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Costume designer Michael Clancy, who worked on My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Ray Donovan, has died. No further details are currently available but Deadline will update this story accordingly.

His friend Naomi Wolff Lachter remembered Clancy and celebrated their friendship via Instagram with a collection of photos. She referred to him as “a true original” and a “brilliant artist.” Clancy and Lachter both worked on the 2010 series, Running Wilde.

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Clancy dressed some of Hollywood’s biggest stars from TV and film in projects including My Big Fat Greek Wedding, We Own The Night, and Party Girl on the big screen; Blue Bloods, Ray Donovan, and Drop Dead Diva for the small screen.

Born in Ireland, Clancy was a global citizen growing up in Kenya before moving to Toronto as a teen followed by his adult years in New York and London.

"What if I pushed you over and over again?" Gravitas has released an official trailer for an indie horror / psychological thriller titled The Madness Inside Me, from filmmaker Matthew Berkowitz. This initially premiered at the Filmfest Oldenburg in Germany last year. A forensic psychiatrist's husband is killed during a home invasion, but instead of identifying the killer, she recants. She stalks the newly released psychopath, deciding whether she wants to kill him, sleep with him, or try to understand him. "Is her relationship with criminals an excuse for her to rebel or is this the person who has always been inside her?" Merrin Dungey stars as Madison, along with Devon Graye, Thomas Q. Jones, and Anthony DeSando. At first glance, this looks like a very artsy exploration of guilt and instability, exploring the deep, dark aspects inside of us. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Matthew Berkowitz's The Madness Inside Me,...

Exclusive: Mailer Tuchman Media has launched with an initial slate of film and TV projects anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author/provocateur.

Mailer’s son, John Buffalo Mailer, is creative director of Mtm, which is both producing and financing. Joining him are Martin Tuchman, the company’s executive producer, and Jennifer Gelfer, executive director.

Mailer is a screenwriter, journalist, playwright, actor, producer and Norman Mailer’s youngest child. His work includes writing and acting in 2017 film Blind, and acting in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Second Sun.

Tuchman is an entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. He is chairman and CEO of The Tuchman Group, a firm with holdings in real estate, banking and international shipping. Gelfer is a director, producer and actor whose credits include In Between Men, Showing Roots, Blind and The Second Sun, which was her feature directing debut.

Mailer is based on J. Michael Lennon’s biography,...

1950: The First Hundred Years premiered.

1981: Falcon Crest premiered.

2000: Port Charles kicked off the "Fate" arc.

2009: Venice premiered."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

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1933: After its August 14 debut on local station Wlw in Cincinnati, radio soap opera Ma Perkins graduated to the NBC Red network in the 3 p.m. Et timeslot. The show was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, the prolific team responsible for numerous radio dramas including Just Plain Bill, Backstage Wife and Young Widder Brown.

In his New Yorker essay “O Pioneers!

Mark Urman’s distribution company and the film’s producer will release the farce in October.

Friends And Romans stars Michael Rispoli and Annabella Sciorra and features eight cast members from The Sopranos including Tony Sirico, Paul Ben-Victor, Anthony DeSando and Katie Stevens. Christopher Kublan directed.

The Staten Island-set story charts an aspiring actor’s bid for respectability as he and his friends stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, only for the FBI to mistake the production for a mafia front.

The film opened the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival and won the audience award for best narrative feature at the Boston International Film Festival.

The film will open in late October in Philadelphia and Providence, Rhode Island, before heading to New York in November.

Birthday shoutouts go to Andy Murray (above), who is 27, Lainie Kazan is 74, and David Krumholtz is 36.

Tr Knight will star as the male lead in the Amazon series Hysteria, as the brother of Mena Suvari, who is investigating an epidemic in her hometwon of Austin, Tx. He’ll play “Carter James Harlow, a fiercely intense man who’s been on death row since he was 19 years old and is two months away from execution. In the last few days of his life, and after attempting to kill himself by setting fire to his cell, he tries to convince his sister that the panic currently swallowing Austin is the same hysteria that sent him to prison 25 years ago, and if she will help to exonerate him, he’ll give her the clues she needs to resolve the crisis.”

Man Suing Bryan Singer Said He Never Traveled To Hawaii, Where He Alleges...