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Will Trent season 2, episode 3 "You Don't Have to Understand" broke a show record with 11.23 million total viewers in 35 days. The episode earned a 1.63 rating in the broadcast demographic among adults 18-49, the highest since season 1. Will Trent struggles with personal trauma while investigating murders, leading to a record-breaking ratings success.

Will Trent season 2, episode 3, "You Don't Have to Understand", follows two parallel investigations between the Apd and the Gbi, and was a ratings smash. The show's sophomore season opened with a two-part premiere in February 2024, as season 2, episode 1 of Will Trent picks up six months after the events of the season 1 finale. It sees the shocking introduction and immediate death of Cricket Watson (Susan Kelechi Watson), Will's (Ramn Rodrguez) love interest. Life has dealt another traumatic hand to Will, one that he must deal with the rest of the season.

Season 2, episode 2 picks up right from that moment as Will...

Exclusive: Deadline has your first look at Six Days to Die, the second film in a sci-fi western trilogy series by Matt Campagna, which he wrote, directed, shot and edited.

The film brought to life through virtual environments, comprised of elaborate 360-degree digital matte paintings, centers on a desperate gambler wrongfully accused of murder who flees through a post-apocalyptic frontier, with a vengeful Marshal doggedly hunting him down, on a bloody quest to bring order to the chaos.

The Umbrella Academy’s Colm Feore stars alongside Darryl Hinds, Melissa D’Agostino, Ari Millen and Kyra Harper. Breann Smordin and Elizabeth Frase produced the pic, which is eyeing a festival premiere next year, and is being sold worldwide by Forward Motion Entertainment. The third film in the trilogy series, Six Guns For Hire, is currently in post-production.

Check out the first still from Campagna’s latest, along with several character portraits, below.

In today’s film news roundup, Kino Lorber has started a VOD platform, Tony Todd is starring in a horror-comedy, the Red Nation International Film Festival sets its lineup and ballet dancer Kirsten Bloom Allen starts a production company. VOD Distribution Arthouse distribution specialist Kino Lorber is launching VOD platform Kino Now with more than 600 new releases, classics and international films. Kino Now, announced Monday, will offer exclusive early access to new theatrical releases, festival hits and exclusive titles not available on other streaming platforms or not yet available on home video.

The platform will also include special “bundle” offerings of selected hard-to-find titles as well as collections from renowned filmmakers including international TV series such as “Deutschland 83” and “Bad Banks”; documentary series including Joseph Campbell’s “The Power of Myth”; auteur collections built around Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller and Fritz Lang; and pioneers of cinema restorations of the...