Bear Grylls To Produce Modern Day ‘Count Of Monte Cristo’ Movie Set In Afghanistan

Katy Perry gave her fiancé Orlando Bloom a shout-out for "portraying a real hero" in his new movie The Outpost.

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happens The 37-year-old, who served in Afghanistan, has never let that hold him back though and now the self-styled ‘Barrhead Banksy’ is raising smiles throughout the town by leaving artistic creations around the area for kids and adults alike to discover.He said: “It’s been really hard in lockdown and I wanted to cheer people up and spread some joy.“I go to the Scottish Warblinded Centre in Hawkhead a lot but that has been closed which has been tough.“I

Todd Gilchrist Based on CNN reporter Jake Tapper’s nonfiction book of the same name, Rod Lurie’s new film “The Outpost” recreates the Battle of Kamdesh – a bloody 2009 showdown in Afghanistan between 53 U.S. soldiers and more than 400 enemy insurgents – with startling authenticity.When the time came to mount his re-enactment of this dramatic conflict, Lurie, a West Point graduate, knew he’d face an uphill battle enlisting the Department of Defense for assistance.

Netflix just dropped the new trailer for “Father Soldier Son”.

Brie Larson may have already made her mark on the silver screen with her work in titles including Captain Marvel and Room, but the Oscar-winning actress is now ready to explore a new medium. With a video full of bloopers, giggles, awkward zoom-ins and short interviews, Larson launched her very own YouTube channel on Thursday.

Afghanistan in “The Outpost” — a role that required a level of athleticism. Eastwood was tight-lipped about how he was injured, but he said it led to an “interesting” shoot.

The recent revelation about Russia-paid bounties to Taliban forces for killing American soldiers adds an eerie and tragic timeliness to The Outpost. Rod Lurie's film depicting the real-life story of one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghan War possesses an inevitably haunting quality due to the strategic blunders that led to vastly outnumbered U.S.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Just a few minutes past the midway mark of “The Outpost,” director Rod Lurie re-creates the Battle of Kamdesh, and for nearly the next hour of this intense, immersive modern-day combat thriller, audiences experience how it must feel to be caught in a sustained Taliban siege on a virtually indefensible location in Afghanistan.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticJust a few minutes past the midway mark of “The Outpost,” director Rod Lurie re-creates the Battle of Kamdesh, and for nearly the next hour of this intense, immersive modern-day combat thriller, audiences experience how it must feel to be caught in a sustained Taliban siege on a virtually indefensible location in Afghanistan.Situated at the bottom of three tall mountains in hostile territory, exposed to daily attack from all sides, Combat Outpost Keating

The war in Afghanistan has not gotten much cinematic attention. Whether it’s because of films concentrating on the Iraq War more, the relatively recent nature of the conflict, or the inherent messiness of it all, there’s just a hole in the culture.

Ted Johnson Nothing was more important to me and more nerve wracking than last October, when we showed it to them. It was right around the time of the 10th anniversary of the battle, and Millennium Films flew in a number of the Gold Star families, anybody who had a loved one depicted in the film who had been killed in the battle.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired global distribution to the Dr. Mark Smith-directed and Winterstate Entertainment documentary The Forgotten Battalion, Deadline can exclusively report.

Police carried out a number of raids at five addresses in Manchester, Derby, Thames Valley and the West Midlands. A man aged 28, and women, aged 46, were arrested on suspicion of Section 1 and 2 of Modern Day Slavery Act.Police say the arrests were made in connection with an incident where a woman was 'taken by the occupants of a vehicle' on Broughton Street in Cheetham Hill on March 2.

Drive-in movies are returning to the Bonnie Banks this summer.A lineup of end of the world blockbusters and feelgood classics are on the agenda for Scotland’s first socially distanced drive-in movies - organised by Itison and held at Loch Lomond Shores in Balloch.For seven years Itison has hosted drive-in cinemas, attracting more than 200,000 movie fans - and now they hope to bring some cheer to families, couples and film fanatics during lockdown.Following the examples set out by South Korea and

The 10-episode adventure series is about the expedition race, in which 66 teams from 30 countries race non-stop for 11 days, 24 hours a day, across hundreds of miles of rugged Fijian terrain complete with mountains, jungles and oceans. The show was filmed in Fiji last year.The 330 competitors form teams of five, including four racers and an assistant crew member, and go on an adventure race.

Bear Grylls is on a quest to crown the toughest team of survivalists.

Yvonne Strahovski looks confused as to where she is in this still from her new Netflix show, Stateless.

Bear Grylls isn’t making things easy.