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Tonight, we’ve got the latest on everything – the bonus puzzle, all answers and contestants – that you need to know about tonight’s episode of Wheel of Fortune!

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Wheel of Fortune Contestants & Winner – Friday, 14 March 2025 WinnerOther Contestants Gregg LiebgoldBeverly Baru, Ranell Cox Wheel of Fortune Prize Puzzle & All Solutions – Friday, 14 March 2025 $1,000 Toss Up: Midnight Train To Georgia (Song Title)

$2,000 Toss Up: Don't Pack Your Whole Closet (Travel Tip)

Round 1: Putting Together A Puzzle (Fun & Games)

Round 2: Running Late-night Snack (Before & After)

Round 3 (Prize): Enchanting Journey (Event)

Triple Toss Up 1: Passenger Car (Place)

Triple Toss Up 2: Sleeper Car (Place)

Triple Toss Up 3: Clown Car (Place)

Round 4: Feeling Transported (What Are You Doing?) Wheel of Fortune...

Exclusive: IFC Films and AMC+ have snapped up the U.S rights to Freegard from directors Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn.

The pic will see a theatrical release, PVOD and streaming debut on AMC+ later this summer.

The project is inspired by the chilling true story of conman Robert Freegard (James Norton) and Alice Archer (Gemma Arterton), the woman who brought him down. A master manipulator, Freegard kidnapped countless victims, convincing them he was undercover MI5. A tale of lies, loyalty, gaslighting, fear, hope, and the investigation and high-stakes manhunt, which saved the life of Freegard’s final victim.

Patterson and Lawn co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian) based on the article Chasing Agent Freegard by Bronner. The pic also stars Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), Sarah Goldberg (The Dark Knight Rises), Jimmy Akingbola (Ted Lasso), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty...

Adapted from the manga of the same name by Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan has been a staple series for anime fans around the world since its premiere in 2013. What started out as a deadly but straightforward tale about Man vs. Titan, the series changed over the years to something impossibly darker for the characters we all know and love.

While Attack on Titan season 4 part 2 was though to be the last go-around, the story of Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and a whole host of titans will come to an end with Attack on Titan season 4 part 3. Here is everything we know about it.

Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 3 Release Date

Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 3 is set to arrive in 2023. Stay tuned for more info and in the meantime check out our reviews of Part 3.

Attack on Titan Season 4 Episodes Guide

Episode synopses courtesy of Funimation.

Episode 1: “The Other...

Former Tele München Group managing director Herbert Kloiber’s Night Train Media has taken a majority stake in London-based non-scripted distributor BossaNova as it looks to align its documentary and drama businesses.

Under the deal, BossaNova — founded last year by non-scripted veterans Paul Heaney and Dina Subhani — will have access to an acquisition fund to fulfil the company’s mission of co-creating and co-funding projects by matching producers with the most relevant platforms and broadcasters: a clever model in the non-scripted arena that was popularized by Heaney at his former company, Tcb Media Rights, which was sold to “Pooch Perfect” distributor Beyond Rights last summer.

Earlier this year, as part of its inaugural BossaNova Development Day, the distributor connected with more than 50 buyers and commissioners from 35 channels and platforms with 30 producers, who pitched over 75 new projects. The company has also recently made its first volume catalogue buy, acquiring more than...

Gold Derby’s “American Idol” predictions center has been open for less than a week, but we already have ourselves a front-runner to win Season 19: Grace Kinstler. This 20-year-old college student from Lakewood, Il went viral with her original audition of “Natural Woman” by Aretha Franklin, earning more YouTube views than anyone not named Claudia Conway.

Grace easily scored a Golden Ticket to Hollywood, where she’s been a fan-fave ever since. According to our odds, Willie Spence is currently in second place to win, while Chayce Beckham comes in third. Do you agree with your fellow “Idol” fans that Grace is the one to beat? Make your own predictions and then sound off down in the comments section.

See ‘American Idol’ schedule for season 19: When is the finale?

During Hollywood Week, Grace took on “10 Seconds” for the genre challenge, “Grenade” as her duet with Alyssa Wray and “Father” as her showstopper.

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)

Anna Vaus, “Girl in a Bar”

Poway, California, country singer Anna Vaus places you right on the stool next to her in her breezy new ballad “Girl in a Bar.” Written with and produced by Luke Laird,...

Retro-active: The Best From The Cinema Retro Archives

“The Lady Vanishes One More Time”

By Raymond Benson

The Criterion Collection has issued a Blu-ray upgrade to a previous winning DVD release—Carol Reed’s World War II suspense adventure, Night Train to Munich. It’s a terrific example of the fine cinema Britain was managing to produce even while at war. Released there in August of 1940, the country was already in the conflict, although the Blitz had not yet occurred.

What’s more striking is its resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1938) in tone, setting, and even characters. Marketing pushes at the time suggested that Night Train to Munich was a “sequel” to Vanishes, which was an extremely popular movie on both sides of the Atlantic. Night Train is not a sequel, though—it’s more of a remake.

Somebody at the studio must have thought they needed...

Jim Weatherly, the songwriter behind a string of 1970s hits for Gladys Knight & the Pips, including the destined-for-standard-status “Midnight Train to Georgia,” died Wednesday of natural causes at his home near Nashville. He was 77.

The singer-songwriter’s death was reported by music publisher and friend Charlie Monk to the Nashville Tennessean.

In addition to “Midnight Train to Georgia,” Weatherly wrote the early ’70s Knight hits “Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye” and “You’re the Best Thing (That Ever Happened to Me).”

“I’m missing Jim Weatherly already,” Knight tweeted. “He was about life and love. ‘Neither One of Us’ and ‘Midnight Train’ – I remember him getting his Grammys for those. We were just made for each other. We grew our lives together. I’m gonna miss him terribly and love him always.”

“Midnight Train to Georgia” became Knight’s signature song, winning a...

This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers.

Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 2

“You’ve achieved great things.”

“No, not yet.”

Fringe is a television series about an unstable rift between two alternate Earths where the survival of one depends on the destruction of the other. The characters on these opposing Earths both view themselves as the heroes because by nature the very existence of the other Earth makes it the “enemy.” Neither side functions as a villain, but this necessity for survival demands that they’re both viewed in this light anyway. The alternative is to accept that the other side deserves to exist more. It’s a fascinating question to have the audience consider, but Attack on Titan pushes this challenging paradigm to an even more ambitious place with how its fourth season presents the rest of its story. “Midnight Train” adds another satisfying layer to this larger question...

The Kills have announced Little Bastards, an album of rarities and B-sides, out December 11th via Domino.

Little Bastards consists of material from 2002 through 2009. The duo — Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince — previewed the album with the 2009 demo “Raise Me.” The accompanying creepy video features Mosshart singing across raw guitar riffs, her hair shrouding her face.

Little Bastards was named after the fate of the material, as well as the drum machine they used for the first half of their career. “It was a Roland 880,” Hince said, “which isn’t strictly...

Jess Ryder’s psychological thriller novel The Ex-Wife is getting the series treatment, with Euro outfits BlackBox Multimedia and Night Train Media teaming for an international co-production.

New York Times bestselling author and actress Catherine Steadman, known for roles in Downton Abbey and her novels including Something In The Water, has been drafted in to pen the screenplay, her screenwriting debut.

The Ex-Wife follows newlywed Tasha, who has the perfect house, a loving husband and a beautiful little girl. She’d be set if it wasn’t for Jen, her husband’s ex-wife who just won’t leave them alone.

BlackBox Multimedia was founded by former Lionsgate UK COO Guy Avshalom and is headed up by former Fox Network Groups Europe programming director Giuliano Papadia. Night Train was launched earlier this year by Herbert L. Kloiber, former managing director of Tele München Group.

“We think that Catherine’s genuine talent in creating riveting stories,...

Having won the Golden Bear of the 64th Berlinale with “Black Coal, Thin Ice” in 2014, Chinese film has gained the attention of an international audience once more. “The Wild Goose Lake” continues the social realism that Diao Yinan laid out in his big festival hit. His first features “Uniform” (2003) and “Night Train” (2007) already showed the daily life of China’s citizens, focusing on relevant topics of power and identity in the context of the working class. “Black Coal, Thin Ice” dealt with the conflict between communism and capitalism. A symbolic crime story that touches the conflict between China’s past and present. “The Wild Goose Lake” can be seen clearly in the tradition of its predecessors, as Diao picks up all of the previous topics, but also brings his noted visual presentation to perfection.

“The Wild Goose Lake” is screening in Viennale

A group of undercover cops dancing with Led...

Next Spring, Emmy award-winning TV writer David Quantick returns with his second novel Night Train, a sci-fi/horror that thrusts readers onto a – you guessed it – train full of odd characters and even stranger creatures. A woman, suffering from amnesia, must make her way carriage-by-carriage to try and stop this nightmarish locomotive whose destination […]

The post David Quantick’s Sci-Fi/Horror Night Train Glows Red In Exclusive Cover Reveal appeared first on Dread Central.

Amazon Prime Video is out with its list of new titles coming in June, and it includes the new Jonas Brothers movie, “Chasing Happiness.” Featuring never-before-seen footage of the brothers’ younger years, the film offers long-time JoBros fans a personal look at Nick, Joe and Kevin’s journey to success, from a family struggling to make ends meet to their ascent to pop stardom. The Amazon Original is out June 4, just ahead of the band’s comeback album, “Happiness Begins,” out June 7.

Another June highlight is “Yardie,” which is directed by Idris Elba and set in ’70s Kingston, Jamaica and ’80s Hackney, London. “Yardie,” which will be released on June 17, centers on the life of a young Jamaican man named D who has never fully recovered from the murder of his older brother Jerry Dread. Dispatched to London where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne and his daughter who...

Exclusive: Kevin Frakes and Raj B. Singh have tapped Evan Shapiro to become president of National Lampoon. Frakes and Singh, who bought the brand two years ago, have also acquired Shapiro’s eshapTV and will fold the comedy projects he has been developing into the National Lampoon brand.

PalmStar media spent $12 million in 2017 to acquire all the assets of the brand, including the National Lampoon trademark and a library of print, audio and movie content generated over 50 years. One part of Shapiro’s emergence here is a partnership with alt-comedy podcast network Forever Dog, that will carry reboots of the National Lampoon Radio Hour that launched the likes of Bill Murray and Gilda Radner. They are also republishing online pages from the original National Lampoon magazine, and will reboot as a stage and TV show Lemmings, which launched Chevy Chase, Christopher Guest, John Belushi and others.

Shapiro will oversee all development,...

Nineteen films are in contention for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 14 to May 25. The history of a filmmaker at this festival can offer wisdom as to who could be out front to win the coveted Palme d’Or. Seven of the entries are by filmmakers that have been honored during past closing ceremonies. Newcomers to Cannes could end up being big winners with three filmmakers making their first appearance on the Croisette and another four having their films shown for the first time in competition. The jury will be headed by four-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu, who claimed the Best Director prize at Cannes in 2006 for “Babel.”

Below is a breakdown of the 19 films competing this year and the history of their helmers at the festival.

Pedro Almodóvar (“Pain and Glory”)

The acclaimed Spanish director is back at Cannes...

Carol Morely’s fourth feature Out Of Blue stars Patricia Clarkson as a troubled detective on the pursuit of a suspected serial killer. Adapted from Martin Amis’s 1997 novel Night Train and with a screenplay courtesy of director herself, the film has aspirations of being a smart hardboiled neo-noir with a cosmic twist, but in reality it is a decidedly muddled, jarringly directionless and an altogether baffling offering from a filmmaker who, it has to be said, is capable of far more coherent output.

When famous astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer) is found dead at the observatory of her New Orleans university, detective Mike Hoolihan (Clarkson) is compelled by an unknown force that appears to bind her with the dead woman to pursue the case and find her killer. With Jennifer’s boyfriend Duncan (Jonathan Majors) and slippery colleague Prof Ian Strammi (Toby Jones) as prime murder suspects, the detective...

Some murder mysteries begin with murders; some begin with Mamie Gummer giving a lecture on a rooftop, arguing that all life springs from death, all death springs from life, and 90% of matter is invisible. “You can tell a lot by looking,” she tells her students. But in the world of “Out of Blue,” it’s the telling that takes up most of the running time, and it’s a little monotonous, if we’re being honest.

Patricia Clarkson stars as Mike Hoolihan, a detective investigating the death of astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Gummer), who was shot in an observatory shortly after that opening lecture. Rockwell’s death is no ordinary murder. It looks suspiciously like the work of the never-captured but long since retired “.38 Caliber Killer.” And all of the suspects are spacey intellectuals who pontificate about highfalutin concepts like Schrödinger’s cat and alternate realities when they should be telling...

Out of Blue, the newest film from director/writer Carol Morley (The Falling), is out to theaters this Friday. And it’s a heck of a confusing film. Based on the 1997 novel by Martin Amis, Night Train, the film follows detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) as she attempts to solve the mysterious death of esteemed astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell […]...

Jackie Shane, a soul singer and transgender pioneer who had been all but forgotten for decades until her reissued catalogue sparked renewed attention in 2017, has died at the age of 78. Douglas McGowan, the Numero Group A&R scout who had tracked down Shane and was responsible for her rediscovery, confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. Shane died at home in Nashville, where she lived with her cat, Sweetie.

“I’m devastated to report that our friend and hero Jackie Shane passed away peacefully in her sleep earlier this week,” McGowan said.

When you are asked to premiere the teaser poster for the next film from a Berlinale Golden Bear winner, you say yes!    ScreenAnarchy is pleased to help premiere the teaser poster for The Wild Goose Lake, the new film from Chinese director Diao Yinan.    It has been five years since Black Coal, Thin Ice was in Berlin, a film our own James Marsh called,    A bleak, yet engrossing whodunnit set in the wintry climes of Northern China. Black Coal, Thin Ice is also the latest in a series of high profile yet independently spirited Chinese films to embrace crime genre sensibilities, while addressing socio-economic issues in contemporary China.   The Wild Goose Lake is now...

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We are delighted to share with you an exclusive first look at the UK poster for British director Carol Morley’s neo-noir mystery ‘Out of Blue’.

The film, which featured at the Toronto and London film festivals, is loosely based on the best-selling novel ‘Night Train’ by Martin Amis and follows a hardened female detective on a strange investigation. Here’s the first look poster, courtesy of the fine people at Picturehouse Entertainment.

Find out more at the film’s website: www.outofblue.film

Directed by Morley, the film features Golden Globe winner Sharp Objects’ Patricia Clarkson in the leading role. We spoke to her on the red carpet for the film last September at the Lff.

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The film has a UK release of March 29th. Check out the social channels to stay in touch with the film.

Out of Blue has Dreams of a Life’s Carol Morley adapting Martin Amis’s novel Night Train for her third feature film following 2014’s The Falling with Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh.

The film had its premiere at the 2018 London Film Festival and stars Patricia Clarkson, Toby Jones, James Caan, Mamie Gummer, Aaron Tveit, Jacki Weaver, Alyshia Ochse and Jonathan Majors.

Clarkson has had a fine year in particular with her standout role in HBO’s Sharp Objects and a recurring roles in Netflix’s House of Cards, and here she talks about the allure of working with Carol Morley.

The film is due to be released in 2019. Our boys in blue Colin Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet to chat with the assembled luminaries, here’s how they got on.

Out of Blue Lff Premiere Interviews

Plot:

When Detective Mike Hoolihan is...

Without necessarily admiring the result, one can admire the wackadoodle ambition of Carol Morley’s “Out of Blue” (the missing definite article is itself a salutary warning about a plot that will misplace a whole bunch of articles en route to its mystifying finale). It’s not every filmmaker, after all, who’ll toss astrophysics, metaphysics, Martin Amis, cop procedurals, recovered memories, serial killers, family tragedies and a whole dress-up chest of unlikely costumes and props into the stratosphere on just her third narrative feature, and it’s the sort of reckless abandon we ought to applaud. But rather like Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment, which is laboriously outlined twice during this glitchy, shambolic affair, the resulting admixture exists in a quantum state. Schrödinger’s beleaguered cat is both alive and dead; “Out of Blue” is, at all times, both sort of interesting and quite bad — equal parts workaday homage...

Patricia Clarkson is drawn into a black hole of murder, murk and existential angst in this adaptation of Martin Amis’s Night Train

Carol Morley’s Out of Blue is an intriguing and perplexing creation, starting with that title, from which the word “the” seems to have been removed, making what’s on offer sound like an impressionist painting or a classic jazz album, or some slangily described phenomenon of theoretical physics. It’s a lugubrious quasi-noir mystery set in modern-day New Orleans, starring a charismatic Patricia Clarkson as Detective Mike Hoolihan; a movie that sometimes seems papier-mâchéd together with layers of mannerism and pastiche, floating along like a two-hour dream sequence.

Morley has adapted Martin Amis’s 1997 novel Night Train, a hardboiled genre homage about a careworn female police officer tackling a homicide case so uniquely disturbing that it brings her to the edge of a breakdown. Amis had...

Chinese director Zhang Ming’s “The Pluto Moment” (“Ming Wang Xing Shi Ke”) has been acquired by French sales agent Loco Films ahead of its world premiere at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.

Based on “The Tale of Darkness,” a traditional local song of mourning, “The Pluto Moment” follows Wang Zhun, a director in search of inspiration for his new script, who embarks on an unpredictable trek across the mountainous region of Shennongjia in Hubei province with his savvy producer Ding Hongmei, young actor Bai, and photographer Du Chun. The journey brings them unexpected physical challenges, while also bearing witnesses to the subtle emotional ebbs and flows of the protagonists.

“‘The Tale of Darkness’ is a mourning song sung at funerals, one that recounts the origins of Heaven and the Earth, and the genesis of the human race,” said Ming. “The protagonists (of ‘The Pluto Moment’) are trapped in a dilemma of action and inaction,...

Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries actress Penelope Mitchell has been set to star opposite Toby Kebbell (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes) in psychological thriller Becoming, with Jason Patric (Sleepers) also joining the cast. Double Dutch International will be touting the movie in Cannes next week. Traverse Media reps North America.

Written and directed by Omar Naim (The Final Cut), the two-hander follows a couple (Mitchell and Kebbell) on a road trip through America where they encounter a terrifying dark force older than the country itself. An evil that transforms loved ones into someone terrifying, the entity has left a trail of murdered families going back hundreds of years. Patric will play a mysterious survivor of the entity’s crimes.

Kebbell, Mitchell and Patric are supported by Jeff Daniel Philips (Lords Of Salem), Beth Broderick (Echoes of War) and Stephen Rider (Netflix’s Daredevil). Kebbell, who stars in Nicole Kidman’s upcoming crime-drama Destroyer,...

Starz has acquired a clutch of programs that previously aired on NBCUniversal’s Seeso comedy streaming service, including “Take My Wife,” “Night Train with Wyatt Cenac” and “Sklar Brothers: Hipster Ghosts.”

NBCUniversal shuttered Seeso last fall, leaving a number of shows in limbo with finished episodes that had not made it to air.

The deal also includes “The Ucb Show,” “New York’s Funniest,” “Brian Posehn: Criminally Posehn” and “Lachlan Patterson Live from Venice Beach,” which will be available beginning May 1 on the Starz App and Starz On Demand. “The Pistol Shrimps” documentary will be available June 1 and “Andy Richter’s Home for the Holidays” will release Oct. 1 for streaming and download.

“We are excited to address the uncertain fate of several Seeso series, including the beloved ‘Take My Wife’ series, by providing a new home for these programs and their fans at Starz,” said C. Brett Marottoli, head of program acquisitions for Starz,...

Starz has acquired a slew of comedy series, specials and films that launched on Seeso, the NBCUniversal-owned Svod service that shuttered last year.

Among the series in the deal are Take My Wife, Night Train with Wyatt Cenac and The Ucb Show. It also includes stand-up specials from the Sklar Brothers, Brian Posehn and Lachlan Patterson, along with The Pistol Shrimps, the documentary about a group of showbiz folks including Aubrey Plaza who play in a women’s recreational basketball league in L.A.

“We are excited to address the uncertain fate of several Seeso series, including the beloved Take My Wife series, by providing a new home for these programs and their fans at Starz,” said C. Brett Marottoli, Head of Program Acquisitions for Starz. “These comedies align strategically with many Starz Original series and will appeal to our audiences as we continue featuring more diverse casts and storylines across the Starz platforms.

Starz is going to become the new home for a number of series and specials on NBCUniversal's former comedy platform Seeso.

The premium cable network has inked a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Television and New Media Distribution that includes seasons one and two of Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher's critically praised series <em>Take My Wife</em>. Also included in the pact are <em>Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, Skylar Brothers: Hipster Ghosts, The Ucb Show, New York's Funniest, Brian Posehn: Criminally Posehn </em>and <em>Lachlan Patterson Live From Venice Beach</em>. These offerings will be available on the Starz App and Starz On ...

The BFI awarded seven films £1m or more in 2017.

The BFI awarded seven movies £1m or more in 2017 with satirist Chris Morris’ anticipated follow up to controversial 2010 comedy Four Lions the recipient of this year’s biggest grant.

Since launching the BFI Film Fund seven years ago, the organisation’s biggest single production grant remains the £2m awarded to Aardman and Studiocanal’s animation Early Man in 2015. That film is due for release in 2018.

1. Untitled Chris Morris Project, See-Saw Productions Limited (£1.5m)

Source: Creative Commons

Anna Kendrick

Satirist Morris’s anticipated first film since controversial 2010 comedy Four Lions has been kept largely under wraps after shooting last year in the Us and the Caribbean. Cast is understood to include Anna Kendrick, Kayvan Novak, James Adomian and Orange is the New Black’s Danielle Brooks. Film4 backed the project which is produced by See-Saw Films and Archer Gray Productions

2. Country Music, Fable Pictures Ltd (1.4m...

The BFI awarded seven films £1m or more in 2017.

The BFI awarded seven movies £1m or more in 2017 with satirist Chris Morris’ anticipated follow up to controversial 2010 comedy Four Lions the recipient of this year’s biggest grant.

Since launching the BFI Film Fund seven years ago, the organisation’s biggest single production grant remains the £2m awarded to Aardman and Studiocanal’s animation Early Man in 2015. That film is due for release in 2018.

1. Untitled Chris Morris Project, See-Saw Productions Limited (£1.5m)

Source: Creative Commons

Anna Kendrick

Satirist Morris’s anticipated first film since controversial 2010 comedy Four Lions has been kept largely under wraps after shooting last year in the Us and the Caribbean. Cast is understood to include Anna Kendrick, Kayvan Novak, James Adomian and Orange is the New Black’s Danielle Brooks. Film4 backed the project which is produced by See-Saw Films and Archer Gray Productions

2. Country Music,...

Harlem's Apollo Theater, where James Brown recorded his legendary live album in 1962, was built in a middle school auditorium in Natchez, Miss., for the movie Get on Up. Photos Comic-Con: Our 10 Best Dressed  "We got lucky," says production designer Mark Ricker. "The auditorium had just enough architecture going on that we could [add to]. We extended the stage, built all the boxes, a section of the balcony and just painted the hell out of the place." Once they filmed Brown performing "Night Train" at the Apollo, they transformed the auditorium overnight for a 1966 sequence with

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*full disclosure: a Blu-ray screener of this film was provided by IFC Films. Director: Vincenzo Natali. Writer: Brian King. Cast: Abigail Breslin, Stephen McHattie, David Hewlett and Peter Outerbridge. Haunter is a film from American director Vincenzo Natali (Splice) and writer Brian King (Night Train). Natali has created a few standout films in his career, including 1997's chilling Cube. His latest is a haunted house thriller, which offers a few surprises in its short runtime. Very mysterious, Haunter brings an intriguing protagonist into this puzzling film. This title, from IFC Films, is one of the better horror features to release so far this year. The film begins and ends with Lisa (Abigail Breslin). She comes out of the Matrix (1999) of her life, after noticing how her life keeps repeating. Events start to change when she expresses the repetition to her family. More characters, also trapped in some sort of limbo,...

Vincenzo Natali (Cube) is the director behind the supernatural thriller Haunter. This film was developed from Brian King's (Night Train) script. Also, Haunter had its World Premiere at the South-by Southwest Film Festival in March of this year (Austin, Texas). And, the film stars Stephen McHattie (Pontypool) and Abigail Breslin (Zombieland). The film's first trailer reveals a little more from the film's storyline. Haunter is developed with a reverse plotline, in which a ghost realizes that another character is not actually haunting her. But, the other character, Olivia (Eleanor Zichy), is actually alive and the protagonist, Lisa (Breslin), is dead. However, Lisa has a tale to tell Olivia. And together, they attempt to track down a serial killer, called the Pale Man (McHattie). The Pale Man, in the clip, has other, more sinister plans for Olivia, though. Distribution house IFC Films has picked up this film for distribution in North America.

After venturing into thriller territory with The Call, teenage actress Abigail Breslin is now in straight-up horror territory with Haunter, the new film from Splice director Vincenzo Natali. When we heard about the story in the spring of 2012, it sounded like an original approach to familiar ghost stories we've seen before. However, this first trailer seems to be trying to hide the unique twist on this kind of thriller. We won't spoil it just in case that might ruin the movie, but you won't have to search far to find the original plot synopsis. The down side is without knowing those details, the film looks painfully generic for the genre. Here's the first trailer for Vincenzo Natali's Haunter, originally from Apple: Vincenzo Natali (Splice) directs Haunter from a script by Brian King (Cypher, Night Train). Abigail Breslin stars as a young girl who must unravel a decades-old mystery to...

Splice director Vincenzo Natali’s new supernatural tale Haunter was just picked up by IFC Midnight for distribution after showing at South By Southwest. Haunter is written by Brian King who also wrote Night Train and Cypher, and stars Abigail Breslin as a teenage girl who is forced to relive the day she died.

"It's not just King's deftly-layered and slyly contorted screenplay or Jon Joffin's frankly beautiful cinematography that makes Haunter such an interesting little 'throwback' thriller. Natali and editor Michael Doherty seem intent on playing games with their viewers, and only those who have a lot of experience with haunted house movies will be able to glean a few early clues," Scott Weinberg said in his review from SXSW.

Read the full FEARnet review of Haunter here.

In other SXSW news, Cheap Thrills also premiered as part of the Midnighter series to great reviews and it was...

Appearances can be deceiving. It’s a bright, sunny Tuesday afternoon in May, 2012. The air is calm. It’s warm and peaceful outside. As the cliché goes, it feels like a good day to be alive. And yet, inside an unassuming studio building, tucked away on a downtown Toronto side road, dwells a malevolent, and rest assuredly, undead presence. This is the set for the supernatural thriller, Haunter, from Cube/Splice director Vincenzo Natali, Ginger Snaps producer Steven Hoban and Night Train scribe Brian King.

Described as “a reverse ghost story,” the movie follows Lisa Johnson (Zombieland’s Abigail Breslin), a teenage girl who died under mysterious circumstances in 1986 and whose spirit is trapped in her former family home. Now, she must somehow warn the current residents about the sinister Pale Man (Pontypool’s Stephen McHattie), before they fall prey to his evil as well. And the only way to...

Video Nasty is a term coined in the United Kingdom in 1982, describing films that were criticized by the press and religious groups for their violent content. The concern being that with titles available on home video, the films were accessible by anyone, with no age restrictions. The lack of a censorship system for home video titles led to The Video Recordings Act 1984. The Video Recordings Act required stricter censorship standards for titles released to home video than what was required for a film’s theatrical release.

With the introduction of home video in the UK, the governing standard of decency was the obscene publications act of 1959. Under that act, any title found to be indecent by the Director of Public Prosecutions could find the film’s producers, distributors and retailers subject to prosecution. The act also allowed for local police to seize content from video retailers if they felt that...

Nashville, Tenn. -- Turns out Adele ruled 2012, too – and set a record while she was at it.

The British singer's "21" was the highest-selling album in the U.S. for the second consecutive year, according to 2012 sales figures released by Nielsen SoundScan on Thursday. That's a first in the SoundScan era.

Adele sold 4.4 million copies of the album in 2012 after selling 5.8 million in 2011. She crossed the 10 million threshold in November and was only rivaled by Taylor Swift, whose "Red" was second on the list. If her album sales continue apace in 2013, `21' will move into the top 10 list for sales since 1993, when SoundScan began current tracking methods.

Gotye scored the year's top-selling song with "Somebody That I Used To Know" featuring Kimbra. The song was downloaded a record 6.8 million times. Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was next at 6.5 million. Both songs are the first to cross the 6 million digital sales mark,...

Adele had a good year — again.

Though 21′s American release came in February of 2011, the album’s sales were strong enough to put the soul singer at the top of iTunes’s album chart for a second straight year. The electronic entertainment store also reported strong showings for 2012′s usual suspects (The Hunger Games; “Call Me Maybe”) and a few less predictable picks — well done, Sherlock and Alcatraz. Here’s a rundown of what moved the most on iTunes this year:

Top Album:

1. Adele, 21

2. Taylor Swift, Red

3. Mumford & Sons, Babel

4. One Direction, Up All Night

5. Fun., Some Nights

6. Mumford & Sons,...

The Billboard 200 is seeing "Red" again. For the second week in a row, Taylor Swift's new "Red" album tops the Billboard 200 chart, after selling 344,000 copies, down 72% from last week. It sold over 1 million in its debut last week. Rapper Meek Mill's debut studio album "Dreams & Nightmares" enters the chart at No. 2, moving 165,000 copies.    Rod Stewart's new holiday album "Merry Christmas, Baby" premieres at No. 3 with 88,000 copies sold. It's the legendary singer's 16th top 10 album.    Jason Aldean's "Night Train" moves from No. 3 to No. 4 with 71,000, while...

Nashville, Tenn. — Winning the Country Music Association Awards' entertainer of the year is a top honor and always counted as a career high point. But for Blake Shelton it wasn't even the most memorable moment of an amazing Thursday night.

"The Voice" star took home three trophies, including his third straight male vocalist victory, but nothing compared to sharing song of the year with wife Miranda Lambert. The pair wrote "Over You," about the death of Shelton's brother Richie in a car wreck 15 years ago. He said that trophy will always have a special place in their Oklahoma home.

"For me as a songwriter that is as personal as I can get," Shelton said. "So that songwriter award, song of the year award, it will have its own shelf. It will have spotlights on it and an alarm and everything. Trip wires and there will be a land mine if you walk towards it.

Nashville, Tenn. — Winning the Country Music Association Awards' entertainer of the year is a top honor and always counted as a career high point. But for Blake Shelton it wasn't even the most memorable moment of an amazing Thursday night.

"The Voice" star took home three trophies, including his third straight male vocalist victory, but nothing compared to sharing song of the year with wife Miranda Lambert. The pair wrote "Over You," about the death of Shelton's brother Richie in a car wreck 15 years ago. He said that trophy will always have a special place in their Oklahoma home.

"For me as a songwriter that is as personal as I can get," Shelton said. "So that songwriter award, song of the year award, it will have its own shelf. It will have spotlights on it and an alarm and everything. Trip wires and there will be a land mine if you walk towards it.

The 46th annual Country Music Association Awards will air from Nashville tonight at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. Ct) on ABC with some predictable hosts: Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, together for the fifth straight year. Perhaps there will at least be a few surprises among the winners. Here's my take on five major categories: Entertainer of the yearWinner: Jason Aldean Other nominees: Kenny Chesney, Paisley, Blake Shelton and Taylor SwiftChesney, Paisley and Swift have all captured the ultimate prize before. In fact, one of these stars has taken the trophy each of the last six years, with Swift the champ...

Breakup queen Taylor Swift discussed her own love story today on Katie. The interview, which was taped this Monday before her alleged breakup with Conor Kennedy, acted as a pseudo therapy session, with Katie Couric serving as psychiatrist (Couric even joked about being Lorraine Bracco from The Sopranos).

Wearing her best “awww, shucks, you’re here for me?” face and patterned, hemline dress, the songstress explained that she’s oblivious when it comes to love. “I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life,...

At last year's Cma Awards, Blake Shelton won Best Male Vocalist for the second year running. He is back to defend his title at this year's kudos, which take place on Nov 1. at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena and air live on ABC.  -Insertgroups:12- With his profile at an all-time high as a judge on "The Voice," Shelton is favored to make it a three-peat, with leading odds of 9 to 10. His closest competition comes from Jason Aldean who contended in this category for the first time last year. While he lost this race, he did win Album of the Year for "My Kinda Party."  His newest disc, "Night Train," just debuted in the top slot on the Billboard 200. He has odds of 13 to 8 to win this award.  Last year, Shelton also bested Keith Urban who won this award three years running beginning in 2004. Ironically, Urban has odds of 4 to 1 to add...

As forecast last week, Jason Aldean's Night Train chugs to a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart, opening atop the ranking with 409,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Broken Bow release not only secures the country superstar his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 but also the second-largest debut of the year. Only Mumford & Sons' Babel, which moved 600,000 in its first week (Oct. 13), started with a bigger number. (The staff at Red Distribution can celebrate both achievements, as both Babel and Night Train are distributed by the indie company.)  

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Jason Aldean’s “Night Train” enters the station on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 this week, moving a whopping 409,000 copies. It’s the country singer’s first album at the summit on that tally, on top of becoming the second biggest debut in 2012. Mumford & Sons’ “Babel” is the only album to have sold more in its first week, with 600,000. (However, “Night Train” is likely to slip to third in that regard next week, after Taylor Swift’s “Red” has its way with the sales chart.) Aldean’s previous best came with 2010’s “My Kinda Party,” which bowed and peaked at No....

Country superstar Jason Aldean will have a big bow next week with his fifth studio album, “Night Train.” The set will top the Billboard 200 with sales of up to 420,000, making it the second-highest debut of the year behind Mumford & Sons’ 600,000 copies for “Babel.” That album, which has spent three weeks at No. 1, drops to No. 2. “Night Train” will be one of four debut next week: Brandy’s comeback album, “Two Eleven” will likely bow at No. 3 with sales of up to 70,000 (read my interview with Brandy here). Scotty McCreery’s holiday album, “Christmas With Scotty...