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Filmmaker Barry Jenkins, director of Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King as well as the Oscar-winning Moonlight, will be teaming up with the highly sought-after Glen Powell, star of Twisters and Top Gun: Maverick, for a big-budget science fiction thriller. The project, titled The Natural Order, will be released by Universal, with Jenkins set to direct the picture and Powell set to produce and star.

The Natural Order is an adaptation of an as-yet-unpublished novel by Matt Aldrich, who will co-write the script with Jenkins. Aldrich previously co-wrote Coco for Disney, as well as the drama Spinning Man in 2018. The Natural Order will be his debut novel, which is said to be a high-concept sci-fi thriller about the pursuit of eternal life. More in-depth plot details are being kept under wraps for now.

The film will mark the first production of Powell and Dan Cohen's company Barnstorm, whose first-look deal with Universal began last month.

Beta Film, one of Europe’s biggest and most ambitious independents, has unveiled its Mipcom sales slate, led by 10-part epic “Rise of the Raven,” plus a new pick-up, “Last to Brake,” based on the true story of Finnish motorcycle racing great Jarno Saarinen, and now 288 episodes of Greek daily series smash hit “The Beach.”

Also brought to market are two Eagle Eye Drama shows: singular PBS and Channel 4 procedural “Patience,” starring Laura Fraser (“Breaking Bad”); and “Bookish,” created and starring Emmy Award winner Mark Gatiss, as well as Internet troll redemption’s tale “A Better Man,” from public broadcast powerhouses Nrk and Zdf.

Promising one of Mipcom’s biggest world premieres and billed by Beta Film as one of the most epic European TV productions of all time – which is something coming from Beta, the producers of “Babylon Berlin” and “Swarm” – “Rise of the Raven,” produced by the...

Disney-Pixar's Coco, a film about Day of the Dead, originally had a deleted opening scene that explained the holiday's significance. Coco follows the story of Miguel, a young musician who embarks on a journey in the Land of the Dead to uncover his family's history. Coco was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful film, winning awards and breaking records around the world. Happy Day of the Dead!

Disney Pixar's Coco is arguably the most famous film for the Day of the Dead, or el Día de los Muertos (even if some prefer The Book of Life), so we'd love to celebrate today by looking back on a delightfu ldeleted scene from the film.Directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina introduce these new scenes, one of which, the directors reveal, was the original opening scene, a musical number that explains the Día de los Muertos holiday. The directors go onto say...

From the eight-time Oscar nominee “The Imitation Game” to the Korean revenge thriller “I Saw the Devil,” free streaming service Plex is giving audiences new and varied reasons to keep coming back to its library of over 50,000 titles.

As we ring in October, check out The Streamable’s top picks and build your to-watch list from all of the titles coming to the streamer this month!

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The gripping biopic “Experimenter” arrives to Plex to start the month. Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the film focuses on the 1961 behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers, as well as the aftermath of the experiments and the public outcry of their ethics.

Odeya Rush, a star known for “Lady Bird” and “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” will star in a drama called “Dangerous Waters” set during a sailing holiday that spirals out of control.

John Barr (“Blood and Money”) is directing the film that will also star Eric Dane, Saffron Burrows and Ray Liotta. Filming is currently underway on the film in the Dominican Republic.

“Dangerous Waters” sees a teenage daughter slowly uncovering the dark past of her mother’s new boyfriend while out on a sailing vacation. Mark Jackson wrote the script, and Barr is the writer credited on the story.

Producers on “Dangerous Waters” include Rio Luna Films’ Suza Horvat and Signature Films’ Marc Goldberg. Executive producers include Capstone Global’s Christian Mercuri and Signature’s Sarah Gabriel and Gareth Williams, as well as co-producers Brianna Johnson and Ben Jacques.

Capstone Global will handle worldwide sales and introduce the film to buyers in Cannes.

Exclusive: Here’s a hot one that has gone under the radar. Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), Noomi Rapace (Prometheus), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and Suicide Squad breakout Daniela Melchior have been quietly filming action film Assassin Club in Italy.

EuropaCorp veteran Camille Delamarre (Transporter: Refueled) is directing the movie, which has just wrapped shoot in Turin, Italy.

Assassin Club takes place in the world of international spies and elite assassins. In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines (Henry Golding) is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other. Rapace plays Falk, the only assassin with skills to match his own. Under the guidance of his mentor Jonathan Caldwell (Neill), Morgan must defeat Falk and the other assassins to keep himself and his girlfriend Sophie (Melchior) alive.

Pierce Brosnan has signed up to star in the feature-length adaptation of Brett Marty’s short film ‘Youth’.

Brosnan will play an engineer in the near future who’s about to retire at age 70 when his company pays him to undergo a procedure to rewind his body’s biological clock back to its prime. The process goes tragically wrong and his ageing begins accelerating rapidly, so he attempts a more dangerous treatment.

Marty will direct from a script he co-wrote with Josh Izenberg and Amelia Whitcomb. Jib Polhemus, Paul Schiff and Martin Brennan will produce alongside executive producers Laura Bickford and Hannah Leader.

Also in news – Odeon Cinemas across the UK to open in July

The original 2016 sci-fi short starred Jessica Stroup & George Maguire and won numerous awards on the festival circuit including Best Screenplay at the Las Vegas Film Festival.

Brosnan got his big break in the 1982 series ‘Remington...

Exclusive: Ellen Wander’s La-based sales firm Film Bridge International is launching a horror label called Film Bridge After Dark, i.e. F-bad.

Film Bridge has picked up a slate of movies from Dallas Sonnier’s (Bone Tomahawk) Cinestate, owner of the Fangoria and Rebeller labels. Among the titles which will be sold internationally are Castle Freak and Porno.

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The former, a re-imagining of Stuart Gordon’s 1995 film about a horrific creature lurking within the shadows of a castle, is directed by Tate Steinsiek and written by Kathy Charles. The film is set to be released in North America by Rlje and Fangoria in summer 2020.

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One time Bond Pierce Brosnan seems to have caught the musical fever yet again after it has emerged he will be joining Sony Pictures ‘Cinderella’.

Brosnan will join Camila Cabello, Billy Porter and Idina Menzel in the new version of the classic tale.

The retelling of the fairy tale comes from ‘Blockers’ writer-director Kay Cannon with Brosnan set to play the kingdom’s king and father to the handsome Prince Robert (Nicholas Galitzine) – the love interest of Camila Cabello’s Cinderella who this time out is an ambitious young woman with dreams bigger than the world will allow.

Also in the news – Stephen Graham set to star alongside Tom Hardy in ‘Venom 2’

Billy Porter will play the fairy godmother and Menzel is the evil stepmother. James Corden, who is credited with the original idea for the project, is producing the feature project with Leo Pearlman, his partner at Fulwell 73.

After bringing blood-stained scares to Valentine's Day with 2009's My Bloody Valentine and raising hell in 2011's Drive Angry, director/co-writer Patrick Lussier and co-writer Todd Farmer are tapping into Halloween horror with their new film Trick, which has been acquired by Rlje Films and will be released in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD beginning October 18th. Here's a look at the official trailer:

Previous Press Release: Los Angeles, August 14, 2019 – Rlje Films has acquired the horror film Trick, which will be available in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD on October 18, 2019. Directed by Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine) who co-wrote the film with Todd Farmer (Drive Angry), the film stars Omar Epps (“House”), Kristina Reyes (“Blindspot”), Jamie Kennedy (Scream) and Tom Atkins (Escape From New York).

“We’re excited to release Trick just in time for Halloween,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer at Rlje Films. “With thrilling plot twists and turns,...

After bringing blood-stained scares to Valentine's Day with 2009's My Bloody Valentine and raising hell in 2011's Drive Angry, director/co-writer Patrick Lussier and co-writer Todd Farmer are tapping into Halloween horror with their new film Trick, which has been acquired by Rlje Films and will be released in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD beginning October 18th:

Press Release: Los Angeles, August 14, 2019 – Rlje Films has acquired the horror film Trick, which will be available in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD on October 18, 2019. Directed by Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine) who co-wrote the film with Todd Farmer (Drive Angry), the film stars Omar Epps (“House”), Kristina Reyes (“Blindspot”), Jamie Kennedy (Scream) and Tom Atkins (Escape From New York).

“We’re excited to release Trick just in time for Halloween,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer at Rlje Films. “With thrilling plot twists and turns, Trick will have...

Streamer signed multi-year deal with The C S Lewis Company last year to adapt fantasy novels.

Netflix has named Matthew Aldrich, co-writer of Disney-Pixar’s animated hit Coco, to oversee the streamer’s live-action adaptations of C S Lewis’ The Chronicles Of Narnia books.

Aldrich will lead development and creative work and act as what Netflix called “a creative architect” on film and TV projects based on the Narnia tales.

Last October, Netflix signed a multi-year deal with The C S Lewis Company to make film and TV projects based on Lewis’ seven fantasy novels.

The books, about...

Film Bridge International, an indie entertainment company set up by producer Ellen Wander (Spinning Man), has inked a two-picture production deal with Irish-based Merlin Film, headed by Kieran Corrigan and veteran film director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur). 

Wander, Corrigan, and Boorman will partner on the heist film Underground, which Boorman will direct from a script he co-wrote with Ted Campbell, and on the gritty, action thriller Assassins Club, from Irish filmmaker Stephen Saint Leger (TV's Vikings).

Set in Boston, Underground follows an Irish mob family struggling to get out of the business who are tempted by one last job when they discover ...

Film Bridge International, an indie entertainment company set up by producer Ellen Wander (Spinning Man), has inked a two-picture production deal with Irish-based Merlin Film, headed by Kieran Corrigan and veteran film director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur). 

Wander, Corrigan, and Boorman will partner on the heist film Underground, which Boorman will direct from a script he co-wrote with Ted Campbell, and on the gritty, action thriller Assassins Club, from Irish filmmaker Stephen Saint Leger (TV's Vikings).

Set in Boston, Underground follows an Irish mob family struggling to get out of the business who are tempted by one last job when they discover ...

One of Guy Pearce’s best known roles was as an amnesiac whose memory slightly comes back to him via Polaroid pictures in Memento, and in Spinning Man he’s afflicted with a similar condition.

Evan Birch (Pearce) is a college philosophy professor who, although being a family man (Minnie Driver plays his wife), has lecherous tendencies to [...]

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“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably.

Despite only having four Fridays, April is packed with new releases. It seems like all the studios are trying to get some traction for their smaller films before the summer months arrive and take over (even though Disney is continuing its early tracks for blockbusters with Avengers: Infinity War bowing April 27).

As such there are a few posters I couldn’t fit into any sections below including the fun self-own quote-centric sheet for Godard Mon Amour (limited April 20), the attractively illustrative collage for Lowlife (limited April 6), and the...

"Do you have trouble remembering things sometimes?" Guy Pearce's character asks early on in Simon Kaijser's murder mystery. For Pearce, the line must have had emotional resonance, considering that it calls to mind one of his very best movies, Memento. Unfortunately, Spinning Man, based on the acclaimed novel by George Harrar, doesn't benefit from the comparison. Although it pretends to traffic in such weighty themes as how memories can be either real or imagined, the plodding thriller mainly spins its own wheels until reaching a baffling conclusion. Only the talents of its estimable cast, also including Pierce Brosnan and Minnie...

In an alternate universe, Guy Pearce plays sleazeheads, killers, cutthroats with attitude, and various other magnetically bent souls — in other words, just what he plays now — only he does it in movies that aren’t semi-off-the-radar hipster curios and genre throwaways. He does it with the stardom that “L.A. Confidential” and “Memento” promised. “Spinning Man” is one more halfway interesting, not-fully-realized-enough low-budget “dark” thriller that gives Pearce the chance to strut his chops. For a while, he’s quite good as a suave, confident weasel — a philosophy professor who becomes the chief suspect in the case of a high-school cheerleader who disappeared.

Did he make contact with her at the local lake, lure her into his car, do things that he shouldn’t have, and — in the end — kill her? It sure looks that way. “Spinning Man” loads up an accusatory pile of circumstantial evidence against its main character, making him seem guilty enough,...

Sneak Peek footage, plus images from the new thriller "Spinning Man", directed by Simon Kaijser based on the novel by author George Harrar, starring Guy Pearce, Pierce Brosnan, Minnie Driver, Alexandra Shipp, Clark Gregg and Odeya Rush, opening April 6, 2018:

"...'Evan Birch' is a professor and family man, whose past reveals a number of illicit relations with his students. Then, when a young woman is found dead, Evan becomes the prime suspect..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Spinning Man"...

Sneak Peek footage, plus images from the new thriller "Spinning Man", directed by Simon Kaijser based on the novel by author George Harrar, starring Guy Pearce, Pierce Brosnan, Minnie Driver, Alexandra Shipp, Clark Gregg and Odeya Rush, opening April 6, 2018:

"...'Evan Birch' is a professor and family man, whose past reveals a number of illicit relations with his students. Then, when a young woman is found dead, Evan becomes the prime suspect..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Spinning Man"...

Time for a good old-fashioned trailer round-up! We’ve compiled several recent trailers together in one convenient place, because we care about you. Below you’ll see new trailers for Netflix’s new anime B: The Beginning, the sci-fi thriller The Titan, Sophie Turner in Josie, Pierce Brosnan and Guy Pearce in Spinning Man, and the indie film Outside In. B: The Beginning I […]

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We're getting a look at an upcoming psychological mystery film starring Guy Pearce, Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver called Spinning Man. You can see the new trailer and poster for the twisty thriller below.

The movie is based on the novel of the same name by George Harrar, and follows professor Evan Birch (Pearce) who works at a distinguished college where he teaches philosophy. When a female student named Hannah goes missing, Evan’s previous off-campus errands make his wife (Driver) question his alibi. Even a detective (Brosnan) grows very suspicious when crucial evidence makes the professor the prime suspect in the girl's disappearance.

The film is directed by Swedish director Simon Kaijser and written by Matthew Aldrich (Coco). Spinning Man is set to hit select theaters and On Demand on April 6, 2018.

"I'm terrified what else you could convince yourself of..." Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for a murder mystery thriller titled Spinning Man, adapted from a book by George Harrar. This philosophical thriller is about a family man and esteemed professor at a college, who gets entangled in the investigation of a missing woman. His "off-campus dalliances" with many of his students make him the main suspect, though we don't know who really took her. Guy Pearce plays the professor, and Pierce Brosnan plays the detective on the case, intent on pegging him as the murderer. The cast includes Minnie Driver, Odeya Rush, Alexandra Shipp, Clark Gregg, Jamie Kennedy, Sterling Beaumon, and Freya Tingley. Despite this strong cast, I actually think this looks pretty bad, a fairly derivative thriller with nothing interesting or new to offer. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Simon Kaijser's Spinning Man, direct from YouTube...

Lionsgate has released the first trailer for their upcoming thriller Spinning Man, along with the first poster. Guy Pearce stars alongside Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver in this taut and twisty thriller, which serves as a gripping examination of crime, punishment, and conscience. While Guy Pearce's character may seem on the outside to be a harmless family man, he may be hiding a deadly secret.

Evan Birch (Guy Pearce) is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished college, where his charm and reputation have made his philosophy class very popular. When a female student named Hannah goes missing, Evan's previous off-campus dalliances make his wife (Minnie Driver) question his alibi. Gruff police Detective Malloy (Pierce Brosnan) has even more reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in Hannah's disappearance. Suddenly, the questions Evan faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life or death.

Exclusive: Here’s a clip from the upcoming Pierce Brosnan and Guy Pearce starring thriller, Spinning Man, which is going to buyers next month at the American Film Market in Santa Monica. Simon Kaijser directed the pic, from a script by Matt Aldrich, which follows a charming professor Evan Birch (Pearce), who appears to be living an idyllic life until a young woman goes missing and he struggles to come up with an alibi to clear his name. “College professor Evan Birch has…...

Exclusive: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D star Clark Gregg is set to appear in the Simon Kaijer-directed thriller Spinning Man, along with Guy Pearce, Pierce Brosnan, Minnie Driver, and Odeya Rush. The pic is based on George Harrar's novel, which Matthew Aldrich adapted. The film centers on Evan (Pearce), a philosophy professor and family man whose past reveals a number of illicit relations with his students. When a young woman is found murdered, he becomes the prime suspect…...

In the scorching heat of the San Fernando Valley, Pierce Brosnan is shooting Spinning Man, a new thriller from director Simon Kaijser (Stockholm East) and writer Matt Aldrich (Renny Harlin’s Cleaner), based on a novel by George Harrar. It’s being sold in Cannes by Film Bridge International and Deadline has come to set, a couple of weeks before the festival, to witness an interrogation room showdown between Brosnan’s tough detective, Robert Malloy, and Guy Pearce’s…...

Jamie Kennedy has joined the cast of director Simon Kaijser’s thriller Spinning Man, which stars Pierce Brosnan, Minnie Driver, Guy Pearce and Alexandra Shipp.

With a script by Matthew Aldrich, the film is based on the novel by George Harrar and follows philosophy professor and family man Evan Birch (Pearce). Evan’s world is upended when his illicit past and a string of inappropriate relationships with his students come to light. When a young woman is found murdered, he comes to the forefront as a suspect.

Kennedy will play Ross, a fellow ethics professor and friend of Evan's.

Spinning Man is...

Exclusive: Alexandra Shipp, last seen as young Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse, is set to co-star in the upcoming psychological thriller Spinning Man, from director Simon Kaijser. She joins Pierce Brosnan, Guy Pearce and Minnie Drive in the pic written by Matthew Aldrich, with filming slated to begin this week. Based on George Harrar’s novel, the pic follows Evan Birch, a professor and family man, whose past reveals a number of illicit relations with his students. When a young…...

For actress Emma Roberts, every new role means a major hair change — and for her latest endeavor, the 26-year-old star, most recently known as Scream Queens‘ leading blonde Chanel Oberlin, is revealing a brand new look: a brunette shade that she’s calling “smoky quartz.”

On Friday, Roberts, who stars in upcoming movies such as Billionaire Boys Club, Spinning Man and Four Seasons, revealed her new dark look, which she says is in preparation for a project. The actress wrote in her Instagram post, “#SmokyQuartz for my next movie thanks to the best @nikkilee901 @kelcey901 @ninezeroone .”

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Emma Roberts and Evan Peters have broken up nearly nine months after getting back together, Us Weekly reports. While the couple have yet to comment on the status of their relationship, sources tell the magazine that the split was amicable. Emma and Evan began dating in 2012 and went on to get engaged over the holidays in 2013. The duo then ended their engagement in June 2015, only to reunite that August. Emma is currently working on the upcoming Spinning Man film, while Evan is busy promoting X-Men: Apocalypse.

Film Bridge International is selling the thriller at Cannes.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones), Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) and Emma Roberts (We’re The Millers) will star in the psychological thriller Spinning Man that Film Bridge International is selling in Cannes.

Film Bridge Danish film-maker Peter Flinth will make his Us debut in June in Minnesota on the story of a philosophy professor who becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of a high school cheerleader.

A detective assigned to the case uncovers details of the academic’s complex marriage and his relationship with a prized student.

Matthew Aldrich wrote the screenplay based on the novel by George Harrar. Keith Arnold will produce with Film Bridge International’s Ellen Wander.