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Rosamund Pike is recalling a terrifying incident she experienced nearly two decades ago.

The Gone Girl actress revealed during a recent interview with Magic Radio that she was attacked during a mugging incident in London. The Independent reported that it happened in 2006.

“I was on the phone to my mother, on a mobile phone walking along a road, and I was mugged,” she recounted. “The phone was snatched so all she heard was me scream and a thud and the phone went dead.”

Pike said she was “angry” after being left with a bruise from being punched in the face during the incident. She added that her mom also endured “15 minutes of hell” until she was able to call her back following the attack.

The Independent reported that there has been a recent rise in criminals snatching mobile phones from people on the streets of London, with authorities seeing a...

Prime Video is gearing up for the anticipated third season premiere of the hit fantasy series The Wheel of Time. On March 13, the show will return with the first three episodes of Season 3, and new episodes will then be released weekly on Prime Video.

Coming ahead of the show's return, Cbr can unveil a sneak peek clip from one of the new episodes. In the clip, Lord Galad (Callum Kerr) and Lord Gawyn (Luke Fetherston) have a sparring match in the White Tower, delighting the Novices and Nynaeve (Zoë Robins), amusing their sister Elayne (Ceara Coveney), and annoying Mat (Dónal Finn). Of course, this just marks one small bit of the action and drama that's to come in Season 3. While fans wait for the new episodes to drop, Cbr's sneak peek can be viewed below.

The series also stars Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) as Moiraine Damodred, Daniel Henney (Criminal Minds) as al’Lan Mandragoran,...

Prime Video has brought online the thrilling 11-minute opening scene for the upcoming third season of The Wheel of Time. This special sneak peek is now available at the end of the third episode of the Season Three premiere of Reacher, which also debuted today.

The Wheel of Time Season Three which will premiere globally on Prime Video on March 13, 2025, is based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling and epic fantasy book series of the same name and is co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios.

The opening scene of The Wheel of Time Season Three features a dynamic magical showdown between good and evil. The Sorceresses who have secretly sworn themselves to the Dark One shockingly reveal themselves, and initiate a vicious and bloody battle that will forever change the fate of the world.

Season Three’s storylines are primarily based on the fan-favorite fourth book of Jordan’s series,...

Prime Video has released the official trailer and key art for The Wheel of Time Season 3, which will debut globally on March 13, 2025. The Wheel of Time is based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling and epic fantasy book series of the same name.

In The Wheel of Time, a humble farm boy, Rand al’Thor, learns he is The Dragon Reborn—a dangerous figure from history destined to save the world … or break it. The Wheel of Time turns, and the Last Battle approaches.

After defeating Ishamael, one of the most powerful of the Forsaken, at the end of Season Two, Rand reunites with his friends in the city of Falme and is declared the Dragon Reborn.

But in Season Three, the threats against the Light are multiplying: the White Tower stands divided, the Black Ajah run free, old enemies return to the Two Rivers, and the remaining Forsaken are in hot pursuit of the Dragon…...

Updated: Prime Video has released the full-length trailer for season 3 of fantasy epic series The Wheel of Time.

The footage gives a peek into a changing world, where the powerful Aes Sedai, Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike), is tormented by her visions of the future, and Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) struggles to fulfill his destiny as the Dragon Reborn – will he choose the Light or let the Darkness consume him?

Season 3’s storylines are primarily based on the fan-favorite fourth book of Jordan’s series, The Shadow Rising, which takes viewers to new regions and cities across the fictional continent of the Westlands, including the vast deserts of the Aiel Waste, the intoxicating and dangerous port city of Tanchico, and the forbidden and fog-shrouded ancient city of Rhuidean, where Rand and Moiraine will both experience life-changing revelations. Meanwhile on the other side of the world, in Rand’s small hometown of Two Rivers,...

Today, Prime Video released ten first-look photos for The Wheel of Time Season 3, which will debut globally on March 13, 2025. This release is part of #WOTWednesdays, a fan-favorite weekly reveal of series news and assets leading up to the season premiere.

The Wheel of Time is co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, and is based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling and epic fantasy book series of the same name.

In The Wheel of Time, a humble farm boy, Rand al’Thor, learns he is The Dragon Reborn—a dangerous figure from history destined to save the world … or break it. The Wheel of Time turns, and the Last Battle approaches.

After defeating Ishamael, one of the most powerful of the Forsaken, at the end of Season Two, Rand reunites with his friends in the city of Falme and is declared the Dragon Reborn.

But in Season Three, the...

After working on the Sundance Film Festival selection Gaza, director Garry Keane teamed with Stephen Gerard Kelly to turn their eye to another troubled place in the world with In the Shadow of Beirut. An acclaimed documentary that weaves together four stories from the beautiful city going through turmoil as it is on the brink of financial collapse, the film will get a release digitally Tuesday, January 14 from Grasshopper Film. Ahead of the release, we’re pleased to exclusively present the new trailer.

Here are details on the four journies captured in the film: In Sabra, one of Beirut’s toughest urban slums, sectarianism and violence is a permanent way of life. Rabia, a 38-year-old hardworking Lebanese mother cannot afford to admit her chronically ill daughter to hospital, leaving the life of her innocent child hanging in the balance. Father of five Ayman is preparing the way for his daughter...

Exclusive: Jonny Coyne will be reprising his role as Imperial Warlord in Jon Favreau’s feature take of The Mandalorian streaming series, The Mandalorian & Grogu.

Imperial warlord is part of the hologram Shadow Council in episode 7, season 3 of The Mandalorian in which he and other Imperial ranking officials meet with Giancarlo Esposito’s villain Moff Gideon. Gideon informs them about the Mandalorians’ plans to take back their home planet of Mandalore, while also questioning the whereabouts of Admiral Thrawn, a very notable bad guy in the Star Wars canon. The Shadow Council operates secretly against the New Republic. In that episode, Imperial Warlord tells the group about the opportunities in “plundering the hyperspace lanes.” He’s accused by Captain Gilad Pellaeon that his “hit and run operations are gaining too much notice.”

Coyne joins a growing cast that includes Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White.

Favreau co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Filoni.

Today, The Wheel of Time took to the famed Thunder Stage at CCXP24 to reveal a pulse-pounding teaser trailer and to announce that the show’s third season will premiere globally on Prime Video on March 13, 2025.

Showrunner Rafe Judkins and cast members Josha Stradowski (Rand al’Thor) and Madeleine Madden (Egwene al’Vere) participated in Prime Video’s panel on behalf of the series, and had a fun and insightful conversation with hosts Aline Diniz and Ikaro Kadoshi, where they previewed the series’ upcoming action, as well as what’s in store for many fan-favorite characters.

The teaser unveils a changing world, where the Shadow’s roots have taken hold and the battle between Light and Dark has become so consequential that Moiraine (series star Rosamund Pike) and Egwene will stop at nothing to keep from losing Rand to the darkness.

The show is based on the best-selling Robert Jordan...

Milla Jovovich is preparing to do battle with zombies again and will star with Betty Gabriel in Twilight Of The Dead, which Brad Anderson will direct and Roundtable Entertainment is producing in collaboration with the Romero estate. Fortitude International is kicking off sales at AFM.

Jovovich is the star of the Resident Evil franchise, and has also led films like Fifth Element and Monster Hunter. Gabriel’s credits include Get Out, while Anderson has directed films like Beirut, The Machinist and Transsiberian.

Twilight Of The Dead is scheduled to begin production in March 2025 and marks the culmination of Romero’s...

Exclusive: Jason Patric, known for his roles in features such as The Lost Boys, The Beast, After Dark My Sweet and Rush, has signed with More/Medavoy Management.

Patric can currently be seen in Cineverse’s horror film Terrifier 3, which opened strong at the box office this past weekend. In the film, written and directed by Damien Leone, Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is set to unleash another round of chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.

Patric also starred in the drama Narc for writer, director Joe Carnahan and The Alamo for director John Lee Hancock, as well as Downloading Nancy, Expired, My Sister’s Keeper and The Losers.

His other previous film credits include starring roles in Geronimo: An American Legend, The Journey of August King, Sleepers and Your Friends and Neighbors, which was the first feature...

Brad Anderson is an underrated filmmaker. He's quietly put out some of the best thrillers of the century, including Sessio 9, The Machinist, TransSiberian, and Beirut. He's back with an excellent new action thriller, The Silent Hour, which follows a late deafened detective (Joel Kinnaman) when he finds himself trapped in an abandoned apartment high-rise with a deaf woman who is targeted by a murderous gang. It features Anderson's usual skill at suspense but takes it to even more interesting degrees with its incorporation of deafness into the film's aesthetic. After this, Anderson is hoping to finish a gestating project the final film in George A. Romero's zombie franchise, Twilight of the Dead. He told MovieWeb in a recent interview:

"It's teed up. We're just looking for places. We're literally kind of in that phase of just locking in locations and stuff, so that will be great. That would...

Dubai-based Front Row Filmed Entertainment has secured world rights to Disorder, an anthology feature that explores Lebanon’s recent tumultuous years.

Blending drama and dark humour, the film comprises four shorts – The Group, Motherland, Don’t Panic, and A Piece of Heaven – directly respectively by Lucien Bourjeily, Bane Fakih, Wissam Charaf, and Areej Mahmoud.

Curated and produced by Bechara Mouzannar through his Beirut-based outfit Unbranded, the film is executive produced by Lebanese director and actress Nadine Labaki of Cannes award-winner Capernaum.

The film is set to premiere out of competition at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Oct 24-Nov 1).

As well as handling world sales,...

Ayo Edebiri has found her next project in one of Luca Guadagnino's next films, according to Deadline. The star has been confirmed to appear in After the Hunt, an upcoming story about a college professor who will see her life changed when one of her favorite students brings up a major accusation against one of her colleagues. However, if an investigation takes place when it comes to the claims, some of her own secrets might be exposed. The screenplay for the upcoming drama will be written by Nora Garrett, who previously worked as an actress in titles such as Beirut.

Luke Evans and Milla Jovovich are set to star in the sci-fi thriller ‘World Breaker’ from helmer Brad Anderson.

Centering on a father and his daughter, the project focuses on an event, five years previously, when a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. The father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe, while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. But no place is safe.

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Joshua Rollins has penned the feature. Martin Brennan of 23ten is producing. It will be filmed on location in Northern Ireland with support from Northern Ireland Screen. The producers hold the U.S. rights.

Evans and Jovovich have previously starred together in ‘The Three Musketeers.’ Jovovich is best known for her...

Luke Evans and Milla Jovovich are attached to lead the sci-fi action thriller “World Breaker,” which will be directed by Brad Anderson. The Exchange is handling international sales and will introduce the cast to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.

Evans, whose credits include “Beauty and the Beast,” is coming off a starring role in “Backstairs Billy” in the West End. He and Jovovich, best known for the “Resident Evil” franchise, previously starred together in “The Three Musketeers.” Anderson’s credits include “The Call,” “Beirut” and “The Silent Hour.”

The film centers on a father and his daughter. Five years previously, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. The father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe, while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. But no place is safe.

Brad Anderson, a director whose credits include Session 9 and The Call, was recently hired to direct the zombie film Twilight of the Dead, which is based on a treatment left behind by the great George A. Romero when he passed away in 2017. Twilight of the Dead is expected to start filming in Puerto Rico by the end of this year – and Deadline reports that Anderson has already lined up the project he’ll be making after he works with Romero zombies. It’s a sci-fi action creature feature called Worldbreaker, which The Exchange will be presenting to potential international distributors at the upcoming American Film Market.

Scripted by Joshua Rollins (Infinite Storm), Worldbreaker has the following synopsis: Five years ago, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. A father hides his daughter on an island to...

While Season 2 of “Wheel of Time” concluded Friday, filming on the Prime Video fantasy series’ third season had already started filming prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

“I am speaking to you a day after filming it. We are in the midst of it. We are all energized by everything that’s going on in Season 3,” star Rosamund Pike told TheWrap in a June 28 interview, days before the onset of actors’ guild strike. “We feel like we’ve established the rules of our world, we can explore them and push the boundaries, we can do more experimental camera work and we can try and get a visual language for these incredible concepts that [author] Robert Jordan came up with.”

She said that casting for Season 3 has been shaping up “really, really, really well.”

“Actors are really flocking to come and be guest stars on our show. They know that we have a...

Back in 2021, it was revealed that the legendary George A. Romero (who passed away in 2017) had left behind a treatment for the “seventh and final installment” in his Dead franchise – following Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, and Survival of the Dead. The story Romero had come up with used a title than many fans expected him to use for his follow-up to Day, Twilight of the Dead, and the team of Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas, and Paolo Zelati, who also worked on the treatment with Romero, were working on fleshing it out into a screenplay. Last month, we heard that Twilight of the Dead had secured funding from Roundtable Entertainment. And now we know who’s going to direct the film: Session 9 director Brad Anderson!

Anderson provided the following statement: “George Romero’s...

Prime Video dropped a sneak peek of “Wheel of Time” Season 2 ahead of its release on Sept. 1, which fans can now watch at the end of last season’s finale.

According to the Amazon-owned streamer, the special look “reflects the structure of the best-selling and epic “The Wheel of Time” book series by Robert Jordan,” in which he would add the first chapter of the next book as a preview.

The scene, which opens the first episode of the second season, is an adaptation of the fan favorite “Darkfriend Social” prologue of the second novel of Jordan’s series, “The Great Hunt,” upon which “Wheel of Time” Season 2 is largely based. It’s also based on some elements of Jordan’s third novel, “The Dragon Reborn.”

The scene, which opens the first episode of the second season, is an adaptation of the fan favorite “Darkfriend Social” prologue of the second novel of Jordan’s series,...

Jon Hamm returns to workplace storytelling in "Corner Office" as Orson, a new employee who finds an escape from his colleagues in a secret room. The exclusive clip introduces Orson critiquing his coworkers, showcasing Hamm's comedic talent in a departure from his dramatic roles. Hamm's versatility is highlighted as he continues to explore roles in comedy, drama, and thrillers, breaking any typecasting in the genre.

Jon Hamm returns to the world of workplace storytelling with the comedy movie Corner Office. Hamm leads the star-studded comedy as Orson, a new employee of the corporation known as The Authority who struggles to connect with his colleagues, but finds an escape when he discovers a room he's told doesn't exist and helps him find the confidence to quickly climb the corporate ladder. Joining Hamm for Corner Office's cast are Community alum Danny Pudi, True Detective's Sarah Gadon and The Last of Us' Christopher Heyerdahl.

It seems like we've been waiting an eternity for The Wheel of Time Season 2.

Prime Video unveiled the official trailer for the exciting next chapter of the fantasy drama on Wednesday morning, and it promises to be another mystical story.

We get our first glimpse of fan favorite book characters such as Elayne Trakand, Aviendha, and Lady Suroth, as well as our first-look at the battles and conflicts ahead.

The trailer clocks in at two minutes, and it definitely heightens the stakes in anticipation of the second season.

The Wheel of Time Season 2 gets underway on September 1, but fans who want to catch The Wheel of Time Season 1 can do so for free on Freevee, with ad-supported episodes currently airing.

Based on the best-selling Robert Jordan fantasy series The Wheel of Time, a humble farm boy, Rand al’Thor, learns he is The Dragon Reborn—a dangerous figure from history...

It's been a long wait, but we finally have a premiere date for The Wheel of Time Season 2.

Prime Video on Wednesday revealed the exciting news of the series' September 1 return.

Ahead of the premiere date, The Wheel of Time Season 1 will be available on Freevee for a month, beginning July 14.

The move allows fans without Prime Video to watch the show free of charge on the ad-supported streaming service.

Pretty neat, right?

Based on the best-selling Robert Jordan fantasy series The Wheel of Time, a humble farm boy, Rand al’Thor, learns he is The Dragon Reborn—a dangerous figure from history destined to save the world … or break it.

Desperate to protect him from the Dark One, an army of powerful sorceresses must reckon with his burgeoning power and encroaching madness.

"The Wheel of Time turns, and the Last Battle approaches," Prime Video teases.

Though Rand thought he destroyed the Dark One,...

Prime Video has shared a first look at “The Wheel of Time” Season 2, which will premiere on the streamer on Sept. 1.

Based on the best-selling Robert Jordan fantasy series, a humble farm boy, Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski), learns he is The Dragon Reborn — a dangerous figure from history destined to save the world … or break it. Desperate to protect him from the Dark One, an army of powerful sorceresses must reckon with his burgeoning power and encroaching madness. In the second season, threats new and very old seek out the young friends from the Two Rivers, now scattered over the world. The woman who found and guided them is now powerless to help and they must find other sources of strength.

Ahead of the Season 2 premiere, the first season of the show will stream on Amazon Freevee for free starting July 14.

In addition to Stradowski (“Gran Turismo”), the series...

The “Mean Girls” musical has cast “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm as Coach Carr. The Emmy-winning actor and star of “Confess, Fletch” and “Beirut” will play the school’s gym teacher and sex-ed instructor. The film will adapt the Broadway musical, which in turn was an adaptation of the 2004 theatrical comedy “Mean Girls.”

The Paramount film, about a teen girl who moves from Africa with her anthropologist parents and finds herself unprepared for the community dynamics of an American public high school earned solid reviews and grossed $130 million worldwide on a $17 million budget in early 2004, becoming a generational touchstone on par with “Clueless” and “Heathers.” This live-action musical version will debut on Paramount+.

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Hamm joins a previously announced cast including the likes of Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey and Reneé Rapp. Rice will be playing Cady, originally portrayed by Lindsey Lohan in the original feature,...

The Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent and project incubator event returned as a 100% in-person event last week, bringing participants together face-to-face in Doha for the first time since it was forced online in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“It’s been great to have everyone back gain. I keep pinching myself that it’s still happening. I could not be happier with how it has gone,” said Dfi CEO Fatma Hassan Alremaihi.

The ninth edition, running from March 10 to 15, gathered 44 Dfi grantee projects across all formats and in various stages of development and production, accompanied by their first, second and third-time directors and producers.

The Dfi is one of the main sources of funding for independent cinema in the Middle East and North Africa, a region with very little state support for independent film.

“We have between 400 to 500 submissions per cycle, and we have two cycles a year. It...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Exclusive: Laura San Giacomo, recently seen in NCIS and Barry, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation.

San Giacomo is known for her work in Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award, along with BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. She was most recently seen on the big screen in independent films including Alma Ha’rel’s Honeyboy and Violet, directed by Justine Bateman. Her other film credits include Pretty Woman opposite Julia Roberts, Quigley Down Under, Under Suspicion, Nina Takes a Lover and Once Around.

In television, San Giacomo received a second Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Maya Gallo on hit comedy series Just Shoot Me! Her other TV credits include the Stephen King miniseries The Stand and Veronica Mars and a guest-starring role in The Mentalist. She also co-starred opposite Holly Hunter in TNT’s Saving Grace. Most recently,...

Vampirism has been treated as a metaphor for more prosaic addictions in movies before. In “Blood,” however, it’s one more hassle a recovering addict doesn’t need added to the burdens of her already discordant family life. Starring Michelle Monaghan as a mother just out of rehab whose young son gets bitten — then develops an insatiable appetite for the titular fluid — Brad Anderson’s film steers a middle course between dysfunctional domestic drama and supernatural horror. That balance doesn’t completely work. But solid performances and some strong, occasionally unpleasant content make this an involving if not entirely satisfying watch. Vertical Entertainment is releasing it to limited U.S. theaters this Friday, then On Demand platforms Jan. 31.

Having completed a residential program for substance abuse issues never quite defined, Jessica (Monaghan) is back at work as a hospital nurse, and reunited with her kids — though teen Tyler (Skylar Morgan Jones...

Two weeks ago, it was announced that Joel Kinnaman (The Suicide Squad) will be starring in The Silent Hour, an action thriller that’s set to be directed by Brad Anderson (The Call). Now Variety has broken the news that Kinnaman has been joined in the cast by Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty).

Anderson will be directing The Silent Hour from a screenplay by Dan Hall. When Kinnaman’s casting was announced, we were told he’ll be playing a Boston Police Detective who suffers an on-the-job accident that leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in an apartment building.

Which made it sound like Kinnaman’s character will be taking on the team of corrupt cops by himself. Apparently that’s not the case, as Variety...

Production start scheduled for early 2023.

Mark Strong has joined Joel Kinnaman on AGC Studios’ action thriller and AFM sales hour The Silent Hour.

AGC will finance and produce with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures the story of a Boston Police detective (Kinnaman) who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing-impaired.

Sixteen months later he is an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.

Brad Anderson from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Paquette...

BAFTA nominated British actor Mark Strong will star alongside the previously announced Joel Kinnaman in Boston-set crime thriller “The Silent Hour,” to be directed by Brad Anderson (“Beirut”).

Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios will finance and produce with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures, and the project is being sold at the ongoing American Film Market.

Strong can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed Venice-winning film “Tár,” and is known for “1917,” “Cruella,” the Kingsman franchise and “Zero Dark Thirty.”

The film, based on an original screenplay by Dan Hall, follows Kinnaman (“Suicide Squad”), who plays a Boston Police detective who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.

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Mark Strong (The Kingsman, Shazam!) will join Joel Kinnaman in The Silent Hour, a Boston-set action thriller from director Brad Anderson (Beirut, The Machinist).

Suicide Squad star Kinnaman will play a Boston Police Detective who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing impaired. Working as an interpreter for the cops, together with his friend and former partner (Strong), he has to battle a team of corrupt police officers who want to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.

Anderson will direct The Silent Hour from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios will finance and produce the movie with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures.

The Silent Hour is set to go into production in early 2023. Further casting is underway. AGC Studios is pre-selling the film at AFM this week.

Strong appears in the critically acclaimed Tár,...

Joel Kinnaman (The Suicide Squad) recently wrapped working on John Woo’s Christmas Eve action movie Silent Night, which is said to play out entirely without dialogue. Now he has signed on to star in the action thriller The Silent Hour, which is set to be directed by Brad Anderson (The Call). Deadline reports that the project is being funded by AGC Studios. AGC is also producing the film and will be presenting The Silent Hour to potential distributors at the upcoming American Film Market.

Anderson will be directing The Silent Hour from a screenplay by Dan Hall. Kinnaman will be taking on the role of a Boston Police Detective who suffers an on-the-job accident that leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in an apartment building.

Brad Anderson to direct Boston-set story anticipated to start production in early 2023.

AGC Studios has dropped an early hot title into the AFM and announced it will finance and produce with Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures action thriller The Silent Hour to star Joel Kinnaman.

Brad Anderson, whose credits include Beirut, The Call, The Machinist, will direct from an original Boston-set screenplay by Dan Hall.

The Silent Hour stars Kinnaman as a Boston detective who suffers an accident on the job which leaves him hearing-impaired. Sixteen months later he is now an interpreter for the department and must battle a...

Joel Kinnaman will star in “The Silent Hour,” a Boston-Set crime thriller from AGC Studios.

The film follows a police detective, played by Kinnaman, who suffers accident that leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in an apartment building. The film is slated to go into production in early 2023.

Brad Anderson, whose credits include “Beirut” and “The Machinist,” will direct from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. AGC Studios will finance and produce the film with Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures also involved as a producer.

Kinnaman is best known for his work in films like “The Suicide Squad” and shows such as “The Killing” and “House of Cards.” He currently plays the lead role in Apple TV+’s “For All Mankind.” He is slated to star...

Harry Flynn, a veteran publicist whose clients over the decades included Bob Hope, Michael Landon, Carroll O’Connor, Donna Reed and various TV networks and film studios, has died. He was 92.

A friend of his family told Deadline that Flynn died October 5 of natural causes in Los Angeles.

He started in the business during the 1950s but left publicity for a while to write for fan magazines. In 1962, Flynn joined the newly formed ABC on-air promotion department as a writer-producer. Two years later he moved to Columbia’s Screen Gems and would run its TV promotion/publicity department for the next five years, working on such classics series as Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, The Monkees, The Donna Reed Show, The Flying Nun and others.

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It may well be an unconscious impulse but the writers are directly or indirectly influenced by their socio-political millieu, even when opposing it, and you don’t need to be a Marxist to acknowledge that.

As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.

The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.

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A24 is teaming up with filmmakers Max Eggers (The Lighthouse) and Sam Eggers (Olympia) — otherwise known as The Eggers Brothers — on their feature directorial debut The Front Room, a psychological horror pic that will star Brandy Norwood (Queens), Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Burnap (Snow White) and Neal Huff (Waves).

The film based on Susan Hill’s short story follows a young, newly pregnant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.

The Eggers Brothers will direct from their own script, with A24 producing alongside Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari and Bryan Sonderman of Two & Two Pictures, and Julia Oh and David Hinojosa of 2Am. A24 is also financing the film and handling global distribution.

Norwood is a Grammy-winning musician and actress who stars in the ABC series Queens, and has also been seen on shows like Star, Zoe Ever After,...

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Jon Hamm is on a whirlwind press tour. The actor and his Top Gun: Maverick castmates started in San Diego, where they attended the film’s stateside premiere before flying to the Cannes Film Festival (then flew back out in less than a day). Next, they were off to London, all in pursuit of a grand return to movie theaters. This week, Hamm pivots to celebrating his Kafkaesque workplace satire Corner Office at the Tribeca Film Festival. Here, he opines about the film biz and post-pandemic recalibrations.

What do you remember about your first film festival?

I think my first time must have been for The Town, and it was a double whammy because we went from Venice to Toronto. Just like with Top Gun, it was a movie that people were really excited about. I remember being a young actor and thinking,...

Exclusive: Brad Anderson, the multi-hyphenate behind the iconic Christian Bale thriller The Machinist, has signed with Paradigm for representation.

Anderson is a writer, director and producer whose 2004 breakout feature told the story of industrial worker Trevor Reznik (Bale), who began to doubt his own sanity after going without sleep for a year. He recently directed an episode of HBO Max’s acclaimed DC series Peacemaker, and two installments (including the pilot) of Netflix’s chart-topping thriller Clickbait, most recently wrapping production on the horror-thriller Blood, starring Michelle Monaghan and Skeet Ulrich. That upcoming film follows Jess (Monaghan), whose son Owen (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong) is hit with a mysterious infection after being bitten by a dog at the old farmhouse the family has just moved back into.

Anderson has also directed features including the thriller Fractured, starring Sam Worthington, Lily Rabe and Stephen Tobolowsky, for Netflix; the historical C.I.A. thriller Beirut,...

The unmitigated boredom and lackluster unoriginality “All the Old Knives” prides itself on shouldn’t shock anyone. After a long line of dreary espionage flicks — “The 355,” “Red Sparrow,” “Wasp Network,” “Beirut” and so forth — Hollywood, outside of the dependable action franchises like “James Bond” and “Mission Impossible,” has been inconsistent at best, producing spy thrillers that possess an enthralling mix of explosions and romance.

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The wait for “Bridgerton” Season 2 is over at last. As usual, Netflix has a robust lineup of new movies and shows streaming in March, including the return of the lusty Shondaland Regency romance series that left audiences swooning after Season 1 debuted in December 2021.

Other new shows on Netflix this month include the thriller series “Pieces of Her” starring Bella Heathcote and Toni Collette as a mother-daughter duo contending with the mother’s past after a shocking act of violence uncover long-hidden secrets. Also debuting this month is the “Big Mouth” spinoff “Human Resources,” which “pulls back the curtain on the daily lives of the creatures – Hormone Monsters, Depression Kitties, Shame Wizards, and many more – that help humans journey through every aspect of life from puberty to childbirth to the twilight years.”

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One of a few documentaries at Glasgow's 2022 Film Festival to explore America's parallel carceral state(s), Hold Your Fire is a about an incident widely regarded as being the birth of hostage negotiation. In New York, 1973, four young black men held up a sporting goods store, seeking to acquire (more) guns. Needless to say, things did not go according to plan.

The scenarios since are sufficiently familiar that there are at least two films called The Negotiator, but also that audiences might be expected to be familiar enough with them that Spike Lee can play with those conventions in Inside Man. The scenarios before are filmed too, mention made of 1972's Chase Manhattan siege as Dog Day Afternoon and the contemporary incident in Munich. What's weirder is the bleeding edge of futurity, New York skylines which only recently had added buildings that are now no longer there,...

Netflix’s list of new releases for March 2022 is packed with just about everything a streaming enthusiast might need.

This month sees the usual arrival of Netflix original offerings. The big draw is undoubtedly the premiere of Bridgerton season 2 on March 25. Say what you will about the beloved period drama, but more corgis in the world is never a bad thing. Also arriving in March are He-Man and the Masters of the Universe season 2 (March 3), Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources (March 18), and Toni Collette mystery series Pieces of Her (March 9). Additionally, Netflix appears to have something big brewing with its latest buzzworthy docuseries Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. on March 16. This one comes from some of the folks behind Tiger King and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened so maybe keep an eye on it.

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