Cristin Milioti and Andy Samberg in “Palm Springs” Gal Gadot has a new home for her limited series about screen legend Hedy Lamarr. The eight-episode series is moving from Showtime to Apple TV+ and will be written and produced by Sarah Treem (“The Affair,” “House of Cards,” “In Treatment”). Gadot and her husband Jaron Varsano will executive produce.
The series spans 30 years in Lamarr’s life, from her youth in Vienna to her rise to Hollywood stardom, covering her marriages, her contributions as an inventor to the war effort during World War II, and the troubles and decline she suffered later.
Gadot’s “Wonder Woman 1984,” the sequel that was originally set to open in theaters on June 5, now has an Aug. 14 release date. That may change, of course, depending on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Coronavirus pandemic has already impacted Jon Stewart’s latest project. His latest film, the political comedy “Irresistible,” was originally set to premiere in theaters on May 29, but it will now be available to rent beginning June 26 on Amazon, Apple, DirecTV, and Fandango for $19.99.
Written and directed by Stewart, the film stars Steve Carell as a political consultant to helps a retired Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) run for mayor in a right-wing Wisconsin town. Rose Byrne co-stars as his nemesis, who is representing the competing candidate. Also in the cast: Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace and Natasha Lyonne.
Andy Samberg is bringing his latest film to Hulu on July 10. He’ll star in “Palm Springs,” a romantic comedy that takes place at a wedding there. “We’re subverting a lot of the tropes you usually see in wedding movies and rom-coms,” director Max Barbakow told Variety. “Tonally, it’s that really nice charged area between laughter and deep feeling and then just bonkers stuff. We’re trying a lot of things.”
The movie, also starring Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Camila Mendes, Tyler Hoechlin, and Peter Gallagher, will also be released in drive-in theaters nationwide.
Wedding bells are also ringing in Alicia Silverstone‘s next movie. In the comedy “Sister of the Groom,’ she plays a woman who tries to stop her brother from marrying a much younger French woman. This nuptial affair is set in the Hamptons and co-stars Tom Everett Scott, Jake Hoffman, Noah Silver, Mark Blum, Julie Engelbrecht, and Ronald Guttman. Amy Miller Gross directed from her own screenplay. No release date has been announced.
Yael Grobglas, the Israeli-born actress best known for playing scheming Petra Solano on “Jane the Virgin,” will star in the dark comedy “Here She Lies” for HBO Max. From writer-producer Gracie Glassmeyer and producer Jennie Snyder Urman, the series stars Groblas as a pathological liar with a tragic past who’s trying to extricate herself from the web of lies she has told while falling in love with someone similarly damaged. Groblas will executive produce.
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