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John Magaro went from an extra on a Steven Spielberg film to leading his own movie about the same tragic events 20 years later.

Magaro has steadily built a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors, seamlessly transitioning between indie gems and major studio films such as “Not Fade Away” and “Past Lives.” But despite his steady rise in the industry, he remains grounded and deeply connected to the craft of acting, driven by a passion for storytelling and a dedication to exploring the complexities of each role.

In this episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Magaro discusses his latest project, Paramount Pictures’ “September 5” — a dramatic thriller about the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis. He also reflects on his early days in the business, which included an unexpected start as an extra in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film “Munich,” a full-circle moment for him. Listen below.

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Hallmark’s Fall Into Love programming event soon comes to an end, with the final movie being Haunted Wedding. The movie tells the story of a couple, whose upcoming wedding is being interfered with by a ghost. Read on to find out more about the movie and its cast, and view images taken on the film set.

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According to the official synopsis, this last Fall Into Love movie features a ghost who wants to stop a couple from getting married. Jana (Janel Parrish) an

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However, plans go awry when Angelique (Cassandra Potenza), a ghost clad in an 18th-century wedding dress vows to stop it. Now, Jana and Brian will need to work together to save their wedding from disaster.

Haunted Wedding marks the end of the Fall in Love 2024 lineup. It will also lead up to Countdown to Christmas 2024 on the Hallmark Channel. Get all the details of this haunting new romantic movie.

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The Fall Into Love 2024 lineup included the previous films His and Hers, Falling Together, The Heiress and the Handyman, and The Real West. Haunted Wedding continues to bring the romance with a new twist. This comforting movie is perfect for Halloween and spooky season.

The official synopsis of the film from the Hallmark Channel reads: “Jana and Brian’s plan to wed is in jeopardy when Angelique, a ghost in an 18th-century wedding dress, vows to stop it. The couple must work together to save their wedding from disaster.”

The couple works together as ghost hunters. The festivities are interrupted as they figure out what the ghosts want from them. Their paranormal quest takes fans on a fun ride.

Fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” were sad when her love interest and fan favorite Angel announced his departure at the end of the third season. But the character of Angel, played by David Boreanaz, got his own spin-off show that took him away from Sunnydale and to the big city of Los Angeles. “Angel” debuted on October 5, 1999 and immediately split fans on which was the “better” show. Read on for more about the “Angel” 25th anniversary.

The character of Angel was born an Irishman named Liam, who was turned into a vampire by Darla (Julie Benz) over two centuries before, and became the sadistic and feared Angelus, who caused years of death and destruction across Europe. But he wreaked havoc on the wrong people when he angered the Romani clan, who cursed him with his human soul filled with memories of the pain he has caused. His guilt and...

Grateful Dead fans can celebrate the group’s momentous 1978 spring tour with Friend of the Devils, a massive box set out Sept. 20.

Friend of the Devils: April 1978 features eight shows the band played that month, including Pembroke Pines, Florida on April 4 and Atlanta Georgia’s Fox Theatre on April 10 and 11. The shows were originally recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and restored and mastered by engineer Jeffrey Norman. The deluxe edition includes 19 CDs, a book with liner notes by Steve Silverman, and photos by James Anderson, Bob Minkin, and others.

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The Las Vegas Strip has been transformed into a massive Shakedown Street thanks to Dead & Company, who officially opened their “Dead Forever” residency at The Sphere on Thursday night.

Taking the stage of Las Vegas’ hottest new venue for the first of 24 shows, Dead & Company played a jam-packed, 19-song set delivered in two parts. After opening with “Feel Like a Stranger,” the group performed fan favorites like “Jack Straw,” “Bird Song,” and “Brown-Eyed Woman.”

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Following a half-hour break, Dead & Company picked up with “Uncle John’s Band” and ran through classics like “Help on the Way,” “Slipknot!,” and “Franklin’s Tower.” They closed the evening with back-to-back covers of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and The Crickets’ “Not Fade Away.”

Check out photos, video, and the full setlist below.

Coming up on their 10th year as a band, Dead & Company’s residency at...

The long, strange trip just got a lot trippier.

Dead & Company opened their much-anticipated Sphere residency in Las Vegas on Thursday night, making good on the potential of the world’s most high-tech concert venue and delivering what has to be the most dazzling visual show in Grateful Dead history.

The group took the stage just past 7:30 p.m., opening with modest visuals — by Sphere standards, at least — for “Feel Like a Stranger,” as large live shots of Bob Weir and John Mayer were projected above the stage. It...

Today, The Rolling Stones‘ debut album turned 60. Hats off to Mick Jagger and company for staying together this long against all odds! Here’s a look at their debut album’s triumphs and tragedies.

13. ‘I Just Want to Make Love to You’

The lively rhythm here is ruined by some questionable lyrics. In this song, Jagger compares himself to an enslaved person. It’s tasteless, but what would you expect from the same band that would later give us such racist atrocities as “Brown Sugar” and “Some Girls?” At least this song didn’t hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 like “Brown Sugar” did.

12. ‘You Can Make It If You Try’

Placed near the end of the album, “You Can Make It If You Try” is a self-empowerment song that feels tedious and endless. The Rolling Stones made it. They tried. This song didn’t help them get there.

11. ‘Walking the Dog...

Deadline reports that The Sopranos creator David Chase is set to reteam with Terence Winter for an untitled horror movie set up at New Line Cinema.

David Chase is expected to direct the movie, which he will also co-write alongside Terence Winter. The plot details are being kept under wraps, but given the Sopranos pedigree, my mind immediately leaps to Cleaver, the fictional movie within the HBO series produced by Christopher Moltisanti. While I doubt that Chase and Winter are going the slasher route, it’s still fun to imagine.

Related Tony Soprano’s (final?) booth up for auction; jukebox not included

Chase and Winter worked together on The Sopranos, with Winter writing or co-writing 25 episodes of the series, but this will be the first time they have reunited since the series came to an end and the first movie they will have collaborated on. Chase made his feature directorial debut on Not Fade Away,...

Premiering 25 years ago this January, David Chase’s crime saga The Sopranos has been a blessing and a curse for the creator. On the former side, he was behind what is still among the greatest television shows to grace the medium. On the latter, it’s been a difficult peak to live up to, the only projects he’s tackled since being his overlooked 2012 directorial debut Not Fade Away and revisiting the world in the disappointing The Many Saints of Newark, which he co-wrote and produced.

Now, Chase is finally getting back in the director’s chair for the first time in 13 years with a new feature: Deadline reports he’ll reteam with his Sopranos collaborator Terence Winter on a horror film at New Line Cinema. Chase has directing duties for the WB project, boasting a script he’ll write with Winter, marking the first time the duo have collaborated on a feature screenplay.

Everyone wants a piece of the horror pie right now, so it’s no surprise that major studios and big name players are dipping their toes into these red waters. On that note, Deadline reports today that “The Sopranos” creator David Chase is directing a horror movie!

David Chase is reteaming with “The Sopranos” producer Terence Winter on the untitled project, which is set up at New Line as part of Chase’s “first look deal at Warner Bros.”

Deadline’s report explains, “Chase plans to direct the film, in what is Chase and Winter’s first theatrical film screenplay and feature producing collaboration.”

The project has no title and no synopsis at this time. Stay tuned.

Producers are Chase and Nicole Lambert (The Many Saints of Newark) for Riverain Pictures. Executive Producers are Rachel Winter (Dallas Buyers Club) through her Tangerine Pictures banner, and Terence Winter through his Cold Front Productions.

Exclusive: In a Sopranos re-team, David Chase and Terence Winter have set up an untitled horror feature at New Line Cinema. Deal falls under David Chase’s first look deal at Warner Bros.

Chase plans to direct the film, in what is Chase and Winter’s first theatrical film screenplay and feature producing collaboration. They are going the omerta route on the logline.

Producers are Chase and Nicole Lambert (The Many Saints of Newark) for Riverain Pictures. Executive Producers are Rachel Winter (Dallas Buyers Club) through her Tangerine Pictures banner, and Terence Winter through hisCold Front Productions.

Chase and Winter last worked together on the HBO drama series The Sopranos, which this year reached 25 years old. Show won 21 Emmys, and became the most financially successful series in the history of cable television. Chase followed with the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark, which he produced, and Chase also made...

John Magaro has been delivering consistently stellar performances in films like Not Fade Away, The Big Short, Carol, First Cow, and Showing Up, to name a few. This past year he played Arthur, husband of Greta Lee’s character Nora, in Past Lives. On this episode he talks, spoiler-free, about the last scene of that film and why it makes people emotional. He explains how receiving books, music, photos from directors helps in his preparation. He makes the case for experience over academia, takes us back to a big breakthrough that came to him from the legendary acting teacher Howard Guskin, […]

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John Magaro has been delivering consistently stellar performances in films like Not Fade Away, The Big Short, Carol, First Cow, and Showing Up, to name a few. This past year he played Arthur, husband of Greta Lee’s character Nora, in Past Lives. On this episode he talks, spoiler-free, about the last scene of that film and why it makes people emotional. He explains how receiving books, music, photos from directors helps in his preparation. He makes the case for experience over academia, takes us back to a big breakthrough that came to him from the legendary acting teacher Howard Guskin, […]

The post “My Endless Struggle is for Utter Honesty on Film”: John Magaro, Back To One, Episode 279 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Emily Blunt is one of the most versatile and talented actors in Hollywood, who has starred in a variety of genres, from musicals to thrillers. She is also known for being part of successful franchise: A Quiet Place. Recently, she opened up about the possibility of returning for sequels to both Quiet Place and Edge of Tomorrow, and what her conditions are for doing so.

A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place is a horror series that follows a family trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where deadly creatures hunt by sound. The first film, released in 2018, was directed by Blunt’s husband John Krasinski, who also co-starred as her character’s husband. The second film, released in 2021, introduced Cillian Murphy as a new ally for the family. Both films were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, and a third film has been rumored for a while.

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Prior to a couple of months ago, Bob Dylan had only played covered four Grateful Dead songs (“Friend of the Devil,” “West L.A. Fadeaway,” “Alabama Getaway,” “Black Muddy River”) throughout his entire career as a live performer. He added two more into the mix (“Truckin'” and “Brokedown Palace”) during a Japanese leg of the Never Ending Tour in April, and during a stop in Barcelona, Spain on Friday night he broke out a beautiful rendition of “Stella Blue” from the Dead’s 1973 LP Wake of the Flood:

Since returning...

Stevie Nicks recently announced that she’ll be releasing a complete studio albums and rarities box set on July 28. The career-spanning collection is available as 16Lp and 10Cd sets as well as digitally. There are only 3,000 copies of the 16Lp set that features several albums that are making their vinyl debut, including Street Angel, Trouble in Shangri-La, and In Your Dreams.

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The collection showcases albums spanning over four decades of the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman‘s career, featuring notable titles like Bella Donna (1981), The Wild Heart (1983), Rock a Little (1985), The Other Side of the Mirror (1989), Street Angel (1994), Trouble in Shangri-La (2001), In Your Dreams (2011), and 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (2014).

Several LPs have been newly remastered for this release, specifically Rock a Little, The Other Side of the Mirror, Street Angel, and Trouble in Shangri-La.

In celebration of the announcement, a remastered version of “One More Big Time...

Fleetwood Mac is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the musical prowess of Stevie Nicks. The musician’s entire solo discography will be compiled on a gargantuan upcoming box set, due out July 28th via Rhino. As a preview, you can hear the new remastered version of her 1998 track “One More Big Time Rock and Roll Star” now.

Stevie Nicks: Complete Studio Albums & Rarities will include all eight of Nicks’ solo LPs: Bella Donna (1981), The Wild Heart (1983), Rock a Little (1985), The Other Side of the Mirror (1989), Street Angel (1994), Trouble in Shangri-La (2001), In Your Dreams (2011), and 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (2014), a few of which are getting pressed to vinyl for the very first time. The 10-cd, 16-lp collection also boasts Rarities, a compilation of hard-to-find tracks that have never had a proper release.

Complete Studio Albums & Rarities is topped off with plenty of remasters, all...

In 2012, Bruce Springsteen felt starstruck to be in a room with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts. He was joining The Rolling Stones in concert in New Jersey, something that would have felt like a dream to his childhood self. Springsteen explained that he found Richards particularly impressive. He’d learned to play his first guitar solo through Richards’ playing. He also thought the guitarist was the most spectrally beautiful person he’d seen.

Bruce Springsteen shared what it’s like to see Keith Richards in person

When Springsteen was growing up, he dreamed of getting onstage and replacing Jagger in concert. Years later, he lived out a version of this dream. In 2012, he joined The Rolling Stones onstage to sing “Tumbling Dice.” He found the experience exhilarating, but he liked the rehearsal even better.

“There are few handlers, no entourage, and I am suddenly transported back...

The Rolling Stones eventually developed into a band capable of writing their own No. 1 hits, but they relied on cover songs and kind composers giving them music on many of their early tunes. John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave the Stones the song that became their first hit. Mick Jagger and Keith Richard gave away a top-10 hit to another musician before The Rolling Stones notched a top-10 tune of their own.

(l-r) Keith Richards and Mick Jagger | Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Mick Jagger and Keith Richards gave away their first top-10 song, ‘That Girl Belongs to Yesterday’

The Beatles mined the catalogs of Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry for some of their earliest hits. The Rolling Stones were no different. They relied on cover songs early in their career. A Berry cover (“Come On”) became the band’s first charting single in July 1963. Their version of Holly...

When Bob Dylan broke out the Grateful Dead’s ‘Truckin’ earlier this week at the Tokyo Garden Theater in Japan, it seemed like a one-off fluke. But then he followed it up at the next show by attempting their song “Brokedown Palace,” though he gave up midway through when he seemingly forgot the words. And then on Saturday, he trotted out another Dead staple, “Not Fade Away.”

“Not Fade Away” was written by Buddy Holly, but the Grateful Dead played it 566 times between 1969 and 1995. Dylan first covered the song in...

After creating one of the greatest TV shows of all time, with HBO’s “The Sopranos,” you’d think David Chase would have turned that into a golden ticket to make years and years of whatever TV shows or films he wanted. Instead, he wrote and directed the 2012 film, “Not Fade Away,” and wrote the ‘Sopranos’ prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark.” That’s it.

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David Chase has set his next series at FX with Hannah Fidell with Chase and Fidell attached as creators and co-writers.

The series, which is in development with a pilot commitment, is based on a previously unproduced script by “The Sopranos” director featuring a contemporary take by Fidell.

Fidell is set to direct the pilot with FX Productions producing the pilot. Chase, Fidell and Chase Films’ Nicole Lambert will serve as executive producers.

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In addition to creating HBO drama series “The Sopranos,” which collected 21 Emmys through its time on air, Chase also created “Rockford Files” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” and made his feature film debut with “Not Fade Away.” “The Many Saints of Newark,” the feature film prequel to “The Sopranos” was released in 2021 by Warner Bros.

Currently under a first look film and television deal with Warner Bros. Discovery,...

The Sopranos creator David Chase is getting into business with FX.

Chase and A Teacher creator Hannah Fidell are co-writing and co-creating a drama for the Disney-owned outlet. Details are being kept quiet, but it’s based on a previously unproduced script of Chase’s, with a contemporary take by Fidell.

FX Productions is behind the project, which has a pilot commitment. Fidell will also direct; Chase, Fidell and Chase Films’ Nicole Lambert are executive producing.

The project landing at FX is something of a surprise considering Chase signed a five-year, first-look TV and film deal with Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2021, as his Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark was being released.

The Sopranos, of course, is considered among the greatest TV dramas of all time and won 21 Emmys during its 1999-2007 run on HBO, including two best drama honors and three writing awards for Chase. Since the show’s end,...

Exclusive: Aggregate Films is developing and will produce a feature adaptation of the hit Off-Broadway play Amy and the Orphans, with Jamie Brewer set to reprise the title role, which earned her both a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award in 2018.

Lindsey Ferrentino will adapt her play for the screen, also here making her directorial debut. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan are developing and producing for Aggregate, with Tracey Nyberg also on board to produce.

In Amy and the Orphans, three adult siblings come together in Montauk after the death of their father and confront the truths of their childhood. Amy has Down syndrome and has spent almost her entire life in group homes, and her older siblings Maggie and Jacob come to realize that she is perhaps a very different person than they had thought.

Edward Barbanell is set for a new role written for the screen,...

Exclusive: Bella Heathcote (Pieces of Her) and Asif Ali (Don’t Worry Darling) will lead the survival drama Roof, marking the directorial debut of Salvatore Sciortino, which has wrapped production in Los Angeles.

The films tells the story of two co-workers who accidentally get locked on the roof of a skyscraper during the hottest holiday weekend in years. Lacking any water and unable to communicate with the outside world, they attempt increasingly dangerous ways to escape as their health rapidly deteriorates in the heat. At the same time, an unexpected friendship blooms as they mutually realize just how badly they have wrecked their lives.

Josh Tate wrote the script and is producing alongside recent Sundance Producing Lab Fellow, Austin Sepulveda. The film was supported by a grant from Curt Willis and the Visit Knoxville Film Office, with part of the shoot having taken place in Knoxville.

“I feel incredibly fortunate to...

Much like its parent show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel" relied heavily on metaphor. However, while "Buffy" dealt with the high school experience, only truly going dark in its later seasons, "Angel" always sought to tell more adult-oriented stories. The spin-off never quite reached the same heights of the original, but it came pretty damn close, and there are certain aspects of the series that were even stronger. For one, just about every character who made the jump from "Buffy" to "Angel" was the better for it. Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), Wesley (Alexis Denisof), Faith (Eliza Dushku), and Darla (Julie Benz) all went from being relatively one-dimensional, to becoming some of the best characters in the entire Buffyverse. Even Harmony (Mercedes McNab) was vastly improved.

Perhaps the biggest revelation was Angel (David Boreanaz) himself. A broody hunk who was far more interesting when he actually went evil, Buffy's former beau was...

Philco — the one-off supergroup led by the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh alongside Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Nils Cline, Margo Price, and more — made their debut Friday night at Chicago’s Sacred Rose Festival.

The concert, which coincided with Tweedy’s 54th birthday, saw the Wilco frontman take lead vocals on Dead classics like “Dire Wolf,” “U.S. Blues,” “Franklin’s Tower,” and “Ripple.”

According to Jambase, the Philco lineup was rounded out by Dead and Company keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, guitarists Stu Allen and Grahame Lesh, vocalist Elliott Peck,...

"The Sopranos" isn't the first gangster show on television and it won't be the last, but it certainly made the biggest splash. Over six sprawling seasons from 1999 to 2007, David Chase's HBO series told the story of his own warped family dynamic, infused into a mobster's mid-life crisis. A decade and a half after its finale, the show has become one of the most celebrated of all time.

In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Chase talked about the show and the lessons that came of it. The "Not Fade Away" director was no stranger to writing for episodic tv; prior credits include "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and private eye series "The Rockford Files." It was on these shows that Chase learned the boundaries of network television writing – "Rockford" taught that he could make his hero do all sorts of awful acts as long as he's competent at what he does.

Exclusive: UTA has signed actorJohn Magaro, who landed a Gotham Award nomination for his starring turn in Kelly Reichardt’s 2019 Western First Cow, for representation in all areas.

Magaro will next be seen on the film side in Celine Song’s drama Past Lives, opposite Greta Lee. He also stars opposite Michelle Williams in the Cannes-bound art world dramedy Showing Up, which reunites him with his First Cow director, Reichardt.

The actor is currently shooting a role in George Tillman Jr.’s as-yet-untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony. He recently played a supporting role in the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark from Warner Bros. and New Line, which reunited him with David Chase following his role in Not Fade Away.

Magaro was previously a co-lead in Eytan Rockaway’s Lansky, opposite Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington. Previously, he appeared in Adam McKay’s The Big Short for Paramount,...

Exclusive: Jack Huston (House of Gucci) has signed on to star alongside Isabelle Fuhrman and Don Johnson in Andy Tennant’s thriller Unit 234, which is currently in production in the Cayman Islands.

In the film penned by Derek Steiner, a lone employee at a remote storage facility (Fuhrman) discovers an unconscious man locked inside Unit 234, chained to a gurney and missing a kidney. She must then fight to survive a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo…at any cost.

Blythe Frank, Hadeel Reda, Lee Dreyfuss and Productivity Media’s William Santor and Doug Murray are producing, with Johnson, Colleen Camp and Radiant Films International founder Mimi Steinbauer serving as executive producers. Radiant is launching international sales of the film at the upcoming Cannes Marché du Film.

Huston recently starred alongside Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Al Pacino, Jared Leto and more in Ridley Scott’s Oscar-nominated drama...

Sammy Hagar, Bob Weir, and Ronnie Dunn walk into a theater… While it sounds like the setup to a music nerd’s joke or the opening of the Seventh Seal, this actually happened onstage in Nashville on Tuesday night when the Grateful Dead guitarist and the singing half of Brooks & Dunn made a joint cameo at Hagar’s Ryman Auditorium concert.

Midway through Hagar’s show with the Circle — the classic-rock torchbearers of Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, Led Zeppelin drummer scion Jason Bonham, and Evh-inspired guitarist Vic Johnson — the...

Exclusive: Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro and Shein Mompremier (Black Lightning) have joined the cast of Sony Pictures and Affirm Films’ untitled biopic of legendary two-time world heavyweight champion George Foreman, from director George Tillman Jr..

They will star alongside previously announced cast members including Khris Davis, Sullivan Jones, and Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker.

The film will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman, from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship at age 45, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.

Tillman Jr. and Frank Baldwin penned the screenplay,...

A moment of silence, please, for “This Is Spinal Tap,” as that satire formally abdicates its title as the best and truest movie ever made about what it’s like to be in a rock ‘n’ roll band. There was something wonderful, silly and sad about how, up until now, musicians had to look to the fabricated saga of an unabashedly terrible group to be able to say, “Yes, this is our story.” Heaven knows there’ve been other fictional tales that tried to pull off that same kind of Everyband story while treating rock with a modicum of dignity, too — some with a bit of success (“That Thing You Do!”), others not so much so (David Chase’s “Not Fade Away”). And we’ve seen our share of rock documentaries that brilliantly captured an artist at a singular moment in time, and/or looked to unwrap a riddle wrapped...

Fresh from the release of The Many Saints of Newark, The Sopranos prequel feature, David Chase has signed a five-year, first-look deal with WarnerMedia.

The deal covers film and TV and will see Chase develop content for HBO, HBO Max and Warner Bros. Pictures Group.

It comes as the movie, which stars Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti and James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini as a young Tony Soprano, is released today, October 1, in theaters and via HBO Max.

In addition to The Many Saints of Newark and The Sopranos, which launched on HBO in 1999 and is widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time, Chase directed rock n roll feature Not Fade Away, which came out in 2012. Nicole Lambert is the EVP of Chase Films and producer of The Many Saints of Newark alongside Chase.

Deadline understands that there are no current plans for a spinoff...

Considered, along with Mad Men and Breaking Bad, one of the definitive, defining series of long-form, serial storytelling and TV’s New Golden Age, The Sopranos, creator David Chase’s innovative mob family drama, ended its award-winning, zeitgeist-redefining run with a fade-to-black in 2007 that remains incredibly divisive fourteen years later. Chase eventually moved on to write and direct a modestly received period drama, Not Fade Away five years after The Sopranos aired its final episode on HBO. Chase went silent for almost a decade, eventually deciding to return to the Sopranos universe not with a sequel series or a standalone film, but with The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel tracing the central, toxic influence on...

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Exclusive: Call it an offer he couldn’t refuse. After The Sopranos creator David Chase told Deadline in today’s interview that he would be interested in doing another film about the formative years of Tony Soprano — as long as it meant reuniting with longtime series writer and executive producer Terence Winter, Deadline reached out to Winter, who said: “The idea of doing another one, and doing it with David, I’d be in in a heartbeat. Absolutely.”

Before fans of The Sopranos get too hot and bothered about the idea of another film tracing the formative years of the core cast, The Many Saints of Newark has to please Warner Bros and New Line, the studios that made it. There is a solid cast in that film that plays younger versions of the series stalwarts. Michael Gandolfini plays young Tony; Vera Farmiga plays his mother, Livia; and Jon Bernthal plays his father,...

Exclusive: Some 14 years after he said all he had to say about a Jersey mob family, and ended The Sopranos in shocking fashion, it turns out David Chase has much more to say. The result is The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel of sorts set against the Newark race riots, and focusing on charming sociopath mobster Dickie Moltisanti. He is the father of Christopher, Tony’s right-hand man in the series played by Michael Imperioli (who makes his presence known in a way we’ll leave as a surprise). Dickie is a mentor to young Tony (played by the late James Gandolfini’s son Michael), and an ally of Harold McBrayer (played by Leslie Odom Jr), an up-and-coming gangster on the Black side of town who becomes his mortal enemy.

Although he oversaw an iconic dramatic show that became the template for auteur series and put HBO on the map,...

When Michael Gandolfini arrived at Vera Farmiga’s house to meet her for the first time, he had a bouquet of flowers in hand, like a dutiful son visiting his mother. Which he more or less was, since he would be playing the teenage Tony Soprano to her Livia in the Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark (in theaters and on HBO Max October 1st). As a young actor with a modest résumé who snagged such a huge role partly because he was the son of James Gandolfini,...

Less than two weeks after the Rolling Stones arrived in America for the first time back in June 1964, they headed to The Mike Douglas Show to perform their cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” This was the pinnacle of Beatlemania, and the segment features predictable interview questions (“Do you know the Beatles, gentlemen?”), but it begins with Douglas shaking hands with each member of the band and asking for their names.

As always, Charlie Watts is the most impeccably dressed member of the band, since none of the...

If you’re going to make a prequel movie to “The Sopranos,” then you better let at least one “Sopranos” cast member to consult on the final cut. Such was the case for Steven Van Zandt, the E Street Band guitarist who starred as Silvio Dante in the Emmy-winning HBO mafia drama. “The Sopranos” prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark,” includes a younger iteration of Silvio played by “First Cow” actor John Magaro. Van Zandt recently told SiriusXM (via THR) that creator David Chase showed early cuts of the movie to him and asked for feedback.

“I saw several of the early cuts,” Van Zandt said. “He’s been tinkering now with it for a couple of years. So it may be a whole different movie by the time I see it again. He wanted me and [wife and fellow ‘Sopranos’ actress] Maureen to see it and give him some input. Silvio is in it,...

Legends aren’t born. They’re made. A prequel to The Sopranos, watch the new trailer for The Many Saints Of Newark.

The film is slated for release in theaters nationwide on September 24, 2021 and will be available in the U.S. on HBO Max for 31 days from theatrical release. It is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and has been rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content and some nudity.

New Line Cinema’s “The Many Saints of Newark” is the much-anticipated feature film prequel to David Chase’s groundbreaking, award-winning HBO drama series “The Sopranos.” Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful Dimeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes,...

Hulu’s list of new releases for June 2021 is highlighted by a host of useful library titles and one fascinating original film.

The original film in question is the one that lends its delightful photo of Pierce Brosnan delivering a baby to this post. False Positive stars and was written by Ilana Glazer (Broad City). It sounds like a really fun, creepy time with a synopsis that reads: “After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy (Glazer) and Adrian (Justin Theroux) finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle (Pierce Brosnan). But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through Hindle’s gleaming charm, and she sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about him, and her own “birth story.” Cool!

Hulu’s other original offerings aren’t too inspiring this month. Only Love, Victor season 2 on June 11 moves the needle much.

Exclusive: Alan Taylor is swapping 1970s New Jersey for 1980s California for his next project.

The director, whose The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark is set for a September release, is to helm a TV adaptation of fantasy novel Stone Junction.

Taylor knows the fantasy world well, having directed numerous episodes of Game of Thrones and Thor: The Dark World.

The adaptation is being produced by Peter Luo’s Starlight Media, which backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, and written by The Man in the High Castle and Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams writers Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell. Taylor, Luo, and Brandan Dennehy will produce.

Based on Jim Dodge’s book, Stone Junction is set in a mythologized early 80s California, and depicts the fantastical childhood and adolescence of Daniel Pearse and culminates with his battle for life against oblivion. Like Tom Sawyer taking the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,...

Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino is adapting her stage show “Amy and the Orphans” into a feature film at Netflix.

Ferrentino will write and direct the movie, marking her feature directorial debut. Aggregate Films is producing “Amy and the Orphans.”

The story follows estranged siblings Maggie and Jake, who are adults by the time their elderly father dies, but still wish a “grown up” could sort it out. Their biggest worry is determining how to break the bad news to their sister Amy, a person with Down syndrome who has lived in a state home for years. Over a Thanksgiving weekend, in which they travel to Long Island, the three siblings find out just how much they don’t know about their family — and each other.

The stage show premiered at the Roundabout Theater Company in New York. Jamie Brewer, who portrayed Amy in the Off-Broadway production, became the first actor with...

Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony Award nominee and one of Broadway’s most acclaimed and popular musical actresses, died today at a New York City hospital following a nearly yearlong battle with Als, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was 59.

Her death was confirmed to The New York Times by her agent Sarah Fargo. Luker was married to Broadway actor Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!).

The actress announced in February that she’d been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tweeting: “Hello friends. I have some tough news. Late last year I was diagnosed with Als. I have the best medical care in the world and the greatest support. My dear husband Danny has been an angel. I will get well. In the meantime, we fight and go forward. Keep us in your thoughts.”

Luker’s Als announcement was met with an outpouring of support from colleagues and fans alike — from Betty Buckley...

“Driving Miss Daisy” director Bruce Beresford is directing a biopic on the life of Buddy Holly called “Clear Lake,” and the independent film has cast Ruairi O’Connor, best known for his role in the Starz miniseries “The Spanish Princess,” to star as the rock ‘n’ roll icon.

“Clear Lake” tells the story of how Buddy Holly and other famous musicians of the late 1950s gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll while changing the trajectory of civil rights in America, all leading up to “The Day The Music Died,” when Holly died in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959, along with Ritchie Valens, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson.

Rick French (“Not Without Hope”) is producing for Prix Productions along with Stuart Benjamin of Stuart Benjamin Productions.

The filmmakers on “Clear Lake” spent six months searching for its Buddy Holly, someone who both resembled...

Irish actor Ruairi O’Connor will play rock ‘n’ roll icon Buddy Holly in the biopic “Clear Lake” with a tentative production start date set for the spring.

O’Connor, who stars as a young King Henry VIII in the Starz miniseries “The Spanish Princess,” was selected following a six-month search by the producers and casting directors at Presser/Well Casting to find the right actor who both resembled Holly and could handle vocals and instrumentation on classic songs such as “Everyday,” “That’ll Be the Day” and “Not Fade Away.”

The BMG-backed “Clear Lake” will helmed by Bruce Beresford, who received Oscar nominations for the “Breaker Morant” script and for directing “Tender Mercies.” He also directed “Driving Miss Daisy,” which won the Academy Award for best picture. Producers are Rick French (“Not Without Hope”) of Prix Productions and Stuart Benjamin of Stuart Benjamin Productions.

“Clear Lake” tells the story of...

In recording over 50 episodes of the Four Quadrant podcast, this writer has rarely been so surprised you could categorize it as “shocked.” That wasn’t the case when speaking to actor John Magaro last week. The “Not Fade Away” and “Carol” star admitted he didn’t have one, not one, oily cake on the set of Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow.” How can you say no to what is essentially a fried donut when you’ve made them all day on set?

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With the acclaimed A24 title First Cow coming to VOD next week, now seems like a perfect time to re-post the chat I had with star John Magaro. We talked plenty about the movie, to be sure, but also just about what interests him as an actor. Sitting down in a Manhattan coffee shop with him, we spent over a half hour talking about not just his career, but the directors he’s worked with, how he sees the job of an actor, and what the future of the industry might hold. He was even a bit surprised to hear how fond I was of his roles in Liberal Arts and Not Fade Away, two performances that helped put him on the map, along with high profile films like The Big Short. It was a wide ranging chat, but one enjoyed by both sides. First Cow (review found here) is...