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BBC Studios is prepared to plough resource into its scripted and entertainment offerings as CEO Tom Fussell stresses the group’s “long-term mandate” amid global market contraction.

Fussell was joined by his new productions boss Zai Bennett at yesterday’s BBC Studios Showcase and the pair gave Deadline an insight into short, medium and long-term thinking.

For Bennett, who joined from Sky late last year, “maintaining our creative momentum” by investing in scripted and entertainment is the first priority.

“In scripted we are looking at whether there are investments we want to make in individuals or whether there are labels that have all the resources they need,” said Bennett. “How can we help them? They have brilliant relationships and I need to make sure the people running those labels have the environment and resources they need to back that up.”

BBC Studios wholly owns the likes of Baby Reindeer producer Clerkenwell Films,...

Artists Writers and Artisans (Awa) and Vertigo Entertainment have joined forces for The Future of Fear, “a new collection of pulse-pounding, spine-chilling horror stories.”

While the collection is being launched with a brand new original horror comic – more on that in just a minute – it’s important to note that The Future of Fear initiative is “designed to haunt fans across every medium—illustrated prose, comics, film, and television.”

Awa and Vertigo Entertainment aim to “forge the next era of boundary-pushing horror franchises with The Future of Fear,” which will deliver “a chilling lineup of stories that will be released over the next year, crafted by a handpicked team of master storytellers and artists.”

The press release details, “This collaboration redefines how terrifying tales are discovered, created, and consumed, promising to leave audiences thrilled, shaken, and hungry for more. As the Eisner Award-winning publisher brings each Future of Fear story to life through graphic works,...

Comic book company Artists Writers and Artisans and production company Vertigo Entertainment have announced the first book in their “Future of Fear” collaboration.

“Look Out,” which was written by Dan Baillie and features artwork from Tim Bradstreet is set to be released on May 7. The work of illustrated prose marks the launch of “The Future of Fear,” of which future editions will feature different stories, tones, horror ideas and formats.

Per the press release, “Look Out” follows Oscar, who while “recuperating from a divorce, takes a job as a fire lookout in a secluded forest outpost, hoping for solitude and a fresh start. But his quiet retreat takes a sinister turn when he discovers a mangled sheet of paper scrawled with a strange set of rules that claim to ensure he’ll stay safe during his watch. At first, Oscar laughs it off as a prank – a bit of harmless...

Jackrabbit Media has wrapped production on its in-house thriller Lookout and will commence sales at the AFM in Las Vegas next week.

Stefan Colson whose credits include Ghosts Of Red Ridge, directs the story starring Meghan Carrasquillo from Blind Waters as a young woman seeking solitude and clarity who takes a job at a remote fire lookout tower.

However as she settles into her new role strange occurrences take place and she begins to put the pieces together in an effort to understand what is happening. Trent Culkin (Ghosts Of Red Ridge) andJohn Marrs (Outlaw Johnny Black) also star.Brandon Cahela wrote the screenplay.

In "Last Voyage of the USS Constitution," players have the option to side either with Ironsides and his robots, or Mandy and her group of scavengers. Siding with Mandy will require destroying the robots, and the reward is only a modest sum of caps. Choosing Ironsides leads to one of Fallout 4's best moments, and much better quest rewards.

Fallout 4 is packed full of fun side quests and places to explore, with one of the oddest that can be stumbled on being the beached USS Constitution. In one of the weirdest but wonderfully amusing quests, the Sole Survivor is tasked with helping a group of stranded tourist attraction robots or scrapping them for parts. However, there is a clear benefit to one choice over the other, both in terms of rewards and morality.

The weird Fallout 4 side quest "Last Voyage of the USS Constitution" will begin once the Sole Survivor...

Piccolo's training of Gohan was a step towards redemption, driven by a desire to leave a lasting legacy for himself. Despite starting as enemies, Piccolo and Gohan's bond grew strong, with Piccolo becoming like a father figure to Gohan. Gohan credits much of his strength and growth to Piccolo's influence, solidifying Piccolo's legacy beyond his own expectations.

Piccolo's training of Gohan in Dragon Ball Z is one of his first steps towards redemption, although it doesn't really seem that way when one reads the beginning of the arc. Kami, however, was able to see through Piccolo's actions and identify his real motive at the time: to have a legacy.

In chapter 13 of Dragon Ball Z, Piccolo is seen setting Gohan up for his survival training, and mentions that Gohan should "curse his fate" as Piccolo has, should he be displeased with the situation. Kami and Mr. Popo are shown...

Summoners is first to go.

Jackrabbit Media is moving into US distribution with the release of Terence Krey’s witchcraft drama Summoners.

The film will premiere on the Nightstream genre TVoD platform before debuting on major digital platforms in December.

Summoners is about a former witch called back into the world of magic when a childhood friend requests her help in performing a dark spell.

The cast includes Christine Nyland, who co-wrote the screenplay with Krey, and genre veteran Larry Fessenden.

CEO Jack Campbell plans to release 10-12 films a year starting in 2024, comprising third-party acquisitions and in-house productions such as Ghosts Of Red Ridge,...

Drop Nineteens’ initial run may have only lasted four years, but the shoegaze pioneers’ 1992 debut album Delaware is widely considered one of the genre’s defining records. Now after 30 years away, they’re returning with their new album Hard Light on November 3rd on Wharf Cat Records. The lead single “Scapa Flow” is out now, and they’ve also announced some 2023 tour dates to celebrate their comeback.

By the time Drop Nineteens first disbanded, they’d already become massively successful. Lead singer and songwriter Greg Ackell was happy to go out on a high note and leave the music world on good terms, but probably didn’t anticipate the staying power Delaware would soon have in the indie rock sphere — thank goodness he kept his guitar around.

“The intent on Delaware was to reflect that time in our lives, which I think it did accurately,” Ackell explains in a statement.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom may be the newest Zelda game, but it doesn't leave its past entirely behind, as there are a number of fun Easter eggs to be found throughout the Kingdom of Hyrule. Some references are easy to spot, but others may only ever be discovered by players with the keenest of eyes, attention to detail, and knowledge of the franchise's extensive (and confusing) lore.

Even more so than its predecessor, Breath of the Wild, there are plenty of items and locations for players to stumble across while exploring Totk's map. There are over one hundred Shrines on the surface and the Sky Islands, an equal number of Lightroots in the Depths, and a somehow even greater number of Korok seeds to find and collect for Hestu this time around. With so much on their plates already, it's not surprising that some players might...

All of Link's new abilities in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are entertaining to play around with, and there is one feature that can make it even more fun after players unlock it. Sadly, it is easy to miss the questline that leads to it, especially with as many interesting side quests and exploration that is opened up for Link early on. Totk's open world is wonderful with so many possibilities, but it makes it easy to delay some quests like this one, the reward for which would have made the game much more enjoyable.

Link gets many new powers in Tears of the Kingdom, including his incredible Ultrahand ability. Using this, players have been able to design incredible builds for either functional purposes or just for silly fun. Despite this, Ultrahand can also prove to be a bit tricky to use, and having to create the...

Tears of the Kingdom gives Link so many more tools than he had in Breath of the Wild, but the paraglider remains an essential asset. That’s why it’s so strange that you don’t start the game with it. After all, Breath of the Wild‘s opening hours were practically a paraglider playground.

Well, it turns out that the paraglider is in Tears of the Kingdom. You’re just going to have to work a little harder to acquire it.

In Tears of the Kingdom, you acquire the paraglider from a character named Purah. To find Purah, you’ll need to first complete the opening tutorial area. This is the area located beneath the Great Sky Island. It’s relatively short, and it should lead you into the greater Hyrule Field area.

Once you’re able to explore the world a bit, look for a place called Lookout Landing on your map.

Darius Jeremy Pierce, known to viewers of We’re Here and RuPaul’s Drag Race as the drag queen Shangela, has been accused of rape by a former crew member on the HBO series, the Los Angeles Times reports.

In a lawsuit McGarrigle filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the former production assistant claims that Pierce sexually assaulted him after a crew party in February 2020. Per McGarrigle, he and Pierce were in a Louisiana hotel room when Pierce allegedly overpowered him and had sex with him despite McGarrigle screaming “no” and trying to push him away.

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Lookout Point has begun shooting Season 2 of Suranne Jones’ BBC/HBO period drama Gentleman Jack amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Season 2 will again use the real-life diaries of Anne Lister as its source, with writer Sally Wainwright basing the series in historical fact and the five million words Lister wrote in her journals.

Production is taking place in Yorkshire, England, under local coronavirus safety protocols, with series regulars including Gemma Whelan, Gemma Jones and Timothy West returning. Joanna Scanlan (No Offence) will join Season 2 in the role of Lister’s outrageous former lover Isabella ‘Tib’ Norcliffe.

“I’ve been in a little bit of heaven once again spending so much time deep in Anne’s diaries as I’ve written the scripts, and can’t wait to see the fabulous, joyous magic and detail that Suranne and Sophie will bring to it all,” said Wainwright.

Executive producers are Wainwright, Jones, Faith Penhale,...

Park Jung-bae has been an assistant director on a couple pretty big productions for Cj Entertainment, namely “Miss Granny” and “Silenced”. Now, he is all set to make his director debut with the production giants with the upcoming “Collectors”.

Synopsis

Kang Dong-goo is an elite grave robber. He works with ancient tomb mural expert Dr Johns and legendary shoveler Sabdari.

Meanwhile, curator Yoon is an expert in ancient art. She offers an attractive, but dangerous deal to Kang Dong-goo, involving a grave robbery in the heart of a city.

The eclectic star-cast includes Lee Je-hoon as Kang Dong-goo, Jo Woo-jin as Dr Johns, Im Won-hee (“Forbidden Dream“) as Sabdari and Shin Hye-sun as curator Yoon. The caper film is scheduled for a November, 2020 release.

Global streaming giant Netflix has come on board “A Suitable Boy,” the BBC Studios and Lookout Point adaptation of Vikram Seth’s bestselling novel. The series begins airing later this month in the U.K. on BBC One.

Netflix will be the exclusive home of “A Suitable Boy” for all global territories, except Canada, the U.S. and China. In the U.K. and Ireland, the Mira Nair-directed series will be available on Netflix 12 months after its release on BBC One. The series was one of the highlights of 17 new Indian films and series announced by Netflix on Thursday.

The cast of the six-part drama, shot entirely on location in India, is led by Bollywood leading man Ishaan Khatter and Indian screen legend Tabu alongside rising star Tanya Maniktala in the central role of Lata.

“A Suitable Boy” tells the story of spirited university student, played by Tanya Maniktala,...

Marvel Studios nailed it when they cast Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America. His performance radiates wholesomeness, determination and bravery while never feeling smarmy. But while Evans is obviously the most recognizable Cap, a few other actors have taken on the role over the years. Matt Salinger (the son of The Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger!) played the part in the terrible 1990 movie and there’s also a 1944 serial based on the character.

But now we know that an unlikely person once stepped into the costume as well: Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Commander Riker, Jonathan Frakes. The actor, who has since gone on to direct multiple episodes of Star Trek and the movies First Contact and Insurrection, recently returned to the role of Will Riker in Star Trek: Picard and directed two outings of the show as well.

So, how did he end up as Captain America?...

“Time to Hunt,” the Korean action thriller that had its world premiere last month as a gala screening at the Berlin Film Festival, has given up its theatrical release plans. Instead, it will be released by streaming giant Netflix in mid-April.

The move has not sat easily with Contents Panda, the Korean sales company which had pre-sold the film to more than 30 overseas distributors. “Contents Panda will take legal action with (producer) Little Big Pictures to minimize the international damage that will be caused by this case,” Contents Panda said in a statement sent to Variety.

The film was directed by Yoon Sung-hyun (“Bleak Night”) and tells a revenge tale of four no-hopers in a dystopian near future who pick the wrong target to rob. It pulls together a cast of rising star youngsters including Lee Je-hoon, Ahn Jae-hong, Choi Woo-shik, Park Jeong-min and Park Hae-soo.

The film’s planned...

In a dark, shuttered South Korea devoid of people after a financial apocalypse, a naïve young gang knocks off an underworld gambling den and becomes the target of an implacable killer. Young writer-helmer Yoon Sung-hyun, whose 2011 coming-of-age drama Bleak Night won multiple best new director awards and heralded him as a leader of the next generation of South Korean filmmakers, fulfills that promise nine years later in the nerve-jangling Time to Hunt (Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan). A technical tour-de-force running over two hours, it belongs both to the East Asian testosterone-powered action genre whose unrelenting tension will be reward in itself for fans,...

In a dark, shuttered South Korea devoid of people after a financial apocalypse, a naïve young gang knocks off an underworld gambling den and becomes the target of an implacable killer. Young writer-helmer Yoon Sung-hyun, whose 2011 coming-of-age drama Bleak Night won multiple best new director awards and heralded him as a leader of the next generation of South Korean filmmakers, fulfills that promise nine years later in the nerve-jangling Time to Hunt (Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan). A technical tour-de-force running over two hours, it belongs both to the East Asian testosterone-powered action genre whose unrelenting tension will be reward in itself for fans,...