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'The Last Of Us' Video Game Will Get Television Adaption at HBO

HBO has ordered a brand new series based on The Last of Us video game.

According to Variety, the live-action show takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed and centers on Joel, a hardened survivor, who is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone.

What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.

Craig Mazin, who was behind the Emmy-award winning series Chernobyl, and game writer Neil Druckmann, will write and executive produce the show.

“Craig and Neil are visionaries in a league of their own,” Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO Programming, shared in a statement. “With them at the helm alongside the incomparable Carolyn Strauss, this series is sure to resonate with both die-hard fans of ‘The Last of Us’ games and newcomers to this genre-defining saga. We’re delighted to partner with Naughty Dog, Word Games, Sony and PlayStation to adapt this epic, powerfully immersive story.”

The Last of Us video game was first released in 2013 and has garnered many fans. The latest iteration, The Last of Us Part II, was released in June.

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Jessica Chastain to Replace Michelle Williams in Upcoming HBO Series, Will Reteam with Oscar Isaac

Jessica Chastain will be reteaming with longtime friend Oscar Isaac in the upcoming HBO limited series Scenes from a Marriage!

The Oscar-nominated actress is replacing fellow Oscar nominee Michelle Williams, who had to drop out of the project due to “scheduling issues,” according to Deadline.

Jessica and Oscar were actually classmates at Julliard and they worked together on the 2014 movie A Most Violent Year.

Scenes from a Marriage is an adaptation of a 1973 Swedish miniseries from Ingmar Bergman. The new series, which will be written and directed by The Affair co-creator Hagai Levi, “re-examines the show’s iconic depiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple.”

Jessica will also be an executive producer on the project, which will begin shooting soon.

The trailer for one of Jessica‘s very exciting upcoming movies was released earlier this month.

Nicole Kidman's HBO Series 'The Undoing' Gets New Release Date - Watch the Teaser!

Nicole Kidman‘s The Undoing is getting a new release date!

The upcoming limited series was scheduled to premiere on HBO in May, but because of the pandemic, the show will now be premiering on October 25.

The 53-year-old actress stars in The Undoing alongside Hugh Grant, Edgar Ramirez, Lily Rabe, and Donald Sutherland.

The Undoing stars Nicole and Hugh as “Grace and Jonathan Fraser, who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child (Noah Jupe) and her family.”

Nicole has a new show in the works at Amazon! Get the scoop.

'Perry Mason' Renewed for Season 2 at HBO!

Perry Mason is coming back.

HBO is renewing the drama series for a second season, THR confirmed on Wednesday (July 22).

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“It has been an exciting journey to work with the immensely talented team behind Perry Mason. Viewers have relished being transported back in time to 1930s Los Angeles each week, and we are thrilled to welcome the show back for a second season,” said HBO’s Francesca Orsi in a statement.

The show was originally pitched as a feature film for Robert Downey Jr.

If you haven’t watched yet, the show “is based on the character from the Erle Stanley Gardner novels — though it takes place before Mason becomes the defense attorney made familiar by the 1957-66 CBS series. In this Los Angeles noir version, Mason is a low-rent private investigator haunted by his wartime experience in France and suffering from a broken marriage.”

The series stars Matthew Rhys as Mason, with Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Tatiana Maslany and John Lithgow also on the cast.

Michelle Williams & Oscar Isaac Will Star in an HBO Limited Series!

Michelle Williams and Oscar Isaac will lead the cast of an upcoming HBO limited series, Scenes From a Marriage.

The series is an adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman series of the same name, which was released on Swedish television back in 1973.

Variety reports that the “new version is said to re-examine the show’s depiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple.”

Michelle and Oscar will serve as executive producers in addition to starring in the series, which has been in the works at HBO for years.

Last year, Michelle won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her work in the FX series Fosse/Verdon. It sounds like we might be seeing her there again in the future!

Michelle had some exciting news announced last month.

'Real Time With Bill Maher' Might Be the First Late Night Show to Return to a Studio Amid Pandemic

Bill Maher is plotting his return.

The 64-year-old Real Time With Bill Maher host is exploring options to return the HBO series to a studio setting following the summer break, Deadline reported Friday (July 3).

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The show aired its most recent episode, filmed from his home, on June 26. The show is now off the air for a traditional summer break until July 31.

“Producers and the network are looking at how they can get production safely back into the studio on his return. Sources tells Deadline that the show is continuing to monitor options to return to the studio,” the outlet reports.

The move comes as Conan O’Brien became the first late night host to reveal he was leaving his house, and will have a small crew filming at the West Hollywood comedy club, Largo.

Find out how this soap opera became the first U.S. series to resume production amid the global health crisis…

HBO Max Removes 'Gone With the Wind' Amid Global Racial Justice Protests

HBO Max is letting go of Gone With the Wind.

The streaming service quietly removed the Academy Award-winning 1939 film from its selection amid global protests condemning systemic racism and police brutality, various news outlets reported on Tuesday (June 9) following an op-ed by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley in the LA Times about reconsidering the movie’s availability.

“It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color,” he wrote in the piece.

“Currently, there is not even a warning or disclaimer preceding the film. I know taking down a film — particularly a classic Hollywood film — seems like a big request. But it’s not nearly as big a demand as when your children ask whether they can join protests in the streets against racial intolerance, or when they come to you wanting to know what you did to make the world a better place.”

HBO Max then issued a statement to clarify what’s happening: “Gone With The Wind is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society. These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible. These depictions are certainly counter to WarnerMedia’s values, so when we return the film to HBO Max, it will return with a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions, but will be presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. If we are to create a more just, equitable and inclusive future, we must first acknowledge and understand our history.”

Here’s a plot summary of the film: “On the eve of the American Civil War, rich, beautiful and self-centered Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) has everything she could want – except the handsome Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). When war devastates the South, Scarlett must concern herself with more important things than girlhood love. As the nation and the world changes around her, Scarlet finds an adult tenacity that carries her through all obstacles, still in pursuit of what she wants – the man that got away. Sparks fly along the way as the wily Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) comes in and out of her life – the only man she has met who is a match for her strong will. Only after Rhett walks out on her does Scarlett realize what she has lost… and decides to win him back.”

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Gone With the Wind is still available to buy or rent on YouTube Movies.