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Time of India
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Tropher Grace Reveals that 'The Waterfront' villain role was written with him in mind
Tropher Grace is embracing his dark side in style and great extent. In a recent interview, the Flight Risk actor shared how Kevin Williamson , the creator of 'The Waterfront,' wrote the villain role just for him. Speaking to TODAY, Grace joked about the moment, saying, 'My wife got it,' when asked how it felt to be asked to play a 'charming sociopath.' Tropher Grace plays the role of Grady, a wealthy tech-bro, turned poppy farm drug lord, in the popular drama. He added, 'The creator Kevin Williamson, who I'm a huge fan of, wrote 'Scream' when I was in High School and 'Dawson's Creek'. He's amazing, and he called me, said the most deductive thing you can say to an actor, I wrote this with you in mind. Then you have to do it." Williamson echoed that sentiment in interviews, praising Grace's 'unexpectedness' and saying: 'Give a funny man a gun and see what he does with it." In Entertainment Weekly, he noted the unpredictable nature of Grace's performance: 'You just never know if he's going to hug you or shoot you.' Best known for his role as Eric Forman in That '70s Show, and several sitcoms and romantic comedies, he played Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider‑Man 3 (2007), the serial killer Edwin in Predators (2010), and David Duke in BlacKkKlansman (2018). by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Thị trường có dấu hiệu suy thoái không? IC Markets Đăng ký Undo In The Waterfront, he fully embraced his darker side. Grace has also shared why he's drawn towards the villain roles so much. 'Bad guys are better. When you are playing a good guy, the audience is kind of your partner in it. You're an avatar for them in that situation. But when you are playing a bad guy, there is no rules,' he said. Grace also discussed the environment on set, revealing that some of the series' characters are aware of their roles. He revealed that he personally liked to add humor by continuously praising everyone's appearance, stating that it felt strange to him as he had never performed in a television drama before. He remarked that it was amusing that a community with such a beautiful population could have so many issues.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘The Waterfront' Review: Topher Grace Gives Kevin Williamson's Unconvincing Netflix Crime Soap a Much-Needed Boost
Watching Netflix's The Waterfront. A journey. Me, after the pilot for The Waterfront: This isn't necessarily a good show, but it's a serviceable attempt to reproduce the sort of accessible, young-skewing soap opera The CW and The WB used to make, with a solidly above-average cast. More from The Hollywood Reporter Jennifer Love Hewitt Calls Out Killer With Iconic Line in New 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' Sequel Trailer Topher Grace (Yes, Topher Grace) Is an Opium Kingpin in Netflix's 'The Waterfront' Trailer 'Flight Risk' Review: Mark Wahlberg in a Mel Gibson-Directed Actioner That's Almost Fast Enough to Make You Forgive Its Flaws Me, after episodes two and three of The Waterfront: Having a solidly above-average cast and occasional bursts of cartoonish violence isn't enough if the characters are thin and the drama and settings are wholly artificial. Me, during the fourth episode of The Waterfront: Yeah, there are no real 'ideas' at play here, nothing fresh to transcend the banal bits, and it may be just about time to quit … HOLY COW, TOPHER GRACE AS A SOCIOPATHIC DRUG KINGPIN. The arrival of Topher Grace as he's never quite been utilized before doesn't quite save Kevin Williamson's latest attempt to launder semi-autobiographical details through slick genre contrivance. But the That '70s Show veteran periodically makes The Waterfront feel like a completely different show — one that's wilder, sillier and generally less predictable. I'm guessing there will be some viewers who are fully engaged in this somewhat grown-up version of Outer Banks — Older Banks — and find Grace's arrival to be a needless distraction. For me, he was a welcome and insufficient distraction, exactly enough to keep me engaged in the season's second half — usually only for three to five minutes at a time — but not nearly enough to make me enjoy it. The Waterfront begins with an attack at sea, as two sailors — Kevin Williamson completists will be very amused by the cameos — have their vessel and their mid-sized drug shipment stolen (and their lives taken, though they're barely characters and nobody cares). The boat, it turns out, is owned by Cane Buckley (Jake Weary, auditioning for the coveted role of Alt-Joshua Jackson), operator of a struggling local fishery and scion to one of the key families in Havenport, North Carolina, a waterfront community that doesn't exist in the real world and barely exists in this fictional one. The Buckley family used to straddle the line between legitimate and criminal, then they went straight. But now, as they're on the verge of losing everything, it may be time to return to criminality. Harlan (Holt McCallany, reliably gruff), Cane's father, has had recent heart issues and he's drinking and philandering his life away. Belle (Maria Bello, reliably steely), Cane's mother, is running the family restaurant and doing her best to ignore Harlan's drinking and philandering. Bree (Melissa Benoist, sincere but unconvincing) is a recovering addict whose rock bottom involved an act of arson that makes it illegal for her to see her teenage son (Brady Hepner's Diller) without supervision. Cane has a former beauty queen wife (Danielle Campbell, feisty but underused) and a young daughter who's mostly off-screen — a good thing since the season-opening tragedy is just the first step in an escalating drug war that comes to involve the local sheriff (Michael Gaston's Clyde), a hunky DEA agent (Gerardo Celasco's Marcus) and, eventually, Topher Grace's Grady. Especially in the early episodes directed by frequent Williamson collaborator Marcos Siega, everything in The Waterfront looks polished and pretty, to the point that nothing looks real. It's a commercial for filming in North Carolina — from Cane and Peyton's absurdly nice coastal home (which is only actually opulent in the pilot and then becomes generic and barely utilized) to the fishery (which has been production-designed to suggest that, despite allegedly serving as the town's economic backbone, nobody works there and certainly nobody guts fish there). There's a Main Street that looks like it was designed by the Chamber of Commerce to resemble a small-town Main Street in a Netflix TV show. Mostly, though, it's so wholly a product of Kevin Williamson's imagination and so wholly divorced from actual, real-world grounding that I'm surprised he didn't name the town after himself. In general, despite drawing specific details from Williamson's past, The Waterfront doesn't come across as a personal story. The creator has talked about his fisherman father and his North Carolina upbringing, but what's actually been produced here resembles only a standard-issue combination of boring familial crime saga and unconvincing affluence porn, made suitable for streaming — and therefore distinct from Williamson's broadcast approach — by slightly bloated episodic running times, a squishy fascination with momentary gore, and one shot featuring what might be visible pubic hair (not a sex scene, mind you, because the chemistry-free sex in The Waterfront is wholly CW-friendly). The characters in The Waterfront might be older than the characters in Outer Banks, but the show is comparably nuanced and less fun. One of my favorite tests for any ensemble show is, 'Do the characters give the impression that they have lives that continue even when the cameras aren't running, or are they robots that get powered down whenever we go to a different storyline?' I've rarely watched a show in which so many of the main characters absolutely don't exist when they aren't part of the story. There's dreamy bartender Shawn (Rafael L. Silva), who briefly seems like he might become the show's actual hero, except that he has no personality and his motivation is grounded only in plot and not emotion. There's Cane's ex-girlfriend Jenna (Humberly Gonzalez), who arrives in town as a caretaker for her predominantly off-screen ailing father, and makes several references to a journalism career that are amusing in their pointlessness. There's Dave Annable as a land developer periodically working on a deal with Belle, and Bree's son Diller who mentions in one line of dialogue that school isn't in session. Even actors as sturdy as McCallany and Bello fall victim to this infection, so thoroughly that I kept finding myself haunted by two early scenes in which Harlan goes from scruffy to clean-shaven — a fairly normal occurrence in the real world, but anomalous evidence of off-camera behavior here. This is why Topher Grace's arrival in the series is such a bizarre pleasure. It isn't that Grady is some wild deviation from the sunny-but-sarcastic archetype that Grace reliably plays (even when cast as David Duke), but the context in which his trademark persona is utilized here is something entirely new. Grady is a weirdo with daddy issues and no impulse control, and it doesn't make complete sense how he earned the loyalty of his lieutenants or what his business plan is. And because it doesn't completely make sense, I kept wanting to spend more and more time watching him (both Grady and Grace, whose mixture of cheery and maniacal is perfect) and his operation, since there's nothing happening with the Buckleys that I haven't seen in episodes of Yellowstone, Ozark or even One Tree Hill. Grady has a scene in the sixth episode in which he uses an unexpected torture device in a sadistic and hilariously photographed manner. I watch entirely too many scenes of televisual torture and I can say, without hesitation, that this is one of my favorite televisual torture scenes, bordering on unique. But if nothing else in The Waterfront even comes close to original and my reasons for recommending the show would be limited to one supporting performance and one two-minute torture scene, that isn't much of a recommendation, is it? 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South China Morning Post
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Sunni Gaines, girlfriend of Mark Wahlberg's son Michael: the model enjoys vacations in Barbados and Fiji with her partner, and has joined the Wahlberg family on trips to Paris and the red carpet
Veteran Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg was back in the headlines earlier this year with his new film, Flight Risk. After the film's release in January, Wahlberg was spotted enjoying a family vacation in Paris with his wife and children. Wahlberg's wife Rhea , who the actor has been married to since 2009, shared snaps of the family enjoying their trip on social media. In the caption of a photo where she can be seen snuggling up to her husband, Rhea wrote, 'One of my favourite cities and one of my favourite hotels in the world and especially nice with my man.' Advertisement The Wahlbergs have four children: Ella, 21 , Michael, 18, Brendan, 16, and Grace, 15. While Ella seemed to have skipped on the family trip due to university commitments, the family was joined by Michael's girlfriend, Sunni Gaines. Here's everything to know about Sunni Gaines, the girlfriend of Mark Wahlberg's lookalike son. She's a model Sunni Gaines is a model. Photo: @sunnigainess/Instagram Sunni Gaines is a model and, according to her Instagram bio, she is signed with TNG Agency, a Las Vegas-based modelling agency, and Nomad MGMT, a global model and talent management company. She's dating Michael Wahlberg Michael Wahlberg occasionally makes appearances on Sunni Gaines' Instagram grid. Photo: Instagram While it's unclear how and when Gaines and Michael met, the actor's son makes occasional appearances on her Instagram profile, which has over 3,000 followers at the time of writing.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lionsgate, Now Without Starz, Swings to Quarterly Profit on Higher Revenues
Lionsgate, led by CEO Jon Feltheimer, has released its fourth quarter financial results for Lionsgate Studios — a standalone public film and TV company comprised of its Motion Picture and TV production divisions — after completing the spinoff of the media giant's studio business from Starz to create separately traded companies and stocks. The Hollywood studio now excluding the Starz results recorded a fourth quarter net profit attributable to shareholders at $21.9 million, compared to a year-earlier $47 million loss, on overall revenue rising 22 percent sharply to $1.06 billion, against a year-earlier $879.9 million. More from The Hollywood Reporter Kieran Culkin to Play Caesar in 'Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' (Exclusive) Elle Fanning to Play Effie in 'Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' (Exclusive) 'Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' Finds Its Louella and Lou Lou (Exclusive) Lionsgate during its latest financial quarter rolled out Flight Risk and Den of Thieves 2: Pantera at the multiplex, and delivered the scripted series The Rookie, Ghosts and Acapulco, while also licensing The Chosen to Amazon Prime and The Rookie to Disney+. The media giant, having greatly reduced its exposure to a declining linear TV space impacting rival studios, posted an adjusted earnings per-share profit of 21 cents, compared to a year-earlier per-share loss of 5 cents. Adjusted OIBDA rose 49 percent to $138.3 million. During the quarter to March 31, 2025, the company's studios business, which combines the Motion Picture and TV production segments, saw Motion Picture revenue rise to $526.4 million, compared to $410.6 million in the same period of 2024, while the TV production revenue reached $543.3 million, up 16 percent from a year-earlier $469.3 million on a higher number of episodic deliveries, compared to last year's fourth quarter impacted by the Hollywood strikes. The segment profit, a key metric, for the Motion Picture division soared to $135.3 million, compared to a year-earlier $82.2 million. The TV Production segment profit fell back to $40.6 million, against a year-earlier $52.6 million. The media giant launched Lionsgate Studios as a standalone, publicly traded company, split off from the Starz premium cable and streaming outlet now also a standalone company with shares trading on the NASDAQ exchange. The two companies still have ties on screen, as Lionsgate Television produces the flagship Power franchise for Starz along with BMF, P-Valley and the upcoming series The Hunting Wives. Starz, which continues to drive into the digital space, has around 20 million domestic subscribers on cable, satellite and streaming platforms. Launching Lionsgate Studios as a standalone company on the NASDAQ, separate from Starz, looks to have the goal of creating two companies so investors can value the Starz and studio assets separately amid a contracting media and entertainment landscape and financial markets uncertainty. Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New On Starz May 2025
The May 2025 schedule for new Starz titles has tons of notable release dates lined up. All of the best titles are dropping all month long, including premieres from Starz Originalseries and recently-released films like Power Book III: Raising Kanan:Season 4, Episodes 8-10 and 2025 action thriller Flight Risk coming to the platform in the next few weeks. Plus, there will be the additions of memorable movies like American Pie, Bring It On, and Bombshell that you'll want to watch as soon as they hit Starz to help make this new month a great one. If you're trying to decide what to watch right now, turn to the best and newest Starz titles streaming in May. Starz is a wonderful place to find both brand-new and exciting original programming, as well as rediscover old gems you may have missed. Here are two of the best new titles coming to the platform this May: Starz Original crime drama series Power Book III: Raising Kanan is back to serve up the last few episodes of this season throughout the first half of May. The previous season saw Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis) step out of his powerful mother's (Patina Miller) shadow and take the reins in his own life by arranging the deaths of Ronnie Mathis (Grantham Coleman) and Detective Malcolm Howard (Omar Epps). Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Season 4 follows Kanan in the aftermath of it all as his drug business thrives, while other dramas and dangers brew in the background, including a very much alive and volatile Kadeem 'Unique' Mathis (Joey Bada$$) who is on a ferocious hunt to avenge his brother's death. There's no shortage of gripping action and thrills in store, so be sure to tune in for these epic final three episodes of the season, only on Starz. Get your heart rate up this month with this high-octane action thriller film that follows a pilot named Daryl Booth (Mark Wahlberg) who is tasked with helping U.S. Marshal Madolyn Harris (Michelle Dockery) transport a fugitive (Topher Grace) from Alaska to a trial in New York City. But once they get in the sky, tensions rise and danger looms as it becomes clear that not everyone on board is who they first claim to be. Wondering what else you'll be able to watch on Starz this month? Here's the full list of new Starz movies and shows streaming in May 2025: 6 Ways To Die 30 Minutes or Less 513 Degrees About Last Night Above the Rim A Day Of Fury After Sex After The Fall A Late Quartet A Low Down Dirty Shame American Pie American Pie 2 American Reunion American Wedding Assault On Precinct 13 Baby On Board Bad Kids Go To Hell Bad Kids Of Crestview Academy Balls Of Fury Bling Blue Crush Blue Crush 2 Boyz N The Hood Bring It On Bring It On Again Bring It On: All Or Nothing Bring It On: Fight To The Finish Bring It On: In It To Win It Carlito's Way Carlito's Way: Rise To Power Casino Comanche Territory Contraband Crave Daddy Day Camp Death Of A Gunfighter Deja Vu Enough Fort Bliss Friends With Benefits Give 'em Hell, Malone Guns Of A Stranger Helicopter Mom Hell On The Border Hulk Identity Thief Inside Man: Most Wanted It's Complicated King Kong Love Beats Rhymes Love Hurts Lucky Number Slevin Man About Town Miami Vice Mindcage Mud My Favorite Five New In Town Our Deadly Vows Repo Men RoboRex Saturday Church Scarface Seminole Set It Off Something New State Property State Property 2 Stratton Tales From The Crypt Presents: Bordello Of Blood Tales From The Crypt Presents: Demon Knight Taxi The Battle at Apache Pass The Call The Final Cut The Games Maker The Girl Who Invented Kissing The Grand Seduction The In-Law Gang The Possession The Queen Of Spain The Spore The Waiting City The Way Of The Gun The Zookeeper's Wife Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Video Girl Walk The Proud Land Waterworld Wicked Blood You're Not You Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Season 4, Episode 8 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Season 4, Episode 9 Bleed For This Max Steel Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Season 4 Finale, Episode 10 Psych:9 Flight Risk Bombshell If you've got access to another streaming library, lucky you! Starz's new releases are just a small slice of the newest movies and shows you can choose from this month. Don't wade through all your options alone—we've got guides for that. We update our reviews and lists of the new releases on the most popular streaming platforms every month. We've got guides for: New on Netflix this month New on Amazon Prime this month New on Hulu this month New on Disney+ this month New on HBO Max this month New on BritBox this month New on Acorn TV this month New on Tubi this month New on Paramount+ this month New on Peacock this month
