Month: April 2025

Peacock has announced that David Alan Grier, Lauren Tom, Lili Taylor, Natasha Leggero and Richard Kind have joined Season 2 of the mystery-drama Poker Face, joining the previously announced Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, Alia Shawkat, Carol Kane and David Krumholtz. Season 1 of the series premiered on Peacock in 2023 and earned four Emmy nominations (including one win for guest star Judith Light).

Executive producer Rian Johnson’s mystery-of-the-week series stars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a de facto detective with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone’s lying.  Tony Tost is the show-runner, with Lyonne also an executive producer. Johnson and Lyonne wrote in a joint statement teasing the new season: “Charlie Cale is back on the run, and in Season 2 we’ve taken her journey to the next level one murder mystery at a time. From minor league baseball to big box retail, from funeral homes to alligator farms and even a grade school talent show, Charlie navigates her crime solving existential road-trip with deadpan wit, human empathy, and her signature uncanny lie-detecting ability.”

The streamer had previously-released first-look images from the upcoming 12-episode season, which features additional guest stars including:  Awkwafina, Ben Marshall, B.J. Novak,  Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Corey Hawkins, Cynthia Erivo, Davionte “GaTa” Ganter, Ego Nwodim, Gaby Hoffmann, Giancarlo Esposito, Haley Joel Osment, Jason Ritter, John Cho, John Mulaney, Justin Theroux, Kathrine Narducci, Katie Holmes, Kevin Corrigan, Kumail Nanjiani, Margo Martindale, Menalie Lynskey, Patti Harrison, Sam Richardson, Sherry Cola and Simon Rex.

Peacock also revealed the premiere date for Season 2 of Poker Face, and shared a new teaser trailer with the caption: “New lies detected #PokerFace Season 2 arrives May 8 on Peacock.”  The preview shared glimpses of Season 2 guest stars Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, Awkwafina, Justin Theroux, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Taylor Schilling, Kumail Nanjiani and Melanie Lynskey.

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Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal star in the trailer for their upcoming flick ‘The Accountant 2’, the follow-up to the 2016 original film The Accountant.

The trailer shows Affleck’s character reconnecting with Bernthal after the corpse of J. K. Simmons’ character is shown at the morgue.  Later, the pair find an unusual way of bonding when they end up in a bar fight with other patrons. Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Allison Robertson round out the cast.

Affleck and Matt Damon are producing the film via Artists Equity, with executive producers including Artists Equity’s Dani Bernfeld, Kevin Halloran, Michael Joe and Alison Winter. Scott Lastaiti and Jamie Patricof will also serve as executive producers.

Warners Bros.’ 2016 film collected $86 million at the domestic box office and $155 million globally. It centered on Christian Wolff (Affleck), a certified public accountant on the autism spectrum who has worked for criminal organizations and uses his past as an assassin to protect himself when the Treasury Department closes in on him.

The Accountant 2 hits theaters on April 25; see the trailer – HERE.

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Variety reports that Kiernan Shipka, Jack Farthing, Toheeb Jimoh and Amy James-Kelly have joined the upcoming fourth season of the HBO drama series ‘Industry.’ The eighth-episode fourth season just began production in the UK.

Shipka will play Haley Clay, an executive assistant at payment processor Tender. Farthing will play Edward Smith, a troublemaker and long-time friend of Henry’s. Jimoh will portray Kwabena Bannerman, trader at Mostyn Asset Management. James-Kelly will play Jennifer Bevan, the newly promoted Minister in the Labour government. Minghella plays Whitney Halberstram, the CFO and Founder of Tender.

The new additions join  previously announced new cast member Max Minghella, as well as returning cast Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Ken Leung, Sagar Radia, Kit Harington, and Miriam Petche.

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Apple TV+ released the first trailer for F1, an Apple Original Films production starring Brad Pitt as a former Formula 1 driver who returns to the sport after 30 years.

The film, directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), stars Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a former Formula 1 hotshot whose promising career was cut short by an accident on the track in the 1990s. Hayes is brought back into the Formula 1 fold by his former teammate, Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), who hires the veteran driver to save his struggling team by racing alongside a new partner, rookie driver Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris).

The trailer, featuring “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac, shows the relationship between Hayes and Pearce quickly turn adversarial. The trailer’s YouTube description reads: “As the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in F1, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.” 

There will also be appearances by real life Formula One drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, Max Verstappen, Sergio Pérez, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz Jr., Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon, Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu, Nico Hülkenberg, Kevin Magnussen, Daniel Ricciardo, Yuki Tsunoda, Logan Sargeant and Alexander Albon.

“F1” premiers in theaters on June 27. The film will also be released on Apple TV+ at a later date.

Check out the new trailer – HERE.

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Jeff Daniels will guest-star in Season 3 of Apple TV+‘s Shrinking, playing Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) father. Details of how Jimmy’s dad is introduced on the show are being kept under-wraps for now. Shrinking will be Daniels’ first on-screen role in a comedy series.

Daniels, a two-time Emmy winner, joins a cast that also includes Harrison Ford, Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley; co-creator Brett Goldstein recurred in Season 2.

Jimmy is a therapist mourning the death of his wife Tia (Lilan Bowden) and raising his teen daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell), while getting support from his colleagues Paul (Harrison Ford) and Gaby (Jessica Williams), as well as neighbors Liz (Christa Miller) and Derek (Ted McGinley). Season 2 ended with Jimmy forgiving the drunk driver (Goldstein) who caused the accident that left him widowed, and for how he had previously handled his relationship with his daughter, Alice.

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