The lore behind Ariana Grande’s lifelong pursuit of “Wicked” feels as much like a fairy tale as “Wicked” itself. The adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s revisionist prequel to “The Wizard of Oz”—existing ...

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Casting is now underway for the second season of the Amazon psychological thriller series “We Were Liars.” U.S. and Canada-based female actors, aged 18 or older, are sought to play the 18-year-old ...

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Actors are the face of Hollywood’s celebrations during awards season as they’re the most visible representations of the screen work being honored. But the Actor Awards—formerly known as the Screen ...

A drama-style online ad is casting for its upcoming shoot in Los Angeles. Production is seeking a lead male role, aged 20–36, to play Ethan/Secret CEO, a lead female role, aged 20–33, to play Gretchen ...

Casting "Godspeed, USA," a short film. Logline: Over the course of a snowy night in a small town named Godspeed, an Israeli immigrant family navigates their identities, their relationships, and the ...

Nostalgia is all the rage these days; that’s why a ton of movies and TV shows are reboots or remakes of what was popular in the 1980s and ’90s. Normally, this walk down memory lane is meant to delight ...

Whether humor is deadpan, like in “The Big Lebowski”; surreal, à la Tim Robinson’s “I Think You Should Leave”; or observational, as typified by “Seinfeld,” there’s a comedy style out there to tickle ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...