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Exclusive: Two-time Emmy nominee Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys) is set to pen a feature adaptation of Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel The Housemaid for Lionsgate.

The psychological thriller unveiled by Grand Central Publishing last April, which has remained on the Amazon bestsellers list for almost a year, follows a struggling woman who is relieved when she gets to start fresh as a housemaid to an upscale, wealthy couple. Soon, however, she finds herself falling for the kind and attractive husband. From behind closed doors, she sees everything and soon learns that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman and Alex Young will produce the film, with Carly Kleinbart overseeing the project for the company and also serving in a producorial role. Chelsea Kujawa and Erin Jones-Wesley are overseeing for Lionsgate. And it was Jason Weltman who negotiated the deal for the studio.

Sonnenshine...

Stars: Chris Pine, Gillian Jacobs, Sander Thomas, Ben Foster, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexej Manvelov | Written by J.P. Davis | Directed by Tarik Saleh

The Contractor opens with the voice of a preacher delivering a sermon as we watch U.S. Special Forces sergeant, James Harper go about his business, and spend time with his wife Brianne and son Jack.

However, things are about to take a turn for the worse when the regime of steroids he’s been using to rehab a combat injury blows a drug test and gets him discharged without his pension. Now with money running short and his options limited he sees only one way out, take a job as a mercenary with a security contractor despite his promise to Brianne not to.

He gets his former commanding officer Mike to introduce him to Rusty. But of course, things do not go smoothly and he’s soon caught...

John Huston plays every narrative card in the deck for the difficult task of expressing the great doctor’s insights into psychoanalysis. His actors personalize the concepts of neurosis, etc., investing us in Sigmund’s search for answers in long-ago Vienna. The fascination has multiple levels: in investigating the nature of ‘hysteria’ Dr. Sigmund Freud finds that he shares to a degree the same mental aberrations, as does his mentor. Actor Montgomery Clift was fighting numerous personal demons at the time, and Huston’s directing methods were described by some as cruel. Superb production values and Jerry Goldsmith’s music score enhance the experience. The scan on view is Huston’s director’s cut, not Universal’s shorter original release version.

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1962 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 141 min. / Street Date November 20, 2021 / Freud: The Secret Passion / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Hottest August (Brett Story)

Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all—with its streets and avenues named for numbers and letters and states and cities and presidents and Revolutionary War generals spanning an archipelago, intersecting at a million little data points at which to measure class, race, culture, history, architecture and infrastructure. And time, too—from this human density emerge daily and seasonal rituals, a set of biorhythms, reliable as the earth’s, against which to mark gradual shifts and momentary fashions. Summer is for lounging on fire escapes, always, and, today, for Mister Softee. Yesterday it was shaved ice.

In today’s Global Bulletin, Atresmedia commissions a Spanish version of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” trailer drops, Lightbox will produced a three-part docu-series about Sophie Toscan du Plantier for Netflix, Hardcash announces a new coronavirus doc for ITV, and the Seville and Zagreb festivals announce their 2020 winners.

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¡Hola Hola Hola! Media company World of Wonder is teaming with Spanish broadcaster Atresmedia and production company Buendía Estudios on “Drag Race Spain,” a new Spanish version of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” for Atresmedia’s SVOD platform Atresplayer Premium. The Spanish update adds to the list of previous format deals in Thailand, Chile, Canada, Netherlands, and “RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.,” recently renewed for a second and third season.

Passion Distribution brokered the deal with Atresmedia and will distribute internationally, including an exclusive deal with Wow Presents Plus in the U.S., U.K and internationally, which will...

In a plotline nobody saw coming (let alone a movie being made about it) a young Bernie Sanders swears a blood oath to Joseph Stalin in the trailer for the upcoming satirical comedy, “Free Lunch Express.”

The movie is clearly not trying to portray Sanders in a positive light. For example, at one point, a young Sanders can be seen in front of a propaganda poster of Stalin, saying, “I totally pledge with this blood oath to dedicate my life to never picking up a dinner check, never donating to charity, and like in the glorious Soviet Union, making sure the government pays for everything.”

Malcolm McDowell serves as the film’s narrator. “Aw, Bernie, bless his cotton socks,” McDowell caps off the trailer by saying.

There’s really no way to properly describe “Free Lunch Express,” so here is how the producers sum up the film:

Once upon a...

The 33rd edition of the Pilsen-based festival has wrapped, awarding the best domestically produced oeuvres in the process. This year’s previously postponed edition of the Czech annual showcase of domestic cinema and audiovisual works, Finále Plzeň (see the news), managed to wrap successfully before the country entered a state of emergency owing to a new spike in coronavirus cases. After the festival provided an in-depth overview of domestic production from the past 2019-2020 season and offered a sneak peek at upcoming theatrical releases with a slew of premieres, the annual film gathering wrapped with its awards ceremony. The country’s nominee for the Oscars, Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird, Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek’s senior-starring revenge road movie Old-Timers and Michal Hogenauer’s English-language feature debut, the social thriller A Certain Kind of Silence, all locked horns for the Golden Kingfisher Award, but Marko Škop’s family...

The 33rd edition of the Pilsen-based festival will offer a slew of upcoming movies as premieres, alongside the traditional round-up of domestic film and episodic output. Earlier this year, the annual Finále Plzeň showcase of Czech cinema was postponed from its original dates in April to 25-30 September. Thus the 33rd edition is almost ready to take off as a physical event under today’s “new normal” circumstances, even though foreign jury members and industry professionals will have to join the event virtually. Finále Plzeň offers a deeper insight into Czech cinema, serving as a summary of the latest season. Marko Škop’s drama Let There Be Light, which was named Best Slovak Film at the recent Sun in a Net Awards (see the news), will vie for the Golden Kingfisher Awards in the feature-length fiction and animated film competitions, going head to head with the Czech bid for the Oscars,...

The tenth edition of the Slovakian national film awards shone a spotlight on the domestic film industry, while Marko Škop's movie walked away with five trophies. Marko Škop’s sophomore fiction feature, Let There Be Light, has come out on top at the tenth-anniversary edition of the Slovak national film awards, Sun in a Net. The social family drama, which travelled the festival circuit very widely and was picked as Slovakia’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards (see the news), also netted the accolades for Best Director and Best Screenplay, while Zuzana Konečná and Milan Ondrík received the gongs for Best Lead Actress and Actor. While Škop’s film took home five awards, it was Jonáš Karásek’s political thriller Amnesty that led the nominations, with a total of 12. The thriller, inspired by the events following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, President Václav Havel’s amnesties and a bloody.

This year’s selection will be announced over two waves to account for pandemic conditions.

The first 32 features up for the 2020 European Films Awards has been announced with a second wave of “pandemic year” titles due to be revealed in September.

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The titles include Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History Of David Copperfield and Viggo Mortensen’s Falling as well as Berlinale award-winners Undine, by Christian Petzold; Hidden Away, by Giorgio Diritti; Bad Tales, by the D’Innocenzo Brothers; Dau. Natasha, by Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel; and Delete History, by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern.

The latest in our series of writers highlighting underseen gems to stream is a recommendation for a surprising and magical Italian drama

The Italian hills have never looked less bucolic than in this strange, melancholy film. The terrain is harsh and unyielding; the sun unrelenting; the bone-dry ground dissolves into clouds of dust. A wolf stalks the land as darkness falls, and the local farmers scramble for the few available comforts to get them through the night: a functioning lightbulb, some anchovies, the final sips of wine left in the house.

Related: My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light...

Continuing our series of writers highlighting underseen films to stream is a recommendation of John Huston’s controversial Ptsd documentary

In the dog days of the second world war, John Huston travelled to the Mason general hospital in Brentwood, Long Island, to shoot a documentary about a group of wounded soldiers preparing to return to civilian life. Let There Be Light was the third commission in what sounds like an increasingly fraught partnership between the director and the US army signal corps. Huston’s first film (Report From the Aleutians) screened without incident, while his second (The Battle of San Pietro) sparked walk-outs among the military top brass during its Washington preview. But Let There Be Light hit the jackpot. It was immediately yanked and buried, and languished unseen for the next 35 years.

Related: My streaming gem: why you should watch I Am Jonas...

Liz Tigelaar’s “Little Fires Everywhere” writers’ room was on the Paramount lot, a central point between herself and many of her Eastside writers. But when the show wrapped, she wanted to move her space closer to home in Venice Beach. Her new location, into which she moved in January, is now only blocks from the beach, as well as her son’s school. The second-floor space includes a balcony where she, her writers and her dog Frites can collaborate. “I’ve been all over for so many years of my career, but now I just feel like I get to work at home,” she says.

Artist of Another Kind

Tigelaar doesn’t just write and produce, she also likes to paint, and back in 2005 she was starting to play with texture and using different materials in her pieces. That was also when “American Dreams,” a period drama on which she was a writer,...

Silent Days will also be in the running, duking it out for European Documentary. The Slovak Film and Television Academy (Sfta) has chosen the three domestic candidates that will be contending for the European Film Awards, set to be handed out during the European Film Academy’s ceremony on 12 December in Reykjavik. The Slovakian movies picked from the batch of domestic majority co-productions include Marko Škop’s sophomore feature-length fiction film, Let There Be Light. The family drama, revolving around the rise of far-right extremism in a rural village, got off to a flying start in the main competition of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, winning the Best Actor Award for the film’s male lead, Milan Ondrík (see the news), before netting prizes on the international festival circuit. Ultimately, the Sfta submitted Let There Be Light to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category of the.

Unforgettable props and costumes from A24 titles like Midsommar, Euphoria and Uncut Gems are up for grabs.

On Wednesday, the indie entertainment company launched a virtual auction to benefit hospitals and charity organizations providing relief amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

“As a company founded and based in New York City, A24 wants to give back to the city as it weathers this crisis and begins to rebuild. 100% of each auction’s proceeds will be donated to one of four charities helping New York City’s hardest-hit communities and frontline workers: Fdny Foundation; Food Bank For NYC; NYC Health + Hospitals; and Queens Community House,...

Want to own the flower dress Florence Pugh wears during the climax of Ari Aster’s “Midsommar”? What about the purple hoodie that is the trademark of Zendaya’s character Rue on “Euphoria”? Today is your lucky day thanks to the launch of A24 Auctions. The indie production company and distributor has announced a new auction program to benefit various charity organizations, including NYC Health + Hospitals and the Fdny Foundation. The studio is auctioning props from some of its most popular titles. Additional items include the carved wooden mermaid from “The Lighthouse,” plus Dina’s prom dress and Kevin Garnett’s Celtics jersey from “Uncut Gems,” among others.

A24 said in an official statement: “As a company founded and based in New York City, A24 wants to give back to the city as it weathers this crisis and begins to rebuild. 100% of each auction’s proceeds will be donated to...

Jason Blum is “sorry” for his “dumb comments” about a lack of female directors available to make movies under his Blumhouse banner.

“Thank you everyone for calling me out on my dumb comments in that interview,” he said early Thursday morning on Twitter, referencing a Polygon piece that was published not 20 hours prior. “I made a stupid mistake.”

Blum then went on to point out the female-skewing demographics of both his audience and executive team. He also referenced actress Jamie Lee Curtis as the anchor of his new movie “Halloween,” which hits theaters tomorrow. In addition to starring in the film, Curtis is also an executive producer on it.

Citing his “passion” for gender parity several times, Blum said this morning that his company has “not done a good...

“Better Call Saul” writer Gennifer Hutchison offered some advice to Jason Blum after the Blumhouse Productions chief said in an interview that he’s “trying” to hire a woman to direct a horror film at his studio, but there aren’t enough willing to take a stab at the genre.

“Producers and studios, if they are really serious about hiring women directors, need to work on fostering talent that has been overlooked rather than simply chasing the overbooked few female directors,” Hutchison said in a tweet. “You have to take chances on new voices to achieve parity.”

Blum’s comments came in response to a Polygon interview question that pointed out his Blumhouse has never produced a theatrically released horror movie directed by a woman.

Also Read: 41 Percent of First-Time TV Directors Were Women Last Season, DGA Study Finds

“We’re always trying to [do] that…We’re not trying to...

The horror genre has defined the success of Blumhouse Productions ever since the company’s “Paranormal Activity” became one of the most profitable films ever made in 2007. While the company, led by Jason Blum, has had unparalleled success, the studio has failed to produce any horror movies directed by female filmmakers over the last 11 years and counting. Polygon editor Matt Patches recently informed Blum about the statistic during an interview for “Halloween,” to which Blum assured the studio has actively searched for female directing talent.

“We’re always trying to do that,” Blum said. “We’re not trying to do it because of recent events. We’ve always been trying. There are not a lot of female directors period, and even less who are inclined to do horror. I’m a massive admirer of [‘The Babadook’ director] Jennifer Kent. I’ve offered her every movie we’ve had available. She...

Time to play Streaming Roulette. Each month, to survey new streaming titles we freeze frame the films at random places with the scroll bar and whatever comes up first, that's what we share!

Ready? Let's get right to it...

-God I loved this house.

-Me too.

The Keeping Hours (2017)

Hmmm. Carrie Coon (♥︎) and Lee Pace (♥︎) in a supernatural haunted house movie -- how have we not heard of this one? *does quick google search* ah, no theatrical release, that's how. Should we watch?...

Netflix has confirmed that 51 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in September, including the second season of the Peabody-winning satire “American Vandal” and season 5 of “Bojack Horseman.”

And there will also be new to Netflix seasons of some of your favorites from other networks, including the seventh and final edition of “Once Upon a Time.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Netflix appearances including the red-hot Oscar contender “Black Panther.”

Available September 1

10,000 B.C.

Another Cinderella Story

Assassins

August Rush

Bruce Almighty

Delirium

Fair Game

Groundhog Day

King Kong

La Catedral del Mar (Netflix Original)

Martian Child

Monkey Twins (Netflix Original)

Mr. Sunshine

Nacho Libre

Pearl Harbor

Scarface

Sisters (Netflix Original)

Spider-Man 3

Stephanie

Summer Catch

Sydney White

The Ant Bully

The Breakfast Club

The Cider House Rules

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Keeping Hours...

Going back to school or work after lounging at the pool all summer isn’t a fun wake-up call, but you can still escape to Wakanda or “Hollywoo” with the Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther” and Season 5 of the animated comedy “BoJack Horseman,” which are coming to Netflix this month.

Plenty of Netflix originals are debuting or returning in September. Acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga’s dark comedy “Maniac,” starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, arrives Sept. 21. The mockumentary “American Vandal” is back for Season 2 and the docuseries “Chef’s Table” returns for its fifth installment. Classic films are also coming to the streaming platform, including “Groundhog Day,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Scarface,” and animated pics “Lilo & Stitch” and “The Emperor’s New Groove.”

Sept. 1

10,000 B.C.

Another Cinderella Story

Assassins

August Rush

Bruce Almighty

Delirium

Fair Game

Groundhog Day

King Kong

La Catedral del Mar

Martian Child

Monkey Twins

Mr. Sunshine...

Summer is coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the binge-watching has to stop.

A number of original series and popular movies are hitting Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime in September. New offerings on Netflix include the mega-hit “Black Panther,” along with the streaming giants’ new show “Maniac” with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. Meanwhile, Amazon Prime is debuting “Forever,” which stars “Saturday Night Live” alums Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph. Over on Hulu, Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America” will drop its second season.

And if you want to get ahead on a horror movie marathon before Halloween, there are also plenty of scary flicks that will be added throughout the month. “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” is coming to Netflix, while both Amazon and Hulu will carry “The Amityville Horror” and “Jigsaw.”

Check out the full list of titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, and...

School’s back in session, and so are several of your favorite Netflix original series.

“Marvel’s Iron Fist” and “Atypical” return for sophomore seasons on Sept. 7, and the second season of “American Vandal” will hit the streamer a week later on Sept. 14. “Norm MacDonald Has a Show” will drop that day as well, and limited series “Maniac,” starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill will arrive on the 21.

Netflix will also release some new movies, including “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser” on Sept. 7, “Nappily Ever After” on the 21, and “Hold the Dark” on the 28.

Also Read: 'The Great British Baking Show:' Netflix Imports 3 New Seasons for Us Viewers

See below for the complete list of titles coming to and leaving Netflix next month.

Avail. 9/1/18

10,000 B.C.

Another Cinderella Story

Assassins

August Rush

Bruce Almighty

Delirium

Fair Game

Groundhog Day

King Kong

La Catedral del Mar– Netflix Original

In 14th-century Barcelona,...

Netflix has released their full list of films and Tv shows that will be coming to Netflix in September. Black Panther is among them and will arrive Tuesday, September 4! Now we'll all be able to return to Wakanda as often as our heart desires, or until Disney decides to pull it for its own streaming service in 2019. Either way, I'm excited to see the film again. The live-action Bleach film is also coming to the streaming service!

Some of the other notable films and shows include Groundhog Day, King King, Scarface, Pearl Harbor, The Breakfast Club, Unforgiven, Atypical Season 2, Bojack Horseman Season 5, Iron Fist Season 2, Next Gen, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, The Witch and more. Check out the full list below and let us know what you're excited about!

September 1

10,000 B.C.

Another Cinderella Story

Assassins

August Rush

Bruce Almighty

Delirium

Fair Game

Groundhog Day

King Kong

La Catedral...

Netflix just announced next month’s slate of movies and TV shows coming to the streaming service.

Highlights include the ’80s classic The Breakfast Club and Black Panther, plus buzzy Netflix original Sierra Burgess Is A Loser (justice for Barb, aka Shannon Purser.)

See the full list below:

Avail. 9/1/18

10,000 B.C.

Another Cinderella Story

Assassins

August Rush

Bruce Almighty

Delirium

Fair Game

Groundhog Day

King Kong

La Catedral del Mar: Netflix Original

In 14th-century Barcelona, a serf’s determined climb to wealth and freedom incurs the disdain of the noble class and the suspicion of the Inquisition.

Martian Child...

August’s horror and sci-fi home media releases are off to a great start, as we have numerous titles arriving this Tuesday that fans are going to want to add to their collections. Severin Films has put together a stellar limited edition release of The Changeling, and Scream Factory is resurrecting John Carpenter's Someone’s Watching Me! on Blu-ray as well. Scream Factory has also teamed up with IFC Midnight for a trio of releases—Pyewacket, Lowlife, and Wildling—and Marrowbone arrives on both formats, too.

Other notable releases for August 7th include Predator and the Predator 3-Movie Collection in 4K, Desecration, The Keeping Hours, and Dead Shack.

The Changeling Limited Edition

It is perhaps the most chilling supernatural thriller of our time. It remains a career peak for star George C. Scott and director Peter Medak. Now the film that Martin Scorsese calls, "One of the scariest movies ever made,...

Three years after being announced, Blumhouse’s supernatural love story The Keeping Hours is being dumped to VOD July 24th and DVD August 7th through Universal Home Entertainment, Bloody learned thanks to @owslajosh. Directed by Karen Moncrieff and starring Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy, “Halt and Catch Fire”) and Carrie Coon (Gone Girl): “Successful attorney Mark (Pace) returns to his old house after the renters skipped […]...

Planet 9 Productions has hired Barkhad Abdi, Amy Smart, and Rory Cochrane to star in the family drama “Tyson’s Run,” Variety has learned.

“Tyson’s Run” started principal photography in Atlanta on July 9. Kim Bass is directing from his own script. The story centers on a 15-year-old boy, living with autism, who tries to heal the rift between his parents and the emotional distance from his father by pursuing an athletic dream.

Bass, a former staff writer on “In Living Color” and creator of primetime family series “Sister, Sister” and “Kenan & Kel,” is also producing with Deanna Shapiro, Eric Upshur, and Asante White. Planet 9 chief John Cappetta will serve as executive producer.

“We look forward to bringing this meaningful, heartfelt story to fruition,” Bass said. “I’m enthusiastic about the wonderful cast and crew we’ve assembled and eager to work with these phenomenal professionals.”

Abdi received an...

Two years after being announced, the supernatural love story The Keeping Hours screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival. While we wait for news on a wide release, Bloody Disgusting reader ‘Neto R.’ sent us some images and an early piece of art for the Karen Moncrieff-genre film that come courtesy of Imbd. The script by Rebecca […]...

As “The Keeping Hours” begins, seven years have passed since the death of Mark (Lee Pace) and Elizabeth’s (Carrie Coon) child. Six years have passed since the once-happy couple split. These are unpleasant anniversaries, which doesn’t make them any less difficult to remember, or to forget. In the interim, Elizabeth has done what she could to move forward: She buried herself in writing a book, detailing her experiences with death and rebirth. On the other side, she found a new husband, two children, and a white picket fence. Her picturesque vision of adulthood has remained intact. Conversely, Mark has slipped into.

Five competition sections drew 42% female, 40% non-white directors.

Becks (pictured) directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell won the U.S. Fiction Award. Lena Hall and Mena Suvari star in the drama about a singer-songwriter who moves in with her ultra-Catholic mother after a break-up and strikes up an unexpected friendship with the wife of an old nemesis.

Mexico’s The Night Guard (El Vigilante) by Diego Ros earned the World Fiction Award and tells of a security guard who becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a crime at the construction site he is paid to patrol. Leonardo Alonso, Ari Gallegos,...

Becks, the musical drama directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell starring Lena Hall, won the La Film Festival’s U.S. Fiction Award today, while Karen Moncrieff’s The Keeping Hours took the Audience Award for a fiction feature. Those winners were among the awards announced today at the festival’s Awards Reception by Festival Director Jennifer Cochis and Film Independent President Josh Welsh (see the complete list below). Festival Guest Director Miguel Arteta (Beat…...

Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powers’ Becks, inspired by the life of singer-songwriter Alyssa Robbins, took home the U.S. Fiction Award, and Amanda Kopp and Aaron Kopp’s Liyana, which focuses on a group of orphaned children in Swaziland, claimed the Documentary Award as jury prizes were announced at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which concluded Thursday.

Audience Awards were presented to Karen Moncrieff’s The Keeping Hours, named best fiction feature film, and to Mark Hayes’ Skid Row Marathon for best documentary feature. The latter, a film about a running club organized by Los Angeles Superior Court judge Craig Mitchell,...

Wme has signed Halt and Catch Fire star Lee Pace. He plays lead Joe MacMillan in AMC’s cult PC revolution drama series, which is heading into its fourth and final season. He received an Emmy nomination for his starring role in ABC’s critically praised dramedy series Pushing Daisies. Pace next will be seen on the big screen opposite Naomi Watts and Jacob Tremblay in Focus Features' The Book of Henry and as a lead in the upcoming Blumhouse feature The Keeping Hours. He…...

Wme has signed Halt and Catch Fire star Lee Pace. He plays lead Joe MacMillan in AMC’s cult PC revolution drama series, which is heading into its fourth and final season. He received an Emmy nomination for his starring role in ABC’s critically praised dramedy series Pushing Daisies. Pace next will be seen on the big screen opposite Naomi Watts and Jacob Tremblay in Focus Features' The Book of Henry and as a lead in the upcoming Blumhouse feature The Keeping Hours. He…...

Recently enjoying his best reviews for years with his low-budget horror The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan is sticking with producer Jason Blum for his next movie. Until recently going by the unwieldy moniker Untitled Blumhouse Production, the project now has a title. It's called Split.As previously reported as an aside in a story about The Keeping Hours, Split will star James McAvoy. We now learn that the once and future Professor X will be joined by Anya Taylor Joy, Betty Buckley, Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson. Nothing's yet being revealed about the plot, although we're told it's " a suspense thriller with elements of the supernatural".Behind the scenes, Shyamalan will be reteaming with several The Visit alumni, including Marc Bienstock and executive producers Ashwin Rajan and Steven Schneider. All will be hoping to repeat The Visit's box office success: $90m worldwide from a budget of just $5m.