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Dynasties are forged in blood and steel, but it is always the wisdom and guile of strong minds that lay the foundation and hold it together. In the second episode of the second season of House of the Dragon, the foundations of the Blacks’ reign, the usurper faction of Westeros’ high seat, get shaken when emotions overpower wisdom following the heinous tragedy of the death of the prince. The first episode of the much-awaited second season began with a bloody retribution, with the Greens’ attempt to exact vengeance for Lucerys Velaryon’s death, as Daemon had employed a Gold Cloak and a ratcatcher, Blood and Cheese, to eliminate Aemond Targaryen. After all, the son-for-son approach was supported by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen as well. However, in the absence of Aemond, the assassins made the heir to the throne, Aegon II’s son Jaehaerys, their target and killed the young prince in the presence of his mother,...

New Delhi, Sep 5 (Ians) Global edtech leader PowerSchool on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Chennai-based enterprise resource planning (Erp) software company Neverskip.

With this acquisition, PowerSchool will expand its reach to over 900 schools and 1.2 million students in India and will set a foundation for growth to support the larger Indian education market.

“Our acquisition of Neverskip is an instrumental step in our journey to provide personalized education to all and we are excited to welcome their employees and customers to PowerSchool,” Hardeep Gulati, Chief Executive Officer of PowerSchool, said in a statement.

PowerSchool will also extend its best-in-class technology by providing centralised access to all administrative and learning functions, including admissions, fee management, transport, student records, homework, assignments, examinations, report cards, parent communication, blended classrooms, personalised education, and meaningful data analytics.

“As a leader in education innovation, PowerSchool will continue to provide cloud-based technologies to enable schools in their digitisation...

Exclusive: Zero Gravity Management has signed transmedia company Keenspot Entertainment, whose webcomic and graphic novel Marry Me by Bobby Crosby was recently adapted by Universal into the hit rom-com of the same name, starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson.

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Released simultaneously last year in theaters and on Peacock, Marry Me hit #1 at the box office upon its Valentine’s Day weekend opening and also came in as Peacock’s most-streamed day-and-date title to date.

The company behind the source material, co-founded by CEO Chris Crosby, which has Bobby Crosby serving as President, launched as a pioneering publisher of webcomics in the year...

Bad Vices Games is continuing their dive into the horror restaurant management sim genre with While We Wait Here, a psychological horror restaurant management game about the end of the world. The game will launch on Steam in 2024.

Previously, Bad Vices Games had tackled restaurant management with their Sweeney Todd-inspired Ravenous Devils. With While We Wait Here, you’ll be in charge of running a small diner located near a mountain range. That involves the usual taking of orders from your customers, cooking and serving the food and keeping them happy. That gets flipped when news of an impending catastrophe is broadcasted.

Strangely, your customers either seem to ignore the broadcast, or are content with the impending Apocalypse, chalking it up to payback for what they have done in their life. You can either convince your patrons to head for the shelter, or wait it out with them, offering...

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The Waste Management Phoneix Open was already the most-attended event in golf, but this year the tournament will be even bigger than before — much bigger.

For one, the Wm Open is now the first full-field designated event on the PGA Tour. And the purse reflects this change at more than double what it was last year, up to 20 million from 8.2 million, with this year’s first-place winner taking home 3.6 million (for comparison,...

Netflix has ordered the limited series “The Madness” with Colman Domingo set to star, Variety has learned.

“The Madness,” which will consist of eight episodes, is described as a conspiracy thriller. It centers on “media pundit Muncie Daniels (Domingo), who must fight for his innocence and his life after he stumbles upon a murder deep in the Poconos woods. As the walls close in, Muncie strives to reconnect with his estranged family – and his lost ideals – in order to survive.”

“‘The Madness’ is a fresh take on the conspiracy thriller — turning the genre on its head with its multi-layered characters, propulsive action and swift pace,” said Peter Friedlander, vice president of scripted series at Netflix for the US and Canada. “We are proud to have such a powerhouse team assembled to bring this dynamic story to life for Netflix viewers around the world, and to continue producing great entertainment with team Chernin.

Emmy winner Colman Domingo will star in Netflix’s upcoming limited conspiracy thriller “The Madness,” which has just received a series order under Chernin Entertainment’s (The North Road Company) first-look deal at the streamer.

In the eight-episode drama, media pundit Muncie Daniels (Domingo) must fight for his innocence and livelihood after he stumbles upon a murder deep in the Poconos woods. As the walls close in, Muncie strives to reconnect with his estranged family — and his lost ideals — in order to survive.

The project hails from co-showrunners VJ Boyd and Stephen Belber, who also serves as creator. The duo will also executive produce alongside Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Kaitlin Dahill. As previously reported, Clément Virgo (“Greenleaf”) will direct and executive produce the first two and concluding two episodes. Quyen Tran (“Maid”) and Jessica Lowrey (“Perry Mason”) will each direct two middle episodes.

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Fred Ward, iconic character actor and star of films like “The Right Stuff,” “Tremors,” “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,” “Miami Blues,” and “Henry & June,” has died. He passed away on Sunday, May 8, as confirmed by his representatives. The Golden Globe winner was also known for starring in Robert Altman films like “The Player” and “Short Cuts.”

Fred Ward is survived by his wife of 27 years, Marie-France Ward, and his son, Django Ward.

On screens since the early 1970s after serving in the U.S. Air Force and stints as an order cook, boxer, and a lumberjack in Alaska, Ward was known for his versatility in both comic and dramatic roles. He could play author Henry Miller in “Henry & June,” the world’s first Nc-17 movie, or a dirt bike rider in “Timerider: The Aventure of Lyle Swann.” But his first major role came in Clint Eastwood’s 1979 “Escape from Alcatraz...

New Delhi, Dec 13 (Ians) It major Wipro on Monday selected Oracle Cloud to digitise its air cargo process, as demand grows for rapid cargo transportation services in the country. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oci) will power Wipro’s Cargo Reservations, Operations, Accounting and Management Information System (Croamis) to help organisations modernise at a faster pace […]...

Exclusive: Brian Woo, the celebrity tattoo artist and LA foodie better known as Dr. Woo, is prepping an anthology food series with Kids Say The Darndest Things producer Anvil 1893.

Woo, who has over 1.8M Instagram followers and has tattooed the likes of Justin Bieber, Adele, Miley Cyrus and David Beckham, and Eric Schotz’s production company are developing a series based on national food holidays.

The untitled series will explore the culture and culinary experience through each holiday, of which there are more than 365. Today, for instance, is National Vanilla Cupcake Day and tomorrow is National Sundae Day.

The docuseries will tap into Dr. Woo’s fascination with food and food subcultures through the lens of national food holidays that celebrate everything from fried chicken and pork belly to hoagies and gumbo. As part of each event, Woo will travel to the best and most exotic sources of the celebrated food to explore its origins,...

Exclusive: Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus, and Stephen Root have signed on to star in Paint, an indie film from director Brit McAdams. Sam Maydew of Silver Lining Entertainment is producing the project, which is currently shooting in upstate New York.

McAdams also penned the screenplay, which landed on The Blacklist in 2010. The plot follows Carl Nargle, who has hosted Vermont’s #1 painting show for the past 27 years with his signature whisper keeping viewers from Pittsfield to St. Albans breathlessly hanging on his every stroke until the station hires a younger, better painter who steals everything and everyone Carl loves.

Peter Brant, who provided the financing, is also producing the pic, while Wilson will serve as an executive producer alongside Richard J. Bosner and Joel David Moore.

Wilson will soon make his appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Tom Hiddleston in the Disney+ series Loki.

New Delhi, Jan 19 (Ians) Leading enterprise Hr technology platform Darwinbox on Tuesday said it has closed the $15 million (nearly Rs 110 crore) funding round led by Salesforce Ventures.

In September, the company raised funds in its Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from existing investors Lightspeed India, Endiya Partners and 3one4 Capital, bringing the total investment to $35 million.

The Cloud-based SaaS Hr technology platform said it aims to accelerate digital Hr adoption and deepen product offering with the fresh funding.

"Globally, more and more enterprises are abandoning legacy offerings in favour of our modern, agile Hcm (Human Capital Management) platform that helps them stay ahead of change" said Jayant Paleti, Co-founder, Darwinbox.

"We will work with Salesforce closely to maximise value to our customers, continue building out our product stack and accelerate global expansion".

The company revenues have grown by over 300 per cent since the September round of funding.

UTA leads all agencies with the most screenplays 2020’s The Black List, which was announced Monday. The agency had a total of 17 scripts on the annual list of the year’s most-liked unproduced screenplays. It was followed by Verve, which had 8.5 scripts on the list.

Verve was No. 1 last year with 10.5 screenplays, while CAA was second with eight.

On the management side, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment was No. 1 this year with nine mentions, while Grandview had eight. Grandview led last year with seven mentions, while Writ Large ranked second with 5.5 scripts.

Sophie Dawson’s Headhunter was the No. 1 screenplay on The Black List this year with 29 votes. The project is repped by WME and Bellevue Productions.

Here is this year’s scorecard,:

Scripts by Agency

UTA – 17

Verve – 8.5

WME – 5

Gersh – 4.5

CAA – 4

APA – 3

Paradigm – 3

The Kaplan Stahler Agency – 1

Rothman Brecher Ehrich Livingston – 1

Scripts by Management Company

Kaplan/Perrone – 9

Grandview – 8

Management 360 – 6

Bellevue Productions...

The remaining five episodes of HBO’ freshman drama Industry will be released on WarnerMedia sibling HBO Max this Friday, Nov. 27, making the entire season available to binge over the holiday weekend. The announcement was made at the end of tonight’s episode. Watch the promo above.

This is the first time fresh episodes of an HBO original series will make their premiere on HBO Max; so far HBO originals, including Industry, land on HBO Max after their premiere on the premium cable network. While available on HBO Max, the remaining five episodes of Industry also will air on HBO weekly at 10 p.m. Mondays, with the season’s final two episodes airing back-to-back on December 21.

Industry, which follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited number of permanent positions at a leading international bank in London, has been a very modest performer in linear ratings for HBO since its November 9 premiere.

Exclusive: Fox continues to draw on animation as a major source of development with workplace comedy Greater Good from American Dad co-creator Mike Barker and Comedy Bang! Bang! director Stoney Sharp its latest bet.

The network has committed to a script for the animated comedy, which is being developed internally at Fox Entertainment. Barker and Sharp will act as writers and exec producers on the project.

It comes a day after Deadline revealed that The Simpsons and Bob’s Burger network was developing hybrid animated-single-cam comedy Demi-God with Bella and the Bulldogs writer Katie Greenway.

Greater Good asks whether the world is worth saving. Maybe? It’s a workplace comedy about an international team of highly qualified but socially remedial misfits working and living in a hi-tech laboratory in the middle of rural Oklahoma. The characters must navigate petty office politics and challenging interpersonal relationships in order to band together and save the world…...

Exclusive: Netflix has set a killer cast for Spiderhead, landing Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Lovecraft Country’s Jurnee Smollett to star in the Joseph Kosinski-directed adaptation of the George Saunders short story. Script is by Zombieland and Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick.

Kosinski is making this his next film after directing Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise, which boasts Teller as one of its stars.

Spiderhead is set in the near future, when convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects in hopes of shortening their sentences. The focus is on two prisoners who become the test patients for emotion-altering drugs that force the prisoners to grapple with their pasts in a facility run by a brilliant visionary who supervises the program.

The film will be produced by Eric Newman for Screen Arcade through the producer’s first-look deal at Netflix, along with Chris Hemsworth...

Exclusive: After a heated auction, Universal Pictures has landed a package for an untitled drama that has David Leitch directing Ryan Gosling. Drew Pearce, who wrote for Universal the Leitch-directed hit Fast and Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw, is set to write the script. The deal is seven figures.

Guymon Casady is producing through Entertainment 360, along with Gosling producing through his company and Leitch and his 87North partner Kelly McCormick. Several other studios also were in the mix including Netflix, Paramount and MGM. Universal has a strong relationship with Leitch and McCormick, whose 87North is in a first-look deal there.

For Leitch, the project is extremely personal. He is the rare stuntman and stunt coordinator who transitioned to become an A-list filmmaker; his John Wick co-director Chad Stahelski is another, and not many before that dating back to Hal Needham. Leitch, who also directed Deadpool 2, has for a while...

Fiona Shaw has her second consecutive Best Drama Supporting Actress nomination for playing MI6’s Carolyn Martens on BBC America’s “Killing Eve.” She has submitted the episode titled “Management Sucks” for Emmy judging. The 41-minute installment was written by Anna Jordan and directed by Terry McDonough. It aired April 19, 2020 on BBC America as the second episode of the third season. An official log line reads, “Eve strikes up an unlikely alliance and Villanelle finds that management isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”

Can Shaw win? Let us look at the pros and cons.

SEESandra Oh (‘Killing Eve’) on how BBC America show could actually be about ‘a woman’s freedom’ [Complete Interview Transcript]

Pros

Shaw had her strongest season yet, as Carolyn grapples equally with losing her son Kenny (Sean Delaney) and living with her daughter Geraldine (Gemma Whelan), both of which begin in Shaw’s submission. Carolyn starts it at Kenny’s funeral,...

Nikita alumna Lyndsy Fonseca and Carra Patterson (The Arrangement) have been cast as female leads opposite Josh Peck in Turner & Hooch, Disney+’s reboot of the classic 1989 buddy-cop comedy feature. The TV series, which has a 12-episode order, comes from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and 20th Century Fox TV.

Additionally, Fonseca has been tapped for a season-long arc on Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star, playing Liv Tyler’s sister. Both series are produced by 20th TV, and she will be filming them concurrently.

Like the movie, the hourlong series centers on Scott Turner (Peck), who now is a U.S. marshal — versus the police detective played by Tom Hanks in the movie. When the ambitious, buttoned-up marshal inherits a big unruly dog, he soon realizes the pet he didn’t want may be the partner he needs.

Fonseca will play Laura, Scott’s sister and the mother of 7-year-old Matthew.

Producer Ridley Scott and Scott Free continue to develop a feature adaptation of writer Matt Kindt’s Dark Horse Comics series "Mind Mgmt", in association with Dark Horse Entertainment’s Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg :

"...reporting on a commercial flight where everyone aboard has lost their memories, young journalist 'Meru' stumbles onto a much bigger story : the top-secret 'Mind Management' program.

"Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the flight's missing passenger...

"...the man who was Mind Mgmt’s greatest success—and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees ?..."

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Mojean Aria..

Mojean Aria is this year.s recipient of the Heath Ledger Scholarship.

The Sydney-born, La-based actor, who recently starred in.The Bronx Bull, had been shortlisted for the award twice before this year.s win..

.Heath is such a huge inspiration for all of us actors and so many people looked up to him. Just to be connected with Heath Ledger and being able to have this platform, it is a dream come true.".

Carrie and Boys Don.t Cry director Kimberly Peirce, who served on the judges. panel, praised Aria.s work as .rich, nuanced, precise, beautiful, authentic, emotive and fierce..

.I hope the scholarship provides him the necessary support and tools to explore his talent and interests, develop his craft and further his career here in Hollywood and wherever it takes him..

Other judges included industry heavyweights inclduing Naomi Watts, Ryan Murphy, Gary Oldman, Bruna Papandrea,...

Bleecker Street & Ld Entertainment have joined forces with At&T Thanks, Regal Cinemas and MovieTickets.com to bring the true life story, Megan Leavey, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite to service members ahead of the June 9, 2017 nationwide release of the film.

At&T Thanks, Regal Cinemas and MovieTickets.com will generously sponsor over 190 screenings of the film on May 30th as part of National Military Appreciation Month at participating Regal Cinemas. Active and retired service members will be invited to attend a free screening of the film in advance through At&T Thanks and Regal Cinemas. MovieTickets.com will facilitate ticket fulfillment.

Tickets will be available starting Monday, May 22, 2017 at www.att.com/thanksmilitary. For a list of participating locations, please visit www.regmovies.com/promotions/megan-leavey-screening.

Tyler Dinapoli, President of Marketing, Media and Research for Bleecker Street, said, “We’re proud to work with At&T Thanks, Regal Cinemas and MovieTickets.

Kirsten Howard Feb 24, 2017

Last year we watched ten of the recent straight-to-dvd films of Mr Nicolas Cage. Since then, he's made six more...

This article has been updated to include six new films: Dog Eat Dog, The Trust, USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage, Southern Fury, Army Of One and Vengeance: A Love Story.

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The first Nicolas Cage movie I saw wasn’t one of the cool ones. It wasn’t Wild At Heart, Raising Arizona or even Valley Girl. It was the Cher rom-com, Moonstruck.

My mum, having just gone through an acrimonious divorce, was trying to drum up the optimism to find love again, and apparently that involved watching a lot of rom-coms where an idealised – or at least intrinsically whimsical...

Michael Bay propagandizes for a right-wing idea of “true America,” seething with disdain for anyone who isn’t a former elite soldier turned mercenary. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): not a Michael Bay fan

I have not read the source material

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

This purportedly true account of the 2012 “Battle of Benghazi” opens with American military contractors Jack Silva (John Krasinski: The Wind Rises, Monsters University), who has just arrived in town, and his old buddy Tyrone “Rone” Woods (James Badge Dale: The Walk, Parkland) bluffing their way past a roadblock by armed Libyans. It doesn’t matter what side the Libyans are on; in the chaos that erupted after Gaddafi’s death: the point is that they are Libyans — suspiciously lawless violent folk, that is, who cannot even get their own nation under control — and not Americans.

“If you guys do not get here, we’re going to die.” – excerpt 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

On the night of September 11, 2012, four Americans lost their lives in Benghazi – Ambassador Christopher Stevens (U.S. Ambassador to Libya), Sean Smith (Information Management Officer, U.S. Foreign Service), Tyrone “Rone” Woods (Grs Operator for Annex Security Team in Benghazi), Glen “Bub” Doherty (Grs Operator in Tripoli, Libya – part of the Quick Reaction Force sent from Tripoli to Benghazi after the compound was under attack).

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi, is based on the book 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, written by New York Times bestselling author Mitchell Zuckoff and co-authored by five members of the Annex Security Team, including Kris “Tanto” Paronto, John “Tig” Tiegen and Mark “Oz” Geist.

13 Hours tells the true account of the events of when Islamic militants attacked the U.

With several new members added to its cast, cameras are now rolling on Officer Downe, the feature film adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name from Man of Action/Image Comics. Also included in our latest round-up are details on Anchor Bay Entertainment's I Spit On Your Grave: Vengeance is Mine and a look at a new Freddy Krueger-inspired ice cream cone print from Cavity Colors.

Officer Downe: Press Release - "Officer Downe co-creator/screenwriter/producer Joe Casey (Ben 10/Marvel's Avengers Assemble), director/producer Shawn "Clown" Crahan (Slipknot), and producers Man of Action Entertainment (I Kill Giants, The Great Unknown, Big Hero 6 character/team creators), Skip Williamson (Underworld), Mark Neveldine (Crank), Cole Payne (Downloading Nancy) and Cory Brennan (Slipknot manager) have cast Tyler Ross (Zombieland, American Milkshake) as Officer Gable opposite previously announced lead, Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy), in the independent film that...

Lesley Mann, Anthony Lapaglia, Jacki Weaver, Melissa George, Gia Carides and Josh Lucas head the cast of Fred Schepisi.s The Olive Sisters.

A romantic drama adapted from Australian author Amanda Hampson.s 2005 novel, it.s due to start shooting mid-year in Victoria.s Mornington Peninsula.

Mann will play Adrienne Bennett, a successful PR executive whose life unravels when her business fails. She.s forced to move from her New York apartment to a small rural community in Australia, where she inherited a run-down olive grove from her Italian grandparents.

After overcoming culture shock she discovers the family she barely knew and strikes up a friendship with the ruggedly handsome Joe.

Simon Baker was announced today as playing Joe and dutifully reported on Deadline.com, but his CAA agent Peter Levine told If The Mentalist regular is not attached.

A parallel narrative follows Adrienne.s grandparents who worked hard to...

Stewart’s Eccentricity Barely Keeps “Match” Lit

Groomed and primmed ballet dancers create arches and points which are lauded and corrected by their instructor, kept sharp by his knowledge and dedication to the craft. The bustling bright city of New York as its backdrop, the liveliness of the city is matched only by its protagonist. Introduced at the beginning is a sense of high regard and careful perception which can only be achieved by a writer who like, Tobi, understands his or her own craft to the point where it becomes not just their livelihood but their life. Writer/director Stephen Belber’s start stems from theatre with plays such as Tape (which had its film adaptation directed by Richard Linklater) and The Laramie Project (in which he shares credit with multiple people) and a half dozen years after his film debut in Jennifer Aniston starring Management, he proves to...

Move over Kevin Bacon! When it comes to working with everyone in Hollywood, Jennifer Aniston may be the actor to beat.

While Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon -- an idea that came from the actor himself when, in 1994, he told Premiere magazine that he’s worked with everybody -- has become the ultimate trivia game, it may be time to re-think who’s actually at the nexus.

Thanks in large part to Friends -- the former NBC sitcom now streaming on Netflix -- Aniston worked with a number of stars well before they were famous. And in the years since the series ended, Aniston has shared the screen with a few but key number of A-listers. But it wasn’t until she earned a 2015 Golden Globe nomination for her role in Cake that we realized she’s practically worked with everyone in Hollywood.

Look: 2015 Golden Globe Nominees in Photos

Ahead of this year’s Golden Globes, we played...

Paramount's "Selma" from director Ava Duvernay is picking up steam this awards season. The Martin Luther King drama has been announced to be the opening night movie of the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. The festival will close on Sunday, January 11 with the Us premiere of "Boychoir" from director Francois Girard. David Oyelowo, who plays the beloved King in "Selma," is also being honored at the fest with Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor.

Here's the complete press release which includes the list of Easter European movies in a program titled Eastern Promises:

Palm Springs, CA (December 16, 2014) . The 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will launch on Friday, January 2 with the opening night screening of the GoldenGlobe nominated Selma directed by Ava Duvernay. The Festival will wrap on Sunday, January 11 with the Us premiere of Boychoir directed by François Girard. New this year, the festival will focus on...

Today we have a trailer for the upcoming "Match" drama, starring Patrick Stewart (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard. Check it out below. Plot: As a Juilliard professor is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960's New York, it becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple's visit. The new movie is written and directed by Stephen Belber (Management) and is set to hit select theaters on January 14th, 2015. Trailer:...

While Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Men franchise are both greatly enjoyable enterprises, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that Patrick Stewart is a world class performer. While those giant projects allow him to get a little lost in the shuffle, it takes a smaller, more intimate movie to remind us that this actor is really quite remarkable. Thankfully, Stewart has recently been obliging us with a few such projects, and the trailer for one of them – Match – has just been released.

Written and directed by Stephen Belber, Match is the filmmaker’s second time at the helm, following 2008’s Management, starring Steve Zahn and Jennifer Aniston. Match, however, seems to owe a lot to Belber’s first screenplay – 2001’s Tape – which he adapted from his own play.

Like Tape, Match focuses on a trio of characters in an intimate setting, slowly unpicking each other’s perceived realities.

Patrick Stewart may be best known for his big franchise roles, starring as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek universe and playing Professor X in the X-Men movies, but every once in a while it's nice to see him step away for something smaller. Case in point, we have the first trailer for Match: The sophomore feature from writer/director Stephen Belber, best known for making the 2008 Jennifer Aniston/Steve Zahn dramedy Management, Match stars Patrick Stewart as Tobi Powell, an acclaimed choreographer and Julliard professor. He is approached by a woman (Carla Gugino) and her husband (Matthew Lillard) about doing an interview for a dissertation being written about dance in 1960s New York, and he gladly agrees. As we see unfold in the trailer, however, the couple actually has ulterior motives, and slowly the truth begins to expose itself. Match first premiered at the Tribeca Film...

Jennifer Aniston — Oscar contender? You better believe it after the tumultuous standing ovation she received at the Elgin Theatre on Monday afternoon for her potentially career-changing film Cake after the end credits had rolled. Sans makeup but for scars and other disfigurements, Aniston proved way beyond cosmetic changes that she is the real thing. She’s heartbreakingly good, alternately bitingly dramatic and funny in this story of a woman suffering with chronic pain. It is also partially to the credit of writer Patrick Tobin and director Daniel Barnz (Phoebe In Wonderland, Won’t Back Down) that Aniston’s character Claire doesn’t strike a false note throughout.

Given the right distributor (and I hear several are in the hunt) this should be Aniston’s Monster or Monster’s Ball — or even Dallas Buyers Club, which transformed Matthew McConaughey’s career last year and brought him the Best Actor Oscar. There...

As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.

Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.

Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.

We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.

Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...

BiTV Stream is available for free viewing on FilmOn. The channel brings viewers some of the most entertaining videos out of Africa. Here’s more about the channel. “BiTV Stream is a premium online video on demand channel with diverse quality African entertainment videos that include blockbuster movies across Africa, TV series and eventually music and sports. BiTVstream is a registered trademark of Orbit Management based in the United States.” One of the movies you can view is “Somewhere In Africa: The Cries Of Humanity.” The film features veteran actor David Dontoh and discusses Africa’s current state of affairs. “If you think you have seen the best of Majid Michel, Martha [ Read More ]

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What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

The Lego Movie: you’ve seen this all before — it’s Toy Story meets The Matrix — just not done in Legos [my review] [at iTunes UK] The Lunchbox: a charming, bittersweet, utterly chaste love affair forged over food and cemented by kindred spirits [my review] [at iTunes UK] 112 Weddings: startling and welcome breath of reality for an institution overladen by fantasy in our culture: happily ever after is hard! [my review] [at iTunes UK] Visitors: a weirdly beautiful film, eerie in its complicated simplicity, and open to seven billion interpretations, all of them valid [my review] [at iTunes UK] The Zero Theorem: Terry Gilliam’s latest is chock full of glorious Gillam style and a fun performance from Christoph Waltz, but little else [at iTunes UK]

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

The Lego Movie: you’ve seen this all before — it’s Toy Story meets...

Beverly Mitchell, 66, was found dead in her Connecticut home on Saturday after the first floor of her home collapsed under the weight of Mitchell’s hoarding.

Hoarder Beverly Mitchell Found Dead

After a postal carrier noticed that Mitchell had not picked up her mail in almost two weeks, the police arrived at Mitchell’s home in Cheshire, Conn., on Friday to perform a welfare check and found that the first floor had collapsed.

“We did a well being and we determined it wasn’t safe to continue searching and asked for assistance when we saw the first floor collapsed,” recounted Sgt. Kevin O’Donnell.

With the help of Connecticut Homeland, the fire department, Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protect and state police and cadaver dogs, authorities were able to recover Mitchell’s body on Saturday.

According to local reports,...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.

new to stream

Computer Chess: dryly humorous and wonderfully weird, this is a preternaturally mundane evocation of early 80s nerdery and an almost scary peek at the history of AI [my review] [at Netflix]

because you missed it

Bobby Fischer Against the World: documentary exploration of the reclusive chess champion as a tragedy of genius and madness as two sides of his own personal coin, and as a uniquely American story [my review] [at Netflix]

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

Inside Llewyn Davis: hilarious in the Coens Brothers’ weird, askew way, but also absolutely crushing; this movie breaks my heart in a hundred different ways [my review] [at Amazon UK Instant Video]

new to Prime

Midnight in Paris: a valentine -— to people, to places, to ideals, to our own dreams -— that does not wear rose-colored glasses; perhaps the Woody Allen-est movie ever [my review] [at Amazon UK Instant Video] The Pirates!

Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis concludes this weekend with the local premieres of two more Italian films. They are shown in their original language with English subtitles.

For more details such as directions, times, sponsors, and a complete schedule go to the Italian Film Festival USA site Here

http://www.italianfilmfestivalstlouis.com/index.html

Admission is Free!

Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis continues this weekend with White As Milk – Red As Blood and The Jewel

White As Milk, Red As Blood screens Saturday, April 19 in the Jerzewiak Family Auditorium in the Lab Sciences Building on the campus of Washington University at 5:30pm

Leo is a typical sixteen-year-old: he likes to chat with friends, play soccer, joyride on his scooter and listen to his iPod. School is agonizing to him. Then, a new and “different” history and philosophy teacher arrives: he encourages the students to live deeply and follow their dreams.

Jenni Rivera died on Dec. 9, 2012 in a plane crash with six other individuals. The investigation into the cause of the fatal accident in northern Mexico has recently yielded answers as to potential causes.

Investigation Completed On Jenni Rivera Plane Crash

Part of the blame for the accident that took the Mexican singer’s life has been placed on the advanced age of the plane’s pilot, reported CNN. According to a report released last week, at 78, the pilot was too old for the license issued to him. Furthermore, the 48-year-old Learjet he was flying may not have been in top condition for the flight. When it reached cruising speed, it was shaking and flew unevenly.

The company that owned the ill-fated plane, Starwood Management, is thought to have been negligent in reporting the plane’s ability to operate, according to Mexico’s General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics. Rivera’s family,...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream on Netflix, blinkbox, BBC iPlayer, and Curzon on Demand.

new to stream

Freaky Friday: the 1976 original starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster; so much fun, and so very slyly feminist, too [at Netflix] The Help: if movies that’re all men and no women can be universal, so can this one; this is The Shawshank Redemption [my review] [at Netflix] Seven Psychopaths: a witty take on Hollywood’s narrowmindedness and creative despair; an arthouse anti-action flick [my review] [at Netflix]

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

The Purge: mixes science fiction speculation with familiar horror tropes to create a startling satire on America’s culture of violence [my review] [at blinkbox] Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington: powerful documentary about the war journalist killed in action, and what motivated him and his work [at blinkbox]

new to...

Exclusive: Todd Hoffman, who at ICM Partners built a strong business repping writers as well as intellectual property storehouses like The New York Times, 60 Minutes and New York magazine, has launched the management/production company Storied Media Group. Hoffman, who left ICM over the summer after a long run there, brings with him a stable of writer clients that include Emmy-winning Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Nebraska co-writer Bob Nelson, Moneyball‘s Stan Chervin, playwright-writer-director Stephen Belber (Management), Girl In Progress scribe Hiram Martinez and Ad Jeffrey Lynch. He also brings with him the above-mentioned publications as well as 60 Minutes Sports, Public Radio International, The McClatchy Company and Say Media. The idea behind the latter is to make outlets like Nyt, 60 Minutes and New York magazine’s partners in option deals that are made for content originated by the publications. I’ve always found Hoffman to be one of the smarter guys in this niche.

Next Wednesday marks the release of Rawson Marshall Thurber’s raunchy comedy, We’re The Millers, a Jason Sudeikis- and Jennifer Aniston-starring affair that aims to make international drug smuggling fun for the whole family (even if that family is a fake one, like the one in the film). It’s also another film that aims to convince America that both Sudeikis and Aniston are bonafide movie stars, a claim that we’re still not entirely sure is true (even if we do think that Sudeikis is well on his way). The problem lies with Aniston, an actress that has never been better, funnier, or more interesting than she was on the television show that made her (we’re talking about Friends here, you’ve probably heard of it). Aniston has starred in plenty of films over the course of her career – including Leprechaun, She’s the One, The Object of My Affection...

James Cromwell (American Horror Story) will co-star opposite Hannah Ware in ABC‘s drama pilot Betrayal. Written by David Zabel based on a Dutch series and directed by Patty Jenkins, Betrayal centers on Sara (Ware), a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer who begins a torrid affair with Jack, a lawyer for a powerful family. Cromwell plays Terence Karsten, the head of the powerful Chicago family. Megalyn Echikunwoke (House Of Lies) and Cedric Sanders will co-star opposite Steve Zahn in the ABC drama pilot Influence, from Kyle Killen and 20th TV. It centers on the complicated relationship between two brothers — Clark Clark (Zahn), a bipolar genius in human psychology, and Ross, a slick ex-con — who solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. Echikunwoke, repped by UTA, A Management and Neil Meyer, will play actress Megan who uses her beauty and acting skills to help...

1.) We've already seen how much Ashton Kutcher looks like Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic jOBS, which will close the Sundance Film Festival on January 26. Now, USA Today gives us our first look at Josh Gad as Jobs' Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. I wouldn't quite say the resemblance is uncanny, but a successful biopic has never been purely dependent on casting lookalikes. Open Road Films has already picked up the film for an April release. 2.) After watching recent '80s remakes like Fright Night, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn set the box-office on fire (no, not really), Warner Bros. has decided now is the time to reboot Gremlins. The studio would have to work out a deal with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment first, and negotiations have fallen through several times over the years, but a source seems to think there's a decent chance we could see Gizmo and...

Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard have joined the cast of Stephen Belber's "Match" at Tilted Windmill Productions.

Based on Belber’s 2004 Tony-nominated Broadway play of the same title, the story centers on Tobi (Stewart), a reclusive and eccentric Julliard dance instructor and choreographer.

He is visited by a Seattle couple, Lisa and Mike (Gugino and Lillard) under the pretense of being interviewed for Lisa's thesis on the New York dance movement in the sixties.

However, as the couple's true intentions are revealed, Tobi is forced to face the impact of decisions he made long ago.

Belber penned and directed 2008's Jennifer Aniston comedy "Management," and wrote the plays "Tape" and "The Laramie Project" which have been adapted into features.

David Permut, Rick Rosenthal and Matt Ratner will produce, and filming is currently underway in New York City.

Source: Tilted Windmill Productions...

Exclusive: Stephen Belber has finally turned his 2004 Tony-nominated play Match into a feature. It stars Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard to star. The film, produced by David Permut, Rick Rosenthal and Matt Ratner, and it has just wrapped its New York City shoot. Stewart plays a reclusive, eccentric Juilliard dance instructor and former choreographer, who is visited by a Seattle couple, (Gugino and Lillard) under the pretense of interviewing the dancer for her thesis on the New York dance movement in the 1960s. However, as the couple’s true intentions are revealed, he finds himself unable to dance around the impact of decisions he made long ago. Belber wrote and directed the 2008 Jennifer Aniston-starrer Management and his other plays turned into films include the Richard Linklater-directed Tape and HBO’s The Laramie Project. He also created an untitled dramatic thriller that FX recently put into development as a potential series.

Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard are set to star in Match , written and directed by Stephen Belber, Tilted Windmill Productions announced today. Match is based on Belber.s 2004 Tony nominated Broadway play of the same title. The film centers on a reclusive, eccentric Julliard dance instructor and a former choreographer, Tobi (Stewart), who is visited by a Seattle couple, Lisa and Mike (Gugino and Lillard) under the pretense of interviewing Tobi for Lisa's thesis on the New York dance movement in the sixties. However, as the couple's true intentions are revealed, Tobi is forced to face the impact of decisions he made long ago. Belber previously wrote and directed the 2008 film Management , starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn. Other stage plays by...

"Les Miserables" Director Tom Hooper and composer Mychael Danna will be honored at the 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. Hooper is set to get the Sonny Bono Visionary Award while Danna will receive the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing. Both will join previous announced honorees -- the cast of Argo, Richard Gere, Sally Field, Helen Hunt, Helen Mirren, Naomi Watts and Robert Zemeckis. The Festival runs January 3-14.

(Watch my fun interview with Tom Hooper for "Les Miserables" right here, "Les Miserables" movie review)

Here's the complete press release:

Palm Springs, CA (December 18, 2012) . The 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Academy Award®-winning director Tom Hooper with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award and Mychael Danna with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing. Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will be held Saturday, January 5, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Hosted by Mary Hart,...