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In the first teaser trailer for Season 8 of “9-1-1,” 22 million killer bees descend upon Los Angeles, which will keep the crew of the 118 more than busy. The teaser contains the kind of world-of-nature statistic Buck (Oliver Stark) would love: “The average human cannot survive 500 bee stings.” Eep!

While we don’t have a lot more details about how this ’70s-movie-style disaster will play out, we know these brave firefighters and paramedics are up for it. After all, they’ve already dealt with rampaging alpacas, stalker crows and that one time a guy was attacked by a shark… in the middle of a freeway.

As you’ll recall, the opening episodes of Season 7 paid homage to “The Poseidon Adventure” by upending Bobby (Peter Krause) and Athena (Angela Bassett)’s honeymoon cruise with a tidal wave as well as terrorists.

Watch the teaser trailer in the video below:

Season 7 ended with Bobby...

My Chemical Romance kicked off their tour last night at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, where the rock band offered the live debut of their new single, “The Foundations of Decay.” The group also performed “Surrender The Night” and “Boy Division,” from their 2013 B-side compilation Conventional Weapons, for the first time live.

Elsewhere in the set, My Chemical Romance showcased fan favorites like “This Is How I Disappear,” “The Kids Of Yesterday,” “Helena,” and “I’m Not Okay (I Promise).”

“The Foundations of Decay,” a sprawling, six-minute epic that...

Prepare to be amazed by the stunning animated visuals in the “Love, Death + Robots” Volume 3 trailer, which dropped Monday from Netflix.

Volume 3 of the series, from executive producers Tim Miller and David Fincher, will span nine episodes. Some uncover ancient evil, while others explore a comedic apocalypse. The show will tell fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories across its third run.

In his first work directing animation, Fincher helms the “Bad Travelling” episode. Here’s its synopsis: “A jable shark-hunting sailing vessel is attacked by a giant crustacean whose size and intelligence is matched only by its appetite. Mutiny, betrayal and ventriloquism with a corpse… welcome aboard the animation directing debut of David Fincher.”

Other episodes include “Three Robots: Exit Strategies,” from director Patrick Osborne; “The Very Pulse of the Machine,” from director Emily Dean; “Night of the Mini Dead,” from directors Robert Bisi and Andy Lyon; “Kill Team Kill,...

Fast-rising film production and investment company Logical Pictures has acquired The Jokers Films, a well-respected French distribution company boasting long-term bonds with Bong Joon-ho and Nicolas Winding Refn, among other filmmakers.

Under the deal, The Jokers Films, which is presided over by Manuel Chiche, will be integrated within Logical Pictures. Chiche, a forward-thinking French industry veteran who’s been one of the country’s top distributors for Asian and independent American films, will also become a partner in Logical Pictures while continuing to lead The Jokers Films.

Headed by Frédéric Fiore, Logical Pictures was founded in 2016 as a financial and co-production banner and has now expanded into different entertainment fields through key investments in banners such as Pulsar Content, Marie Garrett and Gilles Sousa’s sales company whose recent titles include Elie Grappe’s “Olga” and Stephen Fingleton’s “Nightride;” Loveboat, an advertising and branded content outfit; Black Mic Mac,...

As the U.S. streamers become a bigger part of the European industry landscape, production companies are starting to intensify collaborations across EU borders to make high-end shows, which is vital to keeping the ecosystem healthy.

That was the main takeaway of a Series Mania panel on collaborating across borders that also looked at the ongoing battle between European TV producers and the streaming giants over terms of trade that is prompting more co-productions as an alternative model.

Jens Richter, Fremantle’s international CEO, pointed out that the streamers coming to Europe is “a threat on the one hand” –– because they tend to impose a Hollywood studio model where they get perpetual rights in return for full-financing plus a fee, leaving no IP with the producer –– “and also it’s a huge opportunity.”

On the positive side Richter cited how streamers are allowing European dramas to make major inroads into the U.

“Game of Thrones” producer Frank Doelger, after executive producing “The Swarm” through his Berlin-based Intaglio Films, now has two new high-end shows for the international pipeline in the pipeline: “Concordia” and “Doing Good.”

During a panel at the Series Mania TV festival Doelger described “Concordia” as “a series about a 21st century community which uses cutting AI technology to see if it can create a fairer, safer, society.”

Twenty years after this community has been a huge success, “countries around the world are approaching the founders of this social engineering experiment to found similar communities in their countries,” he added.

And, “as they research the twenty-year history of this community, they discover that this instance of utopia has provided safe homes for immigrants and thousands of refugees seeking a better life. But they also discover the dark secret that led to its founding.”

Doelger — whose Intaglio is a joint venture...

Frank Doelger, who was an executive producer on Game Of Thrones between 2011 and 2019, provided an update on his new company in Germany during a Series Mania panel today.

Doelger is now creative director at Intaglio Films, a joint venture between local outfits Beta Film and Zdf Enterprises that was formed in 2019.

Discussing relocating from the U.S. industry to Germany to work on the new company, the executive said he “didn’t want to repeat himself” and was looking for “a new challenge”.

“Game Of Thrones succeeded because of luck, timing and the talent involved, but it’s virtually impossible to create a show like that,” he suggested. “I decided I didn’t want to create another Game Of Thrones, despite many people thinking it was possible.”

Instead, Doelger aimed to take his experience working on large-scale shows to the German market, but with a focus on producing English-language projects.

This is the first physical edition of the Inter:Active Symposium.

Nine immersive projects exploring the subject of ‘Transformations’ have been selected for this year’s Cph:lab Inter:Active Symposium, which will run as part of the Cph: Dox film festival (March 23-April 3).

This year’s symposium will take place in-person after the first two editions ran online in 2020 and 2021.

Three of the nine projects selected were part-produced in the UK: Oceanic Feeling, The Pathogen Of War and The Sacred Cave Of Kamukuwaka.

Scroll down for the full list of projects

Oceanic Feeling is a 360-degree VR documentary and installation that takes...

Ahead of the much-anticipated Dec. 22 arrival of The Matrix Resurrections, as well as the release of the sequel’s soundtrack next week, Rolling Stone is premiering “Neo and Trinity Theme” from the film’s score.

The “Exomorph Remix” of the theme was made by Johnny Kilmek and Tom Tykwer, the co-composers of The Matrix Resurrections score; the Oscar-nominated duo of electronica musician Klimek and Run Lola Run director/composer Tykwer have worked together for over 20 years, dating back to the latter’s 1997 film Winter Sleepers.

The multi-suite “Neo and Trinity...

The massive, deranged, ‘packed to the gills with plot and lore and side plots’ arc that has made up this season is finally at an end. It is fair to say this has been the most epic Doctor Who story since ‘The Stolen Earth’. It also has the plot of about 18 Doctor Who episodes crammed into six, so now that we’re looking back on it, you could be forgiven for having a few unanswered questions. So here’s our best stab at untangling the Flux (if a Flux is something that can be tangled?)

First, let’s go back to the start and figure out what everyone was actually trying to do.

What was Joseph Williamson’s Plan?

Joseph Williamson was a real person, and much like his Doctor Who counterpart, he spent a large part of his life digging a massive and elaborate network of tunnels beneath Liverpool,...

Doctor Who Series 13 Episode 3 Review

Warning: this Doctor Who: Flux review contains spoilers.

Well, I wasn’t expecting that.

I’d initially intended to start this review comparing ‘Once, Upon Time’to the deliberately ambiguous ‘Listen’, the Peter Capaldi serial that left whether the ‘monster’ even existed up to the audience. Then I thought, no, it’s actually more like ‘Can You Hear Me?’, co-written by Chris Chibnall and featuring the same kind of nightmare-slash-memory scenarios for the companions, underscored by a pair of creepy immortal villains.

After more consideration, though, those comparisons are mostly surface-level. For one thing, although a Weeping Angel gets tossed into the mix and their very nature tends to invoke a lot of jump scares, this episode isn’t particularly frightening. It is incredibly dreamlike, though. That combination of randomly flitting between different places and times of day without being fully aware that you’re doing so,...

French horror movies aren’t your average horror movies. They tend to be paced a little slower, they’re thematically a little darker, and they almost always stick with you long after the credits roll. That all looks like the case with the new Netflix horror flick, The Swarm (original title: La Nuée). The Swarm Trailer Single mother Virginie (Suliane […]

The post ‘The Swarm’ Trailer: It’s Invasion of the Killer Locusts in Netflix’s New Horror Movie appeared first on /Film.

The Swarm, the big-budget series based on the Frank Schätzing bestseller, has signed up a global cast of stars and up-and-comers for the 8-part environmental thriller.

European actors, including Cécile de France (The New Pope), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Sex Education), Jack Greenlees (Star Wars – The Last Jedi), Lydia Wilson (Flack), Krista Kosonen (Blade Runner 2049), Alexander Karim (Dying of the Light), Leonie Benesch (Babylon Berlin), and German star Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt) will join the likes of Japan’s Takuya Kimura (I Came With the Rain) and Takehiro Hiera (Giri/Haji), Americans Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (Game of Thrones) and Dutch Johnson (Veep),...

Hello, dear readers! We’re back with more new home media releases this week, which includes one of this writer’s favorite films of 2021 - Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong, which is not only headed to various formats (Blu-ray/DVD/4K Utra HD and even 3D Blu-ray), but is also being included in a Kong and Godzilla triple feature as well.

Other releases headed to Blu-ray and DVD on June 15th include Anything for Jackson, Jackie Kong’s The Being, The Awakening featuring Charlton Heston, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Deep Ones, Last Action Hero 4K, and Gattaca 4K.

Anything for Jackson

After losing their only grandson in a car accident, grief stricken Audrey and Henry, a doctor, kidnap his pregnant patient with the intentions of performing a "Reverse Exorcism," by putting Jackson inside her unborn child.

The Awakening

Two-time Academy Award winner Charlton Heston stars as an archaeologist driven...

The new company will focus on French genre feature films and series.

France’s Wild Bunch International (Wbi) and Capricci are joining forces to create a new production company called Wild West which will be focused on French genre feature films and series.

Its remit will encompass genre “in its broadest sense” and span horror, fantasy, sci-fi, crime, thriller and superhero films.

The joint venture will officially kick off its activities with a special event in the French city of Bordeaux next week (June 9 and 10) at which it will present its first slate of films. Alongside this physical event, there...

European sales powerhouse Wild Bunch International and French production firm Capricci are joining forces to launch genre label Wild West, we can reveal.

The production label will be dedicated to genre movies and series, including horror, fantasy, sci-fi, crime, thriller, and superhero projects.

The two companies are looking to develop around 12 projects (features and series) every year via Capricci’s So Film Genre Screenwriting Residence, with those projects then taken to market for financing, potential remakes and/or series adaptation.

Wild Bunch will rep international sales on a number of the projects. CAA Media Finance, which has long represented the U.S. rights to Wild Bunch International films, will handle domestic rights.

The first slate will be revealed in Bordeaux between June 9-11 during So Film’s growing industry workshop, which is expected to be attended by a string of leading French studios and financiers. Projects are expected to largely...

Project development platform to take place virtually, ahead of physical FIDMarseille

French festival FIDMarseille has revealed the projects set to be presented at project development event FIDLab, including upcoming features from the UK’s Ben Rivers and last year’s grand prix winner Carolina Moscoso.

The 13th edition of the incubator event, known for its focus on experimental films spanning both documentary and fiction, will take place online – as it did for the first time last year – from June 14-18. The main FIDMarseille festival is planned to go ahead in-person from July 19-25.

FIDLab will include 16 projects, selected from 502 submissions,...

The film centre will support this fantastical teen movie alongside debut feature films coming courtesy of Zeno Graton, Virginie Sauveur and the directorial duo Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue. Four first feature film projects have been singled out in the first 2021 session of the Cnc’s first advance on receipts committee. Stealing focus among them is Simon Rieth’s Nos cérémonies which joins a growing trend among young French filmmakers who are increasingly favouring the fantastic genre. Having previously turned heads with his short films, Simon Rieth will now be filming his first feature-length movie as of the beginning of May, for a duration of six weeks, in Royan and Vendée, with a cast composed of non-professional actors aged between 18 and 21. Written by the director in league...

This article contains WandaVision spoilers.

After two months and nine episodes, WandaVision came to a close. One of the more unique projects to come out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the show mixed mystery and horror with sitcom pastiche and understandings of grief under the superhero umbrella. The first step in both Phase 4 and Disney+’s Marvel lineup came out a success and built towards future projects.

Then again, its mysterious nature worked against it at times. Figuring out answers on a weekly basis meant trying to stay one step ahead of the show and sometimes it got viewers going in the wrong direction. There was no Mephisto or X-Men or Fantastic Four. On one hand, you can say that people are getting angry about stuff that they were never promised, but there is a feeling that when combing over the details of the show, they did cause us to...

The jury ruled in favour of the film by Brandon Cronenberg, as well as awarding trophies to Sleep and Teddy, while the audience and critics honoured The Swarm by Just Philippot. Organised online, the 28th Gérardmer International Fantasy Film Festival has crowned as its winner the British co-production Possessor (unveiled in last year’s Sundance) by Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg. Presided over by Bertrand Bonello, the jury awarded the film its Grand Prize, as well as the trophy for Best Original Score (for Jim Williams). Two additional prizes were won by Sleep by Germany’s Michael Venus and Teddy by French directors Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma. Significantly, French director Just...

This article contains WandaVision episode 2 spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review here.

There’s a disturbing moment in Marvel’s WandaVision episode 2 that breaks up the otherwise note-perfect rhythm of sitcom life. Wanda, out on the street in front of her house in the evening, spots a manhole cover being pushed aside…and a man in a beekeeper suit climbs out. He doesn’t seem too pleased that she spots him, either.

It’s a moment that we first saw in one of the recent trailers, but it didn’t make it any less unsettling when it happened onscreen in this episode. So who is WandaVision‘s mysterious Beekeeper and what could he mean for the future of our suburban MCU pals? We have a few theories…

A.I.M.

We’ve known since the trailers that a brand new secret organization would be joining the MCU, which is why...

By Lee Pfeiffeer

Throughout motion picture history, there have always been "disaster" movies. From Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy facing the great earthquake in "San Francisco" to John Wayne trying to rescue an airliner in distress in "The High and the Mighty". However, the disaster movie didn't emerge as a genre until the 1970s. Most people credit "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) with being the first major entry among these kinds of films during that era, but arguably the genre began two years earlier with "Airport". That blockbuster flick set the standard for all of the disaster movies to follow:

An all-star cast ranging from top boxoffice attractions to respected veteran stars and popular character actors Big production values State-of-the-art special effects Majestic musical score  A well-regarded director at the helm to preside over the mayhem

For the most part the formula worked fairly well. "Poseidon" was a major boxoffice smash and...

EntertainmentNetflix has announced that they will be releasing new, unseen films every week in 2021.Tnm StaffPIXABAYOn Tuesday, Netflix announced that it will release a whopping 71 movies through the course of the year. The lineup has movies starring A-list actors like Leonardo Dicapirio, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson and more. Netflix has promised its users new films released every week. Among them is Red Notice starring Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds; Don’t Look Up, a political satire disaster film featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence; and the zombie apocalypse film Army of the Dead. After his hit movie Extraction, Chris Hemsworth’s upcoming sci-fi thriller Escape From Spiderhead is also a part of the line-up. The teen romance novel adaptationsTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Kissing Booth will have their third instalments releasing this year as well, with To All the Boys: Always and Forever,...

To say that Netflix's 2021 movie release slate is stacked might be the understatement of the year. The streaming service has long been king of the hill, boasting nearly 200 million subscribers worldwide. And they are not messing around when it comes to giving those subscribers what they want; premium content. Case in point, the company has revealed its entire slate for the year, which includes at least one new movie per week, every single week.

Netflix recently released a trailer previewing its 2021 movies, which along is a dizzying amount of footage, stars and filmmakers. The company also went into greater detail in a press release, listing all 70 of its original movies coming down the pipeline before year's end. This includes, but is not remotely limited to, Adam McKay's Don't Look Up starring Leonardo DiCaprio (and a massive ensemble), Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead, the third entries in The Kissing Booth...

Roster includes Alexandre Aja horror O2; Lin-Manuel Miranda musical tick, tick… Boom!

International filmmakers feature prominently on a Netflix 2021 slate that will bring one new film a week, with new work from Australia’s Jane Campion, Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino and the UK’s Aardman Animations set to be launched globally on the platform this year.

The slate of 70 features – 10 of which are not in English – is a statement of intent from Netflix head of original films Scott Stuber, who has been in the job for three years and is shaping a pipeline with a higher level of quality, name talent,...

Netflix has made good on its high-profile promise to deliver new movies every week.

Teased last October in national commercial spots, the streaming monolith is guaranteeing its roughly 193 million subscribers unseen features every week in 2021. Largely consisting of original productions as well as some splashy acquisitions, the slate has 71 titles across genres — from musicals to action, romantic comedies to family animation.

Dwayne Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Halle Berry, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among those featured in sizzle reel released Tuesday (watch below) showcasing their respective projects, which will roll out over the next 12 months.

Highlights include the mega-budgeted heist film “Red Notice,” starring Gal Gadot, Johnson, and Reynolds; the Western “The Harder They Fall” with Regina King, Idris Elba and “Lovecraft County” breakout Jonathan Majors; Adams’ “The Woman in The Window”; Zach Snyder’s “Army of the Dead”; Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!

Maël Rouin-Berrandou, Judith Chemla, Dali Benssalah and Sofian Khammes star in the director’s feature debut, produced by Single Man Productions. Shot between 3 August and 28 September, Mes frères, et moi, the feature debut from Yohan Manca is now at the editing stage. The film’s cast includes the young Maël Rouin-Berrandou (currently in French cinemas in The ABCs of love), Judith Chemla, Dali Benssalah, Sofian Khammes (revealed in Chouf, in French cinemas on 4 November in The Swarm, on 23 December in The Big Hit and next year...

Brandon Cronenberg has proven to be an heir to his father, David, with his grisly sophomore feature, “Possessor Uncut,” which took home best film and director at Spain’s 53rd Sitges Film Festival on Saturday.

Running Oct.8-18, the fantastic film fest, Europe’s biggest, wrapped yesterday in Sitges, a picturesque seaside resort just south of Barcelona.

With these new honors, Brandon Cronenberg also suggests that his best new director award at 2012’s Sitges for debut feature, “Antiviral,” was no fluke.

A sci fi-horror hybrid, “Possessor Uncut” tracks an elite corporate assassin who uses brain-implant technology to take possession of other people’s bodies and slay prominent targets. The film first premiered at Sundance where Variety’s Peter Debruge described it as a “brilliant sci-fi puzzle” that was “more than just another bracingly extreme psychological thriller.”

Just Philippot’s “The Swarm” also snagged two awards: the Special Jury Prize and...

The US platform has just acquired The Swarm by Just Philippot, following its purchase of Maïwenn’s DNA and Olivier Marchal’s Bronx. While negotiations, lobbying and a raft of influencing strategies rage on behind the scenes in anticipation of the introduction of obligations on SVOD platforms to fund and exhibit French and European productions - which will come into force on 1 January 2021 with the upcoming transposition into law of the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Avmsd), an event which will no doubt entail a revision of media chronology windows - Netflix (which boasts 6.7 subscribers in France) is displaying a heightened interest in French films. Indeed, the platform has just acquired (from Wild Bunch) worldwide rights for Just Philippot’s The Swarm, a debut feature film awarded the Critics’ Week label by the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Produced by Capricci...

Netflix has acquired world rights to French director Just Philippot’s Cannes Critics’ Week 2020 Label horror thriller “The Swarm.”

Written by Jérôme Genevray (“Vieux con”) and Franck Victor (“Philosophie”), the film is set in rural France. It stars French actress Suliane Brahim (“The Specials”) as a single mother who is struggling to get her grasshopper farm off the ground until she discovers her livestock thrive on human blood. She develops a connection with her demanding swarm, which distances her from her two children and puts her at odds with local farmers.

Netflix’s deal for the film was overseen by Wild Bunch Intl., and includes all territories excluding France, Spain and China.

“The Swarm” will stream on Netflix from Dec. 4. Producers Capricci Films and The Jokers Films will release it theatrically in France Nov. 4, while Capricci’s Spanish arm will launch it in Spain on Nov. 20.

“The Swarm” was among...

Netflix has taken world rights to The Swarm, French director Just Philippot’s Cannes Critics’ Week 2020 label horror thriller about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers.

The deal, struck with Wild Bunch International, includes all territories excluding France, Spain and China. Pic will launch on Netflix on December 4. The film’s producers Capricci Films and The Jokers Films will release the title theatrically in France on November 4, while Capricci’s Spanish arm will launch it in Spain on November 20.

Film stars French actress Suliane Brahim as a single mother who is struggling to get her grasshopper farm off the ground until she discovers her livestock thrive on human blood.

It was selected for the Cannes Critics’ Week 2020 label after the fest was cancelled due tor Covid. Since then, it has screened at France’s Angoulême Francophone Festival in August, and it will make its international debut...

The film was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week’s special 2020 label earlier this year.

Netflix has acquired world rights for French director Just Philippot’s Cannes Critics’ Week 2020 label horror-thriller The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.

The deal was struck by Wild Bunch International (Wbi) which handles international sales. It covers all territories apart from France, Spain and China.

The film’s producers Capricci Films and The Jokers Films will release the genre picture theatrically in France on November 4, while Capricci’s Spanish arm will launch it...

Netflix has picked up worldwide rights outside of France, Spain and China to The Swarm, a horror thriller from French director Just Philippot about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop. The woman, played by French actress Suliane Brahim, finds herself growing closer to her demanding swarm of bugs as they begin to develop a taste for human blood.

Set in rural France, Philippot’s film combines horror with social drama.

The Swarm was among five features and 10 shorts selected for Cannes Critics’ Week’s special 2020 Semaine de la Critique label after ...

Netflix has picked up worldwide rights outside of France, Spain and China to The Swarm, a horror thriller from French director Just Philippot about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop. The woman, played by French actress Suliane Brahim, finds herself growing closer to her demanding swarm of bugs as they begin to develop a taste for human blood.

Set in rural France, Philippot’s film combines horror with social drama.

The Swarm was among five features and 10 shorts selected for Cannes Critics’ Week’s special 2020 Semaine de la Critique label after ...

The short answer is strong local films and major state subsidies.

Mourir Peut Attendre, which translates as ‘Dying Can Wait’ is the French title for the James Bond film No Time To Die, and unexpectedly apt.

As in the rest of the world, French exhibitors had high hopes for the new Bond title as the only major US production left on the release calendar for this autumn, as they battle to stay afloat in the face of historically low admissions and a lack of crowd-drawing blockbusters.

The move of the Bond film to April 2021 is a huge blow but unlike...

Nent Group, the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, has ordered “Furia,” an original drama series created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen (“Mammon”) exploring the underworld of right-wing extremism in Europe.

A co-production between Norway’s Monster Scripted and Germany’s X Filme Creative Pool Series and Zdf, “Furia” will premiere exclusively across the Nordics on Nent Group’s Viaplay streaming service in 2021.

Repped by Keshet International, the eight-part show is directed by Magnus Martens and Lars Kraume (“The People vs. Fritz Bauer”).

“Furia” stars Ine Marie Willmann (“Exit”), as Ragna, a fiercely courageous cop who infiltrates a nationalistic subculture following a shocking killing in an idyllic Norwegian town. Working with Asgeir, a police investigator, Ragna’s journey pulls her into a spiral of hatred while a terrorist plot targeting the heart of Europe is revealed.

“It’s uncommon to see a female lead character who appears to be driven by such extreme rage as Ragna,...

Olivia de Havilland, the two-time Oscar-winning actress who starred in films like Gone With the Wind and The Snake Pit, has died at the age of 104.

The actress’ publicist confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that de Havilland died Sunday of natural causes in Paris, France, where she lived for the past 60 years.

The last surviving star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, de Havilland won Best Actress Academy Awards for her roles in 1946’s To Each His Own and 1949’s The Heiress. de Havilland was nominated for three other Oscars, including...

Wild Bunch, Playtime, mk2 Films, WTFilms, StudioCanal, Celluloid Dreams and other French international sales agents reveal their ambitions online. Today is the first of five days of business in a brand new virtual environment at the Marché du Film (22 - 26 June) of the Cannes Film Festival, and the very dynamic French international sales agents are of course present, with line-ups including feature films from all over the world, many of them recipients of a label. We complete our overview of those line-ups. Shining bright as ever in Cannes, Wild Bunch is selling seven label recipients: Maïwenn’s DNA, Bruno Podalydès’ French Tech, Samir Guesmi’s Ibrahim (the actor’s first feature film as a director), Just Philippot’s The Swarm (recipient of a Critics’ Week label - released in France on 4 November via...

French sellers will market premiere a number of Cannes 2020 label titles.

MK2 Films is launching Carine Tardieu’s romantic drama The Young Lovers, starring Fanny Ardant opposite Melvil Poupaud as a 70-year-old woman who embarks on an affair with a married doctor 25 years her junior, and Ratatouille screenwriter Jim Capobianco’s stop-motion animation feature The Inventor about the life of Leonardo da Vinci, featuring Stephen Fry and Daisy Ridley in the voice cast. It will also market premiere Cannes 2020 titles The Big Hit by Emmanuel Courcol and Israeli filmmaker Nir Bergman’s father-and-son tale Here We Are.

Charades is running...

European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch Ag and Frankfurt-based financial institution Commerzbank have agreed a loan financing of up to 35M euros ($40M). Wild Bunch, which is headquartered in Paris and Berlin, will use the credit line to refinance an existing bank loan and “to reinforce the group’s capacity to deploy strategic measures,” the company said today. The loan comes due in October 2022.

Vincent Grimond, President of Wild Bunch Ag, said, “This loan is the result of the remarkable cooperation with the film specialists of the Commerzbank media team. We are delighted with the confidence shown in us by Commerzbank as one of the largest film and media financiers in Europe — a financial partner of choice for the future.”

In 2018, Wild Bunch previously struck a $130M financial restructuring plan with its creditors. Then late last year, the company expanded operations with the formation of Bim Production in...

The Critics’ Week, the parallel Cannes Film Festival strand dedicated to first and second films, has revealed the features and shorts that will get the 2020 Critics’ Week label.

Critics’ Week was canceled along with all other Cannes festival strands due to the coronavirus.

The lineup consists of only five features. Four of them are French.

The selected films are Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Gold For Dogs, Just Philippot’s The Swarm, Chloé Mazlo’s Skies Of Lebanon, Naël Marandin’s Beasts and Aleem Khan’s After Love.

The French films are expected to get world premieres at the upcoming Angouleme Film Festival at the end of August.

Skies Of Lebanon stars Alba Rohrwacher as a young Swiss woman who falls in love with a Lebanese man during the war in 1975. The film is sold by Charades.

Sold by Wild Bunch, The Swarm is a genre film following a single mother...

Parallel section unveils slimmed down, France-focused 2020 selection.

Cannes Critics’ Week has unveiled the five features and ten shorts selected for its special 2020 Semaine de la Critique label, created in response to the fact that its 59th edition could not take place this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Four of the five features hail from France with UK-Pakistani filmmaker Aleem Khan’s After Love the only non-French title in the selection.

Three of the French selections are first films: Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Gold For Dogs, Chloé Mazlo’s Skies Of Lebanon and Just Philippot’s The Swarm. They are...

While the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival was announced yesterday, Critics Week, the strand dedicated to first and second films which traditionally runs parallel to the fest, has unveiled the titles that will get the “2020 Semaine de la Critique” label.

Critics Week was canceled along with with Directors Fortnight and Acid in April due to the coronavirus crisis, but the strand’s artistic director Charles Tesson and his committee went ahead and selected five movies and 10 shorts that will receive a label.

As with Cannes’ Official Selection, the roster of this year’s Critics’ Week boasts a strong French presence with four local-language films out of the five. These are Anna Cazenave Cambet’s “Gold For Dogs,” Just Philippot’s “The Swarm,” Chloé Mazlo’s “Skies of Lebanon” and Naël Marandin’s “Beasts.” Aleem Khan’s U.K. film “After Love” rounds up the pack.

Tesson said the...

Scandinavian streamer Viaplay has boarded ecological thriller The Swarm from Game of Thrones exec producer Frank Doelger.

The series will launch across the region on the Nent Group-backed Svod service and marks its biggest drama to date. Italy’s Rai Fiction and France Télévisions have also come on board.

The English-language drama, which is based on Frank Schaetzing’s book, is a global environmental thriller set in a present day where anomalies and unnatural behavior in marine animals are causing upheaval all over the world. Millions of strange worms suddenly appear on the bottom of the North Sea, drilling their way through frozen methane, threatening to destabilize the entire continental shelf. Swarms of mussels stop large vessels from maneuvering. Toxic jellyfish, lobsters and whales start attacking human beings along the coasts of the world. It follows a global group of scientists and military who come together to tackle one of...

La Nuée

Promising to be one of 2020’s more bizarre debut is Just Philippot’s La Nuée (The Swarm), produced by Thierry Lounas and Manuel Chiche. Suliane Brahim (“Black Spot” – the French “Fleabag”) and Sofiane Khammes are among the cast in the production lensed by Romain Carcanade. Philippot’s 2016 short “Ses souffles” was shortlisted for a Cesar and his 2018 short “Acid” competed at Sundance and the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand.

Gist: Written by Jérôme Genevray and Franck Victor, in order to save her farm from bankruptcy, a single mother breeds edible grasshoppers but then begins to have a strange, obsessive relationship with them.…...

Game of Thrones exec producer Frank Doelger has teamed with Gangs of London writer Peter Berry and The Frankenstein Chronicles writer Mike Walden on a pair of drama series for Germany’s Zdf.

Frank Doelger, who is creative director at Intaglio Films, the joint venture between Beta Film and Zdf Enterprises, is developing English-language series Doing Good and Concordia for the Germany public broadcaster.

Doing Good, created by Berry, is set in the world of fictional human rights organization Cyrus, exploring the moral compromises decent people have to make in order to do good in an evil world. Set between Berlin and New York, the series will follow government agents who infiltrate the organization as a cover for their operations in hostile territories.

Concordia is surveillance thriller written by Walden. The Minority Report-esque drama is set in a world where millions of cameras link to an AI system that monitors...

Chain operates 51 theatres and 251 screens in 27 markets.

Former Regal Entertainment Group vice-president Paul Serwitz has been named Landmark Theatres president and COO following the abrupt departure of Ted Mundorff last week.

For more than a decade Serwitz oversaw Regal’s national art and specialised programme and grew that segment of the business to nearly $200m.

Prior to Paul’s 25-year tenure at Regal, Serwitz worked at Cineplex Odeon in Washington DC, and originally served in operations and film with Neighborhood Entertainment Group in Richmond, Virginia.

Landmark operates 51 theatres and 251 screens in 27 markets. Sites include flagship The Landmark in Los Angeles,...

Slate also features directorial duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine’s comedy drama Delete History.

Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.

The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.

The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.

In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...

The Black Spot actress will be flanked by Sofiane Khammes among the cast of Just Philippot’s feature debut, a Capricci and The Jokers production that is being sold by Wild Bunch. 19 August will mark the start of the shoot for the feature debut by Just Philippot, La Nuée (lit. “The Swarm”). Having turned heads with his short films, such as Acid (in the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2018 and in the international competition at this year’s Sundance) and Ses souffles (shortlisted for a nomination for the César Award for Best Short Film in 2016), the director belongs to the first batch of auteurs selected with their feature-length projects to benefit from the Cnc’s support scheme in favour of genre films. Standing out among the cast are Suliane Brahim (a Comédie Française pensionnaire who played the role of major Laurène Weiss in the series Black Spot, initially aired on.

Den of Geek Staff Jun 26, 2019

We're giving away five copies of Orson Scott Card's The Hive, the second book in the Ender Game's prequel trilogy the Second Formic War.

Hi, friends. We're giving away five copies of Orson Scott Card's latest Enderverse book: The Hive.

The second novel in the prequel trilogy following the events of the Second Formic War, Card co-wrote The Hive with Aaron Johnston. Here's the full, official synopsis:

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.

Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars―the alien invasions of Earth’s Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin’s total victory in Ender's Game.

A coalition of Earth’s nations barely fought off the Formics’ first scout ship.