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Astro Bot has presented players with loads of colorful content, and the boss fights are one of the most interesting of all. Every stage of the game presents players with formidable bosses to take down.

As they progress through the Tentacle System Galaxy, the encounter with the Wako Tako boss is mandatory. Therefore, it’s pretty normal for players to look for tips on how to beat the enemy.

Wako Tako is the galaxy boss of the Tentacle System Galaxy, so the beating process is not going to be an easy one for sure. However, before diving into the strategies to beat him, let’s first check out his location.

Astro Bot Wako Tako Boss: Where to Find? Before diving into how to beat Wako Tako in Astro Bot, players must know the location of the boss. Image Credit: Radio Times Gaming

Astro Bot is one of the probable Game...

For Apc Studios, “The Eclipse,” an atmospheric, procedural mystery thriller set in a rural community on France’s Aubrac plateau, could well offer a winning formula for international buyers at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre and beyond.

The series turns on a mystery that originates during an evening eclipse when 17-year-old Luca accidentally shoots his girlfriend, Nour. When he leaves to seek help, the young girl disappears. Manue and Johanna, two local women cops, are dispatched on an investigation that will ultimately impact their own families.

Summing up the show, Apc states in its tagline: “An effective whodunit taking us to a never-seen-before, magnificent French countryside. The duo of female cops, mothers and friends, turn a small community inside out.”

Emmanuelle Guilbart, Apc’s joint CEO and founder, says the company picked up the six-part series “for many reasons,” mainly related to its pedigree. Namely, it was commissioned by...

There’s no doubt that crafting games such as The Forest, and Subnautica are integral parts of the modern video gaming landscape, giving players the freedom to let their creativity go wild.

This can range from switching a world in the player’s own design to crafting weapons and other items. As long as a title’s mechanics bring the ability to create a new entity, and place it in a world, it’s a crafting game. As crafting is now so popular, plenty of new games have popped up that introduce the feature to enhance overall gameplay.

Let’s take a look at the 5 best crafting games for those gamers who want to test their crafting, and sustainability skills.

5. The Forest The Forest‘s crafting system is immersive and brings a sense of real-world survival. Image via Endnight Games Limited

The Forest is one of the most unique experiences out there,...

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“Toutouyoutou” (pronounced “Two-Two-You-Two) is a comedy series set in a middle-class French suburb in the 1980s. The main women are either married or divorced. All the men work for a pioneering aeronautics company, focused on keeping up with, if not outpacing, the Americans, Russians and Brits in technological development. Everyone is getting along comfortably until a wild card is introduced. Jane (Alexia Barlier), a super attractive, outgoing Yank comes to town, introducing aerobics to the area just as it’s starting to gain popularity elsewhere. Despite her outward friendliness, suspicion starts to grow that her motives may not be as innocent as they seem. The one to have the most nagging doubts is Karine (Claire Dumas), who emerges as the main protagonist.

All the men find Jane alluring. The women want to be like her, sign up for her classes and start forming friendships.

When it comes to the controversy over women’s objectification in Hollywood, Natalie Dormer and Chris Pratt are on opposite sides of the battlefield. While Pratt has raised concerns about the portrayal of women, especially in blockbuster films, Dormer—ever the fierce advocate for artistic integrity—has a different perspective. The Game of Thrones star, who is no stranger to playing complex and often provocative roles, defended the series, calling its portrayal of women ‘naturalistic’ and not exploitative.

Natalie Dormer as Margaery in Game Of Thrones | HBO Entertainment

In a world where opinions clash like swords in Westeros, Dormer’s stance is as bold as her characters, sparking a debate that’s as heated as a dragon’s breath. But to her, it’s just the way things are.

Natalie Dormer Shuts Down Chris Pratt’s ‘Objectification’ Views, Backs Game of Thrones’ Gritty Vibe Chris Pratt | Photo by Gage Skidmore,...

Recent charts showcasing the PlayStation store’s top sales in May 2024 are making the rounds. It looks like, as of now, there’s a certain type of game that PS4 and PS5 users are into—Xbox exclusives.

That’s right, most of the chart is occupied by former exclusives. If the head of the gaming brand, Phil Spencer is taking a look at this data right, it seems we can expect more exclusives to head on over to Sony’s console in the future.

Microsoft Is Making Bank at the PlayStation Store The PlayStation sales charts for May 2024 are dominated by one former exclusive.

A recent post on X/Twitter has shed some light on the buying trends of PS4 and PS5 users in the past month.

According to the chart, the top five PS4 purchases in the US/Canada are Minecraft, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fallout 4, Red...

Kerry Condon follows up her Oscar nomination with a thankless piece of Blumhouse schlock that tries, and fails, to make swimming pools scary

It’s long been an extreme palate cleanser, the first weekend of January following a season of weighty awards fare with a froth of schlock horror, from fine dining to a guilty stop at McDonald’s after. Masterworks such as The Devil Inside (6%), Texas Chainsaw 3D (19%), The Forest (10%) and The Unborn (10%) have all crept out of the gate in previous years, often unscreened for critics, and despite a consistent lack of quality, the practice has become profitable, audiences happy to see in the new year with the very worst the industry has to offer. Then last year, there was an unlikely win with sly evil doll horror M3gan, bucking the trend as not only a major commercial smash but also a critical one, and backers, horror hit-factory Blumhouse,...

At one point in time, Steven Spielberg was set to direct the thriller Cape Fear, while Martin Scorsese was attached to direct the historical drama Schindler’s List. Then Scorsese decided to step away from Schindler’s List, a choice that coincided with Spielberg deciding that Cape Fear was too violent for him. So the directors traded movies – resulting in Scorsese directing Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis to Oscar nominations for Cape Fear and Spielberg turning Schindler’s List into a Best Picture winner. Now Deadline reports that Spielberg and Scorsese are teaming up to executive produce a TV series adaptation of Cape Fear, with Nick Antosca on board as executive producer and showrunner.

Antosca’s previous credits include Hannibal, The Forest, Channel Zero, Brand New Cherry Flavor, Antlers, The Act, Candy, and A Friend of the Family.

Coming our way from Amblin Television and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group,...

Berlin-based sales agent ArtHood Entertainment has picked up world rights, outside of much of East Asia, to “Salli,” a film which has its world premiere this week in the Busan International Film Festival’s A Window on Asian Cinema program.

The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language film follows a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer Hui-Chun, who doesn’t speak English and develops a romantic relationship through an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. In the online world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.

The Taiwan-France film marks the feature debut of Taipei-based filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung after several acclaimed shorts and a TV movie.

“The reason why I want to make ‘Salli’ is because of very common news in Taiwan. Many men and women are deceived by love on the internet,” Lien told Variety earlier this year.

Endnight Games’ The Forest has become something of a cult-classic since its 2014 inception. Despite being produced by a small, previously unheard of indie games studio, its immersive gameplay and eerie remote island atmosphere made it a hit to invest hours into both by yourself, and with friends. For those unfamiliar, think Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing: New Horizons…except with cannibals. And demons. And spooky, dark caves to unearth your latent claustrophobia. Needless to say, when its nearly decade-later sequel was announced, it was highly anticipated (even becoming the most wishlisted game on Steam). As one of those fans, I was highly satisfied with the end result, but Sons of the Forest left me feeling that there’s a bit more to be desired.

The story of Sons of the Forest is roughly the same as its predecessor: you find yourself in an in-media-res helicopter crash landing on a remote...

Taiwan-France film “Salli” marks the feature debut of Taipei-based filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung after several acclaimed shorts and a TV movie.

“Salli,” which won the grand prize at the Chinese-language film project matching and co-production platform Golden Horse Film Project Promotion in 2019, is a work-in-progress selection at the Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf). The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language film follows a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer Hui-Chun, who doesn’t speak English and develops a romantic relationship through an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. In the online world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.

“The reason why I want to make ‘Salli’ is because of very common news in Taiwan. Many men and women are deceived by love on the internet,” Lien tells Variety. “As bystanders, we always laugh at why these people are so stupid.

There's a scene in the music video for iLe and Ivy Queen's single "Algo Bonito," released on Mar. 2, where iLe stares down three anonymous men in a western standoff fashion. Dressed in all black, her hands holstered on her hips, she dispatches all three con solo una mirada. It's become clear that, while iLe's music has always been a medium for her progressive and feminist values, the track off her latest album "Nacarile" isn't pulling any punches. As she tells Popsugar, "Las mujeres están hartas." Translation: women are fed up.

According to the singer, it was this patriarchal frustration that became the seed from which "Algo Bonito" would sprout. "I was just feeling frustrated with the day-to-day of being a woman," iLe says. "You know there were so many things happening that just had me feeling this sense of rage. The concept for the song really came out of wanting to vocalize that.

Netflix subscribers only have until the end of February to watch Harrison Ford’s U.S. president tell Gary Oldman’s terrorist to “get off my plane!”

Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One, which also stars Glenn Close, is set to depart the streaming service at the end of the month.

Also leaving on Feb. 28, is Scream 4, less than two weeks before Hayden Panettiere’s Kirby Reed returns to the horror franchise in Scream 6.

And March 1 will see Netflix lose acclaimed indies Sorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley and starring Lakeith Stanfield as a telemarketer; the Wall Street drama Margin Call; and Jennifer Aniston starrer Cake.

Earlier this month, Netflix will drop the 2015 action rom-com Mr. Right, starring Sam Rockwell as an assassin and Anna Kendrick as the woman who falls for him.

The streamer is also saying goodbye to stand-up specials from Zach Galifianakis and Bert Kreischer.

What do you get when you mix elements of BioShock with The Forest? You’re about to find out with Game Island and developer Toplitz Productions’ upcoming survival adventure title, Serum. Scheduled for release for the “end of 2023“, Serum presents an eerie world where you’re in a race against time in a hostile environment. Luckily, […]

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Update, 1 Pm Pt: Johnny Depp was “drunk a lot of the time,” Ellen Barkin told a Virginia courtroom today of her Fear and Loathing in Last Vegas co-star in his 50 million defamation suit against Amber Heard.

The highest-profile witness to give testimony at the April 11 starting trial, Barkin’s stint on the virtual stand was relatively short and scathing for Depp. In a video deposition from November 22, 2019, the Emmy-winning actress told the court Thursday that Depp was always drinking or smoking a joint during their time as a couple of sorts in the mid-1990s.

Heard and her legal team have described the abusive “monster” that Depp became under the influence of booze and drugs repeatedly. Vehemently denying that he abused or sexually assaulted Heard, Depp has declared in his March 2019 suit against Heard for a late 2018 Washington Post op-ed on being a survivor of domestic abuse that he was...

Exceptional Minds, a not-for-profit professional training academy and studio designed to prepare individuals on the autism spectrum for careers in the digital art is among the inaugural winners of the Marvels of Media Awards presented by the Museum of the Moving Image.

The awards will be presented on March 31. The country’s very first media awards ceremony, film festival and exhibition celebrating media-makers on the autism spectrum. The open call for the first edition of this annual program received 3,071 nominations from 117 countries, from which 20 media works were chosen for awards in 12 categories including animated short, collaborative innovation, digital art, documentary, experimental film, mockumentary, narrative feature, narrative short, series, video game, student animated short and student video game.

“Through the Marvels of Media Awards, the Museum is further affirming our commitment to supporting the creative endeavors and pursuits of neurodiverse media-makers of all ages and backgrounds, and to help forge pathways...

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We have got some exciting BTS concert news for you! The seven are first coming back to the stage in Seoul, then will be performing in Las Vegas!

Yes, 21st century pop icons BTS are returning with ‘BTS Permission To Dance On Stage – Seoul’ on March 10, 12 and 13. The concert will take place at the Seoul Olympic Stadium in-person in front of a live audience and will be streamed online.

‘BTS Permission To Dance On Stage – Seoul’ marks the band’s first concert with a live audience in Korea in approximately 2 ½ years since BTS World Tour ‘Love Yourself : Speak Yourself’ [The Final] held at the same venue in October 2019.

The online live stream is available on March 10 and 13. The concert on March 12 will be broadcasted in cinemas worldwide through ‘Live Viewing’ event.

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Then, they are continuing their world tour with 4 days of concerts in Las Vegas.

This March’s SXSW Film Festival is brimming with horror films, many of which already have distribution, including The Cellar, the Irish horror film written and directed by Brendan Muldowney and starring Elisha Cuthbert (House of Wax) and Eoin Macken (The Forest, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter). Following the film’s World Premiere, Rlje Films will release the […]

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We got a Ghostwire: Tokyo preview, and came away impressed by the supernatural new game from Tango Gameworks. I have this strange fondness for seeing normally populated worlds in video games emptied of humanity. Ever played The Forest with enemies turned off? Wandered through some of the quieter ruins of the Seattle suburbs in The […]

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Only Sebastián Yatra can pack a 17-track album with rock, cumbia, reggaetón, and a Jonas Brothers collab. The Colombian singer’s third studio album, Dharma, is a versatile record that’s sure to bring fans to their feet.

The album title reflects Yatra’s own experience of “accepting his reality” without living in fear. “It’s the other side of karma, which is the lessons you learn,” he explains. “Dharma is when you start to have more of a conscious. And in that state, you’re a lot more present,...

The French prodigy, who won an Oscar for The Father, talks about The Forest, his labyrinthine new drama following a man whose life unravels after an affair

Florian Zeller has made a speciality of disorienting his audiences. Last year, the skilfully blurred timeline of The Father, based on his own Alzheimer’s-inspired play, landed him an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, along with a best actor award for Anthony Hopkins. Yet the French playwright and director’s new work, The Forest, about to have its world premiere at Hampstead theatre in London, may be his most disconcerting yet.

“I tried to create a maze,” Zeller says over Zoom from his home in Paris. On stage, scenes repeat themselves with micro-variations: different actors may or may not be playing the same person. “The goal wasn’t to lose people in this forest. It was to put them in a confusing situation...

Hunter S. Thompson is a confounding figure. Though he didn’t invent Gonzo journalism, he is the most identifiable face of it. His first-person narrative style of news gathering makes him partially accountable for the overriding trends of internet journalism, on both sides of the aisle and all the cleanup calls which go along with them. Thompson’s 1970 attempt to run for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, marked the beginning of baby boomer politicking. Writer-director Bobby Kennedy III’s Fear and Loathing in Aspen tells that story with wit, wisdom and weirdness.

Set just before Thomson, played by Jay Bulger, caught his stride with his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, the film conjures the energy of strange, new beginnings. Much of it is shot on vintage grade, grainy film stock, and it looks like the actors were free...

Don Jones, a soundman and stuntman who went on to write and direct the low-budget films Schoolgirls in Chains, Sweater Girls and The Forest, had died. He was 83.

Jones died Tuesday in Los Angeles near his San Fernando Valley home of nearly 40 years after recently suffering a stroke, his daughter, Coeli Jones, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Jones worked sound for Larry Peerce on One Potato, Two Potato (1964), did stunts for Monte Hellman in Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) and for Richard Rush on A Man Called Dagger (1968) and served as the cinematographer on The House of Seven Corpses (1974), starring John Ireland.

His horror films Schoolgirls in ...

Don Jones, a soundman and stuntman who went on to write and direct the low-budget films Schoolgirls in Chains, Sweater Girls and The Forest, had died. He was 83.

Jones died Tuesday in Los Angeles near his San Fernando Valley home of nearly 40 years after recently suffering a stroke, his daughter, Coeli Jones, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Jones worked sound for Larry Peerce on One Potato, Two Potato (1964), did stunts for Monte Hellman in Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) and for Richard Rush on A Man Called Dagger (1968) and served as the cinematographer on The House of Seven Corpses (1974), starring John Ireland.

His horror films Schoolgirls in ...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the series finale of “Last Man Standing.”)

After nine season and two networks, “Last Man Standing” finally sat down on Thursday with a series finale that metaphorically said goodbye to the show by literally saying goodbye to Mike Baxter’s (Tim Allen) beloved truck, which was stolen just after he’d completed his 10-year restoration on the antique car.

The hourlong two-parter, titled “Baxter Boot Camp / Keep On Truckin,’” managed to remain mostly upbeat, which is exactly what Allen and “Last Man Standing” showrunner Kevin Abbott wanted for the ending of the Fox sitcom. But the writers did get in one big emotional scene, where Mike, Vanessa (Nancy Travis) and all the members of the Baxter family and their closest friends gathered together for a memorial service to mourn the loss of the show — er, truck.

Here, Abbott breaks down the decisions that went...

Alternativet Produksjon, the Norwegian film banner behind Guro Bruusgaard’s “Him,” has more thought-provoking projects in the pipeline, including Mariken Halle’s pandemic-themed film “The Outdoor School” and Katja Eyde Jacobsen’s feminist movie “The Second Sex.”

The company was launched in 2017 by four filmmakers, including Halle, Jacobsen, Bruusgaard and Magnus Mork to produce their movies collectively, with a special interest in politically or socially engaged projets. The banner’s latest film credit, “Him,” revolves around three males of different ages who experience some form of social humiliation. The buzzed-about film had its international premiere last month at the Moscow Festival, where it competed.

“The Second Sex,” which seems to be the female counterpart to “Him,” follows three generations of Norwegian women in different social settings. Weaving documentary and fictional elements, the film revolves around a grandmother, a mother and a daughter, and their relationship with one another. “The Second...

One of the most frequent complaints people have about director Zack Snyder‘s DC superhero movies is that films like Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and even the recently-released Zack Snyder’s Justice League take their subject matter too seriously. The tonal clashes that occur when costumed heroes are gravely intoning about things like Mother Boxes […]

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Hello again, everyone! We only have a few titles on the docket for this week’s home media releases, but there’s still some fun stuff to keep an eye out for, especially if you're a fan of classic genre films. Mondo Macabro is keeping busy with several Blu-ray releases, including Panic Beats, Blood Ceremony, and Queens of Evil, Code Red is showing some love to an often overlooked ’80s slasher—The Forest—and Bless the Child is getting re-released on DVD for the first time in decades, too. Also being released on March 9th is Rent-a-Pal from Scream Factory.

Blood Ceremony

In 19th century Europe, the people are in the grip of ancient superstitions and the fear of vampires runs riot through the land. Strange rituals are enacted to seek out the resting places of the undead and macabre trials are held over disinterred corpses. The Countess barely notices what is going on.

The following contains spoilers for Cobra Kai season 3.

When Tory Nichols (Peyton List) first appeared in Cobra Kai, she was the best red herring ever. She introduced herself in season 2 episode 4 “The Moment of Truth” as “Tory… with a ‘Y’” and every fan of the original film went ballistic. In The Karate Kid, Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue) introduced herself to Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) as “Ali… with an ‘I’” so we all wondered if Tory might be Ali’s daughter.

Then season 3 leads us on even more. In the second episode of this season, “Nature vs Nurture,” there’s a scene set in Tory’s apartment. She is caring for her invalid mother, but her mom is off screen. We don’t see her. Why would they hide her if she wasn’t Ali?

Well, it wasn’t Ali. But Ali makes a glorious return all the same in episodes...

The Voice judge Blake Shelton is branching out into scripted programming at NBC.

The country music star is teaming with The Fast and the Furious writer Gary Scott Thompson for a drama based on his song “God’s Country.” The Universal TV project has a script commitment at the network.

The potential series, also called God’s Country, centers on a hardworking Midwestern farm family. When its patriarch dies, his grown children discover he was keeping a devastating secret they could never have imagined.

Thompson, who also created the early-aughts drama Las Vegas for NBC, is executive producing with Shelton, Narvel Blackstock ...

The Voice judge Blake Shelton is branching out into scripted programming at NBC.

The country music star is teaming with The Fast and the Furious writer Gary Scott Thompson for a drama based on his song “God’s Country.” The Universal TV project has a script commitment at the network.

The potential series, called In God’s Country, centers on a hardworking Midwestern farm family. When its patriarch dies, his grown children discover he was keeping a devastating secret they could never have imagined.

Thompson, who also created the early aughts drama Las Vegas for NBC, is executive producing with Shelton,...

Before becoming a filmmaker, Leaving Las Vegas director Mike Figgis was a musician and performer in the experimental group called The People Show. Before that, he played trumpet and guitar in the experimental jazz ensemble The People Band, whose first record was produced by Rolling Stone drummer Charlie Watts. He is also the founding patron of an online community of independent filmmakers called Shooting People. You can say Figgis is a People person, which makes him the perfect director to capture Ronnie Wood in the documentary Somebody Up There Likes Me.

One of rock and roll’s most iconic guitarists, Wood is good with people. He plays well with others. He is the Stone who’s never alone. Before he began weaving guitar licks with Keith Richards in the Rolling Stones, Wood helped shape the British rock sound in bands like The Birds and the Creation. He was the bass...

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A groundbreaking, action-packed comic book adaptation gets the 4K Ultra HD treatment when Kick-Ass arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital) November 3 from Lionsgate. From acclaimed director Matthew Vaughn, the film features an all-star cast including Golden Globe® winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage. Experience four times the resolution of full HD with the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, with a brand new SteelBook® illustrated by Tracie Ching, in celebration of its 10th Anniversary. Available in this absolutely stunning format, the Kick-Ass 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack will include featurettes about the making of the film and its comic book origin, as well as an audio commentary by the director, and will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99. Based on the comic book written by Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr., screenplay by Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn,...

Prepare for the gayest thing to happen to Sin City since Friends gave us Viva Las Gaygas.

VH1 has given a series order to RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue, a six-episode docuseries following the cast of the RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! residency, giving fans a look into “their professional and personal journeys as they take on Las Vegas.” The cast includes iconic queens Yvie Oddly, Asia O’Hara, Derrick Barry, Kameron Michaels, Naomi Smalls and Vanessa “Vanjie” Mateo. (Click here to see photos of the queens in all their shiny Vegas glory.)

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For many Elsa fans, it’s the highlight of Frozen 2. Inside of Ahtohallan, a river of memories that’s been frozen into a glacier of ice, Queen Elsa of Arendelle finally confronts the truth about her past, her family’s history, and her own soul. And she does it all while singing an empowering anthem. Yet even with Idina Menzel’s highest of high notes, the song is unlike “Let It Go” due to a melancholic undertone about Elsa facing the ghosts of her family’s legacy and accepting her full identity.

The scene is preferred by many over the more straight-forward attempt to recapture “Let It Go,” aka “Into the Unknown,” including apparently Menzel herself, who previously hinted she would’ve liked to see Disney campaign “Show Yourself” for Best Song at the Oscars. It didn’t work out that way, but then as we now know the...

Las Vegas is about to get a lot Smart-er.

Emmy winner Jean Smart will star as a Sin City diva in a dark comedy for HBO Max from Michael Schur and a trio of Broad City writers, TVLine has learned. The untitled show, which has received a 10-episode series order from the upcoming streaming service, “will explore a dark mentorship that forms between a Las Vegas diva” played by Smart “and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old,” per the official description.

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Editor’s note: Like much of the world, Madrid is currently engaged in social distancing practices and self-isolation. That includes the city’s most celebrated filmmaker, Pedro Almodovar, who been writing essays documenting his experiences and the memories that have come up as a result. This is the first installment, provided to IndieWire by the filmmaker and translated into English by Mar Diestro-Dópido. For reasons that will soon be obvious, this essay was written prior to Easter Sunday.

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It is one of Williams’s first roles since Game Of Thrones came to an end last year.

Screen can reveal the first look at Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams in horror-thriller The Owners.

Paris-based sales company Versatile is market premiering the feature at the European Film Market this week.

French director Julius Berg’s English-language horror thriller The Owners revolves around a burglary that takes a violent turn when the elderly inhabitants turn the tables on the young intruders. It is adapted from the graphic novel Une Nuit De Pleine Lune by Belgian artist Hermann and writer Yves...

Arnaud Desplechin (with Anne-Katrin Titze) on an Ingmar Bergman film: "I remember this scene that I saw so young … in Cries & Whispers, where Erland Josephson is visiting Liv Ullmann.” Photo: Ed Bahlman

Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy!, co-written with Léa Mysius, shot by Irina Lubtchansky, music composed by Grégoire Hetzel stars Léa Seydoux, Roschdy Zem, Sara Forestier, and Antoine Reinartz.

Arnaud Desplechin on his Oh Mercy! composer: “It was not a Bernard Herrmann inspiration or George Delerue inspiration. It was just pure Grégoire Hetzel. It was a perfect fit with the plot. ” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

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Xyz Films handles North American sales.

Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Ian Kenny, Jake Curran, Andrew Ellis and Stacha Hicks have been announced as cast members of home invasion thriller The Owners alongside Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams as the production starts shooting in the UK.

McCoy, whose credits include Doctor Who, plays an elderly doctor opposite veteran UK actress Rita Tushingham as his wife. Together, the retired couple turn the tables on a gang of local hoodlums who break into their isolated house.

Kenny and Ellis (This Is England) play two dead-beat, childhood friends who are spurred on by...

“Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams is coming on board the 1990s-set thriller “The Owners,” directed by Julius Berg from a screenplay by Berg and Matthieu Gompel.

“The Owners” is based on a comic book from the artist Herrmann and written by Yves H. The film is produced by Alain de la Mata at U.K.-based Bluelight, and executive produced by Xyz Films, which will handle North American sales with Versatile handling international at the European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival.

The film will shoot this spring in Kent, close to London, in an isolated Victorian mansion. The story takes place in rural England with two friends — broke and on the scrap heap at 20 — being spurred on by an out-of-town sociopath to rob the elderly local doctor and his wife. Williams will portray the girlfriend of one of the perpetrators who is dead set against the plan,...

The project is launching at Efm, with Versatile handling international sales and Xyz overseeing North America.

Maisie Williams is set to star in Julius Berg’s 1990s-set thriller The Owners revolving around the burglary of an isolated house by a group of young delinquents that goes badly wrong when the elderly inhabitants turn the tables on the intruders.

The screenplay, written by Berg and Matthieu Gompel, is based on the comic book Une Nuit De Pleine Lune by Belgian artist Hermann and writer Yves H.

The film is produced by Alain de la Mata at UK-based Bluelight, and executive produced by Xyz Films.

In the apocalyptic world of Patient Zero, the infected aren't just killed, they're interrogated by Morgan (Matt Smith), a human who was bitten, yet didn't turn into murderous creatures like the other infected. His latest interviewee, The Professor (Stanley Tucci) is his most complex and dangerous case yet, and we've been provided with an exclusive Patient Zero clip that explores the tense dynamic between Morgan and The Professor, all while the clock on humanity's lifespan ticks ever-closer to an untimely conclusion.

Following its August 14th release on VOD, Patient Zero will be released in Us theaters on September 14th from Vertical Entertainment. You can watch our exclusive clip below, and we have the official press release with more details on the movie that also co-stars Natalie Dormer.

Press Release: "Culver City, Calif. – Matt Smith (“Dr. Who”), Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) and Academy Award® nominee Stanley Tucci star in Patient Zero,...

Sony Screen Gems’ long-troubled Patient Zero, the pandemic thriller starring Matt Smith (“Doctor Who,” Terminator Genisys), Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games) and Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”, The Forest), is set to finally arrive on VOD August 14, 2018, via Vertical Entertainment. It will then be released on DVD and Blu-ray this fall, specifically on October 23rd. Here’s some ugly official art for the Stefan Ruzowitzky-directed film […]...