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Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Many titles disappear from Netflix without warning every day.

This explains why you might have noticed some films and TV shows have been removed while flicking through your watchlist.

In an attempt to avoid a surprise, here is a compilation of everything being removed in March, including several titles labelled as a Netflix Original.

The removals also includes Arrested Development, which has thrown the future availability of its final season into question. Find the full list below.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Movies

1 March

The Associate

Balto

Barb Wire

Beethoven

Beethoven’s Big Break

The Blues Brothers

The Boy Next Door

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Brothers Grimm

Clear and Present Danger

Confusion Na Wa

Connected

Cop Car

The Debt

Disconnect

Doomsday

Escape from Alcatraz

The Expendables

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3

47 Ronin

Gold Statue

Halloween H20

Hell on the Border...

Sam Productions’ owners are Søren Sveistrup, Adam Price and Studiocanal.

Denmark’s Sam Productions and Meta Film, the companies headed by CEO Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, are expanding into Sweden.

Maria Dahlin will spearhead the Swedish business, as Sam and Meta ramp up their investments in Swedish features and series.

Sam Productions’ owners are Søren Sveistrup, Adam Price and Studiocanal.

“Søren, Adam and I have a sincere deep love for Swedish stories; I think our previous productions clearly showed that,” said Foldager Sørensen, pointing to past Swedish collaborations including Border, The Wife and Aniara. She added that the companies planned...

Exclusive: Ezekiel Ajeigbe (The Giant), Alix Angelis (The Cleansing Hour), Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier) and Ella Cannon (Trees of Peace) have signed on to star in the horror Do Not Watch, marking the feature directorial debut of veteran cinematographer Justin Janowitz (Unsolved Mysteries).

Details as to the film’s plot are being kept under wraps. But it’s said to be a decades-spanning mystery revolving around an unexplained phenomenon known as The Bunker Anomaly.

Ryan Toyama wrote the script and is executive producing alongside James & Bo Colton, Jonathan Boateng, Javier C. Ortiz, Graeme Laronge, Jasson Walker and Skip Waugh. Jp Ouellette, Dylan Matlock and Nico Falls are producing for Circa 1888, with the film marking their follow-up to the critically acclaimed drama Mass, which world premiered at Sundance, before going on to win the Robert Altman Award at the 2022 Independent Spirit Awards.

“The screenplay for Do Not Watch is one of the most interesting,...

New Zealand did wonders for Lord of the Rings. It gave Peter Jackson’s film trilogy scale and beauty and dizzying helicopter shots of tiny guys running over majestic mountain ridges. So much running. So many majestic mountain ridges. But now, thanks to an approach to pandemic border control that actually borders on control, it’s apparently time for Lord of the Rings to go. For the second season of Amazon’s new megabucks TV series, it’s goodbye to the Land of the Long White Cloud and hello to the Land of the Thick Grey Cloud. That’s right, Tolkien’s creation is coming home to the UK. And here’s why it’s the best decision Amazon could have made.

Four words: Chessington World of Adventures

You want action in this new Lord of the Rings series? You want something to make the Battle of Helm’s Deep...

Exclusive: Following her breakout role in the Netflix smash hit Outer Banks, Madelyn Cline has found her first major studio role following the show’s debut as she is set to join Daniel Craig in the next installment of Knives Out, which Netflix recently landed the rights to. Dave Bautista, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson and Edward Norton were also recently added to the cast.

Deadline first reported in March that Netflix was closing a deal north of $400 million for the next two installments, a historic deal for streamers. Johnson is back to write and direct the pic and will produce with his partner Ram Bergman with Craig reprising the role of super sleuth Benoit Blanc.

Plot details are unknown at this time other than Craig returning to solve another mystery involving a large cast of suspects. It is also unknown who Cline will be playing in the pic.

Andalusia’s La Claqueta and the Basque Country’s Irusoin, producers of Spanish Oscar entry “The Endless Trench,” have re-teamed to buy big screen adaptation rights to Txani Rodríguez’s novel “Los últimos románticos.”

The deal builds on one of the most fruitful regional production alliances in Spain, whose co-productions to date take in not only “The Endless Trench,” a big winner at the 2019 San Sebastian Film Festival, but also true-crime series “The Miramar Murders: The State vs. Pablo Ibar.” The latter was acquired by HBO Europe for HBO España and HBO Portugal in one of the banner deals at 2020’s San Sebastian.

Struck with Planeta Foreign & Audiovisual Rights, the feature film project also underscores the ever greater interest in established IPs. Recent Planeta book rights sales take in Benito Zambrano’s “Pan de limón con semillas de amapola,” one of the most-awaited of Spanish art films; gambling business-set ”Ana.

Exclusive: Jack Kilmer, known for his breakout role in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and for his performance in the acclaimed 2019 Sundance film Hala, among others, has signed with Gersh for representation.

Kilmer’s star has been rising since his 2013 feature film debut in Palo Alto, based on James Franco’s short story collection of the same name. He portrayed Teddy alongside Franco, Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff and Zoe Levin. Kilmer, son of Val, also stars opposite Odessa Young and Ben Schnetzer in indie feature The Giant.

Kilmer also can be seen in Vice Films’ Lords of Chaos, opposite Emory Cohen and Rory Culkin which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and Woodshock, directed by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy. He will next be seen in Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Wobble Palace, as well as Becca Gleason’s Summer 03 opposite Joey King and Andrea Savage, both of which premiered at SXSW.

Selection includes upcoming features from Berlinale award-winner Carla Simon and San Sebastian award-winner Johannes Nyholm.

CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), has revealed the 17 feature projects to be showcased at the upcoming edition, which will take place entirely online.

The market will run February 1-5, during the 50th IFFR, and will invite filmmakers to pitch their projects virtually to a host of international film professionals in tailored one-to-one meetings, as well as online presentations that are open to all CineMart guests.

Eleven of the filmmakers are returning to IFFR after previously screening films at earlier editions,...

Before she became the female lead on Outer Banks, Netflix’s latest global TV phenomenon, Madelyn Cline reaffirmed her love for independent film on the set of David Raboy’s The Giant. Shot in the summer of 2018, Cline plays Olivia, who’s desperately trying to look after her grieving best friend, Charlotte (Odessa Young), as a series of murders rocks their small Southern town. One of The Giant’s many strengths is the small-town atmosphere that Raboy captured through the use of natural light, and soft-spoken dialogue, which brings each location’s diegetic sounds to the fore. Cline also credits the film’s eerie vibe to ...

Before she became the female lead on Outer Banks, Netflix’s latest global TV phenomenon, Madelyn Cline reaffirmed her love for independent film on the set of David Raboy’s The Giant. Shot in the summer of 2018, Cline plays Olivia, who’s desperately trying to look after her grieving best friend, Charlotte (Odessa Young), as a series of murders rocks their small Southern town. One of The Giant’s many strengths is the small-town atmosphere that Raboy captured through the use of natural light, and soft-spoken dialogue, which brings each location’s diegetic sounds to the fore. Cline also credits the film’s eerie vibe to ...

Exclusive: Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn are starring in the upcoming sci-fi comedy drama feature Linoleum which recently wrapped production in New York under Covid-19 safety guidelines.

The film, written and directed by Colin West, is about the host of a failing children’s science TV show who attempts to fulfill his childhood dream of being an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, all the while struggling to mend his relationship with his wife (Seehorn) and connecting surreal clues that not everything in his life is exactly how it seems. Chad Simpson’s Brain Scratch Productions partnered with Dennis Masel’s Storm City Films and Chadd Harbold to produce.

Stand-up comedian Gaffigan, who has been transitioning into a number of dramatic roles of late including Tesla, Them That Follow, and Chappaquiddick, plays dual roles in Linoleum as Cameron Edwin, the struggling amateur rocket engineer as well as his better looking,...

Dream a Little Dream: Raboy Broods on Bruised Memories with Moody, Slender Narrative

Crackling thunder, roiling clouds on a purple sky and electric tendrils of lightning illuminating sweaty, nubile skin set the mood for a painstaking memory poem (or a Bob Seger tune) in The Giant, the directorial debut of David Raboy, based on his own 2012 short of the same title. What begins as a dark odyssey of one young woman grappling with a traumatic past and how it relates to a concurrent killing spree slowly stagnates into an exercise which seems to be a bit more metaphorical.…...

To celebrate the release of The Giant, the new psychological thriller coming to on-demand services this week, we sat down with one of the film’s stars to delve deeper into the mystery.

Odessa Young (Shirley) stars as Charlotte, a precocious young teenager in a small town, her life is changed forever when her missing boyfriend Joe (Ben Schnetzer) resurfaces and wants to reconnect. Still reeling from their break-up, she and the town’s way of life are changed forever when a series of murders occur and some begin to wonder whether Joe’s resurfacing may be the cause.

Co-starring as her best friend Olivia, Madelyn Cline spoke to us about the film, its themes of coming-of-age and trying to deal with heartbreak and depression, as well as the unique vision of the film and its writer/director, David Raboy.

You can watch the full interview below:

The Giant is...

This strange year is now winding down, and while for much of the month all eyes will be turned towards the U.S. election and its aftermath, as we take a glance at the film offerings, there’s no shortage of worthwhile releases.

From the first batch of five new Steve McQueen films to David Fincher’s first feature in six years to new work by Werner Herzog, Clea DuVall, Gabriel Mascaro, Francis Lee, and more, it’s a stellar line-up as we enter into the final stretch of 2020.

We should also note that some theatrical-only releases earlier this fall are making their digital debuts, such as The Nest and Possessor, so be sure to follow our streaming column for weekly updates.

15. The Giant (David Raboy; Nov. 13)

A highlight at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, David Raboy’s directorial debut The Giant––which follows a young woman who...

On the night of her graduation, a young woman comes face to face with some very grim circumstances. That’s the central plot of the new drama The Giant, directed by David Raboy in his debut as director and writer. The girl in question is Charlotte (Shirley star Odessa Young), whose former boyfriend returns to her small town. After being presumed dead, his return brings about a lot of questions for Charlotte, intensified by the fact that local girls begin to go missing.

The trailer for the film, which has just arrived ahead of a release next month, features some really striking close-ups, intensifying the horror that it is hinting at throughout. Co-starring Pj Marshall, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, Madelyn Cline, and Danny Ramirez, the film played at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be released on VOD on November 13.

Jared Mobarak said in our review, “Places,...

The Giant Trailer — David Raboy‘s The Giant (2020) movie trailer has been released by Vertical Entertainment and stars Odessa Young, Madelyn Cline, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, Julia Reilly, Ashley Shelton, Taylor Hanks, Ezekiel Ajeigbe, Nicholas Cirillo, and Samantha Binkerd. Crew David Raboy wrote the screenplay for the film. Ari Balouzian created the music [...]

Continue reading: The Giant (2020) Movie Trailer: Odessa Young’s Missing Boyfriend Returns as a series of Murders Begin Happening...

An English-language film adaptation of Japanese video game “Root Letter,” starring Danny Ramirez, is in production in the U.S. through Akatsuki Entertainment USA. Besides Ramirez, the film stars Keana Marie and Lydia Hearst.

With a screenplay by David Ebeltoft (2016 Tribeca Film Festival’s “Here Alone”), the film is intended as a gritty re-imagining of the game’s core story of a protagonist in search of a former pen pal who disappears under curious circumstances.

The underlying Kadokawa-published game has two main gameplay sequences. First, the player interrogates people who knew the missing girl. Then the player relives the missing years and makes use of clues gathered earlier.

The game was first published in 2016 and has been made available on platforms including PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Android and iOS. It sold more than 400,000 copies in Japan and overseas, and is also available on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

The...

David Raboy makes his feature debut with ‘The Giant,” which makes its world premiere in the Toronto festival’s Discovery section. Raboy wrote, directed and edited the atmospheric, suspenseful thriller that also plays with supernatural elements in a hot, humid small southern town. The movie’s journey began in 2010, when Raboy began writing the short “The Giant,” and it evolved over the decade.

Talk about the film’s journey to its feature-length incarnation.

I started writing in 2010. It took a long time for me to feel that it was in the right place.

I made a short then another short and I felt that it was a language that I was chasing that I hadn’t figured out how to fully bring to life. It took some time to get that right.

To this day I don’t know if I am fully satisfied!

That’s why I had to...

Exclusive: Former Creative Circle COO and Co-Founder Dennis Masel’s new film production company Camera Ready Pictures will kick off their launch with their first feature The Giant which will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Based in New York City and Los Angeles, Camera Ready Pictures has set its second feature Hell House which will start principal photography in October. Both films are character-driven arthouse thrillers which go in line with the company’s vision of boundary-pushing cinema.

“Technology and distribution models surrounding storytelling have changed,” said Masel. “Camera Ready’s interest is in stewarding the original French notion of ‘cinema’ alongside those changes, making sure aesthetic and intellectual excellence keep time with technological innovation, and ensuring that artists who are formally responding to these shifts in film language are strongly supported and loudly heard.”

The Giant is a coming-of-age horror film written and directed by David Raboy.