Month: October 2021

Apple TV+ announced the cast for its upcoming series Extrapolations. Meryl Streep headlines a cast that also includes Matthew Rhys, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Gemma Chan, Tahar Rahim, Matthew Rhys, Daveed Diggs, David Schwimmer and Adarsh Gourav.

Apple describes Extrapolations as “an eight-episode anthology series.”  The cast members will appear in different episodes, but all eight episodes will be connected.  Extrapolations, created by Scott Z. Burns, will explore how characters’ relationships with love, faith, work and family will change as the planet changes, alluding to the climate crisis.

Streep’s role remains undisclosed. Miller will play marine biologist Rebecca Shearer, and Harington will play industrial CEO Nicholas Bilton. Rahim will play Ezra Haddad, “a man struggling with memory loss,” according to Apple, and Rhys will play a real estate developer named Junior. Diggs will play South Florida Rabbi Marshall Zucker, and Chan will play banker and single mother Natasha Alper. Schwimmer will play Harris Goldblatt, a father with a teenage daughter, and Gourav will play a character named Gaurav, a freelance driver.

Extrapolations is currently in production, with no release date set yet.

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James Michael Tyler, who played the role of Gunther on the hit TV show ‘Friends,’ has died at 59. His manager confirmed that Tyler died on Sunday, peacefully at his home, saying in a statement: “If you met him once you made a friend for life. [He] is survived by his wife, Jennifer Carno, the love of his life. Wanting to help as many people as possible, he bravely shared his story and became a campaigner for those with a prostate to get a… blood test as early as 40-years-old.”  In June, Tyler revealed he was battling stage 4 prostate cancer.

Tyler was well-known for his role as Gunther, the Central Perk coffee shop manager, who had an unrequited crush on Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) throughout the show’s run. While best known for Friends, his other onscreen credits include Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Showtime’s Episodes, and Scrubs.

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Authorities confirmed on Thursday that a cinematographer working on the film “Rust” has died, and the director has been hospitalized, after an accident during filming involving actor Alec Baldwin misfiring a prop gun. The Western, starring Baldwin and Jensen Ackles of “Supernatural,” began filming this month at Bonanza Creek Movie Ranch, a film location in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office responded to the film set around 2 p.m. local time after a 911 caller “reported a shooting on the set.” Two people were shot after a prop firearm was discharged during filming, authorities said. Baldwin fired the prop gun, striking the film’s director, Joel Souza, and director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, the sheriff’s office said in a follow-up statement Thursday night. Detectives are still determining “how and what type of projectile was discharged,” the sheriff’s office said earlier.

Hutchins, 42, was transported via helicopter to University of New Mexico Hospital, the state’s only Level 1 trauma center, “in critical condition,” according to sheriff’s deputies and the hospital. She later succumbed to her injuries, the sheriff’s office said. Souza, 48, was brought in an ambulance to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and is receiving emergency care, authorities said.

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