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The parents of Lady Gabriella Windsor’s late husband, Thomas Kingston, break their silence and share an important warning about anti-depressants after their son committed suicide.

Thomas Kingston “Suffered Adverse Effects Of A Medication He Had Recently Been Prescribed”

The financer was only 45 years old and was married to Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter five years before he tragically took his own life.

Lady Gabriella Windsor’s husband passed away from a head injury, and a gun was discovered near his body at his parent’s home in Cotswolds.

The coroner who examined his body claimed he committed suicide while

“suffering adverse effects of a medication he had recently been prescribed.”

Apparently, Kingston was initially given Sertraline (Zoloft) , a drug used to treat depression, and Zopiclone (Zopitran), which is used to treat insomnia and help the patient sleep.

A Gp gave him these medications at the Royal Mews Surgery,...

Acclaimed singer Mary J. Blige is preparing for her 2025 For My Fans tour, set to start later this month.

In her announcement on Sept. 30, 2024, Blige shared, “I am so excited to kick off this tour. I have amazing fans and am so grateful for all of the love and support they have given me throughout the years.”

She continued, “This tour is for them, and I cannot wait to be able to travel tall these cities and see everyone,” and added, “I am in such a place of immense gratitude and peace at this moment, so also having the chance to release my new album Gratitude on Nov. 15 ahead of this tour is really special to me.”

Blige will be accompanied on tour by special guests Ne-yo and Mario.

With 27 dates, the tour is slated to kick off in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Jan. 30. Blige will continue to perform across the country,...

Armie Hammer is famous for more than just his acting, and the world knows it. While his onscreen performances have left a lot of fans amazed, it’s his offscreen antics that have left a lot of fans from all around the globe baffled. For one, the actor has been getting under a lot of heat over his s-xual preferences from the last few years.

Armie Hammer. | Credits: Image by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, Az, United States of America / Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution by Share Alike 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons.

However, while Hollywood may have canceled him over the same, the actor seems to finally be coming out to justify his life choices and preferences. For one, he recently came clean about a rather peculiar s-xual preference of his that actually involved him tying his s-xual partners on a mannequin, and the reasons are more than enough to leave you speechless.

Let’s just say that Snoop Dogg knows how to bring the freak to any show, and in his latest video, the rapper was seen surprising a group of party people.

I mean, imagine being on a bus and having Snoop Dogg walk in to dance and smoke a blunt. If it’s me, I’d be wiggle, wiggle, wiggling it all over the place.

Snoop Dogg Surprises Party Bus And Dances To His Dr. Dre Collab

Snoop Dogg is a party animal and he can pack and unpack it wherever he goes. It didn’t take long after the California emcee boarded a packed party bus for one of its occupants to recognize him and yell, “Snoop Dogg!”

“To whoever party bus I just crashed.. hope yall enjoyed,” Snoop, 53, captioned the post shared with fans on social media.

Staying true to his image, he rolled out a blunt and...

Britney Spears thanked her fans for supporting her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me and urged those who hadn’t picked up the book yet to snag a copy.

“Wow, wow, wow … thank you all for your support over the past year!!! It means the world to me!!!” Spears wrote on X, along with a picture of the book’s cover. She continued, “One year of The Woman in Me…Over 3 million copies sold worldwide!”

Spears’ memoir delves into the depths of her traumatic childhood, her tumultuous experience as a teen pop star, and her romance with Justin Timberlake, among the other ups and downs of the star’s life.

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In a series of posts this week, the pop star shared pictures and musings from her latest excursion to Turks and Caicos. “There’s something about this exotic place,...

Doug Hehner and his wife Jamie Otis Hehner are one of the rare Married At First Sight success stories. Doug and Jamie appeared in the first season of the show, which pairs strangers under the guidance of relationship experts. The couples meet for the first time on their wedding day. They spend the duration of the season living together as a married couple before ultimately choosing to either remain married or divorce.

After their marriage, Doug and Jamie had five weeks to get to know each other and decide if they had a future together on Married at First Sight season 1. They beat the odds to build a happy, healthy marriage following their appearance on the series. Doug and Jamie never gave up on love despite encountering many difficult patches. They have become models for the shows potential to create lasting romance. Now, Doug and Jamie have expanded their family...

Traveling Picture Show Company (Tpsc) and Rising Tides have joined forces with Pakistan’s Hum Network for the screen adaptation of Soniah Kamal’s bestselling novel “Unmarriageable.”

“Unmarriageable,” a literary adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” transplants Jane Austen’s themes to contemporary Pakistan. The story follows the Binat family’s five daughters as they navigate modern life and South Asian courtship.

The project will be one of the few Western productions to be shot entirely in Pakistan. Sadia Ashraf, who penned the script, will co-direct alongside James McMillan. Principal photography is slated to commence in early 2025 in Pakistan.

The production team includes Carissa Buffel and Luisa Iskin from Tpsc, Sadia Ashraf and Shahla Khan from Rising Tides, with Hum Network’s Sultana Siddiqui and Badar Ikram serving as executive producers alongside Kamal.

“We, along with our great partners, are thrilled to bring this beloved story to the big screen and...

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will be bestowed with the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. The actress and producer will also participate in an In Conversation With… event looking back on her career.

The TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award winner is given to a leading woman in the motion picture industry who has championed the careers of others and paved the way for the next generation.

Blanchett will receive the honor at TIFF Tribute Awards on Sunday, Sept. 8 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, with proceeds going towards TIFF’s Every Story Fund. The fund champions diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in film.

“Cate Blanchett is a marvel,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. “One of the finest actors in film history, she has consistently shown range, depth and audacity on screen. Off screen, she has been a tireless champion of increased equity and justice in many sectors.

Share? is a human story disguised as a science fiction film, showcasing the mundanity of everyday life in an entertaining and thought-provoking way. The film explores the concept of being trapped, whether it's in a physical room or during a Covid-19 lockdown, and raises questions about complacency and the power of distractions. Share? is a claustrophobic indie film with powerful performances, particularly from Bradley Whitford and Melvin Gregg, and offers insight into how we gravitate towards creature comforts even in dire situations.

For a movie so rooted in science fiction, Share? is as human of a story as you will see. Writer-director Ira Rosensweig (Mr. Student Body President) and co-writer Benjamin Sutor (Where’s The Money) have crafted a simple story with minimal production value. The end result is an entertaining yet meditative take on the mundanity of everyday life. Anchored by lead performances from Melvin Gregg (American Vandal) and Bradley...

"I'm a dude in a room talking to a dude in a room." XYZ Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Share?, from filmmaker Ira Rosensweig. The indie film is another social experiment game / live stream thriller, playing on the mechanics of social media to create something unsettling. A man awakens alone, stripped of all possessions, trapped in a bare room. Aided solely by a primitive computer, he fights to survive in a new existence where entertainment is the only currency and discover who imprisoned him, why, and if there is any possibility of escape. Melvin Gregg stars as the lead – he's not alone in this streaming prison: Bradley Whitford, Alice Braga, & Danielle Campbell are also stuck in the system, too. They don’t know how to escape or when this game will end. All they can do is keep each other company while entertaining...

2023 has been full of mind-bending films that have pushed moviegoers to the brink. The year may nearing an end, but the latest Sci-Fi mystery Share? from director Ira Rosensweig and screenwriter Benjamin Sutor reminds us there’s still a lot of time left on the calendar to go insane. Now, the first trailer for Share? locks viewers in a room and throws away the key. The only thing that can be done is to entertain.

Taissa Farmiga, an American actress, was born on August 17, 1994. She hails from Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, and is the younger sister of actress Vera Farmiga. Known for her appearances in numerous horror films, she has gained recognition as a prominent scream queen.

Encouraged by her sister, Farmiga embarked on her acting career by making her debut in Vera Farmiga’s film, Higher Ground (2011). Subsequently, she gained prominence for her work on the anthology series American Horror Story, where she starred in the seasons Murder House (2011), Coven (2013–2014), Roanoke (2016), and Apocalypse (2018). In her early film roles, she appeared in the romantic comedy At Middleton (2013), the crime drama The Bling Ring (2013), and the psychological thriller Mindscape (2013), which marked her first leading role.

Farmiga received praise for her performances in the comedy slasher film The Final Girls (2015) and the drama films 6 Years (2015) and Share (2015), all of which premiered at South by Southwest. These...

The South Australian festival iis now an annual event.

Films from Europe, the Middle East and Australia dominate the fiction and documentary competitions at the Adelaide Film Festival (Aff), the first since an injection of government funding enabled the event to step up from being biennial to annual.

The festival will take place in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, from October 18-29.

The opening film will be the Australian premiere of Kitty Green’s Toronto premiere and awards hopeful The Royal Hotel, produced by UK-Australian outfit See-Saw Films. The world premiere of Scott Hicks’ music documentary My Name’s Ben Folds – I Play Piano,...

That’s Life, the new Fidlar EP coming March 17th, was conceived in the throws of a Lake Powell Dmt ceremony, and the band’s latest single, “Centipede,” captures that energy with violently ecstatic guitar paired with skin-crawling epiphanies.

The skate punk trio’s last studio project was the 2019 album Almost Free, and they began to conceive That’s Life on a 2020 trip through the southwest that featured lots of hiking, sun, and psychedelics. Frontman Zac Carper composed the first draft of lyrics while tripping on Dimethyltryptamine, and so far that session has yielded the two-minute adrenaline rush “Fsu,” as well as “Sand on the Beach,” and “Taste the Money,” all of which appear on the EP.

“Centipede” is another straight-up ripper, though once your lizard brain lets you take a breath, your frontal lobe might chuckle at the lyrics. “My girlfriend thinks I’ll abandon her,” Carper sings, “She’s my Oasis,...

Nicholas Galitzine (Purple Hearts) has been tapped to star alongside Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway in Prime Video’s film The Idea of You, based on Robinne Lee’s bestselling contemporary love story of the same name, which goes into production in October.

The film from Emmy-nominated director Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) centers on Sophie (Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother. Sophie’s husband Dan left her for a younger woman, and now he has canceled his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. Sophie then picks up the pieces, braving the crowds and desert heat in Dan’s place. While at the music festival, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), the lead singer of the hottest boy band on the planet, August Moon.

Amazon Studios partnered with Welle Entertainment to develop The Idea of You as a starring vehicle for Hathaway back in June of last year, as we told you first.

In Amazon Prime Video’s “The Idea of You,” Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway stars as a divorced mother who sparks a passionate love affair with a pop star she meets after taking her daughter to a music festival. And now, the object of her on-screen desire has been cast.

Nicholas Galitzine will play Hayes Campbell — the 24-year-old lead singer of the “hottest boy band on the planet,” August Moon — who has been speculated by fans of Robinne Lee’s bestselling debut novel to be inspired by Harry Styles.

The film follows Hathaway’s Sophie, who saves the day after her ex-husband Dan (who left her for a younger woman) cancels his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. When she decides to brave the crowds and desert heat to take her daughter to the music festival, Sophie meets Hayes (Galitzine), and the 40-year-old’s life really heats up.

The British...

Bradley Cooper, 47, and Irina Shayk, a Russian model, 36, were spotted sharing a hug on the streets of New York this week while walking hand-in-hand with their five-year-old daughter Lea De Seine.

Cooper, who recently starred in The Nightmare Alley, and Shayk started dating in 2015 and went public as a couple in 2016. They welcomed their little girl Seine in 2017, eventually calling it quits in 2019 and co-parenting the child.

Cooper was recently rumored to be dating Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner‘s ex and Hillary Clinton‘s close confidante for months.

Shayk was also seeing others after her split with Cooper, being briefly linked to Vito Schnabel and Kanye West.

It was reported that the duo were thinking about getting back together. Shayk added fuel to the rumors as she posted a photo of the two of them on August 28, looking cozy on a beach vacation in the Bahamas, captioning the snap with a red heart emoji.

The BBC has commissioned a Catherine Tate comedy, Scottish drama Mayflies starring Line of Duty star Martin Compston, show from BAFTA winners Paul Coleman and Sian Gibson, and fourth season of Man like Mobeen.

In Queen of Oz, Netflix’s Hard Cell creator will exec and star as Princess Georgiana, the black sheep of a fictional British Royal Family. On the back of her latest scandal, her father, the King, makes the unprecedented move of abdicating his Australian throne in favor of his daughter, with the hope she will take the responsibility.

Australian indie Lingo Pictures is producing and Endeavor Content is distributing worldwide. Filming will begin later this year in Australia and further casting will be announced in due course.

Mayflies starring Compston, who plays Di Arnott in Line of Duty, follows Tully Dawson (Tony Curran) and Jimmy’s (Compston) brilliant friendship. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them,...

Eddie Redmayne, Viola Davis, Lee Jung-jae to participate in on-stage conversations.

TIFF has announced the In Conversation With… series and the talent development programmes and participants.

On-stage conversation participants include Eddie Redmayne, Viola Davis and Lee Jung-jae, while Sarah Gadon is announced as the TIFF Micki Moore Residency.

The festival has also unveiled the 10 Industry Selects roster of acquisition titles. TIFF runs from September 8-1.

In Conversation With…

The In Conversation With… series features Damien Chazelle, the director of La La Land and Whiplash whose December release Babylon is expected to be an awards contender; Viola Davis and Gina Prince-Bythewood,...

It’s one thing to have the moves like Jagger — it’s another to wow Mick Jagger so much he starts dancing in the studio. However, such pinch-me moments have become common for “Sugar” singer Francesco Yates, whose musical rise has also seen him make his mark with Drake, tour with Justin Timberlake, and get memorable advice from Sir Paul McCartney.

“I feel like people think I’m lying about some of these stories, but I’m not,” laughs the Scarborough, Canada, native, speaking to us before performing at California’s Shoreline Amphitheatre, opening for the Backstreet Boys on their “DNA” world tour. “I feel very lucky.”

The 26-year-old musician’s also pinching himself about being back touring after Covid-19 brought his star-studded climb to a halt. Of course, the pandemic couldn’t dim the drive of a performer who was just two when he began singing and strumming away at a toy guitar.

Taylor Zakhar Perez (The Kissing Booth 2 & 3) and Nicholas Galitzine (Cinderella) have been tapped to lead Prime Video’s romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue, based on Casey McQuiston’s bestselling novel of the same name. Tony Award-winning playwright Matthew López (The Inheritance) will direct, in his feature debut, with Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld), Stephen Fry (The Dropout) and Sarah Shahi (Sex/Life) also aboard to star.

Red, White & Royal Blue follows the Mexican-American character Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez) who, upon his mother’s election as President, is promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, brilliant―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a long-running feud with his royal counterpart across the pond, Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine). And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between the two, U.S./British relations...

BBC One greenlights Aberdeen-set drama ‘Granite Harbour’

BBC One has greenlit Granite Harbour, a three-part Scotland-set drama series featuring rising talents Romario Simpson (Small Axe) and Hannah Donaldson (Annika). The show from LA Productions centers on the story of Lance Corporal Davis Lindo, who arrives in Aberdeen as a new recruit to Police Scotland. Having completed his final tour with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of being a detective at New Scotland Yard. However, he finds himself being sent to train as a Detective Constable in the North East of Scotland, he must quickly adapt to his new life in Aberdeen, a world away from anything the soldier has known before. Filming started a few weeks ago in locations through Aberdeenshire and Glasgow and the show will air on both BBC One and the BBC Scotland channel, in a similar vein to critical hit Guilt. BBC Scotland Head of...

British helmer Kibwe Tavares is finally gearing up for his feature film debut reteaming with actor (and here co-writer) Daniel Kaluuya on the London set dystopian drama The Kitchen. The Netflix backed project (they pegged this as a 2023 release) sees Kaluuya topline with Kane Robinson and newcomer Jedaiah Bannerman is set to play co-lead Benji. The project was part of the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab and is based on an idea from Kaluuya (who produces) — it was co-written along with Joe Murtagh and Daniel Emmerson (who also produces).…...

The Tokyo Olympics Closing Ceremony aired live at 7 a.m. Est on Sunday, August 8th, after the last gold medal event, the men’s water polo final. The time difference in Tokyo means that the prime time rebroadcast will air on NBC at 8 p.m. Est on Sunday, August 8th. The theme of the event was “Worlds We Share,” and you can see images here. The event celebrated Japanese culture — from taiko drumming and Harajuku street fashion to J-pop hits and Ainu dance — before handing off to France, the country...

Exclusive: Netflix has scooped up global rights to Alloy Entertainment’s Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum-directed romance feature Purple Hearts with Nicholas Galitzine cast as the male lead opposite previously announced Sofia Carson. The movie will begin shooting in California later this summer.

Adapted from Tess Wakefield’s novel by Tony nominee Kyle Jarrow (Valor) and Liz Garcia (The Lifeguard), Purple Hearts follows an aspiring singer-songwriter, Cassie (Carson), and U.S. Marine Luke (Galitzine), who fall hopelessly in love despite their many differences and against all odds. Galitzine can next be seen as as Prince Robert in Amazon’s Cinderella, opposite Camila Cabello. His credits also include the Netflix series Chambers, in which he starred opposite Uma Thurman; Pippa Bianco’s Share; and Blumhouse’s The Craft: Legacy.

Carson, the star of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists and Disney’s Descendants franchise, will co-write and perform Purple Hearts‘ original soundtrack. She also will serve as EP.

Melvin Gregg, Rotimi and Allen Maldonado are the latest stars to join New Line’s reimagining of the 1990 hit comedy “House Party,” produced by the SpringHill Company for HBO Max.

The trio join stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Tosin Cole, Karen Obilom and DC Young Fly for the new movie, produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter.

The reimagining of the cult classic, which starred Christopher “Kid” Reid and Christopher “Play” Martin of the hip-hop group Kid ‘n Play, is set to be directed by award-winning music video helmer Calmatic in his feature directorial debut. The movie’s script comes from Emmy-nominated “Atlanta” duo Stephen Glover and Jamal Olori.

The 1990 movie, written and directed by Reginald Hudlin, was a major financial success for New Line, earning $26.4 million at the box office and cult status with fans. The movie also features Tisha Martin-Campbell, Martin Lawrence, A.J. Johnson, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell and Full Force.

Romanian director Andrei Hutleac's consideration of viral videos and everyone's 15 minutes of fame is so barbed and dark in places the comedy feels fully weaponised as he takes an unfortunate moment and spins it sharply into the arena of modern social networking. Knowing that the film was inspired by a real-life event that saw a woman go viral in Korea back in 2005 only adds to its underpinning of melancholy.

Where many cyberbullying films have tended to focus on teenagers and/or sex-shaming, including Story Of A Girl and Share, Hutleac's film emphasises how a largely insignificant, if unlucky incident, can happen to anybody, whatever their age, spiralling out of control when it hits the Twittersphere and the daily news cycle.

Alina (Andreea Gramosteanu) is a pretty standard type of person. In fact, if anything, she's slightly more caring than the average, given we will learn she was recently her bank's employee of.

Entertainment studio Topic Studios and New York-based production company Loveless have entered into an all-media first-look deal, partnering to develop scripted and unscripted projects across TV, film and podcasts.

Topic Studios, the entertainment studio from First Look Media, which recently produced the Golden Globe-nominated legal thriller “The Mauritanian,” and Loveless, the production company founded by Emmy-nominees Carly Hugo and Matt Parker, have come together for the new venture, with aims to curate a homegrown slate of new content. The new pact between has already produced an early development slate, which includes a scripted TV series, a docuseries and a feature film.

“Matt and Carly are two of the hardest-working and most innovative producers out there,” Maria Zuckerman, head of Topic Studios, said in a statement announcing the partnership. “With their prodigious relationships, endless creativity, and great eye, we at Topic Studios are excited to partner with Loveless and ignite many great new projects to come.

Vertical Entertainment has released the trailer for What Lies Below. In the footage, we learn that mom's new boyfriend is not exactly who he seems to be. The mystery thriller was directed and written by Braden R. Duemmler, and it will be available On Demand starting December 4th. While the release date isn't too far away, the footage makes it seem like a Halloween release would have been ideal for What Lies Below. Most people spent the majority of their Halloween indoors and this seems like it would have been a good addition.

What Lies Below focuses on Liberty, a socially awkward 16-year-old, who returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her Mother's fiancé, John Smith. His charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human. One can tell right from the start that something is off with Mr. Smith,...

The film release calendar has always played home to serendipitous programming choices, from movies with strangely similar titles hitting at the same time to features that seem ripped from the same script (as with the infamous 1998 double whammy of “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon”), but this week at the movies offers something with a twist: two new movies with not just closely aligned plots, but nearly identical praise. Two is a trend!

Just yesterday, IndieWire’s review of “Chemical Hearts” arrived with the headline, “Lili Reinhart and Austin Abrams Shine in a Ya Romance for Extra Sensitive Teens,” and that exact phrasing could be used for the week’s other big screen Ya adaptation, Thor Freudenthal’s “Words on Bathroom Walls.” Or, in simpler terms, think of it this way: “Charlie Plummer and Taylor Russell Shine in a Ya Romance for Extra Sensitive Teens.” Both films are based on popular Ya...

The American Cancer Society presents Share The Light – a virtual live streaming event hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba, moderator of CBS’s daytime series The Talk and judge for ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

American Cancer Society Share The Light

On Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. Et, this magical event will gather celebrities and friends to celebrate the spirit of cancer survivors and bring vital attention to the unique needs of the cancer community during this unprecedented coronavirus pandemic.

“I know the cancer journey intimately,” said Share The Light celebrity co-host Carrie Ann Inaba. “Both of my parents have had devastating later stage cancer diagnoses and I understand what it’s like to care for and watch those you love fight for their lives. That’s why this night and the work of the American Cancer Society is so important. And I couldn’t be happier to join them...

Exclusive: Word is getting around that British actor Nicholas Galitzine has won the role of Prince Robert in Sony’s upcoming Camila Cabello musical Cinderella.

After a long search, Galitzine, I hear, wowed the filmmakers in many chemistry readings. In addition to Cabello, the actor joins Idina Menzel and Billy Porter (as the fairy godmother) in the Kay Cannon-directed and scripted feature. James Corden produces and has a story by credit. A production start is scheduled for February for a Feb. 5, 2021 release.

Galitzine’s first big film break came at the age of 20 about five years ago when he scored a role opposite Luke Perry in John Williams’ The Beat Beneath My Feet which played the Berlinale in 2015. In that movie Galitzine played Tom, a teenage loner who discovers his rock god neighbor has faked his death over tax fraud and blackmails him into becoming his guitar teacher.

Exclusive: The Craft remake has found its leads. Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone and Zoey Luna are set to star in the Blumhouse and Columbia Pictures pic along with previously announced Cailee Spaeny. Zoe Lister-Jones is at the helm of the reimagining of the 1996 female-fronted, witch-themed cult classic.

The original, led by Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Christine Taylor, and Rachel True, followed a newcomer at a Catholic prep high school who falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and wage curses against those who tick them off.

Blumhouse brass Jason Blum is producing the project along with Oscar-winning Gladiator producer Douglas Wick, who also produced the first film, and Lucy Fisher for Red Wagon Entertainment. Lister-Jones penned the screenplay and will serve as an executive producer with Andrew Fleming, the director and co-writer of the original, Lucas Wiesendanger from Red Wagon, Natalia Anderson, Daniel Bekerman,...

Of the films that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Share” might have had the most buzz coming out of the event. The drama, focused on a teenager dealing with the fallout from being blacked out and potentially assaulted, ended up being purchased by A24 and subsequently was signed for distribution by HBO.

Now, with the film only a month away from its HBO premiere, we have a first look at the trailer for “Share.” As mentioned, the film follows the story of a 16-year-old girl that wakes up after a night of partying with no memory of what happened.

Continue reading ‘Share’ Trailer: A24’s Sundance Standout About A High School Scandal Comes To HBO Next Month at The Playlist.

ReFrame — a coalition of industry leaders founded by Women in Film and the Sundance Institute — and IMDbPro announced on Tuesday nearly two dozen films to be certified for their gender-balanced productions.

Reframe launched the data initiative in an effort to recognize and promote gender-balanced films and television shows. The collaboration relies on data from IMDbPro to analyze films and television series to see how many women were involved in the production, and how much screen time female characters had. To earn the ReFrame Stamp, a film or TV show must meet a handful of requirements that call for women in key roles like starring, directing, producing, and writing. Additional points are awarded for having racial diversity. (The full criteria can be found here.)

The ReFrame Stamp program launched on June 8 with the announcement of 12 films that earned the stamp out of 100 films surveyed. The group then expanded the program by...

Gypsy and The Night Of alumna Poorna Jagannathan is set for a recurring role in the second season of HBO’s Emmy-winning limited series Big Little Lies.

Jagannathan will play Katie Richmond, a new character.

She joins returning cast Nicole Kidman as Celeste Wright, Reese Witherspoon as Madeline Martha Mackenzie, Adam Scott as Ed MacKenzie, Laura Dern as Renata Klein, Shailene Woodley as Jane, Zoë Kravitz as Bonnie Carlson. Previously announced Meryl Streep joins Season 2 as Mary Louise Wright, along with Douglas Smith as Corey Brockfield, along with new series regulars Kathryn Newton, Crystal Fox and Sarah Sokolovic and recurring cast Robin Wiegert and Merrin Dungey.

Per HBO, the subversive, darkly comedic drama Big Little Lies will explore the malignancy of lies, the durability of friendships, the fragility of marriage and, of course, the vicious ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships will fray, loyalties will erode, and the potential for emotional and bodily injury shall loom.

From TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for December 2017 including "Blood and Water", "Decoy", "Falling Water" and a whole lot more:

Anne Season 2

TV Series

CBC/Netflix

Prod.: John Calvert

Oct 2/17 - Mar 20/18

Blood And Water Season 3

TV Series

Breakthrough Entertainment

Prod.: Paula J. Smith

Dir.: Felipe Rodriguez

Nov 15 - Dec 8/17

Decoy

Feature

Decoy Pictures Inc.

Prod.: Andrew Gunn, Michael Bien, Angela Donald

Dir.: Allan Ungar

Nov 1 - Dec 7/17

Designated Survivor

Season 2

TV Series

Designated 1 Ltd.

Prod.: Llewellyn Wells

Dir.: Various

Jul 4/17 - Mar 31/18 Tbc

Falling Water Season 2

TV Series

Gep Falling Water Inc.

Prod.: Terry Gould

Dir.: various

Aug 20 - Mar 20/18

Franklin

Feature

New Line Productions Inc. / Jellystone Films Inc.

Prod.: Peter Safran

Dir.: David F. Sandberg

Feb 5 - May 8/18

Freebirds

TV Series

Warner Bros. TV / Berlanti Entertainment

Prod.: Robert Ortiz

Dir.: John Fawcett,...

From TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for November 2017 including "Locke and Key", "Titans", "Umbrella Academy" and a whole lot more:

Anne- Season 2

TV Series

CBC/Netflix

Prod.: John Calvert

Dir.: Various

Oct 2/17 - Mar 20/18

Baroness Von Sketch Show- Season 3

TV Series

Frantic Films

Prod.: Graham Ludlow, Jeff Peeler

Dir.: Jeremy Lalonde, Jordan Canning

Aug 21 - Nov 10/17

Cardinal: By The Time You Read This- Season 3

TV Series – Mini

eOne

Prod.: Jessica Daniel

Dir.: Daniel Grou

Sep 19 - Nov 24/17

Decoy

Feature

Decoy Pictures Inc.

Prod.: Andrew Gunn, Michael Bien, Angela Donald

Dir.: Allan Ungar

Nov 1 - Dec 7/17

Designated Survivor- Season 2

TV Series

Designated 1 Ltd.

Prod.: Llewellyn Wells

Dir.: Various

Jul 4/17 - Mar 31/18

Dino Dana- Season 3

TV Series

Sinking Ship Entertainment

Prod.: Eric Beldowski

Dir: Various

Aug 1 – Nov 17/17

Falling Water- Season 2

TV Series

Gep Falling Water Inc.