By Poolman
Vertical has scored the U.S. rights to Chris Pine’s directorial debut “Poolman” with plans for a 2024 theatrical release. The story has Pine starring as an L.A. slob tasked by a femme fatale to uncover the truth behind a shady business deal. Annette Bening, Danny DeVito, Jennifer Jason Leigh and DeWanda Wise co-star. [Source: Deadline]
The Recruit
Teo Yoo (“Past Lives”) has scored a series regular role in the second season of Netflix’s Noah Centineo-led “The Recruit”. Yoo will play a highly skilled South Korean NIS agent with a subversive sense of humor.
The new season sees Owen Hendricks pulled into a life-threatening espionage situation in South Korea, only to realize that the bigger threat just might be coming from inside the Agency. [Source: Variety]
My Life with the Walter Boys
Netflix has renewed its series “My Life With the Walter Boys,” based on the Ali Novak WattPad novel, for a second season. iGeneration Studios produces the series. The show premiered two weeks ago and ranked as the No. 1 TV title on the platform last week.
The show follows fifteen-year-old Manhattanite Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) who loses her family in a tragic accident. She moves to rural Colorado to be with her guardian – her mother’s best friend, Katherine (Sarah Rafferty), who is raising ten kids with her husband, George (Marc Blucas). [Source: Netflix]
Stranger Things
“The Shawshank Redemption” filmmaker and “The Walking Dead” first season showrunner Frank Darabont is reportedly in talks to direct two episodes of the final season of hit Netflix series “Stranger Things”. Production is slated to start in early January with cast members already in Atlanta for table reads. [Source: The Insneider]
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