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Carl Reid and Enrico Natale’s diverse slate includes comedies, dramas.

New Los Angeles-based company Dept. H led by Carl Reid and Enrico Natale is launching AFM sales on the sci-fi thriller Catalyst.

Christopher Folkens wrote and directed the film about seven strangers who wake up and discover they have been taken captive and are being held in an electrical grid.

The only way they can escape is by revealing their darkest secrets before time runs out.

The film stars Noel Gugliemi (Training Day), Patrick Kilpatrick (Minority Report), Michael Roark, (Sleepy Hollow), and Melanie Liburd (This is Us).

Catalyst is...

Amazon Studios has unveiled the first stills from its holiday romantic comedy Something from Tiffany’s, starring Zoey Deutch (Not Okay) and Kendrick Sampson (Insecure), which is poised to launch globally on Prime Video on December 9th.

The Amazon Original, based on Melissa Hill’s novel of the same name, watches as a woman’s life is upended, when an engagement ring meant for someone else leads her to the person she’s meant to be with.

Nothing compares to the magic and excitement of the holidays in New York City, where the streets blaze with lights, windows dazzle, and a special box from Tiffany could change the course of a person’s life. Or several lives. Rachel and Gary (Deutch and Ray Nicholson) are happy enough, but not quite ready for that big commitment. Ethan and Vanessa (Sampson and Shay Mitchell), the perfect picture, are just about to make it official.

Dirt biking is one of the most exciting and adrenaline-pumping sports out there. For many people, it’s the perfect way to get out and explore the great outdoors while getting a fantastic workout. And, of course, there’s the bonus of being able to show off your skills to your friends.

Dirt biking is a form of off-road motorcycle racing that takes place on natural terrains such as dirt, grass, and sand. Unlike motocross, which is held on manufactured tracks, dirt bikes allow riders to test their skills on more challenging and varied terrain.

Racing Dirt bikes requires a high level of skill and fitness, as riders must be able to handle their bikes at high speeds over rough terrain. But for those who are up for the challenge, dirt bike races provide an exhilarating way to experience the great outdoors.

When it comes to Best Dirt Bike Movies,...

If you can't afford a vacation, Hallmark's got you covered with a trip to Brittany, France, in Moriah's Lighthouse.

That same night, Lifetime airs The Suitcase Killer, and there's nothing delightful about it! We know you love that kind of stuff.

And there are two great documentaries from HBO, including Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes and Mind Over Murder. Two great watches, and you can't go wrong with them.

Saturday, June 18

8/7c Moriah's Lighthouse (Hallmark)

It’s time to get your summer lovin’ on!

Moriah is a woodworking artisan living in a French seaside town who dreams of restoring a local lighthouse.

But Ben, an American architect who comes to town may derail her plans. Oh, we know otherwise, don’t we?

8/7c Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story (Lifetime)

Based on a shocking true story, Melanie McGuire (Candice King) was an exceptional fertility nurse, married to her ex-Navy...

Starting June 11, Lifetime will begin rolling out its summer movie slate, full of films ripped from the headlines, and TheWrap can exclusively reveal that lineup.

The movies include projects with stars including Melissa Joan Hart as a mom with a hoarding disorder, Catherine Bell as a woman who takes up with an inmate she meets while rehabilitating dogs, Robin Givens as a mom of an influencer teen involved in a deadly rivalry, and “Vampire Diaries” alum Candice King as a nurse alleged to have committed gruesome murder of her lover.

So let’s dive in:

“Dirty Little Secret”

Starring Hart and Lizzie boys, “Dirty Little Secret” premieres June 11 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt. It follows 17-year-old Lucy (Boys) who has been painfully isolated from her peers for years, refusing to let anyone near her house in order to hide her family secret – the overwhelming mountain of items filled in every...

Exclusive: Jojo T. Gibbs, Javicia Leslie, Chido Nwokocha, Stephanie Shepherd (Dave) and Michael Roark have signed on to the Amazon Original film Something from Tiffany’s, based on Melissa Hill’s novel of the same name, from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Amazon Studios.

They join an ensemble led by Zoey Deutch, which also includes Kendrick Sampson, Ray Nicholson, Shay Mitchell, and Leah Jeffries, as previously announced.

Something from Tiffany’s watches as a woman’s life is upended, when an engagement ring meant for someone else leads her to the person she’s meant to be with. Daryl Wein is directing the holiday romantic comedy from a script adapted by Tamara Chestna. Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter are producing for Hello Sunshine, with Deutch exec producing. Hello Sunshine’s first studio feature will...

“Angel Has Fallen” continues to fly at the box office. The Lionsgate and Millennium film is heading for a $14 million Labor Day weekend, following $2.8 million in Friday’s domestic ticket sales.

While slightly below earlier predictions, that should push the film’s total domestic gross to around $43 million come Monday. “Angel Has Fallen” beat expectations when it debuted to $21.25 million last weekend — on par with its predecessors, 2016’s “London Has Fallen” and 2013’s “Olympus Has Fallen.” Gerard Butler stars in the action franchise as a Secret Service agent who must prove his innocence after being framed for an attack on the United States president (Morgan Freeman).

Universal’s “Good Boys” also showed some staying power in its third weekend, earning $2.3 million on Friday for an estimated $11.4 million Labor Day Weekend. If estimates hold, the R-rated comedy should lift its 18-day total to about $57 million. Disney’s “The Lion King,” Universal...

“We’re gonna lose the farm, son!” husks country star Trace Adkins in the trailer for “Bennett’s War,” which then goes on to further suggest the viewer is in for a steaming pile of platitudinous corn, with a side order of flag-waving. And indeed, Alex Ranarivelo’s sports drama has a pretty hokey story gist: Wounded military veteran forces himself to miraculously recover his full mobility so he can return to motocross racing and get that prize money to … yep, save the family farm.

Maybe such on-the-nose marketing works for some Heartland audiences, but the good news about that bad trailer is that it does this film a disservice. While “War” may be a duly formulaic feel-gooder at heart, it also soft-pedals the more potentially heavy-handed emotional beats to pleasing effect.

Modest but enjoyable, with some exciting race footage, it should provide an inviting alternative for audiences on the...

Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman are showing staying power at the North American box office as “Angel Has Fallen” heads for a passable $15 million Labor Day holiday weekend, late afternoon estimates showed Friday.

The third entry in Lionsgate-Millennium’s action franchise will finish the frame with about $44 million in its first 11 days. Butler stars as a Secret Service Agent trying to clear his name after being framed for an attack on the U.S. President, played by Freeman.

“Angel Has Fallen,” which took in $21 million in its opening weekend, will easily top the third weekend of Universal’s R-rated comedy “Good Boys” during the four-day frame. “Good Boys” should take in around $10 million, lifting its 18-day total to about $57 million.

Disney’s seventh weekend of its photorealistic remake of “The Lion King” and Sony’s second weekend of faith-based drama “Overcomer” will battle for third place with about $8 million each.

Supernatural thriller “Don’t Let Go” has scared up $150,000 at 922 North American locations in Thursday night preview showings.

“Don’t Let Go” is expected to earn between $3 million and $5 million during what should be a typically mild Labor Day weekend at the nation’s multiplexes with the second session for “Angel Has Fallen” likely to repeat as the winner.

“Don’t Let Go,” which premiered at Sundance under the title “Relive,” stars David Oyelowo as a detective working to solve a murder after he receives a phone call from his dead niece, played by Storm Reid. It was produced by Jason Blum and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes, with Blumhouse Tilt and Otl Releasing handling distribution. Reviews have been mixed with a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “Don’t Let Go” has a modest $5 million production budget.

Also opening this weekend is Forrest Film’s drama “Bennett’s War” at around 800 venues amid similarly modest expectations.

"Going wheel to wheel is not smart for someone in your condition." Forrest Films has debuted an official trailer for an indie injured war veteran meets racing sports drama titled Bennett's War, the latest from filmmaker Alex Ranarivelo. The film is about a young soldier in the Army Motorcycle Unit named Marshall Bennett, who is injured by an Ied while serving in combat. He returns home and makes a remarkable comeback from a broken back and leg to be a champion motorcross racer. Michael Roark stars as Bennett, with a cast including country star Trace Adkins, plus Ali Afshar, Allison Paige, Hunter Clowdus, Brando Eaton, Tony Panterra, Michael King, & Taylor Kalupa. This looks exactly as cheesy and kitschy and uber heroic as described, but maybe that's what works for this. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Alex Ranarivelo's Bennett's War, direct from YouTube: After surviving an Ied explosion in combat overseas,...

Roster includes Motocross drama Bennett’s War.

Radiant Films International has kicked off talks on a pair of titles with Us theatrical deals in place – Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges action drama The Ride, and Bennett’s War.

The Ride recounts the life of Glaswegian pro BMX rider and author John Buultjens, who grew up with an abusive father and wanted to ride ever since he watched E.T.

When he was adopted by foster parents, Buultjens received a bicycle on his tenth birthday and a lifelong love affair began. He moved to Australia and eventually California, where he became the global...

Hey, "NCIS: Los Angeles" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's 22nd episode of this current season 10. Now that it's officially aired and over with, it's time to go over what the next, new episode 23 will have in store for you guys next Sunday night, May 12, 2019. It's the second to last episode of this season. So, season 10 is definitely about to come to a close. The folks over at CBS were kind enough to put out a press release for episode 23. So, that is what we'll be using for this spoiler session. As always, we'll go ahead and get things started by revealing what episode 23 is titled. CBS' press release revealed that the producers decided to go with, "The Guardian." That's right, guys. Episode 23 is named , "The Guardian." It's a nice, simple title. Episode 23 sounds like it will feature more adventure, possible action and dramatic scenes as the NCIS:...

In today’s film news roundup, Reese Witherspoon is collaborating with MGM, Jonathan Nolan gets an honor for visual effects, canine comedy “Patrick” finds a home and Forrest Films launches as a distributor.

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Reese Witherspoon is teaming with MGM to produce a movie version of Gail Honeyman’s bestselling novel “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.”

Witherspoon and Lauren Levy Neustadter will produce for their Hello Sunshine production company, which picked up the rights last year. The book is the winner of the 2018 Costa Debut Novel Award and is told from the point of the protagonist, a socially awkward 29-year-old in Glasgow, Scotland, with suppressed memories of a brutal childhood. The adaptation is being written by Liz Hannah, who wrote Steven Spielberg’s “The Post.”

“Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” is a potential star vehicle for Witherspoon but no deal has been signed and no director is attached. Witherspoon...

This evening, fans are saying goodbye to the Beauty and the Beast TV show on The CW. Is the time right? Should the series be ending? Should the network have made season five?On Beauty and the Beast, a beautiful detective (Kristin Kreuk), navigates her evolving relationship with a handsome doctor (Jay Ryan) who becomes a terrifying beast. Others in the cast are Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello, Nicole Gale Anderson, and Michael Roark.Loosely based on the CBS series from 1987, Beauty and the Beast has never been a hit show in the ratings. The first season averaged a 0.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.61 million viewers. The second season dropped to a 0.29 in the demo with 800,000 viewers.Read More…...

It's already been announced that there won't a fifth season of Beauty and the Beast on The CW so there's no danger of the series being cancelled any longer. Will the ratings rise for the final season or, will they drop lower? Stay tuned.

On Beauty and the Beast, a beautiful detective (Kristin Kreuk), navigates her evolving relationship with a handsome doctor (Jay Ryan) who becomes a terrifying beast. Now that they're married, will this couple find their "happily ever after"? Others in the cast are Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello, Nicole Gale Anderson, and Michael Roark.

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In the final seconds of Veep‘s Season 5 trailer, Selina handles a major financial crisis by making a comparison to male genitalia.

So, even though she might lose her Potus title to Bill O’Brien, Selina is clearly sticking to her vulgar, inappropriate guns in the HBO comedy’s fifth season.

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In the video above, Selina and her staff brainstorm how to break last season’s electoral tie, all while President Meyer deals with an economic collapse (and a bedroom rendezvous with Mad Men‘s John Slattery).

Veep returns Sunday,...

Michael Roark has joined the Season 2 of MTV’s Finding Carter. He will play Shay, the uncle of Crash (Caleb Ruminer). His recent credits include Stalker, Sleepy Hollow and Grey’s Anatomy. Roark next will be seen in the feature Wild For Night with Tommy Flanagan and James Maslow. He is repped by Amanda Glazer at The Kohner Agency and Principal Entertainment. Alexandra Metz is set to recur on NBC’s Chicago Fire. She returns to the series as Elise Mills, sister of Peter…...

Michael Roark has been cast in Wild For The Night, an indie thriller directed by Benny Boom. He will play Karl, a former La street kid who is best friends with Wyatt’s (James Maslow) and works with him to search for his sister’s killer. Roark’s credits include Magic Mike, Dolphin Tale and TV’s Grey’s Anatomy, Stalker, Sleepy Hollow and Royal Pains. He is repped by the Kohner Agency and Principal Entertainment.

Tina Casciani has joined the cast of director Ben Younger’s Vinnie Pazienza biopic Bleed For This. She will play Heather, a love interest for boxing champ Pazienza (Miles Teller). The cast also includes Katey Sagal, Aaron Eckhart and Ciaran Hands. She recurs on the CW’s Jane The Virgin. and had guested on series including Reckless, Murder In The First, CSI and Revenge. Casciani is repped by Nu Talent, Luber Roklin and Myman Greenspan.

Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Magic Mike Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer play strippers in Steven Soderbergh's next, a comedy entitled Magic Mike. Back in 1983, The Blue Lagoon's Christopher Atkins played a "sexy" dancer in John G. Avildsen's drama A Night in Heaven; it flopped. Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls (1995) was such a critical and box-office disaster that it all but ruined the director's Hollywood career. (True, Starship Troopers and Hollow Man didn't help matters any.) Will Soderbergh be able to strip the curse off of movies about strippers? Well, that all depends on how the filmmaker portrays his characters and the subject of sex. A moralizing movie about strippers, one that condescends to its characters, would definitely be a bad approach. That is, unless Soderbergh wants to lure only members of the censorship board of the Motion Picture Association of America. The fact is: prudes won't bother watching something like Magic Mike,...

Dolphin Tale, release in UK cinemas on October 14th, is inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life and features a great cast including Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jnr, and Ashley Judd alongside many wonderful animals. But the real star is “Winter”, who plays herself in the film, and today serves as a symbol of courage, perseverance and hope to millions of people.

In advance of the release, we caught up with director Charles Martin Smith (pictured below with Ashley Judd) and asked about his experiences working on Dolphin Tale.

When you said, ‘I’ve got to have Kris Kristofferson in this. We worked in Pat Garrett and the Billy and the Kid,’ what did people say to you?

Charles Martin Smith: Well, it was one of those things that came up in meetings, like with Andrew Broderick,...

Dolphin Tale was shot on-location in Florida where Winter the Dolphin lives. The cast spent a lot of time together, so much in fact, that the films two kid stars even name the same movie as their favorite!

Cozi Zuehlsdorff (pictured right), who plays "Hazel" says, "I love Bridge to Terabithia. I think that if you're ready to be really, really sad you should watch that movie, it's really awesome!"

Her co-star Nathan Gamble (also pictured) who plays "Sawyer" agrees. "I saw Bridge to Terabithia was a few days ago. That's a good one! I was surprised how amazing it was!"

Hey, they look a little bit like Terabithia's stars Josh Hutcherson and Annasophia Robb!

Some of the slightly older stars PICKed movies from their childhood. Austin Highsmith ("Phoebe") says, "My favorite movie for kids is Annie. I watched it until the tape ran out when I was a kid!