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Exclusive: Liam Neeson action chase film The Mongoose is underway in Australia with Oscar winner Marisa Tomei, Mission Impossible star Ving Rhames, and Emmy winner Michael Chiklis (The Shield) joining the cast.

Oscar nominee Neeson (Schindler’s List) will star as Ryan “Fang” Flanagan, a war hero who, accused of a crime he didn’t commit and with nothing to lose, leads police on an epic televised cross-country car chase.

Tomei will play Tara, Fang’s ex-wife, who asks Fang for help when she finds herself in trouble. Rhames will play Tanker, Fang’s loyal right hand who was the second-in-command of Fang’s Special Forces squad when they were captured in Afghanistan. Chiklis will play Pope, the violent and reckless head of the Texas Highway Patrol who is convinced of Fang’s guilt.

Pic will be directed by Mark Vanselow, whose career as an action sequence director, action designer,...

Exclusive: Former Madam Secretary star Tèa Leoni has signed with Gersh for representation.

Leoni took a multi-year break following her six-season starring run as Elizabeth McCord in the CBS series Madam Secretary, which she also produced. She is now planning a return to acting and producing and may also venture into writing and directing.

In features, Leoni is known for Tower Heist, Ghost Town, You Kill Me, Fun with Dick and Jane, Flirting with Disaster, Deep Impact, Spanglish and The Family Man, among others. 

Since 2001, Leoni has been a Unicef Ambassador and in 2006, she became a National Board Member of the U.S. Fund, now Unicef USA. Leoni is the third generation of her family working with Unicef following in the footsteps of her grandmother, who co-founded the U.S. Fund for Unicef in 1947 and served as its President for 25 years. In November 2007, she and her father, Tony Pantaleoni, received...

Netflix has released the first trailer for The Ice Road. This is the latest action flick with Liam Neeson at the center of it. Neeson was once a man known for his more serious roles in movies such as Schindler's List, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Gangs of New York. But Taken changed all of that more than a decade ago, altering the course of his career entirely. Now, he's one of Hollywood's go-to action guys. In this case, Neeson is in the harsh snow-covered terrain of Canada. Instead of carving out a path of revenge, he's going full-on Ice Road Truckers for a treacherous rescue mission packed with action and danger.

The trailer opens up with a massive avalanche that devastates a mine, trapping the men who were working inside. Mother nature caused a cave-in, leaving the workers with little hope of rescue. Enter Liam Neeson. He is...

With production on Fantastic Beasts 3 pushed to the end of the year, Ezra Miller has found himself with an open slot this summer, but instead of finally making The Flash movie, he has signed on to star in the indie thriller The Mourner, it was announced Tuesday. Casper Kiriya (Casshern) is set to direct from a script by Robin Shushan (AMC’s Feed the Beast), who adapted the Japanese novel Itamu Hito by Arata Tendo. The book was previously adapted as a Japanese-language film in 2015. Kiriya will also produce alongside Mike Marcus (You Kill Me) of Echo …...

"You kill me, you won't see a cent of that gold." There's always time for a Star Wars short film. Below you can watch the short film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly parody mash-up directed by Calvin Evans. It's basically Star Wars, featuring Han Solo, Greedo and Boba Fett, as if it were literally a Sergio Leone western. The actual dialogue isn't that great, but the effects are excellent, the opening titles are perfect, and they just get so much of the atmosphere right that I can't help but admire the work on this short. There's even a nice poster to go along with it. It's a quick 5-min mash-up that's worth watching, so fire it up. Enjoy! Artwork above by Mark McHaley for the film. The original description from YouTube explains: "A Italian western parody, of Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and the Ugly... but with Star Wars characters.

Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely will follow Captain America as they head to Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Avengers: Infinity War Part 2! The duo behind the screenplays for Marvel'captais Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War will once again team with directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo for the two-part climax to Phase 3 of the . Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 will hit theaters May 4, 2018, with the second part following on May 3, 2019. Here's what producer Kevin Feige had to say in a statement.

"Chris and Steve have been an integral part of the Marvel family since the early days of Phase 1, and their work speaks for itself. We couldn't be more excited to have them with us to help guide the Avengers through their biggest story yet."

In addition to writing all three films in Marvel's Captain America franchise, Markus & McFeely also created Marvel's Agent Carter,...

Co-directors João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata are first and foremost cinephiles, and make no bones about invoking the classic Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray directed, Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell starred Rko feature, Macao, throughout their own shapeshifting exploration of the post-Portuguese protean city. But The Last Time I Saw Macao is much more than just an homage to beloved cinema greats. Like it’s cinematic ancestor, the film delves into the darkness of film noir, but it also passes like a shadow from underground thriller to personal documentary, city symphony to action shoot-out at any given moment, all while acting as a cinematic travelogue for Guerra da Mata, who grew up in Macao, but hasn’t been back in thirty years.

In the last three decades the city has changed quite a bit, and in the film’s parallel universe, it’s fallen into shadow...

Beyonce stunned the crowd at the Brit Awards on Feb. 19, surprising them with the first TV performance of her new hit song ‘Xo.’

Beyonce is known for being flawless, but her performance of her new hit “Xo” at the Feb. 19 Brit Awards took things to a whole new level. Bey hit the stage in a jaw-dropping floor-length sequined gown, and wowed the crowed with a stripped-down performance that will be sure to have everyone talking.

Beyonce’s Performance At The Brit Awards — Beyonce Performs ‘Xo’

Beyonce hit the stage at London’s O2 Arena looking like a full-on mermaid in a floor-length, shiny green gown, and stuck to the basics as she belted out her hit “Xo” — a song that clearly seems to be an ode to Jay Z!

One Direction At Brit Awards

“I love you like Xo/You love me like Xo/You kill me boy Xo/You...

Dracula Episode 108

“Come to Die”

Written By: Harley Peyton

Directed By: Brian Kelly

Original Airdate: 10 January 2014

In This Episode…

Jayne and Browning are convinced there is another elder vampire hanging around London. She targets a hooker who admits that it was Dracula who summoned her there. Jayne tries to get the location of his nest. The hooker opts to shoot herself in the head with Jayne’s gun, rather than give up her master. Jayne takes this information to the Order, who doesn’t believe her: Dracula is just a myth, a tale to scare children. Jayne relates the history of “Dracula” to them (and to us): Vlad Tepes served on the council of the Order of the Dragon. He was excommunicated, but the sentence of death was considered inadequate, so they turned to the occult. Dracula, the first vampire, was created - not sired - by the Order of the Dragon.

Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty), Anson Mount (‘Hell on Wheels’), Abigail Spencer (‘Rectify’) and Marcus Thomas (You Kill Me) have joined the cast of heist film, The Forger, which started shooting on Monday, October 7th on location in Boston, Massachusetts. They join the previously announced two-time Academy Award nominee and two-time Golden Globe winner John Travolta, Oscar winner Christopher Plummer and Venice Film Festival Award winner for Best New Young Actor Tye Sheridan. Philip Martin (‘Wallander’) is directing from a script by Richard D’Ovidio (The Call) and is currently slated for sometime in 2014. Producer Al Corley said in a statement: We are blessed to...

BAFTA TV Award and Tony Award winning actress Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty, Contagion), Anson Mount (AMC's Hell on Wheels, Safe), Abigail Spencer (Sundance Channel's Rectify, Oz: The Great and Powerful) and Marcus Thomas (You Kill Me, Drowning Mona) join the cast of heist film The Forger, starring alongside two-time Academy Award nominee and two-time Golden Globe winner John Travolta, Oscar winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners, The Last Station) and Venice Film Festival Award winner for Best New Young Actor Tye Sheridan (Joe, Mud, The Tree of Life), it was announced today by producers and co-financiers Code Entertainment's ("Code") Al Corley and Bart Rosenblatt and Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel of The Solution Entertainment Group ("The Solution").

The film started shooting today, October 7th on location in Boston, Massachusetts.

BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning director Philip Martin (BBC's Wallander) is directing from a script by Richard D'Ovidio (The Call).

Code's Al Corley,...

BAFTA TV Award and Tony Award winning actress Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty, Contagion), Anson Mount (AMC’s “Hell on Wheels,” Safe), Abigail Spencer (Sundance Channel’s “Rectify,” Oz The Great And The Powerful) and Marcus Thomas (You Kill Me, Drowning Mona) join the cast of heist film The Forger.

The four will star alongside two-time Academy Award nominee and two-time Golden Globe winner John Travolta, Oscar winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners, The Last Station) and Venice Film Festival Award winner for Best New Young Actor Tye Sheridan (Joe, Mud, The Tree Of Life).

The film started shooting today, October 7th on location in Boston, Massachusetts.

BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning director Philip Martin (BBC’s “Wallander”) is directing from a script by Richard D’Ovidio (The Call).

The Forger tells the story of a former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief, Ray Cutter (Travolta) who arranges to buy his...

BAFTA TV Award and Tony Award winning actress Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty, Contagion), Anson Mount (Safe), Abigail Spencer (Oz the Great and Powerful) and Marcus Thomas (You Kill Me, Drowning Mona) join the cast of heist film The Forger, starring alongside two-time Academy Award nominee and two-time Golden Globe winner John Travolta, Oscar winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners, The Last Station) and Venice Film Festival Award winner for Best New Young Actor Tye Sheridan (Joe, Mud, The Tree of Life), it was announced today by producers and co-financiers Code Entertainment’s Al Corley and Bart Rosenblatt and Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel of The Solution Entertainment Group.

The film started shooting today, October 7th on location in Boston, Massachusetts.

BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning director Philip Martin (BBC’s “Wallander”) is directing from a script by Richard D’Ovidio (The Call).

Code’s Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, and Eugene Musso will...

• Salma Hayek (Frida) has joined the cast of the indie sex comedy How To Make Love Like An Englishman, about a hedonistic, romantic poetry professor at Cambridge (Pierce Brosnan) who questions his lifestyle after he meets the perfect woman (Hayek, of course). The only complicating factor is that he’s just impregnated her stepsister, a grad student played by Jessica Alba. Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas, Starter for 10) is directing the comedy, which is slated to begin shooting this fall. [Deadline]

• Lake Bell (In a World…) is set to team up with Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in The Coup,...

Jennifer Ehle ( Zero Dark Thirty , Contagion ), Anson Mount ("Hell on Wheels," Safe ), Abigail Spencer ("Rectify," Oz The Great and Powerful ) and Marcus Thomas ( You Kill Me , Drowning Mona ) have joined the cast of heist film The Forger , starring alongside John Travolta ( Pulp Fiction , Grease ), Christopher Plummer ( Beginners , The Last Station ) and Tye Sheridan ( Joe , Mud ), it was announced today by producers and co-financiers Code Entertainment's Al Corley and Bart Rosenblatt and Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel of The Solution Entertainment Group. The Forger tells the story of a former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief, Ray Cutter (Travolta) who arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, Will Cutter...

The Tribeca Film Festival have announced the juries for each category of competition. A host of actors, directors and journalists have been selected that include Evan Rachel Wood, Paul Haggis, Josh Radnor, Eva Longoria and Bryce Dallas Howard.

The members selected will be judging the films that fall within their respective categories, and you can check out the list below. Make sure to check back with us for all the latest from Tribeca including reviews, interviews and more! The festival runs from April 17th – April 28th in New York City.

World Competition Categories

The jurors for the 2013 World Narrative Competition are:

Kenny Lonergan: Academy Award®-nominated playwright, filmmaker and screenwriter. Credits include You Can Count On Me,Gangs of New York, and Margaret. His stage credits include Lobby Hero, The Waverly Gallery and This is Our Youth. He is a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company in New York.

The Tribeca Film Festival announced today that it has selected 42 jurors for this year’s festival. The jurors include members of the filmmaking community — including Bryce Dallas Howard, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Haggis, Taraji P. Henson, Kenneth Lonergan, Eva Longoria, Josh Radnor, and Evan Rachel Wood — as well as policy makers and entertainment business leaders.

According to a press release, the seven juries will award $180,000 in cash and prizes during the Festival (April 17-28). Tribeca All Access (Taa) Creative Promise Awards will award an additional $20,000 — $10,000 for narrative and $10,000 for documentary. All winners will also receive a work of original art by...

Has Elementary finally introduced Sherlock’s infamous foe? What really happened to Irene Adler? And will Joan be sticking around to help solve crimes with the P.I.? Thursday night’s episode of the hit CBS drama delved into the show’s mythology to answer those big questions.

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This week’s case is a familiar one for Sherlock: It involves a killer, simply known as M., who was responsible for 37 deaths in Britain. Now the elusive criminal who escaped Holmes’ clutches back in the motherland has made...

After stops in Locarno, Tiff and Nyff, The Cinema Guild have The Last Time I Saw Macao , João Pedro Rodrigues was born in Lisbon. His feature films are and “The Last Time I Saw Macao” (2012). João Rui Guerra da Mata has co-written with João Pedro Rodrigues the feature film “To Die Like a Man” (2009). “The Last Time I Saw Macao” (2012) is his first feature film as director.

Gist:

Worth Noting: Rodrigues’ previous films are available for viewing: “O Fantasma” (2000), Two Drifters aka “Odette” (2005), “To Die Like a Man” (2009)

Do We Care?: Although our Blake Williams does have some reservations about the film (Tiff ’12 Daily recap), he thinks that “the disappearance of history and culture (Macao was a Portuguese colony for 4 centuries, ending in 1999, so the filmmakers are playing with their own genuine and personal nostalgia from its past), these little bursts of light infused a visual poeticism that made the overall viewing rewarding.

There is no such thing as “pure documentary.” While classified as “non-fiction,” documentaries ultimately form narratives depending on how the director chooses to cut the footage together. In The Last Time I Saw Macao, co-directors Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata, conversely, draw attention to a fictional framework, a man searching for his troubled friend in Macao. However, this framework opens up to an honest documentary portrait of a city. Last Time I Saw Macao does indeed find a clever fashion in which to photograph its eponymous city, but sometimes lacks a certain ability to entertain. The film begins with a rather compelling opening sequence. Transgendered woman Candy (Cindy Scrash, star of Rodrigues’ To Die Like A Man) lip-synchs to Jane Russell’s “You Kill Me” from Josef Von Sternbergh’s film Macao (1952) in a direct homage to both the film and the city (many references are made to Von Sternbergh’s film throughout...

The New York Film Festival is celebrating its 50th birthday this year while at the same time saying goodbye to Richard Peña, who served as Program Director for the last 25 years. This year’s festival is packed with films from all over the world, bringing the best of the best from Cannes, Berlin, and other renowned festivals to a New York audience. Peña, who also teaches in the Film Department at Columbia University, has long championed Latin American cinema, in particular. After traveling in the region as a young undergrad he decided to focus his academic research on Latin America. Peña has gone on to not only spotlight Latino films in the classroom but also carved out a space, year after year, for Latino films to shine at the New York Film Festival. This year is no exception. Now in its second week, the fest has some exciting Latino premieres that will close out its 50th edition.

Here and There

Aquí y Allá | Antonio Méndez Esparza (2012)

Mexico/Spain/USA | Spanish with English subtitles | Format: Dcp | 110 minutes

Having won the top prize at the Critic’s Week sidebar at Cannes, this debut feature from Antonio Méndez Esparza looks at immigration from a different point of view--what happens when you go back? Pedro returns home to his family in Mexico after a stint working in New York. When he arrives he is surprised to see how different things look, how things have changed. He has little to say to his daughters and has to get to know his wife all over again. He feels detached, lonely, alienated. He feels distant from his family--and in parallel, the camera stays far away from the characters. In a series of long takes, conversations amongst family and friends are seen from a distance and the camera remains stationary. People walk in and out of scenes, have their backs turned to the camera, or are just too far away to see clearly. We rarely get a glimpse of those who talk and without close-ups of their faces--miss out on facial expressions and the nuances of the nonverbal. Just like Pedro--the audience, as a result of the camera work--has trouble emotionally connecting with the people on the screen.

No

Pablo Larraín (2012)

Chile/USA | Spanish with English subtitles | Format: Dcp | 110 minutes

Pablo Larraín and Gael García Bernal in person at both screenings and at the SoHo Apple Store on Thursday, October 11 as part of NyffLive.

“In 1988, in an effort to extend and legitimize its rule, the Chilean military junta announced it would hold a plebiscite to get the people’s permission to stay in power. Despite being given 15 minutes a day to plead its case on television, the anti-Pinochet opposition was divided and without a clear message. Enter Rene Saavedra, an ad man who, after a career pushing soft drinks and soap, sets out to sell Chileans on democracy and freedom.” Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries) stars as Rene Saavedra. His performance is said to be the major reason behind the standing ovation it received at the Cannes Film Festival, its world premiere. It also was just announced as Chile’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.

The Dead Man and Being Happy

El muerto y ser feliz | Javier Rebollo (2012)

Spain/Argentina/France | Spanish with English subtitles | Format: Dcp | 94 minutes

“For his third feature, the gifted Spanish director Javier Rebollo (Woman Without Piano) has decamped to Argentina and created a literate, screwball road movie that Borges surely would have loved. The “dead man” of the title is Santos (veteran Spanish screen star José Sacristán), a cancer-stricken hired killer who flees his Buenos Aires hospital bed and sets off on one last assignment. It is a journey that takes him through an interior Argentina rarely glimpsed in movies, from the Cordoba resort town of La Cumbrecita (with its disproportionate—and disconcerting—population of elderly Germans) to the northern province of Santiago del Estero. Along the way, Santos finds himself joined by Alejandra (the wonderful Roxana Blanco), an attractive middle-aged woman who impulsively jumps into his vintage Ford Falcon at a gas station and soon thwarts him from his intended path.”

Films from Portugal are often excluded from a discussion of Latin American or Latino films. But, in the same way that we include Brazilian films even though they are in Portuguese and Spanish films because of the country’s colonial ties to the Americas--i personally think that films from Portugal should also qualify as Latin American or Latino. Maybe, I’ll just start calling them Ibero-American films.

Tabu

Miguel Gomes (2012)

Portugal | Portuguese with English Subtitles | Format: 35mm | 118 minutes

“Shot in ephemeral black-and-white celluloid, Tabu is movie-as-dream—an evocation of irrational desires, extravagant coincidences, and cheesy nostalgia that nevertheless is grounded in serious feeling and beliefs, even anti-colonialist politics. There is a story, which is delightful to follow and in which the cart comes before the horse: the first half is set in contemporary Lisbon, the second, involving two of the same characters, in a Portuguese colony in the early 1960s. “Be My Baby” belted in Portuguese, a wandering crocodile, and a passionate, ill-advised coupling seen through gently moving mosquito netting make for addled movie magic.”

The Last Time I Saw Macao

A Última Vez Que Vi Macau | João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata (2012)

Portugal/France | Portuguese with English Subtitles | 85 minutes

“This stunning amalgam of playful film noir and Chris Marker–like cine-essay from João Pedro Rodrigues (To Die Like a Man, Nyff 2009) and João Rui Guerra da Mata explores the psychic pull of the titular former Portuguese colony. After a spectacular opening scene, in which actress Cindy Scrash lip-synchs, as tigers pace behind her, to Jane Russell’s “You Kill Me”—from Josef von Sternberg’s Macao (1952), a key reference here—the film shifts to da Mata’s off-screen recollections of growing up in this gambling haven in the South China Sea.”

The New York Film Festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, runs through October 14.

Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature onSydneysBuzzthat highlights emerging and established Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow@LatinoBuzzon twitter.

This week's announcement that Olivier Père, former programmer of Cannes's Directors' Fortnight, will be stepping down from his post at the helm of the Festival del Film Locarno marks the end of brief but important era for this film festival, one of the longest-running in the world. In just three years, Père has helped to put the annual event back on the festival map, drawing an annual influx of celebrities and industry-types for red-carpet world premieres, jury prizes, and lifetime achievement awards. Perhaps more than ever in its sixty-six-year history, Locarno is an important station on the fall festival circuit, forecasting the slates of Toronto and New York and providing useful international gateway for cinema from all over the world.

This year's festival featured a characteristically dizzying mix of international festival ephemera, an Otto Preminger retrospective, and much-heralded appearances by the likes of Kylie Minogue, Alain Delon, and Harry Belafonte on the festival's main stage,...

I had the occasion to have lunch with film industry veteran Jonathan Dana at Cannes and he shared some war stories of what it means to be a "producer" in this day and age.

Zc: So Jonathan, what is it that you do?

Jd: Over my 41 years in the business I have done just about everything except own a theater, including being a partner in two of the prominent indie companies of the 80's and 90's (Atlantic Releasing and Triton Pictures),  before going back on my own in 1995 as a producer and producer's rep. I was also an initial investor in and, with the founders, supervised the launch of indie film community Withoutabox.com, now an operating division of IMDb.

I do both docs and fiction films and enjoy each. Two of my recent docs as a rep have been 2012 Spirit Award nominee "We Were Here" which has its televison premiere on Independent Lens this week, and "The Invisible War" which won the American Doc Audience Award at this year's Sundance and opens theatrically imminently.

As a producer does that mean you came to Cannes to sell something?

We're always selling something, no?

Did you have specific goals in mind for Cannes?  Did you achieve those goals?

Yes, I always have a specific mission in Cannes, whatever it might be in any particular year. One of the art forms, and survival skills, is being able to define your goals in your own mind ahead of time so you can constantly keep steering back to the mission amidst the apparent chaos of the fest and market. And yes, the fest was a success for me, despite its rather unusual wet weather.

This year my mission was to move forward a slate of films I am executive producing with Code Entertainment, the excellent production/finance company run by Al Corley and Bart Rosenblatt with whom I have worked for many years ("You Kill Me", "Kill the Irishman", "Drowning Mona", "Sad Jack", upcoming.)

I also had the pleasure of representing the interests of screenwriter Jose Rivera, Rick Berg's client at Code's management division, who was unable to attend the premiere of his "On the Road". I loved the film, and it was a great 'red carpet' evening, with fine weather to boot!

How important is networking to what a producer does?

It's obviously a big part of the job, especially at a Cannes like this one where so many new sales and financing companies were announced. It is important to stay current, even though it often makes your head hurt. I was proud of myself this year, going totally electronic with my iPhone, both for scheduling and for keeping meeting notes, making the usually horrific task of post-Cannes debriefing entirely tolerable.

Do you have any advice for producers and filmmakers who feel that it's just too expensive to justify the cost of going to Cannes or another major festival?

There are many ways to skin a cat. No one event is irreplaceable. Just keep moving forward with the resources at hand. No one ever failed at the movie business just because they did not go to any particular festival.

Do you have any anecdotes or a particular "Cannes moment" of note?

Having been to Cannes 30 times, I am fortunate to have had numerous Cannes moments, including huge triumphs and failures, as well as the tiny moments that are at least equally memorable, so it is hard to pick one. I do remember standing at the top of the red carpet with Patty Hearst, a lovely woman, after the premiere of her biopic that we made with Paul Schrader, staring out at the crowd, thinking "Wow, there's all kinda ways to get to the top of these stairs."

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With news yesterday that David Fincher was battling over an already $100 million budget on the original Netflix series "House of Cards," it now appears the rental/streaming company are interested in one of the most expensive shows already airing on television -- "Terra Nova." Fox canceled the show earlier this week but Netflix are rumored to be in talks with the network over reviving the show in the same way they will with another canceled Fox property -- "Arrested Development." The show reportedly performs well on DVR, so Netflix may represent the perfect new home for the sci-fi series.

This comes alongside news that Netflix are looking into the possibility of becoming a cable service. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who always seems to be talking about one plan or another, raised the possibility of having cable operators offer Netflix's streaming video service but "not in the short term." We'd...

Suggesting that the television industry is sorting through some rarely disturbed shelves of its local video store in search of films that can still be adapted, Showtime has begun developing a small-screen version of You Kill Me, the Ben Kingsley mobster movie that isn’t Sexy Beast. Like John Dahl’s fine but mostly forgettable film from 2007, the dark comedy will focus on an alcoholic hitman drying out in San Francisco, where he takes a job at a mortuary and soon encounters even more indie-film quirks—like his AA sponsor, a gay toll collector on the Golden Gate Bridge ...

Exclusive: Showtime has put in development You Kill Me, a drama series version of the 2007 movie of the same name starring Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni and Luke Wilson. The film, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and directed by John Dahl, centers on a hit man who, after messing up one too many times, is forced to deal with his demons in AA. UTA-repped Markus and McFeely will write and executive produce the TV adaptation. Their feature credits also include Captain America: The First Avenger and The Chronicles Of Narnia. In TV, the two won an Emmy for writing the HBO movie The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.

Ender’S Game Finds its War Hero?

Ender’s Game, the movie, is beginning to really take shape. We have heard a handful of casting rumors and it seems many deals are currently under negotiation. It was just last week we learned Hugo star Asa Butterfield was circling the starring role in this adaptation of the Orson Scott Card classic sci fi tale. Now the motion picture may have found its first war hero.

According to THR, Sir Ben Kingsley is talking to filmmakers now about being added to the Ender’s Game cast. Kingsley would be taking the role of a legendary war hero long assumed to be dead.

Asa will portray Ender Wiggin, a child who struggles with being picked on by bullies in his everyday life. Hey, that’s a timely topic today! But Ender’s life changes drastically when he proves to be highly skilled at a “three-dimensional,...

MTV has learned that Transformers: Dark of the Moon director Michael Bay will be moving from the big budget $100 plus films to a film with a budget of $20 million. This particular project will be based on an article from 1999 called “Pain & Gain” (which you can read online here).

The film is described as Fargo meets Pulp Fiction and involves a group of steroid abusing bone heads who get tied up in a botched kidnapping attempt. The original screenplay was written by writing partners Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia movies, You Kill Me, and the upcoming Captain America : The First Avenger. Bay has described the film as a dark comedy, which is something that is not in his wheelhouse. But its not the genre that I am interested in, its how he is able to adapt to the $20 million budget and not go over it.

There was only one part of this week's episode of "The Vampire Diaries" that I was looking forward to, and that was the scene where Damon tells Stefan about his werewolf bite. Those two are at their best when they're together.

As for the rest of the episode... I was completely dreading it. First of all, we've been warned left and right about how sad it would be, and sad things generally do not make me happy, for they are sad. Additionally, I figured that the actual sacrifice couldn't possibly live up the the hype.

I'm happy to say that I was wrong on both counts. Let's jump in, shall we?

Previously on "The Vampire Diaries": Elijah talked so much.

8:01 - Matt! In the first scene of the episode! Unfortunately, it's hard to get excited about his presence when he just shot Tyler. Why is Matt so comfortable with a gun?...

Jury selection kicks off Monday for the latest trial of the century-did Casey Anthony murder her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee? Diane Dimond on how the sideshow is already baffling observers.

Jury selection in the capital murder trial of Casey Anthony is set to begin Monday at an undisclosed location in Florida. The judge has agreed to try to choose a jury from outside the Orlando hot-zone of this case-a hat tip to the fact that as legal circuses go, this one may top them all.

The recipe seems perfect:  A beautiful young single mother, who after a fierce fight with her mother in the summer of 2008 leaves the communal home with her 2-year old daughter, Caylee, and shows up 31 days later to proclaim she's somehow misplaced her child.  Ingredients include her abandoned car which smells like a dead body, a passel of incredible lies about a non-existent Nanny with the storybook name of Zanny,...

Photo: Warner Bros. I was completely out of the loop when it came to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a film predominantly known at this point as the worst reviewed movie of the last decade by RottenTomatoes standards. So, when I decided I would follow in the footsteps of my previous look at Skyline and regularly take a look back at movies considered to be among the worst ever that I had not yet seen, there was no better place to start.

In short, yes, this is a bad film. Terrible in fact. Is it the worst? That's all relative to the discussion. Worst in what way? Plot? Characters? Execution? Entertainment? In all honesty, this is a film I would consider a perfect entry in a new age of grindhouse. All I could think of while watching the inexplicable amount of explosions, lack of story and silly predicaments was of Robert Rodriguez...

"They're supremely talented," Jennifer Lopez said of American Idol's top 12 girls at the start of Wednesday's 90-minute showcase, which will lead to the announcement of the season's finalists on Thursday. Overall, the male performers on Tuesday were more supremely talented, but the female voices were never less than professional, never just sloppily over the top. In fact, it's harder to determine which five will survive. I could move blocks of texts up and down all night, but after awhile it's like trying to assemble a bowl of fruit for a perfect still-life painting. So, we start with five I...

Cyrus expanded and led all limited releases over the weekend, creeping in to the overall Top Ten. I Am Love and Solitary Man weren't far behind, while newcomers I Hate Luv Storys and Love Ranch failed to woo much attention. Cyrus added 60 theaters for a total of 77, grossing $774,472 for the three-day weekend ($1.1 million over the four-day holiday weekend). Its $10,058 per-theater average and Top Ten finish indicate that Cyrus will receive a much larger expansion in the coming weeks. While its current pace is relatively solid, Cyrus has still performed at a fraction of the level of Little Miss Sunshine ($59.9 million) and also has lagged behind (500) Days of Summer ($32.4 million), among fellow summer Fox Searchlight releases. Through its third weekend, the John C. Reilly-Jonah Hill comedy has made $1.8 million. I Am Love grabbed a three-day weekend gross of $528,877 ($722,544 for the four-day). Playing at 80 locations, the Tilda Swinton drama has thus far earned $1.3 million.

Re-watching John Dahl's The Last Seduction (1994) with the intent of writing a review for the neo-noir retrospective, I initially thought I was going to be writing about Linda Fiorentino's femme fatale. I mean, how can you not think about her when watching the film? Those inky dresses and dark tinted sunglasses that happen to match her raven-colored hair, only making her skin seem that much milkier. That cigarette always dangling from her pursed lips, only opening to tell Mike (Peter Berg) that he's her "designated fuck." Watching Dahl's film, her character's bitchiness beautifully juxtaposed by her stunning beauty, Fiorentino is obviously the raison d'être. Yet, here I was, obviously attracted by her presence but, nevertheless, thinking about Beston.

That's right, Beston, New York. A piece of cow country; a small suburb outside of Buffalo where citizens greet strangers with a friendly "Hello," the cost of living is low,...

After being offered the role last Friday, Chris Evans has agreed to star as Captain America for Marvel Studios.

According to THR, the dealmaking has gone swiftly and now it’s “all about dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.”

Marvel had planned on offering an unknown actor just $300,000 for the role, but Evans is expected to bank more than that given his higher profile — he’s starred in recent films like Push, Street Kings, and Sunshine, not to mention the two Fantastic Four movies. He will, however, have to sign a contract that locks him into a maximum of nine Marvel movies — the first two of which will be the stand-alone Captain America movie and The Avengers, in which he’d team up with Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and possibly the Hulk (Edward Norton).

The first movie — still going by the title The First Avenger: Captain America...

Between its September 15th DVD release date and FEARnet running the unaired episodes, there are plenty of ways to dig on what you didn't see while "Fear Itself" was on TV. For those of you without cable who are curious for a taste, we've got an exclusive clip and stills for you from an episode called "Chance".

"Chance" is directed by John Dahl (You Kill Me, The Last Seduction) and written by Lem Dobbs (The Score) and Rick Dahl (Red Rock West). In the vein of such classic doppelganger stories as Jekyll & Hyde and Poe's William Wilson, the episode explores a dreadful, classic battle that ensues when a man, played by Ethan Embry (Brotherhood, Sweet Home Alabama), is confronted by his evil self. Also starring are Christine Chatelain (“Smallville”) and Vondie Curtis-Hall (“ER,” Soul Food). Premieres on FEARnet: 9/6 -- Ends 9/16

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"Fear Itself" should be pretty fresh in your minds considering it's hitting DVD soon with some very bitchin' artwork. The short-lived show was like the unofficial third season of "Masters of Horror". For various reasons it was pulled before it could run its final five episodes. FEARnet is out to fix all that.

Starting on September 2nd the final five will begin being aired. Below you'll find a synopsis of each episode and when you can tune in to see them.

"Something With Bite," directed by Ernest Dickerson (NBC’s "Heroes"), is a reinvention of the classic werewolf story from writer Max Landis ("Masters of Horror"), the son of John Landis ("An American Werewolf in London"). When a veterinarian (Wendell Pierce, “The Wire”) is bitten by a large, strange animal brought into his clinic, he begins to see the world and his stale life differently. Paula Jai Parker (“Side Order of Life,...

Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer will play the leads in "The Irishman," a crime story that Jonathan Hensleigh will direct.

Code Entertainment is producing the action movie, which is based on the real story of mobster Danny Greene (Stevenson). Hensleigh and Jeremy Walters ("Dali") wrote the script, inspired by the book "To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia" by Rick Porrello.

Greene was a violent Irish-American gangster who competed with the Italian mob in 1970s Cleveland and ended up provoking a countrywide turf war that crippled the mafia. Walken will play the loan shark and nightclub owner Shondor Birns, and Kilmer is a Cleveland police detective who befriends Greene.

Code's Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt and Eugene Musso are producing, along with Dundee Entertainment's Tommy Reid and Tara Reid, who brought the property to Code. Jonathan Dana, Peter Miller and Porrello are exec producers, with George Perez serving as co-producer.

At the end of last week, we wrote about how Michael Bay wanted to direct a "small movie" in between Transformers 2 and 3. He only hinted that it would be a "dark comedy," but didn't say much else, at least not at the time. However, SlashFilm was sent a tip over the weekend, stating that Bay's small movie is actually an adaptation of a Miami New Times article from 1999 called "Pain & Gain" (which you can read online here). The true story is about a couple of steroid-abusing knucklehead bodybuilders from Florida who become criminals involved in an extortion ring and a a kidnapping plot that all goes horribly wrong. It's described as a mix of Fargo and Pulp Fiction or even "Point Break with bodybuilders." The original screenplay was written by writing partners Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia movies, You Kill Me, ...

Veteran lit agent Rich Freeman has joined Code Entertainment's management division, coming aboard as a partner alongside Rick Berg and Larry Kennar.

Freeman, who exited Paradigm late last year, is bringing with him clients David Auburn, David Hubbard and Jay Wolpert.

Freeman has 12 years of agenting under his belt, starting his career at Writers and Artists Agency in 1996. He was head of the literary department when Paradigm acquired the company in August 2004.

Code is a production and management company, with such clients as Jose Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries") and Ken Kwapis ("He's Just Not That Into You"). With a $40 million revolving equity fund, it also finances and produces movies including last year's John Dahl comedy "You Kill Me," with Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni.

Apparently, it takes a team to make Steve Rogers into Captain America. Screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Staphen McFeely have singed on to write the script for The First Avenger: Captain America. With a director and now screenwriters, the film about Cap' is well underway. The team of Markus and McFeely have been responsible for the first two Narnia films, You Kill Me and won Emmys for writing The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. With such a mixed batch of films, it's hard to have complete faith that that Marvel is making the absolute best decision. Many industry insiders were hoping for a more classic choice of screenwriter, like Zak Penn (Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Electra), for the adaptation. THR reports that Marvel man Kevin Feige will be producing, while director Joe Johnston (Hidalgo) hopped on board just last week. Johnston is also a somewhat interesting choice, but...

Marvel has done well in their second turn in keeping their next big superhero in the news cycle as news screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have been brought aboard to pen the script for First Avenger: Captain America based on the 1941 Jack Kirby and Joe Simon created comicbook superhero. Markus and McFeely both contributed to the first two Narnia films as well as the Ben Kingsley 2007 starrer You Kill Me. The news comes 9 days after director Joe Johnston was named as the film's helmer, but there still remains no word on who is being considered for the lead role of Steve Rogers a man deemed too frail to enter the Army, but through a secret 'Super-Soldier Serum' he becomes a perfect specimen. Following his transformation he sets out as Captain America in a war against evil. Captain America is also the leader of the superhero group knows as the Avengers,...

It's time to speak up Captain America fans! Here's your movie: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are writing the WWII-set screenplay and Joe Johnston will be directing. Markus and McFeely previously penned the screenplays for both Chronicles of Narnia movies as well as You Kill Me. Johnston, as we previously announced, directed Jumanji, October Sky, and Jurassic Park III, as well as a few other films. There's your lead creative team behind The First Avenger: Captain America. Will they be able to pull it off? Will they give us the Captain America movie that we've waited to see ever since Jack Kirby and Joe Simon introduced him in 1941? It's here and it's happening and we want to know what you think? While we wait for Marvel to announce who will play both Thor and Captain America in their next few upcoming movies, it's time to open this up for ...

Elegy

Starring Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz, and Dennis Hopper

Directed by Isabel Coixet

Rated R

Without looking, I'd say that love stories are probably the most common types of movies. That's because they can be disguised as any number of things, from musicals to murder mysteries. So to see one - a smart one, no less - that has no other pretense but to be an investigation of how a relationship works or doesn't work is a bit like walking a high wire without a net. I mean, Transformers has a love story in it.

Elegy is, for better or worse, about two people who fall in love while not meaning to. David (Sir Ben Kingsley) is a professor and art and literature critic. He was married once when he was a young man, left his wife and child because that life was not for him, and has never been in a deep relationship since.

New York -- The lineups for the Tribeca Film Festival World Narrative and World Documentary Feature Film Competition and Spotlight section slate were unveiled Monday, along with the potentially controversial move to eliminate the New York section of the fest.

Filmmakers including Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Apted, John Dahl, Ed Burns and Shane Meadows will be featured in the selection, along with such stars as America Ferrera, Ray Romano, Bruce Springsteen, Tea Leoni and Debra Messing.

The Tribeca fest was founded in 2002 in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks to support New York artists and the local economy. While there still will be an award for best New York film, the decision to cut the local section might be seen as a move away from the fest's roots and original mission.

"We've spread New York films across all the sections, and we support New York filmmakers, but we didn't want it to seem like, 'Here's the New York festival, and here's the rest,'" said Nancy Schafer, Tff managing director and programmer.

Executive director Peter Scarlet noted that the festival has been international from its inception. "We try to get the best damn films we can," he said.

Schafer and Scarlet said this year's lineup offers a particularly strong selection of films from Latin America, with such titles as "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" (O Ano Em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Ferias) and "Born and Bred" (Nacido y Criado).

The announced films from the sixth annual fest come from 25 countries and include 10 world premieres. "The festival, while young, continues to attract films expressing compelling views from filmmakers from around the globe and around the corner," Tff co-founder Jane Rosenthal said.

One of the highest-profile entries among the 18 World Narrative competition films is "Entourage" star Kevin Connolly's black comedy "Gardener of Eden," starring Giovanni Ribisi and Erika Christensen, from producer DiCaprio. Other highlights include Pascale Ferran's French D.H. Lawrence adaptation "Lady Chatterley," billed as "sensual yet never vulgar"; Paolo Virzi's biopic "Napoleon and Me" (Lo e Napoleone), starring Daniel Auteuil as the famed emperor; and Jose Antonio Negret's Colombian kidnapping thriller "Towards Darkness" (Hacia la Oscuridad), starring Ferrera.

The 16 World Documentary films in competition include John Reiss' graffiti docu "Bomb It" and the Afghani murder mystery "Taxi to the Dark Side," from director Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"). Esther Robinson examines her uncle, Andy Warhol's one-time lover, in "A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory," and Paul Taylor looks at a South African AIDS orphanage in "We Are Together" (Thina Simunye), featuring a performance by Alicia Keys and Paul Simon.

The 17 Spotlight films include writer-director-star Julie Delpy's romantic comedy "2 Days in Paris" (Deux Jours a Paris); Burns' romance "Purple Violets," starring Patrick Wilson and Messing; and Zak Penn's casino mockumentary "The Grand," starring Woody Harrelson and Romano.

Other high-profile Spotlight films are Jim Brown's folk music docu "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song," featuring Bob Dylan and Springsteen; Meadows' '80s punk coming-of-age tale "This Is England"; Apted's soccer docu "The Power of the Game"; and Dahl's hitman comedy-drama "You Kill Me," starring Ben Kingsley and Leoni.

The fest, which will unveil 159 features during the next few weeks, runs April 25-May 6.

Miramax's Gone Baby Gone and Universal's Georgia Rule are among the feature films nominated for Prism Awards, which aim to bring attention to substance abuse and mental health issues.

In addition to those wide-release nominees, five films were nominated in the limited-release category: the Weinstein Co.'s Control, Warner Independent's In the Valley of Elah, Outsider Pictures' Man in the Chair, ThinkFilm's Self-Medicated and IFC Films' You Kill Me.

The Entertainment Industries Council, which announced nominees in 29 categories Monday, will name winners of the 12th annual Prism Awards on April 24.

The awards are designed to "honor actors, movies, music, media and television's top shows (that) that accurately depict and bring attention to substance abuse and mental health issues." ABC led all TV networks with 20 noms.

A complete list of noms follows.

Feature film wide release

Georgia Rule (Universal Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions)

Gone Baby Gone (Miramax Films / LivePlanet / Ladd Co.)

Feature film limited release

Control (The Weinstein Co. / Northsee Ltd. / EM Media / IFF-CINV / 3 Dogs and a Pony / Warner Music UK)

In the Valley of Elah (Warner Independent Pictures / Blackfriars Bridge Films / Summit Entertainment / Samuels Media / NALA Films)

Man in the Chair (Outsider Pictures)

Self-Medicated (ThinkFilm / Promise Pictures)

You Kill Me (IFC Films / Code Entertainment / Baum Echo Lake Rosenman Productions / Bipolar Productions)

Performance in a feature film

Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone

Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl

Felicity Huffman, Georgia Rule

Ben Kingsley, You Kill Me

Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton...

Rhona Mitra has boarded the indie thriller The Boy in the Box for A2 Entertainment Group and Code Entertainment.

She joins Josh Lucas and Jon Hamm in the film about a small-town police chief (Hamm) determined to discover the truth behind the mummified remains of a boy who was murdered a half-century earlier.

Anders Anderson is directing from a screenplay by Glenn Taranto.

James Van Der Beek (Standing Still), Marcus Thomas (You Kill Me), Jimmy Bennett (Hostage) and Jessica Chastain (Jolene) also have been cast.

Mitra plays the police chief's wife, who is trying to move on after the disappearance of their own son eight years earlier. Lucas plays the father of the murdered boy.

A2's Anderson and Andy Steinman and Code Entertainment's Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt and Eugene Musso are producing.

Mitra next appears in Rogue Pictures' Doomsday and is about to start production in New Zealand on Underworld: Rise of the Lycans for Screen Gems. Her credits include the features The Number 23 and Skinwalkers and FX's Nip/Tuck.

She is repped by CAA, Jason Weinberg and attorney Warren Dern.

TORONTO -- ThinkFilm has won the battle for "Battle in Seattle", acquiring all U.S. rights for about $2 million.

"Battle", which sports an all-star ensemble led by Charlize Theron, had its world premiere Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival and marks Stuart Townsend's directorial debut. The film is set amid the protests and riots that surrounded the World Trade Organization's 1999 meeting in Seattle.

The deal was ThinkFilm's second buy at Toronto this year. It scored the biggest sale of the fest's opening days when it picked up "Then She Found Me", Helen Hunt's directorial debut, taking U.S. distribution rights for slightly less than $2 million.

The filmmakers were repped by Endeavor Independent, which also handled a number of last year's big Toronto sales such as "Rescue Dawn" to MGM; "El Cantante", which it co-repped with William Morris Independent, to Picturehouse; and "You Kill Me", which it co-repped with ICM, to IFC.

"We started the festival with the biggest sale, and we ended the festival with the biggest sale," ThinkFilm head of U.S.

• Few actors ever get the chance to go to the extremes that Sir Ben Kingsley has in his career. In 1982 he won an Oscar for the title role in Gandhi, portraying history’s most non-violent revolutionary. 22 years later, he would be nominated for another Oscar, this time for his portrayal of Don Logan, arguably the most brutal, animalistic, and outright scary gangster, ever, sent to persuade a retired bank robber out of retirement for one last job in Sexy Beast.In director John Dahl’s (Rounders, The Last Seduction) black comedy/romantic comedy/crime thriller You Kill Me, Kingsley plays Frank Falenczyk, a hitman for the Buffalo, NY Polish crime syndicate, battling with alcoholism. After botching a hit on a rival Irish crime family, his sympathetic uncle ships him to San Francisco to overcome his addiction. With the help of a supportive AA sponsor (Luke Wilson) and a new

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• You Kill Me, now out in a limited release from IFC films, is a welcome return to independent filmmaking for director John Dahl, who made a name for himself with films like Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, but has recently focused his talents on direction major studio releases like Joy Ride and The Great Raid.Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast, The House of Sand and Fog) stars as Frank Falenczyk, a hitman for the Polish mob operating out of Buffalo, NY, fighting a losing battle with alcoholism (ironic for those who remember Kingsley guest-starred as himself on an episode of The Sopranos opposite their resident 12-stepper, Christopher, who was pitching Kingsley a script for an indie crime/horror film). When Frank botches a hit on the rival Irish crime boss (Denis Farnia -- no stranger to organized crime himself, having played in Get Shorty and Snatch), his uncle

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