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Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) will play the title role in Grendel, a live-action monster flick from The Jim Henson Company, for which Palisades Park Pictures is launching international sales ahead of Cannes. Grendel is the tale of the legendary monster at the heart of the Beowulf epic poem who steps…

Painful snubs by the Television Academy have become an unfortunate fact of life, but the ongoing, across-the-board thumbs down for Yellowstone — not to mention the neglect for 1883 this year in the key acting categories — is particularly notable given the popularity of the two Taylor Sheridan dramas. After four…

The cast of 1883 already miss their days on set of the Paramount+ drama, but make no mistake: the days and nights were brutal on the Yellowstone prequel. Sam Elliott Apologizes For ‘Power Of The Dog’ Comments: “I Said Some Things That Hurt People And I Feel Terrible About That”  While promoting the series Sunday on a…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Elliott on Sunday apologized for the comments he made last month about the film The Power of the Dog on Marc Maron's WTF podcast and had a special message for Jane Campion, who won the Oscar for directing the Western drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch. "I told the WTF podcaster that I thought Jane…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit.  I always have begun this column with the above line that it is all about “events and conversations on the awards circuit”, but sadly in the past two years the great percentage of those “events and conversations” have moved online into the virtual…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from Sunday’s Season 1 finale of Paramount+’s 1883. Larry McMurtry was a literary inspiration for writer-director Taylor Sheridan, who took a page from the miniseries adaptation of that late author’s Lonesome Dove by scattering the harsh terrain with the bodies of its most…

Before premiering the first two episodes of his Yellowstone origin story 1883 last Saturday at Wynn Las Vegas, Taylor Sheridan described the pace of Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, at least when ViacomCBS' just-launched streaming service Paramount+ dictates the timing. "I was going off to do Mayor of Kingstown…

Paramount+ released a first look trailer for 1883 during Yellowstone‘s Season 4 premiere on Sunday night featuring Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, and Sam Elliott. Season 4's first two episodes serve as a launchpad for the prequel series 1883, premiering Dec. 19. 1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west…

EXCLUSIVE: 1883, the origin story of how Yellowstone‘s Dutton Family came to own the largest ranch in Montana, began production yesterday in Fort Worth, TX. Taylor Sheridan, who wrote all 10 of Season 1’s episodes, is directing the pilot. He has added to the principal cast Isabel May (Alexa & Katie) who’ll play Elsa…

Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone has firmed a November 7 Season 4 launch on the Paramount Network with a two-episode premiere that will launch two series MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios has dated to premiere exclusively on Paramount+: Mayor of Kingstown and the Yellowstone prequel 1883. Mayor of Kingstown will…

Big news on the Yellowstone prequel series. Paramount+ and MTV Entertainment Studios have set Sam Elliott to star with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill in 1883, the Taylor Sheridan-created prequel to the network’s signature hit drama Yellowstone. 101 Studios and Bosque Ranch Productions will serve as production partners on…

Peacock is stacking up the cast of MacGruber, the eight-episode action comedy series based on Will Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke have joined the series, from Universal Television, joining Forte…