Toronto-Bound Nicaraguan Film ‘Daughter of Rage’ Boarded by Best Friend Forever (EXCLUSIVE)

Wilson Chapman editor A first look at the highly anticipated “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” Disney+ series was released out of the D23 Expo on Saturday. First greenlit in January, “Percy Jackson” is an adaptation of Rick Riordan’s popular young-adult fantasy book series, which consists of five books released from 2005 to 2009. The series was previously adapted into two feature films released in 2010 and 2013, with Logan Lerman in the title role. The films grossed $425 million combined worldwide. The new series focuses on the titular 12 year-old boy (played by “Adam Project” star Walker Scobell), who discovers that he is the son of Greek god Poseidon and begins training to become a hero at Camp Half-Blood, a special training camp for demigods.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has boarded sales on the upcoming romantic thriller “Haunted Heart” by Academy Award winning director Fernando Trueba (“La Belle Époque,” “The Queen of Spain”). The film stars Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”), Goya-nominated Aida Folch (“The Artist and the Model”), and Juan Pablo Urrego (“Memoria”). The English-language film is set to start shooting in Greece in September. The film is set on a beautiful remote island in Greece, where young and spirited Alex joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max, a reclusive American, who settled on the island decades ago.

EXCLUSIVE: The story of the American Basketball Association (ABA), which was responsible for stars such as Julius Erving, is to be told in a new docuseries for Amazon.

Bindi Irwin’s daughter is ready for fashion week! On Wednesday, the proud mom showed off her and Chandler Powell’s baby girl, Grace Warrior’s, style in the family’s signature look.  “Khaki isn’t just a colour, it’s an attitude. #WildlifeWarriors,” the 24-year-old Australian conservationist captioned the shot.  In the picture, Bindi smiles as she holds up Grace, who shows off her adorable khaki jumpsuit.

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal and Working Title have unveiled the official trailer for Shekhar Kapur’s keenly anticipated cross-cultural British romantic comedy “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” The film will have its world premiere as a gala presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10. It follows documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), for whom swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath’s (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe’s childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents’ example and opt for an arranged (or “assisted”) marriage to Maymouna (Sajal Aly), a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films Kaz’s journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.

posted to the band’s Twitter. “After a lot of long chats with my doctor we’ve decided that the next step is surgery to remove the affected organ after which it should be much more manageable.

Barbara Ehrenreich, the political activist and author best known for her book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” has died. She was 81 years old.According to The New York Times, Ehrenreich died of a stroke on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Virginia, where she also lived.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Carolina Markowicz’s dark satire “Charcoal,” which world premieres on Sept. 11 at Toronto Film Festival, has debuted its teaser trailer with Variety (below). World sales are being handled by Urban Sales. The film, which plays in the festival’s Platform section, centers on a poor family living in a remote area in Brazil, who earn a pittance from their charcoal business. When a shady nurse asks them to host a mysterious foreigner they accept. The home soon becomes a hideout as the so-called guest happens to be a highly wanted drug lord. The mother, her husband and child will have to learn how to share the same roof with this stranger, while keeping up appearances of an unchanged peasant routine.

The loyal daughters of Prince Andrew, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are said to have begged Prince Charles to give their dad a job. Andrew, 62, who was left shell-shocked when the Queen stripped him of military titles and HRH use at the beginning of the year, has had his case for a job fought by his daughters Beatrice, 34, and Eugenie, 32. The Sun reports that the Prince of Wales, 73, held a summit with the princesses at his home on the Birkhall Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

A new Netflix documentary premiered yesterday (August 24) about the bizarre life story of McAfee Anti-Virus software creator John McAfee. The feature-length documentary called Running With The Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee shows hours of unseen footage of an increasingly paranoid man on the run.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recently welcomed a new pet into their family home, with the pair adopting a beagle from a rescue organisation. Meghan, 40, and Prince Harry, 37, have adopted a seven year old beagle named Mamma Mia, who was rescued by federal authorities in July along with 4,000 other beagles. The dogs had been living in inhabitable conditions at the Envigo breeding and research plant, located in Virginia.

The Beaches are one of the acts we’re excited about at Just Jared, and we want readers to get a chance to know them better.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBefore the iPhone, there was the mighty BlackBerry — the world’s first smartphone, which enjoyed a meteoric rise in the early 2000s only to meet a catastrophic demise.A new movie from “The Dirties” and “Operation Avalanche” director Matt Johnson, simply entitled “BlackBerry,” will detail the rise and fall of the once-ubiquitous device as its Canadian parent company Research in Motion floundered in legal disputes and eventually lost its market advantage to competitors such as Apple and Samsung. At the heart of the story is the business relationship between co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.The film’s cast is led by Jay Baruchel (“This Is The End,” “Knocked Up”) and Glenn Howerton (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “A.P.

EXCLUSIVE: M88 has signed emerging, young actress Leah Sava Jeffries (Beast, Empire).

She tied the knot with her man Joe Swash last month with an intimate ceremony at their gorgeous home Pickle Cottage, and newlywed Stacey Solomon has been sharing more gorgeous photos from their special day. Last week Stacey proudly shared a photo of their sons who were best men at the emotional nuptials.

Zack Sharf Idris Elba stars in “Beast” as a father trying to protect his two daughters from a ferocious lion on a South African nature preserve. It turns out Elba’s 20-year-old daughter auditioned to play one of his character’s daughters in the film, but she failed to land the role because her chemistry with her father “wasn’t right.” According to Elba, she stopped speaking to him for three weeks after she lost out on the role.“She wants to be an actress and she auditioned,” Elba said on “The Breakfast Club” (via Insider).

A dad has spoken of his devastation after his young daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease - and told by doctors she won't live past her 12th birthday. Darren Landry said his little girl Isla was reaching all her "major milestones" as a toddler.

Bones and AllLuca Guadagnino, 2022, U.S., 130mIn a startling, star-making performance, Taylor Russell plays Maren, a teenager who has just moved to a small town in Virginia with her father (André Holland). However, it’s only a matter of time before the frightening secret Maren harbors is revealed and she must hit the road again—on her own.