Prime Video releases creepy trailer to ‘Cross’, starring Aldis Hodge
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Prime Video has released the trailer to Cross, the new series starring Aldis Hodge as author James Patterson‘s brilliant detective Alex Cross.
The trailer shows the criminal psychologist on the hunt for a vicious serial killer who wears a creepy realistic mask.
“I don’t kill for fun,” the killer says. “You’re going to be part of a masterpiece. And when I’m done, the world will know the truth.
Set to Marvin Gaye‘s “Trouble Man,” the trailer shows Cross plying his unique skills. “Multiple victims are connected to this,” he tells a police colleague.
Things turn personal when the taunting killer comes knocking at Cross’ door.
“You think you can stop him?” a fellow cop asks him. “I know I can,” Cross replies, “because I know him better than he knows himself.”
The series debuts Nov. 14, but was already renewed for a second season back in May.
One of the most recognized names in Hollywood is going after one of the most recognized trades about Hollywood.
Francis Ford Coppola is suing Variety — and two of its writers specifically — for libel over articles that alleged he made unwanted advances toward female extras on his movie Megalopolis.
The coverage claimed Coppola hugged, kissed and danced with extras behind the scenes of a party scene in the film.
Incidentally, Lauren Pagone, one of those actresses quoted in an Aug. 2 follow-up article, has sued “the filmmaker and others in Georgia forcivil battery, civil assault, and negligent failure to prevent sexual harassment,” according to Deadline.
Coppola’s motion, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, doesn’t mention that lawsuit.
However, the trade says his suit claims the original July 26 article contains “false and defamatory statements” meant to “damage” his reputation and cause him “severe emotional distress.”
Deadline quotes the suit from Coppola’s attorneys: “Some people are creative. Very few people are creative geniuses. In the world of motion pictures, Plaintiff Francis Ford Coppola … is a creative genius. Some people are jealous and resentful of genius. Those people therefore denigrate and tell knowing and reckless falsehoods about those of whom they are jealous.”
Further, it says, “Variety Media, LLC … its writers and editors, hiding behind supposedly anonymous sources, accused Coppola of manifest incompetence as a motion picture director, of unprofessional behavior on the set of his most recent production,” adding, “Each of these accusations was false and knowingly so.”
Coppola is seeking $15 million in damages.
After the original Variety piece broke, Deadline ran an interview with another extra, Rayna Menz, who insisted the director “did nothing to make me or for that matter anyone on set feel uncomfortable.”
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Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk, Succession‘s Kieran Culkin, and actor and comedian Bill Burr will tackle David Mamet‘s classic drama Glengarry Glen Ross in 2025.
The revival of the Tony-winning play will mark the Broadway debuts of Odenkirk and Burr.
For those unfamiliar with the landmark play, or the 1992 film adaptation that starred Alec Baldwin, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon, Glengarry centers on the ruthless and desperate salesmen of a cutthroat Chicago real estate office.
Glengarry Glen Ross will debut this spring at a venue to be announced at a later date, along with additional casting information. The production will be directed by Tony and Olivier Award winner Patrick Marber.
The rumored tension on the set between producer and star Blake Lively and her co-star and director Justin Baldoni on the film It Ends with Us has apparently ensnared Lana Del Rey.
While Lively and Baldoni haven’t commented publicly on the growing number of headlines that they butted heads making the adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s bestseller, a Blake interview with Hits Radio UK on Sunday added fuel to the fire.
Lively admitted she “wasn’t supposed to be talking about this,” but claims “they” — without naming Baldoni — “begged me” to take Lana’s song “Cherry” out of the movie.
Blake rolled her eyes when asked why that was the case, offering, “they felt like it was too charged and heavy” for the scene.
She insisted the choice was appropriate because her character Lily’s relationship with Baldoni’s Ryle, which turns abusive, is “still good … at that point.”
However, when Brandon Sklenar‘s character Atlas enters, “there’s conflict, there’s pain, there’s turmoil, there’s tension. You’re like, ‘Oh my God, my soulmate, the one that got away in my life.'”
This is just the latest inkling of the rumors of tension between the pair, who didn’t pose for pictures together at the movie’s premiere.
A source recently told Page Six, “It’s not just Blake. None of the cast enjoyed working with Justin.”
People also quoted an anonymous source who said, “The principal cast and Colleen Hoover will have nothing to do with him.”
The Daily Mail claims set sources said Baldoni was “chauvinistic” and “borderline abusive” playing the domestic abuser, and took rewrites — some “guided” by Hoover and at least one written by Blake’s husband, Ryan Reynolds — personally.
That said, some snarkers online have dinged Lively for giving the impression that the heavy drama is a rom-com.
