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Exclusive: Carnaby has nabbed rights to popular UK children’s brand.

Carnaby International has acquired the worldwide sales rights to popular children’s brand Captain Pugwash which will set sail next year as a live-action, family comedy-adventure.

The deal was brokered by Carnaby International’s joint CEO, Sean O’Kelly, together with Elliot Jenkins of Atticus Pictures.

With cast set to be announced imminently, the live-action feature tells an origins story that is set in the Golden Age of Piracy.

Cowardly con-artist Pugwash is put on a ship to Botany Bay but soon escapes and has the good fortune to find himself at the helm of The Black Pig on a mission to rescue Cabin Boy Tom’s father who has been marooned on a volcanic island with a hoard of treasure protected by an army of angry ghosts. And if this didn’t make things difficult enough for our diminutive hero, Pugwash soon finds...

As Star Trek Beyond beams into cinemas this Friday, test your knowledge of the big screen franchise from the very beginning

What was the name of Khan's ship?

Regula I

The Delta Flyer

SS Botany Bay

Iks Gorkon

What is the name of the ritual Vulcans undergo to prove themselves purged of all emotion?

Kolinahr

Koon-ut-kal-if-ee

Kahs-wan

Kobiyashi Maru

Where would one be most likely to find Lt. Commander Scott on a pub crawl?

Edinburgh

Aberdeen

Glasgow

Balmoral Castle

What is the name of the frozen Klingon prison planet from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

Delta Vega

Ceti Alpha VI

Ice-9

Rura Penthe

What brand of beer do Captain Kirk and Gillian drink at the pizza parlor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?

Budweiser

Michelob

Miller Lite

Coors Lite

Who was the Captain of the USS Kelvin?

Captain Richard Robau

Captain Mackenzie Calhoun

Larskene, The Silver

Captain Rachael Garrett

What species is Keenser?...

Did Quentin Tarantino stumble this time out? His tale of western killers sharing a snowbound cabin builds almost zero suspense, and the verbal excess and violent grossness lack Tarantino's usual clever, wickedly funny edge. And 70mm cooped up in a dim interior? It's A Long Day's Journey into Lincoln Logs. Totally dig Jennifer Jason Leigh and Ennio Morricone, though. The Hateful Eight Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD Anchor Bay / Weinstein 2015 / Color / 2.76 widescreen (Ultra Panavision 70) / 187 min. / Street Date March 29, 2016 / 39.99 Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Michael Madsen, James Parks, Dana Gourrier, Zoë Bell, Lee Horsley, Gene Jones, Channing Tatum. Cinematography Robert Richardson Film Editor Fred Raskin Original Music Ennio Morricone Production Design Yohei Taneda Produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Shannon McIntosh, Stacey Sher Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Quentin Tarantino's opening title sequence card announces...

Quentin Tarantino was out charming Sydney media people last week ahead of the release of "The Hateful Eight" in Australia. Whilst most grilled him on the violent western, So Is It Any Good took the initiative - asking him if his use of the Jim Jones Botany Bay song indicated he would be interested in doing a film about Australia's own violent history.

Tarantino then revealed that while he had no interest in doing an Australian western about figures like Ned Kelly or Australian frontiersman, he does have an idea for an Australian-set 1930s "Bonnie and Clydish-story" about some outlaws. He adds that it's a project he thinks about every time he visits Australia. You can see the full interview below:...

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demian Bichir, Michael Madsen, James Parks, Lee Horsley, Zoe Bell, Walton Goggins, Bruce Dern | Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino

“You only need to hang mean bastards, but mean bastards you need to hang.”

The Hateful Eight is, as its title suggests, a sort of inverted Magnificent Seven, its cast of colorful characters coming together not to put aside their lone wolf differences in unlikely defense of a pastoral dream but to bite, tear, shoot, hack, poison, stab, and hang each other in pursuit of goals which, as the film progresses and the tide of blood comes in, are sucked into the void like dirty water down a drain. It’s Tarantino’s bleakest film, a pressure cooker full of comprehensively human beasts whose slowly revealed foibles and virtues inspire just enough empathy to make their messy deaths an emotional ordeal...

When it was revealed Ennio Morricone would be teaming with Quentin Tarantino to deliver an original score for The Hateful Eight — the biggest news out of this year’s Comic-Con, bar one — we wondered if this might be a brief respite for the director, in terms of utilizing anachronistic music choices. Today now brings the full soundtrack list (thanks to Music Box via Film Music Reporter), but rest assured, he snuck a few unexpected choices in the line-up.

Made up mostly of Morricone’s tracks (17 in total, with some repeated titles) and dialogue bits from the cast, there’s three outliers: The White Stripes‘ Apple Blossom, Roy Orbinson‘s — spoilers! — There Won’t Be Many Coming Home, and David Hess‘ — spoilers, again! — Now You’re All Alone, which was in the original Last House on the Left. Coming from Decca Records on December 18th, we’ll get a few days...

Robert Walker: Actor in MGM films of the '40s. Robert Walker: Actor who conveyed boy-next-door charms, psychoses At least on screen, I've always found the underrated actor Robert Walker to be everything his fellow – and more famous – MGM contract player James Stewart only pretended to be: shy, amiable, naive. The one thing that made Walker look less like an idealized “Average Joe” than Stewart was that the former did not have a vacuous look. Walker's intelligence shone clearly through his bright (in black and white) grey eyes. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” programming, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating today, Aug. 9, '15, to Robert Walker, who was featured in 20 films between 1943 and his untimely death at age 32 in 1951. Time Warner (via Ted Turner) owns the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library (and almost got to buy the studio outright in 2009), so most of Walker's movies have...

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Here are more nerdy spots in the final two Trek films to date: Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness...

Spoilers for Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness lie ahead.

Like their forerunners, the two latest Star Trek films, in their semi-rebooted, alternative universe, are replete with famous faces from outside the franchise, surprising cameos and multiple little touches that raise a smile.

With the third film in the rebooted series coming next year, the 50th anniversary of the debut of Star Trek on TV in 1966, let's take a look at a few of the geeky nods in Jj's Trek films.

1. Star Trek Nemesis left a lot of dangling threads, on purpose, as a story treatment for a direct sequel was already being worked on. Unfortunately due to some less than stellar decisions by executives, the release date of the film was repositioned and the decision...

Here are more nerdy spots in the final two Trek films to date: Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness...

Spoilers for Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness lie ahead.

Like their forerunners, the two latest Star Trek films, in their semi-rebooted, alternative universe, are replete with famous faces from outside the franchise, surprising cameos and multiple little touches that raise a smile.

With the third film in the rebooted series coming next year, the 50th anniversary of the debut of Star Trek on TV in 1966, let's take a look at a few of the geeky nods in Jj's Trek films.

1. Star Trek Nemesis left a lot of dangling threads, on purpose, as a story treatment for a direct sequel was already being worked on. Unfortunately due to some less than stellar decisions by executives, the release date of the film was repositioned and the decision was made to...

A spirited damsel in distress and a familiar face in postwar Hollywood films

Although the actor Patricia Medina, who has died aged 92, had a cut-glass English accent, her voluptuous Latin looks often prevented her from playing English characters. As her name suggests, she was half-Spanish, born in Liverpool, the daughter of a Spanish father – a lawyer and former opera singer – and an English mother.

Medina, who appeared in more than 50 feature films, many of them costume dramas, was seldom called upon to display much acting ability, though she was an unusually spirited damsel in distress. However, she used the one chance she had to work with a director of magnitude, Orson Welles, in Mr Arkadin (also known as Confidential Report, 1955), to show what she was capable of. As Mily, in this breathless, globetrotting film, she is an earthy nightclub dancer who attempts to seduce the amnesiac billionaire Welles. It was...

Actress Patricia Medina has died after a long battle with ill health at the age of 92.

She died at Barlow Respiratory Hospital on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.

The British-born beauty began her acting career in England in the late 1930s and moved to Hollywood after marrying The Adventures of Robin Hood TV star Richard Greene.

Medina became a big star following leading roles opposite Fernando Lamas in Sangaree, Glenn Ford in Plunder of the Sun and Alan Ladd in Botany Bay.

Her additional film credits include Mr. Arkadin, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Phantom of the Rue Morgue, Fortunes of Captain Blood, Lady in the Iron Mask, and The Lady and the Bandit.

In 1960, the actress married Citizen Kane star Joseph Cotten and two years later she made her Broadway debut opposite her new husband in Calculated Risk.

Los Angeles — The actress who became a leading lady of Hollywood films in the 1950s opposite Glenn Ford, Alan Ladd, Karl Malden and Fernando Lamas has died in Los Angeles. Patricia Medina was 92.

Her friend, Meredith Silverbach, told the Los Angeles Times () that Medina had been in declining health and that she died Saturday at Barlow Respiratory Hospital. http://lat.ms/K1ouks

The British-born actress was the widow of actor Joseph Cotten. She arrived in Hollywood after World War II and signed with the MGM studios.

She had lead roles in "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion" in 1950, "Sangaree" with Lamas in 1953, "Plunder of the Sun" with Ford in 1953, "Botany Bay" with Ladd in 1953 and "Phantom of the Rue Morgue" with Malden in 1954.

Medina wrote an autobiography, "Laid Back in Hollywood," in 1998.

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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com...