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Actors Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek are heading to the future with Mike Cahill‘s, Amazon and Endgame Entertainment vehicle, “Bliss.” The project began principal photography in Los Angeles and Croatia this week with shooting and post-production scheduled for the next few months. Cahill’s latest is a science fiction drama written by the filmmaker with Endgame Entertainment’s James D. Stern producing and Lucas Smith serving as executive producer.

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Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson have been cast in the upcoming sci-fi drama for Amazon entitled Bliss. Mike Cahill will be directing from the script he wrote. Variety reports the following synopsis for the film:

Wilson portrays a recently divorced man whose life is falling apart when he meets Hayek’s character, a woman who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real. She believes they are living in an ugly, harsh simulated world inside of the beautiful, peaceful “real” world of bliss.

This sounds like a very different project for the actors. Sad, but interesting as well. Production began this week in Los Angeles. Does this story pique your interest?...

Time spent in a modern war zone can be traumatic for participant and observer alike, yet across continents and cultures, the shared experiences of living and loving in the wake of such experiences can be startlingly similar. This is multi-faceted and overarching theme woven throughout Ben Lawrence’s sensitive and affecting new Australian drama “Hearts and Bones,” an impressive narrative feature debut from the winner of last year’s Sydney Film Festival documentary prize for “Ghosthunter.”

Lawrence’s thoughtful drama also casts an illuminating light on the current hot-button issue of immigrants to Australia and their place in the social fabric, specifically in the Western Sydney suburbs in which it is filmed. The film’s second-place finish in the narrative section of the fest’s audience award (behind Samuel Van Grinsven’s “Sequin in a Blue Room”) suggests it struck a chord with traditionally partisan Aussie audiences, and with proper handling,...

Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson have signed on to star in Amazon’s science-fiction drama “Bliss,” with Mike Cahill directing from his own script.

Wilson portrays a recently divorced man whose life is falling apart when he meets Hayek’s character, a woman who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real. She believes they are living in an ugly, harsh simulated world inside of the beautiful, peaceful “real” world of bliss.

Endgame Entertainment’s James D. Stern is producing, with the company’s Lucas Smith serving as executive producer. Marsha Swinton will also executive produce. Production began this week in Los Angeles.

Cahill directed “Another Earth” and “I Origins,” which were released by Fox Searchlight. Both films won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival where they premiered.

Hayek will next star alongside Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne...

Academy Award-nominees Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson are coming together for a mind-bending love story in “Bliss” from Amazon Studios.

The sci-fi drama was written — and will be directed — by Mike Cahill. Cahill was nominated for two Independent Spirit Award’s for best first feature film and best screenplay for his film “Another Earth,” which he wrote with Brit Marling (“The Oa”).

“Bliss” follows recently divorced Greg (Wilson), whose life is falling apart when he meets the enchanting Isabel (Hayek), a woman who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real. Isabel believes they are living in an ugly, harsh world simulation inside of the beautiful, peaceful “real” world of bliss. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy theory.

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Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek are toplining the mind-bending romancer Bliss for Amazon Studios and Endgame Entertainment.

Mike Cahill (I Origins, Another Earth) is directing the sci-fi project now shooting in Los Angeles and Croatia. Wilson plays a recent divorcee, Greg, whose life is falling apart as he meets an enchanting woman, Isabel, played by Hayek, who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real.

Isabel insists they live in an ugly, harsh world simulation inside of the beautiful, peaceful real world of bliss. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be ...

In The Devil’s Candy (released in 2017) an artist is seemingly possessed by dark forces that guide him to paint terrifyingly beautiful masterpieces. The trailer for Bliss sets a similar scenario but ups the depravity significantly with sex, drugs, and buckets of blood. This Bliss looks like heaven for horror fans! Bliss is written and […] The post Nsfw Trailer for Bliss is a Beautiful Bloodbath appeared first on Dread Central.

In Joe Begos' new horror film Bliss, a talented painter makes impressive progress on her masterpiece, but it comes at a bloody price in the film's first teaser trailer ahead of its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Written, directed, and produced by Begos (who is also directing the upcoming V.F.W. for Fangoria), Bliss will make its world premiere at Tribeca on Saturday, April 27th.

Visit Tribeca's official website for more details, and check out the festival synopsis, screening times, and teaser trailer (courtesy of Dark Sky Films) below:

Festival Synopsis: "Known for her dark and macabre artwork, painter Dezzy Donahue (Dora Madison) is in a professional rut. Unable to finish her newest commissioned work, Dezzy looks to reignite her creative juices by letting loose-as in, taking every drug in sight and tearing through raucous house parties and heavy metal bars. After a few nights spent with her...

It has already been announced that Roger Ross Williams's will be opening NYC's Tribeca Film Festival 2019 edition with his latest doc The Apollo about the eponymous Harlem theater. Today comes the rest of the slate of films unspooling at the festival and there are some good ones. Look the full list below where you'll find notable titles like Christoph Waltz's directorial debut Georgetown, the latest from Mark Webber The Place of No Words, Joe Begos's Bliss, and the long-awaited feature directorial debut of one Ant Timpson titled Come to Daddy (pic'ed). I'm sure we'll be seeing plenty more about those closer to the festival's start date of April 24. The feature program includes 103 films from...

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Exclusive: Stephen Lang, who played Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron’s epic sci-fi Avatar, is set to star in V.F.W., an action-horror film with Brawl in Cell Block 99 producer Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk producing for Fangoria. Joe Begos is at the helm, directing from a screenplay by Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle. Begos’ Channel 83 Films partner Josh Ethier is also producing.

Slated to go before cameras this month in Dallas, the film is described as The Wild Bunch meets Night of the Living Dead. It follows Fred and his military buddies as they must defend their local Vfw post – and an innocent teen – against a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of punk mutants. These Vietnam vets have been to hell and back, but this will be the longest night of their lives.

Executive producers are David Gilbery and Charles Dorfman of Media Finance Capital,...

The number of subscribers to BritBox has hit 500,000, the streaming service said Thursday. The platform, launched as a collaboration between BBC Studios and ITV, is designed to offer U.S. and Canadian viewers the best of recent and classic British television content.

The streaming service launched in the U.S. in March 2017 with a host of the latest British dramas and soaps, as well as classic comedy titles such as “Fawlty Towers,” “The Office,” “Gavin & Stacey” and “Absolutely Fabulous.” The service’s Canadian launch followed in February 2018.

Content and subscribers have grown rapidly, with BritBox leveraging programming including simulcast events, such as the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry last May, and new star-led programming like “Hold the Sunset,” which marked “Fawlty Towers” and Monty Python star John Cleese’s first leading role in a British sitcom in nearly 40 years. BritBox is now home to the largest collection...

ABC has officially ordered a pilot for The Hypnotist’s Love Story, based on the bestselling book by Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies) and starring Heather Graham as a stalker.

Penned by Katie Wech (Rizzoli & Isles), who will executive-produce with David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks and Graham, the project follows Ellen, a successful (yet-to-be-cast) hypnotherapist who after a string of failed romances is optimistic about her current boyfriend. But then Ellen’s beau discloses a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend has been following him for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued – and oddly thrilled — by the stalker, entirely unaware that they have already met.

William Morgan Sheppard, best known for his work in Star Trek: The Next Generation the series and subsequent Star Trek films, died Sunday. He was 86.

His son, actor Mark Sheppard (Lost Voyage) shared news of his father’s death in an emotional tribute on Instagram.

The London-born actor began his career on the stage. He was an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 12 years, and appeared on Broadway in 1966 with Marat-Sade and later in 1975 with Sherlock Holmes. But it was his portrayal of Dr. Ira Graves in 1989’s Star Trek: The Next Generation series for which he became known to audiences worldwide. He also went on to play the Rura Penth commandant in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in 1991, Quatai in the Star Trek: Voyager’s 1999 episode Bliss, and the chief Vulcan Science Council minister in 2009’s Star Trek film.

His other credits include an episode of Doctor Who,...

Heather Graham is about to make you feel very, very sleepy: The actress is set to star in ABC’s series adaptation of The Hypnotist’s Love Story, by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, our sister site Variety is reporting.

Graham will play Ellen, a successful hypnotherapist who’s optimistic about her new boyfriend after a series of failed relationships. There’s a problem, though: The boyfriend comes with a stalker ex-girlfriend, who Ellen finds herself “intrigued and oddly thrilled” by.

Katie Welch will write and executive-produce the potential series, which earned a put pilot commitment from ABC. Graham...

From show creator David Cross, the comedy series Bliss (available at BritBox) follows Andrew (Stephen Mangan), a successful travel writer who, as a result of extenuating circumstances, finds himself living a double life between two families. The two sets of wives (Heather Graham and Jo Hartley) and children don’t know about each other, which keeps Andrew in a constant state of moral crisis, balancing his time between two worlds that he’s finding it ever-harder to contain. While at the BritBox portion of the Television Critics Association Press Tour, Collider got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 …...

Constantin Film is adapting German author Ferdinand von Schirach’s international bestseller “The Collini Case,” a legal thriller that deals with Germany’s Nazi past and that was inspired by the author’s own family history.

Elyas M’Barek (pictured), of “Fack ju Göhte” fame and one of Germany’s leading actors, toplines the film, “Der Fall Collini,” which is being directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner from a screenplay by Christian Zuebert, Robert Gold and Jens-Frederik Otto. M’Barek plays an attorney who takes on a defendant accused of the vicious murder of a respected elderly businessman. In researching the case, the young lawyer comes across one of the biggest judicial scandals in German history and a truth that nobody wants to face.

Alexandra Maria Lara (“You Are Wanted”) and Heiner Lauterbach (“Welcome to Germany”) also star in the courtroom drama, which is shooting this year for a 2019 release via Constantin.

Unexpected Moonlighting reunion alert: Cybill Shepherd will take part in The Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis, airing Sunday, July 29 at 10/9c.

Shepherd and Willis, of course, starred as love-hate private detectives Maddie and David in the aforementioned ABC dramedy, which ran for five seasons from 1985 to 1989.

Additional roasters include Nikki Glaser, Lil Rel Howery, Dom Irrera, Edward Norton, Kevin Pollak and Jeff Ross.

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* Netflix has released a teaser for its adult animated comedy fantasy series Disenchantment, from creator Matt Groening (The Simpsons) and premiering Friday, Aug. 17:

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