, working to outmaneuver local criminals, corrupt officials, and his own fractured family dynamics.
Tahan’s character is Wyatt Langmore — cousin of Julia Garner’s Ruth — a member of a local crime family who proves an intelligent and introspective fan favorite, in spite of his troubled upbringing. His work as part of the ensemble earned him three SAG Award nominations between 2019 and 2023.
Most recently seen starring alongside Christian Bale in Scott Cooper...
- 3/21/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Is this now an age of TV caution? A brace of big swings at this week’s London TV Screenings belie that trend, and few come bigger than the English-language action thriller “Paris Has Fallen,” which Studiocanal launches at this week’s London TV Screenings.
Like other major Ltvs plays, it takes a mainstream genre – such as, elsewhere, the historical drama (“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light”), true crime (“A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story”) and the bio – and aims to elevate them to another level.
This is Studiocanal’s biggest TV production of 2024. “‘Paris Has Fallen’ has ambition, scale and production values that I haven’t see in so many series,” says Anne Chérel, EVP global sales and distribution at Studiocanal.
Such scale comes with its backers. Produced by London-based Studiocanal production company Urban Myth Films (“War of the Worlds”), Studiocanal and Millennium and Butler’s G-Base,...
Like other major Ltvs plays, it takes a mainstream genre – such as, elsewhere, the historical drama (“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light”), true crime (“A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story”) and the bio – and aims to elevate them to another level.
This is Studiocanal’s biggest TV production of 2024. “‘Paris Has Fallen’ has ambition, scale and production values that I haven’t see in so many series,” says Anne Chérel, EVP global sales and distribution at Studiocanal.
Such scale comes with its backers. Produced by London-based Studiocanal production company Urban Myth Films (“War of the Worlds”), Studiocanal and Millennium and Butler’s G-Base,...
- 2/27/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Picking up on Berlinale Series Market hits, such as “Lost Boys & Fairies,” and teasing some of the big main competition swings at Series Mania – “Apples Never Fall,” “Rematch,” “So Long, Marianne” – the 2024 London TV Screenings are a powerhouse showcase of some of the biggest TV highlights of 2024, plus the trends shaping TV markets.
To help you cut through the slates, here’s Variety’s picks of 20 shows that will whet buyers’ appetites.
“Apples Never Fall” (NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution)
One highlight for NBCU, hosting the first London TV Screenings showcase on Monday Feb. 26 evening, is “The Day of the Jackal,” starring Eddie Redmayne, produced by “Top Boy” showrunner Ronan Bennett and directed by Brian Kirk (“Game of Thrones”). Highest profile, however – given its cast and now status as the biggest swing in Series Mania main competition – may be Peacock limited series “Apples Never Fall,” with Annette Bening as the...
To help you cut through the slates, here’s Variety’s picks of 20 shows that will whet buyers’ appetites.
“Apples Never Fall” (NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution)
One highlight for NBCU, hosting the first London TV Screenings showcase on Monday Feb. 26 evening, is “The Day of the Jackal,” starring Eddie Redmayne, produced by “Top Boy” showrunner Ronan Bennett and directed by Brian Kirk (“Game of Thrones”). Highest profile, however – given its cast and now status as the biggest swing in Series Mania main competition – may be Peacock limited series “Apples Never Fall,” with Annette Bening as the...
- 2/26/2024
- by John Hopewell and Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Audible has lined up a podcast on the story of Daisy, a transracial adoptee born from child rape on a mission to seek justice for a crime that shaped her existence.
Told in the first person, The Second Victim begins in 1970s rural England, where Daisy is growing up in her adopted family home. Now part of a white family, and the only black child in her community, alienation and loss of identity overshadow her childhood.
After discovering she was conceived through the rape of her birth mother, Daisy begins a lifelong mission to find and prosecute her father. Across eight episodes, The Second Victim follows Daisy’s journey as she fights injustice – not just for her mother, but for herself and other children born under the same circumstances.
Daisy’s subsequent campaign for children conceived in rape was successful in January 2023 and Daisy’s Law is currently under consultation.
Told in the first person, The Second Victim begins in 1970s rural England, where Daisy is growing up in her adopted family home. Now part of a white family, and the only black child in her community, alienation and loss of identity overshadow her childhood.
After discovering she was conceived through the rape of her birth mother, Daisy begins a lifelong mission to find and prosecute her father. Across eight episodes, The Second Victim follows Daisy’s journey as she fights injustice – not just for her mother, but for herself and other children born under the same circumstances.
Daisy’s subsequent campaign for children conceived in rape was successful in January 2023 and Daisy’s Law is currently under consultation.
- 11/30/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a fine line for what the Recording Academy considers eligible for Best Contemporary Christian Album at the Grammys. In the case of drag queen Christian singer Flamy Grant, that line was drawn over several curse words.
Grant, whose offstage name is Matthew Blake and uses they/them pronouns when not performing as Grant, gained prominence over the summer after far-right preacher Sean Feucht bashed them and called their collaboration with fellow Christian artist Derek Webb a sign of “the end days.” Fans supported Blake in light of Feucht...
Grant, whose offstage name is Matthew Blake and uses they/them pronouns when not performing as Grant, gained prominence over the summer after far-right preacher Sean Feucht bashed them and called their collaboration with fellow Christian artist Derek Webb a sign of “the end days.” Fans supported Blake in light of Feucht...
- 10/31/2023
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Plot: Unveiled through a made-for-tv documentary, five tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a terrifying journey into the grim underbelly of the 1980s.
Review: Found footage has never been my bag but I always try to give it a fair shot. It can often feel very limiting to tell a believable story when confined to a device like that. But over the years there have been films that have proven me wrong. While not every segment of the VHS series hits, the one’s that do show the heights you can reach within the subgenre. So it’s easy to get excited whenever a new VHS entry is announced. It’s even more exciting when the creative team behind it are some of the hottest writers and directors in all of horror. So it’s understandably a bit disappointing that this one is simply decent.
We...
Review: Found footage has never been my bag but I always try to give it a fair shot. It can often feel very limiting to tell a believable story when confined to a device like that. But over the years there have been films that have proven me wrong. While not every segment of the VHS series hits, the one’s that do show the heights you can reach within the subgenre. So it’s easy to get excited whenever a new VHS entry is announced. It’s even more exciting when the creative team behind it are some of the hottest writers and directors in all of horror. So it’s understandably a bit disappointing that this one is simply decent.
We...
- 10/4/2023
- by Tyler Nichols
- JoBlo.com
This post contains spoilers for "Barbie."
There's something undeniably Biblical about the story of "Barbie." Director Greta Gerwig's smash-hit film adaptation of Mattel's uber-successful multimedia property, which she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach, begins in Barbieland, a matriarchal paradise where all the Barbies and Kens reside. While Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) isn't tempted to leave her home by a snake or serpent, her sudden fear of mortality, flat feet, and cellulite lead her to a journey that takes her far away from her Garden of (Barbie) Eden and into the patriarchal mess that is the real world.
These religious parallels are far from a coincidence. Gerwig herself attended a Catholic high school growing up (something she touched upon in her quasi-biographical dramedy "Lady Bird") and has spoken before about the Christian affirmations and myths that informed her initial treatment for "Barbie." In a broader sense, the film brings various...
There's something undeniably Biblical about the story of "Barbie." Director Greta Gerwig's smash-hit film adaptation of Mattel's uber-successful multimedia property, which she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach, begins in Barbieland, a matriarchal paradise where all the Barbies and Kens reside. While Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) isn't tempted to leave her home by a snake or serpent, her sudden fear of mortality, flat feet, and cellulite lead her to a journey that takes her far away from her Garden of (Barbie) Eden and into the patriarchal mess that is the real world.
These religious parallels are far from a coincidence. Gerwig herself attended a Catholic high school growing up (something she touched upon in her quasi-biographical dramedy "Lady Bird") and has spoken before about the Christian affirmations and myths that informed her initial treatment for "Barbie." In a broader sense, the film brings various...
- 8/11/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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