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Dr Sales, the international sales arm of Danish pubcaster Dr, is launching at Mipcom in Cannes Dr Drama’s latest event series “Generations,” mixing crime, mystery and family secrets.

Making her debut in long-form serialised drama is Anna Emma Haudal, behind DR3’s hit youth series “Doggystyle” for which she won a national Robert Award for best short series in 2019. Haudal shares the writing credits with seasoned writer Rune-Schjøtt-Wieth and co-directs with Thomas Daneskov (“Wild Men”) and Ville Gideon Sörman (“I See You”).

Toplining the drama is rising talent Alice Bier who landed the title role in Netflix’s period drama “Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction,” after an appearance in her mother Susanne Bier’s “The Night Manager.” In other main roles are seasoned actresses Ulla Henningsen, Anette Støvelbæk as well as Simon Sears (“Ride Upon the Storm”).

The series opens with the discovery of a mummified infant during a...

Playtime has boarded “Crossing Lines,” a Danish thriller by Baghdad-born first-time director Jahfar Muataz.

Currently filming, “Crossing Lines” revolves around a reformed criminal, Cairo, who enjoys his new life as a gang exit counselor. When his nephew Hamza disappears, Cairo discovers he had secretly joined his former gang. Despite his pledge to avoid violence, Cairo enlists his former underworld connections, growing frustrated with the police’s lack of action. His investigation leads him into Copenhagen’s criminal scene where his past instincts resurface.

The well-known cast is led by Afshin Firouzi (“Boundless”), Albert Arthur Amiryan (“Forhøret”), Charlotte Fich (“Borgen”).

“Jahfar’s script is a page turner,” said Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, co-ceo of Playtime. “This is exactly what you are looking for when you receive a project as an international sales company: something engaging, with a fresh tone, that can speak to people across borders,” he continued.

Jahfar moved to Denmark as...

Sofie Grabol as Miriam in the Danish TV prison drama series “Prisoner.” Photo by Adam Wallensten. Courtesy of Mhz Choice

Prison films and series tend to pick one of the following themes: Action flicks with plenty of fighting, starring the likes of a Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme or Scott Adkins. Usually, it’s a good guy fighting for survival against overwhelming odds. Next would be the slew of sexploitation women-in-chains sort, using the premise as an excuse for nudity and other aspects of lurid appeal. Most were B movies that thrived in the 1970s –‘80s. The “Orange is the New Black” series classed that genre up considerably without losing its titillation value. Then there were high-quality character dramas like Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke and The Rock. Finally come comedies like The Longest Yard.

The six-episode subtitled Danish drama “Prisoner” manages to break relatively new ground with a bleak,...

Mumbai Film Fest To Honor Luca Guadagnino & Mani Ratnam

The Mumbai Film Festival will honor Luca Guadagnino and Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam at the upcoming fest, which runs from October 27 to November 5. The former will win the Excellence in Cinema Award (International) while the latter is handed the South Asian version of the same award. Both directors will attend the festival to receive their gongs and conduct masterclasses. The festival will also screen Ratnam’s recent Tamil-language historical dramas, Ponniyin Selvan: Part One & Two, and Luca Guadagnino’s Golden Globe-nominated I Am Love. Previous receipients of Mumbai Film Festival’s Excellence in Cinema Awards include Darren Aronofsky, Sharmila Tagore, Fernando Meirelles, Jia Zhangke and Chen Kaige.

BBC Buys Denmark’s ‘Prisoner’ Starring ‘The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl

The BBC has acquired Danish drama Prisoner starring The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl. The series for national broadcaster Dr revolves around the lives...

Dr Sales has been racking up sales for Danish drama series “Prisoner.”

Starring Sofie Gråbøl, David Dencik, Youssef Wayne Hvidtfeldt and Charlotte Fich, it has been picked up by BBC (U.K. and Ireland), Canal+ Group’s channel Polar+ (France), MHz Choice (U.S.), Sbs (Australia), Npo (Netherlands) and BeTV (French-speaking Belgium).

Revolving around four desperate prison guards, forced to deal with everything from rampant drug trade to their personal problems and imminent closure of the prison, the show was created by Kim Fupz Aakeson.

“‘Prisoner’ is an authentic, complex and compelling portrait of the harsh realities of life in prison, where it isn’t only the inmates who are trapped,” said Sue Deeks, head of program acquisitions at BBC, with Npo’s Evelien Bloemena adding:

“It’s about people with good intentions forced into difficult situations. A series with a great cast and a good fit for us as a public broadcaster.

Everyone is a “Prisoner” in a new Dr Drama series created by Kim Fupz Aakeson, just shown at Canneseries. Not just the inmates crammed inside an old Danish prison, but the people who guard them as well.

“Twenty years ago, I wrote a Dogme film [‘In Your Hands’] that also took place in prison. I became interested in these guards, because who takes on that job? Who walks into such a hostile environment every day, unarmed?!,” he wonders.

The characters – played by “The Killing” star Sofie Gråbøl, David Dencik, Charlotte Fich and Youssef Wayne Hvidtfeldt as Sammi, an ambitious rookie – have to watch their backs. But frustrated criminals are not their biggest problem: it’s the system itself, which leaves them powerless.

“It’s an extremely hard profession, poorly paid. They are constantly understaffed,” observes Gråbøl. Taking on Miriam, who still believes in people even though she can’t trust her own son.

Danish Broadcaster Dr has ordered “Prisoner,” a dark-edged premium series which starts shooting this fall with a stellar local cast including Sofie Gråbøl and David Dencik (“Chernobyl”).

“Prisoner” was created by Kim Fupz Aakeson, whose credits include the Dr drama “Cry Wolf” and the HBO series “Utmark.” Michael Noer (“Papillon”) and Frederik Louis Hviid are set to direct.

Produced by Dr Drama, the series is told from the perspectives of four prison officers, Sammi, Henrik, Miriam, and Gert, who are colleagues in an old, worn-down Danish prison and face daily challenges and dilemmas. The story kicks off when they are forced to do a thorough investigation in the prison to save their jobs and prevent the hierarchy and drug trade from dominating the workplace within three months. The investigation turns into a battle for survival — not only for the prison but for everyone inside and outside the walls.

Dr Sales...

Home Choice has picked up Cold Hawaii, Happily Never After and Sex.

REinvent has sold a trio of titles to Korea’s Home Choice, in all-rights deals for Cold Hawaii, Happily Never After and Sex.

Cold Hawaii (8x25’), commissioned by Xee, is co-created by Aske Bang and Allan Hyde, who also star alongside Marie Tourell Søderberg and Charlotte Fich. The series is about two couples who want to get away from the stress of Copenhagen by spending a few months on the Danish west coast, where they also have the idea to swap partners.

Happily Never After (6x45’), created by...

Now TV Hires Former Universal Exec

Now TV has hired former Universal Pictures International and TWC exec Jamie Schwartz as Director of Brand, Marketing and Merchandising. He will report into Marina Storti, Managing Director of Now TV, and will be responsible for core brand development and guardianship, marketing strategy and campaigns, media planning, as well as PR, social, editorial and in-product merchandising. Schwartz was most recently EVP of Marketing for Focus Features and before that worked at TWC and Momentum.

Cast Set For Netflix & Dr’s Borgen

In April Netflix and Dr, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, announced that the hit series Borgen was returning, reuniting creator Adam Price with lead actresses Sidse Babett Knudsen (Birgitte Nyborg) and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Katrine Fønsmark). Today, additional cast was announced, including Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Magnus Millang. Returning from the...

Aooowww — Woo! Jack Nicholson summons his inner dog — and dons the makeup and scary contact lenses — to go the Larry Talbot route. Unfortunately, his moon-howling nighttime life isn’t as interesting as the dog-eat-dog infighting in the publishing house where he works – where feral instincts and sharp lupine senses are a major aid to ‘getting a leg up’ on the competition. I know, cheap metaphors are the ruin of promising writers.

Wolf

All-Region Blu-ray

Indicator

1994 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 125 min. / Street Date November 20, 2017 / £14.99

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Plummer, Richard Jenkins, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce, Om Puri, Ron Rifkin, Prunella Scales, David Schwimmer, Michael Raynor.

Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno

Film Editor: Sam O’Steen

Production Design: Bo Welch, Jim Dultz

Makeup Effects: Rick Baker

Original Music: Ennio Morricone

Written by Jim Harrison, Wesley Strick

Produced by Douglas Wick

Directed by Mike Nichols

I think my mother...

Fall is upon us, and with it a fresh new crop of Netflix movies to curl up with when the weather starts to turn. Next month’s most exciting addition to the streaming service is “Mudbound,” the Southern World Ward II epic from up-and-comer-turned-force-to-be-reckoned-with Dee Rees. Netflix sealed the biggest deal of this year’s Sundance Film Festival when it paid a whopping $12.5 million for “Mudbound,” setting a high bar for the drama. Balancing out the heavier fare are classic comedies like “Men In Black” and “Scary Movie,” as well as “Field of Dreams” and “42” for the baseball lovers.

The fresh crop also includes a bevy of critically acclaimed documentaries, such as “Eventual Salvation,” “Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary,” and “Cuba and the Cameraman.” Jim Carrey’s creative process gets a deep dive in “Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond,” which includes never-before-seen behind the scenes footage from Milos Forman...

Two great staples of the horror genre are risk and restraint. Speaking to the latter, the alien was always scarier when you didn’t get a good look at it, and what’s in the mist is more frightening before you make your way inside the cloud. What scares us most is in our minds, and imagining the fate of facing the unknown is often more scarring than seeing it first-hand.

What drives that fear is risk. Whether we’re merely worried about one precious character dying or an entire cast getting picked off one by one, risk elevates the stakes. Take, for instance, when not only a father is at risk but his whole family. Instinctively, we care about the kids. We care about their mother. We care about the dad, sure, but more about the innocent than the guilty — nine times out of 10 the children are only paying...

You never heard of the Great Glasgow Ice Cream Wars? They weren’t exactly Armageddon, and the gentle director Bill Forsyth makes a radio personality’s involvement with two competing ice cream companies more of a plunge into amiable drollery. If you like Gregory’s Girl and Local Hero you’ll understand the odd, unhurried attitude of this oddball show from 1984.

Comfort and Joy

Region B Blu-ray

Studiocanal

1984 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / Street Date February 29, 2016 / At Amazon UK / £ 9.99

Starring: Bill Patterson, C.P. Grogan, Eleanor David, Alex Norton, Patrick Malahide.

Cinematography: Chris Menges

Film Editor: Michael Ellis

Original Music: Mark Knopfler

Produced by Davina Belling, Clive Parsons

Written and Directed by Bill Forsyth

Quick, name some great filmmakers before the 1990s that hail from Scotland. Actually, there are plenty, it’s just that most made their careers and reputations in London, and some later in Hollywood. The home-grown talent Bill Forsyth...

Need to catch up? Check out the previous The Handmaid’s Tale recap here.

Everybody needs a cheerleader every now and then. And in The Handmaid’s Tale this week, Moira’s sports a white bonnet and really ugly boots instead of pom-poms and a varsity sweater.

Offred returns to Jezebel’s in the Hulu drama’s latest installment, and she’s hurt to find her formerly rebellious friend’s spirit broken beyond recognition. Meanwhile, one of Offred’s fellow handmaids gets screwed in a different, even more heartbreaking way — if that’s even possible — and is thwarted as she...

Hulu’s “Harlots” arrives at a key time for women’s sexual and reproductive health. Not only are those issues being addressed in today’s political climate, with Texas in particular considering various anti-abortion legislation, but Hulu’s other big spring release, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” also addresses a woman’s ability to decide what to do with her body.

But while “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a dystopian story of women forced to breed for high-ranking men, “Harlots” takes a more practical approach to how women used their bodies to deal with oppression. Becoming a whore or madam wasn’t ideal, but in 1760s Georgian London, it was both lucrative and offered the best chances at some sort of upward mobility and independence – unlike the conditions of the completely patriarchal marriages of the day.

Read More: ‘Harlots’ Trailer: It’s the Battle of the Brothels in Hulu’s Family...

Debbie Reynolds, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84, was one of the last icons of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Throughout her nearly seven decade career, Reynolds made a name for herself as a triple-threat singer, dancer, and actor — with roles in big-screen MGM musicals and Broadway shows. She was also chart-topping recording artist and dynamic live performer, who toured the country for years as a night club entertainer.

Music was an inescapable part of Reynolds career. Here are 11 of her best musical moments.

“Aba Daba Honeymoon” (1950)

Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan’s “Aba Daba Honeymoon” was first recorded...

Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland and Agnes Moorehead play it nasty, chop-chopping their way through a Grand Dame Guignol epic of 'sixties Hag Horror. Ace director Robert Aldrich's big success handed the deserving Davis a big role, and it looks better than ever on this razor-sharp remastered edition. With good original film promos as well as a lively new commentary. Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Blu-ray Twilight Time 1964 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 133 min. / Street Date October 11, 2016 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store29.95 Starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Buono, Mary Astor. Cinematography Joseph F. Biroc Art Direction William Glasgow Film Editor Michael Luciano Original Music Frank De Vol Written by Lukas Heller from a novel by Henry Farrell Produced and Directed by Robert Aldrich

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Good horror pictures featuring big stars were once fairly rare; this month Twilight Time...

There are so many reasons for the movies’ recent fascination with Barack Obama’s formative years — this summer saw the release of “Southside With You,” a chintzy rom-com that chronicled Obama’s idyllic first date with his future wife — but chief among them is the feeling that he’s the first modern President who feels like a real person. Which is not to say that Bill Clinton is an android or that George W. Bush is (necessarily) a stack of hay that’s been stuffed into a business suit and enchanted by a vengeful wizard, but that Obama came to lead America in large part because he is America, a one-man melting pot whose vagabond life was driven towards a singular destiny. He knows what it means to be an outsider in this country, to be rejected for attempting to make good on the promise of his homeland. He did drugs.

Back in March 2015, original Batman TV series stars Adam West and Burt Ward announced at the Mad Monster Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina that they are both returning to voice Batman and Robin in a new animated movie. Although they didn't reveal the title or too many plot details at the convention, they did reveal that the movie would be released on Blu-ray and DVD at some point in 2016. Today we have our first look at this movie, entitled Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, which reveals that another Batman TV series star has come back, Julie Newmar as the Catwoman.

Entertainment Weekly debuted this first trailer, which features both Batman and Robin getting out of a jam. The Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder reveal they will square off against iconic villains such as the Joker, Riddler, Penguin and Catwoman, with their battles taking place both on Earth,...

Whenever a Dilaurentis stops by, you're guaranteed drama. 

That was the case on Pretty Little Liars Season 7 Episode 7 when Jason returned to Rosewood, and brought a whole lot of angst with him. 

He wasted no time in trying to get rid of Mary Drake. Someone has to be blamed for all of the drama in town, and she's an easy person to shift the target to. 

There's a high chance she knows more than she's letting on. Are we meant to believe she apparently doesn't remember this other child of hers?

Yes, Charlotte has a sibling, but could the sibling really be the person orchestrating this reign of terror against the girls? It just seems so damn stupid to have another hidden member of Alison's family. 

All of the stuff with the storm cellar was intriguing, but I refuse to believe Mrs. D was the one who had all the files on the girls.

“Outlaws and Angels” follows Henry (Chad Michael Murray), a seasoned outlaw who leads a gang of bandits into a high stakes bank heist set to make them all rich and give them a chance at a new life across the Mexican border. Unfortunately, the plan goes awry and they end up killing a U.S. Marshall. With a large bounty on their heads, Henry and the gang head south through dangerous territory. When all hope seems lost, the crew stumble upon the frontier home of George Tilden (Ben Browder), who lives there with his wife Ada (Teri Polo), and two daughters Charlotte (Madisen Beaty) and Florence (Francesca Eastwood). They invade the home and terrorize the family, but eventually unlikely bonds form and Henry is given one last shot at redemption. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below when Henry and the bandits learn that there’s a bounty on their heads.

2016 Heroes Con Review

Author - Mark Cook

****More pictures from HeroesCon, and artist interviews, can be found in the Heroes Con Exclusive Pages****

It was a beautiful weekend in Charlotte, Nc for the 2016 Heroes Con. Fellow writer Mike Connally and I were lucky to attend the Con. I decided to break my review down into categories since there was so much to take in during the event:

1. Artists – Neal Adams, Juan Doe, Paulina Ganucheau, Stacey Lee, and Freddie Williams II were just a few of the 300+ artists who were in attendance at HeroesCon. All artists were eager to speak with fans, sign autographs, prints, commissions, and some would draw an original sketch of your choosing depending on the amount of time they had.

The Artist Stage was also interesting. Artists would take to the stage, paint or draw an original piece while the crowd could sit and watch, and they would later be auctioned.

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We chatted to the writer and cast of new BBC supernatural period drama starring Colin Morgan, by the co-creator of Life On Mars...

On the wall of Ashley Pharoah’s office hangs the bullet-riddled driver-side door of a red 1983 Audi Quattro. It’s a set-souvenir from Ashes To Ashes, the time-travel police drama he co-created to follow Life On Mars. Somewhere nearby is a sepia photograph of a young man looking justifiably disturbed by the sack-headed, creepily masked figures who surround him. That’s Pharoah’s souvenir from the set of The Living And The Dead, an eerie period supernatural drama launching in 'box-set' form on BBC iPlayer tomorrow.

Set in 1894 Somerset, The Living And The Dead is in the tradition of the dark English pastoral. It pits the rural customs and rites of an ancient way of life against the modern ingress of industry and technology.

Orphan Black season four is off to a really strong start and it looks like we could be in for another solid outing tomorrow night. BBC America has curiously only released four stills from tomorrow night's installment offering a look at Sarah discovering something important about M.K., Felix and Donnie investigating a Neolution fertility clinic on Alison's orders, and Dizzy on a computer. Check out the new set of promotional stills below:   Episode Three Season 4 | Episode 4 | Original Airdate: May 5th, 2016 | 10:00Pm Sarah realizes her goals have aligned with her once enemy and forms a precarious alliance in hopes of getting to the head of Neolution. Meanwhile, on her end, Alison dispatches Felix and Donnie to infiltrate a Neolution fertility clinic that Beth investigated. Back at the lab, Cosima and Scott receive a revolting delivery from Alison. As Rachel grows closer to Charlotte, Susan Duncan leaves a devastating decision in her hands.

After another strong episode of Orphan Black tonight, the next installment looks to be even better. The preview for next week's episode teases M.K.'s motives and the reveal of another potential clone! Plus, we catch a glance at Felix & Donnie carrying out some sort of scheme and Sarah possibly learning something huge. Check out the new promo below:   Episode Three Season 4 | Episode 4 | Original Airdate: May 5th, 2016 | 10:00Pm Sarah realizes her goals have aligned with her once enemy and forms a precarious alliance in hopes of getting to the head of Neolution. Meanwhile, on her end, Alison dispatches Felix and Donnie to infiltrate a Neolution fertility clinic that Beth investigated. Back at the lab, Cosima and Scott receive a revolting delivery from Alison. As Rachel grows closer to Charlotte, Susan Duncan leaves a devastating decision in her hands. Sarah, reluctantly return home from her Icelandic hideout to track...

Lock your doors! Hulking menace Victor Buono gets the full-on psycho treatment, based (very) roughly on early reports of The Boston Strangler. The 'baby doll' killer also prefigures the fiendish Richard Speck. Burt Topper's film is routine but ex- Baby Jane star Victor Buono's performance is decidedly not. The Strangler DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1964 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 89 min. / Street Date November 10, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Victor Buono, Diane Sayer, Davey Davison, Jeanne Bates, Ellen Corby, Mimi Dillard, Selette Cole, David McLean, Baynes Barron, Michael Ryan, Russ Bender, Wally Campo, Byron Morrow, John Yates, James Sikking, Robert Cranford. Cinematography Jacques R. Marquette Film Editor Robert S. Eisen Original Music Martin Skiles Written by Bill S. Ballinger Produced by Samuel Bischoff, David Diamond Directed by Burt Topper

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

The old-time independent producer Edward Small gravitated to United Artists in the 1950s, while his counterpart...

This forgotten Alistair MacLean action thriller packs a rare starring role for the young Anthony Hopkins -- he's really good as secret agent Philip Calvert, battling gold thieves in the Scottish Isles. He's got a James Bond attitude in a more down-to-Earth adventure. When Eight Bells Toll Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1971 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date March 8, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Ferdy Mayne, Wendy Allnutt, Maurice Roëves, Derek Bond, Leon Collins, Peter Arne, Oliver MacGreevy, Tom Chatto, Del Henney. Cinematography Arthur Ibbetson Film Editor John Shirley Original Music Angela Morley Written by Alistair MacLean from his novel Produced by Elliott Kastner Directed by Etienne Périer

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Producer Elliott Kastner stretched Alistair MacLean's brand of military action adventure to James Bond extremes in the expensive, very popular Where Eagles Dare of 1968. Several MacLean adaptations got underway,...

On next week’s Raw, World Wrestling Entertainment will host the annual ‘Slammy Awards’. First introduced way back in 1986, the mock ceremony is a take off of the ‘Grammy Awards’ popularised in the world of music. More often than not, the Slammys have been treated in a light-hearted fashion, with several joke categories filling out the awards.

The Slammy Awards were ignored by WWE from 1997-2008, until the were brought back that year. Ever since, they’ve taken place on Monday Night Raw each December. Voting is currently open on WWE’s official website for this years honours. The 10 main categories fans can vote in are listed in full below.

WWE Superstar Of The Year

Rivalry Of The Year

Double Cross Of The Year

Surprise Return Of The Year

Best Original WWE Network Show

WWE Tag-Team Of The Year

Hashtag Of The Year

Celebrity Moment Of The Year

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The TLC go home show. How quickly are WWE pay per views coming round these days?

This week’s episode looked set to be a bumper edition after a couple of new factions were established last week. Sheamus ‘recruited’ King Barrett, Rusev and Alberto Del Rio to form the League of Nations, while Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose joined forces with The Usos to form a family, of sorts. The powers that be have a lot of explaining to do as to why the factions are together now which would be sure to take up a very boring opening 20 minutes of the show.

The other main talking point heading into this week’s Raw was who would be the fourth man? Last week’s episode saw the shock return of Tommy Dreamer to a WWE ring, as the Ecw Original assisted The Dudley Boyz against the Wyatt Family.

Ready for something actually relaxing? Perhaps the Merchant Ivory team's most gentle and pleasant film, this comedy of English manners at home in Surrey and abroad in Italy is a visual and dramatic delight. Society more or less prevents Helena Bonham Carter's opinionated young woman from experiencing the full glory of Florence, but a frowned-on romance blooms anyway. Everybody likes this picture. A Room With a View Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 775 1988 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 117 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 29, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rosemary Leach, Rupert Graves Cinematography Tony Pierce-Roberts Production Designer Brian Ackland-Snow, Gianni Quaranta Art Direction Elio Altramura, Brian Savegar Film Editor Humphrey Dixon Original Music Richard Robbins Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster Produced by Ismail Merchant Directed by James Ivory

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...

Turns out, Jon Snow's killer (one of them, anyway) is a pretty funny guy.

Games of Thrones star Owen Teale – who plays Night's Watchman Alliser Thorne on the smash HBO series – had Prince Charles in stitches during a special performance at the prince's home in Wales Wednesday evening.

The Welsh star, 54, was performing some Shakespeare when he was ambushed by two drama students pretending to be starstruck Thrones fans.

The pair, from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, then proceeded to take over and conduct a comedy skit of their own at the performance staged by Charles...

Darren Lynn Bousman and company's Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival screening tour in the U.S. will commence this August in Los Angeles. Also in this round-up: details on The Charnel House and U.S. release details for the Morituris Blu-ray / DVD.

Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival: In 2012, director Darren Lynn Bousman and his team hit the road and took Lucifer with them, bringing The Devil's Carnival film and accompanying live entertainment to cities across America. Bousman and company are now back to raise a lot of hell and a little heaven in Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival.

Featuring David Hasselhoff, Paul Sorvino as God, and Terrance Zdunich as Lucifer, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival kicks off its U.S. theater screenings tour on August 11th in Los Angeles. For tour and ticket info, visit:

http://www.thedevilscarnival.com/tickets

"After triumphant collaborations on 2008's Repo! The Genetic Opera and 2012's The Devil's Carnival: Episode One,...

Warning: The following post mortem contains spoilers from Saturday’s season finale of Orphan Black. Proceed at your own peril.

It wouldn’t be an Orphan Black finale without a fatality — or (perhaps) two.

RelatedOrphan Black Renewed for Season 4

Although Rudy definitely succumbed to his genetic defect, Delphine’s future was left more ambiguous at the close of Saturday’s Season 3 climax. After discovering that Neolutionists had infiltrated Project Leda and Castor, the scientist was warned by Dr. Nealon that she wouldn’t live to see tomorrow — and she actually might not given the gunshot she suffered.

Meanwhile, Helena reunited with “boyfriend” Jesse,...

Update: Regal Entertainment Group has now posted a list of participating movie theaters within their chain. The rundown is categorised by state, city and IMAX theater name:

CA Fresno Edwards Fresno Stadium 22 & IMAX

CA Irvine Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 IMAX & Rpx

CA Long Beach Edwards Long Beach Stadium 26 & IMAX

CA Ontario Edwards Ontario Palace Stadium 22 IMAX & Rpx

CA Dublin Regal Hacienda Crossings Stadium 20 IMAX & Rpx

Co Denver UA Colorado Center Stadium 9 & IMAX

Fl Orlando Regal Pointe Orlando Stadium 20 & IMAX

Ga Atlanta Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 IMAX & Rpx

Hi Honolulu Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18 IMAX & Rpx

Nc Charlotte Regal Stonecrest at Piper Glen Stadium 22 & IMAX

Nm Albuquerque Regal Winrock Stadium 16 IMAX & Rpx

Nv Las Vegas Regal Red Rock Stadium 16 & IMAX

NY Brooklyn UA Sheepshead Bay Stadium 14 IMAX & Rpx

Oh Westlake Regal Crocker Park Stadium 16 & IMAX

Or Tigard Regal Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 & IMAX

Pa King of Prussia UA King of Prussia Stadium 16 IMAX...

Hot news coming out of the Mad Monster Party in Charlotte, North Carolina. Original stars of the hit 1966 live-action TV series Batman are returning to reprise their roles in a new animated movie. While an exact release date has yet to be announced, the film will hit Blu-ray, DVD and VOD in 2016. It will be released in conjunction with the big screen Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and it promises to provide a campy alternative to that film's more serious take on the DC superhero mythos.

Burt Ward, who played Robin in the original series, broke the news while participating in a Q&A with co-star Adam West. Both will return to their respective roles for this brand-new animated film. Burt Ward says the movie will run 90 minutes, and there is the possibility of a new animated Batman franchise, as a second movie is in the works. Though, a...

The cast of 'Geordie Shore' have launched their own political party. Original cast member Charlotte Crosby today (11.03.15) rounded up her co-stars and took to the streets of London to launch The Geordie Party to celebrate the upcoming new series of the MTV reality show. With the help of pals Holly Hagan, Marnie Simpson, Gary 'Gaz' Beadle, Scott 'Scotty T' Timlin, Aaron Chalmers and Kyle Christie, as well as new cast members Chloe Etherington and Nathan Henry, Charlotte announced The Geordie Party's manifesto. The badly-behaved stars have put together a number of unique pledges ahead of the General Election later this year...

Oscar 2015 winners (photo: Chris Pratt during Oscar 2015 rehearsals) The complete list of Oscar 2015 winners and nominees can be found below. See also: Oscar 2015 presenters and performers. Now, a little Oscar 2015 trivia. If you know a bit about the history of the Academy Awards, you'll have noticed several little curiosities about this year's nominations. For instance, there are quite a few first-time nominees in the acting and directing categories. In fact, nine of the nominated actors and three of the nominated directors are Oscar newcomers. Here's the list in the acting categories: Eddie Redmayne. Michael Keaton. Steve Carell. Benedict Cumberbatch. Felicity Jones. Rosamund Pike. J.K. Simmons. Emma Stone. Patricia Arquette. The three directors are: Morten Tyldum. Richard Linklater. Wes Anderson. Oscar 2015 comebacks Oscar 2015 also marks the Academy Awards' "comeback" of several performers and directors last nominated years ago. Marion Cotillard and Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress Oscars for, respectively, Olivier Dahan...

Full disclosure: Danish series "Unit One" hit shelves in late October, right around when I received my review copies of all thirty-two episodes of the show. Between day-to-day work, the awards season, and the holidays, it has taken me a while to make my way through the series, but there is perhaps no better time than in the quiet of the early winter TV and movie season to settle in with the International Emmy Award-winning procedural. Bringing the progressive attitude of "Borgen" (a decade before that show aired), along with the camaraderie found between the characters in the original series of "Law & Order" (along with great knack for crime storytelling), "Unit One" has lost none of its potency fifteen years since it first broadcast in 2000, and it's well worth tracking down. While it's still something of an achievement when an actress is chosen to lead a new television series on U.

For the third week of December, Clive Barker fans have much to celebrate as Scream Factory is releasing Lord of Illusions in high def for the first time ever. Also coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week are several indie horror films, Millennium’s Poe-inspired Stonehearst Asylum and the cult classic Don’t Look in the Basement is being resurrected on DVD as well.

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Don’t Look in the Basement – Digitally Restored (Film Chest, DVD)

Don’t Look in the Basement, also known as The Forgotten, is one of the best low-budget movies in the horror/thriller genre. With a budget of roughly $100,000, the film is presented in great B-movie style with generally good acting and directing.

The plot revolves around a young psychiatric nurse, Charlotte Beale (Rosie Holotik/Playboy cover girl 1972), who goes to work at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium following the murder of its proprietor,...

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If the earliest adopter of the WWE Network and adapter to WWE’s digital-over-analog future plans, this week is the time when your initial six-month subscription will lapse. If feeling a bit less-than-generous and unwilling to pony up the $9.99, consider the following. In the past six months you’ve seen Brock Lesnar break The Undertaker’s win streak at Wrestlemania, screamed “Yes!” on the top of your lungs, watched Sami Zayn and Tyson Kidd or Charlotte and Natalya have surefire “match of the year” candidates in Nxt, saw Pat Patterson come out of the closet, saw the debut of “Alberto Barista” on Slam City, got to watch Cm Punk’s Best In The World documentary, saw the debut of Sabu on Ecw TV, Ric Flair being involved in the start of the feud in World Class between the Fabulous Freebirds and the Von Erich family, and so much more.

It is not too shabby in what the Northeast (New England) part of the United States has produced in terms of past and present actors/actresses making their show business dreams come true. Film careers can be a lot like ice cubes–they start out solid and cool but if you sit around in stagnation your efforts and hard work can melt away before one’s very eyes. Certainly no one can accuse this talented crop of thespians of being one-hit wonders on the big screen. After all, one does not become a recipient of an Academy Award by just sheer luck and charitable fortune.

As a native Bostonian and life long New Englander, I felt compelled to spotlight those Massachusetts-born and bred actors from the same region that had ultimate success on the big screen in winning the Oscar for their acting achievement and contribution to the motion picture industry.

Widely regarded as the Oscars of Broadway, the 2014 Tony Awards went off without a hitch on Sunday night (June 8) in New York City.

Hugh Jackman took over the Radio City Music Hall with his amazing hosting talents and welcomed many performers on stage including Idina Menzel and Neil Patrick Harris.

As for the winners, Harris and Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) took home the prize for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical, respectively, while Bryan Cranston ("All The Way") and Audra McDonald ("Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill") scored a win for Best Actor and Actress in a Play, respectively.

In addition, the cast and crew of "All the Way" and "A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder" were recognized for their outstanding work on stage winning Best Play and Best Musical.

Check out the full list of 2014 Tony Award winners below!

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Fully realizing its underdog appeal, the cheeky musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder slayed the competition this morning with a whopping 10 Tony nominations, including nods for both of its tireless leading men, Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham. Neil Patrick Harris’ return to Broadway after a decade yielded him his first-ever Tony nomination for the celebrated revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which netted an impressive eight nods. (Had it been eligible as a new musical, Hedwig probably would have easily tied Guide, as score and book would have been slam dunks). Trailing these shows with seven...

The nominations for the 2014 Tony Awards, which will be hosted once again by Hugh Jackman, were announced this morning by Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu.

Tony Award Nominations

Nominated for best play this year are Act One, All the Way, Casa Valentina, Mothers and Sons and Outside Mulliger, while revival plays that got a nod included The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Glass Menagerie, A Raisin in the Sun and Twelfth Night.

Best Musical nominations went to After Midnight, Aladdin, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. As for revival musicals, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Les Miserables and Violet were nominated.

While The Cripple of Inishmaan received a total of five nominations, marquee star Daniel Radcliff once again missed out on a Tony nod. Other movie star names who failed to earn nominations include James Franco (Of Mice and Men), Michelle Williams (Cabaret...

Charlotte Koh, Head of Development for Original Series at Hulu, has departed the online streaming company — just two days after former Warner Horizon Television exec Craig Erwich started his post as Svp and head of content. Also read: Hulu Hires Warner Bros. TV Executive Craig Erwich as Head of Content “We thank Charlotte for her amazing contributions over the past three years, building our Hulu originals business, and we wish her continued success in the future,” a Hulu spokesperson told TheWrap. Koh's departure comes on the same day as the streaming service premieres its latest original series, half-hour comedy “Deadbeat,...

Charlotte Koh is leaving her post as Hulu's head of original series development, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.   Her departure comes just two days after former Warner Horizon chief Craig Erwich joined the online streamer as head of content.  Story: Hulu Hire Points to New Original Series Ambitions "We thank Charlotte for her amazing contributions over the past three years, building our Hulu originals business, and we wish her continued success in the future," said a company spokeswoman. Koh has led Hulu's recent efforts to break into the original programming game alongside competitors Netflix and Amazon. Under

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Best Night Of Television: Between Revenge, The Good Wife, Masters Of Sex and The Walking Dead, Sunday night and a DVR could keep a TV lover happy for the entire week.

Oddest Tradition: “So,” asked The Vampire Diaries’ Stefan of Mystic Falls’ Remembrance Day, “we have a holiday dedicated to burying people alive?” We’ll drink to that!

Tackiest Ads: Promos for the game Battlefield 4 feature gamers describing things like stabbing people, destroying and other horrors of war gleefully.

Worst Idea Ever: Glee is considering Kurt to the virulently anti-gay Russia. Sorry, but a show that was too afraid to address teen drug abuse head-on when given the opportunity can’t be trusted with something so incredibly incendiary.

Best Halloween Costumes: General Hospital’s cast donned some outrageously fun outfits, including badguy Faison, who did a dead-on impression of Beetlejuice!

Sweetest Rerun: Sunday night, Fox will air an episode of...

Arrow Films' Nordic Noir DVD label is releasing rare Scandinavian screen classics with English subtitles. Unit One is a hard-hitting cop series, starring Mads Mikkelson (Casino Royale, The Hunt) include cast members from The Killing, Wallander, and Borgen.Broadcast between 2000 and 2004, before the actors became internationally famous. Based on actual, real-life crimes that have occurred across the last two decades, the International Emmy award-winning Unit One follows an elite mobile police force as they assist local authorities in solving some of the most complex and high profile cases Denmark has ever seen. Charlotte Fich plays new boss Ingrid Dahl in one of the most fast-paced of the Scandinavian crime exports. It concentrates on the working and private lives of...

A danish police woman, intuitively impressive cop, tough as bricks in a world populated by doubting men, compromised personal life - sound familiar?

For those missing their dose of Danish TV crime on Saturday nights, fear not, there's a new box set out just for you.

Unit One - an elite team travelling around Denmark solving some of the country's most heinous crimes

While distributors Nordic Noir could be forgiven for scraping the barrel in their attempts to feed their ever-hungry British audience with whatever subtitled murder they can get their hands on, the good news is that 'Unit One' is a cracking series, with all the ingredients we've come to expect from our Danish counterparts (And the bonus ball of Casino Royale villain Mads Mikkelsen in a lead role).

More: Mads Mikkelsen talks to HuffPostUK - 'Becoming A Bond Villain Was An Anti-Climax'

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