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Based on the harrowing real-life experiences of Maxwell Smart, The Boy in the Woods recounts twelve-year-old Max’s battle for survival during World War II. Set in 1942, the film finds Max living in occupied Poland when he becomes separated from his mother and sister. Facing imminent capture by Nazi forces, Max manages to escape into the dense forests near his hometown.

It is in these formidable woods that Max begins a solitary fight to evade the ruthless occupiers. Directed by Rebecca Snow in her narrative debut, the movie paints a vivid yet respectful picture of Max’s grueling journey. Drawing from Maxwell Smart’s own memoir, Snow crafts a deeply moving tale of courage against all odds. Through Max’s ordeal, we witness both the tragic realities of life under Nazi rule as well as the enduring strength of the human spirit.

Snow guides viewers through the film with a blend of empathy and care.

True story of Jewish boy in flight from the Nazis and hiding in the forest is told here with a fair amount of sentiment

This sweet if somewhat sentiment-and-string-section-forward Canadian film tells the true story of Max, a Jewish boy aged 12 from Warsaw, trying to evade capture during the second world war. Max’s mother (Berkley Silverman), aware that there’s only a little time left and she and her baby daughter won’t make it, manages to bundle Max off to go stay with a Polish family deep in the forest who will be paid for their troubles. Jasko (Richard Armitage) and Kasia (Masa Lizdek) are basically good souls, but when the authorities start coming round looking for hiding Jews and Max only just manages to convince them he’s Kasia’s little brother, the Polish couple feel they can’t risk endangering their own and their child’s lives for Max.

A new trailer has been released for Season 3 of Chucky, the TV series continuation of the Child's Play and Chucky movie series featuring Brad Dourif as the titular killer doll.

Previously, it was revealed that the third season of Chucky is set to arrive on Syfy/USA on Oct. 4, 2023. A sneak peek image, shown above, reveals returning star Devon Sawa, now playing the president of the United States, staring down Dourif's Chucky. Providing a further peek into the new episodes is the Season 3 teaser trailer, exploring Chucky's sinister plan to invade the Oval Office. It gives the horror genre favorite the opportunity to crack the patriotic one-liner, "God Bless America!"

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An official description for Season 3 reads, "In Chucky’s unending thirst for power, Season 3 now sees Chucky ensconced with the most powerful family in the world — America's First Family, inside...

Exclusive: Principal photography has begun on the World War II drama The Boy in the Woods, a big-screen adaptation of the wartime novel The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War by Maxwell Smart.

The film is currently shooting in North Bay, Canada.

Rebecca Snow (Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust) writes and directs the pic for Lumanity and JoBro Production. Myriad Pictures holds worldwide rights (excluding Canada) and will be selling the film at the American Film Market.

Billed as a “true-life survival story,” the film follows Max, a Jewish boy hiding in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during WWII. Max is an aspiring artist who escapes death when his selfless mother tells him to run away from the Nazi trucks which they are about to board. He befriends a farmer, Jasko, and his family, who take him in. But with mounting...

If you asked me to name my favorite horror film franchise, I wouldn’t cite the usual suspects. My go-to slasher is a pint-sized ginger-haired terror in coveralls whose Good Guy exterior hides a killer underneath. Yep, Don Mancini’s “Child’s Play” series has terrified me, dazzled me, and given me many an opportunity to champion its progressive disability politics. So a series based around Chucky navigating Generation Alpha was always going to be my personal catnip, but thankfully it delivers.

Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur) has had a rough go of things. After the death of his mother, Jake’s father, Lucas (Devon Sawa), spends his days drinking and berating Jake for being gay and a loner. Jake wants to be an artist and his recent sculptures have focused on dolls, so when he spies everyone’s favorite possessed plastic creature at a yard sale, it gives Jake the opportunity to complete his latest piece.

Chuck and Shazam! actor Zachary Levi will be performing hosting duties at this year's MTV Movie & TV Awards. And in a recent article where he talks about how much pressure he's been under lately performing as the host for the awards show, the actor updated us on Shazam 2. Levi says that the much-anticipated sequel to director David F. Sanberg's Big meets Superman action flick Shazam! has begun scriptwriting and he expects the flick to start shooting in either late spring or early summer next year.

On a related note, New Line planned to introduce Dwayne Johnson as Shazam's arch-nemesis Black Adam in the first film, but then the powers that be behind the scenes felt it would be better to introduce the characters separately. And following the success of Shazam! we recently passed along word that The Shallows, Non-Stop and Jungle Cruise director Jaume Collet-Serra will be reuniting with Johnson...