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24's movie adaptation may struggle to capture the urgency of the TV show's real-time narrative. Placing the franchise in a film format will sacrifice the exact element that builds its interesting characters. Without its inventive narrative angle, 24 might blend in with all the other action blockbusters produced primarily for profit.

Now that 24 has built a large following from its 9-season-long run, Kiefer Sutherland's show is getting a movie adaptation, but this new project dishonors the exact element that makes the series special. 20th Century Studios has confirmed the 24 movie, yet key details about the production have not been unveiled. Since its premiere in 2001, the series has undergone numerous cast changes and dramatic plot pivots. While the franchise has previously expanded with a television special and a spin-off show, putting the counter-terrorist team on the big screen is the most ambitious 24 undertaking yet.

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In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un took turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — but also ripe for a particular type of mockery. Soon after the photo appeared, a meme began making the rounds with that shot and, above it, the lettering “Sonic Youth LP” — the latest addition to the never-ending tradition of saluting, honoring, or parodying the cover of the now defunct band’s album Goo.

Released in 1990, Goo — Sonic...

Tilda Swinton is the latest high-profile industry figure to throw their support behind a campaign to save Edinburgh’s Filmhouse Cinema as reports suggest the popular rep house is close to being bought by a hospitality business.

In a rare public statement handed to Deadline, Swinton, who lives in Nairn, Scotland, described Filmhouse Cinema as an “invaluable cultural resource” for the city of Edinburgh that deserves to be “in the hands of legitimate cineastes who will nurture its future and the legacy of cultural cinema in Edinburgh and beyond.”

“This is an opportunity for all of us to join together to put a flag on the field: culture matters in Scotland. Let’s make it so,” she said in the statement, adding that any potential sale of the cinema to a private owner must be conducted with “unequivocal transparency.”

Edinburgh Filmhouse first closed its doors last October alongside Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen,...

The administrators are looking for “best value for the company and its creditors”.

Update: Edinburgh property mangagement specialist John Alexander has teamed up with the Filmhouse’s former head of programming Rod White, former technician David Boyd, former programme manager James Rice and former chief executive Ginnie Atkinson for a last-minute bid to take over the building and keep it as a cinema, as first reported in The Scotsman, and is in talks with the Scottish government, Screen Scotland and the city council.

White confirmed to Screen, however, “The administrator seems to feel the need to see it through with...

The administrators are looking for “best value for the company and its creditors”.

The Edinburgh Filmhouse building, the former home of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), is facing an uncertain future as a cinema, with a spokesperson for the administrators handling the sale of the property telling Screen: “The joint administrators have a legal obligation to realise best value for the company and its creditors.”

The 88 Lothian Road building was put up for sale after parent company the Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi) – which also ran the Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen and the Eiff – went into administration in October of this year.