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Actor Nick Pasqual has been charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend, Allie Shehorn, a Hollywood special effects makeup artist, several times.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged Pasqual with one count of attempted murder; one count of first-degree residential burglary with person present; and one count of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend or child’s parent. According to a press release on the office’s website, if he is convicted, he could be facing a maximum sentence of life in a state prison.

“My thoughts and heartfelt sympathies are with the victim in this horrific incident,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. “Our office, including our Bureau of Victim Services, extends our support and resources to her as she embarks on the long and difficult journey of healing from both the physical and emotional trauma inflicted upon her. This heinous incident is a stark reminder...

Updated, 4:50 Pm: The former boyfriend of veteran Rebel Moon makeup artist Allie Shehorn has been arrested and charged with stabbing her “multiple times,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s office said today.

Nick Pasqual, 34, an actor and sketch comic, fled the scene of the May 23 attack in Sunland, CA, and an arrest warrant was issued the following day. He was detained at a U.S./Mexico border check point in Sierra Blanca, Texas. The Da’s office said he will be extradited to L.A. County, where he will be charged with one count of attempted murder; one count of first-degree residential burglary with person present; and one count of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend or child’s parent.

If convicted as charged, the maximum sentence is life in state prison. An arraignment date is Tba.

“My thoughts and heartfelt sympathies are with the victim in this horrific incident,...

A Hollywood special effects makeup artist has been taken out of intensive care at a Los Angeles hospital after being stabbed multiple times inside her home by a man her friends say is an ex-boyfriend.

Allie Shehorn was discovered bleeding out on May 23 at her home in the Shadow Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles by a friend, identified as Christine White in a GoFundMe page set up to help with her medical bills stemming from the attack. The 35-year-old, who has worked on Hollywood productions like Babylon and Rebel Moon, had taken out a restraining order on her alleged assailant and he had been released from jail days before the attack, friends said.

Shehorn, who Ktla reports was stabbed over 20 times, has undergone multiple surgeries since the attack on Thursday, which have focused on closing the wounds on both the right and left sides of her body, including wounds to her neck,...

Imagine, if you will, a sleepy small town. The people who live there are hard-working, stubborn, and most of all, suspicious of outsiders. Enter one Bob Majors, a newspaperman from New York. Majors is a man of progress and change, but he's about to come up against a social wall the likes of which he's never seen. It's the kind of obstacle that can only be found in ... well, not "The Twilight Zone."

You might have read that description in the voice of famed "Twilight Zone" creator-narrator Rod Serling, but it's actually the premise of a totally different show in which Serling appeared — reportedly in his first non-narrator acting role — for just one episode in the early 1960s. The series was "Ichabod and Me," a poorly-received and short-lived series whose history is chronicled in David C. Tucker's book "Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television." The sitcom...

The opening narration to "The Twilight Zone" episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" states that Bob Wilson (William Shatner) has just been discharged from a sanitarium, finally having (mostly) recuperated from a nervous breakdown experienced on an airplane six months earlier. He is about to get on a plane again for the first since his breakdown, and his wife Julia (Christine White) is wary that flying may trigger another severe panic attack. Bob assures her that he may be nervous, but that he should be able to survive.

Of course, nothing natural or easy happens in the Twilight Zone. Bob peers out the window and sees, on the wing of the plane, a large furry gremlin (Nick Cravat). It sees Bob as well. When he calls a stewardess for help, the gremlin vanishes, able to lift off into the rainy night sky. When Bob is looking, however, it reappears and begins...

No matter the weather, it’s always the perfect Time of the Season for The Zombies. Their new album is called Different Game, and everyone plays like they were dealt a perfect hand. But it’s the fingers of founding keyboardist Rod Argent, drummer Steve Rodford, guitarist Tom Toomey, bassist Søren Koch, and the throat of original lead singer Colin Blunstone that propel the music.

Director Robert Schwartzman’s documentary, Hung Up on a Dream, which will have its world premiere at SXSW, looks back at The Zombies’ 60-year career: the first British Invasion band to write themselves into American pop history after The Beatles with “She’s Not There,” the Rock Hall of Famers’ Odessey and Oracle is in the Top 100 of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The group is looking forward.

“So often, people at our vintage put out something which doesn’t have the energy of previous stuff,...

"I saw you praying in the desert. I was there." A festival trailer is out for an indie film called Deadland, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Lance Larson. The film is premiering at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival coming up in March, playing in the Narrative Spotlight section this year. The film is described as a pyschological thriller - U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Angel Waters, makes a routine apprehension that will haunt him forever. "Though the immigrant he took into custody is killed at a border outpost, his death is only the beginning of the suffering Angel must endure... Set against the backdrop of the harsh and desolate Rio Grande river, Deadland uses the American and Mexican border as a launching pad to explore not only immigration but identity." This stars Roberto Urbina as Angel, McCaul Lombardi, Julieth Restrepo, Kendal Rae, Luis Chavez, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Manuel Uriza,...

The 70th annual Golden Reel Awards were handed out on Sunday night, honoring the best achievements in sound editing across film, television, video games and student work.

The top three film awards were handed to “Top Gun: Maverick,” “The Banshees Of Inisherin” and “Elvis” which won for feature effects/foley, feature dialogue/Adr and feature music respectively. All three films are also nominated for the top prize, best picture at the 95th Academy Awards which will be handed out on March 12.

Other winners included “Moonage Daydream,” “Good Night Oppy” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.”

The ceremony was opened by an address from Motion Pictures Sound Editors president Mark Lanza. “Sound editors play a crucial role in bringing films, television shows, and games to life,” he said. “This year, we have seen truly incredible sound editing. From the explosive action of blockbusters to the subtle nuances of character-driven dramas, sound...

Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio were among the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 70th Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. See the full list below.

Best Picture Oscar nominees Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount and Warner Bros’ Elvis won for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing, Feature Effects/Foley, and Music Editing for a Feature Motion Picture, respectively. Netflix’s Animated Feature Oscar hopeful Pinocchio, hot off dominating the Annie Awards on Saturday, took the prize for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation.

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Motion Picture Sound Editors spread the wealth at the 70th Golden Reel Awards, its first in-person ceremony since the start of the pandemic, held in a new venue, L.A.’s Wilshire Ebell Theatre.

In the feature competition, winners included the teams from Top Gun: Maverick, for effects and Foley; Elvis, for music editing; All Quiet on the Western Front, for a foreign language film; and in a surprise, The Banshees of Inisherin, for dialogue and Adr.

A day after winning the PGA and top Annie Awards, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio collected the prize for sound editing in an animated feature. In nonfiction filmmaking, Good Night Oppy won the category for sound editing in feature documentary; and Moonage Daydream, for music editing in a feature doc.

All Quiet on the Western Front, Elvis and Maverick, along with Avatar: The Way of Water and The Batman are Oscar nominated for sound,...

PBS documentary strand “Pov” has acquired Jon-Sesrie Goff’s “After Sherman” and Marco Williams’ “Murders That Matter.” Both docus are co-productions with Itvs and will make their national broadcast premieres as part of “Pov’s” upcoming 36th season launching in summer 2023.

“After Sherman” is comprised of intimate accounts of the lives of the Black community in Goff’s South Carolina hometown, on land that has been in his family for 150 years, where they were once enslaved. The film explores how systemic racial discrimination and violence have affected generations in the South. “After Sherman,” which is Goff’s feature debut, won the best documentary award at four film festivals in 2022: The Santa Barbara Intl. Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, and Fists Up! Film Festival. The docu screened at True/False and Tribeca film fests and was nominated for a 2023 Cinema Eye Honors. Additionally, the film is recipient...

We will update all our Oscar predictions throughout the season, so keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Oscar race. The nomination round of voting will take place from January 12 –17, 2023, with the official Oscar nominations announced on January 24, 2023. The final voting is between March 2–7, 2023. Finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12, and air live on ABC at 8 p.m. Et/ 5 p.m. Pt.

See our initial thoughts for what to expect at the 95th Academy Awards here.

The State of the Race

James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” swept all nine categories in an unprecedented tsunami February 15 at the 21st annual Ves Awards (held at the Beverly Hilton). This beats the previous record of six prizes that the original “Avatar” earned in 2010. Although its dominance was unanticipated, the record 14 nominations for “The Way of Water” was an early sign, with the film...

Some of today’s biggest genre companies – A24, James Wan‘s Atomic Monster, the Stranger Things makers at 21 Laps, and Planet of the Apes producers Chernin Entertainment – have joined forces on a new project called The Backrooms, which is set to mark the feature directorial debut of 17-year-old director and VFX artist Kane Parsons.

The Backrooms is based on a series of viral videos Parsons has been releasing through his YouTube channel Kane Pixels over the last year. There are currently sixteen Backrooms videos on the channel – with the number of total views being well past 100 million – and if you were to splice them together they would reach feature length, but the feature version of The Backrooms is going to be something entirely new. The screenplay for the feature has been written by Roberto Patino (Dmz). Parsons is still in school, so production will have to wait for his summer vacation to begin.

Spoonful Of Sugar: "A disturbed babysitter experiences a sexual awakening while using LSD to alternatively treat a seemingly “sick” child from a family with dark secrets of their own."

Directed By Mercedes Bryce Morgan

Starring Morgan Saylor, Kat Foster, Danilo Crovetti, Myko Olivier

Streaming Exclusively On Shudder March 2

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The Backrooms: "A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment and 21 Laps Entertainment team up to adapt Kane Parsons’ viral YouTube horror universe The Backrooms. Chernin Entertainment will co-finance alongside A24.

Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine are producing for 21 Laps Entertainment. Lucas Ford from 21 Laps brought the project into the company. James Wan and Michael Clear are producing for Wan’s Atomic Monster, with Judson Scott executive producing and Alayna Glasthal overseeing for the company. Chris White brought the project to Atomic Monster and will be executive producing.

Roberto Patino (Dmz) is attached to write the screenplay and produce. The...

A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment and 21 Laps Entertainment are joining forces to adapt Kane Parsons’ massively viral YouTube horror universe The Backrooms, Bloody Disgusting has learned. Chernin Entertainment will co-finance the film alongside A24.

Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine are producing for 21 Laps Entertainment. Lucas Ford from 21 Laps brought the project into the company.

James Wan and Michael Clear are producing for Wan’s Atomic Monster, with Judson Scott executive producing and Alayna Glasthal overseeing for the company.

Chris White brought the project to Atomic Monster and will be executive producing.

Roberto Patino (Dmz) is attached to write the screenplay and produce.

The science fiction horror film is based on the world of Kane Parsons’s viral videos. The film plot is being kept under wraps. The press release details, “Kane Parsons is a 17-year-old director and VFX artist. His viral found footage YouTube series The Backrooms has amassed nearly 100 million views.

Exclusive: Over the last year, director and VFX artist Kane Parsons has shot his YouTube following into the stratosphere with the viral success of his mysterious short, “The Backrooms (Found Footage).” It’s the first in a series of found-footage horror videos which have thus far garnered nearly 100 million views and will now be adapted for the big screen by A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment and 21 Laps.

Parsons — who’s just 17 years old — will direct from a script by Roberto Patino (Dmz). He’ll just have to wait till his summer vacation.

Details as to the plot of the sci-fi horror feature are under wraps. But in the ’90s-set original short (which you can view below), a young filmmaker’s fall into another dimension leaves him wandering through an unsettlingly yellow, empty and labyrinthine office space, which may or may not be home to otherworldly beings. The film’s title...

One of the most memorable aspects of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the creation of the undersea kingdom of Talokan, ruled over by the mutant god-king Namor (Tenoch Huerta). Moving away from the comic book canon, in which Namor leads the more fantasy-based realm of Atlantis, director Ryan Coogler reinvented Talokan as an offshoot of an ancient Mayan society, with deep roots in Mesoamerican culture and history.

While Talokan and the Talokanil people are still wildly imaginative sci-fi/fantasy conceptions, the film and story nevertheless make them as realistic as possible (relatively speaking), grounded in both real South American cultural history and at least a smidgen of scientific plausibility. Much of this was brought to life in the film through the work of New Zealand’s Wētā FX, the iconic VFX house originally founded by director Peter Jackson.

Among the portions of the film that Wētā worked on were creating Talokan itself,...

Exclusive: Pov has acquired the Oscar-shortlisted feature documentary Children of the Mist, a film that explores a disturbing tradition among Vietnam’s Hmong minority that involves kidnapping girls and forcing them into marriages.

The vérité film from first-time feature director Hà Lệ Diễm will premiere on the PBS series as part of Pov’s 36th season, which launches in the summer. The central character in the film is Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl living in rural Northern Vietnam who casually flirts with a boy, then finds herself the target of a kidnapping which could determine the rest of life.

The Guardian called the documentary “shattering,” and awarded it four stars. In a review for the New York Times, critic Beatrice Loayza wrote, “‘Bride-napping’ is a Hmong custom that permits boys, often with the help of their families, to nab girls and detain them for three days. Throughout this time, the...

At this year’s Oscars, Wētā FX will compete against itself three times over, thanks to its Best Visual Effects-nominated work on “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Batman,” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” It’s a feat the effects house pulled off once before: In 2012, Wētā was nominated for “The Avengers,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” and “Prometheus,” but lost out to “Life of Pi.”

This time, in an interesting twist, both “Avatar” and “Wakanda Forever” are being honored for their uniquely innovative photorealistic water breakthroughs. While James Cameron’s blockbuster sequel and Oscar favorite (led by four-time Oscar-winning senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri) featured groundbreaking underwater performance capture and a rebuilt global simulation tool set for both water and fire, Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” sequel (supervised by Wētā’s Chris White) created realistic water specifically for the Mayan-influenced underwater city of Talokan.

“The thing that was...

You may recall that there was a flurry of news stories and online chatter last summer about the state of the visual effects industry in general and its relationship with the powerful Marvel Studios specifically. Major outlets like CNET and Vulture published detailed reports in which VFX workers—most of them speaking anonymously for obvious reasons—talked about the brutal hours and stress-inducing deadlines that the neverending flow of Marvel product engendered, with many of them admitting that they were burned out, on the verge of leaving or already departing a field that they loved.

There’s no question that a number of Marvel properties, ranging from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings to She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, have clearly suffered from distinct drops in quality visuals, a problem that has plagued many MCU titles. On the other hand, the latest MCU offering, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,...

The International Documentary Association (IDA) presented awards to the winners in 18 categories for the 38th IDA Documentary Awards on December 10, 2022 at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles. Shaunak Sen‘s “All That Breathes” went into the evening with four nominations and emerged as a winner of three, including the top prize. See the full list of winners below.

In addition to taking home Best Feature Documentary, Shen was named Best Director and the film’s editor Charlotte Munch Bengtsen won for Best Editing. Of its four nominations, “All That Breathes” lost only the award for Best Cinematography which went to the team on “Fire of Love” instead.

“Fire of Love” was the leader in nominations with five and won twice — it was also victorious in Best Writing. “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” won for Best Music Documentary and “The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons” won for Best Music Score.

If you've watched "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" several times to pick up on all of its little details, there is one you may have missed. Was it a costume that was referencing an obscure comic book issue? Nope. Perhaps there was something written in Wakandan somewhere that gives us a clue to the next film? No way. Is it the fact that Namor and friends are swimming in a very large toilet bowl? If you guessed that, some VFX people are going to be very happy.

See those little bits of light floating in the water around Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) in the picture above? Friends, that is fish poop, and the actual ocean is full of it. I apologize if this makes you think twice before swimming at the beach, but yes, you might as well be splashing around in the sewer when you hit the ocean waves. We...

The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the winners in 18 categories at the 38th annual IDA Documentary Awards Ceremony on December 10, 2022 at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles. Hosted by Jenny Yang, the show was live-streamed on IDA’s YouTube channel.

Shaunak Sen’s Indian eco-documentary “All That Breathes” won Best Director, Editing, Feature Film, and the Pare Lorentz Award, beating out in that category Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Sara Dosa’s Best Cinematography and Writing winner “Fire of Love,” Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “A House Made of Splinters,” Edward Buckles’ “Katrina Babies,” Isabel Castro’s “Mija,” Daniel Roher’s “Navalny,” Akuo de Mabior’s “No Simple Way Home,” Lukasz Kowalski’s “The Pawnshop,” and Neasa Ní Chianáin and Declan McGrath’s “Young Plato.”

The winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2022 Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary, “All the Breathes” is building momentum on the awards circuit,...

“All That Breathes” took top prize for best feature at the International Documentary Assn. Awards Dec. 10, also grabbing prizes for director Shaunak Sen, editing and the special Pare Lorentz award.

“We Need to Talk About Cosby” won the award for multi-part documentary, while “Fire of Love” took the cinematography and writing prizes.

The 38th annual event, held at L.A.’s Paramount Theater, was hosted by comic-actor Jenny Yang. Prizes were announced in 18 categories. The show was also LiveStreamed on IDA’s YouTube channel and the recording is now available.

There were 16 competitive categories and two special categories, the ABC News VideoSource Award and the Pare Lorentz Award.

This year’s shortlists and nominees were selected by independent committees of 310 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 52 countries. IDA received 806 submissions in all categories, 40 of which are internationally produced or coproduced projects from 86 countries.

The winners are:

Feature: “All That Breathes...

The first "Black Panther" was a jolt of fresh energy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was not just a hugely entertaining film (and one with a fantastic soundtrack), but one that crafted a fictional world that felt real and lived-in, a world you could lose yourself in. Every piece of Wakanda we saw made sense and war imbued with a sense of history and culture so rich in detail you could imagine the countless stories that happened just off-screen. In just one movie, Wakanda became arguably the most real location in the MCU other than New York.

Now, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" has done it again. It's a film that offers a poignant exploration of grief; a film with some nuanced commentary on the impact of colonialism; a movie that introduces one of Marvel's oldest characters and reinvents him by rooting him in real history; and also a movie...

This post contains mild spoilers for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

Ryan Coogler's film "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" is a vast and complex fantasy film that centers on a potential war between the titular high-tech fictional African nation and the vast, ultra-powered underwater Mesoamerican/futurist kingdom of Talokan. The former uses an underground deposit of a rare, magical metal called vibranium to power advanced, fantastical machines like flying saucers and feather-light, indestructible, flying suits of armor. The latter also possesses a store of vibranium and has constructed a miniature underwater sun, that has sustained a lost race of merpeople for generations. While the plot of "Wakanda Forever" occasionally gets lost in the (sea)weeds, its envisioning of two rival fantasy countries is one of the more impressive visual accomplishments of the year's cinema.

"Wakanda Forever" was impressively photographed by cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, and her job was made especially complicated...

When bringing comic book characters to life in movies or TV shows, the environment around them can be just as critical as other aspects of their development, especially for characters like Thor, Aquaman, or Black Panther, whose identities and culture heavily center on the larger-than-life worlds that they come from. Namor is no exception, and when it came time for him to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, writer-director Ryan Coogler and his creative team made sure Namor's debut in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" was done right.

The comic version of Atlantis was retooled into the Underwater Nation of Talokan, whose roots in Mesoamerican Culture helped differentiate Namor from Jason Momoa's Aquaman. The depiction of Talokan is not only a huge step forward in Hispanic and Latin representation in the MCU, but is also integral to portraying Namor's motives in the film.

The crew of "Wakanda Forever" put a...

This post contains spoilers for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

Sometimes when we watch films for the first time, we don't notice every individual detail that the team puts in. Even if we don't see it all, having detailed histories of fictional societies like the Talokanil in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" gives the film a richer feeling while adding to the actors' performances and allowing deeper world-building.

In "Wakanda Forever," we meet the Talokanil people and their leader Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) and visit the underwater city of Talokan. It's a beautiful place, like nothing we've seen before. Everything feels lived in, and as though it's been there for hundreds of years, from the murals on the wall that Namor paints and the bracelet he gives Shuri (Letitia Wright) to the giant jawbone throne.

This took tremendous planning on the part of the "Wakanda Forever" production team that included a 200-page...

Before diving into this month’s edition of Horror Bytes, please give last week’s debut of The Inventory (our monthly review show) a listen.

Another month, another edition of Horror Bytes, our segment highlighting short indie horror experiences! This month we have recruited returning friend of the show, Chris White, who brought Neil and me a healthy stable of horror titles. From surviving the prowling antagonist of Suffer The Night to the drill maintenance madness of The Other Side, this month’s picks highlight various sinister and spooky titles.

And as always, we ask that if you can do so, support the developers behind these games through their itch.io, steam, or Patreon pages.

The Other Side

The shelter keeps you safe from the horrors of the outside world. So naturally, you must break out. The Other Side combines a tense atmosphere with drill simulator mechanics to make for a taut slice of horror.

Chennai, Sep 30 (Ians) Chenaniyin Fc’s 35-man squad for the Hero Indian Super League(Isl) is here with head coach Thomas Brdaric looking to build on a promising Durand Cup campaign that concluded earlier this month.

Nasser El Khayati joins the club as a seventh foreign acquisition and is a part of the registered international unit for the 2022-23 Hero Isl campaign. He replaces Rafael Crivellaro as the club’s midfield option having played in a similar role in the Dutch first division in May 2022.

The Dutch footballer joins vice-captain and Senegalese international Fallou Diagne, Iranian defender Vafa Hakhamaneshi, German midfielder Julius Duker and attackers Kwame Karikari and Petar Sliskovic from Ghana and Croatia respectively; all of whom took part in the Durand Cup.

Petar, Julius, Vafa and Karikari all found the back of the net over the five games they played in the Durand Cup.

While there has been...

Among his many other literary and cinematic distinctions, Richard Matheson wrote 16 episodes of "The Twilight Zone." Without a doubt, Matheson's most famous contribution to the series was the episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," starring future "Star Trek" captain (and space-faring /Film contributor) William Shatner.

Directed by Richard Donner, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is described in host Rod Serling's narration as the "portrait of a frightened man, Mr. Robert Wilson," who has "just been discharged from a sanitarium where he spent the last six months recovering from a nervous breakdown." At the beginning of the episode, Wilson boards a plane with his wife Julia (Christine White), which spells immediate trouble since his breakdown occurred on a previous flight.

"Tonight," Serling continues, "he's traveling all the way to his appointed destination, which, contrary to Mr. Wilson's plan, happens to be in the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone." That dark corner, with its big,...

Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few months. In the end, however, they all found out that replacement singers can themselves be replaced. This edition features former Creedence Clearwater Revisited singer John Tristao.

John Tristao caught so many Creedence Clearwater Revival shows in the band’s...

Kolkata, Aug 16 (Ians) Chennaiyin Fc (Cfc) on Tuesday announced their squad for the 131st edition of the Durand Cup. The club will kick start their campaign against Army Red Ft on Saturday in a Group C encounter.

Indian internationals Narayan Das, Rahim Ali and skipper Anirudh Thapa, alongside Edwin Vanspaul are some of the familiar faces in the squad. Defenders Vafa Hakhamaneshi, Fallou Diagne, midfielders Julius Düker, Rafael Crivellaro, and forwards Petar Sliskovic and Kwame Karikari round out the foreign line-up for the two-time Indian Super League champions.

New recruits Vincy Barretto, Ajith Kumar and Jiteshwor Singh will be eager to play for the club in competitive capacity for the first time, while youth players Senthamizh, Md Aqib and Chris White will get their first taste of senior-team .

Meanwhile, Mohammed Rafique, Alexander Romario Jesuraj, Sourav Das and Lijo Francis are all injured and out of action. They’ve started their...

Sixty years on from their formation, it’s finally the time of the season for British Invasion band The Zombies.

The iconic 1960s group will be the focus of a feature documentary entitled “Hung Up on a Dream,” directed by Utopia co-founder, Rooney frontman and “Dreamland” director Robert Schwartzman.

Principal photography has begun on the doc, which will chart the band’s 60-year career, which first started up in the suburb of St. Alban’s, just north of London. The doc will begin with the group’s formation by Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Chris White, Paul Atkinson and Hugh Grundy in the 1960s with hits such as “She’s Not There” and “Time Of The Season,” to their successful solo careers and eventual reunion and touring stints.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 2019, the group is best known for their 1968 album “Odessey and Oracle.” The record had a slow start,...

LeBron James has a new teammate.

The basketball legend’s SpringHill Company is launching a joint venture with U.S. advertising giant Interpublic Group that aims to pair Interpublic’s clients with a range of creators aligned with SpringHill, whose productions include films such as “Hustle” for Netflix; “The Wall” for NBC and “These Hands,” a project made with Procter & Gamble.

“We are really good at finding and developing diverse talent, and with that, create amazing opportunities for brands to create authentic stories,” says Devin Johnson, president of SpringHill, in n interview. He added: “I don’t think there’s any limit to the kinds of categories or brands we can work with.”

The new joint venture will be known as Ipg x The SpringHill Company, and aims to connect creators of color with Interpublic’s clients, which include big advertisers such as Keurig Dr Pepper, Moderna, Verizon, General Motors and Microsoft.

PBS documentary strand ‘Pov’ has acquired “An Act of Worship,” a counter-narrative of the last 30 years of Muslim life in America, out of the Tribeca Film Festival.

Directed by Pakistani-American helmer Nausheen Dadabhoy, the film centers on a diverse range of Muslim Americans who recount the past three decades of pivotal moments in U.S. history and policy from their own perspectives.

The film weaves together observational footage of activists who came of age after the 9/11 attacks, community-sourced home videos and recollections from individuals impacted by incidents of Islamophobia.

“An Act of Worship” premiered at Tribeca on June 9, and will make its national broadcast premiere on Oct. 17.

The film, which will sit within ‘Pov’s’ 35th season, is produced by DuPont-Crichton Award-winner Heba Elorbany, Emmy Award winner Kristi Jacobson and Emmy-nominated Sofian Khan.

The deal was negotiated by Chris White and Erika Dilday for strands ‘American Documentary’ and ‘Pov,...

Harry Callahan’s next adventure originated with John Milius, Hollywood’s favorite gun fanatic, surfer and “Zen anarchist.” Milius wrote B Movies for American International Pictures before breaking through with two Westerns, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and Jeremiah Johnson. His knack for macho action and pulpy, colorful dialogue fit Dirty Harry perfectly; Milius wrote his draft in 21 days, receiving a Purdey shotgun as payment.

Though uncredited, Milius claims credit for Harry‘s dialogue, especially the “Do I feel lucky?” monologue. Others, including Richard Schickel, credit Harry Julian Fink with that speech. Clint Eastwood marginalizes Milius’s contributions to the film, admitting “we might have taken a few good items John had in there.” Milius resented this: “Look at the movie and you tell me who wrote that,” he challenged an interviewer.

Milius soon moved past any hurt feelings. After reading several articles on Brazil’s “death...

Navigating his daughter's tween years has been challenging for rapper and Fast and Furious 6 star Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges. "I think of her as a little girl," he says, "but I can't keep her in that shell."To help ease the transition, he sets aside plenty of quality time, "turning the phone off, no distractions - just her and me talking about what's going on in her world," he says. "I have an Rv, and sometimes we just drive to different places. It's good for us." As she gets older, the star's dream for Karma - whose mom is Atlanta attorney...

William Shatner stars in a classic episode, written by Richard Matheson and directed by Richard Donner, that holds up incredibly well as a model of terror and tension. The Twilight Zone, Episode #123: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (original air date October 11, 1963) The Plot: Bob Wilson (William Shatner), husband, father, and salesman, has spent six months in a sanitarium, recuperating from a nervous breakdown he suffered on an airplane. He's cured now and ready to go home. He boards a jet with his wife Julia (Christine White) for the long flight and settles in. Julia dozes off. Idly, Bob looks out the window. He sees something moving. It's nighttime and it's raining hard, so it's hard to tell what it is ... and then...

With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with us? The Twilight Zone (Episode #57): “The Prime Mover” (airdate 3/24/61) The Plot: A gambling addict finds out his best friend his telekinetic powers, which, as it turns out, could be incredibly useful while gambling. The Goods: Somehow, the abomination that was yesterday’s entry (Static) was also written by the same writer as today’s playful episode. Charles Beaumont churns out a winner here that’s smart even while it’s plot stays obvious. Ace Larsen (Dane Clark) is kind of a jerk. He runs a diner, but he’s so obsessed with gambling that he can hardly keep his quarters out of the one-armed bandit he keeps near the door. When he’s not losing spare change, he...

Lisa Marie Presley is firing back at her former nanny -- the one who just sued her -- claiming the woman broke her contract by posting photos of Presley's twin babies on Facebook.Presley countersued Christine White -- the nanny who claims she was forced to work ridiculous hours without getting Ot ...while Presley was suffering from postpartum depression.Presley claims White snapped 164 photographs and shot video of her twins and her private residence ...then...

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Lisa Marie Presley says it takes some gall for a nanny who she treated like a celebrity to turn around and sue her.Lisa Marie tells TMZ Christine White has "self-entitlement" issues. White just sued Elvis' daughter for not getting meal breaks and ...

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Forget Lisa Marie Presley -- her nanny is suffering from postpartum depression and she's suing Elvis' daughter.Christine White has filed a lawsuit against Presley, claiming she became the postpartum caregiver several weeks after Lisa Marie gave birth ...

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