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Curtis Lum Joins ABC’s ‘The Rookie: North’ & Prime Video’s ‘Cross’

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August 19, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Curtis Lum (The Night Agent, The Audacity) will join the cast of ABC‘s The Rookie spinoff series The Rookie: North and Prime Video‘s Cross for Season 3.

Expanding the universe, The Rookie: North introduces Alex Holland (Jay Ellis), who believed his midlife wasn’t worthy of a crisis. But after a violent home invasion ignites a dormant purpose, Alex battles a lifetime of failed commitments by joining the Pierce County Police Department as a rookie. Policing from the urban coast to the rural forest where backup isn’t just five minutes away, Alex must prove to his skeptical training officer, his fellow rookies, and himself that he’s finally found something worthy of the fight.

In a recurring role, Lum will recur as Officer Charley Furst. Furst is a cheerful and relaxed officer who has a reputation for always finding the path of least resistance when it comes to the job.

The series also stars Chris Sullivan, Karen Fukuhara, Froy Gutierrez, Janet Montgomery, Mya Lowe, and Malik Watson. It is set for premiere in 2027.

Alexi Hawley will serve as executive producer and writer of The Rookie: North, with Fillion, Mark Gordon, Bill Norcross, and Michelle Chapman also executive producing. Ellis is a producer.

On the third season of Prime Video’s Cross, Lum will guest star as F.W. Jung. Jung provides discreet, ever-changing services for powerful clients, solving problems with meticulous planning and quiet efficiency. Pragmatic and unemotional, Jung views every situation as a problem to be resolved. By the time he speaks, the outcome is already in motion.

Cross, based upon characters created by James Patterson, is a Washington, D.C.-based crime drama that follows Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge), a brilliant homicide detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the minds of serial killers in order to identify and catch them. In Season Three, the hit thriller will continue to expand the high-stakes world of its lead character.

Cross was developed for television by showrunner and executive producer Ben Watkins and produced by Amazon, MGM Studios, and Paramount Television Studios. Season 2 was executive produced by Craig Siebels, Patterson, Sam Ernst, Jim Dunn, Aiyana White, J. David Shanks, Owen Shiflett, Bill Robinson, Patrick Santa, and Hodge.

Lum was recently featured in the third season of the Netflix series, The Night Agent, from creator Shawn Ryan. He can currently be seen in the AMC series, The Audacity, playing Tim Kwan. He will reprise the role in the show’s upcoming second season. On the film side, Lum will next be seen in the action thriller film Karoshi from Lionsgate, and making his leading role in a feature film debut in The Chinatown Diner from Lawrence Le Lam. Next year he will also lead an ensemble cast in New Diamond Restaurant from Milton Ng, for which Lum is also a producer. Lum is repped by Artium Talent and Trisko Talent in Canada.

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Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works

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August 19, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Lord Miller, the production shingle for Academy Award-winning Project Hail Mary helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is set to produce a feature adaptation of Forrest Brazeal‘s forthcoming debut novel Paradox Inc. for Universal Pictures.

Daniel Roher, the Academy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker behind Navalny and this year’s Tuner, will direct and co-write a treatment for the film with Matthew Robinson. Writer of the sci-fi horror flick The Last House, which just topped Netflix’s charts, along with the Gore Verbinski-helmed Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Robinson will adapt the screenplay.

Paradox Inc. is about the rivalry between a scrappy startup and a dysfunctional Big Tech company racing to build the world’s first consumer time machine. The prize: control of reality itself. Maybe… The tech industry’s version of time travel doesn’t seem to work quite the way you’d expect.

First-time novelist Brazeal is no stranger to Silicon Valley. He worked at Google during the peak of the AI and crypto crazes and is otherwise known for co-founding the technology marketing company Freeman & Forrest. Before catching the town’s attention with Paradox Inc., he found a wide audience with YouTube videos and webcomics skewering the tech industry. His novel releases with Penguin Random House on January 19, 2027.

Chris Miller and Phil Lord will produce the feature take through Lord Miller’s first-look deal with Universal Pictures. Lucy Kitada, who brought the book to the company, and Aditya Sood will also produce for Lord Miller, with Brazeal exec producing. Senior Vice President of Production Development Ryan Jones and Director of Production Development Christine Sun will oversee for Universal.

Roher won an Oscar for his 2022 doc Navalny on the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist turned political prisoner of the same name. His first narrative feature, the crime thriller Tuner starring Dustin Hoffman, Leo Woodall and Havana Rose Liu, released in May, and he also this year unveiled The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, a Focus Features doc produced by the Everything Everywhere duo of Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang, among others. Currently, he’s in post on the Netflix caper Positano, produced by Working Title and starring Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldaña. He is repped by UTA, Range and Gang, Tyre, Ramer.

Lord Miller has had a banner year between Project Hail Mary, the Andy Weir adaptation sending Ryan Gosling on an interstellar mission, and the Nicolas Cage-led Spider-Noir series for MGM+ and Prime Video. Project Hail Mary has become Amazon MGM Studios’ highest-grossing film to date with a $684M worldwide release and is viewed as a likely awards contender. Spider-Noir, meanwhile, is up for 11 Emmy nominations.

Upcoming, Lord Miller has Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third film in the Spider-Verse series, releasing in June 2027. Projects in the pipeline for Universal include Murder She Wrote; a live-action Archie movie; an adaptation of the novel The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America’s First Women Astronauts; The Last Expedition by Carly Wray, based on a story by Weir; and Everyday Parenting Tips. There’s also Netflix’s The In-Claus, based on a short story by Travis Braun and Gabrielle Meyer.

Lord and Miller and their production banner are repped by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Robinson is repped by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham; Brazeal by Circle Management + Production and Eric Showers at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

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Jane Curtin Boards Anne Hathaway-Produced ‘Little Five’ Film

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August 19, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Jane Curtin (Coneheads, Saturday Night Live) will round out the cast of Little Five, from Anne Hathaway‘s production company Somewhere Pictures and Pigasus Pictures.

An original cast member of Saturday Night Live, Curtin will play Dean Weston, the formidable academic leader at Indiana University who serves as a crucial mentor and foil to the young team of female cyclists determined to break into the university’s male-dominated sports culture.

Production on the 1980s period film is already underway in Bloomington, Indiana, where the local community’s hundreds of residents have turned out to serve as extras in some of the film’s largest and most pivotal scenes.

Set against the backdrop of Indiana University in the early ’80s and inspired by the iconic Little 500 bicycle race, Little Five follows four unlikely young women who come together to chase one impossible dream. As they fight for a place in one of America’s most storied collegiate sporting traditions, they discover that true greatness isn’t achieved alone, and that changing history sometimes begins with a single team.

Previously announced cast members include Sasha Frolova and Nadia Alexander, who joined Rain Spencer and Ariana Greenblatt as the film’s four central young women, who come together as teammates to make history as part of the first women’s Little 500 bicycle race. Drew Powell will play Will, and Max Cortezi will play TFG. Deadline recently broke the news of these castings alongside David Oyelowo.

Ian Samuels will direct from a screenplay by Gillian Williams and Paul Shoulberg. The film is inspired by true events.

Curtin is represented by CAA.

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José Suárez Dies: Telemundo Executive Was 55

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August 19, 2026

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José Suárez, president and general manager of Telemundo 31, Telemundo 49, and Telemundo Ft. Myers–Naples, died. He was 55.

The Telemundo executive died on Wednesday, August 19, following a helicopter crash in Kenya, NBC6 reports.

“We are heartbroken to learn the tragic news that José was killed in a helicopter accident in Kenya,” NBCU Newsgroup Chairman César Conde, NBCU Local Chairman Valari Staab, and Telemundo Station Group President José Cancela said in a statement.

The statement continued, “José was an exceptional colleague who cared deeply about his teams, the communities they served and the important role our stations play in people’s lives. He brought energy, humor, warmth and a strong sense of purpose to his work, and his impact was felt far beyond the stations he led. Our hearts are with his loved ones, and with all of José’s colleagues and friends who are grieving this terrible loss.”

Suárez was previously the President and General Manager of the Telemundo stations in Fresno (KNSO), Sacramento (KCSO), and Utah (KULX). In his position, he led all station operations, including news/digital, sales, marketing/promotions, human resources, community affairs, and technology/operations.

Before that, Suárez worked at NBC 6 / WTVJ, where he worked as Director of Creative Services and Local Programming, Executive Producer for the station’s local weekday entertainment show 6 in The Mix, and as an Executive Producer for NBC 6’s local weekday newscasts.

Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Suárez worked as News Director for CW South Florida / WSFL, Fox Toledo / WUPW and NBC 3 San Angelo / KSAN.

Over the years, Suárez received numerous awards, including a Suncoast Chapter Emmy award for “Outstanding Station Promotion Image” for his work at NBC 6, three Cleveland chapter Emmy awards for “Outstanding Daily Newscast” (Market 41+), and numerous Associated Press awards for his work at Fox Toledo / WUPW.