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The shark thriller film “Zipline” has launched sales with a cast that includes Ioan Gruffudd, Ross Butler, Holland Roden and Sonia Ammar.

The feature is written by George Mahaffey Jr. and directed by Magnus Martens. Simple House Films is producing, marking the debut project under that production banner. Black Bear owns the international rights to the film.

“After reuniting for a relaxing getaway on a tropical island, a group of college friends find their adventurous spirits tested to the limit when an exhilarating zipline excursion leaves them hanging perilously hundreds of feet over a deserted lagoon. As the temperature rises and the zipline begins to collapse, they work together to find a way down but are horrified to discover that an even greater threat awaits them in the depths below,” reads the film’s logline.

Gruffudd has been in a number of television and film projects over the course of his decades-spanning career,...

Shut up! A Princess Diaries 3 is in the works with a scribe, director and star Anne Hathaway attached.

The first film, starring Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Caroline Goodall, Mandy Moore, Sandra Oh and more in 2001. A sequel, Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, arrived in 2004 with the addition of Chris Pine as Nicholas Devereaux and John Rhys-Davis as Viscount Mabrey.

For everything we know about Princess Diaries 3, read on.

When is Princess Diaries 3 coming out?

The film is still in the early stages, so a release date wouldn’t be set for a while as it hasn’t even gone into production yet.

Will Anne Hathaway be back for Princess Diaries 3? Who else will be in the film?

Anne Hathaway will reprise her role as Mia Thermopolis Renaldi, Genovian princess. She confirmed her return for the threequel on Instagram, proving miracles do, indeed, happen.

As for Hathaway’s...

Uncle Kracker made it big in the early 2000s with some major hits. However, based on recent live performances from the singer, his fans are concerned. So, what’s going on with this situation, and why are fans worried about him?

Uncle Kracker Made It Big In The Early 2000s

Back in the early 2000s, it was nearly impossible to turn on the radio without hearing Uncle Kracker’s mega-hit, Follow Me. It was all over the airwaves, propelling the artist to new heights. Follow Me was the kind of earworm that people could not get out of their heads, and it worked wonders for Kracker as far as his career trajectory was concerned.

Following that breakthrough success into the mainstream with Follow Me and a cover of the classic, Drift Away, Uncle Kracker has continued to carve out a successful career for himself, releasing albums in the decades since,...

Crackle has announced the upcoming second season of the hit reality series “Follow Me,” set to premiere exclusively on the free streaming service on June 13, 2024. The 10-episode season will offer viewers an insight into the world of social media influencers and their journey to building successful brands. Hosted by Bethany Mota, the series […]

Crackle Announces Second Season of Influencer Reality Series “Follow Me”...

The second season of the influencer reality series Follow Me premieres June 13 on streaming service Crackle, a division of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment.

The 10-episode series, whose trailer is out today, shows fans what it takes to build a brand as an influencer in the social media age.

The show focuses on influencers in fashion, comedy, beauty, cosplay, skateboarding, music and other categories. Each contestant engages in business-themed challenges throughout the Bethany Mota-hosted series.

Show participants work in the “creator’s studio” and compete in various social media-based challenges. Contestants have access to guidance from a global mix of top influencer guest judges who together have reached hundreds of millions of followers and billions of views.

They include Kika Kim, Jordyn Jones, and Jojo Sim. At the end of each episode, the contestant with the least number of votes is eliminated. The contestant with the most votes at...

Exclusive: Production, finance, and sales company Panorama Motion Pictures will make its Cannes market debut with a slate of projects from Catalyst Studios and other independent producers.

First up the company is producing ambitious project The Sea Hawk, an IP based on Raphael Sabatini’s book, which was most famously adapted into a hit feature by legendary producer Howard Koch and starring Errol Flynn for Warner Bros. in 1940.

The story follows an English gentleman through the changing tides of fortune and fate, who becomes a galley-slave and ultimately the most famous barbary pirate in the Mediterranean Sea. It will be produced by Panorama CEO Mark Pennell and Armyan Bernstein (Air Force One) of Beacon Pictures. Bernstein was most recently an EP on the Kevin Costner western Horizon, which is premiering in Cannes.

Producers are currently shopping for a director with casting targeted before the end of the year.

Pennell, a writer and producer,...

Vertigo Releasing have released Mother, May I? on Digital Platforms. Emmett enters into a nightmarish game of therapy with his wife Anya, who has inexplicably taken on the persona of his estranged and recently-deceased mother. Bizarre and creepy in equal doses, this psychological thriller will keep you guessing if this is truly possession or just a twisted battle of wills. Directed by Laurence Vannicelli and featuring Holland Roden and Kyle Gallner, Mother, May I? Is a genre-bending, supernatural horror.

Vertigo Releasing presents Mother, May I? on Digital Platforms

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Zoey Brooks and her friends are officially back in "Zoey 102." The film, which premiered on Paramount+ on July 27, serves as a sequel to Nickelodeon's hit series "Zoey 101." The original show starred Jamie Lynn Spears as a teenage girl named Zoey who attends a fictional boarding school called Pacific Coast Academy, where she befriends classmates like Chase Matthews (Sean Flynn), Quinn Pensky (Erin Sanders), and Michael Barret (Christopher Massey). Now, 15 years after the series ended in 2008, the original cast have returned to reprise their roles in "Zoey 102," which sees the Pca students reunite to attend Quinn and Logan's wedding.

The film is sure to give closure to original fans of the series. Since the show ended with Zoey and Chase finally becoming a couple, viewers craved another season of "Zoey 101" to see the pair's relationship blossom, but it never happened. In 2015, Flynn and Massey reunited for...

FilmRise and Venture 10 have partnered with consumer products giant Mars Wrigley to produce the social media reality competition series “Follow Me,” to be hosted and executive produced by lifestyle influencer Bethany Mota for FilmRise’s streaming platform.

“Follow Me” aims to pull the curtain back on what it takes to garner virtual popularity in the digital age. The eight-episode series is set to premiere on May 3 airing on the FilmRise streaming network.

“Follow Me” will track the stories of eight aspiring influencers, including a model, personal trainer, gamer, dancer, among others, as they compete in business-themed challenges that will strengthen their brand voices. Over the course of each hourlong episode, competitors will be mentored by other top influencers including Charlotte McKinney, Alan Bersten, Courtney Revolution, Emily Mei and Taya Miller. At the end of each episode, the competitor with the least amount of followers will be eliminated.

Contestants will create...

A father and daughter learn they are both CIA operatives — and are forced to team up as partners. Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in his first series — “Fubar” — on Netflix. Spies, action, and cheeky humor accompany the family drama. All eight episodes of the first season will be available to stream on the world’s largest streaming service, beginning May 25. Monica Barbaro co-stars as Arnold’s daughter, while Fortune Feimster, Gabriel Luna, Milan Carter, Jay Baruchel round out the cast.

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Rainn Wilson of “The Office” fame travels the globe in search of the happiest places on Earth in the upcoming Peacock series “Geography of Bliss.” Inspired by Eric Weiner’s book, Wilson explores both the happiest and least happy places on the planet — from Iceland to Qatar — searching for satisfaction. The series and Wilson’s adventures kick off May...

New York, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, and Venture 10 Studio Group have partnered with Mars Wrigley to produce a new reality competition series, “Follow Me,” that shows fans what it takes to become massively famous in the social media age. The announcement was made jointly today by Max Einhorn, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions for FilmRise and John Stevens, Co-Founder of Venture 10 Studio Group and CEO of Clarion Capital Partners backed V10 Entertainment. Hosted and executive produced by Bethany Mota, and debuting on May 3, the series will exclusively debut this Spring on The FilmRise Streaming Network which includes FilmRise branded Ott and YouTube channels before expanding out to the universe of FilmRise AVOD and Fast partner platforms.

In Follow Me, aspiring stars – each with a unique talent, background, and strategy for success – will compete in business-themed challenges across the series.

With the same dance rhythm and electronic beats as the first successful part, the second part of Inna’s latest album “Just Dance #DQH2” captures the dance queen’s new vision of this genre. A lot of movement, club vibes with pop insertions and feelings expressed through energetic beats, all compressed into 5 bangers meant to get stuck in your playlists and DJ sets.

The track list includes “Can’t Give You Up”, “Follow Me”, “In My Mind”, “Que Dolor” and“Queen of the Club’. The songs were written by Adelina Stinga (Iraida), Sebastian Barac, Marcel Botezan, Alex Cotoi, Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu, produced by Marcel Botezan, Alex Cotoi, Sebastian Barac, lyrics by Adelina Stinga (Iraida), Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu.

The new season of the now regular YouTube series Dance Queen’s House – in which Inna locks herself in a house with the most air played producers and songwriters to make music – is...

After helping relaunch the Scream franchise, the filmmaking collective known as Radio Silence has signed on to an untitled monster thriller at Universal Pictures. The group’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett will direct the project, with Chad Villella serving as producer alongside William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt at Project X Entertainment.

The script was written by Stephen Shields, with revisions by Guy Busick.

Tripp Vinson will produce as well with Radio Silence and Project X, who are recently coming off the huge success of Scream VI, which Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett directed, Project X produced and Radio Silence’s Villella executive produced. Co-written by Vanderbilt, the film set a franchise-record opening at the global box office. The teams also collaborated on 2022’s Scream which reinvigorated the horror franchise.

Radio Silence was actually eyeing this as its potential next project following the first Scream pic but given how successful Scream turned out,...

Exclusive: Fledgling U.S. production company Catalyst Studios has announced eight-part docuseries EmpowHer going behind the scenes of the films on its inaugural slate driven by six female and non-binary directors and producers.

Catalyst Studios was launched last May as a joint venture between social entrepreneur Holly Levow and producer Paul Kampf of Equitas Entertainment, and Mark Pennell of Beacon Pictures, with a focus on emerging talent and diverse storytelling.

EmpowHer will follow the journeys of filmmakers from across Catalyst Studios’ slate including Michelle Salcedo with Switch & Bait, starring Otmara Marrero and Katie Clarkson-Hill; Joanne Mitchell with Sybil; Siri Rødnes with Follow Me starring Connie Nielsen, and Colombian auteur Ana Maria Hermida with the recently announced coming-of-age feature film Alix.

Further filmmaker subjects include Tamika Miller and Milena Grujic with soon-to-be-announced projects.

The series will track the filmmakers from pre-production, through filming,...

The actor is best known for his Oscar-nominated role in ’Fiddler On The Roof’

Israel actor Chaim Topol, best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Fiddler On The Roof, has died at the age of 87.

The news was confirmed by Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Twitter, who called Topol “one of the most outstanding Israeli stage artists”. The actor, who went by his last name, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s several years ago.

Topol first rose to prominence in 1964 with his performance in Ephraim Kishon’s Sallah Shabati (1964) which earned him a Golden Globe for best male newcomer.

The actor...

Colombian auteur Ana Maria Hermida (“The Firefly”) is directing an all-star cast in Catalyst Studios’ “Alix.”

The film introduces Cristal Aparcio (“Enfermeras”) to international audiences in the title role of Alix. Based on Hermida’s script, the film also stars Natalia Reyes (“Terminator Dark Fate”), Roberto Urbina (“Snowpiercer”), Carlos Bardem (“El Cid”) and Carolina Guerra (“Animal Kingdom”). Principal photography has begun in the jungles of Rio Claro, Colombia.

A redemptive coming-of-age tale about the discovery of inner strength and new beginnings, the film is a magic realist tale that tells the story of Conejo (Urbina), a skilled soldier, and a young girl, Alix (Aparicio), who he recruits to be a child soldier in the Colombian jungle under the command of the charismatic Ramon (Bardem). Alix, innocent and optimistic, deals with the trauma of her hard circumstances by letting her imagination journey to a magical realm.

“Alix” is produced by Lemore Syvan,...

Chantel Jeffries, a model, influencer and DJ, posted stunning photos of herself in a beige-and-black bra, underwear and garter belt to her 4.7 million Instagram followers.

Diplo, a DJ and music producer, who has been linked in the past with Jeffries, joked, “Really admiring that door frame.” He also commented, “Second slide made me drop my phone.”

Jeffries, 30, set her highlighted hair down over her shoulders, and she showed off her star tattoo on her ribcage.

The star rose to fame with her 2018 debut single, “Wait,” which features guest vocals from rappers Offset and Vory. The song peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

Since then, she has released a series of singles, including “Follow Me (Zoey 101)”, a remix and reimagining of the Zoey 101 theme song with Britney Spears‘ sister, Jamie Lynn Spears.

The music video features cameos from Spears’ fellow Zoey 101 castmates, including Erin Sanders,...

For fans who are familiar with K-content, entertainment, culture, and K-dramas, some of Netflix‘s Physical 100’s contestants are familiar. Fans instantly recognized Single Inferno’s Cha Hyun-seung, a famous backup dancer. But Physical 100 includes a long list of fitness and athletic celebrities who have gained a massive following on social media and Youtube. From Udt soldiers to travel Yotuber Tarzan, here are their Instagrams, ages, and more.

‘Physical 100’ fitness celebrities Shim Eu-ddeum and Choo Sung-hoon | via Netflix Tarzan is a fitness celebrity known for his impressive abs and Youtube channel

For fans aware of K-content, Tarzan is a familiar face. He is often known by his nickname, while his real name is Jun. Over the years, he has gained fame as a fitness travel vlogger with his Youtube channel, moderntarzan. With over 138K followers, he shares workout videos, his various travels, and some fun videos with his guests. Tarzan...

Exclusive: Joanne Mitchell (The Outing) has signed on to direct the psychological horror Sybil, starring Rebecca Calder (Love Me Do), James Fleet (Four Weddings and a Funeral), and Sacharissa Claxton (Sandman).

Written by Dominic Brunt, Joanne Mitchell, and Tracey Sheals based on an original story by Sheals, the flick is billed as a twisted tale of a lonely mortician and her macabre quest for the perfect family. The Mortician’s life can be a lonely one. But there are always opportunities for love and revenge, the synopsis reads.

The pic is produced by Zoe Stewart (Hush) with Cataslyst Studios’ Holly Levow, Mark Pennell, and Paul Kampf. Principal Photography recently began in Belgrade. The cast is rounded out by Rupert Proctor (Notting Hill), Robyn Rainsford (Letters to April), and Jay Taylor (Red Tails).

“We have an extraordinarily talented cast and crew to bring the bizarre and macabre world of Sybil to life,...

Rina Sawayama experiences an emotional and temporal breakthrough in the new music video for, “Hold the Girl.”

Directed by Ali Kurr, the clip feels like a pop period piece, with Sawayama finding her self caught in a time loop that keeps her in a 19th century farm house until she’s finally able to break free. The new visual is tied to the breakthroughs Sawayama experienced in therapy that helped inspire “Hold the Girl.”

“I had gone to therapy and had a revelation, so I decided to write this song…...

[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead Season 7, Episode 9, “Follow Me.”] It’s pretty clear that all is not well with Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey). When Season 7 of Fear resumes, Alicia is being tormented with nightmares, fevers and all matters of ailments both from the physical after-effects of her bite (or the amputation) and her guilt over what happened with Arno’s (Spenser Granese) group — guilt that is literally hunting her as Arno will not let it go. By the end of the episode, Alicia’s head is on a bit more straight, and she’s realized that she needs to trust herself to build a community stronger than Victor Strand’s (Colman Domino) people in the Tower. But we still have a ton of questions about what’s ahead in her journey, so we picked the brains of co-showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg for all the intel. Read on for more...

[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for Fear The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 9, “Follow Me.”] To get the obvious out of the way: No, Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) does not make her triumphant return in this episode. But she does get a name-drop in a very key scene, which informs the midseason premiere’s themes. Namely, Alicia’s (Alycia Debnam-Carey) suffering, and not just from her mysterious illness. She’s having nightmares about a walker leading her to Padre, and she’s wracked with guilt from the casualties her pursuit of that utopia caused. An encounter with a mysterious stranger might get her to reframe her mindset about leading… and push her to create a community entirely her own. Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC Alicia has the walker-nightmare, and when she wakes up, she’s in unfamiliar territory. She investigates and finds her mysterious savior about to be killed by a walker. He doesn’t hear it, so...

All this and bagpipes, too?!? Season 7 of Fear the Walking Dead resumed on AMC Sunday with a trippy episode in which Alicia made a new friend, lost a new friend, engaged in some especially fanciful dream analysis and, yes, was treated along with the rest of us to some bagpipe-playing. And if you read on, we’ll go over all of the latest speed bumps and potholes that she hit on the never-ending road to mythical Padre.

To Sleep, Perchance To Scream | After “Follow Me” started us off with a dream sequence in which the late Sen. Vasquez’s reanimated...

Can we give our girl Alicia a break, pretty please?

Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 9 firmly focused on the fan favorite as she came to terms with even more changes in her life.

"Follow Me" was an introspective hour that helped us understand our heroine's actions and why waging war on Strand was the only way forward.

If you watch Fear the Walking Dead online, you know Alicia has been through far too much.

Yet, the show seems intent on putting her through some more torment, and quite frankly, it's hard to imagine when it will stop.

She's being pursued by Arno, battling a mysterious illness after being bitten, and more importantly, she'll be reuniting with her mother she thought was dead.

Alicia: Hey. Hello? How did I get here? Hey, I'm talking to you.

Paul: Hey. Easy.

Alicia: Didn't you hear me?

Paul: No. I didn't. I haven't...

Paradigm Talent Agency announced that Babacar Diene has been hired as a content agent. Additionally, Sam Benfey, Josh Cohen, Natalie Handelsman and Wilson Rubinoff have been promoted to agent.

Diene is a longtime film financing, sales and production executive joining Paradigm from his previous position as vice president of acquisitions and development at Voltage Pictures. During his tenure at Voltage, which began in 2012, he served as an executive producer on films such as “Time Is Up,” “Archenemy,” “Safer at Home,” “Redemption Day,” “Follow Me” and “Drive Hard.” He co-produced movies including “Ava,” “Good Kids,” “Fathers & Daughters,” “Pay the Ghost” and “I.T.” He also previously served as vice president of acquisitions at Im Global’s Apsara Distribution, and worked for Icon Entertainment International and GreeneStreet Films International. Diene is based in Los Angeles.

Benfey enters his new position as digital and brand partnerships agent after first joining Paradigm in 2016. He...

Paradigm has hired Babacar Diene, a veteran film financing, sales and production executive formerly of Voltage Pictures, to join the agency as a content agent, the agency announced Thursday.

Paradigm also promoted four employees to agents across its departments, including Sam Benfey, Josh Cohen, Natalie Handelsman and Wilson Rubinoff.

Diene’s role as a content agent will see him handling film and series content packaging, financing, and sales. Benfey has been promoted to a digital and brand partnerships agent, Cohen and Handelsman are each talent agents, and Rubinoff is a literary agent.

“We are proud to congratulate these four exceptional and dedicated members of our team on their promotions, and look forward to their bright future at Paradigm,” Paradigm partner Andrew Ruf said on behalf of the company’s department leaders. “We welcome Babacar Diene to the company, a colleague we have long admired, who brings his extensive expertise as we redefine our content business,...

Artist: Blake Red Single: ‘Follow Me;’ Producer: Blake Red; Released: March 26, 2021 Contemplating past mistakes can often lead people to embark on a meaningful search for redemption as they fully accept the need to improve their lives. Alt-rock singer-songwriter, Blake Red is fearlessly sharing her vulnerabilities as she openly begins the process of improving […]

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Abramorama has acquired worldwide theatrical and digital distribution rights to “Upheaval,” a documentary about former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The indie studio plans to premiere the film in early June 2021.

Directed by Jonathan Gruber (“Follow Me”), the film follows Begin, a proud yet scarred leader haunted by the Holocaust and decades of war, who struggles to balance history and heroism as he attempts to make peace with his greatest enemy and cement a legacy.

The film had its world premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival followed by select screenings across the country.

Begin was a controversial leader. He was alternately hailed as a peacemaker and honored with the Nobel Peace prize along with Anwar Sadat for signing a treaty with Egypt in 1979. But he was also criticized for his handling of the 1982 Lebanon War, with public dissatisfaction of his leadership during the conflict leading to his resignation.

“Upheaval...

One of the sleeper hits of the shutdown last year was Rob Savage’s British horror “Host,” a very short (just under an hour) and sweetly scary tale of friends whose weekly Zoom call during Covid quarantine gets crashed by an unwelcome supernatural visitor. It was, however, bound to be the exception which proved a preexisting rule: that found-footage thrillers remain a tapped-out genre, no matter if one in every 20 or so manages to squeeze some new life from the form.

Unfortunately, we’re likely to get a lot more in the mode of “Safer at Home,” which likewise hinges on friends video-conferencing during shutdown. Will Wernick’s film not only fails to use that format in clever or suspenseful ways, it blows the basics of maintaining plausibility and viewer interest. You have to admire filmmakers finding ways to keep plugging away within pandemic restrictions. But not every story is suited for Zoom-style presentation,...

February may be the shortest month, but that doesn’t mean streaming services can ignore their duty to entertain us at all times. In that mission, Netflix is making a decent effort in February 2021. This isn’t the most jam-packed month the major streamer has trotted out just yet but there are plenty of new originals to get the job done.

Netflix has a few original series of note this month. The party begins with Kid Cosmic on Feb. 2. This animated series is a comic-tinged adventure from Craig McCracken, creator of the Powerpuff Girls. That’s followed by the Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl-starring Firefly Lane on Feb. 3 and Behind Her Eyes on Feb. 17. Perhaps the biggest sleeper this month, however, is Tribes of Europa. This post-apocalyptic adventure series premieres on Feb. 19.

There are also quite a few intriguing Netflix original movies in February 2021. Malcolm and Marie stars John David Washington...

We're back with a new installment of Horror Highlights! Watch the trailer for The Sinners, learn more about the upcoming novel Shelter for the Damned, watch the trailer for A Writer's Odyssey, and learn more about the upcoming movie Safer at Home:

The Sinners: "Seven schoolgirls, part of a clique dubbed The Sins, become the lethal target of an unknown killer after a harmless prank goes horribly wrong."

Director: Courtney Paige Writers: Courtney Paige, Erin Hazlehurst, Madison Smith Cast: Kaitlyn Bernard, Brenna Llewellyn, Brenna Coates, Keilani Elizabeth Rose, Jasmine Randhawa, Carly Fawcett, Natalie Malaika, Aleks Paunovic, Lochlyn Munro Run Time: 88 mins

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Shelter For The Damned: "While looking for a secret place to smoke cigarettes with his two best friends, troubled teenager Mark discovers a mysterious shack in a suburban field. Alienated from his parents and peers, Mark finds within the shack an escape greater than anything he has ever experienced.

Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired rights to Safer at Home, a pandemic thriller directed by Will Wernick that Voltage Pictures had introduced to buyers at last November at the virtual American Film Market. The pic, which went into production during the Covid pandemic, will now get a day-and-date release in February.

It’s the latest tie-up for Wernick, Voltage and Vertical after they worked together on Wernick’s horror thriller Follow Me (aka No Escape) last year.

Written by Wernick and Lia Bozonelis, Safer at Home is set in 2022 when the coronavirus pandemic has created mass chaos in Los Angeles and turned the city into a police state. To escape the grim reality, a group of friends get together for an online party: a night of music, drinking, games and drugs. After they collectively take a hit of what they think is molly, things go terribly wrong. The ensemble cast includes Alisa Allapach,...

Stars: Martin Delaney, Josef Altin, Ben Turner | Written by Tommy Draper, Simon Pearce | Directed by Simon Pearce

Alex Trent (Martin Delaney) is a young British Police Officer and is part of a task force that has been sent into a rundown building smack dab in the middle of Civil Riots that are dividing our fair nation. The mission is a man, they are there to capture Elijah (Ben Turner) but shortly after arriving Trent is chased down and separated from the team. Soon after he bumps into Amir (Josef Altin) who on of the face of things wants to help but can Trent put aside his personal prejudice and trust Amir or is Amir exactly the sort of person he was sent in to get.

Officer Down is a perfect 18-minute snapshot of the British social conscious. Whether it’s how people are being portrayed in mass media or a...

Pacific Coast Academy is back in session! Jamie Lynn Spears finally reunited with her Zoey 101 co-stars on Tuesday, Oct. 27, when she debuted a new music video of the show's remixed theme song. The 29-year-old actress turned the "Follow Me (Zoey 101)" song reveal into a big event by bringing back favorite Pca students Chase Matthews, Quinn Pensky, Michael Barret and Logan Reese—that would be actors Sean Flynn, Erin Sanders, Chris Massey and Matthew Underwood, respectively. Also joining the show-stopping ensemble were A-list influencers JoJo Siwa, Sofia Reyes, Dixie D'Amelio and Noah Beck, who played themselves auditioning to be characters in...

George Janko is learning the hard way that social media is changing not only him as an individual, but society as a whole. In his new horror film, ‘No Escape,’ the up-and-coming actor is just starting to comprehend that as social media expectations of living a perfect life are constantly being pushed to the extreme, […]

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With Halloween less than two weeks away, we’ve got another batch of horror and sci-fi home media releases coming home this week that would make for some perfect seasonal viewings this month. Burt Gummer returns this Tuesday in Tremors: Shrieker Island, and if you’re a big fan of horror anthologies, you’ll definitely want to pick up Scare Package as well. Haunt, from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, is getting a two-disc Collector’s Edition this week, the second season of NOS4A2 heads home on both Blu-ray and DVD, and Scream Factory is giving Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead the Steelbook treatment on Tuesday, too.

Other releases for October 20th include a new release of The Haunting (1999), Killdozer, Amulet, The Ape, Chop Chop, the Tremors: 7-Movie Collection, The Owners, Picture Mommy Dead, No Escape, and the Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy in 4K.

Amulet

Tomaz, a...

VOD is for more than low-budget action movies. Janelle Monae, Millie Bobby Brown, and Jessica Chastain rule this week, starring in three distinctive films available only to home audiences. “Enola Holmes” on Netflix, and “Ava” are new to VOD this week, while the premium-price “Antebellum” is riding high in its second weekend at $19.99.

“Ava,” released September 25, currently sits at #1 on both AppleTV and Google Play at a standard new-release price of $6.99. It was a troubled production: Matthew Newton wrote the film (originally titled “Eve”) and developed it with Chastain, who stars as an assassin in a secret organization. However, he stepped down as its director about a month before production began in September 2018 after facing public backlash to his past charges of domestic violence and assault. (Newton pled guilty.)

Tate Taylor, who previously directed Chastain in “The Help” and “Ma,” replaced Newton; after the film wrapped, it was retitled “Ava.

As we head into October, the amount of new content on streaming and VOD platforms doesn’t seem to be slowing down, Covid-19 or not. For this weekend, a number of new movies were added to the major providers, including Misbehaviour, Ava, Alone, and No Escape. What, then, can we expect from these new titles and where can you watch them?

Well, first up is the Keira Knightley-starring Misbehaviour, a British comedy-drama from Philippa Lowthorpe. Set during the 1970 Miss World competition, the film examines the context behind a feminist protest at the event, and the impact of the first black winner. As with many new releases this year, a cinematic outing was curtailed by the pandemic, and with a decent response from reviewers, it’s worth checking out as a rental on the Microsoft or iTunes stores.

By comparison, Ava is a thriller with Jessica Chastain, wherein she plays...

In our Q&a series Last Call, we get down to the bottom of every last thing with some of our favorite celebs - from the last thing they texted to the last thing they binge-watched. This week, actor Keegan Allen takes our call.

For all of our fellow Pretty Little Liars fans, Keegan Allen's latest film No Escape kind of reads like it could be a twisted, 10 times scarier episode from the series - in which a social media star and his friends have to fight for their lives after they enter an escape room when abroad. So if you're a horror movie fan and still rewatch episodes with Toby from Pll, you'll probably want to add this latest film to your weekend watch list. Ahead of the film's release, we chatted with the hilarious Keegan about the movie, the last piece of advice he received that changed his life,...

Being a social media personality himself, it’s not surprising that George Janko is making his acting debut in No Escape, a movie centered around a character who’s become a social media sensation. It’s been a dream of Janko’s from the very start; now that he’s landed his first big-screen role, he looks back at the [...]

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When writer/director/producer Will Wernick's sophomore effort Escape Room was released in 2017, the movie did well enough internationally that Wernick found himself at the helm of a sequel.

No Escape is not the direct sequel that the project started out as, but Wernick's new movie blends two popular concepts, escape rooms, and influencer culture, into a kind of sandwich that begins and ends really interestingly but falls into your typical horror movie in the second act.

The driving force of No Escape, and the reason the movie's forgettable second act doesn't completely derail the movie, is Keegan Allen who plays the charismatic Cole, a social media superstar who, with a few of his less internet-famous friends, heads to M...

No Escape It Isn’t A Game Anymore Vertical Entertainment will release the horror/thriller film No Escape on Digital and On Demand on September 18, 2020. No Escape stars the ensemble cast of Keegan Allen (“Pretty Little Liars,” Palo Alto), Holland Roden (“Teen Wolf”, “Channel Zero”), Denzel Whitaker, Ronen Rubinstein (“911: Lone Star” Some Kind of Hate), Pasha Lychnikoff (“Deadwood”,”Shameless”, A Good …

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Rory Gallagher and Jerry Lee Lewis rip through a previously unreleased cover of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” which will appear on the upcoming compilation, The Best of Rory Gallagher, out October 9th via UMe.

Gallagher and Lewis’ version of “Satisfaction” is an alternate outtake from their time together in London, working on Lewis’ 1973 album, The Session… Recorded in London With Greatest Artists (Gallagher was one of several ace collaborators along with Peter Frampton, Mick Jones, Kenny Jones, Alvin Lee and Gary Wright). The track finds...

Bleecker Street has launched a new trailer for the thriller ‘The Secrets We Keep’ starring Noomi Rapace.

In post-wwii America, a woman (Noomi Rapace), rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband (Chris Messina), kidnaps her neighbour (Joel Kinnaman) and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her. Directed by Yuval Adler from a script by Ryan Covington and Yuval Adler.

Directed by Yuval Adler, the film stars Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Chris Messina.

Also in trailers – Welcome to the escape room from hell in trailer for ‘No Escape’

The film is released in US cinemas September 16th followed by a VOD release on October 16th.

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Netflix has launched a new trailer for its upcoming documentary on the Paralympic Games ‘Rising Phoenix’.

The documentary tells the extraordinary story of the Paralympic Games. From the rubble of World War II to the third biggest sporting event on the planet, the Paralympics sparked a global movement which continues to change the way the world thinks about disability, diversity & human potential.

Athletes featured in the film include Bebe Vio (Italy), Ellie Cole (Australia), Jean-Baptiste Alaize (France), Matt Stutzman (USA), Jonnie Peacock (UK), Cui Zhe (China), Ryley Batt (Australia), Ntando Mahlangu (South Africa) and Tatyana McFadden (US).

Rising Phoenix is directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui.

Also in trailers – Welcome to the escape room from hell in trailer for ‘No Escape’

The documentary hits Netflix August 26th

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If you stick a social media star in a torture room, does he make a noise? A lot of noises, and most of them violent screams, according to the No Escape trailer, a new film from the director of Escape Room. No, not the hit 2019 film, an earlier, little-seen 2017 film directed by Will Wernick, who […]

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‘Unhinged.’

Australian critics scorned Unhinged but audiences turned out last weekend for the road rage thriller starring Russell Crowe and Caren Pistorius.

The Studiocanal release, which stars Pistorius as a single mother who incurs the wrath of Crowe’s character, drummed up $802,000 on more than 200 screens.

Even so, ticket sales remain depressed with Melbourne’s cinemas closed (26 per cent of the market) and most locations operating on reduced sessions and with capacity limits.

The top 20 titles generated nearly $2 million, 11 per cent up on the previous frame, according to Numero, but nearly 90 per cent below the same weekend a year ago – $17.8 million – when Universal launched Fast & Furious Hobbs and Shaw.

Clearly the pandemic is deterring some cinemagoers. “I think that the fear of what is happening with Covid-19 is impacting audiences still, especially the older audience,” Majestic Cinemas CEO Kieren Dell tells If.

“Most of the other movies we have on are aimed at that audience.

‘Babyteeth.’

Universal Pictures’ dramedy The King of Staten Island continued its reign at Australian cinemas last weekend as ticket sales slumped, starved of new releases.

Given the depressed state of the market, Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth, the bittersweet comedy adapted by Rita Kalnejais from her play, launched reasonably well on 46 screens, making $65,000.

The Universal release starring Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Ben Mendelsohn and Essie Davis registered the second highest per-screen average – $1,419 – among the top 10 titles, behind the market leader’s $1,766.

With 33 per cent of the nation’s cinemas closed and most that are still operating charging half price, the top 20 titles generated a mere $1.7 million, down 27 per cent on the previous frame, according to Numero.

The weekend takings were down 90 per cent on the same weekend last year, when The Lion King, Spider-Man: Far From Home, André Rieu’s Maastricht Concert and Toy Story 4 were raking in millions.

Sony Pictures launched The Burnt Orange Heresy,...

Cate Blanchett in ‘Where’d You Go Bernadette?’

In the pre-covid-19 world, Where’d You Go Bernadette?, a drama starring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig and newcomer Emma Nelson, was launched in the US last year by United Artists Releasing, playing widely on more than 2,400 screens.

The Richard Linklater-directed adaptation of Maria Semple’s 2012 novel made a decent $US3.2 million in its first weekend and ended up with $US9.2 million.

In the current depressed cinema market in Australia, the movie following Blanchett as a reclusive architect who leaves her family in Seattle and heads to Antarctica, opened on 40 screens, delivering a modest $62,000 for Universal Pictures last weekend.

Blame the market – especially the closure of Melbourne’s cinemas, which account for 27 per cent of the national Bo and potentially up to 40 per cent of the takings for an upscale release like Linklater’s, rather than the movie.

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“It’s a rare opportunity to work on something that can express your politics,” reveals the “Little America” music supervisor Zach Cowie. In our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video interview above), he continues, “I’m like ‘everyone’s welcome.’ Especially in the time we are living, to contribute to that message artistically. For the title sequences I had the idea for ‘The Rock’ episode to be an international song, but sampled in a big American hip hop track. To me that’s the essence of the show. Hip hop is made in America, but to make it you borrow things from all over the place.”

“Little America” is a new anthology comedy series from Apple TV+. Cowie explains, “There’s eight different episodes, all based off real stories, of people immigrating to America. Every episode you are dealing with a different country of origin and a different time period.