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For a long-running TV show, child actors are almost always a headache. Putting aside all the ethical ramifications of thrusting someone into the public eye at such a young age, there's the simple fact that kids grow and change in ways that often contradict what the series itself is going for. Sometimes the actor hits puberty and starts getting too self-conscious, or sometimes they simply hit puberty too soon (or too late) and that changes the sort of storylines the writers can do with them.

"Mad Men" lucked out: it only had two main child actors to deal with, and they struck gold with one of them. Kiernan Shipka, who plays Sally Draper, sticks around for the whole series, getting plenty of her own storylines to work with. But with the actors who played Bobby Draper, who's about three years younger than Sally, it was a different story. The first...

Minnie Driver shines as Queen Elizabeth I in The Serpent Queen, challenging Samantha Morton's Catherine de Medici. Driver discusses the hard questions of her podcast and answers ours, like what she'd tell her younger and older self, and what has changed her life the most. Driver looks back on the people and moment her life was irrevocably changed.

Minnie Driver has turned heads in stellar films like Good Will Hunting, Sleepers, Gross Pointe Blank, The Crash, and TV's The Riches. But the Oscar-nominated actor delivers a stunning transformation as sassy Elizabeth I of England in Season 2 of the Starz hit, The Serpent Queen. Driver enters the popular Samantha Morton-led series, and her Queen Elizabeth proves to be a formidable force for Mortons tortured yet manipulative Catherine de Medici. Its a season about three queens, in fact, as Isobel Jesper-Jones (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) joins...

Ahead of the official launch of the new free streaming service, The Network, Collider's Steve Weintraub sat down with the cast and creator of the streamer's first original series, The Green Veil. The historical thriller stars John Leguizamo (Romeo + Juliet) in his first-ever starring role for a television series, written specifically with him in mind by producing partner and series showrunner and creator, Aram Rappaport (The Crash). In addition to Leguizamo, The Green Veil also stars John Ortiz (Silver Linings Playbook), Hani Furstenberg (American Gods), Irene Bedard (Avatar: The Last Airbender), and Isabelle Poloner in her debut role.

Amsterdam-based Big Blue is set to produce the upcoming series “Kiss My Feet,” alongside Finnish company Helsinki-filmi.

Selected for Series Mania’s Forum Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, the six-episode drama is created by Daan Gielis and Mark Van De Grift, loosely based on their own experiences.

In the show, successful marketer Max finds himself in a spiritual community in Finland, trying to help out his brother Lucas – apparently, his mysterious guru is interested in building an international brand. Soon, Max and his girlfriend Daphne’s view on family, and trust, will drastically change.

“I know writer Daan Gielis very well, we have worked together before and this project was always simmering somewhere. It’s such an unusual story. Some people are very invested in spiritual communities, others prefer to stay away. What if that division happens within one couple?,” said Big Blue’s CEO Fleur Winters.

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Studiocanal has sold two new thrillers from Benelux to international buyers at MipTV in Cannes.

The eight-part crime thriller “1985,” produced by Eyeworks for Belgian public broadcasters Vrt and Rtbf, follows three friends as they move to Brussels and get caught up in the horrifying events of Belgium’s most notorious unsolved crime spree that shocked a generation and left a scar on the entire country.

Tijmen Govaerts stars in Belgian thriller “1985.”

The series went to Sbs Australia; Filmin for Portugal and Spain; Canal+ for France, Czech Republic and Slovakia; TG4 in Ireland; and Free TV in Israel.

“The Crash” is a five-part series centering on one of the most controversial aviation disasters and biggest cover-ups in Dutch history.

Produced by Amsterdam-based Big Blue for public broadcaster Kro-ncrv, it sold to Sbs Australia, Canal+ in France and, in Belgium, to Disney+ and BeTv. It also went to MagentaTV/Telekom in Germany...

Things have been almost frighteningly quiet at this year’s MIPTV international television market, which runs through Wednesday in Cannes, but a trickle of deal announcements suggests that while cutbacks and cost-cutting may be the order of the day, some business is still being done.

French giant Studiocanal on Tuesday unveiled a flurry of territory sales for two new Belgium thrillers, The Crash and 1985, both based on real-life events, that are part of the company’s MIPTV slate.

The Crash is a dramatization of the 1992 airline disaster, in which El Al Flight 1862 to Tel Aviv crashed into two jam-packed residential high-rises in the suburbs of Amsterdam. 1985 tells the story of Belgium’s most notorious, unsolved crime spree involving a series of violent attacks, believed to be carried out by three men, which resulted in the death of 28 people.

Sbs Australia, Canal+ in France, Disney+ and BeTV in Belgium, Germany’s...

Is it a sexually depraved nightmare or artistic triumph? Critics and audiences were divided on David Cronenberg's "Crash." Based on J.G. Ballard's equally controversial novel, "Crash" follows film producer James Ballard (James Spader), who has a detached relationship with his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger). They have an open marriage and eagerly share the details of their trysts with one another, but James feels unenthusiastic about sex in general. Everything changes when he gets into a serious car accident that leads him to discover an underground subculture of car-crash sexual fetishism. Both James and Catherine find sexual euphoria in the perverse fusion of flesh and metal. 

Despite the highly sexual content, "Crash" is anything but titillating. Cronenberg's clinical direction, the...

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Put Jared Harris into your television series, and it rockets your chances of having a hit show. The British actor talked through some of his career highlights – playing advertising exec Lane Pryce in AMC’s “Mad Men,” King George VI in Netflix’s “The Crown” and Soviet inorganic chemist Valery Legasov in HBO’s “Chernobyl” – in a 90-minute masterclass during Canneseries Live.

Harris recalled how Emmy award-winning “Mad Men” showrunner Matthew Weiner called him into his office after the read-through of episode 10. “As soon as Matt is offering you a huge slab of whiskey in the middle of the day, I knew something was wrong,” Harris said.

Then came the apology alongside the news that Lane was being killed off. “But when he told me how he was going to do it, I literally fell off my chair laughing because I knew how clever it was,” Harris added.

While the 59-year-old admitted,...

Tagline: "True Love Takes Sacrifice." A trailer was released for Death of Me this week. From director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II), this features a couple after they awaken with no memory of the previous night. Now, they must piece together their memories as Black Magic hovers over their vacation. Death of Me stars: Maggie Q (The Crash), Luke Hemsworth and Alex Essoe, in a supporting role. The trailer awaits for fans of thrillers, below. The trailer shows all sorts of bizarre situations. Christine (Maggie Q) views a tape of the previous night's events and sees her own murder. Neil (Hemsworth) appears on the beach, surrounded by supernatural corpses. And, every scenes takes a strange turn, in Bousman's latest. Death of Me already has a release date and will debut internationally. This title has already shown in Italy, with Saban Films set to host the film October 2nd, on Digital Platforms.

Welcome to this week’s review of Major League Wrestling: Fusion, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have bacon, which can cause cancer. Also, corn is destroying the world. Okay, we’ve got some great action with Mlw teaming with The Crash in a broadcast from Mexico. Ole!

Match #1: Oraculo defeated Black Danger and Ricky Marvin The following is courtesy of mlw.com:

New Mlw broadcaster A.J. Kirsch joins Rich Bocchini in the booth as The Crash’s Oraculo walks out to kick off the competition. He is joined by Black Danger and Ricky Marvin for trios action. Oraculo hugs a young fan as Marvin makes his way to the ring, but everything gets serious once the bell rings. Danger and Marvin start off double teaming Oraculo. The two stretch him in the ropes. The double attack continues as Oraculo tries his best to ward his foes off.

Dianna Agron has come a long way since her days playing a rebellious, acapella-singing cheerleader on Glee. This year alone, she's portrayed a slick hacker in a dystopian not-so-distant future (The Crash), a conflicted nun, Sister Mary Grace (Novitiate), and her role in the upcoming crime thriller, Hollow in the Land, may be her darkest and grittiest yet.

In this exclusive clip, Agron's Alison sets out to uncover the truth when her brother is involved in a brutal murder, but is warned by The Twilight Saga's Rachelle Lefevre not to play amateur detective: "I don't want to see you get into something you can't back away from."

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Hollow in the Land marks the feature directorial debut of Scooter Corkle (who, fun fact, was a grip on Air Buddies -- talk about versatility!), who says of casting Agron, "Dianna has this natural ability to just pop into character. She's got this bubbly, excitable energy always...

Old to-catch-a-thief cliches get dusted off and mangled in The Crash, Aram Rappaport's macroeconomic technodrama in which a stock-market hacker is recruited by the feds to protect the New York Stock Exchange from unknown terrorists. No film in which the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (played here by Christopher McDonald) is the most colorful character can be said to have much grip on reality, but this one is further off the mark than even that suggests; theatrically and on video, its stock will tank quickly enough to test the reflexes of a high-frequency trading algorithm.

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John Leguizamo is on the brink of a breakthrough in The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of The Crash.

Set in a future when the U.S. economy is on the brink of another massive financial crisis, the thriller stars Frank Grillo as Guy Clifton, a federally indicted stock trader who is secretly enlisted by the federal government to help thwart a cyber-attack aimed at the stock markets that could permanently cripple the economy. Having only ever been fueled by his love of money, he fully intends to use his insider knowledge of this world catastrophe for personal gain — until he...

Part rejected network pilot, part Michael Crichton-esque what-if, the clumsy, cheap-looking sort-of thriller The Crash presents a very near future in which the U.S. government secretly enlists a white-collar crook from Chicago named Guy Clifton (Frank Grillo) to put together a team of hackers and analysts who can stop an imminent computer attack on the stock market. Whatever fun one might have with this junky premise is neutralized by the fact that the movie has zero narrative momentum. At once oversimplified and overcomplicated—the type of film where shadowy elites cackle sinisterly while meeting at an abandoned carnival in broad daylight—The Crash fumbles between bad diatribe and bad domestic drama, complete with subplots about absent parents and childhood cancer. Only occasionally does writer-director Aram Rappaport remember that what he’s supposed to be making is a bad techno-thriller, the kind where people shout information at each other...

When you think of actor Frank Grillo, you think of a tough guy. Whether he’s fighting Captain America as Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or trying to survive in “The Purge” franchise, Grillo is always in the middle of the action. With that being said, it’s odd to see him play the role of a master hacker in his new film, “The Crash.”

In the first trailer for the thriller, Grillo plays Guy Clifton, a financial genius on his way to jail for hacking the stock market, and is enlisted by the government to prevent a cyber attack that could bankrupt the United States of America.

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"The hacker will save the world." Vertical Entertainment has debuted a trailer for a film called The Crash, about a stock market crash in the "near future". Described as a "fast-paced, save-the-world thriller" about a stock market criminal who is secretly hired by the government to run a "shadow" stock market in order to keep the economy stable. This has an oddly impressive ensemble cast: Dianna Agron, Minnie Driver, Frank Grillo, John Leguizamo, Maggie Q, AnnaSophia Robb, Mary McCormack, Ed Westwick, Andrew James Allen and Christopher McDonald. As interesting as this may look, it actually seems to be some seriously absurd stock market propaganda, about how important the stock market is to the stability of the country. Truth is, it is bad, we'd be better off without it. But they don't want you to think about that. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Aram Rappaport's The Crash, direct from...

Ed Westwick had an adorable night out with his mom, Carole Westwick, in West Hollywood, CA, on Friday night. The former Wicked City actor and his mom grabbed a bite at The Nice Guy restaurant before making their way outside. Ed led the way for his mom, who sweetly held on to his arm and waved to nearby fans. This is just the latest we've seen of the actor since ABC canceled Wicked City back in November, although Ed will be starring in the upcoming crime thriller Jekyll Island alongside Dianna Agron and AnnaSophia Robb later this year. Keep reading to see more of the mother-son duo, and then check out all the times Ed was wickedly handsome.

Exclusive: WestEnd boards recently wrapped feature Hollow In The Land, exec produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious, Sinister).

WestEnd Films has boarded international sales on thriller Hollow In The Land, whose cast is led by Glee star Dianna Agron.

Writer-director Scooter Corkle’s feature debut follows a young woman who finds herself pushing the boundaries of the law as she attempts to uncover the truth about her brother’s involvement in a brutal murder.

Screen can also reveal the first still from the film [pictured], which co-stars Shawn Ashmore (X-Men: Days Of Future Past) and Rachelle Lefevre (The Twilight Series).

Producers are Jesse Savath (Come And Find Me) and Marlaina Mah (Come And Find Me) while executive producers are Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious, Sinister), Daniel Levin (Lion) and Christopher Ferguson.

The film, shot in Canada, is in post-production with WestEnd showing a promo at Efm.

Agron recently has appeared in the features Tumbledown, Bare and [link...

After taking up the mantle from Ethan Hawke for The Purge: Anarchy last year, Variety brings word that Frank Grillo has entered final negotiations to reprise his role as the hard-boiled sergeant Leo Barnes for Universal and Blumhouse’s The Purge 3.

Should everything go according to plan, Grillo won’t be the only one returning for another purge, with writer/director James DeMonaco on board for the third installment in the twisted horror series, due to hit theaters next summer. Cooking up another violent spin on America’s most violent – and yet legal – night of the year, DeMonaco will once again delve into the creative playground of his alternate future setting, one which imagines a scenario wherein all crime is legal for a 12-hour period.

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Last we saw of Grillo’s character he was a man fuelled by revenge, though he ended up helping...

Exclusive: On the heels of Blumhouse Productions‘ supernatural hit Insidious: Chapter 2 crossing $150M worldwide, Blumhouse and Universal are beefing up their sequel to this summer’s micro-budget horror-thriller The Purge. Frank Grillo (The Grey) will lead the cast of The Next Chapter of The Purge under returning Purge helmer James DeMonaco who is also writing and producing. Plot details are under wraps but there’s plenty of opportunity to explore the dystopian world established in the first film, which starred Ethan Hawke as a security system designer protecting his family from home invasion on the one night each year when the cops take a day off to let crime run rampant. The movie opened in June and grossed roughly $90M worldwide on a $3M budget. Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum, Sébastien K. Lemercier and Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form will produce The Purge 2, which marks the...

Aram Rappaport’s cyber thriller “A Conspiracy on Jekyll Island” has added a couple of interesting names to its cast, including a pair of strong TV female leads in Mary McCormack (USA’s “In Plain Sight”) and Maggie Q., who is wrapping up the final season of her CW action series “Nikita”. The film also has Minnie Driver and Dianna Agront, along with John Leguizamo, Ed Westwick, AnnaSophia Robb, and Dominic Cooper. Frank Grillo will star as an ex-Wall Street man “whom the Secretary of the Treasury enlists to thwart a cyber attack that threatens to derail the American economy. With the help of his wife, he recruits his ragtag team of misfits, and prepares to save the world from total financial implosion.” No idea who is playing who (except Grillo), but “The Conspiracy on Jekyll Island” is set for 2014. Rappaport previously directed 2009′s “Innocent” and recently, “Syrup” with Amber Heard and Shiloh Fernandez.

• The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis is in negotiations to star opposite Owen Wilson in a heist comedy for Relativity Media. Napoleon Dynamite’s Jared Hess is set to direct the pic, previously titled Loomis Fargo, which follows an armored car driver (Galifianakis) who teams up with a group of aspiring criminals to steal $20 million. Jim Carrey was previously circling the lead, but reportedly dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Galifianakis and Wilson recently appeared together in Matthew Weiner’s You Are Here, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival but does not yet have a date set for a U.

We’ve got a number of casting announcements to attend to this afternoon. Briefly: Jake Gyllenhaal is poised to take over the role previously held by Eminem in the long-gestating boxing drama Southpaw. Christopher Walken will play jazz opposite Lenny Kravitz in the upcoming musician drama Little Rootie Tootie. Minnie Driver and Frank Grillo (The Grey) are set to topline the indie thriller A Conspiracy on Jekyll Island alongside Dianna Agron (Glee), John Leguizamo, Maggie Q, and more. Director Matthew Vaughn has added a femme fatale to his graphic novel adaptation The Secret Service in model Sofia Boutella. Hit the jump for more details on the aforementioned projects. First up, it appears the long-in-the-works boxing drama Southpaw is finally getting off the ground. The Wrap reports that Jake Gyllenhaal is currently in negotiations to lead the film in a role that was previously filled by Eminem. The story revolves around...