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This century, Catalonia has emerged as a region with a rich filmmaking tradition, supported by public investment in local artists and production companies. This commitment to nurturing talent and fostering growth has led to significant developments in the region’s industry, culminating in a contemporary state of affairs that sees Catalonia involved in every part of the 2025 Berlin Film Festival, where Spain is the honorary EFM Country in Focus.

Four Catalan productions have been selected for the festival’s official program, highlighting the region’s creative prowess. Eva Libertad’s debut feature, “Deaf,” based on the director’s Goya-nominated short of the same name, will premiere in the Panorama section, while Lucía G. Romero’s “Close to September” will screen in the Berlinale Shorts section. Two Catalan films play in Generation Kplus: Robin Petré’s “Only On Earth” and Karen Joaquín and Uliane Tatit’s “Juanita.”

Catalonia’s presence similarly...

Writer/director Zach Cregger’s horror film Barbarian (watch it Here) was a financial success when it was released last year, and it also received a lot of positive word-of-mouth. New Line Cinema was so impressed by it, they forked over $38 million to pick up Cregger’s mysterious new horror project, Weapons. (Beating out Jordan Peele and Universal in the bidding war.) New Line then signed a first look deal with BoulderLight Pictures, the production company behind Barbarian. They have since set up two other projects, a sci-fi thriller called Companion and a haunted house movie called Occupant, that Cregger will be producing. But while the filmmakers move on to other ideas, Barbarian does still has life in it. Our friends at Bloody Disgusting report that a Barbarian video game is now in the works!

The Barbarian video game is a collaboration between New Regency Pictures and Diversion3 Entertainment – a...

Disney Branded Television’s animated series Firebuds from Emmy-winning creator and executive producer Craig Gerber (Disney’s Elena of Avalor and Sofia the First) follows a team of young first responders and their talking vehicle sidekicks.

Two upcoming episodes, titled “Cleft Hood” and “All That Jazzy,” will spotlight disability representation addressing volunteerism, community service, teamwork, wheelchair use, and cleft palate disorder. Each episode includes characters voiced by Lou Diamond Phillips, Melissa Rauch, Yvette Nicole Brown, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer, Tatiana Lee and Ali Stroker.

First up, “Cleft Hood” introduces a new vehicle character named Castor, who was born with a cleft hood. It was written by Jeremy Shipp, part of the Emmy-winning writing team behind Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, and inspired by his own son, Henry, who was born with a cleft lip and palate.

“All That Jazzy” focuses on Spencer’s character Jazzy, who wants to be the star of a dance performance.

Amber Rose is no longer dating, and she wants it to stay that way.

The model, 39, opened up about her past relationships, including those with Kanye West, 21 Savage, and Wiz Khalifa, to Sofia Franklyn on the Sofia with an F podcast.

She shared her experiences with men over the span of her dating life.

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“They’re pretty disgusting out here. They’re f—ing gross. Like, I wanna be single for the rest of my life,” she said.

“I’m fine with being by myself too. I’m very happy to not share my bed with anyone,” she added.

Rose’s declaration came after news broke that her ex-boyfriend Alexander Edwards, 36, is dating Cher, 76.

Cher and the Universal Music Group executive were first rumored to be together when they were pictured holding hands last fall in Los Angeles.

Cher confirmed she was dating Edwards on Twitter.

Chapel Hart took the stage for the last time on Tuesday night as they sang for America’s votes during the “America’s Got Talent” finale performance show. The Mississippi country trio admitted “song choice is probably everything” when host Terry Crews asked them how they planned on standing out from the crowd. Well, they raised the roof with their original song “American Pride” during the live show and had the audience up on their feet. Watch the “AGT” video above.

After previously earning the Golden Buzzer from the entire panel, Chapel Hart has been heralded by country superstars like Dolly Partner and Tanya Tucker. They clearly have a huge future ahead of themselves, but did they do enough to join the “AGT” winners list? The judges were mixed in their critiques, with both Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel mentioning their off-key vocals.

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Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Nico Santos (Crazy Rich Asians) and Blythe Danner (I’ll See You in My Dreams) have signed on to star in Happiness for Beginners, a Netflix romantic comedy from writer-director Vicky Wight.

The film is based on Katherine Center’s novel of the same name and centers on Helen (Kemper), who signs up for a wilderness survival course a year after getting divorced. She discovers through this experience that in getting she has found herself.

Wight is producing the film with Geoff Linville and Berry Meyerowitz. Jeff Sackman and Larry Greenburg are its executive producers. Information on the roles to be played by Grimes, Santos and Danner has not yet been disclosed.

Kemper is a two-time Emmy nominee perhaps best known for her starring turn in Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and for her portrayal of Erin Hannon...

“America’s Got Talent” continued the final phase of season 16 on Tuesday with the first of two semifinal performance shows and on Wednesday with the results of that show based on audience votes. In this semi-finals round, 11 acts per night perform in front of judges Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum and Sofia Vergara.

Of the 11 acts on the August 31 live show, only five of them will advance to the “AGT” finals. These 11 acts include two singled out for the Golden Buzzer: Sofia’s choice, singer Jimmie Herrod and host Terry Crews‘ pick, World Taekwondo Demonstration Team Martial Arts Group.

Also in the hunt are three other solo singers — Madilyn Bailey, Peter Rosalita and Tory Vagasy — plus the vocal group Korean Soul, stand-up comedian Gina Brillon, aerialist Aidan Bryant, magician Dustin Tavella and voice artist Michael Winslow. The wild card was Beyond Belief Dance Company, who were eliminated in quarterfinals 1 when...

Tonight A.R. Rahman is presenting the 99 Songs Special Concert — a digital show chronicling the music of his upcoming film 99 Songs. A musical experience,that brings to life 99 Songs as never seen before, the digital concert will be streaming on JioSaavn’s Live Anywhere platform at 9:09pm Ist. This special concert allows listeners to experience the music of 99 Songs ahead of the film’s release in theatres on April 16th. Streaming in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, the 99 Songs Special Concert sees Academy and Grammy Award-winning composer Rahman unite with the exceptional voices of the 99 Songs soundtrack. The film’s lead actor Ehan Bhat (who trained to be a musician for the film!) and director Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy too join Rahman in rendering the sound of the movie. Together, team 99 Songs delivers a digital musical montage that pays tribute to the story of the film while honouring the spirit of music itself.

This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers.

Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 8

“Meat…”

“Assassin’s Bullet” painfully explores the cost of war as losses for both Marley and Eldia accumulate. “Assassin’s Bullet” makes sure to properly honor the member of the Survey Corps that perishes, but the previous episode saw the Warriors in Marley lose even more people that were important to Gabi, Reiner, and the rest of Marley, yet Attack on Titan doesn’t even allow time for Marley to grieve. Perspective has been an integral component of this final season and it’s fascinating how the Attack on Titan’s treatment of these characters inherently informs who the audience is pushed to empathize towards.

The people of Marley aren’t allowed a chance to mourn their losses, but their pain crystalizes in a way that’s even more dangerous once Gabi’s vitriol boils over. In the end it...

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Wap” returned to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. The collaboration was dethroned for one week by Travis Scott, Young Thug, and M.I.A.’s “Franchise” and then for a second week by 21 Savage, Metro Boomin, and Drake’s “Mr. Right Now.” But “Wap” rebounded to Number One this week with more than 5,000 downloads and nearly 19 million streams; it has now spent seven weeks as the most popular song in the country.

As “Wap” returned to the top of the chart,...

In today’s film news roundup, Sabrina Carpenter’s “The Short History of the Long Road” gets a home, comedian Jo Koy’s life will become a movie, “True to the Game” is getting a sequel and Apa promotes Chris Ridenhour.

Acquisition

FilmRise has acquired Sabrina Carpenter’s coming-of-age drama “The Short History of the Long Road” and is planning a May 15 theatrical release.

The film, written and directed by Ani Simon-Kennedy, won a special jury mention for screenplay at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. “The Short History of the Long Road” also stars Maggie Siff, Steven Ogg and Danny Trejo.

Carpenter portrays a teenager who grew up living out of a van with her beloved father. When tragedy strikes, she is confronted by the reality that life as an outsider may not be her only choice.

The film is produced by Darren Dean, Bettina Kadoorie, Kishori Rajan, Eddie Rubin, Ani Simon-Kennedy,...

August’s home entertainment releases are off to a strong start this Tuesday, as horror and sci-fi fans have a lot to look forward to this week. Scream Factory is keeping busy with a trio of releases—Bite, The Binding, and the Collector’s Edition release of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)—and Anchor Bay has a pair of indie genre offerings, Viral and Lazer Team, coming out on August 2nd as well. Ben Wheatley’s stunning adaptation of High-Rise is also coming home on Tuesday, and if you missed it last month, Most Likely to Die makes its way to DVD this week, too.

Other notable releases include DVDs of Panzer, Summer Camp, The Suffering, and the Blu-ray release of The Night Visitor.

Bite (Scream Factory, Blu-ray & DVD)

Your Fear Is Her Appetite.

While on her bachelorette party getaway, bride-to be Casey (Elma Begovic) gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect.

Stars: Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio, Michael Therriault | Written by Christian Piers Betley | Directed by Roger Christian

Whereas the name Christian Slater once meant a sign of a great movie (I’m thinking of the likes of Heathers, Mobsters, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and his magnum opus, Pump Up the Volume), today it tends to mean low-budget, badly scripted straight to DVD fodder. The last Slater film I watched, Sofia, was a bit of a mess. The film could have been an action-packed espionage thriller, but instead the film saw both actor and director seemingly out of their depth – with Slater literally trying to “act” like a tough guy without backing it up with any actual physicality. So I approached Stranded with a bit of trepidation, even moreso given that director Roger Christian was responsible for the atrocity that was Battlefield Earth…

Making it’s world premiere here in the UK,...

British films start to emerge in the run-up to Cannes, and Sundance makes an uncertain return to London

Out of the Cannes

Following the exclusion of British films from the main competitions at Cannes, a couple of silver linings did appear, with The Arbor director Clio Barnard's follow-up, The Selfish Giant, being picked for Directors' Fortnight and Paul Wright's debut, For Those in Peril, produced by the ever-edgy Warp Films, settling into Critics' Week. In an interview with Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux, it even emerged that he quite fancied Barnard's film for the main competition but couldn't (or wouldn't) nab it back from the Quinzaine selectors. So that's good. Other strong British titles bubbling under – though they won't be at Cannes – include Richard Ayoade's The Double, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave, the latest new Michael Winterbottom movie (there's always...

This is it, boils and ghouls. Your final chance to participate in an auction to assist women struggling with breast cancer via the Busted Foundation and The Horror Starlets - and we saved the best for last! Read on for the details.

Filmmaker Declan O’Brien has terrified audiences with Wrong Turn 3, Wrong Turn 4 and the upcoming Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, and now he offers a signed copy of the latter as well as a piece of film history to benefit a charitable cause.

Currently up for auction is a signed (by writer and director O’Brien) Blu-ray copy of the Twentieth Century Fox release Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (the flick streets on 10/23/2012) along with a signed silicone, full facial prosthetic worn during the making of the film in Sofia, Bulgaria, by Borislav Iliev, the only actor to portray the series’ ‘Three Finger’ character twice (both in...

Sofia

Stars: Christian Slater, Elika Portnoy, Timothy Spall, Donald Sutherland | Written by Nancy L. Babine, Hans Feuersinger, Elika Portnoy | Directed by Isaac Florentine

I had high hopes for Sofia, I really did. After all the film, which is also know as Assassin’s Bullet in some territories, comes from director Isaac Florentine whose last four movies – Undisputed II, The Shepherd, Ninja and Undisputed III - were slices of B-movie genius, harkening back to the 90s heyday of Dtv action flicks. However Undisputed III was filmed over two years ago and it seems in the two years that have followed Florentine may have lost some of his action-movie mojo…

Set in Sofia, Bulgaria – which also (obviously) provides the name of this action thriller – the film tells the tale of Vicki Denev (Portnoy) and her alter egos: a killer, a schoolteacher and a seductress. Agent Robert Diggs (Slater) is an ex FBI...

As Lionsgate UK releases Sofia onto DVD and Blu-ray on 10th September, we thought we would have a look at leading-man Christian Slater’s Top 10 starring roles.

1) True Romance

Written by King of Cool, Quentin Tarentino, and directed by legendary film-maker Tony Scott, True Romance tells the tale of loveable rogue Clarence Worley (Slater) as he attempts to out-run cops and crooks alike with his hooker-bride (Patricia Arquette) and a ‘suitcase full of trouble’. Featuring appearances from an endless list of A-list talent including Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken and Samuel L Jackson, this cult classic is not to be missed.

2) Pump Up The Volume

Mark (Slater) is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to Arizona from the East Coast. His parents give him a short-wave radio so he can talk to his pals, but instead he sets up shop as pirate deejay Hard Harry, who becomes a...

Last week saw the release of the second season of the brilliant The Walking Dead, one of the best and most talked-about television programmes currently on the air – and about to kick off with its anticipated third season.

And this week brings with it the release of one of the year’s most successful films in the form of The Hunger Games, very much one of the biggest blockbusters of 2012, beginning what is set to become an immense franchise in the years to come.

There are a lot of films coming to the shelves this week, so I shall press on.

My picks of the week:

Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games & Lasse Hallström’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

The Office: An American Workplace – Season 7 & Boardwalk Empire – Season 2.

And, of course, the Blu-ray release of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.

The Hunger Games Iframe Embed for Youtube

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Title: Assassin’s Bullet Directed by: Isaac Florentine Starring Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Elika Portnoy and Timothy Spall Running time: 91 minutes, Rated R Special Features: Making-of Featurette and Theatrical Trailer Christian Slater is Robert Diggs, a former FBI agent that is haunted by the death of his wife, and takes a job as a cultural attaché in Sofia, Bulgaria. He falls for a mysterious woman whom reminds him of his wife, and unbeknownst to him is involved in an assassination plot against several Islamic terrorists. Let me save you some time, yes they’re all the same chick. Once you figure that out, (pretty early on in the film) you’re just [ Read More ]...

You want to hear something interesting? The top selling version of The Hunger Games on Amazon as I write this up is the [amazon asin="B008602KQI" text="Instant Video Version"], not the DVD or the Blu-ray. As far as I can remember this is the first time I've ever seen this happen with a new release. It's probably only because I believe Amazon releases those a week early to entice people to buy them before they then buy a physical copy, but it's a clear sign to me that the times... they are a'changin'.

Jaws I wrote up my review of this new Blu-ray release of Jaws just last night and highly recommend fans of the film pick it up. It's got an immaculate transfer, vivid, cleaned up and vastly superior to anything I've ever seen plus a restored audio track and, for the first time ever on home video, the feature length making-of documentary "The Shark is Still Working.

A few weeks back, we premiered six exclusive photos from Assassin's Bullet, Arc Entertainment's action-packed thrill ride that debuted in theaters last weekend. Today, we have been provided with another six-pack of exclusive shots, featuring Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Elika Portnoy, and the former Wormtail himself, Timothy Spall. Check out these new shots from this intense thriller about a former FBI agent (Christian Slater) tasked with finding a hitman who is targeting criminals on the bureau's Most Wanted List.

Assassin's Bullet was released August 3rd, 2012 and stars Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Elika Portnoy, Timothy Spall, Ivaylo Geraskov, Ivan Kotsev, Tanya Mickov, Vassil Mihajlov. The film is directed by Isaac Florentine.

It's a pity that Assassin's Bullet, possibly the first Isaac Florentine film to receive a Stateside theatrical release, happens to be one of his weakest. A martial-artist-turned-filmmaker, Florentine (born Yitzhak Florentin) has carved out a niche in the direct-to-video world as an old-school action director with a knack for choreographing and composing fight scenes. Wide-angles lenses, longish shot durations (by contemporary standards, anyway), and a sense of follow-through are the hallmarks of Florentine's action-directing style—an appreciative aesthetic where every element serves the bodies and movements of the athlete-performers (Florentine's leads are more often than not Mma fighters, more than capable of doing their own stunts).

Originally titled Sofia (as in the city), Assassin's Bullet is a sub-De Palma riff on the Bulgarian capital's status as a popular B-movie shooting location. This identity disorder—Sofia is one of contemporary cinema's most filmed cities, yet rarely plays itself— is personified by...

Most won't recognize director Isaac Florentine's name, but he's one of the better straight-to-video action directors around. He's been in the business for decades, but in recent years he's really started to shine with movies like Ninja and Undisputed sequels Last Man Standing and Redemption. If you haven't seen any of them, but you respect a good kick to the face, you should definitely check them out. Undisputed III: Redemption in particular could teach Hollywood a thing or two about how to choreograph a fight scene so it looks bone-crunchingly realistic. Florentine's latest is Assassin's Bullet and it's actually getting a limited theatrical release on August 3 ahead of its home video premiere on August 14. It looks to be a bit of a break from the...

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Even by the admittedly low standards of a basically direct-to-video, shot-in-Bulgaria action thriller starring Christian Slater and Donald Sutherland as a pair of weathered old spies, "Assassin's Bullet" is a chore. It seems to have been created at some kind of magical nexus where sluggish plotting, technical ineptitude, and iffy performances meet. It's a smorgasbord of awfulness, but one that you can't even find yourself enjoying, in a guilty pleasure, can-you-honestly-believe-this? kind of way. It would be lucky to be one of those movies they premiere on Cinemax on Friday nights starring actors who clearly owed the IRS something. "Assassin's Bullet," which has a title that makes it sound like an extremely violent Xbox game, opens with some gauzy flashback sequence that looks like a cat walked across the keyboard while Final Cut X was open – jittery smash cuts, hazy digital effects, a general aura of Diy shamelessness. It involves a.

This weekly column is intended to provide reviews of nearly every new indie release, including films on VOD. Specific release dates and locations follow each review. Reviews This Week: "360" "Assassin's Bullet" "The Babymakers" "Celeste and Jesse Forever" "Craigslist Joe" "Dreams of a Life" "Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film" "Girlfriend Boyfriend" "Mosquita y Mari" "[Rec]³ Genesis" "Sushi: The Global Catch" "You've Been Trumped" "360" Whatever possessed three of Britain's most talented actors (Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz) to join the ensemble cast of this discombobulated drama? Whatever the reason, the result is embarrassing. Another in a long line of variants on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play "La Ronde,'' the film,...

They're never going to make The Legend of Billie Jean sequel, or Kuffs Part 2, but don't worry! You can see Christian Slater in the new action thriller Assassin's Bullet next month, which finds the actor playing a former FBI field agent tasked with finding an assassin who has been picking terrorists off America's Most Wanted List. We have six exclusive photos for you to check out, and then be sure to check out the movie when it hits select theaters on August 3rd.

Assassin's Bullet comes to theaters August 3rd, 2012 and stars Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Elika Portnoy, Timothy Spall, Ivaylo Geraskov, Ivan Kotsev, Tanya Mickov, Vassil Mihajlov. The film is directed by Isaac Florentine.

Christian Slater is out to save the world in “Assassin’s Bullet” (also known as “Sofia”), the former “Pump up the Volume” star’s latest (mostly) direct-to-dvd action movie for “Undisputed” director Isaac Florentine, who is building up quite the filmography in DVDland. (By the way, has it actually been 22 years since “Pump Up the Volume”? I love that movie. Hard Harry forever!) Anyhoo. Check out a trailer, poster, and images from the actioner below, people who enjoy checking out assets from upcoming action movies. So the killer is a woman. I hope that’s not some kind of surprise in the movie cause, well, it’s all over the trailer, isn’t it? When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America’s Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the Us Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin.

With writer/director Declan O’Brien’s Wrong Turn 5 having wrapped today in Bulgaria, here are an exclusive and extensive photo gallery from our set visit and an update on the production. Read on!

Having just returned from four days on the Sofia, Bulgaria set (the production at the time was shooting at UFO Studios just outside the city), here’s a bit of a casting update. As we previously reported, television actress Camilla Arfwedson has joined the cast of the film as ‘Sheriff Angela,’ the female lead who finds herself at odds with the series’ backwoods nemeses The Hillicker Brothers, this time portrayed by Bobi Dilev as ‘Three Finger’ (the only actor to ever reprise that role in the series), Radoslav Purvanov as ‘One Eye’ and Georgi Karlukovski as ‘Saw Tooth.’

Joining them are actors Simon Ginty as ‘Billy,’ Oliver Hoare as ‘Julian,’ Amy Lennox as ‘Cruz,’ Paul Luebke (Djinn) as ‘Gus,...

Eduardo Rodriguez' El Gringo, starring Scott Adkins, Yvette Yates, Christian Slater to Tiberius German distributor Tiberius Film has picked up the action film produced by Joel Silver, at the American Film Market. El Gringo tells of a wounded Gringo who crosses over to Mexico in hopes of retiring in Acapulco with a million dollars in cash, reports Variety. Pic was shot on location at the Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria this summer and Tiberius wants to release it to German-speaking territories via Sunfilm Entertainment, some time in the fall next year.

Eduardo Rodriguez' El Gringo, starring Scott Adkins, Yvette Yates, Christian Slater to Tiberius German distributor Tiberius Film has picked up the action film produced by Joel Silver, at the American Film Market. El Gringo tells of a wounded Gringo who crosses over to Mexico in hopes of retiring in Acapulco with a million dollars in cash, reports Variety. Pic was shot on location at the Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria this summer and Tiberius wants to release it to German-speaking territories via Sunfilm Entertainment, some time in the fall next year.

Eduardo Rodriguez' El Gringo, starring Scott Adkins, Yvette Yates, Christian Slater to Tiberius German distributor Tiberius Film has picked up the action film produced by Joel Silver, at the American Film Market. El Gringo tells of a wounded Gringo who crosses over to Mexico in hopes of retiring in Acapulco with a million dollars in cash, reports Variety. Pic was shot on location at the Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria this summer and Tiberius wants to release it to German-speaking territories via Sunfilm Entertainment, some time in the fall next year.

[1] Though Christian Slater's IMDb resume shows that he's been keeping himself busy over the past few years, it's been a while since he's released a high-profile film project. (I definitely did not remember that Without Men was ever a thing until I looked over Slater's filmography.) His upcoming horror flick Playback probably won't be the one to change that trend, but if you miss seeing the True Romance star on the big screen, you'll want to keep an eye for it out during the first quarter of next year. Magnet Releasing has just picked up the U.S. rights to the thriller, which was directed by Michael Nickles and also stars Toby Hemingway, Johnny Pacar, and rising star [2] Ambyr Childers. The story revolves around high school students who discover a disturbing secret in their hometown's history, awakening an evil spirit. Not the most inspired of concepts, but maybe it'll be fun.

After all this comedy's drama, "Breaking In" has snuck back onto the television schedule once again.

The Christian Slater-starring comedy about a group of young employees working at a digital security firm is getting a mid-season order of 13 episodes from Fox, Deadline reports. It was a late season addition to the schedule last season, and despite testing well, performed poorly in the ratings. It was assumed that the show was dead after airing seven episodes, which almost din't run themselves after being passed over the season before.

This marks, finally, a semi-success for Slater's recent television career; his past two shows, "The Forgotten" and "My Own Worst Enemy," were cancelled after one season. It also comes amidst a personal renaissance for the actor, who has been sober for half a decade now; he's involved in sixteen movies over this year and next, according to IMDb.com. That includes the drama "Sofia" with Donald Sutherland,...

Actor Christian Slater, star of Fox's upcoming comedy series Breaking In, has signed with UTA. He was previously with CAA. Slater, who built a career in movies, has done three back-to-back TV series in the past few years: NBC's My Own Worst Enemy, ABC's The Forgotten and Breaking In. He has a slew of features in the can, including Sofia, named after and filmed in the capital of my native Bulgaria.

DVD Playhouse December 2010

By

Allen Gardner

America Lost And Found: The Bbs Story (Criterion) Perhaps the best DVD box set released this year, this ultimate cinefile stocking stuffer offered up by Criterion, the Rolls-Royce of home video labels, features seven seminal works from the late ‘60s-early ‘70s that were brought to life by cutting edge producers Bert Schneider, Steve Blauner and director/producer Bob Rafelson, the principals of Bbs Productions. In chronological order: Head (1968) star the Monkees, the manufactured (by Rafelson, et al), American answer to the Beatles who, like it or not, did make an impact on popular culture, particularly in this utterly surreal piece of cinematic anarchy (co-written by Jack Nicholson, who has a cameo), which was largely dismissed upon its initial release, but is now regarded as a counterculture classic. Easy Rider (1969) is arguably regarded as the seminal ‘60s picture, about two hippie drug dealers (director Dennis Hopper...