The universe of Simu Liu’s upcoming sci-fi thriller for Peacock is expanding: Melissa Barrera (Scream) is one of five new additions to the cast, the streamer announced on Wednesday.

Along with Barrera, who will play Michelle, the cast of the untitled series will also include Brian d’Arcy James (Evil) as John Moira, Mark O’Brien (Halt and Catch Fire) as Cobb, Sinclair Daniel (The Other Black Girl) as Parker and Kathleen Chaflant (The Affair) as St. George.

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Deadpool & Wolverine practically put a waning franchise back on the map, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film ever. This film not only cemented Marvel as a lucrative player in the R-rated film space but also brought in the most Marvel Legacy cameos that audiences have seen in the MCU.

Gambit in a still from Deadpool 3 | Credit: Marvel Studios

Among them, Channing Tatum’s Gambit stood out as the Mvp, especially given that all his peers at the end of time came from defunct Marvel franchises outside of the MCU. Channing Tatum was not able to get his Gambit film off the ground but received a cameo anyway. Now, Ryan Reynolds has released new footage that has reignited rumors of another film.

Deadpool & Wolverine has ignited a lot of hope for a few solo films outside the MCU Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine | Credit: Marvel...

90 Day Fiance: The Other Way spoilers reveal that fans have really started to throw shade at new cast member, Meitalia.

Ever since she first appeared on this season of the show, viewers have been calling her out. She was living in Maine with her husband, James, but she decided to move back to Indonesia for health reasons.

The two of them plan on building their life together in Indonesia, but she doesn’t make a lot of money there and he won’t be able to work there for a few years.

Now that she is back in Indonesia, she has started to act a little bizarre. Viewers have noticed and now they are calling her out for this behavior. Let’s find out more.

90 Day Fiancé Spoilers – A New Life

When Meitalia and James decided to move to Indonesia, he wasn’t sure that he should ever tell his family.

We take a break from fixing Ark-1 in the latest episode of The Ark season 2, "The Other You," to deal with the missing Brice situation. The episode picks straight up from where the previous one left off, and explores an exciting new mystery.

Caution: This post contains Spoilers from The Ark season 2, episode 4, "The Other You"

The episode wastes no time in getting into the mystery. Not only do we see Brice just disappear in front of everyone’s eyes, but we see Cat reappear in a cryo chamber. Wait? Cat? Isn’t she dead?

Well, yes, in our reality she is. It turns out that this Cat is from another world, Kelly is able to work out that Brice is still alive but in Cat’s world. When dropping out of Ftl, it seems that two versions of Ark-1 crossed paths with each other.

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The Criterion Channel has unveiled its streaming lineup for August 2024, which features an eclectic mix of independent films showcasing the work of auteurs from around the world.

The boutique service will become the exclusive streaming home of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2021 comedy “Licorice Pizza,” and will celebrate the occasion by adding four more of his films to the channel: “The Master,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” and “Magnolia.” Anderson’s frequent collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman will additionally be celebrated on the streaming service as part of a larger retrospective. Many of the late actor’s most iconic roles, including “Capote” and “Synecdoche, New York,” will be included, along with his sole directorial outing “Jack Goes Boating.”

The channel will also highlight several other prominent filmmakers including Preston Sturges, who helped pioneer the modern rom-com through films like “The Lady Eve” and “The Palm Beach Story,” and prolific Egyptian auteur Youssef Chahine.

The Criterion Channel’s August lineup pays tribute to auteurs of all kinds: directors, actors, and photographers, fictional or otherwise. In a notable act of preservation and advocacy, they’ll stream 20 titles by the Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, here introduced by the great Richard Peña. More known (but fun all the same) is a five-title Paul Thomas Anderson series including the exclusive stream of Licorice Pizza, as well as a Philip Seymour Hoffman series that overlaps with Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love (a Criterion Edition this month), and The Master, plus 25th Hour, Love Liza, and his own directing effort Jack Goes Boating. Preston Sturges gets five movies, with Sullivan’s Travels arriving in October.

Theme-wise, a photographer series includes Rear Window, Peeping Tom, Blow-up, Close-Up, and Clouzot’s La prisonnière; “Vacation Noir” features The Lady from Shanghai, Brighton Rock, Kansas City Confidential, Purple Noon, and La piscine. Alongside the aforementioned PTA and Antonioni pictures,...

The gaming community is currently mourning the closure of two Xbox-owned studios, Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. Tango was most well-known for the exceptional indie title Hi-Fi Rush, while the former is infamously known for the disastrous Redfall and the underrated Prey.

With the recent closure of the studio, many fans and devs alike are both stunned and confused as to what could have led to this decision. Head of Arkane Lyon, Dinga Bakaba, recently shared his thoughts on the whole matter, and to be blunt, he sounds mortified by the events that have just taken place.

Head of Arkane Lyon Reacts to Horrific Decision from Xbox to Close Austin Studio Xbox has closed the studio behind Redfall.

Generally speaking, the acquisition of Bethesda was a huge deal for Microsoft. Now that the ship has sailed, gamers are left wondering why there was a sudden shift in attitude towards studios under Bethesda.

Taking place June 5-16, the 2024 Tribeca Festival has unveiled its features lineup, featuring a selection of narrative, documentary, and animated films. World premiere highlights include Joel Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora, Michael Angarano’s Sacramento starring Michael Cera and Kristen Stewart, Jazzy, the latest collaboration between The Unknown Country director Morrisa Maltz and star Lily Gladstone.

Films that have premiered at prior festivals that are set for Tribeca include Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples, Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, Daddio starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, Kneecap, the Sundance winner In the Summers, Treasure starring Lena Dunham, Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s The Devil’s Bath, Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, Skywalkers: A Love Story, and more.

Explore the lineup below.

2024 Tribeca Festival Feature Film Selection

Opening Night Gala

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Featuring famed directors such as Argentina’s Ariel Rotter and Spain’s Benito Zambrano, who have not only played but won at Berlin and San Sebastian respectively, Malaga’s 19-pic out of competition strand is a testament to the buyer-driven pulling power of Malaga , thanks to its significant market.

Multiple other name auteurs pack out the selection, which also includes a far stronger line is broad audience comedies than most festivals would risk.

This is certainly territory for discoveries and breakouts – a healthy Málaga tradition.

A brief drill down on titles:

“La Bandera”

Director: Martín Cuervo

“La Bandera,” produced by Álamo Producciones Audiovisuales and Idesia Films, humorously unfolds a family’s inheritance dispute, in the sense that sons, Aitor Luna and Miquel Fernández, aren’t getting what they expected from their father played by Spanish veteran actor Imanol Arias.

“A Blue Bird”

Director: Ariel Rotter

Respected Argentine auteur Rotter returns...

Any longtime Spider-Man fans would be forgiven for sighing after watching the first trailer for Madame Web. Not because of its PG-13 horror tones or soap opera vibes (both familiar parts of superhero comics).

No, they cringe because of the movie’s big bad, Ezekiel Sims. Throughout the trailer, Dakota Johnson’s Cassandra Webb finds herself hunted by what appears to be a black-suited Spider-Man, whom she eventually recognizes as researcher Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim). For most viewers, the trailer serves as their introduction to Sims. But fans of the Spider-Man comics might recall him from the days long before guys like Paul drove readers nuts.

Ezekiel Sims debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #30 (2001), written by J. Michael Straczynski and penciled by John Romita Jr.. Straczynski reimagined Spidey’s origin not as a fluke accident when a random radioactive spider bit Pete on the hand, nor even as a larger conspiracy.

Suitable Flesh is a horror thriller film directed by Joe Lynch, from a screenplay by Dennis Paoli. Based on the 1937 H.P. Lovecraft‘s short story titled The Thing on the Doorstep, the story of the film revolves around Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby, who becomes obsessed with helping a young patient of hers, who is suffering from a severe personality disorder. This obsession leads to some horrific supernatural danger. Suitable Flesh stars Heather Graham in the lead role with Judah Lewis, Barbara Crampton, and Johnathan Schaech starring in supporting roles. So, if you love the horror film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Freaky (Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures

Synopsis: Prepare for a Freaky take on the body-swap movie which only Blumhouse (makers of Happy Death Day & The Purge Franchises) could bring: a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer! High school senior Millie is just trying...

Helen (Louise Brealey) wakes in a bright, all-pink room, but the reality of her life is nothing like the whimsical room she's awoken in. She lives with her ex-husband Gary (Celyn Jones) and his girlfriend Amy (Emily Fairn in a hilarious performance evoking "Little Britain"). She's not moved out as she has a strong connection to Gary's mother Gwen (Sorcha Cusack), who she cares for when not working night shifts at the local chicken plant. Leaving is all too tempting -- in the opening scene, she takes a suitcase out from under her bed but doesn't go through with packing. Her friends at the plant, Lynn (Emily Aston), Clare (Cat Simmons), and Paula (Beverly Rudd) try and get her to open up, but she seems resigned to the predictable monotony of her life in a small Welsh town.

That all changes when Joanne (Annabel Scholey) re-appears in their quiet town after years away.

The blows keep coming for Jack Spade (played by Stephen Amell), who takes a punch to the face in the full trailer for Heels Season 2.

The sneak peek, which was released on Thursday, finds Jack dealing with the fallout from his wife leaving him and his brother disappearing after their in-ring brawl at the end of Season 1.

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[This story contains some spoilers for the first two episodes of The Other Two season three.]

Molly Shannon and her The Other Two character Pat Dubek may not seem that similar at first glance. But as the actor pushes herself with new challenges this season and the character transforms from a clueless Midwestern mom to a New York media mogul, there have been unmistakeable moments of art imitating life.

The latest installment of the Max series from SNL alums Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider — which stars Case Walker, Drew Tarver and Heléne Yorke as siblings ChaseDreams, Cary and Brooke Dubek — sees Pat become “more powerful than she could have ever imagined,” according to HBO’s logline.

Pat, now a billionaire, has traded her endless and exhausting workdays as a talk show host for a somehow much lighter workload as the head of her own network — and is so famous she can’t leave the house without being surrounded by security. She’s darker and funnier too,...

Cary’s big movie is finally getting released after years of Covid delays on The Other Two — but of course, true stardom still might be out of reach.

Season 3 picks up three years later, as Curtis tells us on The Gay Minute that Cary’s movie Night Nurse is coming out after experiencing “the most Covid delays of any movie.” Cary is excitedly getting ready for his big Hollywood premiere… and he and Brooke both go with the “suit jacket, no shirt” look. Their famous little brother Chase is almost 18 years old now, which we know because everyone is lusting after the fresh meat,...

Acclaimed Marvel star Florence Pugh spent early 2023 promoting her latest film, A Good Person, alongside the likes of Zach Braff and Molly Shannon. The star reveals some behind-the-scenes info from on set, including how she and Shannon got into it during on memorable scene.

Florence Pugh and Molly Shannon play mother and daughter in ‘A Good Person’ Florence Pugh (L) and Molly Shannon attend MGM’s “A Good Person” New York Screening at Metrograph on March 20, 2023 in New York City. | Dominik Bindl/WireImage

A Good Person is a new 2023 drama written and directed by Pugh’s ex, Braff. The movie centers around Allison, who was part of a fatal car accident years before. She begins to bond with Morgan Freeman’s grieving Daniel while dealing with guilt and addiction.

Another one of Pugh’s cast members is Shannon, who many know best from her Saturday Night Live days. The White Lotus...

Saturday Night Live has a brunette and a “Blonde” on tap to host next month.

As previously announced, SNL returns this Saturday, April 1 with Quinta Brunson — Abbott Elementary‘s Emmy-winning writer and Golden Globe-winning star — making her hosting debut, while Lil Yachty will perform as musical guest for the first time.

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Was she joking or serious? Comedian John Mulaney‘s ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler seemed to accuse Taylor Swift of plagiarizing one of her photographs and using it in her “Eras” tour.

Tender’s TikTok quickly went viral as she claimed that Swift or the “people who designed Taylor’s tour” copied one of her photographs that show her sitting alone at a table set for two. And now some fans are wondering why the artist came for Swift.

Anna Marie Tendler wonders if Taylor Swift copied her photo

Tendler’s TikTok shared on Twitter, started with “What the f***” and a video of Swift setting a table for two. “Uh, Taylor my girl,” Tender said. “People who designed Taylor’s tour. This tolerated setup looks strikingly like one of my photographs in tone and in aesthetics.”

Anna Marie Tendler and Taylor Swift |Donato Sardella/Getty Images for The Other Art...

Daniele Gates and Yohan Geronimo’s relationship on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Season 4 has been fraught with red flags. While their love story may have initially seemed romantic and exciting, it quickly became apparent that some serious issues needed to be addressed. Let’s explore the three biggest red flags in Daniele and Yohan’s relationship.

90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way stars Daniele and Yohan | 90 Day Fiancé via Youtube https://youtu.be/makHhL8LFUw Many ’90 Day Fiancé’ fans think Daniele is fetishizing her relationship with Yohan

Many 90 Day Fiancé cast members have been accused of fetishizing their relationships with foreign partners. Fetishizing refers to making something or someone the object of sexual fantasy or desire. However, it’s often male cast members tend to receive this feedback.

Some 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way viewers have accused Daniele of fetishizing her relationship with the 6’7″ fitness instructor. One fan responded, “She is Definitely fetishizing him.

’Doctor Who Am I’ and ’Stalker’ have also been acquired.

Documentary features The Other Fellow and Doctor Who Am I, plus 2022 FrightFest premiere Stalker, have all been snapped up for North American distribution by Gravitas Ventures.

Paris-based documentary specialist Reservoir Docs is handling international sales on The Other Fellow, the debut feature from Australian director Matthew Bauer. The documentary tells the surprising, and occasionally intertwining, life stories of real men across the world whose names are all James Bond.

It is produced by Bauer, alongside UK-based producer Michelle Brøndum. A limited theatrical release is plotted for early 2023.

”The name James...

Sumit Singh’s family is getting called out by 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? viewers. Pic credit: TLC

During the latest episode of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?, viewers watched the fallout from Sumit Singh telling his family that he and Jenny Slatten were actually married.

Sumit’s mom Sadhna carried out a verbal assault against Sumit and Jenny, claiming that she was disowning Sumit entirely.

Backing Sadhna up were Sumit’s brother and sister-in-law who were taking Sadhna and her husband Anil’s sides.

Sumit’s family, and mom especially, have found Sumit and Jenny’s 30-year age difference to be abhorrent and shameful for years. Their distaste for the relationship has manifested in several notable family fights.

However, in Season 3 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, Sadhna and Anil moved in with Jenny and Sumit to try and monitor their relationship and teach Jenny Indian customs.

Croatia’s Drugi Plan and Bulgaria’s Agitprop, two of the leading production outfits in Southeast Europe, have been attached to co-produce the upcoming drama series “Sabre,” a political thriller revolving around the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic produced by Belgrade-based This and That Productions.

Created by Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić, the series will star Serbian-Danish actress Danica Curcic, known to international audiences for her lead role in the Netflix psychological thriller “The Chestnut Man,” as a reporter investigating the shocking murder.

The companies announced the deal on Monday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where This and That’s “Bad Blood” and Drugi Plan’s “The Silence” were among the top Balkan drama series vying for Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony in the Bosnian capital on Sunday night.

“Sabre” was first pitched in Sarajevo three years ago during the CineLink Drama co-financing forum,...

Following the success of their collaboration on Nicolás Postiglione’s debut feature “Immersion,” production shingles Whisky Content of Mexico and Chile’s Juntos Films have forged a medium-term strategic alliance for the joint development of nine films in six years.

The agreement comes just days after the premiere of “Immersion,” a thriller headlined by Chile’s most bankable star, Alfredo Castro, at the Miami Film Festival where its poster won the Best Poster Design Award. The film has already racked up top awards from the festivals of Guadalajara, Tallinn Black Nights and Punta del Este.

The move also comes as further cooperation among Hispanic companies continue apace in response to the increasing challenges of local content production. The insatiable demand for content from both traditional and new players – especially streamers – in the entertainment industry is also a key factor.

“This is another firm step towards our goal of turning our...

Exclusive: Actor Robert Lasardo is making his feature directorial debut with the crime thriller American Trash, starring in the pic currently in production in Los Angeles, alongside Costas Mandylor and Lorelei Linklater.

Set amidst a social crisis in the decaying world of Los Angeles, American Trash watches as the city freefalls into environmental ruin, chaos and a complete drug epidemic. Milles Carpis (Lasardo) leans on the support of some new age hippie friends as they guide him away from violence when the woman he loves (Linklater) is murdered, subsequently turning to Detective Anderson (Mandylor) for help in his search for her killer.

Diana Ramos-Santiago Carter, Josh Webber and Jerry G. Angelo are producing the film scripted by Lasardo.Lasardo is represented by Dtla Entertainment Group; Mandylor by Global Creatives Agency and Anthem Entertainment; and Linklater by Linda McAlister Talent and The Green Room.

At long last, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is ready for her next set.

After more than two years, the Prime Video comedy series will be back for Season 4 on Friday, Feb. 18, the streaming service announced Tuesday. For the first time in Mrs. Maisel‘s run, episodes will drop on a weekly basis instead of a binge-release rollout, with two new installments becoming available every Friday for four consecutive weeks.

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Exclusive: Hacks co-creators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello are taking to market the first project following their multiple Emmy wins for the HBO Max comedy series. Hot Robot, a half-hour genre comedy written by Genevieve Aniello, is being developed through Downs and Lucia Aniello’s Warner Bros. TV Group-based Paulilu Productions. Lucia Aniello, Emmy winner for directing the Hacks pilot episode, is set to direct Hot Robot, which will be shopped to streamers and cable networks.

Hot Robot follows a jaded young woman whose life is turned upside down when she’s recruited to work on a super-secret AI project by a big brother corporation.

Downs and Lucia Aniello executive produce via Paulilu Productions.

Genevieve Aniello was most recently the showrunner, executive producer and head writer on Gayme Show at Quibi, as well as a staff writer on The Other Two at Comedy Central.

There are still millions of Americans among us who remember where they were when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 and countless millions more who have been inspired by the legacy of King’s historic work on behalf of civil rights. But there are few who’ve put their careers and companies on the line to advance King’s work more emphatically and dramatically than Byron Allen.

In 2015, after settling a long-running lawsuit against AT&T for discrimination, Allen’s Entertainment Studios filed a $10 billion lawsuit against Charter Communications, claiming the telecommunications giant was in violation of the 1966 Civil Rights Act. After five years of legal wrangling and bruising media coverage, the two sides settled out of court.

In that same year, Entertainment Studios also sued Comcast for $20 billion and years later that suit was also settled out of court. In May, Entertainment Studios sued fast-food titan McDonald’s for $10 billion,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Other Two Season 2.] Season 2 of the hilarious, must-watch comedy ends with the two members of the family who are usually categorized as the “The Other Two” finding success: Brooke (Heléne Yorke) is doing well as manager (and even has a non-family member client!) and Cary (Drew Tarver) is getting ready to start working on a movie, Night Nurse … just as the pandemic hits. Meanwhile, the others finally see how overworked Pat (Molly Shannon) is with her talk show, game show, and everything else, and Chase (Case Walker) lets his frustrations over not singing known. Executive producers Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly discuss where Season 2 left everyone and begin looking ahead to Season 3. Will there be a time jump to move past the pandemic? Or will there be something with the family quarantined together? Sarah Schneider: We liked ending on a joke because we liked acknowledging that the world was...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s Season 2 finale of The Other Two.

Things were just going a little too well for The Other Two‘s Brooke and Cary, weren’t they?

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In Thursday’s Season 2 finale, the two less famous siblings were...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.

With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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This article contains spoilers for the first two episodes of The Other Two season 2.

We expect a lot from our TV comedies nowadays.

Maybe it’s because the mid-2010s saw an increasing number of talented comedians trying their hands at being auteurs. Or maybe it’s because the Emmy Awards categorized basically anything with half-hour episodes as a comedy, regardless of their Jokes Per Minute (Jpm) status. But whatever the reason, many sitcoms are expected to ask us to examine the human experience while making us laugh at the same time.

Sometimes, however, you just want to laugh so hard that you’re barely able to remember you even have a corporeal form, let alone comprehend life’s many mysteries. Thank God then for shows like HBO Max’s The Other Two. The Other Two comes from former SNL writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider and stars Drew Tarver...

The premiere of Serbian drama series “Bad Blood” Wednesday night at the Sarajevo Film Festival was more than just the usual red-carpet event. An ambitious, decades-spanning period drama that chronicles the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, it was the first series from the festival’s CineLink Drama co-financing forum to go into production since its launch in 2016.

“We have now closed the full circle for TV series in the festival,” says Sarajevo’s long-time industry head Jovan Marjanović, who recently became the festival’s co-director alongside founder and director Mirsad Purivatra.

Five years after Sarajevo added a TV strand to its CineLink industry platform, drama has become an ever-larger part of the festival’s program. In addition to CineLink Drama, the co-production market which presents six high-end drama series in development from Southeastern Europe, there’s Avant Premiere, which this week introduced “Bad Blood” and four other anticipated Balkan...

Exclusive: Entertainment One has acquired U.S. rights to Adam Silvera’s novel They Both Die at the End, currently No. 1 on the New York Times YA paperback bestsellers list three years after it was published, to develop for television. Silvera is attached to pen the series adaptation. eOne will serve as the studio and distribute the project worldwide. Drew Comins of Creative Engine Entertainment will produce through his deal at eOne.

Published by HarperCollins in September 2017, They Both Die at the End was previously in development as a series at HBO with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and The Other Two co-creator Chris Kelly. Comins and eOne pursued the rights when they became available, landing them in a competitive situation. Creative Engine and eOne already have a relationship with Silvera, whose first novel, More Happy Than Not, is currently in the works as a series at HBO Max, also with Comins and eOne.

One of Europe’s first 2021 on-site festivals, held at Guía de Isora on the west coast of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, top Spanish doc festival MiradasDoc awarded its best film prize on Saturday to Argentina’s “Shady River,” directed and lensed by Tatiana Mazú González.

The 14th MiradasDoc’s festival awards were unveiled Saturday as its heads reported substantial growth in its MiradasDoc Market. That can be put down in part to the market’s online edition, which allowed many more decision-makers to view projects, hiking both one-to-one meetings and festival-sponsored prizes at the event, said David Baute, MiradasDoc artistic director.

Produced by Argentina’s Antes Muerto Cine, “Shady River,” Mazú González’s third feature, which took the Prix Georges de Beauregard at last year’s FIDMarseille, plumbs the collective misogyny of Patagonia’s mining towns where men are miners and women silent and legend still has it...

Producer of Argentina’s Oscar entry “Sleepwalkers,” Juan Pablo Miller’s Buenos Aires-based Tarea Fina has unveiled “El Hijo Deseado,” the next film by Berlinale Jury Grand Prix winner Ariel Rotter.

Its announcement comes as Tarea Fina advances on post-production of “La Encomienda,” from Pablo Giorgelli, whose “Las Acacias” was awarded the Cannes Festival’s Camera d’Or for best first feature by a jury presided by “Parasite’s” Bong Joon Ho.

Both films maintain Tarea Fina’s hallmark of exacting, carefully crafted movies which break out to big festival prizes and sometimes global art house distribution.

“We always work like artisans, producing a small number of films a year so that we can care for them a lot, whether they’re first features or from established directors,” Miller told Variety during Ventana Sur where “El Hijo Deseado” looks to have been one highlight of the market’s Proyecta section.

Producers of “Las Acacias,” a Cannes’ Camera d’Or winner for best first feature, Juan Pablo Miller’s Tarea Fina and Ariel Rotter’s Aire Cine are now teaming on “Forest Girl” (“Niña Bosque”), their first animated feature production.

Co-written by Rotter, a distinguished writer-director in his own right whose first movie, 2007’s “The Other,” won a Berlin Festival Grand Jury Prize, “Forest Girl” also marks the debut feature of its Taiwan-born and Buenos Aires-based director Aili Chen, a co-founder with Rotter of Aire Cine.

A coming-of age fantasy adventure targeting up-scale family audiences, art house devotees, festivals and platforms, “Forest Girl” is set to be unveiled at Animation! Pitching Sessions, organized by Ventana Sur, the biggest film market in Latin America, and the Annecy Animation Festival’s MIFA market.

Conceived by Chen, who co-writes with Rotter, “Forest Girl” turns on a little girl who awakes alone in a forest land of striking wild beauty.

Fernanda Frick’s “Irl Squad,” the Cinema Management Group-sold “Kayara” and Brazil’s “Bring on the Revolution!” are three of the 16 film and TV animation projects at Animation!, one of the industry highlights at the upcoming Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film market.

Running Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, and available on Ventana Sur online, Animation!’s pitches, organized with the Annecy Animation Festival’s MIFA market, play off a building animation scene in Latin America. Animation!’s pitches received 241 submissions this year, an all-time record.

The projects look set as ever to frame some of the strongest movie market titles at Ventana Sur: A exceptional big animated feature production from Latin America, backed by a reputable sales agent, can now spark seven-figure dollar pre-sales.

An auteur of highly crafted character-driven animation tales, who was cherry-picked by Netflix for development of her last project, “Raise the Bar,” about a stereotype-smashing female weightlifter,...

It looks like Keira Knightley is sticking to TV series for a little bit. After the actress was already confirmed for a new Hulu miniseries from the creator of “The L Word,” it appears that Knightley has found yet another show she would like to star in, this time for Apple TV+.

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According to Deadline, Knightley is set to star in “The Essex Serpent,” based on the novel by Sarah Perry.

Continue reading Keira Knightley To Star In ‘Essex Serpent’ Series From Apple & Director Clio Barnard at The Playlist.

HBO Max has struck a programming deal with Comedy Central for three of its original live-action series.

Under the pact, praised Comedy Central comedies The Other Two and South Side will migrate to the WarnerMedia platform and become HBO Max originals, starting with their upcoming second seasons. Additionally, HBO Max has become the exclusive streaming home to Comedy Central’s hit semi-autobiographical comedy Awkawfina is Nora from Queens, headlined by The Farewell and Crazy Rich Asians star Awkwafina.

Comedy Central has been pairing down its live-action comedy slate while shifting its programming focus on adult animation, tapping into IP across ViacomCBS to build an original animated slate around stalwart South Park. In the past couple of months, the network has greenlighted Beavis and Butt-Head and The Ren & Stimpy Show reboots as well as Daria spinoff Jodie. Comedy Central’s remaining live-action lineup consists of a couple of series, led by Awkawfina,...

Jennifer Fox, the director behind Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated HBO movie The Tale, will direct the adaptation of The Other Dr. Gilmer.

Concordia Studio has acquired the rights to the upcoming novel from Dr. Benjamin Gilmer that will be published via Penguin Random House, and will produce with Social Construct Films and Maven Screen Media.

The Other Dr. Gilmer is the story of a beloved small-town physician, Dr. Vince Gilmer, who murders his father for mysterious reasons. Dr. Vince Gilmer’s successor, coincidentally named Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, becomes obsessed with understanding what drove Vince to snap. A true-crime investigation coupled with a medical mystery,...

Jennifer Fox, the director behind Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated HBO movie The Tale, will direct the adaptation of The Other Dr. Gilmer.

Concordia Studio has acquired the rights to the upcoming novel from Dr. Benjamin Gilmer that will be published via Penguin Random House, and will produce with Social Construct Films and Maven Screen Media.

The Other Dr. Gilmer is the story of a beloved small-town physician, Dr. Vince Gilmer, who murders his father for mysterious reasons. Dr. Vince Gilmer’s successor, coincidentally named Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, becomes obsessed with understanding what drove Vince to snap. A true-crime investigation coupled with a medical mystery,...

James McAvoy, Andrew Scott, Wendell Pierce and Toby Jones are going head-to-head for best actor in this year’s Olivier Awards, while Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Hayley Atwell, Juliet Stevenson and Sharon D Clarke have been nominated for best actress.

New musical & Juliet has nabbed nine nominations, Trevor Nunn’s Fiddler on the Roof has secured eight and Dear Evan Hansen has scored seven.

The UK awards, which celebrates the best theatre in London, will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on April 5.

Here’s the full list of play and musical nominations:

Best New Play

A Very Expensive Poison at The Old Vic

The Doctor at Almeida Theatre

Leopoldstadt at Wyndham’s Theatre

The Ocean at the End of the Lane at National Theatre – Dorfman

Best New Musical

& Juliet at Shaftesbury Theatre

Amelie The Musical at The Other Palace

Dear Evan Hansen at Noel Coward Theatre

Waitress at Adelphi Theatre...

Berlin — Underscoring its ambitions for Central and Eastern Europe, “Babylon Berlin” and “Gomorrah’s” Beta Film has just taken a majority stake in Zagreb-based Drugi Plan, producers of Netflix pick-up “The Paper” and “Success,” HBO Europe’s first HBO Adria original.

The investment builds on Beta Film owner Jan Mojto’s determination to plow ever more into production and target shows, companies and regions with international potential, endowing them with international level financial resources to realize their potential.

Beta Film has begun to build up a portfolio of Eastern European productions, joining forces with HBO Europe on Agnieszka Holland’s multiple-prized “Burning Bush” as well as “Wasteland, with Robert Dornhelm on “Maria Theresa,” and Dariusz Jablonski on “The Pleasure Principle,” the first co-production between Poland, Czech Republic and Ukraine, showcased at Series Mania.

A Munich-based production, financing and distribution powerhouse, Beta Film already linked up with Drugi Plan on projects...

Horror movies have always captured the imagination of William Brent Bell.

As a curious kid growing up in Kentucky, he devoured Dan Curtis and Karen Black's anthology film Trilogy of Terror — the evil Zuni doll is something he'll never forget — and Robert Mulligan's psychological thriller The Other, with the two films leaving an indelible mark. Richard Donner's cult classic The Omen was hugely important, too.

"I had an active imagination, kind of not too dark, but dark stuff," Bell tells The Hollywood Reporter, the same day that Brahms: The Boy II releases ...

Horror movies have always captured the imagination of William Brent Bell.

As a curious kid growing up in Kentucky, he devoured Dan Curtis and Karen Black's anthology film Trilogy of Terror — the evil Zuni doll is something he'll never forget — and Robert Mulligan's psychological thriller The Other, with the two films leaving an indelible mark. Richard Donner's cult classic The Omen was hugely important, too.

"I had an active imagination, kind of not too dark, but dark stuff," Bell tells The Hollywood Reporter, the same day that Brahms: The Boy II releases ...

On the first season of 90 Day Fiance: The Other, Tiffany and Ronald had their issues but that didn’t stop them from getting married and having a baby. It didn’t take long for Tiffany to grow tired of South Africa, ultimately making the move back to the U.S. The plan was to work toward getting Ronald to America too, but […]...

Chris Farnell Jan 28, 2020

Did the latest Doctor Who series 12 episode finally prove a 35-year-old fan theory right? With major spoilers, Chris investigates

This Doctor Who article contains spoilers.

The words “Big Twist” are in the headline, so obviously if you’ve not seen Sunday night’s Doctor Who, well, probably turn off your computer and try not to speak to anyone until you’ve watched the episode because we have got spoilers aplenty right here!

Ready?

Right, Wow! Did you see? And then the bit where Captain Jack was all… and Ruth was like, and you knew it had to be a Chameleon Arch didn’t you? And then her name began with an R so I was all “Wait, are they going to bring back the Rani?” and then Boom.

I had to rewatch it with breakfast to just to reassure myself I wasn’t making it up. Yes,...

Broadway Vacation The Musical, with characters from the popular Chevy Chase-fronted film franchise, will make its world premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre this Fall.

Though no announcement was made regarding actual Broadway plans for Broadway Vacation, the Seattle venue has been the starting ground for various New York-bound productions over the years, including Hairspray, Aladdin, Memphis and First Date starring Zachary Levi, among others.

The Seattle production was announced today by 5th Avenue’s Artistic Director Bill Berry and Broadway producer Ken Davenport.

The musical will feature a book, music and lyrics by David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, with direction and choreography by Donna Feore. Casting was not announced.

“We could not be more thrilled to create the world premiere of this joyfully riotous story at The 5th,” said Berry. “I can’t wait to begin our 2020/21 season with...

Tony Sokol Sep 4, 2019

Screenwriter Grady Hendrix calms some fears about the rising Satanic Panic.

Directed by Chelsea Stardust (All That We Destroy), the upcoming horror comedy Satanic Panic plays fast and loose with demonic forces. It changes the standard virgin sacrifice into a quarterly earnings celebration and Tupperware pep talk, but does it with midnight movie mythology. Hayley Griffith (The Loudest Voice) plays the virgin, Sam, a little low on gas but high in spirit. The high priestess of the satanic cabal is Danica Ross played by Rebecca Romijn. Her followers pledge themselves to Baphomet, and incur the playful wrath of a lesser demon because they didn't read the fine print.

The devil is always in the details, and novelist Grady Hendrix, who wrote the screenplay from a story he wrote with Ted Geoghegan, can find them with the Dewey Decimal System. Hendrix, who wrote My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) among other funny fright films,...

Francisco Hervé of Panchito Films, Moisés Sepúlveda from Madriguera Films and Daniela Raviola, three of Chile’s most exciting international-minded independent producers, have together launched a new indie production house, Juntos Films.

Hervé has written, directed and produced (María Paz González ‘s “Daughter”) several feature films, documentaries and TV series which have screened at major festivals around the world. He is a member of the Eurodoc producers’ network and teaches at the University of Chile and Catholic University of Chile in Santiago.

“For year’s we’ve been working on our own, like lonely wolves. Collectively though, we find that in creative work the sum is more than the value of the parts,” he told Variety about the merger.

Raviola has produced short films, television, documentaries, animation and served as General Producer of the International Animation Festival Chilemonos and Mai! Animation Market. She worked with Hervé at Panchito where she...