Björk hopes more female directors will tackle Viking Age

Alex Pettyfer, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hopper and Frank Grillo are set to star in a crime drama called “Branded” that is based on a David Grann article in The New Yorker about the story of organized crime within America’s prison system. Kieron Hawkes (“Power”) will direct the film from a script by Alessandro Camon. HanWay Films has picked-up international sales rights and will commence sales at Cannes, while CAA Media Finance is representing U.S.

K.J. Yossman “Magic Mike” star Alex Pettyfer and “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s” Maria Bakalova are set to star in “Branded.”Tom Hopper (“Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City”) and Frank Grillo (“Kingdom”) will also appear in the film.Kieron Hawkes (“Power”) is set to direct the feature, which is based on New Yorker article “The Brand” by longform journalist David Grann, whose book “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been adapted in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film of the same name.

Alex Pettyfer, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hopper and Frank Grillo are set to star in Branded, based on the New Yorker article “The Brand” by New York Times bestselling author David Grann.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. production company Catalyst Studios is launching with a slate of female-fronted projects that will be repped for sales by Highland Entertainment Group.

Fox News. “Let’s just say a piece of material were to come across my desk, which has happened plenty of times over the last 22 years, that I don’t necessarily feel is what I believe or what I’m selling — then that’s not for me.”The “Cinderella Story” actor went on, “I don’t want to step in something that I don’t believe in any way because it’s going to destroy it for everybody else involved.”“If you don’t fully love and embrace the character that you are inhabiting, it will show on screen. I always want to give the people that I’m working with and the people who are going to watch the movie, the most of me,” he said.Murray added that he likes to keep his Christian faith close to him by putting on his “spiritual armor” every morning.

Chad Michael Murray doesn't back down from his religious beliefs. Murray, 40, admitted he's turned down projects that he didn't feel were compatible with his beliefs in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

Bill Murray had a lot to say about those “inappropriate behavior” allegations on the set of Being Mortal.

J. Kim Murphy Bill Murray has offered his first statement on the suspension of production on “Being Mortal,” which Searchlight Pictures deemed necessary after investigating complaints of inappropriate behavior against the actor.Murray shared his comments during an interview on CNBC Television at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Neb.

Elon Musk has an agreement to buy Twitter. But no one can agree on what that means, and Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time spent a good portion of Friday’s run trying to make sense of it.

Chad Michael Murray is giving us hope of a “One Tree Hill” revival.

Simon Cowell is reportedly planning to bring back the X Factor after the network confirmed there were ‘no current plans’ to revive it. The annual talent series – which saw a number of rotating stars on the judging panel including Robbie Williams, Cheryl, Gary Barlow, Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne, and Louis Walsh – was scrapped by ITV in July 2021. Although the popular programme suffered dwindling viewership, the music mogul is supposedly planning to modernise the music competition across the pond.

new film being shut down for an investigation into his alleged “inappropriate behavior” is taking on a darker tone amid a resurfaced on-set horror story that’s kept Hollywood whispering for decades.Disney was allegedly forced to hire bodyguards to protect the cast and crew of 1991’s “What About Bob?” after the actor hurled a glass ashtray at co-star Richard Dreyfuss and threatened to “throw” the film’s female producer “across a parking lot.”The bombshell accusation was dropped Thursday night by Dreyfuss’ son, Ben, just hours after Murray’s latest movie, “Being Mortal,” was suspended following a complaint about his conduct. Despite his enduring status as a beloved Hollywood bad boy, Murray has repeatedly been accused of violently clashing with co-stars — from alleged head-butting to “inexcusable and unacceptable” language — on numerous sets stretching all the way back to the 1970s. After this week’s new Murray mayhem, Ben, 35, took to Twitter to reveal that professional muscle had to be deployed to the Virginia set of the cult classic “What About Bob?” following Murray’s alleged violent outburst.

A.D. Amorosi Without a doubt, Robert Eggers’ “The Northman” traffics in his now-usual brand of haunted atmospherics and wonky mysticism, a signature whose intensity is upped by the savage bloodlust of its characters and the vastitudes of his first big-budget epic with a price tag reportedly hovering between $70 million and $90 million.The only thing more intensely stressed than the dilemma of a Viking prince in the year 895 (avenging the death of his father, the king, at the hands of his jealous uncle who stole the prince’s mother as the spoils of war — or did she go willingly?) played to brutal, muscular perfection by Alexander Skarsgård, is the all-consuming dedication of its tactile production design, its brooding, cinematographic ambiance and the craftsmanship of its furry, hierarchical costuming.

Main Competition“Le Otto Montagne,” Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen“Un Petit Frere,” Leonor Serraile“Tourment sur les Isles,” Albert SerraCannes Premiere“Don Juan,” Serge Bozon“La Nuit du 12,” Dominik Moll“Chronique d’une Liaison Passagere,” Emmanuel MouretMidnight Screenings“Rebel,” Adil El Arbi, Bilall FallahUn Certain Regard“Plus Que Jamais,” Emily Atef“Mediterranean Fever,” Maha Haj“Le Blue du Caftan,” Maryam Touzani“Harka,” Lofty Nathan (first film)Out of Competition“L’Innocent,” Louis GarrellSpecial Screenings“Mi Pias Imaginario,” Patricio Guzman (documentary)“The Vagabonds,” Doroteya Droumeva (first film)“Riposte Feministe,” Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon (documentary, first film)“Restos do Vento,” Tiago Guedes“Le Petit Nicolas Qu’est-ce Qu’on Attend Pour Etre Hereux?” Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre (animation, first film)

prince at the dawn of the 10th century. It opens in theaters nationwide Friday.The Viking dream laid dormant for some time, though.

Sean Murray and Gary Cole are opening up about the casting shakeup that happened in the current season of NCIS.

Björk in The Northman.The actor plays lead character Amleth in the third feature film from director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch), starring alongside Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe.The most unique cast addition is Björk, who plays a seeress, whose last feature film acting credit was in 2005’s Drawing Restraint 9 from director Matthew Barney.Speaking to NME about acting alongside the musician, Skarsgård said: “I felt very lucky. It was crazy.“I don’t think you see it on camera in that scene, but we shot it in that burnt out barn after the big raid. And Björk when it was her shot, behind her I could see it was just this gigantic full moon right behind her head and it felt so perfect for that scene and her character and the way she looked.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCasting directors Bernard Telsey and Adam Caldwell are already back at work on season two of HBO’s “The Gilded Age.”The series stars Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijn, a socialite living in early-1880s New York City with her sister, Ada Brook, played by Cynthia Nixon. “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes brings wealth, scheming and social hierarchy to New York, and with that a wealth of Broadway actors who make appearances throughout the first season.Telsey and Caldwell spoke with Variety about how they were able to bring Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin and Steven Spinella to the show.