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How 'Peaky Blinders' Built a Lasting Legacy: Casting, Collaboration and Character Evolution

How 'Peaky Blinders' Built a Lasting Legacy: Casting, Collaboration and Character Evolution

Casting Insights The Industry
March 25, 2026

The long-running British period gangster series Peaky Blinders is getting the movie treatment. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, directed by Tom Harper from a screenplay by Ste ...

How to Tap Into Toronto’s Booming Film & TV Scene Before Everyone Else Does

How to Tap Into Toronto’s Booming Film & TV Scene Befo...

Industry 101 The Industry
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From Routine to Renewal: How Actors Can Keep Long-Running Roles Fresh

From Routine to Renewal: How Actors Can Keep Long-Running Ro...

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‘13 Going On 30′ Reboot Set At Netflix With Emily Bader & Logan Lerman Starring; Brett Haley Directing, Jennifer Garner Aboard As EP

The project reunites Bader with Brett Haley, director of her hit Netflix rom-com People We Meet on Vacation. Plot details for the reboot are under wraps. Haley will direct from a script by Hannah Marks (Mark, Mary, & Some Other People) with revisions by Flora Greeson (The Princess Diaries 3).

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Paul Walter Hauser Latest To Join Netflix’s Live-Action Scooby-Doo Series

Hauser joins following the casting of the show’s core four: Mckenna Grace as Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley, and Maxwell Jenkins as Fred Jones.

Variety

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Joins Matthew Gray Gubler, Melissa Fumero in CBS Dramedy ‘Einstein’

Ellis-Taylor will appear alongside previously announced lead Matthew Gray Gubler and recently announced costar Melissa Fumero. Ellis-Taylor will star as Capt. Frost, who is described as “a veteran police officer. She has logged ten thousand hours in the field and is counting the days until she retires with her partner.”

Screen Daily

Disney will “continue to engage with AI platforms” as OpenAI shuts down Sora

The Walt Disney Company has said it “will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are” in the wake of Open AI’s announcement on Tuesday that it is shutting down its generative video app Sora.

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