Exclusive: Apple TV+ has rounded out the cast for Jessica Chastain-led The Savant, its eight-episode limited series from writer/executive producer/showrunner Melissa James Gibson, Fifth Season and Anonymous Content.
Jordana Spiro (Ozark), Trinity Lee Shirley (Da Bottomz), newcomer Toussaint Francois Battiste (Waiting for Godot), Cole Doman (Mutt), Hannah Gross (The Adults), David Wilson Barnes (George & Tammy), Michael Mosley (The Sinner) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) join previously announced Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha and James Badge Dale, who recurs.
Chastain, who also executive produces, plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
Inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, the storyline and additional character details are being kept under wraps.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing.
Jordana Spiro (Ozark), Trinity Lee Shirley (Da Bottomz), newcomer Toussaint Francois Battiste (Waiting for Godot), Cole Doman (Mutt), Hannah Gross (The Adults), David Wilson Barnes (George & Tammy), Michael Mosley (The Sinner) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) join previously announced Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha and James Badge Dale, who recurs.
Chastain, who also executive produces, plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
Inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, the storyline and additional character details are being kept under wraps.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing.
- 4/3/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Carter Cohn, an alum of the agencies CAA and ICM, has joined Anonymous Content as a manager, Deadline has learned. He starts in his new role effective immediately and will be based out of the company’s Los Angeles office.
Cohn joins from ICM, where he was named founding partner in the agency’s management buyout of 2012. Following the June 2022 acquisition of ICM by CAA, bombshell news which we were first to report, he transitioned to CAA’s Motion Picture department, having begun his career in the industry as a mailroom assistant.
Cohn brings with him a diverse roster of film and television actors and filmmakers including Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Ferguson, SAG Award nominee Kelly Reilly, Joe Manganiello and Marwan Kenzari, to name a few.
Most recently, esteemed management and production company Anonymous Content...
Cohn joins from ICM, where he was named founding partner in the agency’s management buyout of 2012. Following the June 2022 acquisition of ICM by CAA, bombshell news which we were first to report, he transitioned to CAA’s Motion Picture department, having begun his career in the industry as a mailroom assistant.
Cohn brings with him a diverse roster of film and television actors and filmmakers including Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Ferguson, SAG Award nominee Kelly Reilly, Joe Manganiello and Marwan Kenzari, to name a few.
Most recently, esteemed management and production company Anonymous Content...
- 3/27/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Once the Hollywood strikes were over, Fifth Season, run by co-CEOs Chris Rice and Graham Taylor, moved in to get production on six series up and running by January, including The Savant, starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain.
The new limited series for Apple TV+ is the first production under a first-look deal Fifth Season Television has made with Chastain’s Freckle Films (George & Tammy), run by President Kelly Carmichael, to develop and produce projects.
In addition to The Savant, which marks Fifth Season’s seventh series at Apple TV+, other series that ramped up quickly after the strikes include Season 2 of Apple TV+’s Severance and the upcoming The Chief Of War starring Jason Momoa and Lady In the Lake (in post-production) with Natalie Portman — all on Apple TV+ — Season 2 of Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers starring Nicole Kidman and Australian series The Last Anniversary, which Kidman produces.
The new limited series for Apple TV+ is the first production under a first-look deal Fifth Season Television has made with Chastain’s Freckle Films (George & Tammy), run by President Kelly Carmichael, to develop and produce projects.
In addition to The Savant, which marks Fifth Season’s seventh series at Apple TV+, other series that ramped up quickly after the strikes include Season 2 of Apple TV+’s Severance and the upcoming The Chief Of War starring Jason Momoa and Lady In the Lake (in post-production) with Natalie Portman — all on Apple TV+ — Season 2 of Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers starring Nicole Kidman and Australian series The Last Anniversary, which Kidman produces.
- 3/22/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: James Badge Dale is set for a major recurring role in Apple TV+limited series The Savant, starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain. Nnamdi Asomugha also stars in the eight-episode series from writer/executive producer/showrunner Melissa James Gibson, Fifth Season and Anonymous Content.
The Savant is inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, which was written by Andrea Stanley. The storyline and character details are being kept under wraps.
Chastain plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing. Jessica Giles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, executive produces, and Brian Madden, SVP Development for Hearst Magazines, produces. Stanley serves as consultant.
Dale recently wrapped back-to-back lead roles in two indie features,...
The Savant is inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, which was written by Andrea Stanley. The storyline and character details are being kept under wraps.
Chastain plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing. Jessica Giles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, executive produces, and Brian Madden, SVP Development for Hearst Magazines, produces. Stanley serves as consultant.
Dale recently wrapped back-to-back lead roles in two indie features,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Brenda Song is clocking in for Netflix’s upcoming comedy from Mindy Kaling.
The actress has joined the cast of the currently untitled workplace series starring Kate Hudson, who also serves as an executive producer. Song will play Ali Iee, Chief of Staff for the fictional Los Angeles Waves basketball team who’s known Isla (Hudson) since they shared a dorm in college and knows where the bodies are buried.
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The actress has joined the cast of the currently untitled workplace series starring Kate Hudson, who also serves as an executive producer. Song will play Ali Iee, Chief of Staff for the fictional Los Angeles Waves basketball team who’s known Isla (Hudson) since they shared a dorm in college and knows where the bodies are buried.
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- 2/3/2024
- by Keisha Hatchett
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Nnamdi Asomugha (Sylvie’s Love) has been tapped as a lead opposite star and executive producer Jessica Chastain in The Savant, Apple TV+’s new, eight-episode limited series from writer/executive producer/showrunner Melissa James Gibson, Fifth Season and Anonymous Content.
The Savant is inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, which was written by Andrea Stanley.
Chastain plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
This Savant reunites Nnamdi and Jessica who recently worked together on the Netflix film The Good Nurse.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing. Jessica Giles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, executive produces, and Brian Madden, SVP Development for Hearst Magazines, produces. Stanley serves as consultant.
Asomugha recently starred in...
The Savant is inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, which was written by Andrea Stanley.
Chastain plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
This Savant reunites Nnamdi and Jessica who recently worked together on the Netflix film The Good Nurse.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing. Jessica Giles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, executive produces, and Brian Madden, SVP Development for Hearst Magazines, produces. Stanley serves as consultant.
Asomugha recently starred in...
- 2/2/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Cj Enm remains majority stakeholder and endeavor a strategic shareholder.
Fifth Season, the producer and financier formerly known as Endeavor Content, has secured a $225m from strategic investment from Toho International.
The US subsidiary of Toho Co, which just released Godzilla Minus One which has grossed $25.6m after two weekends, owns a 25% equity stake in the company.
Cj Enm remains majority stakeholder and Endeavor Group Holdings continues as strategic shareholder.
Cj Enm and Fifth Season will work with Toho to produce global film and TV and participate in content produced in Japan, while Toho’s development and production executives will team with Fifth Season.
Fifth Season, the producer and financier formerly known as Endeavor Content, has secured a $225m from strategic investment from Toho International.
The US subsidiary of Toho Co, which just released Godzilla Minus One which has grossed $25.6m after two weekends, owns a 25% equity stake in the company.
Cj Enm remains majority stakeholder and Endeavor Group Holdings continues as strategic shareholder.
Cj Enm and Fifth Season will work with Toho to produce global film and TV and participate in content produced in Japan, while Toho’s development and production executives will team with Fifth Season.
- 12/12/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Jessica Chastain doesn’t want to be constrained.
“I’m quite rebellious,” she says from the Marrakech Film Festival, where the star is serving as jury president. “[Whenever] the industry and the world starts seeing me as one kind of actress, I will push against it. [I need] to show that no one’s in charge of me except for me.”
And so, once 2011’s one-two-three punch of Jeff Nichols’ “Take Shelter,” Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” and Tate Taylor’s “The Help” launched the actress into sudden, megawatt stardom – shining on her a glow of festival and auterist prestige, with an Oscar nomination to boot – Chastain immediately signed on to Andy Muschietti’s “Mama,” a horror gem that was never destined for the festival and awards circuit.
Such was her thinking a decade later, when, fresh off her best actress Oscar win for 2021’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” Chastain...
“I’m quite rebellious,” she says from the Marrakech Film Festival, where the star is serving as jury president. “[Whenever] the industry and the world starts seeing me as one kind of actress, I will push against it. [I need] to show that no one’s in charge of me except for me.”
And so, once 2011’s one-two-three punch of Jeff Nichols’ “Take Shelter,” Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” and Tate Taylor’s “The Help” launched the actress into sudden, megawatt stardom – shining on her a glow of festival and auterist prestige, with an Oscar nomination to boot – Chastain immediately signed on to Andy Muschietti’s “Mama,” a horror gem that was never destined for the festival and awards circuit.
Such was her thinking a decade later, when, fresh off her best actress Oscar win for 2021’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” Chastain...
- 11/29/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Jessica Chastain has had her share of memorable acting roles recently, including “The Eyes Of Tammy Faye,” “The Good Nurse,” and “George & Tammy.” But there’s one role she’s itching to return to, if her co-star is up to it: Celia Foote from 2011’s “The Help.”
Read More: ‘The Savant’: Jessica Chastain To Produce & Star In A New Apple TV+ Series
People reports (via EW’s Awardist podcast) that Chastain spoke about how much she’d love to reprise her role from Tate Taylor‘s 2011 film.
Continue reading Jessica Chastain Would Love To Make A Sequel To ‘The Help’ With Octavia Spencer: “How Amazing Would That Film Be?” at The Playlist.
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People reports (via EW’s Awardist podcast) that Chastain spoke about how much she’d love to reprise her role from Tate Taylor‘s 2011 film.
Continue reading Jessica Chastain Would Love To Make A Sequel To ‘The Help’ With Octavia Spencer: “How Amazing Would That Film Be?” at The Playlist.
- 8/17/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Jessica Chastain is sharing her autograph policy. The Oscar winner was recently captured in a viral video turning down signing a copy of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” novel following her performance in Broadway revival of “A Doll’s House” at the Hudson Theatre, outside of which she regularly greets fans.
“I can’t sign that, just because I’m not doing it,” Chastain says to the fan in the video. The “Molly’s Game” star later took to Twitter to explain her reasoning for declining to sign books such as these.
“I’ve been asked multiple times by fans, to sign books that I’m not attached to contractually. Because it feels wrong, and like I’m taking credit for someone else’s work, I’ll say I can’t sign because I’m not doing it,” Chastain wrote. “That doesn’t mean I’ve read a bad script.
“I can’t sign that, just because I’m not doing it,” Chastain says to the fan in the video. The “Molly’s Game” star later took to Twitter to explain her reasoning for declining to sign books such as these.
“I’ve been asked multiple times by fans, to sign books that I’m not attached to contractually. Because it feels wrong, and like I’m taking credit for someone else’s work, I’ll say I can’t sign because I’m not doing it,” Chastain wrote. “That doesn’t mean I’ve read a bad script.
- 4/19/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Netflix has ordered a ‘Scott Pilgrim’ anime series which will see the entire cast from Edgar Wright’s 2010 movie return.
For the series, Michael Cera will return to the role of Scott Pilgrim, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead will reprise her role as Ramona Flowers.
Also back are Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Simmons, Satya Bhabha, Mark Webber, Mae Whitman and Ellen Wong.
https://twitter.com/NetflixAnime/status/1641440152567545859
Also in news – Jessica Chastain signs up for Apple TV series ‘The Savant’
Original comic creator, Bryan Lee O’Malley, ill serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer along with writer BenDavid Grabinski. Wright is also an executive producer.
Wright stated “Original creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, along with writer Ben David Grabinski, have conjured up an anime series of Scott Pilgrim that doesn’t just expand the universe, but also … well,...
For the series, Michael Cera will return to the role of Scott Pilgrim, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead will reprise her role as Ramona Flowers.
Also back are Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Simmons, Satya Bhabha, Mark Webber, Mae Whitman and Ellen Wong.
https://twitter.com/NetflixAnime/status/1641440152567545859
Also in news – Jessica Chastain signs up for Apple TV series ‘The Savant’
Original comic creator, Bryan Lee O’Malley, ill serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer along with writer BenDavid Grabinski. Wright is also an executive producer.
Wright stated “Original creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, along with writer Ben David Grabinski, have conjured up an anime series of Scott Pilgrim that doesn’t just expand the universe, but also … well,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain is ready to take a big bite out of a juicy role at Apple TV+.
Fresh off her co-leading role in Showtime’s George & Tammy, Chastain has signed on to headline and serve as an executive producer on The Savant, Apple TV+ announced on Monday.
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Fresh off her co-leading role in Showtime’s George & Tammy, Chastain has signed on to headline and serve as an executive producer on The Savant, Apple TV+ announced on Monday.
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Although “storyline and...
- 3/27/2023
- by Claire Franken
- TVLine.com
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