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When it comes to creating buzzy online content for their hundreds of thousands of followers, the Lewberger trio — Keith Habersberger, Alex Lewis and Hughie Stone Fish — are mavericks.

Formed in 2016, the comedy music group has become a poster child for how to be successful in the social media age, and increasingly among fervid musical theater fandoms. Viral Broadway covers, along with earlier career appearances on America’s Got Talent, Bring The Funny and collaborations with Habersberger’s other gig The Try Guys, have helped garner the musicians countless fans.

It’s also helped the band wrack up enough social capital to produce their own shows, including a very short L.A. run of what has since become an Off-Broadway musical, Lewberger & The Wizard of Friendship.

“This show is very much catered to the way that we interact together and catered to the way that our actual friendship is,” Lewis says. “The...

We all know that Liam Neeson has “a particular set of skills” and we can count on these skills to keep us on the edge of our sofa seats, riveted not only by his lethal prowess on-screen as he takes down his enemies but also by his powerful acting chops. Action-fan audiences count on Neeson’s performances to satisfy our need for skilled delivery and acting depth as well as for thrilling action.

When you learn where to watch Memory, you'll see why Liam Neeson is Not too old to stay at the top of our list of favorite action-movie heroes. In fact, in Memory, the indignities of aging are a key plot point that makes Liam Neeson perfect for the part of aging assassin, Alex Lewis.

Neeson has a long list of action hits from the thrilling Taken in 2008, to the chilling The Ice Road in 2021, and the non-stop...

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Warner Bros. Discovery’s new general manager for the U.K. and Ireland Antonio Ruiz has unveiled his leadership team across the combined business for the U.K. and Ireland.

Allan Stenhouse departs the team to join the international television distribution team at Warner Bros. Discovery, leading marketing and reporting to Robert Blair, president of international television distribution.

Meanwhile, here is a look at Ruiz’s team.

Katie Coteman will oversee ad sales, including advertising, digital ad sales, sponsorships and sport solutions, while Neil Marshall will be in charge of theatrical film distribution and local film production and acquisition.

Alison Morris handles TV licensing and digital home entertainment distribution, with Rachel Wakley overseeing retail, consumer products, physical home video, games, supply chain and experiences.

Alex Foley will oversee insights, strategy and retail planning, while Clare Laycock is focused on editorial, including local content production,...

Warner Bros. Discovery U.K. has set its leadership team under general manager Antonio Ruiz.

Ruiz was appointed general manager for the U.K. and Ireland back in June, reporting into Priya Dogra, president and managing director for Emea. The executive, who recently relocated from Madrid to London, previously served as general manager for Discovery in Spain, France and Portugal.

Ruiz has now has confirmed his top executives. The team includes:

Clare Laycock – the long-time Discovery executive will now oversee editorial, including local content production, programming and media planning.

Neil Marshall – the veteran Warner Bros. executive will continue oversight of theatrical film distribution and local film production and acquisition.

Alison Morris – the 15-year Warner Bros. executive will oversee TV licensing and digital home entertainment distribution

Katie Coteman – the long-time Discovery executive will manage ad sales including advertising, digital ad sales, sponsorships and sport solutions

Alex Foley – the Discovery executive will oversee portfolio planning and insight,...

Stars: Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Monica Bellucci, Taj Atwal, Ray Fearon, Harold Torres, Ray Stevenson | Written by Dario Scardapane | Directed by Martin Campbell

Liam Neeson plays a rogue hitman with Alzheimer’s in this remake of the 2003 Belgian action thriller Memory of a Killer. Directed by Martin Campbell, it’s a cut above the usual standard of Taken knock-offs.

Liam Neeson has built himself an entire sub-genre of thrillers since the success of Taken in 2010. Often referred to, somewhat cheekily, as the “geri-action” genre, the films all have the same thing in common – grizzled, 60-something Liam Neeson taking out lots of bad guys in as violent a manner as possible.

When Memory begins, it’s very much business as usual for this sort of film. Neeson plays no-nonsense hitman Alex Lewis, who we first meet taking out a shady-looking character in a hospital with ruthless efficiency and a hint of cruelty,...

Liam Neeson stars as “Alex Lewis” in director Martin Campbell’s Memory, an Open Road Films / Briarcliff Entertainment release. Credit: Rico Torres | Open Road Films / Briarcliff Entertainment

Adapting an old comic line: of all the Liam Neeson action/revenge/rescue movies Memory is the most … recent. Neeson plays Alex Lewis, a hit man with scruples (again), seeking retirement (again) from his craft. But he’s forced into one more job (again) that goes awry (again) putting the target on his back (again). One of the reasons for his attempt to quit is awareness that the same dementia that has already deprived his brother of all awareness is starting that downward spiral for him. The complication that drives this tired plot is his refusal to whack a child, and his anger at those who did.

Guy Pearce supports the effort as FBI agent Vincent Serra, frustrated by constraints from his superiors...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on Wbgr-fm on April 28th, reviewing “Memory,” the latest action film, based on a Belgium novel/film, starring Liam Neeson, in theaters April 29th.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Neeson is Alex Lewis, a contract assassin, who is wrapping up his harsh career because he is having memory problems … his brother has full blown Alzheimer’s, and he suspects it’s happening to him. When he gets involved with human traffickers – ultimately led by a wealthy boss named Davana (Monica Bellucci) – he draws the line on a certain kill, which gets the FBI, represented by agents Vincent (Guy Pierce) and Linda (Taj Atwal), closer to his capture. Can Alex remember how to flee?

“Memory” is in theaters beginning April 29th. Featuring Liam Neeson, Guy Pierce, Monica Bellucci, Ray Stevenson, Lee Boardman and Taj Atwai,. Screenplay adapted by Dario Scardapane. Directed by Martin Campbell.

At a time when each new Liam Neeson action thriller has become utterly indistinguishable from the last, Martin Campbell’s “Memory” would at least seem to have a unique hook: In this one, the lanky Irishman plays a contract killer who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Surely that should be enough to help the latest page in the Redbox chapter of Neeson’s career stand out from the likes of “The Ice Road,” “The Marksman,” and the rest of the post-“Taken” glut.

Mix in Monica Bellucci as the Jeffrey Epstein-esque queenpin of a child prostitution ring, Guy Pearce — no stranger to stories about anterograde amnesia — as a mustached FBI agent prone to wearily saying things like “Memory’s a motherfucker,” and pliable source material (the 2003 Belgian thriller “The Alzheimer Case”) that’s enriched by its new setting along Texas’ southern border, and it sounds like the recipe for a solid little programmer.

“Memory” opens with a grisly murder. Disguised in scrubs and a facemask, contract killer Alex Lewis walks into a hospital and garrottes a guy who’s visiting his ailing mamita. Alex is an old-timer, and he bumps off his targets with a perfunctory cool. But for all his muscle-tearing arm cranks and head-slamming combo moves, he really is too old for this shit, so much so that he has to write out his short-term memory on his forearm—names, places, phone, and hotel room numbers.

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The less you remember about 2003 Belgian thriller “Memory of a Killer,” the better, when it comes to its remake, directed by “Casino Royale” veteran Martin Campbell. Relocated to El Paso, Texas, this new version — which channels the brutal cynicism or recent Taylor Sheridan movies, or the even more ruthless tone of Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor” — takes the bones of a tough European crime drama and uses them as the grim gallows on which to hang yet another nihilistic Liam Neeson action vehicle.

These days, such Liam Neeson movies unofficially constitute a genre unto themselves. Starting with “Taken,” the Oscar-nominated actor who so sensitively played one of the screen’s great savers of souls in “Schindler’s List” has been reborn as a symbol of retribution. “Taken” came out in 2010, the year after the shocking skiing accident of real-life wife Natasha Richardson, and it has felt as if the actor himself was transformed by that tragedy,...

Mumbai, April 22 (Ians) Hollywood stars Liam Neeson and Monica Bellucci’s upcoming actioner ‘Memory’ is all set to hit the big screens in India on April 29. ‘Memory’ follows the dark and dangerous life of Alex Lewis (Neeson), an assassin for hire who has a change of heart during a particular mission. Deciding to spare […]...

Open Road Films has debuted a new trailer for the Liam Neeson led action thriller ‘Memory.’

The film follows Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson), an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision. Caught in a moral quagmire, Alex refuses to complete a job that violates his code and must quickly hunt down and kill the people who hired him before they and FBI agent Vincent Serra (Guy Pearce) find him first. Alex is built for revenge but, with a memory that is beginning to falter, he is forced to question his every action, blurring the line between right and wrong.

Directed by Martin Campbell, the film also stars Monica Bellucci, Taj Atwal, Ray Fearon, and Harold Torres.

Also in trailers – Sandra Oh has issues with her mother in trailer for ‘Umma’

The film has a US release date of April 29th.

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Exclusive: Briarcliff Entertainment, in partnership with Open Road Films, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Memory, an action vehicle that stars Liam Neeson and is directed by Martin Campbell. Pic is financed by Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures. This marks the fourth pic for Neeson and Briarcliff/Open Road, following Honest Thief, The Marksman and the upcoming Blacklight. They’ve set a wide U.S. theatrical release on April 29, 2022, per Briarcliff and Open Road’s Tom Ortenberg and Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler.

In Memory, Neeson plays Alex Lewis, an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision. Caught in a moral quagmire, the assassin refuses to complete a job that violates his code and must quickly hunt down and kill the people who hired him before they and FBI agent Vincent Serra (Guy Pearce) find him first. Alex is built for revenge but, with...

Daisy Head, who can currently be seen in the new Netflix series Shadow and Bone, has signed on for Paramount and eOne’s untitled Dungeons & Dragons film adaptation, based on the world of D&d, the popular Hasbro game franchise from Wizards of the Coast.

Head is joining the ensemble cast that includes Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Rege-Jean Page, Hugh Grant, and Sophia Lillis. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley co-wrote and are co-directing the film, with Goldstein recently tweeting that production was officially underway.

Jeremy Latcham and Hasbro’s Brian Goldner are producing the project.

Head can be seen as Genya Safin in Shadow and Bone. Her other credits include the Hulu series Harlots, the 2021 reboot of Wrong Turn franchise, and the Underworld franchise. She is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment, UK agency Gordon and French, and attorney Derek Kroeger.

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Martin Campbell’s action thriller ‘Memory’ has rounded out its ensemble cast, adding Emmy winner Guy Pearce, Monica Bellucci, Harold Torres, Taj Atwal and Ray Fearon.

The actors will star alongside Liam Neeson, who plays Alex Lewis, an expert assassin “with a reputation for discreet precision.”

According to the logline, when Alex refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target and must go on the hunt for those who want him dead. Veteran FBI agents Vincent Serra (Pearce), Linda Amistead (Atwal) and Mexican intelligence liaison Hugo Marquez (Torres) are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex, but also drawing the ire of local tech mogul Davana Sealman (Bellucci). With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing — he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move.

Principal photography underway in Bulgaria.

Guy Pearce and Monica Bellucci have joined Liam Neeson on Black Bear’s crime thriller Memory, which is being directed by Martin Campbell.

Harold Torres from ZeroZeroZero, Taj Atwal (Line Of Duty), and Ray Fearon (Beauty And The Beast) have also signed on.

Dario Scardapane adapted the screenplay from the book De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts, and Belgian film The Memory Of A Killer.

Principal photography is underway in Bulgaria on Memory, which centres on Alex Lewis (Neeson), an assassin with memory loss who goes after those who want him dead after he refuses...

Guy Pearce and Monica Bellucci are set to co-star opposite Liam Neeson in Memory, the indie crime thriller from Black Bear Pictures and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. Harold Torres (ZeroZeroZero), Taj Atwal (Line of Duty), and Ray Fearon (Beauty and the Beast) round out the cast of the film, which is currently shooting in Bulgaria.

The pic is based on the book De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts as well as the Belgian film The Memory of a Killer, directed by Erik Van Looy.

Dario Scardapane penned the adaptation, which follows Alex Lewis (Neeson), an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision. When Alex refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target and must go on the hunt for those who want him dead. Veteran FBI agents Vincent Serra (Pearce), Linda Amistead (Atwal), and Mexican intelligence liaison Hugo Marquez (Torres) are brought...

ITV orders detective series; WarnerMedia, Blue Ant Media and Rogo Productions strengthen teams; Comedy Central orders Rhod Gilbert show; “Frankenstein” adaptation in the works; and Netflix looks for African writers.

U.K. broadcaster ITV has commissioned four-part crime drama “The Long Call” from ITV Studios label Silverprint Pictures.

The drama is inspired by the best-selling novel from award-winning writer Ann Cleeves, creator of series “Vera” and “Shetland.” “Des” and “Baptiste” screenwriter Kelly Jones will write all four episodes in her first solo series. The narrative is led by flawed protagonist, Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, who has returned to live in a small community in North Devon with his husband, Jonathan. It’s a place Matthew walked away from 20 years ago after being rejected by his family. Now he’s back to take charge of his first major murder.

ITV’s head of drama, Polly Hill, commissioned the series. Silverprint Pictures...

Polly Cochrane, recently set as Country Manager for WarnerMedia UK & Ireland, today announced her leadership team comprising Alison Morris, Neil Marshall, Rachel Wakley, Alex Lewis, Allan Stenhouse and Charlie Cubbon.

The studio today also announced John Stanley’s decision to leave the company next year after 14 years at the helm of Warner Bros.’ home entertainment operation in UK, Ireland, Spain and Nordics. He will step down from his day-to-day management responsibilities at the end of this month and will stay on until the end of June 2021 on a series of transition projects.

WarnerMedia is set to shed thousands of jobs this year as it adjusts to the Covid challenge and shifting viewing habits. A shakeup in the Warner Bros ranks has included the impending exits of global marketing chief Blair Rich, as we revealed last week, and long-time UK chief Josh Berger, as we revealed last month.

In terms of the new UK structure,...

Leadership team is comprised of six executives.

Incoming WarnerMedia UK & Ireland country manager Polly Cochrane has appointed a six-person leadership team for the region, with John Stanley set to depart the company after 14 years.

Stanley has headed up the brand’s home entertainment offering in the UK and Ireland, Spain and the Nordic region since 2006. He is ending day-to-day management responsibilities at the end of November 2020, and staying on a series of transition projects until June 2021.

The members of the new leadership team are: Alison Morris, Neil Marshall, Rachel Wakley, Alex Lewis, Allan Stenhouse and Charlie Cubbon.

Morris will lead...

Leadership team is comprised of six executives.

Incoming WarnerMedia UK & Ireland country manager Polly Cochrane has appointed a six-person leadership team for the region, with John Stanley set to depart the company after 14 years.

Stanley has headed up the brand’s home entertainment offering in the UK and Ireland, Spain and the Nordic region since 2006. He is ending day-to-day management responsibilities at the end of November 2020, and staying on a series of transition projects until June 2021.

The members of the new leadership team are: Alison Morris, Neil Marshall, Rachel Wakley, Alex Lewis, Allan Stenhouse and Charlie Cubbon.

Morris will lead...

The premise is irresistible: After a motorcycle accident, 18-year-old Alex Lewis wakes up in an English hospital and sees a man and a woman on either side of his bed. He instantly recognizes his twin brother Marcus, but doesn’t know his mother. Marcus starts to fill in Alex’s empty, amnesiac brain with all the people, places, and things he needs to know in order to function at home, at school, and in the world.

But Marcus creates an alternate reality from the one they actually grew up in. He paints a prettier picture of Lewis family life, invents vacations they never took, and leaves things out, including their childhood sexual abuse. After the brothers first told their story to The Sunday Times, followed by 2013 U.K. bestseller “Tell Me Who I Am,” young British documentary filmmaker Ed Perkins chased them down and spent five years working with them to dig deeper.

Continuing the trend so-crazy-they-have-to-be-real documentaries, Netflix’s new film “Tell Me Who I Am” tracks the repercussions of a motorcycle accident and the amnesiac that emerges from the crash. Alex Lewis, the central focus, awakens in the hospital only able to remember his twin brother, not even recognizing his mother right next to him. So begins Ed Perkins’ mysterious new film, a cryptic exploration of twin brothers, Alex, who literally forgets his entire life post-crash, and Marcus, who helps him reconstruct his memory.

Continue reading ‘Tell Me Who I Am’ is a Captivating Portrait of How We Cope With Trauma [Review] at The Playlist.

Tell Me Who I Am, the Telluride-premiering feature from Academy Award-nominated (for Best Documentary Short Subject) director Ed Perkins, digs into the stranger-than-fiction saga of Alex Lewis, one half of an identical set of twins, who at the age of 18 lost his memory in a motorcycle accident. Upon awakening from a coma the only person Alex was able to recognize was his brother Marcus — the mirror image he would come to rely on to relearn pretty much everything, from the mundane (down to brushing his teeth) to his very sense of self. In turn, Marcus devotes himself wholeheartedly […]...

Tell Me Who I Am, the Telluride-premiering feature from Academy Award-nominated (for Best Documentary Short Subject) director Ed Perkins, digs into the stranger-than-fiction saga of Alex Lewis, one half of an identical set of twins, who at the age of 18 lost his memory in a motorcycle accident. Upon awakening from a coma the only person Alex was able to recognize was his brother Marcus — the mirror image he would come to rely on to relearn pretty much everything, from the mundane (down to brushing his teeth) to his very sense of self. In turn, Marcus devotes himself wholeheartedly […]...

In 1982, Alex Lewis woke up from a three-month coma and couldn't remember anything or anyone—except for his twin brother, Marcus. All of a sudden the keeper of his sibling's memories, Marcus Lewis took the opportunity to try to protect Alex from remembering their shared truth. In turn he started piecing together a happier past for Alex. The documentary Tell Me Who I Am, now streaming on Netflix, features the British brothers reckoning with the motorcycle crash that stripped an 18-year-old Alex of his identity, the trust he put in Marcus, the lies Marcus told him, and the reality they ultimately both had to confront. The Lewis twins previously told their story in a 2013 book of the...

Amnesia has been so overused in movies — a convenient narrative device that effectively forces characters to become detectives into their own past — that it’s startling to encounter a film in which someone really does lose his memory. What’s doubly fascinating about the true-life case of Alex Lewis, in which the surprises just keep on coming, is that the one person the young man recognized when he awakened from the coma following a brain-wiping motorcycle accident was identical twin Marcus, who’d shared many of his formative experiences. But can someone reconstruct his sense of self via another person’s memories?

That question and countless others drive director Ed Perkins’ puzzle-box portrait “Tell Me Who I Am,” a neatly constructed re-creation of the process by which Alex Lewis relied on Marcus to fill in the gaps of his missing identity. What never occurred to Alex was that his brother...

An amnesiac man and his twin brother come to terms with their troubled childhood in this involving but upsetting film

This desperately upsetting Netflix documentary, a portrait of a troubled family, is best watched knowing as little possible. Director Ed Perkins slickly pieces his story together like a psychological thriller – a little too slickly, perhaps, for such an emotionally painful tale.

Following a motorbike accident in 1982, 18-year-old Alex Lewis woke up from a coma with almost total memory loss. The only person he recognised was his twin brother, Marcus. Once he had left hospital, Marcus retaught Alex everything – how to tie his shoelaces, what a toaster does, the name of his girlfriend. And he told him the story of their childhood growing up with a loving mum and dad in a country pile in the home counties, the family holidays in France, the good life. But it was all a lie.

Documentaries often make us look at difficult facts in a way that provokes further conversation, action or interrogation. But then there is “Tell Me Who I Am,” which gradually unmasks a disturbing truth so resolutely and unnervingly that it requires no further dialogue, just recovery for both the audience and its central protagonist.

Drawing from a startling real life story, director Ed Perkins plants audiences inside a film where mounting mystery climaxes to unsettling concern as we watch an amnesiac grapple with the horrifying reality that is his life.

And it all starts with deceit. Through voiceover and in-person interviews, Perkins begins to unravel 55-year-old Alex Lewis’ shadowy past to the point where he can recall it in his own words — at age 18, as he’s waking up from a coma following a tragic motorcycle accident that resulted in him losing his memory. As traumatic as the event was, Alex...

Tell Me Who I Am Netflix Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ed Perkins Cast: Alex Lewis, Marcus Lewis Screened at: Digital Arts, NYC, 10/2/19 Opens: October 18, 2019 When Cain asked God “Am I my brother’s keeper?” he may have meant the question to be rhetorical and, […]

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There’s an intriguing new documentary coming to Netflix called Tell Me Who I Am. It tells the fascinating and tragic story of Alex Lewis, who after waking up from a coma after a motorcycle accident, had no memories of his life. He relied on his twin brother Marcus to fill all the blanks of his forgotten past filled with a happy childhood and a wonderful family. But it turns out… Marcus lied about everything. None of what he was telling him was true.

The film comes from director Ed Perkins and this is the synopsis:

When 18-year-old Alex Lewis wakes up from a coma after surviving a motorcycle accident, the world is not one he remembers. He has forgotten everything. His home. His parents. He can’t even remember his own name. The only thing he does know is that the person sitting next to him is his identical twin brother,...

Memory and lies take center stage in Tell Me Who I Am, a new documentary from Netflix. The film follows Alex Lewis, who woke up from a coma after a motorcycle accident to find that almost all of his memories were gone. He relied on his twin brother Marcus to help fill him in on the […]

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Alex Lewis was just a teenager when he endured a terrible motorcycle accident that put him in a coma and wiped his memory in the process. When he finally awoke, the young Brit knew only one thing: his twin brother’s name. He didn’t even know his own name, but he recognized his beloved sibling Marcus, and that was enough to help guide him back to apparent normalcy. Aided by his loving brother and an attentive mother, Alex was able to reconstruct his life, from learning the basics like how to brush his teeth or ride a bike, to boning up on a seemingly happy family history, as explained by Marcus.

It wasn’t true. At least, it wasn’t true to Marcus, who strove to build a history for his brother that neatly cut away the bad stuff and allowed him the kind of happiness and freedom that Marcus,...