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Canary Black is a spy action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel from a screenplay by Matthew Kennedy. The Prime Video film follows Avery Graves, an exceptional CIA agent whose husband is kidnapped by terrorists to blackmail her into stealing sensitive information that would betray her country. Canary Black stars Kate Beckinsale in the lead role with Rupert Friend, Ray Stevenson, Saffron Burrows, Ben Miles, and Michael Brandon starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the explosive action, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Canary Black here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Salt is a spy action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce from a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer. The 2010 film follows Evelyn Salt, an exceptional CIA agent who is wrongfully accused of killing the Russian president.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for FBI: International Season 3 Episode 11 “Touts.”] The Fly Team is saying goodbye to its boss after the latest FBI: International episode, so how was Scott Forrester (Luke Kleintank) written out? The short answer is simple: He wasn’t. Instead, the episode is very much about Smitty (Eva-Jane Willis) and her family, with the case bringing her back in contact with her mother (Pippa Haywood) and eventually leading to a major revelation: Her biological father is her mother’s friend Niall (Patrick Bergin). For Forrester, meanwhile, it’s very much business as usual, trying to get information out of MI5 for the case. There isn’t any kind of exit or even hint as to what will take him away from the Fly Team (which leads us to believe that our last theory here could hold water). But this tracks with what Willis had told TV Insider ahead of the episode. She said that it ...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for FBI: International Season 3 Episode 11 “Touts.”] Megan “Smitty” Garretson’s (Eva-Jane Willis) professional and personal lives collide in the latest FBI: International episode, and by the end, she’s in for quite the revelation. Following the murder of a former member of the Irish Republican Army (Ira)-turned-u.S. citizen, the Fly Team investigates, and Smitty reunites with her mother (Pippa Haywood), whose friend Niall (Patrick Bergin) ends up being vital to the case (and Smitty). He wears a wire to get their suspect to admit to the crimes, that he gave Smitty her nickname (she was obsessed with Smarties when she was 3 but called them Smitties), and turns out to be her biological father, as she realizes on her own and has him confirm. Below, Willis discusses that shocking reveal, finding out how her character got her nickname, and more, and teases the last two episodes of the season. (This was also Luke ...

Exclusive: Here’s your first look at actor Ravi Patel suited up in Kiss Of The Con Queen, the true crime thriller inspired by the life of accused fraudster Hargobind Tahilramani dubbed the “con queen of Hollywood” after allegedly impersonating movie executives in an elaborate and high profile fraud scheme.

Directed by Tom Waller, the pic follows the story of an actor based in Bangkok, Thailand, who is led to believe that a powerful female Hollywood studio executive wants to consider him for a leading role in an upcoming DC Origins show, and is lured to Jakarta, Indonesia for an audition, only to find out that the whole thing is an elaborate scam when he is forced to front thousands of dollars in cash for flights and permits, on the promise of being reimbursed by the studio. However, after uniting with...

Following his BIFA nominated feature films Tucked (2019) and Justine (2021), writer/director Jamie Patterson’s latest continues his look into the untold stories of those on the margins in his hometown of Brighton.

Starring up and coming talent George Webster (Disney+ series Wedding Season and upcoming AppleTV+ series Masters of the Air and Paramount+ series The Doll Factory) and Skye Lourie, and featuring Alice Lowe, Joe Wilkinson, April Pearson, Jordan Stephens, Joss Porter, Benedict Garrett and Patrick Bergin, God‘s Petting You is a darkly twisted comedy charged with erotic thriller energy in its exploration of the depths and depravity of the Brighton underworld.

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At a self-help group, cheeky young Charlie, a down on his luck heroin addict, falls in love with the ravishing ‘Tattoo Girl’, a struggling sex addict. Teaming up they hatch a hair-brained scheme to steal a small fortune from a criminally inclined porn star, a plan that’s guaranteed to fail.

Stars: Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Nick Moran, Dominique Tipper, Dean Jagger, Patrick Bergin | Written and Directed by Jesse V. Johnson

Here’s a quick one for you… is there anything better than a Jesse V. Johnson movie?

Rhetorical question really because the answer is fairly obvious… No, no there is not because we bloody love this director here at Nerdly. This time out we don’t have frequent collaborator Scott Adkins but we do have the one true Punisher Thomas Jane, along with John Malkovich, that man Nick Moran and The Expanse’s Dominique Tipper.

Texas Ranger Alex Tyree (Jane) is out and about on the hunt for a small-time criminal when he stumbles upon a much bigger crime being committed. After taking out three of the baddies, he is tasked with escorting the fourth who manages to escape the lawman. Tyree is drafted in by British Intelligence to come...

Written and directed by British filmmaker Jamie Patterson, God’s Petting You is a dark, twisted comedy about two addicts joining forces to steal a small fortune from a wealthy porn star. One happens to be addicted to heroin, the other to sex, oh – and they also happen to find each other attractive, so what’s the worst thing that could happen?

Will it work or will it all crumble and fall?

Set in Patterson’s hometown of Brighton, the film’s atmosphere is dark and gloomy throughout, with no real hope of a happy ending. Our main character Charlie, the heroin addict (George Webster), seems to be yet another addict fighting his way for the next high, with few other cares or consequences in the world. He’s stuck in a dead-end job in insurance with a boss called Mark (Joss Porter), who is borderline inappropriate and batshit crazy towards Charlie,...

Lionsgate has debuted a new trailer for ‘One Ranger’ starring John Malkovich.

British Intelligence meets Texas Justice in this white-knuckle action-thriller. A gunslinging Texas ranger (Thomas Jane) tracks a bank robber (Dean Jagger) across the desert— only to discover he’s an international terrorist set on detonating a bomb in the heart of London. When the lawman’s partner is killed, he is drawn into partnership with a British intelligence agent (Dominique Tipper) and her boss (John Malkovich) to bring the outlaw to justice — dead or alive.

Directed by Jesse V. Johnson, the film stars Thomas Jane, Dean Jagger, Dominique Tipper, Jess Liaudin, Rachel Wilde, Nick Moran, Patrick Bergin, John Malkovich.

Also in trailers – “I am Dracula…” New trailer lands for ‘Renfield’

The movie hits select U.S. cinemas, Digital and On Demand on May 5th.

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"You're in the UK now - protocol is everything." Lionsgate has revealed the action-packed official trailer for an international crime thriller titled One Ranger, the latest from action filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson. This one is set to open in May, yet another of these action dime-a-dozen films they're churning out left and right. The film follows a Texas Ranger as he is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London. He must help them bring the outlaw to justice — dead or alive. The film stars John Malkovich as one of the Brits, with Thomas Jane as the Texas Ranger, plus Dominique Tipper, Dean Jagger, Jess Liaudin, Rachel Wilde, Nick Moran, and Patrick Bergin. Oh damn this looks totally nuts, in good ways & bad, especially with that mustache Thomas Jane has and his thick accent. // Continue Reading ›...

Stars: Beatrice Fletcher, Christophe Monplaisir, Julie Stevens, Andy Dixon, Patrick Bergin, May Kelly, Stephen Staley | Written by Joe Knetter | Directed by Rebecca Matthews

Nutcracker Massacre opens with a pervy delivery guy indulging his inner voyeur at the expense of Clara before a giant nutcracker doll (Christophe Monplaisir; Sandwiched) armed with a sharp icicle teaches him the error of his ways. That’s followed by the inevitable rewind to a couple of days earlier.

Clara’s Aunt Marie (Julie Stevens; Mega Lightning) invites her and her boyfriend Paul to her place for the holidays. She accepts but for reasons unknown Clara is reluctant to tell her aunt that she dumped Paul for cheating on her. She stops along the way and buys a nutcracker from Dimitri for her aunt. But when she arrives she finds she already has a life-sized one, and the one she bought has become a sugar plum faerie.

This seasonal slash-fest starring Patrick Bergin is a plodding and unimaginative addition to the anti-Christmas genre

This yuletide slasher movie is about as enjoyable as being force-fed a Christmas tree and having it violently pipeclean your insides. It joins Black Christmas, Bad Santa and this year’s Violent Night in the anti-Christmas oeuvre – but its placeholder characters, this’ll-do dialogue and mechanical gallery of kills show that seasonal subversion alone won’t cut it.

Novelist Clara (Beatrice Fletcher) is reeling from her boyfriend Paul (Andy Dixon) cheating on her and decides to bunker down at the country manor of Auntie Marie (Julie Stevens) for the holidays. She needn’t worry too much, though, being a “timeless beauty”, as the local antiques dealer tells her – before fiendishly tweaking his moustache and flogging her a Nutcracker doll as a gift. But when she gets to her destination, it turns out her aunt...

Last Christmas, we heard that Patrick Bergin (EastEnders) had signed on to star in a holiday horror film called Nutcracker, which Rebecca Matthews (The Gardener) was directing from a screenplay by Joe Knetter (Blind) that was based on a story by executive producer Jeff Miller (Once Upon a Time in Deadwood). That movie has now been released through the Tubi streaming service under the even more appealing title Nutcracker Massacre. To help you decide whether or not you’ll want to head over to Tubi and watch the movie as soon as possible, we have the trailer embedded above.

Executive produced by Commando director Mark L. Lester, Nutcracker Massacre follows a struggling novelist who visits her family for Christmas and finds a mysterious, life-size Nutcracker doll, which soon becomes possessed and wreaks havoc.

Bergin plays “a shopkeeper who knows much about the dark history of the doll”. He is joined...

A bunch of new Christmas Horror movies are arriving on the scene this year, including Christmas Bloody Christmas (December 9) and The Killing Tree (available now), and another new one that’s available now is Nutcracker Massacre, just added to Tubi‘s horror section.

Watch the trailer below and stream Nutcracker Massacre on Tubi now.

In the film from director Rebecca J. Matthews, “Clara is going back to spend Christmas with her family. She purchases a Nutcracker from a mysterious antique store owner as a gift.

“However, all is not as it seems with the Nutcracker as the family begin to vanish one by one, and the Nutcracker seems to be responsible.”

Patrick Bergin, Chrissie Wunna, Stephen Staley, and Beatrice Fletcher star.

Joe Knetter wrote the script for Nutcracker Massacre.

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At a cinema in London’s central Leicester Square, an area home to frequent star-studded premieres, extra screens have been hastily added to the opening week’s schedule to cope with demand. A few hours’ drive away in the city of Bristol, a former Imax screen — the biggest in the region — has been booked, as has a red carpet and a troupe of Irish dancers.

The movie getting this extra special treatment ahead of its Sept. 2 release isn’t the latest Marvel outing. Nor is it the next prestige drama from a buzzy director starring an ensemble of A-listers.

It’s far from it — a four-year-old cult film from a first-time filmmaker better known for throwing his oiled-up torso across stages around the world. And it’s a film whose cult status has been attained, rather uniquely, without anybody having seen it.

Blackbird,...

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Blackbird, the directorial debut of Lord of the Dance star and famed Riverdancer Michael Flatley and a spy thriller once thought lost forever after effectively disappearing following its glitzy 2018 world premiere, will soon land in U.K. cinemas.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Wildcard Distribution, which caused a stir earlier this month when it announced it would be releasing the long-awaited film in Ireland, will also oversee the U.K. release, with Blackbird now set to fly into both British and Irish theaters from Sept. 2.

Written, directed, produced, financed by and starring Flatley, the film sees the Irish-American dancer play Victor Blackley, a troubled ex-MI6 operative whose glamorous life of retirement as the owner of a nightclub and hotel in Barbados is turned upside down after he is pulled back into the world he left behind, reigniting an old flame.

As previously reported,...

"Who I am is none of your concern!" Wildcard Distribution in the UK has revealed an official trailer for a spy thriller titled Blackbird, from dance maestro Michael Flatley, who stars in, writes, and directs the film. Not to be confused with the Susan Sarandon drama Blackbird from 2019, or this year's prison drama also called Black Bird, this is something else. It was originally supposed to open in 2020, but after multiple delays and behind-the-scenes drama, the film is only now getting release - starting with Ireland first. Still no US date is set yet. The troubled secret agent "Blackbird" abruptly retires from service and opens a luxurious nightclub in Barbados, in the Caribbean, to escape the dark shadows of his past. An old flame arrives and reignites love in his life but she brings danger with her. Flatley stars, with Eric Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Nicole Evans, and Ian Beattie. This actually doesn't look so bad.

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A movie that had developed almost a cult following after effectively disappearing following its splashy world premiere has — finally — been given a release date.

Blackbird, the directorial debut of famed Lord of the Dance frontman and Riverdance legend Michael Flatley is heading to cinemas in Ireland with Wildcard Distribution. The release date of Sept. 2 comes almost four years after the film had its glitzy world premiere at London’s Raindance Film Festival on Sept. 28, 2018, a premiere that famously shut out journalists and produced zero reviews or audience reactions on Twitter.

Around the time of the premiere, the film — an old school thriller directed, written, produced and financed by Flatley, who also stars as the titular Blackbird, a sharp-suited James Bond-esque secret agent who abruptly retires from the service and seeks solace as the owner of a glamorous nightclub in the Caribbean — picked up...

Netflix Greenlights Swedish Film ‘A Day And A Half’ From ‘Chernobyl’ Star Fares Fares

Netflix has greenlit A Day and a Half, a Swedish action film directed by, written by and starring Chernobyl and Westworld star Fares Fares. Fares will play police officer Lukas, tracking down leads Artan (Alexej Manvelov) and Louise (Alma Pöysti), a divorced couple on an emotionally-charged road trip when Artan takes Louise hostage to reunite with his daughter. The journey takes them through rural Sweden during a hot summer, all while having police on their heels. Warner Bros. International TV Production is producing and Fares is also writing alongside Peter Smirnakos. Netflix Director of Film, Nordics, Claire Willats, called A Day and a Half “in essence an intimate story about loss, lies, betrayals, love, prejudice and family.” Earlier this week, Amazon Prime Video ordered its debut Nordic original TV series Toppen, which recently entered production.

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Tara Reid is set to star in a new psychological thriller “Sheila,” Variety can reveal.

Written by newcomers Jackie and Jennifer Moricz (better known collectively as The Moricz twins), whose work has been featured in the Blacklist, “Sheila” is described as a “modern day ‘Psycho.'”

“Left to run her family’s Suntan Motel for the week, Charlie takes a unique interest in the only guest, a girl in town for a bikini contest – Sheila,” reads the logline. “Tapped as the girl to beat in the 1980s bikini boom, it’s no surprise that when the story jumps twenty years, she’s known worldwide on a one-name basis. Sheila. Just Sheila.”

Fast-forward 20 years and viewers see Sheila’s Corvette in the bottom of the motel pool – with a body inside it – leading to the question of what really happened between Charlie and Sheila at the Suntan Motel in the last...

Tara Reid is set to play an MI6 agent in upcoming espionage thriller “Cold Sun,” Variety can exclusively reveal.

Reid will play an inexperienced British spy called Marsha Ravencourt in the film, which has been billed as “Cagney and Lacey with a difference.”

Jason Figgis (“The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann”) will direct the feature, which is set to shoot this summer in the U.K. and Malta.

Reid, who has appeared in the Sharknado and American Pie franchises, is joined by Patrick Bergin (“Patriot Games”), Rita Tushingham (“Last Night in Soho”), Ian Ogilvy (“Death Becomes Her”) and Gabriella Wright (“The Transporter Refuelled”) in the film.

Wright will play an equally green Interpol agent called Cheyenne ‘Chey’ Marchand who joins forces with Reid’s character to take down an international gang of murderous criminals.

“Two inexperienced female operatives are thrust into a violent world, they will have to learn fast if they want to survive,...

Exclusive: Patrick Bergin (EastEnders) has been cast in new holiday horror feature Nutcracker. Filming is currently underway.

Nutcracker also stars Beatrice Fletcher, Julie Stevens, Andy Dixon, May Kelly, Stephen Staley, Christopher Monplaisir, Tony Goodall, Chrissie Wunna, and Kelly Rian Sanson.

The film concerns a struggling novelist who visits her family for Christmas and finds a mysterious, life-size Nutcracker doll, which soon becomes possessed and wreaks havoc. Bergin plays a shopkeeper who knows much about the dark history of the doll.

Scott Jeffrey and Rebecca J. Matthews produce from a screenplay by Joe Knetter (Blind), based on a story by Jeff Miller (The Toybox), with Matthews directing. Executive producers are Miller and Mark L. Lester (director of Firestarter and Commando), who also EP’d The Gardener together.

“[Patrick’s] been a great addition to the cast and brought a dynamic character to our adaptation of the story,...

Michael Flatley, the Irish dance phenomenon best known for “Lord of the Dance,” will open the Monaco Streaming Film Festival with his directorial debut, “Blackbird.”

Flatley, who wrote and financed the project, also stars in it as retired MI6 operative-turned-Barbados hotelier Victor Blackley. After a familiar agent — and romantic interest — turns up at his establishment, Blackley finds himself subsumed back into his old life, with potentially devastating consequences for millions of people if his mission fails.

Eric Roberts (“The Expendables”) and Patrick Bergin (“Sleeping with the Enemy”) co-star.

“Michael Flatley’s debut feature film is such a pleasant surprise — he brings his renowned stage presence and energy, which we have all experienced over the past 25 years, to the big screen in a gripping romantic thriller,” said Tony Davis, the festival’s founder. “Blackbird is beautifully filmed in stunning exotic locations, and a brilliant supporting cast help Flatley deliver something his...

With the script for Brian Baugh’s “Finding You” (in theaters May 14) centering around violinist Finley (Rose Reid) traveling to the Irish coast for a semester, composer Kieran Kiely couldn’t help but say yes to the opportunity since music was part of the storyline.

In this coming-of-age story, Finley searches for herself, discovers her passion for music and finds unexpected romance with Jedidiah Goodacre’s Beckett Rush.

Kiely collaborated with fellow composer Timothy Williams and together they navigated their way across continents to build the film’s source music and score amid a pandemic.

How did you divide the music work on the film?

Kieran Kiely: We had to do a lot of work in advance of the filming because the whole film is all about music; she’s a fiddler, there’s the music we hear in the pub, the music Seamus (Patrick Bergin) teaches her, and there’s the score.

Roadside Attractions is releasing Finding You, a coming of age romantic drama based on Jenny B. Jones’ novel There You’ll Find Me and written and directed by Brian Baugh. The pic, which is available in theaters today, stars Rose Reid, Jedidiah Goodacre, Katherine McNamara, Patrick Bergin, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, with Tom Everett Scott, and Vanessa Redgrave

In the movie, after an ill-fated audition at a prestigious New York music conservatory, violinist Finley Sinclair (Reid) travels to an Irish coastal village to begin her semester studying abroad. At the B&b run by her host family, she encounters gregarious and persistent heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush (Goodacre), who is there to film another installment of his medieval fantasy-adventure franchise.

As romance sparks between the unlikely pair, Beckett ignites a journey of discovery for Finley that transforms her heart, her music, and her outlook on life. In turn, Finley emboldens Beckett to reach...

Don’t be fooled by the empowerment-sounding title of “Finding You”: The engine of writer-director Brian Baugh’s romantic comedy isn’t driven by the woman herself, but by the men who are continually placed in power positions that directly inform her arc. Where it would have been nice to see the heroine unlocking her own potential, the film instead focuses on her finding an intercontinental romance with a dashing young man, life coaching from an unlikely male ally and a mysterious message from her deceased older brother. This not-insignificant miscalculation aside, however, effervescent performances from an ebullient ensemble make “Finding You” a palatable and compelling female coming-of-age tale.

As if beckoned by the siren call of the bubbly pop song on the soundtrack, violinist Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) emerges from the depths of the subway, a seemingly confident young woman negotiating New York City’s frenetic hustle and bustle.

Finding You is an inspirational romantic drama full of heart and humor about finding the strength to be true to oneself. After an ill-fated audition at a prestigious New York music conservatory, violinist Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) travels to an Irish coastal village to begin her semester studying abroad. At the B&b run by her host family, she encounters gregarious and persistent heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), who is there to film another installment of his medieval fantasy-adventure franchise.

As romance sparks between the unlikely pair, Beckett ignites a journey of discovery for Finley that transforms her heart, her music, and her outlook on life. In turn, Finley emboldens Beckett to reach beyond his teen-idol image and pursue his true passion. But when forces surrounding Beckett’s stardom threaten to crush their dreams, Finley must decide what she is willing to risk for love.

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"Not really my type." Roadside Attractions has released an official trailer for a cute Irish romance film titled Finding You. Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star (more "Game of Thrones" though), on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as heartthrob Beckett leads Finley on an adventurous reawakening, and she emboldens him to take charge of his future, until the pressures of his stardom get in the way. It was shot exclusively in Ireland, in and around Dublin, Claire, Offaly and Kildare. The film's "village set" location was in the beautiful town of Carlingford. This one stars Rose Reid and Jedidiah Goodacre, with Katherine McNamara, Patrick Bergin, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, and Judith Hoag, with Tom Everett Scott and Vanessa Redgrave. This looks charming and extremely cheesy, another classic super sweet romance. Here's the...

The CW’s newest Arrowverse entry, Superman & Lois, has added Tyrant star Adam Rayner as a series regular.

According to our sister site Deadline, Rayner will play Morgan Edge, who on sister series Supergirl was portrayed by Heroes‘ Adrian Pasdar. On Smallville, meanwhile, the character was played by both Rutger Hauer and Patrick Bergin.

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Exclusive: Adam Rayner, known for his starring role as Barry Al-Fayeed FX’s Tyrant, is stepping into the Arrowverse. He is joining the cast of Superman & Lois as Morgan Edge opposite Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch, who play the iconic title couple.

In his new series regular role, Rayner will play the character who is described as “an intelligent, eloquent and impassioned self-made mogul who’s innate ability to motivate is the means to his success and others’ demise.” The character in DC Comics started off as a Daily Planet media mogul and then was later depicted as a supervillain. Previous iterations of Morgan Edge include Smallville where he was played by Rutger Hauer and Patrick Bergin. More recently, Adrian Pasdar played him in the third season of Supergirl.

Rayner’s TV credits include the ABC law dramas The Fix and Notorious. He can also be seen on Cinemax’s...

Exclusive: Voltage Pictures is launching international sales on filmmaker Brian Baugh’s YA romance movie Finding You at AFM. The pic is set for a theatrical release via Roadside Attractions in early 2021.

The pic, shot throughout Ireland with pickups in NYC and LA, stars Rose Reid, Jedidiah Goodacre, Katherine McNamara, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Judith Hoag, Patrick Bergin, Tom Everett Scott and Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave.

Finding You follows aspiring violinist Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid), who travels to a coastal village in Ireland for a semester abroad following an ill-fated audition at a prestigious New York music conservatory. At the B&b run by her host family, Finley encounters heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), who is filming another installment of his medieval fantasy-adventure franchise. A romance sparks between the unlikely couple, igniting a journey of discovery and inspiration for both Finley and Beckett. However, when the pressures of Beckett’s...

Exclusive: Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. theatrical distribution rights to Finding You based on the book There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones. The movie comes from Red Sky Studios, Nook Lane Entertainment and MK1 Studios and will be released in theaters nationwide on January 29, 2021. Deadline also has an exclusive image from the film which can be seen above.

Written and directed by Brian Baugh, Finding You is a coming-of-age romantic drama following Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid). After she has an ill-fated audition at a prestigious New York music conservatory, she travels to an Irish coastal village to begin her semester studying abroad. While there, she runs into the dreamy — but gregarious — movie star Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), who is there to film another installment of his medieval fantasy-adventure franchise. The two form an unlikely romantic relationship and Beckett goes...

The company will sell ‘Nemesis’ and ‘Little Mary’ worldwide.

UK-based Parkland Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights to two titles from nascent genre producers Shogun Films, following on from last week’s virtual Cannes market.

The first, Nemesis, was due to film in the UK in March before the Covid-19 crisis; it will now commence production in August.

Last week Screen announced that Bulldog Film Distribution has pre-bought the UK rights to the title, which is a gangland home invasion thriller.

James Crow will direct from Adam Stephen Kelly and producer Johnathan Sothcott’s script, with the cast including Billy Murray,...

Shooting rescheduled to begin in August, after being postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

UK distributor Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Nemesis, the upcoming gangland home invasion thriller starring Billy Murray (Rise Of The Footsoldier).

It marks the first feature from Shogun Films, a London-based production outfit that was launched in January by Jonathan Sothcott and Jeanine Sothcott.

Jonathan Sothcott previously produced features including Vendetta, We Still Kill The Old Way and The Krays: Dead Man Walking, which proved home entertainment hits when released in the UK.

Filming was due to begin on Nemesis...

Shakespearean Transformer Olivier Megaton is back with a brand new actioner. The Versailles-born director of Taken 2 and Taken 3 will bring his latest cars-and-shooting movie to Netflix in June, and the streaming service has just released a first trailer for it.

The Last Days of American Crime is based on the 2009 Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini graphic novel, and has been adapted for the screen by Oblivion scribe Karl Gajdusek. It’s got a decent cast, too – The Assassination of Gianni Versace‘s Edgar Ramírez leads the pack alongside Anna Brewster (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) with a surprising appearance from Boardwalk Empire‘s Michael Pitt, who appears to be firing on all cylinders at Full Michael Pitt. That just so happens to be our favorite level of Michael Pitt, so we’ll probably have to check this one out.

An official synopsis from Netflix lies yonder:

“As...

"So you want revenge, I want legacy!" Netflix has debuted an official trailer for a new action thriller titled The Last Days of American Crime, which is based on the graphic novel of the same name. In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to terrorism and crime, the Us government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. A career criminal puts together a team to pull off the heist of the century and the last crime in American history before the signal starts. From the director of Taken 2 & 3. Starring Edgar Ramírez, along with Michael C. Pitt, Anna Brewster, Patrick Bergin, Sharlto Copley, Tamer Burjaq, and Daniel Fox. This definitely looks like an Olivier Megaton movie - excessive action galore, incoherent / dumb plot, attractive women, violent men. Might be a fun one? Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Olivier Megaton's...

AMC’s Acorn Media Enterprises and Irish pubcaster Rte have teamed up on “The South Westerlies,” an Irish-produced original comedy-drama featuring an ensemble cast led by Orla Brady (“Mistresses”). Zdf Enterprises and Norway’s TV2 are also on board the series, which has backing from Screen Ireland.

Dublin-based Deadpan Pictures is producing. It will bow on Rte in 2020. In the U.S. it will premiere on the Acorn TV streaming service, which recently surpassed the 1-million subscriber mark in North America.

Eileen Walsh (“Catastrophe”), Ger Ryan (“Rialto”), Sam Barrett, Lily Nichol (“Handymen”), Steve Wall (“Vikings”) and Patrick Bergin (“Patriot Games”) will also star in “The South Westerlies.”

Brady will play Kate, an environmental consultant for a Norwegian energy firm. Before landing a lucrative promotion, she has to go undercover among protesters and quash objections to a wind farm project near their small coastal town.

Filming is underway. The shoot will...

Hollywood star Julia Roberts' classic movie Sleeping With The Enemy is set to be remade. The 1991 thriller stars the actress as a desperate woman who fakes her own death to escape her abusive husband. Now, 28 years later, studio officials at Fox Searchlight Pictures are working on a modern version of the same story, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Rising moviemaker Nia DaCosta has been tapped to write and direct the project, which will be developed by The Iron Lady producer Damian Jones, as part of his new Fox deal, according to Deadline.com.

Further details about the movie revamp are yet to be announced.

DaCosta made her feature film directorial debut with last year's Little Woods, a drama starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James as estranged sisters who are driven to extremes.

The original Sleeping With The Enemy release, which also featured actors Patrick Bergin and Kevin Anderson, was a hit for filmmaker Joseph Ruben.

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We compare the best and worst Robin Hood movies. From Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe to a fox, here's the definitive ranking.

Like a certain Saxon archer landing an arrow right down the center of a bullseye, another Robin Hood movie being around the corner is inevitable. One of the oldest and most beloved figures of English folklore, Robin of Locksley has evolved through the centuries from grifter and trickster to fallen nobleman, and finally to righteous social justice warrior enamored with a serious income distribution plan. He also has more easily made the jump to cinema in the 20th century than many of his legendary peers of yore like King Arthur and Beowulf.

Indeed, thanks in large part to the charms of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Robin has been the star of one of the most important Hollywood films in cinema history,...

Romantic spy thriller wraps, shot on location in Barbados, London, and Ireland.

Production has wrapped on Michael Flatley’s (Lord Of The Dance) feature directorial debut Blackbird.

The romantic spy thriller stars stage icon Flatley as a retired secret operative who moves to Barbados to escape his past, only for the arrival of an arms dealer to complicate his plans.

Eric Roberts plays the sinister businessman, and the cast includes Patrick Bergin (Sleeping With The Enemy), and Ian Beattie from Game Of Thrones.

Blackbird filmed on location in Barbados, London, and Ireland, with West One Entertainment, Five Knight Films, Parachute Films,...

Lucy Nichol Feb 19, 2018

Lucy looks at a handful of the movies she's grown up with, and examines how they treat mental illness...

Associating mental illness with horror, violence and downright strange goings on was as rife as e-numbers and spiral perms back in the 80s. That's as far as my memory takes me anyway. But in fact, this unfair association goes back further still, many years before I was brought into this world via forceps in 1978 (I was always a stubborn child).

Going back even further, before we had the movies, Bethlem was, and still is, a hospital in London for people suffering from mental illness. Whilst it might be a respected hospital today, it has a chequered past...

It is reported that, in the 1590s, the governors allowed the general public to come and gawp at Bethlem's patients as a source of entertainment - paid for much like we...

Have an itch to see a movie about a gunfight, the whole gunfight and nothing but the gunfight? Search no more, for Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump have the movie for you: twenty minutes of angry crooks in conference, and then seventy minutes of non-stop shootin,’ with no annoying plot context or character depth to get in the way. Just say ‘Bang Bang I shot you down,’ and then play it in a loop, ad infinitum.

Free Fire

Blu-ray

Lionsgate

2017 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 90 min. / Street Date July 18, 2017 / 24.99

Starring: Sam Riley, Michael Smiley, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley, Babou Ceesay, Noah Taylor, Jack Reynor, Mark Monero, Patrick Bergin, Enzo Cilenti, Tom Davis.

Cinematography: Laurie Rose

Film Editors: Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley

Original Music: Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury

Written by Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley

Produced by Andy Starke

Directed by Ben Wheatley

Many critics fairly well loved Ben Wheatley...

Chicago – In a film that had a sassy, arbitrary perspective on its own flipped-out story, “Free Fire” sought to out-Quentin Tarantino in freaky funny characters and ammo-splurging gun battles. Director Ben Wheatley (“High-Rise”) took an ensemble cast to rarified heights of insult comedy, revenge dynamics and bullets that hit the bone.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

It’s basically an arms sale that goes bad, and it’s set in 1978. The rogue cast of characters include stand-outs Sharito Copley (the South African actor from “District 9”), Armie Hammer and Brie Larson. The film is shot in straightforward real time, and the gun battle that takes place after the deal falls apart was a relentless point-of-view survival story that devolved into an unrelenting necessity for humans to wreak havoc on each other. Under director Wheatley, there is a bit of winking at the camera, symbolic statements on the futility of battle, and film class...

It’s a little bit of an understatement to say that filmmaker Ben Wheatley has not made mainstream movies so far. His films are niche items, albeit sometimes incredibly compelling ones. This week, he makes what might be his most mainstream flick possibly, an action comedy of sorts in Free Fire. Although still decidedly independent, this is like the Mexican standoff sequence in Reservoir Dogs, but if that was an entire 90 minute movie. It’s a riot of a film. A literal blast, if you will. Helping to lead the charge is Brie Larson, who seems incapable of not turning in very solid work when the camera starts rolling. She’s just dynamite. The movie centers around an arms deal gone bad. Taking place in Boston in 1978, two gangs meet in an abandoned warehouse, ostensibly to buy/sell some guns. Set in motion by middle man Ord (Armie Hammer) one...

Chicago – One of the more lovely examples of pure cinema – if that description can be given to a film with nearly constant gunplay – is in the upcoming release of “Free Fire.” Director Ben Wheatley (“High-Rise”) constructs a dark and funny scenario within one room, and fills it with symbolism and homage to other movies.

Set in 1978, the story was based on an article that Ben Wheatley read about Irish gun runners during the Ira conflict. His writing partner Amy Jump, who is also his wife, concocted a narrative that had the gun deal go bad. What follows is a shoot out that lasts in real time over the 80 minutes it takes place. With outrageous asides, pitch black comedy and some of more creative violence this side of Quentin Tarantino, “Free Fire” takes its place as one of the best films, so far, in 2017.

Armie Hammer and Ben Wheatley On Set...

In today's Horror Highlights, we have details on Fathom Events' one-night-only theatrical screenings of Resident Evil: Vendetta, the podcast The Switchboard, The Final Girls' one-night-only UK screenings of Xx, Cage on Amazon Prime, and the new trailer and release details for Beacon Point.

Resident Evil: Vendetta Screenings: "Resident Evil: Vendetta’ One-night U.S. Cinema Event On June 19 To Include Exclusive Cast Intro And Behind-the-scenes Content

Tickets Now On Sale

What: “Resident Evil: Vendetta" is the third installment in the massively popular CG animated film franchise, following “Resident Evil: Degeneration” (2008) and “Resident Evil: Damnation” (2012), and will premiere in U.S. movie theaters on June 19 only. Exclusive to the U.S., this not-to-be-missed cinema event includes a specially-produced introduction from the cast and behind-the-scenes footage.

Derived from Capcom’s Resident Evil™, one of the bestselling video game franchises of all time (72 million + copies sold), “Resident Evil: Vendetta” features the fan-favorite...

Ben Wheatley’s delirious 70s-set shootout comedy is packed with wide collars, punchy visuals and explosive dialogue

After the high-concept gloss of their terrific Jg Ballard adaptation, High-Rise, film-making partners-in-crime Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump go back to their grungy roots with a very different vision of the dystopian 1970s. In a deserted Boston warehouse, a gaggle of variously incompetent weapons buyers and sellers take random real-time potshots at each other after a volatile arms deal falls apart. Less an extended riff on the final standoff from Reservoir Dogs than an absurdist expansion of the close-range gunfight from The Naked Gun 2½, Free Fire is a delirious descent into choreographed chaos. As an exercise in stripping away narrative in favour of “pure cinema” sensation, it’s breathtakingly bold; the ne plus ultra of nihilistic screen showdowns. In terms of slapstick comedy it combines a silent movie visual sensibility with a Looney...

In today's Horror Highlights, we take a look at Free Fire events at SXSW, a Comet network March contest, and the announcement of Shriekfest Orlando.

Free Fire at SXSW: "Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley and writer/director Ben Wheatley joined SXSW press and attendees yesterday for paintball, explosions, BBQ lessons, and other ill-advised activities at Austin's Stunt Ranch to celebrate A24's Free Fire. The out-of-control film received an appropriately outrageous event ahead of the sold-out Us premiere at the Paramount, where the audience went wild for Wheatley's action-comedy."

Synopsis: "Bold, breathless and wickedly fun, Free Fire is an electrifying action comedy about an arms deal that goes spectacularly and explosively wrong. Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) propels the audience head-on into quite possibly the most epic shootout ever seen on film as he crafts a spectacular parody -- and biting critique -- of the insanity of gun violence.

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It's 25 years since Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves! Which means it's 25 years since this advert!

It’s Friday, so why not.

This week has marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, starring the mighty Kevin Costner and his mighty English accent. In UK cinemas, there were two Robin Hood films in the summer of 1991, with a Patrick Bergin-headlined movie too (that premiered on TV in the Us). Basically, throw in that Bryan Adams song (you know the one), and it was the summer of Robin Hood.

Weetabix decided to get in on the act, and if you’ll forgive the personal indulgence, I always chuckled when this played. So, again using Friday as my personal safety cover, why not relive a Robin Hood special from 25 years ago.

Please be advised: other breakfast cereals are available…

See related Revisiting Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves...

The classic Irish short film, 'A Day For The Fire,' on the tragic theme of suicide in modern Ireland, with riveting performances by Jonathan Ryan (Patriot Games) and Jon Kenny (D’Unbelievables) will be screened on Rte 2 Shortscreen, Monday 4th April ’16 at 12 midnight.

A man returns to his native village after a twenty year exile. He meets another man in a rural pub who reveals during a brief conversation that his son has taken his own life. The casual admission of this tragedy shocks the viewer into the realization that even in such an idyllic landscape the pressures of modern life can take their toll.

The short was shot by acclaimed cinematographer Seamus Deasy, with a haunting score by Hollywood composer Patrick Cassidy, the film is written and directed by Maurice O’Callaghan (Broken Harvest). The film has played in selected cinemas in Ireland throughout 2014 and 2015 and may also be viewed on Youtube.

February’s home entertainment releases are kicking off in a big way, as horror and sci-fi fans have an extraordinary number of brand spanking new titles to choose from this Tuesday. From indie horror to cult classics to cult classics in the making, February 2nd’s Blu-ray and DVD releases truly do offer up something for everyone.

Scream Factory is offering up two modern genre films this week, Hellions and Zombie Fight Club and Cinedigm is keeping busy too on Tuesday with their releases of Extraordinary Tales and The World of Kanako. Vin Diesel’s latest, The Last Witch Hunter, arrives on both Blu and DVD and if you call yourself a Henry Rollins fan, you will definitely want to pick up He Never Died this week as well.

Other notable titles being released on February 2nd include From Dusk Till Dawn: Season Two, Falling Skies: The Complete Fifth Season,...