
Living billboard for The Last House from Netflix on Sunset Boulevard
Russell Andrews, a working actor with credits in Straight Outta Compton and Insecure, has revealed he’s been living with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis).
The actor opened up about his medical condition on CNN’s The Story with Elex Michaelson, saying he was diagnosed late last fall.
“I thought I had a stroke during COVID. It was a stressful time. We didn’t work for three years, and then we had the back-to-back strikes,” Andrews said, referring to the dueling Hollywood strikes. “A lot was going on… There were moments, there were twitches. I thought I was having pinched nerves in my neck, and they were quite frequent. And I was not able to do things that I would normally do. I was dropping cups and glasses, and at night, it felt like things were running up and down my arms at certain times, and it was the nerves.”
Andrews noted that playing football might have contributed to this, adding, “It appears that maybe CTE may be a source of this… we won’t know, of course, until everything is said and done and they can study the brain.”
The actor said that he was not properly diagnosed due to not having health insurance as he didn’t work for a number of years, saying, “As soon as we came out of COVID, worked picked up and I was able to get back. First place I went was to Cedars [Sinai]… and within 15 minutes, the primary care said that she would like me to see a neurologist. One thing led to another, and here we sit.”
Andrews acting credits also include Shameless, Better Call Saul, NCIS: New Orleans, Grey’s Anatomy, Harry’s Law, House of Payne, The Defenders, CSI: Miami, Medium, Boston Legal, The Punisher, Numb3rs, The Bernie Mac Show, Sports Night, among many others.
ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease that destroys the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Fellow actor Eric Dane was diagnosed with ALS in April 2025 and died from complications of the disease in February of this year.
Watch Andrews full interview in the video below.
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A dynamic selection of indies starts rolling out today with Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain in Matt Johnson’s Tony, indie director Jane Schoenbrun’s latest, Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma with Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, documentaries on cheesemongers, Girl Scout cookie season, and small town movie theaters, and the annual CatVideoFest among others.
A24 debuts origin story Tony by filmmaker Matt Johnson (Blackberry, Nirvana the Band) in limited release in six theaters across NY (Regal Union Square, AMC Lincoln Square, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn) and LA (AMC Century City, AMC Grove, AMC Burbank). Expands to about 25 locations next week. Opening weekend audience are looking like a mix of under 35, A24 loyalists, followers of Matt Johnson and fans of Bourdain.
Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) stars as a teenage Anthony Bourdain and the film captures a moment in time in Provincetown, Mass. where he spent a transformative summer before college working at a seafood restaurant year before becoming a beloved chef, author and television host. It held an early local premiere there with screenings for restaurant workers in partnership with OpenTable.
With Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones and Leo Woodall, Tony is Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh at 94%, see Deadline review here, with strong restaurant and food industry endorsement. It’s backed by the Bourdain estate. The best-selling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of popular TV series including Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, committed suicide in 2018 at 61.
For years before, he traveled the globe sampling and describing local fare. His laid-back style evolved into broader cultural storytelling after he was trapped with his crew filming a 2006 episode in Lebanon as war with Israel erupted.
Morgan Neville’s Road Runner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, which Focus Features released in July of 2021, was the top grossing documentary out of Covid and helped jump start the box office.
Mubi is out with Jane Schoenbrun’s (We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, I Saw the TV Glow) Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma at five theaters in New York (Angelika Film Center, AMC Lincoln Square) and LA (AMC Burbank, AMC Century City, AMC Grove).
The Cannes-premiering horror expands to 50+ screens next week and nationally August 21. It’s 99% RT Certified Fresh.
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Hannah Einbinder) for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star (Gillian Anderson), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Late Fame from Magnolia Pictures opens at Film Lincoln Center and Film Forum in New York. Kent Jones’ second feature (after Diane) stars Willem Dafoe as an erstwhile New York poet who gets an ego boost when he is welcomed into the world of an emerging literary salon, but must reckon with the authenticity of his newfound circle of twentysomething admirers. Written by Samy Burch (May December) based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1890s novella. Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan also star. Premiered at Venice. See Deadline review.
Roadside Attractions opens Sundance-premiering documentary Cookie Queens by Alysa Nahmias, executive produced by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in moderate release on 446 screens., CMarkle is a former Girl Scout and her mom was a troop leader. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archwell Productions partnered with Beautiful Stories and AJNA Films on the doc about one of America’s most cherished rituals, Girl Scout Cookie season.
Obscured Releasing documentary The Big Cheese by Sara Joe Wolansky debuts in limited release at IFC Center, adding Laemmle Glendale and Laemmle Monica in LA next week. Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskowitz led a scrappy team of eccentric American cheesemongers to dethrone the French at their Mondial du Fromage, the Olympics of Cheese, in Tours. The group battled cultural bias, personal struggles, and melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption and a historic victory.
Q&As with Moskowitz, filmmaker, David Zabar (of Zabar’s) and Josh Windsor of Murray’s Cheese at IFC this weekend.
Premiered at DOC NYC where it was the Audience Award runner-up, going on to take the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Cleveland International Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the Beloit film festival, and Best Director at the Phoenix film fest.
Greenwich Entertainment debuts TIFF-premiering coming-of-age drama Olmo by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke at 51 theaters. Aivan Uttapa stars as Olmo, a teenager tied to home by the responsibility of caring for his bedridden father. When his beautiful neighbor invites him to a party, Olmo embarks on a night of mischief, laughter, and unexpected discoveries that ultimately transform the way he sees his life and the place he has been so eager to leave behind. Eimbcke co-wrote the film with Vanessa Garnica. Also stars Melanie Frometa, Rosa Armendáriz, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, and Andrea Suárez Paz.
The Last Picture Shows by Rustin Thompson launches at Village East Cinemas in New York. Expands to LA’s Laemmle Royal Aug. 21 as part of a national roadshow. World Premiered at the Santa Barbara film festival. Gary Rubin’s GRC is handling distribution
Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life — the movie theater, travellng through 10 states and visiting 123 cinemas. The documentary follows the people preserving the moviegoing experience in their communities against the odds. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that —thanks to thoughtful caretakers — are not only surviving but thriving. The stops are punctuated by excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 The Last Picture Show and as reflections on past and present hardships facing the film exhibition industry.
CatVideoFest is back via Oscilloscope Labs on 330+ screens nationwide, to start, with multiple sold out showtimes. The increasingly popular annual staple for cat lovers, created and curated by Will Braden, gathers the best cat videos from across digital media. He also takes submissions. Part of the grosses go to raising money and awareness for local cat charities and animal shelters. It caught the interest of Kelly Clarkson and Andy Cohen this year with Braden appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
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You can’t keep a good gator down.
Paramount is going back to the water for a follow-up to its 2019 sleeper hit Crawl, setting Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd to star in a new survival story.
Alexandre Aja, who directed the initial movie, is back as director for the feature that will go into the production later this month in Hungary.
The 2019 movie starred Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper as a daughter and father duo who find themselves trapped in a Florida home and hunted by a gator (or three) during a Category 5 hurricane. The movie proved profitable for Paramount, generating $91.5 million on a budget of under $14 million.
The new thriller, in development since at least 2024, brings the teeth-gnashing to New York, which sees gators in the streets and sewers after a hurricane hits the city.
Jason Harry Pagan and Andrew Deutschman worked on the script as did Aja and Gregory Levasseur.
Craig Flores, Sam Raimi and Aja are producing. Levasseur and Azizi will exec produce.
Best known for his breakout role in Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart and fan favorite role in the Scream franchise, Gooding can currently be seen in the Netflix comedy Hours opposite Kevin Hart and in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, currently in theaters. Sex also stars Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Chase Sui Wonders and Charli XCX.
Rudd is the female lead in Netflix’s record-breaking live-action adaptation of One Piece. Upcoming, she will be seen in Brian Duffield’s Whalefall for 20th Century Studios opposite Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin, which will be released in October. The actress also appeared in a one-season role on Amazon’s Hunters, playing Logan Lerman’s love interest, and starred in an installment of Netflix’s Fear Street franchise.
Gooding is repped by CAA, Untitled and Sloane, Offer. Rudd is repped by Gersh, Entertainment 360 and Jackoway Austen.
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Call it Netflix and still.
A man is seemingly trapped inside a Netflix billboard above Sunset Blvd.
The potential traffic-stopping (or perhaps even accident-causing) sight is a marketing stunt for the streamer’s new thriller The Last House.
The unidentified actor entered the installation — which is crafted to look like the front window of a house — on Thursday and will leave on Saturday, Aug. 8.
From Netflix: “He’ll attempt to maintain a sense of normalcy over extended periods of time while ‘stuck’ in his elevated, enclosed set 30 feet above the ground at Selma Avenue and Sunset Blvd— communicating with commuters and passersby below via whiteboard as an eerie nod to the family’s own isolation in the film.”
A video, below, shows the man looking like he’s eating cereal and rather confused and miserable. In case you’re wondering, yes, it’s the same actor the entire time, not multiple actors working in shifts.

Living billboard for The Last House from Netflix on Sunset Boulevard
The Last House stars Greta Lee and Wagner Moura, is directed by Louis Leterrier (Fast X), and is about a family of four who are “suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.”
The film could probably use a bit of buzz — the project only has a 36 percent positive critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes (though only it has 22 reviews so far, so that percentage will likely change). The Hollywood Reporter’s critic enjoyed the film, however, writing, that “despite its sci-fi and horror elements, [The Last House] as much a psychological chamber drama and survival thriller about four people using their wits and dwindling resources to stay alive, even as their close-knit ties start fraying.”
The Last House drops on Netflix on Friday.
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