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With 111 million households reached in its first month of release, “Squid Game” officially launched with the biggest opening for a Netflix original. But not every part of the Korean survival drama has been universally beloved. The Guardian recently spoke to the four actors behind the golden-masked “Squid Game” VIPs about the overwhelmingly critical fan response to their performances. In the show, the VIPs are English-speaking billionaires who watch and place bets on the games at the series’ center. The actors behind the VIPs have been bashed on social media and all feel differently about the response.

“I suffer from extreme clinical depression, so it’s been a bit of a challenge,” said Daniel C Kennedy, who plays VIP two. “Initially, I was gutted by the comments but, with time and distance and some honest self-reflection, I’ve been better able to filter the feedback into the stuff I can use to improve next time,...

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Twitch Films is debuting the first teaser for action thriller The Fifth Execution. The plot follows the spread of an infection, which causes those exposed to the disease to take their own lives. The first clip below, shows the infection spreading amongst locals villagers, of a remote island. Michael Madsen stars as Rik, a mercenary tasked with removing the threat of infection; also notably starring is Rutger Hauer and Fedor Emelianenko. Check out the first clip for this slash-and-burn film below!

The film's synopsis is here:

"On a remote island somewhere in South-West Asia a weird animal infection outbreak is detected. A charitable institution official, Maria, who has been researching this disease, learns that in a village not so far away, symptoms similar to those of the infected animals are detected in the human body.

When she arrives at the village, she is surprised by the blood tests results, while...

Representatives for the upcoming John Lennon biopic Nowhere Man have said that a lawsuit which aims to block the film has no merit. Writer Geoffrey Giuliano has claimed that the 2007 Julia Baird memoir on which the movie has based itself uses material from the 1986 book John Lennon, My Brother that the pair wrote together. Giuliano said: "There's only one reason she did it, and that's to screw me out of my share. "The vast majority of the (more)...

A Veteran rock biographer is furious at John Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird, claiming she used material from a 1986 book they co-wrote about Lennon in another memoir without giving him any credit or money.

"There's only one reason she did it, and that's to screw me out of my share," Geoffrey Giuliano -- who wrote "John Lennon, My Brother" with Baird -- told Page Six from his home in Bangkok. "The vast majority of the research in her 2007 book,...

A film about the early life of Beatles legend John Lennon has been thrown into jeopardy - the star's sister is facing legal action over the book on which the movie is based.

Lennon's sister Julia Baird collaborated with Geoffrey Giuliano on John Lennon, My Brother, which was published in the late 1980s.

Baird went on to pen her own book, 2007's Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon.

But Giuliano has accused Baird of basing her biography on his previous research into Lennon's life.

And now he is set to launch a legal battle over new movie Nowhere Boy - which is based on Baird's book - claiming he is entitled to 50 per cent of her earnings from the picture.

He says, "In doing my own research, I filled in a lot of blanks for her. More than half the material in the book is a result of my research.

"Additional information in Imagine This was uncovered by me in my original research. I was the person who conceptualised the original book."

The movie will star Kristin Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff and is set for release in 2010.