EXCLUSIVE: WWE Famous person Liv Morgan will make her movie debut in Yale Leisure’s darkly comedian thriller, The Kill Room. She joins an ensemble that additionally consists of Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar, Larry Pine, Dree Hemingway and Leah McSweeney, as beforehand introduced.
The movie facilities on hitman Reggie (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an artwork supplier (Thurman) and their cash laundering scheme that by chance turns the hitman into an in a single day Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the supplier to play the artwork world towards the underworld. Morgan will play an artwork purist who bemoans the vapidness of artwork sellers.
Nicol Paone is directing from Jonathan Jacobson’s script. Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing below their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Fool Savant Photos, Paone, Thurman, Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Leisure, William Rosenfeld of Such Content material, and Invoice Kenwright of BK Studios. Govt producers embody Robert Kapp, Scott Levenson, Jason Kringstein, Richard Switzer, Ian Niles, Philip W. Shaltz, Bradley Pilz, Michael J. Rothstein, Jesse Korman, Jeffrey Tussi, Michael and Jackie Palkovicz, Vishwas Hannurkar, Jay Burnley, Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Nicholas Wirth and David Gilbery. Yale’s recently-launched gross sales and distribution banner, Nice Escape, is dealing with worldwide gross sales and co-repping U.S. rights with ICM Companions.
Born as Gionna Daddio, Morgan signed with WWE in 2014, shortly thereafter making her TV debut on the affiliated program, NXT. After a number of years spent growing her craft and making a reputation for herself, Morgan took her profession to the following degree by becoming a member of the WWE Smackdown girls’s division in 2017. From there, she would go on to take part within the first-ever Girls’s Royal Rumble match and the inaugural all-women’s Evolution occasion, additionally competing in a number of WrestleManias. Now as a part of the WWE RAW roster, Liv’s reputation inside the WWE universe as one of many model’s prime feminine stars solely continues to develop.
Morgan is represented by APA, WWE and Fox Rothschild.
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EXCLUSIVE: Brooke Timber (Russian Doll) will star alongside Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever, Josh Charles, Elsie Fisher and Jessica Harper within the upcoming drama Reminiscence from director Michel Franco (New Order), which has wrapped manufacturing.
Particulars with regard to the plot of Timber’s first characteristic are being saved below wraps. However the English-language venture is claimed to revolve round a New York Metropolis staycation. We hear that Timber performs the daughter of Chastain’s character.
Teorema is producing the pic in collaboration with Excessive Frequency Leisure, and in affiliation with Display Capital / Display One, Mubi and Case Research Movies. The person producers on the venture are Franco, Eréndira Núñez Larios, Alex Orlovsky and Duncan Montgomery. Moisés Chiver and Paula Perez Manzanedo are exec producing alongside Jack Selby for Excessive Frequency Leisure, Joyce Zylberberg, Tatiana Emden, Ralph Haiek and Patricio Rabuffetti for Display One, Jason Ropell and Efe Cakarel for Mubi, and Michael Weber for The Match Manufacturing facility. ICM Companions is representing North American gross sales, with The Match Manufacturing facility dealing with worldwide.
Timber performs the youthful model of Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia on Netflix’s Russian Doll. She beforehand appeared on Netflix’s collection Maniac, from creators Cary Joji Fukunaga and Patrick Somerville, and is represented by Take 3 Expertise.