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Independents are out in force with high-profile fall festival fare from Pricilla to The Holdovers, a big Viva Pictures push with Inspector Sun (voiced by Ronny Chieng), Cannes documentary winner Four Daughters and Waikiki, the debut feature by Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Kahunahana. the first…

This is Day 78 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. It was everything everywhere all at once Thursday in New York City: Striking actors getting ready for contract talks were joined by writers who have just wrapped up theirs at a rally in Manhattan that also highlighted Asian American Pacific Islander culture in…

Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer and Ronny Chieng will be the special headlining performers of this year’s A Very Good+ Night of Comedy fundraising show at Carnegie Hall to benefit the Good+Foundation founded by Jessica Seinfeld. The foundation’s marquee fundraiser will return to Carnegie Hall…

Trevor Noah's days as host of The Daily Show are coming to an end but he still knows how to cause a stir. Earlier this week, The Daily Show's Twitter posted a video in which Noah claimed there had been a "backlash" against new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who became the UK's first leader of…

Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet have joined the cast of Interior Chinatown, a new series in the works for Hulu from 20th Television and creator/executive producer Charles Yu, who wrote the 2020 bestseller of the same name. Interior Chinatown follows the story of Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang), a background…

Last month, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah hit on an Emmys breakthrough, with the Comedy Central franchise landing seven nominations—the most it’s attained in a single year since Noah took over as host in 2015, and the most earned by any late-night franchise in 2022. Ronny Chieng, who joined the long-running…

EXCLUSIVE:  Crazy Rich Asians actor and stand-up comedian Ronny Chieng has joined Blumhouse and Atomic Monster's tech horror thriller M3GAN from filmmaker Gerard Johnstone. In the film, scripted by Akela Cooper, Allison Williams plays Gemma, a brilliant roboticist at a toy company. She uses artificial intelligence to…

EXCLUSIVE: The Thinklab Media and Kapers Animation have revealed first images from "Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow", the animated noir-ish family thriller now in production in Spain for expected completion in Summer 2022.  Director is Julio Soto Gúrpide (Deep) with a screenplay by Rocco  Pucillo who…

EXCLUSIVE: Ronny Chieng, one of the correspondents on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is going scripted. The comedian has booked a recurring guest star role on the Disney+ reboot of Doogie Howser. This comes after he scored a spot in the ring on NBC’s Young Rock. In Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., Chieng will play a heart…

Actor and The Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng is set to host the 47th annual International Emmy Awards. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences also said today that Iman will present the Directorate Award to CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour. And Conleth Hill, who played Lord…

EXCLUSIVE: Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show) and Susan Wokoma (Year of the Rabbit) are set as series regulars opposite Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton in the newly retitled Super Simple Love Story (fka The Us Project, The Story of Us), CBS’ hybrid comedy pilot from Mike Royce, Nick Stoller, Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV…

The Daily Show touched down in SXSW with the whole gang, including host Trevor Noah and correspondents Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulce Sloan, Roy Wood Jr. and Jaboukie Young-White. Moderated by CNN’s Jake Tapper, the Daily Show team talked about how they report — and skewer — the news in a time when…