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Come October 1st, Netflix is set to add several new movies and television shows to their platform, one of these being an underlooked gem that also features action movie star and horror icon, Megan Fox. If you love bloody, hair-raising revenge thrillers -- this might be the movie for you.

It was revealed on What's on Netflix that Till Death, released in 2021, is hitting the streaming platform next month. It stars Megan Fox, who plays the main character Emma, Eoin Macken, who plays her husband, and the two main antagonists are played by Callan Mulvey and Jack Roth. The film holds a 90% Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The movie follows Emma as she wakes up handcuffed to her husband,...

[This interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization.] How well do you know Jeremy Sisto‘s TV and film characters? Is it as well or perhaps better than he does? When Sisto stopped by TV Insider’s office in the spring (ahead of the FBI–Most Wanted–International crossover event and before the actors’ strike), we not only had to have him dish on his costars and recall his audition for Clueless, but also test his knowledge of his own characters. What makes it tricky is that Sisto has played law enforcement characters on at least three shows — Detective Jack Roth on Wicked City, Detective Cyrus Lupo on Law & Order, and currently Assistant Special Agent Jubal Valentine on FBI (returning for its sixth season on CBS) — and so some of those quotes are very similar … and therefore not the easiest for Sisto to answer. But his characters elsewhere, like in Clueless and on...

Samantha Morton takes on a haunting role as reverend Jack Brooks in Paramount+'s new horror thriller, The Burning Girls. The series follows a reverend and her daughter as they move to Chapel Croft in search of a fresh start, only to uncover dark secrets that turn their lives into a nightmare. Morton's extensive career in film and television includes acclaimed films and memorable roles, establishing her as a British actress with a powerful legacy.

Samantha Morton plays reverend Jack Brooks in the first look trailer for The Burning Girls, the new horror thriller from Paramount+, which premieres on October 19.

As she prepares to return as Catherine de' Medici in the second season of The Serpent Queen, Morton puts royalty aside to become a haunted vicar in the new series from Hans Rosenfeldt and Camilla Ahlgren. Based on the novel by C.J. Tudor, the story follows a reverend and her daughter,...

Sometimes, a new vicar arrives in a village and it's all sweet weirdoes and running jokes, like in The Vicar Of Dibley. But when Samantha Morton_ vibes. And we have an exclusive look at the trailer…

Adapted from Cj Tudor's novel, the show sees Morton’s Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter Flo arriving in the village seeking a fresh start.

They soon find it's rife with conspiracies and secrets, and that uncovering the truth can be deadly in a community with a bloody past. The villagers are commemorating the death of two young Protestant martyrs who were betrayed and burned at the stake five hundred years ago by creating dolls and tossing them into fire – but it seems like the past isn't willing to stay buried…

The Burning Girls also features the likes of Paul Bradley, Janie Dee, Jane Lapotaire, John Macmillan, Rupert Graves, Elodie Grace Orkin, Safia Oakley-Green,...

Multi-award-winning British actress Samantha Morton, and Ruby Stokes appear in the first set of spine-chilling images for Paramount+’s upcoming horror-thriller series “The Burning Girls”.

Morton will star as Reverend Jack Brooks — a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church, who bears the onus of her husband’s death — while Stokes stars as Jack’s 15-year-old daughter Flo — a teenager who marches to the beat of her own drum.

“Set in Chapel Croft, a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history, ‘The Burning Girls’ sees Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter Flo arrive in the hope of a fresh start. They soon find a village rife with conspiracies and secrets where uncovering the truth can be deadly in a community with a bloody past,” as per the logline.

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Jack Brooks, played by Samantha Morton,...

Cormac Roth, son of Reservoir Dogs star Tim Roth, has died at 25 after a year-long battle with cancer. The Roth family released a statement on Monday announcing the musician’s death.

“He died peacefully in the arms of his family who loved and adored him,” the statement said. “He fought with incredible bravery for the past year and maintained his wicked wit and humor to the very end.”

In November 2021, Roth was diagnosed with a rare form of germ cell cancer, which is found in reproductive cells in the ovaries or testes. Roth shared the news with fans on Instagram, writing that he’d endured “chemo, high dose chemo, medication, transplants, transfusions, surgeries, etc.” after receiving the stage 3 diagnosis.

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Roth was a composer, guitar player and producer. He released an album entitled “Python” in 2018 and assisted with the score for Michael Franco’s 2020 film New Order.

Exclusive: Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) is to lead Paramount+’s Burning Girls alongside Bridgerton star Ruby Stokes, Deadline can reveal.

The show from Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, which is adapted from a C.J. Tudor novel, has entered production and follows a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history.

Morton will play Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church and who bears the onus of her husband’s death. Stokes is her daughter Flo, a teenager who marches to the beat of her own drum. Both arrive in Chapel Croft in the hope of a fresh start, however, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets.

The thriller was one of Paramount+’s first UK commissions and the streamer has since ordered The Doll Factory, also from Buccaneer, an adaptation of Elizabeth Macneal’s Sunday Times bestselling novel.

The Burning Girls...

Lionsgate Play has announced the release of action thriller movie ‘Till Death’. The American horror thriller action film directed by S K Dale in his directorial debut, starring Megan Fox, Callan Mulvey, Eoin Macken, Aml Ameen and Jack Roth is all set to release on Friday, 8th October 2021 on Lionsgate Play. ‘Till Death’ chronicles […]...

Till Death Screen Media Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: S.K. Dale Writer: Jason Carvey Cast: Megan Fox, Callan Mulvey, Eoin Macken, Aml Ameen, Jack Roth Screened at: Blu-ray, LA, 8/15/21 Opens: July 2nd, 2021 / August 10th, 2021 (DVD & Blu-ray) Infidelity, at least cinematically speaking, is rarely a good idea. It might […]

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Receiving bad news is never easy, especially on your birthday.

For Melbourne director S.K Dale, turning a year older last year coincided with the news that production on his feature directorial debut Till Death had been suspended as a result of Covid-19.

“We were preparing to shoot in March 2020 and then it was my birthday when they said, ‘Sorry, we have to shut down the studio and everyone’s flying home,'” he told If.

“At that stage, we had no idea what was going on and I wasn’t sure if that was the beginning and end of my film career.”

Fortunately, production on the action thriller resumed a few months later in August and is now set for a worldwide digital launch following a US cinematic and digital release earlier this month.

Written by Jason Carvey, the story follows Emma (Megan Fox), a young woman who wakes...

Stars: Megan Fox, Eoin Macken, Callan Mulvey, Jack Roth, Aml Ameen, Lili Rich | Written by Jason Carvey | Directed by S.K. Dale

It doesn’t seem like that long ago that Megan Fox was starring in the Transformers franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jennifer’s Body. Now she’s starring in Machine Gun Kelly videos and Till Death, a low-budget variation on Gerald’s Game. Hoping her taste in scripts was better than her taste in music I pressed play…

Emma (Megan Fox) is married to Mark who’s gone from prosecutor to sleazy defence attorney. How sleazy? He freely admits he’s happier making big money keeping scum like Bobby Ray, the man who mugged and nearly killed Emma out of jail than he was working hard to put them away. Innocent, guilty, who cares as long as they pay. Needless to say, it’s not the happiest of marriages.

Till Death Review — Till Death (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by S.K. Dale, and starring Megan Fox, Eoin Macken, Callan Mulvey, Jack Roth, Aml Ameen, Stefani Rozhko, Lili Rich and Teodora Djuric. In the heat of the summer comes an icy new nail-biting thriller directed by S.K. Dale. It’s called Till Death and [...]

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Megan Fox hopes to see a debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) or the DC Entertainment Universe (Dceu) in her future. Fox, who's no stranger to major franchises with her roles in the Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, recently spoke at length about her career in a new interview with The Washington Post. She touches on many of the roles she's portrayed in her 20-year career, from the horror movie Jennifer's Body to the modern sitcom New Girl.

So, what might be next for Megan Fox at this stage in her life? Apparently looking for the next big thing, Fox told the publication that she grew up as a fan of comic books and graphic novels, and would "love to be a part of the Marvel or DC Comics universes." She doesn't name any specific characters, nor does she state whether she'd want to be a superhero or supervillain,...

Questlove’s Summer of Soul is up to 753 theaters as the doc about the 1969 ‘Black Woodstock’ concert in Harlem that debuted in two locations last weekend crossed into arthouse, commercial and urban venues.

Not that it was easy, said Frank Rodriguez, SVP General Sales Manager, Searchlight Pictures. “Exhibitors are eager to get back on track,” he said. “We had to push very hard in a crowded marketplace” that includes The Boss Baby: Family Business, The Forever Purge and week two of the first true post-Covid blockbuster, F9.

Rodriguez cited notable performances in Brooklyn, San Francisco and Georgetown in D.C. after what was basically an extended promo in NY and LA. Deadline is hearing from industry estimates that Thursday night came in north of $78K.

Full title Summer of Soul, which features never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone,...

“I’m gonna cut myself free of you even if it’s the last thing I do.” The line, uttered by Emma (Megan Fox) to her husband the morning after celebrating their 10th anniversary at their remote lake house, is the kind of on-the-nose dialogue that sums up the bluntness of S.K. Dale’s wintry-set thriller, “Till Death.”

Emma, you must know, is not (just) speaking figuratively. She did really feel trapped, in a way, in her loveless marriage to dashing if increasingly menacing lawyer Mark (Eoin Macken). A line like “I thought you were gonna wear the red dress” sent chills down her spine; a request to wear a blindfold lest a romantic surprise be spoiled filled her with her terror; this was a woman who was clamoring for an escape route. It’s why she’d taken to sleeping with one of her husband’s colleagues behind his back,...

For its first act, Till Death tries keeping things muted. S.K. Dale directs his cast to deliver lines as if they’re somewhere between whispering and talking; cinematographer Jamie Cairney shoots with the brand of ruby-tinged glossiness that the last decade has really leaned into as a visual shorthand for wealth and privilege; dialogue from screenwriter Jason Carvey funnels us bits of exposition.

Emma (Megan Fox) was collateral damage in a botched robbery 10 years ago. She married Mark (Eoin Macken), a lawyer involved in the case, just over a year later, which went south. She turned to having an affair with one of Mark’s colleagues, Tom (Aml Ameen), but now she’s decided to cut it off. She even turns down plans to see Tom the next day, and when he asks why, she breathes while facing away from him: “‘Cause it’s my anniversary.”

This sort of dialogue continues,...

The official trailer for Screen Media's Till Death has been released. The trailer shows Megan Fox chained to a corpse. It would seem that the dead man in this case is her deceased husband. The thriller, due for a July 2nd, 2021 release - both on VOD and as a planned, albeit limited theatrical run - also marks the directorial debut of S.K. Dale. The film is written by (perhaps the aptly named) Jason Carvey.

Based on the trailer, the movie appears to follow the familiar home invasion formula. The added wrinkle here however is Megan Fox's character Emma being chained to the body of what we're led to believe is (was) her husband Mark. You'd be forgiven for suspecting that the film is familiar to but with a slight deviation on the premise of Stephen King's novel Gerald's Game - itself adapted into a well received 2017 Netflix film.

Available In Theaters And On Demand July 2 Starring Megan Fox (Jennifer’s Body) Co-staring Callan Mulvey (Russo Brothers’ upcoming The Gray Man), Eoin Macken (George Rr Martin’s Nightflyers), Aml Ameen (HBO’s “I May Destroy You”) and Jack Roth (Medici) Directed by S.K. Dale Screenplay by Jason Carvey *Megan Fox and Director S.K. Dale Available for …

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Till Death Trailer — S. K. Dale‘s Till Death (2021) movie trailer has been released by Screen Media Films. The Till Death trailer stars Megan Fox, Eoin Macken, Callan Mulvey, Jack Roth, Aml Ameen, Teodora Djuric, and Stefanie Rozhko. Crew Jason Carvey wrote the screenplay for Till Death. Walter Mair created the music for the [...]

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"She's still in the house." Screen Media has released the first official trailer for an intense survival horror thriller titled Till Death, marking the feature directorial debut of S.K. Dale. Arriving this July in just a few more weeks. Megan Fox has been making quite a comeback in all kinds of off-kilter films recently, including Rogue and Midnight in the Switchgrass. The premise for this is just as crazy: After a romantic evening in their secluded lake house, Emma awakens handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her husband's twisted plan. Starring Megan Fox as Emma, with Callan Mulvey, Eoin Macken, and Jack Roth. This reminds me of the Stephen King story Gerald's Game, with a much darker side in the two guys there to take her out. Doesn't look half bad, I'd say. Here's the...

Screen Media has unveiled a July 2 release date for the new Megan Fox thriller Till Death. The film will receive a limited theatrical release along with the now standard On-Demand option just ahead of Independence Day weekend, an ironic release date considering the plot of the movie revolves on the idea its lead has anything other than independence. The story centres on Emma, Fox's character, who finds herself handcuffed to her dead husband and under threat from two hit men. This news was originally reported at https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3667500/megan-fox-thriller-till-death-handcuffed-july-2nd-release-date/|Bloody Disgusting.

If there is something sounding a little familiar about this, it could be down to the fact the story is a slightly different take on the Stephen King novel Gerald's Game, which itself was made into a Netflix movie recently. In that story, a wife in the middle of a dirty weekend in a secluded cabin...

Exclusive: Screen Media has snapped up U.S. rights to Millennium Media’s suspense thriller Till Death starring Transformers actress Megan Fox. A summer theatrical and on demand release is planned.

Till Death begins with Emma (Fox) waking up, handcuffed to her dead husband after a romantic evening in their secluded lake house. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers and escape her husband’s twisted plan.

The pic is directed by S.K. Dale (award-winning horror short The Coatmaker) who is making his feature directorial debut here. The role reps Fox’s first genre role since the 2009 Diablo Cody scripted horror pic Jennifer’s Body.

David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (Orphan and the upcoming prequel Esther), Tanner Mobley (The Piper), Yariv Lerner (The Outpost), Les Weldon (The Expendables), Rob Van Norden (Jolt) and Jeffrey Greenstein (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) produce. Till Death co-stars Callan Mulvey (Russo...

Distributor plans summer theatrical, VOD release.

Screen Media has acquired all US rights from Millennium Media to the Megan Fox thriller Till Death and plans a summer theatrical and on-demand release.

S.K. Dale’s (horror short The Coatmaker) feature directorial debut co-stars Callan Mulvey (Russo Brothers’ upcoming The Gray Man), Eoin Macken (George Rr Martin’s Nightflyers), Aml Ameen (HBO’s I May Destroy You) and Jack Roth (Medici).

Based on Jason Carvey’s screenplay that made it on to the Blood List, the yearly compilation of the best unproduced genre scripts, Till Death finds Emma (Fox) handcuffed to...

Production begins tomorrow in Bulgaria on Millennium horror-thriller Till Death, which will star Megan Fox (Transformers), Eoin Macken (The Night Shift), Aml Ameen (Sense8), Callan Mulvey (300: Rise Of An Empire), and Jack Roth (Us And Them)

Production will take place in Sofia at Millennium’s Nu Boyana Studios. The film will chart the story of Emma (Fox), who is left handcuffed to her dead husband as part of a sickening revenge plot and must survive two hired killers sent to finish the job.

Australian filmmaker S.K. Dale (The Coatmaker) directs from the Blood List script by Jason Carvey.

David Leslie Johnson (Aquaman) will produce alongside Millennium’s Tanner Mobley, Les Weldon, Yariv Lerner, and Rob Van Norden. Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Jeffrey Greenstein, and Jonathan Yunger are executive producers on behalf of the The Expendables outfit. Jamie Cairney (Sex Education) is DoP.

The film was originally...

Exclusive: Reign’s Toby Regbo is to star in the third and final season of Italian drama Medici.

The series will air over four nights in a primetime slot on Italian broadcaster Rai from December 2 with Netflix airing it after its domestic launch in early 2020. It will be branded an original Netflix series in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Canada, India and Taiwan.

Regbo will star alongside Daniel Sharman, and Synnøve Karlsen as well as Francesco Montanari and John Lynch, who joins for Medici The Magnificent: Final Season. Elsewhere, Troy: Fall of a City’s Johnny Harris and Bedlam’s Jack Roth form part of the international cast with Callum Blake, Aurora Ruffino and Sebastian De Souza.

Medici The Magnificent: Final Season starts a few months after the infamous Pazzi conspiracy that cost the life of Lorenzo’s brother, and nearly his own. Lorenzo, now a more complex and conflicted character,...

If polls were run to see who the most iconic personality in music is, the results would certainly lean towards Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, the bastion of beautifully flamboyant, unchecked and unmatched opulence. Decades after his untimely passing from AIDS and his presence is one both widely felt and deeply missed. Of course that means a life as flashy, defiant and legendary as his would make for a great movie, as its taken near thirty years for that life to grace the big screen. After watching it, though, who the hell at 20th Century Fox thought any of what passes for history and entertainment in Bohemian Rhapsody was right? And what’s worse is this is what audiences and Queen fans think is masterful and respectful storytelling?!

To say it paints by numbers and connects dots in its exploration of the rise, “fall and redemption” of Queen throughout the 1970s...

Stars: Jack Roth, Andrew Tiernan, Tim Bentinck, Sophie Colquhoun, Daniel Kendrick, Carolyn Backhouse, Paul Westwood, Louis Dempsey | Written and Directed by Joe Martin

Us and Them… Sums up the current state of the scocio-political climate perfectly don’t you think? The haves and the have-nots. The rich and the poor. It’s a class war that has been raging for longer than many can remember and one that won’t be ending anytime soon. And that idea of a class war, the struggle between rich and poor, seems to be what writer/director Joe Martin is aiming for with this, his first feature film. Only he does it by way of a home invasion thriller!

The film tells the story of three rough and ready British lads, intent on making a grand and brutish statement on economic inequality in the UK, use one upper crust family as their sacrificial lamb.

A banker’s family home is invaded by thugs in a gritty drama whose message gets swamped by a third-act bloodbath

When posh young woman Phillipa (Sophie Colquhoun) brings her boyfriend back to meet her callous banker dad (Tim Bentinck) and prissy mum (Carolyn Backhouse), lunch is rather spoiled when class warfare breaks out. The boyfriend Danny (Jack Roth), turns out to be not only a rude young chap with a broad Estuary accent, he’s also an armed robber.

Determined to fill in the chip on his shoulder and make daddy pay for all the banking bailout of 2008, he and his mates (Andrew Tiernan and Daniel Kendrick) tie up the family and threaten them with violence unless dad opens his home safe. But first Danny insists on giving them lectures about their moral turpitude while filming himself as jokey intertitles introduce flashbacks. All in all, the effect is like...

Ever since Heather Wixson gave it a 4-star review at 2017's SXSW Film Festival, we've been excited to see Joe Martin's new movie Us and Them. To celebrate the film's October 12th UK release, we've been provided with an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers. Tickets for David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) have gone on sale and those who pre-order will get a free audio download of the Halloween theme by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies! Also: Soul to Keep debut at Shriekfest, Toronto After Dark Film Fest final lineup details, and info on TNT's all-day Supernatural marathon on Halloween!

Us and Them Exclusive Clip: "Us And Them is a UK film starring Jack Roth (son of actor Tim Roth) in a tour de force performance about an ordinary working class kid who is tired of the rough deal he faces. His plan? To start...

It’s clear that writer/ director Joe Martin’s Us and Them could be interpreted as a manifestation of Brexit/ Trump diffidence and economic inequality, donned in the garb of a home invasion thriller. Sadly though, Martin mishandles the drama and analogies in this slipshod big screen cine-manifesto that’s neither edifying, terrifying or entertaining.

The surface story is straightforward: a wealthy family become the target of subjugated Brit delinquents who invade their home and use the attack to make a political statement, while robbing the place blind in the process. The script breaks this down into chapters while transcending time and just about hits its beats to evade brain raking tedium. The production/ execution is passé and inept, smacking more of Michael Winner on a bad day than the films it tries to emulate, but Us and Them’s politics are very contemporary.

Martin melds Funny Games and Fargo...

Stewart teams with John Cairns’ Parkland Pictures.

Tom Stewart, who departed his role as acquisitions director at Arrow Films in June, is teaming with John Cairns’ sales and production outfit Parkland Pictures to launch a new UK distribution company.

Under the banner Parkland Entertainment, Stewart will lead on acquiring films for release in the UK theatrical marketplace.

The company will launch with the distribution of several of Parkland’s sales titles: Jack Roth thriller Us And Them, Steven Berkoff’s Tell Tale Heart, and Charlotte Vega drama Provenance.

Stewart is a distribution veteran having worked at High Flyers, Freemantle Media...

 Jack Roth doesn’t understand why people want to know actors’ political opinions. “We crave actors’ thoughts on really big topics, and they usually don’t know what they’re talking about,” Roth, the son of iconic actor Tim Roth, told uInterview exclusively in SXSW in Austin. “Like, why would you ask an actor about anything important […]

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While the seasons may be changing for the better, there are still plenty of reasons to stay home this April, as there are numerous genre films hitting VOD and digital platforms that are well worth your time. IFC Midnight has a trifecta of cinematic treats planned this month, with Lowlife arriving on April 6th, Wildling coming out on the 13th, and Ghost Stories making its digital debut in the Us on April 20th. For those of you looking to check out Deep Blue Sea 2, the wait is finally over on the 17th, and for those looking to experience some movies with more of a dramatic flavor, both Tilt and the controversial Us and Them hit VOD on April 10th.

Other notable digital releases for April 2018 include Dead on Arrival (4/2), Corbin Nash (4/20), William Friedkin’s exorcism documentary The Devil and Father Amorth (4/24), and Winchester (4/17) for digital platforms, while those hoping...

Joe Martin’s Us And Them is less a dangerous class-warfare battle and more a steamy soapbox rant. It’s positioned as “a deadly game of chance,” but don’t expect some Saw-like torture chamber. Anti-establishment angst fuels a fire that rages in the name of social responsibility, through tirades that attack fat-cat bankers who “don’t understand” a working man’s struggle. You can see where Martin draws influence from Guy Ritchie (narrative choices) and Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, yet Us And Them‘s bark is worse than its bite. This is a human story about people who look for answers in all the wrong places, and the chaos that ensues. Blowhard, ill-conceived chaos that goes up or down in flames, depending on your personal outlook.

Jack Roth stars as an underprivileged youth named Danny. For years he’s squeaked by with minimal compensation, stuck in an economic...

For his feature film debut, UK director Joe Martin brazenly takes on the class divide of Britain in Us and Them, his crime thriller that follows a frustrated young man named Danny, played by Jack Roth, who takes out his anger on the wealthy and elite members of society by kidnapping a well-to-do family, which doesn’t go exactly as he planned.

While at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival, Daily Dead took a deep dive into the political and economical focus of Us and Them with both Martin and Roth, resulting in a fascinating discussion on the problems that have caused a great division both in the UK and the world at large.

Fantastic job on the film, guys. It has a lot to say and you put a lot of energy into some really serious issues we can all relate to.

Joe Martin: In this film, the one thing...

The most that any of us can hope for is just surviving. Isn’t it time we started living? Us and Them squarely takes on economic pressures that are building in the UK (and frankly, issues that are affecting nearly every other country on the map these days), as Danny (Jack Roth), a member of the lower class who recently lost his father to suicide, decides to take his frustrations out on a wealthy banker and his family to inspire others in his predicament to start fighting back against the elite. But when his plan goes south, that’s when all hell breaks loose, and we see just how much of a motivator money can be, especially when it comes to murder.

Us and Them begins with Phillipa (Sophie Colquhoun) taking her boyfriend, Glen (Paul Westwood), home to meet her affluent parents. On their travels to the family estate, the...

Rome Fortune's new music video inspired by Jordan Peele's Get Out tops today's Horror Highlights, and we also have details on the campaign to make Schlitzie: One of Us and trailers for Atomica, Us and Them, and Feral.

Get Out Music Video: "Watch artist Rome Fortune’s music video inspired by the film.

In Universal Pictures’ Get Out, a speculative thriller from Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series and The Gift) and the mind of Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.

Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods).

At first, Chris reads...

Exclusive: Jack Roth will star in the Joe Martin-directed feature.

London based Parkland Pictures has taken worldwide sales rights on Joe Martin’s drama Us And Them.

The film stars Jack Roth (Brimstone) as a disenfranchised young man who plans to take the family of a wealthy banker (Tim Bentinck) hostage before forcing him to gamble with their lives.

Further cast include Andrew Tiernan (The Pianist), Sophie Colquhoun (The Inbetweeners Movie) and Daniel Kendrick (Ripper Street).

Director Martin also wrote the screenplay for Jeremy Sokel’s production outfit Under The Woods Productions.

The feature will be produced by Danielle Clarke, who previously collaborated with Martin on documentary Keep Quiet, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in April.

Parkland’s current slate also includes Rebecca Ferguson thriller Despite The Falling Snow.

There always has to be a first TV show cancellation and this season's came much later than expected. Though several new shows have been essentially cancelled (Minority Report, Blood & Oil, Truth Be Told, and The Player), they are all still on the air. On Friday the 13th, ABC pulled the plug on their newest (and lowest-rated) drama after just three episodes.

Wicked City is set on the seedy Sunset Strip in the early 1980s. It revolves around Detective Jack Roth (Jeremy Sisto) and his new partner Paco Contreras (Gabriel Luna) as they try to solve a high-profile serial killer case. The rest of the show's cast includes Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen, Taissa Farmiga, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters, and Jaime Ray Newman.

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It looks like we finally have the first cancellation of the 2015-16 season. Four new shows have seen their episode orders cut (Truth Be Told, The Player, Blood & Oil, and Minority Report) but they've all stayed on the air. Tonight, ABC cancelled and pulled their low-rated Wicked City anthology drama after three airings.

Wicked City is set on the seedy Sunset Strip in the early 1980s. It revolves around Detective Jack Roth (Jeremy Sisto) and his new partner Paco Contreras (Gabriel Luna) as they try to solve a high-profile serial killer case. The rest of the show's cast includes Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen, Taissa Farmiga, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters, and Jaime Ray Newman.

Airing Tuesdays at 10pm, Wicked City had trouble right from the start. The first episode attracted a meager 0.88 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.28 million viewers.

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Last year, ABC introduced a gritty anthology series called American Crime. It didn't do very well in the ratings but the network renewed it for a second season anyway. Now, ABC has introduced another one called Wicked City. How will this one fare? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a second season as well? Stay tuned.

The first season of Wicked City is set on the seedy Sunset Strip in the early 1980s. It revolves around Detective Jack Roth (Jeremy Sisto) and his new partner Paco Contreras (Gabriel Luna) as they try to solve a high-profile serial killer case. The rest of the show's cast includes Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen, Taissa Farmiga, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters, and Jaime Ray Newman.

The ratings are typically the best indication of a show's likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49...

Kent Grainger (Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl) is a man of many alleged trades: a record label executive, a talent agent to the stars, and most importantly, a secret admirer.

In ABC’s Wicked City, the CW alum plays a copycat serial killer in the drug-fueled murder capital of the world — 1982 Los Angeles — where, much like Billy Idol’s then-eventual hit, he’s got nothing but flesh for fantasy.

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Jeremy Sisto is the first to admit he's a fan of dark characters.

"I find those roles interesting – how people are trying to make it when their biggest adversary is themselves," he tells People ahead of Tuesday's premiere of his eerie new ABC show Wicked City.

On the show, Sisto stars as detective Jack Roth, who is tasked with hunting down – and being hunted by – serial killing couple Kent Grainger (Ed Westwick) and Betty Beaumontaine (Erika Christensen) during Hollywood's sex- and drug-fueled '80s era.

"I'm really excited," says Sisto. "It's so different than anything I've seen. You have all of the cat-and-mouse stuff,...

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Set in 1980s Los Angeles, there’s a plethora of movies, television shows, and books, both fictional and true, that ABC’s new crime drama Wicked City can’t help but emulate. The new series follows the beginnings of a romantic tryst between a pair of deeply scarred individuals that eventually leads to a series of brutal murders along the Sunset Strip. Sometimes the series evokes the air of Se7en, or the overbearing dread of Zodiac, but it’s fashioned and packaged inside the most redundant and rudimentary network procedural possible, and adheres to such a sour and distasteful tone, that none of the terror sticks.

That terror originates from Kent Grainger (Ed Westwick), who infiltrates bars on the Sunset Strip each night, posing as whatever his potential target might need (casting agent, real estate mogul, etc) and inviting them out to...

“That was weird. And kind of amazing,” sighs Wicked City‘s Betty Beaumontaine (Erika Christensen), moments after a sexual encounter remarkable for its unspoken agreement that she pretend to be a corpse.

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Like Betty before she fully succumbs to the twisted charms of Ed Westwick’s Kent, you too might experience intermittent misgivings about the one-hour pilot of ABC’s latest crime drama (premiering Tuesday, 10/9c) — albeit for very different reasons. While Kent’s twisted script threatens to push Christensen’s secretly sadistic nurse...

L.A.’s Sunset Strip was where people went to see and be seen in the early 1980s — but the glitz and glamour had a dark side, which is the backdrop for the first season of ABC’s gritty new crime anthology, Wicked City. The series will focus on a new case in a different era each season, but will remain in L.A., “a place where people are slightly blinded by their own ambition [which] makes for an easier world for nefarious characters to operate within,” explains Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory), who plays detective Jack Roth on the series. Season 1 revolves around … Continue reading →

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If you’re trying to decipher the title of ABC’s freshman series Wicked City, look no further than the following sneak peek.

Set against the backdrop of the Sunset Strip circa 1982, the crime drama — premiering Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 10/9c — focuses on two Los Angeles cops in search of a Bonnie & Clyde-esque team of serial killers (played by Gossip Girl‘s Ed Westwick and Parenthood‘s Erika Christensen).

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In the video above, Detectives Jack Roth (Suburgatory‘s Jeremy Sisto) and Paco Contreras (Matador‘s Gabriel Luna...

One of Salem’s most unpredictable residents is popping back in for a visit.

Tamara Braun, who portrayed Mafia princess Ava Vitali on Days of Our Lives in 2008, will return for the soap’s upcoming 50th anniversary.

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According to TVInsider, Braun will make her entrance in the Dec. 9 episode.

The actress, who won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2009 for her portrayal of Ava, has also appeared on the series as Taylor Walker, estranged sister of Nicole Walker.

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* Suburgatory alum Jeremy Sisto...

The founding “tent” of the international Laurel and Hardy organization Sons of the Desert is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a banquet in New York City on August 8th—but only if enough people sign up to attend. That’s the message that Grand Sheik Jack Roth has asked me to spread. You can learn more at www.sonsofthedesertnyc.org. I’m sorry I can’t travel back East that weekend, but the mere thought of this event makes me nostalgic, as I did attend the 2nd banquet forty-nine years ago; it was one of the greatest nights of my life. I still have some snapshots, overflashed with my parents’ Brownie camera, but they do provide some memories of having met Stan Laurel’s...

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Exclusive: The Returned star Jeremy Sisto has been tapped for the lead role of Detective Jack Roth in ABC’s new fall crime drama Wicked City. In this recasting, the Suburgatory alum is taking over the role of the conflicted cop played by Adam Rothenberg in the pilot. The deal was closed over the weekend, I’ve learned, with papers to be signed imminently.

Each season of the L.A.-themed anthology series intended to focus on a case from a different era in the City of Angels. The first season follows a 1982 murder case centered on the rock ’n’ roll, drug-fueled Sunset Strip. Steven Baigelman wrote the script and EPs with Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman and Laurie Zaks. Jon Cassar has also joined as an executive producer, sources say. The longtime 24 director and EP signed on to the show last month. With Amy Harris recently named showrunner, the ABC Studios...