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Vampires and vampirism have been used as metaphors for many things over the years, one of which is drug addiction. Films as diverse as Ganja and Hess, Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, Daybreakers, and Bliss have made that connection for various purposes. Now writer/director Andrew Bell gives us his addition to the genre, Bleeding, which made its North American Premiere at Dances With Films.

A title card bearing a warning from 2008 tells us we’re in an alternate timeline where Blood and Dust, two highly addictive opioids derived from the blood of what are refered to as “the infected” are ravaging the country. Overdoses, the message tells us, leads to death and reanimation.

One of those addicted is Sean who uses it to cope with a shitty home life that includes a drunken,...

In mid-October, “Fauda” producer Liat Benasuly fired off an email to a group of nearly 100 people who had recently converged at former Paramount chief Sherry Lansing’s Los Angeles home. Attendees included “The Big Bang Theory” star Mayim Bialik and singer Montana Tucker, and the topic at hand was one rarely discussed outside of similar informal gatherings — that Israeli content creators are increasingly becoming pariahs in the global marketplace. As a result, the next hit series like “Fauda,” “Homeland” or “Euphoria” could die on the vine. In the email, Benasuly issued a dire warning and solicited donations for a newly formed 501(c)(3) dubbed Friends of Israeli Film & TV Producers Association.

“As you may know, a significant number of our investors and partners have paused their collaborations with Israeli storytellers and producers since October 7th,” she wrote. “Most projects in our industry now face a funding gap of approximately 20-30%. This...

The Penguin has finished and this wild ride has a Huge body count. At least one person died in each episode and there were two mass death situations including the murder of the Falcone family as well as two counts of fratricide.

If you need a refresher and just who met their demise and how, we've got you covered! Below you'll find every significant death in the series along with which episode the character(s) died in. You may want to settle somewhere comfortable for this one, it's long.

Who dies in The Penguin? The Penguin. Photograph by Courtesy of Max | HBO Alberto Falcone

The Penguin was barely 10 minutes into its series premiere, "After Hours," when Alberto, the heir apparent to the Falcone crime family was killed. He and Oz had been sharing a drink, and the crown prince (at Oz's urging) decided to indulge in some drops. Alberto had...

The world of DC is making a comeback with shows like The Penguin, a spinoff of the 2022 film The Batman that centers the iconic villain, played here by Colin Farrell. And this show did not disappoint.

We get a look at the rise of Ozwald Cobb, who ends the show as the crime kingpin known as the Penguin. It isn’t easy taking over the gangs of Gotham City. Oz goes through some difficult and dangerous moments as he gets himself in and out of close shaves. It’s been a fun ride seeing him get out of sticky situations, especially with chrismatic rivals like Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) pushing back on him.

Now that the show is over it’s time to rank the eight episodes of The Penguin from worst to best.

Carmen Ejogo as Eve, Colin Farrell as Oz, Rhenzy Feliz as Victor in The Penguin episode...

Oz and Sofia’s power struggle rages on, forcing Oz to think outside the box. Here’s our The Penguin episode 6 review.

“Who’s got the power?” Oz asks at the beginning of the latest episode of The Penguin. Indeed, Gotham is in flux with no one gang in charge of the streets. It’s anyone’s game, you could say. Inevitably, it’ll either be Oz or Sofia Gigante (Cristin Milioti) who will end up ruling the streets, but it’s a lot of fun watching the two sides fight for control.

At the end of last week’s episode, Sofia, having adopted her mother’s maiden name, joins forces with the Marones in order to bury Oz’s hopes of ruling Gotham’s underworld. Episode 6 shows that Oz has no plans of surrendering and finds him making quite the power move by the end.

Let’s back up a little,...

On Sunday, 6 October 2024, at 9:00 Pm, HBO presents the thrilling episode titled “Bliss” from the first season of “The Penguin.” This episode continues the compelling journey of Oswald Cobblepot, better known as Penguin, as he evolves from a disfigured nobody into a prominent gangster in Gotham City.

Viewers will witness Oswald’s struggles and triumphs as he navigates the treacherous underworld of Gotham. The episode delves into his transformation, highlighting the challenges he faces and the alliances he forges along the way. As he gains power and respect, Oswald must also confront his own dark impulses and the harsh realities of the criminal world.

“Bliss” promises to offer a deeper understanding of Oswald Cobblepot’s character, revealing the complexities that drive him towards a life of crime. With intense drama and intricate storytelling, this episode is sure to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Fans of crime dramas...

The Penguin and DC fans, what did you think of the premiere episode? I certainly liked it and I'm really impressed with what the show has to offer so far! We saw Colin Farrell reprise his role as Oz Cobb/Penguin, and the first episode really delivered when it comes to the storyline and acting. Hopefully, The Batman spin-off series stays like this the rest of the season.

The first episode of the miniseries came out Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. And so, you might be expecting a new episode tonight. Well, that's actually not the case as HBO has switched release days for the show, starting with The Penguin episode 2. Going forward, installments will come out on a new day instead of Thursdays.

Courtesy: HBO

You'll have to wait just a few more days until Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024 for episode 2, "Inside Man" on HBO and Max at 9 p.m. Et. Going forward, new...

Israeli novelist and director Shemi Zarhin is set to screen his latest movie, Bliss (Hemda) at the Toronto Film Festival with virtually all the certainties in his life and work scrambled by the current war in Gaza that followed the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel.

“I can’t explain my people. I can explain nothing,” Zarhin told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday about the impossibility of unpacking the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in his own films and the wider Israeli cinema.

Hardly a critique of Israeli’s polarized society, Zarhin wrote and shot Bliss (Hemda) before the Israeli-Gaza war broke out late last year with devastating destruction in the region, and it’s not an overtly political film as it centers on an older couple, Sassi and Efi, played by Sasson Gabay and Assi Levy.

Burdened by part time jobs, they struggle with the everyday complications and cares of family,...

Nesta Cooper has racked up more than 30 acting credits over the last decade, with roles in such projects as Kemba, Cold Copy, Bliss, Spy Kids: Mission Critical, Supergirl, and The Edge of Seventeen. She may be best known for playing Haniwa on 24 episodes of the TV series See, or Carly Shannon on 34 episodes of the series Travelers. Now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that she’s set to add another acting credit to her filmography, as she’ll be starring in the sci-fi thriller Mem – and with this movie, she’ll also be earning her first writing credit, as she’s currently writing the screenplay.

Based on the Bethany C. Morrow novel of the same name (you can pick up a copy Here), Mem will tell the story of a scientist in Montreal who discovers how to extract memories from people and turn them into zombie-like creatures known as Mems.

An up-and-coming chef, Kaleena Bliss, takes centre stage in this episode of Bobby’s Triple Threat. Having already proven her culinary prowess by beating Bobby Flay, she now faces a new challenge set by Bobby himself. Joining her is Chef Hillary Sterling, Bobby’s protégé, who brings her own unique perspective to the proceedings. The episode, airing […]

Bobby’s Triple Threat: Titans vs Kaleena Bliss...

We're going to be waiting quite a while for Matt Reeves' The Batman sequel (it may not hit theaters until late 2026 if recent production updates prove to be accurate), but we will get to see how Colin Farrell's Oswald Cobblepot's story continues in Max's The Penguin series, which hits the streaming service next month.

Now, @Cryptic4KQual has revealed the titles and run-times for the first four episodes.

The series premiere clocks-in at a hefty 67 minutes, which the next three episodes are just under an hour long.

EP 1 - After Hours (1 hr 7 mins)

EP 2 - Inside Man (56 mins)

EP 3 - Bliss (59 mins)

EP 4 - Cent’Anni (58 mins)

Just these four for now#ThePenguin #max https://t.co/T7FyHJQayJ pic.twitter.com/ahDkjTfqUE

— Cryptic HD Quality (@Cryptic4KQual) August 26, 2024

Picking up shortly after Carmine Falcone's death towards the end of Matt Reeves' movie, the limited series will find Oz...

Nach seiner Weltpremiere in Cannes wird Francis Ford Coppolas „Megalopolis“ auf dem Toronto International Film Festival seine Nordamerikapremiere feiern.

Francis Ford Coppolas „Megalopolis“ feiert in Toronto seine Weltpremiere (Credit: Festival de Cannes / Le Pacte)

Das Toronto International Film Festival hat 20 weitere Titel zum Lineup für seine vom 5. bis 15. September stattfindende Ausgabe hinzugefügt.

So wird Francis Ford Coppolas “Megalopolis“ nach seiner Weltpremiere in Cannes in der Gala-Sektion in Toronto seine Nordamerikapremiere feiern. Ebenfalls zum Lineup, das insgesamt 276 Filme umfasst, hinzugefügt wurden u.a. Luca Guadagninos „Queer“, Pedro Almodovars „The Room Next Door“ sowie Damian Chazelles „Whiplash“.

Die neu zum Toronto-Lineup hinzugefügten Titel im Überblick:

Gala

• “Megalopolis”

• “William Tell”

Special Presentations

• “Babygirl

• “Dahomey”

• “Hold Your Breath”

• “On Swift Horses”

• “Paul Anka: His Way”

• “Queer”

• “Shell”

• “The Brutalist”

• “The Luckiest Man in America”

• “The Room Next Door”

• “The Salt Path”

• “Vermiglio”

Discovery

• “Village Keeper”

• “You Are Not Alone”

Centrepiece

• “Bliss (Hemda)”

Special Events...

Deadline has just unveiled that the Toronto International Film Festival has added twenty more titles to their schedule, which brings their lineup of official selections to a total of 278 films. One of the bigger titles to be added is Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, which depicts the evening of October 11, 1975, when “a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. It is the true story of what happened behind the scenes that night in the moments leading up to the first broadcast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.”

Another big feature that will be screened is the already-divisive but anticipated new film from Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola — Megalopolis. This will be the film’s North American premiere after its debut in Cannes already gave the movie the kind of buzz that people had expected to come from a mind as mad as Coppola’s. The film would...

Francis Ford Coppola’s divisive sci-fi epic “Megalopolis” will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

TIFF has added that movie and several others, including Luca Guadadgnino’s “Queer” starring Daniel Craig and Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” led by Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, to its 2024 lineup. In total, 276 films will screen at this year’s festival, which is running from Sept. 5-15.

In addition to official selection titles, TIFF has programmed special screenings of Damien Chazelle’s 2014 film “Whiplash,” as well as Mina Shum’s 1994 comedy “Double Happiness.”

As previously announced, director David Gordon Green’s “Nutcrackers,” starring Ben Stiller, will open the festival while Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut “The Deb” will close the 49th edition. Other movies already on the schedule include Ron Howard’s survival thriller “Eden,” Marielle Heller’s horror comedy “Nightbitch” with Amy Adams, the animated “The Wild Robot...

The Toronto Film Festival has made its final lineup announcement for its 2024 edition, to include a North American premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian epic Megalopolis and a world bow for Driven director Nick Hamm’s medieval action drama William Tell.

Both movies, including the Cannes-bowing Megalopolis, will get a Gala premiere at Roy Thomson Hall. William Tell, set in 1307 and adapting Friedrich Schiller’s play, stars Danish actor Claes Bang as huntsman Tell, Ben Kingsley as King Albrecht, Rafe Spall as Stauffacher and Jonathan Pryce as Attinghausen.

Toronto, which will feature in all 278 films for its 49th edition, has also booked Special Presentations slots for another 12 titles. That includes world premieres for Daniel Minahan’s period drama On Swift Horses, to star Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter; John Maggio’s Paul Anka: His Way biopic; Max Minghella’s dark comedy Shell, starring Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson...

Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Pedro Almodovar’s “The Room Next Door” and Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” have been added to the lineup of the Toronto International Film Festival, which made its final programming announcement on Tuesday before posting the 2024 schedule.

The films were part of a group of 19 titles that brought the total number of movies at this year’s festival to 276.

The wildly ambitious and excessive “Megalopolis,” starring Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel, was one of the most talked-about and most divisive titles at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. “The Room Next Door” is Almodovar’s first English-language feature, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore; it will premiere just prior to TIFF at the Venice Film Festival. “Queer” is Guadagnino’s adaptation of a 1985 William S. Burroughs novel, and another Venice premiere.

Other films added to the lineup include the world premieres of Nick Hamm’s “William Tell,...

World premieres of hot sales titles including Nick Hamm’s English-language feature William Tell starring Claes Bang and theatre director Marianne Elliott’s debut The Salt Path with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are among 20 additions to Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) official selection.

The new arrivals announced on Tuesday bring the total number of films on offer to 278 at the 49th edition of the festival running September 5-15. The entire schedule is now available on the festival’s website.

There are also world premieres in Galas and Special Presentations for Leyline, FirstGen and Peter Spears’ drama On Swift Horses...

Yellow Veil Pictures has proudly announced the international premiere of Elric Kane’s debut solo feature, The Dead Thing, an obsessive and lust-driven thriller set to captivate audiences at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest. The film will screen on 26th August at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, promising a unique blend of horror and romance that will leave viewers spellbound.

The Dead Thing marks a significant milestone for Kane, known for his work as the host of the Pure Cinema podcast and Fangoria’s Colors of the Dark podcast. This debut solo feature is based on a script co-written with Webb Wilcoxen and produced by Matt Mercer and Monte Yazzie, with Colors of the Dark co-host Rebekah McKendry (Glorious) serving as executive producer. Yellow Veil Pictures is handling worldwide sales, underscoring the film’s anticipated global appeal.

Starring Blu Hunt, Ben Smith-Petersen, John Karna, and Katherine Hughes, The Dead Thing delves into...

Gracie Otto’s documentary about her father – the legendary actor Barry Otto – blooms into a melancholy portrait of artistry and its burdens

All documentaries celebrating artistic geniuses face the challenge of how to recognise their talent without coming across as pure puffery. The dynamic is different in the rare event that the film-maker is personally related to the subject, as is the case in Revealed: Otto by Otto – a portrait of the great Australian actor Barry Otto directed by his daughter Gracie. She flips a potential downside – being so close to the person documented – into a virtue by crafting an emotionally rich film that truly could not have been made by anybody else. It is filled, like Otto’s performances, with light and shade.

Otto by Otto (which premiered at this year’s Sydney film festival and arrives on Stan on 16 June) begins unassumingly, with grainy home videos and footage...

Exclusive: Paradigm has signed actor, writer and producer Steve Zissis (Togetherness) for representation in all areas.

Best known for co-creating, writing and starring on HBO’s acclaimed comedy-drama Togetherness, Zissis collaborated with the Duplass Brothers on that series, as well as their films The Do-Deca Pentathlon, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Cyrus and Baghead.

On the film side, he’s recently appeared in Bliss opposite Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek and Bad Hair from writer-director Justin Simien. Other notable credits include the Universal horror pic Happy Death Day 2 U, Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner opposite Hugh Jackman, Another Evil, and Spike Jonze’s Her.

In television, Zissis has been seen in the Golden Globe-nominated The Comey Rule (Showtime) as well as The Guest Book (TBS), I’m Sorry (TruTV), Single Parents (ABC), The League (FX), Arrested Development (Netflix), Parks and Recreation (NBC) and The Office (NBC).

Currently, Zissis...

Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2004 Oscar for “Finding Neverland,” died Tuesday in Krakow, the Polish Music Foundation announced. He was 71 and had suffered from Multiple System Atrophy (Msa) in recent years.

Also among Kaczmarek’s 50-plus film and television scores, mostly from the 1990s and 2000s, were “Unfaithful,” “Bliss,” “Aimee and Jaguar,” “The Visitor” and “Get Low.” He also scored the lavish four-part French-Italian miniseries of “War and Peace” in 2007.

Kaczmarek had one of the most unusual backgrounds of any film composer of his time. Born in Konin in 1953, he was educated as a lawyer. But he abandoned a planned career as a diplomat to compose music for an experimental theater company, headed by avant-garde theater director Jerzy Grotowski, in Poznan during the 1970s.

He formed his own ensemble, the Orchestra of the Eighth Day, which toured Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s, releasing an LP,...

Exclusive: MPI Media Group has acquired North American distribution rights for Saïd Belktibia’s French thriller Hood Witch starring Golshifteh Farahani and Denis Lavant.

The Chicago-based company announced the acquisition on the eve of the film’s screening at horror-focused The Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans this weekend, following a buzzy world premiere at SXSW.

MPI will release the movie via its genre subsidiary Dark Sky Films in late fall 2024.

Iranian and French acting star Farahani plays a single mother who makes a living from smuggling exotic animals and illicit products such as birds of prey, venom and rare roots.

In a bid to get her son out of the city and offer him a better future, she designs and develops a mobile app that connects clients and marabouts.

It is a success but a patient’s consultation turns into a tragedy and...

Heavy noise-makers Full of Hell have announced a new album titled Coagulated Bliss, set to arrive April 26th via Closed Casket Activities. In advance of its release, the band has unleashed the ferocious single “Doors to Mental Agony.”

The album announcement follows the news earlier this year that Full of Hell will support Dying Fetus on a spring North American tour. Tickets for that outing are available here.

Full of Hell wrote Coagulated Bliss shortly after collaborating with Nothing on the joint album When No Birds Sang, which landed at No. 4 on Heavy Consequence‘s list of the 30 Best Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2023.

“That was a good experience of learning how to find what actually services a song,” stated guitarist Spencer Hazard of the Nothing collab, with singer Dylan Walker adding that working with The Body on an earlier joint release helped him “recognize that there was value in pop music.

Cillian Murphy and writer, director, and producer Christopher Nolan on the set of ‘Oppenheimer’ (Photo © Universal Pictures)

Oppenheimer writer/director Christopher Nolan continues to rack up wins, with the Directors Guild of America honoring the critically acclaimed (and this year’s Oscar favorite) filmmaker with the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film award. Judd Apatow hosted this year’s DGA Awards ceremony, which presented honorary awards to David Nutter (2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Television Direction), unit production manager Janet Knutsen (2024 Frank Capra Achievement Award), and Gary Natoli (2024 Franklin J. Schaffner Award).

Presenters included Matt Bomer, Rose Byrne, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Zooey Deschanel, David Duchovny, Jay Ellis, Carla Gallo, and Ilana Glazer. Ryan Gosling, Taylor Hackford, Jonah Hill, Patty Jenkins, Rashida Jones, Daniel Kwan, Eva Longoria, Cillian Murphy, Nasim Pedrad, and Mark Ruffalo were also on hand to help celebrate the best of 2024.

Additional presenters included Rachel Sennott, Daniel Scheinert, Emma Stone,...

Night Court’s new clerk will be sticking around for a while.

Nyambi Nyambi (The Good Fight) has been promoted to series regular for the current Season 2 of NBC’s courtroom comedy, TVLine has confirmed. (Our sister site Variety first reported the news.) Nyambi plays new court clerk Wyatt Shaw, who made his debut in this Tuesday’s episode.

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Exclusive: Veteran entertainment lawyer and business strategist Jason Beekman has exited his role as VP and Head of Business & Legal Strategy at RadicalMedia to join director and former Imagine Documentaries showrunner Ryan Miller in co-founding new production company, Wise Child Studios.

Intended to marry the robust legal and business acumen of a larger studio with the distinguished creative vision and filmmaker-centric attention of a boutique shop, Wise Child will work with the industry’s best, from award winners to emerging talent, in the telling of thought-provoking and character-driven stories. The company is developing most of its projects from the ground up and will also handle post-production and sales for its titles.

Having already built a robust slate across scripted and non-fiction series, features, and podcasts, Wise Child’s projects in development include an investigative series with AMC; the feature doc Up the River about a 1972 concert at Sing Sing Prison,...

Stars: Kristin Lorenz, Jack McCord, Dilynn Fawn Harvey, Todd Martin, Trish Erickson-Martin, Geoff Allen, Sheila Brandon Allen, P.J. Brescia, Brandon E. Brooks, Ingrid Dittmeier Hansen, Julie Anne Prescott, Leila Jean Davis | Written by Brad Sykes, Todd Sheets, Anthony Catanese, Tim Ritter, Josephina Sykes | Directed by Brad Sykes, Todd Sheets, Anthony Catanese, Tim Ritter

Hi-Fear is the final instalment of the trilogy that started in 2013 with Hi-8 and was followed in 2018 by Hi-Death. These anthologies have been tributes to the glory days of shot-on-video horror and were made by many of the pioneers of that movement. This time out, the framing segment “What Are You Afraid Of?”, written and directed by Brad Sykes from a story by Brad and Josephina Sykes introduces us to Natalie, an artist tasked with creating the splash pages for four tales of horror for the comic Hi-Fear.

Hi-Fear’s first story, “Losing It At The...

Wes Anderson‘s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” is the “Asteroid City” and “Moonrise Kingdom” director at his most visually inventive — and most fetishistic toward the pleasures of devices like dioramas, rear-screen projection, and fourth-wall-breaking in its adaptation of a collection of Roald Dahl shorts.

And “Henry Sugar,” which premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, is the first of four Roald Dahl shorts Anderson has crafted, all of which he’s filmed. This one stars Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade, and centers on a rich man who learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes and then sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling. IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called it “37 minutes of pure bliss.”

Anderson spoke about his upcoming Roald Dahl films while in Venice to receive the Cartier Glory to...

The episode of Best Horror Movie You Never Saw covering Vfw was Written by Andrew Hatfield, Narrated by Kier Gomes, Edited by Paul Bookstaber, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

In today’s movie landscape, its easy to get a sequel or remake greenlit, particularly in horror, but what about an original movie that is a heavy homage to an older title? This can give is something fresh and fun if done well. It has to have the right ingredients like the right actors on screen, the right script, and know exactly what it is and what it’s meant to accomplish. Indie director Joe Begos was the right guy to give us a wholly original genre flick that came out in 2019 to seemingly good reviews but little fanfare 4 years later. How a movie put out by Fangoria, one of the premiere indie horror entities,...

August has been a significant month for Screambox, which celebrated the anniversary of Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, took a look back at the classic 1985 movie Clue in Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, got creature feature crazy with the sci-fi horror Subject, and had a blast with the Ghostbusters-inspired sci-fi horror comedy The Ghastly Brothers.

In addition to the controversial The Woman hitting the streaming service last week, Screambox has now added four highly regarded horror films, all courtesy of MPI/Dark Sky Films.

The lineup includes…

Late Phases: A practical effects heavy werewolf movie from Adrián García Bogliano. When deadly beasts attack from the forest, it is up to a grizzled veteran to uncover what the residents of a secluded retirement community are hiding.

Bliss: From director Joe Begos, Bliss follows a brilliant painter (Dora Madison) who turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece,...

Following a successful world premiere at London’s FrightFest, Dark Sky Films today announced it has acquired North American distribution rights to Herd, an action-driven horror film and the directorial debut from Steven Pierce, co-written by Pierce and James Allerdyce. Herd stars Ellen Adair (Trick, Cryptid), Mitzi Akaha (Bashira), Jeremy Holm (The Ranger, Brooklyn 45, Black Mold), Amanda Fuller (Starry Eyes, All the Creatures Were Stirring) among others. The film, which premiered on IMAX at Cineworld to a sold-out crowd in Leicester Square, London, will be released in theaters and on VOD in October 2023.

The distribution arrangement was negotiated by Greg Newman, Executive Vice President of Dark Sky Films, and Bill Straus of Bridge Independent.

Herd tells the story of a woman trying to outrun a past complicated by an abusive father. When she and her wife end up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring militia groups in her hometown,...

Women will rock Stage Ae in Pittsburgh, Pa on Saturday, October 21st as the 6th annual Women Who Rock Benefit Concert Presented by Gibson Gives returns.

Women Who Rock connects through the power of music and helps educate, support, and fund women-centric health research.

All proceeds from the Women Who Rock Benefit Concert support Magee-Womens Research Institute (Mwri), the nation’s largest research institute dedicated solely to life-saving women’s health research. Tickets for the 2023 Women Who Rock Benefit Concert go on sale Friday 8/25 at 10 Am Et here.

This year’s annual Women Who Rock Benefit Concert on October 21st will star the legendary Ann Wilson of Heart and Tripsitter. Widely praised as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock, Wilson’s powerful voice has been sending chills down her audience’s collective spine for over five decades, selling more than 35 million records and earning an induction...

Peacock has officially taken flight! The NBCUniversal streamer and JetBlue are now sky-bound for a new exclusive partnership that will bring in-flight entertainment to JetBlue TrueBlue loyalty members, including exclusive access to Peacock Original content. The brands announced the partnership at the end of 2022 and have debuted the first-of-its-kind collaboration as of Monday, Aug. 7.

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Regardless of if they’re a Peacock subscriber, loyalty members will now be able to unlock dozens of Peacock titles onboard JetBlue flights with more to follow post-launch. Customers that do have a Peacock subscription, though, will be able to access the streamer’s full offerings, including series, movies, news, and live sports using JetBlue’s free high-speed Fly-Fi on their own devices.

Included in the list available for all TrueBlue members are the hit absurdist sci-fi comedy “Mrs. Davis,” starring Betty Gilpin as a nun using her faith to take...

Welcome back to Dead Time. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction and sometimes things really do go bump in the night. The paranormal is often portrayed in horror movies for maximum dramatic effect, which doesn’t quite reflect the reality of what it’s like to have a paranormal experience. We watch horror movies about ghosts and demonic possessions because we like to be scared, but don’t you sometimes wonder what paranormal phenomena is like in real life?

To answer that question, this month, I was excited to talk with actress, paranormal investigator, and self-described “rock n rollin’, death defying witch” Susan Slaughter. Susan has starred in several horror movies such as Slay Belles, Bliss, and The Dawn. Susan also gives her expert opinion on videos of unexplained phenomena on Travel Channel’s popular television show Paranormal Caught on Camera and has also appeared on shows like Syfy’s Ghost Hunters International.

The 2023 edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival opens Friday night with some A-list firepower. Ewan McGregor and Alicia Vikander will be in the Czech spa town to collect special honors, while Russell Crowe is attending for a career retrospective and to receive the Crystal Globe lifetime achievement award. Crowe will also be performing on the opening night along with his band The Gentlemen Barbers.

But there’ll also be another musical act set to play June 30 at the opening concert, one that’s perhaps a little more established than the Gladiator star (no disrespect, Russell).

English band Morcheeba have been fine-tuning their downtempo, electronic vibes since forming in the mid-1990s, moving from trip hop origins into more pop-based, hip-hop-infused soul waters, most notably with the 1998 breakout album Big Calm and 2000’s follow-up, Fragments of Freedom. More than two decades on and the band — now made up of two...

So many documentaries, so little time.

The Family Stallone, The Secrets of Hillsong, and Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss premiere as well as Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me.

High Desert premieres on Apple TV+, and Xo Kitty will captivate audiences on Netflix. See what else is brewing below!

Saturday, May 13

8/7c Maid For Revenge (Lifetime)

All a girl ever wants to do is clean a wealthy person’s house, get paid well, and go about their day, but it’s never that simple.

We’ve all had some rough days, but waking up next to your employer’s pool, covered in their blood, while they’re dead isn’t what anyone signs up for, am I right?

Now this poor maid is on the run, dodging being the primary suspect in her boss’ death, there’s a missing 8-year-old in peril, and oh yeah, this batsh...

Netflix and Disney+ have ads, but Amazon has another idea.

Amazon Studios will soon license its original shows and movies to third-party platforms. The newly formed Amazon MGM Studios Distribution, announced on Monday, will license out Amazon originals (and continue to license MGM content) worldwide, making Amazon Prime Video the first major streamer to enter syndication in such a big way. Will Netflix be second? After all, no one covets revenue more.

As the once-bulletproof streaming industry collectively searches for new revenue streams, Netflix has arguably been the most vocal about the importance of the top-line accounting number. The king of the streamers, once faithfully married to one lone revenue stream, previously touted subscribers as its primary metric of success. Nowadays there is ad revenue from the “Basic with Ads” tier and unearthed subscriber revenue from paid sharing, and Netflix shareholder letters no longer offer subscriber forecasts.

They do, on occasion,...

James Bond franchise, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, among offerings.

Amazon Studios is launching Amazon MGM Studios Distribution to syndicate Amazon Originals and MGM new releases and library titles comprising more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV episodes.

Chris Ottinger who has led the distribution team at MGM for more than a decade, will head the new division and reports to Brad Beale, VP worldwide licensing & distribution, Amazon and MGM Studios, who in return reports to Jen Salke, head of Amazon and MGM Studios.

At launch during LA Screenings later this month the division will offer a selection of Amazon...

Amazon Studios is launching the Amazon MGM Studios Distribution division, which will oversee licensing of Amazon Original titles and MGM new release and library movies and series such as film franchises “James Bond,” “Rocky “and “Creed,” and series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Vikings,” “Fargo” and the upcoming “Hotel Cocaine” from MGM+.

Titles at launch will include television series like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Goliath” and “Hunters” and films like “Coming 2 America, “”Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “7500,” “All the Old Knives,” “Bliss,” “I Want You Back,” “The Tender Bar,” “The Tomorrow War,” “The Voyeurs,” and “Without Remorse.”

MGM’s storied library houses more than 4,000 film titles, 17,000 TV episodes, including 180 Academy Awards winners and 100 Emmy Awards winners.

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The division will be helmed by Chris Ottinger, who has led the distribution team at MGM for more than a decade.

“Pioneering the distribution of Amazon Originals...

File this one under “everything old is new again”: Amazon Studios is launching a syndication business for its original series and films.

The new business, Amazon MGM Studios Distribution, will look to sell streaming originals ranging from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to The Tomorrow War to other outlets. Chris Ottinger, who has led MGM’s distribution team for more than a decade, will lead the unit, which will also continue to sell MGM library titles including the James Bond and Rocky/Creed franchises.

“The launch of Amazon MGM Studios Distribution reinforces our commitment to bringing the very best content to audiences everywhere worldwide,” Amazon Studios head Jen Salke said in a statement. “With the integration of MGM, we wanted to take advantage of the existing team to expand our business in ways that will greatly benefit our customers around the world.”

Said Ottinger, “Pioneering the distribution of Amazon Originals...

Amazon Studios is launching Amazon MGM Studios Distribution.

The worldwide distribution division will see Amazon originals and MGM library titles, which number 4,000 film titles and 17,000 TV episodes.

At launch the division will offer Amazon Originals including 7500, All the Old Knives, Bliss, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Coming 2 America, I Want You Back, The Tender Bar, The Tomorrow War, The Voyeurs, and Without Remorse. Television titles include Goliath, Hunters and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — notably this is the first time the latter could be syndicated domestically or shopped internationally.

It will also handle sales of the James Bond, Rocky and Creed franchises and series The Handmaid’s Tale, Vikings, Fargo and the upcoming Hotel Cocaine from MGM+.

Chris Ottinger, who’s led the distribution team at MGM for several years, will lead the unit, reporting to Brad Beale, VP Worldwide Licensing & Distribution, Amazon and MGM Studios, who in turn reports to Jen Salke,...

Original Amazon series like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will be sold off-platform to third parties for the first time, the company announced Monday as it launched the new Amazon MGM Studios Distribution. A revamp of MGM’s pre-existing distribution team, the division will now handle Amazon Studios/Prime Video originals in addition to current and library titles. Chris Ottinger, who led the MGM distribution team for more than a decade, will oversee the new division.

Ottinger will report to Brad Beale, the VP of worldwide licensing and distribution at Amazon and MGM Studios; Beale, in turn, reports to Amazon/MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke.

“What did Amazon buy when they bought MGM? Well, they definitely got a big remakes and sequels catalog of rights,” Ottinger said. “They bought a finished product catalog, but they also got a big distribution business. In addition to my group, we have a domestic theatrical...

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1. Irina, Micah, and Paul should get their awkward moment Irina Solomonova | Netflix

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First comes love, then comes reality.

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