Uncut Gems is already playing everywhere, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be blessed with one more trailer. This final Uncut Gems trailer features a killer needle-drop in the form of Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” It also features Adam Sandler running around, shouting, and making everyone around him extra anxious. This is how he wins. Watch the […]
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- 1/4/2020
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
“This is me, this is how I win.” You may not have seen “Uncut Gems” yet, you may have only vaguely heard of it, but chances are you’re very aware that Adam Sandler is in the conversation for the Oscar awards and has already been nominated for a Golden Globe in the Comedy/Musical category. Will that translate to the Academy Awards? A24 sure as hell is hoping it will and on the eve of the Globes, that takes place this weekend, the company has released another new post-release trailer and it’s very different from what you might expect.
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- 1/3/2020
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Netflix has confirmed that 56 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in January. Leading off the lineup are the final seasons of some of the biggest shows on Netflix, including the Emmy-winning animated series “BoJack Horseman,” the family favorite “Anne With an E” and the Ashton Kutcher comedy series “The Ranch.”
Among those shows launching their first seasons in the first month of the year are the Tyler Perry family drama “A Fall From Grace,” the sly satire “Medical Police” and the crime thriller “The Stranger.”
Also look for the sophomore edition of the British import “Sex Education,” season 3 of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and season 6 of “Grace & Frankie” with real-life pals Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming and leaving Netflix in January 2020.
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Among those shows launching their first seasons in the first month of the year are the Tyler Perry family drama “A Fall From Grace,” the sly satire “Medical Police” and the crime thriller “The Stranger.”
Also look for the sophomore edition of the British import “Sex Education,” season 3 of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and season 6 of “Grace & Frankie” with real-life pals Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming and leaving Netflix in January 2020.
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- 1/1/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
What better way to celebrate the New Year than by settling into the couch with a Netflix marathon? Get nostalgic about the early ’00s with Hilary Duff in “A Cinderella Story,” or get inspired to cook with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in “Julie & Julia.” Both titles are headed to the streaming service early next month.
A few classics are also coming to the site, including two “Lord of the Rings” pics, the complete “Kill Bill” saga and “American Beauty.”
New seasons of several highly anticipated Netflix originals will also hit the streamer like “Sex Education,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” “Grace and Frankie” and the second half of “BoJack Horseman’s” final season, dropping at the end of the month.
See the full list of titles below:
Jan. 1
Ghost Stories
Messiah
Nisman: Death of a Prosecutor
Spinning Out
The Circle
21
A Cinderella Story
American Beauty
Catch Me If You...
A few classics are also coming to the site, including two “Lord of the Rings” pics, the complete “Kill Bill” saga and “American Beauty.”
New seasons of several highly anticipated Netflix originals will also hit the streamer like “Sex Education,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” “Grace and Frankie” and the second half of “BoJack Horseman’s” final season, dropping at the end of the month.
See the full list of titles below:
Jan. 1
Ghost Stories
Messiah
Nisman: Death of a Prosecutor
Spinning Out
The Circle
21
A Cinderella Story
American Beauty
Catch Me If You...
- 12/24/2019
- by LaTesha Harris
- Variety Film + TV
With the passing of Anna Karina, a curtain has fallen on the French New Wave, that fabled cinematic movement that brought fame to the man who made her name, Jean-Luc Godard. Yes, Godard is still with us, as is “Breathless” star Jean-Paul Belmondo (practically the last of the living New Wave legends), but his moviemaking compatriots François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Demy, and, most recently, Agnès Varda are gone, and with them the spirit of playful abandon that Karina perfectly embodied.
In such Godard classics as “A Woman is a Woman,” “Pierrot le Fou,” “Alphaville,” and “Made in USA,” Karina appeared as a gamine and a femme fatale at the same time. Not since Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich had there been a director-and-star tandem so potent. The closest to it would be Philippe Garrel’s partnership with Nico — although the avant-garde blue plate specials made by...
In such Godard classics as “A Woman is a Woman,” “Pierrot le Fou,” “Alphaville,” and “Made in USA,” Karina appeared as a gamine and a femme fatale at the same time. Not since Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich had there been a director-and-star tandem so potent. The closest to it would be Philippe Garrel’s partnership with Nico — although the avant-garde blue plate specials made by...
- 12/16/2019
- by David Ehrenstein
- Variety Film + TV
Anna Karina, the model-turned-actress who became a French New Wave icon thanks to her collaborations with the director Jean-Luc Godard, has died at the age of 79.
France’s cultural minister Franck Riester announced Karina’s death on Twitter, with the actress’ agent later confirming that Karina died Saturday in Paris following a battle with cancer.
“Her gaze was the gaze of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). It will remain so forever,” Riester wrote of Karina. “Today, French cinema has been orphaned. It has lost one of its legends.”
Born Hanne...
France’s cultural minister Franck Riester announced Karina’s death on Twitter, with the actress’ agent later confirming that Karina died Saturday in Paris following a battle with cancer.
“Her gaze was the gaze of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). It will remain so forever,” Riester wrote of Karina. “Today, French cinema has been orphaned. It has lost one of its legends.”
Born Hanne...
- 12/15/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In today’s TV news roundup, Amazon studios announces a premiere date for Ilana Glazer’s debut standup special and Netflix reveals the premiere dates for multiple original shows.
Dates
“Miz & Mrs” will return to USA Network for season 2 on Jan. 29. In the upcoming season, the docuseries will give an exclusive look into the lives of WWE Superstars The Miz and Maryse as they pack up their lives in Austin and move to Los Angeles. Joined by their two mothers-in-law, a grandfather with WWE aspirations, two dogs, two cats, a 1-year old daughter and a baby on the way, the two parents will work together to take on whatever challenges are thrown their way.
Netflix announced the return and premiere dates of multiple original shows, all of which will take place in January. The new show “Medical Police,” will premiere Jan. 10. The show tells the story of two American physicians in São Paulo,...
Dates
“Miz & Mrs” will return to USA Network for season 2 on Jan. 29. In the upcoming season, the docuseries will give an exclusive look into the lives of WWE Superstars The Miz and Maryse as they pack up their lives in Austin and move to Los Angeles. Joined by their two mothers-in-law, a grandfather with WWE aspirations, two dogs, two cats, a 1-year old daughter and a baby on the way, the two parents will work together to take on whatever challenges are thrown their way.
Netflix announced the return and premiere dates of multiple original shows, all of which will take place in January. The new show “Medical Police,” will premiere Jan. 10. The show tells the story of two American physicians in São Paulo,...
- 12/12/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for Episodes 1-4 of “Dublin Murders” on Starz.]
And then, suddenly, everyone is living a lie.
At the end of this evening’s episode of “Dublin Murders” Det. Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) returns to undercover work in the form of Lexie, her doppelgänger murder victim who was using the name of one of Cassie’s previous undercover identities.
Yes, this sounds totally batshit. But “Dublin Murders” is an adaptation of the first two novels in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series — “In the Woods” and “The Likeness” — and, like the books, it’s not just a typical cop procedural. It’s a look at how childhood trauma resonates and warps experiences, perceptions and constructs of reality.
It’s an explosive moment that sets up the back half of the series, marking the official transition away from “In the Woods” into the storyline of “The Likeness,” as Det. Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie...
And then, suddenly, everyone is living a lie.
At the end of this evening’s episode of “Dublin Murders” Det. Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) returns to undercover work in the form of Lexie, her doppelgänger murder victim who was using the name of one of Cassie’s previous undercover identities.
Yes, this sounds totally batshit. But “Dublin Murders” is an adaptation of the first two novels in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series — “In the Woods” and “The Likeness” — and, like the books, it’s not just a typical cop procedural. It’s a look at how childhood trauma resonates and warps experiences, perceptions and constructs of reality.
It’s an explosive moment that sets up the back half of the series, marking the official transition away from “In the Woods” into the storyline of “The Likeness,” as Det. Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie...
- 12/2/2019
- by Ann Donahue
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Dane Dehaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) is set as a lead opposite Julianne Moore and Clive Owen in Lisey’s Story, Apple’s eight-hour limited series written and executive produced by Stephen King, from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Lisey’s Story is a deeply personal thriller that follows Lisey (Moore) two years after the death of her husband (Owen). A series of events causes Lisey to begin facing certain realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten.
Dehaan will play Jim Dooley, a huge fan of Scott’s (Owen) books who feels strongly about his unpublished work being released to the world.
Joan Allen also stars.
King wrote every episode of the series, which is based on his bestselling 2006 novel. King and Moore executive produce alongside Bad Robot’s Abrams’ and Ben Stephenson. Pablo Larraín will direct the series.
Lisey’s Story is a deeply personal thriller that follows Lisey (Moore) two years after the death of her husband (Owen). A series of events causes Lisey to begin facing certain realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten.
Dehaan will play Jim Dooley, a huge fan of Scott’s (Owen) books who feels strongly about his unpublished work being released to the world.
Joan Allen also stars.
King wrote every episode of the series, which is based on his bestselling 2006 novel. King and Moore executive produce alongside Bad Robot’s Abrams’ and Ben Stephenson. Pablo Larraín will direct the series.
- 11/25/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Kirsten Howard Nov 15, 2019
The X-Men actor will have to rely on his phone to survive in the new streaming project
Quibi, aka the upcoming streaming service where all the TV series episodes are about 7-10 minutes long, has added another intriguing small screen project to its in-development slate.
Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) has grabbed a starring role in Wireless, which touts Steven Soderbergh as its executive producer. The show has been created for Quibi by a pair of newcomers called Zach Wechter and Jack Seidman, whose short film Pocket definitely seems to have caught the attention of Soderbergh.
Per Deadline, Wireless follows Sheridan's "self-obsessed college student" as he gets stranded in the Colorado mountains. His only hope for survival? His phone - the thriller appears to be entirely set inside his crashed car, as he clutches "the quickly dying phone that now is his lifeline."
"Wireless explores the personal...
The X-Men actor will have to rely on his phone to survive in the new streaming project
Quibi, aka the upcoming streaming service where all the TV series episodes are about 7-10 minutes long, has added another intriguing small screen project to its in-development slate.
Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) has grabbed a starring role in Wireless, which touts Steven Soderbergh as its executive producer. The show has been created for Quibi by a pair of newcomers called Zach Wechter and Jack Seidman, whose short film Pocket definitely seems to have caught the attention of Soderbergh.
Per Deadline, Wireless follows Sheridan's "self-obsessed college student" as he gets stranded in the Colorado mountains. His only hope for survival? His phone - the thriller appears to be entirely set inside his crashed car, as he clutches "the quickly dying phone that now is his lifeline."
"Wireless explores the personal...
- 11/15/2019
- Den of Geek
In this week’s International TV Newswire, longtime Discovery executive Susanne Dinnage leaves the company as the Animal Planet Network shifts to the company’s factual division, Beta Film clinches a milestone sale on “The Pleasure Principle,” and All3Media finds the right Job for its newest non-scripted position. Also making news, new North American Svod Topic picks up a raft of Australian content and Netflix shares photos of “The Stranger,” and announces key cast for “Los Favoritas de Midas.”
Susanne Dinnage to Leave Discovery, Animal Planet Moved to Factual Division
Susanna Dinnage, Discovery’s global president of Animal Planet since 2017, will leave the company as part of a restructuring which sees Animal Planet moved to Discovery’s factual division, managed by chief brand officer Nancy Daniels, who currently runs Discovery Channel and Science Channel.
Under her guidance, Animal Planet was rebranded and became Discovery’s first network to be managed globally.
Susanne Dinnage to Leave Discovery, Animal Planet Moved to Factual Division
Susanna Dinnage, Discovery’s global president of Animal Planet since 2017, will leave the company as part of a restructuring which sees Animal Planet moved to Discovery’s factual division, managed by chief brand officer Nancy Daniels, who currently runs Discovery Channel and Science Channel.
Under her guidance, Animal Planet was rebranded and became Discovery’s first network to be managed globally.
- 11/1/2019
- by Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
If you were left wanting following the narrative unsatisfaction of Fallout 4, or if you were one of the many let down by the online-centric focus of Fallout 76, Obsidian Entertainment’s latest single-player open-world RPG, The Outer Worlds, may just be the looter-shooter you need right now. Billed as a quasi-spiritual successor to Fallout: New Vegas, and built from the ground up utilizing a new engine and a brand new IP, the Californian studio’s follow-up to last year’s Pillars Of Eternity II is easily one of 2019’s standout games, as well as one of the finest RPGs of the generation.
The Outer Worlds takes place across an interstellar colony known as Halcyon and is set in an alternate universe where President William McKinley wasn’t assassinated. As a result, Theodore Roosevelt never became president, which led to a divergent reality run and regulated by a handful of powerful mega-corporations.
The Outer Worlds takes place across an interstellar colony known as Halcyon and is set in an alternate universe where President William McKinley wasn’t assassinated. As a result, Theodore Roosevelt never became president, which led to a divergent reality run and regulated by a handful of powerful mega-corporations.
- 10/22/2019
- by Dylan Chaundy
- We Got This Covered
Kirsten Howard Oct 9, 2019
The Quibi series is about a rideshare driver who ends up having a very bad day.
Dane DeHaan (Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets) is planning to extend his stay on TV for a while as he'll be following up his forthcoming series ZeroZeroZero, which debuted last month at the Venice Film Festival to a positive reception, with another show for streamer Quibi.
DeHaan will star opposite Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) in The Stranger, which will apparently center on "an unassuming young rideshare driver who is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger enters her car. Her terrifying ride with the stranger unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in a chilling game of cat and mouse" according to Deadline.
Veena Sud, the woman behind the American version of The Killing (Forbrydelsen) will write and direct The Stranger.
The Quibi series is about a rideshare driver who ends up having a very bad day.
Dane DeHaan (Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets) is planning to extend his stay on TV for a while as he'll be following up his forthcoming series ZeroZeroZero, which debuted last month at the Venice Film Festival to a positive reception, with another show for streamer Quibi.
DeHaan will star opposite Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) in The Stranger, which will apparently center on "an unassuming young rideshare driver who is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger enters her car. Her terrifying ride with the stranger unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in a chilling game of cat and mouse" according to Deadline.
Veena Sud, the woman behind the American version of The Killing (Forbrydelsen) will write and direct The Stranger.
- 10/9/2019
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Avan Jogia, Dane DeHaan and Maika Monroe are set to star in Veena Sud’s upcoming Quibi series The Stranger.
The thriller follows an unassuming young rideshare driver who is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger enters her car. Her terrifying ride with the stranger unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in a chilling game of cat and mouse. Details about Jogia, DeHaan and Monroe’s characters are being kept under wraps.
Sud signed on to develop shows for the new digital service from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. She is the creator, writer, director and executive producer of The Stranger which is at 21 Television Studios.
Jogia is repped by ICM, Link Entertainment, The Characters Talent Agency...
The thriller follows an unassuming young rideshare driver who is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger enters her car. Her terrifying ride with the stranger unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in a chilling game of cat and mouse. Details about Jogia, DeHaan and Monroe’s characters are being kept under wraps.
Sud signed on to develop shows for the new digital service from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. She is the creator, writer, director and executive producer of The Stranger which is at 21 Television Studios.
Jogia is repped by ICM, Link Entertainment, The Characters Talent Agency...
- 10/7/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Giulio Questi's Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967) and Death Laid an Egg (1968) are playing October and November 2019 on Mubi in the United States.Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!In December 2014, Giulio Questi died, and the cinema lost an unflappable renegade of the arts. His name does not get dropped as often as that of his contemporaries, but those that know his films speak of them with open-eyed reverence, as much in awe of their existence as of their quality. Marked with a crazy energy, a surreal visual style, and an eccentricity in narrative that can leave a viewer baffled, his work has that experiential cult quality akin to that of Alejandro Jodorowsky: you have to see it to believe it. His career was marked with notable lapses and absences. “My movies have always been appreciated and admired by cinema insiders but they did not get a lot of money,...
- 10/6/2019
- MUBI
When Tony-winning (and Emmy and Grammy-winning) Broadway musical director Alex Lacamoire (Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen) happened to have a business trip to London scheduled recently, he saw a unique opportunity at hand, and made a call to Abbey Road Studios. Lacamoire had previously made multiple viral videos where he would play through entire albums (Billy Joel’s The Stranger, for one) on piano in under a minute, and the idea of speeding through Abbey Road at Abbey Road was too tempting to resist. Two accomplished friends, Hamilton director Thomas Kail...
- 9/26/2019
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies and the king and the queen of the prom — but will that be enough to help them stand out in a crowded #PeakTV landscape?
MGM Television has teamed with Billy Joel and Universal Music Publishing Group to develop Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, a scripted anthology series based on the song of the same name. According to The Hollywood Reporter, each episode will be based on lyrics from Joel’s extensive catalog and bring to life many of the characters from his songs, including Mamma Leone and Sgt. O’Leary (from “Movin’ Out...
MGM Television has teamed with Billy Joel and Universal Music Publishing Group to develop Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, a scripted anthology series based on the song of the same name. According to The Hollywood Reporter, each episode will be based on lyrics from Joel’s extensive catalog and bring to life many of the characters from his songs, including Mamma Leone and Sgt. O’Leary (from “Movin’ Out...
- 9/25/2019
- TVLine.com
Netflix is adapting Harlan Coben’s mystery thriller The Woods as a Polish original.
The Svod series has commissioned the European original from directors Leszek Dawid (You Are God) and Bartosz Konopka (Rabbit a la Berlin) and writers Agata Malesińska and Wojtek Miłoszewsk. Atm Grupa with Coben exec producing alongside Anna Nagler (The Coldest Game) and Andrzej Muszyński.
The six-part series will launch in 2020. It is the latest international adaptation of a Coben book for Netflix; the digital platform is remaking El Inocente in Spain with Oriol Paulo and The Stranger and Safe in the UK. The series is financially supported by the Polish Film Institute.
Set in two time spans, 1994 and 2019, The Woods tells the story of a Warsaw prosecutor, Paweł Kopiński, who is still grieving the loss of his sister from twenty five years ago – the night she walked into the woods at a summer camp and was never seen again.
The Svod series has commissioned the European original from directors Leszek Dawid (You Are God) and Bartosz Konopka (Rabbit a la Berlin) and writers Agata Malesińska and Wojtek Miłoszewsk. Atm Grupa with Coben exec producing alongside Anna Nagler (The Coldest Game) and Andrzej Muszyński.
The six-part series will launch in 2020. It is the latest international adaptation of a Coben book for Netflix; the digital platform is remaking El Inocente in Spain with Oriol Paulo and The Stranger and Safe in the UK. The series is financially supported by the Polish Film Institute.
Set in two time spans, 1994 and 2019, The Woods tells the story of a Warsaw prosecutor, Paweł Kopiński, who is still grieving the loss of his sister from twenty five years ago – the night she walked into the woods at a summer camp and was never seen again.
- 9/12/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
From Kate Hudson's iconic yellow dress to the way Matthew McConaughey says "frost yourself," How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is one of Hollywood's most beloved romantic comedies. Donald Petrie's 2003 film is full of quotable lines, steamy kisses, and one very important Love Fern, and now all of that is about to become a new remake!
Quibi, a streaming company that stands for "quick bites" of video, has announced that it's teaming up with Paramount TV for "a modern take on How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." So, what makes it so modern? Apparently writer Guy Branum will put a new spin on the story by following a "glib young online columnist and an oversexed advertising executive" who collide when they set out to prove that they're capable of being monogamous.
We were all certain you could not make a good romantic comedy anymore...
Quibi, a streaming company that stands for "quick bites" of video, has announced that it's teaming up with Paramount TV for "a modern take on How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." So, what makes it so modern? Apparently writer Guy Branum will put a new spin on the story by following a "glib young online columnist and an oversexed advertising executive" who collide when they set out to prove that they're capable of being monogamous.
We were all certain you could not make a good romantic comedy anymore...
- 8/6/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Jeffery Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s Quibi has picked up Skinny Dip, a comedy series based on Carl Hiaasen’s 2004 satirical novel. The project had been set up as a drama pilot at the CW in the 2018 cycle but did not move forward there.
The same core group remains attached: Producer Kashet Studios, writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and executive producers Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Alon Shtruzman, Avi Nir, Friend and Lerner.
The mobile-first content company describes the series as a darkly comedic odyssey of revenge. A jilted woman miraculously survives a night in the open ocean after her husband suddenly flings her overboard on their anniversary cruise. Plucked to safety serendipitously by a retired cop, the two team up to gaslight her husband.
Matt Barr and Ben Aldridge had been cast in the CW pilot, which was being produced by Keshet at CBS TV Studios. Kj Smith and...
The same core group remains attached: Producer Kashet Studios, writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and executive producers Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Alon Shtruzman, Avi Nir, Friend and Lerner.
The mobile-first content company describes the series as a darkly comedic odyssey of revenge. A jilted woman miraculously survives a night in the open ocean after her husband suddenly flings her overboard on their anniversary cruise. Plucked to safety serendipitously by a retired cop, the two team up to gaslight her husband.
Matt Barr and Ben Aldridge had been cast in the CW pilot, which was being produced by Keshet at CBS TV Studios. Kj Smith and...
- 7/22/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
And the winner is……..St. Louis!
With this years St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, we’ve again proven that our city is packed with ridiculously talented filmmakers, actors, and other artisans.
The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. The Showcase screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis natives or films with strong local ties. The various film programs that screened at Washington University’s Brown Hall from July 12-14 & 19-21 . The programs ranged from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs included post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. Filmmakers of all ages within a 120 mile radius of St. Louis were strongly encouraged to submit their works, or at the very least attend the event to celebrate the amazingly talented St.
With this years St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, we’ve again proven that our city is packed with ridiculously talented filmmakers, actors, and other artisans.
The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. The Showcase screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis natives or films with strong local ties. The various film programs that screened at Washington University’s Brown Hall from July 12-14 & 19-21 . The programs ranged from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs included post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. Filmmakers of all ages within a 120 mile radius of St. Louis were strongly encouraged to submit their works, or at the very least attend the event to celebrate the amazingly talented St.
- 7/22/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Quibi continues its content spree with a new series from The Killing creator Veena Sud. She is set to create, write, direct and executive produce The Stranger, a shortform thriller from Fox 21 Television Studios.
The logline: An unassuming young rideshare driver is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger enters her car. Her terrifying, heart-stopping ride with the stranger unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in a chilling game of cat and mouse.
The project is Sud’s first for Quibi since she signed last month to develop shows for the digital service run by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. Along with creating the 2011-14 crime drama The Killing, Sud also was behind last year’s Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds. She also directed The Lie, a feature that premiered at Toronto last year, and earlier was a writer-producer for CBS’ Cold Case.
The logline: An unassuming young rideshare driver is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious Hollywood Hills passenger enters her car. Her terrifying, heart-stopping ride with the stranger unfolds over 12 hours as she navigates the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in a chilling game of cat and mouse.
The project is Sud’s first for Quibi since she signed last month to develop shows for the digital service run by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. Along with creating the 2011-14 crime drama The Killing, Sud also was behind last year’s Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds. She also directed The Lie, a feature that premiered at Toronto last year, and earlier was a writer-producer for CBS’ Cold Case.
- 7/19/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
You’ve binge-watched all of the third season of Stranger Things and you don’t know what to do next. Well, Netflix can at least keep you occupied for a little while longer with a new podcast that dives into the making of the hit show’s latest season, and the first episode is already available. The Stranger […]
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- 7/18/2019
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
The 19th Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, a presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. The Showcase screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis residents or films with strong local ties. The Festival continues this Friday, July 19th. Narrative Shorts: Drama 3 is at 7pm and Narrative Shorts: Sci-Fi/Thriller plays at 9:15
The 19 film programs that screen at Washington University’s Brown Hall from July 12-14 & 19-21 serve as the Showcase’s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. There are 106 films in this year’s event.
Tickets for film programs from July 12-21 at Brown Hall are $13 each; $10 for students with valid and current photo ID and for Cinema St. Louis members with valid membership cards.
The 19 film programs that screen at Washington University’s Brown Hall from July 12-14 & 19-21 serve as the Showcase’s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. There are 106 films in this year’s event.
Tickets for film programs from July 12-21 at Brown Hall are $13 each; $10 for students with valid and current photo ID and for Cinema St. Louis members with valid membership cards.
- 7/18/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Prentice Penny of Insecure has signed on to executive produce and develop HBO’s The Untamed, an epic fantasy tale based on the culturally diverse Asunda line of comic books created by Sebastian A. Jones and published by Stranger Comics. Penny and Jones will co-write the pilot.
The world of Asunda was inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth epics and Greek mythology but with its blend of sword-and-sorcery imagery it also feel like a near-neighbor to Westeros, the realm that’s home to HBO’s Game of Thrones and its now-ramping prequel series.
Asunda was introduced by Jones through his tiny independent imprint, Stranger Comics (with help along the way from Kickstarter campaigns), as a “shared universe” saga that was chronicled across individual series like Niobe, Dusu, Erathune and Essessa, each named for a character or locale in the war-battered world of magic and medieval intrigue.
The pilot and early...
The world of Asunda was inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth epics and Greek mythology but with its blend of sword-and-sorcery imagery it also feel like a near-neighbor to Westeros, the realm that’s home to HBO’s Game of Thrones and its now-ramping prequel series.
Asunda was introduced by Jones through his tiny independent imprint, Stranger Comics (with help along the way from Kickstarter campaigns), as a “shared universe” saga that was chronicled across individual series like Niobe, Dusu, Erathune and Essessa, each named for a character or locale in the war-battered world of magic and medieval intrigue.
The pilot and early...
- 7/17/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Swamp Thing episode 6 keeps up the narrative but the characters and horror and underserved.
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This Swamp Thing review contains spoilers.
Swamp Thing Episode 6
Swamp Thing episode 6, titled “The Price You Pay” sees the coming together of human threats while Swampy moves closer to embracing the Green, the Blue Devil almost arrives, and the Phantom Stranger shows up in a memory – but it is my least favorite ep thus far because of the lack of horror, and writing that underserves Abby.
The attack by Avery’s trackers in the opening minutes is an enjoyable action sequence. We get to see Swampy using some of his powers to send spikes into the goons trying to capture him. Those splinters look like they hurt, but that’s what you get for toying with a giant beast (and that little bunny).
While it is a strong display of Swamp Thing’s abilities,...
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This Swamp Thing review contains spoilers.
Swamp Thing Episode 6
Swamp Thing episode 6, titled “The Price You Pay” sees the coming together of human threats while Swampy moves closer to embracing the Green, the Blue Devil almost arrives, and the Phantom Stranger shows up in a memory – but it is my least favorite ep thus far because of the lack of horror, and writing that underserves Abby.
The attack by Avery’s trackers in the opening minutes is an enjoyable action sequence. We get to see Swampy using some of his powers to send spikes into the goons trying to capture him. Those splinters look like they hurt, but that’s what you get for toying with a giant beast (and that little bunny).
While it is a strong display of Swamp Thing’s abilities,...
- 7/5/2019
- Den of Geek
Shadowhunters may have come to a bittersweet conclusion, but another one of its actors had landed a new TV role.
Dominic Sherwood, who played Jace on the recently canceled Freeform drama, has joined the cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
He is one of six new additions, joining the series alongside Adam Rodriguez, Michael Gladis, Lorenza Izzo, Thomas Kretschman, and Ethan Peck.
The new series is set in 1938 Los Angeles, and focuses on Det. Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto), who becomes embroiled in an epic story following a murder that shocks the city.
It quickly paves the way for Tiago and his family “grappling with powerful forces that threaten to tear them apart,” according to the official logline.
Related: Penny Dreadful Sequel Ordered to Series
Sherwood will play Kurt, the chauffer and bodyguard for Richard Goss (Kretschmann). There's more to Kurt than meets the eye: an unexpected depth and surprising background.
Dominic Sherwood, who played Jace on the recently canceled Freeform drama, has joined the cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
He is one of six new additions, joining the series alongside Adam Rodriguez, Michael Gladis, Lorenza Izzo, Thomas Kretschman, and Ethan Peck.
The new series is set in 1938 Los Angeles, and focuses on Det. Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto), who becomes embroiled in an epic story following a murder that shocks the city.
It quickly paves the way for Tiago and his family “grappling with powerful forces that threaten to tear them apart,” according to the official logline.
Related: Penny Dreadful Sequel Ordered to Series
Sherwood will play Kurt, the chauffer and bodyguard for Richard Goss (Kretschmann). There's more to Kurt than meets the eye: an unexpected depth and surprising background.
- 6/25/2019
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast spotlights Billy Joel in conversation with Andy Greene, with the enduring singer/songwriter discussing the making of his classic album The Stranger, setlists for his Madison Square Garden residency, why he doesn’t enjoy playing “Captain Jack” (“Captain Jack’s been demoted to Private Jack,” he says) his aversion to biopics and retirement tours, grappling with his 70th birthday, his long songwriting silence, his rock n’ roll cred, his feelings on Donald Trump and much more.
To hear the entire episode,...
To hear the entire episode,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
While many modern-day viewers know Carol Kane as Lillian from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, horror fans perhaps know her better as Jill Johnson from When a Stranger Calls and its 1993 sequel, When a Stranger Calls Back, the lattermost of which is coming to Blu-ray from Scream Factory on May 28th, and we've been provided with three copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers!
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of When a Stranger Calls Back.
How to Enter: We're giving Daily Dead readers multiple chances to enter and win:
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2. Email: For a chance to win via email, send an email to contest@dailydead.com with the subject “When a Stranger Calls Back Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of When a Stranger Calls Back.
How to Enter: We're giving Daily Dead readers multiple chances to enter and win:
1. Instagram: Following us on Instagram during the contest period will give you an automatic contest entry. Make sure to follow us at:
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2. Email: For a chance to win via email, send an email to contest@dailydead.com with the subject “When a Stranger Calls Back Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
- 5/27/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Jim Dandy May 12, 2019
Sgt. Rock, Adam Strange, the Phantom Stranger, Sandman's Death, and Batman: Death in the Family are all getting the DC animated treatment.
A new series of DC Animated Shorts are coming in 2019, and the list is full of surprises. DC and Warner Brothers Animation announced a slate of five short animated stories led by five very different characters - Batman, Sgt. Rock, Adam Strange, the Phantom Stranger, and Sandman’s Death - and created by some of the heaviest hitters in the DC animated orbit.
This is Death’s first appearance in non-comics media. Her story sounds a little bit like Death: The High Cost of Living, the miniseries created by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo - manic pixie Endless girl meets an artist and helps him work through his personal issues to come to grips with his artistic legacy and inevitable demise. It’s produced and directed by Justice League vs.
Sgt. Rock, Adam Strange, the Phantom Stranger, Sandman's Death, and Batman: Death in the Family are all getting the DC animated treatment.
A new series of DC Animated Shorts are coming in 2019, and the list is full of surprises. DC and Warner Brothers Animation announced a slate of five short animated stories led by five very different characters - Batman, Sgt. Rock, Adam Strange, the Phantom Stranger, and Sandman’s Death - and created by some of the heaviest hitters in the DC animated orbit.
This is Death’s first appearance in non-comics media. Her story sounds a little bit like Death: The High Cost of Living, the miniseries created by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo - manic pixie Endless girl meets an artist and helps him work through his personal issues to come to grips with his artistic legacy and inevitable demise. It’s produced and directed by Justice League vs.
- 5/13/2019
- Den of Geek
Come get your Q on! The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis,runs April 28-May 2, 2019, at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar) .The St. Louis-based Lgbtq film festival, QFest will present an eclectic slate of 28 films. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and to celebrate queer culture. The full schedule can be found Here
The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis continues Tuesday April 30th. Here’s Tuesday’s schedule:
5:00pm April 30th: The Gospel Of Eureka – This is a Free screening
(though tickets are required from box office)
Eureka Springs, Ark., is a one-of-a-kind oasis in the Ozarks where Christian piety rubs shoulders with a thriving and open queer community. Known for its natural springs, the town...
The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis continues Tuesday April 30th. Here’s Tuesday’s schedule:
5:00pm April 30th: The Gospel Of Eureka – This is a Free screening
(though tickets are required from box office)
Eureka Springs, Ark., is a one-of-a-kind oasis in the Ozarks where Christian piety rubs shoulders with a thriving and open queer community. Known for its natural springs, the town...
- 4/29/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
You can say that Don Cheadle has been in a few movies and TV spots that were questionable, but the one thing you can’t say with a straight face is that he’s been a bad actor on any occasion. Charles Mudede from The Stranger might actually give one of the worst reviews on any movie that Cheadle has ever been in, but even he has to admit that Cheadle is a genius when it comes to acting out his parts. The actor has been around for well over thirty years now and has learned the business inside and out, coming
Don Cheadle is One of the Most Consistently Good Actors Ever...
Don Cheadle is One of the Most Consistently Good Actors Ever...
- 4/25/2019
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Religion plays a significant role in the lives of the characters on Game of Thrones. The people of the North largely worship the old gods, and the Iron Islanders devote themselves to the Drowned God. But by far, the most prevalent religion in Westeros is The Faith of the Seven. In the series, radical worshipers known as The Faith Militant force Cersei to take her infamous Walk of Shame before she destroys them all by blowing up the Sept of Baelor. However, for most people, worshiping the Seven is a way to bring comfort and order to their lives. Although the Seven is actually a single deity, it's one that has seven faces, each with their own defining attribute. They are The Father, The Mother, The Maiden, The Crone, The Warrior, The Smith, and The Stranger. Fan theories have long posited that there are correlating characters for each attribute.
Recently,...
Recently,...
- 4/13/2019
- by Sabienna Bowman
- Popsugar.com
10. Agantuk
Ray’s last film , based on a short story “Atithi” written by him. The film defines the meaning and the value of relationship on the backdrop of an ever changing social spectrum and questions the effect of the huge technological growth on human civilization. Utpal Dutt gives a superlative performance as the protagonist.
9. Shatranj Ke Khilari
Ray’s one and only full length Hindi feature film, based on the short story of Munshi Premchand. The film is set on the back drop of Indian Rebellion of 1857 and features some terrific performances from the actors Amjad Khan and Sanjeev Kumar.
8. Nayak
“Nayak” is the story of a matinee idol and Ray’s attempt to reveal the darker elements of his mind in a long-distance train journey. Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore give some brilliant performances in the movie.
7. Apur Sansar
The...
Ray’s last film , based on a short story “Atithi” written by him. The film defines the meaning and the value of relationship on the backdrop of an ever changing social spectrum and questions the effect of the huge technological growth on human civilization. Utpal Dutt gives a superlative performance as the protagonist.
9. Shatranj Ke Khilari
Ray’s one and only full length Hindi feature film, based on the short story of Munshi Premchand. The film is set on the back drop of Indian Rebellion of 1857 and features some terrific performances from the actors Amjad Khan and Sanjeev Kumar.
8. Nayak
“Nayak” is the story of a matinee idol and Ray’s attempt to reveal the darker elements of his mind in a long-distance train journey. Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore give some brilliant performances in the movie.
7. Apur Sansar
The...
- 4/8/2019
- by Sankha Ray
- AsianMoviePulse
While many modern-day viewers know Carol Kane as Lillian from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, horror fans perhaps know her better as Jill Johnson from When a Stranger Calls and its 1993 sequel, When a Stranger Calls Back, which will be released on Blu-ray this May from Scream Factory, complete with a fresh "2K scan of the original film elements" and a new interview with Kane.
We have the official press release with the full list of special features below, and in case you missed it, read Scott Drebit's It Came From the Tube column on When a Stranger Calls Back.
Press Release: The Stranger is watching you … again. The chilling sequel to When A Stranger Calls, this suspenseful thriller makes its North American Blu-ray debut May 28th, 2019 from Scream Factory. Featuring a new 2k scan of the original film elements in both 1.33:1 (original TV broadcast) and an alternate 1.78:1 version, When...
We have the official press release with the full list of special features below, and in case you missed it, read Scott Drebit's It Came From the Tube column on When a Stranger Calls Back.
Press Release: The Stranger is watching you … again. The chilling sequel to When A Stranger Calls, this suspenseful thriller makes its North American Blu-ray debut May 28th, 2019 from Scream Factory. Featuring a new 2k scan of the original film elements in both 1.33:1 (original TV broadcast) and an alternate 1.78:1 version, When...
- 4/4/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
When it comes to Game of Thrones' villainous Night King, we tend to focus on figuring out things like how he can be killed, and what his grand scheme is, or even who will eventually take him down. We never stop and think, "What do his eyes look like up close?" And while you may be scoffing at the very notion of staring into the Night King's cold, blue murder eyes, it turns out there might be more to those peepers than meets the eye. (I regret nothing.)
First, let's take a look at the eyes in question, shall we? Entertainment Weekly released their epic Thrones issue, along with 16 different covers featuring each major character of the upcoming final season, including our icy Big Bad. Once you get past the shivers creeping down your spine at the intense stare, you should notice something very off about his eyes - instead of having round pupils,...
First, let's take a look at the eyes in question, shall we? Entertainment Weekly released their epic Thrones issue, along with 16 different covers featuring each major character of the upcoming final season, including our icy Big Bad. Once you get past the shivers creeping down your spine at the intense stare, you should notice something very off about his eyes - instead of having round pupils,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
Shrill has a complicated relationship with its source material but is nevertheless a fun half-hour Aidy Bryant party.
This is a spoiler-free review of Shrill.
What happens when you take the work of one of the sharpest feminist minds of our time and filter it through a feel-good half-hour comedy? I’m honestly not sure, and therein lies the problem.
Hulu has adapted Lindy West’s 2016 memoiristic essay collection Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, which deals predominantly with themes of gender, size, popular culture, and what it means when women take up space, as a vehicle for the incredibly talented Aidy Bryant. The show isn’t a straight adaptation of West’s best-selling book, which is similar to her work as a staff writer for Jezebel, New York Times contributor, and co-founder of Shout Your Abortion, but rather a fictional show that’s inspired by its themes and sometimes...
This is a spoiler-free review of Shrill.
What happens when you take the work of one of the sharpest feminist minds of our time and filter it through a feel-good half-hour comedy? I’m honestly not sure, and therein lies the problem.
Hulu has adapted Lindy West’s 2016 memoiristic essay collection Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, which deals predominantly with themes of gender, size, popular culture, and what it means when women take up space, as a vehicle for the incredibly talented Aidy Bryant. The show isn’t a straight adaptation of West’s best-selling book, which is similar to her work as a staff writer for Jezebel, New York Times contributor, and co-founder of Shout Your Abortion, but rather a fictional show that’s inspired by its themes and sometimes...
- 3/9/2019
- Den of Geek
Diggle is getting a blast from the past on Arrow: Ernie Hudson will guest-star on the CW series as a four-star general of the Defense Intelligence Agency who shares a history with Dig, our sister site Deadline reports.
Hudson appears in Episode 19, titled “Spartan,” when Dig and the general are forced to reconnect for a Team Arrow mission despite unresolved tension from their past.
Hudson — who next co-stars in the Spectrum drama L.A.’s Finest — is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the original Ghostbusters film franchise. The actor’s many small-screen credits include Grace and Frankie,...
Hudson appears in Episode 19, titled “Spartan,” when Dig and the general are forced to reconnect for a Team Arrow mission despite unresolved tension from their past.
Hudson — who next co-stars in the Spectrum drama L.A.’s Finest — is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the original Ghostbusters film franchise. The actor’s many small-screen credits include Grace and Frankie,...
- 3/6/2019
- TVLine.com
Netflix has announced further casting for their new drama series ‘The Stranger’, a story based on Harlan Coben’s best-selling novel.
The eight-part series has cast Jennifer Saunders, Siobhan Finneran, Hannah John-Kamen, Anthony Head and Stephen Rea. Already attached to the cast are Shaun Dooley, Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), Dervla Kirwan, and Kadiff Kirwan.
The book description reads:
Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream – a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life.
Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corrine, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corrine’s deception, and realises that if he doesn’t make exactly the right moves,...
The eight-part series has cast Jennifer Saunders, Siobhan Finneran, Hannah John-Kamen, Anthony Head and Stephen Rea. Already attached to the cast are Shaun Dooley, Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), Dervla Kirwan, and Kadiff Kirwan.
The book description reads:
Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream – a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life.
Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corrine, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corrine’s deception, and realises that if he doesn’t make exactly the right moves,...
- 3/6/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Siobhan Finneran and Hannah John-Kamen have signed on for “The Stranger.” They will star alongside the previously announced Richard Armitage in the Netflix adaptation of the Harlan Coben novel.
“Absolutely Fabulous” star Jennifer Saunders has also been cast, in her first major drama role. Anthony Head (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and Stephen Rea (“War and Peace”) will also appear.
“Happy Valley” and “Downton Abbey” star Finneran will play detective Johanna Griffin in the series, and John-Kamen (“Ready Player One”) will play the titular mysterious stranger who exposes people’s secrets, dropping bombshells that will shatter lives.
Armitage is Adam Price, the series protagonist who finds himself tangled in a mysterious web of deception. His steady life, two wonderful sons and watertight marriage all seem unassailable – until The Stranger reveals a shocking secret about his wife.
Studiocanal’s Red Production Company is making the series, which Netflix will launch globally. It...
“Absolutely Fabulous” star Jennifer Saunders has also been cast, in her first major drama role. Anthony Head (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and Stephen Rea (“War and Peace”) will also appear.
“Happy Valley” and “Downton Abbey” star Finneran will play detective Johanna Griffin in the series, and John-Kamen (“Ready Player One”) will play the titular mysterious stranger who exposes people’s secrets, dropping bombshells that will shatter lives.
Armitage is Adam Price, the series protagonist who finds himself tangled in a mysterious web of deception. His steady life, two wonderful sons and watertight marriage all seem unassailable – until The Stranger reveals a shocking secret about his wife.
Studiocanal’s Red Production Company is making the series, which Netflix will launch globally. It...
- 3/6/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Happy Valley and Downton Abbey star Siobhan Finneran and Ant Man and The Wasp and Ready Player One star Hannah John-Kamen have joined Netflix drama The Stranger.
The pair will star alongside The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage in the eight-part crime drama from the team behind crime drama Safe.
Finneran plays DS Johanna Griffin, while John-Kamen stars as a mysterious stranger who exposes people’s secrets, dropping bombshells that will shatter lives.
Elsewhere, Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders stars as Heidi, Johanna’s closest friend; an outgoing character who is seeking adventure after her daughter leaves for university.
The series is based on Harlan Coben’s eponymous novel and is produced by Safe producer Red Production Company.
Armitage stars as Adam Price in the thriller, which sees a secret destroys his perfect life and sends him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy. Price has a good life,...
The pair will star alongside The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage in the eight-part crime drama from the team behind crime drama Safe.
Finneran plays DS Johanna Griffin, while John-Kamen stars as a mysterious stranger who exposes people’s secrets, dropping bombshells that will shatter lives.
Elsewhere, Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders stars as Heidi, Johanna’s closest friend; an outgoing character who is seeking adventure after her daughter leaves for university.
The series is based on Harlan Coben’s eponymous novel and is produced by Safe producer Red Production Company.
Armitage stars as Adam Price in the thriller, which sees a secret destroys his perfect life and sends him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy. Price has a good life,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Just in time for Valentine’s Day is the next episode of Blumhouse and Hulu’s Into the Dark, Down, directed by Daniel Stamm. I recently caught up with The Last Exorcism and 13 Sins director to talk about the challenges of filming a feature-length episode that takes place almost entirely in an elevator, and he also gave me an update on They, a movie written by The Stranger’s Bryan Bertino, which he hope to be filming soon:
How did you get involved with Blumhouse and Hulu’s Into the Dark series?
Daniel Stamm: I had done a movie with Blumhouse before, called 13 Sins, and Jason Blum was an executive producer on it. Down was actually a script outside of Blumhouse and Hulu that I read from Kent Kubena, the writer, before it was even [thought of] for a Blumhouse movie. And then a couple of weeks later, he called and...
How did you get involved with Blumhouse and Hulu’s Into the Dark series?
Daniel Stamm: I had done a movie with Blumhouse before, called 13 Sins, and Jason Blum was an executive producer on it. Down was actually a script outside of Blumhouse and Hulu that I read from Kent Kubena, the writer, before it was even [thought of] for a Blumhouse movie. And then a couple of weeks later, he called and...
- 2/8/2019
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The past never stays buried in the town of Riverdale. By now, the parents should have learned this harsh lesson, but they're diving in deeper on Riverdale Season 3 Episode 12.
Someone is bringing The Midnight Club back together to finish their game of Gryphons and Gargoyles.
None of the adults have played the game since that fateful day back in 1992. With Principal Featherhead dead as a result, their game night was meant to stay a secret forever. But, a mysterious mastermind wants them to finish their story.
Could the Gargoyle King be behind this? Will one of the parents die as a result?
Considering their luck with the chalices, their odds don't look too good.
The parents aren't the only ones dealing with the tension of the Gargoyle King. Kevin and Moose have reached their biggest hurdle yet for their relationship.
Based on the trailer, they've "lost" to the Gargoyle King...
Someone is bringing The Midnight Club back together to finish their game of Gryphons and Gargoyles.
None of the adults have played the game since that fateful day back in 1992. With Principal Featherhead dead as a result, their game night was meant to stay a secret forever. But, a mysterious mastermind wants them to finish their story.
Could the Gargoyle King be behind this? Will one of the parents die as a result?
Considering their luck with the chalices, their odds don't look too good.
The parents aren't the only ones dealing with the tension of the Gargoyle King. Kevin and Moose have reached their biggest hurdle yet for their relationship.
Based on the trailer, they've "lost" to the Gargoyle King...
- 2/1/2019
- by Justin Carreiro
- TVfanatic
Richard Armitage, who played Francis Dolarhyde to chilling perfection in NBC’s “Hannibal,” will next be seen in Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s The Lodge, and Deadline reports today that he’ll also be leading the cast of Netflix’s “The Stranger,“ a new thriller series. The eight-episode series is based on Harlan Coben’s novel. Armitage stars as Adam […]...
- 1/28/2019
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Nicola Shindler to executive produce.
Richard Armitage will star in a series adaptation of Harlan Coben’s The Stranger for Netflix.
Nicola Shindler’s Red Production Company will produce the eight x 60-minute drama, with Studiocanal as the studio.
Shindler was hired as CEO of Studiocanal UK last September, continuing as CEO of Manchester-based Red.
The Stranger is the third collaboration between Red, Coben and Netflix following The Five and Safe.
Shindler will executive produce alongside Coben, lead series writer Danny Brocklehurst, and Richard Fee. Madonna Baptiste will serve as series producer.
The plot revolves around a man whose life...
Richard Armitage will star in a series adaptation of Harlan Coben’s The Stranger for Netflix.
Nicola Shindler’s Red Production Company will produce the eight x 60-minute drama, with Studiocanal as the studio.
Shindler was hired as CEO of Studiocanal UK last September, continuing as CEO of Manchester-based Red.
The Stranger is the third collaboration between Red, Coben and Netflix following The Five and Safe.
Shindler will executive produce alongside Coben, lead series writer Danny Brocklehurst, and Richard Fee. Madonna Baptiste will serve as series producer.
The plot revolves around a man whose life...
- 1/28/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
“The Hobbit” actor Richard Armitage will star in “The Stranger,” Netflix’s latest series in collaboration with bestselling author Harlan Coben.
The eight-part thriller, produced by the same team that did previous Netflix Coben series “Safe,” starring Michael C. Hall, and “The Five,” goes into production in March. Coben will executive produce the series along with Danny Brocklehurst, who will serve as lead writer, and Nicola Shindler, the CEO of Studiocanal-owned production company Red. The director has not been named.
Armitage will play Adam Price, a happily married father of two whose life is turned upside-down after a stranger tells him a secret about his wife. The revelation catapults him into a larger world of conspiracy and danger.
Armitage, who also starred in “Berlin Station,” can currently be seen in “The Lodge,” directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, which will screen at Sundance.
Larry Tanz, Netflix’s vice president of content acquisition,...
The eight-part thriller, produced by the same team that did previous Netflix Coben series “Safe,” starring Michael C. Hall, and “The Five,” goes into production in March. Coben will executive produce the series along with Danny Brocklehurst, who will serve as lead writer, and Nicola Shindler, the CEO of Studiocanal-owned production company Red. The director has not been named.
Armitage will play Adam Price, a happily married father of two whose life is turned upside-down after a stranger tells him a secret about his wife. The revelation catapults him into a larger world of conspiracy and danger.
Armitage, who also starred in “Berlin Station,” can currently be seen in “The Lodge,” directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, which will screen at Sundance.
Larry Tanz, Netflix’s vice president of content acquisition,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage is to front a crime drama for Netflix as the Svod service reunites with the team behind crime drama Safe.
Armitage, whose Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz-directed feature The Lodge is at the Sundance Film Festival, is fronting The Stranger. The eight-episode series is based on Harlan Coben’s eponymous novel and is produced by Safe producer Red Production Company.
Armitage stars as Adam Price in the thriller, which sees a secret destroys his perfect life and sends him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy. Price has a good life, two wonderful sons, and a watertight marriage, until one night a stranger sits next to him in a bar and tells him a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne’s deception, and realizes that if he doesn...
Armitage, whose Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz-directed feature The Lodge is at the Sundance Film Festival, is fronting The Stranger. The eight-episode series is based on Harlan Coben’s eponymous novel and is produced by Safe producer Red Production Company.
Armitage stars as Adam Price in the thriller, which sees a secret destroys his perfect life and sends him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy. Price has a good life, two wonderful sons, and a watertight marriage, until one night a stranger sits next to him in a bar and tells him a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne’s deception, and realizes that if he doesn...
- 1/28/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It's an oldie but a goodie: "The truth shall set you free." And in the case of Riverdale Season 3 Episode 10, we enjoyed an exciting hour of big truths and even bigger revelations.
Joaquin's murderer, the identity of The Gargoyle King, Veronica's relationship ... the secrets were coming out like gifts during the holidays. We can finally put to rest the mysteries that plagued us during the first half of Riverdale Season 3. And there's still a lot more left to uncover heading into the latter half.
Loose plot threads better beware!
Here's the big question from "The Stranger": Were you satisfied with the reveal of Riverdale's current Gargoyle King?
After weeks of lumbering around town and leading our characters astray, the brutish ex-Southside Serpent Tall Boy was revealed as the man behind the mask. We previously thought he got killed, but death was his red herring.
He's back and into cosplay!
Joaquin's murderer, the identity of The Gargoyle King, Veronica's relationship ... the secrets were coming out like gifts during the holidays. We can finally put to rest the mysteries that plagued us during the first half of Riverdale Season 3. And there's still a lot more left to uncover heading into the latter half.
Loose plot threads better beware!
Here's the big question from "The Stranger": Were you satisfied with the reveal of Riverdale's current Gargoyle King?
After weeks of lumbering around town and leading our characters astray, the brutish ex-Southside Serpent Tall Boy was revealed as the man behind the mask. We previously thought he got killed, but death was his red herring.
He's back and into cosplay!
- 1/24/2019
- by Justin Carreiro
- TVfanatic
“Minding the Gap” had a great day on December 8. Hours after Bing Liu‘s heartfelt look at live in the Rust Belt was named Best Documentary Feature of the year by the Chicago film critics, it won the top award from The International Documentary Association (Ida).
At the Ida, it prevailed in the largest-ever field of contenders at this key precursor prize. Among the competition were all of the other frontrunners for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars: National Geographic’s “Free Solo,” Hulu’s “Crime + Punishment,” the Mr. Rogers retrospective “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and PBS’ “Dark Money.”
This was the first year that Ida had nominated 10 films for their top award, a sharp increase from the 5-6 contenders cited in the past. While only two films were nominated by both the Ida and Oscar last year, in 2017 the groups lined up on four nominees and...
At the Ida, it prevailed in the largest-ever field of contenders at this key precursor prize. Among the competition were all of the other frontrunners for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars: National Geographic’s “Free Solo,” Hulu’s “Crime + Punishment,” the Mr. Rogers retrospective “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and PBS’ “Dark Money.”
This was the first year that Ida had nominated 10 films for their top award, a sharp increase from the 5-6 contenders cited in the past. While only two films were nominated by both the Ida and Oscar last year, in 2017 the groups lined up on four nominees and...
- 12/9/2018
- by Paul Sheehan and John Benutty
- Gold Derby
Billy Joel recently announced the first 2019 date of his Madison Square Garden residency, which will mark his 60th concert at the New York arena since his began his monthly residence there five years ago. He’s played to capacity crowds at every single concert, and he’s tried to make each one unique by reviving songs he hasn’t touched for decades and bringing out surprise guests like Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Jimmy Fallon, Paul Simon and Miley Cyrus. Joel turns 70 in May, but he says he has absolutely no...
- 10/23/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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