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HBO's critically acclaimed fantasy series Game of Thrones achieved record viewership for the network and has garnered a vast fanbase worldwide. The series aired from 2011 to 2019 across eight seasons, and during that time, the series and ensemble cast were nominated for numerous awards. Most impressively, the series was nominated for 164 Primetime Emmys, winning 59. This series has propelled many of its cast members into the limelight, but who is the most successful?

Looking at award nominations and wins, Peter Dinklage, who portrayed Tyrion Lannister, led the pack with 40 nominations, of which he won seven. He is the only cast member to receive an Emmy for his role in the series. Emilia Clarke, who played Daenerys Targaryen, closely followed with 29 nominations and four wins.

While award wins is one way to gauge success, let's examine cast members whose appearances in Game of Thrones boosted their careers. With such an expansive list of actors,...

3 Body Problem received mixed reviews, with some praising it as one of the best sci-fi shows while others found it lacking in substance. Game of Thrones creators and a talented cast contribute to the series' potential success, but some critics question the script and storytelling. The series has divided critics due to attempts to globalize a Chinese story and rushed exploration of complex themes, making it a divisive show.

Netflix has had mixed results adapting beloved science-fiction stories into live-action series. Shows like Alice in Borderland, The Umbrella Academy, and Altered Carbon (Season 1) have been massive hits for the streaming service, while iBoy and Altered Carbon's second season were lambasted by critics and audiences. However, critics can't make up their minds on Netflix's newest sci-fi series, 3 Body Problem, making it one of the streamer's most divisive shows to date.

Based on the acclaimed book trilogy by Chinese author Liu Cixin,...

Awareness is a sci-fi thriller film directed by Daniel Benmayor, who also co-wrote the film with Ivan Ledesma. The Prime Video film follows the story of a rebellious teenager named Ian, who has the incredible power of projecting illusions. After his power is revealed to the public, a secret organization starts hunting him down. So, if you love Awareness here are some similar movies you could watch next.

iBoy (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Synopsis: After being shot while trying to stop a violent attack on his high school crush, a 16 year old boy awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have embedded in his brain, giving him superhero powers. He uses this knowledge and technology to exact revenge on the gang responsible for the attack.

I Am Number Four (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Synopsis: Three are dead. He is Number Four.

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #335: ‘The Last of Us’ – Making the hit TV...

If you didn't already know how huge "The Last of Us" was before the show premiered on HBO earlier this month, it's likely you do now. The 2013 Naughty Dog video game on which the series is based was a tremendous success and an industry game-changer, bringing gorgeous, cinematic style and subtle, character-driven stories to a medium that hasn't always been known for either.

It's no surprise, then, that when it came time to finally turn the game into a TV show (after an earlier movie version fell apart) the production took a go-big-or-go-home approach to getting the story just right. According to cinematographer Eben Bolter, who worked as director of photography on three episodes of the series, that approach included a massive search for the right people to capture the show's visuals.

Bolter's Been A Fan Of The Games Since Day One

I spoke with Bolter in an interview for /Film,...

Exclusive: UK distributor and producer Signature Entertainment has appointed Ben Jacques to the newly created role of Head Of UK Production.

Jacques most recently produced Scott Adkins action movies One Shot and Accident Man 2, which is in post-production.

Reporting to Signature CEO and founder Marc Goldberg, Jacques will be responsible for developing and delivering the company’s slate of UK productions. He previously teamed up with the company on 2017 crime pic The Hatton Garden Job and the aforementioned One Shot, which also starred Ashley Greene and Ryan Philippe. He was also a co-producer on movies including iBoy, Green Street 3 and Never Back Down: Revolt.

Goldberg said: “I’m delighted Ben has joined us, we have a hunger to continue building on our reputation for producing high quality British content and Ben has demonstrated he can deliver. We want to support a broad range of voices and filmmakers stretching across...

Exclusive: Move over Squid Games, it’s Time To Hunt. In an interesting development, we can reveal that Netflix is remaking its Korean-language movie Time To Hunt, marking the first time the streamer has adapted one of its local-language movies into English. The studio has come full circle, you might say.

Netflix has set director Adam Randall for the adaptation, having just worked with the Brit filmmaker on vampire comedy Night Teeth.

Time To Hunt, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival last year, follows a group of young people who commit crimes to survive in a near-future Korea hit by financial crisis.

The well-received original was directed by Yoon Sung-hyun and features a cast of rising Korean actors including Lee Je-hoon, Ahn Jae-hong, Choi Woo-shik, Park Jeong-min and Park Hae-soo. Rhee Handae produced.

Randall, also known for 2019 horror I See You, told us: “I watched the movie early in...

When Jess Paine and Ramon Watkins were announced as the inaugural recipients of the In Dreams Fellowship at the beginning of last year, their aspirations of cracking the US market were given a significant boost.

However, the screenwriting initiative’s mission to spark a new wave of Australian storytelling perspectives in Hollywood coincided with the more unwelcome wave of Covid across the world, which cast a shadow over new opportunities in the industry.

Despite this, both Paine and Watkins have managed to take their craft to the next level, with the former having her YA sci-fi pilot The Replacements optioned by Kojo Studios and Stampede Ventures partnership, The Alliance, while the latter has joined Impact Australia 2 to work on half-hour queer comedy Daddies.

Paine, who writes scripts for Neighbours while developing other projects, told If the pandemic may have even carried a silver lining.

“We’ve entered an era where...

Sky One sci-fi Intergalactic is part conspiracy thriller, part prison break drama, and all space romp. It’s set 150 years in the future, when all of Earth’s nations have united into a single authority known as the Commonworld, and a new element has enabled Earth’s people to escape ecological collapse and colonise other planets via intergalactic travel. Over eight episodes, available to stream as a box-set on Now, we follow a group of female fugitives searching for freedom and uncovering long-buried lies.

The cast has been gathered from far and wide, ranging from relative newcomers to TV like Diany Samba-Bandza to more familiar faces Natasha O’Keeffe, Thomas Turgoose and Eleanor Tomlinson, and established actors Parminder Nagra, Craig Parkinson and Neil Maskell. Here’s who everybody is playing, and the major roles where you may have encountered them before.

Oliver Coopersmith as Echo Nantu-Rose

Coopersmith plays space pirate Echo in Intergalactic,...

"If you did something, you can tell me." Saban Films has released the first official trailer for an indie horror film titled I See You, from director Adam Randall (of iBoy previously). This first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, then went on to play at Cleveland, Edinburgh, and Lisbon Horror Festival. Strange occurrences plague a small town detective and his family as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy. Starring Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Judah Lewis, Owen Teague, Libe Barer, Greg Alan Williams, Erika Alexander, and Allison King. I'm intrigued by this because it's not just a horror, but a "puzzle", where "nothing is exactly what it seems" as the trailer says. And that wooden mask is super creepy. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Adam Randall's I See You, direct from Saban's YouTube: When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper...

Carmen Knox and Melissa Azizi.

Producers Carmen Knox and Melissa Azizi have launched a new screenwriting fellowship, In Dreams, with the aim of connecting unrepresented Aussie writers to Hollywood.

Two writers, selected by a judging panel of representatives from companies such as Imagine Entertainment, Greg Silverman’s Stampede, Verve Talent and Literary Agency, Abrams Artists Agency and Gunpowder & Sky, will be invited to participate in the program.

As part of the fellowship, the two winners will receive curated series of virtual introductions and meetings with key Hollywood industry professionals, as well as 1-on-1 consultation and creative guidance from the Knox and Azizi.

The program is sponsored by the Jen Grisanti Consultancy; Grisanti is a story/career consultant, former studio executive and the writing instructor NBC’s Writers on the Verge program. Both winner will have the opportunity to participate in Grisanti’s six-week Storywise Teleseminar.

Unrepresented Australian screenwriters of...

ControversyThough ‘iSmart Shankar’ is said to be loosely inspired from the Hollywood film ‘iBoy’, Akash alleges that Puri has plagiarised the movie from his 2016 Tamil film ‘Naan Yaar’.Priyanka RichiPuri Jagannadh’s iSmart Shankar with Ram Pothineni in the lead, is having a successful run at the Telugu box-office since its release last Thursday. The movie, before its release had made news after Ram was slapped with a fine for smoking in public, while shooting in Charminar. Now, after iSmart Shankar’s release, yet another controversy has sprung up as actor Jai Akash has accused the director of plagiarism. Alleging that iSmart Shankar is a copy of his 2016 Tamil movie Naan Yaar, Akash has accused Puri Jagannadh of plagiarising the entire movie except for its geographical backdrop. Puri, whose movie iSmart Shankar is said to be loosely inspired from the 2017 Hollywood movie iBoy, is yet to respond to Akash’s allegations.

Petrice Jones has been cast in the Netflix adaptation of “Locke & Key” in a series regular role, Variety has learned exclusively.

Jones has been cast in the role of Scot. Scot is described as a massive horror movie nerd and the ringleader of the “Savini Squad” — a group of teen misfits named for famed special effects artist Tom Savini. He becomes Kinsey Locke’s first friend at the Academy.

He joins previously announced cast members Jackson Robert Scott, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Griffin Gluck, Darby Stanchfield, and Laysla De Oliveira.

Jones currently also stars in the YouTube Premium series “Step Up: High Water,” and will remain on that show in addition to appearing in “Locke & Key.” The English actor has also appeared in films like “iBoy” and “Play the Devil,” as well as shows like “Doctors” and “Holby City.” He is repped by Gersh, Echo Lake Entertainment, and...

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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels continues the supernatural legacy of the original Showtime series, shifting its setting to 1930s Los Angeles.

Penny Dreadful may have been a beloved, star-studded peak television offering that closed up shop after just three seasons, but the classic-literature-crossover Showtime supernatural series will continue its legacy with a sequel series. The premium cable channel dropped major details back in November about a follow-up series, titled Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.

While the sequel series makes a dramatic shift away from the settings and characters of 2014-2016’s Penny Dreadful, it will have the support of its key personnel, namely creator John Logan, who returns to serve as writer and executive producer, joined in the latter capacity by Michael Aguilar, who's worked on recent Showtime offerings Kidding and I’m Dying Up Here.

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Cast

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels...

Details under wraps on sci-fi that will shoot in 2019.

Michael Pearce, the director of 2017 breakout Beast, has been tapped to direct sci-fi Invasion for production outfit Raw and Film4.

Pearce will direct from a script by Joe Barton, the writer whose credits include features The Ritual and iBoy, as well as Channel 4 series Humans. Plot details for Invasion are largely under wraps but the film is a Us-set sci-fi thriller.

Katherine Butler, who runs Raw’s Film and TV Drama team, will produce the feature, which has been developed with Sam Lavender at Film4. Production is gearing up for...

Roster includes crime series Merchant Of Doubt, feature America Reloaded.

Topic Studios on Wednesday (August 22) announced it has put into development a slate of film and TV projects based on articles from its First Look Studios stablemate The Intercept.

The roster includes the feature America Reloaded, based on Ryan Devereaux and Trevor Aaronson’s article that tells the story of a fake documentary devised by the FBI about the family of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, as part of a larger effort to build criminal cases against the Bundys and their supporters, who engaged in a stand-off with law enforcement at...

Adam Randall (‘iBoy’) is directing from a script by Devon Graye.

I See You, the horror feature starring Helen Hunt, has rounded out its cast and is now shooting in Cleveland, Ohio.

Joining Hunt and Jon Tenney on the project are Judah Lewis, Owen Teague, Libe Barer, Greg Alan Williams, Erika Alexander, Allison King and Sam Trammell.

Adam Randall (iBoy) is directing from a script by Devon Graye. Screen can also unveil a first-look still from the project, above.

Bankside Films is handling sales on the project in Cannes.

Set in a perfect town filled with perfect families, the film...

Postcards From London to close 32nd edition of London Lgbt Film Festival.

The 32nd edition of the BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival has announced its opening and closing titles ahead of the event in March.

The festival will begin with Tali Shalom-Ezer’s My Days Of Mercy on Wednesday 21 March, and close with Steve McLean’s Postcards From London on Saturday 31 March.

From Princess director Shaolm-Ezer and starring Ellen Page (Juno, Inception, Freeheld) and Kate Mara (House Of Cards, The Martian), My Days Of Mercy is a love story between two women who differ in both their backgrounds and political perspectives.

The film is written by BAFTA nominated writer Joe Barton (The Ritual, iBoy), with Page and Mara producing alongside Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa. Great Point Media are handling international sales.

Postcards From London will have its European Premiere at the Festival; McClean’s first film since his 1994 Sundance hit Postcards From America is about Jim...

Postcards From London to close 32nd edition of London Lgbt Film Festival.

The 32nd edition of the BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival has announced its opening and closing titles ahead of the event in March.

The festival will begin with Tali Shalom-Ezer’s My Days Of Mercy on Wednesday 21 March, and close with Steve McLean’s Postcards From London on Saturday 31 March.

From Princess director Shaolm-Ezer and starring Ellen Page (Juno, Inception, Freeheld) and Kate Mara (House Of Cards, The Martian), My Days Of Mercy is a love story between two women who differ in both their backgrounds and political perspectives.

The film is written by BAFTA nominated writer Joe Barton (The Ritual, iBoy), with Page and Mara producing alongside Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa. Great Point Media are handling international sales.

Postcards From London will have its European Premiere at the Festival; McClean’s first film since his 1994 Sundance hit Postcards From America is about Jim...

Netflix has released the first trailer for their upcoming horror movie The Ritual, which is slated to debut for Netflix members on February 9. After its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, The Ritual has debuted theatrically in Belgium, The U.K., Ireland and The Netherlands last October, but now the rest of the world will get to enjoy this horror-thriller on the Netflix streaming service in exactly two weeks from today.

The Ritual centers on four old friends from university, reuniting after the tragic death of their best mate, who set out to hike through the Scandinavian wilderness. But a wrong turn leads them into the dark and mysterious forests of Norse legend, where an ancient evil still exists and stalks them at every turn. The Netflix film will premiere on February 9, 2018, and while it won't be released in theaters, it will debut the same day...