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The first images for the Spanish youth terror film, El Hombre del Saco (The Bag Man), have arrived now that the film has wrapped up filming. The film has been directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández (Voces) and was produced by Ignacio Cucucovich, Álvaro Ariza (The House of Snails), Juma Fodde and director Gustavo Hernández (The Silent House and Virus 32). That’s a pretty great list of films they have produced. What’s more impressive is that Spanish horror icon Javier Botet ( [•Rec] and Alien Covenant) will play the Bag Man. He will be joined by the equally if not more impressive Macarena Gómez (30 Coins, Shrews Nest...

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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Oz) and Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) are set as leads opposite Charles Babalola in Showtime’s King Shaka drama series. Additionally, Terry Pheto (Tsotsi) and Lerato Mvelase (Justice Served) will recur in the series executive produced by Antoine Fuqua.

Rooted in actual events, King Shaka tells the story of the Zulu Empire founder Shaka (Babalola) and his unlikely rise to power, uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of Africa in the early 19th century to transform his power into legend, on par with history’s most seminal figures. The outcast son of a Zulu Chief, Shaka is a visionary who is prophesized to become a king like none before him. In ferocious battles that test the body and soul, in alliances that test the bonds of love and friendship, a complex sociological system plays out that renders the human cost front and center, for the victors as well as the vanquished,...