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US-based OneTwoThree Media has inked sales on Vardan Tozija’s M following its best film win at UK genre festival Grimmfest.

The film has sold to the US, where it is titled Beyond The Wasteland (Well Go USA), France and French-speaking territories (Condor Distribution), Germany and German-speaking territories (Meteor Film), Latin America (A2 Filmes), Cis (Treblo Media), Australia (Bounty Entertainment), Korea (Jaye Entertainment), Japan (Pflug) and the Philippines (Crystalsky Multimedia).

Set in a near-future world ravaged by a virus, M follows a young man who must journey through this shattered environment amid the remnants of humanity. It debuted at Cinedays...

With its fourth season, Emily in Paris broke two major rules the show seemed to set for itself in its first few outings. Picking where Emily in Paris season 4, part 1 ended, the second half of the fourth outing introduced the Netflix series' first real villain and moved Emily in Paris' cast of characters to a brand-new location outside the City of Light. In part 2, Emily (Lily Collins) breaks up with Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) when Camille's (Camille Razat) pregnancy complicates the trio's dynamic a bit too much. Finally, Camille reveals her pregnancy was a false positive.

What happens to Camille in Emily in Paris doesn't seem to interest the show as much as Emily's next big romance with Marcello Muratori (Eugenio Franceschini), a wealthy businessman from Rome. In the wake of her break up with Gabriel, Emily tries to keep her personal and professional lives separate. While Emily succeeds (for a...

Emily in Paris season 4's finale has viewers wondering what, exactly, the Netflix show's big move to Rome, Italy, means for the series' future. In the wake of Emily in Paris season 4, part 2's ending, Netflix was quick to renew the show for a fifth outing. However, Emily Cooper's (Lily Collins) upcoming adventure is going to look a lot different from previous seasons. Created by Darren Star (Sex and the City), Emily in Paris' cast of characters is led by Emily, a Chicagoan who moves overseas to provide her unique American perspective to a French marketing firm.

Despite never learning the language, Emily becomes entangled in Parisian life. Forever failing upward, Emily winds up on her boss, Sylvie's (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), good side; lands an incredible apartment; and has several whirlwind romances, including one with a burgeoning chef, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo). While Emily and Gabriel's relationship (and love triangle...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for Emily in Paris Season 4 Part 2.

Emily Cooper’s adventures in Rome have come to a close for now as the second part of Season 4 of Netflix’s Emily in Paris wrapped up the latest installment of the series.

At the beginning of Part 2, Emily (Lily Collins) and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) finally get to be together, but some Christmas complications and realizations past the honeymoon phase make that moment shortlived. Midway through the five episodes, she connects with Italian Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini) who begs her to come to Rome and visit him after they have a long romantic night out on the town.

In true Emily in Paris fashion, there is a business aspect to this idea, as Marcello descends from Umberto and Antonia Muratori (Anna Galiena), owners of a quiet luxury brand whose goats grow the softest woll in Europe. Sylvie eyes a...

While we have already made a list of the best of the best movies coming to Netflix in September, those are not the only films you should look out for as the biggest streaming service in the world is also bringing you a ton of original and licensed new content in the upcoming month, from a brilliant animated series by Zack Snyder to the highly anticipated new season of biographic true crime drama series Monsters. So, we picked out the 10 best new movies and TV shows coming to Netflix in September 2024.

The Perfect Couple Season 1 (September 5)

The Perfect Couple is an upcoming mystery thriller drama series created by Jenna Lamia. Based on a 2018 novel of the same name by author Elin Hilderbrand, the Netflix series revolves around Amelia as she marries into the wealthy Winbury family to the disapproval of the family matriarch but when a body is found on...

Netflix has dropped the trailer for Part 2 of Emily in Paris Season 4, and of course, all roads lead to Rome at the end of the latest installment.

“Sometimes all you need is a new perspective,” the clip teases in between shots of Emily (Lily Collins) with Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and Camille (Camille Razat) in snowy France and Sylvie’s (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) new hire Genevieve (Thalia Besson), another American employee joining Savoir.

Tension brews between Emily and Gabriel as Camille still hasn’t shared that she isn’t pregnant with her ex-fiancé. Meanwhile, Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini) might turn into more than just a business asset for Emily as he first comes to Paris “exploring some business opportunities.

Jvma hopes to acquire whoever Marcello works for, and Sylvie is keen to nab a meeting with him via Emily — which involves her going to Rome.

Related: Lily Collins Unpacks ‘Emily in Paris’ Season...

Emily in Paris returns next month with the first half of its fourth season, and now Netflix has released first-look photos for the upcoming episodes. The season will have several new faces joining the cast. There are reports that the series, from Darren Star, has been renewed for a fifth season, but the streaming service has not officially announced that.

Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Philippine Leroy Beaulieu, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Camille Razat, Bruno Gouery, Kate Walsh, and William Abadie star in the Emily in Paris series, which follows an American young woman (Collins) after she moves to Paris for a job opportunity. Eugenio Franceschini, Thalia Besson, Rupert Everett, Anna Galiena, and Raoul Bova have joined the cast for season four.

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The news that two hitherto heterosexual patriarchs are getting married — to each other — roils both of their families in amiable “An Almost Ordinary Summer.” This slickly produced . Released last February on its home turf, the Italian comedy was selected to open this year’s Palm Springs Film Festival following several other prominent American fest screenings. Wolfe will give it a limited U.S. theatrical release on Jan. 10, with a home-formats launch on Jan. 21.

A spectacularly situated cliffside villa in coastal Gaeta is the getaway home for wealthy art dealer Toni (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), who has gathered his Earth Mother sister (Lunetta Savino) and his daughters there for his birthday. Somewhat to their surprise, he’s supposedly rented out the guest house to a clan of working-class strangers led by Roman fishmonger Carlo (Alessandro Gassmann).

But this turns out to be a ruse. In fact, Toni and Carlo have been seeing each other for over a year,...

Christopher Roth

Guest review by @Dr_Movie

Stars: Joaquim De Almeida, Ben Gazzara, Anna Galiena, Inigo Placido, Jessica Bonanni | Written and Directed by Max Sender/Maxime Alexander

Bestselling novelist Christopher Roth (Almeida) feels in need of a change, the gruesome ideas that have made his novels such a success are starting to take over his dreams and have him pondering the question: How long before I become one of the insane killers I write about? With that in mind he tells his agent Paul Andersen (Gazzara) he wants to try writing something different, something that doesn’t require him to think like a killer, something more romantic. Andersen clearly thinks this is career suicide and instead suggests taking a holiday. It’s a suggestion that Roth accepts and together with his wife Catherine heads off to a remote house in Umbria, Italy. Roth starts work on his great romantic novel...

The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film4 FrightFest has released what could very well be another one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place from Thursday the 26th of August to Monday the 30th of August, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!

From the Press Release

This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.

The complete lineup for the 2010 edition of the Film4 Frightfest has just been announced and, as usual, it is a quality selection of the best in horror film from the UK and around the world. The program splits into two programs - the main lineup and sidebar Discovery program - and you'll find both below!

Programme = Screen 1

Thursday Aug 26

6.30pm Hatchet II  (World Premiere)

FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...

Writer-director Max Sender is in post-production on the new thriller Christopher Roth . Joaquim De Almeida ( Desperado ) plays the eponymous role and, to be honest, there's little we know about the film other than what we can glean from the Italian production's Facebook page and official site . The former has a number of behind-the-scenes stills and some footage from the last day of shooting. Ben Gazzara ("Jackie Treehorn" from The Big Lebowski ) co-stars with Anna Galiena. The film's tagline goes like this: It's hard to resist that little thrill you feel right before you go beyond the imaginary and "flirt" with reality. Right-o. Could this be a Mr. Brooks -esque thriller? We'll do some digging and see if we can drum up some more details....

DVD Playhouse—April 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Milk (Universal) Sean Penn deservedly captured his second Best Actor Oscar (and Dustin Lance Black a statuette for his original screenplay) in director Gus Van Sant’s portrait of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold public office in the U.S. Alternately heartbreaking, infuriating and very funny, a film that both captures a bygone era and is still very timely. Fine support from Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, James Franco and Emile Hirsch. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Three featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.

Slumdog Millionaire (20th Century Fox) The Best Picture of 2008 is a kinetic, clever audience-pleaser about a determined lad (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai, who has his chance at literal and financial redemption as a contestant on India’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Best Director Danny Boyle dazzles...

• The Jury: Claude Lelouch, chairman (France), Felipe Cazals (Mexico), Chang Chen (Taiwan, China), Anna Galiena (Italy), Marcel Jean (Canada), Eberhard Junkersdorf (Germany) and Eva Zaoralová (Czech Republic). Festival President Alain Simard is able to bring out the pearly whites despite a dismal first edition. Damián Alcázar (Mexican actor who was in Citrillo’s Corner) Pascale Marcotte’s short film Revolver Tango collected 3 awards. The Silver Iris for Best Director went to Hiroshi Ishikawa (Left) for Su-ki-da Why is Luc Picard smiling? Cuz he cleaned up at this year's fest. L’audition won the audience award for best Canadian feature, for best performance in a Canadian feature and Golden Iris of Montreal – Grand Prize of the Festival. Photos by Pierre-Alexandre Despatis (c) 2005....

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TORONTO -- French filmmaker Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman) will head up the jury for the inaugural New Montreal FilmFest, which is set to run Sept. 18-25, organizers said Thursday. Lelouch will be joined on the jury by Italian screen star Anna Galiena, Mexican director Felipe Cazals, Chinese actor Chang Chen, Quebec animation producer Marcel Jean, German producer Eberhard Junkersdorf, and Eva Zaoralova, head of the Karlovy Vary Festival. The New Montreal FilmFest jury will screen 14 features and 7 short films in competition for the Golden Iris award.

NEW YORK - Marcello Mastroianni has four of his best roles in years in Raul Ruiz's surreal comedy, "Three Lives and Only One Death", which opens commercially this week after showing at the New York Film Festival.

The actor's presence should shore up the art-house boxoffice for this effort from a director whose previous works ("Three Crowns of a Sailor", "The Golden Boat") have failed to make a dent in the United States.

The film, which the director explains has a "Cubist pattern", interconnects several stories, loosely based on urban myths and some tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mastroianni plays the central role in each: Mateo, a traveling salesman who walks out on his wife, only to return 20 years later; George, a professor of "negative anthropology" who gives up his life to beg on the streets and who takes up with Tania (Anna Galiena), a beautiful prostitute with a secret life of her own; a mysterious butler who is secretly the millionaire benefactor of a young, penniless couple; and Luc, a successful businessman with an imaginary family that one day becomes all too real. The segments are tied together by the use of a "storyteller," played by French radio personality Pierre Bellemare.

The style of the film has rightly been compared to Luis Bunuel, although it lacks that master's preciseness and mordant wit. Certainly, this fantastical effort has imagination to spare, and for a while it's fun to watch as Ruiz spins his web, using low-rent visual flourishes and tricks that are never less than amusing.

But the movie doesn't deliver on its promise, and it never quite takes off the way it should. Many of the characterizations are overly broad, such as the young lovers who make pig noises at each other to signify their passion, or Tania's husband (Jacques Pieiller), who seems to have escaped from a lunatic asylum.

Although a clever sensibility is clearly at work, the stories are allowed to drag on and fail to reach compelling conclusions. The chief value of the film lies in Mastroianni's amusing portrayals; the actor, who too often these days is used merely for his icon-like presence, is a consistent delight.

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THREE LIVES AND ONLY ONE DEATH

New Yorker Films

Gemini Films, La Sept Cinema and

Madragoa Filmes

with the participation of Canal Plus

and the Centre National de la Cinematographie

Director Raul Ruiz

Screenplay Raul Ruiz, Pascal Bonitzer

Producer Paulo Branco

Photography Laurent Machuel

Editor Rodolfo Wedeles

Music Jorge Arriagada

Color/stereo

Cast:

Mateo Strano, George Vickers, the Majordomo, Luc Allamand Marcello Mastroianni

Tania Anna Galiena

Maria Marisa Paredes

Martin Melvin Poupaud

Cecile Chiara Mastroianni

Helene Areille Dombasle

Andre Feodor Atkine

Running time - 123 minutes

No MPAA rating...