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The official website for the voice actor unit EverdreaM announced that "Tsuki dake ga Miteita" ("Only The Moon was Watching"), a coupling song of their upcoming third CD single "Kimi to Mita Keshiki" ("The view I saw with you"), will be featured as an insert song for the fall 2024 TV anime Goodbye, Dragon Life . As reported , the single's title tune is now featured as the ending theme for the anime, and the unit's two members, Misato Matsuoka and Hitomi Sekine, are also cast in the anime as Leticia and Celina, respectively. A lyric video for "Tsukidake ga Miteita," which features scenes that have depicted in the anime episodes so far, is now streamed on the unit's official YouTube channel . EverdreaM "Tsuki dake ga Miteita" Lyric Video Related: Voice Actor Unit EverdreaM Shares Goodbye, Dragon Life Anime Ending Song Music Video EverdreaM made their CD debut in June 2023 with the five-song mini album "Endless Labyrinth,...

Fresh off the success of her Star Wars series, The Acolyte, director Leslye Headland has found new agents as she has signed with CAA for representation.

Headland created the series starring Lee Jung-Jae and Amandla Stenberg. The Acolyte reached 4.8 million views in its first day of streaming, marking the biggest series premiere of 2024 for Disney+. Prior to this series, Headland co-created the Netflix series Russian Doll, which garnered 13 Emmy Award nominations in its first season. Her additional television credits include Terriers, Heathers, Single Drunk Female and Dying For Sex, which recently wrapped production.

Headland also wrote and directed the play and film adaptation Bachelorette and the film Sleeping With Other People. As a playwright, Headland wrote the seven deadly sins cycle: Cinephilia (Lust), Bachelorette (Gluttony), Assistance (Greed), Surfer Girl (Sloth), Reverb (Wrath), The Accidental Blonde (Envy) and Cult Of Love (Pride). Her final play in the series, Cult of Love,...

"Berserk of Gluttony" anime adaptation, directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa, stars Ryota Ohsaka, Tomokazu Seki, Hisako Tōjō, Misato Matsuoka and Hitomi Sekine, streaming October 2023 on Crunchyroll:

"..'Fate Graphite' is one of the forsaken. Cursed with the skill of 'Gluttony'...

"...he is always starving, never satisfied, until the day he kills a dying thief and consumes the man’s soul.

"The true hunger of Fate’s Gluttony has awakened...

"...and if he can learn to control his power, he will at last be the master of his own destiny..."

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HBO Max will launch in 27 European territories over the coming year and has set the launch date for hotly-anticipated Sex and the City revival And Just Like That…

During a launch event this morning, WarnerMedia D2C, EVP and Gm, Andy Forrsell, said the rollout will begin in the Nordics, Spain and Andorra on October 26.

From early 2022, WarnerMedia’s streamer will then move to 14 additional Central and Eastern European territories, along with Portugal, before launching in seven further countries later in that year, bringing its total number to 67 worldwide as it aims to reach 190 by 2026.

This morning’s event showcased a range of HBO Max’s upcoming content and revealed a December launch date for Sex and the City revival And Just Like That…

The reboot from exec producer Michael Patrick King, which is currently filming, follows Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda(Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) as they navigate...

“Better Days” is Hong Kong’s first Oscar submission to be nominated for best international feature film since 1993, but its nod has only inflamed political tensions at home. Many members of the Hong Kong public believe that “Better Days” does not represent them.

Although it was directed by Hong Kong’s Derek Tsang, produced by Jojo Yuet-chun Hui, and counts Hong Konger Lam Wing Sum among its three main screenwriters, “Better Days” features over a hundred Chinese cast members and one Thai, but no Hong Kong actors. It also unfolds in Mandarin, not Cantonese. Adapted from an eponymous Chinese novel, it is set in China’s Chongqing. Its examination of schoolyard bullying is set against the backdrop of the “gaokao,” the mainland’s brutal college entrance examination that doesn’t exist in Hong Kong.

“Even if ‘Better Days’ wins, I won’t feel much… it’s too far removed from the people of Hong Kong.

In a spectacular Marvel twist, the first Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer confirms a rumor that the film’s director, Destin Daniel Cretton dropped last year: the Mandarin is Shang-Chi’s father.

Typical for the MCU’s shared universe, this plays out well on multiple levels. In the original comics, Shang-Chi’s father was none other than Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu was created by Englishman Sax Rohmer with his pulp fiction book The Mystery of Doctor Fu-Manchu in 1913. It was a stark, racist portrayal of Asians, and Rohmer capitalized upon the ‘Yellow Peril’ xenophobia of the time by milking his Fu Manchu character for a long running serial of over a dozen books. Fu Manchu became the West’s preeminent orientalist villain, a ruthless mad scientist evil genius with a signature mustache. The character was depicted in dozens of films, always portrayed by Caucasian actors with...

Fox’s “The Masked Dancer” concluded Season 1 in front of 3.1 million viewers, or about 400,000 more than last week’s penultimate episode got. But that doesn’t mean Fox finished first in primetime ratings last night. That distinction went to NBC, which won another Wednesday with its “Chicago Shows.” Fox actually didn’t even finish second in total viewers — CBS did. ABC aired mostly reruns last night. Also Read: 'The Masked Dancer' Season 1 Winner Revealed: Was It Cotton Candy, Sloth or Tulip? NBC was first in ratings with a 0.9 rating/6 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with an average of 6.7 million, according to preliminary numbers. “Chicago Med” at 8 p.m. posted a 0.9/6 and 7.4 million viewers. At 9, “Chicago Fire” put up a 0.9/6 and 7.1 million viewers. “Chicago P.D.” at 10 received a 0.8/5 and 5.7 million viewers. Fox was second in ratings with a 0.6/3 and third in viewers with 2.9 million.

Olympic gold medalist gymnast Gabby Douglas is the first-ever winner of “The Masked Dancer,” having scored the show’s diamond mask trophy after being revealed as Cotton Candy.

Douglas was victorious despite facing off with two trained dancers in the finale. Runner-up Sloth turned out to be “Dancing with the Stars’” Maksim Chmerkovskiy. And in third place was Tulip, who was revealed to be Mackenzie Ziegler (“Dance Moms”).

Douglas was unmasked after dancing to “This Is Me,” by Kesha. The panelists were torn between whether the Cotton Candy was a gymnast or an ice skater. Paula Abdul figured out it was Gabby Douglas, while Ashley Tisdale named her teammate Simone Biles. Brian Austin Green thought it was Tara Lapinski, Ken Jeong named Michelle Kwan.

Among Douglas’ notable moments on the show came before her first dance, when (dressed as Cotton Candy) she was suspended high in an acrobatic ring but...

Of the four remaining contenders in Group A of “The Masked Dancer,” the one that is proving the most difficult to determine the real name of is the Hammerhead. He first showed off his dance moves on episode 1 to “Everybody” by Backstreet Boys. The four judges were just as lost as we were guessing Carrot Top, Zac Efron or Joe Jonas. He contends again on episode 4 on January 20.

We’ve gone back and rewatched his first routine as well as the clues video. And we took a lot more listens to his Word Up clue “dramatic.” Keep reading for all “The Masked Dancer” spoilers, including our theory as as to the real name of the Hammerhead.

See ‘The Masked Dancer’ spoilers: The Cricket is …

Putting all of this together we are now sure that the Hammerhead is “Jersey Shore” stud Vinny Guadagnino. Fans of this long-running MTV reality series knows...

On “The Masked Dancer” premiere back on December 30, five famous folk were hidden inside elaborate costumes while performing elaborate routines to some of music’s biggest hits. At the end of the show, one of the contenders, Disco Ball, was eliminated by the four judges and revealed by host Craig Robinson to be Ice-t, the rapper turned “Law & Order: Svu” star.

We’ve been busy in the weeks since that episode aired trying to figure out the names of the remaining four contestants who are competing as Cricket, Exotic Bird, Hammerhead and Tulip. Keep reading if you want to know as we have all “The Masked Dancer” spoilers, including the name of the Exotic Bird, who closed out episode 1 with a toe-tapping routine set to “Con Calma” by Daddy Yankee and Katy Perry.

Forget the panel guesses that the Exotic Bird is an athlete like Marion Jones or Venus Williams.

Above: Debra Winger and James Hong in Black Widow.For two years, I sent e-mails back and forth with legendary character actor James Hong trying to set-up this interview. Invariably, something would always waylay us: shooting on a film, pre-production on another, or we’d agree to chat on the phone to set the finer details of time and place, then life would get in the way (for one—or both—of us). It’s nobody’s fault, really. The man, he works. But, finally, late on a Monday afternoon in February of this year—Presidents’ Day—we met to speak at length. Five days later, Hong turned 91.We originally met nearly a decade before, following a screening of a ribald, late seventies sex comedy entitled—unapologetically—Teen Lust (1979), which Hong directed. In spite of its disreputable sub-genre, it read to me as a salacious send-up of suburbia and a surreal,...

James Schamus, the former head of Focus Features and writer of films like The Ice Storm and Lust, Caution, has found his next directing project: College Republicans, a script which topped the Black List a decade ago but has taken on new significance thanks to the corruption in the Republican party that’s played out over the […]

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The Goonies, a movie that introduced us to Sloth, Chunk, the Truffle Shuffle and the first documented instance of Joey Pants’ surprising toupee reveals, will celebrate its 35th anniversary this year. A project surely blessed by the dream team of Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus in the mid-80s, The Goonies has lost none of its charm in the decades since its release.

Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, industry vets are still finding a way to reach audiences under social distancing and lockdown measures, and The Goonies will definitely have an outlet to begin it’s 35th birthday early, thanks to Beauty and the Beast and Avenue 5 star Josh Gad, who is bringing the main cast of the film back together for a reunion special.

Sean Astin, who played Mikey in Donner’s 1985 kids classic, popped up in a new video Gad posted across social media this week,...

Fans of the hit anime The Seven Deadly Sins will be pleased to see the first trailer for The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods has arrived. The Seven Deadly Sins is an anime series released exclusively on Netflix, and it is one of the best anime series I’ve seen in recent years. It’s […]

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Zack Snyder and Jay Oliva are teaming with Netflix to create a new original anime series for the internet network. The project, set in the world of Norse mythology, comes amid Netflix efforts to bolster its programming in the anime area.

Snyder and Oliva will write the series. Oliva also will serve as showrunner, director and executive producer and Snyder will executive produce. Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller will produce the series alongside Snyder through Stone Quarry Animation, their production company’s newest venture with Oliva.

Oliva and Snyder have had a longstanding creative partnership, spanning over a dozen live action feature films including Justice League, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 300: Rise of an Empire, and Man of Steel.

“Zack Snyder’s innovation in visual storytelling has pushed the industry forward and established him...

Netflix is continuing to expand its slate of anime fair, this time with the help of Zack Snyder.

The “Man of Steel” and “Justice League” director is set to co-create and executive produce an original anime series set in the world of Norse mythology for the streamer.

Jay Oliva, a prominent storyboard artist who has a long-standing creative partnership with Snyder which spans a dozen live action features including “Justice League” and “300: Rise of an Empire,” created the prospective series alongside Snyder and will serve as the showrunner, director, and executive producer.

Snyder is currently directing, writing, and producing the zombie thriller feature “Army of the Dead” for Netflix, while Oliva is in the midst of production on the Manila-set Netflix anime series “Trese.” Dave Bautista and Theo Rossi are two of the names attached to star in Snyder’s directorial return. He has been on a two-year break since “Justice League.

Warning: Big ol' spoilers for Shazam! below!

The selection of DC superhero films that have come out of Warner Bros. over the last decade have been hit or miss, to say the least. While Christopher Nolan's much-lauded Dark Knight trilogy made great use of Gotham's gritty atmosphere, the studio's subsequent attempts to re-create the magic - Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, Justice League - have fallen flat. Fortunately, Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman and James Wan's Aquaman have leaned into the goofier, more human sides of their characters, and are unafraid of splashing a little color and humor into their stories.

This month's Shazam!, directed by David F. Sandberg, is no different, resulting in a charming, heartfelt superhero outing that's simultaneously thrilling, sharp, and even a little bit spooky. (The Seven Deadly Sins monsters attacking a conference room full of people? Nightmares.) But as tonally different...

Shazam! arrives in a little under two months from now and DC fans are getting a bit restless for that second full trailer to really give us a taste of the original Captain Marvel’s big screen debut. We haven’t got that just yet, but an early reaction from someone who was present for a recent test screening of the movie has come our way.

The person we spoke to admitted that they weren’t expecting to be a fan of the pic but found themselves “blown away” by it, teasing that Shazam! is more fun than Aquaman and could even be the best film that the Worlds of DC franchise has given us to date. In particular, Zachary Levi and Mark Strong are great as the titular hero and his nemesis, respectively.

“I went to Shazam with low expectations and was blown away. This could be the best Dceu movie to date,...

Bandai Namco Entertainment have today unveiled the Physical Collector’s Edition content for The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia, set to be released on 9th February 2018. Along with the Standard Edition of the game, The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath Collector’s Edition features some of the most exclusive collectible items that fans of the saga have always desired:

The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia Full Game Genuine Official Laser Cell Art, designed exclusively by the anime studio 12cm (4.7 inches) figurine of Meliodas by Banpresto Collector’s Box

With the announcement of the Collector’s Edition new info about the game has also been revealed:

Adventure mode - Relive the story of the anime with free story updates as the next seasons airs. Roam around the land in Hawk Mama following ‘rumours’ to find out where the other Sins are and do side-quests to increase ‘rumours...

In a rare move from the notoriously secretive streaming service, Netflix has revealed the list of their fastest-viewed TV shows. It turns out that a whopping 8.4 million users have watched at least one entire season of a show within the first 24 hours of its release – a process known as “binge-racing.” The company announced that this practice has been common since the beginning of the service but has really taken off in recent years. In fact, from 2013 to 2016, the number of binge-racers increased by 20 times.

As for the list itself, unsurprisingly, most of the series here are half-hour comedies, which are easier to consume quickly. However, there are a few longer dramas included, too. Notably, big hitters like Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black and House of Cards all make an appearance. The winner of the lot, however, is Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

Superhero fans will also...

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The rarely-spotted unicorn that is Netflix's ratings data has cantered out from the forest of secrecy once more...

“There’s a unique satisfaction that comes from being the first to finish a story — whether it's the final page of a book or the last climactic moments of your favourite TV show. Netflix allows you to watch in a way you never could before, and there's nothing better than seeing a show engage our members and ignite a passion for viewing.”

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The above is a quote from the vice president of Netflix's original series, Brian Wright, which this week appeared alongside a release from the streaming giant that contained a characteristically-uber-specific list of their most speed-watched shows.

It’s time to add a new word to your lexicon. We all know about binge-watching, but binge-racing — as defined by the wordsmiths at Netflix — is watching the entire season of a show within 24 hours. According to the streaming service, 8.4 million subscribers are into that habit, and they’ve released the list the top twenty shows that get consumed in the span of a single day.

While we may be living in the era of Peak TV, people still enjoy their disposable programming, as the top five slots are occupied by “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life,” “Fuller House,” “The Ranch,” “Marvel’s The Defenders,” and something we never heard of called, “The Seven Deadly Sins” (it’s an anime series).

Continue reading Netflix Reveals Their Top “Binge-Raced” Shows, Plans To Release 80 Original Films In 2018 at The Playlist.

Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe have announced that The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia is coming to the Europe exclusively for the PlayStation 4!

Based on the popular manga and anime series The Seven Deadly Sins, The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia is the first console video game adaptation of the anime and manga series that brings together the powerful characters from The Seven Deadly Sins for an action-packed adventure on the PlayStation 4. The titular The Seven Deadly Sins is a legendary gang of rebels who have been blamed for overthrowing the Kingdom of Lionesse and are hunted by elite guards called Holy Knights. When a young girl appears, with an earnest wish in her head and a determination to find The Seven Deadly Sins, the world gets turned on its head and an extraordinary adventure begins!

Says Antoine Jamet, Brand Manager at Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe:

The Seven Deadly Sins...

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:   Reworked Movie of the Day: With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 coming out next week, here's a look at how the movie could have been sold as something darker -- like, say, a DC movie (via /Film):   Mashup of the Day: Smart Aleck Comedy redid the trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi with footage from The Legend of Korra:   Cosplay of the Day: Speaking of Star Wars, a little girl cosplaying as Jyn at Star Wars Celebration gave the Death Star plans to every Leia cosplayer she could find (via Fashionably Geek): Delivering the Death Star plans.   Supercut of the Day: The seven deadly sins as depicted in cinema...

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Sin, as defined by most major religions and moral institutions, is as old as man. It is inherent to our nature, because ultimately sin is self-serving, and at the end of the day we are all self-serving creatures. Wrath, pride, sloth, lust, envy, gluttony, greed — as opposed to the Ten Commandments of Christianity which include distinct acts like adultery and murder, the seven deadly sins are things of which most all of us are guilty of multiple times over. We’ve all committed them, even on a minor scale. Ever think someone has a nicer car than you? Envy. Ever gotten a touch of road rage? Wrath. Ever hit the snooze button more than once? Sloth.

These are petty examples to be sure, but they illustrate how commonplace the seven deadly sins are in our daily lives, and thus they prove why the seven deadly sins...

Back in January, fans got their first look at Toho's first ever Godzilla anime movie, which is slated for release in Japan later this year. Earlier this month, Netflix picked up the streaming rights to this movie, which will be released theatrically in Japan before debuting worldwide on the popular streaming service. Today we have a new poster for this highly-anticipated anime movie, which doesn't give us a glimpse at Godzilla himself, but we do get to to see this futuristic world. We also have new concept art and the official synopsis.

The last summer of the 20th century. On that day, the human race realized that they were not the only ruler of the planet earth. The emergence of gigantic monsters "kaiju" and the ultimate existence that even can destroy the kaijus, Godzilla. After half-century of the war against the kaijus, the human race repeatedly defeated and decided to escape from the earth.

In recent years, monster fans have heard the mighty roar of the radioactive reptile, and the King of the Monsters shows no signs of slowing down, as Netflix and Toho are now teaming up for a new anime Godzilla project.

The Godzilla anime will be released globally on Netflix after a Japanese theatrical release via Toho. An exact release date and trailer have not yet been revealed, but you can check out concept art from the anime below, via the official site.

Press Release: Tokyo, Japan 13 March 2017 - Netflix, the world’s leading Internet television network, today announced an exciting addition to its slate, an original Japanese animation based on the Godzilla character, which will have its exclusive premiere on Netflix worldwide following a Toho theatrical release in Japan.

The first-ever high quality animation of the iconic global monster franchise is set to offer an epic re-imagining of the Godzilla world of the future.

In the gallery above, we’ve made our picks for the best new shows to watch on Netflix in February. Click through to see the seven most anticipated releases for the second month of 2017 as well as our picks for the best episodes of each.

Read More: The 17 Netflix Original Series To Be Excited About in 2017

Netflix is providing ample binge opportunities between a slew of fresh original series and well-reviewed pickups. One of the most awarded new series of 2016 makes its debut on the subscription service, and a critically-acclaimed cult favorite gets a quick turnaround from debuting on broadcast to streaming on Netflix. Add to that a stack of impressive movies — full list here — including “Clouds of Sils Maria” (starring Kristen Stewart) and 2017 Sundance premiere “I don’t feel at home in this world anymore,” and February is a busy month for anyone intent on consuming all the best at-home offerings.

The Game Show Network embraces the delightful horror of the Halloween season this Friday night with the season 2 premiere of Hellevator. I had a chance to check out the first season 2 episode, which should please diehard fans of the show and newcomers alike. If you're dying to see the latest installment from the Jen and Sylvia Soska-hosted experience, then you're in luck, because Gsn released the full season 2 premiere episode online for free, and we have it for Daily Dead readers to enjoy.

The season 2 premiere of Hellevator will air on the Game Show Network this Friday, October 7th at 9:00pm Et.

"The seven deadly sins come alive when four chefs take on horrifying challenges from the depths of an abandoned slaughterhouse. Have they had their last meal?

Hellevator with executive producer Jason Blum and hosted by horror film icons, "Twisted Twins", aka Jen and Sylvia Soska.

In each hour-long episode,...

Machinima and Hasbro have released an exciting new trailer their great-looking new animated web series Transformers: Combiner Wars. This sucker was made for the hardcore fans of the original series of the '80s, and it looks like it's going to deliver something that fans are going to love.

We've already seen four prelude episodes for the series that you can check out here featuring the characters Optimus Prime, Victorion, Starscream, and Windblade. Those were cool and all, but this trailer for the actual series is so much more exciting!

Taking place 40 years after the great war on Earth, the eight episode digital series introduces new lore and all-new characters that, combined with the characters fans have known for decades, will bring the Transformers storytelling in a new direction. The Autobots and Decepticons have disbanded and returned to Cybertron. With the days of Optimus Prime and Megatron over, Cybertron is now ruled by a triumvirate.

Aziz Ansari stars in a hilarious new series, and Marvel’s second series for Netflix debuts in an action-packed November on the streaming service. Here is what’s new on Netflix November 2015, as well as movies that are ending their streaming on Netflix in November. New On Netflix November 2015 Netflix Originals The Seven Deadly Sins Season 1 — Available Nov. 1 Master of None Season 1 — Available Nov. 6. Based on the comedic viewpoints of Aziz Ansari, this series follows the personal and professional lives of Dev (Ansari), a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what to eat, let alone a pathway … Continue reading →

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We're holding a free screening of a crime classic of your choice next week. Here's a look at one option: David Fincher's stunning Seven...

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On the 5th June, we're holding a free crime classic cinema screening to celebrate the launch of the videogame Murdered: Soul Suspect. You can find out details of the screening, and how you can vote for the film you most want to see, here.

For now, here's our look back at another of the films you can choose from: the 1995 thriller, Seven.

Nb: This piece contains spoilers.

Seven tracks Detectives William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and David Mills (Brad Pitt) as they investigate a spate of serial killings which take their inspiration from the seven deadly sins. As they dig further, the stakes become more personal and the killings become more disturbing until they come face to face with the killer and find events are much worse than they feared.

Today we are talking to a spectacularly talented composerlyricist noted for his incredibly impressive and accomplished oeuvre thus far, having collectively composed more than twenty full-length musicals, operas and specialty performance pieces - Michael John Lachiusa. Discussing his vast array of projects from Buzzsaw Berkeley to First Lady Suite, Hello Again and The Petrified Prince Off-Broadway through to his double-header in the 1999-2000 millennial season with Marie Christine and The Wild Party both on Broadway to his Off-Broadway, regional and international successes since, ranging from Little Fish to another two-show-season in 2006 with Bernarda Alba and See What I Wanna See as well as The Highest Yellow and the recent Americana-themed epic musical pseudo-trilogy of Los otros, Queen Of The Mist and Giant. Additionally, Lachiusa touches upon some of his lesser-known work, such as his musical revue Hotel C'est L'amour, various operatic pieces, additional material he provided for pieces such as...

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. This week’s feature includes a trailer for The Cabining, details on All Hallows’ Eve, and much more:

The Cabining: “Todd and Bruce, a hapless screenwriting team, get one last shot at success thanks to Todd’s wealthy stepdad, Serge. If they pen a worthy horror script, Serge will fund the entire project. But there is one condition – the script must be complete in two weeks. With the deadline looming and no fresh ideas, Todd and Bruce head to Shangri-La, a serene artist’s retreat, with the hope that the peace and company of fellow artists will inspire greatness… or, failing greatness, at least enough for straight-to-dvd. Shangri-La proves to be anything but serene, as the artists die off one by one, seemingly by accident. Bruce convinces Todd to soak in this...

(Claude Chabrol, 1958/59, Eureka!, 12)

Coined in 1957 by the French journalist François Giroud to describe a rebellious generation of young French people polled by L'Express, the term "nouvelle vague" was rapidly applied to an amorphous group of innovative film‑makers, the most vociferously self-publicising of whom were the critics working for Cahiers du Cinéma, who embraced "la politique des auteurs".

The first of them to direct a feature film was Claude Chabrol, co-author in 1957 of the first book on the Cahiers hero Alfred Hitchcock. Chabrol used his wife's windfall inheritance to make what has been called the first new wave movie, Le beau Serge, followed immediately by a companion piece, Les cousins. Both were shot in a naturalistic manner by key nouvelle vague cameraman Henri Decaë, and star Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain.

In Le beau Serge, Brialy plays a Parisian who goes back to his home village to save the life...

“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”

Bertrand Russell

Why Is It Always About You? The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism:

1. Shamelessness: Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.

2. Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.

3. Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may reinflate by diminishing, debasing, or degrading somebody else.

4. Envy: A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person’s ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.

5. Entitlement: Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic...

The cast of Made in Chelsea have spoken about their sinful pasts ahead of the upcoming series five launch.

Cast members have been styled as the seven deadly sins and have recalled their series four bad behaviour in seven YouTube videos which also launch the new Made in Chelsea channel.

"As they come face-to-face, we'll find out the cast's real feelings about certain situations - analysing the arguments, love triangles, cheating and excessive spending by relating each situation to one of the famous deadly sins," said producers.

"Be prepared for awkwardness and tension as most of the cast go under the spotlight, reflecting on their reactions and what they have learnt from some of series four's shocking dramas."

The Seven Deadly Sins project was commissioned by Channel 4 Education to "reflect and celebrate the teenage coming of age experience and help young people through the problems, pitfalls and pressures of...

A starry cast and a knowing air can't add depth to Peter Morgan's tale of blackmail, infidelity and dodgy deals

Peter Morgan made his reputation with remarkably perceptive screenplays about British people, mostly real-life ones, going through bad patches in their careers at home (The Damned United, The Queen) and abroad (Frost/Nixon, The Last King of Scotland), and encountering some rather odd people. More recently, however, he's moved on to a larger canvas involving the mystical and metaphysical, and the results have been less satisfactory. Hereafter, which Steven Spielberg produced and Clint Eastwood directed, began with an astonishing re-creation of the south-east Asian tsunami, then proceeded with flat-footed banality to tell the parallel stories of three people from different countries (a French TV reporter, an American blue-collar worker and a south London schoolboy) mysteriously linked by their near-death experiences.

His new film, 360, directed by Fernando Meirelles, takes him...

Adland and industry’s biggest blunders will be the focus of a session on the seven deadly sins of advertising at Mumbrella360.

The presentation will be curated by Adrian Pritchard, executive creative director of Melbourne ad agency BoilerRoom.

Pritchard’s session will cover “monumental advertising cock ups” along with infamous events that have lessons for brands. He will also challenge some of the arguments put forward for digital and social media strategies.

The seven deadly sins of advertising session is one of 61 planned for the conference which takes place in Sydney on June 6 and 7 across five streams. The event consists of sessions proposed and curated by individuals, industry bodies and agencies and sessions organised by Mumbrella.

Other sessions already announced include:

A debate on the future of regulation of the media featuring editors, media inquiry participant Matthew Ricketson and the boss of the Australian Press Council; Olympic gold swimmer Duncan Armstrong...

Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery is calling all artists to submit art work relating to any of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Seven Deadly Sins: angry, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, and sloth.

The gallery is organizing a group show on The Seven Deadly Sins.

Deadline for submissions: April 20th 2010.

Exhibition dates: June 10th to 26th 2010.

Meet the Artists: June 12th. Saturday 12 – 6 pm.

June 12th, Saturday 12 to 6 pm is also the Mi...

Plus, a surprise director for Avengers, Bill O'Reilly does right when he doesn't have to, Toy Story 3's Ken gets detailed, and Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure!

April Fool's Day Disclaimer: I've done my best to separate real news from fake news today, but well, sometimes it's not completely obvious. Below the Video Meme you'll find a brief roundup of some of the pranks the net has seen today.

I haven’t watched (professional) wrestling since age 4. I remember a faux gay wedding making the news a couple years back, but on Monday night, we arrived in the ring in true form. Bisexual wrestler Orlando Jordan hit the ring as part of Spike TV’s Tna Impact. Openly bisexual since 2006, this was his first major outing on television. You can watch the episode at Spike.TV. Kudos to him, Spike, and the WWE – it was handled with as much grace as anything in professional wrestling.

By Michael Atkinson

One of the loveliest freeform ideas to find patronage and popularity in the New Wavey 1960s was the omnibus film, a rarely cohesive but always tempting quasi-genre defined as a collection of exclusively commissioned short films. These projects usually began with a general theme but were always most interested in gathering the generation's coolest hotshot filmmakers and encouraging them to whack off and make their special kind of havoc, but in compressed form. The aesthetics of the genre are questionable -- never is the entirety of an omnibus very satisfying -- but its smash-up ranginess of conflicting styles and potpourri perspectives make the movies irresistible. (Favorites of any connoisseur would include 1962's "The Seven Deadly Sins," 1963's "RoGoPaG," and 1969's "Love and Anger," all of which feature the era's most promiscuous omnibus-er, Jean-Luc Godard.) They're still being made: the Korean New Wave collection "If You Were Me" (2003) is a knockout,...