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Spoiler Alert: Major Spoilers For Succession Season 4, Episode 10, "With Open Eyes"

Season 4, Episode 10 of Succession, "With Open Eyes" was the thrilling and exciting series finale everyone was waiting for. Amidst the impending sale of Waystar Royco, the Roy siblings confronted each other to decide once and for all on which side of the battle they wanted to be.

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A highly emotional and intense finale, "With Open Eyes" had even more backstabbing, scheming, and tension than ever before while featuring some of the most wholesome and interesting scenes of the series. Most important, audiences finally get to see who gets the crown after four seasons of Succession.

Episode 10 GoJo Acquiring Waystar Royco

"With Open Eyes" opens with news of the GoJo deal going through, as there are no longer any regulatory concerns, but Kendall is determined to put a stop to it even if he's working against time.

The deals have been finalised off the back of Cannes.

UK sales and distribution outfit Blue Finch Films has closed key deals on Deadstream, The Beta Test and Barbarians.

US comedy horror Deadstream has sold in Germany and Italy (Koch Films), Scandinavia (Mis. Label), France (VOD Factory), Benelux (Premiere TV), Poland (Velvet Spoon), and Israel (Yes).

The SXSW premiere is the debut feature from husband-and-wife directing duo Vanessa and Joseph Winter, who also both wrote the script and produced alongside Jared Cook and Melanie Stone. Joseph Winter and Stone also star.

A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his...

Filming has wrapped in Alaska and LA on indie sci-fi adventure movie Bolt From The Blue, starring Kate Flannery (The Office), Matt Walsh (Veep) and Kevin Michael Martin (The Last Ship).

Writer-director Jack Martin’s film revolves around an electrical engineer who travels up to Alaska to investigate a local scientist who claims he can capture lightning and harness its energy as the next great renewable source of energy.

Production largely took place on location in the small town of Homer, Alaska.

Cast also includes Page Tudyk Martin, Manny Spero, Elle Young, and Kevin Changaris. Producers are Michael Orion Downing for Cosmic Hamlet Entertainment and executive producer is Jason Michael Berman (Nine Days) of Mandalay Pictures.

“I’m so excited that my old friend, Matt Walsh, has joined our cast for Bolt From The Blue, a beautiful, timely film directed by the talented Jack Martin,” said Flannery, who is best...

"Now I'm suspicious of everyone... We're so terrified of stepping out of line." IFC Films has just unveiled a second official trailer for The Beta Test, a seductive, provocative thriller from filmmaker Jim Cummings (of Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow). The first UK trailer arrived a few weeks back, time for another look. Cummings teams up with actor Pj McCabe to co-write & co-direct this film, which initially premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year. It's opening in the US in art house cinemas starting in early November. A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data. It's partially a commentary on the world of agents in Hollywood, and partially a commentary on the disruptive nature of sexual provocation, how easily it can tear things apart. The film stars Cummings & McCabe,...

"It's the ultimate clickbait thirst trap." IFC Films has revealed the first official trailer for The Beta Test, a seductive, provocative new thriller from filmmaker Jim Cummings (of Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow). Cummings teams up with actor Pj McCabe to co-write & co-direct this film, which initially premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. It also played at the Tribeca, Edinburgh, Deauville, Vancouver, and Champs-Elysées Film Festivals this year. A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data. It's partially a commentary on the wrold of agents in Hollywood, and partially a commentary on the disruptive nature of sexual provocation, how easily it can tear things apart. The film stars Cummings & McCabe, plus Virginia Newcomb, Kevin Changaris, Olivia Grace Applegate, Jessie Barr, Malin Barr, and Christian Hillborg. This...

“A hilarious skewering of the shallowness of the movie industry and the paranoia and mistrust that afflicts the guilty. Cummings and McCabe’s film touches a raw nerve with sharp, funny, awkwardly prickly provocation.” – Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist

Hitting cinemas this fall is The Beta Test starring Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, Pj McCabe, Kevin Changaris, Olivia Grace Applegate, Jessie Barr.

A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, murder and infidelity in this scintillating satire.

Written and Directed by Jim Cummings & Pj McCabe, The Beta Test opens in Select Theaters, on Digital Platforms and VOD on November 5th.

The film premiered at Berlinale and the Tribeca Film Festival and will screen at the upcoming Fantastic Fest on Monday September 27th. Watch an interview from this summer with the two filmmakers.

https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-beta-test

Images Courtesy of IFC Films.

IFC FIlms holds US rights.

Buyers in the UK, France and Canada have acquired rights to Jim Cummings’ recent Berlin Encounters selection The Beta Test.

Benjamin Wiesnner of Los Angeles-based production company Vanishing Angle negotiated the deals with Blue Finch in the UK, New Story in France, and Vortex Media in Canada.

The horror thriller centres on a Hollywood agent who gets sucked into a world of sexual infidelity and mysterious streams of digital data.

It recently sold to IFC Films for the US and is expected to launch in the US and the first wave of international markets in autumn.

Jim Cummings’ thriller “The Beta Test” has been acquired by IFC Films.

Cummings wrote, directed and stars in the film that was an official selection for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. IFC will distribute the film theatrically, on digital platforms and on demand this fall.

“The Beta Test” follows an enraged Hollywood agent who received a letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes trapped in a world of lying and infidelity. Pj McCabe, Virginia Newcomb, Kevin Changaris, Olivia Grace Applegate, Jessie Barr, Keith Powell, Joy Sunday, Wilkey Lau, Malin Barr and Christian Hillborg also star.

“IFC has partnered with the boldest and most insanely talented filmmakers in history, Armando Iannucci, Paolo Sorrentino, Andrea Arnold, and hundreds of others and then they let us just ruin it in 2021,” Cummings said in a statement to TheWrap. “This movie was financed independently through a crowd-equity platform called WeFunder, we produced it independently,...

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to “The Beta Test,” a new digital-age thriller that was written, directed by and starring Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe.

The film was an official selection for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. IFC will release “The Beta Test” theatrically, on digital platforms and on demand later this fall. The film centers on an engaged Hollywood agent, who receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity and digital data.

“I cannot wait for everybody to see this movie, it is so much fun,” Cummings said. “We raised the budget through crowd-equity, we shot the film with our friends, we edited and finished the film from our homes. Our audience helped make this wild, beautiful film possible and we are anxious to get to share it with people. I can’t think...

Two movies in, actor and writer/director Jim Cummings has certainly proven to be a talent full of idiosyncrasies. His debut, Thunder Road, made him someone to watch, while now, we have his sophomore feature to consider. Hitting this week, The Wolf of Snow Hallow sees Cummings turning his odd eye to genre, while very much keeping his voice intact. The result isn’t quite comedy and isn’t quite horror, but there’s a murder mystery element throughout that oddly fits his blackly comedic voice. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel or really push him forward as a storyteller, but as a lightly entertaining lark, it does the trick. The film is a mix of comedy and horror, centered on a series of murders in a small Utah mountain town. First, it’s a woman on vacation with her boyfriend. Then, it’s a ski instructor. And so on.

Take a look @ new promo footage, plus images from the next episode of "Marvel's Agent Carter" titled "Smoke and Mirrors", featuring the return of Hollywood actress 'Whitney Frost' (Wynn Everett), written by Sue Chung and directed by David Platt, airing February 2, 2016 on ABC:

"...'Agent Carter' and the 'Ssr' learn there's more than just a pretty face behind Hollywood star 'Whitney Frost', Peggy's most dangerous foe..."

"Marvel's Agent Carter" stars Hayley Atwell as 'Agent Peggy Carter', James D'Arcy as 'Edwin Jarvis', Enver Gjokaj as 'Chief Daniel Sousa', Everett as 'Whitney Frost', Reggie Austin as 'Jason Wilkes' and Chad Michael Murray as 'Chief Jack Thompson'.

Episode guest stars include Currie Graham, Kurtwood Smith, Chris Browning, Carole Ruggier, Gabriella Graves, Webb Baker Hayes, Ivy George, Samaire Armstrong, Chris Mulkey, Max Brown, Christopher Grove, Catriona Toop, Jennifer Neala Page, Kevin Changaris, Jonathan Lavallee, Andrew Carter, Khalilah Joi and Tamika Katon-Donegal.