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Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl and Eric Red’s haunted house movie 100 Feet and Madalina Ghenea, who played cinema icon Sophia Loren in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, star in the shark thriller Deep Fear, which Gravitas Ventures will be giving a VOD release in the United States and Canada on November 3rd. With that release date just three weeks away, a trailer for Deep Fear has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Marcus Adams (Long Time Dead) from a screenplay written by Robert Capelli Jr. (The Rules (for Men)) and Sophia Eptamentis (Invincible Summer), Deep Fear centers on Naomi (Ghenea), a yachtswoman embarking on a solo trip in the Caribbean. Her last stop is Grenada, where she plans to rendezvous with her boyfriend Jackson (Westwick), until a storm forces her off course and into the paths of drug traffickers.

Ron Cephas Jones, the actor best known for playing William Hill in This Is Us, has died. He was 66 years old.

A representative for the actor confirmed the news to People on Saturday and attributed Jones’ death to a “long-standing pulmonary issue.”

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Alicia Vikander — who, at just 34, is already an Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award winner, a three-time BAFTA Award nominee and a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, and has been described as “the biggest Swedish export since Ikea” — is the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of an audience at the Campari Lounge within the Palais at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Swede, who is best known — and won her Oscar — for 2015’s The Danish Girl, was at the fest with a project for the third year in a row. In 2021 she attended on behalf of the film Blue Bayou, which screened in the Un Certain Regard section. In 2022 she returned with the HBO limited series Irma Vep, which screened as part of the Cannes Premiere section, and for which she is now in Emmy contention. This time,...

Take a look at "Tomb Raider" actress Alicia Vikander in the March 2023 issue of "W" magazine, photographed by Hyungsik Kim:

Vikander trained as a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and the School of American Ballet in New York. She began her professional acting career appearing in Swedish television series, gaining recognition for her role as 'Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt' in the TV drama "Andra Avenyn" (2008–10).

Vikander made her feature film debut in "Pure" (2010), winning the 'Guldbagge Award' for 'Best Actress'. In 2012 she portrayed 'Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya' in director Joe Wright's film adaptation of "Anna Karenina"... ...followed by the role of 'Queen Caroline Mathilde' in the Danish film "A Royal Affair", receiving a 'BAFTA Rising Star Award' nomination.

She then starred in the 2013 Swedish drama "Hotell" and the biopic "The Fifth Estate".

In 2014 and 2015, Vikander achieved global recognition and acclaim for her roles as activist '...

Take a look at "Tomb Raider" actress Alicia Vikander in the March 2023 issue of "W" magazine (Korea), photographed by Hyungsik Kim:

Vikander trained as a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and the School of American Ballet in New York. She began her professional acting career appearing in Swedish television series, gaining recognition for her role as 'Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt' in the TV drama "Andra Avenyn" (2008–10).

Vikander made her feature film debut in "Pure" (2010), winning the 'Guldbagge Award' for 'Best Actress'. In 2012 she portrayed 'Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya' in director Joe Wright's film adaptation of "Anna Karenina"... ...followed by the role of 'Queen Caroline Mathilde' in the Danish film "A Royal Affair", receiving a 'BAFTA Rising Star Award' nomination.

She then starred in the 2013 Swedish drama "Hotell" and the biopic "The Fifth Estate".

In 2014 and 2015, Vikander achieved global recognition and acclaim for her roles as activist...

I’ve mentioned the short story “Snow, Glass, Apples” before – it’s both one of Neil Gaiman’s best, most pointed short pieces and one of the most successful of the Ellen Datlow/Terri Windling-inspired burst of revisionist fairy tales from the early 1990s.

As so often with successful things, it’s part of different clusters – all those anthologies of nasty fairy tales, first, and then more recently an odd program that seems to be trying to turn every one of Gaiman’s best stories into individual graphic novels. (See How to Talk to Girls at Parties and Troll Bridge ; I’m pretty sure there have been several others that I missed.)

So, in 2019, Colleen Doran adapted “Snow, Glass, Apples” (the short story) into the standalone graphic novel Snow, Glass, Apples – which is what I’ve just read. Like most of the “Neil Gaiman Library” and similar projects that I’ve seen,...

Sarma Melngailis is returning to our small screens. On April 13, Peacock confirmed to E! News that an upcoming series, Pure—which follows the unbelievable true story behind Netflix's docuseries Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives—is in development. Based on the Vanity Fair article "The Runaway Vegan," by Allen Salkin, Pure will explore the rise and fall of the relationship between Melngailis and Anthony Strangis, "two people who fulfilled each other's desires to live in a world that existed outside of reality—which ultimately destroyed them," according to the series description. "A tragic, twisted love story, doomed from the...

Exclusive: Peacock has put in development Pure, a one-hour drama based on Allen Salkin’s Vanity Fair article “The Runaway Vegan,” from Weimaraner Republic Pictures and Warner Bros. Television.

Written by Heather Regnier (Veronica Mars), Pure chronicles the rise and fall of the relationship between Sarma Melngailis and Anthony Strangis, two people who fulfilled each other’s desires to live in a world that existed outside of reality — which ultimately destroyed them. A tragic, twisted love story, doomed from the start.

The title of the series likely comes from Pure Food and Wine, Melngailis’ upscale New York City raw food restaurant, which made her famous. But falling under the influence of Strangis, who promised her everything, from financial prosperity to immortality for her and her dog if she obeyed him, Melngailis siphoned 2 million off her businesses and the two went on the run until they were arrested at a motel...

You know the superhero-obsessed fandom loves when Zack Snyder starts trending again. And over the weekend, he began trending after an interview with “Eternals” filmmaker Chloe Zhao was released, where the filmmaker not only credits Snyder for influencing her film, but she also compares his “Man of Steel” to the work of legendary filmmaker, Terrence Malick.

When speaking to the French outlet, Pure Break, Zhao was asked if there was any inspiration from Superman comics that went into her development of the Eternals hero, Ikaris.

Continue reading Chloe Zhao Says Zack Snyder’s ‘Man Of Steel’ Feels Like “Superman By Terrence Malick” & Influenced ‘Eternals’ at The Playlist.

When she was a young girl in Gothenburg, Alicia Vikander dreamt of a life in tutus. At 15, she moved to Stockholm and attended the Royal Swedish Ballet School, where she would dance seven hours a day, six days a week. Eventually, a chronic back injury put paid to her ambitions, but not before it had equipped her for Hollywood. “I’m very good with pain,” the Oscar-winning star of The Danish Girl explains. Moments later, she rolls up her trousers to reveal a recent scar on her knee. “Skiing,” she says in a stage whisper, gesturing towards her management team across the room. “But don’t tell them.”

A high pain threshold helped the 31-year-old with the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot, for which she put on 12 pounds of muscle through weight training, rock climbing, swimming and Mma fighting. Her Lara Croft tempered being a badass with bruised vulnerability; her running, jumping...

In today’s roundup, NBC cast David Schwimmer as a recurring character in the second revival season of “Will & Grace,” and CBS secured the rights to the European reality series “Love Island.”

Acquisitions

CBS has acquired the U.S. format rights to the U.K. reality show “Love Island” from ITV2. Hosted by English TV personality Caroline Flack, “Love Island” gathers vying bachelors and bachelorettes on one isle to fall in love and get voted out on a weekly basis. “Love Island” is ITV2’s most popular program of all time, with almost half of the network’s adult viewers under 34 keeping up with the series.

Behind The Scenes

National Geographic has released behind the scenes footage from its biopic series “Genius: Picasso.” The featurette includes interviews with stars Antonio Banderas, Alex Rich, Clemece Poesy, and Samantha Colley, showrunner Ken Biller, and costume designer Sonu Mishra, as they offer...

File this under “Adorable”: Real-life husband and wife Dave and Odette Annable will star together in the Freeform holiday movie No Sleep ‘Til Christmas, our sister site Deadline reports.

In the flick — airing as part of the network’s annual “25 Days of Christmas” promotion — Odette’s Lizzie is an event planner preparing for her wedding, who lies awake nightly while her fiancé rests peacefully. When a sleep-deprived incident causes her to run into Billy (Dave), a bartender who is just as sleepless and frustrated as she is, they discover that they can only fall asleep while next to each other.

Former How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan is set for a recurring role opposite Ryan Robbins and Alex Paxton-Beesley on the second season of Wgn America’s Mennonite crime drama Pure.

Inspired by true events, the series goes deep inside a closed, secretive subculture through the eyes of Noah Funk (Robbins), a conflicted, good-hearted man trying to protect his family and preserve his faith. Noah is a newly elected Mennonite pastor, who is determined to rid his community of the scourge of drugs and its ties to a trans-border smuggling alliance with ruthless Mexican cocaine cartels. Just when he thinks he’s won, Noah and his wife Anna (Paxton-Beesley) are thrust headlong into a desperate world of violence, greed and betrayal.

Hannigan will play Esther Dunkel, a lapsed Mennonite who is nobody’s fool and has been helping her lawyer-boyfriend funnel a fortune in cartel cash through a local bank.

In today’s roundup, Shondaland announced their podcast launch with Katie Lowes and Betsy Beers, while Tracy Morgan’s new series “The Last O.G.” bowed to strong ratings on TBS

First Looks

ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer will release “My Reality: A Hidden America” on a special edition of “20/20” on Friday, April 20 at 10 p.m. Et on ABC. Inspired by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, Sawyer and her team of producers traveled across America to document hard-working women–from truck drivers to waitresses–facing sexual harassment in the workplace. The special report features potential solutions for women who work in fear.

Renewals

Wgn America has picked up a second season of Mennonite crime drama “Pure” ahead of the season one premiere, which is set to air in early 2019. The series stars Ryan Robbins (“Arrow,” “The Killing”) as Noah Funk and Alex Paxton-Beesly (“The Strain”) as Anna Funk.

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A gender-flipped version of the 2000 film High Fidelity will be a part of Disney’s upcoming streaming service.

The comedy series, based on Nick Hornby’s novel and the John Cusack film, is in the works at Disney. Bull‘s Veronica West and Sarah Kuscerka are penning the series, which centers on a female record store owner detailing past relationships, our sister site Deadline reports.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* All seasons of NBC’s Friday Night Lights, as well as full seasons of House, Parks and Recreation and Eureka, are now streaming on Amazon Prime,...

Wgn America announced today that the Mennonite crime drama Pure is getting a second season ahead of its Season 1 debut in early 2019. The series stars Ryan Robbins (Arrow, The Killing) and Alex Paxton-Beesley (The Strain).

The acquisition of Pure seems to go in line with the network’s new model of relying on imported dramas after it exited the high-end original drama arena.

Inspired by true events, the series goes deep inside a closed, secretive subculture through the eyes of Noah Funk (Robbins), a conflicted, good-hearted man trying to protect his family and preserve his faith. Noah is a newly elected Mennonite pastor, who is determined to rid his community of the scourge of drugs and its ties to a trans-border smuggling alliance with ruthless Mexican cocaine cartels. Just when he thinks he’s won, Noah and his wife Anna (Paxton-Beesly) are thrust headlong into a desperate world of violence,...

NBC’s new drama “Rise” stars Rosie Perez as a high school teacher who struggles with being pushed aside when another teacher, played by Josh Radnor, makes a play for her job as head of the theater department.

Perez and Radnor’s characters, Tracey Wolfe and Lou Mazzuchelli, eventually form an alliance, for the sake of the kids hungry to be challenged by putting on an ambitious musical — but the fact that Perez’s character, a Latina woman, is passed over by a white man is extremely timely in this age of “Time’s Up” and #MeToo.

“I think for her to get passed over in the way that she was passed over hurt to her core,” Perez said of Tracey. “This was her dream to run the department. It stings that a middle-aged white guy gets the job, not the Latina woman. That’s a bitter pill to swallow.

What’s a nice Academy Award winner like you doing in an action blockbuster like this? It’s asked as a joke and Alicia Vikander smiles in response, but you're immediately aware that you’re not being nearly as clever as you think you are and that she's just being really polite. She’s been down this avenue of questioning before in regards to her reboot of Tomb Raider, but the good thing is that she doesn’t seem bothered by it at all. Alicia, who took home that Oscar for 2016’s The Danish Girl, actually sees it as a natural progression. "Any actor comes in thinking that if we're going to get the next job, whatever it may be, we’re happy," she tells Life & Style. "I love these kind of action films and to be given the chance to be part of making one has been extremely wonderful.

Sneak Peek revealing images of Oscar-winning Swedish actress Alica Vikander, star of the upcoming "Tomb Raider" feature film reboot, in "Vanity Fair" magazine:

Vikander trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and the School of American Ballet in New York.

She began her professional acting career appearing in Swedish television series, gaining recognition for her role as 'Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt' in the TV drama "Andra Avenyn" (2008–10).

Vikander made her feature film debut in "Pure" (2010), winning the 'Guldbagge Award' for 'Best Actress'.

In 2012 she portrayed 'Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya' in director Joe Wright's film adaptation of "Anna Karenina", followed by the role of 'Queen Caroline Mathilde' in the Danish film "A Royal Affair", receiving a 'BAFTA Rising Star Award' nomination. She then starred in the 2013 Swedish drama "Hotell" and in the Julian Assange-biopic "The Fifth Estate" that same year.

In 2014 and 2015, Vikander achieved...

Sneak Peek more new imges, plus footage from the upcoming live-action "Tomb Raider" reboot, directed by Roar Uthaug, starring Oscar winner Alicia Vikander ("The Danish Girl") as 'Lara Croft', opening March 16, 2018:

"We see 'Lara' as a young woman," said director Uthaug, "...smart and capable but largely unfocused, and follow her on a dangerous journey...

"...that will push her to her limits in every sense and allow her to hone...

"...the 'skills' she needs to ultimately become who she was meant to be..."

Vikander trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and the School of American Ballet in New York.

She began her professional acting career appearing in Swedish television series gaining recognition for her role as 'Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt' in the TV drama "Andra Avenyn" (2008–10).

Vikander made her feature film debut in "Pure" (2010), winning the 'Guldbagge Award' for 'Best Actress'.

In 2012 she portrayed 'Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya'.

Rlje Films, an Rlj Entertainment, Inc. brand (Nasdaq: Rlje), is set to release the action/sci-fi film Kill Order on VOD, Digital HD and on DVD on Feb. 6, 2018. Written and directed by James Mark (Jumper), Kill Order stars Chris Mark (Suicide Squad), Daniel Park (Pacific Rim), Denis Akiyama (Pixels), Melee Hutton (Beautiful People), Jessica Clement (“Pure”), Jason Gosbee (Suicide Squad), Reuben Langdon (Ant-Man) and Alain Moussi (Kickboxer: Vengeance). Rlje Films will release Kill Order on VOD, Digital HD and on DVD for an Srp of $27.97.

Now you can win the DVD of Kill Order. We Are Movie Geeks has two copies to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie with the word ‘Kill’ in the title? (mine is Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!). It’s so easy!

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Alicia Vikander returned to her hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden, to accept the Nordic Honourary Dragon Award from the Gothenburg Film Festival, and the 29-year-old Oscar-winner had plenty to say about gender inequality in Hollywood movies. Speaking of her experience working with Swedish director Lisa Langseth in 2010’s “Pure” and the 2018 film “Euphoria”, Vikander said she...

The Danish Girl actress was receiving the event’s Nordic Honorary Dragon Award.

Source: Goteborg

Lisa Langseth and Alicia Vikander

Alicia Vikander returned to her hometown of Goteborg to accept the Nordic Honorary Dragon Award on the opening night of the Göteborg Film Festival yesterday (Jan 26).

The Swedish actress of The Danish Girl and the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot used the platform to talk about women in film.

She spoke of her experience making Swedish feature films “all with strong women”, including two with director Lisa Langseth – Vikander’s film debut Pure (2010) and Goteborg 2018 selection Euphoria, in which Vikander stars and also serves as a producer.

“It gave me the opportunity to experience a diversity that was meaningful for my personal development and it gave me inspiration as an artist. But it also made me realise something even greater. Strong women are alone – as women – on the big screen. The roles we play, we play against...

Sneak Peek more new footage including TV spots, from the upcoming live-action "Tomb Raider" reboot, directed by Roar Uthaug, starring Oscar winner Alicia Vikander ("The Danish Girl") as 'Lara Croft', opening March 16, 2018:

"We see 'Lara' as a young woman," said director Uthaug, "...smart and capable but largely unfocused, and follow her on a dangerous journey...

"...that will push her to her limits in every sense and allow her to hone...

"...the 'skills' she needs to ultimately become who she was meant to be..."

Vikander trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and the School of American Ballet in New York.

She began her professional acting career appearing in Swedish television series gaining recognition for her role as 'Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt' in the TV drama "Andra Avenyn" (2008–10).

Vikander made her feature film debut in "Pure" (2010), winning the 'Guldbagge Award' for 'Best Actress'.

In 2012 she portrayed 'Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya'.

Sneak Peek more new footage, plus leaked set images from the upcoming live-action "Tomb Raider" reboot, directed by Roar Uthaug, starring Oscar winner Alicia Vikander ("The Danish Girl") as 'Lara Croft', opening March 16, 2018:

"We see 'Lara' as a young woman," said director Uthaug, "...smart and capable but largely unfocused, and follow her on a dangerous journey...

"...that will push her to her limits in every sense and allow her to hone...

"...the 'skills' she needs to ultimately become who she was meant to be..."

Vikander trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and the School of American Ballet in New York.

She began her professional acting career appearing in Swedish television series gaining recognition for her role as 'Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt' in the TV drama "Andra Avenyn" (2008–10).

Vikander made her feature film debut in "Pure" (2010), winning the 'Guldbagge Award' for 'Best Actress'.

In 2012 she...

As the most prominent Swedish actress in Hollywood today, it stands to reason that Alicia Vikander would want to support talented Swedish filmmakers, especially ones close to her heart. Long before “Ex Machina” made her a household name, Vikander starred in two films from Swedish director Lisa Langseth, “Pure” (2010) and “Hotell” (2013). Now, Vikander is producing as well as starring (opposite Eva Green) in Langseth’s English-language debut, the ominous and lush “Euphoria.” In the newly released first trailer, full of lush greenery and ominous tensions, “Euphoria” could be a stunner.

Read More:‘Euphoria’ First Trailer: Alicia Vikander and Eva Green Are Damaged Sisters

Also starring the inimitable Charlotte Rampling, “Euphoria” stars Vikander and Green as estranged sisters on a mysterious trip through the European countryside. When they arrive at the sun-soaked country manor house, the true purpose of the rip slowly begins to dawn on Ines (Vikander). Set in the near future,...

The dream team of Alicia Vikander and Eva Green united for Euphoria, the latest drama from Vikander’s Pure and Hotell collaborator Lisa Langseth. Also starring Charlotte Rampling, the story follows the emotional journey of two sisters. Following a premiere at Tiff, no U.S. release has been set yet, but it’ll arrive in Sweden in Norway early next year, and now the first full trailer has landed.

“Predictably, Vikander is wonderful, believable, and agreeably upset as Ines,” Christopher Schobert said in his review. “This is another fine performance from the star who is often the best thing in flawed dramas like The Danish Girl and The Light Between Oceans. Green is saddled with the drearier role, the “other sister” who is deeply ill. The Casino Royale star is far more effective when she plays a character in control of the situation. In Euphoria, things are beyond her grasp,...

What’s worse than giving sex to a married man for money? Giving it for love. It’s a tough distinction to delineate for a reformed twenty-year old prostitute whose only role model growing up was a drug-addled, suicidal mother that more or less taught her the business. Hoping for redemption and a ‘cleaner’ life, Katarina (Alicia Vikander) has vowed to never go back and instead cherish her boyfriend Mattias (Martin Wallström)—the one decent male in Sweden who doesn’t yell whore at her on the streets. Unfortunately, while the purity of one’s soul and a genuine hope for love is nice on paper, finding it quickly after the hardships endured from her past is unrealistic. She is too susceptible to kindness; too willing to believe anyone outside of her suburban slum is good. While the title may be Till det som är vackert [Pure], the lead character is anything but.