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Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday at the age of 88. His death was announced “with deep sorrow” by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo, who said in a statement that Francis died at 7:35am local time (1:35am Et...

The Recruit’s leading star, Noah Centineo, has opened up about the show’s cancellation for the first time. Centineo portrays the lead role of Owen Hendricks in The Recruit, which follows a CIA lawyer who becomes involved in an international conflict. The show aired its first season in 2022 and then followed that up with its second season earlier this year on January 30. However, despite a strong run atop Netflix streaming charts,The Recruit was canceled at the start of March while it was still in Netflix’s top 10. Noah Centineo recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to express his disappointment with the series being canceled and also shared some insight into why he thinks Netflix decided not to move forward with another season:

"It is what it is. Netflix, they have a certain mandate that they need to fill, and I’m very proud of the show, very grateful to our audience.

Will Smith's Westbrook Studios has made a deal with Noah Centineo to produce and star in a new thriller movie. The announcement comes right after the launch of the second season of Centineo's Netflix series, The Recruit.

Deadline broke the news that Centineo would produce and star in Listen, a thriller that is set to be directed and written by Brian Birch in his feature debut. The film will be made in collaboration with Westbrook Inc. studios, founded by actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, Centineo's own Arkhum Productions and Bound Entertainment.Listen will be a "contained thriller that combines suspense and horror through a uniquely sound-driven mystery."

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Smith will produce the film alongside Jon Mone,...

Noah Centineo, who just made a surprise appearance as his To All the Boys character Peter Kavinsky in Netflix’s spinoff series Xo, Kitty – I know this because when I’m not watching horror movies, I’m watching stuff like Xo, Kitty – has set up his next project, with Deadline reporting that Centineo will both star in and produce the contained thriller Listen.

Brian Birch wrote the script and will make his directorial debut on the film.

Deadline details, “Soon to be taken to market, Listen is described as a contained thriller that combines suspense and horror through a uniquely sound-driven mystery.”

Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios is attached to produce the upcoming thriller Listen alongside Bound Entertainment, and Noah Centineo’s own company Arkhum Productions.

Noah Centineo had recently been attached to play pop culture icon He-Man in a new live action Masters of the Universe movie, with Nicholas Galitzine...

Exclusive: Amid the second season launch of his Netflix series The Recruit, Noah Centineo has inked a deal to produce and star in Listen, a new thriller that Brian Birch will direct from his original script, in his feature debut, for Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios, Bound Entertainment, and Centineo’s Arkhum Productions.

Soon to be taken to market, Listen is described as a contained thriller that combines suspense and horror through a uniquely sound-driven mystery.

Smith and Jon Mone will produce on behalf of Westbrook Studios, along with Samuel Yeunju Ha and Helen Shufan Ren on behalf of Bound Entertainment, and Enzo Marc and Centineo under their Arkhum Productions banner. Ryan Shimazaki and Iris K. Shim will executive produce.

Currently, Centineo can be seen leading Netflix’s espionage thriller The Recruit, a series on which he’s also an executive producer, which premiered its second season today. Upcoming, he...

Listen, the production company leading the charge in visualised podcasting, is excited to announce the appointment of Jonathan Pascoe as Executive Producer. This latest hire comes as Listen kicks off 2025 following a hugely successful 2024, a year that saw the company cement its reputation as a pioneer in the space.

Pascoe is no stranger to Listen’s success, having worked with the company on some of its most celebrated visualised companion podcasts. Most notably, he served as Series Producer on BBC’s The Traitors: Uncloaked this month, hosted by Ed Gamble, which concluded its record-breaking run last Friday with a thrilling finale that drew an incredible 4.8 million overnight viewers on BBC One. He also Executive Produced Disney’s official Rivals podcast, a groundbreaking production and the first visualised podcast available on the Disney+ platform. The show brought fans closer to the drama with behind-the-scenes insights and special guests, including cast members...

On Wednesday January 8 2025, ABC broadcasts Tamron Hall!

Listen Up! Season 6 Episode 73 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Tamron Hall,” titled “Listen Up!” promises to be an engaging exploration of the podcasting world. Airing on ABC, this episode will feature notable guests who have made their mark in the podcasting industry. The focus will be on how their unique stories and routines have contributed to their success.

One of the guests is the creator of the podcast “Black Girl Gone.” This podcast highlights the experiences and journeys of Black women, offering a platform for their voices and stories. The creator’s insights and experiences are sure to resonate with many, as she shares her path to creating a meaningful space in the podcasting landscape.

Additionally, the co-founders of “Betches” will join the conversation. Known for their sharp humor and relatable content, the Betches team has built a strong following. They will...

Before "La La Land" was causing chaos at the Oscars, musicals were putting the ceremony in another mini-crisis back in 2008. That was the year that saw the box office hit "Enchanted" (a Disney kids film starring Amy Adams) nominated for three songs: "Happy Working Song," "So Close," and "That's How You Know." Those tunes lost to a ditty from the lesser-known Irish film "Once," titled "Falling Slowly."

The year before, another popular musical in the form of "Dreamgirls" (which is about a 1960s music trio and stars Beyoncé) was also nominated for three songs, all of which also lost to a movie with only one nomination. That time the winner was "I Need to Wake Up" from Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." This was the first time a documentary had ever won the award.

Both outcomes were somewhat controversial at the time, mainly because they were...

And while the horror scene today has largely become part of mainstream film culture, some of the most famous titles in the history of genre were indie titles. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Carpenter’s Halloween or Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street were all major indie titles before becoming global hits.

In light of that fact, we are happy to announce the upcoming release of another exciting indie title, the trailer of which you will be able to see in this report. The movie in question is titled Listen Carefully, and it is an exciting psychological thriller we wanted to reveal to you.

Ahead of the official press day, which is scheduled for December 9, 2024, we at Fiction Horizon are bringing you an exclusive insight into the movie, whose VOD release date has been set for this month. If you’re interested in finding out more about this title,...

Ahh November. You know it’s fall in Hollywood because the beaches empty out, the mountains light on fire, and people start to wear fashionable jackets that it’s entirely too warm for. But damn it, if we wish it hard enough, those leaves will change color and it will be perfect pumpkin-spice weather!

It is perfect movie weather though, and we have some hot ones for you this month. We have films from heavy hitters like Steve McQueen and Pablo Larraín, and some exciting sophomore features from the likes of Mati Diop and Jessie Eisenberg. Take a look what this month has to offer below:

Juror No. 2

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Creator/Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collete, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland

Why We’re Excited: Recipient of the 2007 Spirit of Independent Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, director...

[The story contains spoilers for the new Netflix release Emilia Pérez.]

If you’re hearing about it for the first time, you may find your head spinning at the number of genres invoked by the new Netflix awards hopeful Emilia Pérez. Or, less pithily, “That Spanish-language musical that’s also a family drama that’s also a cartel thriller that’s also a study in Trans identity. From a French auteur. Co-starring Selena Gomez.”

The French auteur may have been a little daunted by the challenge himself, “How much time do we have?” said Jacques Audiard (A Prophet), when asked after the New York Film Festival premiere Monday night how he set about developing his latest picture.

The queer musical features Trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón playing a male drug kingpin in Mexico who enlists Zoe Saldaña’s lawyer Rita to help him transition to a woman named Emilia Pérez. This sets off a chain of events...

The sci-fi horror film Afraid is the latest creepy offering from Blumhouse Productions. However, the movie seems to have fallen flat at the box office, becoming one of the company's lowest earning projects.

According to Variety, the movie was projected to earn 3.7 million domestically during its three-day opening weekend. It's four-day Labor Day holiday weekend gross was expected to be about $4.4 million. Afraid eventually brought in $1.3 million on its first day, with $400,000 coming from Thursday night previews. Internationally, the film earned $2.3 million from 19 different markets. The total is Blumhouse's worst ticket takings since Jem and the Holograms earned $1.4 million in 2015.

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Afraid, which has received largely negative reviews from critics, is written and directed by Chris Weitz. The movie is...

Leading podcast agency Listen announces the promotion of Exec, Suzy Grant to Head of Visualised Podcasts as it doubles down on companion shows and original podcasts for TV.

Following the success of their premium video podcasts, including the first original podcast commissioned for linear TV, The Traitors: Uncloaked, the super-indie is in talks with broadcasters, streamers, and publishers to create podcast formats built for linear TV, VOD, SVOD, and social.

Grant has led Listen’s momentous video podcast charge to date. In January 2024, Listen broke the mould with the first official companion podcast for international sensation, The Traitors - Exec’d by Grant. The Traitors: Uncloaked, hosted by comedian Ed Gamble, was shot for TV, with an extended cut available in audio only. This new take on the TV sister-show reached 7x more viewers than the slot average for BBC2 (2 million average per episode) and achieved a whopping 4.4 million consolidated...

Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers.

It’s all fun and games until someone steps on a mine.

There has certainly been peril in Ruby Sunday’s first few adventures with the Doctor. Being briefly erased from history, babies abandoned to die in space, nuclear winter brought on by chaos god – you don’t just shrug those things off. But even the darkest moments have occurred in the context of fairly light-hearted romps.

With the tense, riveting “Boom”, however, we have the first real example of this new companion going through a genuinely traumatic ordeal. It’s sort of Ruby’s “The Fires of Pompeii”, albeit with a much cheerier ending – the episode where the companion realises that travelling with the Doctor can get pretty rough. By its nature, it’s the kind of adventure that comes after some bedding in – you can’t start a companion’s tenure...

The UK’s Screenbound has locked in a slew of deals on its slate, including Austin Jennings’ former Yugoslavia-set horror Eight Eyes, that’s been picked up for Shudder in North America and Donau Film in Germany.

Slaughterhouse 2 has pre-sold to Latin America (Encrypta), while Of Things Past starring Tara Reid and sci-fi western Showdown In Yesteryear have gone to Latin America (Encrypta) and North America (Lion Heart Distribution).

Further sales include Voodoo Macbeth, snapped up by Lightyear Entertainment for North America, Kip International for ex-Yugoslavia and Encrypta for Latin America. Encrypta has also picked up teen drama Listen.

A decade into her solo career, Beyoncé effectively evaded irrelevancy by wresting control of her own narrative. After her 2011 album 4 failed to produce a Top 10 hit—to date, her only album to do so—the singer began dropping albums without any pre-release promotion, sidestepping chart expectations and reimagining the traditional pop album release strategy. Since then, she’s done few interviews and often glides into awards shows donning dark shades and a straight face, shrewdly creating a superstar mystique in the vein of Michael Jackson and Prince.

That approach, thankfully, has been accompanied by some of Beyoncé’s most creative, political, and inspired work to date. Her 2016 visual album Lemonade drew on her personal experiences as a Black woman to comment on feminism and racism in the Me Too and Black Lives Matter era, while its follow-up, 2022’s Renaissance, kept the focus squarely on the music, inspired by and dedicated...

Beyonce‘s career breakthrough came in the 1990s as a teenage member of Destiny’s Child. But since then she has established herself as one of the biggest music stars of the 21st century. So naturally it’s challenging to narrow down the greatest hits of her career … not that we let that stop us from trying, though. Scroll down for our countdown of her best songs — including “Countdown”! Do you agree with how we rank them?

Destiny’s Child had several hits including “Survivor” and “Bills, Bills, Bills,” but it was “Say My Name” that earned Beyonce her first Grammys when she was only 19: Best R&b Duo/Group Performance and Best R&b Song. She has since become one of the most awarded individuals in Grammy history, the most awarded woman in history, and the most nominated woman in history. But most of the top categories have eluded her.

Jennifer Lopez Once Threatened Ricky Gervais At A Golden Globes Backstage & Asked Him Not To Crack Any Jokes About Her ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

British comedian and actor Ricky Gervais went viral a few days back for his controversial monologue involving Jeffrey Epstein at the 2020 Golden Globes. That was the last time he hosted the event. However, the comedian had a notorious reputation for his entire hosting career. Before the 2020 fiasco, Jennifer Lopez once threatened him at a Golden Globes award night.

Not just JLo, Spider-Man actor James Franco once allegedly revealed that he was not fond of Ricky’s humor. Then, the Braveheart actor once said he wanted to strangle Gervais and prefers Jimmy Fallon over the British comedian as a host. For the unversed, Ricky hosted the event five times, in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

In 2011, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Lopez told Access Hollywood that she was...

“I can’t believe we’re winning a Grammy, ladies!” said Beyonce to Destiny’s other children Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland when the trio accepted Best R&b Duo/Group Performance for their single “Say My Name.” Beyonce was only 19-years-old at the time. Little did she know that she’d collect another 31 trophies over the course of her career, making her the most decorated artist in Grammy history. Watch their acceptance speech from 2001 above.

Queen Bey won three Grammys with Destiny’s Child overall. In addition to this prize, they collected Best R&b Song for “Say My Name,” and in 2002 they won Best R&b Duo/Group Performance again for “Survivor.” Not long after that Beyonce struck out on her own, and her star rose higher than anyone probably would have guessed from watching that unassuming teenager up on that stage with trophy number-one.

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What do you get when you combine gaming, tech, pop culture, weird obsessions, and two friends with a unique optimistic take on the world of gaming and beyond? The answer is a somewhat frenetic weekly podcast taking on everything from indie games to new VR peripherals and anything in between.

Game For Anything launches today, Tuesday, October 17, with hosts Angharad 'Rad' Yeo and Paul F. Verhoeven, who between them have the energy and expertise to delve into the unpredictable and ever-evolving world of gaming.

Yeo is the former host of technology podcast Queens of the Drone Age, as well as an award-winning television presenter, video game critic, technology journalist and host of Double J's Weekends. Her other credits include ABC Me's Good Game Spawn Point, ABC Science's Elevator Pitch and Rad Experiments, and ABC Listen's How Games Play Us.

Verhoeven, meanwhile, is a critically acclaimed broadcaster, journalist and bestselling...

Sony Pictures’ upcoming 2023 and 2024 theatrical slate just received a massive shakeup, Deadline reports today, due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike. Kraven the Hunter, the Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel, Venom 3, and They Listen are among the impacted films.

With guild actors unable to promote their films, expect quite a few delays from Sony’s upcoming theatrical slate, with dates subject to change even further.

Up first to receive delays is the R-rated Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron). The official red band trailer debuted last month introduced Kraven’s origin story, while teasing several sequences of bloody mayhem. We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see just how bloody Kraven’s origin story gets, as Sony bumped the release fate from October 6, 2023 all the way to August 30, 2024, where it’ll open Labor Day weekend.

The untitled Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel was expected to arrive...

The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, an annual showcase that brings films and filmmakers from Greece, Cyprus and other countries in the region to the United States, announced the winners of its 2023 Orpheus Awards at a ceremony on Sunday night at the Silver Screen Theatre in the Pacific Design Center.

Toplining the honors: “Listen,” directed by Maria Douza, which won for best fiction feature film. “Iman,” helmed Corina Avramidou and Kyriakos Tofarides, took home the special jury award for best film, and Panos Koutras won the best director award for “Dodo.”

Spiros Jacovides won an honorable mention for best director for “Black Stone,” and Efthalia Papacosta was awarded the best performance trophy for “Listen.” “Black Stone” also won the audience award for feature film, and an honorable mention for best performance went to Stephanie Atala for “Iman.”

“Listen” centers on a 16-year-old deaf girl forced to leave her progressive Athens...

Exclusive: Scandi podcasting outfit PodX has deepened its push into the UK market with the acquisition of a majority stake in Love Island: The Morning After and The Gemma Collins Podcast maker Listen.

Listen becomes the seventh company and second from the UK to join PodX’s growing empire in the space of just a year.

Listen was launched four years ago by three former Wisebuddah execs and has since forged a wealth of podcasts for the likes of the BBC, Audible and Spotify including Love Island: The Morning After, The Gemma Collins Podcast, 28ish Days Later and Levi Roots’ Flavours of Home. In the past 12 months alone, the 26-staff outfit says it has produced more than 3,500 hours of content.

Deal terms were undisclosed but Listen said the acquisition is the “most significant in the UK industry since Sony’s purchase of Somethin’ Else in June 2021,” which took the largest...

A new American Idol was named this week and a past winner resurfaced. Samantha “Just Sam” Diaz, who won the ABC competition series in Season 18, recently opened up about having to return to performing in New York City subways.

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“Back in 2021, I was super embarrassed to be going back to the trains. I didn’t want people to know that I legit needed the money & I didn’t want people to know that it wasn’t optional,” Diaz said, according to The Sun.

Diaz has been sharing her performances on Instagram where they can be seen performing songs like Adele’s “Easy on Me,” Beyoncé’s “Listen” and Ariana Grande’s “Almost Is Never Enough.”

“I was disappointed in myself for allowing myself to fall so low after winning Idol, but then I...

We’ve previously heard that Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant), John Cho (Searching), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), and Riki Lindhome (Wednesday) will be starring in director Chris Weitz’s horror film They Listen, and now Deadline has revealed that Keith Carradine (Fear the Walking Dead), Ben Youcef (Seal Team), and Wyatt Linder (Little America) are also in the cast. As is to be expected when it comes to this project, details on the characters the new cast members will be playing are being kept under wraps.

In fact, all details about They Listen are being kept under wraps. We don’t even have any idea what the story is about. So we have to gauge our interest in this one based entirely on the names of the people involved with the making of it.

They Listen is coming to us from Sony, Blumhouse, and Depth of Field.

Ric Wilson, Chromeo, and A-Trak have cooked up a new project called Clusterfunk. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify.

Canadian DJ A-Trak introduced his fellow Montreal natives Chromeo to Ric Wilson’s music in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inspired by the social movements of the moment, the artists convened with the Chicago rapper in California to forge a project steeped in socialism and communism, set to a mix of funk, soul, and hip-hop. King Louie, Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors, Stic.Man of Dead Prez, Kiéla Adira, and Mariame Kaba feature on the project.

Title track “Clusterfunk” alternates between stark verses from Wilson — who poses questions like “If it wasn’t in the bible, would you call it sin?/ If Dylan Roof wasn’t white, would they let him live?” — before Chromeo de-escalate his moral questioning with a classic sing-along chorus, crooning, “Welcome to the...

Where can you watch Chang Can Dunk? If you're looking for a movie that explores self-discovery, familial trauma, and coming of age — that follows a triumphant story of sports achievement, keep on reading to find out.

The world could always use another feel-good sports movie full of trials, tribulations, and triumphs. Disney has delivered these time and time again, from The Mighty Ducks to Glory Road to Full Court Miracle. The studio is back at it again, this time with a heartwarming basketball-centric tale called Chang Can Dunk.

Chang Can Dunk is the story of a 16-year-old Asian American student who is part of his school’s marching band. In a moment of confidence, he bets the star basketball player that he’ll be able to dunk by the time Homecoming rolls around. He is determined, despite his 5’8” stature that is slightly uncommon when it comes to shooting hoops, to win the bet and,...

Havana Rose Liu recently had her breakthrough role playing the lead in the Hulu thriller No Exit (read our review Here) – which was an okay movie, but underwhelming in comparison to the awesome Taylor Adams novel it was based on. Now Deadline reports that Liu is returning to the thriller realm with a role in in director Chris Weitz’s horror film They Listen. Liu joins a cast that includes the previously announced Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant), John Cho (Searching), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), and Riki Lindhome (Wednesday). Details on her characters, and in fact on every character in the movie, are being kept under wraps.

They Listen is coming to us from Sony, Blumhouse, and Depth of Field. Weitz is producing the film with Jason Blum and Andrew Miano. Bea Sequeira, Dan Balgoyen, Britta Rowings, and Paul Davis serve as executive producers. Filming was already underway in Los Angeles back in December.

London, UK, Monday 13th February – Audio entertainment platform and podcast production studio Podimo has announced 20+ new podcasts made in partnership with leading UK production companies Listen, Mags Creative, Message Heard, TellTale Industries, Tortoise, Vespucci and What’s The Story Sounds.

Founded in 2019, Podimo has become the fastest growing podcast subscription service in Europe, growing 5x Year-on-Year. The app is currently available in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Finland, and across Latin America, and is expanding to more countries soon.

Podimo creates original content that can travel, amplifying the voices of creators from around the world, and has seen translation success across multiple markets with popular and award-winning shows like Forgotten: Women of Juárez and Murder In the North. Its previous productions in the UK include the chart-topping and award-nominated podcast The Missing hosted by Pandora Sykes, You Don’t Know Me with Chloe Combi and Letters From A Killer with Sky Studios’ Transistor Films.

S​ony has some of the biggest franchises under its belt. With more Spider-Man adjacent movies and a new Ghostbusters film coming up, 2023 looks to be a good year for the movie studio. A few of their other big series will also be making a comeback to hopefully make a successful year at the box office. A little bit of everything seems to be on the calendar this year, so you are covered whether you want superhero films, action movies, rom-coms, or some sci-fi stories. What can we look forward to from Sony’s 2023 film schedule? Let’s find out.

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A​dam Driver stars in this sci-fi film as an astronaut from another world that has to crashland on an unknown planet. The only survivor besides himself is a young girl. They quickly discover that they are not alone. The planet is actually Earth, 65 million years ago. They must...

Exclusive: Another Round star Maria Bonnevie is leading Viaplay’s latest Norwegian original, a comedy-drama inspired by award-winning director Bård Breien’s unusual childhood.

In the Name of Love is set in 1970s Norway, where a primary school teacher, played by Bonnevie, does everything to keep her husband Lars’ (Trond Espen Seim) highly profitable porn business secret. Lars sees his line of work as an act of social protest, however, and their two sons, played by real-life brothers Jakob and Jonas Oftebro, are caught in the middle – until a family confrontation becomes inevitable.

Bonnevie starred opposite Mads Mikkelsen in Thomas Vinterberg’s Academy Award-nominated Another Round.

The show is the latest in a long line of Nordic streamer Viaplay’s originals, with 70 set to premiere this year. Deadline revealed Norwegian feature Listen Up! starring People Just do Nothing’s Asim Chaudhry in June.

“I grew up in a fantastic...

Before diving into this week’s Bioshock discussion, would you kindly give last week’s episode covering Hunt: Showdown a listen?

At the inception of Safe Room, Neil and I had both made mental checklists of games we simply Had to talk about on the show. Games that we felt so passionately about that one of us would have to whack the other with a stick to get a word in edgewise.

For me, that game would be Bioshock.

Experiencing the descent to the underwater dystopia of Rapture will forever be a formative moment in my gaming history. It sounds like hyperbole, but at the time, Bioshock truly opened my eyes to the storytelling potential of video games.

In an era where my high school days primarily consisted of playing shooters until the wee hours of the morning with friends, Bioshock presented me with a rich, thematically laced world that...

U.S. born British filmmaker Aaron Brookner (“Uncle Howard”) is plotting his first Nordic noir, slated for a market debut at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production Market, part of the leading Scandinavian confab New Nordic Films (Aug. 23-26).

Based on the novel “A Gift to My Mother” by London-based Finnish author and journalist Jouko Heikura, the thriller is being written and produced by Brookner and Paula Alvarez Vaccaro, co-founders of pedigreed Pinball London, which acquired rights to the book and handled the English-translation for the pic’s initial development stage.

The novel was brought to them by their Finnish co-producer Pauliina Stahlberg, credited for Netflix crime drama “Deadwind,” Seasons 2 & 3.

The story – slightly altered for screen purposes- – centres on a London-based human rights female lawyer, as she attempts to solve the mystery of a crime committed years ago against her terminally ill Finnish mother. Her rogue investigation takes her to a suspicious neighbour,...

Listen is a film that will make you cry, but more importantly, it will just make you really angry. Angry at the system it portrays, as a film that shines a harsh light on the social services industry, and a labyrinthine process. Yet the film doesn’t judge the individuals, but the system they’re placed within. To mark the release of this moving film, we had the pleasure in speaking to two of the film’s leads, Lúcia Moniz & Sophia Myles. We discussed their knowledge of the world they inhabited in this film, and on themes director Ana Rocha is portraying. What transpires here is a fascinating chat with two talented actresses, that go into depth about their roles and careers. Be sure to watch the full interview below.

Synopsis

In the London suburbs, Bela and Jota face serious difficulties when “social services” raise concerns about the safety of their three children.

Exclusive: Jolie Jenkins (Alexa & Katie) Eva Carlton (Where’s Waldo?) and Annaka Fourneret (Loot) round out the series regular cast of The Loud House, Nickelodeon’s new live-action series based on the Emmy-winning animated show for Paramount+. Production on the 10-episode series begins in June in Albuquerque, Nm, with premiere slated later this year on the streaming service.

The new live-action series will follow Lincoln Loud, an 11-year-old boy with 10 sisters, as he navigates everyday life while living with such a large family. Known as the “Man with a Plan,” Lincoln enlists the help of his best friend Clyde McBride to tackle the obstacles and mayhem that they encounter during their daily adventures.

Jenkins will portray Rita Loud; Carlton will play Leni Loud and Fourneret is Lynn Loud.

The series will see the return of the beloved Loud family from A Loud House Christmas reprising their roles: Wolfgang Schaeffer, as Lincoln Loud; Jahzir Bruno,...

Exclusive: Canada’s CBC and the UK’s BBC are jointly working up a trio of podcasts, including one in which Game of Thrones actress Oona Chaplin explores J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign to root out Communism in Hollywood and his obsession with her grandfather, silent movie star Charlie Chaplin.

The project, from CBC Podcasts and BBC World Service, is an extension to a collaboration commitment from 2019 in which the two national broadcasters pledged to enhance their services and programmes by working together.

The podcasts comprise Chaplin’s BBC Audio Wales-produced Hollywood Outcasts, Antica Productions and Telltale Industries’ The Bait and BBC Scotland Productions’ The Billion Dollar Goldmine Scam (all working titles).

Hollywood Outcasts will see Spanish-British actress Chaplin, known for roles in Game of Thrones and Taboo, looking at how Hoover’s determination to stop perceived Hollywood Communism centered around The Tramp star Charlie Chaplin and guide listeners through...

Bella Poarch had a panic attack this morning. While pulling her glossy black hair into a high ponytail and doing her makeup for a 9 a.m. appointment, the nerves hit. She wasn’t so sure she wanted to leave her home on the east side of Los Angeles, where she lives with her cat, PeePee, and French bulldog, PooPoo. Actually, she was sure she didn’t. Yet here she is, sitting across the couch from me at a studio in Culver City, the 25-year-old Navy veteran turned mega-viral creator — her...

It was far from a surprise, but Tuesday’s 2022 Oscar nominations crowned Queen Bey for the first time thanks to “King Richard.”

Long predicted by pundits and Gold Derby users alike, Beyoncé and co-writer Dixson landed an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category for “Be Alive” from “King Richard.” The inspirational track plays over the end credits of the family sports drama about Venus and Serena Williams. All told, “King Richard” earned six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Will Smith, Best Supporting Actress for Aunjanue Ellis, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.

As Smith explained previously, Beyoncé became involved in “King Richard” after seeing an early screening of the film. “The marriage of a movie and a song is a kind of magic that’s unmatched in entertainment,” Smith, a nominee as a producer of “King Richard” was well, told Entertainment Weekly. “I was so happy when Beyoncé called.

Leading Italian sales company The Open Reel has snagged the international sales rights to Pablo Garcia Perez de Lara’s latest doc, “Born to be Born,” ahead of its world premiere at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.

Doc revolves around a progressive public school, the Escola Congrés-Indians, in Garcia’s native Barcelona, where preparations for an end-of-year trip of the school’s first graduating class are underway. Children learn at their own pace in the primary school which instills, above all, the values of respect and empathy for other people.

“I was struck by the director’s ability to discreetly document the important educational role that the school and its educators play with these young students,” said The Open Reel founder Cosimo Santoro, adding: “They guide them through understanding and dialogue in every phase of their discussions and through any possible conflicts that may arise.”

Garcia has trained...

Beyonce and Billie Eilish have competed against each other for awards before, but usually at the Grammys. This year, however, both singer-songwriters are poised to be nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars, and the Expert journalists we’ve surveyed thus far are split right down the middle as to which of them will win.

Eilish is actually a year overdue for her Oscar nomination. She and her brother Finneas co-wrote the title song from the latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die,” which was supposed to be released in 2020 but was delayed repeatedly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, the song itself was released as a single way back in February 2020 and this past year it already won the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media. But it couldn’t compete for Oscar until the release of the film. The good news for Eilish is...

Arguably the biggest power couple in showbiz, Beyonce and Jay-Z, are nominated for Best Original Song at this year’s Critics Choice Movie Awards … but they’re nominated against each other for different projects. Which one of them do you think has the better chance of winning? And might they have a rematch at the Oscars?

Beyonce is nominated for “Be Alive,” her original song from “King Richard” which she co-wrote and co-produced with Dixson. It’s not her first bid from the Critics Choice Awards. She actually won this category for “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” (2006). That song was also nominated at the Oscars, but the motion picture academy disqualified her as a songwriter as they only allowed a maximum of three writers to be recognized: Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, and Anne Preven, with Beyonce being the unlucky fourth. She made another play for awards recognition with “Spirit” from the photo-realistic...

It will be in cinemas and available to stream on May 13 2022.

UK production and distribution company Bohemia Media has picked up Venice 2020 title Listen for UK and Ireland distribution in cinemas and on Bohemia Media’s new streaming platform, Bohemia Euphoria.

The first feature from actress-turned-director Ana Rocha de Sousa, Listen is a UK-Portugal co-production drama that premiered in Venice’s Orizzonti section in 2020, winning five awards at the festival. It tells the story of a Portuguese family living in the outskirts of London, grappling to keep the family together after the social services try to separate them. Love Actually’s Lucia Moniz stars.

Luana Bajrami has won best director and the Discovery Award for best debut feature for “The Hill Where Lionesses Roar” at the 29th Raindance Film Festival (Oct. 27 – Nov. 6).

The film was nominated for the Golden Camera and Queer Palm at Cannes, and has also won awards at the Sarajevo and Warsaw festivals.

The debut feature by YouTuber and short filmmaker Luke Cutforth, “The Drowning Of Arthur Braxton” won best U.K. feature, while Anita Rocha da Silveira’s San Sebastián and Sitges winner “Medusa” won best international feature.

Daniel Lombroso’s “White Noise” was named best documentary feature, while Matthew Walker’s “I’m Wanita” won best music documentary.

Portuguese actor Lucia Moniz won best performance for her lead role in Ana Rocha’s “Listen,” for which she has won several awards previously.

Known for his work on “Frances Ha” and Lady Bird,” DoP Sam Levy won best cinematography for Karen Cinorre’s “Mayday.

Terrace Martin has announced the release of his new album, Drones, which arrives on Nov. 5 via Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG; it’s available for preorder. The set features Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Leon Bridges, Cordae, Ty Dolla $ign, among other artists.

Martin sings, plays saxophone, keys, and more instruments on the album. Additional collaborators include Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Yg, James Fauntleroy, D Smoke, Channel Tres, Smino, Celeste, Malaya, Kim Burrell, and Hit-Boy. The lead single is “Leave Us Be.”

“There are touches of R&b, touches of jazz, touches of hip-hop,...

Any Day Now is the debut feature of Finnish-Iranian director Hamy Ramezan and screened in Berlinale’s Generation Kplus.

New Europe Film Sales has added a trio of deals on Any Day Now, the debut feature of Finnish-Iranian director and screenwriter Hamy Ramezan.

The film has sold for France (Urban Distribution), Poland (New Horizons Association) and Taiwan (AVjet).

Any Day Now screened in Berlinale’s Generation Kplus and will soon travel to the competition selection in the Generator +13 section of Giffoni (July 21-31).

The story follows a 13-year-old Iranian boy in Finland as his family waits to hear news about their asylum application.

New Europe Film Sales handles sales for Hamy Ramezan’s debut feature.

Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Hamy Ramezan’s debut feature Any Day Now, which is selected for Berlinale’s Generation Kplus.

New Europe Film Sales handles sales for the Finnish feature.

The story follows 13-year-old Ramin Mehdipour and his Iranian family, who are living in a refugee centre in Finland. Just as Ramin starts to enjoy the school holidays, the family receives the terrible news their asylum application has been denied. The Mehdipours file a final appeal, and they continue with their everyday lives.

The cast...

Watch the Trailer for Doors: "Without explanation or warning, a number of mysterious, alien “doors” suddenly appear in every corner of the globe. While many of those that encounter these sentient visitors feel the strange urge to interact with them – never to be seen again – others stay behind to face the potential threat of what their ultimate agenda towards mankind is. In a rush to determine the reason for the arrival of these cosmic anomalies, the government enlists volunteers to brave the journey to enter the doors so that we might learn more about their origin or purpose. But even these brave volunteers are not prepared for what lies beyond the threshold. The story of the doors is told through multiple perspectives: a ragtag band of high school students discover a door for the first time, volunteers explore the parallel reality beyond the threshold, and a lonesome hermit manages the...

For this year’s annual Women Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers.

The three sisters who make up Haim — Este, 35, Danielle, 33, and Alana, 29 — grew up on Joni Mitchell’s music, listening to her songs from the time they were kids in California’s San Fernando Valley. Mitchell has gone on to serve as a key inspiration for their own music (as heard most clearly on their 2020 homage “Man From...

The Academy on Friday unveiled to its voters a record 93 films will compete in the Best International Feature Film category — which will no doubt leading to a busy four weeks of viewing before first-round voting begins on Feb. 1.

Helped by Covid-inspired rules that relaxed the usual entry requirements, the films topped the record of 92 entries set in 2017, as TheWrap suggested they likely would in December. The films include a record 34 female directors, seven more than the previous high of 27 set last year.

This is not the official list of qualifying films, which is expected to be released by the Academy later in January. But these 93 films are all in the members-only online screening room devoted to the category, and each of them has been put on a “required viewing” list for one-fourth of the voters. It is unlikely that any of the films will be disqualified at this point, although...

Throughout part one of Selena: The Series, we get a glimpse into the late Mexican-American star's life, with a vivid depiction of her childhood. From her start singing in restaurants with her family, to filling stadiums in her early 20s, the series makes sure to paint a whole picture of Selena's story. The singer's tale is truly inspiring, especially since the series portrays Selena's childhood truthfully and candidly, depicting economic hardship that led the Quintanillas to stand in line for food stamps. Madison Taylor Baez is the actress who plays young Selena in the Netflix show, and we were immediately struck by her true-to-life portrayal of the singer - not to mention her incredible, beyond-her-years singing voice. In case you were wondering whether Baez actually sings that well - shockingly, she truly does.

At just 9 years old, Baez is already an accomplished singer, known as the "Anthem Girl" for...