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Warner Bros. Discovery Access UK and the Series Mania Institute have selected French screenwriter Julie-Anna Grignon as the winner of their 2025 Writers’ Programme.

Grignon, who previously worked on series such as “Week-End Family” for Disney+, “Balthazar” for TF1, and “Endless Night” for Netflix, won €10,000 for series concept.

The cash prize will allow Grignon to develop a pilot for the project which is titled “The Hum.” It was selected by a Wbd judging panel that included José-María Caro, director of HBO Max local original production for Spain; Clémentine Bobin, director of scripted original productions HBO Max for France; and Dirk Engelhardt, senior director of local production for Germany; Sian Palfrey, executive producer and head of Wall to Wall North, and Adam James, script editor at Wall to Wall North.

The jury described Grignon’s concept as “ambitious, imaginative, genre-driven, and brimming with creative potential.”

Grignon was part of six mid-level screenwriters...

BritBox is bringing two more of Agatha Christie's iconic detectives to life with a twist. The streaming service has just greenlit a new six-episode miniseries centering on the crime-solving couple Tommy & Tuppence, but it'll unfold entirely in the modern day. It marks the first contemporary English-language television series adaptation of Christie's stories of the pair, and it also stands as the first television drama series commissioned for playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell. Casting is still being finalized, but filming is set to get underway later this year with Happy Valley producer Lookout Point at the helm in association with Agatha Christie Limited.

Tommy & Tuppence Beresford first appeared in The Secret Adversary, Christie's second published detective novel from 1922, and they would continue to be some of her go-to sleuths throughout her career. In total, the couple appears in five of the legendary novelist's books, including four longer stories and a collection of short tales.

The unrivaled Queen of the murder mystery, Agatha Christie, has had many of her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections receive the adaptation treatment, often at the hands of the BBC. Now, in an unsurprising yet exciting announcement cited via Radio Times, Christie is having another of her mysteries adapted by the Beeb, namely her 1967 novel Endless Night, which has received a three-part series order. The adaptation is already placed in the capable and experienced hands of The Sixth Commandment's Sarah Phelps, who has already made five separate Christie-based shows for the BBC, including And Then There Were None, The Witness for the Prosecution, and Ordeal by Innocence. Excited about her involvement, Phelps said in a statement:

"One of Agatha Christie’s last novels, this is a chilling story of love, sex, deceit and death, of how far we’ll go to get our heart's desire and what we...

The BBC and BritBox International have landed on Endless Night as their latest Agatha Christie adaptation from Sarah Phelps.

Set in 1967, the book is neither a Poirot or a Marple but follows man-of-many-trades Michael Rogers, who finds himself working as chauffeur for the enigmatic designer du jour Rudolf Santonix. Transfixed by Santonix’s latest project, a beautiful house in the English countryside, Mike dreams of meeting the love of his life and taking up residence. But unbeknownst to Mike, the house that he has set his heart on has a dark past that goes back for centuries.

The show is the latest in a long succession of Christie adaptations on the BBC and BritBox from Phelps and ITV Studios-owned Mammoth Screen, with the latest being Towards Zero starring Anjelica Huston. Fifth Season is selling worldwide.

Phelps said: “One of Agatha Christie’s last novels, this is a chilling story of love,...

Mad Cave Studios is bringing together four major characters from its Underworld universe for a huge crossover event called Endless Night. Written by Mark London, with art by Tom Derenick (Justice League), colors by Juancho Velez, and letters by Simon Bowland, this story will shake up the Underworld universe and set the stage for future stories.

The first issue will release with two cover options—one by Chris Weston and another by Declan Shalvey. Fans can already pre-order the comic ahead of its June 4th release.

The story follows Axel Black, a billionaire and leader of the dangerous Order of the Nine. He sends a team to Exit City to find a powerful artifact that could bring destruction if it falls into the wrong hands. To stop him, four unlikely heroes must work together:

Velveteen – A skilled assassin seeking revenge McCormick & Miller – Two detectives trying to keep order in a...

Filming the Peacock sci-fi series “Teacup,” in which residents of a farm in rural Georgia must band together to survive after a series of bizarre events, meant a lot of night shoots and frequent use of gas masks.

Neither aspect was easy, but the cast — including Scott Speedman, Yvonne Strahovski, Rob Morgan and Chaske Spencer — found ways to cope. Speedman, who plays father-of-two James Chenoweth, said that “your brain turns off” at some point when filming goes all night.

Morgan, perhaps best known as Officer Powell on “Stranger Things,” is McNab, the mysterious man who shows up at the Chenoweths’ farm in a gas mask and warns them not to cross a blue line he’s just painted around their property.

Chaske Spencer and Scott Speedman in “Teacup” (Credit: Peacock)

Although we don’t see the actor’s face for most of the series, the striking image of him in...

Welcome back to Dead Time. After devouring season two of Interview With the Vampire on AMC, and being mesmerized by Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt, I decided to reach out to the founding father and leading expert on modern vampire culture and mythology.

Father Sebastiaan is a Master Fangsmith, an author, and the Impresario of the Endless Night Vampire Ball, an annual event that showcases vampire culture. Father Sebastiaan has been involved in the vampire/vampyre subculture since 1992 and draws his inspiration from Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, and specifically Lestat de Lioncourt. Father Sebastiaan has appeared on Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures, CW, History Channel, Discovery and MTV. He is the author of Vampyre Sanguinomicon: The Lexicon of the Living Vampire, and Vampyre Magick: The Grimoire of the Living Vampire, as well as several other books and is working on his upcoming memoir.

To find out more...

Celebrating the joy of watching films at TIFF, particularly in the movie theater, the poster features acclaimed actor Kikuchi Rinko, this year’s festival navigator.

Kikuchi entered the limelight in 2006, when she was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and has since appeared in many films by foreign directors, including Norwegian Wood (2010) by Tran Anh Hung, Pacific Rim (2013) by Guillermo del Toro, and Endless Night (2015) by Isabel Coixet. Last year, she won the Best Actress Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival for Yoko by Kumakiri Kazuyoshi. For her significant commitment to the film industry as an actor, she has been appointed Festival Navigator for the 37th TIFF. Beyond her powerful gaze, we hope to present a new landscape of cinema.

The poster images were created by Japanese fashion designer Koshino Junko, who has designed TIFF’s visuals...

Studios that call the Canary Islands home are curating top talent to further diversify their audiovisual offerings, luring and retaining creatives dedicated to costume design, sound, production, animation and editing. Others are simply born in the Islands.

A further testament to the sustained development of the local sector and its increasing relevance to a broader global cinematic landscape, the Islands have seen growing audiences for their domestic films.

More on six of the players currently anchoring the regional production push:

Orlando Harris

The Santa Cruz de Tenerife-born art director and green-screen foreman has put his muster behind large studio bets such as Netflix hits “The Witcher” and “La Palma,” as well as Amazon’s “The Rings of Power.” A frequent collaborator with the isles’ Volcano Films, he notes that his work with them “has always been, without a doubt, the most rewarding professional experience.” Ahead, several international productions and a...

Things get weird at the edge of the world. That’s true of the murder cases Detective Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) and Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) are attempting to solve up in Ennis, Alaska, and it’s true of the challenges cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister had to face shooting “True Detective: Night Country.” As conceived by showrunner Issa López, the fourth season doesn’t tangle just the limbs of the researchers found frozen into a corpsicle.

Woven throughout the series are multiple lines of tension, between the mining town and the indigenous community, between human settlement and the natural world, between the routines of a crime-solving procedural and a more profound, supernatural dread. Hoffmeister needed to sculpt a look that would serve all of these threads while creating an overall visual tone. The key for the “True Detective” cinematographer wasn’t to think about the darkness but about the light.

Hoffmeister...

Isabel Coixet, the Spanish director of My Life Without Me, Things I Never Told You, The Bookshop and It Snows in Benidorm, will be honored by the European Film Academy with this year’s European Achievement in World Cinema award for her life’s work.

Coixet has carved out an impressive career in what could be called pan-Atlantic cinema, making mainly English-language features with international casts but with a strongly European sensibility. She followed up her promising 1989 debut Demasiado viejo para morir joven (which won the best new director prize at Spain’s Goya awards) with the U.S.-shot drama Things I Never Told You, starring Andrew McCarthy and Lili Taylor. The film premiered in Berlin, a favorite launching pad for Coixet, who returned the German festival in 2003 with My Life Without Me, a romantic drama starring Sarah Polley as a young mother diagnosed with terminal cancer who decides...

Marlene Dietrich in Witness For The Prosecution, Albert Finney in Murder On The Orient Express, Maggie Smith in Evil Under The Sun, Kenneth Branagh in Murder On The Orient ExpressGraphic: United Arists/Emi Films/20th Century Fox

It makes sense that filmmakers have been turning to Agatha Christie for source...

Agatha Christie's stories are timeless and have a genius for plot. They don't age or go out of fashion, allowing for different adaptations. The upcoming film, A Haunting in Venice, sets the story in Venice instead of an English village, showcasing the adaptability of Christie's raw materials. While previous films in the franchise had mixed success, A Haunting in Venice is generating buzz and is expected to perform well upon its release.

He’s the great-grandson of the legendary Murder on the Orient Express author Agatha Christie. A Haunting in Venice’s James Prichard is a Hollywood producer, but his ties to the author of And Then There Were None, Crooked House and Endless Night, among so many others, makes him the perfect linchpin to lead a new generation of Silver Screen adaptations. Prichard discusses what makes his great-grandmother’s work so timeless in an exclusive interview with Screen Rant...

If you thought you'd seen the last of Hercule Poirot, think again. Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective, who has appeared in countless of her mystery novels, returns in "A Haunting in Venice," which is set to premiere on Sept. 15. The movie is based on Christie's 1969 novel "Hallowe'en Party," which revolves around Poirot embroiled in another murder mystery. The original story takes place at a Halloween party, while the upcoming adaptation sees the detective at a séance.

"A Haunting in Venice" coproducer and director Kenneth Branagh is set to reprise his role as Poirot for the third time in the upcoming film. He first made his debut as Poirot in the star-studded 2017 film "Murder on the Orient Express." Five years later, he returned as Poirot in the 2022 movie "Death on the Nile," which also had a stacked cast. The third film in the Branagh trilogy will also feature huge stars...

**Editor’s Note: This episode of Scene 2 Seen was taped before the July 14th start of the actor’s strike.

Hello and Welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast I am your host Valerie Complex, Associate Editor at Deadline Hollywood. In this episode, I chat with French actor and screenwriter Salif Cissé.

Cissé began his acting and screenwriting career while still in high school, where he discovered his passion for the stage. He attended local conservatories before being admitted to the prestigious Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de Paris (National Academy of Dramatic Arts) in 2017.

During that time, he staged his first project, High Sign (Lewis John Carlino) at the Cartes Blanches Festival. From there he went on to be cast in 2019 by Guillaume Brac in his film, All Hands on Deck. Salif starred in his own original mini-series, Couronnes (Crowns), directed by Julien Carpentier and produced by Golden Network.

Later this year, we’ll get to hear Bird Machine, a posthumous album from Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. Before it’s out in full September 8th, a new single called “The Scull of Lucia” is available now, and it features guest vocals from Jason Lytle of slacker rockers Granddaddy.

Though Linkous was largely the main force behind Sparklehorse, Bird Machine was a group effort. Linkous was almost finished with his fifth album under the moniker before tragically taking his life in 2010; his brother Mark and sister-in-law Melissa, both of whom had been involved with Sparklehorse previously, pored over demo tapes and notes to bring the record to life.

“From the very first seconds of ‘The Scull of Lucia,’ I was transported to a different time,” the album’s producer Joel Hamilton said in a press release. “The recipe is unmistakably Sparklehorse: The pace, the sounds, the overall texture of the voice.

From becoming an international, critically-acclaimed success to a bittersweet memory, Yuri!!! on Ice has gone through a lot in just seven years.

A YouTuber named masky (@maskyarts on Twitter) created a video essay exploring the history of Yuri!!! on Ice in a succinct 20-minute video with a subtitle of "Yuri!!! on Ice Died to Make History." From discussing director and writer Sayo Yamomoto's 2015 short Endless Night which had a similar premise to Yuri!!! on Ice's explosive boom during and after its airing, masky discussed the impact the anime had on the industry and, disappointingly, the silence that has befallen since.

Related: Yuri!!! on Ice Fan Creates Composite of Yuzuru Hanyu & Friends Skating to History Maker

Icymi: I made a video about Yuri on Ice where I talk about it’s history, it’s record-breaking success, and of course it’s impact on LGBT+ anime. So…. what happened to Yuri on Ice?...

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Video games are a source of rest and relaxation for many people around the world. Some tell brilliant stories, others tease the brain, and still more provide a moment of Zen and distraction to those that need it. There are some games, however, that want nothing more than to get you moving. Whether it be a simple bob of the head and a tap of the toe, or an actual up-and-dancing experience, music and dance games challenge the (unfortunate) popular conception of video gaming as a purely sedentary entertainment format.

Timing is among the most important elements of play in any video game, but music and dance games...

Peter Bowles, the British star of shows including “To The Manor Born” and “Rumpole of the Bailey,” has died. He was 85.

Bowles died from cancer, according to his agency Gavin Barker Associates.

The agency said in a statement: “The actor Peter Bowles has sadly passed away at the age of 85 from cancer. Starting his career at the Old Vice Theatre in 1956, he starred in 45 theatrical productions ending at the age of 81 in ‘The Exorcist’ at the Phoenix Theatre. He worked consistently on stage and screen, becoming a household name on TV as the archetypal English gent in ‘To The Manor Born,’ ‘Only When I Laugh,’ ‘The Bounder’ and ‘Lytton’s Diary,’ which he devised himself. He leaves his wife of over 60 years, Sue, and their three children Guy, Adam and Sash.”

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Exclusive: Studiocanal and The Picture Company are turning the Agatha Christie thriller classic Endless Night into a feature. They have hired up-and-coming scribe Preston Thompson to adapt it.

Published in 1967, the book follows a young couple who fall in love and move to a secluded property in the countryside of England. Once there, a series of strange events unfolds that turns the couple’s new romance into a harrowing nightmare that they must find their way out of.

Christie is responsible for some of great mysteries ever written, including the famous Hercule Poirot series, first adapted to film by Sidney Lumet and then again by Kenneth Branagh for 20th Century Studios. Latest is the Branagh-directed whodunit Death on the Nile, which opens February 11.

The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman will produce under their overall deal at Studiocanal. The producers just wrapped Baghead for Studiocanal in Berlin and recently wrapped Retribution,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)

Parenthood, relationships, and the creative process: three key elements of the cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve casually combine in Bergman Island, a playfully self-aware meta-portrait of the filmmaker and, indeed, of filmmaking itself. Introspective, inventive, and effortlessly calm; it follows a couple, both screenwriters, on an idyllic work retreat to Fårö, an island in the Baltic Sea (population: 498) just off the South East of Sweden. It’s the place Ingmar Bergman called home for the majority of his life, where he made many films and eventually died. – Rory O. (full review)

Where to Stream: VOD

Dune (Denis Villeneuve)

Denis Villeneuve has surmounted this slew of bad omens, by arguably––in filmmaking terms––making the most impersonal adaptation possible. For all his skill and talent,...

HBO is developing Blood Sugar, a series starring and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Glow alumna Betty Gilpin, from Annapurna.

In Blood Sugar, written by Duke Merriman (Monos) and Preston Thompson (Kids In Love), when the Sharks of Shark Tank laugh the delightful Margot Schultz and her frozen food business off stage, little do they know, they’re setting in motion one of the funniest, bloodiest and wildest rises to fame and fortune this country has ever seen.

Claire Wilson (Gangs of London) serves as showrunner on the project with Lucy Tcherniak (Angelyne) set to direct. The two executive produce with Gilpin, Merriman and Thompson as well as Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Ali Krug and Patrick Chu for Annapurna, and Bryan Unkeless and Scott Morgan for Clubhouse Pictures.

For Gilpin, Blood Sugar joins a packed slate. She plays one of the leads of Showtime’s upcoming drama series Three Women, based...

Exclusive: Studiocanal and The Picture Company have entered into a new multi-year pact with the aim to make two-three films a year along with an infiltration into TV by Picture Company Co-Founders Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman.

The producers combined have made some of Studiocanal’s most successful films including the Liam Neeson thriller vehicles Unknown, Non-Stop and The Commuter, and they just released the Netflix action breakout Gunpowder Milkshake,. The films were all mid-level budget actioners that became profitable global hits for the studio. They’ll keep making those films for the Canal Plus library and Studiocanal’s streaming service output deals, but under the new deal, Rona and Heineman will lean into European theatrical co-productions and television for global audiences.

Studiocanal and the producers are in the early stages of a sequel on Navot Papushado’s Karen Gillan starrer, Gunpowder Milkshake, which was the number one streaming title overall...

The U.S. lineup at Mubi next month has been unveiled, featuring films by Claude Chabrol, Paulo Rocha, Ulrich Köhler, and more. Notable new releases include Pedro Costa’s striking Locarno winner Vitalina Varela as well as the Julia Fox-led Pvt Chat (check out our extensive interview with director Ben Hozie here.).

As part of their series Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors, the Martin Scorsese favorite Wake in Fright joins Mubi, along with Fabrice Du Welz’s Alleluia, Nicolas Winding Refn’s underseen Fear X, and Ben Wheatley’s trippy A Field in England.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

October 1 | Alléluia | Fabrice Du Welz | Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors

October 2 | Styx | Wolfgang Fischer

October 3 | The Green Years | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 4 | Change of Life | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 5 | Your Day Is My Night | Lynne Sachs

October 6 | Hey, You!

Lab open to global filmmakers. Prior projects include 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week entry Land Of Ashes.

Mexican project lab Catapulta, whose prior submissions include Yulene Olaizola’s 2020 Venice selection Tragic Jungle, has set March 24-27 for its online third edition during the 11th Ficunam film festival in Mexico City.

Whereas Catapulta only showcased films in post-production in its first two outings, the lab is expanding this year to encompass development projects with a $10,000 award on offer for the winner.

Catapulta First Cut will select up to six fiction, animation or documentary features in the editing or post-production stage.

The section will award a $5,000 prize,...

The pandemic may have cancelled live performances and moviegoing for most of 2020, but for film-music buffs, that just meant more time at home listening to their favorite music, including many releases of music never before heard outside their original cinematic contexts.

“There is still an unquenchable thirst for classic scores, both previously unreleased and reissues of scores that are expanded, re-mastered, or both,” says Matt Verboys, co-owner of L.A. label LA-La Land Records. “As technology keeps advancing, many previous releases can now get a sonic upgrade that makes the music well worth a revisit.”

The business challenges remain unchanged, however, he says: “Who holds the rights to a given score and can those rights be obtained? Do the music elements even exist and if so, can they be rounded up? Once obtained, is the audio good enough to release, or does massive restoration work need to be done?”

Perennial favorite composers Bernard Herrmann,...

Jorge Dorado turns the Canary Islands into Antarctica in this thriller, recounted through flashbacks, which follows the investigation into a violent incident in a sinister, dark and isolated place. In Endless Night, Isabel Coixet warned us that when the light fades away in the Arctic, it’s not only shadows that loom, but also our most deeply buried truths. The Head, a series directed by Jorge Dorado (Mindscape) from a screenplay penned by brothers Álex and David Pastor (who released their film The Occupant on Netflix a short while ago), uses equally snowy and icy settings, but on the opposite side of the globe, to build up a six-episode show, with dialogue mainly in English, which is effective because it hinges on mystery, horror and isolation. For those of us who have suffered the same thing at first hand...

Here are many more movies to watch when you’re staying in for a while, featuring recommendations from Steven Canals, Larry Karaszewski, Gareth Reynolds, and Alan Arkush with special guest star Blaire Bercy from the Hollywood Food Coalition.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Kung Fu Mama a.k.a. Queen of Fist (1973)

Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974)

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)

In The Mood For Love (2000)

Hunger (2008)

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Fargo (1996)

Night of the Lepus (1971)

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

Soylent Green (1973)

Silent Running (1972)

Canyon Passage (1946)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

The Professionals (1966)

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Carrie (1952)

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

Hello Down There (1969)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

The Trouble With Angels (1966)

Pollyanna (1960)

Tiger Bay (1959)

The Parent Trap (1961)

Endless Night (1972)

The Family Way (1966)

Take A Girl Like You (1970)

Freddy Got Fingered...

We have a relatively quiet week of home media releases ahead of us this week, but the titles that are coming out are a rad bunch of films nonetheless. Scream Factory is doing the Dark Lord’s work with both the Collector’s Edition of April Fool’s Day and the HD release of Frankenstein: The True Story. If you missed it in theaters back in January, Nicolas Pesce’s The Grudge (2020) is headed to various platforms this Tuesday, and Arrow Video has put together a stellar Special Edition release of Philip Ridley’s The Passion of Darkly Noon as well.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for March 24th include Endless Night, Cabal, Hunter’s Moon, The Zombinator, and The Wizard: Collector’s Edition.

April Fool’s Day: Collector’s Edition

Good friends...with some time to kill. When Muffy St. John invited her college friends up to her parents' secluded...

Why does CineSavant write so many positive reviews, even for films not commonly thought of as even being ‘good?’ Well, I’m about to offend committed fans of this Hayley Mills thriller… it bothered me in such basic ways that I had to watch it twice to make sure I hadn’t missed something important. Hayley Mills loves Hywel Bennett, a poor boy who gets a chance at the good life. But are they going to be victimized by envious relations, murderous gypsies, a deranged architect? The big superduper plus here is the film’s original music score by Bernard Herrman, one of his last.

Endless Night

Region B Blu-ray

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1972 / Color B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / / Street Date , 2020 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99

Starring: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson, George Sanders, Lois Maxwell, Patience Collier, Ann Way, Leo Genn, Shirley Jones (voice).

Cinematography: Harry Waxman...

On the Names of the Goats, Las facultades, Serpentarius and Bait also received awards at the Galician gathering. The successful fourth edition of Novos Cinemas (Pontevedra International Film Festival) was held in Pontevedra, Spain, from 10 to 15 December. The gathering founded by producer and screenwriter Daniel Froiz, producer Suso Novás and filmmaker Ángel Santos (The High Pressures) was opened last Tuesday, in Pontevedra’s Teatro Principal, with a showing of Arima by Galician director Jaione Camborda. The list of winners of the fourth edition of Novos Cinemas was announced this Sunday, moments before closing the festival with Endless Night by Galician director Eloy Enciso. The International Jury, made up of Lucero Garzón, Misha Bies Golas and Carlos Reviriego, bestowed the Novos Cinemas Award for Best Film in the Official Section to Just Don't Think I'll Scream by French director Frank Beauvais. The Latexos Jury,...

Barcelona – A Netflix original produced by Spain’s Filmax, “Days of Christmas” marks the new series of Pau Freixas, one of the highest-profile creators on Spain’s vibrant drama series scene. A three-part miniseries, “Days” will be made available worldwide by Netflix on Dec. 6.

The story takes place over three different Christmas days, the first in 1949, the second twenty years later and the last one in current rimes more or less. The plot plumbs the secrets hidden and nurtured over these years by a family living in an isolated house in the mountains. The main characters are four women. Twelve actresses, among the best actors of their generations, play the role of four sisters at different times and stages of their lives. Victoria Abril (Pedro Almodóvar’s “High Heels”), Elena Anaya, (Almodóvar’s “The Skin I Live In”), Nerea Barros (Alberto Rodríguez’ “Marshland”) and Verónica Echegui (Simon Donald’s TV-series “Fortitude”) are some of them.

The Portuguese event will showcase 303 films from 48 countries across its 11 sections, and feature a rich industry section with numerous projects at various stages of development. The 17th Doclisboa International Film Festival (17-27 September) will officially open with the Locarno competition title Endless Night by Eloy Enciso. This choice would certainly suggest that the "Doc" in the festival's name should be taken with a pinch of salt. Doclisboa is known as one of those European festivals where fact and fiction are always intertwined, and the programme concept does not vary between the forms – nor does it pay much heed to running times, as all sections include pictures of all lengths. In the International Competition, there are 14 films, out of which four will be having their world premieres in Lisbon: Christian Haardt's A New Environment: Heinrich Klotz on Architecture and New Media (Germany), Thunska Pansittivorakul's Santikhiri Sonata...

Outside of Pedro Costa and Ted Fendt, it’s been hard to detect the aesthetic influence of radical filmmaking duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet on contemporary cinema. But the addition of Eloy Enciso’s Endless Night to the rather small canon frankly makes sense for the moment we’re in, politically speaking. As an attempt to reckon with a lingering sense of fascist takeover in both Europe and North America today, the film takes us to Galicia, Spain during the Franco regime, as the wandering Anxo (Misha Bies Golas) returns home amidst turmoil. Taking place over chapters; we see long, talky encounters on public transit, in bars or the countryside between workers, peasants and those in the highest echelons of power. The poor are getting boots to their asses, what else is new?

While there’s no doubt that the text-driven approach is indebted to the beliefs in depicting...

Vitalina VarelaBy its nature, the cinema has the power to make the past the perpetual present: living before us forever is what once was. This is true as much for Cary Grant’s sly grin as it is for the rubble-strewn Berlin of Germany, Year Zero, equally embalmed for later re-animation. Among the most powerful films premiered at the Locarno Film Festival this year were those that made this extraordinary yet intrinsic facet of the art the focus of their resonance, the thrust of their representational politics, and the boldness of their forms.Eloy Enciso’s Endless Night pointedly blurs the line between past and present to evoke the continuity between today’s Spain—economically unstable, politically uneasy, historically blinkered—and Galicia of the Franco dictatorship following the Civil War. In the first of three chapters, we see scenes of dialogs between various people encountered in Galicia as an anonymous...

The Galician filmmaker Eloy Enciso has garnered attention for his previous film Arraianos (2012). Now with his new feature, Endless Night, his work continue sto explore the use of texts with non-professional actors to invite the viewer to a dark and mysterious journey through fascism during the post-Civil War years in Spain.We interviewed the writer-director about Endless Night at its world premiere as part of the International Competition at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival.Notebook: Endless Night seems to explore the social and political foundations of fascism. Could you please elaborate on your decision to set the film in the post-Civil War years in Spain?Eloy Enciso: When this project started, back in 2013–14, Spain was going through a deep economical and political crisis. I was myself having a bad time, almost broke and with no job. This situation was all around: in the conversations, in friends and relatives losing their jobs,...

Galician filmmaker Eloy Enciso returns to Switzerland’s Locarno Festival after seven years with his third film Longa Noite (“Endless Night”), the only Spanish feature in the main international competition.

Fílmica Galaika, the production company behind it, has just released a trailer – days ahead of its premiere at Locarno.

Accompanied once again by the filmmaker and Dp Mauro Herce, who is also presenting his own film, short “Lonely Rivers,” out of competition at Locarno.

Enciso maintains a filmmaking style already present in prior film “Arraianos” that lies between the hazy lines of fiction and documentary.

A hybrid, as he calls it, with a formal approach that avoids any “stylistic fireworks,” as he recognizes, “Endless Night” frames long, sustained shots that portray a post-Civil War Galicia lying between a narrative filmmaking that draws on literary tradition and one far which is more pictorial and invites the audience to observe.

As in 2012’s “Arraianos,...

Madrid — Spain’s premier soccer organization, La Liga, held a high-profile presentation in Madrid on Tuesday evening for a new anthem as part of its “Latidos del futuro” (Heartbeats of the Future) program, which will be used for years to come as a soundtrack at each of its fixtures and during league TV programming, similar to UEFA’s now-iconic Champions League anthem.

Tuesday evening’s event was held at the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos in downtown Madrid, where stars from the world of Spanish soccer, TV and music braved 100 degree plus temperatures and an exceedingly-rare daytime-rainstorm to mingle with club representatives from across the country and international press. Popular Spanish TV presenter Roberto Leal Mc’d the day’s festivities.

Most of the league’s high-profile teams are in the middle of their offseason tours outside of Spain, but videos were played of Spanish national team and Barcelona...

The Berlin International Film Festival, which gets underway next week, has revealed the competition jury for its 2019 edition. Oscar-winning Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman), German actress Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann) and producer-director Trudie Styler (Freak Show) are among those joining jury president Juliette Binoche to decide winners of the Golden and Silver Bears.

Rounding out the jury are La Times critic Justin Chang and Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Hüller made her film debut here in 2006 with Requiem from director Hans-Christian Schmid, winning Berlin’s Silver Bear award for best actress. Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman premiered at the festival in 2017 on its way to winning the 2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Binoche is a Berlinale regular, having appeared in several competition films, including Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat in 2001 and Isabel Coixet’s Endless Night,...

French actress and Oscar winner Juliette Binoche will serve as president of the International Jury at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 7 -17) next year. Binoche and her as yet-unannounced jury will judge the festival’s competition lineup and hand out the Golden and Silver Bears.

“I’m very pleased that Juliette is president of the 2019 International Jury,” said Dieter Kosslick, Director of the Berlinale. “The festival shares a strong connection with her, and I’m very happy that she’ll be returning to the festival in this distinguished position.”

“Thank you for this tremendous honour and invitation for your last Berlinale, dear Dieter, it means the world to me! I’m looking forward to this special rendez-vous with the entire jury and will embrace my task with joy and care,” added Binoche.

Feted star Binoche has previously played in Berlin Film Festival movies including The English Patient, Chocolat,...

Lone Scherfig’s “The Kindness of Strangers” will open the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. It’s a familiar venue for the veteran filmmaker, who brought her eventual Oscar-nominated “An Education” to the Berlinale back in 2009.

Her most recent work stars Zoe Kazan and Tahar Rahim as two New Yorkers who help each other through a trying time against the backdrop of a Russian restaurant. The film’s ensemble also includes Andrea Riseborough, Bill Nighy, Jay Baruchel, and Caleb Landry Jones.

The film is Scherfig’s first in three years, after the Gemma Arterton-led WWII movie “Their Finest.” That film did not end up making a Berlin stop, but Scherfig had other titles play the festival, even before “An Education.” Her first feature “The Birthday Club” played as part of the 1990 festival, while her Maeve Binchy adaptation “Italian for Beginners” took home a Silver Bear jury prize a decade later.

It...

The Persona dancing games are admittedly weird beasts. On one hand, they shouldn’t be remotely entertaining, especially when you compare them to their acclaimed RPG counterparts. However, on the other, I found myself thinking about the games when I was doing other things, secretly anticipating my return to that secret dream-based dance club featuring all of my favorite characters from the franchise. If you’d asked me a year ago if I’d willingly spend my free time helping these quirky heroes conquer the dance floor, I would have scoffed and sauntered away with a chuckle in my throat. Today, I’m wondering if I should share the dark secret I’m carrying around: I’m kind of in love with Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection, so much so that I don’t mind playing them in front of my spouse or friends. Imagine that.

To be perfectly honest,...

Director Julie Taymor joins Susan Haskins-Doloff and guest co-host Donna Hanover of Arts in the City to look back at creating her masterpiece of musical theater, The Lion King the most lucrative production in history, and reflect on how she herself responds to the work now, 20 years after it opened. The three are then joined by writer David Henry Hwang to discuss Taymor's new production of Hwang's Tony Award-winning play, M. Butterfly, which he has significantly rewritten for this Broadway revival. Also on the show, Jelani Remy, now playing the adult Simba in the The Lion King on Broadway, performs Endless Night, a song from the show with lyrics by Taymor.

Exclusive: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson check in to The Bookshop.

Emily Mortimer (Hugo), Bill Nighy (Love Actually) and Patricia Clarkson (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials) are due to star in writer-director Isabel Coixet’s (Endless Night) drama The Bookshop, which is due to get underway this August.

Coixet has adapted the story from Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Fitzgerald’s well-received novel of the same name.

Set in a small town in 1959 England, The Bookshop charts the story of a woman (Mortimer) who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Celsius Entertainment will be cooking up deals in Cannes on the period project, which has pre-sold to Spain (A Contracorriente), Australia/Nz (Transmission), Greece (Odeon), Airlines (Jaguar) and Turkey (Filmarti).

Producers are Joan Bas and Jaume Banacolocha from Diagonal and Adolfo Blanco from A Contracorriente. Executive producers are Manuel Monzon, Albert Sagales and Fernando...

The Writers Guild of America announced some of its nominees for its 2015 awards on Thursday, including television, new media, and radio, and among the TV nominees are series both new and old, and all beloved.

In the comedy series category, freshman Netflix show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" scored a nomination for best series, as well as an overall best new series nod. "The Last Man on Earth" also landed in that latter category, and was singled out for its pilot episode writing, too.

On the drama side of the equation, lauded "Breaking Bad" spinoff "Better Call Saul" also got best series and best new series nominations, in addition to a an episode writing nod. Newly-minted Emmy winner "Game of Thrones" also scored a best drama citation, as well as an episodic writing nomination.

The full list of nominees released this week are below. Nominations in the theatrical and documentary categories will...

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New Doctor Who Peter Capaldi and “the other Doctor” David Morrissey lead an all-star cast in Acorn Media’s 30 September release of The Field of Blood, Set 1. Written and directed by David Kane, The Field of Blood is based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Denise Mina. The central character — Paddy Meehan (Jayd Johnson) — is a copy writer at a Glaswegian newspaper. She dreams of forging a career as an investigative journalist but opportunities are at a premium for young women in 1980s Glasgow. Paddy gets an unexpected break when a toddler is murdered — seemingly by her young cousin. Allegations concerning the suspect soon appear in the local papers. Her relatives, wrongly blame Paddy for the negative headlines surrounding the family and the supposed killer. Paddy sees an opportunity to raise her own profile while uncovering the truth about the murder.

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We interview Phil Ford about Wizards vs Aliens, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Russell T Davies, Doctor Who and more...

This time last year, we had a chat to Wizards vs Aliens writer Phil Ford about the new show's first season. Now, one year on, we're back to talk about season 2 - in particular, what Phil learned from the show's first season, how it felt to incorporate scripts originally written for The Sarah Jane Adventures into the show, and what's next...

This article contains very mild hints of spoilers for the Wizards vs. Aliens episode, The Thirteenth Floor

The second series of Wizards vs Aliens is drawing to a close on Cbbc. How happy are you with this year's batch of episodes?

I couldn’t be happier. It’s the old thing… you do the first series and it works and then you think: ‘How...

While Albert Finney and Peter Ustinov's cinematic takes have divided fans, there's no doubt that when it comes to Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot there is only one man who has given what is considered the definitive portrayal - David Suchet.

Having inhabited the character since 1989, Suchet and many Christie fans were keen to see him film all of the novels and short stories featuring Poirot. Earlier this year however it looked like the last telemovies required to complete this ambition would not be put into production due to budgetary cutbacks at ITV.

Now though comes the official word (via Digital Spy) that ITV has recommissioned "Poirot" for a final series. The five new Christie adaptations will include 'Labours of Hercules', 'Dead Man's Folly', 'The Big Four', 'Elephants Can Remember' and the Belgian detective's infamous final story 'Curtain'. Production on the final five telemovies will commence next year.

ITV has announced that Marple will return in a new series of three films. Julia McKenzie will reprise the title role in adaptations of Agatha Christie's 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Endless Night' and 'The Seven Dials Mystery'. The first film will begin filming in summer 2012, while the latter two will enter production in the autumn. "It's a huge privilege for me to play Miss Marple," said McKenzie. "I love her shrewd intelligence, and yet she has a warmth and a sweetness that is so disarming. "I find it stimulating watching how her insights into human nature can unlock (more)...

Are you drawn to the vampire lifestyle? Do you drink red wine more for the imagery it creates than the taste or intoxication? Have you spent more than a car payment on custom-made fangs? Do you sleep in a coffin, or would if one were readily available? Then, my little bloodsuckers, I've got just the event for you.

On Saturday, October 1, in Hollywood, Florida, Electrolust Hollywood will present the Endless Night Vampire Ball of Florida. There will also be a pre-party held on Friday, September 30. Those of you who have not yet had the opportunity to attend a Vampire Ball may be asking, "What can I expect to see when attending a Vampire Ball?" I'm glad you asked.

To answer that question, we'll draw right from the Vampire Ball of Florida website. The site explains: "This is a premier alternative, gothic, fetish, Vampyre and costume party that's dedicated to and...