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Exclusive: Colson Baker (The Dirt), aka Machine Gun Kelly, and Travis Fimmel (Vikings) are set to star in action-thriller One Way, which will be directed by Andrew Baird (Zone 414) from a script by Ben Conway.

Principal photography is planned to begin in January 2021. Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales and will launch at TIFF virtual market.

One Way will follow Freddy (Baker) who goes on the run with a bag full of cash and cocaine after a robbery of his former crime boss goes wrong. With a potentially fatal wound, he slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. With his boss and her henchmen hot on his heels and his life slipping through his fingers, he is left with very few choices.

Tim Palmer, Martin Brennan, and Jib Polhemus are producing the film with Bill Grantham serving as executive producer. The film was developed with funding...

Action thriller developed with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, Screen Ireland.

Highland Film Group has launched worldwide sales at TIFF on action thriller One Way starring Colson Baker Aka recording artist “Machine Gun Kelly” and Travis Fimmel.

Andrew Baird (Highland sales title Zone 414) directs from a screenplay by Ben Conway. Principal photography is set to begin in January 2021.

One Way was developed with funding from Northern Ireland Screen and Screen Ireland and centres on a wounded man who flees into the California desert with a bag of cash and cocaine after a botched robbery.

Tim Palmer, Martin Brennan, and Jib Polhemus are producing,...

Stars: Rafe Spall, Joel Fry, Steve Speirs, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Tim Woodward, Benedikte Hansen, Simone Lykke | Written by Jeff Murphy | Directed by Adrian Shergold

I believe it was the Beatles who once said “all you need is Rafe Spall” or something to that effect anyway… I have made no secret of the fact that when I find an actor or actress I like, I will go out of my way to watch them. It is a select group though, the likes of your Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Vicky McClue, Tom Hardy, Joe Gilgun to name a few (notice these are all Brits). The type of leading actors that can let a whole scene play out over their faces and not say a great deal but have me on the edge of my seat having heart palpitations. Another such actor who has been on my radar for some time now, and...

Inner Circle’s “Bad Boys” — the unmistakable theme to the TV show “Cops,” which was pulled off the Paramount Network this week after more than 30 years on the air — amounts to a major novelty hit, but one with a long and interesting history behind it (as is so often the case with novelty hits). Its prominence and popularity are the result of an unusual series of events and circumstances which led to it becoming one of the reggae songs most beloved by non-Jamaicans.

Although based in Miami since the 1980s, Inner Circle started off in Jamaica in the late ‘60s as a group of young, middle-class musicians who would soon split off into two different entities, the other being the successful reggae group Third World. Self-contained bands like Inner Circle and Third World as recording artists have always been a relative rarity in Jamaica, where the norm is vocal groups...

YouTube has renewed “Karate Kid” sequel series “Cobra Kai” for a third season. The web and streaming platform has also handed a Season 3 renewal to Kevin Hart’s “What the Fit.”

Both “Cobra Kai” and “What the Fit” will premiere their new seasons in 2020.

YouTube is now offering two options for its upcoming original series like “Cobra Kai” and “What the Fit”:ad-free Svod viewing and ad-supported free viewing.

Also Read: 'Cobra Kai' Stars Talk About That Insane Season 2 Finale Scene: 'It Was Like an 11-Minute Riot'

From Aug. 29 to Sept. 11, 2019, YouTube plans to make Season 1 of “Cobra Kai” available to all users globally for free — you’ll just have to watch commercials. Season 2 gets the same treatment starting on Sept. 11, though those episodes will post weekly instead of all at once.

YouTube will share additional free ad-supported premiere dates for existing “Impulse” and “Liza on Demand” episodes at a later date.

YouTube’s “Cobra Kai” is full of flashbacks and callbacks to “The Karate Kid.” There is one perfect piece of audio nostalgia that hasn’t been implemented into the sequel series yet — and star/executive producer Ralph Macchio tells TheWrap it may never be.

“‘The Best Around’ is the one piece that the three writers always toy with, and it’s the one place they feel — to this point, now, who knows seasons down the line — to this point, it has been parodied and used so much that it would take you actually out of the show,” Macchio told us of the All-Valley Karate Tournament anthem. “Like, it is the line in the sand of when the nostalgia or the Easter eggs or the callbacks could go too far and hurt the fabric of the show.”

It won’t hurt to remember the classic Joe Esposito ditty during the classic ’80s-movie montage below.

Following a successful festival run, writer-director Rich Phelps has finally released his short film One Way or Another online for the world to see. The dark, neo-noir has been covered on these pages prior when we premiered the trailer back in October. Suffice it to say we've all been patient. Based on a true story, the nearly fourteen minute short sees two friends at a bar end up on a path neither expected when they are thrown into a violent showdown. With fine acting and a slick style punctuated by wonderfully noirish dialogue, One Way or Another, stands as a solid showcase for Phelps. We'll definitely be keeping our eyes on future work.   The short stars Nick Palmieri, Ray Hopper, David S. Hogan and Joseph...

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Alana Joli Abbott Sep 4, 2019

From A Memory Called Empire to Star Wars IX, here are all of the space operas, on screen and on the page, we're looking forward to in 2019.

Here at Den of Geek, we love a good space opera: that delightful subgenre of science fiction that combines action, adventure, romance, and melodrama and sets it all in space.

Between now and the end of 2019, fans of space opera have a lot to look forward to. Whether or not you're excited about the December 20, 2019 release of Star Wars Episode IX, the year should be a good one for space opera—especially for novel readers, but with a few films and comics thrown in for good measure.

Here are the space operas (and some stories that are space opera-adjacent) we've already consumed or are most looking forward to consuming at Den of Geek...

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Babe.net, the site behind a story about comedian Aziz Ansari that set off a debate about consent and journalistic ethics, is for sale, according to an email from CEO Jack Rivlin obtained by TheWrap.

A fact sheet to potential buyers said Babe.net’s parent company, Tab Media, was “seeking a new owner who can take advantage of its large distribution, strong brand and reputation.”

Rivlin and a rep for Ansari did not immediately respond to request for comment from TheWrap. Though the fact sheet said Babe.net’s owners closed it in December, it has has continued to publish some new content this year.

Also Read: Aziz Ansari Addresses Sexual Misconduct Accusations During NYC Set, Says He Felt 'Humiliated' and 'Embarrassed' (Report)

Babe.net targets a female audience aged 15-30 with the slogan, “For girls who don’t give a f—.”

Once a little-known blog, it drew widespread...

In her four years in film distribution, Alece Oxendine has grown accustomed to being the lone person of color in the room.

Oxendine told TheWrap that she was the only black person at Fandor, where she worked in marketing; the only black woman at Distribber, where she worked in digital distribution; and is the only black person at Good Deed Entertainment, where she now works in digital sales.

“Distribution is the last frontier of filmmaking,” Oxendine said. “Everyone is having these wonderful conversations about elevating more women filmmakers and filmmakers of color and helping them out in so many different ways, but the challenge is they are not being met with the support they need once the film is completed.”

Also Read: Time's Up, USC Launch Diversity Database for Critics and Entertainment Reporters

In conversations with TheWrap, Oxendine and other insiders said that buyers from distribution companies are predominantly white...

Donald Trump Jr. accused Hollywood again of having a double standard for conservatives and liberals, using Roseanne Barr and Aziz Ansari as his latest example.

“I’m sure they’re chomping at the bit to give Rosanne and other conservatives a second chance… right? Yet another example of the rules only applying one way. At least they’re consistent. Take note,” Trump Jr. wrote on his Twitter account Monday.

I'm sure they're chomping at the bit to give Rosanne and other conservatives a second chance… right? Yet another example of the rules only applying one way. At least they're consistent. Take note. https://t.co/hYd7GG3aib

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 30, 2018

Trump Jr. was referencing comments made by Netflix VP of Original Content Cindy Holland on Sunday, who said the streaming giant has “certainly given some thought” to a third season of Ansari’s “Master of None.”

“We...

COLOGNE, Germany -- German boxoffice star Til Schweiger and art-house darling Oskar Roehler have secured backing for their latest projects, with Schweiger's new romantic comedy Keinohrhasen and Roehler's social drama/love story Lulu und Jimi receiving funding from regional subsidy group Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Keinohrhasen will be Schweiger's first film as producer, director and star since local hit Barefoot in 2005. Schweiger will play a macho womanizer forced to do community service at a local kindergarten, where he locks horns with teacher Anna, played by Nora Tschirner (FC Venus).

Keinohrhasen received $1.7 million in funding from the Medienboard. Schweiger will produce the film through his Barefoot Films shingle.

Schweiger's latest film as a producer and star, director Reto Salimbeni's One Way, opened at No. 6 on the German boxoffice chart last weekend.

Lulu und Jimi will be Roehler's first since the crossover success of Elementary Particles. The new film is set in Germany in the 1950s and is a love story between the wealthy Lulu and the African-American Jimi America.

COLOGNE, Germany -- German star Til Schweiger is planning four new English-language film projects with Swiss commercials helmer Reto Salimbeni following their collaboration on action thriller One Way, which has its world premiere Saturday in Los Angeles. One Way is the first English-language film Schweiger has produced through his German-based shingle Barefoot Films. It follows the success of his German-language Barefoot. He said in an interview he plans to team with Salimbeni on his next four English-language projects, which he will both star in and produce. Schweiger said in an interview that he will both produce and star in the next four English-languge projects with Salimbeni. These include high-concept comedy Superlover, action film "KSK" and edgy romantic comedy Slide Show.