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Coming August 20th from Giant Pictures, we have an exclusive preview from Art of a Hit that gives you a look at the opening scene!

Art Of A Hit stars Ryan Donowho (The O.C.), Charlie Saxton (HBO’s Hung), Tim Jo (This Is US), Rob Raco (Riverdale), James Earl (Hulu’s White Men Can’T Jump), Allie MacDonald (What/If), and David Valdes (Last The Night) in this chilling vision of a rock band who saw soaring heights of success in the late 90s, but are now haunted by irrelevance.

Struggling to regain visibility a decade after the band’s prime, lead singer Ryan (Ryan Donowho) accepts eccentric super-producer’s Charlie Dupont (Charlie Saxton)’s invite for the band to join him in a 1000-year-old French chateau to record a comeback album. But as tensions rise and tempers flare, Ryan and his bandmates realize they're up against more than just the pressure to succeed.

Ryan, the lead singer of a late-90s rock band is haunted by irrelevance and struggling to regain visibility a decade after the band’s prime. Charlie Dupont, an eccentric super-producer, invites the band to his 1000-year-old French chateau to record a comeback album. But as tensions rise and tempers flare, Ryan and his bandmates realize they're up against more than just the pressure to succeed. The nightmarish rock thriller Art of a Hit is coming to digital and on-demand platforms next week on August 20th from Giant Pictures. We have an exclusive clip to share with you today. You can check it and the trailer out down below. Art of a Hit was directed by Gaelan Draper, and written and produced by Draper and...

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Originally planned to open the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year before the worsening Covid situation forced the festival to again go virtual, Oscar-winning writer-director Michel Hazanavicius made the right decision in insisting his comedy Final Cut (Coupez!), about the making of a low-budget bad zombie movie, should be presented with a full house in a theatre, thankfully not to be watched on your computer at a prestigious film festival. In holding out for the real thing he scored big as it was chosen as the opening-night out-of-competition film of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

It seems entirely appropriate that a movie all about the love of making movies should signal the full return of a fest devoted to all things cinema over the course of its 75 years. And for this director, whose 2011 black-and-white silent film The Artist was also a love letter to movies, and also premiered here on...

HBO and Fox 21 are set to remake the French comedy "Hard" and have set Jenny Bricks of "Sex and the City" to adapt the new version, reports Variety. Hard is a dark comedy follows Sophie, a retired lawyer who believed that her company owned a software company. However, after his death, she's left to inherit a struggling porn company instead and must learn adapt to a very unfamiliar industry. The cast of the French series which has been running since 2008, includes Natacha Lindberger, François Vincentelli, Anne Caillon, Charlie Dupont and Claire Dumas.