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Bold and the Beautiful early weekly spoilers for September 2-6, 2024 reveal that poor Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) is in serious trouble, and we’re all biting our nails wondering if Finn (Tanner Novlan) can save her in time. Oh, and don’t even get me started on Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) – girl just can’t let go of her Finn obsession!

So, here’s the deal on B&b – Steffy’s locked up in a cage. No food, no water, and demo crews are coming. That sneaky Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) thinks she’s got it all figured out, but our girl Steffy’s a fighter. As those drugs wear off, she may try to escape but that seems unlikely to succeed.

Other B&b spoilers show that Finn’s losing his mind with worry. He turns to mama bear Li Finnegan (Naomi Matsuda) for help this week. You know...

The supernatural horror film The Well will arrive in select theaters on August 9th and On Digital and On Demand on September 3rd, 2024 via Uncork’d Entertainment.

On behalf of her father, a young American art restorer travels to a remote Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. There she meets a beautiful but aging duchess and her troubled young daughter who warns her that the painting is cursed and that she must leave before she falls prey to an evil witch who drinks the blood of tourists to achieve eternal life.

Starring Lauren Lavera from Terrifier 2 & 3, The Well is a gothic horror that embraces gore and practical effects. The Well was directed by Italian pop star Federico Zampaglione, who co-wrote the script with Stefano Masi. Starring alongside Lavera is Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice (City of the Living Dead), Taylor Zaudtke (Sadistic Intentions), Linda Zampaglione...

Evil has new depths in Federico Zampaglione‘s upcoming horror movie The Well, which puts Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3 star Lauren Lavera into another bloody battle for survival.

The Well is arriving in select theaters on August 9 and On Digital and On Demand September 3, 2024 via Uncork’d Entertainment. Exclusively watch the official trailer below.

The Well stars Lauren Lavera (Terrifier 2), as Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer, who travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory, unaware of the danger from an evil curse and a monster born of myth and brutal pain.

Here’s the full official synopsis:

“On behalf of her father, a young American art restorer travels to a remote Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. There she meets a beautiful but aging duchess and her troubled young daughter who warns her that the painting...

It all started about a year ago. The Good Mothers, the Anglo-Italian series based on the eponymous book by journalist Alex Perry, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, winning the inaugural, and thanks to budget cuts one and only, prize for best new series at the festival’s TV sidebar, the Berlinale Series.

Roughly twelve months later, the show, produced by House Productions and Fremantle-owned Wildside, which is currently airing on Hulu, and on Disney+ outside the U.S., is in the running for this year’s Critics Choice Awards in the Best Foreign Language TV Series category. The Good Mothers will go up against South Korean series Bargain, The Glory, Mask Girl and Moving, the German period drama The Interpreter of Silence, and the hit French crime series Lupin.

Based on true events, The Good Mothers was adapted for television by Stephen Butchard (Baghdad Central) and directed by...

Iperuranio Film is excited to announce that Screamfest LA will host the October 12th 2023 North American Premiere of The Well, director Federico Zampaglione’s latest film, a graphic supernatural horror. The Well will make its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival before heading to Los Angeles.

The Well stars Lauren Lavera (Terrifier 2), as Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer, who travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory, unaware of the danger that she may unleash. Starring alongside Lavera is Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice (City of the Living Dead), Taylor Zaudtke (Sadistic Intentions), Linda Zampaglione (Time Is Up), Jonathan Dylan King (From Scratch), Lorenzo Renzi (Romanzo Criminale), Gianluigi Calvani (The New Pope), Yassine Fadel (FBI: International), Melanie Gaydos, Stefano Martinelli and newcomer Courage Oviawe.

The Well is an Iperuranio Film production, directed by Federico Zampaglione, written by Zampaglione and Stefano Masi,...

The Well: "Iperuranio Film is excited to announce that Screamfest LA will host the October 12th North American Premiere of The Well, director Federico Zampaglione's latest film, a graphic supernatural horror. The Well will make its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival before heading to Los Angeles.

The Well stars Lauren Lavera (Terrifier 2), as Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer, who travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory, unaware of the danger that she may unleash. Starring alongside Lavera is Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice (City of the Living Dead), Taylor Zaudtke (Sadistic Intentions), Linda Zampaglione (Time Is Up), Jonathan Dylan King (From Scratch), Lorenzo Renzi (Romanzo Criminale), Gianluigi Calvani (The New Pope), Yassine Fadel (FBI: International), Melanie Gaydos, Stefano Martinelli and newcomer Courage Oviawe.

The Well is an Iperuranio Film production, directed by Federico Zampaglione, written by Zampaglione and Stefano Masi,...

Evil has new depths in Federico Zampaglione‘s dark supernatural thriller The Well, which puts Terrifier 2 star Lauren Lavera into another bloody battle for survival.

Screamfest LA will host the October 12th North American Premiere of The Well, which will make its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival before heading to Los Angeles.

The Well at Screamfest:

Tcl Chinese Theatre, Screen 4

Thursday, October 12, 9:00 Pm Pst

Check out a bloody gallery of Not-safe-for-work first look images below, along with the official poster for The Well, the latter of which is being debuted by Bd this morning.

The Well stars Lauren Lavera (Terrifier 2), as Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer, who travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory, unaware of the danger from an evil curse and a monster born of myth and brutal pain.

Starring alongside Lavera is Claudia Gerini,...

I didn’t enjoy Terrifier 2 very much, but I was very impressed by the performance delivered by heroine Lauren Lavera, who came off as a star on the rise – and who seemed like such a badass in her confrontation with Art the Clown, I could see her becoming a major force in the action genre, if that’s a path she’s interested in taking. As she continues on her way to stardom, Lavera has signed on to star in a supernatural thriller called The Well – and our friends at Bloody Disgusting were able to dig up some exclusive details on the project.

Federico Zampaglione (Tulpa: Demon of Desire) will be directing The Well and has also written the screenplay with producer Stefano Masi. The film will see Lavera taking on the role of Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer, who travels to a small Italian village to...

Exclusive: Chase Stokes (Outer Banks) and Sydney Taylor (American Born Chinese) are set to topline the YA romance Marked Men from director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook).

The film written by Sharon Soboil (After We Fell) is based on the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel Rule by Jay Crownover — the first in her hit series Marked Men, which has been translated into 11 languages. It’s being sold worldwide by Voltage Pictures, which is currently placing it before buyers.

Taylor stars as Shaw Landon, who has loved Rule Archer (Stokes) from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule, a fiery-tempered rebel tattoo artist, doesn’t have time for a good girl pre-med student like Shaw – even if she’s the only one who can see the person he truly is. She lives by other people’s rules; he makes his own. But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails,...

Bella Thorne has responded to an unnamed Hollywood director who accused her of “flirting with him” when she was 10 years old.

In a conversation during Tuesday’s (27 December) episode of Emily Ratajkowski’s podcast High Low with EmRata, the 25-year-old Time Is Up star opened up about the accusations that “drive her crazy”.

Thorne told host Ratajkowski that it was “f***ing stressful” being a child actor in the public eye.

The Midnight Sun star shared a story of an audition she had when she was 10 years old where a male director claimed that she was “flirting with him” and making him feel “uncomfortable”.

“I had a director give me feedback once, and I was 10. The casting director calls my agent and the agent calls my mom, and they’re like, ‘So, she’s not moving forward because the director felt like she was flirting with him, and it made him really uncomfortable’,” Thorne recalled.

Bella Thorne is living her best life at the beach in a blue bikini. Pic credit: @bellathorne/Instagram

Bella Thorne enjoys a beach day in a bikini and sharing footage from her relaxation session.

The former Disney Star appeared on her Instagram Stories, where she posted a bare-faced photo in a bikini. Bella’s signature red locks blew in the wind, and the sun kissed her shoulders.

Bella wore a blue string bikini, but all eyes were on her natural glow.

Bella gazed at the camera with her lips slightly parted as she showed her natural beauty without makeup. Behind Bella were blue skies and numerous yellow umbrellas from the beach.

Bella wore a gold necklace with a rectangular pendant and kept it low-key.

The natural beauty is enjoying a single summer after breaking off her engagement to Italian actor and co-star Benjamin Mascolo.

Pic credit: @bellathorne/Instagram Bella Thorne...

Exclusive: Even before the pandemic, the foreign sales market became mired down with some risky bets, i.e. the over exorbitant Roland Emmerich sci-fi disaster title Moonfall which carried a 140M production cost (resulting in a 44.3M WW gross), and Simon Kinberg’s femme spy ensemble The 355 at a 75M cost (which grossed just under 28M WW).

But there’s arguably a safer way to make moolah in the foreign sales sphere and that’s off of YA feature adaptations.

True, it’s been a while since the grand slam days of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games series and Summit International’s Twilight franchise, however, these movies can be made off a low cost yielding singles, doubles, or even home runs at the box office. Or worst case scenario, be in the black simply off their sales to streamers. And if a movie strikes out, it doesn’t sting so...

Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the user-generated fiction entertainment outfit, and Italy’s Leone Film Group have announced a deal to co-develop a slate of films for the Italian and international marketplace based on original fiction stories from Wattpad.

The pact is an expansion of their previously announced deal to make a film based on Blair Holden’s “The Bad Boy’s Girl,” which is among the most popular stories on the storytelling platform.

Australian writer Hannah Lehman, whose series “Two Sides,” released under Snapchat’s ‘Snap Originals’ in 2019, started out with a self-made pilot and reached 6.5 million views on Facebook, is set to pen the script.

Lehman also wrote and directed Facebook Watch’s first ever digital series, “The Unboxing.”

Leone Film Group has now also optioned the full series of novels in “The Bad Boy’s Girl” saga, which has more than 223 million reads on the platform.

Aside from the “Bad Boy’s Girl” franchise,...

Paradigm Talent Agency announced that Babacar Diene has been hired as a content agent. Additionally, Sam Benfey, Josh Cohen, Natalie Handelsman and Wilson Rubinoff have been promoted to agent.

Diene is a longtime film financing, sales and production executive joining Paradigm from his previous position as vice president of acquisitions and development at Voltage Pictures. During his tenure at Voltage, which began in 2012, he served as an executive producer on films such as “Time Is Up,” “Archenemy,” “Safer at Home,” “Redemption Day,” “Follow Me” and “Drive Hard.” He co-produced movies including “Ava,” “Good Kids,” “Fathers & Daughters,” “Pay the Ghost” and “I.T.” He also previously served as vice president of acquisitions at Im Global’s Apsara Distribution, and worked for Icon Entertainment International and GreeneStreet Films International. Diene is based in Los Angeles.

Benfey enters his new position as digital and brand partnerships agent after first joining Paradigm in 2016. He...

Paradigm has hired Babacar Diene, a veteran film financing, sales and production executive formerly of Voltage Pictures, to join the agency as a content agent, the agency announced Thursday.

Paradigm also promoted four employees to agents across its departments, including Sam Benfey, Josh Cohen, Natalie Handelsman and Wilson Rubinoff.

Diene’s role as a content agent will see him handling film and series content packaging, financing, and sales. Benfey has been promoted to a digital and brand partnerships agent, Cohen and Handelsman are each talent agents, and Rubinoff is a literary agent.

“We are proud to congratulate these four exceptional and dedicated members of our team on their promotions, and look forward to their bright future at Paradigm,” Paradigm partner Andrew Ruf said on behalf of the company’s department leaders. “We welcome Babacar Diene to the company, a colleague we have long admired, who brings his extensive expertise as we redefine our content business,...

The holiday season is almost here and Amazon Prime is getting in the mood with its list of December 2021 releases. Sure there are the usual Christmas movies to be found but the real gift this month are two big original titles.

The sixth and final season of beloved sci-fi series The Expanse premieres on Dec. 10. Amazon is doing its usual release strategy of three episodes on the premiere day followed by a weekly schedule so there’s still some time to be spent with the crew of the Rocinante. The other big ticket item is the Desi and Lucy biopic Being the Ricardos on Dec. 21. Sure, Aaron Sorkin seems to be completely disinterested in I Love Lucy and Nicole Kidman bears no passing resemblance to the iconic comedienne whatsoever but uh…it’s a movie!

Read more TV The Expanse Season 5 Ending Explained By Michael Ahr Books How Science Fiction...

Exclusive: Cruel Intentions and After We Collided filmmaker Roger Kumble is directing the Voltage Pictures YA feature adaptation of Jamie McGuire’s New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster.

In the wake of the indie global success with the feature take of Anna Todd’s After series, it’s another notch for Voltage in the YA space. The three After movies to date have racked up over $150M WW and the fourth film After Ever Happy will hit cinemas next. Voltage also sold-out worldwide rights on other teen-demo properties such as the best-selling YA novel adaptation Words on Bathroom Walls, and sold foreign on Finding You and Time Is Up.

Kumble is reteaming here on Beautiful Disaster with his After We Collided star Dylan Sprouse, who played Trevor in that feature take of the Anna Todd YA romance novel. In addition, Virginia Gardner, Austin North (Outer Banks...

It was déjà vu at the box office last weekend, with the same three titles leading receipts: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Free Guy and Paw Patrol: The Movie.

School holiday audiences are keeping things turning over amid few notable new releases. Closures in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as parts of regional Nsw and Victoria, in addition to capacity restrictions, continue to impact the market.

“The capacity restrictions in our regional Victorian complexes are really impacting our potential box office during the school holidays, however we are getting some decent results from our Tasmanian complexes. Our partner complex at Albury reopened on Thursday, and our Geelong complex reopened today after a snap 7 day lockdown,” Village Cinemas national programming manager Geoff Chard tells If.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is still our number 1 film, followed by Free Guy which has held in very well...

Bella Thorne is set to star opposite Aaron Eckhart in the action thriller, “Rumble Through the Dark.”

“Rumble Through the Dark” is based on Michael Farris Smith’s novel, “The Fighter.” Smith adapted his novel into a screenplay, which will directed by Graham Phillips and Parker Phillips. Production wrapped this week in the Mississippi and Delta region, after being briefly shut down due to Hurricane Ida.

“Rumble Through the Dark” is set in the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta where a bare knuckle cage fighter (Eckhart) seeks to repay his debts to a local mob boss in a final desperate attempt to salvage his family home. Thorne plays a carnival hustler who stumbles upon a murder that ultimately leads to a dark family connection.

“Bella is a fearless artist,” the directors said in a statement. “Watching the chemistry between her and Aaron Eckhart develop throughout the story has been...

"The bond between two particles is only valid in the microscopic realm." Voltage Pictures has unveiled an official US trailer for an existential romantic drama titled Time Is Up, made by Italian filmmaker Elisa Amoruso. This may be an Italian production, but it's entirely in English. An accident will force "Vivien" and Royan to come to a stop and reclaim their lives, one minute at the time, and finally start living in a present that perhaps will prove to be more exciting than any predefined. That's a vague snyopsis, but this trailer sheds a bit more light on the story - involving amnesia and multiple boys. Time Is Up stars Bella Thorne and Benjamin Mascolo, along with Nikolay Moss, Roberto Davide, & Emma Lo Bianco. This looks like so many other young love films, complete with a pool scene and crazy party and every other teen trope. Here's the official trailer...

Check out the new trailer for Habit starring Bella Thorne, Paris Jackson and Gavin Rossdale, as they dodge drug lords on their tails and stomp some butt like no other nuns can. It's a fast-paced, one-liner packed thrill ride. The "They're still bad girls underneath," tag line is an understatement.

The official synopsis reads: Reminiscent of early Tarantino, this edgy, outrageous thriller is one 'habit' you'll want to acquire! The action begins as L.A. party girl Mads gets a gig running drugs for Eric, a washed-up Hollywood star. When their cash gets stolen and Eric is slain by a rival drug lord, Mads and her two sexy BFFs hide out by dressing up as nuns. But in spite of their costumes, these bad girls are no angels. The film also stars Paris Jackson, Hana Mae Lee (Pitch Perfect), and Gavin Rossdale (Constantine). Musicians Alison Mosshart, who's making her film debut,...

Virtual Cannes market sales roster includes After We Fell, The Yacht, The Refuge.

Heading into the virtual Cannes market Voltage Pictures has appointed Patricia Arias vice-president of international sales and distribution with immediate effect.

Arias most recently served as VP of Film Mode Entertainment and reports to Voltage president and COO Jonathan Deckter.

She joins as the company continues to assemble a heavyweight sales roster that features After We Fell, the third instalment in the hit After YA franchise starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford.

Market titles include recent additions The Yacht, a heist thriller starring Ruby Rose, Patrick Schwarzenegger,...

Italy’s Leone Film Group has teamed up with Wattpad, the user-generated fiction entertainment company, to develop a feature film based on “The Bad Boy’s Girl,” which is among the most popular stories on the storytelling platform.

Leone Film Group, a leading Italian production and distribution company, has also optioned the full series of novels in author Blair Holden’s “The Bad Boy’s Girl” saga, which is touted as having more than 220 million online reads, with plans to turn it into a teen romance film franchise.

The story of “The Bad Boy’s Girl” revolves around protagonist Tessa O’Connell, who has only two goals for senior year: to keep her head down, and to get over the heartbreak of seeing her longtime crush date her ex-best friend, according to promotional materials.

“But Tessa fears the worst when her childhood bully, Cole, returns to town from military school.

The Filming Italy — Los Angeles fest, which runs March 18-21, is a bridgehead between Italy and Hollywood. Here are some of the event’s highlights:

‘The Life Ahead’ panel

“The Life Ahead” director Edoardo Ponti, which is an Italian Netflix Original, will hold an online conversation with Diane Warren, who wrote the film’s theme song “Io Si (Seen).” “The Life Ahead” will be the fest’s opener.

‘It Was Spring Outside’

This life-in-lockdown doc by Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores will have its U.S. premiere at Filming in Italy after launching at the Rome Film Festival. Using material from social media and cellphone videos sent to Salvatores and other sources, this collective project assembled by the prolific helmer, who won an Academy Award for “Mediterraneo,” provides a tapestry of fresh first-hand accounts of how Italians experienced the coronavirus crisis — from empty piazzas to the heroes on the front lines...

Exclusive: Shout! Studios has acquired Masquerade, a thriller written and directed by Shane Dax Taylor and starring Bella Thorne. The deal struck with XYZ Films is for North American, UK and Ireland rights, and the pic will now get a day-and-day release in the U.S later this year. Bleiberg Entertainment is handling international sales.

The film follows 11-year-old Casey (Alyvia Lind), who must survive the night after a group of intruders, led by Rose (Thorne), break into her family’s home to steal their priceless artwork. The stakes are high as the crew will stop at nothing to get what they want until a shocking twist ending. Skyler Samuels, Mircea Monroe and Austin Nichols also star.

Steven Schneider, Taylor and Kenneth Burke produced the film, and Stuart Manashil, Corky Taylor, Joe Heath, Ronald J. Kirchhoff, Roman Terrill, Brian E. Dahlin, Justin Brown, Sherman A. Brown, Jared Smith, Ted Pacha,...

Italy is among the first countries in the world where film and TV production restarted after the peak of the pandemic and the country is now trying to become among the first in Europe to reopen movie theaters.

Culture Minister Dario Franceschini in late February announced tentative plans to reopen Italian cinemas on March 27 in areas with lower Covid-19 infection and death rates, using new stricter social distancing norms. Though it remains to be seen whether Franceschini’s plan will pan out, what’s clear is that “Italy’s trade organizations and the government are engaged in a fruitful dialogue,” says producer Carlo Cresto-Dina, whose Tempesta Film is best-known for regularly shepherding pics by Cannes regular Alice Rohrwacher such as “The Wonders” and “Happy as Lazzaro.”

Cresto Dina points out that “right now in Italy it’s tough to find available crew, since they are all taken,” thanks to the...

Voltage Pictures is launching international sales at the EFM on Italian romantic comedy “Per Tutta La Vita” (“For All Life”), from the writer-director team behind global hit “Perfect Strangers.”

“Strangers,” a dramedy involving cellphones and personal secrets, grossed over $31 million domestically and spawned remakes in a dozen territories including France, Germany, Spain, Greece and South Korea. In total, those remakes have grossed an estimated total $270 million worldwide. An Arabic adaptation is currently shooting.

“For All Life” turns on four couples who discover that their marriages are no longer valid because they were all performed by a fraudulent priest. “Are they going to say the big ‘yes’ once again, or will they use this excuse to run away from their marriage?,” reads the synopsis.

Paolo Costella, who co-wrote “Perfect Strangers,” directed this ensemble pic with “Strangers” director Paolo Genovese and Antonella Lattanzi. “For All Life” is co-produced by Marco Belardi via his Lotus Production,...

Italy, the European country initially hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, is weathering the second wave well with film and TV production chugging along at a relatively healthy pace thanks to efficient safety protocols and government incentives.

Culture minister Dario Franceschini has just trumpeted a fresh injection of cash to support production, upping resources to fund the Italian tax rebate from €400 million ($474 million) to $652 million for 2021 while raising the incentive’s cap from 30% to 40% of a local production’s budget. The tax rebate is Italy’s main tool to combat the rise in economic costs and risks caused by coronavirus.

The Italian culture czar has also announced plans to double available backlot space at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios and to bring in millions of euros in new resources as part of a revamp of the famed facilities, where several substantial U.S. studio productions are expected to set up camp next year.

Shooting is underway in Rome on romancer “Time Is Up,” pairing Bella Thorne with Italian popstar Benjamin Mascolo and being directed by Italy’s Elisa Amoruso (“Chiara Ferragni – Unposted”).

The English-language teen pic turns on two high-school seniors, Vivien (Thorne), who is an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy (Mascolo), a troubled young man. This makes “for two starkly different personalities,” according to promotional materials.

Cameras started rolling last week on “Time Is Up,” which is being produced by Italy’s Marco Belardi via his Lotus Production, a Leone Film Group company, with pubcaster Rai’s Rai Cinema on board. A six-week shoot is planned in Rome and also in an unspecified U.S. location.

Besides Thorne and Mascolo, who is making his acting debut, the “Time Is Up” cast also comprises Emmy-winning U.S. actor Nikolay Moss (“The Cobblestone Corridor”), Roberto Davide and Sebastiano Pigazzi (“We Are Who We Are”).

Thorne,...