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Comedy Central has handed a 10-episode order to Golden Axe, a new animated series based on the popular Sega video game. Produced by CBS Studios in association with Sony Pictures Television and Original Film, Golden Axe voice cast is led by Emmy winner Matthew Rhys (The Americans), Danny Pudi (Mythic…

EXCLUSIVE: Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) and Matthew Rhys (Perry Mason) have entered production overseas on Hallow Road, a new psychological thriller, which Under the Shadow‘s Babak Anvari is directing from a script by William Gillies. Commissioned and developed by London Film & TV, the film watches as…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award-winning actor Matthew Rhys has signed with CAA. Rhys is best known for his leading role in FX’s The Americans, created by Joseph Weisberg and Joel Fields. He earned an Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for playing KBG Agent Philip Jennings. He most recently played the…

Editor's note: This interview was done outside of the FYC event as there was no cast or creatives panel. "I think there's a certain pace a noir allows, which at times can be an indulgent luxury," says Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys of the 1930s-set HBO series from Team Downey. "But it really allows you…

EXCLUSIVE: “I’ve always boiled it down to there’s something very simplistic to Mason,” Perry Mason star Matthew Rhys admits about the iconic and haunted lawyer he portrays on the HBO prequel series. “It's not necessarily his sense of justice but sense of right and wrong,” the Emmy winner adds. “What is…

Matthew Rhys has added his name to the long list of British actors who, despite their best endeavours, would not be Bond.  The star of Perry Mason and The Americans told The Times of London that he managed to royally mess up his meeting with 007's producers, back when they were looking for a…

CSI fan favorite Wallace Langham will join HBO’s Perry Mason in the second season. Langham will recur as Melville Phipps, a Los Angeles native and attorney for a very wealthy oil baroness. He works well under women and acts as a caretaker when necessary. Here’s the logline for season 2 of the drama that stars Matthew…

Scott Z. Burns' climate change anthology drama series Extrapolations has set a star-studded cast. The Apple TV+ series has cast stars including Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Tahar Rahim, Matthew Rhys, Daveed Diggs, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer and Adarsh Gourav to lead the series. The series, which is now…

When production designer John P. Goldsmith was approached for HBO's reboot of Perry Mason, he was compelled by the opportunity to dive into the world of 1930s Los Angeles. “Architecturally, what was happening then with modernism was so interesting, with Neutra, and Schindler and Frank Lloyd Wright, and these people…

Stars Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow, along with cinematographer David Franco and production designer John P. Goldsmith, joined Deadline to talk all things Perry Mason during the HBO panel at Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event. The show was originally intended as a limited series but instead proved…

There can be no question that Perry Mason with Raymond Burr was one of the true iconic weekly TV series in the 1950s and ’60s as it featured infamous courtroom case after courtroom case. The new HBO series of the same title is definitely not your father’s Perry Mason, but rather a dark, Depression-era origin story…

Matthew Rhys won the first Emmy of his career for his lead performance in The Americans, a drama set in 1980s D.C. He dialed back to an even earlier era for the latest role to put him into Emmy contention, as the titular character of the reimagined Perry Mason. The HBO series finds Mason in Depression-era Los Angeles…