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Thailand’s M Studio is beginning talks with buyers at the EFM for Death Whisperer 3, following-up the biggest local film of all time at the Thai box office.

Nadech Kugimiya continues to lead the cast of the hit horror franchise, also known by its original Thai title Tee Yod. This time, his character sets out on a rescue mission when his youngest sister is kidnapped by a mysterious cult that leads him to a cursed village.

Dated for release on October 8, it is directed by Narit Yuvaboon who steps up from his producer’s role on the first two films.

Ahead of SXSW next month, Amazon MGM Studios have released the official trailer for The Accountant 2, offering a first look at the return of 2x Academy Award-winner and former Batman actor Ben Affleck (Justice League; Argo; The Town) as the titular accountant and the Punisher himself Jon Bernthal (The Punisher; Daredevil: Born Again; The Wolf of Wall Street) as his equally lethal brother.

The film's synopsis reads, "Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) has a talent for solving complex problems. When an old acquaintance is murdered, leaving behind a cryptic message to “find the accountant,” Wolff is compelled to solve the case. Realizing more extreme measures are necessary, Wolff recruits his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax (Jon Bernthal), to help. In partnership with U.S. Treasury Deputy Director Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becoming targets of a ruthless network of killers who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & Salman Khan’s Cumulative Box Office Collection: A Hypothetical 526.67 Crore Loss ( Photo Credit – Instagram; IMDb )

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Salman Khan, together, were a fairy tale with the saddest ending. When they first came on screen together, they were the oh-so-perfect pair. People smiled at them and cried with them. Moreover, when they turned their chemistry real, everyone was spellbound, including Sanjay Leela Bhansali, since he did it way before Karan Johar started doing it and announcing it – making people fall in love.

As Salman and Aish fell in love on the sets of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Bhansali did not waste time and immediately planned two more films with them. There was also a third one, which Salman Khan was keen on doing. However, plans are made to be ruined mostly. So did this plan as well!

Sanjay Leela Bhansali planned two films that were...

Mare of Easttown went out swinging Sunday, with the HBO whodunit drawing its best-ever ratings for its series finale.

According to HBO, nearly 3 million viewers tuned in to the hour-plus climax (read recap here) on Sunday night across all platforms, marking a series high for the Kate Winslet-led miniseries. What’s more, the swan song set a record as the most-watched episode of an original series on HBO Max during its first 24 hours of availability, eclipsing the final episodes of The Undoing and The Flight Attendant Season 1 over the same period of time.

More from TVLineCould Mare of Easttown...

Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have a few matches here, including a major Triple Threat as an opener. What’s that? There’s a bear behind me? Bruce Vilanche: Who wants sex?! Me: Oh God! No! Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!! Bv: Come back! No means yes! Me: Ahhhhhhh!!!!!! Nxt starts now. Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Bv: It’s going in your butt!

Match #1: Pete Dunne vs. Kyle O’Reilly vs. Johnny Gargano (no contest) The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Three stalwarts of the black-and-gold brand battled for the right to challenge Karrion Kross for the Nxt Title at Nxt TakeOver: In Your House, but Adam Cole brought the ultra-competitve bout to a screeching halt. Cole first smashed Kyle O’Reilly with a steel chair before also laying out Pete Dunne and blasting Johnny Gargano with the Last Shot, drawing an irate...

HBO Max appears to have been maxed out.

On Sunday night at 10 pm Et, when HBO’s highly anticipated Mare of Easttown season finale was to have started, social media erupted with reports that the cabler’s streaming service — which only days ago celebrated its first birthday — was down for many subscribers. Some users speculated that HBO Max could not handle the Kate Winslet-led murder mystery’s finale-night traffic.

More from TVLineCould Mare of Easttown Return for a Season 2? 'I Would Absolutely Love to Play Mare Again,' Kate Winslet SaysMare of Easttown Finale Recap: The Sins of the Father -- Grade It!

Rome’s Mia market, the growing showcase for international TV series, feature films and documentaries, has announced a first batch of projects being pitched to prospective buyers during its sixth edition on track to take place both physically and online Oct.14-18 in the Italian capital.

They include “Lafayette,” a costume drama set during the the American Revolution written by David Franzoni, who won a best picture Oscar for producing “Gladiator.” “Lafayette” is being produced by France’s Nicolas Deprost via his Wild Horses shingle.

Other standout Mia Drama Pitching Forum projects comprise “Thank You for Playing,” a thriller from France’s Black Sheep Films and It’s Alive Films in which five professional online gamers are sent to a training camp in Lapland to try and beat artificial intelligence software. And from Italy’s Redstring and Minerva Pictures “Miss Fallaci Takes America,” about the 1958 journey to the U.S. of groundbreaking journalist Oriana Fallaci.

Some 50 projects span films, TV series and documentaries.

Rome’s Mia film and TV market has unveiled the first wave of projects for this year’s event, which will go-ahead as a mix of physical and digital elements from October 14-18.

The sixth edition of the Audiovisual International Market (Mia), which runs alongside the Rome Film Festival, will include 50 projects from more than 20 countries in its co-production market and pitching forum. The co-production market will comprise 16 projects, of which half are directed by women.

These include Amor y Dolor by Emanuele Scaringi, marking her second feature after youth comedy La Profezia Dell’Armadillo,...

Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the full two hours on USA, so let’s see if Nxt can kick All Elite Wrestling’s ass…or not. I love monkeys!

Match #1: Adam Cole def. Matt Riddle – Nxt Championship Match The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Adam Cole’s precious Nxt Championship remains safe around his waist. An exhausted Cole looked absolutely stunned after a grueling match with Riddle, especially given his far less than peak condition. The leader of The Undisputed Era fought through a broken right wrist thanks to a Fujiwara Armbar at the hands of Riddle last week. Riddle showed off his superior grappling skills early on, taking The Panama City Playboy down repeatedly and seemingly overwhelming the champion. However, Cole proved he was game with comparably astute skills. The opponents showed they had...

Exclusive: Funny or Die creative director and former Saturday Night Live head writer Andrew Steele is penning The Last Shot, a comedy set in the basketball world that is being produced by Red Crown Productions and Funny Or Die. Sports Illustrated writer Lee Jenkins, who has covered the NBA extensively over the last 11 years, will be making contributions to the script.

Pic will be produced by Daniel Crown and Yoni Liebling of Red Crown Productions, and Mike Farah and Joe Farrell of Funny Or Die.

“This is as close as I’ll ever get to my lifelong dream of ever playing in the NBA,” said Steele.

“We are thrilled to announce our involvement with The Last Shot and to have the incredible writing of Andrew Steele and the NBA knowledge and expertise of Lee Jenkins to help bring this story to the screen,” said Crown, Founder of Red Crown Productions.

Solo obviously takes place before A New Hope. However, we weren't sure where exactly it takes place in the official Star Wars timeline. Now, we know where it fits into the grand scheme of things and it will not end as close as Rogue One did to the original trilogy nor will it butt directly against the beginning of the aforementioned prequel. The timeline has become an important piece of information for Star Wars fans, especially since all of the new trilogies have been announced.

It had been previously reported that a bunch of tie-in Solo books are being released ahead of the movie. Some of which tell the story before the events of the upcoming big screen adventure, while others like The Last Shot, jump around from before, during, and even as far as after the events of Return of the Jedi. It's been announced that all of the...

Kylo Ren wasn't born during the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story, but a new Star Wars book will tie the movie together with the end of Return of the Jedi, which means a very young Ben Solo will appear. We'll get to read about a young Ben, before he gets angry at Uncle Luke and before he kills his father, which could make for some interesting reading. However, the story is being billed as a Han and Lando book, meaning that we'll hopefully get some insight into their long friendship.

Out of all of the Solo: A Star Wars Story books that were announced today, the novel Last Shot by Daniel Jose Older seems like the most interesting. As previously noted, it's a book about Lando and Han Solo, which will talk about their history before Solo and then after the events of Return of the Jedi. Overall,...

Jeff Nathanson has signed on to direct Ghosts of Girlfriends Past for Walt Disney Studios. He will replace Mark Waters, who boarded the project in June. Best known as a screenwriter -- his credits include The Terminal and Catch Me If You Can -- Nathanson made his directorial debut this year with The Last Shot. John Lucas and Scott Moore penned Ghosts, which centers on a bachelor who goes to his younger brother's wedding, where he is visited by the ghosts of past girlfriends. The film is being produced by Jon Shestack and overseen for Disney by Brad Epstein. JC Spink and Chris Bender are executive producing. Ghosts has had several earlier incarnations. Betty Thomas was originally set to direct with Ben Affleck starring. Nathanson is repped by UTA.

Back in the 1980s, a pair of aspiring filmmakers finally found a producer to make their dream project, not realizing that they were actually fronting an FBI undercover mob sting operation.

While the incident was recounted by Steve Fishman in the 1996 Details magazine article, "What's Wrong With This Picture?" it sounded more like a classic Hollywood high-concept pitch.

Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson obviously thought so, too, and after six years and numerous drafts (taking time off to collaborate with Steven Spielberg on Catch Me if You Can and The Terminal), he makes his directorial debut with the Hollywood version.

The resulting The Last Shot is an often funny if slight satire that's never as edgy as it thinks it is or as sharply focused as it needs to be to put it in a league with a Get Shorty or a State and Main.

Despite knowing, expertly modulated performances by Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick and company, the Touchstone presentation is more like the long shot where ticket sales are concerned beyond industry towns. More likely it'll go into a fairly swift DVD turnaround.

Following a playfully inventive opening credit sequence (designed and produced by yU+co), the setup is put into action. Baldwin's Joe Devine is an FBI agent who's constantly struggling to emerge from the shadow of his brother Jack (Ray Liotta), who happens to head up the bureau.

When he stumbles across the practice of mob-brokered bribes between motion picture productions and the teamsters who provide the necessary trucks, a light bulb goes off in his head.

Posing as a Hollywood producer backed by a bunch of dentist investors, Joe finds himself an ideal dupe in Steven Schats (Broderick), a struggling screenwriter who works as a ticket taker at the Chinese Mann Theatre and lives with his struggling actress girlfriend (Calista Flockhart) in a complex that is also home to a business that boards movie stars' yappy dogs.

Not only is Devine, now known as Wells, willing to bankroll Schats' epic Arizona, but he also wants him to direct, provided that he's able to recast the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River and Native-American caves in Providence, R.I.

When mobster Tommy The Black Sanz (Tony Shalhoub) easily takes the brokering bait, Joe figures he can cast an even wider net by taking the picture right up to principal photography and possibly beyond.

Before you know it, the FBI is prepared to offer Devine a three-picture deal.

Baldwin and Broderick have an easy, breezy rapport, laying down a sturdy foundation for the rest of the cast to strut their comic stuff, including a very amusing Toni Collette as the film's fading leading lady and an unbilled but always welcome Joan Cusack as an extra-nutty producer.

But writer-director Nathanson feels the need to pad the story with superfluous, distracting bits of business -- like giving Steven a brother Tim Blake Nelson), who also threatens to thwart his dreams -- that end up blunting the picture's satirical edge.

The genial breeziness that remains extends to the technical credits, especially the buoyant score by Rolfe Kent, whose music for Alexander Payne's films (most notably Election, About Schmidt and the upcoming Sideways) always effectively captures the desired quirky tone.

The Last Shot

Touchstone Pictures presents a Morra, Brezner, Steinberg and Tenenbaum production

In association with a Mandeville Films production

Credits:

Director-screenwriter: Jeff Nathanson

Based on an article by: Steve Fishman

Producers: Larry Brezner, David Hoberman

Executive producers: Stan Wlodkowski, Todd Lieberman

Director of photography: John Lindley

Production designer: William Arnold

Editor: David Rosenbloom

Costume designer: Gloria Gresham

Music: Rolfe Kent

Cast:

Steven Schats: Matthew Broderick

Joe Devine

Alec Baldwin

Emily French: Toni Collette

Valerie Weston: Calista Flockhart

Jack Devine: Ray Liotta

Marshal Paris: Tim Blake Nelson

Abe White: James Rebhorn

Tommy The Black Sanz: Tony Shalhoub

MPAA rating: R

Running time -- 93 minutes...

Feisty actor Alec Baldwin has infuriated studio executives after bitterly slamming film-related promotional campaigns during an interview. The hunky actor is sick of speaking to journalists about The Last Shot - which centers on a government agent who poses as a Hollywood producer to catch mobsters - and stunned journalists by launching a scathing attack on the Screen Actor's Guild and the studio publicity departments for giving him too many movies to promote. He also accused film chiefs of blaming him if their film flops. He complained, "The problem is that most of the marketing that's done now means 'let's get the actor out there to charge up the hill and if you get shot to pieces you get shot to pieces'. Get out there and do Letterman, Good Morning America, these tiresome tedious rounds of promotional things to raise the awareness again in a very crowded marketplace to call attention to your film. It's a bad, bad situation when there are just so many movies out there right now, which is ridiculous. Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie- going public."...

After taking a break following her run in TV's Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart is back to work with her first major film role since the end of the series, signing on to star in the independent feature Fragile. Shooting starts in Barcelona at the end of the month with Jaume Balaguero directing from a script he wrote with Jordi Galceran. The Filmax project will see Flockhart topline as a nurse who takes a new job at a desolate children's hospital during its closing days. She struggles to keep the kids safe and uncover the mystery behind apparent attacks of an unknown origin that hurt the kids so that they cannot leave the premises. Richard Roxburgh, Yasmin Murphy and Gemma Jones are also on board to star. Joan Ginard is executive producing with Julio Fernandez, Carlos Fernandez and Antonia Nava handling producing chores. Flockhart and Balaguero are repped by ICM. The actress next appears in a small role opposite Matthew Broderick in the Walt Disney release The Last Shot. She is additionally repped by attorney Barry Tyerman.

After taking a break following her run in TV's Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart is back to work with her first major film role since the end of the series, signing on to star in the independent feature Fragile. Shooting starts in Barcelona at the end of the month with Jaume Balaguero directing from a script he wrote with Jordi Galceran. The Filmax project will see Flockhart topline as a nurse who takes a new job at a desolate children's hospital during its closing days. She struggles to keep the kids safe and uncover the mystery behind apparent attacks of an unknown origin that hurt the kids so that they cannot leave the premises. Richard Roxburgh, Yasmin Murphy and Gemma Jones are also on board to star. Joan Ginard is executive producing with Julio Fernandez, Carlos Fernandez and Antonia Nava handling producing chores. Flockhart and Balaguero are repped by ICM. The actress next appears in a small role opposite Matthew Broderick in the Walt Disney release The Last Shot. She is additionally repped by attorney Barry Tyerman.

About A Boy star Toni Collette has shocked fans by turning her back on movies to launch a singing career. The 31-year-old decided to quit acting to make her first album, after the devastating reviews of her film Connie And Carla and she's relieved she has completed her last two films - the drama In Her Shoes, by LA Confidential director Curtis Hanson, and comedy The Last Shot, co-starring Matthew Broderick and Alec Baldwin. Collette explains, "I've been writing music for more than ten years and I think if I don't actually record it, I'll go insane. But I don't want to be one of those crass actors turned singers or indeed singers turned actors. There are two sides to the coin, the notion that if you're a creative person why should it be funneled through one avenue, why shouldn't you leap over into other areas? Then there's the idea you stick to what you do because you're an embarrassment. But I certainly won't be baring my midriff. I won't be purring, there'll be no little sex kitten thing going on, it's just music that is part of me and I want to get it out."...