EXCLUSIVE: Guy Pearce (Prometheus) and DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion) are attached to star in supernatural thriller Killing Faith, with Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction) in final negotiations to join.
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EXCLUSIVE: Sung Kang is swapping the Fast & Furious franchise for a doc series on car cultures around the world.
The actor is co-producing and starring in The Ride Life with Sung Kang, a multi-country car culture show that’s set to hit Mipcom Cannes next week.
Kang’s Raison D’Etre Stories is making the show with Singapore-based Beach House Pictures, Bros Studios and Insight TV, the international action and adventure network.
Kang will be in Cannes next week promoting the six-part show, at a presentation held Tuesday, October 17 at 4pm at the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)’s ‘Singapore Hour,’ which will showcase new productions with ties to Singaporean companies.
The series went ahead after SAG-AFTRA gave him permission to participate in the unscripted project and after he’d gotten full signatory clearance to film. “I’m in support and respectful of the SAG-AFTRA strike and grateful for their permission the participate in The Ride Life,” he told Deadline from Warsaw in Poland, where he is currently shooting the series.
The series is filming across locations and will be ready for delivery mid-2024. The show will see Kang revving up cool and rare vehicles, while attempting to deepen the understanding about the relationship between man and machine.
“I’ve been thinking about this series for over a decade now,” he said. “The privilege and blessing that comes with working on the Fast & Furious franchise is the character I play is so beloved that I have the garage key to everyone’s story. Everyone wants to invite me in crack open a beer.
“I’ve met some amazing human beings through that. These are people who inspire me on many levels. I felt it was selfish to keep this knowledge and experience to myself.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Guy Pearce (Prometheus) and DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion) are attached to star in supernatural thriller Killing Faith, with Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction) in final negotiations to join.
Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor Adam Driver, star of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” will travel to Camerimage, the cinematography-oriented film festival, to accept Special EnergaCamerimage Award for an Actor. He will also introduce the film, one of the entries in the Camerimage Main Competition and a prominent awards contender this season. The fest will run in Toruń.
The Santa Clauses is returning for a second season in exactly one week on Disney+!
Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media Analyst Jewish streaming service ChaiFlicks has greenlit its first original series, a half-hour unscripted showcase for kosher-food cuisine around the U.S. Premiering Nov. 16, “Schmoozing and Cruising” touches down everywhere from Brooklyn to Los Angeles for a mouthful of BBQ, pizza and donuts across six tasty episodes.
Dancing With The Stars champion Cezary Olszewski has been found dead in his hotel at the age of just 42 it has been confirmed. The former Dancing With The Stars champion was found dead on Monday, 30 October, in his home town of Ostroleka. His cause of death is just to be confirmed, but Tomasz Zeranski from the Ostroleka police has told the media that an investigation into what happened is already underway.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Cornerstone has closed sales on multiple territories including North America and the U.K. for writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo’s “Starve Acre,” a brooding and atmospheric folk horror. “House of the Dragon’s” Matt Smith and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” actor Morfydd Clark star in the film, which is produced by House Productions.
Cornerstone has closed sales on multiple territories including North America and the UK for writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo’s folk horror Starve Acre.
Emiliano De Pablos In standout results that suggests the strength of select Spanish arthouse films on the current international market, Bendita Films Sales, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife-based boutique world sales agency, has closed a formidable raft of deals to Galician auteur Lois Patiño’s multisensory journey film “Samsara.” Winner of a Special Jury Award at Berlin’s 2023 major sidebar Encounters and the Audience Award at Mexico’s Ficunam festival, “Samsara” has just screened in main competition gathered “Samsara”(Oct. 20-28), running up more than a dozen international film festival selections. Bendita Film Sales has clinched commercial release pacts in the U.K.
Refresh for latest…: Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is gaming its way to an estimated $130.6M global opening, higher even than we had it yesterday as this phenom is now eyeing a $52.6M bow from 64 international box office markets. As Anthony has chronicled, the domestic $78M opening is a stunner — and amid the day-and-date Peacock bow. Overseas, the play is purely theatrical and has set a number of records.
On the heels of the wonderful 2019 The Two Popes, in which Anthony Hopkins starred as Pope Benedict XVI in an imagined conversation with Jonathan Pryce’s future Pope Francis, Hopkins is once again involved in the same kind of cinematic historical fictional meeting as founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, who is engaged in a private debate with The Chronicles of Narnia author and theologian C.S. Lewis (played by Matthew Goode) on the existence of God. As with The Two Popes, there is no proof whatsoever that any meeting ever took place, but it clearly provides lots of material to wrap your head around. That is exactly what Mark St. Germain did in creating his 2009 play Freud’s Last Session, which was built on the 1967 Harvard lectures of Dr. Armond M. Nicholi Jr in his presentation “The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life.”
A Dancing on Ice couple has revealed they have quit the show, as they hit out at the 'stressful' environment. Alexandra Schauman from Finland, 43, and Lukasz Rozycki from Poland, 44, have been married for 15 years.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have decided to put their three kids first despite the growing pressure on them due to their highly active roles within the monarchy since becoming the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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The X Factor star Christopher Maloney has revealed he's undergone more cosmetic surgeries, bringing his total amount of procedures to 24.The singer, 45, recently underwent a nose job, cheek lift and hair transplant. He can be seen lying in a hospital bed with his face covered in bandages in a painful-looking photograph. Christopher, who finished in third place on The X Factor in 2012, previously admitted to having had "seven nose jobs and eight hair transplants".
Slash and Myles Kennedy and The Co-Conspirators have announced a 2024 world tour set to take place in January.The 32-date run titled ‘The River Is Rising – Rest of the World Tour ’24’ will see the rock icon travel across 21 countries. Kicking off on January 23 at the Pepsi Center WTC in Mexico City, they will then head to Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
'Prince William and Kate Middleton turn backs on Australia' read the headline of a leading Aussie publication over the weekend, amid growing feeling that the Prince and Princess of Wales have abandoned Down Under during the Royal Family’s upcoming two-year tour of the Commonwealth. Not only does the rising negative sentiment towards the royals abroad underline the importance of stepping up and showing out, but also demonstrates how important William and Kate are to the future of the monarchy.
train, but searches for vampire nails have started soaring on TikTok. As a result, there is tons of inspiration rolling in on the platform.
Studiocanal, part of Vivendi’s Canal+ Group, has rolled out robust sales on Xavier Dolan’s Sundance-selected psychological thriller “The Night Logan Woke Up,” Spanish period drama “The Vow” and a bevy of first documentaries. The deals underscore the continuing upside for Studiocanal of illustrious cinema talent exploring premium TV direction, as well as the company’s beneficial diversification into documentary sales and daily series.
Jesse Jo Stark has shared her heartfelt new single ‘Fallout’ ahead of her final debut headlining North American tour date.The melancholic track features confessional lyrics that are both deeply personal and universally relatable. “Don’t buy me a ring / the scariest thing about being all alone / clouds grow / I don’t know how not to have you around / the beautiful thing about the things that come out your mouth fallout / I don’t know how not to have you around,” Stark sings in the song.Directed by Christina Bryson, the accompanying video for ‘Fallout’ features footage of Stark on tour performing the track to her loving fans.
EXCLUSIVE: Beach House Pictures is riding the crest of an Asian true crime wave. Having created three premium doc projects for Netflix, the Singapore-based producer has now optioned the story of the disappeared Instagram adventurer Justin Alexander.