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Nicely Entertainment has picked up global rights to director Ate de Jong’s romantic drama “My Country Heart,” which features 17 original songs.

“We’re thrilled to be representing ‘My Country Heart.’ The film offers amazing original music, uplifting romance and is certain to find its stride with global audiences,” Vanessa Shapiro, Nicely’s CEO said in a statement. “Additionally, Director Ate de Jong is an incredible filmmaker with an impressive career. His hit comedy ‘Drop Dead Fred’ is now regarded as a groundbreaking picture dealing deftly and comically with complex issues.

“With ‘My Country Heart,’ De Jong has again made a cutting-edge film that takes an unorthodox look at ambitious young artists struggling to face the compromises required in the tough world of show business. But De Jong brings out the idealism and romance of the story, while taking a scathing look at the realities of today’s reality TV.

Indie musical “Heart Strings” will have its Los Angeles premiere June 30 at American Cinematheque’s Loz Feliz Theater. Director Ate de Jong (“Drop Dead Fred”) co-wrote the film with Steven Gaydos, Variety executive VP, Global Content, who is also co-producing.

“It’s a great honor to screen at the American Cinematheque. And especially to play the film at their Los Feliz location where ‘Heart Strings’ first began as a screenplay decades ago when I lived there after working on a Roger Corman film in Georgia,” Gaydos said. “Fans of 1970s American indie cinema might be surprised to find that Ate de Jong has just made an audience-engaging film with the subversive spirit and maverick attitude of that time. It only took 50 years to get the job done, which I hope makes Francis Coppola feel better about ‘Megalopolis!’”

“Heart Strings” follows phony lovebirds Lucky (Sam Varga) and Billie (Maggie Koerner) who...

Paul McCartney‘s daughter, Stella McCartney, has become a fashion designer who’s famous in her own right. She once named her favorite songs. One was a song from The Beatles’ The White Album and another was a Beatles cover. Interestingly, she discussed how music influences her as a fashion designer.

Stella McCartney praised a song from The Beatles’ ‘The White Album’ for being poetic

During a 2017 interview with the BBC, McCartney discussed her favorite songs of all time. They included Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Talking Heads’ “Road to Nowhere,” George Michael’s “Faith,” David Bowie’s “Starman,” The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows,” Phyllis Dillon’s cover of The Beatles’ “Something,” and Louis Armstrong’s “A Kiss to Build a Dream On.” Classic rock apparently means a lot to her!

The only Fab Four original she put on the list was The Beatles’ “Blackbird” from The White Album.

Watching “Stop Making Sense” in 4K IMAX at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival was a transporting, immersive, joyous experience. Some of us also saw the 1983 Talking Heads concert tour promoting their fifth album, “Speaking in Tongues”; when Jonathan Demme saw the show, the director asked if he could document the concerts. The band, who admired Demme films such as “Caged Heat” and “Melvin and Howard,” loved the idea.

Demme shot the film over three performances in December 1983 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. Four months later, it was in theaters and grossed $5 million. Forty years later, the band holds the film rights. They worked with A24 to release the restored 4K version for its exclusive IMAX run on September 22 before heading to conventional theaters September 29 around the world.

At the Toronto world premiere, even the band rose up in their vertiginous IMAX seats and danced — who could resist “Road to Nowhere,...

Road to Nowhere: Von Trotta Presents the Basics on Bachmann

Throughout her career, Margarethe Von Trotta, a key figure from the New German Wave of the 1970s, has often focused on the recuperations of specific iconic women, from Rosa Luxembourg to Hildegard von Bingen to Hannah Arendt, usually with exceptional results. Her latest focuses on esteemed Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann and her toxic relationship with Swiss writer Max Frisch in Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, detailing their relationship in the late 1950s.

Unfortunately, for those unfamiliar with Bachmann, this isn’t a helpful entry point, dealing specifically, and through surprisingly superficial flourishes, never conjuring either the actual impetus of this relationship or a clear portrait of the artist herself.…...

The Midnight Club, the latest Netflix series from Mike Flanagan – who previously brought us The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass – will be reaching the streaming service on October 7th. Today, a trailer for the show has finally been released, and you can check it out in the embed above!

Drawing inspiration and its title from the 1994 novel by Christopher Pike (buy it Here), this ten episode series was created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, who also serve as executive producers alongside Trevor Macy, Julia Bicknell, and Christopher Pike. The Midnight Club has the following synopsis:

At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.

The show stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa,...

The year? 1994. The place? Inside your worst nightmare.

Horrifying stories come to life as part of “The Midnight Club,” the latest series from “The Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass” creator Mike Flanagan. Along with Leah Fong, Flanagan created the upcoming Netflix series, premiering October 7, based on the works of novelist Christopher Pike. The 10-episode series is executive produced by Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures, along with co-creator Fong, Julia Bicknell, and author Pike.

The official synopsis reads: “At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.”

The ensemble cast includes Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, and Samantha Sloyan, with Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp. “The Midnight Club” is set...

Summer’s not over yet, but spooky season is just around the corner. In case it wasn’t apparent, Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s Netflix series “The Midnight Club” has debuted its sinister first-look images.

Based on bestselling author Christopher Pike’s creative works, the 10-episode YA horror series follows the eight members of the Midnight Club, who meet at a hospice with a mysterious history nightly to tell scary stories and look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond. Set in 1994 at Brightcliffe Manor, the show draws inspiration from Pike’s “Witch,” “Gimme a Kiss,” “Road to Nowhere,” “The Wicked Heart” and more, to be revealed at a later date.

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Executive producers are co-creators Flanagan and Fong, Trevor Macy, Julia Bicknell and Pike. It’s Flanagan and Macy’s fourth project with the streamer under their Intrepid Pictures...

Genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan and the Netflix streaming service have teamed up to bring us a lot of entertainment in recent years – Hush, Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass. Next up is the ten episode series The Midnight Club, based on the 1994 novel by Christopher Pike (buy it Here). The Midnight Club is scheduled to be released through Netflix on October 7th – and now a batch of images from the show have arrived online to give us an early look at the characters. You can check them out at the bottom of this article.

Created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, who also serve as executive producers alongside Trevor Macy, Julia Bicknell, and Christopher Pike, The Midnight Club has the following synopsis:

At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to...

Up next from Netflix and Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass”) is “The Midnight Club,” a series adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel that will also adapt other Pike stories. “The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and a preview piece that just ran on Vanity Fair this morning is loaded with new insights – and new images.

For starters, you may be wondering which Other Christopher Pike stories are going to find their way into Netflix’s “The Midnight Club,” and Vanity Fair has spilled the beans.

The website reports, “Among the other Pike novels that will featured are Witch (1990), about a girl with mystical abilities who tries to prevent her catastrophic visions from coming true; Gimme A Kiss (1988), in which a bullied student fakes her own death as part of a twisted revenge scheme; The Wicked Heart (1993), which follows the trail of a high-school...

In spite of its title, Road to Nowhere has a conclusive ending. And a powerful one, at that. Christopher Pike’s 1993 novel puts its troubled protagonist behind the wheel and shadows her every move and thought as she drives along the California coast one fateful night. The path ahead of her is unclear, but one […]

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Netflix announced Monday that Aziz Ansari’s comedy series Master of None will return to the streaming service for its third season on May 23rd.

The first trailer of Season 3 — which tonally seems more like an independent film than an acclaimed comedy series — focuses on Lena Waithe’s Denise and her relationship with Alicia, played by Naomi Ackie. The season was co-written by Waithe and Ansari, who also directed the “Moments in Love” episode; Ansari’s Dev character also appears briefly in the trailer.

Ansari and Waithe previously won a...

One of rock’s great questions, a rung or two below Are You Experienced? and maybe Which One’s Pink? but still right up there, has got to be Why A Big Suit? David Byrne asked himself that in an early-mtv-era promo for Jonathan Demme’s brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, posing a query about an image – the angular frontman all Dada’d up in a gigantic gray, V-cut suit – that itself was a signature pose of the 1980s.

His answer had a bit to do with a love of geometric shapes but mostly reflected a desire to make his head seem small – a way, he suggested, of highlighting the physical, rather than the cerebral, in music. Of course the very contemplation of the matter funked things up more than a little; as, it turned out, shrunken heads are about as good at escaping attention as whispers.

Aziz Ansari wastes no time in his new Netflix standup special before addressing a woman’s accusation of sexual misconduct.

“There’s times I felt scared, there’s times I felt humiliated, there’s times I felt embarrassed, and ultimately, I just felt terrible that this person felt this way,” he said at the top of the hour-long set. “And after a year or so, I just hope it was a step forward. It moved things forward for me, made me think about a lot. I hope I’ve become a better person.”

The “Parks and Recreation” vet said he felt it was important to be upfront with the audience because “it’s important to me that you know how I feel about that whole thing before we share this night together.”

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“Aziz Ansari Right Now,...

1. “Orange Is the New Black” Season 7 (available July 26)

Why Should I Watch? Well, Season 7 marks the end of “Orange Is the New Black,” which either makes for a compelling argument to get caught up or a reasonable rationale to avoid it altogether. Speaking to the first point, Jenji Kohan’s landmark Netflix original has helped usher in a more diversified TV space, draw attention to a problematic prison system, and provide truckloads of Emmys to the very worthy Uzo Aduba. Toss in the fact it helped elevate more than a few key voices set to shape television’s future, including Stephen Falk (“You’re the Worst”) and S.J. Clarkson (who’s helming the upcoming “Game of Thrones” spinoff), and it’s been a significant series since it debuted in mid-2013. But it’s also a long series. Each season consists of 13 hour-long episodes, and the most recent entries have highlighted Netflix’s bloating problems.

Aziz Ansari is coming back to Netflix. While you might be wishing it was with a new season of Master of None, it’s actually for his fifth stand-up comedy special, Aziz Ansari: Right Now. The special was shot during his Brooklyn performances during the “Road to Nowhere” international tour that he’s been on, and it […]

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Aziz Ansari will return to Netflix on July 9th with his latest stand-up special, Right Now. Filmmaker Spike Jonze (Her, Being John Malkovich) directed the project, which follows the comedian’s two previous Netflix specials, 2015’s Live at Madison Square Garden and 2013’s Buried Alive.

Ansari previewed Right Now with a brief teaser clip that shows him prepping for the show backstage, applying deodorant and walking out to a standing ovation — all while wearing a T-shirt featuring the cover of Metallica’s 1984 LP, Ride the Lightning.

The special, filmed during...

Aziz Ansari has a new Netflix stand-up special debuting next week.

Directed by Spike Jonze, “Aziz Ansari Right Now” will hit the streaming service on July 9. It was recorded in Brooklyn during a stop on his “Road to Nowhere” tour, which has spanned 75 cities in the U.S. and 12 abroad.

Ansari’s third special for Netflix, “Right Now” marks his first appearance on the streamer since the publication in January 2018 of a widely read Babe.net article titled “I Went on a Date With Aziz Ansari. It Turned Into the Worst Night of My Life,” in which he was accused of sexual misconduct.

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Ansari’s relationship with Netflix also includes two seasons of his critically acclaimed comedy “Master of None,” which last aired in 2017.

Watch a teaser for the special below.

July 9th. @azizansari pic.

Aziz Ansari is coming back to TV screens. And soon.

In a surprise announcement, Netflix revealed on Monday that the latest stand-up special from the “Master of None” co-creator will be dropping Tuesday, July 9. “Aziz Ansari Right Now,” his fifth comedy special, was filmed as part of the Brooklyn performances of his ongoing international tour, “Road to Nowhere.”

It’s Ansari’s first project available to the public since the release of “Master of None” Season 2. Shortly after the awards circuit tour ended in early 2018, a controversial article detailing sexual misconduct put the show and Ansari’s career on hiatus. According to reports from those same Brooklyn shows back in May, Ansari addresses those allegations as part of his hour-long set. Earlier shows in the tour, even when not referring to the incident directly, did seem to showcase a contrite Ansari, even when couched in a comedy context.

Spike Jonze directed “Aziz Ansari Right Now,...

Time spent in a modern war zone can be traumatic for participant and observer alike, yet across continents and cultures, the shared experiences of living and loving in the wake of such experiences can be startlingly similar. This is multi-faceted and overarching theme woven throughout Ben Lawrence’s sensitive and affecting new Australian drama “Hearts and Bones,” an impressive narrative feature debut from the winner of last year’s Sydney Film Festival documentary prize for “Ghosthunter.”

Lawrence’s thoughtful drama also casts an illuminating light on the current hot-button issue of immigrants to Australia and their place in the social fabric, specifically in the Western Sydney suburbs in which it is filmed. The film’s second-place finish in the narrative section of the fest’s audience award (behind Samuel Van Grinsven’s “Sequin in a Blue Room”) suggests it struck a chord with traditionally partisan Aussie audiences, and with proper handling,...

Before Aziz's?official tour in India, comedian Aziz Ansari was happy to spread cheer and laughter with his surprise gig, in which he touched upon issues like Us politics, racism and the #MeToo movement, at a restaurant here. He?surprised his fans on Wednesday by doing a set at Todi Mill Social in Lower Parel, as a part of Indian comedian Varun Thakur's show.

He performed for nearly an hour, right after Varun. He opened the act by talking about his apprehensions of doing a comedy gig in India.

The Indian-American star, who was accused of sexual misconduct last year, also opened up about the allegations during the set.

Last year, a 24-year-old New York photographer accused the comedian of repeatedly pressuring her to have sex when they went on a date in 2017.

Opening up about the allegations, he said that he felt scared, humiliated and terrible. He called...

Nobody starts a string band to make a quick buck. Then again nobody can accuse Greensky Bluegrass of taking any shortcuts. The Michigan-bred quintet, known for marathon live shows that have earned a continuously swelling Grateful Dead-like fanbase, have been gigging relentlessly for nearly two decades, using the best parts of bluegrass — hard-driving rhythms, speedy solos, ascendant harmonies — as a foundation for a broadly inclusive sound that features wide-open psychedelia and sturdy Americana songcraft.

“We don’t want to put ourselves in a box, even though bluegrass is in our name,...

Aziz Ansari is slowly — and maybe cautiously — coming back into the spotlight. The Master of None star and co-creator took to his social media handles to announce that he is going on tour. The new stand-up tour called “Road to Nowhere” is the first tour after Ansari was accused of sexual misconduct earlier this year.

“New tour dates for 2019. On sale this week. Click here for cities. See ya on the road ding dongs,” he tweeted Tuesday. He also posted the news on his Instagram and website. The tour will kick-off in Boston February 6, 2019 and then conclude in New York in May, hitting nearly 30 cities along the way including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Memphis, and Vancouver.

In January, an article posted on the website Babe quoted a 23-year-old woman who said she had been coerced by Ansari into having sex following a dinner date. The article drew divisive responses and debate,...

Monte Hellman and Kona. Photo courtesy of Monte Hellman.Two years back, Monte Hellman invited me up to his house to sip vodka tonics in the dark and watch the new restoration of Ride in the Whirlwind (1966), one of a pair of earnest Westerns he made in collaboration with his longtime friend Jack Nicholson. He didn’t know it at the time, but that day was my birthday—and there was no other way I would have preferred to spend it.On a Saturday morning this July, I went up yet again to the Hollywood Hills to pay another visit to Hellman. Best known as the director of Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), a reaction to Easy Rider (1969) and the mother of all existential road movies, Hellman now lives a rather quiet life in a sweet, sequestered hillside bungalow; maybe he’s always preferred solitude and solemnity, but most of the time he...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Legion” Season 1, “Chapter 2.”]

“Apocalypse Now”

Maybe the wild premiere left me Fubar, but the opening of “Legion’s” second episode gave off major “Apocalypse Now” vibes. David’s ominous, deadened voiceover recalled Martin Sheen’s war-torn work in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic. The song — “Road to Nowhere” by the Talking Heads — served as a modern stand-in for The Doors’ “The End,” which would be far too on-the-nose (and overused) to be repurposed yet again, but the notes guided a slow, seemingly peaceful riverboat ride; an iconic wartime image, countlessly repurposed in many an action film, but never so effectively alluding to the horrors hidden on each riverbed as in the Oscar-winning 1979 film.

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And there are horrors lurking in “Legion” — literal and figurative. As sunlight shone through the trees above, men in “black masks, boots, and the one they called, ‘The Eye,...

Directed and written by Nadeem Soumah with Vinnie Jones, Michael Rene Walton, Viveca A Fox, Bai Ling

A mysterious Englishman who calls himself “John Doe” (Vinnie Jones) hires a professional hit man. The target? A drug cartel leader named Sonny “Sundown” Garcia (Michael Rene Walton), a rich, powerful and dangerous career criminal who “stole everything I ever loved” according to John Doe.

The movie begins with the hit taking place, in full view of a crowd of dancers at Sonny’s night club. This occurs, even though the hit man states he does not make any hits in front of witnesses. John Doe also insists the hit be done with a particular weapon that Sonny used in the past, the incident the movie keeps flashing back to, which “took everything I ever loved.” This is all about revenge you see.

6 Ways To Die proceeds to tell us the 6 ways to die,...

ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy this Thursday night delivered 9.4 million total viewers and a 2.8 demo rating, surging 24 and 33 percent week-to-week to its best numbers since the Season 11 premiere.

Grey’s also was up more than 20 percent from its year-ago May sweeps telecast.

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Leading out of Grey’s, Scandal (7.8 mil/2.3) dipped a tenth, while American Crime (4.1 mil/0.9) slipped two tenths to tie its series low.

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Peter Kay has confirmed details of a Phoenix Nights stage show for Comic Relief.

Kay will reunite with the show's original cast members including Dave Spikey, Neil Fitzmaurice and Take Me Out host Paddy McGuinness in the New Year.

The Phoenix Nights stage shows will take place at the Manchester Arena on Saturday, January 31 and Sunday, February 1, 2015.

Kay confirmed during an appearance on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon that tickets will go on sale this Sunday (November 30) at 11am, with all proceeds going to Comic Relief.

The comedian is also expected to reveal further details later on Thursday (November 27) in a broadcast interview with ITV regional news programme Granada Reports.

TV Exclusive @GranadaReports with @peterkay_co_uk he reveals live shows of #PhoenixNights @ManchesterArena next yr pic.twitter.com/RNDxCXbV84

— Caroline Whitmore (@carowhititv) November 27, 2014

McGuinness had remained coy last week when asked about a possible Phoenix Nights reunion by Digital Spy,...

Phoenix Nights star Toby Foster has downplayed rumours of a full Phoenix Nights reunion, claiming that he hasn't heard anything from Peter Kay about the show returning.

Foster, who played Les Campbell from the Phoenix Club backing band Les Alanos in the early '00s Channel 4 sitcom, revealed that he had been inundated with messages since Kay revealed that "big news" was coming very soon about the show.

The BBC radio presenter and comic said that he had spoken to Kay recently and he hadn't mentioned anything about the show. He also retweeted a comment from a follower, who suggested that if the show was coming back, he wasn't involved.

Bloody Hell. Loads of messages. Hand on heart, I have not heard a whisper about a new series of Pn. And I spoke to Peter last week.

— TobyFoster (@TobyFoster) November 19, 2014

@TobyFoster You're not in it then ?

— luke warm (@JimJimdavis...

Peter Kay is expected to announce the return of his classic TV sitcom Phoenix Nights very soon.

The comedian confirmed at a charity event at the weekend that fans of the comedy could look forward to an announcement about the show within the next 10 days.

It is rumoured that Kay is planning a stage show and third series for 2015.

"I am going to be making a big announcement about Phoenix Nights sometime in the next 10 days, so fans need to be watching out for that," Kay told the audience at Blackpool Opera House during a fundraiser for Salford Women's Aid Charity.

Phoenix Nights ran for two series between 2000 and 2001. Its spin-off Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere had one series on Channel 4 in 2004.

The Bolton stand-up has previously spoken about his plans for a third series, claiming that he had always been jotting down ideas for more episodes.

"Over the years,...

Paddy McGuinness has revealed that there are new episodes of Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere written, but has confessed that they may never reach the screen.

McGuinness, who wrote and starred in the Phoenix Nights spin-off with Peter Kay, told The Mirror that it was unlikely to ever get made because whenever he meets up with Kay, they don't speak about work.

"We've got a couple of one-hour specials for Max and Paddy which are still sat at home," said the Take Me Out host.

He also downplayed suggestions that Phoenix Nights could return soon, commenting: "That's the first I've heard of it. I might not be in it. I don't think that's going to happen somehow, I don't know anything about it."

McGuinness added: "When me and Peter are together we have a laugh, we don't really speak about work. We speak about more important things like Celebrity Big Brother...

In his continually eccentric series of extracurricular activities, Steven Soderbergh has posted a black and white version of Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Here's what he has to say about why:

"So I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are. See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot—whether short or long—held for that exact length of time and placed in that order? Sounds like fun, right? It actually is. To me. Oh, and I’ve removed all sound and color from the film, apart from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the visual staging aspect. Wait, What? How Could You Do This? Well, I...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95

Studio: Raro Video/Kino

Everett McGill is the 19th Century sailor known as Iguana

Everett McGill (TV’s Twin Peaks) stars in Monte Hellman’s (Road to Nowhere, The Shooting) strange, rarely-seen 1988 adventure film Iguana.

McGill portrays a grotesquely disfigured harpooner known as “Iguana,” who is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night, Iguana escapes and takes up residence on a remote island, where he makes himself the absolute ruler declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is then subjected to his cruel tyranny….

Awarded the Filmcritica “Bastone Bianco” Award (Special Mention) at the Venice Film Festival, Iguana also features Michael Madsen (The Brazen Bull), Fabio Testi (Letters to Juliet) and Maru Valdivieso in its cast.

Bonus features on the Blu-ray and DVD include a...

• Bryan Cranston and Matt Damon are in very early talks to star in Zhang Yimou’s China-set movie The Great Wall. This is the second time the film has tried to go into production after a failed attempt by director Ed Zwick that was to star Henry Cavill and Benjamin Walker. The latest draft of the supernatural adventure picture was written by Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Identity) and follows the mystery surrounding the construction of The Great Wall of China. [Deadline]

• Elisabeth Moss will tell the Truth alongside Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett. The Mad Man star joins the two Oscar...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 11, 2014

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95

Studio: Criterion

Jack Nicholson in the 1966 western The Shooting.

In 1966, the maverick American director Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop, Road to Nowhere) conceived of two westerns at the same time – The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind.

Dreamlike and gritty by turns, the two films would prove their maker’s adeptness at brilliantly deconstructing genre. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman (The Wild Angels), they feature overlapping casts and crews, including Jack Nicholson (Chinatown) in two of his meatiest early roles.

The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier; and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit, are rigorous, artful, and wholly unconventional journeys into the American West.

Criterion’s double-feature DVD and Blu-ray editions of the films include the following...

Freddie Flintoff is to run a mobile fish and chip show in a new Sky1 series.

Flintoff: Lord of the Fries will see the former cricketer teaming up with extreme cyclist Rob Penn, as they tour the UK and Ireland in their eco-friendly chip van.

The six-part hour-long series will start at a Lancastrian chip shop near to where Flintoff grew up, before heading to places including Giant's Causeway and Whitby.

They will also take part in salmon fishing in Scotland and surf the Severn Bore in Somerset.

Stuart Cabb, executive producer for Plum Pictures said: "We really liked the idea of twisting the tired British travelogue. Freddie, Rob and a mobile fish and chip van seemed like an irresistible combination."

The series will air at 8pm midweek, with further broadcast details to be announced.

Flintoff and Penn previously fronted the Sky1 show Road to Nowhere, in which they travelled...

Sure, some little show called Britain's Got Talent might have started tonight, but that wasn't the only new series on the block. Both BBC One and ITV had brand new, fresh out of the box Saturday night formats hoping to win the hearts and minds of the UK viewing public - and guess what, they didn't even clash.

But we know you have busy lives - there's only so much iPlayer or ITV Player you can take - so if you had to watch just one, what would it be? Amazing Greys on ITV, or The Guess List on BBC One? Well, to help you out we watched both shows - and pitted them against each other in the battle for Saturday night supremacy. Read on for our verdict - and let us know what you thought below...

But wait... what are these shows about, anyway?

Both The Guess List...

Marvel's Agents of Shield: Channel 4, 8pm

As Skye recovers from her injuries, episode 15 sees Agent Coulson and his team of agents encounter Lorelei, a deadly seductress who has escaped from Asgard and enslaved a biker gang to be her private army in a quest for power. Another Asgardian also arrives on Earth, Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander, reprising her role from Thor and Thor: The Dark World), who has come to thwart Lorelei's evil schemes. Lorelei seduces Ward and escapes with him, as they prepare for a battle of godly proportions.

Flintoff's Road to Nowhere: Sky1, 9pm

This is the second part of the former cricketer's travelogue, as he - with his friend and cycling writer Rob Penn - pedal along Brazil's 1,200km Trans-Amazonian highway. The duo discover more about the imminent threat to wildlife from deforestation as they arrange to meet one of the few legal local logging companies.

Freddie Flintoff has revealed that he would love to continue filming A League of Their Own for many series to come.

The cricketer - who is currently appearing in Sky1's Flintoff's Road to Nowhere - told Digital Spy that he has finished filming series eight of the panel show.

"I think we've got another 25 in us!" he joked. "I think it's like anything - I think the public decide, don't they? If people watch it, then it'll carry on, if they don't, then it won't - so hopefully people will keep watching it and we can keep doing it."

Flintoff admitted that he wasn't sure what to think of the show when it started, explaining: "Especially me and Jamie, the sportsmen, we were a bit unsure about it and a bit unsure about ourselves and what we'd have to do. We never dreamt that we'd be in series eight - we thought,...

Freddie Flintoff is known for many things. Cricket. Boxing. A League of Their Own. But environmentalism? Yep, not so much. Still, Freddie can probably add that string to his bow after taking part in new Sky1 show Flintoff's Road to Nowhere, as he and cyclist Rob Penn rode their bikes along the Trans-Amazonian highway to find out more about the Amazon rainforest. And they had time for a few adventures along the way, of course! Read on to find out what Freddie had to say about training for the challenge, his bromance with Rob and why he could become a teacher...

Freddie on... his 9-year-old daughter pushing him to take on the challenge

"Since retiring I've got the chance to go on these mental trips around the world, and I've loved it - just seeing places I never thought I'd get to, and the Amazon was one of them. And...

Freddie Flintoff slips on a cowboy hat to meet a cattle rancher in this clip from Flintoff's Road to Nowhere.

The cricket star cycles along the Trans-Amazonian highway with journalist Rob Penn in the new show, in an attempt to learn more about deforestation.

The duo both meet a cattle rancher in this clip, as beef farming is partly responsible for the removal of parts of the Amazon rainforest.

"There doesn't seem to be that many cows," Flintoff remarks at one point, while at another he is astonished by the fact that the bulls have "knackers like coconuts".

However, he appears to have respect for the ranchers, saying: "It's dangerous work, this. It's quite intimidating, stood here."

Flintoff has previously said that his daughter's "passion for saving the rainforest combined with a hardcore physical test" convinced him to take on the task, saying: "Cycling the Amazon rainforest was a tough challenge,...

Paddy McGuinness has given hope to fans of Max & Paddy and Phoenix Nights, confirming that he is writing again with his close friend and former comedy partner Peter Kay.

During an appearance on This Morning, McGuinness said that the pair were only "thinking" about teaming up, but, when pressed further, confessed that they had "written something".

The pair last teamed up as Max and Paddy in 2004, when they produced a single series of the Phoenix Nights spinoff.

It's been 12 years since Phoenix Nights aired on Channel 4.

Kay said in 2012 that he ended Phoenix Nights after only two series because he was worried about the quality waning. However, he did also reveal that he was constantly writing down ideas for fresh episodes.

"Over the years, I keep writing things down," said Kay in a TV interview for Channel 4. "I wrote something the other week - Brian books The Drifters,...

The American Midwest's spare, glum beauty is conjured in Alexander Payne's lugubrious road comedy

At the start of Nebraska, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern), confused and old, is seen slouching doggedly along a highway on the outskirts of his town. "Hey, bud, where ya headed?" asks a solicitous cop. But where can Woody possibly be headed? It takes just one look at the nondescript urban expanse; at the chimney belching out fumes in the background; at the sign reading "Billings City Limits" (that's Billings, Montana) to know he can't be going anywhere special. This is the back of beyond, right? And Woody's surely on the proverbial Road to Nowhere.

In fact, Woody is determined to get to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he's convinced that a million dollars are his for the claiming. It's usual in American cinema to assume that areas such as the stretch between Billings and Lincoln, some 800 miles away,...

Writer/director Chad Hartigan's second feature (after 2008's "Luke and Brie are on a First Date") "This is Martin Bonner" received plenty of attention at Sundance this year, where it won the Audience Award for Best of Next. Starring Paul Eenhoom and Richmond Arquette (whose performances were praised), the film follows the titular character (Eenhoom), a 50-something man who moves to Reno and takes a job helping transition newly released prisoners back into the real world. Arquette plays one such prisoner, who soon forms a tight bond with Bonner.  Read More: 'This is Martin Bonner' Director Chad Hartigan, Winner of Best of Next Monterey Media, who of late have handled such notable films as Guy Maddin's "Keyhole" and Monte Hellman's "Road to Nowhere," just announced that it's acquired the film, with plans for a late summer theatrical distribution before an awards-season push attempt in the fall.

Exclusive: The Sundance Film Festival ended yesterday, but there will be a flood of deals that continue for the next few weeks, leading into Berlin. Monterey Media has acquired I Used To Be Darker, the third film by rising writer/director Matthew Porterfield. The deal comes as the filmmaker prepares for the film to be featured in the Forum section of the Berlin festival next month. Porterfield previously directed Hamilton and Putty Hill. (Full press release follows below.) Related: Sundance Awards 2013: ‘Fruitvale’ & ‘Blood Brother’ Win Grand Jury Porterfield wrote the script with Amy Belk and the film stars Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Geoff Grace and Nick Petr. It premiered Saturday at the Yarrow Hotel Theatre, and focused on a runaway who seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. There she finds their marriage is ending and her cousin is in crisis. In the days that follow,...

Legacy Records has released the track listing for West of Memphis: Voices For Justice, an album of music from and inspired by the new documentary about the West Memphis Three. The album contains tracks by a number of artists – including Eddie Vedder, Henry Rollins, Natalie Maines, Marilyn Manson, Dave Navarro, and Patti Smith – who became involved in the fight for exoneration of the Arkansas teenagers imprisoned for the murder of three young boys.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis composed the film's original score, which appears on the album as a suite.

The 13th annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival, held back on Aug. 24 to Sept. 1, shined an especially bright spotlight on New Irish Low Budget Cinema, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the fest gave its top awards to a film from the land of Éire.

Terry McMahon’s crime thriller Charlie Casanova won for Best Film and Best Director, and star Emmet Scanlon tied for Best Actor with Shiver‘s John Jarrat.

Despite all the love given to Ireland, this year’s Muff didn’t ignore its home countrymen, either. Local filmmaker Chris Sun’s latest, Daddy’s Little Girl, also took home multiple awards, including Best SFX, Best Actress for Allira Jacques and tied for the Special Jury Prize with Donna McRae’s Johnny Ghost.

Also, as usual, Muff gave out a wide variety of awards to multiple films. Some of the other winners include Daryl Stoneage...

Monterey Media has acquired all U.S. rights to “Leonie,” from director Hisako Matsui. The company plans a winter theatrical release. Emily Mortimer, Christina Hendricks and Shidô Nakamura star in the real-life-based story of journalist-educator Leonie Gilmour and Japanese poet Yone Noguchi, who fall in love and bear a son who becomes famous artist and architect Isamu Noguchi. The film began a festival run in 2010. Read More: Monterey Media To Release "I Kissed a Vampire" iTunes Web Series Theatrically Matsui, who adapted the screenplay with David Wiener from Masayo Duus’ biography, produced the movie with Ashok Amritraj, Masao Nagai, Yuuki Itoh, Patrick Aiello, Joyce Jun, Shuichi Fukatsu and Manu Gargi. ICM Partners, which reps Mortimer, negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers. Monterey recently released “Road to Nowhere” and “Take Me Home.” “Bringing Up Bobby” comes out later...

The Silversun Pickups have asked Mitt Romney's campaign to stop using their song "Panic Switch" at events. The band has issued a cease-and-desist order and released a statement Wednesday, roundly denouncing Romney and his campaign.

"We don't like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don't like the Romney campaign," frontman Brian Aubert wrote. "We're nice, approachable people. We won't bite. Unless you're Mitt Romney!"

A spokeswoman for the campaign told the Associated Press that while the campaign did not ask for permission for the song, it was allowed to play it under a "blanket licensing agreement." The campaign also said it would not play "Panic Switch" again.

The band suggested that Romney's use of the single was ironic because "he is inadvertently playing a song that describes his whole campaign."

Here's the song's chorus, as posted on online lyric websites:

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Any trailer that uses the song ‘Road to Nowhere’ by Talking Heads is just fine in my books, so here we have Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley, that’s an odd combination I must say. The movie is rated R which is great news, because if I knew the world was going to end, I would let the expletives fly!

The cast includes Adam Brody (The Oc), Rob Corddry (Children’s Hospital), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Derek Luke (Antoine Fisher), Melanie Lynskey (Away We Go), T.J. Miller (Cloverfield), Patton Oswalt (Big Fan) and William Petersen (CSI).

Set in a too-near future, a man searches for a meaningful connection as humanity’s last days are at hand. Can he find his greatest love at the worst possible time? As the respective journeys of Dodge and Penny converge, the...