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The Hell’s Heroes Festival has announced its 2025 lineup, headlined by British metal legends Saxon and black metal pioneer Abbath.

The cult Texas metal fest, now in its seventh year, is set for March 20th through the 22nd at White Oak Music Hall in Houston, with tickets available via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

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Like prior iterations of Hell’s Heroes, the 2025 lineup is a remarkable curation of major metal acts and underground talent that spans the genre’s many subcategories. Also, numerous band will be performing album-specific sets, including Saxon reprising their seminal live album The Eagle Has Landed and Abbath playing classic Immortal material.

The lineup also features Crimson Glory, Cavalera (performing the first three Sepultura albums), Samael (performing Blood Ritual...

Award-winning Canadian film actor Donald Sutherland has died:

Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), “M*A*S*H” (1970), and “Kelly's Heroes” (1970). He subsequently starred in many films both in leading and supporting roles, including “Klute” (1971), “Don't Look Now” (1973)…

…“The Day of the Locust” (1975), “Fellini's Casanova” (1976), “The Eagle Has Landed” (1976), “1900” (1976), “Animal House” (1978), “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978), “Ordinary People” (1980), “Eye of the Needle” (1981)…

…”A Dry White Season” (1989), “Backdraft” (1991), “JFK” (1991), “Six Degrees of Separation” (1993), “Without Limits” (1998), “The Italian Job” (2003) and “Pride & Prejudice” (2005).

More recently, Sutherland portrayed ‘President Snow’ in “The Hunger Games” with TV work including “Citizen X” (1995) and “Uprising (2001).

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Legendary Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, who died on Thursday after a long illness and a celebrated Hollywood film and TV career, revealed why he never sought dual Canadian and U.S. citizenship by acquiring an American passport.

“Because we don’t have the same sense of humor. It’s true. We don’t. I’m a Canadian through and through,” Sutherland told the CBC radio show Q with Tom Power in March during one of his last media interviews.

Sutherland, who had been living in recent years in Quebec, around 12 miles from the U.S. border, recalled giving that answer to an American border guard who asked why the Canadian actor, who already had a green card to work stateside, didn’t get an American passport to more quickly cross the border to complete errands.

“Anyway, I love the country. I’m very, very proud that they gave me a stamp,...

Legendary actor Donald Sutherland has passed away at the age of 88, it has been confirmed. The prolific star of the big and small screen, who amassed almost 200 acting credits over the course of a remarkable career spanning over half a century, died on Thursday after a long illness.

In a statement sharing the tragic news of his father's passing, Donald's son and fellow actor Kiefer Sutherland shared the following: "With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived."

A life well lived, indeed. Born on 17 July, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Donald McNichol Sutherland graduated from...

We're very sad to report that Donald Sutherland has passed away at the age of 88 after a long illness.

Sutherland appeared in countless movies and TV shows over the course of his six-decade career, taking on a wide range of roles. Early standouts include Pvt. Vernon Pinkley in The Dirty Dozen (1967), Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce in M*A*S*H (1970), hippie tank commander Sgt. Oddball in Kelly’s Heroes (1970), and the titular private eye in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971).

Though he often played heroic characters, Sutherland also brought life to his share of villains, including a ruthless Nazi spy in Eye of the Needle (1981), and President Snow in the Hunger Games movies. He is also known for his devastating turn as a grieving father in Nicholas Roeg's sinister horror/thriller Don't Look Now (1973), which featured an infamously graphic (for its time) sex scene with Julie Christie.

The prolific actor's résumé also includes:...

Donald Sutherland, one of the greatest Canadian actors of his generation and a silver screen legend, has died. The actor, who famously starred in M*A*S*H*, Ordinary People, JFK, The Dirty Dozen, Klute, The Hunger Games, and so many more, was 88.

His son, Kiefer Sutherland, an iconic actor in his own right, broke the news on X:

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more… pic.twitter.com/3EdJB03KKT

— Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer) June 20, 2024

According to Deadline, the actor died in Miami after a long illness. This is an especially heavy blow for a Canadian such as myself. Growing up, he...

Donald Sutherland in Nicolas Roeg's classic Don't Look Now

He was the face of the Seventies, wowing audiences in the likes of Don't Look Now, The Eagle Has Landed and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and his star never faded, but now Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88. The Canadian star worked right up until the end of his life, making his final appearance in Michelle Danner's powerful Miranda's Victim, and he leaves a remarkable cinematic legacy for fans to enjoy.

With other career highlights including Klute, The Day Of The Locust, Ordinary People, Eye Of The Needle and JFK, Sutherland will be best known to younger viewers as President Snow from the Hunger Games franchise. A Companion of the Order of Canada, with stars on the Canadian Walk of Fame and Hollywood Walk of Fame, he never won an Oscar for a specific performance but...

Donald Sutherland, the beloved actor who starred in scores of films from The Dirty Dozen, Mash and Klute to Animal House and Ordinary People to Pride & Prejudice and The Hunger Games franchise and won an Emmy for Citizen X, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.

The 2017 Honorary Oscar recipient also is the father of Emmy-winning 24 and Designated Survivor actor Kiefer Sutherland and veteran CAA Media Finance exec Roeg Sutherland. CAA confirmed the news to Deadline.

Related: Remembering Donald Sutherland: A Career In Photos

In some of his most well-known roles, he perfected a laconic, wry and dead-serious delivery. Such was the case for characters including the cool-headed amateur murder investigator John Klute, opposite Jane Fonda’s terrified and erratic call girl Bree Daniels in Klute; as Hawkeye Pierce in the film Mash, where he played opposite Elliott Gould’s cut-up Trapper John; and in Nicolas Roeg...

The dystopian sci-fi film "Logan's Run" is set in a supposedly idyllic future society where residents above 30 mysteriously disappear. The hedonistic metropolis is enclosed by a dome, and those who choose to explore the world outside — and the secrets that it holds — are labeled "runners." Michael York stars in the film as the titular protagonist, an undercover police officer who infiltrates the runners only to find that he, too, opposes the laws that he once worked to uphold and helps them lead an uprising.

"Logan's Run" was nominated for its cinematography and set decoration in the 1977 Academy Awards. It even received a special achievement award for its visual effects. The futuristic set and costume design were almost identical to the smash-hit sci-fi adventure film "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope," which was released the following year. It's possible that "Star Wars" even drew inspiration from the 1976 film. However,...

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans has honored the late Treat Williams with a touching tribute.

The card, which read “In Memory of Treat Williams 1951-2023”, appeared at the end of last night’s episode of Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series. You can see it below.

Williams portrayed former CBS head and media tycoon Bill Paley in the series, an adaptation of Laurence Leamer’s bestselling book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. The series chronicles the literary scandal that sparked a fallout between writer Truman Capote and a high-society group of women, known as his “Swans.”

Feud was Williams’ final role. The veteran actor had wrapped production shortly before he died in a tragic motorcycle accident on June 12, 2023 in Dorset, Vt. He was 71.

Williams was best known for playing Dr. Andy Brown on Greg Berlanti’s Everwood during his nearly half-century career,...

On the first ever episode of Den of Otaku, Den of Geek contributor, Daniel Kurland, brings to light anime’s own “Barbenheimer” phenomenon from the late ’90s–Studio Ghibli’s A Bomb epic, Grave of the Fireflies and Japan’s Barbie analogue, Super Doll Licca-Chan. Den of Otaku also examines Adult Swim’s ever-evolving relationship with anime and their push into original productions. Plus, the first installments of Den of Otaku’s “Release The Hounds” and “The Big 3!”

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Calling all space fans! Check out the Kickstarter for The Eagle Has Landed, an exciting and passionate new space documentary.

“The Eagle Has Landed explores a passionate and ongoing nostalgia for a future that never happened. This intriguing feature-length documentary follows Jeffrey Morris—a Minnesota-based filmmaker and lifelong science-fiction...

The Space: 1999 TV series was released nearly 50 years ago, and a new documentary, titled The Eagle Has Landed, will celebrate the show’s anniversary.

Space: 1999 aired in first-run syndication for 48 episodes, between 1975 and 1977. The sci-fi series stars Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Prentis Hancock, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Suzanne Roquette, Clifton Jones, John Hug, Jeffery Kissoon, Yasuko Nagazumi, Sam Dastor, and Alibe Parsons. The story follows the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a research center in a crater on the Earth's moon. Following a nuclear waste accident, the moon is ripped from Earth's orbit and sent hurling through space. While trying to find a new home planet, the center's crew encounters various alien civilizations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena.

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Updated with participation of Space: 1999 cast member Nick Tate in the documentary The Eagle Has Landed: Exclusive: Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.

Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George, and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary.

The Eagle spacecraft in ‘The Eagle Has Landed’

The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel...

Stage and film actor who worked with Sidney Lumet, Miloš Forman and Sergio Leone, and appeared in the TV cop drama Blue Bloods

“I always felt like the kid that sat at the foot of the gods,” said Treat Williams, who has died aged 71 following a road accident. And it is true that the first decade of his movie career was dominated by one high-calibre director after another.

John Sturges put the doughy-faced, darkly handsome actor toe-to-toe with Michael Caine in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), adapted from Jack Higgins’s novel about a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. Miloš Forman gave Williams his first lead, as the hippie Berger in the screen version (1979) of the 1967 musical Hair. He was an ill-tempered army corporal in Steven Spielberg’s wartime comedy 1941 (also 1979). Sidney Lumet drew on his cocksure swagger and his air of moral ambiguity in Prince of the City (1981), a thriller about police corruption.

Known to horror fans for playing John Finnegan in 1998 monster movie Deep Rising, actor Treat Williams has passed away this week at the age of 71 years old, Bd has learned.

The actor passed away as the result of a tragic motorcycle accident.

The Williams Family said in a statement to Deadline, “It is with great sadness that we report that our beloved Treat Williams has passed away tonight in Dorset, Vermont after a fatal motorcycle accident. As you can imagine, we are shocked and greatly bereaved at this time.

“Treat was full of love for his family, for his life and for his craft, and was truly at the top of his game in all of it. It is all so shocking right now, but please know that Treat was dearly and deeply loved and respected by his family and everyone who knew him.

“We are beyond devastated and ask...

Treat Williams, the actor who starred in the 1979 musical film Hair and on the WB series Everwood, died Monday from a motorcycle accident at age 71.

His death was confirmed by his family in a statement to Rolling Stone.

“It is with great sadness that we report that our beloved Treat Williams has passed away tonight in Dorset, Vermont, after a fatal motorcycle accident. As you can imagine, we are shocked and greatly bereaved at this time,” read the statement. “Treat was full of love for his family, for his life and for his craft,...

Treat Williams, a long-time character actor and star of the well-loved cult movies Deep Rising and Dead Heat, has died at 71. According to a report via People Magazine, the actor died in a tragic motorcycle accident. His agent, Barry McPherson, told the magazine, “He was killed this afternoon. He was making a left or a right and a car cut him off,” McPherson said, adding, “I’m just devastated. He was the nicest guy. He was so talented.”

Williams had a long, legendary career on the silver screen. He first broke out in the late seventies in movies like The Eagle Has Landed before earning a Golden Globe nomination for the film adaptation of Hair. He had perhaps his best role in 1981, playing the lead in Sidney Lumet’s Prince of the City (a favorite of ours here at JoBlo), earning a Golden Globe nomination. In the film, he played...

Treat Williams, the versatile actor who starred as a New York City neurosurgeon who moves his family to Colorado on the WB series Everwood and in such films as Sidney Lumet’s Prince of the City and Milos Forman‘s Hair, died Monday in a motorcycle accident in Vermont. He was 71.

His agent, Barry McPherson of APA, confirmed Williams’ death in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

Williams, of Manchester Center, Vermont, was aboard a motorcycle and wearing a helmet when he collided with a car on Route 30 near Dorset, the Vermont State Police said in a statement.

An initial investigation indicated that the driver of the car “stopped, signaled a left turn and then turned into the path of a northbound 1986 Honda VT700c motorcycle operated by Williams. Williams was unable to avoid a collision and was thrown from his motorcycle. He suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to Albany Medical Center in Albany,...

Director John Sturges’ final feature is a handsome production that fumbles and stumbles in unexpected ways. Michael Caine and especially Donald Sutherland lead an impossible commando mission to kidnap Winston Churchill right from English soil. Tom Mankiewicz’s dialogue is witty but the tone is all over the place. We don’t know whether it’s the script, the direction or the editing that muffs so many potential bravura moments. On the other hand, every scene with Sutherland and Jenny Agutter is gold. [Imprint] gives us both a theatrical cut and a more satisfying extended cut.

The Eagle Has Landed

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1976 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 135 151 min. / Street Date December 28, 2023 / Available from / au 69.95

Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Sven-Bertil Taube, John Standing, Judy Geeson, Treat Williams, Larry Hagman, Joachim Hansen, David Gilliam, Siegfried Rauch, Wolf Kahler, Roy Marsden, Ferdy Mayne.

‘The Eagle has Landed’ author Henry Patterson, who published under his pen name of Jack Higgins, has died aged 92, reports ‘Deadline’. As per ‘Deadline’, his publisher announced that the author died at his home on the Channel Island of Jersey. In a career spanning almost six decades, he wrote 85 novels between 1959 and […]...

Henry Patterson, the best-selling author of The Eagle has Landed, has died aged 92, his publisher has announced.

Patterson, who published under his pen name of Jack Higgins, wrote 85 novels between 1959 and 2017, selling more than 250million books over the course of his career.

This phenomenal success included the sale of 50million copies of his thriller The Eagle Has Landed, published in 1975. The story, about a Nazi plot to kidnap Winston Churchill during World War Two, became a film the following year, directed by John Sturges and starring Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland and Michael Caine.

Patterson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and grew up in Belfast, before moving to Leeds. He worked initially as a teacher before penning novels in his spare time. His first published novel was Sad Wind from the Sea in 1959, and his final book was 2017’s The Midnight Bell. Other works included Comes the Dark Stranger, Hell...

Fresh off the long-awaited arrival of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (a.k.a. the fabled Snyder Cut), HBO Max has no need to appease fandom culture in April 2021. But the streaming service is gonna do it anyway!

The most notable new release for HBO Max this month is the HBO series The Nevers. This show, created by Joss Whedon, is set in a 19th century steampunk London and finds a sizable portion of the population (predominantly women) having been “Touched” by mysterious paranormal powers. There’s an interesting bit of irony at play here, as HBO Max is following up the Snyder Cut with a show created by his original Justice League replacement. Or at least there could have been an interesting bit of irony here, if Whedon had not bowed out from the show and been enthusiastically left out of the marketing material by HBO.

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To mark the release of ITV Studios Global entertainments classic movies limited collector’s edition steelbooks, we’ve been given a bundle of them to give away. The bundle includes The Red Shoes, The Eagle Has Landed, The Shawshank Redemption and Bugsy Malone.

The Red Shoes

This Powell and Pressberger masterpiece is widely considered to one of the greatest films ever made. Vicky a young Ballerina, becomes torn between her love for composer Julian Craster and artistic devotion to her profession, which is dominated by impresario Lermontov.

The Eagle Has Landed

A Nazi Strike Force plots to assassinate Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl (Robert Duvall) masterminds the plot which, if successful, would change the outcome of the war. He enlists the help of Colonel Steiner (Michael Caine) and Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland). Disguised as Polish airman. German paratroopers land in England. Radl...

British film editor Anne V. Coates, who won an Oscar for David Lean’s epic film Lawrence of Arabia, has died. She was 92.

BAFTA, which awarded her the organization’s highest honor, a BAFTA Fellowship, tweeted the news of her death. “We’re so sad to learn that British film editor Anne V. Coates has died” BAFTA wrote. “During her incredible career, Anne was BAFTA-nominated four times for work including ‘The Elephant Man’ and ‘Erin Brockovich,’ and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2007. She will be greatly missed.”

Coates received five Best Film Editing Oscar nominations over the course of her career for Becket (1963), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998) in addition to her nom and win for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). She also received an Academy Honorary Award, known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Siegfried Rauch, the German actor who portrayed Steve McQueen's ruthless racing rival Erich Stahler in the 1971 classic film Le Mans, has died. He was 85.

Rauch died Sunday night as a result of a fall in his hometown of Untersochering, Bavaria, his agency announced.

Rauch also appeared in the war films Patton (1970), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner; John Sturges' The Eagle Has Landed (1976); George P. Cosmatos' Escape to Athena (1979); and Sam Fuller's The Big Red One (1980).

Le Mans, directed by Lee H. Katzin, tells the story of the Porsche and Ferrari rivalry through the eyes...

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The Los Angeles Comic Book And Science Fiction Convention presents Classic Movie Poster Artist Robert Tanenbaum, Jean Hale (In Like Flint), Sharyn Wynters (The Female Bunch), and Donna Loren (Bikini Beach) at the August 20, 2017 Show.

Robert Tanenbaum is a Movie Poster Artist with an over 50 year career illustrating every film genre such as Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, War, Drama and Martial Arts. Robert has illustrated such Classic Movie Posters as A Christmas Story, Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, Cujo, Five Fingers Of Death, Black Christmas, Super Fly, The Color Of Money, My Bodyguard, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, The Iron Cross, The Eagle Has Landed, Ransom, Cleopatra Jones And The Casino Of Gold, Hot Potato, Mel Brooks High Anxiety and Silent Night, Evil Night. Robert’s art is featured on the first announcement that Jaws was being made into a Movie.

Ryan Gosling will reteam with La La Land director Damien Chazelle for a biopic he's directing based on the life of Neil Armstrong. The film will be called First Man, and the script comes from Spotlight scribe Josh Singer.

The movie is based on the biography by James Hansen called First Man: A Life Of Neil A. Armstrong. It tells the story of Nasa’s mission to land a man on the moon, and it focuses on Armstrong and the years 1961-1969.

According to Variety, the film will be a visceral, first-person account, that "will explore the sacrifices and the cost — on Armstrong and on America — of one of the most dangerous space missions in history."

Gosling is a very talented actor who seems like a solid choice to play Armstrong. The film was originally supposed to be directed by Clint Eastwood at Warner Bros. It eventually ended up...

Kate Hudson and Stella McCartney are feeling footloose on their girls trip to the California desert.

On Friday night, the designer took to Instagram to share a selfie of the pair en route to Indio, California, for weekend two of the Desert Trip music festival.

“Thelma and Louise heading to coachella!! x Stella,” McCartney, 45, wrote in the post.

Hudson, 37, shared the same photo, captioning her post, “The eagle has landed #RoadTrippin @stellamccartney.”

Later that night, Hudson Snapchatted the duo rocking out to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, who kicked off the festival’s second weekend. In one post, the...

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The eagle has landed. Paramount Pictures' panel inside the legendary Hall H at Comic-Con 2014 today ended with an epic discussion on Interstellar, a surprise to everyone as the studio brought along Oscar winning star Matthew McConaughey and the man himself, Christopher Nolan. Both are first time Comic-Con attendees, making an appearance at this geek mecca to promote the sci-fi epic that many of us are already anxiously anticipating (see the latest trailer). To top it off, they shared the incredible, brand new trailer with those in Hall H, and it will be online sometime soon. "The thrill of making a large scale science fiction film has to be about the experience of the audience," Nolan said, discussing his inspirations and desires to make this movie next. Nolan's Interstellar is a science fiction epic about a wormhole discovered in our galaxy that we hope will take us,...

This week sees the release of George Clooney's "The Monuments Men" (read our review here), which carefully follows the template of what's come to be known as the men-on-a-mission movie, and has been around even before the Second World War came to a close. The recipe is simple: take a bunch of men (the more ill-suited and quarrelsome the better), give them an objective—killing Hitler, looting Nazi gold, saving Private Ryan, protecting crucial work of arts from destruction by the Germans—and send those men on the mission. It's proved a consistently popular genre over the years, with plenty of classics or near-classics, including "The Guns Of Navarone," "The Dirty Dozen," "Von Ryan's Express," "Where Eagles Dare," "The Eagle Has Landed," "A Bridge Too Far," or more recently, "Inglourious Basterds." But there's also a fair few that aren't spoken about in the same measure that might deserve to be,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 7, 2014

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99

Studio: Lionsgate

The second installment in the franchise, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire scored even better than the original at the box office and with critics.

Based on the second book in the novels by Suzanne Collins, the science-fiction movie continues the story of reluctant heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, X-Men: First Class), who’s now on a victory tour after winning the Hunger Games in the first film. This time, she has to go through the deadly games again, with even higher stakes as rebellion is sparked in the outer lying districts of the dangerous Capitol.

Josh Hutcherson (Red Dawn), Woody Harrelson (Seven Psychopaths), Liam Hemsworth (The Expendables 2), Donald Sutherland (The Eagle Has Landed), Lenny Kravitz (Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Stanley Tucci (Jack the Giant Slayer) and Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect) all return in their roles, and additions...

The sad passing of actress Alexandra Bastedo earlier this month saw many recalling and celebrating her work on '60s spy-fi series The Champions - just one entry in the canon of cult programme makers Itc Entertainment.

Though it also branched out into film production - with the likes of 1976's The Eagle Has Landed and 1982's The Dark Crystal - Itc was best known throughout the 1960s and '70s for its raft of cult TV programming, with shows like The Champions making an indelible screen icon of Bastedo and others like her.

These shows are now world-renowned - The Saint, The Prisoner, Thunderbirds - but the team behind them still go sadly unsung.

This week, the Week in Geek is looking to redress the balance with a fond tribute to Itc Entertainment - one of the UK's very best, most influential production teams.

Sherlock: The Problem of the Vanishing Detective

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If you’ve ordered a copy of our limited edition Daleks’ Master Plan charity graphic novel, you’ll probably be aware that there have been some delays with the printers. Fear not, Kasterborite: the eagle has indeed landed! The eagle has landed. pic.twitter.com/0JQnXGW3hS — K Doctor Who News (@kasterborousdw) January 9, 2014 Following a surprise email on

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The veteran actor who plays tyrannical president Coriolanus Snow in the blockbuster series talks about films as political activism – plus cinema villains and happy marriages

Donald Sutherland wants to stir revolt. A real revolt. A youth-led uprising against injustice that will overturn the Us as we know it and usher in a kinder, better way. "I hope that they will take action because it's getting drastic in this country." Drone strikes. Corporate tax dodging. Racism. The Keystone oil pipeline. Denying food stamps to "starving Americans". It's all going to pot. "It's not right. It's not right."

Millennials need awakening from slumber. "You know the young people of this society have not moved in the last 30 years." With the exception of Occupy, a minority movement, passivity reigns. "They have been consumed with telephones." The voice hardens. "Tweeting."

We are high up in a Four Seasons hotel overlooking Beverly Hills, sunlight glinting off mansions and boutiques below,...

M&C has added cover art and details for this week’s Blu-ray releases – which includes Pacific Rim, The Heat, Maniac, the Colony, and Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain. This week also see Blu-ray releases for catalog titles such as In the Mouth of Madness, Love Actually, The Haunting, High Plains Drifter, Weird Science, Embrace of the Vampire, and The Eagle Has Landed (Collector's Edition). TV on Blu-ray releases this week include Vikings: Season One, Untold History of the United States, Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete Season Five, and Defiance: Season One. Visit the DVD database for more information on these releases. When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war...

Peter Richardson has confirmed that Harry Enfield and Stephen Mangan are to star in the upcoming Comic Strip film It Ends Badly.

The Comic Strip founder was speaking to Digital Spy to mark the launch of new five-disc DVD collection The Comic Strip Presents: The Best Of, which was released on Monday.

Asked if he had a wishlist of comedy talent to work with, Richardson said: "If there is we always ask them! We will again.

"We're about to make a movie actually, next spring - a Comic Strip movie with Harry Enfield and Stephen Mangan - we will be asking lots of new people to be in that."

Of whether the script had been written for the film, he added: "Yes, yes, it's called It Ends Badly.

"It's about two absolute scoundrels, two rotten scoundrels really, Harry and Steve, who are trying to a make a chick-flick.

"They've taken...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 15, 2013

Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $24.97

Studio: Shout! Factory

Michael Caine leads a Nazi paratrooper plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in The Eagle Has Landed.

Michael Caine (Dressed to Kill), Donald Sutherland (1900) and Robert Duvall (The Conversation) lead a star-studded cast in the 1976 World War II action film The Eagle Has Landed, which makes its U.S. Blu-ray debut with this release from Shout! Factory.

Based on Jack Higgins’ best-selling novel, the film revolves around a Nazi plot to kidnap Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Nazi officers Colonel Radl (Duvall), Colonel Steiner (Caine) and Liam Devlin (Sutherland) are enlisted to carry out the operation, which if successful, would irrevocably alter the outcome of the war. Disguised as Polish airmen, the team of paratroopers descends upon England only to be interrupted by an unforeseeable incident which threatens to derail their treacherous mission.

James Bond assistant director David C Anderson has died, aged 72.

The filmmaker worked as a unit production manager, producer and production executive in film and TV across decades.

He was the assistant director for three of the first four Bond movies - Dr No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

The son of Dam Busters director Michael Anderson, he started his film career at Pinewood Studios.

Anderson later worked with a number of top directors, including Terence Young, John Huston, Lewis Gilbert, John Sturges, Michael Cimino and Blake Edwards.

His films included The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Kremlin Letter, The Man Who Would Be King, The Eagle Has Landed, The Deer Hunter, Quadrophenia, Flash Gordon, Tequila Sunrise and What About Bob?

On TV, Anderson worked on several shows such as The Saint, Shirley MacLaine's Shirley's World, Diana: Her Real Story, Tales From the Crypt and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Home entertainment agreement will see Shout! Factory distribute ITV Studios Global Entertainment films in North America.

North American distributor Shout! Factory and UK distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment (Itvs Ge) have secured a deal to partner on home entertainment and digital distribution.

The agreement will see an extensive library of acclaimed cinema classics back to the home entertainment marketplace in the Us and Canada.

Titles include Sophie’s Choice; On Golden Pond; The Eagle Has Landed; The Last Unicorn; The Tamarind Seed; Capricorn One; The Cassandra Crossing; Brief Encounter; Saturn 3; The Merchant of Venice; Voyage of the Damned and The Boys from Brazil.

Some of these titles have never been available on Blu-ray or DVD. In addition, bonus content is currently in development by Shout! Factory for special editions and double features.

"Room 237" is hardly your average documentary. Not only does it float some very out-there theories about what Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" is really about, it illustrates those points with clips from both the 1980 horror classic and dozens of other movies. Every single shot in the film is from an existing flick, including ones from Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Spielberg, as well as classic horror movies and silent films. Moviefone sat down with director Rodney Ascher and producer Tim Kirk, who provided insight into some of their choices. In the same spirit of obsessiveness, we've compiled every movie featured in "Room 237," below “The Shining” "Lolita" "Spartacus" "Eyes Wide Shut" "Paths of Glory" "Barry Lyndon" "2001: A Space Odyssey" "The Killing" "Fear and Desire" "Killer's Kiss" "Dr. Strangelove" "A Clockwork Orange" “Full Metal Jacket" "Drums Along the Mohawk" "The Battle of Apache Pass" "The White Buffalo" "Sitting Bull at the...

Hot Toys has revealed their latest Iron Man 3 collectible Diecast figurine featuring Iron Patriot! And like everything they make, it's very detailed and very awesome! The limited edition collectible is described as, "the Protector of Liberty which is well fortified of military strength and technological superiority."

Here's a full on description of Hot Toy's latest creation!

Armed and ready! The Eagle has landed!

The Iron Man 3 movie has become the talk of the town just one month before movie launches. Specialized in highly detailed and movie-accurate Iron Man collectible figures and established an indivisible relationship with Iron Man since the first Iron Man movie, Hot Toys is proud to present the brand-new character – the Protector of Liberty which is well fortified of military strength and technological superiority – the 1/6th scale Iron Patriot Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Iron Man 3 movie from the Mms Diecast Series.

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Armed and ready! The Eagle has landed! The Iron Man 3 movie has become the talk of the town just one month before movie launches. Specialized in highly detailed and movie-accurate Iron Man collectible figures and established an indivisible relationship with Iron Man since the first Iron Man movie, Hot Toys is proud to present the brand-new character – the Protector of Liberty which is well fortified of military strength and technological superiority – the 1/6th scale Iron Patriot Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Iron Man 3 movie from the Mms Diecast Series. Leading the Mms Diecast Series is the iconic Iron Man 3 Series, in which the collectible figures are made of diecast material, specially designed to look more closed to the realistic Iron Man characters in the movie. The Mms Diecast Series will bring fans to the next level of authenticity, focusing on the materials, fine details and engineering of...

This article is dedicated to Andrew Copp: filmmaker, film writer, artist and close friend who passed away on January 19, 2013. You are loved and missed, brother.

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Looking at the Best Actor Academy Award nominations for the film year 2012, the one miss that clearly cries out for more attention is Liam Neeson’s powerful performance in Joe Carnahan’s excellent survival film The Grey, easily one of the best roles of Neeson’s career.

In Neeson’s case, his lack of a nomination was a case of neglect similar to the Albert Brooks snub in the Best Supporting Actor category for the film year 2011 for Drive(Nicolas Winding Refn, USA).

Along with negligence, other factors commonly prevent outstanding lead acting performances from getting the kind of critical attention they deserve. Sometimes it’s that the performance is in a film not considered “Oscar material” or even worthy of any substantial critical attention.

Taylor Kinney, prepare to get some parental guidance. Everwood's Treat Williams has joined the ranks of NBC's Chicago Fire. On the freshman drama, Williams will recur as Benny, the father to Kinney's brash Lt. Kelly Severide, and first appear in a January episode of the Dick Wolf series. Photos: The 100 Fresh Faces of Fall TV Williams, perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Andy Brown on Everwood, most recently recurred on USA's White Collar. Repped by Apa, the Schiff Co. and attorney George Sheanshang, Williams' feature credits include Deadfall, The Eagle Has Landed and 127 Hours. He next

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Actor renowned as the machiavellian oilman Jr Ewing in Dallas

On 21 November 1980, 83 million people in the Us and 24 million in the UK watched the TV show Dallas to see who had shot the villainous Jr Ewing. While working late at the office, the boss of Ewing Oil was suddenly fired on by an unseen assailant. Who shot Jr, and would he survive?

Any character who had ever come into contact with the oleaginous Texas oilman had good reason to do away with him, but there was no way he could really have been killed off. If Jr had died, then the series would have died, because Jr was Dallas – and Larry Hagman, who has died aged 81 after suffering from throat cancer, was Jr.

Other actors were at times replaced in their roles, but Hagman was irreplaceable. Nevertheless, just in case, Hagman quickly renegotiated his contract with Lorimar Studios just after...

Actor Larry Hagman, immortalized for his performance as the legendary villain J.R. Ewing in the TV show Dallas, has died from throat cancer. He was 81 years old and had been actively acting until recently, when he appeared in the reboot of the famous TV series. The last few years had been difficult ones for Hagman. Not only did he have to battle cancer but also had to contend with his wife Maj's affliction from Alzheimer's Disease. Hagman was a working character actor when he was cast as the male lead in the 1965 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie opposite Barbara Eden. The show's success helped launch him to star status and he appeared in dozens of TV series and feature films. However, it was his portrayal of lovable cad J.R. Ewing in the 1981 CBS hit Dallas that elevated him to the status of a TV icon. The show ran...

Dallas icon Larry Hagman, who also stared in films including Nixon, Primary Colours and The Eagle Has Landed, has passed away at the age of 81 after a long batle with throat cancer and liver disease. The star, who won millions of fans as oil baron anti-hero Jr Ewing, had recently returned to prominence in a relaunch of the cult series.

Despite his famous character's reputation for evil, the real life Hagman was a keen supporter of educational charities that amed to give young people living in Dallas new opportunities. He was also a keen advocate of solar power, investing much of his fortune in research.

Prior to his success in Dallas, Hagman was known for his role in I Dream Of Jeannie. He enjoyed an extensive film career and even tried his hand at directing, with Son Of Blob, a sequel to the Steve McQueen monster movie original. Much loved within.

As you may or may not know, WhatCulture is launching the British Film Registry, an annual event to celebrate the best in British film that is based on the American ‘National Film Registry’ model. Each December we will be inducting five British Films and two British Film Personalities into a fictional vault (basically a Hall of Fame) based on your votes.

To celebrate this inaugural induction, over the next few months we will be bringing you an array of featured articles based on British Cinema to inform, entertain and stimulate the British Film Fan within and of course, to fly the flag of that glorious institution that makes us so proud to be British.

What greater time to launch such a celebration of British Film than the year which has seen The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and of course the London Olympics. Our inaugural induction this December will bring to...

Sarah Jessica Parker's big celebrity fundraising event for Barack Obama is officially underway in NYC  ... and the very first guest who arrived deserves some respect ... 'cause it was Aretha Franklin! Anna Wintour has also arrived ... along with Meryl Streep and Michael Kors. We're told "SNL" star Jason Sudeikis has been spotted in the crowd outside of the home ... but did not enter the party. Sources say he lives in the area and is just checking out the scene.

Billy Joel didn't connect his career to baseball until Shea Stadium was shuttered.

The former home of the New York Mets closed in 2008, but before it did, the Bronx-born and Long Island-raised music icon was enlisted to perform the final two concerts staged there. A lasting result is the 2010 documentary movie "The Last Play at Shea," a combined profile of the Mets and six-time Grammy winner Joel that has its Showtime premiere Friday (Nov. 11), underscored by numerous classics from Joel's 40-year catalog.

"It had never occurred to me that there was such a parallel," Joel tells Zap2it of his own arc and that of the Mets, whose combined histories made the Shea shows such major events for everyone present. "What I recognized and appreciated, right off the bat, was that the audience was a great deal of what was going on. The Shea crowd was sort of all the...