If Netflix and the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that more and more actors from Hollywood are moving to TV. While some like Reese Witherspoon have multiple projects with multiple platforms in the pipeline, others are doing one project at a time.

With the success of House of Cards (before allegations of assault surfaced against lead actor Kevin Spacey who has since been fired from the show), True Detective (Matthew Mcconaughey, Woody Harrelson) and Big Little Lies (Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman) to name just three, more actors are making the transition than previous years.

Some call it the golden age of television but what is obvious is that for actors, writers and directors, it’s about good writing. And it’s not just actors; writers and directors are making the move to television as well. With that being the case, here’s a look at the latest and most curious Hollywood crossovers.

Our story begins with Maniac whose cast includes Oscar winners such as Emma Stone and Sally Fields alongside prolific actors such as Jonah Hill and Justin Theroux. Set to make an appearance on Netflix, the series is helmed by True Detective director Cary Fukunaga and is adapted from a 2014 Norwegian series. It follows the story of two individuals in a mental institution "who struggle to decipher the difference between their fantasy worlds and the real world".

The second series in question is called Picture Paris and it is important because it will star Meg Ryan in the lead role. The actress from popular films like When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and City of Angels is returning to television for the first time since 1985. The series, an adaptation of a short-film, featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and directed by her husband, Brad Hall, is a comedy "about a suburban mom who, after her kids leave for college, takes her dream trip to Paris only to find more disappointment in the romance capital of the world".

One of the better actors of this generation, Amy Adams, who stars in DC Comics’ Batman, Superman, Justice League films as reporter Lois Lane and who has delivered beautiful performances in films like Arrival and Nocturnal Animals, is also coming back to TV in a big way. She will star in and produce Sharp Objects, a series based on the book by Gillian Flynn. The HBO miniseries, slated to appear this year, traces the story of a reporter who returns to her hometown from a psych hospital to investigate murders of two girls. With Jean-Marc Vallée, director of films like Wild, Dallas Buyers Club and TV shows such as Big Little Lies attached to direct, expectations remain high.

The Academy Award winning brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, director(s) of films like No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Inside Llewn Davis and writers of films such as Unbrokem, Bridge of Spies and the George Clooney-directed Suburbicon also have a new TV project in the pipeline. Set to appear on Netflix, it will be an anthology miniseries called The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and will star James Franco and Tim Blake Nelson among others. The series will tell "six distinct stories set on the American frontier" with Coen brothers writing and directing all six parts. The move is controversial because as more directors move to streaming platforms, the opposition against watching films anywhere but the movie theater is growing thin with only Chris Nolan rebelling against the new norm. The last and final person on this list is filmmaker Martin Scorsese whose 100 million dollar film, The Irishman, has been bought by Netflix.

The film is Scorsese’s return to the crime-gangster genre after more than a decade and will reunite him with actor Robert Di Niro, with whom he has worked with eight times in the past. The Irishman will be their ninth project together. As for the film, though it is adapted from a 2003 book called I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, it will be unusual in the sense that it will be a sober film with the key character looking back at his past as a mobster in retrospective mode. Apart from Di Niro, it will also feature Joe Pesci, who is coming out of retirement for the film. Ironically enough, though Scorsese is releasing the film on Netflix, he is against the idea of watching films outside the cinema.

"Now you can see a film on an iPad," said Scorsese at a talk last year. "You might be able to push it closer to your [face] in your bedroom, just lock the door and look at it if you can, but I do find just glimpsing stuff here or there, even watching a film at home on a big-screen TV, there is still stuff around the room. There’s a phone that rings. People go by. It is not the best way."

- With information from IndieWire.com

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Amy Adams in a still from Sharp Objects

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Martin Scorsese and Robert Di Niro are teaming up for the ninth time with The Irishman, whose rights have been bought by Netflix.