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It’s already been an excellent few months to be a PlayStation 4 gamer thanks to huge first-party hits like the riveting Ghost of Tsushima and divisive but stellar The Last of Us Part II. While those two titles would make owning the system worth it alone, Sony has always been great about keeping sales going year-round to ensure you can snag some of gaming’s best offerings for cheap. And right now, you can do exactly that with five solid games going for $5 or less each.

First up on the list is the game that propelled the Far Cry franchise into the mainstream, Far Cry 3. This tropical adventure lets you loose on the fictional Rook Islands to shoot, slash and blow up everything in your path as you attempt to topple a gang of modern day pirates who run the island. At only $2.99, this is an absolute steal.

Elsewhere, you...

Limbo, from writer/director Mark Young, premieres August 4 on DVD and Digital from Uncork’d Entertainment. Check out the trailer and read more about the movie below. Synopsis:a murderer finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defense attorney. Limbo stars James Purefoy (Pennyworth), Veronica Cartwright (Alien, Bosch), Lew Temple (The Walking Dead, Once […] More...

"There is no way that this low life's getting into Heaven whilst I'm stuck here." Uncork'd Ent. has released an official trailer for an indie horror comedy called Limbo, the latest from indie filmmaker Mark Young. The high concept, low budget film is about a murderer who dies and finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defense attorney. The entire setup is based around being in "limbo" with a colorful cast of characters. James Purefoy stars a Lucifer, with Lucian Charles Collier as Balthazar, plus Veronica Cartwright, Rebekah Kennedy, Scottie Thompson, Peter Jacobson, Lauryn Canny, Richard Riehle, and Lew Temple. This look that bad, but doesn't look that good either. Here's the first official trailer (+ new poster) for Mark Young's Limbo, direct from YouTube: A murderer named Jimmy (Lew Temple) finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defense attorney.

Aminé has teamed up with Young Thug for “Compensating,” a track off his newly announced album Limbo, out August 7th via Republic.

The song features a visual that includes the Portland rapper and Young Thug holding neon green balloons in the shape of a face. “I fucked up once again/And you know that I’m never too proud to beg,” he admits. “It’s hard to admit that I’ve made my bed/And you know I’ma always wish you the best.”

Later in the track, Young Thug takes a verse: “Bad baby,...

FilmNation and CAA Media Finance introduced project at Us-led A Demain virtual Cannes last week.

Apple has prevailed in a bidding war for worldwide rights to the runaway slave thriller Emancipation that pairs Will Smith with director Antoine Fuqua and reportedly marks one of the highest single-picture acquisitions the industry has ever seen.

According to sources Apple paid around $105m, illustrating how the right package will still sell for a premium regardless of what condition the economy is in or what broader forces are at play.

It also demonstrates the unmatched buying power of a relatively new player in the...

FilmNation and CAA Media Finance introduced project at Us-led A Demain virtual Cannes last week.

Apple has prevailed in a bidding war for worldwide rights to the runaway slave thriller Emancipation that pairs Will Smith with director Antoine Fuqua and reportedly marks one of the highest single-picture acquisitions the industry has ever seen.

According to sources Apple paid around $105m, illustrating how the right package will still sell for a premium regardless of what condition the economy is in or what broader forces are at play.

It also demonstrates the unmatched buying power of a relatively new player in the...

The event has pushed back the dates of its fourth edition by a month.

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Gff) has pushed back the dates of its fourth edition by a month to October 23 to 31, against its previously announced slot of September 24 to October 2.

The festival management team said it was responding to the challenging circumstances faced by all international film festivals amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The festival will be the first public event to take place at the resort’s new El Gouna Conference and Culture Centre (Gccc), which features a large open-air space created for the...

Feature is lead produced by Israeli The Cakemaker producer Itai Tamir.

Paris-based Alpha Violet has acquired sales rights to Israeli director Roy Krispel’s debut feature Abu Omar, starring Palestinian actor Kais Nashif as a man attempting to smuggle the body of his dead son back into Palestine from Israel.

Nashif won best actor in Venice’s Horizons competition in 2018 for his performance in Sameh Zoabi’s Tel Aviv On Fire and is soon to be seen in Ben Sharrock’s Cannes 2020 selection Limbo. He originally broke out internationally in Hany Abu Assad’s 2005 Oscar-nominated drama Paradise Now.

In Abu Omar,...

Last week, NBC pulled its freshman comedy Sunnyside from its Thursday night schedule and will air the fourth episode on Thursday, which will be the last on the linear network. The comedy co-created by Kal Penn and Matt Murray and executive produced by Mike Schur will air its remaining seven episodes on NBC’s digital platforms, but it isn’t 100 percent clear if the show has been canceled.

During a screening event of the fourth episode, Murray told Deadline that they pulled the comedy off the network before they were supposed to shoot episode 10 — which was going to be the final episode. “They did not tell us to stop production,” he said. “We shot episode 10 after they made the announcement and we are shooting the 11th episode now. It’s very confusing to me, but as someone who loves the cast and the writers, we’re doing everything we can to give ourselves a shot.

‘Karli’ won the horror festival’s first work-in-progress award.

Kirill Sokolov’s Why Don’t You Just Die! has won a hat-trick of awards at Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, including best feature.

As well as the top prize, the dark comedy won best director for Sokolov and best SFX. It also received a special mention for cinematography and in the audience award category.

The team behind the Russian feature has been awarded £80,000 worth of post-production services from M2 MediaPost, which can be used as finance against a future film production.

The film, which marks Sokolov’s debut feature, is set...

Matthew Byrd Sep 23, 2019

Google Play Pass is Google's answer to Apple Arcade.

Google has revealed Google Play Pass: an apparent competitor to Apple Arcade.

At the very least, the similarities between the two services are hard to deny. Much like Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass will allow subscribers to access a growing collection of mobile games for a set monthly fee. That fee is the same as it is for Apple Arcade ($4.99), but those who sign-up for the service before October 10th will only pay $1.99 a month for the first year. 

This is where the differences between the two start to come into play. As you may imagine, Google Play Pass will feature a different collection of games than what you get with Apple Arcade. The full list of games is currently unknown, but it seems that heavy hitters like Monument Valley 2, Stardew Valley, Limbo, Terraria and Star Wars:...

The video game industry is in the midst of the next step in its evolution. The future of gaming looks to be cloud-based, with some traditional hardware potentially being left behind and companies promoting Netflix-style streaming services in their stead. Most of the big players in console gaming have already embraced the medium to varying degrees, with other powerhouses looking set to join the fray soon enough.

Yet, the services on offer still remain a mystery to many gamers. It can be difficult to know, without doing the research, what the advantages of game streaming are and how these programs differ from established services like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live.

With that in mind, we’ve decided to step in by putting the most bountiful streaming service available under the microscope – PlayStation Now. As the current front-runner in the console race, Sony has invested heavily in Ps Now, offering...

After making her feature debut with the well-received film “Limbo” in 2010, Norwegian filmmaker Maria Sodahl is making a comeback with “Hope,” a drama based on her experiences after being diagnosed with brain cancer years ago.

Set to world premiere at Toronto in the discovery section and repped by TrustNordisk, the personal movie is a two-hander starring Andrea Braein Hovig (“All the Beauty”) as Anja, a strong forty-something woman who is an accomplished professional and runs the household of her extended family, including the children she had with Tomas (Stellan Skarsgard), with whom she has lived for almost two decades. When she gets a brain cancer diagnosis the day before Christmas, their life breaks down, exposing neglected love.

“I had the urge to tell my story, and at the same time my aim was to make a personal but not a private film. It’s about what happens when someone faces the threat of death.

Chicago – One of the overriding characteristics in the movies, when it comes to drug traffickers, is the stereotypical image of a fat and corrupt cartel leader who usually have machine gun wielding henchmen and bikini clad groupies. “Birds of Passage” goes back to the business of the drug trade, but it is about the families that controlled the territorial borders during that key era, and the basis of that control in ancient tribalism.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

That era was the 1970s and early ‘80s, when marijuana was the game, and the thirst for this mainstreaming high was at its illegal peak … these were essentially the folks that controlled the drug trade before some powerful pot heads were able to get big money and legitimacy/legality into the game. The tribes that controlled the territories had their own issues, and was involved in a chess-like power play of their own. The film uses a different approach,...

The latest movie stuck in limbo as Disney prepares to take ownership of 20th Century Fox’s media library is Doctor Doom. A standalone movie featuring the Marvel villain was announced back in 2017 with Noah Hawley working on a screenplay (and also rumored to be a frontrunner for directing). The folks at Deadline caught up […] The post Doctor Doom Movie Stuck in Limbo During Disney’s Acquisition of 20th Century Fox appeared first on Dread Central.

Two years after Noah Hawley dropped the bomb that he was developing a Doctor Doom movie for 20th Century Fox, the comic book movie remains in limbo. The ever-busy Legion showrunner has only accumulated more projects in the interim, while a big question mark remains around Fox’s superhero properties in the face of the impending Disney-Fox deal. But […]

The post Noah Hawley Shares ‘Doctor Doom’ Movie Plot Details Even As Film Stays in Limbo appeared first on /Film.

With the merger of Disney and 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets on target to close next week, the movie rights to nearly all Marvel Comics characters — including those from the Fantastic Four, held by Fox — will be under one roof.

On the surface, that could augur well for a Doctor Doom script written by Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley. He announced at Comic-Con in 2017 that he was developing a film about the Fantastic Four villain for 20th Century Fox and finished a script in 2018. Now that Fox is officially becoming part of Disney, which also owns Marvel, the ...

For their brand new series of cheekily titled short films — all named after already-popular offerings, from “No Country for Old Men” to “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” — filmmakers Will Blank and Jake Bradbury aimed for a truly minimalist approach. Each film was conceived of and made within the space of just one day, all focusing on some uniquely millennial issues.

For both Blank and Bradbury — both lauded short filmmakers with a ton of other projects on their plates: Blank recently made the award-winning short “Limbo,” starring Sam Elliott, and is currently working on the Steven Spielberg-helmed reboot of “Amazing Stories,” while Bradbury has worked with Netflix, Maxim, and CBS — getting back to their indie roots was key.

The result is a project they dubbed 20th Century Faux, featuring a series of shorts that explore modern life and relationships from a variety of perspectives, using topics as diverse as Vr,...

Berlin — Barbara Lennie and Eduard Fernandez, two of the most admired actors of their generation in Spain, are attached to star in “Nada,” the first drama series from Aquí y Alli Films, one of Spain’s most successful young production houses.

Founded by Pedro Hernández in 2010, Aqui y Allí’s movie credits include 2012 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prix winner “Aqui y Allá,” 2014 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “Magical Girl” and “Life and Nothing More,” included by Variety’s Peter Debruge in his 10 best films of 2018.

Created and written by Argentine Nicolás Britos, whose web series, “Limbo,” opened last year’s Conecta Fiction, “Nada” will be directed by Jorge Dorado, director of episodes of celebrated Spanish time travel series “The Department of Time,” San Sebastian hit “Gigantes” and “The Pier,” created by “La casa de papel’s” Alex Pina.

Spain’s Luis Bermejo is also attached to co-star in “Nada.”

“Nada...

The latest films from Agnieszka Holland, Joanna Hogg, Lone Scherfig and Sally Potter will be repped by U.K.-based sales firms in Berlin as the Brits continue to carve out a profile for European auteur-driven movies. Scherfig’s Berlinale opener “The Kindness of Strangers,” Holland’s Stalin-era competition title “Mr. Jones,” and Hogg’s “The Souvenir” from the Panorama sidebar all have U.K. sales agents – HanWay Films, WestEnd Films, and Protagonist Pictures, respectively.

As the Brits enjoy a moment in the sun, the effects of the Brexit clouds on the horizon remain an uncomfortable unknown. An even more pressing issue in recent weeks, however, was the proximity of Sundance to Berlin this year, which put Brits who made the trans-Atlantic trip on a tight schedule.

It was a high-class problem for Cornerstone Films, which is run by industry veterans Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder. It had five films...

Stellan Skarsgard is set to star in “Hope,” Maria Sodahl’s Norwegian drama that Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has just boarded.

Skarsgard, who has the lead role in the Berlinale competition title “Out Stealing Horses,” stars in “Hope” opposite Andrea Braein Hovig (“All the Beauty”). The film is the story of a couple with a large blended family that has grown apart, but when the wife is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, their life breaks down and exposes neglected love.

The movie is being produced by producer Thomas Robsahm at Motlys, the banner behind Pernilla August’s “A Serious Game,” Eskil Vogt’s “Blind” and Joachim Trier’s movies, notably “Oslo, 31. August” and “Louder Than Bombs.”

Silje Nikoline Glimsdal, TrustNordisk’s sales and project manager, said the film is a “heartfelt and honest story.”

“‘Hope’ both captivates and inspires you by portraying the circumstances facing a serious and life-changing illness,...

Call it Taken on Ice, call it Mr. Plow: The Movie, call it “Neeson and Chill.” But whatever you dub Cold Pursuit, starring Liam Neeson as a father out for revenge — don’t confuse it with grim business as usual. After starring in three films in which his character’s “very particular set of set of skills” get put to good use, plus four other films that could fit the same bill (Unknown, Non-Stop, Run All Night and The Commuter), the 66-year-old actor approaches this snowbound thriller with tongue firmly in cheek.

Ryan Murphy's move to Netflix is beginning to impact FX.

FX CEO John Landgraf told reporters Monday at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour that the future of Feud is not clear as creator Ryan Murphy does not currently have an idea for the previously announced second season. Meanwhile, FX is currently developing three or four different ideas for another season of Emmy-winning anthology American Crime Story, but a return date for its awards season favorite remains murky at best.

The uncertainty around Feud is not a surprise. Landgraf told The Hollywood Reporter in August that the ...

Platformers seem to be a popular vessel for introspective, meandering journeys of self-discovery, hope, and beauty. Just look at Limbo, Inside, Journey, and this year’s fantastic Wandersong. Unlike the much-maligned “walking simulator,” these games present their worlds from a broader perspective, and perhaps because of this they feel grander in scope than something like Edith Finch, despite their similarly personal themes. Gris takes this ability to broaden its range of landscapes and vignettes to an even higher level, panning the camera out great distances to reveal one of the most beautiful worlds a game has ever taken me to.

Like many games of its ilk, Gris has no dialogue. Its storytelling is done through nuanced interactions between the main character, a girl who must heal emotional wounds throughout her journey, and the world itself. The influences are clear — namely Journey — and there’s even a direct homage to one...

Screenwiter Zak Penn ("Ready Player One") continues developing a screenplay adaptation of the Hasbro (Parker Bros) toy and subsequent Marvel Comics/Idw series "Rom: Spaceknight", for Allspark Pictures and Paramount:

"...the first comic book series follows 'Rom', an earthbound 'cyborg' from a utopian society on the planet 'Galador', his defeat by the invading 'Dire Wraith' alien race and the continuation of their battle on Earth. 

"Unlike the technologically advanced 'Galadorian' civilization, the Dire Wraiths rely primarily on dark magic and their power to change their appearance.

"Years before Rom's arrival on Earth, Galador is threatened by a fleet of ships manned by the Dire Wraiths. Galador's ruler, the 'Prime Director', calls for volunteers to be transformed into 'Spaceknights', cyborg warriors that can defend the planet from the invaders.

"The volunteers are promised that their 'humanity' (body parts) would be removed to accommodate 'bionic' armor. then preserved and restored after the danger was over.

Madrid — Nicolás Britos’ “Nada,” Jorge Hernández and Ainara Mentxaka’s “Los años de plomo” and Pablo Díaz and Alberto Heredia’s “La novena provincia” figure among the seven TV drama projects in development set to be presented at the 2nd Madrid TV Pitchbox.

An event focused on Spanish TV drama, organized by online platform Filmarket Hub, The 2018 Madrid TV Pitchbox will take place on Dec. 18.

The seven projects will be pitched before executives from some of the most important Spain-based TV companies. Broadcasters Mediaset España, Rtve and Atresmedia Studios, and Telefónica’s leading paybox Movistar + have confirmed their presence.

For this upcoming edition, organizers are opening Madrid TV Pitchbox to key independent production houses such as Weekend Studio and Dynamo, which have good relations with global Ott operators.

After the pitching session, there will be a networking lunch, where projects representatives and companies’ executives will be able to share impressions.

Farhana Bhula joins the BFI Film Fund; Kristin Irving promoted to same role.

Farhana Bhula, head of development at UK production outfit Wildgaze Films, is joining the BFI Film Fund as a development and production executive from January 2019.

The BFI has also promoted Kristin Irving to the same role. Irving joined the BFI as development executive in 2015.

Bhula and Irving will work on projects with a particular focus on emerging filmmakers, including those supported through the BFI Network and iFeatures programmes.

During her time at Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey’s Wildgaze, Bhula has worked on titles including Brooklyn TV spin-off Boarding House,...

CBS has extended the orders for three more of its freshman series: the comedy The Neighborhood and the dramas Magnum P.I. and God Friended Me.

Missing from the list is The Neighborhood's Monday night companion, Happy Together. The network has not yet made a decision on the show, which is toplined by Damon Wayans Jr. — whose deal to star in the series was the richest this season — and Amber Stevens West.

The Murphy Brown revival is staying at 13 episodes, as was the plan when it was picked up.

CBS declined to say how many additional episodes of each show it ...

Screenwiter Zak Penn ("Ready Player One") continues developing a screenplay adaptation of the Hasbro (Parker Bros) toy and subsequent Marvel Comics/Idw series "Rom: Spaceknight", for Allspark Pictures and Paramount:

"...the first comic book series follows 'Rom', an earthbound 'cyborg' from a utopian society on the planet 'Galador', his defeat by the invading 'Dire Wraith' alien race and the continuation of their battle on Earth. 

"Unlike the technologically advanced 'Galadorian' civilization, the Dire Wraiths rely primarily on dark magic and their power to change their appearance.

"Years before Rom's arrival on Earth, Galador is threatened by a fleet of ships manned by the Dire Wraiths. Galador's ruler, the 'Prime Director', calls for volunteers to be transformed into 'Spaceknights', cyborg warriors that can defend the planet from the invaders.

"The volunteers are promised that their 'humanity' (body parts) would be removed to accommodate 'bionic' armor. then preserved and restored after the danger was over.

Raise your hand if you've ever heard the tragic tale of La Llorona, also known as The Weeping Woman. Okay, so a few of you have, that's cool. For those who have not, La Llorona is a terrifying apparition, trapped between the realms of Heaven and Hell, cursed to float along in Limbo, a fate sealed by her own hand. Simply by mentioning her name can you send shivers down…...

Film stars a group of non-actors as teenagers from a fictional girls’ school.

Screen can unveil an exclusive first look at Suffragette director Sarah Gavron’s next feature – working title Girl Untitled – which has now wrapped shooting in the UK.

The film stars a group of non-actors as a lively, multi-cultural group of teenagers from a fictional girls’ state school in London. Casting director Lucy Pardee, Gavron and the production team found the girls over a two-year-long casting and workshopping process.

Shooting took place at locations in East London and was done in story order.

Altitude Film Sales will be...

Film now shooting in Scotland.

London-based sales outfit Protagonist Pictures has taken world rights to Ben Sharrock’s refugee drama Limbo, that is now shooting in Scotland.

The film is Sharrock’s second feature after Pikadero, which won the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016.

Limbo stars Amir El-Masry, whose credits include Jack Ryan, with Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Kais Nashif in a story set on a fictional Scottish island where refugees are waiting to be granted asylum. The film also features non-actors, including refugees, in small roles.

The film...

Let the debate about the incompatibility of film art and screen eroticism commence: Joe Sarno is back! His 1964 Sin in the Suburbs is still a slice of genuine Americana, considered total smut when first released but barely notable now except for the sordid believability of its subject matter. Is Sarno the Cassavetes of his own subgenre, the ’60s softcore sex soap opera? He certainly impresses as a man with a cinematic mission, following the beat of a different drummer.

Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series 4

Blu-ray

Sin in the Suburbs,

Confessions of a Young American Housewife,

+ Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures

Film Movement Classics

1964/1974/1964 / 1:78 widescreen / Sin B&W 90 min. Confessions Color 74 min. Warm B&W 70 min. / Street Date October 2, 2018 / 39.95

Written and Directed by Joseph W. Sarno

Trying to distinguish between legitimately artistic ‘erotic’ films and the mountains of porn sludge out there is likely a waste of time, what with arguments based on outside values,...

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Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2018 Films, Including ‘Beautiful Boy,’ ‘High Life,’ ‘First Man,’ ‘Widows,’ and Many More

Tiff 2018 Lineup: ‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘First Man,’ ‘Beautiful Boy,’ and Many More

Tiff Reveals Full Canadian Lineup, Including 19 New Films and Special Premiere Event of Rob Stewart’s Final ‘Sharkwater’ Doc

Xavier Dolan’s ‘The Death and Life of John F. Donovan’ to World Premiere at 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

Tiff 2018 Announces Platform Lineup, Including New Films From Karyn Kusama, Alex Ross Perry, and Tim Sutton

Tiff Announces Midnight Madness and Documentary Slates, Including ‘Halloween’ and ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ World Premieres

Tiff Announces Chris Pine-Starring ‘Outlaw King’ Will Open Festival and Kristen Stewart’s ‘Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy’ to Close

Tiff Adds More High-Profile Titles, Including Jonah Hill’s ‘Mid90s,’ ‘Boy Erased,’ ‘Hold the Dark,’ and Many More

TV Comes to Tiff: Julia Roberts-Starring ‘Homecoming’ and More Set for World Premiere...

Released back in 2013, the original Guacamelee! was a surprise success. Developer DrinkBox Studios’ previous efforts, while solid, were not truly indicative of their true potential. It took the creation of their Metroidvania-style platformer for them to truly be able to showcase their skills. Now after five years, and another critically acclaimed release, Juan is ready to don the mask once again in Guacamelee! 2.

Picking up some years after the good ending of the first game, Guacamelee! 2 sees Juan enjoying the simple life. Settled down with his beloved wife and two kids, Mr. Aguacate has hung up the mask, seemingly for good. Although he still wears the belt of a champion, his protruding gut shows he is not the sculpted warrior he once was. Unfortunately, the Mexiverse needs that muscular luchador to return to form. A wrestler by the name of Salvador, who saved the world in another timeline, has turned evil.

In Digital Shorts we review some of the latest video games that are only available digitally (at least in the UK), in a short-form review format. In this edition we take a look at Toby, The Secret Mine – an indie game that has joined the line-up of Nindies on the Nintendo Switch

Considering that Toby, The Secret Mine was released on Steam in 2015 and then steadily onto Android, Wii U, Xbox One and PS4 over the following two years, it’s arrival onto the Nintendo Switch this week is quite a surprise. Toby is a game that emulates Limbo so closely that it could almost have been made by the same team, but for one subtle difference. Attention to detail.

Both games feature beautifully animated graphics that take the form of black silhouettes against a lighter background. In Limbo’s case, white and grey are used to maintain the melancholy mood.

In 1991, Delphine Software was an obscure French developer, known at that point for the ravishing but deeply flawed point ‘n’ click adventure Future Wars and the spy-‘em-up Operation Stealth. With Another World, in the hands of auteur programmer Eric Chahi, they took their visual talents and movie narrative impulses to alien climes.

A wonderful introduction sequence conjures a rich atmosphere from the very start. A young scientist works late and alone. A storm rages outside. As he powers up an experimental device, lightning strikes the facility, opening a portal that whisks him away to a different planet, possibly a different dimension.

At this point there is a classic transition: you the player aren’t aware that the game has begun and that you are in control. Failure to react means death. Suddenly, you really are in another world, and the presentation is out of this world.

The graphics are...

The future of “Rub & Tug” is in limbo following Scarlett Johansson’s exit from the project because of objections to her playing a trans man.

According to an individual with knowledge of the project, it is unclear if “Rub & Tug” will actually go into production. The insider indicated it doesn’t look good for the movie, which still has director Rupert Sanders attached.

Johansson’s production company, These Pictures, was a producer on the project, and it’s unclear whether Johansson and These Pictures will stay on to produce. Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures is also listed as a production company on the film, but Silver did not respond to requests for comment.

Also Read: Scarlett Johansson Withdraws From 'Rub and Tug' After Backlash Over Trans Role

Last week, Johansson exited the project after a backlash, especially from trans actors who said a cisgender woman should not play Dante “Tex” Gill,...

The title is well-worn, as is pretty much everything else — save for the fresh face of young, compelling lead Yiğit Ege Yazar — in “Brothers,” Turkish writer-director Ömür Atay’s cautious but finely buffed debut feature. Following a reticent teenager as he’s released from juvenile detention into a fraught, not fully welcoming family environment, Atay’s film combines familiar beats from sundry coming-of-age and life-on-the-outside dramas, though it does so with sensitivity and crisp sensory detail. Where it stumbles is in fashioning itself as a mystery of sorts, withholding the story behind the protagonist’s incarceration well past the point where it will have become obvious to most culturally attuned viewers.

Nevertheless, the topicality of that reveal — flipping the perspective of such works as Daniel Wolfe’s “Catch Me Daddy” — combined with the confident formal polish of Atay’s filmmaking should secure “Brothers” a long run of festival berths following...

An interesting backstory and intriguing setup isn’t enough to halt the game play issues that come from this 2D platformer, a strange mesh of Limbo and Rick Dangerous.

Dream Alone casts you in the part of a young boy, seemingly the sole survivor of his village and doomed to traipse through a dismal landscape. As everyone else has disappeared, you begin your journey into finding out the cause of this strangeness, hopefully reversing whatever has happened. The developers of Dream Alone, WarSaw Games have heavily focused on the level of difficulty in the game and this is a mixed bag as the game relies just as much on the skill of the player as it does on cheap, repetitive tricks. For instance, there are sections where you have to solve puzzles based on pushing objects, dodging enemies and warping between the real world and a dream world in order...

Getting canceled isn’t what it used to be. Nowadays, when a show gets the axe, its fans will inevitably make their voices heard on Twitter. And if the show is beloved enough by enough people, and those people are loud enough, and the hashtags keep trending, networks (or streaming services) might just listen and save it.

Hey, that’s what happened with “Sense8,” whose two-hour series finale (which dropped today) was greenlit by Netflix after fans freaked over its cancellation last spring.

While TheWrap can’t prove definitively that the power of Twitter is what saves axed shows, we did get some numbers from the social media platform to demonstrate that there is a correlation between how many times you ranted about a canceled show, and the speed at which it was revived. Our conclusion: the odds are usually in the show’s favor if a fan campaign grows quickly.

Be it the ease and cost of development, or a retrospective artistic trend, the horror genre has come back to the semi-2D plane in a big way, and the indie-friendly Nintendo Switch is reaping the benefits. The eldritch terrors of Darkest Dungeon should satisfy those looking for an RPG with psychological consequences. A 2D survival horror game called Detention by Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games draws from that same country’s history and culture to deliver its frights, and it’s one of the eShop’s hidden gems. Those looking for a puzzle platformer, however, may now turn to Little Nightmares, a game from Swedish developer Tarsier Studios.

Little Nightmares is a lean experience that plays out like a creepy Germanic fairy tale rendered in a beautiful, but unsettling approximation of stop-motion film. In the game’s campaign, you control a raincoat-clad little girl named Six through a bleak,...

The 2017-18 television season is in the books, and as per usual, some shows performed better than others. Like, much better.

Broadcast’s top entertainment series this time around was “This Is Us,” though current runner-up “Roseanne” could have something to say about that when DVR catch-up for its season — err, now series — finale is tallied.

See how the Top 11 broadcast TV shows rank by their ratings among adults 18-49 below. For purposes of this story, we elected not to count NFL football, which would have gobbled up six spots. You get it.

Also Read: Fun 'Fixer Upper' Stats, Like: Joanna Gaines Used Shiplap in 39 Percent of Hgtv Houses (Exclusive)

Rank: 11

Show: “The Bachelor”

Net: ABC

18-49 Rating: 2.4

Rank: 10

Show: “The Voice”

Net: NBC

18-49 Rating: 2.5

Rank: 9

Show: “Empire”

Net: Fox

18-49 Rating: 2.6

Also Read: Here Are the 3 Broadcast TV Shows We're Still Awaiting Decisions On

Rank: 8

Show: “Will and...

(Spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve seen the series finale — or possibly just Season 3 finale — of “Lucifer.”)

Kevin Alejandro was not prepared for “Lucifer” to get canceled. And neither was anyone else on the cast of the recently-axed Fox series — let alone its fans. So a period of mourning has sent in for those who want to see the devil rise from cancellation hell.

Luckily, there are two things that have Alejandro — who plays Detective Dan “Douche” Espinoza on the dramedy — in high spirits. First, it looks like the fan campaign #SaveLucifer — led by Lucifer (Tom Ellis) himself — might actually be working. And second, Alejandro will be making his TV directorial debut Monday night when two “bonus” episodes of “Lucifer” air on Fox.

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Updated May 24 at 7:31 a.m. Pt with “Code Black” canceled by CBS.

Is “Ghosted” coming back?

That’s a question on viewers’ minds as upfronts week comes to a close, with Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and The CW all having announced their fall programming schedules as of Thursday. ‘Cause some of those slates have holes in them, meaning the statuses of almost half a dozen shows on broadcast television are still up in the air.

Look, we can accept the fact that not every series will be saved like “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” — not every show should be. But come on, networks — minus ABC and The CW, who have already killed or renewed everything they’re going to — fans need to hear one way or another whether their favorite programs will be returning this fall, especially for ones that have a crazy-devoted fanbase.

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Exclusive: CAA has signed a trio of folks who scored trophies for comedy at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday: Murder in Successville‘s Tom Davis and James De Frond and This Country writer–director Tom George.

Davis and De Frond took home the Best Comedy Programme BAFTA for Murder in Successville, the semi-improvisational BBC Three series that teams Davis’ Detective Inspector Sleet with a different celebrity each week to solve a killing. Davis and De Frond last year co-founded Shiny Button Productions, a TV and film production company specializing in scripted content that operates as an independent production label within Tiger Aspect Productions.

Davis also stars in Action Team, a spy-action spoof series airing on ITV2, and recently starred in the sequel Paddington 2. He has also appeared on The Morgana Show, Bad Education, Drunk History and Plebs. Writer-director-producer De Frond worked on Leigh Frances’ sketch show Bo’Selecta!

Sneak Peek new images of actress Anya Taylor-Joy, aka 'Illyana Rasputin'/'Magik' in the Marvel/Fox feature "The New Mutants", posing for the Spring-Summer 2018 issue of "Rollacoaster" magazine, wearing Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Dior and a whole lot more, photographed by Lara Jade:

'Magik' debuted in Marvel Comics' "Giant-Size X-Men" #1 (May 1975), as the younger sister of the Russian 'X-Men' member 'Colossus'.

Magik is a 'mutant', born with superhuman abilities...

...with a natural ability to 'teleport' herself and others through time and space. 

She does this by summoning 'stepping discs'...

...which were part of a dimension known as 'Limbo'. 

Magik has succeeded in teleporting herself across continents, as well as interplanetary and intergalactic distances.

Magik can also teleport through time, teleporting moments...

...days and centuries into the past and future.

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They had the makings of America’s next favorite TV duo — popular comedian Damon Wayans and character actor Clayne Crawford taking on the iconic Lethal Weapon roles played by Danny Glover and Mel Gibson in the popular movie franchise. But two seasons into the Lethal Weapon series, they are hardly speaking to each other.

Following the quick flame-out of the Rush Hour reboot on CBS, expectations were low for Lethal Weapon.The series created by Matt Miller exceeded them and became a breakout for Fox, earning a second-season renewal. However, behind the success there had been on-set tensions. There were alleged incidents involving Crawford, including him having an outburst in the middle of a scene, and an actor suffering a minor injury during an episode Crawford was directing. Those incidents, along with other contributing factors, led to things on the show escalating to a point where it is in danger of cancellation.

The project is produced by Daniel-Konrad Cooper of Rather Good Films.

Source: Ross Ferguson

A first look at Ivanno Jeremiah and Emun Elliott in Limbo.

Limbo, a UK sci-fi thriller short starring Emun Elliott (Prometheus) and Ivanno Jeremiah (Humans), has finished shooting at WB Studios Leavesden after also shooting on location in North Wales. Screen can reveal the first looj at the film (see above).

The project is produced by Daniel-Konrad Cooper of Rather Good Films, whose previous credits include Burn Burn Burn. Annelie Simmons also produced, her feature film debut.

Written and directed by duo Rob Silva and Andrew Morris, whose credits include the shorts Abducted and 7x5, the film follows a happily married man whose world is torn apart by the abduction of his daughter. When a stranger appears on his doorstep and tells him that his daughter was never actually taken, the unfolding truth proves more terrifying than he could have imagined.

The project is produced by Daniel-Konrad Cooper of Rather Good Films.

Source: Ross Ferguson

A first look at Ivanno Jeremiah and Emun Elliott in Limbo.

Limbo, a UK sci-fi thriller short starring Emun Elliott (Prometheus) and Ivanno Jeremiah (Humans), has finished shooting at WB Studios Leavesden after also shooting on location in North Wales. Screen can reveal the first looj at the film (see above).

The project is produced by Daniel-Konrad Cooper of Rather Good Films, whose previous credits include Burn Burn Burn. Annelie Simmons also produced, her feature film debut.

Written and directed by duo Rob Silva and Andrew Morris, whose credits include the shorts Abducted and 7x5, the film follows a happily married man whose world is torn apart by the abduction of his daughter. When a stranger appears on his doorstep and tells him that his daughter was never actually taken, the unfolding truth proves more terrifying than he could have imagined.

The group are aiming...