'The Flash' Showrunner Teases Major Season 8 Surprises

As Amy mentioned, it was really exciting and intriguing to me that we established the women in season 1 as this baseline. And then we bring in the men as this counterpoint. So often in history, it's been the other way around.

Ozark showrunner Chris Mundy has opened up about the shock death of a fan-favourite character in the finale – beware of spoilers below.The new episodes, ending the fourth and final season, premiered last week, and brought the death of Julia Garner’s character Ruth.Mundy recently told Entertainment Weekly that the idea of Ruth’s death to close the show “developed over time”.He explained: “It just became pretty clear as we came out of episodes 11, 12, something like that, as we were breaking the final ones, that this is what would happen to that character in that place in that situation, having done what she did in episode 8, that that sort of authentic ending was that.“So then it was just a matter of trying to figure that out, making peace with that or just saying, ‘Okay, that is what would happen, but we don’t want it to happen, so we’re going to do something else instead.'”On Ruth’s legacy and how he discussed the outcome with Garner, Mundy went on: “This is the end of the show, so the character lives on in the same way, even if she’s not out in a fictional world. “In a lot of ways, we both kind of hope — I certainly hope — that in some ways it makes her a more memorable character, just because she had this end, and hopefully at least her last moment was brave and on her own terms.”Meanwhile, the Ozark finale was recently voted the worst ever episode by viewers.

Kate Hudson is seriously putting in the work! Shortly after revealing the exciting news that she would be venturing out into the music industry, the beloved star has shared an update.MORE: Goldie Hawn's grandson Ryder celebrates sweet update with girlfriend Iris ApatowThough known and loved for her acting in hit movies such as How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days and Something Borrowed, it seems the urge to dabble in music has always been in her too.The musical side of her is finally coming to fruition now, as she announced in late April that she was working on an album.WATCH: Kate's new family video has fans all asking the same thingMORE: Kate Hudson inundated with messages after making unexpected announcementFans went wild over the news, which she announced with pictures of her singing and rocking out with a band, inundating her Instagram with comments such as: "About time woman!" and: "Yeeeeeessssssss, you're making my dream come true!!!!!" as well as: "This is what we need."Now she delighted fans even more so as she gave a much needed update on how her album is coming along.Though when it will be available is not yet clear, she is clearly working hard at it and committed to her career pivot. She shared an exciting photo of herself – looking like a true artist in a frilly white dress making a great contrast with her edgy combat boots – along with a microphone in front of her and headphones over her ears, seemingly listening to her own work.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefProduction has got underway in Germany and Poland on “Oderbruch,” a major thriller series produced by Paramount Global’s CBS Studios, Syrreal Entertainment and ARD Degeto, part of German public broadcast group ARD.The previously announced drama stars Karoline Schuch (“Dark Woods”), Felix Kramer (“Dogs of Berlin”) and Lucas Gregorowicz (“Police Call 110,” “Pagan Peak”) and is a tale which begins with the discovery of multiple murder victims in a remote area near the German-Polish border.The eight-part series is directed by Adolfo J. Kolmerer and Christian Alvart.

Naman Ramachandran Stage Fifty‘s Wycombe Film Studios, a new eight-stage 295,000 sq ft boutique studio, will kick off with a major Hollywood feature film that will start shooting in 2022. Temporary planning applications have been submitted to Buckinghamshire Council to support the as-yet-unnamed feature film, and approval to build one stage and workshops has been granted. An application for a permanent studio will follow later this year, transforming a 26-acre site located just off the highway to the southwest of High Wycombe, 34 miles from London, into a sustainable film studio.

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The new NCAA Name, Image, Likeness rule (NIL) that allows college athletes to monetize themselves could be at a crossroads. Top college receiver Jordan Addison is reportedly mulling a transfer from Pittsburgh amid rumors of massive booster blandishments from top football programs.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeTony Dalton says you’re not ready for where “Better Call Saul” goes in its final season. As the first half of the 13-episode sixth season continues, Dalton warns viewers to brace themselves.“No matter what they think is going to happen, people have no idea,” he tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I think that people are going to love it.

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Catherine Springer “Ozark” cinematographer Shawn Kim came aboard the show at the start of Season 4 with a good idea of what creators Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams wanted for the look of the dark thriller about a mob accountant and his family who relocate from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks: A “sense of danger in the shadows,” Kim says.“Ozark” fans have been waiting three months for the second half of the season to find out what happens to the Byrdes — Jason Bateman’s Marty, wife Wendy (Laura Linney) and their two children — as they try to wriggle free from the clutches of the drug cartel that employs him and the FBI that wants to imprison him. But Kim says the final seven installments, which drops April 29 and close out the Netflix series, are built around the ambitious Ruth (Julia Garner), who had worked for Marty and saw her world collapse around her at the end of the first half of the season.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSouth Korean cinema technology firm CJ 4DPlex has struck a deal with Thailand’s Major Cineplex, to open a ScreenX Premium Large Format auditorium at Major’s multiplex at Siam Paragon in Bangkok.ScreenX is a multi-projection cinema with an immersive 270-degree field of view, created by using the side walls of the theater. Some 363 ScreenX auditoriums have been installed at cinemas in 38 countries.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefImax and Major Cineplex, Thailand’s biggest cinema operator, have struck a deal for three Imax With Laser installations in capital city Bangkok. The agreement will expand the Imax screen total in Thailand to seven.Two of the three installations are upgrades in central Bangkok locations.

Ozark‘s upcoming finale, suggesting it will be “a happy ending, but they’re limping”.The Netflix crime drama is due to conclude with the second part of season four, due later this week on April 29.Bateman, who plays lead character Marty Byrde on the show, recently appeared on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, where he opened up about how they mapped out the final episodes.“With the final season, the whole thing was like, ‘Well, how are we gonna end it?’ Should the Byrde family pay a bill, you know? Like, should they get away with it? Should they not?” he revealed.Bateman went on to recall a conversation with showrunner Chris Mundy, where they admitted they “want it to be a happy ending, but there’s got to be a little of a, ‘Well, is it happy for them?'”He added: “Hopefully, the audience will think, ‘Ah, they’ve kind of threaded the needle between a happy ending, but they’re limping’.”Ozark follows Marty and Wendy Byrde (Laura Linney), as they find themselves in a money-laundering operation in the Ozarks, Missouri when a scheme for a Mexican drug cartel goes wrong.The final episodes are set to pick up as Ruth (Julia Garner) is out for vengeance after the murder of cousin Wyatt.The logline reveals: “Marty and Wendy are rid of Helen and climb to the top of Navarro’s empire. They find another opportunity to get out of the Ozarks but some past sins won’t stay buried and the most dangerous threats come from blood.” Showrunner Chris Mundy previously revealed to TVLine that the second part of season four will start directly after the events of the last episode.“We pick up right away,” Mundy said.

Writer-directors James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte recognize a good old-fashioned scam story when they see one.

AMC Entertainment is planning its first major upgrade since the transition to digital, announcing a deal with Cinionic to roll out laser projectors to 3,500 of its U.S. auditoriums through 2026.

Emmerdale writer Sharon Marshall has teased Leyla Harding's surprise link to newcomer Suzy on the ITV soap. In upcoming scenes, Leyla is left rattled to see Suzy and Vanessa Woodfield together in the pub as the latter asks how they know each other to which Suzy explains it is through work.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMunich-based sales agency Beta Cinema has closed sales to several major territories for stylish comic-book adaptation “Diabolik,” which is among the leaders in the race for Italy’s top film awards – the David di Donatello Awards – with 11 nominations. Beta Cinema will kick off presales on the film’s sequels in Cannes.“Diabolik” has been acquired by buyers in France (Metropolitan), Spain (Flins & Piniculas), and Latin America and Portugal (Sun Distribution Group).