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Few horror movie sub-genres are more enduring, influential, and prolific than the haunted house movie. A solid genre staple, haunted house movies captivate with their eerie atmospheres and the intense psychological games that so often unfold. From early cinematic examples like The Old Dark House (1932) to modern re-imaginings such as Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, now playing in theaters everywhere (get tickets now), the haunted house subgenre has consistently evolved while retaining its core elements.

The enduring appeal of these stories lies in the sub-genre’s ability to tap into universal fears—abandonment, the unknown, and the unsettling notion that our homes, meant to be places of safety, can become sites of terror. While traditional tropes like creaky floorboards, flickering lights, tragic backstories, and isolated locations have certainly shaped the subgenre’s identity, films that challenge and expand these tried and true tropes have allowed the subgenre to evolve and flourish.

Yes, that’s Billy Zane beneath those prosthetics.

The “Titanic” alum is unrecognizable as late star Marlon Brando in the first trailer for biopic “Waltzing for Brando.” The feature, written and directed by Bill Fishman, is based on a memoir by Bernard Judge.

The film takes place between 1969 and 1974, with Brando readying to shoot “The Godfather” and “Last Tango in Paris.” During that time, the actor purchased an uninhabitable island in Tahiti and recruited Los Angeles architect Judge, portrayed by Jon Heder, to build the world’s first ecologically friendly retreat.

Richard Dreyfuss, “Emily in Paris” star Camille Razat, Alaina Huffman, Tia Carrere, and James Jagger co-star in the film, which is now seeking a buyer.

The film will close the Torino Film Festival and play the Tahoe Film Festival. Prior to its world premiere, “Waltzing for Brando” was picked up by Vmi Worldwide for foreign sales.

Billed as a comedy,...

Marlon Brando transformed into all different kinds of people on the big screen. He was a dockworker in On the Waterfront, Shakespeare’s Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, and a temperamental and abusive drunk in A Streetcar Named Desire. But it was while he was preparing to become the mafia boss Vito Corleone in The Godfather that he decided to try a new role based in the real world: the founder of an ecological island resort in Tahiti. Playing pretend for so long gave him an edge of boundless confidence...

We’ve already had our fair share of biopics this year. Bob Dylan, Donald Trump, Amy Winehouse, Bob Marley, and the list goes on. No wonder some people were skeptical about the response Bill Fishman’s next directorial venture would generate, with some fearing that the fans had had enough. What they had forgotten was that it was Marlon Brando’s story.

Starring Billy Zane in the titular role, the first trailer of the biopic has just been released. And fans have already indicated that they are all in for seeing the story unfold before their eyes.

Waltzing With Brando is all set to share the tale of Marlon Brando’s Tahitian Dream (and more) Fans are all in for seeing the story unfold || Vmi Worldwide

Marlon Brando has enjoyed many successful moments over the course of his eventful life. While his acting legacy is without an equal in Hollywood,...

The first trailer for Waltzing with Brando, a new film tracking Marlon Brando’s early ’70s plan to create a vacation resort in Tahiti, has been revealed.

Waltzing with Brando stars Billy Zane as Brando and Jon Heder as Bernard Judge, the architect and environmental planner tasked with building the resort. It takes place mainly from 1969 to 1974, during which Brando starred in legendary films like The Godfather and The Last Tango in Paris.

Brando filmed Mutiny on the Bounty in Tahiti in the early 1960s and fell in love with the region, leading him to purchase a small island there. He was deeply committed to sustainability and aimed to infuse this ethos into his new island retreat. The trailer shows Brando bringing the task to Judge, who commends Brando’s ambitions but worries about its practicality. Against turbulent weather, funding issues, and even a lack of running water, Judge and...

The first trailer has been revealed showing Billy Zane as Marlon Brando at the peak of his powers in upcoming biopic “Waltzing With Brando.”

The feature, which also stars Jon Heder, has been picked up by Vmi Worldwide for foreign sales.

Written and directed by Bill Fishman, the film is based on a memoir by Bernard Judge which takes place between 1969 and 1974 while Brando was preparing to film “The Godfather” and “Last Tango in Paris.” Alongside Zane and Heder, additional castmembers include the Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss, as well as Camille Razat (“Emily in Paris”), Alaina Huffman, Tia Carrera (“Waynes World”) and Mick Jagger’s son James Jagger.

“Waltzing With Brando” follows Brando (Zane) — then the most famous actor in the world — as he filmed “Mutiny on the Bounty” and bought a tiny and uninhabitable island in Tahiti. His intent was to escape his hectic Hollywood lifestyle and show the world the path to sustainability.

Recently on social media fans were stunned by the resemblance of Billy Zane to Marlon Brando in a still from the new film Waltzing With Brando, which is slated to premiere in 2025. Zane, made up to look like the legendary star in his Godfather role, looks in the photo like...

‘Tis the season to draw viewing inspiration from all things Halloween, and haunted houses are one of the key staples of the holiday. And for good reason, too, as few things are as inherently terrifying as an invasion of the very place where you’re meant to feel safest: your home.

Dealing with a paranormal presence isn’t quite as easy to deal with as masked maniacs or a more tangible threat. It’s often a fear of the unknown that induces the most nerve-fraying anxiety, and a haunted house is full of unknowns. This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to one of horror’s most foundational subgenres: the haunted house movie.

These five titles range from classic haunted house fare to modern frights that reinterpret what a haunted house can be. All aim to induce maximum frights, perfect for this Halloween season.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

Summer is right around the corner. The most significant indicator of this for horror fans isn’t in the increasingly warmer weather and longer days but in the arrival of new shark horror.

This week brings megalodon terror in The Black Demon, kicking off a summer of aquatic terror that also includes Meg 2: The Trench and The Last Voyage of the Demeter. The latter of which proves that aquatic horror doesn’t solely belong to sharks.

This week’s streaming picks highlight the various terrors that lurk in various bodies of water, from ghosts to Lovecraftian nightmares. Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s stories “Dagon” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” this Stuart Gordon film induces ichthyophobia. While on a boating trip, Paul Marsh (Ezra Godden) and his...

Stars: James Jagger, Camille Rowe, Eric Savin, Alexis Servaes, Anne Claessens, Carolina Massey | Written and Directed by Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury

The Deep House is the latest film by French filmmakers Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. This comes after Kandisha which, while better receive than Leatherface, still failed to bring them the acclaim they received for their first two films, Inside and Livide. Can this rather ingenious-sounding twist on the haunted house film turn things around for them?

Ben and Tina (Camille Rowe; Knuckledust) are YouTubers whose speciality is videos of creepy old abandoned buildings. When we first meet them they’re prowling around the remains of an allegedly haunted Ukrainian asylum where a nurse poisoned her patients. Three months later they’re in France, about to do something very different, an underwater exploration. When their intended location turns out to be a crowded local beach they need to find somewhere new to shoot.

Gallic horror specialists Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury stirred considerable excitement 14 years ago with their debut feature, the alarming home-invasion thriller “Inside.” They’ve struggled to duplicate that success since, and their English-language franchise bow “Leatherface” a decade later was poorly received, if somewhat undeservedly so.

But they rekindle some enthusiasm with “The Deep House,” which was released in France this past June and now reaches U.S. audiences via premium cabler Epix, as well as digital platforms. This is a simple haunted-house tale, albeit with one complicated twist: The house in question is 100 feet below a lake’s surface. That gimmick certainly adds a distinctive ambiance to a creepy tale, in addition to making the handsomely photographed film an admirable technical feat. It’s a pity U.S. audiences won’t be seeing it on the big screen, where its clammy atmospherics would be most vivid.

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"There she is..." Paramount + Epix have revealed a new official US trailer for The Deep House, one of two new films from French horror filmmakers Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury arriving this year - along with Kandisha. The Deep House premiered earlier this year at the Fantasia Film Festival - we posted the teaser trailer back then. A young couple goes to France to explore an underwater house and share their findings on YouTube as part of their passion for "urbex" - the exploration of hard-to-find, abandoned urban edifices and buildings. However, they end up with a change of plans when they enter the interior of a strange house located at the bottom of a secluded lake and their presence awakens a spirit dark that haunts the house... Starring Camille Rowe and James Jagger, with Eric Savin. This horror film was shot almost entirely underwater, in a submerged tank, with underwater Dp Jacques Ballard.

Stars: Kamia Benge, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, Tessa Munro | Written and Directed by Alex Noyer

As a young child Alexis (Kamia Benge) lost her hearing in an accident. At age ten she regained it while bashing her murderous father’s head in with a meat tenderizer. Not only did her hearing come back, she now has a euphoric response to some sound. A sinister form of Synesthesia that is triggered by the sound of violence and pain.

Now grown up Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown; The Leftovers) teaches music to college students. She’s also a musician, converting sounds such as a session between a Dominatrix and her client into electronic music. Unfortunately not only are these sounds not triggering a reaction, she’s beginning to lose her hearing again. And it will take more death to bring it back again.

Sound of Violence starts out like a...

The Deep House Trailer — Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo‘s The Deep House (2021) movie trailer has been released by Epix and Fantasia International Film Festival. The Deep House trailer stars Camille Rowe, James Jagger, and Eric Savin. Crew Alexandre Bustillo, Julien David, Julien Maury, and Rachel Parker wrote the screenplay for The Deep [...]

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"What was that?" An official trailer has unveiled for a horror thriller called The Deep House, one of two new films from French horror filmmakers Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury arriving this year - along with Kandisha. The Deep House is premiering at this summer's Fantasia Film Festival, which is where this new trailer comes from. A young couple goes to France to explore an underwater house and share their findings on YouTube as part of their passion for "urbex" - the exploration of hard-to-find, abandoned urban edifices and buildings. However, they end up with a serious change of plans when they enter the interior of a strange house located at the bottom of a secluded lake and their presence awakens a spirit dark that haunts the house. Starring Camille Rowe & James Jagger, with Eric Savin. This is a creepy concept for a horror film - a haunted house that's underwater?...

Experimental musician, DJ and teacher’s assistant Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown) is working on a seriously killer track. But the high she is chasing, in writer-director Alex Noyer’s uneven but often inventively grisly feature debut, is not that of pop stardom or peer admiration. Instead Alexis, due a condition whereby she experiences the sounds of human pain as a glorious starburst of color and pleasure, is attempting to knit her disorder into a sonic artpiece, no matter the rising bodycount of her “instrumentation.”

With its themes of creative obsession and trauma recycled as psychopathy, not to mention Alexis’ synesthesia giving license for lurid, semi-abstract, technicolor visual sequences, “Sound of Violence” boasts perhaps the greatest giallo premise that Dario Argento never dreamed up. It’s just a shame that Noyer decides that it isn’t enough. The spectacularly gruesome and grotesquely elaborate murder scenes do ample justice to even the...

Hear the Sound of Violence on VOD May 21st! Scream (2022)’s Jasmin Savoy Brown Headlines as a Killer Making Music with Blood. Available on Digital HD and Cable VOD from Gravitas Ventures.

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Following a world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence heads to homes across North America. Starring Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost) and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”), Sound of Violence will debut on cable and digital VOD May 21st from Gravitas Ventures.

Sound of Violence was written and directed by Alex Noyer.

Sound of Violence was produced by Hannu Aukia, Alex Noyer, and is Executive Produced by Mike Macari (Executive Producer of The Ring trilogy).

“I’ve been lucky to be surrounded by people who believed in...

Sound of Violence Review — Sound of Violence (2021) Video Movie Review, a Gravitas Ventures movie written and directed by Alex Noyer, and stars Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, Tessa Munro, Dana L. Wilson, Kamia Benge, Wes McGee, and Mataeo Mingo. In this video review, I talk about the new horror film [...]

Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Sound Of Violence: Intriguing Idea, Sloppy Execution [SXSW 2021]...

Last week, writer/director Alex Noyer celebrated the world premiere of his feature film debut at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Entitled Sound of Violence, the story follows a young woman named Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown), who had previously recovered her hearing after a brutal family murder, and every day since has been a gift for her as she made her way in the world, studying sound. But as she begins to suspect that her hearing is once again about to fade away, Alexis decides that the only way to stay connected to her sense of hearing is by utilizing various forms of music in extremely violent ways. Sound of Violence also stars Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro.

During the recent press day for Sound of Violence, Daily Dead caught up with both Noyer and Jagger to discuss their experiences collaborating together on the project, as well as what...

It’s hard to believe that it’s already time for the SXSW Film Festival once again, but here we are. For the 2021 iteration of the fest, SXSW is going virtual, which gives more people the opportunity to get to experience their brilliant lineup of films this year. As someone who is already well into my SXSW viewings for this year, I can confidently say that this might be SXSW’s best slate of Midnighters from top to bottom, and a few other genre and genre-adjacent films that are premiering in other sections are very much worth your time as well.

So, if you’re looking to check out some excellent horror and sci-fi cinema during this year’s SXSW from the comfort of your own home, here are 15 different projects you’ll definitely want to make time for. Oh, and because I included both How it Ends and Violation during my Sundance 2021 preview,...

Noyer produced New York Influence City, 808,

Vmi Worldwide has licensed UK rights at EFM to the UK’s Dazzler Media for Alex Noyer’s horror film Sound Of Violence, set to receive its world premiere at the virtual SXSW later this month.

Jasmin Savoy Brown stars as Alexis, an experimental sound recorder who recovered her hearing after witnessing the murder of her parents when she was 10.

As she faces the prospect of losing her hearing once more, Alexis races to complete her sonic masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments.

The cast includes Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro (S.W.

"When I hear certain sounds, I don't just hear them... I see them." A festival promo trailer has debuted for a horror thriller titled Sound of Violence, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Alex Noyer. This is premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this month, playing in the Midnighters section. A girl recovers her hearing and gains abilities during the brutal murder of her family. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, as an adult, she pursues a career in music composing her masterpiece through gruesome murders. Her ultimate creative design comes to fruition with a young drummer and the perfect beat. The cast includes Jasmin Savoy Brown as Alexis, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro. This is a wickedly wild and crazy concept for a horror film, mixing social media craze, fame & fortune, and violence all in one. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Alex Noyer's Sound of Violence,...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Alex Noyer’s slasher pic Sound of Violence, which is set to make its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in March. Gravitas will release the film in theaters and on demand on May 21.

Written and directed by Noyer, Sound of Violence stars Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger and Tessa Munro (S.W.A.T.).

The story follows Alexis, who has recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence.

She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported by her roommate Marie who is...

Exclusive: Shout! Studios has picked up North American rights to Caged (previously titled The S.H.U.), a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame.

Premiere Entertainment Group is handling the projects rights during the virtual Toronto market.

Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger also star in the pic, which is an elevated genre film following an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife (Sarafyan). He is then sent to solitary confinement – a victim of systemic racism.

Aaron Fjellman makes his feature directing debut on the project, from a script he co-wrote with James ‘Doc’ Mason. Pete Kirtley produced for Panic House Films alongside, Matthew C. Temple, Jessa Zarubica, and Fjellman. Edi Gathegi and Ryan Sage served as executive producers. Kirtley and Fjellman co-founded Panic House Films.

“After a global pandemic sentenced the world to solitary confinement,...

Stars: Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy, Cory Hardrict, Milo Gibson, Jacob Scipio, Taylor John Smith, James Jagger, Jonathan Yunger | Written by Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson | Directed by Rod Lurie

An isolated unit of American soldiers have to defend themselves against an overwhelming attack by Taliban forces in this gripping combat thriller that’s based on the real life Battle of Kamdesh. Directed by West Point graduate (and former film critic) Rod Lurie, it’s a supremely tense experience that places the audience right in the middle of the action.

Adapted from CNN journalist Jake Tapper’s best-selling book (The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor), the film takes place in Combat Outpost Keating, a virtually indefensible location in Afghanistan, situated in a valley at the base of three mountains. Already accustomed to regular surprise attacks, the 53 U.S. soldiers are forced to fight for their...

Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg), a Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing company, has acquired worldwide rights to psychological horror-thriller The S.H.U., or Segregated Housing Unit, starring Edi Gathegi. Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger round out the key cast. The timely elevated genre follows an affluent, …

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Camille Rowe and James Jagger head the cast of the new, chilling film by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. A production handled by Radar Films and sold by Pulsar Content. After being interrupted on 13 March due to the health crisis and then resuming on 15 June, shooting on The Deep House by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury ended on 17 July at the Bry-sur-Marne Studios. It is the duo’s fifth feature after Inside, Livide (2011), Among the Living (at Austin’s SXSW in 2014), Leatherface (2017) and Kandisha (read the article).The English-language film brings together Franco-American actress Camille Rowe, James Jagger (son of Mick and popular in the TV series Vinyl) and Éric Savin (seen in many roles since his...

In today's Horror Highlights we have a Nsfw gory clip from Battlefield 2025, details on the acquisition of The S.H.U, and a look at the trailer for Browse:

Exclusive Clip from Battlefield 2025: "Weekend campers, an escaped convict, young lovers and a police officer experience a night of terror when a hostile visitor from another world descends on a small Arizona town."

Written by Joseph Mbah and Robert Conway. Jose Rosete, Anna Harr, Dustin Leighton, Caleb Thomas, Alaina Laethem, Adam Michael Gold, and Titus Covington star in a Joseph Mbah film, releasing July 7 on digital from Uncork’d Entertainment

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Peg Acquires Rights to The S.H.U: "Los Angeles, June 30, 2020 – Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg), a Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing company, has acquired worldwide rights to psychological horror-thriller The S.H.U., or Segregated Housing Unit, starring Edi Gathegi. Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger round out the key cast.

Exclusive: The S.H.U., a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame, has been picked up for world sales by Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group.

The pic follows an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife. A victim of systematic racism, he eventually finds himself in solitary confinement, slowly descending into madness and pushed to breaking point by an abusive female guard.

Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger round out the key cast. Aaron Fjellman makes his feature film directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with James ‘Doc’ Mason. Pete Kirtley produced for Panic House Films alongside Matthew C. Temple, Jessa Zarubica, and Fjellman. Edi Gathegi and Ryan Sage served as executive producers.

“We were very impressed with this smart and timely elevated genre film and were eager to team up with Pete and Aaron.

Director Alex Noyer’s documentaries include 808, about Roland Tr-808 drum machine.

Vmi Worldwide has added Alex Noyer’s thriller Conductor starring Jasmin Savoy Brown (The Leftovers), Lili Simmons (Ray Donovan) and Mick Jagger’s son James Jagger and Noyer of You Know Films produced, and Mike Macari (Rings) is executive producer.

Vmi Worldwide’s roster of available sales titles encompasses Wander with Aaron Eckhart and Tommy Lee Jones, Arkansas starring Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth and John Malkovich, and Wake Up with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Francesca Eastwood.

TF1 Studio launches sales on ‘Erna At War’ starring Trine Dyrholm; teases first...

Paris-based Pulsar Content has boarded sales on Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Greyeyes thriller Wild Indian.

Eisenberg is starring in and executive producing the film, which is currently in post-production. Written and directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., the film follows two Anishinaabe men who are inextricably bound together after covering up the savage murder of a schoolmate.

Also starring are Chaske Spencer, Kate Bosworth, Jenna Leigh Green and Scott Haze (Venom). The film, which shot in Oklahoma City, was developed as part of the Sundance Institute Writers and Directors Lab.

Producers are Blake Pickens and Thomas Mahoney. Executive producers include Joel Michaely, Niraj Bhatia, Eric Tavitian, Katy Bettner, Lesli Masoner, Dan McClung, Brent Ryan Green and 30West.

Pulsar is also in Berlin with horror The Deep House by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. The film has set James Jagger and Camille Rowe to star as a hip young couple who...

"The Last Full Measure" is a new war drama, written/directed by Todd Robinson. starring Sebastian Stan ("The Falcon and the Winter Soldier"),  Christopher Plummer ("The Silent Partner") , William Hurt ("Altered States") and Jeremy Irvine ("Treadstone"), opening January 17, 2020:

"...fifty-three years after his death, 'Airman William H. Pitsenbarger, Jr.' aka 'Pits'...

"...is awarded the nation's highest military honor for his actions on the battlefield..."

Cast also includes James Jagger, LisaGay Hamilton, Michael Imperioli, Diane Ladd, Amy Madigan, Linus Roache, Alison Sudol, Bradley Whitford, John Savage, Cody Walker, Dale Dye, Richard Cawthorne and Julian Adams.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Last Full Measure"...

Prolific producer Alex Noyer has announced his feature-length directorial debut, a thriller adaptation of his genre short Conductor, to be filmed in Los Angeles starring Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons and James Jagger. Dread central called the short “gruesome yet awesome”, so we’re definitely excited to see how the feature film […]

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Tom Hughes, best known for British TV dramas Victoria and The Game, will co-star in Infinite, Paramount’s sci-fi drama which is directed by Antoine Fuqua. Mark Wahlberg attached to star. Mark Wahlberg toplines the feature alongside

Dylan O’Brien, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Jason Mantzoukas. Based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz, the plot follows Evan Michaels (Whalberg), a man haunted by memories of two past lives. He stumbles upon a centuries-old secret society of similar individuals who make up the Cognomina, possessing total recall of their past lives and whose members have been agents of change throughout history. He seeks to join their ranks. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, John Zaozirny, Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, and Mark Huffam are producing with Fuqua and Raphael Crohn serving as executive producers. Infinite hits theaters August 7. Hughes is repped by UTA and Gordon and French.

Jasmin Savoy Brown is set to star in Conductor, the feature-length iteration to director Alex Noyer’s short film of the same title. The film will mark Noyer’s directorial debut. It’ll also star Lili Simmons and newcomer James Jagger. The pic follows Alexis (Brown), a formerly deaf woman who recovered her hearing and gained synesthetic abilities after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was a child. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, she pursues a career in music, composing her masterpiece through gruesome murders. She is supported by her loving roommate Marie (Simmons), who is blissfully unaware of the part she plays in Alexis’ work. Faced with the possibility of losing her hearing again, Alexis relentlessly pursues her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments on human flesh. Noyer is producing the piece with Hannu Aukia Mike Macari is the exec producer. Brown is repped by ICM Partners, Cinterra Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Simmons by Kate Linden Management and Goodman Schenkman & Brecheen; Jagger by ICM Partners, Framework Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello.

Pearson and The Oath actress Isabel Arraiza has been added to the cast of The Little Things, the Warner Bros thriller that stars oscar winners Denzel Washington, Jared Leto, and Rami Malek. John Lee Hancock wrote and is directing the film, which centers around Deke (Washington), a burned-out Kern County, CA deputy sheriff who teams with Baxter (Malek), a crack Lasd detective, to nab a serial killer. Deke’s nose for the “little things” proves eerily accurate, but his willingness to circumvent the rules embroils Baxter in a soul-shattering dilemma. Meanwhile, Deke must wrestle with a dark secret from his past. Arraiza, who is repped by Gersh and Circle of Confusion, will play Baxter’s wife. Mark Johnson is producing the project.

"The Last Full Measure" is a new war drama, written and directed by Todd Robinson. starring Sebastian Stan (aka Marvel's 'Winter Soldier'), Christopher Plummer, William Hurt ("Altered States") and Jeremy Irvine, opening January 17, 2020:

"...fifty-three years after his death, 'Airman William H. Pitsenbarger, Jr.' aka 'Pits'...

"...is awarded the nation's highest military honor for his actions on the battlefield..."

Cast also includes James Jagger, LisaGay Hamilton, Michael Imperioli, Diane Ladd, Amy Madigan, Linus Roache, Alison Sudol, Bradley Whitford, John Savage, Cody Walker, Dale Dye, Richard Cawthorne and Julian Adams.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Last Full Measure"...

Exclusive: Magic Lantern is billed as a story of love, obsession and cinema and is the first La-shot movie from influential Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi. The official Venice Film Festival screening is tomorrow here on the Lido where Naderi won the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award in 2016. It’s running in the Sconfini section.

Magic Lantern is exec produced by Ramin Bahrani with whom Naderi co-wrote HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 and feature 99 Homes. The story follows Mitch (newcomer Monk Serrell-Freed), a young film projectionist in Los Angeles who becomes haunted by the movie he’s showing. He sees himself on screen as the protagonist, falling in love with a mysterious girl (Vox Lux‘s Sophie Lane Curtis) who suddenly disappears.

Mitch embarks on a mission to find the girl, making his way through an increasingly dreamlike La, and encountering an array of strange characters — including a glamorous former film star played by Jacqueline Bisset.

The Toronto Film Festival announced today that the World Premiere of Outlaw King, David Mackenzie’s period drama chronicling the rise of 14th-century Scottish hero Robert the Bruce, will be the Opening Night Gala Presentation for the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 6, at Roy Thomson Hall.

This epic David-versus-Goliath tale reunites award-winning director David Mackenzie with his Hell or High Water actor Chris Pine, who takes on the starring role of the legendary Scottish king who leads a band of outlaws to reclaim the throne from the clutches of the English crown and its army. The film also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, and Billy Howle.

“Tiff’s Opening Night Film, Outlaw King, tells a powerful story that is rich in drama, excitement, romance, and adventure,” said Piers Handling, Director & CEO of Tiff. “Audiences are promised a thrilling journey back in time, as...

Contending with the demanding expectation that come with working for a high-power company, as well as the personal burden of providing for family members, can be a challenge for anyone. That struggle can become even more problematic for anyone when they start to question if they were involved in a dangerous crime. That’s certainly the […]

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In Fatal Crossing, a high-flying tech entrepreneur, Carson (James Jagger), drinks to cope with the weight of expectation for his new company and the burden of providing for his sick father. When he wakes up from a blackout with blood all over his car on the same morning a fatal hit-and- run is reported, his world spirals as he tries to build a relationship with the girlfriend of the victim who suspects that he... Read More...

Congratulations are in order for Mick Jagger and his girlfriend, American ballerina Melanie Hamrick.

The two welcomed a baby boy on Thursday, their first child together. The 73-year-old Rolling Stones frontman is already a father to daughters Karis, Georgia May, Jude, and Elizabeth, as well as sons James, Lucas, and Gabriel, from previous relationships.

"Melanie Hamrick and Mick Jagger's son was born today in New York and they are both delighted," a rep for Jagger tells Et. "Mick was at the hospital for the arrival. Mother and baby are doing well and we request that the media respect their privacy at this time."

Watch: Mick Jagger's Son James Looks Just Like Him!

Jagger was first linked to 29-year-old Hamrick in June 2014. Et confirmed Hamrick's pregnancy in July.

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Et spoke to Jagger at the opening of a Rolling Stone exhibit in NYC in November, when he called becoming a dad at 73 "very nice."

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The music has stopped. The Vinyl TV show on HBO has been cancelled. This reverses the decision HBO made to renew Vinyl for a second season, on February 18, 2016. Set in the 1970s New York City music scene, the drama stars Bobby Cannavale as Richie Finestra, a record label president who is trying to save his company and his soul without destroying everyone in his path.

The Vinyl TV series cast also includes Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, P.J. Byrne, J.C. MacKenzie, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Juno Temple, Jack Quaid, James Jagger, and Paul Ben-Victor. Created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen, and Terence Winter, HBO describes Vinyl as featuring, "the sex- and drug-addled music business of the early 1970s at the dawn of punk, disco and hip-hop."...

Vinyl, the Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese-produced series revolving around the New York music scene in the Seventies, has been canceled by HBO after one season. "After careful consideration, we have decided not to proceed with a second season of Vinyl," HBO said in a statement. "Obviously, this was not an easy decision. We have enormous respect for the creative team and cast for their hard work and passion on this project."

In April, the series parted ways with its showrunner, Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, following a season...

Despite a star-laden roster and Martin Scorsese producing (and previous announcements to the contrary), Vinyl has played its last tune on HBO. The series starred Bobby Cannavale as a 1970s record label executive trying to hold his company, and his life, together. The show also featured Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, and James Jagger. "After careful consideration, we have decided not to proceed with a second season of Vinyl," the network said in a statement. "Obviously, this was not an easy decision. We have enormous respect for the creative team and cast for their hard work and passion on this project." The show had suffered from mixed reviews (HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall called the season “disappointing”), low ratings, and a bloated price tag. It’s estimated that the 10-episode season cost $100 million, with the pilot itself running around $30 million. News of Vinyl’s demise can’t be good for HBO on a variety of fronts.

The year's still young, but it's safe to call HBO's Vinyl one of its biggest TV disappointments. Whether you're looking at ratings (where viewership for the initial Sunday night airing keeps coming in at well under 1 million), reviews (my lukewarm initial appraisal was kinder than many), or buzz, the show hasn't remotely been what either viewers or HBO executives might have hoped for from the team-up of Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Terence Winter, who was fired as showrunner after this season wrapped. (He'll be replaced by The informant! and Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z. Burns, in his first real TV job.) For HBO to take such an aggressive move with Winter, who created Boardwalk Empire and was David Chase's top lieutenant for virtually all of The Sopranos, speaks both to a tenuous moment for the pay cable giant — which hasn't been able to turn a drama other than...

“The logo looks like a toilet.”

Bobbie Cannavale and Olivia Wilde are spitting blood, soul, sweat, and venom into this show. With a strong supporting cast (aside from a few weak links like James Jagger) working around them, they form an energized dynamo of human dysfunction that beats and thumps at the heart of the show. For all that, though, Vinyl struggled through its sixth episode with only occasional flashes of visual insight and storytelling flare. The episode recounts, more or less, Richie’s disastrous weekend as he bottoms out at the end of a tremendous bender with Ernst, the grinning Teutonic germ from the pilot, riding shotgun through the depravity.

The twist at the heart of ‘Cyclone’ is neither particularly interesting nor particularly well-handled. Ernst, killed years ago in a car crash with Richie at the wheel, is conjured up by the paranoid Richie as a specter of the...

James Jagger, the son of rocker Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, has married his longtime love Anoushka Sharma. The 30-year-old musician-turned-actor wed Sharma, an artist, in a small and discreet, hilltop ceremony in the Catskills, a region in Upstate New York, last September. The outdoor nuptials were so low-key, it seems Jagger's famous father and mother didn't even attend, perhaps at the request of their privacy-loving son. Jagger's first big acting break has come via HBO's new rock 'n' roll series Vinyl, which explores the sex and drug-fueled music scene of the 1970s, set in New York, and is executive...

James Jagger, the son of rocker Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, has married his longtime love Anoushka Sharma. The 30-year-old musician-turned-actor wed Sharma, an artist, in a small and discreet, hilltop ceremony in the Catskills, a region in Upstate New York, last September. The outdoor nuptials were so low-key, it seems Jagger's famous father and mother didn't even attend, perhaps at the request of their privacy-loving son. Jagger's first big acting break has come via HBO's new rock 'n' roll series Vinyl, which explores the sex and drug-fueled music scene of the 1970s, set in New York, and is executive...

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1970s-set rock and roll drama Vinyl won't return for a second season on HBO after all...

Well, this is unexpected. Back in February, the news broke that HBO had renewed its rock and roll drama Vinyl for a second season. Now, though, the network has gone back on that idea and cancelled the series altogether.

Collider reports that the initial plan had been to "retool" the show for season 2, and that showrunner Scott Z. Burns had begun working on a blueprint for Vinyl's second season. (Actual scriptwriting hadn't yet begun, it would seem.)

It doesn't seem like too much of a leap to suggest that this U-turn could be related to HBO's new chief Casey Bloys. It was his predecessor in the role - Michael Lombardo - that initially ordered season 2 of Vinyl.

Bloys seems to have different ideas about how the network should be run,...

Despite a decidedly soft start both critically and ratings wise, HBO believes in its 1970s music drama "Vinyl" - renewing the freshman series after just one episode.

Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter are behind the prestige project in which Bobby Cannavale plays a record label president in the 1970s trying to save his company.

Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, P.J. Byrne, J.C. MacKenzie, Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, Juno Temple, Jack Quaid, James Jagger and Paul Ben-Victor also star.

There's no episode count yet for the second season. Scorsese directed the two-hour pilot which pulled in an average of 760,000 viewers.

Source: The Live Feed...

HBO has renewed “Vinyl” for a second season, the network announced Thursday. Created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen and Terence Winter, the show is a trip through the sex-and drug-filled music business of the early 1970s at the dawn of punk, disco and hip-hop. The show kicked off its 10-episode first season on Feb. 14 with a two-hour pilot directed by Scorsese, from a teleplay by Terence Winter and George Mastras, and a story by Cohen, Jagger, Scorsese and Winter. Also Read: 'Vinyl' Star James Jagger on His Breakout Turn as a Rock Star and Working With...