Joe Roberts

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Editorial Producer Barcroft Studios | [email protected]

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Alan Ritchson Had To Film Multiple Takes During Reacher Season 1 For A Good Reason

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Joe Roberts

Since Lee Child started writing his popular book series back in 1997, fans have come to love the character of Jack Reacher to the extent that they have very strict rules regarding how he should be portrayed on-screen. Child wrote the ex-military policeman as the ultimate action hero, and created a legion of dedicated fans with rigid ideas about the character's personality in the process.
The Pitt Featured So Many Unknown Actors For A Good Reason

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Joe Roberts

There's not exactly a dearth of medical dramas, which makes the success of HBO Max's "The Pitt" all the more impressive. How do you set yourself apart in such a saturated market? Well, it turns out the answer is just to show people what it's actually like to be a doctor. Turns out the "drama" part of the medical drama is ready-made, especially when it comes to emergency medicine. With "The Pitt," show creator R.
The Pitt Featured So Many Unknown Actors For A Good Reason

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joe Roberts

8 hours agoTwenty years after “A Million Little Pieces” became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience. James Frey was, for a time, one of the most famous nonfiction writers in America. And then someone checked the facts. In 2005, Oprah Winfrey selected his memoir “A Million Little Pieces” …
The Pitt Featured So Many Unknown Actors For A Good Reason

2 weeks ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Joe Roberts

The Pitt Featured So Many Unknown Actors For A Good Reason HBO Max There's not exactly a dearth of medical dramas, which makes the success of HBO Max's "The Pitt" all the more impressive. How do you set yourself apart in such a saturated market? Well, it turns out the answer is just to show people what it's actually like to be a doctor. Turns out the "drama" part of the medical drama is ready-made, especially when it comes to emergency medicine.
Kevin Costner Wanted A Completely Different Ending For Yellowstone

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Joe Roberts

Despite the fact he stars in spin-off series "1883," Sam Elliott isn't a huge fan of the show that started it all: "Yellowstone." What's his problem with Taylor Sheridan's massively popular neo-Western series? Well, it's "too much like f***ing 'Dallas'" for Elliott's tastes, which I guess means it's a little too derivative of the CBS soap opera that aired from 1978 to 1991 and perhaps even a little too soapy itself.
Why Alan Ritchson Left Titans

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Joe Roberts

It's hard to imagine a time when Alan Ritchson wasn't portraying the hulk of a man known as Jack Reacher in Prime Video's record breaking series "Reacher." The 6-foot 3-inch 235-pound Ritchson seems to have been born to play the giant former military policeman, and since debuting in the role in 2022, he's given fans of Lee Child's novel series, on which the show is based, a book-accurate Jack Reacher that lives up to all expectations.
A Matt LeBlanc Sci-Fi Flop Failed To Revive A Classic Television Series

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Joe Roberts

Though we live in the age of "newstalgia," whereby old shows and movies are re-presented to younger audiences as if they were new, the truth is that Hollywood has been in the newstalgia game since its inception. Sure, streaming has taken the industry's over-reliance on leveraging existing IP to stratospheric heights, but studios have always turned to established franchises and hits in order to navigate their way through the uncertain waters of the box office. "Lost in Space" is a great example.
The Bones Writers' Room Followed A Unique Process At First

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Joe Roberts

When you've got 23 crime novels as source material, you might think that writing a show would be as easy as just copying the books as closely as possible. But "Bones," which is based on forensic anthropologist Dr. Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan book series, is a lot more than a straightforward adaptation. The novel series began in 1997 with "Deja Dead," and follows the career of forensic scientist Temperance "Bones" Brennan, whose namesake also leads the show.
The Pitt's Best Possible Romance Could Become A Reality In Season 2

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Joe Roberts

If you watched season 1 of "The Pitt," HBO Max's hugely popular new medical drama, chances are you felt a bit sad when the final episode dropped. Not necessarily because the season ended on a particularly tragic note (though there's plenty of tragedy to go around throughout season 1), but because the show feels so real that it's genuinely a bit sad to have to say goodbye to the characters. "The Pitt" has been praised for its medical accuracy, which was a central consideration for creator R.
The Pitt's Best Possible Romance Could Become A Reality In Season 2

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joe Roberts

It’s being called one of the most high-level divorces in history, although there was never an official marriage. The public tit-for-tat between the …