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Carrie-Anne Moss joins Fubar season 2 cast, character details undisclosed. Moss's past roles prepare her for Fubar's action plot and romantic tension with Schwarzenegger. Moss's addition to Fubar season 2 may boost the show's profile and quality.

Carrie-Anne Moss has joined the cast of Fubar season 2. Fubar is an Arnold Schwarzenegger action-comedy about a C.I.A. operative who is about to retire, only to discover a family secret that launches him back into his work for a final job. Fubar season 1 premiered in 2023 on Netflix, and features a leading cast including Schwarzenegger, Monica Barbaro, Milan Carter, and Gabriel Luna. Season 2 of Fubar is now in development.

As per Variety, Moss has been cast in Fubar season 2. According to the report, this character, whose name has not yet been revealed, has a passionate history with Schwarzeneggers Luke Brenner. Moss will enter Fubar season 2 alongside the returning leading cast including Schwarzenegger, Barbaro,...

Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has acquired the supernatural crime thriller “The Osha Rule,” and will start seeking distribution partner at the Cannes Film Market. The film will start principal photography in August 2024.

“The Osha Rule” blends crime with supernatural horror and revolves around a young Latino gang member forced into a Santería ritual after recovering stolen goods from a rival gang.

Soon after, he and his little sister begin to feel the harassment of a supernatural entity. A traumatized social worker risks everything to help the siblings escape their seemingly doomed fate.

The film will star Mariela Garriga in a leading role under the direction of Ángel González, whose debut “Compulsion” premiered at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival and was licensed globally to Amazon.

Garriga is best known for her work in “Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” She also stars in the film’s second instalment, currently in post-production.

Susana Abaitua y Raúl Arévalo lideran el elenco de esta historia basada en las experiencias reales de agentes encubiertos en la lucha antiterrorista.

Netflix ha anunciado el comienzo del rodaje de “Un Fantasma en la Batalla”, un thriller político inspirado en las vivencias de varios miembros de la Guardia Civil que estuvieron directamente involucrados en la lucha antiterrorista.

“Un Fantasma en la Batalla” cuenta la historia de Amaia, una joven guardia civil que permanece más de una década trabajando como agente encubierta dentro de Eta con el objetivo de localizar los zulos que la banda tenía escondidos en el sur de Francia.

La película está protagonizada Susana Abaitua (“Compulsión”), Andrés Gertrúdix (“El Orfanato), Iraia Elias (“Amama”), Raúl Arévalo (“Tarde para la ira”) y Ariadna Gil (“El Laberinto del Fauno”).

Su director, Agustín Díaz Yanes (“Alatriste”), ha comentado lo siguiente: «Hace unos cinco años Belén Atienza me propuso que escribiera una historia sobre Eta.

New State Pictures has joined forces with Curiosity Rights to secure the life rights of scientist Susan Solomon, who led pioneering research into the destruction of the ozone layer in the 1980s.

The partners plan to produce a film that will place a spotlight on how the work undertaken by Solomon and her team led to global awareness of the issue and action to resolve the crisis.

Solomon, then only 30, along with her team, unearthed findings that have shaped our approach to environmental preservation. Their research pointed to the rapidly growing hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic. The continuing growth of the hole would have led to exposure to toxic sun radiation worldwide.

Her team established the adverse effects of chlorofluorocarbons on the ozone layer, which was instrumental in the historic adoption of the Montreal Protocol in 1987. This landmark agreement regulates the production and consumption of nearly 100 man-made...

It’s no surprise to hear that Charlotte Kirk will be starring in director Neil Marshall‘s psychological thriller Compulsion, as she has starred in his last three films: The Reckoning, The Lair, and Duchess (which hasn’t been released yet). She has even co-written the screenplays for all three of those movies with Marshall. So it was almost a given that she would star in Compulsion as well, but Deadline reports that she’s being joined in the cast by Anna-Maria Sieklucka, who starred in the massive hit 365 Days for the Netflix streaming service.

Scripted by Marshall, Compulsion is said to be inspired by the old school erotic thrillers of the ’80s and ’90s, like Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and Single White Female. This one centers on the dynamically twisted relationship between two women, as both become embroiled in a series of horrific murders on the island of Malta.

Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King), Sarah Polley (Women Talking) among directing nominees.

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the Critics Choice field on 14 nominations including best picture, while Charlotte Wells’ British indie Aftersun earned three for actor Paul Mescal, young actress Frankie Corio and screenplay.

The Fablemans is next on 11 nods followed by The Banshees Of Inisherin and Babylon on nine apiece. Each earned best picture nods from the Critics Choice Association as well as directing recognition for Steven Spielberg, Martin McDonagh and Damien Chazelle, respectively.

Everything Everywhere All At Once directors the Daniels are also in the running for best director,...

The 2023 Critics Choice Awards film nominations announced this morning found “Everything Everywhere All at Once” from A24 picking up more awards season steam in topping the list with 14 nominations, while Steven Spielberg‘s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” snared 11 noms and “Babylon,” Damien Chazelle‘s wild, lascivious epic about Hollywood in the 1920s and ’30s, tallied 10 bids. “The Banshees of Inisherin” was next with nine, followed by “Elvis” and “Tár” with seven apiece and a handful of films — “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Women Talking” — hauling in six each.

All of the above movies are also nominated for Best Picture save for “Black Panther.” In a break from tradition, there are 11 Best Picture nominees in all, with the India blockbuster “Rrr” also cracking the list. Each one of the titles except for “Glass Onion” (12th) and “Rrr” (15th...

With summer coming to an end and Halloween around the corner, there is a certain appeal to campground-set slashers this time of year. From modern picks like last year’s Sadie Sink-led slasher Fear Street: 1978 and Peacock’s latest queer horror They/Them to cult-classics like Sleepaway Camp or 1981's The Burning, there’s a lot to choose from to quell this particular hankering. But none of these flicks live up to the original Friday the 13th, and now, fans of the essential slasher franchise can tour the real-life campground where the 1980 horror flick was filmed.

Spider-Man: No Way Home and HBO’s Euphoria took home the top honors in their respective categories at last night’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. They were also the most nominated, with seven apiece. Euphoria was the big winner, taking home four golden popcorn awards. So, yeah, Zendaya had a great night overall.

Best Movie

Dune

Scream

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Winner: Spider-Man: No Way Home

The Adam Project

The Batman

Best Show

Winner: Euphoria

Inventing Anna

Loki

Squid Game

Ted Lasso

Yellowstone

Best Performance In A Movie

Lady Gaga: House of Gucci

Robert Pattinson: The Batman

Sandra Bullock: The Lost City

Timothée Chalamet: Dune

Winner: Tom Holland: Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Performance In A Show

Amanda Seyfried: The Dropout

Kelly Reilly: Yellowstone

Lily James: Pam & Tommy

Sydney Sweeney: Euphoria

Winner: Zendaya: Euphoria

Best Hero

Daniel Craig...

Spider-Man: No Way Home and HBO’s Euphoria were crowned the best of movie and television, respectively, at tonight’s MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, MTV tonight combined the annual Movie & TV and Unscripted award shows into one event at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica.

Additionally, Tom Holland nabbed an award for his performance in Spider-Man, while his co-star Zendaya also won, but for her performance in Euphoria.

Jack Black was anointed with the Comedic Genius award and Jennifer Lopez accepted the Generation Award, which, according to MTV, celebrates “beloved actors whose diverse contributions to both film and television have turned them into household names.”

For the combined show, MTV’s Bruce Gillmer, Wendy Plaut and Vanessa Whitewolf and Den of Thieves’ Jesse Ignjatovic and Barb Bialkowski are executive producers. Jackie Barba and Alicia Portugal are executives in charge of production and Lisa Lauricella is the...

Thanks to “Stranger Things” Season 4, Kate Bush’s hit song “Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)” has finally made its way to the top of the charts for the first time ever. It only took 37 years to get there.

After the new season dropped of Netflix this weekend, the track originally recorded in 1985 soared to the No. 1 spot on iTunes and landed on streaming charts for the first time. It currently sits at 106 on Spotify’s Top 200, with 1,099,174 plays. The “Stranger Things 4” soundtrack – which also features the Talking Heads, Kiss, and the Beach Boys, among others – holds the No. 5 spot on iTunes’ Top 200 Albums.

The song first comes into play during the season premiere, when Max (Sadie Sink) strolls through her school hallways listening to it on her Walkman. The song returns a few episodes later, taking on added significance as she mourns her brother’s death and struggles...

MTV said Wednesday that it is combining its 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards and Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted shows into one event, to air Sunday, June 5 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt live from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

The network today also revealed nominations for the combined shows, with Sony/Marvel’s juggernaut Spider-Man: No Way Home leading field with seven noms including for Best Movie. On the TV side, HBO/HBO Max’s Euphoria leads with six noms including Best Show, while the Unscripted lineup’s top nom was VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race with four.

This year’s Movie & TV Awards, which originally were to be held June 4 with the Unscripted portion on June 5, feature two new categories: Best Song and Here For The Hookup. New Unscripted categories include Best Reality Return, Best Music Documentary, Best Reality Romance and Best Reality Star.

Fan voting begins today across the 26 gender-neutral categories via vote.

Will FBI: Most Wanted favorite have a truly “seamless” exit? Will All American spinoff tackle both sports and leisure? How will Peacemaker finale leave you feeling? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows. (Email any brand-new Qs to InsideLine@tvline.com.)

Any details yet on how FBI: Most Wanted will write out Julian McMahon’s Jess? –Dee

If rumors about the abrupt manner with which the CBS procedural will be writing out McMahon’s Jess Lacroix prove to be true, I doubt fans will agree with the actor’s assessment that his character departs in “seamless” fashion.

In a year-end movie landscape marked, on the one hand, by a stream of prestige adult dramas that struggle more than ever to find actual adults to see them, and on the other hand by the kind of oversize fantasy event films whose job it now is to keep the industry alive, “A Journal for Jordan” feels like an odd movie out more than it might have, say, 20 years ago. Back in the 1980s, it would have been right down the middle of the plate. Today, it seems like a film out of time. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

It’s the fourth feature directed by Denzel Washington, and unlike his last one, the epic and lacerating “Fences” (2016), this one takes us back to the life-affirming feel-good middlebrow sincerity of his first two films as a director, “Antwone Fisher” (2002) and “The Great Debaters” (2007). The new movie is...

Chicago – In my one encounter with Dean Stockwell back in 2013, he was properly off-kilter and amazing, as you expect from Frank in “Blue Velvet.” But Stockwell was so much more, starting as a child actor in Hollywood’s Golden Age, morphing to the hippie era and getting a major comeback with David Lynch and TV’s Quantum Leap.” He died in New York City on November 7th, 2021, at age 85.

Robert Dean Stockwell was born in North Los Angeles, and because he was a child actor he worked in the Golden Age of the 1940s Hollywood studio system. His first major role came when he was 11 years old, playing opposite Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in “Anchors Aweigh” (1945). He became the go-to child star in classics such as “The Boy with the Green Hair’ (1946), “Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947), “Song of the Thin Man” (1947) and “The Secret Garden” (1949), often with another child co-star (and...

Dean Stockwell in Long Day's Journey Into Night

Dean Stockwell, who was Oscar-nominated for his work in Married To The Mob, died on Tuesday 7 November, his family revealed today. In a career which lasted for 70 years, the actor won two Best Actor awards at Cannes (for Compulsion and Long Day's Journey Into Night) and played Doctor Yueh in David Lynch's version of Dune before going on to roles in Blue Velvet and Paris, Texas, but he was probably most widely loved for his appearances as Al in long-running TV series Quantum Leap.

It was Compulsion, based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case, which revived Stockwell's career after he struggled to transition from the brief stardom he enjoyed as a teenager (in which he won a special Golden Globe for his work in Gentleman's Agreement). He played a huge variety of roles over the course of his career but was particularly fond of science.

Versatile actor had worked in Hollywood since childhood, and was Oscar nominated for his role in 1988 comedy Married to the Mob

A life in pictures: Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell, the former child star who became a key figure in the Hollywood counter-culture and enjoyed late success in popular TV shows, has died aged 85. According to Deadline, his family said he died at home “of natural causes”.

Born in Los Angeles in 1936, Stockwell had become a major name while still in high school, starring in the anti-racism parable The Boy With Green Hair in 1948 and alongside Errol Flynn in the 1950 adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim. However, Stockwell found the transition to adulthood difficult and after dropping out of university he re-established his film career with a lead role in Compulsion, the 1959 crime film based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case, for which he won a best actor award at...

“Castle Rock” and “Heavenly Creatures” star Melanie Lynskey is slated to portray the victim of real-life infamous murderess Candy Montgomery in a new Hulu limited series, entitled “Candy.” She will play Betty Gore, the small Texas town teacher, wife and mother who was axed to death on Friday the 13th, June 1980 in her laundry room by her church friend. The titular killer will be played by Jessica Biel.

Three-time Emmy nominee Robin Veith wrote the pilot script of “Candy,” and MIchael Uppendahl will direct it. Both will executive produce. Nick Antosca will serve as executive producer under his banner Eat the Cat along with Alex Hedlund. Biel and Michelle Purple will serve as executive producers for Iron Ocean. Jim Atkinson & John Bloom will serve as consulting producers. The series is from UCP and 20th Television.

Since her aforementioned feature film debut in 1994 opposite Kate Winslet, the native New Zealander has...

Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown are starring in Megan Griffiths’ “I’ll Show You Mine.”

The dramedy, a Duplass Brothers Production, centers on Priya Sura, an author who has made a career of examining her own trauma, as she sits down to interview her nephew Nic for a new book about his history as a model who challenged gender norms and embraced his pansexuality in a very public forum. Their ensuing conversation, which takes place over the course of one intense weekend, forces each of them to reveal much more than expected and confront some of their most deeply hidden secrets.

Griffiths is a Seattle-based writer-director whose previous feature directorial credits include “Sadie,” “Lucky Them,” “Eden” and “The Off Hours.” She has also directed episodes of television, including “Animal Kingdom,” “Room 104” and “Panic.” A protege of Lynn Shelton, Megan was a co-producer of “Your Sister’s Sister” and directed...

Amazon Studios has confirmed twenty additional cast members who have joined the streamer’s The Lord Of The Rings TV series, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels. Production on the sprawling drama, which was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, is currently underway in New Zealand. It resumed in late September.

Top British comedian Lenny Henry, Ozark and Westworld‘s Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew (CBS’s Pure Genius), The Lotr movie franchise’s Peter Tait, Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Simon Merrells (Spartacus: War of the Damned) are among the new additions, along with Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Geoff Morrell, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham and Sara Zwangobani.

No information is provided about the characters the actors are playing; Owen is believed to play Loda,...

As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***There are some films where, lacking access to one's own personal cinematheque, one has to speculate. For example, some of Fox's fifties films, shot in CinemaScope as all movies at that studio had to be, have never been made available in widescreen formats. Richard Fleischer was one the directors who adapted zestfully to that format, so it's a crying shame that Crack in the Mirror (1960) seems to exist only in blurry, 4:3 TV recordings. His other Orson Welles film, Compulsion (1959), is a cracker.Anatole Litvak's...

The next generation of consoles is coming, which means we’ll be getting loads of new games! We’ve already dreamed up a wishlist of exclusive launch titles that we’d love to see on the PlayStation 5, and now it’s time to give the Xbox Series X the exact same treatment.

We already know that Halo Infinite will launch on Xbox Series X, as will Ninja Theory’s Hellblade II, and it seems safe to assume that Gears 5 will get a fair bit of play on this fresh piece of hardware (despite already being available on the Xbox One), but what else could Microsoft be cooking up for the new console?

We’re hopeful that there are a few unannounced games that will serve as surprising additions to the Xbox Series X‘s list of games. As we get closer to the console’s launch, these are the games...

A lot can change in a few years. When development on “We Happy Few” began in 2014, Compulsion Games was a small indie studio with an ambitious idea. Four years later (with just months to go before the adventure game’s Aug. 10 release on PC and consoles), it’s in the process of becoming a first-party developer under Microsoft — one of five surprising acquisitions that the hardware maker announced at E3 2018.

The purchase represents a huge vote of confidence for Compulsion and its unique vision for games. In an interview with Variety, the developers couldn’t comment on how or when the talks with Microsoft began, but narrative director Alex Epstein said the deal closed “ridiculously last minute.”

“It’s nice to be acknowledged by something like that. We’ve been doing weird things for so long, and that’s what we love to do. [Microsoft] apparently loves that, too!” added art director Whitney Clayton.

Beatrice Welles, the daughter of Orson Welles, is speaking out in defense of her father following Netflix’s announcement that it won’t be submitting Welles’ final film to the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Vanity Fair published part of an email Beatrice sent to Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s Chief Content Office, in which she urged him to “reconsider” his decision to remove “The Other Side of the Wind” from Cannes and begged Netflix not to be another studio that “destroyed” her father’s work.

“I was very upset and troubled to read in the trade papers about the conflict with the Cannes Film Festival,” Beatrice said in the email. “I have to speak out for my father. I saw how the big production companies destroyed his life, his work, and in so doing a little bit of the man I loved so much. I would so hate to see Netflix be...

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux is in an unenviable position. He needs, and loves, to bring name auteur filmmakers to his festival. There aren’t enough of them, and one of his auteur suppliers just pulled out of Cannes 2018. Last year, Netflix delivered Noah Baumbach (“The Meyerowitz Stories”) and 2011 Camera D’or jury head Bong Joon Ho (“Okja”). When the Official Selection is announced tomorrow morning, it won’t include Netflix films from Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”), Jeremy Saulnier (“Hold the Dark”), and Paul Greengrass (“Norway”).

That’s because the granddaddy of all festivals is in France, whose film industry maintains a complex, legally binding system of funding and releasing movies in which shares of revenues are given back to producers for production. It used to be the envy of the film world; now, it looks hopelessly out of date.

Any movie that plays in French theaters must wait 36 months...

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux is in an unenviable position. He needs, and loves, to bring name auteur filmmakers to his festival. There aren’t enough of them, and one of his auteur suppliers just pulled out of Cannes 2018. Last year, Netflix delivered Noah Baumbach (“The Meyerowitz Stories”) and 2011 Camera D’or jury head Bong Joon Ho (“Okja”). When the Official Selection is announced tomorrow morning, it won’t include Netflix films from Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”), Jeremy Saulnier (“Hold the Dark”), and Paul Greengrass (“Norway”).

That’s because the granddaddy of all festivals is in France, whose film industry maintains a complex, legally binding system of funding and releasing movies in which shares of revenues are given back to producers for production. It used to be the envy of the film world; now, it looks hopelessly out of date.

Any movie that plays in French theaters must wait 36 months...

Photo Credit: Loris T. Zambelli

Actress Analeigh Tipton really seems to be moving her way up in the acting world. While you may not recognize her name, she's likely a face you've seen before in supporting roles. Between movies like Lucy and Warm Bodies, she's slowly making her way up the Hollywood ranks. Now, it looks like she's starring in the upcoming film, Sadie.

The psychological thriller only has a handful of photos released via their Facebook page, but if they're any indication, it boasts quite the visuals.

Photo Credit: Loris T. Zambelli

Described as Black Swan meets Eyes Wide Shut, the film is sure to please those who like their thrillers to have an erotic edge to them.

The synopsis to Sadie is as follows:

"Sadie (played by Tipton), a budding erotic novelist who, along with an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at an Italian villa.