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Ella Balinska of the Blumhouse horror thriller Run Sweetheart Run, the 2019 Charlie’s Angels movie, the recently released thriller Skincare, and the short-lived Netflix Resident Evil series, has signed on to star in an apocalyptic horror movie called Monsters, and Deadline reports that Voltage Pictures will be presenting the global distribution rights to potential buyers at the American Film Market in Las Vegas next week. Glenise Mullins has written the screenplay and will be directing the film, which is expected to go into production in January.

This will be the feature directorial debut for Mullins, who has previously worked as a writer on the TV shows The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Outer Range, The Continental, Warrior, Surface, and Star Trek: Discovery. The story Mullins has crafted for this film follows a mother (Balinska) as she fights to lead her two young daughters to safety across 20 miles of...

After captivating audiences in Run Sweetheart Run, Ella Balinska is stepping into the eerie world of horror once again as she takes the lead in the upcoming apocalyptic horror film Monsters. Like in Run Sweetheart Run, she'll find herself once again on the run from a terrifying threat.

Glenise Mullins, known for writing for TV shows such as Star Trek: Discovery, Surface, The Continental, Outer Range and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, wrote the script and will be directing. The cameras are reportedly set to start rolling sometime in January 2025.

Additionally, Tea Shop Productions' James Harris and Mark Lane will produce the horror flick alongside David Whitney.

Monsters follows a desperate mother as she strives to guide her two young daughters to safety over 20 miles of harsh terrain in a dangerous post-apocalyptic world swarming with relentless, zombie-like creatures. Balinska will play the mother. Her character's name is unknown,...

Exclusive: Voltage Pictures has taken global rights to apocalypse horror movie Monsters starring Ella Balinska.

Voltage will launch global sales for the film at the American Film Market in Las Vegas, Nv, which runs Nov. 5-10.

Monsters follows a mother (Balinska) as she fights to lead her two young daughters to safety across 20 miles of unforgiving terrain in a perilous post-apocalyptic world teeming with relentless, zombie-like creatures. Glenise Mullins wrote and directed. The pic is rolling cameras in January.

Pic is produced by James Harris and Mark Lane at Tea Shop Productions. David Whitney will also produce.

Balinska gained recognition as a lead in the Charlie’s Angels reboot alongside Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott, and later headlined Netflix’s Resident Evil series. Her performance in Run Sweetheart Run premiered to critical acclaim at Sundance. Next up, Balinska will star in...

Hollywood star Tom Hardy will narrate an upcoming three-part series exploring daring operations by elite military forces. The series, titled “Special Forces: Most Daring Missions,” will focus on high-profile incidents undertaken by the UK’s Special Air Service (Sas). Each episode will spotlight a real covert operation conducted by groups like the Sas. The show aims to highlight missions that display tremendous bravery and skill.

Episodes will recount missions like the 1980 siege of the Iranian embassy in London, known as “Operation Nimrod.” Federico Ruiz, an executive for the streaming service Paramount+, said the missions “showcased tremendous courage, often attempting rescues or responses that would seem impossible even for fictional heroes.” The show is a collaboration between production companies Soho Studios Entertainment and Two Rivers Media. It will debut later this year on Paramount+ in the UK and Ireland, with global distribution handled by Sphere Abacus.

Ian Lamarra, founder of Soho Studios,...

Tom Hardy is taking off the Venom mask to narrate a Paramount+ UK factual series about elite military forces.

The three-part Special Forces: Most Daring Missions will primarily follow the UK’s Sas, exploring its operations during incidents such as ‘Operation Nimrod’, the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980. Each episode of Most Daring Missions will celebrate a real life assignment undertaken by an elite military force.

Soho Studios Entertainment and Two Rivers Media are co-producing, with Sphere Abacus handling international sales. This is the same setup for Travels With Agatha With David Suchet, which is due to launch with fanfare at MIPCOM Cannes next week.

Ian Lamarra, Alan Clements and Hardy will exec produce the show, with Robert Neill (Cassius X: Becoming Ali) the series producer and David Whitney (Dogs of War) series director. Sphere Abacus will begin shopping the title internationally on the Croisette at Mip.

Federico Ruiz,...

If one more journalist asks Rupert Grint, a.k.a. Harry Potter's bestest bud Ron Weasly, "What's next for you?" he's likely to throw an Avada Kedavra. Thankfully, he doesn't have to worry about that anymore, because the question's been answered... sort of.

Assuming the film gets fully financed (check out their site to see how you can get involved if you have a few grand laying around) Grint is set to star in "Wartime Wanderers," a film about the 1939 Bolton Wanderers quidditch football (soccer) team that, after a rousing speech by captain Harry Goslin, enlisted in World War II as a group and became the 53rd Field Regiment of the Bolton Artillery, seeing action in North Africa, France and Italy.

Grint is attached to play team funnyman Ernie Forrest and will appear alongside film and Broadway star Jonathan Pryce (first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra...

"Harry Potter" regular Rupert Grint and veteran thesp Jonathan Pryce have both joined the WW2 soccer flick "Wartime Wanderers" reports The Guardian.

The story follows the 1939 Bolton Wanderers F.C. team who enlisted to active duty en masse: a rarity among professional footballers of the time and saw action in France, North Africa and Italy. Only one of the 15 team members, captain Harry Goslin, was killed in action.

Pryce will play the team’s manager, while Grint will play the team joker Ernie Forrest. "Krod Mandoon" and "Meet the Spartans" hunk Sean Maguire will play Goslin.

Also onboard are Matthew McNulty as Ray Westwood, and Bradley Walsh as the Sergeant Major and the team's army handler. David Whitney (“Kandahar Break") directs from a script Jack Seddon and Tim Purcell adapted from Purcell's book.

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Calvin Marshall" (2010)

Directed by Gary Lundgren

Released by Passion River

Steve Zahn exemplifies the adage those who can't do teach as a college baseball coach who never was quite good enough to make the majors who sees something of himself in an enthusiastic but unskilled player (Alex Frost) that he keeps on the team in writer/director Gary Lundgren's feature debut.

"Chelsea on the Rocks" (2009)

Directed by Abel Ferrara

Released by Hannover House

"Bad Lieutenant" director Ferrara compiles a biography of the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York through archival footage, reenactments and interviews with the many artists who have stayed there throughout the years from Milos Forman and R. Crumb to Ethan Hawke and Gaby Hoffman.

"Claang the Game" (2009)

Directed by Stefano Milla

Released by Triumphant Entertainment

A game of "Claang," a strategy-heavy match of wits, leads to a discussion...

David Whitney is a man from Bolton now making it to the big time with the release of his first feature film Kandahar Break – out now on DVD in shops across the UK. Obviously busy with the amount of attention he is receiving from this critically claimed film, he took some time out of his day to speak to us.

David has worked on short films and TV dramas, so taking the step to filming a feature was a massive leap, but as he states it was very enjoyable. “Moving from 3 to 4 day shoots to 13 hour, 28 day shoots can be tiring” but he kept his energy levels up. And needed to as he was in a bit of trouble whilst shooting. The film is based on a mine engineer in Afghanistan, but whilst shooting a scene on the boarder of this country, some of the crew members were shot at.

Kandahar Break, a new independent film written and directed by David Whitney, offers a love story as old as Romeo and Juliet at the core of a more contemporary thriller, every scene of which is packed with suspense. We are at first confronted with the stark landscape of Afghanistan: forbidding, dry, lonely, and frightening. The drama takes place in 1999 -- pre 9/11, before this strange and foreign place had assumed a large hold on our collective psyche. But this rough, mountainous region does have such a hold on us today, so the story becomes larger and scarier as each scene unfolds. Richard Lee, played by Shaun Dooley, is a member of a team of British engineers who are trying to find and destroy land mines that spot the dangerous countryside. But working for the Taliban, whose stringent rules restricting the...

Well, we’ve got some delights in store for us this week! To start off this great list of films it’s:

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (dir. Mike Newell, 2010) – Brought to you by Disney, produced by the same people as Pirates of the Caribbean, directed by Newell and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley to name a few. This is probably one of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of the year. Plus, being based on a video game and having witty dialogue, high action and special effects bringing the Swords and Sandals genre back to life, the film is going to soar to the top of the charts. Gyllenhaal transformed his body for the role and proved he can play almost any character, as long as he has an attractive co-star to work off of.

Close following this fight filled flick is:

Date Night (dir. Shawn Levy,...

Kandhar Break

Stars: Shaun Dooley, Tatmain Ul Qulb | Written and Directed by David Whitney

Kandahar Break combines two of the most popular film genres there are out there – Romance and Action. But this isn’t your Knight and Day type of comedy fuel, this is a serious tale of a man who falls in love with a woman that experiences some of the most heart aching, powerful moments in life you can only begin to imagine.

Based in Afghanistan working for the Taliban government, Richard’s (Dooley) role is a British mine clearance engineer worker. But after spending several years there, he falls in love with an Afghanistan woman Jamilah (Qulb). The relationship is forbidden as religion splits them apart, but fighting against everyone they carry on this secret affair. You gain this sense of attachment between the two as the moment we first see them kiss is so tender and caring,...