Nellie Andreeva

4 days ago | avsforum.com | Joe Otterson |Emily Lind |Nellie Andreeva

‘We Were Liars’: Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald & Candice King To Star In Amazon Series Based On BookBy Nellie Andreeva deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Mamie Gummer (True Detective), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession) and Candice King (The Vampire Diaries) are set as leads in We Were Liars, Prime Video’s series adaptation of E. Lockhart’s YA novel We Were Liars, which hails from Julie Plec, Carina Adly MacKenzie, Universal Television and Amazon Studios. This marks a reunion for King and Plec.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Nellie Andreeva

Historically speaking, a half-Mexican woman isn’t usually the first in line to write a story about a violently ambitious gangster, which is what excited me most about it. I had the opportunity to investigate a character like this through a different lens. But as I dug in, the same question kept gnawing at me… Why would anyone want to watch a guy like this? A volatile, narcissistic middle-aged white man who wants power? Haven’t we seen enough of those?

1 week ago | deadline.com | Nellie Andreeva

Three weeks after Skydance paused new spending on a series starring and executive produced by Jeremy Strong and written and executive produced by Tobias Lindholm and Frank Pugliese, the high-profile drama has been put on hold, sources tell Deadline. The move comes as the regulatory approval process of Skydance's proposed $8 billion Paramount takeover continues to drag on.

1 week ago | deadline.com | Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner J.K. Simmons has been tapped as the lead of The Westies, MGM+ 's upcoming period crime drama series from co-creator, executive producer and showrunner Chris Brancato. Co-created by Brancato and Michael Panes, The Westies is set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center on the Westies' home turf in Hell's Kitchen promises a financial windfall for the Irish-American organized crime gang.

1 week ago | deadline.com | Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth has joined the cast of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof's single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. Set to recur should the pilot go to series, she joins series regulars Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy, Ryan Pinkston, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis and Taylor Dunbar. Written by the Astrof siblings, Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.