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"Chaos Walking", the new science fiction feature based on the novel "The Knife of Never Letting Go", is directed by Doug Liman ("Edge of Tomorrow"), starring Tom Holland ("Spider-Man: Homecoming"), Daisy Ridley ("Star Wars: Episode VIII- The Last Jedi"), Mads Mikkelsen ("Doctor Strange"), Demián Bichir, Kurt Sutter ("Sons Of Anarchy"), Nick Jonas, Cynthia Erivo and David Oyelowo, scheduled for release March 5, 2021:

"...in 'Prentisstown', Todd (Holland) has been brought up to believe that the 'Spackle' released a germ that killed all the women and unleashed 'Noise' on the remaining men. After discovering a patch of silence out in the swamp, his surrogate parents immediately tell him to flee, leaving him with a map of 'New World', a message, and many unanswered questions. He soon discovers the source of the silence: a girl, named 'Viola' (Ridley).

"On the run, they learn more about the true history of 'New World'...

Recent news that Google has decided to shut down its internal game development studios comes on the heels of a report by Bloomberg that suggests Amazon’s own game division is burdened by issues that it could prove to be insurmountable.

On the one hand, you want to be surprised by these revelations. There’s certainly a degree of surprise that comes naturally when you hear that two of the largest companies in the world have seemingly botched their entries into the video game industry so soon after they started. There was this idea that both companies would stay in the game long enough to just figure it out eventually.

On the other hand, these stories are, in the minds of many, more upsetting for the employees impacted by them than they are surprising in the least. Maybe that’s because of all these signs that pointed to the simple...

There’s a nice moment about halfway through “Monster Hunter,” when Captain Artemis, a U.S. Army ranger played by Milla Jovovich, and Hunter, a warrior of uncertain provenance played by Tony Jaa, are preparing to head into battle against, well, a monster.

Captain Artemis looks at Hunter with a steely gaze, because that’s clearly her forte, and says something she’s no doubt said plenty of times before in plenty of other dicey situations: “Let’s do this.”

Whereupon Hunter, who doesn’t speak English because he’s not from our world, gives her a blank look. “Huh?” he says.

Artemis stops, realizes her schtick isn’t playing to this audience, and shrugs. “Never mind,” she says.

It’s an amusing exchange, one of only a few in Paul W.S. Anderson’s extravagant foolishness based on the Capcom video game of the same name. But “Let’s do this,...

A certain odd feeling probably crossed your mind as you’re dashing past a building. You might still experience this occasionally. That is if the building sports a glass front entrance or window. Catching your reflection, you might first think,” Ugh, bad hair day” or “ I’d better just have a salad for lunch.”. But if you’re not in a mad hurry you may wonder if you’ve got an exact twin somewhere. Or taking it further, what if there’s another “me” in an almost identical “now”. And is this reflection a window into that duplicate world? That’s an idea that’s been explored in many fantasy anthology TV shows, though an even more famous use of that idea was on the original “Star Trek” TV show, you know the one with an evil Spock sporting a sinister goatee. Now that notion is taken up a few...

Back in August, Amazon Games invited Den of Geek to play its forthcoming game New World, an Mmo set in a fantastical version of Earth inspired by the Age of Exploration, where magic and gunpowder coexist and adventurers duke it out on the mysterious island of Aeternum to take control of different territories in 50v50 battles. I participated in one of these battles in my first preview and was generally impressed with the tighter-than-average Mmo combat and gigantic sense of scale.

Earlier this week, I got another chance to go hands-on with an alpha version of the game, and this time I explored a new region called Reekwater, a swampy, bayou-inspired zone that introduces new creatures and a robust fishing mechanic.

At virtually any body of water, you can pull out a fishing rod, attach bait to your hook if you’ve got it, and cast a line in hopes...

“Come And Go”, the latest film from Japan-based Malaysian director Lim Kah Wai, is set for a world premiere at the 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), which will take place from 31 October – 9 November. The film will be presented in Tokyo Premiere 2020, vying for the audience award. “Come And Go” is the eighth film of Lim and his most ambitious so far. With an epic running time of 158 minutes, the drama crosscuts eight stories with 14 principal characters as they struggle to find solace in contemporary Osaka. Some characters cross paths in the sometimes interlinked stories, while other characters remain unconnected, but they all share the same dream for a better future.The pan-Asian ensemble cast come from nine countries and speak seven different languages in the film.

They include:

Taiwan – Lee Kang-sheng (Tsai Ming-liang’s “Days”) as a porn addict | Vietnam – Lien Binh Phat (“Song Lang”) as a migrant worker...

A new Park hoon-jung feature release is always a highly anticipated event and it becomes doubly exciting when his newest work “Night In Paradise” just happens to be a return to the gangster genre for him. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and now we get a first trailer to see if the director of “New World” can replicate the success he had with his directorial debut yet again in the same genre.

Not much is known about the synopsise except that the story sees a gangster played by Um Tae-goo (“My Punch-Drunk Boxer“) go to Jeju Island to hide, where he meets Jeon Yeo-bin’s (“After My Death“) Jae-yeon, while several other gangsters, including the mob boss portrayed by Cha Seung-won (“Believer“). While no exact date is finalised, a 2020 release is confirmed, with a wide international release expected.

Park Hoon-jung is back with another stylish-looking South Korean blood-and-mob fest, Night in Paradise (Nak-Won-Eui-Barm). The writer-director emerged on the Korean scene after authoring the screenplay of Park Chan-wook’s vendetta hit I Saw the Devil. Among the films he’s directed, the most relevant is the gangland crime drama New World, which was released in the U.S. in 2013. The new movie has its moments, but also has dull stretches that many viewers are likely to fast-forward through to get to the next shooting and knifing scene. Although it garnered a slot in Venice’s out of competition line-up, the real target of ...

Park Hoon-jung is back with another stylish-looking South Korean blood-and-mob fest, Night in Paradise (Nak-Won-Eui-Barm). The writer-director emerged on the Korean scene after authoring the screenplay of Park Chan-wook’s vendetta hit I Saw the Devil. Among the films he’s directed, the most relevant is the gangland crime drama New World, which was released in the U.S. in 2013. The new movie has its moments, but also has dull stretches that many viewers are likely to fast-forward through to get to the next shooting and knifing scene. Although it garnered a slot in Venice’s out of competition line-up, the real target of ...

Robert Plant has announced that he will be releasing a career-spanning anthology set titled Digging Deep to accompany the third season of his podcast Digging Deep With Robert Plant.

The two-disk CD set — also available for digital streaming and download — will include 30 songs from Plant’s four-decade, 11-album career as a solo artist, including a number of songs that premiered on his podcast. Highlights include the chart-topping rock hit “Hurting Kind” and the Grammy-nominated song “Shine All Around.”

A few previously released songs will also be included: “Nothing Takes the...

If you, like many others, had Brave New World by Aldous Huxley on your required reading list in high school, prepare to see it as you never expected. Peacock's new adaptation of the novel is a stunningly modern take on the familiar tale that feels more like a really freaky Black Mirror episode than

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Amazon is making a big push in the Aaa gaming space. Not only has the commerce giant already published its first competitive shooter, Crucible, but it’s also set to release New World, the company’s first Mmo. With both games, Amazon Games is diving into two very crowded markets, hoping to make a splash. So what sets New World apart?

The game is set in “the haunted wilderness of Aeternum, a mysterious island during the twilight of the Age of Exploration. Success in New World ultimately depends on a player’s ability to conquer not only rival players, but Aeternum itself as it unleashes undead legions, hell-bent on purging them from its shores.”

It seems that New World‘s Age of Exploration takes inspiration from real history, which could prove a bit controversial since this era is usually most associated with figures like Christopher Columbus as well as Hernan Cortes,...

Major local film titles are beginning to appear on the Korean releasing schedule as Covid-19 retreats and the peak summer season approaches.

Since Korean cinemas began reopening earlier this month, cinemas schedules have relied heavily on re-runs, mixed with a handful of foreign, smaller new releases. That is about to change.

Since the coronavirus ran rampant from February, local distribution giants Cj Entertainment, Lotte and Showbox canceled or postponed dozens of theatrical outings. “Time to Hunt” was rescheduled multiple times and then switched to a straight to streaming release via Netflix. The pattern was repeated in May.

What has changed is the retreat of the virus threat, effective social distancing measure sin cinemas and the arrival of the summer season, which is traditionally a peak period, especially for genre and horror. That’s because school is out and audiences retreat into theaters to escape the heat.

Acemaker Movieworks’ mystery thriller “Intruder,...

The dream team of superstars Hwang Jung-min and Lee Jung-jae created magic in the 2013 modern classic gangster film “New World“. Seven years later, director Hong Won-chan brings the two together once again for his sophomore effort, the crime thriller “Deliver Us From Evil”.

Synopsis

A shocking kidnapping case takes place in Thailand. In-nam just completed his last murder for hire contract as an assassin. He is aware that the kidnapping case is related to him. In-nam heads to Thailand. There, he meets his helper Yoo-yi and they work on the kidnapping case.

Meanwhile, Ray learns that his sibling was assassinated by In-nam. To take revenge on In-nam, he heads to Thailand.

Hong Won-chan, who also directed the Chun Woo-hee starring thriller “Office”, brings back the “New World” actors, but where they played on the same team in that film, here he pits themselves up against each other. Hwang Jung-min plays...

A staple of any Marvel movie, including those outside of the McU, was always the Stan Lee cameo. I mean, who could blame the man largely responsible for creating the modern-day Gods for wanting to be a part of the films in some way?

Of course, Lee passed away in 2018, but he still managed to make more than 60 cameos in various movies and TV shows over the years. Perhaps the most memorable of them all though was his appearance in Deadpool. In the film, he plays a DJ in a strip club introducing “Chastity to the stage.” But according to Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld, Lee didn’t do the scene on set. Instead, he was by himself in front of a green screen and was placed in the strip club afterwards.

“And here we go to the biggest cameo of all time,” Liefeld said during a commentary track he did with ComicBook.com’s Brandon Davis.

Habits die hard. It’s Sunday, which is usually the time to list and analyze the weekend’s grosses. However, since almost all theaters are closed, I decided to take a look back to this weekend in 1982 — the year when box-office statistics became part of entertainment reporting.

Almost 40 years ago, coverage wasn’t instantaneous. People had to wait until midweek for reports, which inched closer to real time as the years went on. Here, we have the benefit of hindsight — and the title’s performance might offer us some perspective on how these films informed what Hollywood, and box office, would become.

More from IndieWire'Onward' Leads VOD Charts, but So Far It's the Cheaper Rentals That RuleA Government Bailout for Movie Theaters Is Uncertain, but a Wholly Changed Future Is Not

Since tickets cost three times more now than they did in 1982, I’ve included both the original grosses and...

Amazon Games has released an update on their upcoming ambitious Mmo, New World. The latest update, released on their blog, profiles the enemies players will be attempting to liberate Aeternum from, The Corrupted. The Corrupted are at your doorstep. Breaches opening up, enemies crawling forth. How will you choose to engage? Sit behind your high […]

The post The Corrupted are Infecting Aeternum in Amazon Games’ Mmo ‘New World’ appeared first on Cinelinx.

Star Wars Resistance ends with a bombastic escape but ultimately fails to provide a reason for the entire series in the first place.

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And so it goes. Star Wars Resistance ends, not with a bang, but with a series of bangs, a sort of “back to basics” sentiment that does a yeoman’s job of straight-forward, good ol’ fashion Star Wars action. “The Escape” resembles A New Hope more than anything else, with it’s all out breakout from the Star Destroyer, all phasers blasting and ships exploding. It’s not at all deep or clever, it’s not really rewarding in terms of character revelations or developments, and it’s not particularly the best visually or strongest directed episode of the series. But it gets the job done: there’s an immediate conflict, our...

A new world promises a safe haven but a conflict with locals triggers the same old tropes we’ve seen before on Star Wars Resistance.

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During the cold open of "The New World,: Kaz works on the Fireball, and as he finishes, he heads off to find a new stabilizer. At this point it must be an inside joke.

It’s ironic that James Cameron’s Avatar was on TV the same day I watched “The New World.” There may be more Avatar films on the way but it isn’t clear how much more story can be ripped out from a basic conflict between a native species and their hostile and/or misunderstood colonizers. “The New World” is probably the clearest example of this as well, as it posits a safe haven for the people of the Colossus,...

Howard Kurtzman, President of Business Operations for 20th Century Fox Television and head of business and legal affairs for over two decades, will step down in June.

Carolyn Cassidy, 20th TV’s President of Creative Affairs who has been partnered with Kurtzman, will be named President of 20th Century Fox TV at that time. In light of Kurtzman’s pending departure, 20th TV will name a new head of business affairs who will report into Cassidy.

Kurtzman, who had privately discussed retirement plans for the last couple of years, has been one of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment Chairman Dana Walden’s most trusted associates for the past two decades, first at Fox and most recently at Disney. Since the completion of the Disney acquisition of Fox assets, including 20th TV, Kurtzman also has been working closely with Disney Television Studios President Craig Hunegs.

“Two years ago, Howard came...

Exclusive: Apple has struck an exclusive first-look deal with Catastrophe and Divorce creator Sharon Horgan.

Deadline understands that the company inked the multi-year deal in London this morning and it covers all future projects Horgan writes. This comes after Horgan’s deal with Amazon came to an end.

The deal has been signed out of Apple’s UK division and was overseen by Jay Hunt, the former Channel 4 content chief who is creative director, Europe, Worldwide Video. Hunt first commissioned Catastrophe, the C4/Amazon comedy that Horgan and Rob Delaney wrote and starred in for four seasons. Hunt is part of the international content development team that reports to Apple video chiefs Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg.

It marks the first major talent deal to come out of Europe for Apple, which has been signing up overall deals with the likes of Roma’s Alfonso Cuarón, The Morning Show...

The gangster noir genre has give Korean cinema many great films. Hoping to join the ranks of such classics as “A Bittersweet Life“, “New World” and “A Dirty Carnival“, among others, is director Song Chang-yong’s latest film “Unalterable”.

Synopsis

Kwon Sang-gon is a gangster who wants to have a cool life. He becomes a gang boss and expects to reap the rewards of the top position. Kwon Sang-Gon soon realizes his life is a living hell, filled with conspiracies and betrayals.

While the director, who has so far made three film that’ve sunk into oblivion without making a dent, and the star-cast, led by Chun Jung-myung (“Hansel and Gretel“) and other actors that have very few films to their name, don’t necessarily build confidence on the film’s quality, the trailer does boast of a stylish looking noir gangster film which should be on the radar of genre fans.

Director Ridley Scott's historical feature "1492: Conquest of Paradise" (1992) dramatizes Italian explorer 'Christopher Columbus' and his travels to the 'New World', starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante and Sigourney Weaver:

"...'Columbus' (Depardieu) is obsessed with making a trip westwards to Asia, but lacks crew and a ship. He is approached by 'Martín Pinzon', a shipowner from 'Palos', who introduces Columbus to the banker 'Santángel'. 

"'Queen Isabella I' (Weaver) owes money to Santángel. Columbus meets with the queen, who grants him his journey in exchange for his promise to bring back sufficient amounts of riches in gold.

"Columbus tricks many crewmen by telling them that the voyage would only last seven weeks. Nine weeks go by and still no sign of land. At night, Columbus notices mosquitoes on the deck, indicating that land is not far off. 

"Some days later, Columbus and the crew spot an albatross flying around the ship,...

Shoot is underway on UK psychological horror Censor from debut director Prano Bailey-Bond. Rising UK actress Niamh Algar (pictured) is starring in the feature, which is produced by Helen Jones of Silver Salt Films. The film follows a woman who, in her job as a film censor, discover an eerily familiar horror film that speaks directly to her past. Backing came from the BFI, Ffilm Cymru Wales and Film4. Protagonist Pictures is handling sales on the title after recently selling out on UK horror Saint Maud, which was also a debut.

Juliette Binoche will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema honorary prize at this year’s European Film Awards (EFAs), which take place in Berlin on December 7. Binoche was an Oscar winner in 1997 for her role in Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, a performance for which she also picked up a European Film Award. She also won EFAs...

Have we left the park? Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan wouldn’t answer that today at the HBO series’ Comic-Con panel. The theme is “New World” and from the new trailer, it looks like the robots have taken over, and are living among us — but in 2050.

As far as not leaving the park, we see Thandie Newton’s Maeve living in a fantasy WWII Nazi-filled world — another Delos park? Yes, it has to be.

One of the inspirations here? Blade Runner which Nolan said brother Chris made him watch plenty as a kid. But he, Jonathan Nolan, wanted to do it different.

Nolan said that they went out in the world to find some beautiful places to shoot to capture the show’s future.

“Dystopia can look pretty beautiful in the world. Just because the world is corrupt inside, doesn’t mean it can’t be smothered over and pretty.

Exclusive: It producer Roy Lee and Ready Player One producer Dan Farah have positioned themselves to bring to the small screen for the first time Hellraiser, the iconic horror franchise anchored by the malevolent straight-out-of-hell villain, Pinhead. Those producers have joined forces with producer-rightsholders Lawrence Kuppin, David Salzman and Eric Gardner, who have controlled those TV rights since New World was sold in 1989.

The intention is to use the mythology established in the movie franchise and the Clive Barker novella The Hellbound Heart as a launch pad for a new series that could be anthology, or a more traditional narrative. The producers are underway with a search for a writer-showrunner, before setting it at a network or streamer, at a time when horror is performing strongly.

The first movie told the story of a man who inadvertently opens a portal to hell when he tinkers with a strange puzzle box...

In a strange way, watching a mediocre Korean thriller is almost as exhilarating as watching any of the legitimately great ones the country’s film industry continues to churn out — it’s wild to see how standards have gotten high enough that even a rambunctious serial killer saga with an ingenious premise and a swaggering Ma Dong-seok performance can still feel like something of a disappointment.

Such is the case with Lee Won-tae’s “The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil,” a giddy little bruiser that might feel like more of a refreshing kick to the chest if not for how much tamer it is than “The Good, the Bad, the Weird,” or how poor the plotting is when compared to a recent crime saga like 2013’s riveting “New World” (to name just two of the many superior movies that also happen to boast Ma’s barrel-chested charm). So while it...

With the release of Arrow Video’s The Annihilators, read film historian and author Chris Poggiali’s introduction into New World Pictures – Roger Corman’s now legendary cult movie production company that brought it to life….

When Roger Corman cut the ribbon on New World Pictures in May of 1970, he was in the right place at the right time with the right idea in mind for his latest business venture: a production and distribution company that would provide a training ground for young filmmakers eager to get into the business. Less than a year after the release of Easy Rider, every studio in town was trying to duplicate its success by seeking out independent filmmakers with an eye on the youth market and all things counterculture. This was the height of the New Hollywood era, which Corman himself had helped usher in with his trailblazing 1966 smash The Wild Angels. Mostly known as a producer-director,...

Signature Entertainment have announced that they will be bringing Korean director Park Hoon-jung’s action thriller “The Witch” on Digital HD in the UK on 22nd April, 2019.

Synopsis

Jason Bourne meets X-men meets John Wick in the acclaimed ultraviolent actioner “The Witch”! 10 years ago, Ja-yoon escaped from a government facility during an inexplicable incident and lost all her memory. She grows up to be a bright high school student and enters a nationally televised audition to win a prize to help her struggling family. As soon as she appears on TV, strange people start appearing in her life. A man named ‘Nobleman’ – and others who have been searching for her – soon frantically pursue Ja-yoon. As her life falls into turmoil, she responds with a chilling descent from innocent girl into cold-blooded knife-wielding super killer!

The film, filled with intense action, takes you to unexpected places on its way to its insane blood-soaked finale.

For his directorial debut, filmmaker Michael Lehmann took on the world of high school comedies with Heathers, the endlessly quotable pitch-black comedy that fearlessly explores the trials and tribulations of the teenage experience. Written by Daniel Waters, Lehmann immediately fell in love with the script from his fellow up-and-comer in Hollywood, and set the wheels in motion to get Heathers into production.

“Dan Waters, who wrote the script, is an amazing screenwriter, and was an acquaintance of mine at the time, and a really good friend of Larry Karaszewski, who was in film school with me at USC. At some point right after I got out of film school, Larry said, ‘You should look at Dan Waters' script. It's really amazing, and he's looking for an agent, and maybe you could help him get one, because I landed an agent coming out of USC with a movie called The Beaver...

Director Michael Lehmann was shocked when he looked at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times entertainment sections and saw there were no ads for the second week of dark high school comedy “Heathers.”

When the film opened on March 31, 1989, the indie film studio New World had taken out ads for the comedy that featured Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in career-defining performances.

“It had played at Sundance and had gotten a lot of attention,” he noted. “We were really looking forward to see what would happen when it hit theaters. The first weekend was great — a good screen average for a little indie movie like that. We were super happy.”

But without more ads they knew their little film would be in trouble.

“In those days, the way you decided on a movie in L.A. or New York was to look I the L.A. Times or...

This month’s FilMart rights market in Hong Kong was a busy one for South Korean indie sales house Finecut. It completed multiple license deals.

Berlinale Panorama title “Idol” was acquired by New Select for Japan and Apex Success Global for Taiwan. Directed by indie sensation Lee Su-jin the neo-noir thriller sees the story of a politician who faces the worst crisis of his career due to his son’s car accident. The film stars some of the best-known actors in the country: Han Seok-kyu (“The Berlin File”); Sul Kyung-gu (“The Merciless”) and Chun Woo-hee (“The Wailing”). Locally distributed by Cgv Arthouse, “Idol” opened in Korea on Mar. 20.

Action thriller “No Mercy” scored deals with Busch Media for German-speaking Europe, Borsalino for Latin America, Culture Entertainment for Japan and Av-Jet for Taiwan. Directed by Lim Kyung-tack and starring Lee Si-young, “No Mercy” revolves around a woman searching for her missing sister,...

Korean distributors are having to fight ever harder for their share of Korea’s theatrical market share. Threats on the horizon include a slide in the performance of local movies, consolidation, the arrival of new players and the challenge from streaming services.

South Korea’s theatrical box office is now bigger than that of France or Germany despite a smaller population. But it has largely stopped growing and may be at a turning point. Admissions have plateaued since 2013, and gross revenues have increased largely due to ticket price increases.

The country’s powerhouse exhibition companies Cj-cgv and Lotte have responded by expanding abroad. But for distributors, it means a fight on many fronts.

The clearest evidence that the old order was under threat came last year when Lotte Cultureworks (formerly Lotte Entertainment), dethroned Cj Entertainment as the country’s top distributor for the first time in 15 years. Success came from...

A third Sherlock Holmes movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as the great detective and Jude Law as his loyal companion Dr. Watson has been in the works for years, but at last, the original dynamic duo are about to team up again. With the film now taking shape, some new intel tells us just where the pic’s going to take place and apparently, Sherlock Holmes 3 will see Holmes and Watson journey to the Old West.

Hn Entertainment writes that they’ve been informed by a source that Guy Ritchie’s threequel will see the Victorian heroes travel to San Francisco during the Wild West era. Though the 2009 film was located in Holmes’ traditional home of London, the 2012 sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows took the detective on an action-packed tour of Europe as he hunted down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. That was derived from a tale in...

As much as I dig his takes and tales of Poe from the ‘60s, my favorite era of Roger Corman is the New World years: you know, pulpy pictures like Death Race 2000 (1975) and Humanoids from the Deep (1980). At the turn of the ‘80s he decided to cash in on the Star Wars and Alien craze with Battle Beyond the Stars (’80) and Galaxy of Terror (’81). His follow up to that last one, Forbidden World (1982), carries on the low-minded tradition of boobs and bloodshed in glorious, goofy fashion.

Made for around a million dollars and released in early May, Forbidden World (Aka Mutant), received mostly poor notices as it made the rounds of the drive-in circuit, but became a staple on home video for those looking for cheap thrills as only Corman could provide; which is to say, with confidence, competence, and a twisted sensibility.

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Madrid, Spain — On Jan. 28 this year, the cast and crew of the Movistar Plus’s 16th century adventure drama “The Plague” wrapped shooting on Season 2. Variety visited the set and interview members of the team responsible for what could well be the country’s most ambitious TV project ever.

Here are five take-aways from the visit.

New Ambition

The six-hour Season 1 of the “The Plague” used 130 filming locations, a technical crew of 200, 2,000 extras over 250 sequences and multiple Vhf effects to recreate 16th century Seville. Its budget of €1.5 million ($1.7 million) per episode, in a country with typically-modest TV production costs of around €500,000-€600,000, ranked alongside high-end Canal Plus series in France such as the Luc Besson-produced “Séction Zero.”

“’The Plague’ was originally very ambitious, but also very risky,” Movistar Plus director of original fiction Domingo Corral told Variety. “We produced it when we were just getting into series. We didn...

During the first few songs of Friday’s Clutch show at New York’s Irving Plaza, I glanced up at the balcony and spotted an unexpected sight. A kid of no more than 12, accompanied by an older chaperone, was singing along to every word of “Gimme the Keys,” the first track off the veteran hard-rockers’ new 12th LP, Book of Bad Decisions. Checking in periodically, I saw that he was doing the same throughout the set, whether the band was playing a Nineties classic like “Escape From the Prison Planet,...

After a spate of action comedies “Champion”, “The Soul-Mate” and the upcoming “The Villagers” as well as a starring role in the fantasy adventure “Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days”, Ma Dong-seok will be seeing 2018 off in style as the lead in out-and-out crime thriller “Unstoppable” by debutant director Kim Min-ho.

Synopsis

Dong-Chul and Ji-Soo are a happily married couple. Dong-Chul was once a notorious gangster, but he has since changed his ways. One day, Dong-Chul comes to home to find his house in disarray and his wife missing. Dong-Chul then receives a phone call from someone offering to pay him to give up his wife. Dong-Chul vows to save his wife.

The action thriller also stars Song Ji-hyo as Ji-soo as well as Kim Sung-oh in an important role. “Unstoppable”, whose Korean title literally translates as “Angry Bull”, is slated for a November 2018 release in South Korea.

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As movie censorship relaxed in the early 1970s, Mel Welles’ horror film “Lady Frankenstein” added sex and nudity to the familiar Frankenstein formula of the single-minded and arguably demented scientist who creates a monster and lives to regret it. In the 1971 production, now available in a handsome, fully loaded Blu-ray edition from Nucleus Films encoded for Region B, Dr. Tanya Frankenstein (Rosalba Neri) returns home to the family estate after completing medical school. Having inherited the family obsession, she is determined to help her father (Joseph Cotten) realize his long-frustrated ambition of creating human life in his laboratory. When Baron Frankenstein and his associate Dr. Marshall (Paul Muller) balk at including the refined young woman in their gory experiments, she fiercely overrides their objections: “Stop treating me like a child! I’m a doctor and a surgeon.” Frankenstein and Marshall successfully reanimate a creature that they’ve stitched together from plundered cadavers,...

As Vanity Fair’s cover profile, Michael B. Jordan provoked a storm of criticism with one line: “We don’t have any mythology, black mythology, or folklore. …Creating our own mythology is very important because … You help people dream.” Jordan likely knows that black folkore has a very long, rich history. It’s quite possible he had a more specific point in mind — frustrations over the lack of film and TV content that exploits black folklore — but the interviewer doesn’t make it explicitly clear with a follow-up question, leaving many to assume that the “Creed II” star meant exactly what he said.

The actor has yet to make a public statement responding to the criticism, and he declined to comment for this story. However, rather than pillory Jordan over what he may or may not have meant, here’s a brief overview of black folklore to serve as introduction for the uninitiated.

“For the past decade, Next Entertainment World has continuously challenged itself whenever there was an opportunity,” said Kim Woo-taek, chairman of Next Entertainment World.

Indeed, New, celebrating its 10th anniversary at Busan, has come a long way in a short time, developing itself from a second mover in the industry into a total entertainment company, overcoming hurdles and implementing innovative decisions. Take, for example, the company’s beginnings. When Kim launched New in 2008 with only four employees, the Korean film industry had been dominated by long-established, vertically integrated big companies. Cj Entertainment had been the top Korean distributor since 2003, with Showbox the a runner-up. The Korean arms of Hollywood majors had boasted strong lineups. A fledging in such a saturated industry, New started its domestic distribution business with foreign titles including Catherine Hardwicke’s “Twilight.” In its second year, when it launched investment-distribution operations of Korean titles, it became one of the top five distributors.

Matthew Byrd Oct 4, 2018

This newly shared footage of Amazon's New World is kind of a mixed bag.

Footage of New World, Amazon's mysterious upcoming Mmo project, has been leaked online via...PornHub? 

While the footage first appeared on one of the world's most popular porn sites, it was eventually transferred over to the much more Sfw video host, YouTube. Fascinating choice of upload site aside, the footage in question is also generating some buzz for a variety of reasons.  

While New World is billed as an Mmo, it actually looks closer to a modern survival game in many respects. Combat looks like it plays out mostly in real-time (much of the combat we see in the footage features heavy use of a bow-and-arrow) which is probably a pretty smart move considering that a more methodical, cooldown-based approach to combat might not have quite the same appeal as a large-scale,...

KollywoodAlthough Mani Ratnam's women characters in the past haven't been entirely free of patriarchal trappings, they've still managed to catch us by surprise, offering something different from the predictable way in which heroine roles were written back then.Sowmya Rajendran Major Spoilers Ahead Mani Ratnam's Chekka Chivantha Vaanam has opened to rave reviews and good word of mouth. Fans of the director have hailed the film as his return to form, given that his last few releases have been quite disappointing. To be honest, Ccv isn't a bad film. Vijay Sethupathi is dependably entertaining all through and it's a pleasure to see Aishwarya Rajesh so well styled on screen. However, one suspects that the euphoria around it comes more from a sense of relief that 'Mani Sir' hasn't lost his touch entirely than anything else.  A gangster drama loosely inspired by the Tamil classic Ponniyin Selvan (and supposedly a...

Criterion technical director Lee Kline is used to working with filmmakers to polish alternate versions of their movies. Previously, one of his biggest projects was the Criterion release of Terrence Malick’s “The New World,” a 172-minute director’s cut that Malick always preferred to the 135-minute version New Line Cinema released in 2005.

However, what Malick had in mind for “The Tree of Life” was something unlike anything Criterion had done before. According to Kline, the extended, 188-minute version of “The Tree of Life” that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next week isn’t just 49 minutes longer; Malick created something new.

“Unlike with ‘New World,’ [the version of ‘The Tree of Life’] that premiered in 2011 at Cannes [was] definitely the definitive version of the film he wanted to make,” said Kline. “What’s interesting talking to Terry about this [new version of ‘Tree of Life’], I think he still doesn’t want people to think this is a better version.

Games industry veteran Christoph Hartmann will take over as Vice President of Amazon Game Studios, according to an announcement made on Tuesday. Hartmann is the former president of Take-Two Interactive, where he remained for 20 years, and the founder of 2K games. He led the teams behind “Borderlands,” “Bioshock,” and others. For Amazon, Hartmann will oversee the Game Studio’s teams in Seattle, Orange County, and San Diego. He will be working on upcoming titles “New World” and “Crucible,” in addition to other as-of-yet unrevealed titles. Hartmann gave a statement regarding his new role in a press release. “Gaming, today’s favorite form of entertainment in the world, is connecting hundreds of millions of people,” Hartmann said. Between the teams at Ags, the incredible tools and technology from Aws, the global communities of Twitch and Twitch Prime, and all of the other assets around Amazon, there are few companies in the...

Sneak Peek new images, plus footage of actress Milla Jovovich ("Monster Hunter") as the face of the Balmain fall-winter 2018 campaign, photographed by An Le in London, UK:

Jovovich of "Resident Evil" fame has joined the cast of Constantin Film's $60 million budgeted, live-action feature "Monster Hunter", based on the Capcom video games, to be directed by Milla's husband Paul W.S. Anderson, shooting September 2018 in Toronto.

"...in a fantasy universe, humans and other sentient races have set their eyes on the 'New World', a separate continent from the populated 'Old World'. 

"The New World is an untamed wilderness where many powerful monsters roam, and where researchers have been drawn to uncover new mysteries. Several ocean-bound 'Fleets' have been sent already to establish working bases, safe from monsters, and operations are led by the 'Research Commission'.

In the game, the player takes the role of a 'Hunter', tasked to...

Evidently, there are many crime thrillers coming out of S. Korea, too many someone could even say. Occasionally though, there are some productions that still manage to stand out, and prove that the genre has still something to give. And who else to come up with such a film than Park Hoon-jung, whose credits include “I Saw the Devil” (scriptwriter) and “New World”, two films that are among the top entries in the category. “V.I.P.” continues in the same footsteps.

“V.I.P.” is part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival

Detective Chae I-do is one of those detectives whose tactics are not so different than the people he is supposed to be arresting. Violent, constantly smoking and with a no-punches-pulled mentality that has him even breaking the law to achieve his goal, he is a real pain-in-the-ass for the police department. Alas, when his predecessor is found dead,...

Park Hoon-jung gave us the screenplay for the modern-day classic “I Saw The Devil”, “The Unjust” and directed the brilliant “New World” and “The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale”. After last year’s controversial serial-killer thriller “V.I.P.”, he is back with his latest directorial offering “The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion”.

“The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion” is part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival

The film confusingly begins right in the middle of a bloody massacre in a Facility. Professor Baek, who clearly is in charge of it all, is overseeing a mass killing of children inside the Facility while Mr. Choi, the suave, scary Handler for the establishment is on the tail of two children, a boy and a girl, who have managed to escape amidst all the violence. While Mr. Choi and his henchmen manage to capture the boy, the girl flees and ends up at the farm of Mr.

Park Hoon-jung is known for his fast-paced, male-centric screenplays and action-packed directorials. His latest film, “The Witch: Part 1. Subversion”, is the first time he has a central female protagonist.

Synopsis

10 years ago, Ja-yoon escaped from a government facility in the midst of an inexplicable incident by herself and lost all her memory. An old couple takes her in even though she doesn’t know her name or age. She grows up to be a bright high school student and enters a nationally televised audition program to win the top prize and help her struggling family out. As soon as she appears on TV strange people start appearing in her life. A man named ‘Nobleman’ constantly roams around her, in addition to ‘Dr. Baek’ and ‘Mr. Choi’ who have been searching for her since her disappearance. Ja-yoon’s life falls into turmoil as they turn her seemingly ordinary life upside down...

Warner Bros. Korea’s fifth local language production, “The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion” landed on top of the South Korean box office.

Opening on some 1,117 screens nationwide on Wednesday (Jun. 27), the revenge thriller earned $7.36 million from 958,800 admissions over opening five days. Directed by Park Hoon-jung (“New World”), “Witch” revolves around a school-girl-turned-tv-star who lost her memory when she broke out of a government facility 10 years prior.

“The Accidental Detective 2: In Action” slipped to second place from the previous week’s top spot. The Cj Entertainment release earned $3.36 million from 419,400 admissions between Friday and Sunday for a total of $21.66 million from 2.83 million admissions after two weekends on release. The two Korean films together accounted for 63.38% of the total weekend box office.

“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” and “Ocean’s 8” dropped to third and fourth places, respectively, each representing week-on-week drops of 49.3% and 59.2%. Upi’s “Fallen Kingdom” earned $1.34 million from 172,800 admissions between...