Derek Lawrence

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Derek Lawrence

Chet Hanks isn’t afraid to admit it: he has no game. He can hardly dribble or shoot a basketball. Those lack of skills might seem likely to eliminate him from starring on Netflix’s new basketball comedy Running Point as Travis Bugg, the star point guard for the Los Angeles Waves. And yet, as written, Travis is a tattooed troublemaker, an aspiring rapper, and someone known for social media controversy. Sound familiar? "I said, 'If I don't get this role, I'm just going to quit acting,'" Hanks tells me.

Sep 18, 2024 | backstage.com | Derek Lawrence

No matter the accolades he receives or the countless iconic filmmakers who seek him out, Adam Driver can’t quite fathom how far his career has taken him. “Even now, it doesn’t get less surreal,” he says. But the proof is in the pudding: To date, the actor has earned two Academy Award nominations, four Emmy nods, and a Tony nom. He’s headlined projects from cinema legends including Michael Mann, Ridley Scott, Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, and Martin Scorsese, to name just a few.

Sep 6, 2024 | ew.com | Derek Lawrence |Darren Franich |Kevin Jacobsen

From the highs of Fast Five to the Hobbs/Shaw spinoff to the direct-to-video short film directed by Diesel himself, we've ranked every entry in the Fast & Furious series from worst to best. The family is still going strong. The long-running Fast & Furious franchise kicked off in 2001 with the (comparatively simple) story of an LAPD officer going undercover with a crew of street racers suspected to be hijackers.

Jun 12, 2024 | aframe.oscars.org | Derek Lawrence

Pablo Berger never imagined he'd make an animated film — but then he read Robot Dreams. In his native Spain, the filmmaker is known for live-action features like 2012's Blancanieves and 2017's Abracadabra. But when he picked up a copy of Sara Varon's 2007 graphic novel, about the friendship between an anthropomorphic dog and his robot companion, Berger was so taken with it that he knew he needed to turn it into a movie. After receiving Varon's blessing, he set out to make his first animated movie.

May 24, 2024 | variety.com | Derek Lawrence

After spending more than a decade of their lives spearheading the phenomenon that was HBO's "Game of Thrones," David Benioff and D.B. Weiss weren't necessarily in a rush to return to the world of adaptation. Neither had taken the quick plunge into Liu Cixin's Chinese science-fiction epic "The Three-Body Problem" when the proposal of a series was first presented to them, despite it already sitting unread on Weiss' Kindle.