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Despite breaking a Bronze Age jar featured at Israel’s Hecht Museum last week, four-year-old Ariel Geller was welcomed back to the museum with open arms.

The jar had been on display in the museum for 35 years and was one of the only of its size and from that era still intact when discovered. The boy’s mom, Anna Geller, said her son is “exceptionally curious” and had a suspicion that he had been the one to break the jar when she heard it crash.

“It was just a distraction of a second,” she told CNN. “And the next thing I know, it’s a very big boom boom behind me.”

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“I’m embarrassed,” she continued. “He told me he just wanted to see what was inside.”

Ariel’s father, Alex Geller, said...

Exclusive: Dublin-based Roads Entertainment readies Trade and Pat Collins biopic Song Of Granite.

BAFTA-nominated director Hong Khaou (Lilting) is newly attached to direct drama Trade, written by Garage and Adam & Paul screenwriter Mark O’Halloran.

Dublin-based Roads Entertainment (Being AP) is producing Trade, about a young man searching for stability in the wake of his father’s death.

Shoot is due to get underway later this year on the project, adapted from O’Halloran’s play of the same name. Development was supported by the Irish Film Board (Ifb) and Roads’ facility Portico Development Fund.

Khaou’s 2014 debut Lilting, starring Ben Whishaw, debuted at Sundance and played at a number of international festivals before being released in the UK by Artificial Eye.

O’Halloran, who is also an actor and collaborated with Lenny Abrahamson (Room) on Garage and Adam & Paul, most recently scripted Paddy Breathnach’s 2015 drama, Viva.

Song Of Granite

Next up for Roads Entertainment, the company...

Twitch Films is debuting the first teaser for action thriller The Fifth Execution. The plot follows the spread of an infection, which causes those exposed to the disease to take their own lives. The first clip below, shows the infection spreading amongst locals villagers, of a remote island. Michael Madsen stars as Rik, a mercenary tasked with removing the threat of infection; also notably starring is Rutger Hauer and Fedor Emelianenko. Check out the first clip for this slash-and-burn film below!

The film's synopsis is here:

"On a remote island somewhere in South-West Asia a weird animal infection outbreak is detected. A charitable institution official, Maria, who has been researching this disease, learns that in a village not so far away, symptoms similar to those of the infected animals are detected in the human body.

When she arrives at the village, she is surprised by the blood tests results, while...