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Penn Badgley became a fan-favorite star as Dan Humphrey in CW’s Gossip Girl. The talented actor has proven time and again that he is much more than a pretty face, showcasing some amazing versatility in dramas like Margin Call, Greetings from Tim Buckley, and The Paper Store. He also entertained audiences in the cult comedies Easy A and John Tucker Must Die.

Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in You season 4 | Credits: Netflix

Badgley has now become a worldwide sensation as Joe Goldberg on the Netflix series You, with the actor set to return for a fifth and final season. The You star was highly rumored for the role of Reed Richards last year, which ultimately went to Pedro Pascal. Fans are not giving up their hopes of Badgley’s potential MCU entry as they have an original Avenger in mind if the MCU reboots after Secret Wars.

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Global Digital Releasing, the film distribution company that launched in 2017 with the hit Welsh language drama “The Passing,” is changing lanes to focus primarily on documentaries and live television events, TheWrap can report exclusively.

“To be a boutique distributor in today’s overwhelmingly competitive content game has made it even more vital that we consistently evaluate the performance trends of our films. Undoubtedly, we’ve seen a steady uptick in both engagement and revenue streams of our documentaries, well above and beyond our narrative films,” Global Digital Releasing president Joe Dain said in a statement.

“We believe this change in direction will not only benefit documentary filmmakers by giving them a dedicated home in the indie space, but this niche will also help differentiate our label from the competition and allow us to excel in the sector.”

In addition to 3-time BAFTA winner “Passing,” Global Digital Releasing’s roster of...

‘Love Island’ Snapped Up In Greece

Greece’s Skai TV has become the 23rd network to commission a version of ITV Studios’ smash reality show Love Island. Local producer Silverline will work up the Greek version, which will air later this year. The show, whose latest season in the U.S. has just started, brings singletons together who then ‘couple up’ or are eliminated throughout the eight week run. It has captured the zeitgeist in multiple territories, drawing millions of viewers and dominating front pages. The original UK version’s latest season ended on ITV2 at the start of the month.

Amazon Freevee Launches On App Store & Apple TVs In UK

Amazon Freevee, the streaming service formerly known as IMDb TV, is now available in the UK through Apple’s App Store and on the tech giant’s 4K and HD TV sets. The service includes originals such as crime drama Bosch: Legacy,...

We're back with another edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment: Brazilian horror at Cff, details on quarantine-filmed The Dark Offerings, and first word on an upcoming Christmas-themed slasher:

Skull: The Mask and The Pandemic Anthology at Cff: "Brazil's Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival not only celebrates the boldest and best in weird world cinema, they also produce it! That's right, South America's biggest genre festival makes movies, too!

And a double-header of Fantaspoa Productions' latest will be celebrating their World Premieres at this weekend's digital edition of The Chattanooga Film Festival - happening Friday, May 22nd through Monday, May 25th. These films, as well as dozens of others, will be available to watch at any time while the festival is happening.

Additional details, ticket info, and more can be found at www.chattfilmfest.org

First up is the creature feature/slasher hybrid Skull: The Mask, from directors Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman.

Global Digital Releasing has plans to release at least eight films, throughout 2020. Some of their films will include: dramas, thriller and documentaries. As well, the subjects covered in some of their dramas will range from: love, self-discovery, killing your boss, friendship and the power of drugs. The documentaries will cover the world. These releases will focus on: living off the grid and religion. Global Digital Releasing is a film distribution company, which brings indie title to audiences across the globe. Their latest slate, of eight film is previewed below. The Paper Store (Drama) – Release Date - February 11th A former college student writes essays for cash until a client becomes her lover and their plot is discovered by a Professor with his own agenda. Official Trailer: The Official Trailer for The Paper Store Two Ways To Go West (Drama) - Tba After surviving a bachelor party on the Vegas strip,...

Distributor Global Digital Releasing is known for finding award-winning indie and festival fare that would otherwise go under-the-radar and make it available to the many. Some of their award winning titles include Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name, Dain Said’s Interchange and Gareth Bryn’s BAFTA winning drama The Passing. Getting a jump on 2020, the group has passed along their diverse slate of release for us to share. The films tackle challenging topics, from killing your boss, to the power of self-discovery, and to the unique power of drugs. Their first release, coming in February, is revenge thriller The Paper Store, which stars Penn Badgley from Netflix's stalker drama, You. They tell us they will also deliver award-winning documentaries throughout the year. The documentaries will cover subjects that...

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 Penn Badgley and Stef Dawson sat down for an exclusive interview with uInterview to discuss their new movie The Paper Store, which details the story of university students who fall in love when Badgley’s character hires Dawson’s to write his school papers. Since it’s a lengthy piece, Badgley said it took a lot of effort to master the […]...

Among the cacophonous election coverage and myriad issues sweeping our country, the gargantuan cost of higher education emerges as a (still) rising concern. With the annals of cinema relatively bereft of material on the subject, few narrative films have touched on it so pointedly or deftly as The Paper Store, directed by Nicholas Gray.

Co-written by Katharine Clark Gray – based on her play 516 (five-sixteen) – we are thrust into the hands of narrator Annalee (Stef Dawson), a college dropout who, after successfully running a paper forgery operation, is enlisted by Sigurd (a very game Penn Badgley) to forge his entire course-load for an undergrad-level cinema class while he works on his thesis. What follows, against Annalee’s better judgment, is a relationship between the two. She divulges as much to Sigurd’s professor Marty Kane (Richard Kind) in a forged paper at the opening. As he reads her words, delivered with...