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The Rolling Stones are set to be immortalized on television in a new limited series for FX from the team behind The Crown. The Sticky Fingers rockers are for the first time allowing their music to be used for a drama. FX boss John Landgraf said that they are in advanced talks for the project, which will be written by... https://basedon.news/rolling-stones-drama-series-in-develo/

Michael Douglas and Christoph Waltz will star as former president Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev in a limited series in development at Paramount TV Studios. Douglas will play the 40th U.S. president while Waltz will play Gorbachev, who was General Secretary of the Communist Party for the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. The series is called... https://basedon.news/michael-douglas-and-christoph-waltz-s/

The balm of the storyteller is central to the work of Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an ex-infantryman who travels from town to town in Texas five years after the Civil War, for a modest fee reading lively accounts of events from both nearby and far afield to people in need of healing. That same spirit informs Paul Greengrass' News of the World, an epic Western with an intimate gaze that recalls The Searchers and True Grit, providing Tom Hanks with one of his best roles since the same director's Captain Phillips.... https://basedon.news/news-of-the-world-review-the-hollywoo/

Ben Affleck is in talks with Amazon to star in George Clooney’s upcoming drama The Tender Bar, which is based on the J.R. Moehringer memoir and would be the first direct collaboration between the two Oscar winners. While Clooney and Affleck won Oscars together as producers on the latter’s Best Picture-winning 2012 film Argo, the two actors have never shared the screen or worked in an actor/director capacity together.... https://basedon.news/ben-affleck-to-star-in-george-clooney/

Netflix has released the first trailer for the upcoming historical drama, The Dig. Based on John Preston's 2007 novel of the same name, the story chronicling Britain's most famous archaeological excavation of the 20th century, looks to be an inspiring affair, with some gorgeous cinematography to boot. Directed by Simon Stone (The Daughter), the film stars... https://basedon.news/ralph-fiennes-and-carey-mulligan-make/