Lionsgate Picks Up Thriller Feature ‘Escape The Field’, Sets Multiplatform Release

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSam Esmail’s “Metropolis” series has been greenlit at Apple, Variety has learned.The drama series is inspired by the 1927 Fritz Lang sci-fi film of the same name. Hailed as one of the greatest and most influential films of the silent film era, the story takes place in the futuristic city of Metropolis.While the city’s wealthy elite enjoy a lavish life of comfort and ease in penthouses and pleasure gardens, scores of workers labor at dangerous machinery in the bowels of the city to keep everything running. Freder Fredersen, the son of the most powerful man in Metropolis, has an awakening after meeting a young worker named Maria and witnessing a number of workers die in an industrial accident.

Orlando Bloom, 45, has a new set of wheels! The actor was photographed picking up his incredible custom Lucid Air sedan, which is estimated to cost a whopping $169,000, at a Beverly Hills location on Feb. 25 and couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear during the epic moment. The black electric vehicle shined like a brand new vehicle should and was surrounded by people that Orlando mingled with before getting inside and driving away.

CAPITAL IRISH FILM FESTIVALSolas Nua, the D.C.-based organization dedicated to presenting contemporary Irish arts, readies its annual showcase of films from Ireland the first weekend of March. Co-presented by the AFI Silver Theatre, this year’s festival inaugurates the Norman Houston Short Film Award, named in memory of a former director of the Northern Ireland Bureau in the U.S.

Video: London company complete successful flight test of vehicle they say will replace cars (The Independent)100,000 dead fish discovered off coast of FranceLidl and Waitrose named as most sustainable supermarkets in UK in new ranking by Which?Winter storm sets into the US south leaving hundreds of thousands without powerAirlines cancel 3,500 flights as winter storm slams USFootage appears to show smoke and flames rising 'from oil tanker explosion' off coast of NigeriaFootage purports to show 2 million barrel oil tanker exploding off coast of NigeriaLandslides kill at least 18 in Ecuador capitalNewsreaders reaction to earthquakeOil spill caused on Peruvian coast by Tonga eruption covers beaches in thick layers of black greaseWinter snowstorms hit the Northeastern USHaiti earthquake: 14 days after 4South Africa: Clinic for penguins opens in Cape TownWhiteout Conditions as lake effect snow hits central New YorkDon't Look Up trailerThe Green Planet | Official Trailer | New Attenborough SeriesTory MP Chris Skidmore warns cutting green energy levies would be disastrousAccording to the manufacturer, the various Air models can accelerate from 0 to 60mph as quickly as 2. 5 seconds, and they can reach a top speed of 168mph.

Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin has been nominated six times for the UK’s prestigious Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards next month, with Jeremy Clarkson, Olivia Colman and Stephen Graham also picking up nods.

Following the success of Netflix’s big-budget “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s next feature film is “Killers of The Flower Moon” for Apple TV+ starring Jesse Plemons, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow, and Robert De Niro. An adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction investigation of a series of murders that plagued the Osage people (American Indigenous community) during the 1920s after oil was discovered on their land and became some of the richest people of that era.

Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel have released a rare statement in response to the rumors that they’re getting a divorce.

Wyatte Grantham-Philips editorWhen constructing the style for Season 2 of “Emily in Paris,” consulting costume designer Patricia Field said “it was time to shake it up a bit.”“As fashion these days has become rather monotonous and boring (jeans, sneakers, etc.), it was the perfect opportunity to develop Emily’s style as more colorful and optimistic,” Field, who is also known for the iconic style of “Sex and the City” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” wrote in a statement to Variety.Darren Star’s “Emily in Paris” follows Emily (Lily Collins), a marketing executive from Chicago who unexpectedly moves to Paris when the company she works for acquires Savoir, a French marketing firm. Throughout the first two seasons, Emily navigates her work, a new city and complicated romances.

EXCLUSIVE: Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman, the prolific producers behind series including SEAL Team and Justified, have teamed with Andrew Davies, the writer behind the original British drama House of Cards on a drama about a fictional UK Prime Minster facing a string of crises.

EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired Mayim Bialik’s feature directorial debut As They Made Us, starring Diana Agron (Shiva Baby, Glee), Simon Helberg (Annette, The Big Bang Theory), Oscar nominee Candice Bergen (Let Them All Talk, Starting Over) and two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman (The Meyerowitz Stories, Rain Main), slating it for release in theaters and on VOD on April 8.

IFC Midnight has taken North American rights to Magdalena Lauritsch’s sci-fi disaster movie, Rubikon. A theatrical and PVOD date will be set for this year.

EXCLUSIVE:  Lionsgate has renewed its first-look film deal with 3Pas Studios, the production company run by producer Ben Odell and bilingual star Eugenio Derbez, Deadline has learned.

After years as an outsider in the fashion world, Kim Kardashian has cemented her place as a style icon, undergoing numerous transformations and style eras. Now in her early forties, the star has revealed that she's excited to get started on devising her next era – but admitted in a brand new interview with Vogue that she's unsure and "scared" about deciding what direction to take now she's split from Kanye West.

Blumhouse Productions’ adaptation of the Stephen King novel “Firestarter” has gotten a release date. The film will hit theaters and Peacock in early May.Starring Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon as parents Andy and Vicky, the story follows them on the run as they attempt to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) from the government.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Roku Channel has picked up sci-fi adventure series “The Pact” from Qatar-based Katara Studios and Taipei- and Los Angeles-based Organic Media Group.The Roku Channel is the home of free and premium entertainment on the Roku hardware and software platform.The six-part show will be exclusively available on The Roku Channel in the U.S., U.K. and Canada from March 26, 2022, and release to the rest of the world in July.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorJerusalem-based sales agent Go2Films has taken both worldwide rights (excluding North America) and Israeli distribution rights to “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen” by Oscar-nominated director Daniel Raim and narrated by Jeff Goldblum. Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films will handle North American distribution on the film, which follows the making of Norman Jewison’s “Fiddler on the Roof.”The film was meant to have its international premiere in the Official Selection of Palm Springs Film Festival, which was cancelled due to COVID-19.