Lina Esco from S.W.A.T. joins Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Joe Carnahan’s RIP

Lina Esco of the CBS series S.W.A.T. has joined Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in the Joe Carnahan crime thriller RIP Best known for playing the character Chris Alonso on 106 episodes of the CBS TV series S.W.A.T., Lina Esco has now become the latest actor to sign on for a role in RIP, a … Read more

Gal Gadot to rip through London in a race against time as the star of the Kevin Macdonald-directed thriller

Gal Gadot and Kevin Macdonald are joining forces for The Runner, a thriller that finds a woman locked in a race against time to save her son. After conquering the DCEU, riding shotgun in the Fast and Furious franchise, and taking hackers to task in Netflix’s Heart of Stone, Gal Gadot is locked into a … Read more

Cole Hauser Talks Yellowstone Season 6, ‘Interested’ In Story About Rip & Beth

Yellowstone star Cole Hauser has opened up about a potential Yellowstone Season 6, and said he’d love to keep telling stories about his and Kelly Reilly’s characters. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the premiere of Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2, Hauser — who plays Rip Wheeler in the series — said that he would … Read more

Lanterns’ Kyle Chandler Cast in RIP Netflix Movie With Ben Affleck & Matt Damon

Kyle Chandler, who will soon play Hal Jordan in the DCU series Lanterns, has joined the cast of RIP. RIP is a new Netflix crime thriller movie that is being directed by Joe Carnahan. Carnahan previously made 2006’s Smokin’ Aces, 2010’s The A-Team, 2011’s The Grey, and 2021’s Copshop, among other titles. Per The Hollywood … Read more

Catalina Sandino Moreno and Nestor Carbonell join RIP

Catalina Sandino Moreno and Néstor Carbonell will star in Joe Carnahan’s crime thriller RIP alongside Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Back in June, we heard that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are set to share the screen again in RIP, a crime thriller that’s written and directed by Joe Carnahan and is set up at the Netflix streaming … Read more

The Hard Way, Or My Way? RIP Bill Cobbs (1934-2024) | Tributes

Cobb’s presence could help sell narratives of historical trauma because he could so easily project internal conflict. That he’d been hiding something, swallowing years of injustice, now worn as a perpetual scowl. In movies like “Carolina Skeletons,” “Ghosts of Mississippi,” and the incredible “Nightjohn,” he’s a man who’s seen it all. “Nightjohn” is the best … Read more

R.I.P. Clarence Avant, Godfather of Black Entertainment (1931-2023) | Tributes

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 09: (L-R) Alex Avant, Jacqueline Avant, Clarence Avant, Nicole Avant, and Ted Sarandos attend the Pre-GRAMMY Gala and GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Clarence Avant at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 9, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) When I … Read more

R.I.P. Film and Opera Renaissance Director William Friedkin (1935-2023) | Chaz’s Journal

I am on the board of the LA Opera, and the President and CEO, Christopher Koelsch, notified us of the quite extensive opera background of Friedkin’s that I was not aware of. “Billy had a profound impact on the LAO community with his extraordinarily insightful and extremely popular productions of Bluebeard’s Castle/Gianni Schicchi (2002), Ariadne auf Naxos (2004) and Il Tabarro/Suor … Read more