Amazon Original Series Goliath has cast actor, filmmaker and producer Mark Duplass (Togetherness, Room 104) as a series regular for its second season debuting next year on Prime Video. Duplass will play Tom Wyatt, a successful Los Angeles developer who wants to give the city a distinct skyline. A prominent philanthropist, he is a major contributor to mayoral candidate Marisol Silva (Ana De La Reguera).
The new season of Goliath is executive produced by Peabody Award winner Clyde Phillips (Dexter) and Lawrence Trilling (Parenthood). The series’ cast is led by Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo), who in January won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Goliath’s first season, and has also won an Oscar for his role in Sling Blade. Goliath is created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal) and Jonathan Shapiro (The Practice).
Duplass is an award-winning actor, filmmaker and producer. He was first recognized in the early 2000s for writing, directing and producing several acclaimed independent and studio films with his brother Jay, such as The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. In 2014, Mark and his brother Jay created the critically acclaimed television series Togetherness in which Mark also starred. They also created Room 104, which debuted last month, in which Jay also stars.
Duplass has starred in a number of critically lauded films. His credits include: Alexander Lehmann’s romantic drama Blue Jay, Lynn Shelton’s Gotham-award winning Your Sister’s Sister, Charlie McDowell’s sci-fi romance The One I Love, Patrick Brice’s horror-comedy Creep, Colin Trevorrow’s Independent Spirit award-winning Safety Not Guaranteed, the Sundance sensation Humpday and Katherine Bigelow’s Oscar-winning Zero Dark Thirty.
Why Apple TV+ is offering a free weekend of binge-watching
Apple TV+ is hoping people will make a dent in the Strategic Popcorn Reserve by bingeing its streaming TV and movies for free this weekend in what experts are calling a canny promotion.
The two-day offer this Saturday and Sunday is intended to give viewers a taste of what's behind the Apple paywall and get them hooked, ready to fork over $9.99 a month in the U.S.
Michael D. Smith, a professor of information technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, said the two-day window is not too short to ignore and not too long to satisfy all demand.
"This is not 'I'm going to let you binge-watch this over the course of three or four days or a week or a couple weeks and then maybe you won't subscribe next month,'" he said. "This is, 'I'm giving you two days to explore my catalog. And I'm hoping that you're going to find something in there that maybe you'll binge. Maybe you'll have time to binge the first six episodes, but it's so cool you've got to come back and you're going to be willing to subscribe to come back.'"
While entertainment companies often use promotions and discounts to lure new customers, Apple TV+'s pitch has no catches, like entering personal info or credit card numbers. All you need is an Apple ID, which is free and which many people already have from the days of 99-cent song downloads.
What can you see behind the paywall? The Emmy-winning "Ted Lasso" and "The Morning Show" and other buzzy series like "Silo," "Shrinking," "Severance," "Bad Sisters," "Slow Horses," "Disclaimer" and "Presumed Innocent."
Movies include "Fly Me to the Moon," "The Instigators," "Spirited," "Ghosted," "Argylle," Palmer," "Napoleon" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
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