Exclusive: As Deadline reported exclusively in February, the upcoming sixth season of Netflix’s Virgin River, which focuses on Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack’s (Martin Henderson) nuptials, will also feature Mel’s late mother Sarah and biological father, Everett, in flashbacks. We can now reveal that Jessica Rothe and Callum Kerr have been cast in the roles and offer first-look images of them as Sarah and Everett in Season 6.
The recurring characters are being introduced as Netflix is exploring an expansion of the Virgin River universe with a prequel following Sarah and Everett’s origin story.
Seen in flashbacks mostly set in or around 1972, Sarah (Rothe) is a witty, free spirit from the big city with an ardent passion for activism, and trying to avoid the conventional/traditional life of a young woman in the ’70s. Always up for an adventure,...
The recurring characters are being introduced as Netflix is exploring an expansion of the Virgin River universe with a prequel following Sarah and Everett’s origin story.
Seen in flashbacks mostly set in or around 1972, Sarah (Rothe) is a witty, free spirit from the big city with an ardent passion for activism, and trying to avoid the conventional/traditional life of a young woman in the ’70s. Always up for an adventure,...
- 9/23/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Based on Anne Rice‘s classic gothic romance series Interview with the Vampire, has garnered a massive fan following because of its brilliant storytelling and complex characters. The AMC series is currently airing its second season and the audience seems to be loving the new season even more. So, if you have already binged all the available episodes of Interview with the Vampire here are some similar shows you should check out next.
Penny Dreadful (Paramount+ & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Showtime
Penny Dreadful is a gothic horror drama series created by John Logan. The Showtime series’ first season is set in 1891 London and it follows the story of an American gunman Ethan Chandler as he is hired by the adventurer Malcolm Murray and mysterious Vanessa Ives to rescue Murray’s daughter from a dangerous creature. The trio receives help from a young doctor known as Victor Frankenstein. Penny Dreadful stars Timothy Dalton,...
Penny Dreadful (Paramount+ & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Showtime
Penny Dreadful is a gothic horror drama series created by John Logan. The Showtime series’ first season is set in 1891 London and it follows the story of an American gunman Ethan Chandler as he is hired by the adventurer Malcolm Murray and mysterious Vanessa Ives to rescue Murray’s daughter from a dangerous creature. The trio receives help from a young doctor known as Victor Frankenstein. Penny Dreadful stars Timothy Dalton,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
What is it about Virgin River that keeps Netflix users coming back for more, making it one of the most popular shows on the streaming service?
Some might say it's the laid-back vibe that pervades the titular Northern California town. Some will say it's the romantic intrigue and drama that intertwines each storyline. Well, we'd say it's the talented ensemble cast who never fail to impress with their chemistry, dynamism and commitment to the story.
And one of the undisputed favourites for Virgin River fans is Martin Henderson, who portrays Jack Sheridan. The 49-year-old heartthrob's charm and humble nature make the hearts of almost every viewer beat faster, but now Henderson's career is about to take a drastic turn, as from Season 6 he will not only be responsible for playing the role of Jack, but for other duties as well.
Without further ado, let's take a look at what...
Some might say it's the laid-back vibe that pervades the titular Northern California town. Some will say it's the romantic intrigue and drama that intertwines each storyline. Well, we'd say it's the talented ensemble cast who never fail to impress with their chemistry, dynamism and commitment to the story.
And one of the undisputed favourites for Virgin River fans is Martin Henderson, who portrays Jack Sheridan. The 49-year-old heartthrob's charm and humble nature make the hearts of almost every viewer beat faster, but now Henderson's career is about to take a drastic turn, as from Season 6 he will not only be responsible for playing the role of Jack, but for other duties as well.
Without further ado, let's take a look at what...
- 4/29/2024
- by louise.everitt@startefacts.com (Louise Everitt)
- STartefacts.com
For the 15th anniversary of the "Battlestar Galactica" finale, I spoke with several of the show's writers and actors for an inside look at how it reached that conclusion. One of them was David Eick, the series' co-creator (with Ronald D. Moore). I asked the man who resurrected "Galactica" out of its campy 1970s roots why attempts to keep the franchise going faltered.
You see, "Battlestar" hadn't even been finished a year when a prequel spin-off debuted: "Caprica," an ensemble drama set more than 50 years before the series on the eponymous planet (one of the 12 colonies razed by the robotic Cylons at the outset of "Battlestar Galactica"). The series debuted in January 2010 and wrapped that November after a single, 19-episode first season -- its planned multi-year run aborted by low ratings.
Next, Eick and co. pivoted with "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome," a second prequel (but after "Caprica") set during the first human/Cylon war.
You see, "Battlestar" hadn't even been finished a year when a prequel spin-off debuted: "Caprica," an ensemble drama set more than 50 years before the series on the eponymous planet (one of the 12 colonies razed by the robotic Cylons at the outset of "Battlestar Galactica"). The series debuted in January 2010 and wrapped that November after a single, 19-episode first season -- its planned multi-year run aborted by low ratings.
Next, Eick and co. pivoted with "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome," a second prequel (but after "Caprica") set during the first human/Cylon war.
- 3/25/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Get ready to celebrate Christmas in Virgin River. The show’s first-ever holiday special is coming to Netflix in November. The two-part season 5 finale will feature plenty of seasonal cheer. But hopefully, it will also answer some of the many burning questions we had at the end of Part 1, from what the unexpected reappearance of a certain character could mean for Charmaine to how Preacher will cope with the possible discovery of Wes’s body.
Keep reading for five questions we’re hoping are answered when Virgin River Season 5 Part 2 drops Nov. 30 on Netflix.
Are Brady and Brie really done? Benjamin Hollingsworth as Brady in ‘Virgin River’ | Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
Brady (Ben Hollingsworth) and Brie’s (Zibby Allen) hot-and-heavy romance has flamed out, and by the end of Virgin River Season 5 Part 1, both were moving on with new partners. But is it really over? In a teaser (via Instagram) for the Christmas episodes,...
Keep reading for five questions we’re hoping are answered when Virgin River Season 5 Part 2 drops Nov. 30 on Netflix.
Are Brady and Brie really done? Benjamin Hollingsworth as Brady in ‘Virgin River’ | Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
Brady (Ben Hollingsworth) and Brie’s (Zibby Allen) hot-and-heavy romance has flamed out, and by the end of Virgin River Season 5 Part 1, both were moving on with new partners. But is it really over? In a teaser (via Instagram) for the Christmas episodes,...
- 11/24/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The longest-gestating baby in TV history may be about to make its debut. A teaser for the Virgin River Season 5 Christmas special shows Charmaine going into labor with her twins, suggesting she’s finally about to give birth after announcing her pregnancy way back in season 1.
Charmaine goes into labor in the trailer for the ‘Virgin River’ Season 5 Christmas episodes Lauren Hammersley as Charmaine Roberts in ‘Virgin River’ | Courtesy Of Netflix © 2022
On Nov. 2, the official Virgin River Instagram account shared a trailer for the Netflix show’s upcoming two-episode Christmas special, which hits the streamer on Nov. 30. The clip features plenty of holiday goodness, including an intensely competitive Christmas tree decorating competition. There’s also a big moment for Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley), who goes into labor with Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) by her side.
“Listen to me,” Mel tells the nervous mom-to-be. “You’re going to be fine. Are you ready to do this?...
Charmaine goes into labor in the trailer for the ‘Virgin River’ Season 5 Christmas episodes Lauren Hammersley as Charmaine Roberts in ‘Virgin River’ | Courtesy Of Netflix © 2022
On Nov. 2, the official Virgin River Instagram account shared a trailer for the Netflix show’s upcoming two-episode Christmas special, which hits the streamer on Nov. 30. The clip features plenty of holiday goodness, including an intensely competitive Christmas tree decorating competition. There’s also a big moment for Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley), who goes into labor with Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) by her side.
“Listen to me,” Mel tells the nervous mom-to-be. “You’re going to be fine. Are you ready to do this?...
- 11/3/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
There could be more trouble ahead for Mel and Jack in Virgin River Season 5. The couple has already endured his meddling ex Charmaine, an attempted murder, paternity questions, and more. Now, they’re happily engaged and expecting their first child. But could a figure from Jack’s past destroy it all?
Jack on ‘Virgin River’ was previously married Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan in ‘Virgin River’ Season 5 | Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
Everyone in Virgin River has a complicated past. And even though the show has been airing for four seasons, there are still plenty of stories to explore. Take Jack (Martin Henderson). There’s no shortage of drama with Charmaine, who revealed she was pregnant shortly after he dumped her.. But Jack also has an ex-wife. That bombshell revelation came in season 3 and definitely threw his new girlfriend Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) for a loop.
Jack insisted his former marriage to a...
Jack on ‘Virgin River’ was previously married Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan in ‘Virgin River’ Season 5 | Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
Everyone in Virgin River has a complicated past. And even though the show has been airing for four seasons, there are still plenty of stories to explore. Take Jack (Martin Henderson). There’s no shortage of drama with Charmaine, who revealed she was pregnant shortly after he dumped her.. But Jack also has an ex-wife. That bombshell revelation came in season 3 and definitely threw his new girlfriend Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) for a loop.
Jack insisted his former marriage to a...
- 8/24/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) will produce its eighth fundraising telecast on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. Et to raise money for cancer research and treatments. The one hour special, titled “How It Started, How It’s Going,” will acknowledge how SU2C has impacted cancer research over the past 15 years. Founded in 2008, the program was initiated by a group of women aiming to motivate the entertainment community to raise awareness and funding for cancer research.
Celebrities set to be featured throughout the special include Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Biel, Don Cheadle, Katie Couric, Danai Gurira, Tony Hale, Ken Jeong, Maria Menounos, Julianne Moore, Tig Notaro, Jimmy Smits, Eric Stonestreet and Justin Timberlake. A montage of comedy skits from past editions will also be shown, featuring Jack Black, Ben Falcone, Zach Galifianakis, Brad Garrett, Bill Hader, Jon Hamm, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Melissa McCarthy and Matthew McConaughey. Previous music performances by Brittany Howard,...
Celebrities set to be featured throughout the special include Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Biel, Don Cheadle, Katie Couric, Danai Gurira, Tony Hale, Ken Jeong, Maria Menounos, Julianne Moore, Tig Notaro, Jimmy Smits, Eric Stonestreet and Justin Timberlake. A montage of comedy skits from past editions will also be shown, featuring Jack Black, Ben Falcone, Zach Galifianakis, Brad Garrett, Bill Hader, Jon Hamm, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Melissa McCarthy and Matthew McConaughey. Previous music performances by Brittany Howard,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Jaden Thompson and McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix’s trailer for Virgin River season five part one shows Mel choosing to take care of herself instead of work. It also shows a fire raging, relationships being put to the test, and a coming together of Virgin River’s citizens are in store over the upcoming first half of season five.
Season five stars Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, Colin Lawrence, and Benjamin Hollingsworth. Zibby Allen, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Mark Ghanimé, Kai Bradbury, and Kandyse McClure also star.
Additional cast includes Lauren Hammersley, Teryl Rothery, Nicola Cavendish, Gwynyth Walsh, and Christina Jastrzembska. Plus, Stacey Farber, Jenny Cooper, Lucia Walters, Steve Bacic, Libby Osler, and Keith MacKechnie appear in season five. And Barbara Pollard, Trevor Lerner, Ellie Harvie, Darcy Laurie, Sandy Robson, Lexa Doig, Chase Petriw, Emma Oliver, Michelle Addison, Miranda Edwards, and Gabrielle Jacinto are also a part of the huge ensemble.
Season five directors include Monika Mitchell,...
Season five stars Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, Colin Lawrence, and Benjamin Hollingsworth. Zibby Allen, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Mark Ghanimé, Kai Bradbury, and Kandyse McClure also star.
Additional cast includes Lauren Hammersley, Teryl Rothery, Nicola Cavendish, Gwynyth Walsh, and Christina Jastrzembska. Plus, Stacey Farber, Jenny Cooper, Lucia Walters, Steve Bacic, Libby Osler, and Keith MacKechnie appear in season five. And Barbara Pollard, Trevor Lerner, Ellie Harvie, Darcy Laurie, Sandy Robson, Lexa Doig, Chase Petriw, Emma Oliver, Michelle Addison, Miranda Edwards, and Gabrielle Jacinto are also a part of the huge ensemble.
Season five directors include Monika Mitchell,...
- 8/9/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The good news is that we're less than a month away from the premiere of Netflix's most beloved series.
The great news is that Netflix just dropped the Virgin River Season 5 trailer, and we're 100% already in our feelings about it.
We're gearing up for our biggest and best season yet!
When we last left things on Virgin River Season 4, not only did Mel realize that she was pregnant, but we finally got that long-awaited proposal we've been clamoring for since the series' inception.
Yes, Mel and Jack couldn't have ended on a better note as a couple, which was a relief after a tumultuous season that truly put this coveted pairing to the test in more ways than one.
Now, we have Jack and Mel happily engaged, expecting a sweet baby girl, and we know that Jack is the biological father.
Of course, Public Enemy #1 may still be Charmaine...
The great news is that Netflix just dropped the Virgin River Season 5 trailer, and we're 100% already in our feelings about it.
We're gearing up for our biggest and best season yet!
When we last left things on Virgin River Season 4, not only did Mel realize that she was pregnant, but we finally got that long-awaited proposal we've been clamoring for since the series' inception.
Yes, Mel and Jack couldn't have ended on a better note as a couple, which was a relief after a tumultuous season that truly put this coveted pairing to the test in more ways than one.
Now, we have Jack and Mel happily engaged, expecting a sweet baby girl, and we know that Jack is the biological father.
Of course, Public Enemy #1 may still be Charmaine...
- 8/9/2023
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
Spoiler Alert: This article contains details of the upcoming Season 5 of Netflix’s Virgin River.
Virgin River’s upcoming fifth season will debut on Netflix Sept. 7 with a 10-episode run. The last two hours of Season 5’s 12-episode order will drop Nov. 30 as holiday episodes.
This is a first for the popular romantic drama, starring Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson, whose previous seasons, consisting of 10 episodes (S1-3) and 12 episodes (S3), were all released in a single drop.
The official logline for Season 5 teases key upcoming developments, also illustrated by some of the first-look images released, including Brie taking the stand as she bravely takes her rapist to trial, a massive wildfire coming dangerously close to Virgin River, and Doc and Hope back in their elements after their respective health scares, with Doc at the medical practice and Hope making a public speech.
The photos also confirm that Dr. Cameron...
Virgin River’s upcoming fifth season will debut on Netflix Sept. 7 with a 10-episode run. The last two hours of Season 5’s 12-episode order will drop Nov. 30 as holiday episodes.
This is a first for the popular romantic drama, starring Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson, whose previous seasons, consisting of 10 episodes (S1-3) and 12 episodes (S3), were all released in a single drop.
The official logline for Season 5 teases key upcoming developments, also illustrated by some of the first-look images released, including Brie taking the stand as she bravely takes her rapist to trial, a massive wildfire coming dangerously close to Virgin River, and Doc and Hope back in their elements after their respective health scares, with Doc at the medical practice and Hope making a public speech.
The photos also confirm that Dr. Cameron...
- 7/25/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica" series, developed by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, hit our screens in 2003. The ongoing story would eventually end in 2009, having picked up several accolades -- including winning Emmys and Hugo awards -- along the way. Telling the tale of the titular capital ship and its ragtag fleet of civilians and military personnel, "Battlestar Galactica" follows the last remnants of humanity fleeing their robotic race (and humans' former slaves), the Cylons. In an era obsessed with grim and gritty reboots, "Battlestar Galactica" stood out as a television series that honored the original series and charted brave new territory, too.
Moore and Eick's series was as much a study of theology as it was a military drama with detailed and complex character stories. Throughout the Battlestar's long journey to find a new home, the show would create some of the most memorable sci-fi television episodes to date.
Moore and Eick's series was as much a study of theology as it was a military drama with detailed and complex character stories. Throughout the Battlestar's long journey to find a new home, the show would create some of the most memorable sci-fi television episodes to date.
- 11/26/2022
- by David Court
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Nicole Muñoz (Van Helsing), Praneet Akila (Nancy Drew), Jesse Stanley (Van Helsing), and Mark Hildreth (Resurrection) round out the cast for House of Kibaa’s live action Nft series GenZeroes.
Muñoz will play Vika, Akila will play Sarmad, Stanley will play Lea, and Hildreth will play Thiess.
Last month we announced that Paul “Big Show” Wight, Richard Harmon, Kandyse McClure, Bethany Brown, and Tahmoh Penikett had joined lead actor Aleks Paunovic in the Nft series, with the latter also serving as executive producer.
The series is set 200 years after an alien invasion has left the world devastated, with 10 factions fighting to control the future of humanity.
Van Helsing writers Matt Venables and Jeremy Smith are showrunners and also executive-produce with Neil Stevenson-Moore, as well as Paunovic. Kimani Ray Smith is director. Canadian company House of Kibaa is producing. The series is currently in production in Vancouver and is slated to premiere end of March.
Muñoz will play Vika, Akila will play Sarmad, Stanley will play Lea, and Hildreth will play Thiess.
Last month we announced that Paul “Big Show” Wight, Richard Harmon, Kandyse McClure, Bethany Brown, and Tahmoh Penikett had joined lead actor Aleks Paunovic in the Nft series, with the latter also serving as executive producer.
The series is set 200 years after an alien invasion has left the world devastated, with 10 factions fighting to control the future of humanity.
Van Helsing writers Matt Venables and Jeremy Smith are showrunners and also executive-produce with Neil Stevenson-Moore, as well as Paunovic. Kimani Ray Smith is director. Canadian company House of Kibaa is producing. The series is currently in production in Vancouver and is slated to premiere end of March.
- 3/15/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades old rift between mother and daughter are revealed. Rlje Films will release Neill Blomkamp's Demonic on DVD and Blu-Ray on March 1st, 2022. Screen Anarchy has two (2) Blu-rays to give away next week to our readers in the U.S. Find out how below. Written and directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9), Demonic stars Carly Pope (Elysium), Chris William Martin (“The Vampire Diaries”), Michael Rogers (“Siren”), Nathalie Boltt (“Riverdale”), Kandyse McClure (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Terry Chen (Almost Famous). To enter the random draw is simple. Find the answer to our fact finding question below then email your answer here. This giveaway is open to our readers in...
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- 2/24/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Wamg Giveaway: Win the Blu-ray of Neill Blomkamp’s Demonic – Available on DVD & Blu-ray on March 1st
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, will release the horror film Demonic on DVD and Blu-ray on March 1, 2022. IFC Midnight released Demonic Available on DVD & Blu-ray on March 1dt
Watch the trailer:
Now you can win the Blu-ray of Demonic. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie directed by Neill Blomkamp is (I’d say District 9. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Written and directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9), Demonic stars Carly Pope (Elysium), Chris William Martin (“The Vampire Diaries”), Michael Rogers (“Siren”), Nathalie Boltt (“Riverdale”), Kandyse McClure (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Terry Chen (Almost Famous). Rlje Films will release Demonic on DVD for an Srp...
Watch the trailer:
Now you can win the Blu-ray of Demonic. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie directed by Neill Blomkamp is (I’d say District 9. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Written and directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9), Demonic stars Carly Pope (Elysium), Chris William Martin (“The Vampire Diaries”), Michael Rogers (“Siren”), Nathalie Boltt (“Riverdale”), Kandyse McClure (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Terry Chen (Almost Famous). Rlje Films will release Demonic on DVD for an Srp...
- 2/24/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Director Neill Blomkamp has given us a unique mixture of films, one great, one terrible and one right down the middle. District 9 was a sharp, socially conscious horror flick that achieved "instant classic" status. Elysium was an effective riff on class warfare. And Chappie lacked heart.
So where does Demonic rank among Blomkamp's oeuvre? The generic title would have you believe this is a generic movie, which it is. Despite moments of indelible craft, Demonic is closer to Chappie than District 9. The film is a mashup of demons, possessions, metaphors and sanatoriums that ends up being rather dull, uninspired.
The best thing the film has going for it is its heady concept, the idea that you can enter someone else's dreams through a virtual headset. The virtual world adds a kick to Blomkamp's script--the real-world portions can't help but feel flat by comparison, and you spend most the...
So where does Demonic rank among Blomkamp's oeuvre? The generic title would have you believe this is a generic movie, which it is. Despite moments of indelible craft, Demonic is closer to Chappie than District 9. The film is a mashup of demons, possessions, metaphors and sanatoriums that ends up being rather dull, uninspired.
The best thing the film has going for it is its heady concept, the idea that you can enter someone else's dreams through a virtual headset. The virtual world adds a kick to Blomkamp's script--the real-world portions can't help but feel flat by comparison, and you spend most the...
- 8/20/2021
- by Asher Luberto
- DailyDead
With his new film “Demonic,” writer-director Neill Blomkamp has done something he’s never done before: He’s made a feature film that’s almost completely pointless.
The man behind “District 9,” “Elysium,” and “Chappie” has never been particularly subtle about his allegories, whether the films are acclaimed or not. So far he’s used sci-fi trappings to explore the evils of apartheid and health care, and to address at least some of the bigger questions about artificial intelligence. They’re usually big swings, the sci-fi films of Neill Blomkamp, so it’s hard to begrudge him for going for a bunt this time.
But “Demonic” isn’t just a low-budget supernatural–sci-fi thriller; it’s also a shallow one, a boring one, a poorly conceived one — and the characters stink too. It’s a horror movie with no ideas and only half a scare. It’s a sci-fi movie...
The man behind “District 9,” “Elysium,” and “Chappie” has never been particularly subtle about his allegories, whether the films are acclaimed or not. So far he’s used sci-fi trappings to explore the evils of apartheid and health care, and to address at least some of the bigger questions about artificial intelligence. They’re usually big swings, the sci-fi films of Neill Blomkamp, so it’s hard to begrudge him for going for a bunt this time.
But “Demonic” isn’t just a low-budget supernatural–sci-fi thriller; it’s also a shallow one, a boring one, a poorly conceived one — and the characters stink too. It’s a horror movie with no ideas and only half a scare. It’s a sci-fi movie...
- 8/17/2021
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi work finds its chief pleasures as a cinema of the hyperreal. Aliens, robots, and impossibly cool implements of destruction exist fifteen minutes into the future, covered in the grime and grit and chipped imperfection of used objects, in alternate worlds as beholden to the violence of material inequity as our own. Anderson Cooper (playing himself) reveals speculative history as breaking news coverage. The fantastically imaginary becomes physically palpable. Blomkamp’s chief aesthetic guideposts are visual media’s pinnacles of “you are there” immediacy: cinema verité, video games, documentary. His cinema is vividly externalized, rife with world-building, sprawling in scope, and rooted in a firm sense of the material.
Implication that Demonic may not play to his strengths comes with the opening scene. In an economically cut series of crawling, low-angle handheld shots, uncannily perfect symmetrical compositions, and other dream sequence clichés, a woman (Carly Pope) wanders...
Implication that Demonic may not play to his strengths comes with the opening scene. In an economically cut series of crawling, low-angle handheld shots, uncannily perfect symmetrical compositions, and other dream sequence clichés, a woman (Carly Pope) wanders...
- 8/16/2021
- by Eli Friedberg
- The Film Stage
Technology has always been the dominant creative force behind the films of Neill Blomkamp, a former special effects artist whose “what if Apartheid, but aliens?” metaphor “District 9” earned him a Best Picture nomination before he was 30, whose dopey Matt Damon vehicle “Elysium” took class warfare to intergalactic levels, and whose Twitter-famous “Chappie” — perhaps the best movie ever made about a psychotically obnoxious police robot being captured and reprogrammed by the South African rap group Die Antwoord — forever redefined people’s ability to identify Chappie.
And yet, despite those increasingly ridiculous examples, Blomkamp’s impetus to let digital tools drive his storytelling has never been more transparent or contrived than it is in his Doa new horror film “Demonic,” which leans on three sequences created with volumetric capture (described by Blomkamp as a kind of three-dimensional video system through which the actors are simultaneously recorded with 260 cameras and then...
And yet, despite those increasingly ridiculous examples, Blomkamp’s impetus to let digital tools drive his storytelling has never been more transparent or contrived than it is in his Doa new horror film “Demonic,” which leans on three sequences created with volumetric capture (described by Blomkamp as a kind of three-dimensional video system through which the actors are simultaneously recorded with 260 cameras and then...
- 8/16/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Here’s your first look at the official World Premiere Trailer of filmmaker Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming horror/sci-fi film, Demonic.
The film uses a patent-pending new method of using volumetric capture (a three-dimensional video technology that turns actors into geometric objects.). The amount of volumetric capture in Demonic is the most ever seen in a feature film.
Demonic – Volumetric Capture 2
When Carly Spenser (Carly Pope) learns that her estranged mother Angela (Nathalie Boltt) has fallen into a coma, she reluctantly agrees to take part in a cutting-edge therapy that will allow her to tap into Angela’s still-active brain and communicate with her. Observed by physician Michael (Michael J. Rogers) and neuroscientist Daniel (Terry Chen), she enters a harrowing simulation of Angela’s mindscape where she discovers the powerful supernatural force that
drove her mother to commit unspeakable acts of violence nearly two decades earlier. Afterward, haunted by terrifying visions,...
The film uses a patent-pending new method of using volumetric capture (a three-dimensional video technology that turns actors into geometric objects.). The amount of volumetric capture in Demonic is the most ever seen in a feature film.
Demonic – Volumetric Capture 2
When Carly Spenser (Carly Pope) learns that her estranged mother Angela (Nathalie Boltt) has fallen into a coma, she reluctantly agrees to take part in a cutting-edge therapy that will allow her to tap into Angela’s still-active brain and communicate with her. Observed by physician Michael (Michael J. Rogers) and neuroscientist Daniel (Terry Chen), she enters a harrowing simulation of Angela’s mindscape where she discovers the powerful supernatural force that
drove her mother to commit unspeakable acts of violence nearly two decades earlier. Afterward, haunted by terrifying visions,...
- 7/21/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Demonic Trailer 2 — IFC Films has released the second teaser trailer for Demonic (2021). View here the first Demonic film trailer. Cast and crew Neill Blomkamp‘s Demonic stars Carly Pope, Chris William Martin, Michael J. Rogers, Nathalie Boltt, Kandyse McClure, Terry Chen, and Andrea Agur. Neill Blomkamp wrote the screenplay for Demonic. Ola Strandh [...]
Continue reading: Demonic (2021) Movie Trailer 2: Carly Pope undergoes a Mind Experiment to Communicate with Her Catatonic Mother...
Continue reading: Demonic (2021) Movie Trailer 2: Carly Pope undergoes a Mind Experiment to Communicate with Her Catatonic Mother...
- 7/21/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Exclusive: Cream Productions, the Canadian production company behind series including CNN’s The Story of Late Night, is moving into virtual reality.
The company is launching VR sci-fi drama Dark Threads, a fully interactive experience that allows gamers to embark on a fantastical journey of consciousness.
The series will feature the avatar of Lost and Lord of the Rings star Monaghan, and will see players drop into a near-future environment to enact their personal narratives. Their memories are gone, so they must piece together the clues with the help of benevolent AI.
Battlestar Galactica’s Kandyse McClure also features in the series, which launches on July 22 and will be available for Oculus Rift and Htc Vive.
Dark Threads is funded by the Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates and Cream Productions. Executive producers include David Brady, Kate Harrison Karman, Dominic Monaghan, Johnny Kalangis, Andrew MacDonald, Dan Magnus and Tristan Cezair.
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The company is launching VR sci-fi drama Dark Threads, a fully interactive experience that allows gamers to embark on a fantastical journey of consciousness.
The series will feature the avatar of Lost and Lord of the Rings star Monaghan, and will see players drop into a near-future environment to enact their personal narratives. Their memories are gone, so they must piece together the clues with the help of benevolent AI.
Battlestar Galactica’s Kandyse McClure also features in the series, which launches on July 22 and will be available for Oculus Rift and Htc Vive.
Dark Threads is funded by the Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates and Cream Productions. Executive producers include David Brady, Kate Harrison Karman, Dominic Monaghan, Johnny Kalangis, Andrew MacDonald, Dan Magnus and Tristan Cezair.
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- 6/30/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Demonic Trailer — Neill Blomkamp‘s Demonic (2021) teaser trailer has been released. The Demonic trailer stars Carly Pope, Chris William Martin, Michael J. Rogers, Nathalie Boltt, Kandyse McClure, Terry Chen, and Andrea Agur. Crew Neill Blomkamp wrote the screenplay for Demonic. Ola Strandh created the music for the film. Byron Kopman crafted the cinematography for [...]
Continue reading: Demonic (2021) Teaser Trailer: Carly Pope Unlocks Inner Demons in Neill Blomkamp’s Supernatural Thriller Movie...
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- 6/13/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
There’s little false advertising to “Love, Guaranteed,” a romantic comedy about true love and the seemingly overblown promises of online dating. The shared fate of Susan Whitaker and Nick Evans — played by Rachel Leigh Cook and Damon Wayans Jr. — is all but assured by director Mark Steven Johnson’s pretty much by-the-numbers take. The question isn’t “Will they wind up together?” It’s more of a “how they will wind up together” proposition. Even with some nicely understated moments from the leads, the Netflix film is decidedly slight, easy-on-the-noggin entertainment.
Susan Whitaker has her own shingle as an attorney. Nick is a physical therapist at a rehab center. How others feel about each of them — her employees, his patients — attests to the fact they are decent people. When Nick first seeks out Susan’s services for a lawsuit, she has her doubts. Still, her penchant for turning paying...
Susan Whitaker has her own shingle as an attorney. Nick is a physical therapist at a rehab center. How others feel about each of them — her employees, his patients — attests to the fact they are decent people. When Nick first seeks out Susan’s services for a lawsuit, she has her doubts. Still, her penchant for turning paying...
- 9/4/2020
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
By depicting issues of racism and bigotry in pre-apartheid South Africa, “Sew Winter to My Skin” writer and director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka said he wants to portray everything that “make(s) us the same in humanity, rather than the things that set us apart.”
Following a screening of the 2018 film, South Africa’s Oscar foreign race entry, Qubeka participated in a Q&A moderated by TheWrap CEO and founder Sharon Waxman. Based on true events, “Sew Winter to My Skin” is a Western-style film that follows the violent and emotional last days leading up to South African outlaw John Kepe’s execution in June 1952. Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), the self-proclaimed “Samson of Boschberg,” was hung for a string of crimes including theft and the murder of a farmworker.
“If you ask me what the film’s about, it’s a love letter to our history. The pain that we live through...
Following a screening of the 2018 film, South Africa’s Oscar foreign race entry, Qubeka participated in a Q&A moderated by TheWrap CEO and founder Sharon Waxman. Based on true events, “Sew Winter to My Skin” is a Western-style film that follows the violent and emotional last days leading up to South African outlaw John Kepe’s execution in June 1952. Kepe (Ezra Mabengeza), the self-proclaimed “Samson of Boschberg,” was hung for a string of crimes including theft and the murder of a farmworker.
“If you ask me what the film’s about, it’s a love letter to our history. The pain that we live through...
- 11/15/2018
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- The Wrap
The admirable ambition to frame the film with all the iconoclastic, outlaw verve of its rogue antihero is both the making and the unmaking of “Sew the Winter to my Skin,” the proto-Western sophomore feature from rising South African powerhouse Jahmil X.T. Qubeka. As shown in his well-received noir-indebted debut “Of Good Report,” Qubeka has filmmaking energy to burn, but this time it sparks and flares over much broadened horizons — often literally, in the form of returning Dp Jonathan Kovel’s striking landscape photography, featuring vistas so huge they have visibly different weather on one side than the other.
But the narrative enlargement is less successful: While the project of infusing a local legend with grandly cinematic, mythic status is a worthy one, the film can’t quite get out of its own way, and the result is incoherently at odds with itself, with two outsized personalities — the hero John...
But the narrative enlargement is less successful: While the project of infusing a local legend with grandly cinematic, mythic status is a worthy one, the film can’t quite get out of its own way, and the result is incoherently at odds with itself, with two outsized personalities — the hero John...
- 10/6/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
It seems Syfy has given up the ghost. The Ghost Wars TV show on Syfy has been cancelled after one season. Rob Owen, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports he has confirmed the Ghost Wars cancellation. Since there will be no second season, the season one finale episode, "...My Soul to Keep" will also serve as the Ghost Wars TV series finale. A Syfy horror drama, Ghost Wars stars Avan Jogia, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Kandyse McClure, Kristin Lehman, Meat Loaf Aday, Sarah Giles, Allison James, Elise Gatien, and Sonja Bennett. The supernatural saga unfolds in isolated Port Moore, Alaska, which has been overrun by paranormal activity. It centers on local loner Roman Mercer (Jogia), a troubled psychic whose ability to see the dead has been the bane of his existence. The residents of Port Moore...
- 4/21/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Network: Syfy. Episodes: 13 (hour). Seasons: One. TV show dates: October 5, 2017 — January 4, 2018. Series status: Cancelled. Performers include: Avan Jogia, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Kandyse McClure, Kristin Lehman, Meat Loaf Aday, Sarah Giles, Allison James, Elise Gatien, and Sonja Bennett. TV show description: A horror series from creator Simon Barry, the Ghost Wars TV show unfolds in Port Moore. Lately, paranormal forces have overwhelmed this isolated Alaskan town. The drama centers on local loner Roman Mercer (Jogia), a troubled psychic whose ability to see the dead has been the bane of his existence. Before the ghosts descended upon Port Moore, Reverend Dan's (D'Onofrio) congregation was dwindling, which kicked...
- 4/21/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Vulture Watch Does Port Moore, Alaska have a ghost of a chance? Has the Ghost Wars TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Syfy? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Ghost Wars season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you? What's This TV Show About? A Syfy horror drama, Ghost Wars stars Avan Jogia, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Kandyse McClure, Kristin Lehman, Meat Loaf Aday, Sarah Giles, Allison James, Elise Gatien, and Sonja Bennett. The supernatural saga unfolds in isolated Port Moore, Alaska, which has been overrun by paranormal activity. It centers on local loner Roman Mercer (Jogia), a troubled psychic whose ability to see...
- 2/10/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
It seems Syfy does at least as well with the fantasy genre as it does with its original bread and butter programming -- science fiction. From creator Simon Barry, the Ghost Wars TV show is the cable network's newest supernatural saga. Will Ghost Wars be cancelled or renewed for season two on Syfy? Stay tuned. A horror drama, the first season of Ghost Wars stars Avan Jogia, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Kandyse McClure, Kristin Lehman, Meat Loaf Aday, Sarah Giles, Allison James, Elise Gatien, and Sonja Bennett. The Syfy series unfolds in isolated Port Moore, Alaska, which has been overrun by paranormal activity. It centers on local loner Roman Mercer (Jogia), a troubled psychic whose ability to see the dead has been the bane of his existence. The residents of Port Moore tend to look upon Roman as an outcast. In order to rescue them from the mass haunting...
- 1/6/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Denver native Emilie Upczak moved to Trinidad and Tobago and became Creative Director of the Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival where she worked for ten years. At that time, she not only helped set up the only Caribbean Film Industry Center but began making a fiction feature film about human trafficking.
She enlisted the prize winning Dp Nancy Schreiberwho also recently shot Ondi Timoner’s Robert Mapplethorpe biopic Mapplethorpe who was recently honored at the High Falls Film Festival, an annual event celebrating female filmmakers with the Susan B. Anthony “Failure is Impossible” Award “in recognition of her contributions to the art of filmmaking as one of the few female cinematographers working today.”
Moving Parts is about an illegal Chinese immigrant who, after being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago to be with her brother, discovers the true cost of her arrival.
See the trailer here.
Emilie Upczak’s films reflect her...
She enlisted the prize winning Dp Nancy Schreiberwho also recently shot Ondi Timoner’s Robert Mapplethorpe biopic Mapplethorpe who was recently honored at the High Falls Film Festival, an annual event celebrating female filmmakers with the Susan B. Anthony “Failure is Impossible” Award “in recognition of her contributions to the art of filmmaking as one of the few female cinematographers working today.”
Moving Parts is about an illegal Chinese immigrant who, after being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago to be with her brother, discovers the true cost of her arrival.
See the trailer here.
Emilie Upczak’s films reflect her...
- 11/21/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
When spirits are trapped, they tend to get angry, making life a living hell for residents of a small Alaskan town that's riddled with the restless dead in Ghost Wars. The new Syfy series premieres this October, but before it does, you can get an idea of the ghoulish encounters to come in a new trailer featuring Vincent D'Onofrio, Kim Coates, and Meat Loaf Aday.
"Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all."
Ghost Wars stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Kim Coates, Avan Jogia, Kandyse McClure and Meat Loaf. Simon Barry serves as the creator/showrunner, while the show is written and executive produced by Dennis Heaton.
"Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all."
Ghost Wars stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Kim Coates, Avan Jogia, Kandyse McClure and Meat Loaf. Simon Barry serves as the creator/showrunner, while the show is written and executive produced by Dennis Heaton.
- 9/21/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Set to premiere this fall is Syfy’s new paranormal-themed series, Ghost Wars, which boasts an incredible ensemble that includes Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Meat Loaf, Avan Jogia, and Kandyse McClure. While in San Diego last weekend at Comic-Con, Daily Dead spoke briefly with two of Ghost Wars’ co-stars, and veteran actors, Vincent D’Onofrio and Meat Loaf. The duo discussed the big appeal of joining the cast of Ghost Wars, and Meat Loaf also reminisced about his time collaborating with Dario Argento for his episode of Masters of Horror, entitled "Pelts."
So, coming into the show, what was the biggest appeal for you guys? Was it the different genre elements, the characters, or the fact that it was something different?
Meat Loaf: The reason that I came into the show is because when I got sent the script, the writing of Simon Barry, who I was a huge fan of already,...
So, coming into the show, what was the biggest appeal for you guys? Was it the different genre elements, the characters, or the fact that it was something different?
Meat Loaf: The reason that I came into the show is because when I got sent the script, the writing of Simon Barry, who I was a huge fan of already,...
- 8/2/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Coming to Syfy this fall is Ghost Wars, a new paranormal-themed series which features an incredible cast including Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Meat Loaf, Avan Jogia, and Kandyse McClure. While in San Diego last weekend at Comic-Con, Daily Dead briefly spoke with Ghost Wars creator and executive producer, Simon Barry, and he discussed the challenges of creating a unique supernatural story for television, working with his ensemble, and he teased the new series’ unusual spin on ghosts and defying fans’ expectations of those kinds of entities in their entertainment.
It seems like, from the trailer, this is a very much different approach to the supernatural that a lot of other shows are doing or have done in the past. Can you talk about the challenges of taking on a story like this and some of your inspirations behind Ghost Wars?
Simon Barry: Yeah, well, I grew up on...
It seems like, from the trailer, this is a very much different approach to the supernatural that a lot of other shows are doing or have done in the past. Can you talk about the challenges of taking on a story like this and some of your inspirations behind Ghost Wars?
Simon Barry: Yeah, well, I grew up on...
- 7/31/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Set to premiere this fall (hopefully in time for the Halloween season) is Syfy's new paranormal-themed series Ghost Wars, which boasts an incredible ensemble that includes Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Meat Loaf, Avan Jogia, and Kandyse McClure. While in San Diego last weekend at Comic-Con, Daily Dead briefly spoke with Ghost Wars executive producer Dennis Heaton during a press event for the show, and he chatted about creating a supernatural series that can stand out amongst its peers, his experiences working with Syfy, putting together the cast of Ghost Wars, and more.
So, based on the trailer, this looks a little bit different than what we may be expecting. I don't know what a typical supernatural show is, but it seems like there’s more than just some ghosts going on in this.
Dennis Heaton: Yeah, it's a pretty atypical supernatural show. It was one of the things,...
So, based on the trailer, this looks a little bit different than what we may be expecting. I don't know what a typical supernatural show is, but it seems like there’s more than just some ghosts going on in this.
Dennis Heaton: Yeah, it's a pretty atypical supernatural show. It was one of the things,...
- 7/28/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The dead will not rest in a small Alaskan town on the new Syfy series Ghost Wars. With a cast that includes Vincent D'Onofrio and Meat Loaf, Ghost Wars had a paranormal presence at Comic-Con this past week, and Syfy has now revealed the first trailer online.
"Ghost Wars is set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces. Local outcast Roman Mercer (Avan Jogia) must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.
The 13-episode, hour-long drama will premiere in the U.S. on Syfy this fall and elsewhere globally on Netflix in 2017."
The series stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Kim Coates, Avan Jogia, Kandyse McClure and Meat Loaf. Simon Barry serves as the creator/showrunner, while the show is written and executive produced by Dennis Heaton.
"Ghost Wars is set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces. Local outcast Roman Mercer (Avan Jogia) must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.
The 13-episode, hour-long drama will premiere in the U.S. on Syfy this fall and elsewhere globally on Netflix in 2017."
The series stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Kim Coates, Avan Jogia, Kandyse McClure and Meat Loaf. Simon Barry serves as the creator/showrunner, while the show is written and executive produced by Dennis Heaton.
- 7/24/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Syfy used the Comic-Con panel for its upcoming Ghost Wars to unveil the first look at the paranormal horror series from Nomadic Pictures, which also produced the network’s Van Helsing. Fans at the Room 6A presentation today were shown the trailer, which marks the first real footage shown of the project. Check it out above. Ghost Wars stars Avan Jogia, Vincent D’Onofrio, Meat Loaf, Kim Coates and Kandyse McClure. Set in the remote Alaskan town of Port Moore as it is being…...
- 7/23/2017
- Deadline TV
A young man enters in an affair with a married woman, but things take a turn for the worse when he is forced to face his affair. The movie stars Nick Jonas, Isabel Lucas, Paul Sorvino, Kandyse McClure, Graham Rogers, and Dermot Mulroney. “Careful What You Wish For” will be available on DVD on August 2.
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- 7/21/2016
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
The real mystery is how Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum‘s Careful What You Wish For got itself a theatrical release in the first place — no matter how limited. I’m not surprised Starz Digital is handling distribution, though, since it feels exactly like a late night pay cable ticket sanitized to an R-rating for lustful eroticism rather than actual chemistry, nudity, or plausibility. Sometimes thrillers of the “youthful stalker hits the sexual jackpot” variety can at least be entertaining in an ironic way, but that’s unfortunately not the case here. In fact, Chris Frisina‘s script is smart enough with its inevitable murder and ensuing insurance case to make us believe the film was produced with dramatic eyes and artistic hope. Alas, it ultimately falls short.
All the earmarks for this subgenre of trashy romance are present from the get-go. First you have the star: a Columbia-bound, engineering savant named...
All the earmarks for this subgenre of trashy romance are present from the get-go. First you have the star: a Columbia-bound, engineering savant named...
- 6/8/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Production is underway in the Caribbean island nation on the personal drama from Trinidad-based, Us director Emilie Upczak.
Moving Parts charts the story of one woman’s journey and her integration into a new environment, ultimately recounting how she found her way back to herself.
Cast includes Valerie Tian, Jacqueline Chan, Kandyse McClure, Dru Castiglione, Keevan Chang On, Nickolai Salcedo, Stephen Hadeed Jr, Arnold Goindhan, Nicholas Emery, Sanjiv Budhoo and Conrad Parris.
The film highlights local and international talent with a number of cast and crew from Canada, the Us and Puerto Rico.
“I am very happy to be in Trinidad & Tobago collaborating with such a vibrant film industry that is ready to go to the next level,” said Puerto Rican producer Annabelle Mullen-Pacheco.
“This film is unique; from the visual style, to the fact that we have an all female Heads of Department roster,” said Trinidad & Tobago producer Rhonda Chan Soo. “The success...
Moving Parts charts the story of one woman’s journey and her integration into a new environment, ultimately recounting how she found her way back to herself.
Cast includes Valerie Tian, Jacqueline Chan, Kandyse McClure, Dru Castiglione, Keevan Chang On, Nickolai Salcedo, Stephen Hadeed Jr, Arnold Goindhan, Nicholas Emery, Sanjiv Budhoo and Conrad Parris.
The film highlights local and international talent with a number of cast and crew from Canada, the Us and Puerto Rico.
“I am very happy to be in Trinidad & Tobago collaborating with such a vibrant film industry that is ready to go to the next level,” said Puerto Rican producer Annabelle Mullen-Pacheco.
“This film is unique; from the visual style, to the fact that we have an all female Heads of Department roster,” said Trinidad & Tobago producer Rhonda Chan Soo. “The success...
- 6/7/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
If you've ever watched an “adult” movie, you know of the contrived situations, the cheesy soundtrack, and the gasping bodies. You'd laugh if a lowly movie critic complained of that movie's plot inconsistencies, its horrible acting, or the needless dialogue. So I won't blame you if you laugh while I tell you the many ways in which Nick Jonas's new film, the self-styled erotic thriller Careful What You Wish For, is not much more than glorified softcore. Which is to say that you may very well really enjoy seeing it. I certainly did.
The movie is a straight-up remake of the 1980s cult classic Body Heat, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. Jonas, in all his heartthrob, beefcake glory, plays starry-eyed youth Doug (“Douggie”) Martin, who falls hard for an older woman, his neighbor's attractive wife Lena, played by the impossibly hot model Isabel Lucas. The neighbor, Elliot Harper...
The movie is a straight-up remake of the 1980s cult classic Body Heat, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. Jonas, in all his heartthrob, beefcake glory, plays starry-eyed youth Doug (“Douggie”) Martin, who falls hard for an older woman, his neighbor's attractive wife Lena, played by the impossibly hot model Isabel Lucas. The neighbor, Elliot Harper...
- 6/7/2016
- by J Don Birnam
- LRMonline.com
The United Nations in Trinidad and Tobago has confirmed support for production of the film, "Moving Parts," co-written, co-produced and directed by Trinidad-based, American director, Emilie Upczak. "Moving Parts" is described as a story of human smuggling in the Caribbean, set in a Chinese restaurant. The film will bring a fresh approach to a difficult topic, and boasts a lineup of diverse and talented actors, including the Chinese-Canadian actress Valerie Tian, South African-born Canadian actress Kandyse McClure, UK-based Trinidadian Jacqueline Chan, as well as popular local Trinidadian actors Raymond Choo Kong, Stephen Hadeed Jr and Dru Castiglione. The film's...
- 4/18/2016
- by Shadow And Act
- ShadowAndAct
"Moving Parts," a film by Trinidad-based, American director, Emilie Upczak, whose crowdfunding campaign has only 11 days to go, is a story about two women from two opposite corners of the world brought together through circumstances beyond their control. Although set in the Caribbean, the film is globally relevant as it focuses on the issue of human trafficking.
“Moving Parts takes a fictional look at a very real issue”, Upczak said. “The film’s protagonist Zhenzhen, is a Chinese immigrant who is smuggled into Trinidad to be with her brother Wei following the death of their father. A tragic event leaves Zhenzhen vulnerable and only through the help of a neighboring art gallerist Evelyn and the restaurant’s Cook, does she have a chance at life”.
Emilie Upczak is a filmmaker and festival programmer specifically interested in ritual practice and sexual politics. These interests were first sparked after she spent two-years traveling throughout Southeast Asia, where she encountered numerous religious practices and worked as an escort in a hostess club in Tokyo. Since then, Emilie has produced short films and experimental video installations. Most recently, she was the Creative Director of the trinidad+tobago film festival in charge of the Caribbean Film Mart and Caribbean Film Database.
“We decided to crowd-fund the film in order to build our core audience and to engage individuals in our fundraising process,” she said. “We have been successful in engaging local government support and now we are turning to private sector and individuals”.
The film has been in development for two years and is now in the pre-production stage. Principal photography is set to begin in the Spring with a filming schedule of one month. One of the unique facets of the film is the female roster of most heads of departments. This line up includes, DoP Nancy Schreiber, Consulting Producer Annabelle Mullen, First Assistant Director Roma Zachemba, Co-Producers Rhonda Chan Soo and Rhian Vialva, Production Designer Shannon Alonzo and PR/Social Media Aurora Herrera.
Upczak noted, “I feel very strongly about having this film made by women and also by women primarily from the Caribbean.”
The cast includes Canadian actresses Valerie Tian known for her role as Su-Chin in "Juno" and Burns in "21 Jumpstreet" and Kandyse McClure known for her role as Officer Anastasia Dualla in "Battlestar Galactica."
You can support "Moving Pats" via its Kickstarter campaign https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/381237657/moving-parts?token=9ec81861...
“Moving Parts takes a fictional look at a very real issue”, Upczak said. “The film’s protagonist Zhenzhen, is a Chinese immigrant who is smuggled into Trinidad to be with her brother Wei following the death of their father. A tragic event leaves Zhenzhen vulnerable and only through the help of a neighboring art gallerist Evelyn and the restaurant’s Cook, does she have a chance at life”.
Emilie Upczak is a filmmaker and festival programmer specifically interested in ritual practice and sexual politics. These interests were first sparked after she spent two-years traveling throughout Southeast Asia, where she encountered numerous religious practices and worked as an escort in a hostess club in Tokyo. Since then, Emilie has produced short films and experimental video installations. Most recently, she was the Creative Director of the trinidad+tobago film festival in charge of the Caribbean Film Mart and Caribbean Film Database.
“We decided to crowd-fund the film in order to build our core audience and to engage individuals in our fundraising process,” she said. “We have been successful in engaging local government support and now we are turning to private sector and individuals”.
The film has been in development for two years and is now in the pre-production stage. Principal photography is set to begin in the Spring with a filming schedule of one month. One of the unique facets of the film is the female roster of most heads of departments. This line up includes, DoP Nancy Schreiber, Consulting Producer Annabelle Mullen, First Assistant Director Roma Zachemba, Co-Producers Rhonda Chan Soo and Rhian Vialva, Production Designer Shannon Alonzo and PR/Social Media Aurora Herrera.
Upczak noted, “I feel very strongly about having this film made by women and also by women primarily from the Caribbean.”
The cast includes Canadian actresses Valerie Tian known for her role as Su-Chin in "Juno" and Burns in "21 Jumpstreet" and Kandyse McClure known for her role as Officer Anastasia Dualla in "Battlestar Galactica."
You can support "Moving Pats" via its Kickstarter campaign https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/381237657/moving-parts?token=9ec81861...
- 3/5/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Network: Netflix
Episodes: 30 (hour)
Seasons: Three
TV show dates: April 19, 2013 -- October 23, 2015
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, Freya Tingley, Dougray Scott, Nicole Boivin, Ted Dykstra, Kandyse McClure, Aaron Douglas, Laurie Fortier, Michael Andreae, Joel de la Fuente, Eliana Jones, Emilia McCarthy, Lili Taylor
TV show description:
This horror TV series is based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name. It revolves around strange happenings and the eccentric residents of Hemlock Grove -- a dilapidated former Pennsylvania steel town.
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Episodes: 30 (hour)
Seasons: Three
TV show dates: April 19, 2013 -- October 23, 2015
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, Freya Tingley, Dougray Scott, Nicole Boivin, Ted Dykstra, Kandyse McClure, Aaron Douglas, Laurie Fortier, Michael Andreae, Joel de la Fuente, Eliana Jones, Emilia McCarthy, Lili Taylor
TV show description:
This horror TV series is based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name. It revolves around strange happenings and the eccentric residents of Hemlock Grove -- a dilapidated former Pennsylvania steel town.
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- 10/24/2015
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Sometimes, you know with one shot, one line, one choice. With "Seventh Son," it happened for me the moment Jeff Bridges opened his mouth. He's made a choice here that takes him further down that Rooster Cogburny RIPDy road with that gravel voice mush mouth thing, and it's genuinely ill-advised. It is embarrassing. It's like someone's grandfather wandered onto the set, and no one has the heart to tell him he's not in the movie. He is Grandalf. And it does not work. Now, if everything else about "Seventh Son" was exemplary, there's a chance it wouldn't matter, or there's a chance it might make the Bridges performance somehow work better in context. But this is tone-deaf train crash from start to finish, cast poorly, shot in a way that might as well include title cards reading "Meanwhile, On A Soundstage" at the start of some scenes, and packed with...
- 2/6/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
The dog days are over for Hannibal‘s Will Graham — or at least the days of spending his free time surrounded solely by canines.
TVLine has learned exclusively that NBC’s acclaimed thriller is casting for the recurring role of Will’s wife Molly, a strong, vibrant thirtysomething who is not only unperturbed by her husband’s dark and occasionally tortured past — but has worked to help him overcome it.
Molly, who also happens to have a 12-year-old son named Walter, “understands that Will is a good man, and her love has allowed him to rebuild himself. But when Will...
TVLine has learned exclusively that NBC’s acclaimed thriller is casting for the recurring role of Will’s wife Molly, a strong, vibrant thirtysomething who is not only unperturbed by her husband’s dark and occasionally tortured past — but has worked to help him overcome it.
Molly, who also happens to have a 12-year-old son named Walter, “understands that Will is a good man, and her love has allowed him to rebuild himself. But when Will...
- 1/15/2015
- TVLine.com
Longmire and former Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff jumped onto the big screen last fall to play the ruthless mercenary Dahl in the long-awaited Vin Diesel sequel, Riddick. With Riddick hitting Blu-ray & DVD today, the 33-year-old Oregon native talks to ETonline about why the similarities between Dahl and BSG's Starbuck don't bother her; her tomboy upbringing playing "cowboys & Predators" in her Portland backyard; the status of her all-female version of The Expendables; and how she pretty much asked her dad for permission to do her first movie nude scene!
Pics: Stars on Set
ETonline: From Halloween: Resurrection to Galactica and Riddick, you obviously take on a variety of projects, but you keep on coming back to sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Are you a fan of those genres when you're sitting down to watch TV or go to the movies?
Sackhoff: Oh, for sure. I mean, not horror – I tend to think that there's enough things in my daily...
Pics: Stars on Set
ETonline: From Halloween: Resurrection to Galactica and Riddick, you obviously take on a variety of projects, but you keep on coming back to sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Are you a fan of those genres when you're sitting down to watch TV or go to the movies?
Sackhoff: Oh, for sure. I mean, not horror – I tend to think that there's enough things in my daily...
- 1/14/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Review Rachael Kates 29 Oct 2013 - 06:59
Nathan and Audrey's relationship moves up a level in this week's eventful Haven. Here's Rachael's review...
This review contains spoilers.
4.7 Lay Me Down
This week’s episode of Haven finally delivered on oh, so many things. Not least of all was a Trouble that was actually relevant to the emotional plot! It was great to see Kandyse McClure cameo as the Troubled dreamer who was comfortable with her Trouble - even if it had been mutated somehow. The dreams she brought forth couldn’t have been more perfect. For Duke, we got the dire warning not to trust Wade (duh.) That all comes to a head after Duke finds Wade’s garden of corpses. Wade’s lust for Troubled blood has him attack Jennifer when she goes to assist him, assaulting her in a manner that is borderline sexual - pinning her, whispering in...
Nathan and Audrey's relationship moves up a level in this week's eventful Haven. Here's Rachael's review...
This review contains spoilers.
4.7 Lay Me Down
This week’s episode of Haven finally delivered on oh, so many things. Not least of all was a Trouble that was actually relevant to the emotional plot! It was great to see Kandyse McClure cameo as the Troubled dreamer who was comfortable with her Trouble - even if it had been mutated somehow. The dreams she brought forth couldn’t have been more perfect. For Duke, we got the dire warning not to trust Wade (duh.) That all comes to a head after Duke finds Wade’s garden of corpses. Wade’s lust for Troubled blood has him attack Jennifer when she goes to assist him, assaulting her in a manner that is borderline sexual - pinning her, whispering in...
- 10/29/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Is it just me, or is "Haven" going kind of nuts these days? Think about it -- in "Lay Me Down," we get suddenly contagious Troubles, hints that Jennifer may have even more Barn connections, the mysterious arrival of creepy Barn guys ... Oh, and Wade Crocker (Christian Camargo) totally went the serial-killer route before his own brother had to kill him.
It's nuts. But nuts is good. Find out why in this recap.
Freddy's dead-y
Two important points are made in the very first scene of "Lay Me Down": Jennifer is back in town, and Wade is all evil and stuff. Also, Jennifer isn't insane anymore and therefore wants to get a newspaper job at the only periodical in town, the "Haven Herald." This means that she may or may not wear glasses.
Wade, meanwhile, gets all creepy in his quest for cleaning supplies.
Although Duke would like to...
It's nuts. But nuts is good. Find out why in this recap.
Freddy's dead-y
Two important points are made in the very first scene of "Lay Me Down": Jennifer is back in town, and Wade is all evil and stuff. Also, Jennifer isn't insane anymore and therefore wants to get a newspaper job at the only periodical in town, the "Haven Herald." This means that she may or may not wear glasses.
Wade, meanwhile, gets all creepy in his quest for cleaning supplies.
Although Duke would like to...
- 10/26/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Pros at the con, clockwise from top left: Tony with John Levene, Garrett Wang, 'Scotty', 'Spock', Halo Kitty. Inset left, David Warner. All more fun than a convention full of monkeys... Photo: Tony Sullivan Fin. The End. The Dragon Con was decidedly emptier despite the holiday, queuing etiquette thrown out in some cases, meaning that I caught tail end of a Smallville panel and remained for Battlestar Galactica panel with Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Kandyse McClure (Anastasia Dualla), Tahmoh Penikett (Karl 'Helo' Agathon) and Edward James Olmos (William Adama).
BSG is a show that the actors are as passionate about as the fans. Penikett explained that his character was only meant to be in a couple of episodes, but the part was expanded by the writers for him. Olmos suggested that the audience should watch BSG from start to finish and following on from the final scene should watch the film Blade Runner,...
BSG is a show that the actors are as passionate about as the fans. Penikett explained that his character was only meant to be in a couple of episodes, but the part was expanded by the writers for him. Olmos suggested that the audience should watch BSG from start to finish and following on from the final scene should watch the film Blade Runner,...
- 9/4/2013
- by Tony Sullivan
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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