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The upcoming episode of “Body Cam: On the Scene,” titled “Held Captive,” promises to deliver intense and gripping moments that viewers won’t want to miss. Scheduled to air on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 8:00 Pm on Investigation Discovery, this episode dives into two harrowing situations that highlight the bravery of law enforcement.

In Wisconsin, a startling incident unfolds when a suspect steals a car while a woman is asleep in the back seat. This shocking act triggers a high-speed police pursuit, showcasing the challenges officers face in high-stakes situations. The tension builds as the chase unfolds, with officers determined to ensure the woman’s safety while apprehending the suspect. This segment is sure to keep audiences on the edge of their seats, as they witness the quick decisions made by police in the heat of the moment.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, another gripping story takes place. A mother and her children...

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The following contains major spoilers from Happy Face Episodes 1 & 2, "The Confession" & "Killing Shame," now streaming on Paramount+. It also contains discussion of violence.

Happy Face is unlike any other "based on a true story" crime drama. The Paramount+ series -- inspired by the life story of Melissa G. Moore, as well as her Happy Face podcast and her memoir Shattered Silence -- is about a serial killer, but it's not centered on him. Instead, the show opts to tell the tale of the Happy Face Killer through the perspective of his daughter, and to talk about everything surrounding his heinous acts of violence.

The eight-episode series is a fictionalization of the story of Keith Hunter Jesperson, but it's Keith's daughter Melissa who is front and center.

Dragon Ballis full of unforgettable characters, but Vegeta quickly became a fan-favorite figure with an even bigger fandom than Goku. Vegeta’s evolution from belligerent villain to Goku’s friendly rival, a loving husband, father, and one of Earth’s strongest heroes is some of Dragon Ball’s strongest storytelling. Vegeta is surprisingly complex and nuanced, but there’s still something to be said about his endless appetite for combat.

Vegeta’s ego and pride are in a league of their own, and he loves it when he’s able to prove that he’s the best. Unfortunately, these same traits sometimes get the better of Vegeta and set him up for failure. Several characters try to call Vegeta’s bluff and assume his bark is worse than his bite, but things never ends well for anyone who underestimates Vegeta.

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During the Act II Revenant story missions in Destiny 2, you must complete the "Captive Memories" quest to progress. Although a shorter mission, you have to defeat a powerful and familiar foe from the past to move forward in your pursuit of the character Fikrul. With a complex puzzle also standing in your way, it can be easy to get stuck at different points during this quest.

The Revenant episode in Destiny 2 brings new mechanics and story content for you to explore, including missions like "Captive Memories." Finishing this quest could reward you with unique loot, but you may have to farm it multiple times to get what you want. Thankfully, this mission is much shorter than past seasonal raids for other Dlc, so you should be able to farm it without problems using moderate builds.

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Spooky season has arrived, and with it a fresh deluge of books to stock your shelves. You don't even have to trick or treat to get them, you can just roll on down to your local bookstore or favorite online retailer.

While the season of ghouls and goblins is obviously a great time to read horror, there are still plenty of fantasy and science fiction novels coming out this month as well. Some have elements that fit the season; others take readers to the depths of space, the bloody frontier of a medieval battle line, fantastical worlds, the heart of swashbuckling romance and more. We're going to run through 13 books that we think the avid Sff reader should have on their radar for this month, starting with...

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General Hospital spoilers report Laura Collins (Genie Francis) has had a tough go in life the last few years. Missing her daughter every minute of every day, she had to be strong enough to go on for the rest of her family.

It may come as a surprise to Lulu Falconeri (Emme Rylan) that part of that family includes her uncle, Cyrus Renault (Jeff Kober). He was hardly welcome at the family holiday gatherings when Lulu was injured in the explosion at the Floating Rib, and it’s not as though he is now.

But his relationship with Laura has grown in ways no one could have seen coming. How will she justify that to her daughter — who only lost nearly four years of her life because of that man’s intent to kill Jason Morgan (Steve Burton)?

General Hospital Spoilers — A Changed Man?

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The 29th Busan International Film Festival has revealed the line-ups for its competitive New Currents and Jiseok sections, which include the latest features from award-winning filmmakers Brillante Mendoza, Rima Das and Tom Lin.

The Jiseok strand, launched in 2022, is reserved for Asian filmmakers who have directed at least three features and this year comprises eight titles.

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They include Motherland by Filipino director Mendoza, which explores the bloody Mamasapano incident of 2015, when 44 police commandos and more than 20 others were killed in a deadly operation. The filmmaker has previously played in competition at Berlin, Cannes...

Captive State delves into an alien-occupied Chicago, portraying a human revolt against oppressive extraterrestrial rulers. Characters like Caesar and Gabe represent the incited heroes in challenging environments, emphasizing inspirational forces against adversity. Captive State highlights the potential monster within humanity, reflecting a cautionary tale mirroring the darker aspects of society.

The following article contains a brief mention of suicide.

If you're a Planet of the Apes fan, there's no better time to be alive. Hollywood has the old-school movies, as well as the reboot that Mark Wahlberg tried to lead. Though the latter didn't pan out, Fox eventually pivoted in a smart way with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which launched a more successful trilogy of movies, and now, a franchise.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a brilliant reinvention from director Rupert Wyatt, showing how an attempted cure for Alzheimer's Disease resulted in a virus killing humans,...

Beloved French actor Isabelle Huppert will receive the Lumière Award in the city of Lyon in October.

Created by Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux, the Lumière Film Festival celebrates classic and contemporary cinema each fall. The Lumière Award honors a leading figure in the world of cinema and their entire body of work.

Huppert succeeds German director Wim Wenders who was awarded the prize in 2023. Former recipients include Tim Burton, Jane Campion, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, Ken Loach, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda, Pedro Almodóvar, Miloš Forman, the Dardenne brothers and Wong Kar-wai, among others.

“It’s a great honor for me to receive the Lumière Award. It’s a magnificent prize, and so is its festival. It’s an award that bears the name of the inventors of cinema! Receiving it fills me with joy and pride,” said Huppert.

A prolific actor who shoots an average...

X-Men: The Animated Series had standout episodes like "Days of Future Past," showcasing thrilling action and gripping narratives. Some episodes, like "Captive Hearts," struggled to match the dynamism and quality of the majority, hindering the overall impact. Season finales like "Graduation Day" provided poignant conclusions, offering closure to character arcs and thematic narratives.

X-Men: The Animated Series featured many great episodes throughout its legendary run, though some episodes were notably less effective. The acclaimed Marvel cartoon boasted 76 episodes across five thrilling seasons. Among these, the very strongest X-Men: The Animated Series episodes helped cultivate an impressive reputation that led to a triumphant revival decades later with Marvels X-Men 97. Other episodes, on the other hand, were far less effective though sometimes merely by comparison.

X-Men: The Animated Series adapted many classic Marvel Comics stories, often depicting them across multiple episode sagas and two-part narratives. It is worth noting that X-Men: The Animated Series...

Philippines auteur Brillante Mendoza’s film “Pula” has set a world premiere on Netflix.

The narrative unfolds in the devoutly Catholic town of Pula and examines themes of faith, fanaticism, and vigilante justice.

In the film, the tranquil life of Senior Master Sergeant Danilo Faraon (Coco Martin) and his family get upended by a tragic event that shakes the foundations of their close-knit community. A teenage girl’s murder propels Faraon into a vortex of deception, betrayal and guilt, leading him down a path of retribution against those he perceives to have wronged him and the townsfolk of Pula.

The cast also includes Julia Montes, Raymart Santiago, Lotlot De Leon, Alan Paule, Elizabeth Oropesa, Christine Bermas, Ina Alegre and Vince Rillon.

Mendoza, who won best director at Cannes in 2009 for “Kinatay,” is a festival regular and continues to explore societal issues via his films.

“The premiere of ‘Pula’ on Netflix...

Tubi opens June with an intense WWII drama “Inglourious Basterds.” Allied officer Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) assembles a team of five tough Jewish soldiers to spread fear throughout the Third Reich. They have one assignment: assassinate Nazi leaders. Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed the unconventional war drama. Eli Roth, Melanie Laurent, and Christopher Walz co-star.

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The network is also streaming the original documentary “Mystery Unsolved: The Adnan Syed Story” on June 7. The murder of teenager Hae Min Lee was the focal point of a “Serial” podcast, which questioned if boyfriend Syed was her killer. After serving 22 years in prison, Syed was released, still proclaiming his innocence. Now, he may return.

Another streamer original, “Magic Carpet Rides,” arrives June 14. It centers on a social influencer torn between sharing her budding romance or honoring her boyfriend’s request to keep their life private.

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Competing for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, “Thy Womb” eventually won three special prizes by other Italian film groups, while taking up Metro Manila Film Festival by storm with 7 awards, among a number of others from festivals all over the world.

After a rather shockingly realistic birth scene, we are introduced to the two protagonists, Shaleha, a middle aged Tausug woman who works as a midwife for the small Muslim community, she and her husband, fisherman Bangas-An inhabit. Soon we learn the irony in her life, as, despite constantly delivering babies, she cannot have children herself, a point of friction in the otherwise calm life she shares with her husband. In an act of rather altruistic love she decides to be the one to search for a new wife for Bangas-An, who will eventually give him the child he so much longs for. The rest...

Following their vinyl soundtrack releases for Little Monsters and Haunt back in February, Enjoy The Ride Records is teaming up with Back Lot Music for a limited edition vinyl release of Graeme Revell's delightfully deadly score for Bride of Chucky!

We have a look at the official details and Garreth Gibson's new artwork for the Bride of Chucky limited edition vinyl score, and keep an eye on Enjoy The Ride Records' official website when the new release goes on sale this Friday, March 31st, at noon Et!

Enjoy The Ride Records in conjunction with Back Lot Music proudly present a limited-edition vinyl pressing of Graeme Revell's Bride of Chucky Original Motion Picture Score. Composed and Conducted by Graeme Revell and Performed by The Hollywood Studio Symphony, Bride of Chucky is the fourth film in the Child's Play franchise, and where we begin to see a bit of a shift - Andy is out,...

“The Bachelor” creator Mike Fleiss is exiting the reality TV franchise after 20 years, TheWrap has learned.

Following Fleiss’ exit, two former showrunners of “The Bachelor,” Claire Freeland, who previously served as showrunner of Canada’s “The Bachelor” franchise, and Jason Ehrlich, who previously showran several seasons of “The Bachelor,” as well as longtime executive producer Bennett Graebner will step in as executive producers and showrunners for “The Bachelor” franchise. The team has already been working on new season of “The Bachelorette,” led by Charity Lawson.

Monday’s finale of “The Bachelor” Season 27, headed by leading man Zach Shallcross, marked Fleiss’ last season with Bachelor Nation.

“First and foremost, congratulations are in order for Zach and Kaity. I wish them a long and happy life together,” Fleiss said in a statement, provided to TheWrap on Tuesday. “I want to thank Wbtv and ABC for 21 extraordinary years. They’ve found the perfect...

Yuri Bykov’s 2014 Russian-language film “The Fool” has been acquired by MGM’s Orion Television to be adapted into an English-language series.

The film follows Dima Nikitin (Artyom Bystrov), an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.

“The Fool” had a stellar festival run and won multiple awards at the Locarno International Film Festival and Les Arcs European Film Festival, besides many other accolades worldwide and at home in Russia. It was produced by Rock Films, Alexey Uchitel and Kira Saksaganskaya.

Bykov’s 2013 Cannes title “The Major,” also produced by Rock Films, was previously adapted by Netflix into the Emmy winning series “Seven Seconds,” winning Regina King the Primetime Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie and a Golden Globe nomination in the same category.

Starz is developing a slate of series inspired by “extraordinary women of history” and has set a drama about Eleanor of Aquitaine from A Discovery Of Witches writer Susie Conklin and Playground Entertainment as the first in the strand.

The network has optioned the rights to historian Alison Weir’s biography Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life and its companion novel Captive Queen for the first series.

Conklin, who has also worked on BBC drama Cranford, will adapt and serve as an exec producer, alongside Scott Huff and David Stern for Playground Entertainment, Colin Callender’s company behind Starz’ The Spanish Princess.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was previously played by Katharine Hepburn in 1968 feature The Lion in Winter.

It is the latest in a long line of female focused-period dramas for the network, which has found success with the likes of Outlander, The White Queen and The White Princess.

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With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Dark and the Wicked (Bryan Bertino)

How then does a life-long atheist like Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael’s (Michael Abbott Jr.) mother (Julie Oliver-Touchstone) become a believer in God? She hears the voice of the Devil. She witnesses evil incarnate and accepts her inability to combat its seemingly inevitable goal. And if she cannot stop it from terrifying her with whispers about how it is going to take the soul of her dying husband (Michael Zagst) to Hell, what besides God can? Only when they can no longer act on their own behalf do the faithless turn to Him for help. Maybe she prays. Maybe she collects...

The Ananth Narayan Mahadevan directorial, Bittersweet, has been nominated for the Jiseok Award at the Busan International Film Festival this year. Bittersweet, an official selection, will also have its world premiere at the festival, and is among seven Indian films at a toned-down festival this year, to be held from October 21 to 30.

Chaitanya Tamhane's Venice award-winner "The Disciple", Shyam Madiraju's "Harami" starring Emraan Hashmi, Suman Mukhopadhyay's Bengali film "Captive" featuring Tanmay Dhanania, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's "A'hr" starring Manju Warrier and Gaurav Ravi, Ivan Ayr's "Meel Patthar", and Prithvi Konanur's Kannada-language "Pinki Elli?" are the other Indian films at the prestigious Korean film festival in 2020.

Mahadevan is naturally happy. "It is indeed a great honour to be recognized at a top A-lister festival like the Busan International Film Festival, the biggest and most prestigious in the Asian continent. The concerted efforts to make a film...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Beach House (Jeffrey A. Brown)

There’s a lot to like about Jeffrey A. Brown’s feature directorial debut The Beach House, from its gorgeous production design to its ruminations on mankind’s fragility when compared with Mother Nature’s hardier offerings (despite our penchant for believing we hold dominion over Her). It’s therefore easy to appreciate the reason Emily (Liana Liberato), Randall (Noah Le Gros), Mitch (Jake Weber), and Jane (Maryanne Nagel) have arrived at a site that may end up being their tomb because we’re quick to ignore the baked-in irony too. This was supposed to be an escape from life’s struggles—a...

The coronavirus pandemic is still going on, and shutdowns are being lifted oh so gently. That generally means two things: go outside with a mask on while strafing away from passersby on the sidewalk, or stay in and watch stuff. Luckily, The Criterion Channel has announced its June 2020 lineup, which is full of things old and new.

June sees the streaming premiere of Bertrand Bonello’s fantasy-horror, Zombi Child, which originally premiered in the Director’s Fortnight section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The month also brings us the Channel’s addition of Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, which comes with deleted scenes, a making-of documentary, and more. Meanwhile, they will also flesh out the service’s Chantal Akerman selection, adding features such as One Day Pina Asked…, Golden Eighties, and her penultimate feature, Almayer’s Folly. On the other side of the coin comes Jamie Babbit...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, La-based Sentient Entertainment has won the remake rights to Nicole Kidman horror movie hit The Others, which scared up north of $200M global when it was released in 2001.

Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Alejandro Amenabar’s timely self-isolation tale about a war widow who hides her children away in an isolated mansion due to a rare disease characterized by photosensitivity. The arrival of three mysterious servants unlocks the house’s terrifying secrets. Kidman was Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated for her turn and writer-director Amenabar won Goyas for Best Director and Screenplay.

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Peter Rabbit hit theaters in February 2018 as a hybrid live-action/CGI franchise reboot that injected the classic stories of Beatrix Potter with contemporary energy. The result was a film that – akin to the stealthy precision of Peter in Farmer McGregor’s garden – quietly banked $115 million domestically, totaling $351.2 million globally, and was even the U.K.’s top family film of 2018, out-grossing Pixar’s Coco.

Consequently, it didn’t take Sony Pictures long to consider Peter Rabbit 2, giving it the official greenlight and a 2020 release date; a move made just one month after the original’s release. Indeed, main cast members such as the voice of the larcenous lepus himself, James Corden, as well as Domhnall Gleeson and Rose Byrne, are set to return, as will director Will Gluck, who, just as with the first film, wrote the script with Patrick Burleigh.

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Exclusive: A biographical series about President Richard Nixon is in the works for television. Lightbridge Entertainment has teamed with Oscar-winning writer Ron Bass (Rain Man) to adapt Evan Thomas’ New York Times bestselling biography Being Nixon: A Man Divided as a six-hour narrative limited series. Bass will pen the adaptation and serve as an Executive Producer on the series alongside Lightbridge Entertainment founder and CEO Terry Botwick.

Voted and named one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2015, Being Nixon covers Nixon’s entire life. It is described as a portrait of an incredibly fascinating and consequential man who remains one of America’s most studied presidents, a brilliant, relentless foreign policy strategist and political savant whose career in American politics spanned nearly five decades and whose legacy forever bears the stains of Watergate.

The project is particularly timely given the impeachment inquiry and current scandals surrounding President Donald Trump, who...

Based on the Nxivm cult scandal that implicated Smallville actress Allison Mack, Lifetime is airing Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter on Saturday night, followed by a documentary that dives deeper into the story.

The movie is a dramatization of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg's book Captive, which details how her daughter India was exposed to mental and physical abuse in the cult.

Lifetime's official synopsis reads, "When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm, she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely ...

Based on the Nxivm cult scandal that implicated Smallville actress Allison Mack, Lifetime is airing Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter on Saturday night, followed by a documentary that dives deeper into the story.

The movie is a dramatization of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg's book Captive, which details how her daughter India was exposed to mental and physical abuse in the cult.

Lifetime's official synopsis reads, "When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm, she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely ...

Ursula MacFarlane’s feature doc Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein was watched by 1M viewers on its British television debut. The 90-minute film, which was original commissioned by the British public broadcaster, scored the 1M peak between 9pm and 10:30pm on Sunday night on BBC Two in the UK.

Untouchable averaged 942,000 viewers with a 5.9% share across its entirety – a respectable but not extraordinary rating for the channel. It was up against Peaky Blinders on BBC One, which averaged 3.6M viewers and PBS co-production Sanditon on ITV, which averaged 3M. It beat The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the 9pm slot.

The feature-length documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and airs from Monday on Hulu in the U.S., was directed by MacFarlane, who has directed docs including Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris and worked on Netflix series Captive, and produced...

Lifetime has released the trailer for its upcoming TV movie, “Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter,” and it features chilling depictions of how women were coerced into sex slavery for Nxivm founder Keith Raniere.

Based on the memoir “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, whose daughter, India, became embroiled in the darkest aspects of the group, the movie focuses on “a mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back and exposes the intricate seductive power of Allison and Keith and the mental and physical abuse India fell victim to,” according to Lifetime.

Andrea Roth plays Oxenberg, with Peter Facinelli playing cult-leader Raniere, Jasper Polish as India, and Sara Fletcher as “Smallville” actress Alison Mack.

Also Read: Here Are All The Hollywood Productions About Nxivm

“This is much more than just top secret. This is about learning to reach your maximum potential,” Raniere (Facinelli) says in the trailer,...

In the run-up to next month’s Cannes Festival, Cologne-based Media Luna New Films has acquired international rights to “We Had It Coming,” starring Natalie Krill and Brazil’s “The Friendly Man,” one of the standouts at Ventana Sur’s strong Copia Final showcase of near-finished Latin American movies.

MK2 Mile End will distribute “We Had It Coming” in Canada; O2 Play, the theatrical, TV and DVD distribution company of Fernando Mereilles’ O2 Filmes production house, will release “The Friendly Man,” now in advanced post-production, in Brazil.

Media Luna will introduce both titles to buyers at next month’s Cannes Film Market.

“We Had It Coming,” the English-language debut of Montreal based Paul Barbeau, and “The Friendly Man,” with Brazilian rock star Paulo Miklos as its male lead, tackle issues which are liable of becoming trending topics at this year’s Cannes Film Market: Women fighting back; men questioning their...

Amazon Prime Video has scored a documentary about Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard, widely considered one of the greatest footballers of his generation and who almost singlehandedly won Liverpool the Champions League in 2005.

The film, Make Us Dream, is produced by Amy and Senna producer James Gay-Rees and is the definitive account of the life and times of the legendary Gerrard. It is directed by Sam Blair, who directed ESPN 30 for 30 Maradona ’86 and an episode of Netflix’s Captive.

The film will have a theatrical debut on November 15 in the UK followed by a global launch on the Svod service.

It will tell the story of Gerrard, who joined the Liverpool Fc Academy at age 8 and left 26 years later, having won two Fa Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Cup, one Fa Community Shield, one UEFA Super Cup the UEFA Champions League.

It takes a close-up look at the man, including the highs of Istanbul,...

Don’t come to “Alpha, The Right to Kill,” the latest rough-hewn slab of social realism from Filipino auteur Brillante Ma Mendoza, in search of revelations, either in form or content. A rumbling, street-pounding drug-war thriller, it’s far from the first film to paint cops and dealers on this beat as equally bent; a Mendoza joint that drags viewers brusquely through the ragged poverty and institutional corruption of modern Manila is hardly an unfamiliar proposition either. “Alpha” doesn’t profess to be anything new, however: There’s a bone-weary resignation to its worldview that underlines its simple moral point all the more effectively.

That said, this story of a Swat officer and a punkish informant’s fateful outside-the-law collaboration is Mendoza’s most propulsive and engrossing variation on his favored themes in some time. It’s also his most straight-up genre exercise to date — somewhat reminiscent of José Padilha...

HBO has come on board a feature documentary about a black American teenager shot to death by a group of white youths in 1989. The premium broadcaster has greenlit Storm Over Brooklyn, directed by Muta’Ali and produced by Lightbox, the U.S./UK firm behind Netflix series Captive.

Storm Over Brooklyn won the inaugural Feature Documentary Initiative, created by Lightbox and the American Black Film Festival (Abff), as part of a joint initiative to foster diversity in feature docs.

The doc tells the story of Yusuf Hawkins, a black American teenager who was shot and murdered after being trapped by a group of white youths in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on the evening of August 23, 1989. Sixteen-year- old Hawkins had come to Bensonhurst with three friends to look at a used car when they were attacked by the mob, whose members mistakenly believed that Hawkins was dating a neighbourhood girl who was white.

Exclusive: David and Jessica Oyelowo and their production company Yoruba Saxon have sealed an exclusive, first-look deal with Mwm Studios to develop both film and television projects. Yoruba Saxon, founded in 2014, is the company behind such films as A United Kingdom (Fox Searchlight Pathe), Captive (Paramount), Nightingale (HBO) and Five Nights in Main (Filmrise).

Oyelowo, of course, is the actor who won international kudos for his brilliant portrayal of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma and who is also an acclaimed stage actor, having played everything from King Henry VI at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London to his recent turn as Othello opposite Daniel Craig in the New York Theatre Workshop.

Mwm Studios has had a great few years with its Emmy-nominated NatGeo series Genius with Imagine Television and its Academy Award nominated film Hell or High Water (with Ske). Mwm was formerly known as OddLot Entertainment before the...

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Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway is happening, with James Corden and the rest of the main cast returning in time for Easter.

Peter Rabbit hit theaters in February 2018 as a hybrid live-action/CGI franchise reboot that injected the classic stories of Beatrix Potter with contemporary energy. The result was a film that – akin to the stealthy precision of Peter in Farmer McGregor’s garden – quietly banked $115 million domestically, totaling $351.2 million globally, and was even the U.K.’s top family film of 2018, out-grossing Pixar’s Coco.

Consequently, it didn’t take Sony Pictures long to consider Peter Rabbit 2, giving it the official greenlight and a 2020 release date; a move made just one month after the original’s release. Indeed, main cast members such as the voice of the larcenous lepus himself, James Corden, as well as Domhnall Gleeson and Rose Byrne, are set to return,...

BBC co-producing feature doc.

Simon Chinn, the two-time Oscar-winning producer of Man On Wire and Searching For Sugar Man, is working on a feature documentary about former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Embankment Films has boarded sales on the project and will launch it at Cannes next week.

Citizen Harvey (working title) is also from Chinn’s Emmy-winning cousin Jonathan Chinn (La 92) who produces through their Lightbox banner alongside Poppy Dixon (The Imposter). Bafta-nominee Ursula Macfarlane (Captive) is directing.

The BBC is co-producing and co-financing the film. Simon Young is executive producing for the BBC, which will air the feature...

Embankment Films handling sales on feature doc.

Simon Chinn, the two-time Oscar-winning producer of Man On Wire and Searching For Sugar Man, is plotting a feature documentary about the life, career and fall from grace of former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Citizen Harvey is also from Chinn’s Emmy-winning cousin Jonathan Chinn (La 92) who produces through their Lightbox banner alongside Poppy Dixon (The Imposter). Bafta-nominee Ursula Macfarlane (Captive) is directing.

Embankment Films will launch sales on the project at Cannes Film Festival next week.

The BBC is co-producing and co-financing the film. Simon Young is executive producing for the BBC,...

Irish director Stephen Patrick Kenny returns for his next outing with the woods thriller "Missing In Greenwood"   Three friends venture to the Greenwood forest in hope of a good time but now must rely on each others backs for survival as what lurks behind them isn't exactly what it seems. Starring Tony Denham (The Football Factory), Mark Hutchinson (The Pigman Murders), Bernie Coen (Captive), Paul Thomas Faherty, Michael Corcoran, Seamus Curran, Thomas McCormick, Jessie O'Regan, Donncha Kearney, James Moore, James Fahey, Ronan O Grady and Richard Morrison. Production Companies: Hood Up Films (Ireland), H-Block Productions (Ireland). Running time: 85 minutes Release: Late 2018 Genre: Horror, Thriller...

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Exclusive: Lucas Akoskin’s new venture lines up story of Hasidic musician superstar.

Santa Monica-based Aliwen Entertainment has signed Holy Rollers director Kevin Asch to King Without A Crown, based on the story of the Jewish American reggae singer, rapper and beatbox performer Matisyahu.

Aliwen Entertainment founder Lukas Akoskin is producing with Bonnie Timmerman and Jonathan Gray. The project is a collaboration between Aliwen, Bonnie Timmerman Productions and Big Jack Productions.

Tommy Swerdlow, whose screenplay credits include Cool Runnings, wrote the script that recounts key episodes in the life of Matisyahu from the ages of 17 to 27.

The film will chronicle Matisyahu’s remarkable transformation from his secular origins as Matthew Miller to becoming a rabbi and Hasidic Jewish rock star. Matisyahu himself is creatively and musically involved in the project.

The producers anticipate an autumn start in New York and Israel and are out to casting for a star capable of portraying a “spiritually transformative one-of-a-kind...

MaryAnn’s quick take… Insistent chemistry between David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike fuels a true story of passionate romance with an urgent message about love as radical and political. I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast; desperate for stories about women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

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Here is a story to drive bigots crazy. And it’s even true.

In 1947, Seretse Khama was a young man from the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in southern Africa studying in London when he met Ruth Williams, a young English woman. They fell in love, and that upset all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons. He was black, and she was white, and both their families took issue with their romance for the usual stupid irrational reasons. But the governments of both countries also freaked out. Seretse was heir to the throne of Bechuanaland,...

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

This Past Weekend:

While the new movies reigned at the box office this past weekend, both Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven (Sony) and the animated Storks (Warner Bros.) didn’t fare nearly as well as our projections, both falling short by about $10 million. The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, fared decently with $34.7million, which is about the average for Washington’s films, but the fourth highest opening for a Western after last year’s The Revenant, the animated Rango, and Cowboys and Aliens. Storks’ $21.3 million opening wasn’t great compared to other animated September releases with Sony still holding the September opening record with Hotel Transylvania 2, but it should continue to do well with no other animated movies opening for another month.

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

This Past Weekend:

Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama about airline pilot Sully (Warner Bros.) far surpassed all expectations, making nearly $10 million more than my prediction with an opening weekend of $35 million in 3,525 theaters, also making it one of the biggest openings for a movie opening the weekend after Labor Day. The Screen Gems thriller When the Bough Breaks disappointed compared to some of their similar releases, taking second place with around where we predicted with around $14 million. The lower profile animated film The Wild Life (Summit/Lionsgate) did end up in fifth place behind Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad, but with a measly $3.3 million in 2,493 theaters. As expected, Relativity’s theatrical return with its own horror/thriller The Disappointments Room...

Eschewing the compelling Sf questions it raises, Morgan resorts to violence and would-be cleverness, and makes concrete what it should have left ambiguous. I’m “biast” (pro): desperate for movies about women; big Sf geek

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Tips for young filmmakers hoping to break out from under the shadow of their famous filmmaker daddies with their directorial debuts: Don’t make a movie that invites comparison to one of Daddy’s best known, best loved, and just plain best movies. And if you must do that, consider ensuring that your movie compares favorably to Daddy’s movie.

Ps: Luke Scott, son of Ridley, is not that young. (He’s 48.) And his directorial debut, Morgan, does not compare favorably to Blade Runner. And the comparisons are inevitable. Morgan thinks it’s riffing on an intriguing ambiguity of Blade Runner,...

Britney Young (Those Who Can’t) and Sydelle Noel (Captive) have been cast as series regulars opposite Alison Brie and Marc Maron in G.L.O.W., Netflix's 10-episode straight-to-series comedy executive produced by Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan. Created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, G.L.O.W. was inspired by the real story of the 1980s female wrestling league. Set in Los Angeles and showcasing big hair and body slams, the series tells the fictionalized story…...

Grief can take hold of even the strongest people and refuse to let go. It’s why they describe it as a “process.” Maris Curran’s “Five Nights In Maine” takes this idea to heart as it follows Sherwin (David Oyelowo), a recent widower who lost his wife Fiona (Hani Furstenberg) in a car accident. Stricken by grief and depression, he travels to a remote corner of Maine to see Fiona’s cancer-stricken mother Lucinda (Dianne Wiest) who’s being taken care of by caring nurse Ann (Rosie Perez). Tensions run high as both Sherwin and Lucinda deal with the tragedy, and struggle to come to terms with their feelings towards each other and Fiona. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below featuring Sherwin and Ann discussing the loss.

Read More: David Oyelowo and Dianne Wiest Grieve Together In Emotional ‘Five Nights In Maine’ Trailer — Watch

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Kate Mara and Ed Helms are set to star in director John Curran’s “Chappaquiddick,” a fact-based indie film about a fateful scandal in the life of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, TheWrap has learned. The pair will be joining “Terminator Genisys” star Jason Clarke, who will play Ted Kennedy. Mara is set to star as Mary Jo Kopechne, the 28-year-old campaign aide to Robert Kennedy who was in Ted Kennedy’s car when it plunged off a bridge on Massachusetts’ Chappaquiddick island. Also Read: 'Captive' Review: Kate Mara and David Oleweyo Thriller Fails to Thrill Helms will portray Joe Gargan,...

So inept a film, so bland and monotonous, that it fails even to serve as the blatant ad for the certain Christian motivational book it would appear to be. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): I don’t need a deity to have a purpose-driven life

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

True story: In 2005, recovering drug addict Ashley Smith was held hostage in her own Atlanta apartment for seven hours by Brian Nichols, who had earlier escaped from the courthouse where he was on trial for rape; in the course of his escape, he murdered several people, including the judge presiding in his case. Afterward, once Nichols had been recaptured, Smith’s story went viral because she said she’d read to her abductor from the Christian motivational book The Purpose Driven Life,...

On Demand DVD New Releases Jan. 4-10 Captive When Ashley is taken captive in her own house, she begins to read a book that a friend gave her in a time of need. Now both Ashley and her captor — on the run from a prison escape — look deeper within their own beings to find purpose in their lives. David Oyelowo, Kate Mara, Mimi Rogers (PG-13, 1:37) 1/5 The Green Inferno A simple trip to the Amazon in an attempt to help save the rainforest goes horribly wrong for a group of student activists. When their plane goes down in … Continue reading →

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David Oyelowo says a lack of opportunity for minority actors was behind his decision to leave the UK and work abroad in Hollywood.

Oyelowo broke a colour barrier as the first black actor to play an English king in a major Shakespearan production in 2001, but in recent years has focused on Hollywood projects like Selma and A Most Violent Year.

Speaking at the launch of the Creative Diversity report, Oyelowo blamed a lack of opportunity for black, Asian and minority ethnic actors on an inherent bias in the commissioning process.

"Who is curating the culture? Predominately white, middle-class men," Oyelowo argued (via The Stage).

"Until we have a situation whereby here in Britain there are curators of culture who are reflective of what Britain actually is, especially in our cities, nothing is going to change. Because at the end of the day we all have prejudices, we all have allegiances...

Captive, based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols. After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick Warren’s inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life, for guidance. In reading from the book, Ashley not only finds purpose in her own life, but helps Brian find a more peaceful resolution to a harrowing situation.

From director Jerry Jameson, the movie stars David Oyelowo, Kate Mara, Leonor Varela, Jessica Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers and Michael K. Williams.

Read Tom Stockman’s interview with actor David Oyelowo Here.

Captive is in theaters now.

Wamg is giving away Five Run-Of-Engagement passes for our St. Louis area readers!

We’re also throwing in two books – Captive: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero Paperback by Ashley Smith (Author), Stacy Mattingly (Author) http://www.

Having turned in one of the finest performances of the year in Selma, portraying Martin Luther King, British actor David Oyelowo is now tackling a rather different role – this time embodying serial killer Brian Nichols, in his latest endeavour Captive. We discussed getting in the head of somebody so complex, while he also discusses his

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