‘Oxygen’ Director Alexandre Aja Discusses His Attraction to Single-Location Films

In another sign that California is slowly returning to normal, the Burbank Unified School District has reopened its campuses to film and television production. The schools had been closed to filming since March 2020 to slow the spread of Covid-19. As of May 28, all of the district’s properties are now open to filming except for the Horace Mann preschool.

Having been off our screens for almost 11 years, we were delighted when Leslie Ash exclusively revealed to OK! this week that she’s got a very exciting new role on hit BBC series Casualty. Now 61 and having suffered a life-changing spinal infection, the mum-of-two is the first to admit getting back into showbiz has been tough.

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Bethenny Frankel is enjoying a little Memorial Day Weekend getaway!

Not here for the hate. Director Ben Winston only had positive things to say about Matthew Perry following the Friends reunion special, which dropped on HBO Max on Thursday, May 27.

Cheyenne Floyd is a mom-of-two! The Teen Mom OG star, 28, welcomed a baby boy with her fiance Zach Davis on May 27. “Life is complete, all praises to the most high,” she wrote on Instagram when announcing the happy news on May 29.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired a package built around Ian MacAllister McDonald’s Black List script Rodney & Sheryl. Anna Kendrick comes attached to star and Chloe Okuno to direct a drama based on the true story of the time that a serial killer competed on and won a date on the popular TV game show The Dating Game. The killer, Rodney Alcala, was in the midst of a killing spree in 1978 when he brazenly took part in the show. Kendrick will play Cheryl Bradshaw, the contestant,

Ace Ruele Aristotles has claimed he's facing being deported to Jamaica despite being born in Greenwich and raised in North West London.The EastEnders star, who portrays Sammy in the popular BBC soap opera, was granted indefinite leave (IRL) although his mum didn't have a UK citizenship at the time of his birth. However, this was revoked after he got a criminal conviction, spending three years in jail at the age of 19 for crimes including robbery with an imitation firearm.

Highlander.The actor, who has already led superhero franchises including The Witcher on Netflix and Superman offshoot Man of Steel, is in negotiations to lead the new film from Lionsgate.The original fantasy adventure film was released in 1986, and focused on an age-old war between immortal warriors. It starred Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart and Sean Connery.Ryan Reynolds was in line to star in a Highlander remake back in 2012, but subsequently exited the project.

Netflix’s Oxygen (Oxygène), a French-language thriller set inside a tiny cryogenic pod, went through a handful of iterations before landing as an eerily timely take on confinement. The film, based on Christie LeBlanc’s 2016 Black List script, was originally slated to be shot in English and with Anne Hathaway attached to star.

If you’ve felt physically trapped over the past 14 months, you’ll feel right at home in Oxygen (Oxygène), a locked-in-a-box conceptual thriller that more or less succeeds almost entirely due to Mélanie Laurent’s resourceful performance as a woman who has no idea why she’s become trapped in a tiny cryogenic pod.

On Mother’s Day 2020, The Tenors unveiled their special musical tribute to moms, “Mother”.

When playwright/deviant Oscar Wilde famously remarked that imitation was the most sincere form of flattery, he probably never predicted the idea applying to a new Netflix original, but well, it fits, and here we are. Their new sci-fi horror thriller, “Oxygen,” is a film that borrows heavily from such intimate looks at claustrophobic spaces like 2010’s “Buried” and a dash of, say, cryonic-freezing drama, “Forever Young.