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Quote:NEW REGENCY FOLLOWS BREAKOUT SERIES EDGE OF SLEEP WITH UPCOMING THRILLER BALESTRA
Series stars Cush Jumbo, Manny Jacinto and James Badge Dale
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Left to right: Cush Jumbo - photo cred.: Celeste Sloman; Manny Jacinto - photo cred.: Jonny Marlow; Nicole Dorsey – photo cred: Brendan Calton
LOS ANGELES – September 9, 2025 – New Regency announced today that Balestra, the second of five original titles in its QCODE slate, will premiere on streaming in late September. The psychological thriller follows the successful debut of Edge of Sleep, the firstQCODE release, which launched on Prime Video via Prime Video Direct. The series quickly broke into the platform’s Top 10, where it remained throughout its initial weeks on the platform, and is now also available on Tubi. Edge of Sleep stars and is executive produced by YouTube creator Markiplier.
Balestra stars and is executive produced by Cush Jumbo, currently seen in Apple TV+’s acclaimed Criminal Record, now in production on its second season. Jumbo is known for standout performances in the critically acclaimed New Regency series The Beast Must Die and on stage in Hamlet and Lady Macbeth opposite David Tennant. She rose to prominence as Lucca in The Good Wife and its spinoff The Good Fight. Additional credits include Stay Close and the Sony Music podcast Origins with Cush Jumbo, where she interviews cultural figures such as Anna Wintour and Harlan Coben. Jumbo is represented by Curtis Brown and Anonymous Content.
Joining Jumbo in the series are Manny Jacinto (Freakier Friday, The Acolyte), James Badge Dale (1923, Hightown, Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy) and Christin Park (Surface, Charmed). The series follows a competitive fencer who agrees to test an experimental device that allows her to train inside lucid dreams. As she pushes the limits of her mind and body, she encounters a mysterious stranger who threatens to unravel her marriage, her sense of self, and her pursuit of Olympic gold.
The series is directed by Nicole Dorsey, whose debut feature Black Conflux was nominated for three prizes at the Toronto International Film Festival and named one of TIFF’s Top Ten Canadian Films of the year. The script is by Imran Zaidi, based on an original story by Aron Coleite.
Executive producers include Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, and Michael Schaefer for New Regency; Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Justin Levy for Automatik; Rob Herting, Noah Segal, Laurie May, Tim Ringuette, Pierre Even, Paul-E Audet, Chris Ferguson, Aron Coleite, Nicole Dorsey, Cush Jumbo, and Imran Zaidi.
Good news for Victory. I hope they use electric Italian epees for the show and that those become the next Labubu craze.
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Young Sherlock. March. From Guy Ritchie. I don't know if i can watch a commercials heavy show on Amazon Prime.
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The Wrecking Crew. Now with more Morena!
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The Bluff. February 26. More Karl. More Priyana. This one seems to be flying under the radar.
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(01-14-2026, 09:31 AM)Greg Wrote: The Bluff. February 26. More Karl. More Priyana. This one seems to be flying under the radar.
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Hollywood continues to make films directly aimed at DM.
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Hollywood luvs dm
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Bait
Quote:Riz Ahmed Made a TV Show About the Hunt for James Bond
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Published January 20, 2026
The world is waiting to learn who’ll play James Bond in Amazon’s first movie with the franchise—and a new Prime Video series is capitalizing on the moment.
Called Bait, the series stars Riz Ahmed as struggling actor Shah Latif, who auditions to be the next actor to don 007’s suit. With Bond being such a sought-after role, his going to the auditions goes viral, and soon it becomes gospel that he’s going to book the part. Or at least, it’s gospel to his family and friends, as seen in the clip below. The reactions among them run the gamut from pride to confusion (“Did Daniel Craig die?” asks Shah’s father, which… technically yes) to thinking about the paycheck to come.
Bait takes place over the four days between Shah’s audition and learning whether he’ll actually book the part. In that time, everyone’s going to have something to say about this news, which will be pretty accurate to casting someone as big as James Bond.
Since No Time to Die, there’s been so much speculation about who’d be next to play him and who fans would want to play him, like Idris Elba and Henry Cavill. Denis Villeneuve’s supposedly not begun his search yet, but you’ve likely heard rumors and speculation over the past year about young actors like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Callum Turner being pursued or up for consideration.
Look for Bait and all its six episodes to hit Prime Video on March 25.
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