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Sweden has selected The Last Journey as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.

The documentary by popular Swedish TV hosts and journalists Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson, known at home as Filip och Fredrik, sees the duo take Hammar’s father Lars on a road trip to France.

Lars has recently retired after 40 years as a French teacher but instead of a “third age” of travel, wine and experiences with his wife, he becomes passive and tired. By making the same road trip that the family used to make when Filip was a child, and staging some of life’s most beautiful moments, they hope to rekindle Lars’ spark.

The doc is produced by Nexiko in co-production with Nordisk Film Distribution, Rmv Film and collaboration with Svt.

The work has proven a hit at the Swedish box office this year, drawing more...

France has selected Jacques Audiard’s bold musical “Emilia Perez” to represent the country in the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film race, giving that category an instant frontrunner at the 97th Academy Awards.

The Netflix film, which caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival with its story of a Mexican drug lord undergoing sex reassignment surgery, is considered one of the year’s likeliest Best Picture nominees, making it a clear favorite in the international category as well.

It was chosen on Wednesday by a selection committee that had narrowed its choices to four: “Emilia Perez,” Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light,” Matthieu Delaporte’s “The Count of Monte Cristo” and Alain Guiraudie’s “Misericordia.”

Last year, that committee chose “The Taste of Things” over “Anatomy of a Fall,” going with a ravishing romance over an edgier drama that had won the top prize in Cannes. “The Taste of Things...

Entries for the 2025 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 97th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 3, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between November 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 2, 2024.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to...

Finland has picked the dramedy Family Time to represent the country for the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature category.

The film, by writer/director Tia Kouvo, is a sharp look at the familial ties that bind, following three dysfunctional generations as they come together at their grandparents’ house over the holidays. Ria Kataja, Elina Knihtilä, Leena Uotila, Tom Wentzel and Jarkko Pajunen star in the dark comedy which puts the cringe back in Christmas.

Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka produced the feature for Aamu Film Company together with Vilda Bomben Film. The film is a feature adaptation of Kouvo’s 2018 short of the same name.

Family Time premiered in Berlinale’s Encounters section last year and bowed in Finland last November. It went on to sweep Finland’s Academy Awards, the Jussis, taking best film, best director and best screenplay. The Match Factory is handling international sales.

Finland has...

The Smurfs are back with an exciting new episode in Season 3, titled “Family Time.” This episode promises to bring laughter and adventure as Dwayne and Rowena find themselves in a tricky situation. When the mischievous Gargamel confiscates their beloved toys, the siblings are determined to take action.

In a bold move, Dwayne and Rowena decide to free the Smurfs that their uncle had captured. This daring rescue mission leads to plenty of fun and chaos, as the Smurfs join forces with the kids to outsmart Gargamel. Viewers can expect thrilling moments and clever teamwork as everyone works together to reclaim what is rightfully theirs.

“Family Time” airs on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at 2:00 Pm on Nickelodeon. This episode highlights the importance of family and friendship, making it a must-watch for fans of all ages. With colorful animation and charming characters, this episode is sure to entertain and leave everyone smiling.

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Exclusive: Cameron Elie is joining the cast of All American: Homecoming for its final season.

The actor will guest star as a character named “Noah” in the upcoming 13-episode season. Deadline understands that he will appear in at least four episodes, though details about his character are being kept under wraps.

Elie is an emerging young talent whose previous television credits include United States of Al, PEN15, and Family Time. In addition to acting, he is also the writer/director of the upcoming sci-fi/horror short, Grub.

He is represented by D2 Management and Prototype Talent Agency.

All American: Homecoming returns to The CW for its third and final season on July 8. The series was canceled earlier this month due to budget constraints that made it difficult for the network to continue with both Homecoming and the flagship series All American, which was renewed for Season 7.

Homecoming is set against...

Tcl unveils a new slate of consumer electronics at CES 2022. (Courtesy image)

Tcl’s free, ad-supported streaming television service Tcl TV Plus has added 13 new linear content streams.

The channels launching this week include Judge Faith, Nolly Africa, Craftsy TV, Pursuit Up, Beyond Paranormal, Mav TV Select, Watch Mojo and Family Time, the company said on Tuesday.

Tcl has been building up its free, ad-supported streaming service over the past few years. Tcl TV Plus is available on Tcl-branded smart TVs in North America that run Google TV (Android TV), and will soon be offered on Tcl-branded Roku TVs and other Tcl smart TVs in the United States and Canada.

The full list of streaming TV channels added to Tcl Plus TV as supplied by the company is below:

Judge Faith — From a Louisiana beauty queen to a Wall Street attorney to a tough New York City prosecutor. Faith Jenkins...

New projects from Jenni Toivoniemi, Jon Blåhed, Erol Mintaş and Ester Martin Bergsmark are among selection

The Finnish Film Affair (Ffa), Helsinki International Film Festival’s industry strand, has unveiled the line-up for its market showcase of Nordic films and Finnish series running September 20-22.

Among the 31 projects selected is Jenni Toivoniemi’s comedy Butterflies, the director’s second feature after Games People Play which was also presented at the Ffa.

Also being showcased is Jon Blåhed’s new feature Raptures; Erol Mintaş’ Earth Song; Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Land Of Ferns; and Marika Harjusaari’s The Mire from the producer of Hatching.

The traditional closing-night party saw revellers celebrating until breakfast.

Iranian director Dornaz Hajiha’s Like A Fish On The Moon won the Transilvania Trophy, the top prize of the international competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania at a gala ceremony on Saturday June 17.

Hajiha’s debut feature premiered at in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition in 2022 and is being handled internationally by Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows It also picked up the best performance award for the lead actress Sepidar Tari ex aequo with Nacho Quesada, who plays the lead role in Andrew Sala’s France-Argentina film The Barbarians.

The traditional closing-night party saw revellers celebrating until breakfast.

Iranian director Dornaz Hajiha’s Like A Fish On The Moon won the Transilvania Trophy, the top prize of the international competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania at a gala ceremony on Saturday June 17.

Hajiha’s debut feature premiered at in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition in 2022 and is being handled internationally by Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows It also picked up the best performance award for the lead actress Sepidar Tari ex aequo with Nacho Quesada, who plays the lead role in Andrew Sala’s France-Argentina film The Barbarians.

Like a Fish on the Moon, the feature debut of Iranian writer-director Dornaz Hajiha, has won the Transilvania Trophy for best feature film at this year’s festival, marking the first time in the event’s 22-year history that Transilvania International Film Festival’s top award went to a female director.

The film follows new parents who are forced to adapt when their apparently healthy son suddenly stops talking.

“The film we have chosen impressed us for the originality of its premise, the power of its performances and the intelligence with which it explored very difficult subject matter,” Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, the jury president, said in a statement. “The director demonstrated great attention to detail and an impressive, singular vision. We were also impressed by the script, which captured the often conflicting pressures of parenthood, the brutality of devotion. It is a film that resonated long after it ended.

Iranian filmmaker Dornaz Hajiha took home the top prize Saturday at the Transilvania Film Festival, as the jury awarded the first-time director with the Transilvania Trophy for “Like a Fish on the Moon,” a moving family drama about two parents coping with the emotional fallout when their young son suddenly stops talking.

In the jury’s citation, Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco highlighted “the originality of its premise, the power of its performances, and the intelligence with which it explored very difficult subject matter,” describing “Like a Fish on the Moon” as “a film that resonated long after it ended.”

Hajiha was visibly moved as she took the stage to accept the award, which was presented to her by Transilvania Lifetime Achievement Award winner Geoffrey Rush moments after the Australian actor delivered an impassioned and at times whimsical tribute to the power of cinema.

“It’s such an honor to get...

When push comes to shove, the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival has always prided itself on pushing the envelope, preferring to err on the side of provocation where other fests might choose to play it safe. That mentality has been encoded into the fest’s DNA since its beginnings in the tumultuous post-Communist era, when civil liberties and artistic freedom were still far from guaranteed in the newly democratic Romania.

Yet after a turbulent period of unprecedented disruption, brought on first by the coronavirus pandemic and then by the widespread humanitarian and economic crises spurred by Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, even TIFF founder Tudor Giurgiu admits, “These were tough years.” The temptation might have been there to tinker with a formula that has made the festival such a success for the past two decades.

But for its 22nd edition, which runs June 9 – 18 in the picturesque medieval city of Cluj,...

The Romanian film festival runs June 9-18.

Transilvania International Film Festival has announced the line-up for its 22nd edition which takes place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

The official competition is made up of 12 features while the documentary strand, entitled What’s Up Doc?, will screen 10 titles. All of the films are from first and second-time directors.

Among the competition selection is Ion Bors’ Carbon which premiered in San Sebastian’s New Directors strand last year, having won the festival’s Wip Europa Industry and Wip Europa awards the previous year. The dark comedy, surrounding the Transnistrian conflict of the 1990s, is...

2023 edition has received a record number of applications.

Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.

The 2023 iteration received a record 172 applications, from which one animation, one documentary and eight fiction projects have been chosen. Seven of the projects are debut feature, with three second films.

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Two of the projects have previously participated in Tfl programmes: Irene Moray’s debut Sealskin, a Spanish feature set in a world where women are vanishing; and Francesco Romano’s debut The White House,...

Finland’s Aamu Film Company will invest in Jenni Jauri’s new production company Silmu Films, Variety has found out exclusively.

Aamu, founded in 2001 and co-owned by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka, has become a local arthouse powerhouse thanks to its festival-friendly slate, especially Juho Kuosmanen’s “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” and Golden Globe-nominated “Compartment No. 6,” awarded the Grand Prix in Cannes.

“We had a good film with decent sales and we started to think about what we should do next,” Rantamäki said. “Aamu’s brand is simple and clear: we only work with a select few directors. We don’t want to change that; we don’t want to turn into a factory where you don’t know what is happening and with whom. So first we decided not to grow, and then realized we could invest in a new company instead.”

Apart from Kuosmanen,...

Project based on novel about Russia infiltrating Swedish politics.

Sweden’s Jens Jonsson will direct The Doctrine, a political thriller series adapted from Magnus Montelius’ novel Eight Months.

Jonsson has credits including series Young Wallander and Blinded, and films Easy Money III and Sundance award-winner The King Of Ping Pong.

The novel, published in 2019, presented a then-far-fetched idea that Sweden would join NATO; given world events, the premise is now eerily contemporary.

Erik Magnusson of Anagram Sweden produces.

Backers are TV4/Cmore, Anagram, Film i Väst, Aurora Studios and Beside Productions. With investment from Finnish Impact Film Fund and support from Nordic Film&tv Fund.

Cologne-based sales company The Match Factory has expanded and restructured its acquisition and development team.

Former head of sales, Thania Dimitrakopoulou, has been promoted to vice president of acquisitions and sales. Claudia Solano comes on board as senior manager of acquisitions, and Cécile Tollu-Polonowski, a long-time partner with the company, has been appointed as head of development.

Dimitrakopoulou, who joined The Match Factory in 2007, will now be heading up all acquisitions activities and manage the sales team, reporting to Michael Weber, managing director.

Solano joins The Match Factory from the distributor Koch Media in Italy where she worked as sales and acquisitions manager. Solano has held various positions in acquisitions in companies such as Videa and Good Films. During her career, she has introduced several high profile directors to the Italian market, including Xavier Dolan and Yorgos Lanthimos.

The Match Factory has appointed long-standing partner Tollu-Polonowski to lead the development team for the company.

Tia Kouvo’s debut feature follows an annual family Christmas get-together that sees the usual tensions rise.

Screen can reveal the trailer for Tia Kouvo’s debut feature Family Time which is world premiering at the Berlinale (February 16-26) in the Encounters strand.

The comedy-drama follows an annual family Christmas get-together that sees the usual tensions rise. It’s based on Kouvo’s s 2018 short of the same name which picked up a special mention at Helsinki International Film Festival (Love & Anarchy).

Family Time is produced by Finland’s Aamu Film Company in co-production with Sweden outfits Vilda Bomben Film and Film i Väst.

2023 truly begins taking shape with next month’s Berlinale, which will run from February 16 to February 26 and feature more than a few of our most-anticipated films this year. Among them are Christian Petzold’s Afire (Roter Himmel), starring new muse Paula Beer; Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, which will appear in the Encounters section; and Philippe Garrel’s The Plough, once known as La lune crevée starring his three children Louis, Esther, and Lena, and (judging from the still) his first color feature since 2011’s A Burning Hot Summer. Meanwhile: Angela Schanelec will return with Music, and––six years after the wonderful Person to Person––it’s nice spotting a new feature from Dustin Guy Defa, The Adults.

Find the lineup below and head back next month for our coverage of the festival headed by Kristen Stewart’s jury.

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20,000 Species of Bees (Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)

The Shadowless Tower (Zhang...

18 titles selected for competition, including films by Christian Petzold, Emily Atef, Margarethe Von Trotta and Philippe Garrel.

The 18-strong Competition line-up for the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival has been announced by festival heads Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek.

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New films from Christian Petzold, Margarethe Von Trotte, Emily Atef and Lila Avilés are among those selected. Some 15 of the 18 titles are world premieres, with international premieres for Celine Song’s Past Lives after debuting to strong reviews at Sundance; Makoto Shinkai’s animation Suzume, released in Japan last November; and Australia’s The Survival Of Kindness by Rolf de Heer,...

The Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the competition lineup for its 2023 edition on Monday morning, naming the 18 movies that will compete for the coveted Gold and Silver Bears at the 73rd Berlinale.

Berlinale executive director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian presented a very international and arthouse-heavy lineup, with a strong focus on politically-charged cinema.

In a late addition, Superpower, Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s documentary on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Russian invasion of the country and the ongoing war, will have its world premiere in Berlin’s out-of-competition Berlinale Special section. The doc, made for Vice Studios, Aldamisa Entertainment and Fifth Season, is being sold internationally by Fifth Season.

Berlin 2023, taking place a year after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion, will have a major focus on Ukraine. Even the festival’s official pin will be in the Ukraine colors of blue and yellow.

In competition, German auteur...

It all comes down to This, New Amsterdam fans.

NBC has dropped many photos for New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 1, premiering September 20th at 10/9c.

As expected, there will be plenty of changes on the horizon following the conclusion of New Amsterdam Season 4.

Have a look at the photos below.

Remember, you can watch New Amsterdam online right here via TV Fanatic.

1. Max Smiles - New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 1 After the year he's had, Max wants to move on. What does it mean for him and Helen? 2. Playing a Game - New Amsterdam After all the drama that's plagued their lives, it's time to relax and play some board games. 3. Back at It - New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 1 All of the characters have been through so much, but it looks like Max will be plodding along following that Helen bombshell. 4. Continuing the Game - New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 1 Our favorite characters playing games?...

Turkish director Selman Nacar’s “Between Two Dawns,” a taut moral thriller exploring ethical and familial responsibilities over the course of one 24-hour period, took home the top honor at the 39th edition of the Torino Film Festival, which ran from Nov. 26 – Dec. 4.

Chaired by director Ildikó Enyedi, and made up of actor Alessandro Gassmann, composer Evgueni Galperine and sales exec Isabel Ivars, this year’s jury commended Nacar’s filmmaking, calling the winning title “a mature film, directed with intelligent sobriety, which reveals a new, big talent.” The prize came with a purse of €18,000.

No doubt glad to return to in-person, restriction free screenings after last year’s online only edition, the jury spread the love around, offering special jury prizes to both Omar El Zohairy’s “Feathers” and Amalia Ulman’s “El Planeta.” Ulman’s film also won the Fipresci prize. Acting honors went to South Korea’s Gong Seung-yeon,...

Exclusive: Sk Global and Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group have teamed to develop, finance and produce a series adaptation of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

In a competitive situation, Sk Global has acquired the rights to the novel which was published last year. Originally adapted from Kawaguchi’s own stage play by the same name, Before the Coffee Gets Cold is set in a Tokyo back alley where a café has served carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else very unique for patrons: the chance to travel back in time – but only for the time it takes for their coffee to get cold. With faces both familiar and new, the story follows patrons who visit to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula’s time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers...

Fresh off Juho Kuosmanen’s win at Cannes – where his “Compartment No. 6” was awarded the Grand Prix in July, sharing the prize with Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero” – Finland’s Aamu Film Company will focus its attention on Tia Kouvo’s “Family Time,” scheduled to shoot in February and March 2022.

Produced by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka, the film, primarily set at Christmas, will show a family of eight struggling to communicate and echoing Tolstoy’s statement that while all happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

“I have been working with the same directors for years, saying no to many interesting projects. Then I saw Tia’s graduation short and realized we have to find room for one more,” says Rantamäki, also behind Kuosmanen’s Un Certain Regard winner “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” and Hamy Ramezan’s Berlinale entry “Any Day Now.

The six-month programme kicks off with a workshop in May.

The TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has unveiled the 10 projects at an advanced stage by first or second-time international directors selected for this year’s FeatureLab.

The prestigious six-month programme kicks off with a workshop in May – held online due to the pandemic - and will be followed by second one in September to be held physically in Austria, if possible. The Austrian Film Institute and the Comunidad de Madrid and Ayuntamiento de Madrid are partnering on this iteration of the Lab.

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The FeatureLab is led...

“Cop Secret,” “Margrete – Queen of the North” and “The Emigrants” are among 12 wide-ranging projects set to be presented at a virtual Nordic Film Market, Scandinavia’s biggest industry showcase which runs alongside the Goteborg Film Festival.

“Cop Secret,” directed by Icelandic gaolkeeper turned filmmaker Hannes Þór Halldórsson, is an action comedy following a tough cop who in denial about his sexuality and falls in love with his new partner while investigating a litany of bank robberies. The movie is being produced by Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir at Icelandic banner Pegasus and started shooting in September.

Both “Margrete – Queen of the North” and “The Emigrants” are highly anticipated historical dramas produced by Sf Studios and represented in international markets by REinvent.

“Margrete – Queen of the North” is directed by Charlotte Sieling, the acclaimed Danish director of “The Killing” and “The Bridge,” among others. The movie is set in 1402 and stars Trine Dyrholm...

In the early days of the pandemic, Ziggy Marley found himself stuck at home in California, wondering how to address the pain of the current moment with his music. Since he was also occupied with family, that desire to write led to More Family Time, the new follow-up to his 2009 kids album Family Time.

“I just kept being pulled back into a kids’ record,” Marley tells Rolling Stone. “With everything that’s going on, it just felt right, doing something for the children.”

With contagious enthusiasm, Marley and friends (including Alanis Morisette,...

Ziggy Marley is a global music royal with a deep Rolodex. His latest is a children’s album that, like his 2009 release Family Time, is full of famous friends and very kind vibes and intentions. Marley says he wanted to reflect the spirit of his four-year-old son, Isaiah, and to help create the right Saturday-morning pajama jam vibe, he’s recruited his other children to appear on the album. The result is an ideal time filler for parents looking for something/anything to put on the stereo and get your...

Ziggy Marley continues his socially distanced livestream performance series with the new eight-song Rebellion Rises set.

Cut at the Ceek VR studio in Los Angeles, Marley performed several songs from the 2018 album, including the title track, “Circle of Peace,” “World Revolution” and “I Will Be Glad.” He kicked off with his 2006 fan favorite, “Love Is My Religion.”

Earlier this summer, Marley performed a Ceek VR set of his late father Bob Marley’s songs in honor of what would have been the legend’s 75th birthday. Later, Ceek will release...

Netflix has ordered a comedy series starring Jamie Foxx titled “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me,” Variety has learned.

The multi-camera series is inspired by Foxx’s relationship with his daughter, Corinne Foxx. The series will also star David Alan Grier, Kyla-Drew, Porscha Coleman, and Jonathan Kite. Heather Hemmens and Valente Rodriguez will appear in recurring roles.

Bentley Kyle Evans serves as showrunner and executive producer. Foxx will executive produce in addition to starring, with Corinne and Alex Avant producing. Ken Whittingham will direct all episodes.

This is not the first time Foxx and his daughter have collaborated on a TV project. She currently appears with her father on the Fox competition series “Beat Shazam,” which Foxx hosts and on which Corinne serves as DJ.

The show marks a return of sorts for Foxx, who got his start in television on multi-cam comedies like “Roc” and “In Living Color.” He also previously...

Are Anthony and Lisa ready to become empty-nesters in the seventh season of the Family Time TV show on Bounce TV? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Family Time is cancelled or renewed for season eight. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the seventh season episodes of Family Time here. Status Update Below.

A Bounce TV family comedy series, Family Time stars Omar Gooding, Angell Conwell, Bentley Kyle Evans Jr., and Jayla Calhoun with Paula Jai Parker, Tanjareen Thomas, Erica Shaffer, Clayton Thomas, and Shanti Lowry in recurring roles. Season seven guests include Stokley Williams, Denise Boutte, KiKi Haynes, and Rodney Perry. Created by Bentley Kyle Evans, the sitcom follows the lives of...

Bounce has greenlighted a pair of scripted series — one produced by Cedric the Entertainer and fronted by D.J. Hughley and another starring Vivica A. Fox — and Court TV unveiled a new show with Ashleigh Banfield as the sibling networks unveiled their 2020-21 slates at Ctam today.

Along with the Hughley-led dramedy Johnson and Fox’s sitcom Secrets of the Salon, Bounce has renewed Saints & Sinners for Season 5; set premiere dates for In the Cut and Family Time; and announced the true-crime docuseries Dying to Be Famous: The Ryan Singleton Mystery and three original movies.

Along with the series renewal, Bounce has set a stand-alone Saints & Sinners movie — a first for the drama. Read details about those and the network’s other shows below.

Meanwhile, Court TV announced Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield, a weekly hourlong series that brings the original Court TV host back to the network. Premiering at 8 p.

Ziggy Marley has shared a new song, “Play With Sky,” off his newly announced album More Family Time, out September 18th.

“Play With Sky” is an upbeat, cheerful duet that features Ben Harper. “I’m going to outside, gonna play with the sky,” Marley sings in the opening lines. “Running wild/Play with sky.”

Aimed at capturing the energy of his 4-year-old son, More Family Time is a follow-up to 2009’s Family Time. The new album features Tom Morello, Busta Rhymes, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Alanis Morissette, and more — as...

Here's the status of TV shows like East Los High, Easy, The Eddy, The Eleventh, Eli Roth's History of Horror, Emily in Paris, The End of the F***ing World, Episodes, Escape at Dannemora, Euphoria, Evel, Everything Sucks!, Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Extinct, The Expanse, F Is For Family, The Fairly Odd Parents, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Falling Water, Family Reunion, Family Time, Famous in Love, Fargo, Fast Layne, Fear the Walking Dead, The Feed, Fertile Crescent, Feud, Fever, Final Space, Firefly Lane, The First, First Ladies, First Wives Club, Five Points, Flack, Flaked, Fleabag, The Flight Attendant, Flipped, For All Mankind, Forever, The Forgotten Army, Fortitude, Fosse/Verdon, The Fosters, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Frankenstein Chronicles, The Frankie Drake Mysteries, Frank of Ireland, Friends from College, The Fugitive, Fuller House, Future Man, Gabby Duran & The Unsittables, Game Shakers, Game of Thrones, Games People Play, Gangs of London,...

Exclusive: Cory Hardrict (The Oath), Joel Steingold (How To Get Away with Murder) and Salvador Chacon (Mayans M.C.) are set for multi-episode arcs in season three of the Lena Waithe-created Showtime drama series The Chi. The series is currently in production in Chicago and will return to the network in 2020.

Produced by Fox 21 Television Studios, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age story about a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.

Hardrict will play Dante, an independent rapper whose taste in women is as selective as the strain of cannabis he buys and producers he works with.

Steingold will play Martin St. John, a Hedge Fund manager with his eyes and cents on the Chicago political landscape, and father of the new love interest of Kevin (Alex Hibbert).

Chacon will play Tomas Gutierrez, a nurse who works...

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Airing on the Bounce TV television channel, Family Time stars Omar Gooding, Angell Conwell, Bentley Kyle Evans Jr., and Jayla Calhoun with Paula Jai Parker, Tanjareen Thomas, Erica Shaffer, Clayton Thomas, and Shanti Lowry in recurring roles. Season seven guests include Stokley Williams, Denise Boutte, KiKi Haynes, and Rodney Perry. Created by Bentley Kyle Evans, the sitcom follows the lives of the Stallworth family who relocated to the suburbs after hitting the...

Get ready for more Family Time. A new season of the comedy premieres on Bounce next week. Season seven will premiere October 9 at 9pm Et/Pt. This return makes Family Time the longest running series on Bounce. The series stars Omar Gooding and Angela Conwell as the head of the Stallworth family. This season the couple will need to deal with their children moving out of the house. Their nest is now empty!

revealed more about the return of the series in a press release. Check that out below.

“Family Time, Bounce's popular original comedy series, returns for an all-new season of laughs on an all-new night - Wednesday - this fall starting with two new episodes back-to-back on Weds. Oct. 9 at 9:00 p.m. (Et).

New episodes will also be available on...

Exclusive: Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud is coming to TV. Bounce has ordered 10 episodes of the original comedy series for premiere Monday, May 6. The program will air at 9 Pm Et every Monday night through the summer. The series is a co-production between Bounce and Lionsgate Television.

Hosted by comedian Jasmin “Jazzy” Brown, each episode will feature a curated collection of the award-winning content from Hart’s Laugh Out Loud digital service, with Brown introducing each segment. Hart executive produces. You can watch a teaser below.

“Kevin Hart is a one of the most-popular, talented and funniest people on the planet,” commented David Hudson, Executive Vice President of Original Programming for Bounce and Katz Networks. “We are thrilled to be in business with him.”

“We’re very excited to work with Bounce and bring our all-star lineup of comedy to linear audiences,” said Jeff Clanagan, Laugh Out Loud’s President.

Tagline: "Enjoy Your Stay." Formerly titled Tales from Hell, Welcome to Hell is an upcoming horror anthology. The DVD release hosts seven terrifying tales, titled: "After Hours, "Dead Therapy," "Family time," "Lucid," "Maternal Instincts," the "Narrative" and "Slit!" The huge cast consists of: Bill Oberst Jr. (3 From Hell), Kim Sønderholm (Escaping the Dead), Calico Cooper, Nicholas Adam Clark and dozens of others. Each horror tale promises to take viewers into the darkness of insanity and the electrifying heights of shock. The film's official DVD artwork and release trailer are hosted here. The short trailer shows one woman chased in a library. Someone is waiting for her, just behind the door. Another woman is tied up, while another character is threatened with a razor. The intertitle states "You Don't Have to Die to Get There." But, you will have to pick up the DVD, this October, to view these hellish tales.

Welcome To Hell! Enjoy Your Stay. Horror anthology "Welcome to Hell", formerly entitled "Tales of Hell", has been acquired for release by Wild Eye Releasing and will see its official DVD distribution on October 9, 2018. Cast members include Bill Oberst Jr., Nicholas Adam Clark, Calico Cooper, Kim Sønderholm, Dmitri Schuyler-Linch, Tracey Decresie, Gabriel Lee, Cara Maurizi, Tim Moran and many, many others.. A terrifying coven of tales designed to take viewers into the nether reaches of insanity, shock and horror. More info via IMDb here Welcome to Hell consists of seven short films – "After Hours", "Dead Therapy", "Family Time", "Lucid", "Maternal Instincts", "Narrative" and "Slit" – from filmmakers Michael Aguiar, Sam Mason-Bell, Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen, James Cullen Bressack, Brad...

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After the last reports about Kapil Sharma failing to shoot the weekend episodes for his new show Family Time With Kapil Sharma, now we hear the stand-up comedian continue to remain missing from the scene. The channel has failed to connect through him and the other producers of his show Hemant Ruprell and Ranjit Thakur have severed ties from Kapil after his recent stint. Furthermore, Kapil’s co-star on the show Nehha Pendse has confirmed that they haven’t shot for any episode in a while and that she has no idea when the shoot of the show will resume.

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Followed by the flak that Kapil Sharma’s new show Family Time With Kapil Sharma received on Twitter, we now hear that the channel may pull the plug on the show earlier than expected. However, reports have it that the TRPs are yet to be revealed. Furthermore, adding to the negativity is the recent incident when Kapil Sharma cancelled the shoot which was to feature Rani Mukerji. The channel officials are currently tracking the responses and if these continue, they may reduce to 15 to 20 episodes whereas the show was supposed to feature 26 episodes initially.

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Hichki star Rani Mukerji was supposed to promote her film on Kapil Sharma’s new show Family Time With Kapil Sharma but she never got to shoot with him. What really went down there? Our sources close to the show have informed us that the comedy star kept Rani waiting for shoot confirmation for three hours before and later it was cancelled.

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Kapil Sharma is all set to return to television with his new show Family Time With Kapil Sharma from March 25 onwards. According to the latest reports, Ajay Devgn has already shot for the promo for Kapil's show as a part of Raid promotions. The actor is currently in Delhi for Raid promotions. Once he returns, he will shoot the episode on March 13. Though it is unclear whether Ajay's episode will be aired on the opening night, it will be exciting to see them together.

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Bounce TV is on the upswing. Recently, the network announced ratings have increased for their TV shows Family Time and Grown Folks.Currently in its fifth season, Family Time "stars Omar Gooding (Tony) and Angell Conwell (Lisa) as a pair of high school sweethearts living a new life in the suburbs with their mischievous children, played by Bentley Kyle Evans, Jr. and Jayla Calhoun." Meanwhile, the freshman comedy Grown Folks "is about two blue-collar couples who share a duplex while navigating life, marriage and friendship, in Honeymooners-esque fashion."Read More…...

Network: Bounce TV. Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour). Seasons: Ongoing. TV show dates: June 18,2 012 — present. Series status: Has not been cancelled. Performers include: Omar Gooding, Angell Conwell, Bentley Kyle Evans Jr., Jayla Calhoun, Clayton Thomas, Tanjareeen Thomas, Paula Jai Parker, Rodney Perry, Judyann Elder, Richard Gant, Chris Williams, and Erica Shaffer. TV show description: A family sitcom, the Family Time TV show was created by Bentley Kyle Evans. When working class couple, Tony (Gooding) and Lisa (Conwell) Stallworth, hit the lottery, the winnings propel these former high school sweethearts into the middle class. Tony and Lisa decide to use the windfall to move to the suburbs with their children, Devin (Evans) and Ebony (Calhoun). Despite the payday, Tony is still a struggling...

Bounce TV isn't just renewing shows. Today, the network announced they've ordered a new TV series called Grown Folks.From the creator of Family Time and In the Cut, the comedy explores "two blue-collar couples who share a duplex while navigating life, marriage and friendship." The cast includes Gary “G-Thang” Johnson, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Jay Phillips, and Caryn Ward Ross.Read More…...

Goods news for fans of Bounce TV. Today, the network announced they've renewed the TV shows Saints & Sinners, Family Time, and In the Cut for another season.A drama, Saints & Sinners follows the residents of a small town in Georgia. The cast includes Vanessa Bell Calloway, Christian Keyes, Keith Robinson, and Clifton Powell. The show is Bounce TV's most-watched program in the network's history and has been renewed for a third season, which will debut in 2018.Read More…...