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UK Next Wave Genre Lab has selected the five projects to progress to its second phase, as it adds contributors for the development initiative.

Max Ward’s horror They Came From Below, Sion Thomas’ revenge drama Mauled by a Dog and Elize Du Toit’s thriller Befriender all move forward from the initial selection of 12 projects, that were unveiled in September.

They are joined by Em Gilbertson’s thriller The Pigeon Heart, and Federico Barni’s sci-fi horror Enclave.

The five projects will participate in a development workshop in Cardiff from November 24-28. They will then participate in the third...

The first edition of the U.K. Next Wave Genre Lab, the initiative founded by Film Constellation, Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival and Tatino Films, has found its first projects.

Following an open call led by Myriam Sassine, Evrim Ersoy, and Edward Parodi that saw hundreds of filmmakers apply to be a part of the development lab, 12 feature film projects have been selected highlighting genre stories from around the U.K.

Meanwhile, the program has secured additional masterclasses from some of the world’s leading genre filmmakers. Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Jessica Hausner (“Little Joe”), and Tea Shop Productions have joined the roster of award-winning talent contributing to the lab alongside Patrik Andersson, Jenna Cato Bass, Verena Gräfe-Höft, Antoine Waked, Carlota Pereda, Andy Starke, Dan Martin and Frank Kruse.

The U.K. Next Wave Genre Lab is a development initiative and recipient of the BFI Creative Challenge fund,...

Daniel Radcliffe and Doctor Who's Jenna-Louise Coleman were a few of the stars to attend the annual Jameson Empire Awards 2013 at the Grosvenor House Hotel last night (March 24).

Winners of the evening included Radcliffe, who picked up the 'Empire Hero Award', Martin Freeman for 'Jameson Best Actor', and Sam Mendes for the 'Empire Inspiration Award' and 'Best Director' for Skyfall.

Other guests gracing the red carpet were Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt, Ellie Goulding, Rebecca Hall, Misfits actor Rob Sheehan and MTV presenter Laura Whitmore.

Life of Pi actor Rafe Spall, former Hollyoaks actress Elize du Toit and Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison were also in attendance.

See more stars on the Empire Awards red carpet here.

Once the go-to man for feckless losers, Rafe Spall reveals how losing five stone transformed him into a romantic lead in I Give It A Year and turned his career around

Rafe Spall takes me by surprise. I'm expecting a little fella, a bit porky, not much of a looker. And here he is, 6ft 3in, svelte, smart. Over the past few years, Spall has been the go-to man for feckless losers – there's his sports reporter Pete in the TV comedy Pete Versus Life, who will do or say anything to get a girl into bed, the fascist clever-clogs in The Rotters' Club, the drippy Ian in One Day.

But next month Spall will be playing the newly wed Josh in the very funny romcom I Give It A Year. Not only is this his first lead; Spall has reinvented himself as a lean, mean, six-packed machine, a successful novelist,...

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Coronation Street star Oliver Mellor has revealed that it was "great" to film his character's love triangle storyline. The actor plays doctor Matt Carter, who has two women fighting over him in upcoming episodes when his ex-girlfriend Jenny Eclaire, played by former Hollyoaks star Elize Du Toit, arrives in Weatherfield. Jenny will clash with Matt's current girlfriend Tina McIntyre, played by Michelle Keegan, as she tries to win him back. "It's great because Matt dating Michelle has given me the chance to be more than just the resident Gp and viewers have seen a different side to him," Mellor told The People. "Basically Tina and Matt are due to go on a triple dinner date with other couples. "But one pair can't make it (more)...

Former Hollyoaks star Elize Du Toit is to join the cast of Coronation Street. The actress, who played Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 soap, will arrive in Weatherfield as Jenny Eclaire - doctor Matt Carter's (Oliver Mellor) ex-girlfriend. Jenny will clash with Matt's current girlfriend Tina McIntyre, played by Michelle Keegan, as she tries to win him back. When Matt fails to stick up for Tina amid Jenny's insults during a double date, she pours a pint over his head and dumps him. A show insider told The People: "We're (more)...

The Shadow Line actor plays a luckless loser in the adaptation of One Day but admits he's enjoying a 'golden period'

"Someone asked me recently," says Rafe Spall, squinting into the August afternoon sunshine, brow furrowed in earnest, "if I had to 'ugly up' to play the part of Ian in One Day." He pauses, looks at me incredulously, and then guffaws with laughter. "That's just my face! Just me, a wig and a bit of corduroy." It is easy to be believe he had a little help though. As the hapless Ian, the one before The One for Emma Morley in director Lone Scherfig's adaptation of the David Nicholls novel, he is scene-stealingly brilliant. While Jim Sturgess makes a convincing Dexter, and Anne Hathaway – give or take the odd slaughtering of a northern vowel – is a pleasingly palatable Emma, it is Spall, coming up quietly on the outside,...

Former Hollyoaks actress Elize Du Toit is to make a guest appearance in The Bill later this year. The South African-born 27-year-old, who appeared as Izzy Cornwell in the Channel 4 soap between 2000 and 2004, is to play Claire Webster, a young woman who is beaten and dumped outside a hospital in front of Sun Hill officers. Digging into Claire's history reveals that she is currently trying to deal with spiraling debt and her attack was a warning by a group of extremely dangerous drug dealers. The case sends D.C. Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) undercover and eventually leads him to Germany for The Bill’s special 25th anniversary episodes, which (more)...

• It’s a genre-specific crowd and not necessarily nigh people who fill up the seats for Tiff’s Midnight Madness sidebar. This year’s mix is comprised of a couple of Cannes titles, legendary horror genre filmmakers bringing some new product and some filler content that usually gets a great deal of buzz from buyers. Here’s 8 titles that will make up the section… George A. Romero's Diary Of The Dead George A. Romero, USAIn his first independently produced zombie film in over two decades, George A. Romero returns to ground zero in the history of the living dead. When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discover that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear.

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TORONTO -- George A. Romero's latest zombie movie, the Mena Suvari starrer Stuck and an urban chiller from Stuart Gordon are set to screen as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness sidebar, organizers said Monday.

Toronto also will give the red carpet treatment to the computer-animated feature Terra, voiced by Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Dennis Quaid, Amanda Peet, Stuck, which opens with a car driver (Suvari) hitting a man (Stephen Rea) with her car while returning from a night of partying; British director Adam Mason's The Devil's Chair, a thriller starring Elize du Toit, Matt Berry, David Gant and Louise Griffiths.