Charlie Hunnam is set to star in a film for Spyglass Media Group about a photographer’s deep bond with his dog, based on the memoir “Denali: A Man, A Dog, A Friendship Of A Lifetime,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Hunnam’s director on the boxing biopic “Jungleland” Max Winkler will write and direct the film, which will be adapted from adventure photographer Ben Moon’s memoir published earlier this year by Penguin Random House. Hunnam is also producing with Bona Fide productions’ Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger.
Moon’s memoir describes how upon moving to Oregon, he adopted a shelter puppy named Denali that remained by his side even as Moon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 29. Denali later contracted the same disease, and Moon was able to return the favor.
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Hunnam’s director on the boxing biopic “Jungleland” Max Winkler will write and direct the film, which will be adapted from adventure photographer Ben Moon’s memoir published earlier this year by Penguin Random House. Hunnam is also producing with Bona Fide productions’ Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger.
Moon’s memoir describes how upon moving to Oregon, he adopted a shelter puppy named Denali that remained by his side even as Moon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 29. Denali later contracted the same disease, and Moon was able to return the favor.
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- 5/22/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Some bittersweet news for Freeform fans. The network just announced new episodes of Grown-ish and Good Trouble and the new TV show Cruel Summer won't premiere until 2021.
Grown-ish, a spin-off of Black-ish, aired half of its third season earlier this year before production shut down. Cruel Summer (fka Last Summer) is a new series from Bert V. Royal and Jessica Biel that "takes place over three summers in the 90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America. The cast includes Olivia Holt, Chiara Aurelia, Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee and Brooklyn Sudano.
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Grown-ish, a spin-off of Black-ish, aired half of its third season earlier this year before production shut down. Cruel Summer (fka Last Summer) is a new series from Bert V. Royal and Jessica Biel that "takes place over three summers in the 90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America. The cast includes Olivia Holt, Chiara Aurelia, Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee and Brooklyn Sudano.
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- 5/20/2020
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Freeform is delaying some of its series in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
With several TV shows forced to shut down amid stay-at-home orders, there are some changes coming to the network's schedule.
Freeform’s number one comedy series grown-ish, which had its midseason finale in March, will return to the network next year to finish up season three.
Starring Yara Shahidi, Trevor Jackson, Francia Raisa, Emily Arlook, Jordan Buhat, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Luka Sabbat, and Diggy Simmons, grown-ish is produced by ABC Signature Studios, a part of Disney Television Studios, and executive produced by Kenya Barris, Julie Bean, Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry, Craig Doyle, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland and E. Brian Dobbins.
From executive producers Bert V. Royal and Jessica Biel, Freeform’s highly anticipated psychological thriller Cruel Summer will now debut in 2021.
Olivia Holt (Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger) returns to the network to co-star in the series.
With several TV shows forced to shut down amid stay-at-home orders, there are some changes coming to the network's schedule.
Freeform’s number one comedy series grown-ish, which had its midseason finale in March, will return to the network next year to finish up season three.
Starring Yara Shahidi, Trevor Jackson, Francia Raisa, Emily Arlook, Jordan Buhat, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Luka Sabbat, and Diggy Simmons, grown-ish is produced by ABC Signature Studios, a part of Disney Television Studios, and executive produced by Kenya Barris, Julie Bean, Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry, Craig Doyle, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland and E. Brian Dobbins.
From executive producers Bert V. Royal and Jessica Biel, Freeform’s highly anticipated psychological thriller Cruel Summer will now debut in 2021.
Olivia Holt (Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger) returns to the network to co-star in the series.
- 5/19/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Sorry, Good Trouble and grown-ish fans, but it’s going to be a long wait until the shows’ finale cliffhangers are resolved: Freeform has postponed the returns of both series — which were originally slated to resume this summer — to 2021, as a result of the global coronavirus outbreak that has shut down production.
Additionally, the upcoming psychological thriller Cruel Summer (fka Last Summer), which counts Jessica Biel (The Sinner) among its EPs, will also now debut in 2021. Taking place during three different summers — 1993, 1994 and 1995 — the show is set in a small Texas town where a beautiful and popular teen, Kate (played...
Additionally, the upcoming psychological thriller Cruel Summer (fka Last Summer), which counts Jessica Biel (The Sinner) among its EPs, will also now debut in 2021. Taking place during three different summers — 1993, 1994 and 1995 — the show is set in a small Texas town where a beautiful and popular teen, Kate (played...
- 5/19/2020
- TVLine.com
The witches of Motherland: Fort Salem will continue to cast spells for Freeform.
The supernatural drama has scored a second season renewal at the cable network just days ahead of its first season finale.
TuSubtitulo first reported the news.
Set in an alternate, present-day America where witches ended their persecution 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the U.S. government to fight for their country, Motherland: Fort Salem follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into terrifying and thrilling early deployment.
In this world, the traditional roles of gender and power are flipped with women on the front lines, the fight looming and terrorist threats that are strikingly familiar to our world, but with supernatural tactics and weapons.
Taylor Hickson (Deadly Class) plays Raelle, a reluctant recruit with major authority issues whose mother recently died in the line of duty.
Jessica Sutton (The Kissing Booth) is Tally,...
The supernatural drama has scored a second season renewal at the cable network just days ahead of its first season finale.
TuSubtitulo first reported the news.
Set in an alternate, present-day America where witches ended their persecution 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the U.S. government to fight for their country, Motherland: Fort Salem follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into terrifying and thrilling early deployment.
In this world, the traditional roles of gender and power are flipped with women on the front lines, the fight looming and terrorist threats that are strikingly familiar to our world, but with supernatural tactics and weapons.
Taylor Hickson (Deadly Class) plays Raelle, a reluctant recruit with major authority issues whose mother recently died in the line of duty.
Jessica Sutton (The Kissing Booth) is Tally,...
- 5/19/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Freeform has picked up second seasons of “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” and “Motherland: Fort Salem,” the network announced Tuesday.
Additionally, the debut of horror series “Cruel Summer,” as well as new season premieres for “Grown-ish” and “Good Trouble,” have been pushed to 2021. “The Bold Type,” which was forced to suspend production on Season 4 due to the pandemic, will resume airing later this summer, along with the remotely produced limited series “Love in the Time of Corona.”
“We couldn’t be happier to bring both ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’ and ‘Motherland: Fort Salem’ back for second seasons. Each show’s originality, characters and themes struck a chord with our audience, and we’re excited to share the ambitious stories the writers have planned for season two,” said Lauren Corrao, Freeform’s executive vice president of original programming and development. “We have a strong slate ahead, and with our young adult audience...
Additionally, the debut of horror series “Cruel Summer,” as well as new season premieres for “Grown-ish” and “Good Trouble,” have been pushed to 2021. “The Bold Type,” which was forced to suspend production on Season 4 due to the pandemic, will resume airing later this summer, along with the remotely produced limited series “Love in the Time of Corona.”
“We couldn’t be happier to bring both ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’ and ‘Motherland: Fort Salem’ back for second seasons. Each show’s originality, characters and themes struck a chord with our audience, and we’re excited to share the ambitious stories the writers have planned for season two,” said Lauren Corrao, Freeform’s executive vice president of original programming and development. “We have a strong slate ahead, and with our young adult audience...
- 5/19/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Freeform announced a range of programming news on Tuesday.
For starters, the Disney-owned cabler has renewed the freshman comedy “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” as well as the freshman drama “Motherland: Fort Salem.”
“Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” is created, executive produced and stars Josh Thomas. It follows Nicholas (Thomas), a neurotic twenty-something-year-old who is forced to raise his two teenage half-sisters, one of whom is on the autism spectrum, after the untimely death of their father.
The series also stars Kayla Cromer, Adam Faison and Maeve Press. It is produced and distributed internationally by Avalon. Thomas, Stephanie Swedlove and Kevin Whyte serve as executive producers, with David Martin, Jon Thoday and Richard Allen-Turner executive producing for Avalon. Additionally, “Please Like Me” collaborator Thomas Ward reunites with Thomas as co-executive producer.
“Motherland” is set in an alternate, present-day America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with...
For starters, the Disney-owned cabler has renewed the freshman comedy “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” as well as the freshman drama “Motherland: Fort Salem.”
“Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” is created, executive produced and stars Josh Thomas. It follows Nicholas (Thomas), a neurotic twenty-something-year-old who is forced to raise his two teenage half-sisters, one of whom is on the autism spectrum, after the untimely death of their father.
The series also stars Kayla Cromer, Adam Faison and Maeve Press. It is produced and distributed internationally by Avalon. Thomas, Stephanie Swedlove and Kevin Whyte serve as executive producers, with David Martin, Jon Thoday and Richard Allen-Turner executive producing for Avalon. Additionally, “Please Like Me” collaborator Thomas Ward reunites with Thomas as co-executive producer.
“Motherland” is set in an alternate, present-day America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with...
- 5/19/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Freeform has plotted out its original programming plans for the next 12 months with second-season renewals for Everything’s Gonna Be Okay and Motherland: Fort Salem and the move of grown-ish, Good Trouble and Cruel Summer to next year.
The news, released ahead next week’s Disney Advertising Sales Virtual Roadshow presentation, comes as the network looks to get out in front of the Covid-19 production shutdown, which impacted a number of its originals, including the three series pushed to next year. In a video message to fans (watch it below the story), Good Trouble stars Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez explain how production on Season 3 of The Fosters spinoff was suspended over the pandemic and it won’t be ready for a summer 2020 launch as originally planned.
With Good Trouble, new drama series Cruel Summer and Part 2 of grown-ish‘s third season all postponed until next year, Freeform’s summer 2020 lineup...
The news, released ahead next week’s Disney Advertising Sales Virtual Roadshow presentation, comes as the network looks to get out in front of the Covid-19 production shutdown, which impacted a number of its originals, including the three series pushed to next year. In a video message to fans (watch it below the story), Good Trouble stars Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez explain how production on Season 3 of The Fosters spinoff was suspended over the pandemic and it won’t be ready for a summer 2020 launch as originally planned.
With Good Trouble, new drama series Cruel Summer and Part 2 of grown-ish‘s third season all postponed until next year, Freeform’s summer 2020 lineup...
- 5/19/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Freeform has cast Olivia Holt as a lead in its upcoming series “Cruel Summer” in a recasting.
The Jessica Biel-produced series was previously titled “Last Summer.”
Holt, known for “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger,” will play Kate, “the embodiment of teenage perfection. Her life is one to be envied until she mysteriously disappears,” according to Freeform’s description. She replaces Mika Abdalla, who played Kate in the pilot.
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Here is the description for the series, which was ordered in January:
“The unconventional drama takes place over three summers in the 90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America. Each episode is told from alternating POVs.”
Max Winkler will direct...
The Jessica Biel-produced series was previously titled “Last Summer.”
Holt, known for “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger,” will play Kate, “the embodiment of teenage perfection. Her life is one to be envied until she mysteriously disappears,” according to Freeform’s description. She replaces Mika Abdalla, who played Kate in the pilot.
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Here is the description for the series, which was ordered in January:
“The unconventional drama takes place over three summers in the 90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America. Each episode is told from alternating POVs.”
Max Winkler will direct...
- 5/18/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger vet Olivia Holt is back at her old stomping grounds: The actress will star in Freeform’s forthcoming thriller series Cruel Summer (fka Last Summer), which counts Jessica Biel (The Sinner) among its executive producers, our sister site Deadline reports.
Taking place during three different summers — 1993, 1994 and 1995 — the show is set in a small Texas town where a beautiful and popular teen, Kate (Holt), goes missing. Seemingly unrelated, a girl named Jeanette (Tell Me Your Secrets‘ Chiara Aurelia) goes from being a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town — and, by...
Taking place during three different summers — 1993, 1994 and 1995 — the show is set in a small Texas town where a beautiful and popular teen, Kate (Holt), goes missing. Seemingly unrelated, a girl named Jeanette (Tell Me Your Secrets‘ Chiara Aurelia) goes from being a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town — and, by...
- 5/18/2020
- TVLine.com
Freeform is switching things up with its latest TV series.
Deadline is reporting that the Jessica Biel-produced thriller Last Summer, which the cabler ordered last year, has been re-titled Cruel Summer.
It sounds considerably more ominous, right?
To sweeten the deal, Olivia Holt has snagged the lead role in a recasting.
The series hails from Bert V. Royal, Jessica Biel, and eOne, with Cloak & Dagger grad Holt added as one of the two lead characters, Kate, "the embodiment of teenage perfection whose life is one to be envied until she mysteriously disappears.”
Mika Abdalla took on the role in the show’s pilot episode.
Cruel Summer takes place over three summers–’93, ’94, ’95–in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.
Deadline is reporting that the Jessica Biel-produced thriller Last Summer, which the cabler ordered last year, has been re-titled Cruel Summer.
It sounds considerably more ominous, right?
To sweeten the deal, Olivia Holt has snagged the lead role in a recasting.
The series hails from Bert V. Royal, Jessica Biel, and eOne, with Cloak & Dagger grad Holt added as one of the two lead characters, Kate, "the embodiment of teenage perfection whose life is one to be envied until she mysteriously disappears.”
Mika Abdalla took on the role in the show’s pilot episode.
Cruel Summer takes place over three summers–’93, ’94, ’95–in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.
- 5/18/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Former Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger star Olivia Holt is returning to Freeform as a lead in Cruel Summer, the network’s upcoming thriller drama series, which was previously titled Last Summer.
In the series, from Bert V. Royal, Jessica Biel and eOne, Holt will play one of the two lead characters, Kate, the embodiment of teenage perfection whose life is one to be envied until she mysteriously disappears. The role was played in the pilot by Mika Abdalla.
Cruel Summer, which was picked up to series in January, is described as an unconventional thriller. It takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate (Holt), is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia), goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America. Each episode is...
In the series, from Bert V. Royal, Jessica Biel and eOne, Holt will play one of the two lead characters, Kate, the embodiment of teenage perfection whose life is one to be envied until she mysteriously disappears. The role was played in the pilot by Mika Abdalla.
Cruel Summer, which was picked up to series in January, is described as an unconventional thriller. It takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate (Holt), is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia), goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America. Each episode is...
- 5/18/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, which dives deep into Taylor Swift’s Lover following our recent cover story. They make their way through the full album, expanding on points Swift made in her interview, and explore how Lover breaks new emotional and musical ground for the singer. Along the way, Spanos explains why “Cruel Summer” is the best song of the year so far (while puzzling over a lyric that’s either “he looks up,...
- 9/26/2019
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Lizzo maintains her reign as 100% that bitch with “Truth Hurts” as Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. Thanks to 18.9 million streams, the two-year-old track that was included on the pop star’s Cuz I Love You deluxe LP has continued to dominate the airwaves (it doesn’t hurt that the track was recently remixed with DaBaby).
The Rolling Stone Top 100 chart tracks the most popular songs of the week in the United States. Songs are ranked by song units, a number that combines audio streams and song...
The Rolling Stone Top 100 chart tracks the most popular songs of the week in the United States. Songs are ranked by song units, a number that combines audio streams and song...
- 9/3/2019
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
There's no bad blood here. Demi Lovato is celebrating Labor Day (and the end of summer) on a high note. Taking to Instagram Stories on Monday morning, the 27-year-old shared the "jam" she's been bopping to and it was none other than Taylor Swift's hit song "Cruel Summer" from her newly released album, Lover. What's more? The "Confident" singer made it clear that she's, in fact, a Swiftie... despite rumors the two weren't on great terms late last month. "Life's too short for women to not support other women," Lovato captioned her Instagram Story, along with a heart, praise hands and clapping hands emojis. "Especially when...
- 9/2/2019
- E! Online
Why is Lover so much more than just another great Taylor Swift album? Because it’s the one where she’s trying to make all the great Taylor Swift albums, at the same time. She’s closing down her twenties, which she spent making five of the decade’s best albums — Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation and now this one — all released before she reached the age when Leonard Cohen made his debut. (Here’s betting Taylor keeps writing great songs into her 80s, just as L.C. did.) So overdramatic.
- 8/23/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
"Cruel Summer" Lyrics
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Fever dream high in the quiet of the night
You know that I caught it
bad bad boy
Shiny toy, with a price?
You know that I bought it
killing me slow
Out the window
I?m always waiting for you to be waiting below?
Devils roll the dice
Angels roll their eyes?
What doesn?t kill me?
Makes me want you more?
And it?s new
The shape of your body?
It?s blue
The feeling I got and it?s?
Ooh?
It?s a cruel summer?
It?s cool
That?s what I tell ?em
No rules in breakable heaven but?
Ooh?
It?s a cruel summer?
With you Hang your head low
In the glow of the vending machine
I?m not dying
We say that we?ll just screw?
it up in these trying times
We?re not trying?...
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Fever dream high in the quiet of the night
You know that I caught it
bad bad boy
Shiny toy, with a price?
You know that I bought it
killing me slow
Out the window
I?m always waiting for you to be waiting below?
Devils roll the dice
Angels roll their eyes?
What doesn?t kill me?
Makes me want you more?
And it?s new
The shape of your body?
It?s blue
The feeling I got and it?s?
Ooh?
It?s a cruel summer?
It?s cool
That?s what I tell ?em
No rules in breakable heaven but?
Ooh?
It?s a cruel summer?
With you Hang your head low
In the glow of the vending machine
I?m not dying
We say that we?ll just screw?
it up in these trying times
We?re not trying?...
- 8/23/2019
- GlamSham
By the time “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” arrives on Lover, her seventh and most epic album, Taylor Swift has entered uncharted territory. For one thing, it’s the 17th song here, and none of her previous albums have run more than 16 tracks. (Lover actually contains 18.) More importantly, it’s not about being 16 or 22 or even her not-insignificant current age, 29. It’s about being six or seven, and walking home from school in the snow: “Lost my gloves / You give me one / Wanna hang out? / Sounds like fun.
- 8/23/2019
- by Nick Catucci
- Rollingstone.com
It just wouldn’t be a 9-1-1 season premiere without a cataclysmic natural disaster hitting Los Angeles, now would it?
After Season 2 kicked off with a devastating earthquake, a new trailer for Season 3 of Fox’s first-responders procedural — which you can watch above — sees a massive tidal wave rushing towards a beach full of unsuspecting Angelenos. That includes Buck, who’s enjoying some carnival games on the Santa Monica pier when the wave starts making its way towards shore. As alarms sound and chaos ensues, Buck screams, “Get off the beach!” while sprinting to safety. (The moody cover of...
After Season 2 kicked off with a devastating earthquake, a new trailer for Season 3 of Fox’s first-responders procedural — which you can watch above — sees a massive tidal wave rushing towards a beach full of unsuspecting Angelenos. That includes Buck, who’s enjoying some carnival games on the Santa Monica pier when the wave starts making its way towards shore. As alarms sound and chaos ensues, Buck screams, “Get off the beach!” while sprinting to safety. (The moody cover of...
- 8/15/2019
- TVLine.com
Confession: we haven't been able to calm down ever since we watched Taylor Swift's new music video for "You Need to Calm Down." Besides having even more celebrity cameos than her "Bad Blood" video and enough sneaky Easter eggs to make your head spin, it's a deliciously colorful romp perfectly suited to the pop star's latest bop. However, even after checking out all of the behind-the-scenes pics we could get our hands on, there's still one thing we can't figure out: when the heck was this video filmed?
At the end of the video, Katy Perry can be seen wearing a hamburger costume as she and Swift hug it out and effectively end their beef. (Get it?) Just a little over a month before at the 2019 Met Gala, Perry worked the red carpet in a similar costume. So which came first, the hamburger or the . . . hamburger? Did the Met...
At the end of the video, Katy Perry can be seen wearing a hamburger costume as she and Swift hug it out and effectively end their beef. (Get it?) Just a little over a month before at the 2019 Met Gala, Perry worked the red carpet in a similar costume. So which came first, the hamburger or the . . . hamburger? Did the Met...
- 6/18/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive Preview: Superheroes tend to get most of the attention in the comic book industry (maybe it’s all those bright red capes), but for 13 years now writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips have been the prolific vanguards of noir storytelling while producing a truly killer stack of bestselling crime comics, including Criminal, Fatale, Kill or Be Killed and The Fade Out.
Brubaker & Phillips make a return to the scene of their earliest crime together with issue No. 5 of their new monthly Criminal series for Image Comics. The issue hits stores this week with the story called “The Night of the Hunter,” and we have an exclusive excerpt below. The Night of the Hunter kicks off the Criminal: Cruel Summer story arc, which will be the longest in the brand’s illustrious history, which dates back to October 2006.
Instead of chronicling a central, linear story, Criminal has more of a mosaic approach.
Brubaker & Phillips make a return to the scene of their earliest crime together with issue No. 5 of their new monthly Criminal series for Image Comics. The issue hits stores this week with the story called “The Night of the Hunter,” and we have an exclusive excerpt below. The Night of the Hunter kicks off the Criminal: Cruel Summer story arc, which will be the longest in the brand’s illustrious history, which dates back to October 2006.
Instead of chronicling a central, linear story, Criminal has more of a mosaic approach.
- 6/4/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
YouTube’s “Cobra Kai” is full of flashbacks and callbacks to “The Karate Kid.” There is one perfect piece of audio nostalgia that hasn’t been implemented into the sequel series yet — and star/executive producer Ralph Macchio tells TheWrap it may never be.
“‘The Best Around’ is the one piece that the three writers always toy with, and it’s the one place they feel — to this point, now, who knows seasons down the line — to this point, it has been parodied and used so much that it would take you actually out of the show,” Macchio told us of the All-Valley Karate Tournament anthem. “Like, it is the line in the sand of when the nostalgia or the Easter eggs or the callbacks could go too far and hurt the fabric of the show.”
It won’t hurt to remember the classic Joe Esposito ditty during the classic ’80s-movie montage below.
“‘The Best Around’ is the one piece that the three writers always toy with, and it’s the one place they feel — to this point, now, who knows seasons down the line — to this point, it has been parodied and used so much that it would take you actually out of the show,” Macchio told us of the All-Valley Karate Tournament anthem. “Like, it is the line in the sand of when the nostalgia or the Easter eggs or the callbacks could go too far and hurt the fabric of the show.”
It won’t hurt to remember the classic Joe Esposito ditty during the classic ’80s-movie montage below.
- 4/25/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Who’s the best (dojo) arooo-oound? We’ll find out when Cobra Kai returns for Season 2 on April 24, with Johnny Lawrence and Daniel Larusso squaring off once again… this time as senseis.
In a new Season 2 trailer for YouTube Premium’s Karate Kid sequel — which you can watch above — the newly reborn Cobra Kai’s unlikely triumph last season under Johnny’s tutelage is short-lived: Johnny’s arch-rival Daniel decides to open his own Miyagi-Do dojo to teach karate to the local youth… and he’s not even charging any money! (How does he expect Johnny to make a living,...
In a new Season 2 trailer for YouTube Premium’s Karate Kid sequel — which you can watch above — the newly reborn Cobra Kai’s unlikely triumph last season under Johnny’s tutelage is short-lived: Johnny’s arch-rival Daniel decides to open his own Miyagi-Do dojo to teach karate to the local youth… and he’s not even charging any money! (How does he expect Johnny to make a living,...
- 3/7/2019
- TVLine.com
Crime television is all around us. Almost every network dives into the flavor of the week in an attempt to capitalize on crimes past and present and draw in viewers with their offerings.
In Defense Of is doing something different.
Where most shows focus solely on the criminals, the cases, the law enforcement, or the prosecution of the case, In Defense Of is bringing to light what it takes to ensure all of those protected by the U.S. Constitution receive what they are due: the right to counsel as guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment.
The attorneys who defend what can often be the ugliest and most evil of us don't always find themselves hailed by the media, but In Defense Of is a limited series on Oxygen showcasing their success with particular cases, their challenges with the same, and much more.
I had the opportunity to sit with some of the participants,...
In Defense Of is doing something different.
Where most shows focus solely on the criminals, the cases, the law enforcement, or the prosecution of the case, In Defense Of is bringing to light what it takes to ensure all of those protected by the U.S. Constitution receive what they are due: the right to counsel as guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment.
The attorneys who defend what can often be the ugliest and most evil of us don't always find themselves hailed by the media, but In Defense Of is a limited series on Oxygen showcasing their success with particular cases, their challenges with the same, and much more.
I had the opportunity to sit with some of the participants,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Oxygen Media has been easing into one of the best available sources for true crime on television.
With its "Cruel Summer" programming this summer, things are really heating up!
Two new series are being added to an already exciting lineup.
Beginning Monday, June 11 at 8/7c, The Price of Duty premieres.
The new series follows dedicated detectives from across the country as they recount their stories of complex cases that have emotionally impacted and changed their lives forever.
Each episode explores the emotional rollercoaster of how investigators sacrificed their personal lives to solve these seemingly impossible cases.
They shed their stoic exteriors to expose their vulnerability and reveal the personal struggles they endured while working tirelessly to solve these unthinkable crimes.
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With the first-hand narrative of the detectives, along with their families, the victim’s families and other law enforcement involved,...
With its "Cruel Summer" programming this summer, things are really heating up!
Two new series are being added to an already exciting lineup.
Beginning Monday, June 11 at 8/7c, The Price of Duty premieres.
The new series follows dedicated detectives from across the country as they recount their stories of complex cases that have emotionally impacted and changed their lives forever.
Each episode explores the emotional rollercoaster of how investigators sacrificed their personal lives to solve these seemingly impossible cases.
They shed their stoic exteriors to expose their vulnerability and reveal the personal struggles they endured while working tirelessly to solve these unthinkable crimes.
Related: Orange is the New Black Season 6: Premiere Date Announced!
With the first-hand narrative of the detectives, along with their families, the victim’s families and other law enforcement involved,...
- 6/5/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Principal photography on the film is set to start in Wales this summer.
London-based Sc Films is launching sales in Cannes on UK sci-fi horror 3 Days On Planet Earth.
From director Phillip Escott, the film begins with an alien spacecraft crash-landing on a remote farm in Wales, leaving the owner cut off from the world. She soon finds herself working with a mysterious MoD agent in order to try and save the planet
Casting is now underway. Principal photography is set to start in Wales this summer, with delivery scheduled for Q1 2019.
Director Escott’s credits include Cruel Summer, which...
London-based Sc Films is launching sales in Cannes on UK sci-fi horror 3 Days On Planet Earth.
From director Phillip Escott, the film begins with an alien spacecraft crash-landing on a remote farm in Wales, leaving the owner cut off from the world. She soon finds herself working with a mysterious MoD agent in order to try and save the planet
Casting is now underway. Principal photography is set to start in Wales this summer, with delivery scheduled for Q1 2019.
Director Escott’s credits include Cruel Summer, which...
- 5/11/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Based on a horrifying true crime, the UK horror flick Cruel Summer premieres on VOD 2/27 from Wild Eye Releasing. Screen Anarchy has your first look at a new trailer and poster for the flick. From filmmakers Phillip Escott and Craig Newman comes the powerful story of an autistic teen that is tormented by a group of local thugs after he ventures into the woods alone for a camping trip. Danny, an autistic teenager, is bullied and tormented by a group of thugs after he ventures into the woods alone for a camping trip. Their rage against him is based on lies spread by a local girl, who claims Danny committed a crime against her that he had nothing to do with. ...
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- 2/18/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Having established itself as the premiere cult cinematic event in Cardiff, Fractured Visions are now expanding and are pleased to announce the launch of the Fractured Visions Film Festival! Set to take place over the weekend of September 29th-30th, at the Tramshed Cinema, where everyone will be welcome to kick back, grab a beer and enjoy the films in luxury thanks to Tramshed’s beautiful seating, the festival looks to bring:
…the best in independent horror to the Big screen for a weekend filled with bloodshed, scares, laughs and downright terror! We aren’t interested in the big budget studio fare that will be projected in every cinema across the globe, we want to promote the underdogs and we want to promote the future of the genre.
Of course, it’s impossible to acknowledge the future without paying respect to the past, and as such, we will be inviting...
…the best in independent horror to the Big screen for a weekend filled with bloodshed, scares, laughs and downright terror! We aren’t interested in the big budget studio fare that will be projected in every cinema across the globe, we want to promote the underdogs and we want to promote the future of the genre.
Of course, it’s impossible to acknowledge the future without paying respect to the past, and as such, we will be inviting...
- 1/2/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The three founding members of Bananarama spent many cruel summers apart since Sibohan Fahey left the group in 1988. But after almost 30 years, the ladies have reunited to hit the road together for the first time.
“It just seemed like such a tragedy that we hadn’t done it when we shared sort of the prime years,” Keren Woodward tells People of never getting to tour with Fahey. “This is just a proper celebration of that period.”
Woodward, 56, and fellow Bananarama cofounder Sara Dallin went on to release numerous albums and tour together, joined by Jacquie O’Sullivan from 1988–91. Meanwhile, Fahey...
“It just seemed like such a tragedy that we hadn’t done it when we shared sort of the prime years,” Keren Woodward tells People of never getting to tour with Fahey. “This is just a proper celebration of that period.”
Woodward, 56, and fellow Bananarama cofounder Sara Dallin went on to release numerous albums and tour together, joined by Jacquie O’Sullivan from 1988–91. Meanwhile, Fahey...
- 10/12/2017
- by Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
Void Reunion - Cruel Summer...
- 10/4/2017
- Pastemagazine.com
They may be known for giving their family unconditional love, chewy chocolate chip cookies, and priceless advice from their years of experience on this Earth, but grandma and grandpa have something else in store for loved ones in Granny of the Dead, a new zombie horror comedy that comes out this July from Level 33 Entertainment.
Press Release: Los Angeles (CA) – Level 33 Entertainment announced today the official release of award-winning horror film Granny Of The Dead in the United States and Canada. The film starsMarcus Carroll (Monstrum), Abigail Hamilton (The Hatching, Let’s Be Frank), Oliver Ferriman(“Torchwood”), William Huw (Ferris & The Fancy Pigeon), and Sabrina Dickens (Is This Now, Cruel Summer). Granny Of The Dead hits select theaters and all On Demand platforms including Amazon, Dish, iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft, Verizon Fios and Vudu beginning on July 14, 2017.
Granny Of The Dead was written, directed and produced by multiple festival award...
Press Release: Los Angeles (CA) – Level 33 Entertainment announced today the official release of award-winning horror film Granny Of The Dead in the United States and Canada. The film starsMarcus Carroll (Monstrum), Abigail Hamilton (The Hatching, Let’s Be Frank), Oliver Ferriman(“Torchwood”), William Huw (Ferris & The Fancy Pigeon), and Sabrina Dickens (Is This Now, Cruel Summer). Granny Of The Dead hits select theaters and all On Demand platforms including Amazon, Dish, iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft, Verizon Fios and Vudu beginning on July 14, 2017.
Granny Of The Dead was written, directed and produced by multiple festival award...
- 6/30/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Sales outfit also acquires docs about war in Northern Ireland and Japanese craftsmanship.
UK sales outfit Sharp Teeth has acquired several new titles for its slate ahead of Cannes.
The company has picked up Portuguese horror The Forest Of The Lost Souls [pictured], writer-director José Pedro Lopes’ black and white feature set in a Portuguese forest that is the country’s most popular spot for suicide.
The screenplay follows two strangers who have lost all hope in life and enter the forest to escape, but find each other instead. Dishonesty between the new friends leads them to discover darker, more terrifying secrets.
Shooting took place in Portugal and Spain, with additional photography in Moscow, Russia.
The film’s producers have already struck distribution for the film in Portugal (Legendmain Filmes), North America, Japan and Germany (Wild Eye Releasing), and Sweden (Last Exit Entertainment). It premiered at Portugal’s Fantasporto Film Festival in February.
Sharp Teeth has...
UK sales outfit Sharp Teeth has acquired several new titles for its slate ahead of Cannes.
The company has picked up Portuguese horror The Forest Of The Lost Souls [pictured], writer-director José Pedro Lopes’ black and white feature set in a Portuguese forest that is the country’s most popular spot for suicide.
The screenplay follows two strangers who have lost all hope in life and enter the forest to escape, but find each other instead. Dishonesty between the new friends leads them to discover darker, more terrifying secrets.
Shooting took place in Portugal and Spain, with additional photography in Moscow, Russia.
The film’s producers have already struck distribution for the film in Portugal (Legendmain Filmes), North America, Japan and Germany (Wild Eye Releasing), and Sweden (Last Exit Entertainment). It premiered at Portugal’s Fantasporto Film Festival in February.
Sharp Teeth has...
- 5/5/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Sales outfit also acquires docs about war in Northern Ireland and Japanese craftsmanship.
UK sales outfit Sharp Teeth has acquired several new titles for its slate ahead of Cannes.
The company has picked up Portuguese horror The Forest Of The Lost Souls [pictured], writer-director José Pedro Lopes’ black and white feature set in a Portuguese forest that is the country’s most popular spot for suicide.
The screenplay follows two strangers who have lost all hope in life and enter the forest to escape, but find each other instead. Dishonesty between the new friends leads them to discover darker, more terrifying secrets.
Shooting took place in Portugal and Spain, with additional photography in Moscow, Russia.
The film’s producers have already struck distribution for the film in Portugal (Legendmain Filmes), North America, Japan and Germany (Wild Eye Releasing), and Sweden (Last Exit Entertainment). It premiered at Portugal’s Fantasporto Film Festival in February.
Sharp Teeth has...
UK sales outfit Sharp Teeth has acquired several new titles for its slate ahead of Cannes.
The company has picked up Portuguese horror The Forest Of The Lost Souls [pictured], writer-director José Pedro Lopes’ black and white feature set in a Portuguese forest that is the country’s most popular spot for suicide.
The screenplay follows two strangers who have lost all hope in life and enter the forest to escape, but find each other instead. Dishonesty between the new friends leads them to discover darker, more terrifying secrets.
Shooting took place in Portugal and Spain, with additional photography in Moscow, Russia.
The film’s producers have already struck distribution for the film in Portugal (Legendmain Filmes), North America, Japan and Germany (Wild Eye Releasing), and Sweden (Last Exit Entertainment). It premiered at Portugal’s Fantasporto Film Festival in February.
Sharp Teeth has...
- 5/5/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
One film Dread Central has been championing since we first caught it is co-writers/co-directors Phillip Escott and Craig Newman’s brutally affecting debut, Cruel Summer (review); a film that went on to shock and surprise audiences at The Horror Show FrightFest and… Continue Reading →
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- 12/21/2016
- by Howard Gorman
- DreadCentral.com
UK genre fans are currently enjoying five days of nailbiting action with the 2016 edition of the Horror Channel FrightFest now underway in Shepherd's Bush, London, and we are chronicling the event with the official FrightFest TV daily highlights packages. Day Three's subjects? Director Steve Barker discusses The Rezort; Director James Crow discusses House Of Salem; Director Brad Watson discusses Hallows Eve; Director Lawrie Brewster discusses The Unkindness Of Ravens; Directors Phillip Escott and Craig Newman discuss Cruel Summer; Director Marcel Walz discusses Blood Feast; Director Jackson Stewart and Actors Jesse Merlin and Graham Skipper discuss Beyond The Gates; Director Jon Ford discusses Offensive; and Director Anna Biller discusses The Love Witch....
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- 8/28/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Late this summer, West London's Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 will host an eclectic collection of horror films, including Rob Zombie's 31, Sean Byrne's The Devil's Candy, Darren Lynn Bousman's Abattoir, Jackson Stewart's Beyond the Gates, and Adam Wingard's The Woods:
Press Release: From grindhouse to art-house, feel-good to squeal-good, blockbuster to ghostbuster FrightFest returns in all its gory glory, now housed at the 12-screen Vue Cinema at Shepherd’s Bush, West London, from Aug 25 - Aug 29.
In its 17th year, the world renowned genre film festival will present 62 new feature films, embracing sixteen countries and bringing together established filmmakers, British first-timers and emerging international visionaries from six continents.
The opening night attraction is the European Premiere of My Father Die, Sean Brosnan’s brutal and beautiful feature debut – an ultra-stylish, uber violent revenge thriller that’s a calling card for Brosnan’s brilliant talents. And our...
Press Release: From grindhouse to art-house, feel-good to squeal-good, blockbuster to ghostbuster FrightFest returns in all its gory glory, now housed at the 12-screen Vue Cinema at Shepherd’s Bush, West London, from Aug 25 - Aug 29.
In its 17th year, the world renowned genre film festival will present 62 new feature films, embracing sixteen countries and bringing together established filmmakers, British first-timers and emerging international visionaries from six continents.
The opening night attraction is the European Premiere of My Father Die, Sean Brosnan’s brutal and beautiful feature debut – an ultra-stylish, uber violent revenge thriller that’s a calling card for Brosnan’s brilliant talents. And our...
- 7/1/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Chilling British drama Cruel Summer unveils new trailer; director speaks. Echoing the gritty horrors of films like 1986’s harrowing The River’S Edge, but with a decidedly contemporary Welsh twist is director Phillip Escott and Craig Newman’s new, fact-based dark British drama Cruel Summer, a picture that riffs on the sad truth about human evil: that…
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- 11/7/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
UK filmmakers have made a (deserved) reputation for films that delve into social realism, particularly ones that deal with the lives of the poor and working classes (see Kenneth Loach, Mike Leigh, and Andrea Arnold, to name a few). The latest comes out of Wales, which is seeing a lot of great cinema lately (Gareth Evans to name one), and is titled Cruel Summer.Danny (Richard Pawulski), a teenager with autism, escapes the inner city for the beautiful countryside as part of his Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme. Little does he know, that bitter Nicholas (Danny Miller from Emmerdale Farm) is hunting him, stemming form a lie created by the enamoured and envious Julia (Natalie Martins) and Calvin (Reece Douglas). As the three close in on Danny,...
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- 11/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Teenagers can be quite nasty, especially to those they perceive as weak or whom they think they can attack without fear of retribution. Such is the case in the new film Cruel Summer. Shot in South Wales during the incredible hot summer of 2013, the plot is loosely based on a true story of three teenagers who violently attacked a friend without provocation or motive. Written and directed by Phillip Escott and Craig Newman, it mixes British social realism with hints of horror (trapped in the woods with someone hunting you down) in its first trailer.Danny (Richard Pawulski), a teenager with autism, escapes the inner city for the beautiful countryside as part of his Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme. Little does he know, that bitter...
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- 4/13/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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