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This season of NBC’s Chicago P.D. has been a struggle for Hank Voight (Jason Beghe). But after escaping death after being grabbed by a serial killer and then losing one of your closest teammates, no one can fault the big boss for being in his feelings.

Deadline has an exclusive clip from tonight’s episode “The After,” written by Matthew Browne and airing at 10 p.m. on NBC, showing Voight and Asa Chapman (Sara Bues) working closely on his latest case. This will certainly get Voight/Chapman shippers in a tizzy—I know it did me—but is Voight even the relationship type? After his wife’s tragic death and how he mourns her so till this day, is he capable or even interested in having a new woman in his life romantically? Beghe on all that and more in our Q&a below.

Jason Beghe as Sgt. Hank Voight,...

Oscar-nominated Mexican sound designer Martin Hernandez has given new details about his latest project, Netflix documentary series The Master Of Monarchs [working title], which will launch on the platform later this year.

The series takes flight with the story of the Monarch butterfly and its journey from Canada to El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve, a nature reserve in Mexico. The keeper of the reserve, environmental activist Homero Gomez, was murdered in 2020. It is believed he was killed because he stood up against organised crime groups.

The Master Of Monarchs will feature interviews with Gomez’s wife and children.

“It’s a great documentary.

Anthony Hopkins, despite being 86 years old, has no plans to retire and loves working as an actor. Hopkins feels lucky to still be receiving scripts and working in the industry at his age. Hopkins is currently writing a biography and his wife is working on a documentary about his life and career.

Academy Award winner and acting icon Anthony Hopkins has no plans to retire anytime soon, with the Silence of the Lambs and Nixon star saying he is in “good health,” and simply loves working. In a recent interview with People, Hopkins, now 86 years old, revealed that he will continue to act for as long as he possibly can, and says he is “aware” of his own mortality.

“I’ve just had a medical checkup. I’m in good shape. I’m aware of my mortality. To be realistic, I know that if I have a few more years of work in me,...

From director Matthew Brown, who co-wrote the script with playwright Mark St. Germain (adapting his own stage play), Freud’s Last Session tells a fictional tale about what a meeting of the minds might have been like between Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), the father of psychoanalysis, and author C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode), at a time when war was raging around them. The two men clash and challenge each other as they debate their views, but their mutual respect allows them to listen and understand their different beliefs about life, death, love, faith and science in a way we could all learn from.

Two Indian films Salaar Part 1 – Ceasefire and Dunki buoyed the North American box office on a relatively quiet holiday weekend as Searchlight Pictures’ All Of Us Strangers had a solid per-screen openings and Poor Things a nice expansion.

From Tollywood to Bollywood, this was a one-two-punch illustrating the key role of Indian films at the U.S. box office, especially this weekend as Christmas shopping and Christmas Eve slowed theater traffic.

Telugu film Salaar Part 1 – Ceasefire opened at $5.48 million on 802 screens to a no. 5 spot in North America. Distributed in the U.S. by Moksha Movies and Pathyangira Cinemas. The action pic directed by Prashanth Neel stars Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Haasan, Jagapathi Babu.

And Dunki from Yas Raj Films, starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Raju Hirani, grossed an estimated $3.59 million on 686 screens for the no. ten spot. The estimate through Sunday is $4.8 million.

Among indie fare, Andrew Haigh...

Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire saw $2.5 million in Thursday previews as the Telugu action thriller opens in about 800 locations in North America. Bollywood superstar Shah Ruhk Kan toplines drama Dunki, his third film of the year after Pathaan and Jawan, both in the top ten of India’s highest-grossing films.

Presented by Moksha Movies/Pathyangira Cinemas, Salaar directed by Prashanth Neel, stars Prabhas and Prithviraj Sukumaran in the story of a gang leader who makes a promise to a dying friend.

Indian films are a mainstay at the specialty box office, some weekends more than others. This is a big one. Key indie openings include Searchlight Pictures’ much-nominated All Of Us Strangers by Andrew Haigh; Michel Franco’s Memory from Ketchup Entertainment; Freud’s Last Session from Sony Pictures Classics’ and Music Box Pictures’ The Crime Is Mine, all in limited release.

On Salaar: Prabhas (Baahubali) is one of the biggest stars of Telugu cinema.

Freud's Last Session, adapted from the play by Mark St. Germain, posits a fictional 1939 meeting between the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) in London shortly after Germany invaded Poland. Freud (Anthony Hopkins), dying of oral cancer, wanted to meet the Oxford professor famed for his religious beliefs. Freud was an unabashed atheist who mocked the concept of God as pure fiction manifested by foolish humans. Freud debates a nervous Lewis as England prepares for war and his obsessed daughter, Anna (Liv Lisa Fries), a prominent academic in the study of child psychology, desperately searches for morphine to please him.

Matthew Goode and director/co-writer Matthew Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) discuss working with an acting legend while portraying notable 20th century figures. Goode "didn't know a huge amount about this period of his life [but] shaped" his performance from Narnia and Christian author C.

Freud's Last Session is a drama film based on the play by Mark St. Germain, featuring C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud discussing God and relationships. Directed by Matthew Brown, the movie aims to explore relevant themes of polarization and the need for meaningful dialogue in today's society. Matthew Goode delivers a remarkable performance as C.S. Lewis, showcasing elements of the character's Ptsd and his humanity. Working with Anthony Hopkins was a rewarding experience.

Freud's Last Session is based on the Mark St. Germain play of the same name. The movie tells the story of a fictional meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. In this meeting, they debate God and discuss the nature of their relationships with others, including Freud's daughter.

Freud's Last Session is directed by Matthew Brown, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Germain. Brown is also a producer for the movie. Freud's Last Session...

An imagined conversation between two eminent historical figures who may or may not have ever met — nobody seems to know — forms the heart of Freud’s Last Session, an intellectual fable from Sony Pictures Classics that grew out of a play and, before that, a book and an Ivy League seminar.

Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins plays the inventor of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, opposite Matthew Goode as the celebrated author and theologian C.S. Lewis in a cerebral clash of titans. But as co-writer and director Matthew Brown said on Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel, the movie version as he envisioned it almost didn’t happen.

“I mean you always dream that you would have an actor like Hopkins say he would do the role,” Brown said. “And we did try once and we didn’t get very far. And then we did some more work on the script and tried again.

A few days after AFM wrapped in Santa Monica, the dearth of substantial deals trickling in is pointing to a weakened film sales market which is grappling with structural changes and the reverberations of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Global industry players came into the AFM with reasonable hopes of dealmaking after a quiet Toronto festival, even if many packages were held back due to the strike. Yet, the main talking point of this AFM came down to the dysfunctional logistics of the event which was held for the first time at the Meridien Delfina hotel instead of the beachfront Loews.

“The logistics of AFM were more noisy than the actual market of AFM,” admits Scott Shooman, who was named head of film earlier this year at AMC Networks, a portfolio that encompasses IFC Films, Rlje Films and the streaming service Shudder.

Dylan Leiner, the senior EVP of acquisitions and production at Sony Pictures Classics,...