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It’s a sight familiar to anyone who’s been nurtured on a steady diet of international films: Children are sitting in a classroom, getting lectured by an irate teacher. The conversations are in Farsi, which suggests we’re somewhere on the outskirts of Tehran. The fact that one of the students is dressed as Groucho Marx signals we’re not in Kansas anymore. Eventually, the camera leaves the school grounds and begins to follow two sisters; they’re played by nonprofessional actors Rojina Esmaeili and Saba Vahedyousefi, and exhibit...

Exclusive: Icelandic drama Manifesto has been boarded by local streamer Síminn and European distributor Wild Bunch TV.

The six-episode drama is currently in development and will be pitched at the TV Drama Vision sidebar at the Göteborg Film Festival. Based on true events, comes from Glassriver, the prolific Icelandic producer behind Cold Haven and Black Sands, and is written by journalist and screenwriter Urður Egilsdóttir.

Plot is set to the backdrop of the aftermath of Iceland’s first-ever *** attack, which shatters peaceful nation. An aspiring police officer, Harpa, is forced to prove her childhood friends’ innocence after it emerges one of them, Matti, was responsible. Matti releases a manifesto warning of a second, deadlier attack.

Producers say it is “crime thriller with a unique focus on the lives caught in between – not just the perpetrators or the victims – but the friends and family left to grapple with betrayal, suspicion,...

Exclusive: Icelandic streamer Síminn has boarded Reykjavik Noir, a series adaptation of Lilja Sigurdardottir’s crime novel trilogy.

Glassriver, the Icelandic producer behind Cold Haven and As Long As We Live, is producing after acquiring the rights to the novels in a deal brokered the Reykjavik Literary Agency.

The books, set in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, comprise ‘Snare’, ‘Trap’ and ‘Cage’. They have been translated into 17 languages, including English, German and French, and ‘Snare’ was awarded Thriller of the Year in 2017 by the New York Journal of Books. It was also named in The Times and the Sunday Times Crime Club’s best books of the past five years in 2020, and was longlisted for the Cwa International Dagger award in 2018.

In ‘Snare’, a young, divorced mother, Sonja, who is trying to win sole custody of her son resorts to smuggling *** into Iceland and gets caught up in the ruthless criminal world.

Young and the Restless (Y&R) spoilers for Monday, December 2 indicate some massive plot twists as the show returns with a bang after a four-day hiatus.

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Two exes team up to help a ‘friend’, while a mother-daughter duo aligns for a plan, and someone gets busted. What kind of drama is set to unravel on Monday? Time to dive right in!

The Young And The Restless Spoilers – Chick Aligns To Save Sharon Newman

Y&r spoilers note that Chance Chancellor (Conner Floyd) and Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) may for an alliance to help ‘save’ their mutual ex, Sharon Newman (Sharon Case).

The preview video for the week of December 2-6 shows Nick asking Chance for help with Sharon’s investigation, as Chance tells Nick that her case is with the D.A. now.

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Eva Björg Ægisdóttir’s best-selling crime series “Elma” is set for a TV adaptation after Icelandic production company Glassriver optioned the rights.

The series follows police detective Elma, who returns to work at the local police station in her small hometown of Akranes, Iceland, after a disastrous romance goes wrong.

“When a woman’s body is found lying at the foot of a lighthouse, terrible secrets could well resurface from the past,” reads the logline. “In this small Icelandic town with its oppressive atmosphere, could salvation come to Elma from her colleague Saevar?”

The first book in the series is titled “The Creak on the Stairs” while the follow-up is “Girls Who Life.” Ægisdóttir’s books have been translated into 23 languages but the series has been a particular hit in France, where it has reached over 100,000 readers.

D H H Literary Agency’s David Headley negotiated the deal in association with The Artists Partnership.

Can you imagine "Star Trek" without Leonard Nimoy as Spock? Well, that's almost exactly what happened.

The 2016 documentary "For The Love of Spock" (directed by Nimoy's son Adam) explores both Nimoy's life story and how Spock became a cultural icon. One takeaway from the doc is that those two stories were inseparable, yet it doesn't elide some of Nimoy's early struggles with the character.

Nimoy had appeared on "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's previous series "The Lieutenant." This meant Nimoy's "Star Trek" was easy since Roddenberry specifically wanted him on the show. Specifically (as heard in an interview clip included in "For The Love of Spock"), Roddenberry thought Nimoy's long, sharp cheekbones would be a good fit for an alien character. Spock's pointed ears, the greatest signifier of his Vulcan (originally Martian) heritage, were designed to specifically complement Nimoy's looks (and they did).

In another interview included in the documentary,...

Image Source: Amazon Movie history is filled with films that initially bombed, only to be rediscovered and embraced years later. Some become “so bad they’re good” cult favorites, while others leave us wondering, “How did this ever get made?” The 1980 musical sci-fi film The Apple falls squarely into the latter category. Set in a “futuristic” 1994, the film follows two young musicians who sign with a sinister record label, Boogalow International Music. Themes of conformity vs. rebellion and biblical allegory abound. Produced by Cannon Films, known more for its over-the-top action flicks than thoughtful musicals, and directed by the flamboyant the late Menahem Golan, The Apple was a box office disaster upon release. Critics savaged it, with some calling it one of the worst movies ever made. It currently holds a dismal 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yet, somehow, The Apple has garnered a cult following. Catherine Mary Stewart, the film’s...

Shōgun, The Bear and Only Murders in the Building lead the way at the 2024 Emmy nominations, which were revealed this morning.

Below is a list of the programs with five or more noms, following by a full list of nominees and the number they received.

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Here is the full list of 2024 Emmy nominations by program:

25 Nominations

Shogun

23 Nominations

The Bear

21 Nominations

Only Murders In The Building

19 Nominations

True Detective: Night Country

18 Nominations

The Crown

17 Nominations

Saturday Night Live

16 Nominations

Fallout

Hacks

The Morning Show

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

15 Nominations

Fargo

13 Nominations

Ripley

11 Nominations

Baby Reindeer

Palm Royale

10 Nominations

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

Lessons In Chemistry

9 Nominations

Abbott Elementary

Slow Horses

8 Nominations

Jim Henson Idea Man

RuPaul’s Drag Race...

Fly Me to the Moon boasts a stellar soundtrack with R&b/Soul songs to transport viewers to the late 1960s space race era. The movie expertly utilizes iconic tunes from artists like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin to recreate the feeling of 1969. In addition to the popular music choices, Fly Me to the Moon also features original songs composed for the film's soundtrack.

Fly Me to the Moon includes a stellar soundtrack loaded with R&b and Soul songs from popular music artists as the backdrop to the space race. The 2024 movie starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum chronicles NASA in 1968 and 1969 as the space program prepares for the Apollo 11 launch. The late 1960s setting is perfectly created with real-life archival footage, period-appropriate costumes, and more great details to highlight Fly Me to the Moon's true story.

One of the other ways that the NASA movie helps...

Saucer separation was a tactical maneuver used in extreme circumstances to protect innocent lives on the USS Enterprise and USS Discovery. Only the USS Enterprise-d from Star Trek's prime timeline has conducted a saucer separation, despite early consideration in production. The Kelvin timeline's USS Enterprise conducted a saucer separation in Star Trek Beyond, but it was too late to make a difference.

In extreme circumstances, Star Trek's starship Enterprise and USS Discovery can carry out a saucer separation for both tactical and emergency purposes. The Enterprise's first saucer separation maneuver was seen in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint", and though used sparingly, it wouldn't be the last time that Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) gave such a command. While the Tng version of the starship Enterprise was the first to use the saucer separation, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Chief Engineer...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film Forum

Films by Oshima, Tony Scott, Alex Cox, John Carpenter, Abel Ferrara, and Tobe Hooper play in “Out of the 80s“; Le Samouraï continues in a new 4K restoration; Back to the Future plays on Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

A massive overview of Bulle Ogier has its final weekend with two films by Rivette.

Museum of the Moving Image

The Thin Red Line, The Big Lebowski, and Defending Your Life all play on 35mm as part of “See It Big at the ’90s Multiplex.”

Bam

The rarely screened films of György Pálfi are given a retrospective.

Metrograph

Films by Haneke, Kiarostami, and more play in an mk2 retrospective; Saturday brings Three Days of the Condor on 35mm; ’90s Noir, Euro-Heists, Dream with Your Eyes Open, and Ethics of Care, continue, while a Chris Marker series includes Sans Soleil and a shorts program.

In the "Futurama" episode "Amazon Women in the Mood", the blustering misogynist Zapp Brannigan (Billy West) takes control of a space-bound restaurant and pilots it through dangerous areas of space, merely because it's more adventurous that way. Naturally, the restaurant is damaged during its voyage and crash lands on a distant, uncharted planet with the Planet Express crew. They discover on the uncharted planet a race of nine-foot-tall Amazon women clad in animal skin bikinis and carrying clubs. The Amazonians rarely see men on their planet and are not exactly sure what men are supposed to be good for.

This premise, of course, is cribbed from any number of pornographic male fantasies stretching back at least to the publication of H. Rider Haggard's "She" in 1886. There is a streak of colonialist fiction that dramatized faraway places (that is: far away from Western Europe) as Edenic locales where women wear...

The "Star Trek" episode "The Apple" contained one of show creator Gene Roddenberry's favorite tropes: a remote, agrarian species living in harmony with nature, overseen by an ineffable technological marvel. In "The Apple," the Edenic planet of Gamma Trianguli VI is the home of a sexually innocent, childlike species that is granted their every wish by an all-powerful computer called Vaal. Vaal appears to be a giant snake-like head carved into the rock, but the Enterprise discovers that it is a machine intelligence that has kept the locals in a perpetual childlike state. They are immortal, but also have never had to work, nor are they allowed to "touch" (that is: have ***). Naturally, it will be up to Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Enterprise to destroy Vaal and teach the aliens that growing up is necessary, and that having *** is okay and super-fun.

The...

There’s “HBO Max” and then there’s everyone else.

On the backs of Succession and The Last of Us, HBO and its streaming counterpart Max led the list of winners at Monday’s 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards. While the TV Academy ceased breaking out wins by platform, The Hollywood Reporter tallied up all the trophies from two nights of Creative Emmys as well as the Primetime ceremony and the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed HBO and Max easily topped rival Netflix with 31 statuettes.

Streaming giant Netflix finished second — again — with 22 wins thanks in large part to Beef’s sweep of the limited series category. John Landgraf’s Disney-backed cable network FX delivered an impressive year with 16 wins, with The Bear sweeping in the comedy category and leading all winners in awards that represent TV’s best from 2023. The ceremony, telecast on Fox, was delayed from September to January as...

The 2023 Emmy Awards just wrapped up!

The winners were being revealed live on Fox on Monday (January 15) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

In order to be eligible for this year’s awards, TV shows needed to air between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023.

This was actually the 2023 Emmy Awards show, which was scheduled to take place in September. The ceremony was delayed due to the Hollywood labor disputes, so it was added to the awards season calendar on a Monday night. The Emmys aired live with Anthony Anderson hosting the event.

See all of the nominees…

Outstanding Drama Series

Andor

Better Call Saul

The Crown

House of the Dragon

The Last of Us

Succession - Winner

The White Lotus

Yellowjackets

Outstanding Comedy Series

Abbott Elementary

Barry

The Bear - Winner

Jury Duty

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Only Murders in the Building

Ted Lasso

Wednesday

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Jeff Bridges,...

Elton John is the latest member of the Egot club, scoring his first Emmy for best variety special (live).

The 2023 Emmy Awards win for the musician’s Farewell From Dodger Stadium special, which he secured during Monday night’s telecast, joins his Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.

The Disney+ special chronicles the musician’s final North American show as part of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour. The tour began in 2018 and was set to end in 2021 but was postponed, like many tours, by the Covid-19 pandemic.

John was recovering from a knee operation and couldn’t attend the show, so producer Ben Winston accepted the award on his behalf. “He’s absolutely fine, but he wanted to send his love and thanks to the Television Academy for this incredible award,” Winston said. “We did know this was going to be historic because it was going to win a man...

Ensign Chekov brought youthful energy and charm to the Star Trek crew, attracting a younger audience. Chekov's wit and charm added humor to the show, making him a fan favorite among viewers. Walter Koenig's portrayal of Chekov in various Star Trek episodes and movies showcased his acting prowess.

Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov (Walter Koenig) joined Star Trek: The Original Series season 2 as the young Russian navigator of the USS Enterprise. Joining the Tos cast for the show's second and third seasons and the first seven movies, Walter Koenig hoped to attract a younger, teenage audience to the space-faring franchise. Koenig's boyish charm and Davey Jones-esque haircut added youthful energy and charming whimsy to the otherwise slightly more mature Enterprise crew. Like Anton Yelchin, who played Pavel Chekov in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies, Koenig was born to Russian parents and grew up in America, using a Russian accent for the role.

The second consecutive day of the 2023 Creative Arts Emmys took place at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live on Sunday, where awards were handed out in variety, nonfiction and reality programming categories.

Welcome to Wrexham collected five Emmys, for unstructured reality series, directing, cinematography, picture editing and sound mixing.

Oscar-shortlisted documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie won four Emmys for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special, directing, editing and music composition. Accepting the award for outstanding doc, the team saluted Fox, saying he “took Parkinson’s out of the shadows. He created a thriving community, and he built the most respected foundation in the world.”

Saturday Night Live won awards for directing and production design, taking the long running series’ total number of Emmys to 89. The production design team dedicated its award to “guiding light” Eugene Lee, who had been a production designer on the series since its 1975 premiere...

David Soul, who starred alongside Paul Michael Glaser on the 1970s’ ABC buddy cop show Starsky and Hutch and had a No. 1 hit with the song “Don’t Give Up on Us,” has died. He was 80.

Soul died Thursday after “a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” his wife, Helen Snell, said in a statement.

“He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend,” she said. “His smile, laughter and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”

Soul also appeared for two seasons on the 1968-70 ABC show Here Come the Brides, played one of the corrupt young motorcycle cops brought down by Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callahan in the thriller Magnum Force (1973) and stood out as a terrified vampire hunter in the 1979 Stephen King CBS miniseries Salem’s Lot.

On two...

Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) may claim to lack human emotions, but Star Trek's always logical half-Vulcan can be funny when he wants to be. As an alien surrounded by illogical humans, Spock often fails to fully understand the actions of the officers around him, including that of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Throughout his adventures as Science Officer of the USS Enterprise, Spock encounters illogical alien species and finds himself in ridiculous situations. Even if Spock sometimes misunderstands the nuances and contradictions of humanity, he regularly proves he still has a sense of humor.

The character of Spock has appeared in several Star Trek shows and movies, and he always brings a clever wit to the adventures of the Starship Enterprise. Whether he's making a sardonic reply to Dr. McCoy's teasing or offering a dry observation about the humans around him,...

The episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? covering Night of the Comet was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Jason Hewlett, Edited by Jaime Vasquez, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

1984, the year of many interests and fears for Americans, from fears of a nuclear attack still remaining to a love-hate relationship with consumerism, American films explored teenage life in all its aspects. Some of these films were more memorable and on point for life and fears of the American teenager from living in the valley in Valley Girl, survival like Red Dawn and The Zero Boys, and a whole lot more; the mid-1980s were filled with teen cinema, and some of it was definitely on the dark side. Night of the Comet (get it Here) was definitely on the bleaker side of things while mixing teenage life, consumerism, potential alien invasion, mutation,...

The upcoming Apple TV+ original film Ghosted promises a romantic and funny thrill ride boasting some of today’s top talent, both in front of and behind the camera. The film was directed by Dexter Fletcher (Rocketman) and penned by writing teams Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers (Spider-Man: Homecoming) along with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool). The film features Ana de Armas and Chris Evans in its leading roles.

Another all-star involved in the film is versatile and prolific composer Lorne Balfe. Ghosted marks Balfe’s fourth major film release of 2023 so far, a list which the best Dungeons & Dragons film, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Balfe’s body of work is especially exciting because of how different his projects are from one another, and Ghosted is no exception. Screen Rant is excited to premiere “Table Talk”, a key track from the Ghosted—Score From The Apple Original Film album.

Oscar-nominated Blonde star Ana de Armas goes for the drama and the jugular in the latest Saturday Night Live promo, with cast member Chloe Fineman not all that impressed with either approach.

De Armas will make her hosting debut this weekend, just in time for the April 21 release of Ghosted, the Apple+ romantic comedy action-adventure film costarring Chris Evans.

Channeling some of that action-adventure spirit in the new SNL promo, de Armas brainstorms ideas with Fineman for what are supposed to be the week’s comedy sketches. Fineman tactfully tries to dial back the actor’s theatrics – if bird calls can be considered dialing back – with potentially dangerous results.

De Armas will be joined on the April 15 SNL by musical guest Karol G, who recently released the album Mañana Será Bonito.

Check out the promo for the NBC show above.

Along with The Apple and Can’t Stop the Music, The Last Dragon stands at the pinnacle of 80’s Wtf movie-making. Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records, co-produced this jaw-dropping mix of of martial arts and musical numbers that must be seen to be disbelieved. The bizarro plot revolves around a Bruce Lee acolyte who seeks the exalted station of “The Last Dragon” which grants mystical powers to the recipient, including, apparently, the ability to break somebody’s neck and sing at the same time.

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If there's a basic, no-frills definition for movies, it's that they're made to be seen. Cinema is a populist medium, attempting to reach as wide an audience as possible for as long as possible.

Perhaps that's why the feeling of "discovering" a movie can be so powerfully enjoyable. It gives you the sense, however false, that you're stumbling upon a secret piece of entertainment made just for you. If you happen to discover such a movie in the wee hours of the morning, so much the better — the surreal setting only serves to make what you're watching seem that much more unreal, richer, and special.

It's that sensation that the programming block on Turner Classic Movies known as "TCM Underground" sought to capture every Friday night-turned-Saturday morning. Begun by Eric Weber in 2006 and continued by programmer Millie De Chirico starting in 2007, TCM Underground made it its business to curate some of the most obscure,...

A well-known piece of trivia among Trekkies is that "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry once rejected a note from the studio to include a Christian chaplain as a character on board the USS Enterprise.

In David Alexander's 1995 book "Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry," the ur-Trekkie himself, raised Southern Baptist, described himself as a Humanist who would eventually consider religion "to be more spice than nourishment." He described himself as a "total pagan," although he seemingly wouldn't go so far as to describe himself as an atheist. In Yvonne Fern's 1994 book "Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation," he more or less declared himself a deist, saying, "It's not true that I don't believe in God. I believe in a kind of God. It's just not other people's God. I reject religion. I accept the notion of God."

Looking at "Star Trek," one has a great deal of...

This post contains spoilers for episode two of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 3.

There's an episode of "Star Trek: The Original Series" called "The Apple" that exemplifies one of the franchise's most superficially goofy tropes. The Enterprise crew visits Gamma Trianguli VI, a beautiful planet that they soon learn features exploding rocks, poisonous plants, and Vaal, a god-like technological system that looks like a crudely made dragon's head statue. There are also rust-skinned, blonde-haired townspeople who are both scantily clad and prohibited from having ***. It's fun, hokey, and convoluted as hell.

Some "Star Trek" tropes have withstood the test of time, while others have naturally died out. Luckily, "Star Trek: Lower Decks," with its group of Starfleet superfan characters, is in a unique position that allows it to gently poke fun at past "Trek" lore by revisiting the best "Trek" moments along with the worst. "The Apple" isn't exactly the worst,...

As Hollywood events return to full force in New York and Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings, including red carpets for Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Girls5Eva and The Staircase.

Girls5Eva season two premiere

Peacock hosted a season two celebration with stars Sara Bareilles, Paula Pell, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps and producer Tina Fey on Sunday at NYC’s Roxy Hotel.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness world premiere

Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Xochitl Gomez and director Sam Raimi debuted the highly anticipated sequel at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday.

The Staircase premiere

Also on Monday night, Colin Firth gathered with co-stars Sophie Turner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Michael Stuhlbarg for the premiere of HBO Max series The Staircase, held at MoMa.

Finn Wolfhard and Julianne Moore make the sparks fly in Cannes Critics’ Week opening choice When You Finish Saving the World Photo: A24 The first selection by Ava Cahen, the new supremo of the Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la critique), reveals there are seven first features in the selection for the 61st edition.

Actor Jesse Eisenberg receives the privileged first place with his first film as a director When You Finish Saving The World starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard about a volatile mother-son relationship.

The closing film will be Next Sohee (Da-eum-so-hee), described as a feminist thriller, a second directorial outing for Korean director Jung July.

A quartet of French directors will be present with Alma Viva by the Franco-portuguese Cristèle Alves Meira (set in a strange and isolated village); Nos cérémonies by Simon Rieth about a respected and influential medium with Karim Leklou; and Tout le...

The Full Monty is getting another shot at the limelight.

Deadline is reporting that the hit 1997 movie is getting the TV series treatment.

A limited series has been ordered, and it will bring back the original cast of the movie, including Robert Carlyle and Tom Wilkinson.

Production is already underway in Sheffield and Manchester.

Hulu has the rights to the project in the U.S., while Disney+ will air the series globally through its Star platform.

The series picks up 25 years after the events of the movie, with a group of unemployed men trying their hand at stripping to make extra cash.

Simon Beaufoy, the original screenwriter, is reteaming with producer Uberto Pasolini for the project.

Alma’s Not Normal director Andrew Chaplin and No Offence’s Catherine Morshead have taken on directing duties from Peter Cattaneo.

“Twenty-five years ago Simon introduced us to a group of funny, fearless and...

Each filmmaker receives development funding of $46,000.

The Swedish Film Institute has unveiled the three rising filmmakers who have been awarded its Wild Card funding, for recent graduates to develop their first features.

Each filmmaker receives development funding of $46,000.

The first is Lina Vain Illalla with their feature pitch Anatomy Of Pain, which is set at a restaurant and looks at people on the fringes of society who work there, and what happens when the restaurant becomes a sudden success.

Next up is Loran Batti with the feature pitch G, the first documentary to be backed by the scheme. The film...

Netflix’s Spanish adaptation of its hit original movie “Bird Box” is coming together.

Cast and a handful of early details were announced for the previously announced project from Àlex and David Pastor. Leading the international cast are Mario Casas, one of Spain’s most bankable leading men who this year won a best actor Spanish Academy Goya Award for his performance in “Cross the Line,” and Georgina Campbell, a best leading actress BAFTA winner for her work in “Murdered by My Boyfriend.”

Casas was also the star of horror thriller “The Paramedic,” one of Netflix’s best performing Spanish original films to date.

Other cast includes Diego Calva (“I Promise You Anarchy”), Alejandra Howard (“Ana. all in”), Naila Schuberth (“Unbroken”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”) and Celia Freijeiro (“Perfect Life”), with Lola Dueñas (“The Sea Inside”), Gonzalo de Castro (“La torre de Suso”), Michelle Jenner (“Isabel”) and Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory...

Icelandic film production company Sagafilm and Sweden’s LittleBig Productions are developing a historical series about 17th-century Icelanders abducted by Barbary corsairs and sold into slavery in North Africa.

Tentatively titled “Salé” — a city on the North African coast that was also a haven for pirates — the series is inspired by true events. It begins in the summer of 1627, when several hundred people in settlements along Iceland’s coast are captured by Barbary privateers under the command of the Dutch *** Jan Janszoon, more commonly known as Admiral Murat Reis. Among his prisoners are Gunnur, the wife of a young fisherman, and her 12-year-old daughter Gríma. When they are brought to the North African slave markets, mother and daughter are separated, sold to different masters and forced to develop different strategies in order to survive.

Described as a thrilling tale of love, survival, revenge, and the power of hope, “Salé...

Two internationally-acclaimed documentaries from the Nordic region – “Flee” and “Gunda” – are among the five films nominated for a Nordic Council Film Prize.

This is the most prestigious film award in the Nordic region, celebrating films with unique artistic visions that actively engage with Nordic culture. It’s the eighteenth year the Nordic Council Film Prize is awarded, and the winner will be announced on Nov. 2 in Copenhagen, taking home a prize of Dkk 300,000 to be shared equally among the screenwriter, director, and producer. Here are the five film nominations:

“Flee,” (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Denmark)

Co-written by Amin (a pseudonym), and produced by leading Danish company Final Cut for Reel (nominated for an Oscar for both “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence”), the film has already had a hugely successful festival circuit run. At Sundance, it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section, while...

The lucrative prize is now in its 19th year.

The five nominees for this year’s Nordic Council Film Prize have been unveiled at the Haugesund International Film Festival in Norway today (August 24).

The lucrative prize, now in its 19th year, comes with an award of $47,000, which is shared equally between the screenwriter, director and producer. The winner will be unveiled on November 2 in Copenhagen.

The nominees include two films that premiered at the Berlinale: Finland’s Any Day Now from writer-director Hamy Ramezan, selected for the Generation 14plus strand this year; and Viktor Kossakovsky’s Norwegian documentary Gunda, which...

If a band’s discography is like a universe, Liars’ Angus Andrew is traveling through a wormhole on The Apple Drop, out Friday.

“[Working on this record] let me re-imagine the whole trajectory of what Liars has been,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I’ve really made a point with each record to experiment and try something brand new, a completely different way of working. I always imagine that as the kind of straight line of creativity, sort of pointing out into the distance. Working on this record, I started to realize that maybe that...

America Ferrera has joined the cast of Apple’s limited series, “WeCrashed,” the streamer announced on Wednesday.

The Emmy, SAG, Golden Globe, Alma and Imagen Award-winner will star alongside the previously announced cast of Jared Leto, Anne Hathaway and Kyle Marvin.

The series, based on on the Wondery podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork,” will focus on the “greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world’s most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible.”

Ferrera will play Elishia Kennedy, a young entrepreneur whose life follows the twists and turns of the emerging company. Leto will play WeWork founder Adam Neumann, while Hathaway will play his wife and co-founder, Rebekah Neumann.

Created by Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello (“The Long Dark”), the series will be directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. Eisenberg will also co-write, executive produce and...

Liars have released a new song, “Sekwar,” from their upcoming album, The Apple Drop, set to arrive August 6th via Mute.

“Sekwar” boasts a mix of lurching drums, rich guitars, and pulsing synths that sometimes stumble around each other and sometimes link up in unison. “When the fog that grows insane,” sings Liars mastermind Angus Andrew at the end of the song, “That I can’t get out my mind/Can you tell me what I used to know?”

“Sekwar” arrives with a music video, directed by Clemens Habicht, and...

Jayro Bustamante on his Oscar shortlisted and Golden Globe nominated La Llorona: “There are a lot of things coming from the classic mythology.”

Jayro Bustamante deftly and imaginatively places his La Llorona (co-written with Lisandro Sanchez) at the intersection of history and legend. The ancient tale of the weeping woman who has haunted Latin American childhoods for centuries, here gains footing in recent Guatemalan history. General Enrique (Julio Diaz), now an old man, is among those on trial for the genocide of thousands. In 1982/83 one third of the Mayan population in Guatemala were exterminated, 38% were children under 12. Enrique’s wife Carmen (Margarita Kenéfic), daughter Natalia (Sabrina De La Hoz), granddaughter Sara (Ayla-Elea Hurtado), and Valeriana (María Telón), the only servant who remains loyal in the house, have to open their eyes to the family legacy.

Jayro Bustamante on Alma (María Mercedes Coroy): “I give to my Llorona that princess aspect,...

Exclusive: Catherine The Great and Des producer New Pictures has signed up two of the creative talents behind FX’s Emmy-winning limited drama Fosse/Verdon to adapt Kate Summerscale’s novel The Haunting of Alma Fielding into a TV series.

Fosse/Verdon writer Charlotte Stoudt and director Minkie Spiro, who has also helmed The Plot Against America and Downton Abbey, have set to work in translating the true ghost story for the screen.

In 1938, young housewife Alma Fielding begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Objects shatter, vanish, or take flight, assaulting Fielding and her family. Reporters see it with their own eyes. It is impossible but it is happening. And Alma seems to be at the center.

Jewish-Hungarian refugee Nandor Fodor investigates the events, determined to figure out if it is a hoax, a ghost, or Alma’s unconscious mind wrestling with a buried secret in the...

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Golden Eighties From a broad angle view, it seems as though all movies made in the 1980s could be classified as either action or musical. The neon glitz of the decade easily melds with the flamboyance of musicals, and it was a time when budgets soared, so lavish song-and-dance set pieces fit in nicely with the decadence. But 80s musicals also changed things up in the genre—sometimes focusing more on choreography, other times the songs. The burgeoning cult status of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) also had producers scrambling for the ineffable weirdness that captured the imagination of an audience so intensely that they wanted to spend every weekend watching and mimicking what so delighted them on screen This resulted in odd choices that inevitably flopped, and took decades to gain a devoted following,...

From acclaimed actress Robin Wright comes her directorial debut Land, the poignant story of one woman’s search for meaning in the vast and harsh American wilderness. Edee (Wright), in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter (Demián Bichir) brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.

Wright directs and stars in the film written by Jesse Chatham and Erin Digman. Co-starring with Wright is Oscar and Alma nominee Demián Bichir. Also, joining these two talented actors in the cast is Kim Dickens.

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Latino AVOD phenomenon Vix, which controls the biggest multi-platform Latino digital media audience in the world, is extending its reach as it pushes to underscore its relevance, premiering three Covid-19 confinement-themed series, all produced entirely during Covid-19 lockdown.

Making its world premiere on Vix, “The New Normal” is an eight-part doc-series featuring self-interviews and real-life moments of Brazilians around the world. Locales include Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, New Zealand, England, Israel and China. The series is produced by Vix’s in-house creative team led by director of Ott content, Ines Salles.

Created and produced by Maria Albinana and Luke Eve, directed by Eve and inspired by real-life circumstance, 10-part “Cancelled” turns on a man who is forced to cancel his wedding in Spain – and plunge into lockdown with his fiancee and his mother.

Already announced, “La Treintena,” which bowed late last week on Vix, marks Vix’s first series from...

Darren Lynn Bousman joins Josh and Joe to discuss his favorite over-the-top musicals of the 70s.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

Sorcerer (1977)

Star Wars (1977)

Death of Me (2020)

Jesus Christ: Superstar (1973)

Pennies From Heaven (1981)

A History Of *** (2005)

Requiem For A Dream (2000)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Movie Orgy (1968)

Gremlins (1984)

The Room (2003)

Rocky (1976)

Hair (1979)

The Apple (1980)

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

Tommy (1975)

Quadrophenia (1979)

Altered States (1980)

The Devils (1971)

Trapped Ashes (2006)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Devil’s Carnival (2012)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Rent (2005)

Wild In The Streets (1968)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Jazz Singer (1980)

Forbidden Zone (1982)

Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

The First Nudie Musical (1976)

Chatterbox (1977)

Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)

Cabaret (1972)

Saw II (2005)

Other Notable Items

Final Draft

Paris Hilton

Elvira

Angelyne

The William Friedkin podcast episode

Leonardo DiCaprio

Jesus Christ Superstar...

Film to launch in early 2021 on Apple TV+

Apple has picked up worldwide rights to Russo brothers’ awards contender Cherry starring Tom Holland and Ciara Bravo in a deal reported to be in the high $40m range.

The film will get an Oscar-qualifying launch in early 2021 on Apple TV+ and is based on Nico Walker’s novel about a former Army medic and Iraq veteran with undiagnosed Ptsd who gets addicted to opiods and starts robbing banks.

Cherry marks the first directorial outing from Agbo chairmen Anthony and Joe Russo since their four films for Marvel Studios.

Jessica Goldberg and Angela Russo-Otstot adapted the screenplay.

You’ve asked questions. Prepare for the answers.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)

The Beguiled (1971)

Tenet (2021? Maybe?)

Smokey Is The Bandit (1983)

Robin Hood (2010)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

The Devils (1971)

Song of the South (1946)

Gremlins (1984)

Dillinger (1973)

Marcello I’m So Bored (1966)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Big Wednesday (1978)

Swamp Thing (1982)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Payback (1999)

Bell, Book And Candle (1958)

Blowup (1966)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Medium Cool (1969)

25th Hour (2002)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Palm Springs (2020)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Mandy (2018)

The Sadist (1963)

Spider Baby (1968)

Night Tide (1960)

Stark Fear

Carnival of Souls (1962)

The Devil’s Messenger (1961)

Ms. 45 (1981)

Léolo (1992)

The Howling (1981)

Showgirls (1995)

Green Book (2018)

The Last Hurrah (1958)

The Best Man (1964)

Advise and Consent (1962)

The Candidate (1972)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Seven Days In May (1964)

The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)

The Man (1972)

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Four Lions (2010)

Pump Up The Volume (1990)

Nightmare In The Sun (1965)

The Wild Angels (1966)

The Omega Man (1971)

The Nanny (1965)

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man...

For the last two weeks, we here at Daily Dead have been doing our best to laud and commemorate the 40th anniversaries of all the great horror and science fiction films that were released throughout the year 1980. And as we get set to wrap up our extensive coverage today and tomorrow, we thought it might be fun to reach out to some fantastic voices in the realm of genre entertainment.

So, for today’s Class of 1980 celebration, we will be featuring the likes of Kelli Maroney, Bill Moseley, Adrian Roe, Ben Rock, Axelle Carolyn, Drew McWeeny, April Wolfe, Graham Skipper, and Brian Collins all discussing a variety of notable horror and sci-fi movies from 1980, including Dressed to ***, The Changeling, The Visitor, The Apple, Friday the 13th, The Boogeyman, Mad Max, Battle Beyond the Stars, and The Fog.

And be sure to head back tomorrow for part two of our final Class of 1980 celebration,...

Hello, dear readers! For the last several years, we here at Daily Dead spend a few weeks celebrating the anniversaries of a batch of films from a particular year, and for 2020, we’ve decided to head back to the year 1980 to commemorate the 40th birthday for all the great horror and sci-fi movies that were released back then.

For those of you who may be looking to get into the spirit, I’ve gone ahead and put together this list of films from 1980 that are currently streaming on a variety of platforms, both free and ones that require a subscription. You’ll definitely see upcoming features and discussions of many of these titles, so hopefully this list will help you catch up on the movies you haven’t seen yet (or maybe haven’t seen in a while).

Be sure to check back starting next Monday for all of our Class of 1980 coverage,...

“You fool! You can not stop me! I am the ninja! No one, nothing can stop me!.”

BearManor Media has published The Cannon Film Guide, a Trilogy of Books About the Movies Released By the Legendary 1980s B-Movie Studio, Cannon Films. Order The Cannon Film Guide Here

Volume One Available Now: Over 500 Pages Covering the Company’s First Five Years under the Leadership of B-Movie Icons Golan and Globus

From 1980 until 1994, The Cannon Group was responsible for the production of more than 200 films. Quantity, rather than quality, was the key to Cannon’s game: their output included many of the 1980s’ most beloved (and notorious) b-movies. Along the way they dipped their toes into every imaginable genre of movies, made stars out of Chuck Norris and Michael Dudikoff, kicked off the ninja and breakdancing crazes, and kept Charles Bronson working into the twilight of his career. While it’s rare...

Arguably the most eclectic director of the “Toronto New Wave,” Bruce McDonald returns with his most ambitious and perhaps most frustrating film yet, Dreamland. A mashup of cinematic and pulp influences set in Luxembourg (a country that’s a few hundred square miles smaller than Rhode Island), McDonald continues to play with language and cultural tension as he reimagines Pizzagate through the lens of Alphaville, Last Year at Marienbad, Taxi Driver, John Wick, and countless other films and moments to dizzying and nearly incoherent effect. There’s also hitmen, vampires, a countess, and a wedding party where colonialism takes center stage. Lost yet? It’s a feature, not a bug.

Frequent collaborator Stephen McHattie stars as Johnny Deadeyes, a trumpet player moonlighting as a hitman (or perhaps it’s the other way around?) on one ***-infused trip. He arrives in Luxembourg wandering the streets and night clubs killing time before his next mission.