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The 300 cast might not have dined in Hell, but Gerard Butler saw quite a few battle scars during production.

Speaking to People with O'Shea Jackson Jr. to promote their latest film Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Butler looked back on several movies he starred in and the number of injuries he sustained across all of them. In 300's case, the actor said, "I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital. You'd be doing a fight, you turn around, there's a guy down there, a spear went in his eye. Another time, you turn around, there's a guy over there who just fell, broke his ankle."

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Warning: Spoilers for Den of Thieves.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera hit theaters recently and the film serves as a direct follow-up to the original 2018 heist thriller. Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. reprise their roles as Nick O'Brien and Donnie Wilson, the cop and criminal duo who can’t seem to rid themselves of each other. The first film follows Donnie and the crew he was brought into as their getaway driver. With ingenious plans to rob the Federal Reserve without anyone ever knowing, it turns out that Donnie was the one in control the entire time. After working as a local bartender near his intended target, he vanishes to Europe following the heist with everyone being none the wiser, except for Nick, of course. However, he doesn’t realize the grand scheme of it all until Donnie is long gone.

The second film picks up shortly after the first one ended.

Lionsgate is coming out swinging at the box office with the company's latest action film breaking a 2-year-old curse. The new sequel Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, featuring a returning Gerard Butler, has debuted strong with its theatrical premiere.

Per Deadline, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has outperformed its expectations by earning $15.5 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. This win puts the Den of Thieves sequel as the No. 1 movie, and for Lionsgate, the feat is significant. Seemingly breaking a curse, this marks the company's first film since 2023's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes to debut at No. 1. It's also Butler's first No. 1 opening since 2019's Angel Has Fallen, which debuted with $21.3 million.

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As Den of Thieves 2: Pantera blasts its way into theaters on January 10, 2025, fans of the original may be surprised to see Big Nick O'Brien (Gerard Butler) defect to the other side. Then again, given how much the maverick leader of The Regulators bent the law and played by his own rules in the first film, perhaps his criminal turn isn't so shocking.

After all, Den of Thieves is most compelling when it parallels the criminal Outlaws, a gang of bank robbers, with the LAPD Regulators tasked with catching them, crystallizing the thin line between the heroes and villains. While it always seemed Nick was one step away from crossing the line, Butler has explained why the morally vexed detective lost his way and felt compelled to abandon the Regulators and join the Outlaws for a risky European diamond heist.

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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera finally hit cinemas this weekend, but star O'Shea Jackson Jr. is already looking to the next sequel in the franchise. While it has taken seven years to see Jackson Jr. team up with Gerard Butler again, the latter has already hinted that a third movie will not take that long to make. With that in mind, Jackson Jr. recently told Variety about where he sees his character going in the next movie.

“I’m not gonna sugarcoat it: I’m trying to Vin Diesel this thing. To quote Ryan Reynolds, I want to work with Gerard until he’s 90. I just have so much fun doing these and Christian, Gerard, [producer] Tucker Tooley…I can’t express to them enough how I really feel because that’s just not what guys do, but I’ll tell you. When I was early in my career, after “Straight Outta Compton,...

We have never been more back, folks. This week, "Den of Thieves 2" will crash into theaters, bringing exciting action and signaling the return of everyone's favorite perpetually hungover cop, Nicholas "Big Nick" O'Brien, played by Gerard Butler. A sequel to 2018's surprise hit "Den of Thieves," the film has Big Nick breaking bad and teaming up with master thief Donnie Wilson, played by O'Shea Jackson Jr., to pull off a big diamond heist. For his sequel, writer-director Christian Gudegast has increased the scope considerably. While the first film was a down-and-dirty cops and robbers flick set in LA, the sequel heads to Europe for a much bigger score, and leaves plenty of room for more sequels to come.

Interestingly enough, this sequel doesn't just have a simple run-of-the-mill title. Instead, "Den of Thieves 2" has a subtitle: "Pantera." But why? I think a cynical answer could be "because it sounds cool as hell.

The cop goes gangster in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. And if anybody can pull that off with grit and believability in equal measure, it’s Gerard Butler. The Plane and How to Train Your Dragon star reprises his role as Detective 'Big Nick' O’Brien from 2018’s Den of Thieves and brings along O’Shea Jackson Jr. again as the clever heist man, Donnie.

If the first film was an intricately produced cat-and-mouse heist in which a steely detective (Butler) desperately tries to catch a viable foe (Jackson), the second film is director/writer Christian Gudegast's attempt to shake the creative snow globe. He brings Big Nick to the inside of an elaborate European diamond heist and forces him to work with an unlikely partner: Donnie, the man he’s been after all along. That’s a groovy flip, sure, making Den of Thieves 2 2025’s first subversive buddy movie.

I remember when heist movies had memorable characters and scenarios. Den of Thieves certainly didn’t and its only slightly better follow-up, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, tries at the very least, though its efforts ultimately fall flat. The film has less action, which isn’t a bad thing since it builds up suspense for the actual heist and its aftermath, and more talking. Whereas the first film was more gritty and violent, the sequel is more polished and developed. But it’s also the same amount of underwhelming, failing to fully launch despite an intriguing setup.

Sheriff "Big Nick" O'Brien tracks Donnie Wilson to Europe after his daring escape. As Donnie becomes deeply involved with diamond thieves and the Panther mafia, the stakes rise with a plan to rob the world's largest diamond exchange. The film promises intense action and suspense across international borders.

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As a movie star, Gerard Butler owns January the way Will Smith once owned Memorial Day and the “Meg” films own August. That Butler’s B-movie thrillers now hold sway over the frozen, box-office-lite oblivion of the early weeks of the year may seem a Pyrrhic victory, but at least he’s the king of something. And Butler’s brusque, beady-eyed, scowling-hulk charisma has aged well. A quick-fire actor in a caveman’s body, he has the ability to lift a piece of pulp so it almost seems like a real movie.

For much of its two-hour-and-24-minute running time, “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” the sequel to Butler‘s cops-vs.-crooks heist thriller from 2018, does a satisfying impersonation of a high-end crime film. If you want to know what makes Butler a commanding genre bruiser, look no further than the way he smokes on camera, dragging on a cigarette...

In 2018, Den Of Thieves delivered the goods and was a ballsy attempt to rob the unrobbable Los Angeles Federal Reserve. It did modest but respectable business globally considering its limited ambitions, and that apparently was just enough to justify a sequel. In Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera, Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and company head to Europe for another brazen robbery, this time at the top-security World Diamond Center in Nice, where the cop and the crook join forces to penetrate a thief-proof vault full of valuable deposit boxes with millions of dollars of jewels including an uber-desirable pink diamond stolen from the Mafia who wants it back. It’s complicated.

Ditching the L.A. locations of the first (actually doubled by Atlanta), this turns into a lush European and more...

Gerard Butler didn’t have the best time filming Den of Thieves 2: Pantera as he shot the movie “with a freshly torn Acl.”

In a new interview, the actor revealed that he filmed the action-intense movie while injured.

“This was a weird time for me at the beginning of this movie because I’d been through a pretty intense surgery, and then I tore my Acl fully about a month later and then started this movie,” Butler told Entertainment Weekly.

He continued, “So I was not in the best shape, and it was a pretty physical movie, and I didn’t have a chance to get the surgery on my Acl, so I made this movie with a freshly torn Acl, and it was pretty rough. But yeah… I wanted to put a ‘but’ in to make it sound positive, but it wasn’t positive; it was a nightmare...

Even without speaking to him, it's clear from his vibrant performance that Detective “Big Nick” O’Brien from the Den of Thieves movies has become one of Gerard Butler’s favorite roles. Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. return as Detective “Big Nick” O’Brien and master thief Donnie Wilson, respectively, in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, the sequel to their 2018 action-heist hit. The movie delivers its fair share of big twists as director/writer Christian Gudegast expands the franchise’s world and its creative scope.

In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Butler said playing Big Nick stands out among his long list of characters in films like How to Train Your Dragon, Plane, Angel Has Fallen, and others, although he has one favorite character that can't be surpassed:

You know, you can't get [better] than Leonidas [from 2007’s 300]. Something like that is obviously incredible.

Butler then went straight into praising Big Nick as...

Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. return for a Den of Thieves sequel, and the options for where to watch Den of Thieves 2: Pantera vary over time. Butler and Jackson Jr. joined forces for an action/heist movie in the vein of Michael Mann's Heat back in 2018. Despite the mixed-to-negative response from critics, Den of Thieves found an audience at the box office and became a cult favorite. That allowed a sequel to happen with Den of Thieves 2's cast once again headlined by the two main stars of the first film as some new faces join them.

The story of Den of Thieves 2 revolves around Butler's Nick "Big Nick" O'Brien turning away from his life serving the law and joining forces with Jackson Jr.'s Donnie to pull off a new heist. Leaving the streets of Los Angeles behind for a European setting, the Gerard...

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera ransacks theaters on January 10, 2025, giving audiences another daring bank heist seven years after The Outlaws robbed Los Angeles' Federal Reserve. Although The Outlaws' leader, Ray Merrimen (Pablo Schreiber), will not participate in the risky overseas robbery, a handful of characters from the original return for more hyper-violent action as the story moves overseas to London.

Written and directed by Christian Gudegast, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is a direct sequel to the 2018 original bank robbery crime thriller. Aside from several supporting players, at least one main character on each side of the law returns to the sequel, continuing the cat-and-mouse rivalry between The Outlaws and The Regulators. Here's who'll come back in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.

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2025 is kicking off with a variety of movies releasing in theaters, such as a peculiar semi-biographical musical, two horror versions of well-known children’s characters, a remake of a horror classic, and more. 2024 was an interesting year for cinema, with big hits and unexpected surprises from different genres. 2024 saw hits like The Fall Guy, Longlegs, Wicked, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Anora, The Substance, and Terrifier 3, though also some big disappointments, as was Joker: Folie à Deux, Megalopolis, and The Crow.

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With 2024 winding down, Screen Rant's 2025 Movie Preview turns the focus to next year. Exclusive images from the aforementioned titles can be found below, along with new looks at other major titles, such as Ryan Coogler's Sinners and DreamWorks' live-action How To Train Your Dragon. There are also projects with Daisy Ridley, Gerard Butler, Donnie Yen, and more. So whether you're looking forward to action,...

After countless delays over seven years, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is scheduled for a 2025 release date. The film’s director, Christian Gudegast, explains why the film took so long to complete.

The sequel to the 2018 action/crime film Den of Thieves is on its way. In an interview with Screen Rant, Gudegast explained that the “state of the world” created several roadblocks that delayed the film. Additionally, three new images from the sequel have been unveiled by Screen Rant, and they can be seen below.

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Movie icon Gerard Butler is going to stay busy for a while if the filmmakers of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera get their way. In a recent interview with MovieWeb to discuss the sequel to the hit 2018 heist action thriller, director Christian Gudegast and producer Tucker Tooley were eager to tell us how excited they were about the new film and how it falls into a bigger plan for a larger Den of Thieves universe. In fact, Tooley was quick to note:

“We already have a whole idea of what we're doing next. I don't want to give the plot away, but the design here from the original film to this one to the next one was to be a franchise and to be a franchise about incredibly detailed and clever heists with real people… you know, actors that you relate to. There's all kinds of nuance in their performance.

The first reactions to the Gerard Butler action sequel, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, are now in. So, how does this fare against the actor’s previous outings as an action hero? Could this long-awaited heist thriller follow-up make the perfect start to the new year when it lands in theaters on January 10? Fortunately, it sounds very much like the action flick will leave both Butler and genre fans ecstatic. Let's dig in...

Chris Evangelista of Slashfilm found so much to love about Den of Thieves 2: Pantera and Butler’s return as Nicholas "Big Nick" O'Brien, and now hopes for many, many more installments in the franchise.

“Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera rips. Takes the dirtbag action charms of the first and adds a buddy comedy angle. I genuinely can’t get enough of the perpetually hungover Big Nick O’Brien. Keep making these movies and I will keep watching them.

Gerard Butler returns to one of his best action thriller franchises in the first clip for the upcoming crime epic, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. The sequel, which picks up following the explosive events of 2018’s Den of Thieves, sees Butler return as the aggressive and action-loving Detective Nick "Big Nick" O'Brien. Only this time, he turns to the dark side...or so it would seem. Kicked off the force, Big Nick joins forces with his former enemy, O'Shea Jackson Jr.’s conman Donnie Wilson, on a major heist, with the new footage from the action sequel finding the pair going head-to-head. You can check out the new clip from Den of Thieves 2: Pantera below (via Fandango).

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The Witcher season 4 will also be bringing on several new cast members, such as fan-favorite vampire Regis, who will be played by Laurence Fishburne, as well as Danny Woodburn as Geralt's friend, the Dwarf swordsman Zoltan Chivay. With these additions, The Witcher's next outing will have a star-studded cast as the Netflix show reaches a tense point of adapting Andrzej Sapkowski's books.

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It pays to switch sides. Angel Has Fallen and 300 star Gerard Butler finds himself on the wrong side of the law in the explosive new trailer for next years highly anticipated action crime drama Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. Butler returns as the gruff Detective Nick "Big Nick" O'Brien, who turns his back on the L.A. County Sheriffs Department and leaves justice behind, joining the very criminal hes been tracking across Europe.

You can check out the new trailer for Den of Thieves 2: Pantera below.

Released back in 2018, action fans have been eager for the return of Butler as Big Nick ever since. While the first outing was met with a mixed response from critics, Den of Thieves was a big hit with audiences, earning a worldwide total of $80.5 million against a production budget of $30 million and was praised by many as a return to the old-school action crime sagas of yesteryear.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is the long-awaited follow-up to writer/director Christian Gudegasts 2018 crime thriller Den of Thieves. The sequel once again stars Gerard Butler as Sherriff Big Nick OBrien and OShea Jackson Jr. as the ambitious thief Donnie Wilson and is set after the events of the first film, which saw Wilson pull a huge heist out from under O'Brien's nose. While the first film was set in Los Angeles, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera promises to tell an international story and bring its primary characters to Europe, and its trailer even teases something of a villainous turn for Butler's character.

Screen Rant is happy to offer a first look at the poster for Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. The poster highlights key members of the Den of Thieves 2: Pantera cast in Butler and Jackson, even teasing their collaboration in the sequel, and employs a...

Over the course of his nearly 30-year career in film, Gerard Butler has staked his claim as one of the kings of the mid-budget action movie. The Scottish actor has been a mainstay on movie screens since his American breakout in 300 back in 2007, and while most of his movies are met with indifference from critics, he remains a solid box office draw, anchoring films that frequently outperform their modest budgets. But besides bigger franchises like How to Train Your Dragon or the trilogy of Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, and Angel Has Fallen, few of them have warranted making a sequel, though that's about to change with the upcoming Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.

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And Geralt isn't the only character who will look a bit different in The Witcher season 4. Last week, reliable scoop site Redanian Intelligence reported that Kim Bodnia, who played Geralt's witcher mentor Vesemir in The Witcher season 2, isn't returning to the series. That was notable both because Killing Eve star Bodnia was a solid get for the series, but also because season...

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Lionsgate Movie has debuted the first trailer for the Gerard Butler-led sequel ‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.’

Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. return in the sequel to 2018’s action-heist hit.

Big Nick (Butler) is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie (Jackson), who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world’s largest diamond exchange.

Directed by Christian Gudegast, the cast also includes Michael Bisping, Salvatore Esposito, Orli Shuka, Evin Ahmad, Cristian Solimeno, Nazmiye Oral, Yasen Zates Atour, Giuseppe Schillaci, Dino Kelly, Rico Verhoeven, Velibor Topic, and Antonio Bustorff.

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The movie hits U.S. cinemas on January 15th 2025.

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After six years, the first official trailer for Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has arrived, giving us our first look at the upcoming heist thriller starring Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr., although it looks like there will be a slight twist to their dynamic this time as, instead of trying to one up one another, they'll be teaming up to pull off the diamond heist of a lifetime.

However, the synopsis is not quite as revealing, telling us that "Big Nick (Butler) is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie (Jackson), who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world’s largest diamond exchange."

In addition to Gerard Butler (300; Olympus Has Fallen) and O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton; Godzilla: King of the Monsters) reprising their roles from the previous installment,...

Ahead of the release of The Rings of Power Season 2, Prime Video unveiled the first look at a new character, Dark Wizard. Played by Oscar-nominated actor Ciarn Hinds, the new addition is set to add more nuance to the story.

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In Season 2, Sauron has officially returned and after being cast out by Galadriel and without any allies he must rebuild his power through his cunning to oversee the creation of the Rings of Power. His ultimate plan with the rings is to bend the people of Middle-earth to his will. While the Dark Lord is rising our heroes are also getting ready for his eventual attack.

The rings are once more forged in fire for “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2.

The hit Prime Video series, which made history on the streaming platform upon its debut, is welcoming a familiar face back to the Middle-Earth for its second installment. Charlie Vickers is back as the villainous Sauron, but this time, he’s in a new form to deceive those who try to unite the Second Age realm.

After being cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-Earth to his sinister will, the official synopsis teased.

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History stands as a testament that reboots, spin-offs, or adaptations fail the moment makers decide to give their own twist to the mythos. From The Witcher to Eragon, there have been several series and movies that ended up being ridiculed and sneered by fans and critics. And Amazon’s Rings of Power too can be found among such projects.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Based on the famous J. R. R. Tolkien books, the series provided its own spin on the tale by being set thousands of years before the events in the books. Needless to say, the series was not as well received. And even Lord of the Rings star, the late Bernard Hill had some deeply insulting words to say about the series.

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One of the first films to arrive on the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox was the excellent horror mockumentary When the Screaming Starts, about a journalist who tracks a newly formed murder cult founded by a bumbling wannabe serial killer.

Now, a year later, Collider highlighted the film, noting that it’s among 10 of the highest-rated horror movies of the past decade, according to Rotten Tomatoes!

As of this writing, When the Screaming Starts sits at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with an impressive audience score of 81%.

It can be streamed right now on Screambox and Blu-ray copies are available over at Terror Vision.

Directed by Conor Boru, When the Screaming Starts follows struggling journalist turned filmmaker Norman, who finds himself face-to-face with aspiring serial killer Aidan Mendle. When Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he thinks he’s finally landed his big break. But as Aidan and his newly recruited...

Exclusive: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has rounded out its cast, bringing on 11 international talents to star opposite the returning Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. The list includes Salvatore Esposito (Gomorrah), Orli Shuka (Gangs of London), Evin Ahmad (Who Is Erin Carter?), Cristian Solimeno (The Glass Man), Nazmiye Oral (Propaganda), Yasen Zates Atour (The Witcher), Giuseppe Schillaci (Romulus), Dino Kelly (Peaky Blinders), Rico Verhoeven (Black Lotus), Velibor Topic (Outside the Wire) and Antonio Bustorff (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One).

(L-r) Rico Verhoeven, Velibor Topić and Antonio Bustorff

Wrapping principal photography on July 5th — a little more than a week prior to the launch of the SAG-AFTRA strike — Pantera marks the sequel to Den of Thieves, the action thriller from writer-director Christian Gudegast which grossed nearly $45M stateside and more than $80M WW via STX in 2018. The original film watches as a group from the L.

Screambox’s extremely popular horror mockumentary When the Screaming Starts, about a journalist who tracks a newly formed murder cult founded by a bumbling wannabe serial killer, is now heading to 4K Uhd/Blu-ray this September, courtesy of Terror Vision.

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When the Screaming Starts is the perfect combination of humor and horror. It’s Shaun of the Dead meets Spinal Tap. Fangoria’s Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. raved that When the Screaming Starts “does for serial killers what What We Do In the Shadows did for vampires.”

Directed by Conor Boru, When the Screaming Starts follows struggling journalist turned filmmaker Norman, who finds himself face-to-face with aspiring serial killer Aidan Mendle. When Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he thinks he’s finally landed his big break. But as Aidan and his newly recruited...

Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is expanding its ensemble cast.

Season 2 of the record-breaking series boasts franchise newcomers Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, and Tanya Moodie in recurring roles. The second season is currently in production in the U.K., with actors Calam Lynch, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Stuart Bowman, Gavi Singh Chera, William Chubb, Kevin Eldon, Will Keen, Selina Lo, Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen Atour, Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, Ben Daniels, Nicholas Woodeson, and Sam Hazeldine previously announced as part of the new cast.

Oscar-nominated “Belfast” star Hinds has appeared in hit films like “Silence, ” “Munich,” “Persuasion,” “There Will Be Blood,” “In Bruges,” “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” and “The Eclipse.” His TV background includes appearances in “Game of Thrones,” “Rome,” “The English,” “Prime Suspect,” and “The Dry.”

“Rings of Power” co-star Kinnear is best known as Bill Tanner in the James Bond films “Quantum of Solace,...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is rounding out its Season 2 cast with seven actors added in recurring roles. Sam Hazeldine takes on the role of Orc leader Adar in a recasting in the Prime Video series. He replaces Joseph Mawle, who portrayed the character in Season 1. The recasting decision was made months ago, and Mawle did not participate in any of the worldwide promotional events for the series.

Additional new cast members are Gabriel Akuwudike (Hanna), Yasen ‘Zates’ Atour (The Witcher), Ben Daniels (Jupiter’s Legacy), newcomer Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle (Persuasion), and Nicholas Woodeson (Silent Witness). Character details are being kept under wraps.

Developed by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, The Lord of the Rings series is described as an “epic drama” set in the Second Age of Middle-earth — thousands of years before the events of the Lord of the Rings films and the novels by Tolkien.

Some new faces are set to hit Middle-Earth. “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has added seven new cast members for its second season, which is currently in production in the United Kingdom.

Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen Atour, Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, Ben Daniels, Nicholas Woodeson, and Sam Hazeldine have been cast in the series, which serves as a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy series. Hazeldine replaces Joseph Mawle, who played the Ork leader Adar in the first season of the series; a reason for the casting change was not given. The other new cast members’ roles are currently being kept under wraps, but all of them join the show in a recurring capacity.

Akuwudike has appeared in the TV series “Hanna,” “Ridley Road,” and “War of the Worlds,” along with the films “1917” and “Brexit.” Atour was a cast member in Season 2 of Netflix’s “The Witcher,...

The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox streaming service continues to slay with Cinedigm acquiring all North American rights to the horror mockumentary When the Screaming Starts, about a journalist who tracks a newly formed murder cult founded by a bumbling wannabe serial killer.

When the Screaming Starts was released this past fall exclusively on the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror platform Screambox, but is now available on all VOD platforms, including Vudu, Amazon, Apple TV, and others.

Fangoria’s Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. raved that When the Screaming Starts “does for serial killers what What We Do in the Shadows did for vampires.”

Watch the official trailer for When the Screaming Starts below.

Directed by Conor Boru, When the Screaming Starts follows struggling journalist turned filmmaker Norman, who finds himself face to face with aspiring serial killer Aidan Mendle. When Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he thinks he’s finally landed his big break.

One of my favorite films from this year's Popcorn Frights Film Festival was When the Screaming Starts, which centers on a documentary filmmaker (Jared Rogers) who follows a group of up-and-coming serial killers. With the horror comedy coming exclusively to the Bloody Disgusting-operated streaming service Screambox on September 20th, we've been provided with an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers!

You can check out our exclusive clip from When the Screaming Starts below, and read on for additional details on the film:

Press Release: British mockumentary When the Screaming Starts will stream exclusively on Screambox on September 20. Fangoria Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. raved that the film “does for serial killers what What We Do in the Shadows did for vampires.”

Aidan Mendle has a dream; he aspires to be an infamous serial killer. When struggling journalist Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he believes he...

"Tonight was the beginning of my serial killer career." Cinedigm has debuted the main official trailer for a British horror mockumentary called When the Screaming Starts directed by Conor Boru. This recently premiered at the FrightFest Horror Festival in London last month, and will be out to watch later this month. Aidan Mendle has a dream; he aspires to be an infamous serial killer. When struggling journalist, Norman, is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he believes he might've finally landed his big break. "A wannabe serial killer, a warped filmmaker, and a murderous cult on a blood-soaked rampage." It's being marketed as a hilarious horror comedy that "does for serial killers what What We Do in the Shadows did for vampires." The ensemble cast features Ed Hartland, Jared Rogers, Kaitlin Reynell, Octavia Gilmore, Kavé Niku, Ronja Haugholt, Vår Haugholt & Yasen Atour. This seems to lack the ingenuity and...

The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox streaming service continues to slay with Cinedigm acquiring all North American rights to the horror mockumentary When the Screaming Starts, about a journalist who tracks a newly formed murder cult founded by a bumbling wannabe serial killer. The official trailer is now live, debuted by Fangoria today!

When the Screaming Starts will release exclusively on the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror platform Screambox on September 20, followed by a wider digital release later this fall.

Fangoria’s Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. raved that When the Screaming Starts “does for serial killers what What We Do in the Shadows did for vampires.”

Watch the official trailer for When the Screaming Starts below.

Directed by Conor Boru, When the Screaming Starts follows struggling journalist turned filmmaker Norman, who finds himself face to face with aspiring serial killer Aidan Mendle. When Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he...

Lights. Camera. Murder!

Screambox continues to slay with Cinedigm announcing today they have acquired all North American rights to the horror mockumentary When the Screaming Starts, about a journalist who tracks a newly formed murder cult founded by a bumbling wannabe serial killer.

When the Screaming Starts will release exclusively on the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror platform Screambox on September 20, followed by a wider digital release later this fall.

The news was first reported by Deadline.

Directed by Conor Boru, When the Screaming Starts follows struggling journalist turned filmmaker Norman, who finds himself face to face with aspiring serial killer Aidan Mendle. When Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he thinks he’s finally landed his big break. But as Aidan and his newly recruited murder cult embark on a blood-soaked rampage, Norman’s dream of becoming a renowned documentary filmmaker turns into a nightmare.

When the Screaming...

Exclusive: Cinedigm and Screambox have acquired all North American rights to the U.K. horror mockumentary When the Screaming Starts, following a documentary-maker as he attempts to make a film about a wannabe serial killer.

The acquisition follows the picture’s award-winning tour of horror festivals worldwide, which kicked off with the U.K.’s FrightFest last year and included U.S. dates at Popcorn Frights, Panic Fest, and Telluride Horror Show.

The film was also named Best Sci-fi/Horror Feature at the 2022 London Independent Film Festival.

When the Screaming Starts will release exclusively on Bloody Disgusting-powered horror platform Screambox on September 20, followed by a wider digital release later this fall.

The horror-comedy is actor and director Conor Boru’s debut feature.

He co-wrote the work with actor Ed Hartland, who co-stars as wannabe psychopath Aidan Mendle. Jared Rogers plays struggling journalist turned filmmaker Norman who thinks he has landed...

It is the directorial debut of the UK’s Conor Boru.

Toronto and Los Angeles-based Double Dutch International (Ddi) has boarded worldwide sales for UK title, When The Screaming Starts.

The FrightFest premiere is the directorial debut of UK filmmaker Conor Boru.

Jared Rogers plays Norman Graysmith, a struggling documentary filmmaker who follows an aspiring serial killer on his bloody quest for infamy, with Ed Hartland playing the killer. Yasen Atour and Octavia Gilmore round out the cast.

Boru co-wrote the script with Hartland. The producers are Dom Lenoir, along with Boru, Hartland and Rogers.

EFM 2022: The buzz titles...

It is the directorial debut of the UK’s Conor Boru.

Toronto and Los Angeles-based Double Dutch International (Ddi) has boarded worldwide sales for UK title, When The Screaming Starts.

The FrightFest premiere is the directorial debut of UK filmmaker Conor Boru.

Jared Rogers plays Norman Graysmith, a struggling documentary filmmaker who follows an aspiring serial killer on his bloody quest for infamy, with Ed Hartland playing the killer. Yasen Atour and Octavia Gilmore round out the cast.

Boru co-wrote the script with Hartland. The producers are Dom Lenoir, along with Boru, Hartland and Rogers.

EFM 2022: The buzz titles...

Stars: Jared Rogers, Ed Hartland, Kaitlyn Reynell, Octavia Gilmore, Yasen Atour | Written by Conor Boru, Ed Hartland | Directed by Conor Boru

Written by Ed Hartland (who also stars) and Conor Boru, who also directs his first feature film here, When The Screaming Starts is a comedy-horror in which Norman Graysmith (Jared Rogers), perhaps an homage to Louis Theroux, a documentary film-maker who has made a career documenting the lives of people living on the fringes of society, is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aiden. Norman thinks this is going to be the documentary that catapults his career into orbit.

The movie doesn’t dilly-dally before revealing it’s tongue-in-cheek satyr and dry British sarcasm, with the introduction of Aiden Mendle (Hartland), the aspiring killer in question. One moment Aiden is friendly and matter-of-fact with his desire to be a successful serial killer, and then he’s staring bullet creepily in doorways.