Tulsa King
Critic’s Notebook: Capitalism and TV Today, a Love/Hate Story
In an ironic twist, some of the biggest perpetrators of corporate ruthlessness in the entertainment industry are currently producing several of the most honest portraits of our bleak economic moment.
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Sylvester Stallone Reality Show Confirmed, Teaser Trailer Released
It’s official: Sylvester Stallone is going Kardashian with a Paramount+ reality series following his family. The Family Stallone is a docuseries about the iconic action star, his wife Jennifer Flavin Stallone and daughters Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet. Touts the description of the eight-episode series: “Stallone is ready to give cameras access to what he would […]
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‘Tulsa King’ Renewed for Season 2, Premiere Ratings Top ‘House of the Dragon’
Sylvester Stallone is going back to Oklahoma. Paramount+ has renewed its series Tulsa King for a second season. The latest series from producer Taylor Sheridan scored big ratings after it was given a special Paramount Network preview after an episode of Yellowstone. According to Nielsen numbers provided by Paramount, the numbers bested HBO’s House of […]
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Writer Says Scorsese Had To Fight to Keep One Major Sequence
One major sequence from The Wolf of Wall Street almost didn’t make it into the three-hour hit drama. Screenwriter Terence Winter told The Hollywood Reporter that director Martin Scorsese had to fight to be able to shoot one section of the darkly comedic Oscar-nominated script, which chronicled the rise and downfall of real-life stockbroker Jordan […]
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‘Tulsa King’ Review: Sylvester Stallone in Taylor Sheridan’s Flimsy Fish-Out-of-Water Mobster Series
Stallone plays a New York gangster learning the ropes in Oklahoma in Paramount+'s new dramedy from Sheridan and Terence Winter.
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Taylor Sheridan Might Have Set a Screenwriting Record With Sylvester Stallone Show ‘Tulsa King’
Taylor Sheridan wrote the first draft pilot script for Tulsa King in less than 24 hours. That’s the tale, at least, told by his producing partner David Glasser. And it certainly sounds possible given Sheridan’s hyper-prolific reputation — the Yellowstone co-creator has seven shows in various stages of development at Paramount, and he pens a great number of episodes […]
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Sylvester Stallone Gets Candid About Career, Regrets, Feuds: “I Thought I Knew Everything”
You’re sitting with Sylvester Stallone and the word that keeps coming to mind is so simple and grunt-y that it could be dialogue from one of his tough-guy action movies: Big. The man is barrel-chested big. His tanned, lined face is broad with a wide nose and dramatic eyebrows. His luxuriant suede jacket flaps when […]
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AFM: America’s First Native Film Commission Looking to Do Business, Challenge Stereotypes
There’s a word in Cherokee, Gadugi, which (roughly) translates to “working together.” It’s a guiding principle of the Cherokee Nation, the native community that occupies the 7,000 square-mile reservation in Northeast Oklahoma. And gadugi is the lodestone for the Cherokee Nation Film Office, America’s only indigenous film commission, which has a stand at the AFM […]
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‘Yellowstone’ Guide: Creator Taylor Sheridan Has Eight Other TV Shows
With Paramount Network’s ranch drama Yellowstone going from sleeper hit to buzzy blockbuster over the last year (its most recent season finale drew nearly 15 million viewers), it’s no surprise Paramount+, as it strives for streaming war market-share, is developing a flurry of other projects from the show’s prolific writer-producer Taylor Sheridan. The 51-year-old with […]
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Paramount+ Orders More ‘1883’ and Another ‘Yellowstone’ Prequel
Paramount+ is expanding the saga of the Dutton family. The streamer has ordered more episodes of 1883 along with another Yellowstone prequel series, it announced Tuesday. The new show is titled 1932 and “will follow a new generation of Duttons during the time of Western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression.” As for 1883, the […]
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