For Maid star Margaret Qualley, her job was all about building a relationship with child actor Rylea Nevaeh Whittet and making her feel safe on the set of the Netflix series that delves into domestic abuse and dealing with trauma as a mother. “The thing that resonated with me the most from both the script and Stephanie Land’s memoir — which of course inspired the series — was just how much she loved her daughter and how important that relationship was to her,” Qualley, 27, tells THR.

Marilyn King, the youngest and last surviving member of the swing-era vocal group The King Sisters, died Wednesday of cancer in Laguna Niguel, Calif. She was 82. King’s great-nephews are brothers Win and Will Butler of The Arcade Fire. The King Sisters, originally from Utah and founded in 1931, appeared in several films and released more than 150 records for labels including Blue Bird, RCA Victor, Capitol and Warner Bros. throughout the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.

“I’m Mattman.” Those were Matthew Perry’s last public words, in a cryptic Oct. 22 Instagram post accompanied by a photo of the Friends superstar reclining in his hot tub, the lights of the Pacific Palisades shimmering on the horizon. Six days later, Perry was found unresponsive in the same hot tub and was soon after pronounced dead at age 54.  And the mystery of “Mattman” — Perry’s “Rosebud” — would only deepen.

Horror drama From is returning to MGM+. The premium cable network, formerly known as Epix, has handed out a third-season renewal for the series starring Harold Perrineau. The series from creator/executive producer John Griffin and showrunner Jeff Pinkner (Lost, Alias, Fringe) ranks as the network’s second-most-viewed series in its history and trails only Forest Whitaker-led drama Godfather of Harlem. “The first two seasons of From captivated critics and terrified and engaged fans, who have formed a thriving online community that is trying to put the pieces together week by week as the secrets of the nightmarish town — and possibly beyond — are slowly revealed,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+.

Nora O’Brien   NBC shuffles its infront Tragedy struck NBC’s pilot “Parenthood” on Wednesday night when network vp drama Nora O’Brien died unexpectedly on the Berkeley, Calif., set of the show starring Peter Krause, Maura Tierney and Erika Christensen. Sources said O’Brien, a six-year NBC Universal veteran, died of a brain aneurysm. She was 44. “Our hearts go out to the family and friends of our beloved colleague Nora, who was respected and cherished by so many people in the entertainment community,” NBC’s top execs Ben Silverman, Marc Graboff and Angela Bromstad said in a joint statement.

A Turkish teen tries unsuccessfully to step into his late father’s shoes in Nobody’s Home, the effective directorial debut of female Turkish filmmaker Deniz Akcay. A precisely engineered and realistically played domestic drama that focuses on how a Turkish clan tries to redress itself after the death of its paterfamilias, Nobody’s Home sees a 17-year-old son struggle to take on the role of the head of the family, for which he is evidently too young, leading to problems with not only his mother but also his older and younger sister.

‘The Outpost’ Director Rod Lurie On Grappling With Loss, Portraying Death In War (Guest Column) My son was declared dead at exactly the second that I had the creative epiphany of my my life. A few minutes earlier, after his mother and I decided to disconnect the myriad machines keeping him alive, one to every organ in his body, we stood there, all of us, and waited for the last […]

In his first starring role, The Brothers Sun’s Sam Song Li found himself in the enviable position of playing Michelle Yeoh’s favorite son.  Created by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu, the action-dramedy series chronicles a single mother, Eileen “Mama” Sun (Yeoh), and her son, Bruce (Li), whose modest and peaceful life in the San Gabriel Valley is upended by the urgent arrival of Charles Sun (Justin Chien), their estranged son and brother, respectively.

Elite Hollywood business management firm Savitsky Satin Bacon & Bucci is putting a new name on the door. As of Monday, the 32-year-old firm is Ground Control Business Management. The firm, which was founded by George Savitsky in 1990, represents top-tier talent across the entertainment industry — including showrunners, stars and digital creators — as well as athletes and other high net-worth individuals. Chris Bucci, who started co-managing the firm with Steve Savitsky in 2017 at the age of 31, will oversee Ground Control as CEO.

The kaleidoscopic baroque-and-roll masterwork that elevated The Beatles from pop stars to multimedia conceptual artists, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band celebrates its 50th anniversary in June. Arriving in U.K. cinemas later this month to coincide with a feast of deluxe album repackages, Alan G. Parker’s cumbersomely titled documentary It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper and Beyond frames the Fab Four’s psychedelic 1967 game-changer within a turbulent 18-month period when they stopped playing live, flirted with Eastern religion, popularized LSD, suffered the tragic loss of manager Brian Epstein and launched their avant garde arts organization Apple.