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Advisors and guests include ’Succession’ writer Susan Soon He Stanton and ’Call My Agent!’ star Camille Cottin.

The Writers Lab, the development and marketplace programme devoted to script development for women and nonbinary screenwriters over 40, is opening its first combined UK and European edition.

Julia Berg of UK production outfit Untamed Stories will again partner with the co-founders of The Writers Lab US, Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon, to launch a combined UK and European Lab this year. The US programme, produced with New York Women in Film and Television (Nywift), is supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. Last...

The six teams each received £30,000 of development funding.

Netflix, in partnership with non-profit Creative UK, has unveiled the six teams and projects selected for Breakout, the filmmaking programme launched to discover and support talented up-and-coming storytellers in the UK, with participants including Screen Star of Tomorrow Helen Simmons and children’s TV star and presenter Kim Tserkezie.

Emerging filmmakers are given the funding and opportunity to advance their debut feature into development with the partnership and support of Netflix. The selected teams comprise talent who haven’t yet made a feature but whose work has garnered industry or public attention.

Following the success of this year's Creed 3, Amara Creed, the daughter of Adonis, will be stepping into the ring this summer with Boom! Studios’ new Creed comic from franchise star and director Michael B. Jordan.

Recently announced by Boom!, Creed #1 picks up the story ten years into the future to focus on the newest generation of the Creed family. Here’s the solicitation for the first issue, via League of Comic Geeks:

Ten years after the events of the blockbuster Creed III, Amara Creed is on her own path, stepping outside her father Adonis Creed's shadow and training like there's no tomorrow.

But when her division opponents no longer present a challenge, Amara's drive will have her following in her father's footsteps, going underground.

She'll also need the perfect trainer, but perfection comes with tangled strings attached.

Superstar writers Latoya Morgan and Jai Jamison (Superman & Lois), artist Wilton Santos...

Screen Rant is proud to present the first official trailer for I'll Be Watching, a new thriller from Uncork’d Entertainment. Available on digital beginning May 2, the film centers around a young artist named Julie, who struggles to cope after her sister is brutally murdered. When their therapist suggests a change of scenery, Julie and her tech-genius husband, Marcus, relocate to the country. Shortly after the move, Marcus is called away on a work trip to Hong Kong and leaves his wife in the hands of his newly installed cutting-edge security system.

However, when Julie becomes trapped inside the house during a home invasion, she finds herself fighting to avoid the same fate as her sister. Directed by Erik Bernard and written by Elisa Manzini and Sara Sometti Michaels, Eliza Taylor stars as Julie alongside her real-life husband, Bob Morley. Taylor and Morley have both been featured in multiple projects but...

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There is not an actor in the history of moving pictures who has been more egregiously taken for granted by her industry than Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Critics have always had her back. The New York Times' Janet Maslin got it from the jump when she singled Leigh out as "the only thing worth seeing" in her film debut "Eyes of a Stranger." The better-than-average 1981 slasher film set the tone for Leigh's career in that she plays a victim. Her character is a blind-deaf mute whose condition was brought on by being kidnapped and raped at an early age. The 19-year-old Leigh projects sweetness and innocence, but this young woman is all serrated edges. Because she isn't just a victim. She's a survivor.

Roger Ebert was also an early admirer of Leigh,...

Exclusive: Gersh on Thursday announced its signing of James Wolk, the always-busy actor who most recently led NBC’s drama series Ordinary Joe, exec produced by Matt Reeves.

Wolk in that show played Joe Kimbreau, a character followed on multiple timelines after making a pivotal, life-changing decision at his college graduation. He previously led CBS’ sci-fi thriller series Zoo, based on the bestselling novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, which ran for three seasons, and also starred opposite Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar in CBS’ sitcom The Crazy Ones.

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The actor appeared alongside Regina King, Don Johnson, and Tim Blake Nelson in HBO’s Emmy-winning smash Watchmen,...

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the prison break action film “Breakout,” which features the late Tom Sizemore in one his final roles. The film is set to release in April. Watch the trailer above.

The thriller is about a criminal mastermind and former LAPD explosives expert that has taken over a a maximum-security California prison with other prisoners joining his side. They go head-to-head with rogue hostage negotiator and a retired Black Ops agent who happens to have been visiting his incarcerated son.

In the trailer, which you can see above, Sizemore plays a detective, standing next to other law enforcement officers with the guns drawn. Meanwhile, we see there’s a subplot about a son seeking some kind of redemption amid the chaos. Drama!

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Miley Cyrus released her latest album “Endless Summer Vacation” on March 10. It’s already her eighth studio album even though she’s still only 30-years-old, and that doesn’t even count the music she recorded as her fictional Disney channel character “Hannah Montana.” But what are her greatest hits? We’ve ranked the top 15 below.

SEEBillboard Hot 100: Every #1 song of 2023

15. “He Could Be the One” (2009)

14. “When I Look at You” (2010)

13. “Adore You” (2013)

12. “Midnight Sky” (2020)

11. “7 Things” (2008)

10. “The Best of Both Worlds” (2006)

9. “Slide Away” (2019)

8. “Younger Now” (2017)

7. “See You Again” (2007)

6. “Malibu” (2017)

5. “We Can’t Stop” (2013)

4. “Party in the U.S.A.” (2009)

3. “The Climb” (2009)

2. “Flowers” (2023)

1. “Wrecking Ball” (2013)

SEEBillboard charts: Number-one albums of 2023

Miley Cyrus rose to fame in the 2000s as the star of the Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana,” where she played Miley Stewart, an average teenager by day and the title pop star by night. That series ran for five years...

Los Angeles-based music producer duo of Indian descent, Almost Famous have teamed up with American rapper and singer Tyla Yaweh on their brand-new hip hop single titled ‘Unsick’.

The high-octane rapturous track is stylishly laced with some infectious beats, catchy lyrics and smashing hook lines, and pairs colourful, emotional melodies with punk sensibilities. Poised to be this year’s summer anthem, the track is being creatively managed by Hardik Zaveri and will be released worldwide by MadVerse today.

Explaining how the record came about, Simarjeet Saini of Almost Famous said: “The coming together of this collaboration was very organic and authentic. We were introduced to Tyla Yaweh by Kid Heat and we all just hung out at a club one night, and the next thing we know, we were jamming together in the studio.”

“We vibed really well and both Tyla Yaweh and Kid Heat were very intrigued about India...

Now the Oscar race can really begin. The year’s biggest breakout indie hit, A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” led the pack of nominees for the 95th Academy Awards that were announced this morning, with 11 nods, including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress (x2) and Supporting Actor. It was followed by Netflix’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Searchlight’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” with nine apiece. Warner Bros.’ “Elvis” picked up eight nods and Universal’s “The Fabelmans” took seven.

Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams announced the nominees live on Tuesday from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. It was the first in-person nomination announcement with press in attendance since before the pandemic.

As Steve Pond, TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards, noted in his final predictions, with the Academy bigger and more international than ever before, it was likely they would throw several surprises.

Through his 40+ year career in the entertainment business, Aaron Spelling executive produced and was involved in hundreds of television and film projects. And many of them went on to become huge successes, including series that ran for multiple seasons and had lasting pop culture impact and movies that spawned sequels and spin-offs and pulled in huge box office numbers. He managed to have hit shows in pretty much every decade in which he worked, right up to his death. Owning his own production company, Spelling Television, he remains the most prolific TV producer in U.S. history with a total of 218 producing and executive producing credits to his name.

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But which shows were his best? From 1959's Johnny Ringo to 2006's Split Decision, here are 10 of Spelling's most high-profile shows, ranked, according to IMDb rating. The low ratings overall,...

The two-part Kaz/Norath saga concludes in the most average, blandest, basic way possible on Star Wars Resistance.

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So it looks like “Breakout” is indeed the second and final part to last week’s episode, and taken together, “The Missing Agent” and “Breakout” are, as usual, a fine, fairly mediocre pair of episodes that don’t do much but provide a generic, average adventure. There really is so little here to get into–every issue and conflict is solved just as you would expect, mostly because characters verbalize their ideas and plans (mostly in really bad “comedic” scenes), then just… execute them, with very few problems and even fewer moments of tension.

Nothing is bad per se, but everything is so uninspired. The only moment that seems to possess any spark is when Kaz stuns Commander Pyre.

MrBeast, the uber-generous YouTube star -- and Streamy 'Breakout Creator' winner -- whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, has released the trailer for his latest video, which may be one of his biggest stunts to date.

The clip, dropping on Thursday at 4 pm Et, boasts a familiar -- yet compelling -- premise: Donaldson has placed $1 million in single dollar bills inside of a large glass case. Four four contestants will then have to place their hands on the case, with the last one touching the glass at the end of the challenge being crowned winner, and taking home the money. 

The video is the fifth part in a series of videos that Donaldson began rolling out in November. Each of those clips featured a similar 'last to...' premise and produced a finalist, who will then go on to compete for the $1 million finale. Previous contests included Last To...

Get you a friend like Megan Thee Stallion. The 24-year-old sensation lit up the red carpet on Saturday at Variety's 2019 Hitmakers event, which was held at the Soho House in West Hollywood, Calif. Her colorful heart-printed ensemble, that was most likely a Versace design, wasn't the only thing that made her fans swoon. For the special occasion, the "All Dat" rapper was being honored with the Breakout Artist of the Year award. "Oh my gawd," the superstar began her speech. "Hi, I'm Megan. I'm from Houston Texas and this is really crazy..." "You know, we're going to keep being Hot Girls throughout the year, we don't just stop at the summer,"...

IMDb has revealed its Top 10 Stars and Top 10 Breakout Stars of 2019, with “Captain Marvel” star Brie Larson coming in No. 1 on the first list and “The Boys” star Erin Moriarty topping the second, TheWrap has learned exclusively.

In addition, TheWrap has learned exclusively that “Stranger Things” star Dacre Montgomery — who is No. 5 on this year’s Top Stars list and No. 2 among the Breakout Stars rankings — has been given the IMDb STARmeter Award, an honor shared by Larson, IMDb’s No. 1 star of 2019 and the recipient of the 2015 IMDb Breakout STARmeter Award.

“Rather than base its annual rankings on small statistical samplings, reviews of professional critics, or box office performance, IMDb determines its definitive top 10 lists using data from IMDbPro STARmeter rankings, which are based on the actual page views of more than 200 million monthly visitors to IMDb,” the website told TheWrap.

Along with Larson,...

Shamus Kelley Nov 14, 2019

The new DuckTales is heavily serialized, so we've put together a guide to help you watch it all in order.

Have you heard? The new DuckTales series is absolutely incredible. Soaring past even the highest of expectations, the remake of the classic '80s animated series has become one of our favorite series here at Den of Geek. Whip-smart writing, deep characters, bonkers world building, and endless Disney references. It's a treat for anyone who loves animation, Disney, or just great television.

The show has been a little difficult to watch unless you had cable but now it's finally all streaming on Disney+! No more long breaks between episodes! You can watch the show as fast or as slow as you want. DuckTales is finally easy to watch for everyone! There's just one problem though, the entire series was uploaded to the Disney+ streaming service out of order.

It's easy to sing about having a "Party in the USA" when you're Miley Cyrus and your net worth is somewhere around $200 million. Miley's career began to skyrocket after she landed her role as Miley Stewart in the beloved Hannah Montana series. Since then, she has worked as a solo music artist, movie star, and judge on NBC's The Voice. With these impressive accomplishments, Miley has fans wondering: how much money has this ultrapopular singer and actress earned throughout her life?

When Miley was 11 years old, she was offered the role of Hannah Montana, which secured her iconic teen idol status. For every episode of Hannah Montana, Miley earned around $15,000. That's right - Miley was already wealthy as a preteen.

She used her Disney career as a foundation for success for her future music endeavors. Her first independent album, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, went triple platinum and...

Deadline France will send contemporary police/citizens/gang tensions drama Les Miserables to the Oscars

Latino Entertainment Journalists Association - In their first ever TV awards, Barry, When They See Us, Chernobyl, and Euphoria lead the nominations. Jimmy Smit (Lifetime Achievement) and Isabella Gomez (Breakout) will also be honored.

Indie Wire - Have you heard that Brad Pitt is “abstaining” from Oscar campaigning. In our long years of following the Oscar race this only works for mega-stars and those who have just given undeniable performances (like Mo’Nique in Precious). Everyone else has to play the game.

After the jump Julie Andrews, Maggie Cheung, Downton Abbey, Kevin Spacey and more…...

Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival — and a bonafide masterpiece that deserves to be mentioned alongside “Parasite,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “The Irishman,” and the rest of the major new releases this fall — Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms” is destined to go down as one of the most thrilling, infuriating, and essential movies of 2019. And thanks to distributor Kino Lorber, American audiences won’t have to wait much longer to see it.

A sui generis work of tormented genius from the Israeli auteur behind “Policeman” and the original version of “The Kindergarten Teacher,” Lapid’s disorienting third feature is a strange and utterly singular tale about the violence of a man trying to replace one identity with another. That man, extrapolated from the director’s personal experience of fleeing to Paris because he believed that he was born in the Middle East by mistake,...

In the latest installment of our “First Time” video series, actress Beanie Feldstein, star of Booksmart and the “Breakout” talent of Rolling Stone‘s 2019 Hot List, looks back on her childhood obsession with the Spice Girls (“Spice World was on repeat in my house”), her first big role (Peter Rabbit in a preschool play), and her first meeting with her Hello, Dolly! costar Bette Midler (“She was wearing a cashmere sweatsuit and Skechers and I will never forget it”).

She also talks about learning to stand up for herself as...

Mumbai-based electronic DJ duo Almost Famous are excited to unveil their latest track "Breakout" in collaboration with American hip-hop artist Soulja Boy.

The high energy track fuses bass heavy trap sounds with synthesising and intricate electronic production. Soulja raps about his long-standing presence in the music business. In the Claymation video, Almost Famous and Soulja Boy are involved in a prison break, making a run and punching American actor Jake Paul in the process.

The track is being globally marketed by Hardik Zaveri and Naief Memon of Los Angeles-based Nofiltr Management and will be released in India on independent record label, 9122 Records, read a statement.

Rishab Sadarangani of Almost Famous said: "Our music is about blending the two cultures effortlessly so that the hip-hop becomes a big happy global family and there is no divide. We are happy to see how well the hip-hop scene in India has evolved and...

We told you back in December about a new critics organization Leja (Latino Entertainment Journalists Association) and they've announced their first year's worth of awards winners. Roma leads with Ten wins. The only other multiple winners were Black Panther (3), If Beale Street Could Talk (3), A Star is Born (2), and Into the Spider-Verse (2). They've mostly they avoided category fraud except in the messy Best Supporting Actor category where they rubberstamped Mahershala Ali. But we'll forgive that since they honored Bradley Cooper as Best Actor and he's been weirdly denied wins all season despite his multiple threat sucess with A Star is Born. The full list of Leja winners is after the jump.

If you’re a fan of retro gaming, you’re gonna love what Atari has released! They have two new portable products for you to enjoy including a Atari Retro Handheld and the Atari Plug & Play Joystick!

These each have the classic retro style of the original Atari 2600. Each of them offer a selection of 50 classic games.

The Atari Retro Handheld in has that classic wood veneered style as the original 2600 console and it’s priced at $45.50. I really like the look of this! It also comes with a 2.4-inch color screen. It also includes an A/V output for at-home play as well.

The Atari Plug & Play Joystick is meant for people to play at home, but you can take it anywhere with you because the system has been streamlined in a unit that looks like the original Atari joystick controller with a new “arcade-style” button on top of the controller.

Doughlings: Arcade is a throwback to the days of Arkanoid and Breakout but with a modern sensibility when it comes to aesthetics and power-ups. What could have been an average, passable game actually turns out to be a fun, addictive and light-hearted arcade romp with pick up and play gameplay.

The story behind Doughlings is that you are Dr Morpheus, a Doughling who is searching for a cure for all of the other denizens of the Doughling world who have been turned into mindless monsters. Naturally his cure involves chucking a ball at them to sort them out. Good.

The visuals, music and sound effects that make up Doughlings reminded me of Peggle, a game I was quite addicted to for a short while a couple of years ago. I mean it as a compliment as the colourful graphics and gentle, toe-tapping music are almost slightly hypnotic as they colour...

The truth is the priority. That is the concern. Whatever it takes. (from Twin Galaxie’s official statement on stripping Billy Mitchell of his high scores.)

I saw Billy Mitchell in person last year at an arcade convention in Atlanta, Georgia. It was summertime, and so it was hot. Amidst the seething crowd of t-shirts and shorts, Mitchell wore a white suit draped atop his lanky 6’ 2” frame. A stars-and-stripes tie peeked out between the lapels. He looked like a cross between Tom Wolfe and Colonel Sanders. I watched as he posed for pictures with fans, most of whom knew him as that guy from the film “King of Kong,” a 2007 documentary by Seth Gordon about his tete-a-tete with Steve Wiebe for the world record high score in “Donkey Kong.”

The first world record on Nintendo’s 1981 arcade machine pitting an angry ape against an unnamed Mario belonged to a youthful...

You’ve probably never heard of “Breakout,” Columbia Pictures’ 1975 prison-break movie starring Charles Bronson. That’s to be expected — it’s a ‘B’ movie at best — but its successful release was one of the most important in film distribution history. Why? Because “Breakout” was released on 1,300 screens simultaneously, with national TV advertising. At that time, TV ads for movies were all but unheard of, and releases tended to be either initially exclusive in downtown theaters, or shown in different territories at different times.

Despite predictions that it was a waste of money, “Breakout” was an immediate hit. That convinced Universal to do the same thing for “Jaws” less than a month later, and that film’s massive success remains the most significant change in exhibition history. By creating the notion of a shared experience for 2 million people, it created the template for how most studio features are released today.

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Ryan Lambie Mar 15, 2019

It was an incredibly tough scrolling shooter with a cool 60s spy theme. We take a look back at Namco's Rolling Thunder...

Whether you were in Indianapolis or Ingoldmells, you were pretty much guaranteed to see a game by Namco in any 1980s arcade. Increasingly tired-looking Galaxian, Galaga, and Pole Position machines were still kicking around at the end of the decade, while Pac-Man remains one of the most famous names in gaming today. But there was one great Namco game that didn't quite have the same lasting impact as the iconic Pac-Man, or even its once-popular space shooting games, yet managed to exert a quiet influence both on the company's later games and the industry as a whole.

Rolling Thunder appeared towards the end of 1986, and its design was completely different from anything else in arcades at the time. Where most coin-ops had a science...

With time travel, “meta humans” and knowing nods galore, The CW’s Arrow spin-off The Flash “is the most comic book show, I think, that’s ever been made,” DC Comics’ Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns declares.

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The new CW drama (premiering Tuesday at 8/7c) “embraces the superhero lore just fully on,” Johns continues. “There are references to Grodd, and that’s not just a reference. There’s plans for all sorts of crazy stuff.”

Even though The Flash stands proud of its rich source material,...

To mark the release of Helix Season 1 on 30th June, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.

Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation.

Executive produced by Ronald D. Moore (TV’s “Battlestar Galactica”), Steven Maeda (TV’s “Lost,” “CSI: Miami,” “The X-Files”), who also serves as showrunner, and Lynda Obst (Contact), Helix was created by co-executive producer Cameron Porsandeh and stars an ensemble cast, including Billy Campbell (TV’s “The Killing”), Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine), Kyra Zagorsky (TV’s “Motive”), Mark Ghanimé (TV’s “The Hunters”), Jordan Hayes (House at the End of the Street), Cat Lemieux (White House Down...

To mark the release of A Fighting Man on 9th June, we’ve been given 5 copies to give away on DVD.

Hollywood heavyweights James Caan (The Godfather, Misery) and Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and A Gentleman, Iron Eagle) star in the boxing drama A Fighting Man, written and directed by Damian Lee (A Dark Truth, Breakout) and released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on 9 June 2014.

The cast also includes Dominic Purcell (TV’s Prison Break, Breakout, Straw Dogs), Famke Janssen (X-Men, Wolverine, Taken), Kim Coates (TV’s Sons of Anarchy) and Michael Ironside (X-Men First Class, Total Recall).

A Fighting Man tells the story of two men who meet head to head in the ring for a fight that will change their lives. One man fights for redemption and forgiveness while the other fights for hope and change. In the end, win or lose, they realize they...

This weekend sees the release of Escape from Planet Earth, a family film that follows a hapless alien who’s trapped on the dangerous Planet Earth, and his attempt to escape a horrible fate at the hands of the humans. Brendan Fraser provides the voice of Scorch Supernova, the blue-skinned extraterrestrial hero, in a role that sees the loveable actor continue his run of family-friendly movies after Furry Vengeance and Inkheart, and as an aside to his more independent, serious fare such as Gimme Shelter and Breakout.

When we spoke with the actor we expected a straight-forward interview. How very wrong we were; the following conversation includes some singing, a bit of ice cream tasting, and a dash of Charlie Chaplin, proving why Fraser is the go-to guy if you’re looking to give your movie some spark. Read on on and enjoy.

Hi Brendan, how are you doing?

I...