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A Max original, The Pitt is a medical drama that chronicles one 15-hour shift in the emergency room of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. Gritty and authentic, each episode in the show covers a single hour of the shift beginning at seven in the morning. With medical students and interns in tow on their very first day, Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle), the show’s senior attending, navigates the organized chaos that’s become synonymous with working in the ER.

A realistic representation of medical personnel on the frontlines, the series isn’t made for those with a queasy stomach. At any given moment, viewers could witness a simple flesh wound or the inside of someone’s chest cavity. It is an ER after all. Given the scope of the series, The Pitt has an extensive cast, which audiences might recognize from other television shows and movies. Below are the...

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LG Channels, the free, ad-supported streaming television (Fast) platform built in to the electronic maker’s smart TVs, has launched a new content stream that curates a selection of shows and movies that are exclusive to the service.

The portal, called LG Channels Showcase, will feature a rotating catalog of titles from Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Shout! Studios, Lionsgate and others, the company said in a statement this week.

In July, LG Channels Showcase will offer free access to blockbuster movies like “Tomb Raider,” “Hercules” (Paramount Pictures version), “Red Dawn,” “Big Eyes,” “Thelma & Louise,” “The Terminator,” “Pompeii,” “Mystic Pizza,” “The Lucky Ones,” “Windtalkers,” “But I’m A Cheerleader” and “Sophie’s Choice.”

Shows that will stream through LG Channels Showcase include the company’s own original docuseries “LG Presents: The Rivalries,” which features rival match-ups from NCAA Division II and Division III sports. Another original, called “Taste of Tennessee,...

As a kid, I adored my grandfather. I knew he loved chocolate (the dark kind) and hated ketchup. I knew he enjoyed a good pun and could speak seven languages — around the dinner table it was French. I knew his Steinway was his happy place, and that he made many of the things in his home by hand (like the curtains that hung in his living room, woven on a loom he built in his basement).

What I didn’t know about my grandfather was that he grew up one of five siblings in a town in central Poland called Radom; or that he was raised in the Jewish faith; or that he, his parents and his siblings were Holocaust survivors. These were truths I learned at 15, a year after he died, thanks to a high school English assignment and an interview with my grandmother Caroline.

The discovery sparked a lot of questions.

Even with all the preparation that Joey King did for “We Were the Lucky Ones,” nothing could have prepared her for meeting the descendants of the Kurc family. Anna, the daughter of King’s character, showed up on set while filming was happening in Malaga, Spain. “It was this very emotional, beautiful moment. The first thing she said to me when she me, she outstretched her arms and she looked at me and she said, ‘Mama,’” she reveals to Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video interview above). The gesture brought tears to King’s eyes. “She had not met me yet, hasn’t seen any of the work I’ve done to portray her mother yet, yet is here giving me this warm embrace and confidence that says, ‘Yes, you are playing my mother and I’m so excited.’ It just felt like a real big green light for me.

The Kurc family's incredible survival during WWII is depicted with strong emotional impact by the cast of We Were The Lucky Ones. The production team effectively recreates different locations during WWII, adding depth to the family's story. From Lodz to Casablanca and Rio, the Kurcs' journey showcases resilience and eventual reunification.

Hulu’s We Were The Lucky Ones tells a heartbreaking tale of the Kurcs, a Polish Jewish family separated by World War II, taking them to many locations across the map. Based on the eponymous novel by Georgia Hunter, this drama miniseries follows the experiences of the close-knit Kurc family, who have a home and business in Radom prior to the war. When the war breaks out, the family is torn apart and sent to all ends of the world.

Unlike many Jewish families, the Kurcs all miraculously survive World War II. Despite this, they experience unbelievable horrors, including fighting on the frontline,...

Exclusive: Adina Verson has signed with Cesd for representation.

After recurring on season one of Only Murders In the Building, Verson was promoted to a series regular where they portrayed Cinda Canning’s (Tina Fey) assistant Poppy White.

Most recently they were seen on HBO’s And Just Like That… as well as in the critically acclaimed short Troy. Previously they starred on New Amsterdam, Mozart in the Jungle and The Strain.

On stage, Verson starred in A Transparent Musical at Center Theatre Group as Ali Pfefferman, and has appeared on Broadway in Indecent, and off-Broadway in Wives (Playwrights Horizons), Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (McC) and The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova) for which they were nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award.

Verson continues to be represented by Bernard F. Bunye at Forte Artist Management.

As of Episode 4, “We Were the Lucky Ones” is still in the midst of the Nazi domination of Europe. But the Hulu limited series has already displayed a preference for swerving away from the expected tropes of the period. It’s telling a World War II saga that features no battlefields and a chronicle of Jewish resistance that is more about forging and smuggling than about killing Nazis.

“We Were the Lucky Ones” is all the better for showing the audience new kinds of hardships and new avenues for survival, too. It shines when dramatic moments feel specific to the Kurcs, the Polish Jewish family the show follows as the war scatters them across Europe and even further afield, as opposed to the kinds of war imagery that, given the number of WWII dramas each year, can appear standard issue.

Avoiding cliches but still showing the scope Nazi oppression, to...

After twelve years of continuous zombie mayhem, The Walking Dead aired its final episode in November 2022. When it first aired, The Walking Dead was a phenomenon on par with Game of Thrones. However, The Walking Dead saw a dip in storytelling quality and was marred by some truly head-scratching decisions. Although it managed to dig itself out of that hole with the Whisperers storyline, the damage was done during the highly anticipated Saviors storyline, which was beloved by comic readers.

While The Walking Dead managed a return to form, despite the lack of Rick Grimes throughout the final seasons, there was nonetheless a period of time in which the show struggled immensely. This is most easily evident by a sharp decline in scores on IMDb.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on March 20, 2024: The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live reinvigorates the Twd universe with a fresh new story that elevates...

For fans of World War II period dramas and the original "Percy Jackson" films, I have incredible news. The limited series "We Were the Lucky Ones" is coming to Disney's newly-purchased Hulu very soon, and it looks like it's going to be worth the wait.

The show is "inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive and reunite," according to the official synopsis. "The series demonstrates how in the face of the 20th century's darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive. The series is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds."

It is adapted from a New York Times best-selling novel of the same name by Georgia Hunter, a 46-year-old Jewish-American author. Her book is based on the true story of her family's survival in the Holocaust. Although the...

From the eight-time Oscar nominee “The Imitation Game” to the Korean revenge thriller “I Saw the Devil,” free streaming service Plex is giving audiences new and varied reasons to keep coming back to its library of over 50,000 titles.

As we ring in October, check out The Streamable’s top picks and build your to-watch list from all of the titles coming to the streamer this month!

Watch Now $0+ / month plex.tv What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Coming to Plex in October 2023? “Experimenter” | Sunday, Oct. 1

The gripping biopic “Experimenter” arrives to Plex to start the month. Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the film focuses on the 1961 behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers, as well as the aftermath of the experiments and the public outcry of their ethics.

Exclusive: Comedic multi-hyphenate Julio Torres (A24’s Problemista) has struck a deal with Ars Nova, the Off-Broadway, non-profit theater in NYC, that will see them partner to identify, develop, and commission full-length projects from early-career comedy artists.

The collaboration further expands Ars Nova’s two-decade commitment to new comedy at a time when support systems for NYC-based artists have decreased. Under the partnership, Torres and Ars Nova will look to provide comedians with opportunities for development and production outside of the traditional model of sketch shows and 10-minute sets. They’ll offer funding up front to create brand new, uniquely theatrical shows, while providing mentorship and development resources to the artists involved, the first set for a commission being Ars Nova Vision Residency Alum River L. Ramirez. Others will be announced at a later date.

To celebrate the alliance, Torres will return to the Ars Nova stage on October 26 to host Showgasm.

Few directors boast the consistent excellence of German auteur Christian Petzold. The puckish filmmaker got on Zoom from New York to unwind some of the surprises in Berlin’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner “Afire,” his tenth feature and third to star Paula Beer.

It started out being called “The Lucky Ones.” “I love this title,” he told IndieWire during a recent interview. “But it was forbidden, because there was a wave of copyright problems.” When he came up with “The Red Sky,” referring to the film’s wildfire encroaching on his trio of Baltic Sea vacationers, “This was also forbidden for use. They said the word ‘afire’ and I said, ‘it sounds good.'”

Petzold was working on adapting a dystopian novel during the pandemic, but when he contracted Covid, he put it aside. “To erase-delete, to delete it out of my mind, this was the hard work on ‘Afire,...

Rachel McAdams had been anointed Hollywood's latest "It Girl" when she was tapped to grace the cover of Vanity Fair's 2006 Oscar issue alongside Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. She was coming off a string of critical and commercial successes in "Mean Girls," "The Notebook," "Red Eye" and "The Family Stone," and appeared to be on the cusp of superstardom. But when McAdams learned, upon arriving at the Tom Ford photoshoot, that she was expected to pose nude, she walked, promptly fired her publicist (who'd failed to inform her of the shoot's parameters), and pressed the pause button on her film career.

Prior to the #MeToo revolution, firing up double rockets at the exploitative Hollywood movie star machine was considered career suicide. This was how women got smeared with the "difficult" label. McAdams, however, persevered and has established herself as one of the most brilliantly unpredictable actors of her generation. She's...

[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 11, Episode 12, “The Lucky Ones.”] In this week’s The Walking Dead, we learn a little more about why Maggie (Lauren Cohan) seemed to be at odds with her old pal Daryl (Norman Reedus) and the Commonwealth in the midseason premiere’s final minutes. Whether or not she should be is perhaps another question entirely — simply put, while folks in Ohio are thriving, Maggie’s just surviving. Barely. We also learn Max’s (Margot Bingham) side of the story with the whole Eugene (Josh McDermitt) debacle, and Ezekiel (Khary Payton) gets called in for surgery. Here’s how it happens. Josh Stringer/AMC Commonwealth leader Pamela Milton (Laila Robins), Lance Hornsby (Josh Hamilton), military leader Mercer (Michael James Shaw) and Daryl, along with a group of soldiers, all head for Alexandria and its surrounding communities. It’s Lance’s aim to show Pamela what the Commonwealth would...

In Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead, Lance’s master plan to bring Alexandria, Hilltop and Oceanside under the protection of the Commonwealth — and make himself, in effect, their Pamela — hit one speed bump after another until finally it crashed into a total roadblock. What — or should we say who — was it? Read on…

‘Ambition Is Notoriously Hard To Reel In’ | Right from the start of “The Lucky Ones,” we could tell that Lance was going to be fighting an uphill battle to sell Pamela on his idea. “There’s enough to do at home,” she argued, “without having...

Maggie Rhee is a woman of many talents, and The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 12 had them all on display.

Maggie spent years away from her friends and the communities they've called home for years, and a part of her thinks the best foot forward is to restore the Hilltop to its former glory.

In theory, it's a tough task, especially when you consider that the Kingdom has already fallen, and Alexandria wasn't far from it when Eugene, Lance, and the Commonwealth soldiers showed up.

The truth is, all of these characters have been too trusting of the Commonwealth, and it's becoming clear that there's more going on behind the scenes than our heroes are privy to.

Lance is an intriguing figure in the narrative. We know he's been scheming every step of the way and is desperate for any semblance of power he can get.

He likes to manipulate people into doing his bidding,...

Exclusive: Neil Burger Emmy-winner Dirk Wittenborn and Johnny Lin’s new production arm, Clandestine Laureate, are teaming on a new untitled film that tells the story of unlikely math genius Christopher Havens. Burger is set to direct, reteaming with his The Lucky Ones screenwriter, Wittenborn, who recently finished the script.

The story follows Havens, a high school drop-out, who is incarcerated and while in solitary confinement, developed an unlikely passion for number theory. Against all odds, he pioneered a new branch of mathematics that stunned the world. Havens still has 15 years left of his 25-year murder sentence.

“Through candid storytelling, we will share untold details of Christopher’s tumultuous journey and his accomplishments,” Lin said. “Who better to capture this idiosyncratic mind of a genius than Dirk and Neil, who both have worked on mad scientist-type projects. Adding in the elements of a gruesome prison experience, this reunion of Wittenborn...

Neil Burger has been tapped to direct “Summer Frost,” a live-action science-fiction film in priority development for Skydance and Temple Hill

Based on a short story of the same name by Blake Crouch, the story follows a Vr game designer whose world is forever changed when one of her non-player characters starts acting out of programming.

Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner are producing for Temple Hill. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger are producing for Skydance. Matt Grimm is shepherding the project for the company.

Burger broke onto the scene with his critically acclaimed Magician pic “The Illusionist.” He would follow that up with “Limitless,” starring Bradley Cooper, and “The Lucky Ones.”

His big break came when he landed the adaptation of the global hit “Divergent,” starring Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet. He most recently directed “The Upside,” which starred Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart and went on to gross $108 million domestically.

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We have the highlights of what's coming and going from HBO Now and HBO Go in March 2020.

March 2020 is an extremely HBO month for HBO.

What we mean by that is that the list of new releases for the month contain a lot of the hallmarks of the HBO brand that the network has built over the years. There is the third season of an expensive and popular sci-fi series with Westworld season 3 premiering on March 15. Then there's also the requisite new David Simon series when Philip Roth adaptation The Plot Against America premieres on March 16.

If that weren't enough, March 2020 sees the arrival of a big ticket superhero movie with X-Men: Dark Phoenix arriving on March 21. It's not a good big ticket superhero movie, but still! You may want to rewatch it all the same. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is a sort of superhero movie itself.

Sarah Silverman’s Off Broadway musical The Bedwetter has found its director along with a new premiere date: Anne Kauffman will direct the Atlantic Theater Company production, with previews beginning April 25, 2020.

Opening Night, casting, and creative team will be announced at a later date.

The previously-announced production, set for the Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, is based on Silverman’s memoir The Bedwetter. Silverman and Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews) are writing the musical’s book, with music by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger and lyrics by Schlesinger and Silverman.

The limited engagement runs through Sunday, June 14, 2020.

Kauffman’s many stage credits include The Lucky Ones, Marvin’s Room, A Life, Detroit and Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra. She is the Artistic Director of Encores! Off Center, Resident Director at Roundabout Theater, and a winner of three Obie Awards and a Lucille Lortel Award,...

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Limitless director Neil Burger taps Colin Farrell to headline Voyagers, a space-set sci-fi ensemble film.

Voyagers is a film project that’s emerged from the pipeline from Agc Studios and Thunder Road with a lot of momentum, notably with the attachment of Limitless and Divergent director Neil Burger, and a space-set sci-fi premise that’s effectively described as Lord of the Flies in space.

Colin Farrell, who's just coming off Dumbo, will headline Voyagers, according to a report by Deadline, which also reveals the rest of the primary cast and an intriguing prospective supporting roster. While character details were not provided for anyone, Farrell will be joined in the main cast by fellow confirmed cast members in Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead and Kean Johnson.

Additionally, discussions are reportedly underway to add Kelvin Harrison, Chanté Adams, Madison Hu and Isaac Hempstead Wright is on the verge...

Hulu has released its list of all the new content coming May 1 as well as everything that will leave the streaming service at the end of the month.

Highlights include Hulu Originals like “Into The Dark: All That We Destroy,” the show’s eighth episode coming May 3. Hulu describes the show as “A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.”

George Clooney’s “Catch-22,” which is on the Joseph Heller novel of the same name arrives mid-month. Per Hulu: “‘Catch-22'” is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian, a Us Air Force bombardier in World War II who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him.” The show stars Kyle Chandler,...

“The Upside” director Neil Burger is set to direct sci-fi thriller “Voyagers” as his next project. The film will be fully financed and co-produced by Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios, and produced by Burger’s Nota Bene Productions and Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Films. Agc also handles international sales on the new film.

Written and directed by Burger, “Voyagers” tells the story of 30 children sent into space on a multi-generational mission to reach and populate a newly discovered planet. After the adult captain is mysteriously killed, the young crew descends into chaos, reverting to a primitive, tribal state, giving in to their most feral and animal desires.

Burger will produce alongside Iwanyk and Brendon Boyea for Thunder Road. Ford and Greg Shapiro, Agc’s president of film, will serve as executive producers.

The film marks Burger’s first screenwriting credit since 2008’s “The Lucky Ones.” His past directing credits...

In her much-anticipated foray into the horror-thriller genre, Taylor Schilling stars in The Prodigy as Sarah, a mother whose young son Miles' disturbing behavior signals that an evil, possibly supernatural force has overtaken him. Fearing for her family's safety, Sarah must grapple with her maternal instinct to love and protect Miles in favor of investigating what - or who - is causing his dark turn. She is forced to look for answers in the past, taking the audience on a wild ride; one where the line between perception and reality remains blurry.

Yesterday, we got the brand new poster for The Prodigy, which showed Sarah comforting her son, with pure evil lingering behind them. Now, we get a taste of the terror as Orion Pictures prepares genre fans for one of the most horrifying experiences of 2019.

Miles isn't like other kids in the new trailer for The Prodigy. Taylor Schilling...

With Orange is the New Black coming to an end this year, Taylor Shilling is looking to break out in genre movies, next appearing in her first horror thriller The Prodigy. The resuscitated Orion Pictures has released a new poster for her latest descent into madness. And it's pretty creepy.

Death is not the end in the new poster for The Prodigy. From the producer of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Prodigy follows a mother (Taylor Schilling) who's concerned that her young son's (Jackson Robert Scott) disturbing behavior might be caused by a supernatural force overtaking him. Find out what's wrong with Miles when The Prodigy hits theaters nationwide February 8, 2019.

In her much-anticipated foray into the horror-thriller genre, Taylor Schilling stars in The Prodigy as Sarah, a mother whose young son Miles' disturbing behavior signals that an evil, possibly supernatural force has overtaken him. Fearing for her family's safety,...

Winners of the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards were revealed on June 3 during a ceremony at the Town Hall in midtown Manhattan that was hosted once again by Michael Urie. As with the Outer Critics Circle Awards, these kudos also consider both Broadway and off-Broadway fare. To that end, the Broadway production of “The Band’s Visit” was ineligible, save for its sound design which was deemed to be new and won with these voters.

See 2018 Tony Awards nominations push Broadway to best season ever for attendance and grosses

Plays

Best Play

X – Admissions, by Joshua Harmon

Mary Jane, by Amy Herzog

Miles for Mary, by The Mad Ones

People, Places & Things, by Duncan Macmillan

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, by Jocelyn Bioh

Best Revival of a Play

X – Angels in America

Hindle Wakes

In the Blood

Three Tall Women

Travesties

Best Director of a Play

Marianne Elliott,...

“The Launch,” Big Machine Records President/CEO Scott Borchetta’s singing competition on Canadian Television (CTV), is getting a second season, having landed an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with Sony Pictures Television (Spt). The show is set to begin filming in Toronto this coming Fall for the 2018-19 season.

After just one season on the air, the show has seen success from its graduates the likes of which most reality competition shows strive for: six of the series’ singles have seen major traction, including four No. 1 songs on iTunes Canada: Poesy’s “Soldier of Love,” Logan Staats’ “The Lucky Ones,” Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine’s “Ain’t Easy,” which was recently certified platinum, and The Static Shift’s “Wide Awake.”

That success, Borchetta tells Variety, is validation that “we might really have something here.”

The idea for “The Launch” came to Borchetta shortly after completing his final season as...

Cost of Living and School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play tied for Best Play and Kpop captured Best Musical at the 33rd annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway.

Mary Jane also captured three awards, including Best Director.

The honors were handed out Sunday night at NYU Skirball Center, in a ceremony hosted by Meteor Shower co-stars Laura Benanti and Jeremy Shamos. As in past years, the event was a benefit for The Actors Fund.

Many Lortel winners go on to Broadway runs — last year’s top prize-winners, Oslo and The Band’s Visit, went on to wider runs and the latter is considered a Tony front-runner for Best Musical.

The voting committee for the awards includes reps from the Off-Broadway League, Actors’ Equity Association, the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society and the Lucille Lortel Foundation, plus theater journalists, academics and others working in the Off-Broadway sector.

Here...

Off Broadway Korean-pop musical “Kpop” topped the nominations for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging nine nominations for the annual awards for Off Broadway fare.

“Kpop,” which Ars Nova (“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”) produced in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company and Woodshed Collective, led a list of musical nominees that also included “Bella: An American Tall Tale” (six nominations) and “The Lucky Ones” (five.) The top-nominated play was “Mary Jane” (six nominations), the Amy Herzog play that premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in a staging that starred Carrie Coon (who’s nominated for an acting award).

Special awards will be given to Eve Ensler, for the lifetime achievement award; Michael Friedman, the late composer who will be inducted into the Lortel’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk; and Wp Theater, for body of work.

The full list of the 33rd annual Lucille Lortel Awards nominations follows. Winners will be announced...

The name Jerry Springer isn’t one you’d likely connect with Off Broadway’s prestigious Lucille Lortel Awards, but there he is, or the opera named after him anyway, with 4 nominations.

The Off-Broadway League announced nominees for the 2018 Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway today. See the full list of nominees below.

This year’s awards ceremony, to be hosted by Laura Benanti and Jason Jones, who appear together on TBS’s The Detour, is set for Sunday, May 6, at the NYU Skirball Center. The evening will honor Tony-winning playwright and performer Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues) with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and longstanding Off-Broadway company Wp Theater for their Outstanding Body of Work.

Also this year, the Lortel Awards will posthumously elect composer Michael Friedman onto the Playwrights’ Sidewalk in front of the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village. The 41-year-old Friedman, who won an...

Suzanne Somers may have found fame as the ditzy Chrissy Snow in Three’s Company, but in her new book, she reveals a life filled with difficulty — and the terror she felt when she thought she was going to be raped while on a remote photo shoot in Mexico in the 1970s.

“I went down to lie by the pool, and all of a sudden a creepy guy was there,” the 71-year-old actress told People when discussing her book, Two’s Company: A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business, which is exclusively excerpted in this week’s issue of People.

The lucky ones freeze to death… Are you ready for a new French nightmare? Cold Ground is allegedly the first French found-footage movie. The action is set in the 70’s, in the mountains. Melissa and David, two young journalists, leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies. Yet, once […]...

The joke between me and my Sundance roommate/colleague was that every review and write-up would contain the phrase “In the age of Trump.” Another phrase to watch out for is “now more than ever,” spoken verbatim twice during this year’s Sundance acceptance speeches. The proposition that independent film will “lead the resistance” against Our 45th President is a dubious one: I don’t remember The Lucky Ones or In the Valley of Elah helping anything in particular. The repeated invocation of certain dead phrases to summon up a spell against the darkness inevitably and a bit boringly brings to mind Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” […]...

Welcome back for Day 9 of Daily Dead’s fourth annual Holiday Gift Guide, readers! Once again, our goal is to help you navigate through the horrors of the 2016 shopping season with our tips on unique gift ideas, and we’ll hopefully help you save a few bucks over the next few weeks, too. For today’s gift guide, we’re showcasing several of the amazing Arrow Video releases of 2016, and we're also featuring the work of IBTrav Illustration & Design, the Mondo soundtrack release for Deathgasm, more enamel pins, a book celebrating Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Horror LEGOs, recent Monster High releases, and so much more!

This year’s Holiday Gift Guide is sponsored by several amazing companies, including Mondo, Anchor Bay Entertainment, DC Entertainment, and Magnolia Home Entertainment, who have all donated an assortment of goodies to help get you into the spirit of the season. Daily Dead also recently...

Lampedusa is Italy’s southern-most island, a far-flung location that has made the news throughout the years as a beacon of hope, the first shore that many thousands of immigrants...

On October 11th, horror and sci-fi fans have many reasons to rejoice, as we have two stellar Collector’s Edition releases from Scream Factory coming our way this week, The Thing and Carrie. Arrow Video is also keeping busy this Tuesday with two Special Edition releases of their own—The Hills Have Eyes and Dark Water (2002)—and the most recent Ghostbusters comes home this week on Blu-ray and DVD as well.

Other notable releases for October 11th include Hannibal: The Complete Series, 2 Jennifer, Astro-Zombies, Killer Ink, a holiday art version of Krampus, the entire run of Kolchak: The Night Stalker on DVD, A Werewolf in the Amazon collection, and an assortment of Blu-ray and DVD re-releases of The Twilight Zone.

Carrie: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, this "absolutely spellbinding horror movie", (Roger Ebert) has become a pervasive, pop-culture touchstone...

Girl Meets World is once again turning back the clock, this time with the help of a familiar face — or at least a familiar name.

Ocean Maturo, brother of August Maturo (aka Auggie Matthews), will play a younger version of Auggie during a flashback in an upcoming Season 3 episode, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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And here’s a fun fact: Ocean Maturo played baby Michael in the first season of American Horror Story, which means he’s one of the few people on this planet fortunate enough to have touched Connie Britton’s hair.

“The lucky ones die first.” Man, what a tagline. And how true it is. Ten years ago today, Alexandre Aja unleashed his remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 horror masterpiece The Hills Have Eyes upon the world. With all do respect to the late Mr. Craven: I’ve never been a huge fan of his original film. Don’t get me wrong. I […]...

Last week, Universal Pictures unveiled new details about their Universal Monsters Shared Universe, which will officially kick off in 2017 with the Untitled Mummy Reboot. The end credits scene in last year's Dracula Untold served as a "prologue" to this universe. One of the several other projects in development at Universal is a remake of Bride of Frankenstein, with a report from The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the studio is eyeing Angelina Jolie to star as the title character. With Universal financing her latest directorial effort, By the Sea, the actress may be more inclined to star in Bride of Frankenstein, to return the favor for By the Sea, which has tanked at the box office, earning just $313,000 after two weeks in theaters.

The Bride of Frankenstein reboot has been in the works for several years, with Neil Burger (Divergent, Limitless) signing on to write and direct the reboot back in...

Though it has died a very quick death at the box-office, Universal's low-budget relationship drama and vanity project "By the Sea" may have been part of a strategy to lure that film's star and director Angelina Jolie to one of its tentpoles.

THR reports that the distributor apparently greenlit 'Sea' as they are seeking Jolie to headline their remake of 1935's "The Bride of Frankenstein". Elsa Lanchester starred s the famous bride in the original film.

First announced six years ago, Brian Grazer remains onboard as producer but there's no word if "Divergent" and "Limitless" director Neil Burger still intends to helm from a script he co-wrote with Dirk Wittenborn ("The Lucky Ones") .

Also not clear, but likely, is that 'Bride' is a part of Universal's intention to integrate reboots of its classic monster movies into a shared cinematic universe under the control of writers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan.

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

The last day of June doesn’t have a ton of DVD and Blu-ray titles, but those of you cult film fans out there will definitely want to check out this week’s offerings as both Blue Underground and Scream Factory are releasing several fun Collector’s Edition Blus that all seem like great additions for any horror fan’s home entertainment collection.

First up is Sf’s Ghosthouse/Witchery double feature and we also have a trio of Enzo Castellari genre classics coming our way too—1990: The Bronx Warriors, Escape from the Bronx and The New Barbarians—courtesy of Blue Underground. MGM has dug up the 1991 cult werewolf film, Mom, and is presenting it on a Limited Edition DVD.

1990: The Bronx Warriors (Blue Undergound, Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

The First To Die Were The Lucky Ones! It's 1990 and the Bronx has officially been declared a 'No Man's Land.

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Being an active member of the WWE roster isn’t the easiest job in the world. Think of the travel, the time spent away from family, the injuries picked up along the way. The lucky ones who make it to the top of the game generally put in the most time and do the most miles. But people can’t do it forever.

And while some can’t get enough and stay active for far longer than they should, there’s a sensible few who have turned their back on the business in their prime – either because they’ve had to – or because there’s something else in the pipeline. The latest case in point came at the start of April, where a certain WWE Diva announced her retirement from in-ring competition.

But Aj Lee isn’t the only one to explore other ventures whilst at the top.

Readers of all ages can experience Batman's Gotham and its surroundings in uniquely different ways this summer with collected volume editions of four new Batman-related titles—Grayson, Batgirl, Batman: Arkham Knight, and Gotham Academy—and we have details on the summer releases in our latest round-up. Also included this time around are details and a look at the cover art for three upcoming Blue Underground Blu-ray/DVD releases: 1990: The Bronx Warriors, The New Barbarians, and Escape From the Bronx.

DC Comics' Batman Collected Editions: Press Release - "Whether you’re a lifelong or novice comic reader, a teen reader or a mystery lover, DC Comics is releasing a highly diverse lineup of Collected Editions this June that revolve around the world’s most popular Super-Hero, Batman, and are perfect for your summer reading lists!

For young readers 12 and up, Gotham Academy Vol. 1 is a vibrant take...

Divergent director Neil Burger has signed on to take the helm for Chockstone Pictures' adaptation All the Old Knives.

The story, based on Olen Steinhauer's novel of the same name, centers on two former lovers, Henry, a current CIA agent in Vienna, and Celia, who retired five years ago, who reunite for dinner in the idyllic town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. The conversation eventually shifts to the hijacking of Royal Jordianian Flight 127, which ended with every passenger on board dying, and is considered the Vienna station's greatest failure to date. As the dinner progresses, it becomes clear that one of them won't make it out alive.

Here's what director Neil Burger had to say about Olen Steinhauer's novel:

"Olen Steinhauer has written a fantastic, suspenseful, sophisticated drama set in the world of the CIA. As a director, I love that it's a tightly woven puzzle, a mystery involving counter-terrorism...

Kevin Garvey just can’t catch a break. As far as TV protagonists go, The Leftovers‘ tattooed, bleary-eyed, possibly insane police chief is one of the most embattled. Even in the first episode, he was forced to go through the soul-crushing ordeal of gunning down dogs shortly after watching one get blown away in front of him. Since then, Kevin has been under tremendous pressure in every area of his life.

At home, he has to care for his emotionally damaged daughter Jill and toe the line with her flirtatious best friend Aimee. At work, he’s both the scapegoat for every terrible thing that happens and seemingly the only one capable of cleaning up Mapleton’s messes (the only other cops we’ve seen so far on The Leftovers have been either donut-dunking blowhards or unfortunately inept schlubs). And even in his own head, Kevin is struggling to keep...

A lot has happened in the Walking Dead universe since last year's Comic Con panel. I won't get in to spoilers for the uninitiated, but suffice to say there was more than one fewer seat on stage in Hall H this year. The lucky ones who did make it back included starts Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Chad Coleman, and Michael Cudlitz; executive producers Scott Gimple, Robert Kirkman and Gale Anne Hurd, and zombie make up...

Ready to see Veronica Roth's best-selling novel Divergent make the jump to the big screen? Advance tickets for the film starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet are now on sale! As a special bonus, when you purchase your tickets, you'll be entered into a sweepstakes where two lucky fans will have the chance to win a walk-on role in the film's sequel Insurgent. Divergent will arrive in theaters March 21 in 35 mm and IMAX formats and is the first of a trilogy from Roth. Limitless and The Lucky Ones director Neil Burger helms this latest adaptation. Are you excited to see the movie?  

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Twenty people stand in front of a bunker as nuclear bombs go off in the distance. The deadly radiation moves their direction and they’re forced to decide who among them deserves refuge and who will have to remain outside and face certain death. Quickly, the group weeds out potential survivors based solely on the careers. Mechanics, carpenters, and scientists are all in, while artists of any kind are out. The lucky ones head inside for a year, waiting until the world outside heals itself, but something is amiss with the group dynamic, tragedy strikes, and mankind is doomed. Good thing this is nothing more than a thought experiment between students and teacher on the last day of class. Mr. Zimit (James D’Arcy) is challenging the group of graduating seniors before him with a hypothetical situation, and when it fails he has them try again. And again. But what the class can’t know is that...