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A Journalist Once Compared Rajesh Khanna To The Great Napoleon – Here’s Why ( Photo Credit – Facebook )

Rajesh Khanna is the bona fide superstar of Indian cinema. At the peak of his career, he made many superhit and blockbuster movies. His stardom was unimaginable, and a journalist once described it. Keep scrolling for more.

Khanna redefined the romance genre in the Hindi film industry. Bollywood is defined by different eras; his era was romance, great songs, and superb dialogues. Female fans went crazy over him, sending marriage proposals and everything. His on-screen charisma and Kishore Kumar’s soulful voice created magic together. People often spoke and wrote about his immense stardom in tabloids and videos.

Pawan Singh Anjali Raghav Viral Stage Moment HD(Photo Credit –Instagram)

A video from a Bhojpuri song promotion recently created a huge storm online. The video caught in the limelight renowned actor Pawan Singh, touching actress Anjali Raghav’s waist at the event in Lucknow. Initially, she smiled on stage, but later she clarified that it was not as relaxed as it appeared. According to her, the gesture was sudden and without consent.

Speaking through her Instagram, Anjali explained that she smiled on stage because she thought it might just be her outfit tag or blouse tag issue. But later, she realised it was an unwanted gesture. She confessed she...

When Abhishek Bachchan Was Petrified Of Sitting Next To Aishwarya Rai On Flight Before Their Marriage (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & Abhishek Bachchan have been the ideal Bollywood Couple for a long time. The two Bollywood superstars have been married for 18 years, and stories and anecdotes about their love and how Abhishek has been besotted with Aishwarya. While Bachchan has shared stories of his personal life with Aishwarya, he also recently revealed that he thought she would never romance him in the initial phases of working together before they married.

Abhishek & Aishwarya are known for openly expressing their love for one another during media interactions; their chemistry, both on and off-screen,...

All Karan Johar Films Ranked From Worst To Best (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Karan Johar needs no introduction. A director, producer, reality show judge, talk show host, and costume designer, the man is a master of all trades. That being said, his first love and most acclaimed talent still remains filmmaking.

Over his 25-year-long career, KJo has directed seven feature films, and while a couple of his projects received mixed reviews, the audiences have always embraced his work. So much so that all of his directorials have succeeded at the box office. With such a successful track record, choosing the filmmaker’s best work might be challenging. Hence, we are here to help you.

“People Were Not Accepting His Films”: Ameesha Patel Talks About Hrithik Roshan’s Difficult Phase ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Directed by Rakesh Roshan, Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai is one of the most iconic films of Hindi cinema. The film marked the debut of Ameesha Patel and Hrithik Roshan and was a massive blockbuster at the box office. Let’s look back at the time when Ameesha Patel made candidly revealed about Hrithik Roshan’s disturbed state of mind post Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai after giving back-to-back flop films in the same year. Read on to know more.

Ameesha Patel On Hrithik Roshan’s Disturbed State Of Mind

In an interview with Siddharth Kannan,...

Raj Kapoor & Dilip Kumar Shared A Frienship Beyond Cinema. (Photo Credit – IMDb)

It was on the unfateful day of June 2, 1988, when the Showman of Indian Cinema, Raj Kapoor, breathed his last. The superstar passed away after struggling for his life. But in the last few days, his health deteriorated, and he slipped into Coma. While his family was by his side in these last days, his best friend Dilip Kumar was also informed about his condition.

Dilip Kumar, who was in Pakistan for an event, rushed back to Delhi to be by his best friend’s side. The superstar, however, did not know that this was the last time he...

General Hospital spoilers are in for Wednesday, August 20, 2025! In tomorrow’s episode, fans can expect Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) to still not be awake, indicating a coma. Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) shares bad news with Stella Henry (Vernee Watson).

Plus, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) demands answers from Justine Turner (Nanzeen Contractor). Keep reading and let’s talk about what is coming up in the ABC soap opera.

Maxie Jones’ Coma

At the hospital, Maxie’s loved ones will all be gathered there. They just learned that the crisis is over, and Maxie should wake up soon. However, that still hasn’t happened when Wednesday’s episode airs.

There will be a scene that shows Mac Scorpio (John J. York) with Cody Bell (Josh Kelly) and Felicia Scorpio (Kristina Wagner). Mac wonders why Maxie’s heart would fail out of nowhere.

Moving forward, Lucas ends up sharing some bad news with the family.

Whether it’s a tough marketplace, debuting at a crowded festival, or the fairly established fact that most people don’t want to see films pertaining to Covid (look no further than Bertrand Bonello’s Coma), Olivier Assayas’ Suspended Time has, from its premiere at Berlinale in early 2024, taken an extra beat to arrive stateside. This despite its director remaining a major figure some 40 years since his feature debut, and hot off the career benchmark that was Irma Vep. Whatever the case, it’s not a qualitative matter––Suspended Time is a deeply pleasing, pleasurable work that couches the near-universal fears, anxieties, and odd joys of 2020 in a veiled cine-memoir concerning Assayas’ life, work, and psyche.

Having spoken to him several times over the years, I was glad to conduct (fittingly?) a Zoom interview as the film prepares its U.S. release. I also happened to catch Assayas at a...

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"Star Trek: Voyager" was a big deal for Paramount back in 1995. It was the first new "Star Trek" show to launch after the conclusion of the powerhouse "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1994, leaving it and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" — the "new kids" on the block — to fend for themselves. What's more, the premiere of "Voyager" also launched Paramount's new TV network, Upn, a massively ambitious media venture that, it was hoped, would provide legitimate competition for the other major TV players of the era. Upn ended up crashing and burning after a decade, but "Voyager" eventually found a respectably sized audience. This was, however, after several years of struggling, and several instances of recasting.

Most notably, "Star Trek: Voyager" had trouble finding a captain. The show's central character was to be named Captain Elizabeth Janeway, and she was...

The Bold and the Beautiful (B&b) spoilers tease that Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) will have some emotional storylines in the coming weeks. Liam is in a coma fighting for his life after Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) shot him in the chest.

Liam’s condition is serious but stable. Dr John ‘Finn’ Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) told Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) they are keeping Liam sedated to allow his body time to rest without pain.

Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) remains by his side as Liam fights for his life. Now, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) is present, desperate for his son to pull through.

Coma Drama & Brain Tumor Cure

The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers state that Liam’s condition could get worse before he gets better. Not only did he get shot by Luna, but he has an inoperable brain tumor.

Bill doesn’t know about his son’s brain tumor.

Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions is looking to move forward with further series adaptations of Ridley Scott and Tony Scott movies if all goes to plan, following in the footsteps of FX’s “Alien: Earth,” which comes out Aug. 12, and Prime Video’s “Blade Runner 2099,” which will be ready next year.

Speaking to Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, David W. Zucker, chief creative officer at Scott Free, notes that “Alien: Earth” and “Blade Runner 2099” are the first series adaptations of the Scott brothers’ films that the company has undertaken in the 24 years that Zucker has been at the company. It isn’t the first time Scott Free has adapted movies, per se, into series, Zucker points out, as the company did “Andromeda Strain” for A&e, and “Coma” for Universal.

For Zucker, the series adaptations have to be a “different beast” to the movies. It helps in...

The Neuchâtel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) is never afraid to ask questions.

As per tradition, the Swiss genre showcase will frame its annual retrospective through a sociological lens, this year turning its focus to health with a 20-film deep dive cheekily titled Take Care.

“I was struck by an idiom that’s more common in English than in French,” says Nifff artistic director Pierre-Yves Walder. “Telling someone to ‘take care’ can be taken as an order or a veiled threat. At the very least, it feels like an oxymoron, especially when the person being told to do so has little control over their situation. And as always, fantastic cinema provides the perfect space to explore these tension and contradictions between fragility, control, vulnerability and power. That’s where genre thrives!”

‘Coma’

Covering a full century of cinematic malady — exploring how we care for others and ourselves and all the...

Bonello en el Ecam Forum 2025 en Madrid | mundoCine

En el marco de la celebración del foro de coproducción audiovisual Ecam Forum 2025, y en colaboración con el Festival Internacional de Cine de Madrid, Filmadrid, se ha realizado una retrospectiva acerca de la obra fílmica del cineasta francés Bertrand Bonello, con la proyección de tres de sus películas: Tiresia (2003), Casa de Tolerancia (2011) y Zombi Child (2019), así como un coloquio de tres horas para profesionales del sector, estudiantes de Ecam y prensa especializada.

Minutos antes de la celebración del coloquio que el director ofreció en la Sala Azcona, una de las más bonitas del país, Bonello estaba resguardado a la sombra de un edificio anexo, huyendo del verdugo sol de junio en la capital. Ataviado de blanco y con una bandolera negra cruzando el pecho, entró en la Cineteca enjuto, aparentemente tímido y camuflado como uno más entre los presentes, hasta el comienzo de su ponencia,...

The best-selling author of all time, as of this writing, remains William Shakespeare, a little-known British playwright from Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, who lived from April 23, 1564 to April 23, 1616. He wrote some obscure plays that you've probably never heard of. Stuff like "Cardenio," "The Two Noble Kinsmen," and "Edward III." He's not nearly as well-known as his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Philip Henslowe, or John Fletcher. 

But I kid the Bard. There isn't a student in the English-speaking world who wasn't forced through at least four or five Shakespeare plays in high school. Raise your hand if you still remember a Shakespearean soliloquy you were required to memorize for your 10th-grade English class. 

After Shakespeare, some of the best-selling authors of all time include Agatha Christie, Danielle Steele, Harold Robbins, J.K. Rowling, Eiichiro Oda (the author of the "One Piece" manga), and Jackie Collins. No doubt you've explored some of these authors in your spare time at airports.

Netflix’s The Devil’s Plan has viewers addicted!(Photo Credit –Netflix)

If Squid Game had you glued to your screen, chances are The Devil’s Plan is about to be your next Netflix fixation. Forget the blood, keep the brain games, this Korean reality show blends high-stakes mental warfare with the cunning social strategy of Survivor and the tension of Big Brother, all wrapped in a sleek seven-day showdown.

Brains Over Brawn: The Premise

The show, which premiered in September 2023, stormed onto the scene with a Rotten Tomatoes score that nearly scraped the ceiling, sitting pretty at 92%. And it’s no mystery why. Crafted by Jung Jong-yeon, the mind behind The Genius, this one doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to intellectual combat. Twelve contestants, each a star in their own right, are locked into a psychological gauntlet where trust is fleeting and every move counts.

Familiar faces like...

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers ( Photo Credit – Twitter )

The previous episode of Days of Our Lives saw Philip and Belle making a promise. On the other hand, Susan visited Ej while Xander demanded answers from Stephanie and Alex. Lastly, Kate chastised Rex for assuming she was the one who shot Ej just because he found a gun in her things.

There’s a lot more drama waiting to unfold as the episodes go by. Conflicts and tension are slated to rise between the characters. Here’s what fans can expect from the April 22, 2025, episode of Days of our Lives whenever they tune in to Peacock to stream the long-running daytime drama set in Salem.

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers: April 22, 2025

The episode on Tuesday features Cat and Gabi catching up. The two have met after a long while, and there’s a lot to discuss with each other. Will Gabi...

Deb Mukherjee Passes Away: Bollywood Celebs Pay Last Respects! (Photo Credit – Twitter)

Holi festivities in Bollywood came to an abrupt end with the news of Ayan Mukerji losing his father. Veteran actor Deb Mukherjee passed away at the age of 83. He had not been keeping well for the past few days and passed away on the morning of March 14. His last rites took place at 4 Pm in Mumbai.

Kajol Rushes With Mom Tanuja

As soon as the news broke, Ayan’s best friends Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt left their Holi party in Alibaug and rushed back to Mumbai. Kajol was the amongst the first ones to arrive at Ayan’s residence to pay last respect to his uncle. She was seen with mom Tanuja.

Slowly, the entire industry gathered to pay last respects to Deb Mukherjee, who was last seen in Shahid Kapoor’s film Kaminey. Karan Johar, Jaya Bachchan,...

Exclusive: “The cat and mouse dynamic is really good,” says Jason Watkins. “It’s a game where these two men are almost stalking each other,” adds Robson Green.

The pair are talking about the central dynamic in Catch You Later, the Channel 5 miniseries in which The Crown star Watkins plays a retired police officer, Huw Miller, who is plagued by the one case he failed to crack — stalker who taunted his town, toying with his victims before killing them. When Patrick Harbottle (Green) moves into a home on his street recently left empty when the occupier suddenly dies, Miller becomes convinced his new neighbor is the killer, thanks to three little words.

“The way Patrick says, ‘catch you later’ triggers something within Huw, who thinks he has his man,” says Green, star of shows such as Grantchester and Strike Back. “Patrick is over-friendly, and Huw feels everything is not quite what it seems.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

As always, what is considered best is first determined by what can be seen, and this year there were many films that I missed. When it came to popular releases, for example, some took too long to be released in the UK; some were showing while I was reviewing other films; and others just simply passed me by. And the same problems were even more pronounced when it came to watching short/experimental films. Nevertheless, there was much that I enjoyed this year, and several films that did not make the final cut might well do so if I were to make the list again at a later date. I hope that my current selection will point you towards something informative and/or entertaining, and that it will add,...

Raj Kapoor Held A Huge Box Office Record For 10,959 Days Straight! (Photo Credit – YouTube)

The showman of Indian Cinema who made us believe—Jeena Yahan Marna Yahan, Iske Siwa Jaana Kahaan—the great Raj Kapoor was born exactly 100 years ago. As the Kapoors celebrate his 100th birth anniversary, we decided to take a quick recap on an insane achievement of his career.

He was the greatest – Shashi Kapoor & Shammi Kapoor’s brother, Randhir, Rishi, and Rajiv Kapoor’s father, Babita and Neetu Kapoor’s father-in-law, Karisma, Kareena, Ranbir, Riddhima Kapoor, Adar & Armaan Jain’s grandfather, Taimur, Jeh, Navya Naveli Nanda & Agastya Nanda’s great-grandfather! The legacy he left was imbibed by the youngsters of the Kapoor – Nanda family.

Raj Kapoor’s First Step In Cinema

Raj Kapoor holds an impeccable box office record that was unbeatable for 20 long years. He made his debut in 1943 with a film called Gauri, which...

Coma 2B: Catacomb is a scary new game in the horror series made by Dvora Studio Co., Ltd. It’s available on Nintendo Switch and PC. This Korean horror journey gives players a better look into the nightmare world called the Coma, which is a unique link between the series’ previous games.

The game follows the series’ history, which began with The Coma: Cutting Class in 2015 and was made by the talented team at Dvora Studio. After the well-reviewed The Coma: Vicious Sisters, this new book is very interesting because it looks at events that happen at the same time as other stories. Players take on the role of Youngho Choi, who was the main character in the first game and is now stuck in a scary, mysterious loop.

The game builds on the unique side-scrolling horror gameplay that has become the series’ specialty by combining complex storylines with tough survival gameplay.

Warner Bros. is seeking to throw out a lawsuit filed by the estate of Michael Crichton, which argued that the forthcoming Max series “The Pitt” is an unauthorized reboot of “ER.”

Crichton was a creator of “ER,” having written the original pilot script based on his own experiences as a medical student. His widow, Sherri, sued in August, accusing John Wells, Noah Wyle and others of going behind her back to create “The Pitt,” which she alleged is “ER” in all but its title.

The studio filed a motion Monday arguing that the two shows are distinct and the lawsuit is doomed to fail.

“‘The Pitt’ is a completely different show from ‘ER,'” the motion states. “Plaintiff cannot use Mr. Crichton’s ‘ER’ contract as a speech-stifling weapon to prevent Defendants from ever making a show about emergency medicine.”

Warner Bros.’ lawyers argue that Crichton’s estate does not...

‘The Crown’s Jason Watkins Leading Channel 5 Cat-And-Mouse Thriller

The Crown star Jason Watkins is leading his second Channel 5 drama of 2024, a cat-and-mouse thriller about a policeman haunted by a case he failed to solve. Catch You Later [working title] also stars Robson Green and Sunetra Sarker. Watkins leads as Huw Miller, a detective haunted by a stalker who taunted his town, mercilessly toying with his victims before eventually killing them. As Huw attempts to settle into retirement, the case is never far from his mind – and when new neighbor, Patrick Harbottle (Green) moves in and utters the chilling phrase ‘catch you later’ – the sign off the stalker used to taunt Huw during the investigation – Huw is determined he’s finally got his man. Channel 5 is re-teaming with Watkins after he led thriller Coma for the Paramount UK network earlier this year. Clapperboard Studios, a long-time collaborator with Channel 5, is producing,...

Several recent announcements show how entertainment companies are strengthening their content. Acclaimed British actor Jason Watkins will star in a new thriller series for Channel 5 called “Catch You Later.” Meanwhile, French media group Mediawan is diversifying through new executive hires. Turkish drama “A Journey to Belong” also found international distribution.

In “Catch You Later,” Watkins will play a retired detective named Huw Miller. The character tries to enjoy retirement after failing to solve a stalking case years ago. But when his new neighbor says something that reminds him of the stalker, Miller decides to reopen the investigation. Watkins said he’s excited for another thriller on Channel 5 after the success of his previous series “Coma” on the network. Clapperboard Studios will produce “Catch You Later” with distribution by Sphere Abacus.

Mediawan, a major French media company, made two key appointments recently. Pablo Nakhlé Cerruti will expand the firm’s offerings by exploring podcasts,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah)

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a film about retribution and redemption. Not just on screen, but in execution. After their last attempt at a blockbuster was shelved in the name of a tax loophole, directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah seem intent on unleashing all their pent-up energy, whether they’re selling us Batgirls or Bad Boys. Even if it bears the baggage of a meta redemption arc for its star, Ride or Die brings enough stylistic gusto to its action in the absence of Michael Bay but has a hard time justifying most other decisions, which adopt the tedium rampant in modern blockbuster filmmaking. – Conor O. (full review...

Mubi has unveiled next month’s streaming lineup, including an exciting lineup of notable new releases: Bertrand Bonello’s Coma (along with Nocturama), Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet (as her newest film premieres at the New York Film Festival), Martin Rejtman’s The Practice alongside his previous features, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, and more.

As David Katz said in his review from 2022’s Berlinale, “Coma is anything but a navel-gazing work, and more one of imaginative empathy. It is not Being Bertrand Bonello, but addressed to and concerning a person of a far-removed generation and gender: his teenage daughter Anna. Some amusing early interactions with pop culture, especially music, come from this cross-generational conversation: ‘turn that garbage off’ et al. But Bonello looks at the Zoomer state of mind, as he does for much else of importance, and has cutting, perceptive and troubling things to say.”

Check out the lineup below,...

As spooky season approaches consider what streamer Mubi has to offer this October, starting with their collection The New Coven: A Female Horror Renaissance. The collection includes breakout hits Revenge from Coralie Fargeat and Jennifer Reeder's Knives And Skin, perennial favorites of Anarchists.    Three more films should fall under the spooky season banner, romantic thriller The Blue Room (caution on the scroll down to the provided bare bum image), thriller The Lonliest Planet and mystery thriller Coma.    A new wave of female directors is reshaping the horror genre, continuing a tradition that began with Alice Guy-Blaché in the early 1900s. Directors like Jennifer Kent, Coralie Fargeat, and Susanne Deeken are leading a renaissance, reclaiming female agency and addressing themes such as gender roles, sexuality,...

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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz)

Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds at such a deep frequency that the walls of a press-screening room in Beverly Hills began rattling. Once the shaking stopped and it’s realized this was not the third Los Angeles earthquake in as many weeks, the setup of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice is doled out in impressively economical fashion: Rent is due for Frida (Naomie Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat). Rather than pay up and keep the wheels spinning in their going-nowhere-fast lives, Frida has a plan: retrieving a hidden wad of bills, she purchases gowns so she and Jess can crash a fancy gala after their waitress shifts end. Looking suitably glamorous,...

Days of Our Lives spoilers for the week of September 9, 2024 are here! In the next episode, Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis) bonds with Ej Dimera (Dan Feuerriegel).

Sarah Horton Kiriakis (Linsey Godfrey) gets hypnotized. Fiona Cook (Serena Scott Thomas) reflects on her actions.

Meanwhile, Paulina Price (Jackee Harry) demands a comatose Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) wake up. Keep reading to find out what is coming up in the Peacock soap opera.

Days Of Our Lives – Monday, September 9: Fiona Cook’s Killer Move

Dool spoilers for Monday, September 9 reveal that Fiona freaked out after Sarah said she remembered the accident. While Sarah seemed to remember something, she couldn’t see the driver due to the glare.

Fiona knows this but has decided Sarah is still a liability. Fiona gets ready to smother Sarah with a pillow, but clearly something or someone stops her.

Meanwhile, John Black (Drake Hogestyn) gives Tate Black (Leo Howard) some advice.

After Marrying Saira Banu, Dilip Kumar Visited Madhubala Before She Died. (Photo Credit – Youtube/Reddit/Facebook)

Madhubala and Dilip Kumar, two of Bollywood’s most legendary superstars, shared a common past. A relationship that could not last forever and a bond that turned ugly while the two had a bittersweet farewell after familial opposition, especially from Madhubala’s father, Ataullah Khan. Further professional disagreements led to a painful breakup that has been etched in the history of Indian Cinema.

The Mughal-e-Azam couple’s love story had affection, misunderstandings, and an eventual, sorrowful separation, that later culminated into a painful heartbreak. However, the two stars, met for one last time before Madhubala passed away on February 23, 1969 at a very young age of 36!

A Meeting To Remember!

Madhubala died a few years after the Devdas actor married the love of his life, Saira Banu, on October 11, 1966. However, before the Anarkali of Indian Cinema passed away,...

There are stabs of the same fear that made The Beast fascinating, but this tale of a bored teenager in a scary, affectless future is too unfocused

Prominent French film-makers are supported by their national industry and even their lockdown projects have been received with respectful attention. Earlier this year Olivier Assayas’s autofiction Hors du Temps, or Suspended Time, premiered in Berlin – a dreamy Covid-era indulgence that he just about got away with. Now we have a chance to see Bertrand Bonello’s musing sketch Coma: a lockdown essay that preceded his brilliant futurist film The Beast, with many of the same ideas and tropes.

Coma broods on a scary, affectless future in which humanity will evolve away from the primacy of love and selfhood, and in which sexuality and violence will then be prominent as a symptom of the need to feel something, anything. As so often,...

“Stath Lets Flats” producer Roughcut TV have signed a first look development deal with Fremantle as they lean into their drama slate.

The deal will see Fremantle become the primary home for Roughcut’s drama projects, working closely with the global drama and international distribution divisions.

Roughcut, who recently announced upcoming Diane Kruger-fronted series “Little Disasters” for Paramount+, was founded by Ash Atalla and Tim Sealey and quickly built a reputation for comedy shows, including “Stath Lets Flats” and “Big Boys.”

They have since bolstered their drama offering under CEO Ash Atalla, creative director Alex Smith and head of drama Marianna Abbotts, including with recent drama hit “Coma,” starring Jason Watkins as a family man who hits breaking point after his neighborhood is terrorized by a group of teens.

The prod-co also have comedy drama “We Might Regret This” set to air on BBC Two later this summer.

Fremantle...

Fremantle, part of media giant Bertelsmann’s Rtl Group, has struck a first-look drama development deal with Roughcut Television, the production firm co-founded by CEO Ash Atalla, the producer of the original British version of The Office and The It Crowd.

The agreement follows the companies’ recent team-up on Paramount+ U.K. & Ireland psychological thriller series Little Disasters, starring Diane Kruger (Troy, Inglourious Basterds) and Jo Joyner (The Wives, For Her Sins).

Roughcut, founded by Atalla and chief operating officer Tim Sealey, is mostly known for comedy shows, such as Big Boys, Stath Lets Flats, and Cuckoo but it has also had success with recent Channel 5 drama Coma, starring Jason Watkins.

“The first-look and drama development deal will see Fremantle become the primary home for Roughcut TV’s scripted drama projects, with the producer working closely with Fremantle’s acclaimed global drama and international distribution divisions,” the companies said.

Update: the Roxy have added encore dates for House of Tolerance. See them below along with ticket info.

Bonello Season approaches. In anticipation of the U.S. release of The Beast and, at long last, Coma––or just an excuse to watch one of this (any) century’s greatest films; either works!––The Film Stage is proud to present his masterpiece House of Tolerance at the Roxy Cinema on March 14, 16, and 17, marking New York’s first 35mm showing in five years.

Special thanks to our friends at Janus Films / Sideshow Films and Film Movement, who will present trailers for their upcoming, respective Bonello releases The Beast and Coma.

The Film Stage readers receive a discounted $12 ticket with mention of our program at the Roxy’s box office. (Don’t be shy––their employees are very nice.) We look forward to seeing you at the movies.

House of Tolerance on 35mm

Tuesday,...

Get ready for a gripping episode of “Coma,” airing this Thursday at 9:00 Pm on Channel 5. In Season 1 Episode 4, tensions reach a boiling point for Simon and Beth as their web of lies begins to unravel, and the consequences of their actions come crashing down around them. With time running out and Paul and his heavies closing in, the couple is faced with a harrowing decision: should they turn themselves in to the authorities or attempt to flee from their troubles?

As the stakes escalate and the pressure mounts, viewers will be on the edge of their seats, eagerly anticipating the fate of Simon and Beth. Will they find a way to escape the clutches of danger, or will their past finally catch up with them?

Don’t miss out on the heart-pounding suspense of “Coma” this Thursday as the drama unfolds and the characters are forced to confront the consequences of their choices.

As the EFM gets underway Film Movement has snapped up North American rights from The Match Factory to the period dramedy Sisi & I starring current Oscar nominee Sandra Huller.

The Match Factory has also licensed rights in Australia & New Zealand (Palace Entertainment), France (Kinovista), South Korea (Andamiro), Italy (Movies Inspired), Benelux (September Films), Israel (Lev Cinemas), former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom), and Ukraine (Traffic Films).

Frauke Finsterwalder’s feature premiered at the Berlinale last year and sees Huller play Countess Irma Grafin, the lady-in-waiting to Empress Elisabeth of Austria played by Susanne Wolff.

Film Movement is planning a theatrical release...

Last February, Caroline Polachek shared one of the best albums of 2023: her fourth solo LP, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. Now, on Valentine’s Day, she’s back with Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: Everasking Edition, a new version of the album featuring seven additional tracks and four new songs.

The new Everasking Edition includes the previously-released duet version of “Butterfly Net” featuring Weyes Blood, as well as the song Polachek premiered on Stephen Colbert’s show last October, “Dang.” Also featured are four new songs, titled “Meanwhile,” “Coma,” “Gambler’s Prayer,” and “Spring Is Coming with a Strawberry In the Mouth,” the latter of which is a cover of an Operating Theatre song.

Rounding out the expanded tracklist is an acoustic version of her song “I Believe.” Last year, Polachek delivered an unplugged rendition of the tune for her whimsical Tiny Desk concert.

Desire,...

Be warned, the following article contains minor plot spoilers for the film Coma

Coma used the fear and uncertainty surrounding illness and hospitals to create a medical thriller with a unique and unsettling premise. The film accurately depicted the potential causes and complications of being in a coma, unlike other movies. However, it angered some doctors. Coma negatively portrayed the medical industry, causing panic and a decline in organ donations after its release.

You don't need much to make a visit to the hospital nerve-racking. Upping the drama from mere anxiety to absolute moral panic, director and writer Michael Crichton would use that innate unease when making his hospital-themed movie Coma, a mostly forgotten but jarring thriller from 1978. Depending on who's watching it, the slow-burning horror film is either an eye-opening exposé on the dangers of the medical industry run amok or a dangerous piece of trash that ruined the...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

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A massive run of Luis Buñuel’s Mexican films begins; “To Save and Project,” continues.

Film at Lincoln Center

“Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s” brings films by Tati, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray (x2), Godard, Straub-Huillet, Pasolini, and more.

Film Forum

“Sapph-o-rama” highlights lesbian cinema with films by Chantal Akerman, Lizzie Borden, Ulrike Ottinger, Yvonne Rainer, Celine Sciamma, and more; a 4K restoration of The Pianist, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, and The Third Man continue; a print of Calamity Jane plays on Sunday.

IFC Center

As Francis Ford Coppola’s latest recut, One from the Heart: Reprise, continues, Bertrand Bonello’s masterpiece Coma gets a New York premiere and a Dario Argento series begins; Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar plays late.

Roxy Cinema

Cronenberg’s Crash and Keith McNally...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film at Lincoln Center

“Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s” brings films by Kurosawa, Bresson, Tati, Godard and more.

IFC Center

As Francis Ford Coppola’s latest recut, One from the Heart: Reprise, continues, Bertrand Bonello’s masterpiece Coma gets a New York premiere; Ken Russell’s Whore, Saw III, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome also have late showings.

Roxy Cinema

A Ryan O’Neal retrospective brings The Driver on 35mm and Partners, while Cronenberg’s Crash shows on a print; City Dudes returns on Saturday and Sunday brings a puppet program and the Iranian feature Downpour plays on Sunday.

Film Forum

A 4K restoration of The Pianist begins a run while I Heard It Through the Grapevine and The Third Man continue; The Sunshine Boys plays on Sunday.

Museum of the Moving Image

A retrospective of snubbed performances brings films by Howard Hawks,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

The world came back in 2023. The box office, the labor strikes, the raging wars, the Who-declared end of official global emergency, the AI explosion. People were stir-crazy, anxious to act, be it in the name of violence or peace or productivity. It’s been a sobering reminder that life fully lived is defined by bedrock tragedy as much as triumph––that to enter back into open community with the rest of the world is to feel the effervescence of life flowing naturally again while simultaneously laying oneself bare to fresh devastation. It’s been a reminder of the duality of being: that real life is much wilder than the movies and yet the day-to-day is still defined by mundanity and monotony––the amassed in-between moments.

In those in-betweens,...

Bertrand Bonello’s “Coma,” which won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2022, has been acquired by Film Movement for North American distribution.

The film follows a teenager who is stuck at home during once of France’s strict early-pandemic lockdowns. Cut off from the outside world, she begins to go back and forth between dreams and reality, guided by a disturbing and mysterious youtuber, Patricia Coma. Represented internationally by Best Friend Forever, the movie weaves genre, animation and live action to explore online behavior and content consumption.

“Coma” stars Louise Labeque (“Zombi Child”) and Julia Faure (“Camille Rewinds”), with voice acting from beloved late actor Gaspard Ulliel as well as Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste.

Along with winning the Fipresci prize at Berlin, the movie won best picture and best production design at the International Cinephile Society Awards. Film Movement previously worked with Bonello...

David McKnight, whose film resume included starring as the lead in the blaxploitation horror movie J.D.’s Revenge, as well as Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats, died Sunday at age 87.

McKnight passed from cancer in Las Vegas, according to reports.

The actor was a TV staple in various character roles, appearing on Kojak, Hill Street Blues, The Incredible Hulk, Dynasty and Benson, among other shows.

In J.D.’s Revenge (1976), McKnight played a deceased New Orleans hustler who takes over the body of a college student (Glynn Turman) and goes after the man who murdered him and his sister 30 years earlier.

McKnight was hired to play Uncle Ray in Townsend’s The Hollywood Shuffle, playing a singer turned barber who encourages Townsend’s Bobby Taylor to pursue his dream of becoming an actor.

McKnight went on to portray Pastor Stone in the Townsend-directed The Five Heartbeats (1991) and was the...

David McKnight, who portrayed the title character in the cult blaxploitation horror classic J.D.’s Revenge and appeared in Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats for Robert Townsend, has died. He was 87.

McKnight died Sunday of cancer in Las Vegas, his friend and publicist Cynthia Busby told The Hollywood Reporter.

McKnight also showed up on dozens of TV shows, from Kojak, Hill Street Blues, The Incredible Hulk, Dynasty and Benson to Moonlighting, 227, Roc, L.A. Law and The District.

In the New Orleans-set J.D.’s Revenge (1976), directed by Arthur Marks, McKnight played a deceased hustler who takes over the body of a college student (Glynn Turman) and goes after the man who murdered him and his sister 30 years earlier.

In a 2018 interview, McKnight said that he first met Townsend when the first-time feature filmmaker was putting together Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and offered him advice.

He was then hired to play Uncle Ray,...

Victor J. Kemper, the former president of the American Society of Cinematographers whose career spanned four decades and included films as diverse as Dog Day Afternoon and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, has died according to the ASC. He was 96.

Kemper made films with many of the greats of ’70s cinema, including John Cassavetes, Arthur Hiller, Michael Ritchie, Peter Yates, Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Robert Wise, Carl Reiner, Richard Attenborough and Norman Jewison.

His very first film was Cassavetes’ Husbands, and it was an education in itself.

“We shot more than a million-and-a-half feet of film during 10 weeks in New York and 12 weeks in London,” Kemper recalled. “That’s the way Cassavetes worked.”

He went on to make Mikey & Nicky with the director.

Subsequent work included The Candidate, And Justice for All, Audrey Rose, Slap Shot, Oh God!, The Gambler, The Jerk, The Four Seasons, Coma, Mr. Mom, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,...

Victor J. Kemper, the veteran cinematographer who shot more than 50 features, including Dog Day Afternoon, Eyes of Laura Mars, The Jerk and Slap Shot, has died. He was 96.

Kemper died Monday of natural causes in Sherman Oaks, his son, Steven Kemper, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Kemper earned his inaugural D.P. credit on Husbands (1970), written and directed by John Cassavetes, then shot Elia Kazan’s final feature, The Last Tycoon (1976) and Tim Burton’s first, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985).

Kemper also did six films for director Arthur Hiller — The Tiger Makes Out (1967), The Hospital (1971), Author! Author! (1982), The Lonely Guy (1984), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and Married to It (1991) — and three in a row for Carl Reiner: Oh God! (1977), The One and Only (1978) and The Jerk (1979).

The New Jersey native said he had to wear ice skates when he photographed the hockey scenes in George Roy Hill’s Slap Shot (1977) and...

While the first Ant-Man (2015) movie is set in the present day, it opens with a flashback to 1989 when Michael Douglas’ character, Dr. Hank Pym, resigns from his post at S.H.I.E.L.D. after discovering their plan to duplicate his Ant-Man tech. As the original Ant-Man from Marvel Comics, the entomologist and quantum physicist Dr. Pym discovered and harnessed the power of a subatomic particle, enabling the human body to shrink or expand.

Though the so-called “Pym particle” is every bit as fictional as Doc Emmet Brown’s “Flux capacitor” from Back to the Future (1985), the opening flashback scene from the first Ant-Man movie utilizes an innovative technology that is stranger than fiction: the visual effect known as “de-aging."

To de-age the actor to his former physical glory, visual effects artists pored over every frame of Douglas’ films from the late 1980s for the computer to analyze and...

Bertrand Bonello’s sci-fi drama “The Beast,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, follows a star-crossed duo, trying — and failing — to make love work across three timelines. Moving between 1910, 2014 and 2044, the film mixes period drama, speculative sci-fi and bouts of genuinely chilling horror — particularly in a middle section set in contemporary Los Angeles.

There, aspiring actress Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) catches the attention of Louis (George MacKay), a self-described incel with a violent hatred for women. Bonello based the character on Elliot Rodger, a 2014 mass killer who uploaded a misogynist manifesto to YouTube before claiming seven lives. The filmmaker also re-created scenes from Rodger’s infamous video verbatim in the film.

Why did you choose to cite Elliot Rodger?

When I learned of the story back in 2014, I was shocked by the atrocious attack, of course, but I was also shocked by his words, so much so that...

It does rather feel as if the universe — or at least the French film industry — is trying to tell us something when 2023 has turned up not one but two loose Gallic adaptations of Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle.” That 1903 novella was about a man, John Marcher, who fails to fully live his life because he’s seized by premonitions of catastrophe that never visibly come to pass. It feels glumly relevant in an age of climate change, artificial intelligence and other obvious but indefinite signals of human demise; perhaps we should count this highly specific cinematic mini-trend as another.

Spare a thought for director Patric Chiha’s “The Beast in the Jungle,” a Berlinale premiere earlier this year, with an already modest profile about to be dwarfed by Bertrand Bonello’s starrier, bigger-swinging “The Beast” — a gender-switched James riff in which said catastrophe is very much happening,...

One of the most buzzed-about international movies of the fall festival circuit, Bertrand Bonello’s “The Beast,” has already lured several distributors ahead of its world premiere in competition at Venice.

Represented by Kinology, the dystopian romance is headlined by Léa Seydoux (“Crimes of the Future”) and George MacKay (“1917”) as star-crossed lovers.

The gripping film, which marks Bonello’s most ambitious to date, is set in a near future where artificial intelligence reigns supreme and human emotions have become a threat. Gabrielle (Seydoux), a woman haunted by an irrational fear, is being told that she must purify her DNA to heal from past traumas in order to get a proper job. Through the process, Gabrielle revisits past lives and immerses herself in buried memories from 1910 and 2014, where she reunites with Louis (MacKay), her great love. While their bond has transcended lifetimes and eras, it’s also at the root of...