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If you enjoy current events and issues in a digestible format, you’re likely to enjoy B.J. Novak’s anthology series “The Premise.” Airing originally on September 16, 2021, “The Premise” is an experimental show looking to tackle large-scale current events and moral issues in a fictional way. Each episode follows a single character and tells a different story focused on large issues like social justice, gun control, sex, social media, and feminism. Each half-hour episode features an opening clip with creator B.J. Novak, where he introduces the issue the topic focuses on.

Currently, the show has five episodes and has been called “Smart, thought-provoking, and worth watching. An anthology of now.” Whether you’ve seen all of the episodes of “The Premise” or are looking to learn more about it, here’s what you need to know about the show.

Main Characters of “The Premise”

Each episode features a new...

Director Rob Grant's (Fake Blood) zombie thriller Yesterday is being released on home entertainment platforms. To show in a special two-disc Blu-ray version, Yesterday was shot on beautiful 16mm. Starring Graham Wardle (Grave Halloween), P. Lynn Johnson (Final Destination), Bill Murdoch, Mike Kovac and Jesse Wheeler, Yesterday will be offered in a two-disc Blu-ray version. Darkside Releasing and Shivers Entertainment are distributing this feature, which just released this week. More release and story details are hosted here. In Yesterday, six strangers are caught in a zombie apocalypse. Each character struggles to survive in a dying city. Events come to a head, in a local grocery store. Here, the remaining few survivors fight danger, from all around. Yesterday was originally released in 2009, on the film festival circuit. This release on Blu-ray will offer lots of extras, including: extensive special features, a 16 page booklet and a slipcover. More details on this limited release.

One of the things about modern Hollywood is that sometimes, if you want something to happen, you have just do it yourself — a lesson “Castle” and “Firefly” star Nathan Fillion has learned more than once.

In the video game world, one of the industry’s most popular franchises is the “Uncharted” series, a swashbuckling adventure series reminiscent of a modern-day “Indiana Jones.” It’s a premise that seems ripe for adaptation — it’s certainly more accessible than the high concept weirdness of “Assassin’s Creed.” But efforts to adapt the series to film have floundered, despite many high profile directors being involved, including Seth Gordon, Neil Burger, and David O. Russell.

While the games use the talents of motion capture and voice artist Nolan North to bring its protagonist to life, Fillion has been a fan favorite to play the main role of Nathan Drake in an on-screen adaptation (a...

With barely any warning, a short fan film on the video game Uncharted, starring Nathan Fillion, debuted on YouTube yesterday.

Fillion stars as the game’s central character, Nathan Drake. The film runs for about 15 minutes and also features Stephen Lang as Sully, Micrea Monroe as Elena, Geno Segers as Diego, and Ernie Reyes Jr. as El Tigre. You can watch it below.

Though no trailer nor even a formal announcement preceded the short film’s release, The Next Web pointed out that Fillion teased it subtly on his Instagram over the past week. For instance, he posted a picture of maps and a magnifying glass with the caption “7/16/18” (the short’s release date) several days ago.

Fillion produced the Uncharted fan film with Allan Ungar, Jesse Wheeler, Bruno Marino, and Louis Sallerson, while Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce executive produced. Wheeler and Ungar wrote the film.

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Because sometimes dreams really do come true, Nathan Fillion just made his wise-cracking, peril-escaping debut as Nate Drake, the star of the Uncharted video game series. Because life is also cruel and often unfair, Fillion's performance is completely unofficial and unaffiliated from Naughty Dog or Sony, taking place in a 15-minute fan-film directed by Allan Ungar and written by Ungar and Jesse Wheeler. But still! Fans of the franchise have been clamoring for a live-action take fronted by Fillion practically since the 2007 release of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, mostly because its lead character—…...

Stars: Kaitlyn Leeb, Cassi Thomson, Graham Wardle, Dejan Loyola, Jeffrey Ballard, Hiro Kanagawa, Jesse Wheeler, Tom Stevens, Kevan Ohtsji, Hyuma Frankowski | Written by Ryan W. Smith, Sheldon Wilson | Directed by Steven R. Monroe

Apparently (at least according to the blurb on the front cover) based on a true story, Grave Halloween is the latest movie from director Steven R. Monroe – yes he of I Spit on Your Grave 1 & 2 fame – who returns to making TV movies for the Syfy channel (I really liked Mongolian Death Worm Fyi) with this, a J-horror inspired slice of mediocrity that tries to mix American and Japanese filmic ideals, never quite meshing the two together well enough to be a complete success.

Deep in stark woodland at the base of Mount Fuji, restless whispers echo as the light fades on a mid-winter afternoon. Here, amongst a maze of roots, a lone figure takes her life, binding...

This year’s Blood List has named the 13 best genre scripts around town, and in its sixth year the annual screenplay contest is expanding its scope to include hot books, TV pilots, and young scribes ripe for signing. Taking top honors in 2014 is sci-fi thriller Bird Box from The Thing and Final Destination 5 scribe Eric Heisserer, an apocalyptic tale of a woman trying to lead her children to safety – all three blindfolded – after monsters descend on earth that turn people insane on sight. Universal set Heisserer to adapt the manuscript from Josh Malerman in 2013 for Mama helmer Andy Muschietti. Previous Blood List alumni include Black Swan, Stoker, Warm Bodies, and the upcoming Blumhouse thriller The Boy Next Door.

Like the Black List naming the top unproduced screenplays circulating around Hollywood, the genre-focused Blood List taps exec votes to determine each year’s best unmade horror, sci-fi, and thriller scripts.

Check out interview videos with the Zac Efron, Amanda Crew, Charlie Tahan and director Burr Steers for Universal Pictures' "Charlie St. Cloud." The drama opens on July 30th and is helmed by from the writing by Burr Steers. Craig Pearce and Lewis Colick penned the screenplay based on the novel "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud" by Ben Sherwood. Also in the cast are Donal Logue, Charlie Tahan, with Kim Basinger, Ray Liotta, Chris Massoglia, Dave Franco, Tegan Moss, Julie Maxwell, Augustus Prew, Brenna O'Brien, Matt Ward, Miles Chalmers and Jesse Wheeler. "Charlie St. Cloud" is a romantic drama starring Zac Efron as a young man who survives an accident that lets him see the world in a unique way. In this emotionally charged story, he begins a romantic journey in which he embraces the dark realities of the past while discovering the transformative power of love.

Does the zombie genre have anything new to offer? I say no, but then again I'm not a filmmaker.  The only way a zombie movie can stand out in a genre crowded with the undead is to do what it does better than everyone else. The movie needs to compete with the goriest (Dead Alive), the scariest (28 Days Later (not technically zombies, I know)), or the funniest (Return of the Living Dead (yes it is funnier than Shaun of the Dead)) zombie movies already out there. But what do you do if your budget consists of little more than pocket change and your cast and crew consists solely of amateurs? And if that isn't bad enough, what do you do if you're Canadian? If you're writer/director Rob Grant you invite all your friends and neighbors to work on the movie both in front of the camera and behind, and you pool everyone's pocket change together into...