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Adi Shankar's "Devil May Cry" is a labor of love, a passionate reinvention of the eponymous video game franchise that is known (and loved) for its signature eccentricity. Speed and agility are at the core of any "Dmc" gameplay, combined with highly-stylistic combat flourishes that can lead up to insane chain attacks and combos. Beneath these slick, over-the-top sensibilities (which have gifted the community with wondrous memes) lies dense, sprawling lore about demonic rebellions, primordial guardian swords, and the most complex, trauma-infused sibling relationship known to man.

While Netflix's "Devil May Cry" leans confidently towards the franchise's effortlessly cool aesthetics, it also brings the best parts of the often confusing video game lore to life. There are plenty of pleasant surprises here, as Shankar repackages familiar threads into something wholly different. For example, White Rabbit (Hoon Lee) — featured only in the "Devil May Cry 3" manga — is presented as the unexpected antagonist here,...

Spoiler Alert !!!This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again.

Daredevil: Born Again opened its first episode with a downward spiral, killing off Elden Henson’s Foggy and setting Matt down a path of indecision, at least when it comes to being Daredevil. While his law practice seems to be thriving, Matt’s only motivation to come out of retirement was Wilson Fisk.

While Matt has all sorts of coping mechanisms that could have helped him figure out Foggy’s death, Karen might be on her way to following her comics route, which puts her in a very dark place in her life, and also in the narrative.

Daredevil: Born Again || Credit: Marvel Telelvision

Karen Page has a rich romantic history with Matt Murdock, but it is also responsible for one of the biggest betrayals that the character faced in the comics: she sold Matt’s secret identity to the...

Spoiler Alert !!!Spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again Episode 1

Daredevil: Born Again kicked off Matt Murdock’s soft-rebooted tale with the shocking death of a major character. In the first few minutes, we see Charlie Cox’s Murdock, Deborah Ann Woll’s Karen Page, and Elden Henson’s Foggy Nelson having a night out together. Little do we suspect anything to go wrong immediately.

Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson in Daredevil | Credits: Netflix

We get to see Matt suit up as Daredevil after Foggy gets a call from a distressed client. However, Matt realizes a little late that the target of the attack is actually Foggy. Wilson Bethel’s Bullseye appears and shoots Foggy and a fight ensues between him and Daredevil. At the end of the fight, Matt throws him off a roof after realizing that Foggy succumbed to his death.

One fan theory suggests Foggy Nelson faked his death...

Spoiler Alert !!!Contains Daredevil: Born Again Episode 1 Spoilers

I just cannot hide it and start with some tantalizing words to build the hype surrounding Daredevil: Born Again. Because for me, it’s already ruined—Foggy Nelson is gone. And not in some dramatic, last-stand hero moment—no, Bullseye took him out in episode one—just like that. After years of watching Matt and Foggy’s friendship survive everything, I still can’t believe this is how it ends.

Charlie Cox in Daredevil: Born Again | image: Disney, Marvel Studios

Considering how excited I was for Daredevil: Born Again—to witness the return of Matt Murdock, Wilson Fisk’s menacing comeback, and more hallway fights—I did not expect episode one to rip my heart out. The MCU show literally took out Foggy before the story even began. How is Matt supposed to become Daredevil again when his best friend isn’t there to ground him?...

Seven years after it was first announced, Netflix's animated adaptation of the Devil May Cry series has finally revealed a release date and a first look at the opening credits for the upcoming show. The animated sequence, which can be viewed below, features plenty of colorful and intense visuals to the tune of "Rollin" by Limp Bizkit, an unexpected song choice but most definitely fitting for Dante and the Devil May Cry series. Showcasing all kinds of carnage (and plenty of pizza), this opening also came with the news that the series will be released on Netflix on Apr. 3.

This new look at the opening for the series was preceded by a teaser trailer that Netflix released last September, which gave a preview of what the animation style of the series would look like. Devil Hunter Dante's unique action style from video games is translated well thanks to the fast-paced animation.

The next movie produced by Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy and Netflix just took a major step forward. Variety has revealed that Amulet, the upcoming feature adaptation of the popular graphic novel, will officially be co-written by Jason Fuchs, the same screenwriter behind Wonder Woman, Argylle, and the upcoming It prequel, Welcome to Derry. Fuchs will be writing the screenplay along with Kazu Kibuishi - the author of the original graphic novels who is also set to produce Amulet.

Exclusive: After landing the rights to the popular Kazu Kibuishi graphic novel series Amulet, Netflix has now begun development on a feature film adaptation and set Jason Fuchs to write the script based on a story by Fuchs and Kibuishi. Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps with Becca Edelman of 21 Laps overseeing. Kibuishi will exec produce.

The series follows a young woman who discovers a magical amulet that belonged to her great-grandfather and uses it to enter a fantastical new world. The series has sold more than 7 million copies in the US and Canada and has been translated into 23 languages worldwide. Amulet: Waverider is the ninth and final book in the Amulet series. Book 9 was released on February 6, 2024, becoming the eighth consecutive #1 New York Times Best Seller in the Amulet series.

For 21 Laps, this has been a 16-year journey as the original book published in...

Three further high-profile industry speakers have joined Screen International’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ summit, to be held on September 24, 2024, in London at BFI Southbank.

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They are Julia Stuart, director of original film at UK pay-tv company Sky, who oversees a production slate that includes upcoming UK films Euros Lyn’s vampire thriller The Radleys starring Damian Lewis, Sébastien Raybaud, founder of UK-based production, financing and sales outfit Anton, which recently secured over €100m in financing to expand it genre film slate, and prolific UK producer Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films, whose credits include Romola Garai...

Exclusive: London-based Alliance Media Partners (Amp) has hired Anthony Buckner as Head of Sales, Acquisitions and Distribution in the run up to the Cannes market.

Former Icon and Kaleidoscope exec Buckner will be overseeing the company’s Cannes slate of genre titles and will be tasked with expansion. He is taking over from longtime Amp partner and sales vet James Norrie who has exited the company.

Amp, founded in 2017 as a production, financing and sales company, is the media arm of Alliance Capital Partners group, a private asset management and finance company based in Dubai. Current titles include The Morrigan with Toby Stephens and sci fi thriller New Life.

Buckner has sold movies including The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, How I Spent My summer Vacation, Coriolanus, Prevenge, Hurricane and Creation Stories.

He spent 15 years at Icon before stints at Magnolia Pictures, Red Bull’s Terra Mater Factual Studios, Kaleidoscope,...

Every year, hundreds of young people travel the country… and disappear. 45 years after the release of cult classic Tourist Trap, Bloody Disgusting has exclusively learned this weekend that horror legend Barbara Crampton will be producing an upcoming remake of the 1979 horror movie!

Alliance Media Partners has acquired the rights to Tourist Trap, and Crampton, the company’s Vice President of Production & Development, will be producing the new take on the classic.

Crampton is producing with Bob Portal, Managing Director & Head of Production at Amp.

The original Tourist Trap was directed by David Schmoeller.

In the film, “A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by a masked assailant who uses his telekinetic powers to control the attraction’s mannequins.”

Chuck Connors played the villain Mr. Slausen, the owner of tourist trap Slausen’s Lost Oasis. The ill-fated friends, well, they all get turned into mannequins,...

Heading into the sixth episode of “Survivor 45,” the original Belo tribe had finally lost one contestant (Brando Meyer), compared to the four people gone from the original Lulu tribe, while the original Reba tribe was still sitting pretty at six. With the “drop your buffs” moment coming up on Wednesday night, how would the long-awaited merge affect the current alliances and feuds within the game?

Below, read our minute-by-minute “Survivor 45” Episode 6 recap/live blog of “I’m not Batman, I’m the Canadian” to find out what happened Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite castaways on CBS’s reality TV show, who annoys you the most and who you think will ultimately join the “Survivor” winners list and take home the $1 million grand prize. Jeff Probst once again hosts the long-running competition series.

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The Sentient Amulet can be found in the Adamantine Forge in Baldur's Gate 3 and is a tough item to acquire, requiring fighting, navigating hazards, and opening a high DC lock. The amulet contains a spirit with a side story and useful abilities, making it more valuable to keep than sell in the game. The player can choose to either accept the spirit's madness or refuse, leading to different outcomes and upgrades for the amulet, but both options have risks.

The Sentient Amulet is a particularly interesting find in Baldur's Gate 3, but its suspicious nature makes deciding whether to keep it or sell it a tough choice. This unusual accessory can be found in the Adamantine Forge in the Underdark, although it isn't that easy to loot. Acquiring it will require fighting a Lava Elemental, carefully navigating environmental hazards in turn-based mode, or making good use of movement spells, as the...

Johnny Jewel’s latest project is the soundtrack to the Dutch drama film Holly. Before the full Ost is out October 13th via his label Italians Do It Better, he’s shared a preview of it with the lead single “The Witch.” He’s also announced a run of European tour dates, during which he’ll play sets comprising music from his prolific film score discography.

Directed and written by Fien Troch, Holly centers around a 15-year-old girl whose school is largely destroyed by a fire one day after she calls out of class. As her community grieves, they begin to see some unspoken quality in Holly that makes her an unlikely source of support, though perhaps at the sacrifice of her own wellbeing.

“I used music to usher in the unseen elements of Holly’s story,” Jewel says in a press release, citing spine-chilling scores by John Carpenter, Goblin,...

Johnny Jewel’s latest project is the soundtrack to the Dutch drama film Holly. Before the full Ost is out October 13th via his label Italians Do It Better, he’s shared a preview of it with the lead single “The Witch.” He’s also announced a run of European tour dates, during which he’ll play sets comprising music from his prolific film score discography.

Directed and written by Fien Troch, Holly centers around a 15-year-old girl whose school is largely destroyed by a fire one day after she calls out of class. As her community grieves, they begin to see some unspoken quality in Holly that makes her an unlikely source of support, though perhaps at the sacrifice of her own wellbeing.

“I used music to usher in the unseen elements of Holly’s story,” Jewel says in a press release, citing spine-chilling scores by John Carpenter, Goblin,...

Other Mothers: Iriarte’s Debut a Murky Mix of Neo Noir and Melodrama

For his film debut Foremost the Night, Víctor Iriarte frames his peculiarly staged narrative through the words of famed Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano, quoting his 1999 novella Amulet. The passage confirms this will be a story about a terrible crime, but it will not appear to be so because it’s being told from a personal perspective. This is a story focused on the ‘who’ rather than the ‘what’ or ‘why,’ and thus takes on an automatically enigmatic tone thanks to the dramatic catalysts which inextricably frame the story, the details of which are fuzzy, out-of-focus horrors which the audience will be forced to fill in the pertinent details about, making everything feel all the more sinister.…...

There are stories that deserve people’s attention. The good thing is that when these stories come to light, they are usually made into films. The story of Nicholas Winton is one of these stories. The upcoming film One Life is a story of an amazing man whose selfless act has made it to the big screen. But who is this man, and what will the movie look like?

Here's everything we know about One Life, including the film's plot, cast, release date, and more.

The Plot

One Life introduces us to Nicholas Winton, a nearly 100-year-old man whose life has been rather normal considering the underplayed secret he has. It turns out that in his twenties, this British stockbroker heard rumblings of something terrible happening in Czechoslovakia. People were being turned out of their homes, businesses were shut down, and hundreds of thousands of them were placed in tent...

Exclusive: After playing formidable and unique young women in The Last Of Us and Game Of Thrones, Bella Ramsey has found their next potentially memorable role as the star of period drama Monstrous Beauty.

Ramsey, who shot to fame as the precocious Lady of Bear Island in Got, is heading back to court but this time as an aspiring playwright in the court of King Charles II who suffers from a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. This is their [the actor is non-binary and now prefers they/them pronouns] first role announced since HBO’s blockbuster hit The Last Of Us.

Atonement and The Hour star Romola Garai has written and will direct the movie, which will also star Dominic West as King Charles II (after he recently played Prince Charles in The Crown), Oscar nominee Ruth Negga (Passing) as his mistress Nell Gwyn, and Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve) as Aphra Ben, the first ever published female playwright in history.

With a world as expansive and immersive as The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim's, some players might fantasize about what it would be like to reside therein - or what fictional features they'd like to summon forth to the real world, instead. If given the opportunity, not too many items from Bethesda's beloved RPG would likely get left behind. However, there are some Skyrim items that would be particularly useful to own in real life.

Counterintuitively, one thing that might not be as resourceful as it seems in real life is septims. Although some Dragonborn have amassed serious riches during their adventures in the homeland of the Nords, the real-life value of a Skyrim septim could actually be abysmal. Other items with unique, otherworldly effects would be much more worth nabbing, whether it's for good-hearted or mischievous intentions.

Related: Boethiah's Calling: Who to Sacrifice to Boethiah in Skyrim

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‘T.I.M.’ is directed by Spencer Brown and stars Georgina Campbell.

Producer Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films is attending Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) with the UK premiere of The Score, just one of several projects on his growing slate.

Wilkinson has just wrapped the shoot for T.I.M., Spencer Brown’s contained ‘monster-in-the-house thriller’ which Altitude has pre-sold to a number of territories including the UK.

The cast for the sci-fi, AI-themed thriller features Black Mirror star Georgina Campbell. The film wrapped its shoot in and around London in late July. “It’s a brilliant commercial idea and a well written script,...

Ukrainian director Olha Zhurba and producer Darya Bassel are teaming up on a documentary about Ukraine’s refugee crisis after their last collaboration, “Outside,” premiered at Copenhagen’s Cph:dox festival this year.

The project, with a working title “Displaced,” is being produced by Bassel’s Kyiv-based Moon Man production outfit in co-production with Germany’s Koberstein Film and Denmark’s Final Cut for Real.

Zhurba began filming not long after the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, capturing footage of the thousands of Kyiv residents who had flocked to the capital’s railway station for safety. She’s now in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city and the site of intense fighting in recent weeks. “The material is very strong. It’s just heartbreaking,” said Bassel. “Even I could not watch it more than one time.”

Bassel, who’s in Cannes as part of the Producers Network’s Ukrainian Producers Under the Spotlight initiative,...

Burna Boy earned his metaphorical flowers — and his very literal bras — as he ripped through a majestic two-hour set at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the first Nigerian headliner to do so at the famed venue. The first fire-engine red bra was thrust onstage at the beloved Afro-fusionist early in his set as he performed “Rock Your Body,” from his breakthrough album, 2018’s Outside. By the end of the night, no less than six more had been flung at him — at one point, he hung several around his waistline like a utility belt.

From Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson, the winter thriller Outside is being published this coming June 28, and Deadline reports that a movie adaptation is already in the works. The rights to Outside have been optioned by Ridley Scott‘s Scott Free Productions for a planned feature film adaptation. Henrik Hansen is in talks to direct the […]

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While her first feature-length doc “Outside” is having its world premiere in the main competition at the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox), Ukrainian director Olha Zhurba will be back home. The young filmmaker has decided to stay in her country to document the evacuation of refugees fleeing the war brought on by Vladimir Putin.

“I’m Ukrainian and I need to film this for my nation,” she told Variety over the phone. “We will need to reflect on what is happening to us in the future to cope with the trauma of this tragedy. I believe that films and art are part of this recovery that we will need on a psychological and mental level, and these films will be important in this process,” said Zhurba, who is best known for her fiction short “Dad’s Sneakers.”

She said that on February 24, when the Russian invasion started, she was...

Organizers at the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox), which is going ahead in-person for the first time in three years, are taking a stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine with a dedicated program of seven specially curated films.

Spirits may be high in the Danish capital at the prospect of finally having a live event after two editions that were pushed online due to the Covid-19 pandemic but, as the fest’s artistic director Niklas Engstrøm stressed, “All our thoughts go to Ukraine and the many refugees who are currently being forced to leave their homeland.”

As the event’s programmer, Mads Mikkelsen, explained to Variety, organizers had already put together a selection of films from or about Ukraine when they closed the program in late January. “But, of course, everything changed on February 24 when Russia invaded Ukraine. Up to the last minute, we added more films...

New Line Cinema has cast the ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max with a murderers’ row of TV stars including Succession‘s Brian Cox, The Sopranos’ Edie Falco, Friends alum Lisa Kudrow and Breaking Bad‘s Dean Norris.

Craig Johnson is directing from Kent Sublette’s script, which follows a young couple, Graham and Josh, who host a “meet the parents” weekend at a cozy rental house in the country, only to find it is already haunted by a 400-year old poltergeist. Chris Bender and Jake Weiner are producing for their Good Fear Content label.

Cox plays Logan Roy in the Emmy-winning HBO series Succession, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and SAG Award. His memoir, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, was recently published in the UK and U.S., and he has starring roles in the upcoming films The Independent, Prisoner’s Daughter, and Mending the Line.

Documentary festival expands programme in solidary with war-torn country.

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) has made three late additions of Ukrainian films to its line-up, as a mark of solidarity with the war-torn nation.

Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan, Iryna Tsilyk’s The Earth Is Blue As An Orange and Alina Gorlova’s This Rain Will Never Stop have been added to the programme of the festival, which will return as an in-person event from March 23 to April 3.

It brings Cph:dox’s dedicated programme of films that focus on Ukraine to seven, having previously selected Olha Zhurba’s Outside, Simon Lereng Wilmont...

Feature-length documentary “Outside,” directed by the Ukrainian director Olha Zhurba, has debuted its trailer, ahead of its premiere in the main competition section of the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox).

The film tells the story of the turbulent youth of Roma, a 13-year-old street boy neglected by his family and the state, who becomes a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014. His story traverses the years he spent on the streets of Kyiv and after his release from the orphanage, left to face the outside world with nothing. As Roma sets out to build an adult life, it seems that his future has already been decided. Through a series of phone calls with the film’s director he reflects on the question: Can you ever escape your childhood?

“Outside” is produced by Darya Bassel and Viktoria Khomenko, and co-produced by Anne Köhncke and Monica Hellström, and Willem Baptist and Nienke Korthof.

Deckert Distribution has announced that it has picked up world rights for feature-length documentary “Outside,” directed by the Ukrainian director Olha Zhurba. The film will premiere in the main competition section of the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox), which runs March 23-April 3.

Zhurba’s short fiction film “Dad’s Sneakers” had its premiere in the short competition at Locarno Film Festival last year, and later won the Ukrainian Short and Fipresci awards at Odessa Film Festival, and the National Film Critics Award, Kinokolo. “Outside” is Zhurba’s first feature-length documentary.

The film tells the story of the turbulent youth of Roma, a 13-year-old street boy neglected by his family and the state, who becomes a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014. His story traverses the years he spent on the streets of Kyiv and after his release from the orphanage, left to face the outside world with nothing.

The festival has five competition sections.

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) has revealed the full film programme for its 2022 edition, including a focus on Russia and Ukraine.

Three films that consider one or both of Russia and the Ukraine will compete for the main Dox:Award competition of the festival, which will return as an in-person event from March 23 to April 3, after two years impacted by the pandemic.

Scroll down for the full list of Dox:Award titles

The films are Antoine Cattin’s Swiss title Holidays, about Russia’s large number of national holidays; Daniel Roher’s US doc Navalny,...

The festival has five competition sections.

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) has revealed the full film programme for its 2022 edition, including a focus on Russia and Ukraine.

Three films that consider one or both of Russia and the Ukraine will compete for the main Dox:Award competition of the festival, which will return as an in-person event from March 23 to April 3, after two years impacted by the pandemic.

Scroll down for the full list of Dox:Award titles

The films are Antoine Cattin’s Swiss title Holidays, about Russia’s large number of national holidays; Daniel Roher’s US doc Navalny,...

Exclusive: Actress and filmmaker Romola Garai, whose directorial debut Amulet played at Sundance 2020, is working on a raft of projects including a re-team with Amulet producer Matthew James Wilkinson (Yesterday).

Well-received feminist horror Amulet stars Carla Juri, Imelda Staunton and Alec Secareanu and was released in the U.S. in 2020 by Magnolia. Delayed by lockdown, it had its UK premiere at Frightfest last year and was released in the UK by Film Republic last week.

In the film, an ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on.

BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated actress Garai, known for screen roles including The Hour, The Crimson Petal And The White and Miss Marx, is looking to get back to...

Universal animation has third-biggest opening since the pandemic began.

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Jan 28-30)Total gross to date Week 1. Sing 2 (Universal) £6.8m £6.8m 1 2. Belfast (Univeral) £1.89m £6m 2 3. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony) £1.8m £89.9m 7 4. Scream (Paramount) £788k £6.15m 3 5. Nightmare Alley (Disney) £332k £1.2m 2

After six weeks, Spider-Man: No Way Home’s reign at the top of the UK-Ireland box office is over thanks to a strong debut from Sing 2.

The Universal animation sequel, once again written and directed by Garth Jennings, opened well ahead of the competition with £6.8m from 631 sites for a location average of...

An ex-soldier renovating an old house finds more than just refuge in the actor turned writer-director’s pulsating gothic shocker

Offering yet further proof that the future of cutting-edge horror is female, British actor turned writer-director Romola Garai’s impressive feature debut, which won enthusiastic applause at FrightFest last year, is a moody, brooding chiller that goes from slow-boil creaks to rapturous, hallucinogenic madness. Set largely in a decrepit building whose mouldy walls mirror a creeping moral malaise within, Amulet plays adventurously with subversive sexual politics and reconfigured horror tropes, conjuring a heady parable rich in ritual and intrigue, built upon sturdy subtextual foundations.

The Romanian actor Alec Secareanu, who proved such an engaging screen presence in Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country, is Tomaz, an ex-soldier from an unnamed, conflict-torn country, now struggling to survive in squalid London. In his dreams, Tomaz is haunted by fable-like visions of the...

Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ also hits cinemas.

Universal animation Sing 2 is the latest challenger to the six-week consecutive run atop the UK-Ireland box office chart of Sony behemoth Spider-Man: No Way Home this weekend.

Sing 2 is opening in 635 sites – a 14.4% increase on the 555-site opening of first title Sing in 2017. That film took a huge £6.25m at a location average of £11,261; this figure was boosted to a £10.5m total opening by two days of previews that brought in £4.19m.

That is still the biggest-ever opening for an original animated film, ahead of the likes of The Secret Life of Pets...

Sony’s blockbuster “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has narrowly edged out Universal release “Belfast” in the battle for the U.K. and Ireland box-office.

“Spider-Man” enjoyed a sixth consecutive weekend atop the box office with £2.33 million ($3.1 million), according to numbers released by Comscore. Kenneth Branagh’s awards season favorite “Belfast” was close behind with £2.31 million in its debut weekend.

“Spider-Man” now has a gross of £87.4 million and is within striking distance of “Avengers: Endgame” for the all-time sixth position at the box office.

In its second weekend Paramount’s horror reboot “Scream” scared up £1.2 million in third place and now has a total of £4.7 million. Disney release “Nightmare Alley,” directed by Guillermo del Toro, with an all-star cast featuring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn, debuted in fourth position with £549,560.

Rounding off the top five was eOne...

Romola Garai has been illuminating the screen for several years now, as one of Britain’s best working-actors, and is now presenting her very first feature from behind the lens: Amulet. Starring Imelda Staunton, Carla Juri and Alec Secareanu, it’s a psychological horror movie that explores a whole myriad of themes, such as Ptsd, violence against women, the notion of forgiveness, and containing evil within the world.

When we had the pleasure of speaking to Garai to mark the film’s theatrical release, we spoke in depth about the themes at play, and about her own process as a director. She tells us why this is what she has always dreamt of doing, and discusses whether she could ever direct herself, and how she has got a newfound appreciation for acting off the back of this experience.

Watch the full interview with Romola Garai here:

Synopsis

An ex-soldier, living homeless in London,...

Best known for starring in Atonement and Suffragette, the actor has now turned to writing and directing with a spine-chilling film. What possessed her?

I meet Romola Garai in a velvet-sofaed establishment in central London, which feels radically incongruous. Not because one wouldn’t expect to find an actor of nearly 20 years on such a sofa, but because an hour before, I’d been forcing myself to watch the gory centrepiece moment of her new horror film, Amulet, which marks a dramatic departure into writing and directing.

Amulet lulls you into a fragile sense of security with its arthousey tension, beautiful, subtle performances and lingering shots of decaying wallpaper. When it explodes into body horror – toilets birthing hideous, hairless newborn creatures, a prelude to the worse gestations to come – well, you’d be tempted to cover your eyes if it wasn’t all so horribly compelling.

Jagged Little Pill, the Grammy and Tony Award-winning musical inspired by Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name, is closing for good, The New York Times reports. It’s the first major Broadway show casualty ending due to Omicron.

The news comes following the production suspending performances beginning last Saturday, citing “a limited number of positive Covid test results.” On Monday night, the producers announced the show would end its run for good.

“The drastic turn of events this week with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant has,...

Alanis Morissette’s jukebox musical Jagged Little Pill is being turned into a novel that will be published April 26, 2022 via Abrams’ imprint Amulet.

The novelization was spearheaded by young adult author Eric Smith, with help from the show’s creators, Morissette, Diablo Cody, and Glen Ballard. Per a release, Jagged Little Pill: The Novel uses the musical’s story as a jumping point while offering a deeper look at the lives of the various characters.

Jagged Little Pill follows the intertwined lives of five teenagers whose lives are upturned after...

Amulet, the feature directorial debut of actor Romola Garai, has had an odd path to UK cinemas, first debuting at Sundance way back pre-covid in January 2020, and landing on the internet in almost every overseas territory in the 18 months since. Garai’s understated take on the genre nuts-and-bolts of possession horror has lead to a fairly muted rollout from press too, and not nearly as much online buzz as it might deserve. But with a stellar cast and some truly eye-popping effects work, this is very much worth a look; a bold, bloody and ultimately rather beautiful little genre release.

Former solider-turned-homeless labourer Tomaz (God’s Own Country’s Alec Secareanu) is swept up into a room in a crumbling old house, where he instantly connects with its only other resident, Magda (Carla Juri). But when weird, unhealthy-sounding noises from a back-room lead to Tomaz coming face-to-face with first a bat,...

UK premieres include Cannes 2021 title ‘The Innocents’.

The world premiere of Drew Mylrea’s US feature Last Survivors is among the programme for FrightFest Halloween (October 29-30), the October spin-off of the UK genre film festival held in August.

Last Survivors stars True Blood’s Stephen Moyer, Clueless actor Alicia Silverstone and Pretty Little Liars actor Drew Van Acker in the story of a father and son, living off-grid for 20 years, who encounter an outsider who threatens to destroy the utopia they’ve built. US firm Vertical Entertainment handles international sales on the film, which shot in the US in...

Ryan Coogler has recruited former HBO exec Kalia Booker King to oversee the TV division of his Proximity Media production company.

King, as vp drama, had a hand in developing such HBO originals as Lovecraft Country, Outside, I Know This Much Is True, His Dark Materials and the upcoming untitled Lakers drama and Parasite update, among others.

At Proximity, King will report to Coogler, Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian and work with writers, producers, directors and other talents to create scripted and unscripted projects for the company’s overall deal with Disney.

“We couldn’t be happier about having Kalia on board ...

Ryan Coogler has recruited former HBO exec Kalia Booker King to oversee the TV division of his Proximity Media production company.

King, as vp drama, had a hand in developing such HBO originals as Lovecraft Country, Outside, I Know This Much Is True, His Dark Materials and the upcoming untitled Lakers drama and Parasite update, among others.

At Proximity, King will report to Coogler, Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian and work with writers, producers, directors and other talents to create scripted and unscripted projects for the company’s overall deal with Disney.

“We couldn’t be happier about having Kalia on board ...

Above: Haruhara San's RecorderNow in its 32nd year, FIDMarseille found itself in a unique position in 2021. Starting just two days after the Cannes Film Festival wrapped its comeback edition—which was delayed two months due to the pandemic—Fid welcomed a number of critics, programmers, and filmmakers straight from the Croisette. While the philosophical differences between the festivals have always been pronounced, this year the calendar proximity only underscored the curatorial disparity—proving not so much Cannes’ authority as Fid’s significance in presenting a fuller picture of contemporary cinema. Freely mingling its documentary roots with au courant trends in art cinema, Fid offers a snapshot of what’s new and exciting in international filmmaking. Case in point: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, fresh off sharing the Jury Prize in Cannes for his latest film, Memoria, and recipient of this year’s Grand prix d’honneur; the Thai director’s first feature, Mysterious...

Dropkick Murphys and Rancid will embark on their second co-headlining tour later this summer.

The two rock outfits previously hit the road together in 2017. The Boston to Berkeley II trek was originally scheduled for last May but was postponed because of the pandemic. The run is now set to launch August 10th at the Lege Amphitheater in Waite Park, Minnesota, and wrap October 16th at the Shrine L.A, Outdoors in Los Angeles. Both Dropkick Murphys and Rancid are also booked to play sets at Riot Fest in Chicago (September...

Producer and financier Anton, whose credits include “Greenland,” “His Dark Materials” and “The Night House,” has announced that its latest production, the feature film “Curs>R,” has wrapped principal photography in the U.K. A dark twist on the ‘80s gaming obsession, the horror thriller stars Asa Butterfield, Iola Evans and Eddie Marsan.

Anton will oversee world sales and introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming Cannes virtual market later this month, in association with Endeavor Content, which is co-representing the U.S.

The film also features horror maestro Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Rounding out the cast is Angela Griffin, Kate Fleetwood, Ryan Gage,” and Joe Bolland (“The Trial of Christine Keeler”).

In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout (Evans) decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced...

Anton to launch sales at upcoming Cannes market.

Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield is to star alongside newcomer Iola Evans in horror thriller Curs>r, which Anton will launch at the Cannes virtual market later this month.

Shooting recently wrapped in London on the film, which marks the feature directorial debut of UK filmmaker Toby Meakins. The cast also includes Eddie Marsan and Robert England, best known for playing iconic horror villain Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise.

UK-based production and finance company Anton is overseeing world sales and is introducing the project to buyers at the...

Exclusive: London-based sales firm Amp International has joined forces with new LA-based genre start-up Fearworks on horror The Elevator Game, which has long-time American Horror Story DoP Michael Goi attached to direct.

The supernatural horror, based on the eponymous online phenomenon, will follow Dale, a socially awkward teenager who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had just played The Elevator Game. The ritual is conducted in an elevator, in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online. Ignoring the many online warnings, Dale resolves to follow and find her. But he discovers that the warnings are there for a reason and ‘The Woman On The 5th Floor’ is not what she seems.

The cult online ‘game’, often found on reddit and YouTube, first emerged in Korea but has gained traction in other countries where some have speculated a...

Song Name - Outside

Singer - Zayn Malik

Album - Nobody Is Listening

Check out the song lyrics of Outside by Zayn Malik from album Nobody Is Listening

Two wrongs make no right

When it’s left at least we tried

I’ll be back tonight

I’ll let you decide

To leave my life outside

Leave my life outside

Leave my life outside

Or let me in, or let me in

I know I'm always in my head

Some things they must be said

Hurts me when I think about it

Someone else being in your bed

I know I'm not so innocent

But the love I had for you was real

Hope it hurts you when you think about

But both of us just have to dip

T-shirt that you’re wearing, that’s my favorite

First time that I touched you, you could save it

Two wrongs...

Nominations for the 2021 Golden Globes won’t be announced until February, but the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is already under fire over rules that exclude Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” from the Best Picture race.

As first reported by Variety, the A24 drama will be relegated to the Best Foreign Language Film category because it is primarily in Korean. A similar situation happened last year with Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell,” which was ineligible to compete in the Best Picture category at the Globes because of its mostly Mandarin dialogue.

The HFPA did not immediately return TheWrap’s request for comment. The Golden Globe eligibility rule states that any film with at least 50% of non-English dialogue goes into the Foreign Language category. Because of this longstanding rule, “Minari” distributor A24 had no choice but to enter the film in the Best Foreign Language Film category in November.

The initial...