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Dan Stevens, who has become synonymous with indie horror, is paired with icon Al Pacino for the ultimate exorcism film, “The Ritual.” The duo star as two priests who “face the ultimate test of faith,” as the logline teases. The film is based on the true story that was captured in 1935 book “Begone Satan!” about a Church-sanctioned exorcism. The original account of the events went on to inspire “The Exorcist” book and William Friedkin’s famed 1973 film that later spurred a franchise.

The official synopsis for “The Ritual” reads: “When the Church sanctions the exorcism of Emma Schmidt (Abigail Cowan), two priests — divided by doubt — must confront a force beyond comprehension… and their own faith.” Ashley Greene and Patricia Heaton co-star.

Pacino recently told Entertainment Weekly that after starring in “The Ritual,” he can finally watch Friedkin’s “The Exorcist.” Pacino worked with the late auteur on “Cruising,” which was...

Exclusive: Laura Kosann has come on to write the Lyrical Media and Ryder Picture Company’s film adaptation of Brynne Weaver’s bestselling novel Butcher & Blackbird, the first installment of Weaver’s New York Times bestselling Ruinous Love trilogy. Chris McKay is set to direct.

Lyrical’s Alexander Black and Rpc’s Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett will produce the film, with Rpc’s Emma Rappold serving as co-producer. Lyrical’s Jon Rosenberg and Natalie Sellers will executive produce alongside Weaver.

The story follows two competing killers who target other serial killers as they attempt to one-up each other. As their unlikely bond grows into something deeper, they start to wonder if a future together could ever be possible.

Weaver’s genre-breaking novel quickly rose to prominence after its release in October 2023, becoming a New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller and going viral on BookTok.

Tom Holland is opening up about his experience on the set of the Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room.

The Spider-Man: No Way Home actor credited his sobriety for keeping him grounded during the 2022 filming of the psychological thriller, which he executive produced and starred in alongside Emmy Rossum, Amanda Seyfried, Will Chase and Sasha Lane. The Crowded Room follows Holland’s Danny Sullivan as he confronts his mental health after becoming involved in a shooting.

“There was quite a lot of animosity on that set,” Holland shared in a Men’s Health profile published Thursday. “It was not a very harmonious place, and there was a lot of arguing and butting heads.”

Holland revealed that the disagreements were not creative and the conflict forced him to examine his sobriety.

“I thought, ‘If I start drinking again now, with all this going on, it’s gonna get worse, right?’” the actor,...

According to Variety, Signature Entertainment has secured the rights to the much-anticipated thriller ‘The Absence of Eden,’ starring Zoe Saldaña and produced by Martin Scorsese.

This deal includes territories in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. The film also features actors Garrett Hedlund and Adria Arjona.

Directed by Marco Perego in his feature debut, ‘The Absence of Eden’ tells the gripping story of an Ice Agent and an undocumented woman’s intense battle against a ruthless cartel.

Hedlund plays the conflicted agent, while Saldaña portrays the woman striving to evade cartel clutches.

The script, co-written by Perego and Rick Rapoza, has been recognized by the AMPAS Library for its inclusion in their permanent core collection.

The project is a collaboration of notable producers including Oscar nominee Julie Yorn and Alexandra Milchan, alongside a team of experienced producers under Pioneer Pictures.

Scorsese, alongside others including Cisely, Mariel, and Zoe Saldaña’s Cinestar Pictures,...

The upcoming Zoe Saldaña-starring and Martin Scorsese-exec produced thriller “The Absence of Eden” has been snapped up by Signature Entertainment in a multi-territory deal.

Signature bought U.K. and Irish, Australian and New Zealand and African rights to the feature, being sold by The Exchange.

“The Absence of Eden” — also starring Garrett Hedlund (“Tron,” “Mudbound”) and Adria Arjona (“Hitman,” “Father of the Bride”) —.is directed by first-time feature director Marco Perego from a script he co-wrote with Rick Rapoza (“Cactuses”). The screenplay was recently acquired by the AMPAS Library as part of their permanent core inclusion.

The thriller pivots around the dueling narratives of an Ice Agent (Hedlund) struggling with the moral dilemmas of border security and an undocumented woman (Saldaña) fighting to escape a ruthless cartel.

Producers include Oscar nominee Julie Yorn (“Hell or High Water”), Perego, Robert Kravis (“Lucky Number Slevin”), and Karl Herrmann (“Dinner in America...

The third season of AMC’s anthology The Terror has filled out is principal cast with some big names.

Season three, subtitled Devil in Silver, will star Dan Stevens as a man who’s wrongly committed to a psychiatric hospital and finds himself fighting a supernatural force. The series has added a dozen actors to its cast, filling out the regular cast as production gets underway.

The new additions are Emmy winner Judith Light, Cch Pounder (Rustin, The Shield), Chinaza Uche (Dickinson), Hampton Fluker (Shades of Blue), b (You), Aasif Mandvi (Evil), John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C), Stephen Root (Barry), Hayward Leach (Tom Swift), Michael Aronov (The Americans), Marin Ireland (Justified: City Primeval) and Phillip Ettinger (First Reformed). Details on their roles are being kept quiet for now.

The Terror premiered in 2018; a second season aired in 2019, but the anthology lay dormant until AMC picked up a third season in February.

Judith Light, Cch Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Michael Aronov and Marin Ireland are among a dozen actors joining star/executive producer Dan Stevens in the third installment of AMC Networks’ The Terror horror anthology, Devil in Silver.

The rest of the new principal cast additions are Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, b, Hayward Leach and Philip Ettinger

Written by Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle, on whose novel the season is based, The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper (Stevens), a working-class moving man who, through a combination...

“The Terror” Season 3 has rounded out its main cast, Variety has learned.

A dozen actors have now joined previously announced lead Dan Stevens in the new season, which is officially titled “The Terror: Devil in Silver.” It is based on the novel “The Devil in Silver” written by Victor Lavalle.

The new additions are: Judith Light, Cch Pounder, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, b, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Hayward Leach, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, and Philip Ettinger.

Per the official series description, Stevens will play Pepper, described as “a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a...

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Legion star Dan Stevens will lead the upcoming season of AMC's anthology The Terror. Titled The Terror: Devil in Silver, the show draws inspiration from Victor Lavalles novel, The Devil in Silver, and centers around a man named Pepper, played by Stevens, who is wrongly committed to a psychiatric hospital. While there, he encounters a terrifying creature rumored to be the devil itself, that's begun preying on the patients. Pepper must band together with other patients to fight this entity while also questioning his own sanity and battling the dismissive staff.

You can read Stevens' statement about his role in the series, and his excitement over joining The Terror franchise below (via Deadline).

Im thrilled to be a part of 'The Terror: Devil in Silver,' Stevens said. This series is a dark symphony of psychological horror and gripping drama, set to rock the audience.

AMC Networks announced that their horror anthology series The Terror will get a third season. Season three will consist of six episodes, which will debut on AMC and AMC+ in 2025.

The Terror: Devil in Silver is based on Victor Lavalle’s hit horror novel The Devil in Silver. Lavalle himself is co-executive producing and co-writing the series with Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire), and Karyn Kusama will direct the first two episodes, as well as co-executive produce. Kusama also directed Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation and two episodes of Showtime’s horror series Yellowjackets.

Also executive producing is Dan Stevens, who plays the lead role of Pepper. Pepper is an everyday working-class guy who is mistakenly committed to a mental institution called New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, which is filled with “the people society would rather forget.”

The patients are difficult to get along with, the staff are keeping deadly secrets…...

Today, AMC Networks announced that Dan Stevens will lead and executive-produce the third installment of the lauded horror anthology The Terror: Devil in Silver. Writing is led by executive producers Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle, who wrote the celebrated novel on which the season is based.

Emmy-nominated director Karyn Kusama also executive produces and will direct the first two episodes.

Dan Stevens will play Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself.

As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the...

Dan Stevens has been tapped as the lead and executive producer on the third installment of AMC Networks’ The Terror horror anthology, Devil in Silver.

Written by Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle, on whose novel the season is based, The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper (Stevens), a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but...

Exclusive: Gregg Sulkin (Runaways), William Miller (The 100) and Melina Matthews (Warrior Nun) have signed on for roles in the spider thriller Arachnid marking the debut feature from Badlands, the new indie genre label from Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road, longtime Screen Gems exec Scott Strauss, and Andrew Schwartzberg and Jon Shiffman’s Renegade Capital, on which we were first to report.

As previously announced, Matilda Lutz also stars in the film, shooting overseas, which Ángel Gómez Hernández (Voces) is directing from a script by Jayson Rothwell (Underworld: Blood Wars).

In Arachnid, a man returns from a trip unwittingly harboring a new breed of arachnid. Subsequently, the people in an apartment block are quarantined and left to fend for themselves against a plague of venomous spiders.

Producers include Rothwell, Schwartzberg, Shiffman, Peter Welter, Alexandra Milchan, and Josh Weinstock. Altitude Film Sales is handling international sales, having introduced the...

The John Wick franchise producers at Thunder Road Pictures are partnering with longtime Screen Gems executive Scott Strauss to launch an independent genre label called Badlands, Deadline reports, and the first project to come our way from Badlands is the spider thriller Arachnid, which has Don’t Listen and El hombre del saco director Ángel Gómez Hernández attached to direct from a screenplay by Jayson Rothwell, whose previous credits include Silent Night (2012) and Polar. The film is set to star Matilda Lutz of the awesome 2017 revenge thriller Revenge and the upcoming Red Sonja reboot.

Badlands is backed by Andrew Schwartzberg and Jon Shiffman’s company Renegade Capital. According to Deadline, the label will “feature development and co-fi funds and plans to make two to three films per year.” Filming on Arachnid is set to begin in Madrid, Spain this July. Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road are producing the film with Strauss,...

Exclusive: Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road (John Wick) is partnering with longtime Screen Gems executive Scott Strauss to launch Badlands.

Backed by Andrew Schwartzberg and Jon Shiffman’s Renegade Capital, the independent genre label will feature development and co-fi funds and plans to make two to three films per year.

First up for the new venture will be Arachnid, starring Matilda Lutz. Written by Jayson Rothwell (Underworld: Blood Wars) and directed by Ángel Gómez (Voces), the spider thriller is due to begin filming this July in Madrid. Altitude Film Sales will introduce the film to buyers in Cannes next week, with CAA Media Finance handling domestic rights.

Rothwell, Schwartzberg, Shiffman, Peter Welter, Alexandra Milchan, and Josh Weinstock are part of the Arachnid producing team.

Lutz is best known for genre projects including Revenge, Reptile and the upcoming films Magpie and Red Sonja, in which she has the title role.

Kim Kardashian is the billionaire that keeps on growing. After what feels like a lifetime of being a reality TV star and a fashion and beauty mogul, Kim has decided to take the cinematic world by storm.

Doesn’t it seem just like yesterday when she was taking acting classes and lessons to star in American Horror Story? Now she’s partnering with streaming giant Netflix for a new show called “Calabasas.” Sounds exciting?

Kim Kardashian Teams Up With “American Horror Story” Co-star Emma Roberts For Exciting New Project

Per a report released by Deadline, Kim Kardashian has partnered up with her “American Horror Story” co-star Emma Roberts to executive produce a film for Netflix. Netflix won the rights to the project after a competitive bidding war.

The project will be a screen adaptation of Via Bleidner‘s book “If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now,” and...

Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian to executive produce the Netflix series Calabasas, based on a book by Via Bleidner. The teen drama will follow a sheltered girl forced to transfer to Calabasas High with unforeseen consequences. Kardashian's involvement in the series is fitting due to her connection to Calabasas.

American Horror Story: Delicate co-stars Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian are reteaming for the upcoming Netflix series, Calabasas. This time around, the two will work off-screen as executive producers. The series, based on the book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now by Via Bleidner, was recently picked up by Netflix, following a competitive bidding war. Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King will write the adaptation, serve as showrunner, and also executive produce.

According to Deadline, who first reported the news, the teen drama will follow Via, a 16-year-old sheltered Midwestern Catholic school girl whose world is...

Kim Kardashian has her fingerprints on just about everything these days. Recently, it was announced that she would be involved with an all-new Netflix show. So, what do we know about this brand-new gig, as well as her involvement with it?

Kim Kardashian Continues To Grow Her Empire

As of 2024, Kim Kardashian has an estimated net worth of $1.7B. That’s more money than the average working person can even fathom, but, it’s sitting comfortably in Kim’s bank account and continuing to grow with each new venture she gets involved with.

Kim Kardashian has an even bigger net worth than Taylor Swift and Rihanna, who also sit comfortably in the billionaire club. Indeed, it’s an exclusive club that very few people ever reach. At this point, Kim Kardashian and future generations of her family are set. Even so, she continues to grow her empire with new business...

Netflix has acquired the series “Calabasas” from executive producers Kim Kardashian, Emma Roberts and “Pretty Little Liars” creator I. Marlene King, Variety has confirmed.

Based on the 2021 book “If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous by Now” by Via Bleidner, the upcoming series follows a 16-year-old sheltered Catholic school girl who’s thrown into unfamiliar territory when she transfers to Calabasas High. King is set to write the series adaptation and serve as showrunner.

Kardashian is executive producing with King and her partner Lauren Wagner via Long Lake Media. Additional executive producers include Roberts, Karah Preiss and Matt Matruski for Belletrist Productions and Alexandra Milchan under her Crescentline banner. The project is currently in development at Netflix.

“Calabasas” reunites Kardashian and Roberts, who worked together on Parts 1 and 2 of “American Horror Story: Delicate.”

Kardashian is a Calabasas resident herself, with the city often appearing on the reality series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians...

Netflix has landed the television series “Calabasas,” TheWrap has learned. The series, which is executive produced by Kim Kardashian and her “American Horror Story” costar Emma Roberts, is based on Via Bleidner’s book “If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now” and is set in the SoCal town most closely associated with the Kardashians.

Two major offers were on the table when Netflix closed out the deal on Friday, according to sources close to the story. The book follows the story of 16-year-old Via, a young Catholic girl whose life is changed after her family moves from the Midwest to Calabasas, California.

The series will also be produced by “Pretty Little Liars” creator I. Marlene King and Alexandra Milchan. King’s partner Lauren Wagner via Long Lake Media will also produce, as well as Belletrist Productions for Roberts, Karah Preiss and Matt Matruski.

Kardashian and her famous...

Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts are teaming up again!

After starring together in American Horror Story: Delicate, the two stars along with Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King and Tár producer Alexandra Milchan will be serving as executive producers on the new show Calabasas, which just recently got picked up by Netflix.

Keep reading to find out more…Calabasas is based on the book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now by Via Bleidner. Marlene will be writing the adaption and serving as show runner.

The show will follow “Via, a 16-year-old sheltered Midwestern Catholic school girl whose world is turned upside down when her family moves and she’s forced to transfer to the fast world of Calabasas High where nothing is as it appears and where everyone is trying to be someone else. It’s a place where dreams come true … but not without complications and sometimes unforeseen consequences,...

Exclusive: Kim Kardashian’s foray into film and TV continues with another high-profile sale, this one hitting close to home for the reality star and entrepreneur. After a competitive bidding that went through the week, sources tell Deadline that Netflix has landed for development Calabasas, a TV series which Kardashian is executive producing with her American Horror Story co-star Emma Roberts, Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King and Alexandra Milchan (Tár). Insiders say there were two other offers from major buyers with Netflix putting in the winning bid by week’s end.

Calabasas is based on the book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now by Via Bleidner, with King set to write the adaptation and serve as showrunner.

In the vein of The O.C. and Beverly Hills 90210, Calabasas follows Via, a 16-year-old sheltered Midwestern Catholic school girl whose world is turned upside down...

The Absence of Eden strikes at the heart of the immigration debate roiling the country during a divisive election year. Zoë Saldaña stars as Esmeralda "Esme" Rojas, a Mexican woman forced to flee after killing a cartel member who tries to assault her. Garrett Hedlund co-stars as Shipp, an Ice (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent, in love with a possibly undocumented woman (Adria Arjona), and partnered with a vicious xenophobe (Chris Coy) who uses violence as a first response. The film is also written and produced by Saldaña's husband, Marco Perego, in his feature directorial debut.

Our conversation with Hedlund begins with his thoughts on a news story that made headlines shortly before the interview. A group of undocumented people rushed through razor wire at the border and toppled guards trying to stop them. Hedlund comments, "This film has characters that have chosen an occupation, Shipp in particular, with some...

Immigration has often been a topic that sparks strong emotions around the globe, and it is an especially hot topic this election season, particularly when you have a U.S. presidential candidate characterizing undocumented immigrants not as “human” but rather as “animals” and using phrases such as “they are poisoning the blood of our country” at campaign rallies. Now seems to be a perfect time for a powerful new film, The Absence of Eden, to perhaps help lower the temperature and show the human side of those trying to cross the border into a new and hopefully better life.

None other than Martin Scorsese has lent his name to this film by signing on as an executive producer, and it represents the first feature for artist and producer Marco Perego who also happens to be the husband of the film’s star Zoe Saldaña. Perego says it was all inspired...

Fine performances and powerful visuals only partially compensate for the inevitable air of familiarity that accompanies Marco Perego’s debut feature. Although the filmmaker provides his real-life spouse Zoe Saldaña with one of her best roles in a long while — it’s nice to see her get a respite from the numerous sci-fi and fantasy blockbuster franchises (Star Trek, Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy) to which she’s attached, not to mention free of alien make-up — The Absence of Eden spins a by-now sadly familiar story of the human suffering engendered by the border crisis.

Saldaña plays Esmee, a Mexican private dancer who is forced to flee her country after she shoots and kills a client who attempts to assault her while she’s performing a lap dance. After discovering that he was a member of a cartel, she says a tearful goodbye to her abuela and enlists the services...

Exclusive: Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired U.S. to the Zoe Saldaña thriller The Absence of Eden from first-time feature filmmaker Marco Perego. An April 12 theatrical release has been set.

Pic follows an undocumented immigrant who finds herself working with a morally conflicted Ice agent to try to save the life of an innocent young girl. Garrett Hedlund and Adria Arjona co-star. Perego and Rick Rapoza wrote the script.

The Absence of Eden takes place at the border between the United States and Mexico – a hellish landscape inhabited by coyotes, armed officers, desperate immigrants, and refugees. When Esmee (Saldana), a young woman working as a private dancer in Mexico, is forced to commit a violent act of self-defense that results in the death of a cartel member, she flees her homeland for sanctuary in the United States. Guided by a ruthless...

It’s been five years since the last installment of The Terror, but season 3 is finally on the way.

AMC has ordered The Terror: Devil in Silver, a six-part series based on the novel written by Victor Lavalle. The story follows Pepper, “a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets and perhaps even the very devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity that thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls. But doing so might prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.“

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AMC has ordered Season 3 of the supernatural anthology series “The Terror.”

The third installment of the series will be based on the novel “The Devil in Silver” by Victor Lavalle. AMC has ordered six episodes, with the series slated to debut on AMC and AMC+ in 2025.

Chris Cantwell, who previously worked on the AMC shows “Halt & Catch Fire” and “Lodge 49,” will write and executive produce the season alongside Lavalle. Karyn Kusama is attached to direct the first two episodes and executive produce the series. Additional executive producers are David Zucker of Scott Free, Alexandra Milchan of Emjag, Guymon Casady of Management 360, and Scott Lambert of Anjulia Productions. AMC Studios will produce.

“’The Terror’ anthology series has already delivered to fans two unforgettable seasons of storytelling that blend real-world events and characters with a terrifying and mysterious supernatural element,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks.

The Terror, one of AMC’s hit franchises, is returning to the network more than five years after its last season.

The network has ordered The Terror: Devil in Silver as the third installment in the anthology series. It comes after Season 2 – The Terror: Infamy – premiered in 2019.

The six-part series premiering in 2025 is based on The Devil in Silver, a novel written by Victor Lavalle. He is writing the new iteration alongside Chris Cantwell, who who was showrunner on AMC’s 2014-17 drama Halt and Catch Fire.

Back in 2020, then AMC boss Sarah Barnett told Deadline that it was interested in a third run and was eyeing topics for development.

The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget.

Following a nearly five-year absence, AMC is revisiting anthology The Terror for a third cycle.

The basic-cable network on Tuesday, ahead of its time at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, announced that the horror franchise will return for a third season and will be subtitled Devil in Silver, with the new cycle based on the book of the same name by Victor Lavalle.

The author will team with Chris Cantwell (AMC’s own Halt and Catch Fire) to write the six-episode season, which is expected to air on the cabler in 2025.

AMC says Devil in Silver “tells the story of Pepper — a working-class moving man, who through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital — an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets,...

Exclusive: Netflix is lining up its next cult documentary.

The streamer has ordered Escaping Twin Flames, a three-part series about the Twin Flames dating platform. The service promised to find people’s true love, or Twin Flame, but what sounded like love might have been more of a dangerous obsession rooted in a cultish mindset.

The series, which launches November 8, comes from Cecilia Peck, who directed Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, and Good Caper Content, the ITV America production company behind TLC’s Taken At Birth.

It will explore the story of Jeff and Shaleia Divine, the leaders of Twin Flames Universe, who sell online classes that guarantee harmonious union with your destined partner and will pull back the veil of the universe, a controversial online community that preys on people looking for love.

Related: ‘Seduced: Inside The Nxivm Cult’: Starz Reveals Trailer For Four-Part Docuseries

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The Newport Beach Film Festival, which will run from Oct. 12-19 this year, has announced their opening and closing night films.

Marco Perego’s “The Absence of Eden,” which stars Zoë Saldaña, will open the festival on Oct. 12 at the Edwards Big Newport. Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” starring Paul Giamatti, will close the festival on Oct. 19. The 24th festival will take place in person and feature 91 films from around the world.

Filmmakers will be present for a moderated interview before “The Absence of Eden” screens. The film follows an Ice agent (Garrett Hedlund) grappling with the moral conflict of border security and an undocumented woman (Saldaña) fighting to get away from a merciless cartel; the paths of these two individuals intersect as they join together to save an innocent girl’s life.

Payne’s newest comedy “The Holdovers” follows a grouchy teacher (Giamatti) at a New England prep school...

Italian artist Marco Perego’s debut feature The Absence of Eden has set a picturesque world premiere at the upcoming edition of Italy’s 69th Taormina Film Festival, running from June 23 to July 1.

The festival will unveil the film in a screening at its landmark Ancient Greek amphitheatre with co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Garrett Hedlund and Adria Arjona in attendance.

Hedlund plays an Ice Agent struggling with the moral dilemmas of his job who unites with an undocumented woman fighting to escape a ruthless cartel, played by Guardians of the Galaxy star and Perego’s wife Saldaña, to save the life of an innocent girl.

Perego, who co-wrote the original screenplay with Rick Rapoza, previously produced the short film Me + Her and also directed the short film Burn To Shine, alongside his career as an artist.

“I am so excited to be screening The Absence of Eden in the Teatro Antico,...

While Emmy Rossum is a bit too young to be Tom Holland's mother in real life, she has been cast in that role in the Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room. Set to start streaming on June 9, the series stars Holland as Danny Sullivan, a real-life criminal whose story was chronicled in the book The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes. While that served as an inspiration for Akiva Goldsman to look at Sullivan's story for The Crowded Room, the series differs in many ways and is not an adaptation of the novel.

Also featured in the series is Rossum as Danny's mother Candy. In real life, Rossum is 36, while Holland just turned 27 days ago. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Rossum commented on the how she's only a decade older than Holland in real life. She explained how that had no bearing on her casting,...

Tom Holland put his all into The Crowded Room

The Spider-Man actor recently opened up about balancing — or not balancing — his duties as an executive producer and star in the first installment of the AppleTV+ anthology series.

“This show absolutely broke me in every way possible,” Holland tells The Hollywood Reporter at The Crowded Room premiere in New York City Thursday. “I just kept my head down. I dug my heels in, and I just tried my best.”

His fellow EP, Alexandra Milchan, says Holland earned his title as producer. He was involved in the scenes, dialogues, sets and production issues, all while starring in the 10-episode series in which he’s in almost every scene.

“Tom is always prepared,” Milchan tells THR. “Tom cares, and Tom gives it all. … So, I really give it to him. He went and opened up his heart and soul. I feel like in...

Exclusive: Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and Finn Wittrock (Luckiest Girl Alive) have closed deals to star in Free Radicals, an English-language home invasion thriller based on the same-name short story originally published in The New Yorker by Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro.

With psychological twists and a Hitchockian flair, Free Radicals revolves around the harrowing encounter between an ailing woman (Huppert) and a young killer on the run (Wittrock). Xia Magnus (Sanzaru) is set to direct from his script written with Alyssa Polk. Pic’s producers are Academy Award nominee Alexandra Milchan (Tár) and Theo Vieljeux (Monica).

Charades will handle international sales for the film, following its success with a number of other titles from emerging filmmakers, including Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow starring Haley Bennett; Zachary Wigon’s Sanctuary with Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley, which Neon will release in the U.S on May 19; Charlotte Regan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize...

Tom Holland (Spider-Man: No Way Home) doesn’t look dangerous in the first trailer for Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room, but is his youthful, innocent-looking face just a disguise? That appears to be what Amanda Seyfried’s attempting to figure out in the intense first look at the 10-episode series.

Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane, Will Chase, and Lior Raz also star. Jason Isaacs, Christopher Abbott, Thomas Sadoski, and Zachary Golinger guest star.

Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman created the series and executive produces along with Holland, Emjag Productions’ Alexandra Milchan, and New Regency’s Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, and Michael Schaefer. Kornel Mundruczo directed the pilot (and additional episodes) and also serves as an executive producer.

The series will premiere on Apple TV+ on Friday, June 9, 2023 with the release of the first three episodes. New episodes will follow on Fridays.

The Plot: “The Crowded Room follows ‘Danny Sullivan’ (Holland), a...

Apple TV+ has dropped a first trailer for The Crowded Room, a paranoid mystery thriller that has Tom Holland struggling with reality and a mysterious past as he undergoes a series of interviews with a curious interrogator played by Amanda Seyfried.

“I have these blank spots,” Danny Sullivan, played by Holland, tells his police investigator in the upcoming limited series created by Akiva Goldsman that is set to bow on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on June 9.

Danny has been arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979, and Rya Goodwin (Seyfried) attempts to reveal the young suspect’s mysterious past to solve the murder mystery before the true criminal strikes again.

“Danny, you don’t really seem like a dangerous person,” Goodwin, a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career, tells the accused killer at one point, which unleashes...

Apple Originals takes you on a roller coaster ride in the trailer for the new drama, The Crowded Room. The Crowded Room features Tom Holland as the lead in this limited series which will be streaming exclusively on AppleTV+. Holland is additionally on board as a producer of the show. The series is created by the Academy-Award-winning writer of A Beautiful Mind, Akiva Goldsman. The tense drama is set to have a ten-episode run, with its premiere on June 9 and will have one new episode streaming every Friday through July 28.

The official synopsis for The Crowded Room from Apple reads,

The Crowded Room follows ‘Danny Sullivan’ (Holland), a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979. A captivating thriller told through a series of interviews with curious interrogator ‘Rya Goodwin’ (Amanda Seyfried), Danny’s life story unfolds, revealing elements of the mysterious past that shaped him,...

Tom Holland takes on a very different role than before in The Crowded Room.

Apple TV+ today unveiled the trailer for the gripping, upcoming limited series starring and executive produced by Holland and created by Academy Award-winning writer and executive producer Akiva Goldsman.

The new drama series will make its global debut on Apple TV+, with the first three episodes on Friday, June 9, 2023, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday through July 28, 2023.

The Crowded Room follows Danny Sullivan (Holland), a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979.

"A captivating thriller told through a series of interviews with curious interrogator 'Rya Goodwin' (Amanda Seyfried), Danny's life story unfolds, revealing elements of the mysterious past that shaped him, and the twists and turns that will lead him to a life-altering revelation," the logline teases. 

Featuring an ensemble cast led by Holland, the series also stars Amanda Seyfried,...

In “The Crowded Room,” a lonely drifter named Danny Sullivan (Tom Holland) is arrested for his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979. Through interviews with interrogator Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried), viewers learn Sullivan’s life story. His mysterious past comes into play, and some twists and turns lead him to a life-changing revelation. The psychological thriller is set in Manhattan as Goodwin is tasked with solving the mystery behind Sullivan’s behavior.

What follows is tense mind games, and a gritty look at America at the end of the 1970s. You can see how some of that plays out in the chilling trailer for the series, which you can watch at the top of the page now.

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“The Crowded Room” launches June 9 on Apple TV+ with its first three episodes.

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Apple TV+ has released first-look images of its upcoming limited series “The Crowded Room,” which stars Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum.

The 10-episode thriller series will premiere with its first three episodes on June 9. The remaining seven episodes will then air one episode per week, concluding on Friday, July 28.

“The Crowded Room,” according to its official plot description, follows “Danny Sullivan (Holland) after he was arrested for his involvement in a New York City shooting in 1979. Danny unveils his life through a series of interviews with interrogator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), and slowly details to Rya, and the audience, his mysterious past that led him to the fateful incident. As Danny retrospectively examines his life, he reckons with his past and a few pivotal moments, that ultimately leads him to uncover a life-altering revelation.”

The series also stars Sasha Lane (“Conversations With Friends”), Will Chase (“Dopesick”), Lior Raz (“Fauda”), Laila Robins,...

Tom Holland in ‘The Crowded Room’ (Photo Credit: Apple TV+)

Apple TV+ released the first official photos from the upcoming limited series The Crowded Room. The four photos feature Tom Holland (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Emmy Award winner Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout), Critics Choice nominee Emmy Rossum (Shameless), and Zachary Golinger (A Quiet Place Part II).

The cast also includes Sasha Lane, Will Chase, and Lior Raz. Jason Isaacs, Christopher Abbott, and Thomas Sadoski guest star.

The 10-episode drama will premiere on June 9, 2023 with the release of the first three episodes. Additional episodes will arrive on subsequent Fridays leading up to the July 28 finale.

The series was created by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind). Goldsman serves as an executive producer along with series star Tom Holland, Alexandra Milchan, Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, and Michael Schaefer. Executive producer Kornel Mundruczo directed the pilot and several other episodes.

The Crowded Room...

Tom Holland’s first go around with Apple didn’t go so great, but two years after “Cherry,” the Spider-Man star is hoping to make a triumphant return to the streamer. “The Crowded Room,” a drama series starring Holland in his first lead television role, will premiere on Apple TV+ on June 9.

Created by “A Beautiful Mind” Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman, “The Crowded Room” is inspired by — but is not a direct adaptation of —Daniel Keyes’ 1981 nonfiction book “The Minds of Billy Milligan.” Milligan, who died in 2014, was arrested for three rapes on the campus of Ohio State University in 1975, but was let off after being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, becoming the first person to be acquitted for it.

The show differs from its source material by following the fictional Danny Sullivan (played by Holland), who is arrested in 1979 for his involvement in a New York City shooting. As Rya Goodwin interviews Danny,...

Apple has unveiled the first images from the upcoming limited series “The Crowded Room,” starring and executive produced by Tom Holland.

The show, created by Oscar-winning executive producer Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind”), also stars Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum. The first three episodes out of 10 premiere Friday, June 9, 2023, with the rest rolling out weekly until July 28.

“The Crowded Room” follows Danny Sullivan (Holland), a man arrested for his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979. Through interviews with interrogator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), viewers learn Sullivan’s life story. His mysterious past comes into play, and some twists and turns lead him to a life-changing revelation. The psychological thriller is set in Manhattan, and Goodwin is tasked with solving the mystery behind Sullivan’s behavior.

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Apple TV+ has set Friday, June 9 for the premiere of The Crowded Room, its upcoming limited series created by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind). Tom Holland, who also executive produces, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum lead the ensemble cast. The first three episodes of the 10-episode series will drop on June 9, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday through July 28. The streamer also released the first images of the upcoming series (see above and below).

The Crowded Room follows Danny Sullivan (Holland), a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979. A captivating thriller told through a series of interviews with curious interrogator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), Danny’s life story unfolds, revealing elements of the mysterious past that shaped him, and the twists and turns that will lead him to a life-altering revelation.

In addition to Holland, Seyfried and Rossum,...

Everything Everywhere All at Once was named best picture at the 95th annual Academy Awards, which were handed out Sunday night.

Everything Everywhere also collected three acting awards, best leading actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan and best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis. The film also won the best original screenplay Oscar and the best director trophy for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — aka Daniels — as well as best film editing for Paul Rogers. Heading into the show, Everything Everywhere led the nominees for the 2023 Oscars, with a total of 11, winning seven.

Elsewhere, Brendan Fraser was named best actor in a leading role for The Whale. German film All Quiet on the Western Front also scooped up four awards, including Oscars for best original score, production design, cinematography and international feature. Avatar: The Way of Water won best visual effects, while Top Gun: Maverick won the sound Oscar.

Oscars 2023In a big moment for India, Naatu Naatu from Rrr won the award for best original song, and The Elephant Whisperers directed by Kartiki Gonsalves won the best documentary short award.Twitter/RRRMovieThe 95th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Television host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the third time. Naatu Naatu from Rrr won the award for best original song. The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and co-produced by Guneet Monga, won the best documentary short award. Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, a film about two brothers in Delhi who care for injured black kites, was nominated for best documentary feature but lost to Navalny. Here’s the full list of Oscar nominees and winners: Best Picture Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, producers - Winner All Quiet on the Western Front...

The 95th Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday night, March 12, during a ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel that aired live on ABC at 8:00pm Eastern/5:00pm Pacific. So who were the big winners? Scroll down for the complete list of champs in all 23 categories, updated throughout the night.

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