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Exclusive: Golden Globe-winning The Bear star Jeremy Allen White, Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) and Oscar nominee Isabella Rossellini (Conclave) are set to star in Jeremiah Zagar’s upcoming feature The Painted Bride.

Frequent collaborators Charades and New Europe have acquired international rights to the movie and will launch sales at Cannes. WME Independent will represent North American rights.

Zagar gained critical acclaim for his Sundance debut We The Animals (a five-time Independent Spirit Award nominee), followed by the Netflix hit Hustle, starring Adam Sandler. He recently wrapped Task for HBO, starring Mark Ruffalo. The series will premiere later this year.

The Painted Bride stars Allen White as Elisha, a man who during the day swims, cooks and cares for his family, and at night, obsesses over a new project dedicated to his young son and his dying father. When a crisis draws him back home to Baltimore, his world begins to collapse,...

Exclusive: Bella Thorne (Divinity) and Jack Kilmer (Palo Alto) have been set to topline The Tower, one of 102 projects to have been granted a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement following the launch of the actors strike. Also set for the fantastical drama, from filmmaker Adam Sigal (Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose), are Cam Gigandet (Violent Night) and Chris Mullinax (Chariot).

The film currently in production is billed as a dark tale about a mysterious mermaid trapped and forgotten for years in the water tower of a small Southern town. Sigal described it as his “attempt to interpret the isolation and wanderlust I felt growing up in a small Southern town.”

The Tower is among the projects that began shooting shortly before the SAG-AFTRA strike launched and went on pause in the wake of the walkout until the securement of a SAG waiver. Producers are B.I. Rosen, Frederic Demey, James Bruce,...

They've survived blind auditions and battle rounds, and now each coach has their final teams ready to take to the knockout stage. With each coach looking for something different from all the contestants, it's a varied bunch of talent. So which judge do you think has the best team? Let us know...

Team Jessie

Jessie has a quirky selection of singers. Her team is made up of Ash Morgan, Sarah Cassidy and Matt Henry. Letitia Grant Brown, Trevor Francis, Danny County and Lovelle Hill complete her team.

Team will

will has gone for variety on his team, which sees Jordan Lee Davies, Cleo Higgins and John Pritchard all take up a spot. Moni Tivony, Lemuel Knights, Leanna Jarvis and Leah McFall make up the remaining members.

Team Tom

He won the show last series, but is his team this year up to scratch? Jamie Bruce, Adam Barron, Mike Ward and...

Following the fifth episode of The Voice UK, Digital Spy presents our top five blind auditions from the show.

Jamie Bruce - The 6' 5" singer blew the judges away with his deep voice. His version of 'Try a Little Tenderness' got will so excited he even forgot to pose as he turned his chair. Despite the 'Scream & Shout' star saying he was "blown away" by his voice, the 34-year-old went with Tom.

Paul Carden - His previous band experience was obvious as he pranced around the stage holding his microphone stand in a Freddie Mercury-esque way. Danny turned his chair right at the last minute and the Scouser won a slot on his team with a gravelly take on the Bruno Mars track 'Locked Out of Heaven'.

Jordan Lee Davies - The 22-year-old admitted to not being your average-looking popstar, but as the son of a bodybuilder he...

It's week five and the teams are filling up quickly. Each coach added to their vastly different teams, but which is your favourite? Digital Spy takes a look at the new additions.

Team will

High-pitched Jordan Lee Davies won a place on the producer's team after his version of The Darkness hit 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love'. The South Wales boy was praised for his range, but will his falsetto win the public vote?

will also turned for duo Nu-tarna after hearing their very loud version of Katy Perry's 'Part of Me'. Kelly and Elesha made will spin for the huge amount of energy in their performance, but will it be too much for the public?

will currently has the smallest team, with a total of nine performers. He still has three spaces to fill.

Team Jessie

Last week Jessie was the most prolific coach,...

Clemenger Bbdo Sydney has launched a $4.5m campaign to launch Smith’s Extra Crunchy chips.

The campaign stars The Secret Life of Us, Spicks and Specks and Talkin’ ’bout Your Generation actor Stephen Curry.

The ad was directed by Dave Klaiber from Plaza Films.

Jenni Dill, Smith’s marketing director, said: “Our $4.5 million launch investment will promote rapid awareness and trial and drive category growth. When it comes to the crunch, we know our consumers will love new Smith’s Extra Crunchy potato chips.”

Credits:

PepsiCo

Marketing Director: Jenni Dill

Marketing Director – Core Brands: Robyn Quinn

Senior Brand Manager: Jamie Bruce

Clemenger Bbdo

Ecd: Paul Nagy, Mike Spirkovski

Head of Art: Michael Dole

Head of Craft: Tim McPherson

Copywriter / Art Director: Michael Dawson, Josh Braithwaite, Seb Vizor

Group Account Director: Madeleine Marsh

Senior Account Director: Anna Walters

Senior Account Manager: Smaran Jworchan

Account Executive: Jill Cummins

Head of Planning: Matt Walters...

Directed by Lavinia Currier Starring

Kris Marshall, Isaach de Bankolé, Will Yun Lee & the Bayaka of Yandombe

Based on the memoir by Louis Sarno

(.Last Thoughts Before Vanishing from the Face of the Earth.)

New Release Date! October 28, 2011

Presented by Dada Films and required viewing, Lavinia Currier.s (The Passion in the Desert) breathtaking new film, Oka! is a fish-out-of-water tale of an ethnomusicologist from New Jersey who finds himself immersed in the colorful lives ofthe Bayake pygmies. Based on the memoir by ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno, who has lived with the pygmies for over 20 years, Oka! transports audiences to the vast forest of the Central African Republic into the magical world of the Bayaka and lyrically captures their music, dance, humor and exuberance, as well as the harsh realities they endure.

The forest dwelling tribe of Bayaka pygmies is famed for its acute hearing (.Oka!. means .listen!. in their Akka...

Still making the rounds on the festival circuit, Case 219 is an intense dramatic film that deals with teenage school violence and the ramifications it causes. It stars Evan Ross, Levin Rambin, Taylor Nichols, Melora Walters and Harold Perrineau.

Based on the novel Shooter by Walter Dean Myers, the story of a high school shooting rampage unfolds in a series of tense and suspenseful documentary style interviews conveyed through the eyes of a Los Angeles Times journalist. The film penetrates the everyday lives of the shooter’s best friends and family in pursuit of learning what triggered the violent acts. These provocative and haunting interviews leave the audience with the dilemma of who is really to blame.

Director and screenwriter James Bruce discovered the book Shooter when his teen-age son, Samuel, handed it to him and said, “Dad, you should make a movie out of this book.” After reading Shooter,...

Comedy Central's Atom.com released an original web series The Handlers, a comedy about a group of spin doctors doing whatever it takes to get their client elected. Three time Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle) stars as State Senator candidate Jack Power, a hapless politician who's constantly finding himself in hot water. Not to fear: his crack team of ambitious campaign operatives will stop at nothing to keep him in the running, like encouraging intentional on-air verbal slip-ups involving genitalia to improve ratings, and proposing daily engagement with prostitutes to appeal to the common man. The Handlers group consists of actors Matt Braunger, Andrea Cansler, Josh Dean, and Gary Anthony Williams. Interestingly, the series is based on Henaut President, an French web series featured on Dailymotion.com from Michel Muller, Antoine Benguigui, David Elkaim, and Vincent Poymiro. The Handlers shares...

Three time Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee Bryan Cranston stars in .The Handlers. . an Atom.com Web series about a group of ambitious campaign operatives doing whatever it takes to get running State Senator Jack Power (played by Cranston) to the top. .The Handlers. is produced by Cranston, Jamie Bruce and Avalon Television. Each Tuesday, a brand new episode will debut for a total of eight episodes. Atom.com will be hosting "The Handlers," which was born from Cranston's friend and colleague, Jamie Bruce, who is French, introducing him to a French language webseries "Henaut President," a study of the gameplaying, planning and execution of getting a man into office. Monsters and Critics had an exclusive interview...

The Handlers is an Atom.com exclusive web series about a group of ambitious campaign operatives determined to claw their way to the top of their game. They will do whatever it takes to get hapless candidate Jack Power (Bryan Cranston) elected to a post as State Senator, whether he likes it or not. Based on a French concept called Henaut President, the eight-episode series premieres on January 4th, and then series star Bryan Cranston returns to his Emmy Award-winning performance as Walter White on AMC’s hit television series Breaking Bad, which goes into production for Season 4 on January 13th. In a recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, the very busy Bryan Cranston talked about the fun of doing a web series that is a humorous and racy look at politics, his hopes that it will continue for future episodes, how nerve-wracking it was to host Saturday Night Live this past October,...

Bryan Cranston was in bed when his Golden Globe nomination in the Best Actor category for Breaking Bad was announced yesterday, but who can blame him? Between his work on six feature films and his upcoming Saturday Night Live-meets-Curb Your Enthusiasm Web series on Atom.com, The Handlers, the actor hasn’t had much time for R&R since concluding season 3 of his critically lauded AMC drama (EW critic Ken Tucker’s pick for best show of 2010), which returns this summer.

In an interview with EW, Cranston talked about his nomination and the political satire show that he...

I’ve remarked a couple of times on the site in the past that there’s little to no reference sources online for the first two New York Underground Film Festivals, held in 1994 and 1995. The official Nyuff website has had its archives offline for, I think, over a year now. If you go to their site, they simply direct you to what’s available on the site Archive.org. (And, from my own experience, it’s a safe bet not to assume your stuff will be on Archive.org forever — it can really vanish at any minute.)

At Archive.org, the Nyuff archives only go back to 1996. I don’t know if the fest had a web presence those first two years or not, but whether they were ever there, the optimum point is that they’re not there now and probably never will be. And my own personal assumption...

The festival runs from April 15th through the 23rd. I’ll be profiling films relevant to this blog… beginning with the one below:

It’s titled Case 219.

Synopsis: Through the eyes of a Los Angeles Times journalist, the story of a high school shooting rampage unfolds in a series of tense and suspenseful documentary style interviews. Case 219 penetrates the everyday lives of the shooters best friends and family in the pursuit of learning what triggered the violent acts. These provocative and haunting interviews leave the audience with the dilemma of who is really to blame.

It co-stars Evan Ross, Harold Perrineau, and others. James Bruce directs.

CBS might be extending its crime brand into the reality genre.

The network has ordered a pilot presentation of a procedural reality show called "Missing You," in which a team of investigators takes on a different missing-persons case each week.

One of the show's executive producers is '70s teen sensation Shaun Cassidy, who has since gone on to produce such scripted TV fare as ABC's 2005 series "Invasion" and the CBS cult fave "American Gothic."

If the project is picked up, "Missing" will provide a reality counterpoint to the network's scripted crime fare including "CSI" and "The Mentalist."

CBS has toyed with a similar idea before, teaming with Mark Burnett in 2004 to develop "Recovery," a show about the search for kidnapped children.

With CBS' dramas and comedies performing well, and reality competition veterans such as "Survivor" and "Big Brother" continuing to be strong on the unscripted side, the network has...