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Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards are going back Under the Vines, with Acorn TV and Tvnz co-commissioning a third season of the Perpetual Entertainment and Libertine Pictures series. Production is underway in Nz, with all of the main cast returning, including Sarah Peirse, John Bach, Trae Te Wiki and Simon Mead. The third instalment picks up six months since audiences last saw the Oakley family. Desperate to regain their former standing as the ‘sole’ mutual heirs of Oakley, Daisy and...

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Exclusive: Acorn TV is going Under the Vines for a third time.

The lighthearted comedy shot in New Zealand is returning for a third season with leads Rebecca Gibney (Wanted, Packed to the Rafters, Halifax: Retribution) and Charles Edwards (Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Crown, Downton Abbey) again attached. You can see a start-of-production shot above.

Also returning are Charles Edwards, Sarah Peirse, John Bach, Trae Te Wiki and Simon Mead.

Synopsis reads: “It’s been a tumultuous six months since we last saw our Oakley family, and much is afoot. Desperate to regain their former standing as the ‘sole’ mutual heirs of Oakley, Daisy and Louis will need to work together to try and oust William in any way they can.”

Erin White is directing Episodes 1-3, with Laurence Wilson on Episodes 4-6. Kelly Lefever, Erin White, Nick Ward, Kathryn Burnett, Harry McNaughton, and Steph Matuku are the writers

Gibney,...

Exclusive: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has teamed with New Zealand broadcaster Tvnz to commission its latest original — a romantic comedy set on a Kiwi vineyard, led by The Crown star Charles Edwards and Wanted actress Rebecca Gibney.

Libertine Pictures and Eq Media Group will produce six-part series Under The Vines, which follows Edwards and Gibney as two unlikely city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.

Australian TV star Gibney features as Sydney socialite Daisy Munroe, who heads to New Zealand for a vacation at her recently deceased stepfather’s winery, which she intends to sell.

Little does she know that the vineyard has a co-owner: Grumpy UK-born lawyer, Louis Oakley (Edwards), who also travels to New Zealand to escape a spiraling series of unfortunate events in his life.

Despite neither having done a hard days’ work in their lives and both despising each other, Munroe...

Stars: Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O’Grady, Caleb Eberhardt, Cary Elwes, Simon Mead, Madeleine Adams, Nathalie Morris, Ben Black, Zoë Robins, Ryan McIntyre | Written by Sophia Takal, April Wolfe | Directed by Sophia Takal

Black Christmas. A familiar title if not a familiar film. Already remade once in 2006, it seems Blumhouse decided 2019 was ripe for reinvention of the film – tasking female filmmakers Sophia Takal and April Wolfe with rebooting the series. And it’s not a big a failure as other reviews have made out. Though it’s not without its problems…

This time round the action takes place at Hawthorne College, which is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy; and killer is about to discover that this...

Stars: Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O’Grady, Caleb Eberhardt, Cary Elwes, Simon Mead, Madeleine Adams, Nathalie Morris, Ben Black, Zoë Robins, Ryan McIntyre | Written by Sophia Takal, April Wolfe | Directed by Sophia Takal

Black Christmas. A familiar title if not a familiar film. Already remade once in 2006, it seems Blumhouse decided 2019 was ripe for reinvention of the film – tasking female filmmakers Sophia Takal and April Wolfe with rebooting the series. And it’s not a big a failure as other reviews have made out. Though it’s not without its problems…

This time round the action takes place at Hawthorne College, which is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy; and killer is about to discover that this...

We had the pleasure of chatting with Imogen Poots, Brittany O’ Grady, Lily Donoghue, Director Sophia Takal about their new movie, the horror remake of Black Christmas. The film also stars Aleyse Shannon, Caleb Eberhardt, Cary Elwese, Simon Mead, Madeleine Adams, Ben Black and Nathalie Morris. Also, the script was written by the same Sophia Takal along with April Wofle.

Sophia enthusiastically tells us what made the original Black Christmas so exciting and how complex, interesting and fun the female characters were. So, it was important to her to make a movie that was just as exciting, thrilling and chilling as the original but at the same time show what it feels like to be a woman in 2019.

The cast explains the importance of showing a sorority filled with real women as opposed to the often stereotypical or caricature versions we see in films. They tell us about one scene...

Happy December, dear readers! Now that the winter season is officially upon us, it only makes sense to take a look at all the great horror and sci-fi films (as well as a few genre-adjacent projects) coming our way through February, both on the big and small screen. Here’s a rundown of all the titles officially announced over the next few months so that you can start making your movie-watching plans.

Enjoy!

December 2019:

Automation (Epic Pictures) – On VOD December 3rd

A workplace robot, Auto, transforms into a killing machine when he discovers he will be replaced by a more efficient model. Auto fears being terminated and will stop at nothing to prevent his own destruction. The human employees must band together to stop him before it’s too late.

Daniel Isn’t Real (Samuel Goldwyn Films) – In Theaters and on Digital December 6th

Troubled college freshman Luke (Miles Robbins...

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have launched the first trailer for horror ‘Black Christmas’ featuring Imogen Poots.

Directed by Sophia Takal from a script by April Wolfe the film stars Imogen Poots, Lily Donoghue, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O’Grady, Simon Mead, Caleb Eberhardt and Cary Elwes.

Also in trailers – First teaser trailer for ‘Gretel and Hansel’ is a Grim fairy tale.

The film is out in cinemas December Friday 13th.

Black Christmas Synopsis

Just in time for the holidays comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood.

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty, rebel Kris, and foodie Jesse—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.

As the body count rises,...

Sisters never stand down.

From Blumhouse, the producer of Get Out and Halloween check out the brand new trailer for Black Christmas.

Just in time for the holidays comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood.

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty, rebel Kris, and foodie Jesse—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.

As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate, Riley’s new crush Landon or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes).

Whoever the killer is, he’s about to discover that this generation’s young women...

This past summer, Blumhouse and Universal brought season's greetings to horror fans in June with the announcement of a new remake (the first reimagining was released in 2006) of Bob Clark's Black Christmas, and ahead of its release on Friday the 13th of December, horror fans can unwrap the official trailer for the new Black Christmas that shows sorority sisters standing strong together against a masked slasher and the disconcertingly unconcerned attitude on their college campus.

"Just in time for the holidays comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood.

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty, rebel Kris, and foodie Jesse—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.

"I'm worried that something bad happened." Universal Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for the new 2019 remake of the horror cult classic Black Christmas, this new one written & directed by Sophia Takal. Based on the original Black Christmas from 1974, the film is about a group of sorority sisters of Mku (Mu Kappa Epsilon) stalked by a masked killer during the holidays. The synopsis this time goes all out capitalizing on the current social movement, stating: "Whoever the killer is, he's about to discover that this generation's young women aren’t about to be anybody's victims." Why not. This new Black Christmas stars Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O'Grady, Caleb Eberhardt, Simon Mead, and Cary Elwes. This actually looks like a fun, brutal update of the original - with lots of ladies fighting back against this asshole holiday killer. Get ready for a bloody Christmas movie. Here's the...

The first trailer has been released for the holiday slasher film Black Christmas, which is a remake of the 1974 film. The story focuses on a killer in a black cloak who is on a murdering spree on a college campus and he ends up facing off with “a formidable group of friends in sisterhood.”

Here’s the synopsis that was shared:

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty, rebel Kris, and foodie Jesse—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.

As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate, Riley’s new crush Landon or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes).

Whoever the killer is, he...