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Steven Spielberg collaborator Caroline Goodall and “This City Is Ours” star Hannah Onslow have signed on to lead new short film “The Second Time Around.”

Directed by Jack Howard, the fantasy-drama short follows a waitress (Onslow) who, while closing a café on a rainy night in London, is confronted by a mysterious older woman (Goodall). Genevieve Lewis (BBC’s “Doctors”) and David Ashton (“The Last King of Scotland”) feature in supporting roles.

“The Second Time Around” marks the debut of Nottingham-born Howard, who is the co-founder of the U.K. comedy duo Jack & Dean. The short marks a step toward dramatic filmmaking for the writer-director and was funded via a crowdfunding campaign with over 500 contributors. The short will serve as proof-of-concept for a feature film.

Ash Horne and Max Marlow are producing “The Second Time Around” with 42 Management & Production. Horne, a former creative director at the Oscar-winning Slick Films, is...

[Originally appeared in the January 2015 issue of Deadly Magazine. Catch up with Part One of the retrospective here.]

Though it was prematurely cancelled in 2012, the horror comedy TV series Todd & The Book of Pure Evil has lived on through the memories of its loyal fan base, been discovered by a new audience on home media, and will return in an animated film in the near future. Last fall, I had the great pleasure of speaking with the series' co-creators and main cast, who looked back on fighting evil... with mixed results.

In this second part of Daily Dead's retrospective on Todd & The Book of Pure Evil, Alex House (Todd Smith), Maggie Castle (Jenny Kolinsky), Bill Turnbull (Curtis Weaver), Melanie Leishman (Hannah B. Williams), Shawn Pierce (music composer), and series co-creator Craig David Wallace discuss their time on the truly unique series that showed the humor, horror, and often blood-soaked trials and tribulations of high school.

What were your auditions like for Todd & The Book of Pure Evil?

Alex House...

Exclusive: New film and TV participants include crew from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Spectre and The Martian.Scroll down for the full list

BAFTA’s networking and career development programme for UK-based film and TV workers BAFTA Crew will this year include key crew from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Spectre and The Martian.

New vfx department crew attending the programme include Carlos Ciudad (Jupiter Ascending), Jason Brown (Terminator Genisys) and David Michael Schneider (Guardians of the Galaxy).

Art department crew include Sarah Ginn (Beauty & the Beast), Dominic Sikking (Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens) and Matt Wynne (The Martian).

Other new names include Riccardo Bacigalupo (first assistant editor Kingsman: The Secret Service), Jo Beart-Albrecht (costume department Suffragette) and Thomas Wade (2nd Unit camera Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens).

The group will be officialy unveiled by BAFTA next week and will have a private networking event on Tuesday August...

One of the great things about Doctor Who is that it always champions the underdog. The evil tyrants are never allowed to win the day (except on rare occasions) and so it's left to the Cordos, Vishinskys and Jagos to stroll off into the sunset with their heads held high.

Doctor Who even has its very own group of underdog stories – some of these fall into the underrated but brilliant strand like The Ambassadors Of Death, Image Of The Fendahl or Frontios. Then there are the tales that used to be slated but are getting reappraised by fans like The Horns Of Nimon or The Gunfighters. And then there are the tales that are seemingly beyond redemption like The Twin Dilemma, Time And The Rani and Timelash.

Ah, Timelash. Nobody seems to like it. Some clever soul found that if you rearrange the letters, they make up Lame Shit, which...

Actor Ben "Gandhi" Kingsley and his Brazilian, actress wife Daniela Lavender will star in the $30 million feature Taj, based on true events, recounting the relationship between 16th century Indian Mughal emperor 'Shah Jahan', builder of the 'Taj Mahal' and his Persian wife 'Kandahari Begum'. Kingsley will produce the film for his Sbk Pictures, from a screenplay by Brit playwright, novelist, actor David Ashton. The 'Taj Mahal' was intended as a mausoleum in memory of the emperor's favourite wife, 'Mumtaz Mahal'. The structure is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, combining Persian and Indian styles, in an integrated complex of structures, taking 20 years to complete, employing thousands of artisans and craftsmen. Taj will start shooting in India, in 2010...

Movie Jungle has video interviews and other clips from Sony's "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans," in theatres today! The film stars Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Ashton, Geraldine Brophy, Leighton Cardno and Alexander Carroll. Special effects guru Patrick Tatopoulos takes over the reigns and directs instead of Len Wiseman, beau of Kate Becksinsale. Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy)...

Movie Jungle has video interviews and other clips from Sony's "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans," in theatres today! The film stars Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Ashton, Geraldine Brophy, Leighton Cardno and Alexander Carroll. Special effects guru Patrick Tatopoulos takes over the reigns and directs instead of Len Wiseman, beau of Kate Becksinsale. Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy)...

Movie Jungle has video interviews and other clips from Sony's "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans," in theatres today! The film stars Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Ashton, Geraldine Brophy, Leighton Cardno and Alexander Carroll. Special effects guru Patrick Tatopoulos takes over the reigns and directs instead of Len Wiseman, beau of Kate Becksinsale. Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Released...

Movie Jungle has video interviews and other clips from Sony's "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans," in theatres today! The film stars Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Ashton, Geraldine Brophy, Leighton Cardno and Alexander Carroll. Special effects guru Patrick Tatopoulos takes over the reigns and directs instead of Len Wiseman, beau of Kate Becksinsale. Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy)...

As a prequel to the previous two films in its trilogy, Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans doesn’t so much answer burning questions they posed as dramatize backstory that has only been spoken of before. And it raises a few queries of its own.

To wit, what exactly are the rules of werewolf transformation? There are a number of meaningful shots of the full moon, but it generally seems that the Lycans can assume beastly form whenever they please. The vampires (a.k.a. Death Dealers) who rule the medieval-ish land in which Rise is set keep the captive, enslaved Lycans from assuming hair and fangs with special collars—and yet hero Lucian (Michael Sheen) doesn’t go monstrous at certain points late in the film when it might be advantageous to do so, even though he doesn’t have a collar on.

Best not to ponder details like this...