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Exclusive: Elvis actress Natasha Bassett and Bollywood star Abhay Deol have landed the lead roles in indie romantic comedy Don’t You Be My Neighbor!.

The film will portray the unlikely connection between Jay (Deol) and Emily (Bassett), who have vastly different perspectives on love and life. As they work through their contrasting beliefs and life experiences, they are challenged to confront their preconceptions and open their hearts to unexpected possibilities, per the synopsis.

Harry Grewal is directing from a script by David Lambertson. Grewal produces through his Grewal Films International banner alongside production partner Donna Grewal. Raman Palta and Payal Palta produce through their Palta Film Production label, and Jason Cherubini is the executive producer.

Principal photography is set to begin and around Seattle next month.

“We are excited to bring this lighthearted and thought-provoking story to life,” said Grewal. “Abhay Deol and Natasha Bassett bring their immense talent...

Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has nabbed North American and UK rights to Last Survivors, a dystopian thriller starring Alicia Silverstone, Stephen Moyer, and Drew Van Acker, ahead of its world premiere at London’s FrightFest Film Festival on October 30, with plans for a day-and-date release across both territories in February 2022.

The post-apocalyptic pic centers on Troy (Moyer), who has raised his now grown son, Jake (Van Acker), in a wooded utopia thousands of miles away from the decayed cities. When Troy is severely wounded, Jake is forced to travel to the outside world to find life-saving medicine. While he’s ordered to kill any humans he encounters, Jake defies his father by engaging in a forbidden relationship with a mysterious woman, Henrietta (Silverstone). As Jake continues this dangerous affair, Troy will do anything to get rid of Henrietta and protect the perfect world he created for himself and his son.

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Exclusive: Drew Van Acker, Alicia Silverstone and Stephen Moyer have just wrapped production on Shtf (Sh*t Hits the Fan), a sci-fi thriller directed by Drew Mylrea from a script by Josh Janowicz. Shooting just finished in Butte, Mt.

The pic is set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event that forces people into extreme isolation. A father (Moyer) and son (Van Acker), who have been living off grid for 20 years, encounter an outsider (Silverstone) who threatens to destroy the utopia they’ve built.

Sunil Perkash, Colin Bates, Akaash Yadav and Michael Jefferson are producing. Van Acker, Wes Hull and Daniel Brandt are executive producers.

For Pretty Little Liars alum Van Acker, the movie marks a reteam with Mylrea after the actor starred in the director’s Spy Intervention last year opposite Poppy Delevingne. He also plays Aqualad on DC Universe’s Titans and is repped by ICM Partners and Luber/Roklin.

Witless sexism masquerades as genre parody in this comedy thriller desperately devoid of comedy or thrills

It’s long been a complaint that all the big awards go to tragic dramas, while comedy, especially farce, is much harder to pull off. Nothing illustrates that truism as well as Spy Intervention. Presumably it’s meant to be a larky spoof of spy movies and marital romance – except without any of the cool gadgets, sense of danger, charm or sexual chemistry you’d expect.

Given it was clearly made on a modest budget and is the work of a first-time director (Drew Mylrea), I would normally cut it a bit of slack. But the script, credited to Mark Famiglietti and Lane Garrison, is so sexist, lazy and lacking in wit, it’s hard to find any forgiveness for the end result.

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We need to stop acting surprised when Adam Sandler gives a powerful performance, as he does in the Safdie brothers’ “Uncut Gems” (Lionsgate); great work pops up throughout his career, from “Punch-Drunk Love” to “The Meyerowitz Stories.” Granted, whereas some movie stars take a “one for them, one for me” approach to balancing popcorn fare with arthouse titles, Sandler is more “ten for them, one for me”; if a great Sandler performance needn’t elicit shock anymore, it should bring up a touch of sadness for the career that might have been.

If you haven’t seen “Good Time” or other earlier Safdie movies, you might not be prepared for their brand of anxious, cinematic-panic-attack filmmaking. “Uncut Gems” will make you uneasy,...

Adds quirky comedy Spy Intervention to Efm 2018 slate.

Hyde Park International will kick off worldwide sales at the Efm this week on feel-good, football-themed family comedy The Bromley Boys.

Inspired by the book of the same name by sports writer Dave Roberts, The Bromley Boys follows the fortunes of a fanatical young non-league football team devotee as he falls in love for the first time.

Brenock O’Connor, Alan Davies and Martine McCutcheon star alongside Jamie Foreman, Adam Deacon, and double World and triple French Football Freestyle World Champion, Sean Garnier.

Steve Kelly directs the feature by Itchy Fish Film and Scanner Rhodes Productions produced, and Tj Herbert and Dean Fisher produced.

The producers plan to release The Bromley Boys in select territories to coincide with the 2018 World Cup in Russia this summer.

Hyde Park International’s Efm slate includes quirky comedy Spy Intervention starring Drew Van Acker from Pretty Litte Liars, Poppy Delevingne, and Blake Anderson...