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Not every villain featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a Big Bad, and there was no shortage of memorable demonic creatures and evil spirits for Buffy to face throughout the series seven seasons. Still, not every foe was fearsome, and some appeared ridiculously weak to the point that viewers had to wonder how they managed to survive on the Hellmouth as long as they did.

Related: The Big Bads In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Ranked By Fighting Ability

From Moloch the internet villain to Bezoar's evil eggs, it's truly a mystery why Buffy and the Scoobies saw these antagonists as anything but defenseless. There is no doubt that fans of the series will remember these truly unimpressive and easily conquerable villains from BtVS.

Exclusive: Production is underway in the Netherlands on director Nico van den Brink’s debut feature Moloch, which has been boarded for world sales by XYZ Films. Splendid Film has taken distribution rights in Benelux.

In the horror-thriller, 38-year-old Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient. Today, we can reveal a first look image from the movie.

The Dutch-language pic is being produced by Sabine Brian and Ronald Versteeg for Nl Film in Amsterdam. Todd Brown and Maxime Cottray are executive-producing for XYZ. Cast is being kept under wraps.

Van den Brink has previously garnered attention for his shorts. One of those, The Burden, also produced by Nl Film,...

The Swedish series created by Amir Chamdin and Fares Fares, based upon an idea by Mauricio Molinari, won the 3rd edition of the festival’s competition, with Moloch and Red Light also claiming trophies. The 3rd edition of Cannes International Series Festival - Canneseries has awarded its principal prize to the Swedish production Partisan. Created by Amir Chamdin and Fares Fares (who also leads the cast) based upon an original idea by Mauricio Molinari, the series which also stars Johan Rheborg, Sofia Karemyr and Anna Björk recounts the misadventures of Johnny as he enters Jordnära, an idyllic gated community that runs a very successful organic farm, as their new truck driver. He gets to know Nicole and Maria, two foster children who are spending the summer there. He soon starts to suspect trafficking. The more Johnny's concern for the girls grows, the more focus they take from his main mission.

Dominated by the charisma of Swedish-Lebanese lead Fares Fares, a “Westworld” co-star, “Partisan,” a Warner Bros.- production for Scandinavia’s Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) walked off Wednesday evening with best series at the 3rd Canneseries TV festival.

Due to play on Nent’s SVOD service Viaplay, the slow burning and unsettling Nordic Noir sees Fares Fares’ character, Johnny, accept a job at an closed gate organic food farm which is some kind of front for far more sinister activities.

Co-created by Amir Chandin and Fares and sold by Federation Entertainment, “Partisan” was part of a 10-title Canneseries competition which painted this year a fairly disturbing portrait of contemporary world.

“Although all the shows at Canneseries were made before Covid-19, they are still often very dark and often treat weighty social issues,” Albin Levi, Canneseries artistic director, told Variety.

Cannes’ special interpretation prize and student award went to the ensemble cast of “Red Light,...

Warner Bros’ Swedish drama Partisan has been named best series at the 2020 Canneseries, the screenings festival that has run alongside the virtual Mipcom.

Featuring Chernobyl and Westworld star Fares Fares, Partisan was made for Nordic Entertainment Group’s streaming service Viaplay.

Fares features as Johnny, a man who finds himself in Jordnära, a secluded Swedish village that is home to an idyllic community — at least on the surface.

The five-part series is directed by Amir Chandin (Hassel) and produced by Johanna Wennerberg for Warner Bros International Television Production Sverige with Fares as creative producer.

Other winners included Russian actress Polina Maksimova for her performance in cancer patient comedy-drama 257 Reasons to Live. The full winners are below.

Best series

Partisan

Best short form series

Broder

Best performance

Polina Maksimova for 257 Reasons to Live

Special Interpretation Prize

The cast of Red Light

Best Screenplay

Arnaud Malherbe and Marion Festraëts for Moloch

Best...

Mark Hamill is mourning the death of fellow Star Wars actor Andrew Jack, who died on Tuesday from complications of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).

“I’m so sorry and saddened to hear we have lost Andrew Jack,” Hamill, 68, shared on Twitter Thursday. “He was such a kind gentleman who was deeply gifted & beloved by all who knew him. My deepest condolences to his family.”

Jack appeared in three Star Wars films and was the dialect coach for The Lord of The Rings films. In addition to playing Resistance Major Caluan Ematt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi,...

Sad news today. It is being reported that Star Wars actor and dialogue coach Andrew Jack has passed away due to complications from Coronavirus. He died in a hospital just outside London. He was 76 years old. He was currently working with director Matt Reeves on the upcoming DC Comics adventure The Batman as a dialect coach. Production on that movie was recently put on hold.

Andrew Jack's wife Gabrielle Rogers was stuck in quarantine at the time of her husband's death. Representative Jill McCullough had this to say about the Star Wars actor and dialect coach's passing.

"He died this morning of Covid-19 &#160at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. Andrew lived on one the oldest working houseboats on the&#160Thames, he was fiercely independent but madly in love with his wife; also a dialect coach; Gabrielle Rogers. Tragically she is stuck in quarantine in Australia having just flown in from Nz last week.

Andrew Jack, the dialect coach for the Lord of The Rings films, has died at age 76 from complications of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), according to multiple reports. TMZ was the first outlet to report on his death on Tuesday.

The Star Wars actor’s rep, Jill McCullough, said in a statement to Evening Standard that he died Tuesday morning at a hospital outside of London as a result of complications he’d developed from the deadly respiratory illness.

Jack’s wife Gabrielle Rogers was unable to be with him in England due to being quarantined in Australia, McCullough said.

“Andrew...

DC Universe’s Swamp Thing has dredged up someone to play its title character: Andy Bean (Power) will star as Alec Holland, aka Swamp Thing, in the upcoming streaming series, TVLine has learned.

Taking inspiration from the DC comics, Bean’s character is a passionate biologist who emerges from the swamp “with a monstrous physique and strange new powers over plant life.” He soon finds he has to use his newfound powers to defend the Louisiana town of Marais from “dark forces” that arise.

Bean played Greg on the Starz drama Power for the first three seasons, and co-starred in...

Corellian Foot Chase is the name of the first deleted scene to be released from Solo, and it features Han and Qi'ra running away from Lady Proxima's henchman, Moloch, and his Corellian hounds. While Solo didn't make as much money as Lucasfilm and Disney were hoping it would at the box office, the upcoming Blu-ray release could go a long way in making any money back that was lost during the promotional campaign for the film. After all, The Last Jedi is currently the number one selling Blu-ray release of 2018.

The deleted scene from Solo features Alden Ehrenreich's young Han Solo and Emilia Clarke's Qi'ra as they run from Moloch and his hounds. While they're running, Qi'ra finds a steel barrel filled with long, eel-like water creatures, which Han is reluctant to jump into. It's at that point in which the scene seems like a tip of the hat to Indiana Jones,...

Solo: A Star Wars Story features Alden Ehrenreich as the famous smuggler, Donald Glover (Atlanta) as Lando Calrissian, Woody Harrelson (War for the Planet of the Apes) as Tobias Beckett, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) as L3-37, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Qi’Ra, Thandie Newton (Westworld) as Val, Ian Kenny (Sing Street) as Rebolt, Harley Durst (Wonder Woman) as Moloch, Jon Favreau (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Rio Durant, along with Tien Hoang, Paul Bettany and Warwick Davis.

A new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is released in cinemas on May 25th.

Thanks to some Topps trading cards, we now have a brand new peek at the leading duo of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

We are, of course, referring to Han and Chewbacca, otherwise known as the galaxy’s greatest double act. But considering the Ron Howard-directed spinoff takes place long before A New Hope – and before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, too – Solo is all set to deep dive into the early days of Han and Chewie’s friendship, as they begin to mosey their way through the galaxy’s criminal underworld.

It’s a dark and seedy universe of untold riches and high-flying gangsters, of heroes and villains, and in the gallery of Topps trading cards below, you’ll be able to catch that new look at Han and Chewie along with many of the film’s other main players, both of the good and bad variety.

Solo: A Star Wars Story features Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!) as the famous smuggler, Donald Glover (Atlanta) as Lando Calrissian, Woody Harrelson (War for the Planet of the Apes) as Tobias Beckett, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) as L3-37, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Qi’Ra, Thandie Newton (Westworld) as Val, Ian Kenny (Sing Street) as Rebolt, Harley Durst (Wonder Woman) as Moloch, Jon Favreau (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Rio Durant, along with Tien Hoang, Paul Bettany and Warwick Davis.

A new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is released in cinemas on May 25th.

Solo: A Star Wars Story features Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!) as the famous smuggler, Donald Glover (Atlanta) as Lando Calrissian, Woody Harrelson (War for the Planet of the Apes) as Tobias Beckett, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) as L3-37, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Qi’Ra, Thandie Newton (Westworld) as Val, Ian Kenny (Sing Street) as Rebolt, Harley Durst (Wonder Woman) as Moloch, Jon Favreau (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Rio Durant, along with Tien Hoang, Paul Bettany and Warwick Davis.

A new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is released in cinemas on May 25th.

Today we finally found out where the Empire assigns the Stormtroopers deemed too incompetent to staff the various Death Stars, Star Destroyers and Imperial bases. Meet the Mudtrooper – the job that I’m guessing no self-respecting trooper ever wants to be signed up to.

This guy, dressed in what looks like mismatched hand-me-downs and caked in filth, is one of many new additions to the Star Wars universe, as revealed in these Solo: A Star Wars Story Topps Cards (seen in the gallery down below). We also get a good look here at Thandie Newton’s Val, Moloch, Argus “Six Eyes” Panos, Qi’Ra, Lando, a Range Trooper, Chewie and Han himself.

Finally, there’s also a character that might just beat out Kit Fisto as my favourite name in Star Wars: Therm Scissorpunch! Presumably the shining light of the Scissorpunch dynasty, Therm appears to be some Dr. Zoidberg-alike lobster...

Ron Howard has promised that the full-length Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer is on the way and now we have a look at some new characters from the forthcoming movie, thanks to a Denny's restaurant commercial. Denny's and Lucasfilm put together a presentation in Los Angeles today, showing off the new Solo-themed menu along with a new commercial and merchandise that features some alien creatures who look pretty cool. Additionally, there's also some Easter Eggs for hardcore Star Wars fans to hunt for.

The new Solo Denny's commercial takes place in a shady looking bar with an intense game of sabacc going on between some aliens and two young children playing Han Solo and Lando. Moloch, Therm Boisserpunch, and Argus "Six Eyes" Panox are the new creatures who are featured in the commercial as well as the new trading cards. The trading cards will cost $3 and will have all...

Denny's is teaming up with Lucasfilm for a Solo: A Star Wars Story cross-promotion campaign. They released a promo spot that features kid versions of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian playing a game of sabacc in the deep underworld of the Star Wars universe. The promo also features Chewbacca and is filled all kinds of strange new alien characters.

There is a movie-inspired menu and trading card packs that can be purchased as well. Those trading cards, which I included below the promo video, introduce some new characters who will be in the film. They include a character with the hilariously awesome name of Therm Scissorpunch! Proceeds from the trading card packs will benefit the charity, No Kid Hungry.

It looks like this was a fun cross-promotional opportunity for everyone involved. The video came with the following description:

Directed by Ron Howard, the highly anticipated new film traces the origins...

Even though interest was low leading into December, The Last Jedi is finally out of the way and now everyone wants to talk about the Han Solo movie. The standalone Star Wars adventure is less than six months away from release. Disney and Lucasfilm still don't want to show us anything yet. So we've had to rely on a couple of leaks to get our first look. A poster surfaced on social media that looked too good to be fake. Disney denied it was from them, but now we know otherwise. That same art showed up on leaked Lego sets that will hit stores this summer. While we learned quite a bit about the movie from those sets, a better look gives us previously unknown character names and confirms some of the new planets.

While Disney isn't ready to give fans any substantial info on the Han Solo move yet,...