Apple TV+ Releases Trailer for Wagner Moura’s New Series “Dope Thief”

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Wagner Moura’s latest role is the real steal…

Apple TV+ has released a new trailer for Dope Thief, starring the 48-year-old Golden Globe-nominated Brazilian actor and Brian Tyree Henry as two long-time friends who pose as feds to “rip off drug dealers”.

The duo end up robbing the wrong country house, unearthing the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard.

“These guys are going to come after us, man,” a distraught Manny Cespedes (Moura) tells Henry’s Ray Driscoll in the trailer. “These people are gonna hurt anybody that we care about,” says Henry’s Ray.

Based on Dennis Tafoya’s book of the same name, Dope Thief hails from Peter Craig and Ridley Scott.

In addition to Henry and Moura, the cast includes Marin Ireland, Kate Mulgrew, Nesta Cooper, Amir Arison and Ving Rhames.

Dope Thief hails from Apple Studios and is being produced by Scott Free Production.

Craig wrote all eight episodes, and will helm one, in his directorial debut.

It will premiere with the first two episodes on Friday, March 14, 2025 followed by new episodes every Friday through April 25 on Apple TV+.

Peacock to Begin Streaming Pedro Pascal’s “The Wild Robot” This Month

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Pedro Pascal is preparing for his Wild-est stream…

After earning nearly $270 million at the worldwide box office in September, The Wild Robot, starring the 49-year-old Chilean actor, will finally be available to stream from home.

The animated film will arrive on Peacock on January 24, and is also currently available to rent/purchase on Prime Video, Apple TV and other video-on-demand platforms.

Directed by Chris Sanders, “The Wild Robot” follows ROZZUM Unit 7134 A.K.A. Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o), an intelligent robot that gets shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. To survive, the robot bonds with the island’s creatures.

The animated film has a voice cast also featuring Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames and others.

The Wild Robot is based on the very popular science fiction book series from writer and illustrator Peter Brown. The first book was released in 2016, while its follow ups The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects were released in 2018 and 2023, respectively.

The Wild Robot was also released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD earlier this month, with prices starting at $19.95 on Amazon.

Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge has called The Wild Robot a “keeper” in his review, writing that the film’s “expressionistic environments can take one’s breath away. Sunsets, sea views and changing seasons suggest scenic calendar art come to life.”

Alfred Molina to Star in the Apple Original Films’ “The Instigators”

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Alfred Molina is an instigator…

The 69-year-old half-Spanish English actor has joined the cast of Apple Original Films’ The Instigators, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.

Molina is among a roster of new cast additions that includes Ving Rhames and Ron Perlman.

The A-list ensemble also includes Hong Chau, Paul Walter Hauser and Michael Stuhlbarg. Doug Liman is directing.

The film follows two thieves who go on the run with the help of one of their therapists after a robbery goes awry. The script was penned by Chuck MacLean and Casey Affleck and was developed by Robinov, Graham and Casey Affleck.

Damon and Ben Affleck are producing through their banner Artists Equity, along with Jeff Robinov and John Graham through Studio 8 and Kevin Walsh through his The Walsh Company.

Molina is coming off reprising role as Doc Ock in Spider-Man: No Way Home and also was seen in the most recent season of FX’s Feud.

First Trailer Released for Gina Rodriguez’s Animated Holiday Film “The Star”

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Tom Castaneda

Gina Rodriguez’s star is rising this holiday season…

The first trailer has been released for the 32-year-old Puerto Rican actress and Jane the Virgin star’s The Star, an animated holiday film in which the animals run the village.

Steven Yuen stars as Bo, a donkey who yearns for a life beyond his daily grind. When finally he summons the courage to break free, his adventure leads him to make friends with a flockless sheep (Aidy Bryant) and ambitious dove (Keegan-Michael Key). Little do they know, but they and a group of eccentric camels and stable animals are about to become unlikely heroes in the Greatest Story Ever Told.

Directed by Timothy Reckart from Carlos Kotkin’s script, the toon features a diverse, big-name voice cast that also includes Zachary Levi as Joseph and, Rodriguez as Mary.

Christopher Plummer plays the villainous King Herod. The animal characters include Kelly Clarkson, Patricia Heaton, Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Anderson, Ving Rhames, Gabriel Iglesias.

Meanwhile Tyler Perry, Tracy Morgan and Oprah Winfrey voice the trio of wise-cracking camels.

The film from Sony Pictures Animation and Affirm Films in association with Walden Media features a new title song by Mariah Carey, and the trailer sports a contemporary take on Stevie Wonder’s yuletide classic “That’s What Christmas Means to Me.”

Columbia Pictures will release The Star on November 10.

Rodriguez Joins Voice Cast of Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Star”

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Tom Castaneda

Gina Rodriguez is wishing on a Star…

The 32-year-old Puerto Rican actress has joined the A-list voice cast of Sony Pictures Animation’s The Star.

The story follows a small but brave donkey named Bo (Steven Yeun) who yearns for a life beyond his daily grind at the village mill. As the logline states: “One day he finds the courage to break free, and finally goes on the adventure of his dreams. On his journey, he teams up with Ruth, a lovable sheep who has lost her flock and Dave, a dove with lofty aspirations. Along with three wisecracking camels and some eccentric stable animals, Bo and his new friends follow the Star and become accidental heroes in the greatest story ever told – the first Christmas.”

In addition to Yeun and Rodriguez, the Golden Globe-winning star of the CW’s Jane the Virgin who will voice Mary in the film, the star-studded voice cast includes Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Tracy Moran, Kris Kristofferson, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelly Clarkson, Gabriel Iglesias, Ving Rhames and Christopher Plummer who will voice King Herod.

Directed by Oscar-nominated writer-director Timothy Reckart, the family-friendly film will be released wide on November 10.

The screenplay was written by Carlos Kotkin from a story by Kotkin and Simon Moore.

First Teaser Released for Molina’s “Monday Mornings” Series

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

It’s only fitting that TNT would release the first teaser trailer for the medical drama Monday Mornings on Monday…

The new series from producer David E. Kelley and practicing neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, stars Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames, Jamie Bamber and Jennifer Finnegan.

Based on the book of the same name by Gupta, the title refers to the hospital’s weekly morbidity and mortality conference, when doctors gather with their peers for a confidential review of complications and errors in patient care.

The action “follows the lives of doctors as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings.”

“It is so realistic! I think I could actually perform surgery in the operating room here on our set… It is mind-bending to see the words from the book come to life here on this amazing Monday Mornings set with these superb actors. We are going to take people into a world of medicine they have never seen before.” said Gupta.

The regular inclusion of the “M&M meetings” is one way the show differs from previous TV medical dramas.

Molina, the 59-year-old half-Spanish actor – who has starred in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, An Education and Chocolat – leads the staff at Chelsea General as Dr. Harding Hooten, the steely-eyed chief of surgery.

The series will premiere on February 4 on TNT.

Click here to view the trailer at EW.com.

TNT Picks Up Molina’s “Monday Mornings”

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

It looks like Alfred Molina has contracted a serious case of the Mondays…

TNT has given a series order to Monday Mornings, a medical drama pilot starring the 58-year-old half-Spanish actor and Ving Rhames.

From Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta—on whose book the project is based—Monday Mornings is a “superb drama brought to life with passion by a gifted ensemble cast and some of the best creative minds working in television today,” said TNT’s head of programming Michael Wright.

Formerly called Chelsea General, the series follows the lives of doctors at the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings. The title refers to the hospital’s weekly morbidity and mortality conference, when doctors gather with their peers for a confidential review of complications and errors in patient care.

Based on a book by Gupta, TNT has picked up 10 episodes of Monday Mornings, which will premiere in summer 2013.

In addition to Molina and Rhames, the series stars Jamie Bamber, Jennifer Finnigan, Bill Irwin, Keong Sim, Sarayu Rao and Emily Swallow.

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