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It was pretty much inevitable that we’d get a movie like The Apocalypse Box at some point this year. With a contentious election and political rioting in both France and the UK, where the film is from, and a divisive vote just a few months away in the US, someone was going to make a politically themed horror film. And that someone is writer/director James Eaves.

Two armed men kill an elderly antique dealer, making her death look like a suicide. A shot of a box-shaped object transitions to one of a ballot box. It’s the day before the election and Piers Stonesmith is making a campaign appearance. Running on the slogan “Keep Britain British” his party is behind by eight points in the polls,...

Ladies and gentlemen, Season 23 of The Voice may have just gotten itself a new frontrunner. Monday’s Blind Auditions introduced viewers to a contestant whose performance was so impressive that it not only got Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Chance the Rapper and Niall Horan to all turn their chairs, it prompted the former One Direction singer to put up his dukes to keep the standout from being swiped by Blake. “I will go to blows with him outside in the parking lot,” Niall vowed. Who was the vocalist, and who ended up recruiting him? Read on, and we’ll review...

Veteran hard-rock act Extreme have announced their first new studio album in 15 years. The band’s sixth LP overall is appropriately titled Six, and features the just-released raw rocker “Rise” as the first single.

Extreme — featuring Gary Cherone (vocals), Nuno Bettencourt (guitar), Pat Badger (bass), and Kevin Figueiredo (drums) — will release Six on June 9th via earMUSIC.

“Musically, it’s aggressive,” Cherone stated of “Rise.” “Lyrically, it’s a cautionary tale on the rise and fall of fame. You get seduced into it. Once you’re on top, they’ll rip you apart and tear you down. That’s the nature of the beast.”

“When Eddie Van Halen passed, it really hit me,” Bettencourt added. “I’m not going to be the one who will take the throne, but I felt some responsibility to keep guitar playing alive. So, you hear a lot of fire on the record.”

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In 1963, Bob Dylan’s second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, brought the young artist national attention, particularly for his protest songs. On several subsequent albums, Dylan tackled subjects such as racial injustice and the Cold War. While he moved away from protest songs by the mid-1960s, just several years into his career, he returned to them on occasion. Dylan himself said he doesn’t consider himself a protest singer, but he made an indelible impact on the genre. Here are five of his best protest songs.

Bob Dylan | Val Wilmer/Redferns 5. ‘The Times They Are A-Changin”

Dylan moved to New York City in 1961, 19 years old and determined to meet his idol, Woody Guthrie. “The Times They Are A-Changin'” is evocative of Guthrie’s work to great effect. Dylan released the song in 1964, at a time of rumbling social change, and he concisely spoke to the era.

“Come senators, congressmen,...

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Chloe Bailey, Woody Harrelson, and Olivia Colman are lending their talents to a new arena - Bob Dylan's songbook. According to Variety, the trio are starring in a movie adaptation of "Girl From the North Country," a Broadway musical featuring iconic Dylan songs like "All Along the Watchtower" and "Make You Feel My Love."

The screen adaptation will be produced by Blueprint Pictures, the production company behind "The Banshees of Inisherin," and will be written and directed by Conor McPherson, who also wrote the stage musical. Dylan himself has also given his blessing to McPherson and the show. "To be associated with Conor is one of the highlights of my professional life," he said in a statement, per Variety. "It goes without saying the man is a genius for putting this thing together and I'm thrilled to be a part of the experience.

With The Banshees of Inisherin becoming an awards season sensation with 19 nominations across the Oscars and BAFTAs, its production banner Blueprint Pictures has revealed the next A-list project on its slate, Girl from the North Country.

Based on the Tony-winning show inspired by the music of Bob Dylan and with its playwright Conor McPherson set write and direct, the feature will star Olivia Colman, Woody Harrelson (reuniting him with Blueprint following Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), plus Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter/musician Chlöe Bailey (seen on screen in Black-ish and Jane), and rising British actor Tosin Cole (Till, House Party). Blueprint Pictures’ Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin will produce. CAA Media Finance will represent the film’s domestic sales, with Rocket Science launching international sales at the upcoming European Film Market.

Based in 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota during the Great Depression, Girl from the North Country is described as a “love story...

Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are set to star in Girl From the North Country, adapted from the Tony Award-winning Broadway show of the same name inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan.

The movie adaptation is written and directed by Conor McPherson, the playwright behind the original Broadway musical.

Graham Broadbent and Pete Czerninare produce under the banner of their award-winning Blueprint Pictures.

CAA Media Finance will represent the film’s domestic sales with Rocket Science launching international sales at the upcoming European Film Market during the Berlin Film Festival.

The original Broadway show reimagines 20 legendary Bob Dylan songs including “Forever Young,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “Hurricane,” “Slow Train Coming,” “Make You Feel My Love” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”

Set in 1934 against the backdrop of Duluth, Mn, during the Great Depression,...

Chlöe Bailey, Woody Harrelson, Olivia Colman, and Tosin Cole have joined the cast of “Girl from the North Country,” an upcoming musical film based on the songs of Bob Dylan. The film is based on the stage musical written by playwright Conor McPherson, who is set to write and direct the feature adaptation.

The original stage musical is set in Duluth, Minnesota during 1934, in the middle of the Great Depression, and focuses on a group of travelers whose lives intersect during their stay at a guesthouse. Harrelson will play the guesthouse proprietor Nick Lane, who is struggling to keep their business afloat. Colman plays his wife Elizabeth, who is suffering from dementia. Bailey will play their adopted daughter Marianne, who develops a relationship with an escaped convict Joe Scott, played by Cole. Songs from Dylan featured in the musical include “Forever Young,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “Hurricane,” “Slow Train Coming,...

Drake doesn’t love the Grammys but they love him — the rapper won an award at the 2023 Grammys even though he decided not to submit his latest album for awards.

Drake won best melodic rap performance for his guest appearance on Future’s “Wait for U,” which became No. 1 pop hit and also features Afrobeats star Tems. “Wait for U” appears on Future’s album, I Never Liked You.

Drake walked into Sunday’s show with four nominations. Drake was a double nominee in best rap song — for “Wait for U” and for co-writing Jack Harlow’s “Churchill Downs” — but lost to Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5.” Drake is also nominated for album of the year since he co-wrote “Heated” on Beyoncé’s Renaissance.

Drake decided not to submit his latest album, the house-heavy Honestly, Nevermind, or any of its singles, including the hits “Jimmy Crooks,” “Sticky” and “Massive,...

GÖTEBORG, Sweden – Jan Troell, the 91-year-old Swedish director and 1972 Oscar nominee for “The Emigrants,” is giving interviews in a Göteborg hotel, his leg propped on a chair, a walking stick, his daughter, Johanna, and wife, Agneta, both collaborators on his films, by his side.

The director, who turned down a ten-year Warner Bros. contract to return to Sweden, has been awarded the 2023 Goteborg Festival’s Nordic Honorary Dragon Award. The prize reflects a life-long connection to still-and-moving images that began when his mother brought him home from the hospital and his dad began filming.

Some of that footage, as well as excerpts from his films, will be combined with new dramatic scenes, for a new film project “Dyning” which is a memoir.

“I’m enjoying editing ‘Dyning’,” said Troell, adding. “I don’t totally identify with my age. I do physically but I still have the same lust for making pictures and images,...

Bob Dylan has been a successful musician for decades. He rose to fame in the early 1960s and has won multiple Grammys and even a Nobel Prize. His songwriting talent helped him on his rise to fame, but he said he has had to maintain a specific type of personality too. In order to be successful, Dylan said he had to be reclusive and unfriendly.

Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns The ‘Hurricane’ singer has a reputation as an unapproachable celebrity

Dylan has always valued his privacy, something his concert promoter, Bill Graham, noted. As a result, he instructed tour staff to avoid talking to Dylan.

“Before we went out, I got the whole tour staff together in San Francisco and I said, ‘You know, this is Bob Dylan,'” Graham explained in his book Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out. “‘I don’t think he’s the...

The children of two Hollywood icons are set to collide in the cat-and-mouse thriller Clawfoot, which is coming to us from director Michael Day, screenwriter April Wolfe, and Yale Entertainment, the company behind the awesome Becky. Francesca Eastwood (Awake), a daughter of Clint Eastwood, and Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge), a son of Mel Gibson, star in the film, which is currently filming in Los Angeles.

Clawfoot sees Francesca Eastwood taking on the role of

an upper-class suburban housewife who is psychologically terrorized by a manipulative contractor, leading to a twisted battle of wits with deliciously unexpected results.

Milo Gibson is playing the manipulative contractor.

Clawfoot marks the feature directorial debut of Day, who previously directed multiple short films and episodes of the shows The News Tank and Sisters. This is the second feature written by Wolfe, as she previously co-wrote the poorly received 2019 version of Black Christmas.

Day is producing...

Exclusive: Francesca Eastwood (Old) and Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) have been tapped to star in Clawfoot — a cat-and-mouse thriller from Yale Entertainment, which is currently in production in Los Angeles.

In the film penned by April Wolfe (Black Christmas), an upper-class suburban housewife (Eastwood) is psychologically terrorized by a manipulative contractor (Gibson), leading to a twisted battle of wits with deliciously unexpected results.

The film’s director Michael Day (As They Made Us) is producing alongside Yale’s Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman, with Kade Thomas, Scott Levenson, Jason Kringstein, Lee Broda and Colby Cote serving as exec producers. Yale’s recently launched sales banner Great Escape, led by Nick Donnermeyer, will handle worldwide sales.

Most recently appearing in M. Night Shyamalan’s Old for Universal Pictures, Eastwood has also been seen in such films as A Violent Separation, The Vault, M.F.A., Outlaws and Angels and Final Girl, among others.

The sci-fi thriller Sensation, starring Eugene Simon and Emily Wyatt (Mission of Honor). The film hits theaters & VOD/Digital on December 31st from Vertical Entertainment. When a lowly postman is inducted into a top-secret superhuman DNA program, it’s revealed that he’ll be able to receive, control and send information …

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Devilworks have announced they will be releasing Sacrilege across both the USA and Canada on March 16th. The film will debut on DVD and Premium Tvod day-and-date on March 16th, followed by a full VOD release.

The pagan cult horror follows a group of young women during celebrations for the Summer solstice, as they are offered up as a sacrifice to a mysterious pagan goddess, who has the ability to sense their greatest fears. Using this power against them, she turns their nightmares into a horrifying reality. The cast includes Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Naomi Willow, Emma Spurgin Hussey, Rory Wilton and Sian Abrahams.

Sacrilege was written and directed by David Creed, produced by Mark Kenna for British production company Bad Blood Films. Check out the trailer and artwork for Sacrilege below:...

Watch the Trailer for Doors: "Without explanation or warning, a number of mysterious, alien “doors” suddenly appear in every corner of the globe. While many of those that encounter these sentient visitors feel the strange urge to interact with them – never to be seen again – others stay behind to face the potential threat of what their ultimate agenda towards mankind is. In a rush to determine the reason for the arrival of these cosmic anomalies, the government enlists volunteers to brave the journey to enter the doors so that we might learn more about their origin or purpose. But even these brave volunteers are not prepared for what lies beyond the threshold. The story of the doors is told through multiple perspectives: a ragtag band of high school students discover a door for the first time, volunteers explore the parallel reality beyond the threshold, and a lonesome hermit manages the...

Sacrilege is a film about paganism, from the United Kingdom. Focusing on four characters out for a girl's weekend, this quartet finds themselves involved in an ancient ritual. Now, an ancient goddess is exploiting their greatest fears. This title, from director David Creed (Facility 31), has already released in UK theatres. Now, there is the possibility of a wider release, with the an international poster available here. The central cast includes a few familiar names. This film fan has recently seen Tamaryn Payne in Small Town Folk (2007). Emily Wyatt (Mission of Honor), Naomi Willow (Bonded by Blood) and Emma Spurgin Hussey (A Werewolf in England) also centrally star in this indie horror feature. As well, the latest sales art shows the goddess from the film. The five-pointed star reveals some of the evil in store for viewers. And, one side of the figure's burnt flesh shows a darker side, in this well drawn graphic.

Imagine the experience of being one of the first individuals to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s now-classic Hamilton: An American Musical live.

The first thing you notice is the spartan, largely empty stage. Then as Leslie Odom Jr. takes the stage as Aaron Burr followed by Miranda’s Hamilton, you realize that this production about America’s founding fathers is made up almost exclusively of People of Color. That’s a lot to take in from the start. At a certain point, however, you’re bound to realize that the play is about 40 minutes in and The. Music. Has. Not. Stopped.

In addition to its many ingenious quirks and hooks, Hamilton is truly a musical musical. Miranda’s book and lyrics about one of the country’s most colorful and impressive founders has a lot of ground to cover. And it does so at a musical sprint with almost no expository time-wasting in-between.

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Filmmakers have made the case that, instead of going to film school, young would-be directors might be better off just listening to director commentaries. And if that’s the educational route you’ve chosen, two of today’s most interesting directors are telling all on new Blu-ray releases. Want to know more about how Barry Jenkins brought James Baldwin’s powerful novel “If Beale Street Could Talk” (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) to the big screen, or how Karyn Kusama crafted the bleak neo-noir “Destroyer” (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)? They tell all on these essential new releases.

Also available: S. Craig Zahler is at it again with “Dragged Across Concrete” (Lionsgate), a cops-gone-rogue heist saga starring Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson.

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We never knew that we needed a Mötley Crüe biopic in our lives, but now that it's happening, it feels so right. Based on Mötley Crüe's bestselling 2001 autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, this long-awaited biopic will follow the story of the heavy metal band's rise from obscurity to super stardom and international fame during the course of the 1980s. You may not recognize all of the names of the cast, but even if the name Iwan Rheon doesn't sound familiar, you'll recognize plenty of the other shows and movies he's been in.

Thirty-three-year-old Welsh actor Iwan Rheon portrays Mick Mars - lead guitarist of Mötley Crüe - in the film, which makes sense, as the actor has been singing and songwriting since the age of 16. However, he actually got his start in theater, his first starring role being Moritz Stiefel in...

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American Gods season 3 will happen on Starz, with Chic Eglee as showrunner.

American Gods Season 3 is a go! Starz announced only one episode into American Gods Season 2, that the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's beloved novel, will be getting a third season. This is good news for anyone who is into mesmerizing visuals and fantastical commentary on today's sociopolitical status quo. Also, for anyone who wants to see this full story brought to the screen. While the second season itself was hit and miss, it's good to know we'll get more of the story on screen before it all wraps up.

Who will be showrunning American Gods Season 3? Usually, when a TV show gets a third season renewal, it's pretty obvious who will be helming the ship. But, given that American Gods allegedly fired its Season 1 showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green and then reportedly later asked Jesse Alexander,...

"Get 303 up, now!" Cinedigm has released an official trailer for an indie action thriller film titled Mission of Honor, about a group of brave, determined Polish pilots in the Raf during World War II. The film was originally titled just Hurricane, but has been retitled for its Us release. Mission of Honor is the story of Squadron 303, a group of heroic pilots who fought in the skies over England in the Battle of Britain. The squadron consisted of Polish pilots, many of whom were veterans of the air battles involved in Germany's invasion of Poland. Equipped with nothing more than obsolete Raf planes and secondhand uniforms, they flew for all of those who had become casualties in one tyrant's quest for power. The film stars Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson, Stefanie Martini, Krystof Hádek, Marcin Dorocinski, Manuel Klein, and Raphael Desprez. This looks exactly as it sounds, if anyone is...

There was a lot of talk about Number Ones as Kane Brown sat in the lobby of the Canopy by Hilton in Dallas, Texas, last Friday night. Fresh off topping the Billboard 200 album chart with his Experiment LP, Brown was performing for a small gathering of Hilton Honors members, and the company he kept — especially that which he brought with him — made it feel every bit like a victory lap.

“Matt McGinn and Taylor Phillips played a big part in getting me where I am,” Brown said early on in the 70-minute set,...

Just a little over two years ago, Luke Combs’ debut single “Hurricane” was getting its first wide push to country radio from Sony Music Nashville’s promotion department. That single, and every one he’s released since, have climbed to Number One on Billboard‘s terrestrial radio-monitoring Country Airplay chart, making him one of the biggest breakthrough stars of the last year. Combs’ latest single, “She Got the Best of Me,” is building on that success, having just become the only song of 2018 thus far to spend four weeks at...

Luke Combs is the front-runner to win New Artist of the Year at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards, according to the combined predictions of hundreds of Gold Derby users. This is actually his second straight attempt at the title after losing the award in 2017 to Jon Pardi, but this time he has something he didn’t have then: an additional nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year. Will that make all the difference?

Earning a nom for Male Vocalist is no mean feat. In that race Combs is up against Entertainer of the Year contenders Chris Stapleton and Keith Urban, and he actually made the cut over three other Entertainer nominees: Kenny Chesney, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean, who were all snubbed from the Male Vocalist race. That may indicate strong overall support for Combs from the association.

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Breakout star Luke Combs has already proven his knack for clever country wordplay, scoring Number One hits with singles like “Hurricane” — which compared seeing an ex to being struck by a coastal storm. But with his deep album cut “I Got Away With You,” the North Carolina native takes his lyricism to the next level.

Delivering the song in acoustic solo style for this new performance video, Combs puts the focus squarely on a set of lyrics that work like a romantic head fake. He’s gotten caught red-handed a time or two,...

Mining Bob Dylan’s unrivaled songbook – even if he’d never written a tune beyond the 20 or so included in Off Broadway’s Girl From The North Country, his contribution to popular music would be assured – and wandering his spiritual map of a mythic Americana that conforms to no historical boundaries but feels undeniably true to the bone, Conor McPherson’s radiant musical is as eccentric and unclassifiable as any fellow traveler of Dylan should be.

A remarkable piece of theater that made its London premiere last year, Girl opens tonight at the Public Theater with an impeccable cast including Mare Winningham and Stephen Bogardus. At times so lovely – as when a pair of young, broken-up lovers duet on a newly mournful version of the once sprightly I Want You – Girl might have you wishing for some sort of theatrical replay mechanism.

Anthony Buckner joins from Kaleidoscope.

Anthony Buckner has been appointed sales director at London-based sales and financing outfit Gfm Films.

Buckner will join the company on October 1, 2018 and will lead the company’s sales activities across its Gfm Films, Gfm Animation and Gfm Evolution slates.

He joins from Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, where he held the position of director of sales, and has also had roles at Magnolia Pictures, the Solution and Icon Entertainment International.

Buckner has also worked as an executive producer on Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest and was an associate producer on David Blair...

They may hail from the distinct worlds of country and R&B music, but Luke Combs and Leon Bridges’ voices sure do pair well together. The two singers shared the stage earlier this year for an episode of Cmt Crossroads, and now you hear live versions of them teaming up on Combs’ “Beautiful Crazy” and Bridges’ “Beyond.”

Recorded on an outdoor stage right in the middle of Nashville’s Lower Broadway, “Beautiful Crazy” was pulled from This One’s for You Too, the expanded version of Combs’ major label debut...

Luke Combs knows his way around a heartbreak ballad, but at least the bottle’s never let him down. So goes the theme of the North Carolina native’s first-ever headlining arena jaunt, the Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour, set to kick off in 2019 with Lanco and Jameson Rodgers supporting. Combs announced the tour on social media this morning and also previewed the run with Storme Warren on SiriusXM’s the Highway.

Combs, who capitalized on his 2017 success by releasing an expanded version of his major-label debut, This One’s for You,...

Over the years, bit by bit, lesser-known heroic stories of the brave men and women that fought in battle during World War II have come to light via cinema. The latest in a line of intriguing films, Hurricane, tells the story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies for Britain’s own Raf.

Coming from The Messenger director David Blair – and also marks the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force – the film stars Game of Thrones’ Iwan Rhoen, Hacksaw Ridge’s Milo Gibson, Prime Suspect 1973’s Stefanie Martini and Under the Skin’s Krystof Hadek.

Seen through the eyes of Jan Zumbach (Rheon), fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles, driven across Europe by the German war machine, finally made their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the Raf over Britain, they became a key component in...

Exclusive: Milo Gibson — the son of Mel Gibson — and Laurence Fishburne have signed on to star in the sports drama Brother’s Keeper for Winter State Entertainment, an upstart production company out of Minnesota started by husbannd/wife indie film producing team of Hamid and Camille Torabpour.

Brother’s Keeper is described as an inspirational sports drama that follows the true story of West Texas’ 2009 Abilene High School football team — underdogs who rallied against odds to win their state championship and is said to be in the vein of Friday Night Lights. Production is underway, and the film is expected to wrap in November with its football scenes staged at Shotwell Stadium in Abilene, TX.

Directed by Todd Randall and adapted from the book by Al Pickett and Chad Mitchell, Brother’s Keeper is being produced by the Torabpours and Dr. Mark Smith.

Several major distributors are in talks with Winter State,...

Exclusive: Milo Gibson has signed with Alchemy Entertainment for management and is also joining Millennium Media’s Rod Lurie-directed film The Outpost based on CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper’s novel.

Adapted by Oscar-nominated The Fighter writing duo Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, The Outpost tells the true story of the 53 U.S. soldiers who battled a force of some 400 enemy insurgents in northeastern Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. Originally built to engage the locals in community development projects, Combat Outpost Keating — located at the bottom of three steep mountains just 14 miles from the Pakistani border — faced a constant threat of being attacked by the Taliban, putting the U.S. soldiers stationed there at significant risk. When the brass finally chose to close the base, the Taliban enemy found out and decided to make a statement.

Gibson will play Captain Robert Yllescas, who was killed during...

Luke Combs scored his third Number One song in early June with “One Number Away,” a melancholy tune from his debut album This One’s for You. He’s since shifted his focus to promoting “She Got the Best of Me” to radio, but on Tuesday, he reprised “One Number Away” for an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Introducing Combs’ performance, Colbert notes that This One’s for You reached the platinum mark that very day – a combination of heavy streaming and traditional sales based propelled by...

Hours after Maddie Poppe won season 16 of “American Idol,” two of the previous champs — Ruben Studdard (season 2) and Taylor Hicks (season 5) — made fun of their fleeting fame in a music video spoof on Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” That got us wondering what happened to the other lucky 13 winners of this reality competition series.

After watching these two men make merry with some of the more dubious talent to appear on “Idol” during its 15-year run on Fox, scroll down to the photo gallery to find out what they, and the rest of the winners, have been up to since taking the title.

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Won: Sept. 4, 2002

Runner-up: Justin Guarini

Winning Song: “A Moment Like This”

Now: This three-time Grammy winner has released eight studio albums and is now a...

“We’re not gonna die out here.” Coming off one of the most ruthless hurricane seasons in memory, here is the new trailer for Adrift, the survival-at-sea drama starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin from director Baltasar Kormákur. Landlubbers who blanch at the thought of facing a wave the size of an office building might want to look elsewhere.

The based-on-a-true-story logline: As free-spirited sailors Tami Oldham (Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Claflin) set out on a journey across the ocean, they couldn’t anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope for rescue, Tami must find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

Aaron Kandell & Jordan Kandell and David Branson Smith wrote...

Echoing the move by Sky to enter the day-and-date VOD market, Rakuten TV have announced the launch of its new project: Rakuten Cinema. The VOD company enters for the first time in the co-production and distribution field, with a distribution model based on a simultaneous theatrical and VOD release and empowering independent producers to stand head-to-head with their Hollywood counterparts.

As its first feature, Rakuten TV has selected Kaleidoscope Entertainment’s World War II action thriller, Hurricane – starring Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) and Marcin Dorocinski. From BAFTA winning director, David Blair, Hurricane is produced by Krystian Kozlowski of Prospect 3, Matt Whyte of Stray Dogs Films and Lipsync Productions. Hurricane will be released in cinemas and digital VoD platforms in the UK simultaneously this Autumn, and tells the heroic true story of a group of crack Polish fighter pilots who helped defend British shores during the Battle of Britain.

Rakuten TV is making a major movie play in Europe, and will invest millions of Euros into production this year and next. The streamer is on a mission to crunch release windows and the first project it has invested in is “Hurricane.” The World War II action thriller has “Game of Thrones” star Iwan Rheon, and Milo Gibson, who starred in “Hacksaw Ridge.” It will launch on Rakuten TV and in movie theaters in the U.K. on the same date in September.

Rakuten TV, which launched as Wuaki.tv and rebranded after being acquired by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, has partnered with Kaleidoscope Entertainment on “Hurricane.” The streaming and download service will also release a yet-to-be-announced Spanish movie this year, and is working up a slate of up to five films from different European territories for 2019.

The plan, company founder and CEO Jacinto Roca told Variety, is to coproduce,...

She's been a Grammy nominee and a disco glamazon, a supermodel and a slave to the rhythm, a Bond femme fatale and Conan the Barbarian's cohort, a style icon and a Studio 54 habitué. She is Grace Jones, and this tall, fearsome Jamaican remains an instantly recognizable celebrity and a fertile creative force. But director Sophie Fiennes' immersive and intimate documentary, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, reveals a side of the artist rarely glimpsed by her legions of fans: unguarded, tender, down-home, vulnerable. Rather than follow the standard cradle-to-comeback trajectory of a music biodoc,...

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Documentaries about musicians can feel like a dime a dozen. It’s no wonder, too, since they’re such easy sells for festivals and home entertainment in a market that is over-saturated with exhibitors and distributors in need to properties that don’t require elaborate marketing campaigns -- just a hope and a prayer that they will ‘catch on’.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami is not exactly one of those films. It is unconventional as rock docs go in a whole host of ways, but it’s also a film that even its subject’s fans may struggle with. It eschews a typical birth-to-death narrative and instead focuses on Grace’s experiences in Jamaica and Paris recording her 2008 album Hurricane, recorded in garish lo-fi digital video, juxtaposed against richly filmed concert footage that echoes her 1982 One Man Show. It’s a documentary that leaves questions – like...

Grace Jones takes viewers behind-the-scenes as well as onstage in the new trailer for Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami. The clip offers an intimate look at the icon's personal and public life.

Directed by Sophie Fiennes, the film comprises footage filmed over a decade. It traces her day-to-day life, from showcasing her roots to the world stage. Traveling the globe, she visits family in Jamaica and performs at various venues, where she appears onstage in myriad stunning costumes. The film features performances of her classic hits "Slave to the Rhythm...

The fifth annual iHeartRadio Radio Music Awards took place on March 11 at the Forum Arena in Los Angeles. These kudos honored artists across a range of music genres including rock, country, dance, hip-hop, latin and regional Mexican music. DJ Khaled and Hailey Baldwin hosted, with the telecast airing live on TBS, TNT and truTV beginning at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt, In addition, the award ceremony was simulcast on iHeartMedia stations nationwide.

Among the big winners were Ed Sheeran, who claimed the top prize of Song of the Year for his hit “Shape of You” as well as Male Artist of the Year and Pol Album of the Year (÷), and Taylor Swift who was named Female Artist of the Year and debuted the video for her new hit single “Delicate.”

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Just two years after it was cancelled by Fox, “American Idol” returns to ABC on March 11. When this reality competition series hit the airwaves back in 2002, it was a ratings smash, and many of its early winners enjoyed huge success. Indeed, its first-ever champ, Kelly Clarkson, has won three Grammys and parlayed her fame into a string of hit records and a new gig as a judge on the competition, NBC’s’ “The Voice.”

However, many of the more recent music newcomers to be named “American Idol” have found that their time in the spotlight is fleeting. In the photo gallery above, we take a look back at the first 15 “American Idol” winners to date and see how many have been lucky so far and which have been jinxed.

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Season 1: Kelly Clarkson

Won: Sept. 4, 2002

Runner-up: Justin Guarini

Winning...

Screening in Efm, Ice took $8.7m in first week in Russia.

Fedor Bondarchuk and Dmitry Rudovsky’s Moscow-based Arts Pictures Studio has closed a major Chinese deal for its new figure skating melodrama Ice, which has stormed to $8.7m in its first week in Russia and screens in the Efm.

Ice has gone to the Airspeed Company for China, with TV rights sold to CCTV, and VoD to iQiyi. The Chinese theatrical release later this spring is expected to be on well over 20,000 screens.

The film has also sold to Baltic (Acme Film), former Yugoslavia (Dexin Film), Latin America (Brazil-based Sato Co), and French-speaking Europe (Trade Media). The story tells of a young girl growing up in near poverty in provincial Russia who overcomes numerous hurdles to become a top figure skating champion.

“We have now signed with top eight cinema chains with 25,000 screens, which covers half of Chinese market,” Airspeed CEO Aqing Xu...