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The first season of British crime drama “Vigil” won Emmy and BAFTA Awards and was the most-watched new drama in the United Kingdom since 2018. In the United States, the show streams on Peacock and the second season premieres on the platform on Thursday, Feb. 15. In this new mystery, Amy Silva (played by Suranne Jones) and Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) investigate multiple murders on an Air Force base and have to contend with new technology to unravel this international conspiracy. You can watch with a subscription to Peacock.

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In a brand-new investigation, Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre are plunged into the secret world of drone warfare in the six-episode second season of the BBC’s “Vigil,” streaming in the U.

The popular 1990s animated TV series ‘Gargoyles’, which defined the childhood of many, has been up for a live-action adaptation for a long while now. Now, Oscar winning actor-director Kenneth Branagh is rumoured to direct a live action movie of ‘Gargoyles’.

As reported by ‘Collider’, the news comes as courtesy of the English actor’s hometown paper of the Belfast Telegraph reported that the director-actor will be at the helm of affairs.

‘Gargoyles’ became a very big pop-culture hit in the 1990s, with attempts of adapting it into a feature film dating all the way back to the late 1990s. However, the attempts didn’t pan out leading to the project going into development hell. It was later brought back into development in 2010 when ‘X-Men’ movie producer Lauren Shuler Donner and ‘Wolverine and The X-Men’ writer Zoe Green began working on a film treatment.

At that time, David Elliot and Paul Lovett,...

Hit BBC drama Vigil will look to the skies for its second series, with a brand-new investigation that takes Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) and Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) into the world of the British air force. The six-part drama, made by World Productions (Line of Duty, Showtrial, Save Me, Bodyguard) for BBC One and iPlayer, will begin filming soon in Scotland. Following multiple unexplained fatalities at a Scottish military facility, Silva and Longacre are tasked with uncovering the cause. Entering the hostile and closed ranks of the air force, the pair must face the deadly warfare of tomorrow as they fight for their own future. Vigil stars Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack, Doctor Foster) and Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones, Downtown Abbey) alongside Gary Lewis (His Dark Materials, Granite Harbour) who returns as Dsu Robertson. They will be joined for series two by Romola Garai (Becoming Elizabeth, The Hour), Dougray Scott (Crime,...

Exclusive: Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie are headed to the skies for the second season of BBC ratings hit Vigil, while Dougray Scott and Romola Garai are among nine new cast members joining them.

As expected, Jones and Leslie will return as detectives Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre. Gary Lewis (His Dark Materials) also returns as DS Robertson.

In Season 2, Deadline has learnt that the leads will enter the closed and hostile environment of the Royal Air Force as they’re tasked with uncovering the cause of multiple unexplained fatalities at a Scottish military base.

Garai (Becoming Elizabeth, The Hour) and Scott (Crime, Enigma) will take major roles, as will Amir El-Masry (Sas Rogue Heroes, Limbo), David Elliot (The Liberator, Bulletproof), Chris Jenks (Sex Education, Karen Pirie), Tommy Sim’aan (The Midwich Cuckoos, Doctors), Oscar Salem (House of the Dragon, Des), Jonathan Ajayi...

Exclusive: LevelK boards pair of Berlin world premieres.

LevelK has boarded sales for two films having world premieres in Berlinale’s Generation selection: The Inland Road [pictured] and Oskar’s America.

The Inland Road (Generation 14plus), the debut feature from New Zealand writer/director Jackie van Beek, is a coming-of-age drama about a 16-year-old Maori runaway who develops a surprising bond with a family she meets after a fatal car accident.

Aaron Watson produces for Sabertooth Films. The cast features Gloria Popata, Chelsie Preston-Crayford, David Elliot, Jodie Hillock and Georgina Spillane.

“What I most hope to express through this film is the great capacity we have as human beings for love, kindness and forgiveness,” the director said.

Van Beek is also an actress who is best known for What We Do In The Shadows; her short Go The Dogs played at the 2011 Berlinale.

Torfinn Iversen’s Norwegian-Swedish family film Oskar’s America (Generation Kplus) is about a 10-year-old...

Robert Carlyle and Emma Thompson in The Legend Of Barney Thomson Robert Carlyle's directorial debut The Legend Of Barney Thomson picked up the top movie award at the Scottish BAFTAs last night.

The film, which is released on DVD today, tells the story of a hapless barber who becomes an accidental murderer. It was named best film - beating 16 Years Till Summer and What We Did On Our Holiday - and also saw Emma Thompson walk off with the prize for best actress.

Carlyle was pipped to the acting prize, however, by newcomer David Elliot, who took home the award for his portrayal of an Edinburgh soldier who was killed in Afghanistan in Kajaki: The True Story.

Glaswegian Bill Paterson - who will soon be seen in the film adaptation of Dad's Army - won a special award for outstanding contribution to film and television. David Balfour - who...

While the knotty politics of the ongoing Western presence in Afghanistan may make for countless editorials and thinkpieces, it's the soldiers on the ground who have to live through the experience. In "Kilo Two Bravo," which is based on a true story, audiences get an intense look at one regiment who are put to the test in ways they could never imagine. Read More: U.S. Trailer For Visceral War Film 'Kilo Two Bravo' Directed by Paul Katis, and starring David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle, Benjamin O’Mahony, and Bryan Parry, the film follows a platoon tasked with neutralizing a Taliban roadblock in the Kajaki region of Afghanistan. As they close in on the insurgents, the unit find themselves marooned in the middle of an active minefield, setting in motion a desperate air rescue mission that risks detonating the entire explosive terrain. And as you'll see in this exclusive,...

Exclusive: The London-based sales agent has struck a Us and Canadian sale on the BAFTA-nominated war story ahead of next month’s North American premiere in Toronto.

Metro International head of sales Natalie Brenner has licensed Us and Canadian rights to Toronto-based Search Engine in a deal with president John Bain that will see the Canadian distributor make its first foray into the Us market, where it will release in conjunction with Honora Productions.

The film, until recently known as Kajaki. The True Story, will premiere in Toronto’s City To City section profiling cinema from London-based filmmakers.

Paul Katis directed Kilo Two Bravo, about a group of mostly British soldiers who become stranded in a minefield during a 2006 rescue mission in Afghanistan.

David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle, Benjamin O’Mahony, Bryan Parry, Liam Ainsworth, Andy Gibbins, John Doughty, Paul Luebke, Thomas Davison, Grant Kilburn, Robert Mitchell, Jon Paul Bell, Malachi Kirby and [link...

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Kajaki tells the horrifying true story of the events of September 6 2006 in Afghanistan. Events that would later become known as the Kajaki minefield incident.

Troops from the 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment of the British Army were stationed near the Kajaki Dam in Taliban-occupied Helmand Province, when a routine reconnaissance mission took a nasty turn, as a three-man patrol stumbled into a dry riverbed, unaware it was actually an unmarked minefield. A catastrophe of errors, coupled with military bureaucracy, transformed a dangerous situation into a nightmare of hellish proportions.

Gritty and realistic, the harrowing BAFTA nominated film looks and feels like The Hurt Locker, and has garnered much praise from Afghanistan veterans for its brutal authenticity. The true-life story has seen a few small changes to suit the big screen, but it remains unsanitised, completely brutal, and an accurate depiction of war in the desert waste that is Helmand Province.

Showtime Buys Aussie Docudrama ‘Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart’ For U.S.

Shine International has sold the two-part miniseries Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart to premium cable channel Showtime in the U.S. The two-hour project from Shine Australia tells the uncensored story of the multiplatinum band’s rise to international stardom through the death of lead singer Michael Hutchence in 1997. Band members and insiders collaborated with the producers on the show, which aired Down Under in February and is the country’s top-rated Australian drama of 2014.

AMC Launching Sundance Channel Global in Six Latin American Territories

AMC Networks International is expanding Sundance Channel Global across Central America with launches on Cable Onda, the biggest pay-tv platform in Panama, on Tigo in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Paraguay and Guatemala. Additional subscription agreements were also reached with Claro, the largest pay-tv platform in Columbia and the Dominican Republic where the...

A new trailer for the found footage horror film from the UK that promises to shock us all, Torn: A Shock YOUmentary (yes, that is the full title), has arrived; and we have it and more for you right here. Check it out!

Written and directed by Justin Carter, Torn: a Shock YOUmentary stars Simon Burbage, Kit Cox, Danny D'Anzieri, David Elliot, and Lewis Saunderson. Check out the plot rundown and teaser trailer below.

Synopsis

Has a supernatural evil come to terrorize the rural Devon village of Orchardlea? Or are the escalating body count and sense of impending doom actually the self-fulfilling prophecy of two hoaxsters accused of a brutal murder? This Shock YOUmentary documents an eight-month period, observing a small group of friends and siblings who join forces to protect the population of Orchardlea from a terrifying beast.

Learn more on the Torn: a Shock YOUmentary Facebook page.

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