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Netflix's latest movie, Ad Vitam, includes a small ensemble of talented French actors. Directed by Rodolphe Lauga, the Netflix international movie is currently the number one non-English film on the streaming platform. Ad Vitam follows Franck, a former member of the elite French tactical police, the Gign, as he is forced to delve into his past after his pregnant wife is kidnapped. While Ad Vitam uses a similar plotline that several films in the genre employ, it sets itself apart with its action and incredible performances from its cast.

Since most of the actors in Ad Vitam are French, they might not be familiar to an American audience, but they've featured in several French movies and TV Shows. The Netflix action movie is engaging from start to finish, with an intense storyline that makes audiences root for the primary protagonist. Although there's a lot to like about Ad Vitam,...

With his latest spy movie Alarum, Scott Eastwood is continuing to churn out bullet-laced action thrillers. Last year saw him in the Los Angeles period caper 1992, trying to pull off the ultimate heist amid the early-'90s Watts riots alongside the late, great Ray Liotta. We've seen him in some of the fun Fast & Furious flicks and assorted war films, like the excellent Fury. Future projects on the horizon include another war film, the highly anticipated Tin Soldier, which also stars big names like Robert De Niro, Jamie Foxx, Rita Ora, John Leguizamo, Shamier Anderson, and more. Filming took place mainly in Greece two years ago, but there hasn't been any news about the movie until now. MovieWeb caught up with Eastwood while he was promoting Alarum, and the famed actor took time to weigh in on the status of Tin Soldier.

"It's going to come out, it's just where it comes out.

Exclusive: Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) and Stephen Dorff (True Detective) have entered production in New Jersey on People Not Places, an indie drama from director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer).

Written by Ellen Brown Furman (The Infiltrator), the filmmaker’s mother, the film watches as an elderly widow (MacLaine) living in Atlantic City meets an erratic homeless man (Dorff) who sleeps in cars. Their shared loneliness causes them to bond, as they find the courage to face his regrettable past and her shortened future.

Brad Furman and Jess Fuerst are producing the film under their Road Less Traveled Productions banner. Jim Seibel and Kyle David Crosby are also producing.

Said Brad Furman in a statement to Deadline, “This is the opportunity of a lifetime, as I have been collaborating with...

Netflix has become the home for underrated and overlooked titles this year, covering everything from horror oddities to star vehicles. While some random movies do show up on the service’s top 10 lists, many of these end up being worth a rewatch, or seen for the first time if missed upon their initial release. The latest example of this trend is the 2016 Idris Elba film Bastille Day, which is currently top of the Netflix US most-watched movies chart, and is even beating out the likes of The Devil All the Time.

Also known as The Take, Bastille Day stars Elba as CIA agent Sean Briar, who gets drawn into a Paris-set plot involving an explosive bomb and Richard Madden’s American pickpocket. It’s nothing groundbreaking as far as action flicks go, but it gets the job done. English director James Watkins was behind the camera, having built a solid...

Idris Elba definitely possesses the screen presence, charisma and acting abilities to become a standout action hero, but for inexplicable reasons, his ventures into the genre have been overwhelmingly disappointing. The Losers and Takers both bombed at the box office a decade ago, and since then he’s gone on to star in a number of mediocre titles.

As well as being given very little to do as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Heimdall, the 48 year-old has lent support in the tedious Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and The Gunman, headlined infamous dud The Dark Tower, buried himself under prosthetics as Star Trek Beyond‘s one-note villain and seen his archetypal bad guy get blown off the screen by the combined star power of Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in Hobbs & Shaw.

With the notable exception of Pacific Rim‘s memorable monologue where he canceled the apocalypse, Elba has so...

Kris Mrksa.

Filming has begun in Wales on Requiem, a 6x60' drama created and written by Aussie writer Kris Mrksa, commissioned by BBC One and co-produced by Netflix.

In 1994 a toddler disappears from a small Welsh town, never to be seen again. Twenty-three years later, talented young cellist Matilda, played by Lydia Wilson (Star Trek Beyond, About Time), has her life turned upside down by her mother.s inexplicable suicide..

In the wake of the tragedy Matilda begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself, embarking on a quest that leads her to that same Welsh village, where the secrets she uncovers threaten to unravel her very identity.

Also in the cast is Animal Kingdom.s James Frecheville, playing an Australian who arrives in town and may not be all that he seems.

This is the first show Mrksa, whose credits include East West 101, Underbelly, Devil.s Dust and Janet King,...

When I wasn.t getting enough Tom Hardy, I had to turn to the series he starred in The Take. It.s good, but unfortunately there are only four episodes. I naively thought that they would get Hardy back for another season. Remember that episode of The Simpsons when Homer pledges $10,000 he obviously doesn.t have to get the show .Do Shut Up. put back on the air? Well, this is one of those shows I would do that for. It.s not the only one though, and we don.t have time for me to deliver my list....

Tom Hardy is headed to the BBC. The actor has signed on for Season 2 of gangster drama Peaky Blinders. The period series is set in Birmingham, England where the Shelby family lead the Peaky Blinders – a feared gang named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps. Hardy will play a charismatic leader who presents a unique opportunity to Cillian Murphy‘s Tommy Shelby. Hardy’s last dramatic turn on the small screen was in 2009 miniseries The Take which aired on Sky 1. With Peaky Blinders, he reteams with his Dark Knight Rises and Inception co-star Murphy as well as with Steven Knight who created the series and also wrote and directed Hardy feature Locke. Knight is writing all six episodes of the second season which starts shooting later this month. It will see the Shelby family expand their empire as the 1920s begin. In November,...

Epic drama World Without End will air on Channel 4 in early 2013. The historical series - based on Ken Follett's best-selling 2007 novel - will star Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) and Peter Firth (Spooks).

[Cynthia Nixon as Petranilla in 'World Without End'] Ben Chaplin (Dorian Gray), Charlotte Riley (The Take), Rupert Evans (Hellboy), Tom Weston-Jones (Spooks) and Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter) will also star in the mini-series - a sequel to 2010's The Pillars of the Earth. Set 200 years after its predecessor, World Without End charts events in the fictitious town of (more)...

Perhaps best known as fiancee to The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy, British TV actress Charlotte Riley is now set to make her big Hollywood debut in a major sci-fi tentpole. Doug Liman hasn’t directed a film since 2010′s Fair Game but he’s now finally set to return with All You Need is Kill and has added the actress to the ensemble. [Variety]

Also starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, the film is adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka‘s manga comic — scripted by Jody Harold and Dante Harper — that revolves around a Groundhog Day-like conceit, in which a soldier, fighting aliens, experiences a temporal loop that takes him back to the final day of his life. Much like Bill Connors, however, he takes advantage of this constant repetition and starts to train himself for total victory.

Riley will join alongside Blunt and Cruise as one of the soldiers in action.

Sorry ladies, Tom Hardy is taken and her name is Charlotte Riley. The Brit actress met the actor on the set of the TV series "The Take" and the next thing you knew they were falling in love and cast together as Heathcliff and Catherine in "Wuthering Heights." And while Hardy has since seen his star shoot into the stratosphere, his fiancée hasn't quite had the same trajectory. But her next gig should see her profile take a considerable boost. Variety reports that the actress has nabbed the co-starring role in the upcoming sci-fi flick, "All You Need Is Kill," alongside Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Not bad...not bad at all. Set to be directed by Doug Liman, this long-brewing project is an adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel that follows a soldier in an alien war who finds himself living his last day in battle over and over...

Charlotte Riley has, until now, been known mostly for her TV work in the likes of The Take and Dci Banks. She’s just nabbed what could be her biggest break, however, scoring a role alongside Tom Cruise in Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill. Liman and writers Dw Harper, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Joby Harold have adapted Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s futuristic graphic novel, which finds a soldier battling aliens who is forced to relive his last day over and over.As he goes through various training programs and fights the battle time and again, he starts to figure out how to be a better trooper.Riley joins Emily Blunt in the brigade and both will be fighting alongside Cruise when Liman starts shooting this October at Leavesden Studios. As for Riley, she’s also got World Without End (the miniseries sequel to The Pillars Of The Earth...

On 20 July, The Dark Knight Rises will hit cinema screens, already hyped beyond recognition and with a sense of feral anticipation beyond the wildest dreams of any executive or marketing firm. At the forefront of the action is one Edward Thomas Hardy, Aka Tom Hardy, who’s star will rise to it’s highest ever point as the potentially unforgettable cinema juggernaut Bane, a villain inspiring fear and adulation among fans before a single reel of film has been shown.

Rewind ten years, to 9 December 2002. Again, a blockbuster Hollywood effort was showing to the viewing public, the final chapter in a franchised saga. And, again, Hardy was at the fore, a young British actor off the back of some small roles, with the chance of a lifetime to play a scene stealing, career making role as the ultimate villain to the film’s iconic hero. That film was Star Trek: Nemesis,...

Actors pick up knighthood and Cbe while Pm revives British Empire Medal as reward for 'big society' volunteers

David Cameron's "big society" gong, the anachronistically named British Empire Medal, makes its first appearance for 20 years in the Queen's birthday honours today, rewarding "hands-on" service to local communities.

As actors Kenneth Branagh and Kate Winslet collect a knighthood and Cbe respectively, 293 BEMs, known as the "working-class gong" and scrapped by John Major in 1991 in his efforts to make the honours system "classless", are also awarded.

Revived by Cameron to encourage the "big society" and reward volunteering, Bem recipients include waitress Patricia Carter, for services to the hospitality industry, apiarist Geoffrey Hopkinson, for services to beekeeping, and many others involved with local community work, charities, and sports.

Sir Bob Kerslake, head of the civil service who chairs the main honours committee, said the re-introduction of the Bem for the Diamond Jubilee extended...

2012 is a big year for Britain, what with the Olympics looming large and failure at Euro 2012 almost a dead cert. It is also a big year for British cinema, and in particular their actors. With Daniel Radcliffe running around a house for an hour and a half in The Woman In Black, Jamie Bell putting in a decent effort in Man On A Ledge, and Ray Winstone’s stellar performances in the Bet 365 adverts, Britain is calling out for a new, brilliant actor.

And that’s where Tom Hardy comes in.

Granted, he’s been knocking around for a while now, but 2012 is a big year for him too. It wasn’t until 2008 when he really became noted in the mainstream for his acting thanks to his haunting, frightening and downright scary portrayal infamous prisoner of Charles Bronson in Bronson, but there were signs of his talent right from the outset.

Monday, December 19

"Terra Nova" (8 p.m. Et, Fox) two-hour season finale

Thanks to eroding ratings and tepid critical reception, it's possible that this season finale will turn out to be a series finale when renewals are announced in May -- so if you're still watching, savor the dino-goodness while you can. The 11th Pilgrimage arrives in Terra Nova and the mysterious Phoenix Group in 2149 makes its move to pillage the past with the help of Lucas and Mira. Meanwhile, Jim and Taylor team up in a last stand against the Phoenix Group, a colonist makes the ultimate sacrifice and a decision is made that will change life in Terra Nova forever.

"Who's Still Standing?" (8 p.m. Et, NBC) series premiere

Jared Young, a volleyball coach from Conway, Arkansas, tests his knowledge against 10 opponents in a head-to-head trivia battle. If Young defeats five of the contestants, then he has the opportunity...

Monday, December 19

"Terra Nova" (8 p.m. Et, Fox)two-hour season finale

Thanks to eroding ratings and tepid critical reception, it's possible that this season finale will turn out to be a series finale when renewals are announced in May -- so if you're still watching, savor the dino-goodness while you can. The 11th Pilgrimage arrives in Terra Nova and the mysterious Phoenix Group in 2149 makes its move to pillage the past with the help of Lucas and Mira. Meanwhile, Jim and Taylor team up in a last stand against the Phoenix Group, a colonist makes the ultimate sacrifice and a decision is made that will change life in Terra Nova forever.

"Who's Still Standing?" (8 p.m. Et, NBC)series premiere

Jared Young, a volleyball coach from Conway, Arkansas, tests his knowledge against 10 opponents in a head-to-head trivia battle. If Young defeats five of the contestants, then he has the opportunity...

On TV this Friday: A Romijn event on Chuck, a Remains event on Chiller, more comical life and times for HBO’s Tim, Grimm lets down its hair and more. We’ve singled out nine programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) | Now that the end of its nine-season weekly run has been announced, it may be time to load up on the feel-good fuzzies. This week the team travels to Columbus, Ohio to help Grandpa James and Grandma Jackie Rhodes, who live with their adult daughter — diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain tumor — and...

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ITV’s much anticipated Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour will air on 2 January at 9.00 p.m. The 2 hour special is set in Oxford during 1965 and Shaun Evans (The Take) plays the young detective constable Morse who is preparing to hand in his resignation. However, before he can deliver the note to his superiors he becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a missing school girl.

Endeavour is written by Lewis creator Russell Lewis and the cast includes Roger Allam, Charlie Creed-Miles and Patrick Malahide. Another notable among the cast is Abigail Thaw who is the real-life daughter of the late great John Thaw who played Morse in 33 stories that were broadcast over the course of 13 years between 1987 and 2000. This one-off special is being broadcast to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original show.

On TV this quiet Friday night: Chuck returns to his square roots, things get hairy on Grimm, Kelsey Grammer’s Boss wraps his freshman campaign, and more. We found eight programs to keep on your radar.

Our Guide to Fall Finale and Winter Return Dates

8 pm Chuck (NBC) | A mission to track down a computer super virus leads Chuck to return to his roots as a hacker — and ask his biggest competition, Gertrude Verbanksi (Carrie-Anne Moss), for help. Elsewhere, a new Buy More employee (Community‘s Danny Pudi) complicates Jeff and Lester’s friendship. (Read previews here and here.)

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A couple of weeks back we heard Bond 23 screenwriter John Logan heavily hint towards a familiar villainous face returning to torment the world’s most famous spy in the next 007 movie that begins filming very soon. Right now director Sam Mendes and his Bond team are kicking pre-production into a higher gear, recently securing up shooting locations and no doubt putting the last minute casting details in place. We could be just days away from a firm title announcement on the film along with a reveal over who the new villain is. Could it be a return for Blofeld for the first time since the early 80′s?

So as we like to do around here with our Fantasy Casting series, we have put our heads together collectively and come up with 10 actors who really would make great contenders to stroke that white cat and plot world domination.

These choices...

The actor who made his name in Bronson talks about the punishing physical regime for his new cage-fighting role in Warrior, being typecast as a thug – and making it in Hollywood

The bed has been removed from the Soho hotel room where rising British film star Tom Hardy and I are to meet, leaving a vast carpeted brawling area. We could, I think as I await his arrival, mix it up like Oliver Reed and Alan Bates did in Women in Love, or as Hardy and his screen brother Joel Edgerton do at the denouement of his unremittingly butch new mixed martial arts film Warrior.

Hardy jogs into the room flanked by minders as if he's entering a boxing arena. How about sorting things out mano a mano, I suggest? It could make both our careers. He could get the slightly bonkers rep Christian Bale has had ever since he...

British helmer Susan Jacobson's first feature 'The Holding' had its world premiere at last months Film4 FrightFest in Leceister Square, London. Its playing at this September's Fantastic Fest and Shock Till You Drop have revealed a bunch of new stills from the new thriller. It'll be released to UK audiences next Monday on DVD and you can enter our new DVD giveaway at the link below. Kierston Wareing ('The Take'), Vincent Regan ('300', 'Clash of the Titans'), Terry Stone ('Doghouse'), David Bradley ('Harry Brown'), Skye Lourie ('Guinea Pigs') and Georgia Groome all star. Check out the full synopsis and the new images below....

Shaun Evans has been cast as Endeavour Morse in ITV's prequel to the popular detective series. Endeavour, which is written by Russell Lewis (Lewis, Cadfael), will explore the origins of the character, famed for his love of crosswords, classical music and real ale. Evans, whose TV credits include The Take and Come Rain Come Shine, will play the younger version of the Oxford detective originally made famous to TV audiences by John Thaw. "Morse as a young man is a wonderful character that I'm very excited to be playing. My hope is that we can compliment what's come before, by telling a great story, and telling it well," said Evans. Endeavour will be part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the first episode of Morse, which aired on ITV in 1987. Thaw went on to film 33 more stories over the next 13 years. (more)...

Encore is throwing its hat into the original cable programming ring in a big way, with a pair of high-profile miniseries planned for broadcast next year. William Hurt will captain the Pequod in Moby Dick, while Nolan favorite Tom Hardy stars in The Take.

The former is the latest in a long line of adaptations of Herman Melville’s symbolist classic. Hurt (Robin Hood, The Incredible Hulk) will take the helm as the famous Captain Ahab, but he’ll hardly be alone: Ethan Hawke (Gattaca and the upcoming Total Recall remake) will play first mate Starbuck while Raoul Trujillo plays the enigmatic harpooner Queequeg. Gillian Anderson of The X Files and Donald Sutherland (yes, that Donald Sutherland) also star.

The $25 million, two-part, miniseries wrapped up production last year, but had yet ...

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Encore is moving into the original programming business come August. Encore Originals will kick off Aug. 1 with Moby Dick, an on-screen adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic novel. The three hour miniseries stars William Hurt as Captain Ahab and Ethan Hawke as his first mate Starbuck, and also boasts Gillian Anderson and Donald Sutherland in supporting roles.

Come fall, Encore will follow up with The Take, a four-part miniseries based on Martina Cole’s best-selling crime novel. The Take already aired in the UK in 2009, and features Inception’s Tom Hardy and Brian Cox (X2: X-Men United).

A feature-length documentary about comedy legend Jerry Lewis,...

Encore has officially thrown its hat into the original programming ring. Starz's sister channel announced on Wednesday that it will be launching its Encore Originals slate with three projects -- an adaptation of the Herman Melville classic "Moby Dick," the U.S. premiere of a miniseries based on the Martina Cole crime thriller "The Take," and a documentary about comedian/telethon pioneer Jerry Lewis. The three-hour "Moby Dick" miniseries, which stars William Hurt, Ethan Hawke and former "X-Files" star Gillian Anderson, will premiere on Aug. 1 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt and conclude the following...

Starz Entertainment's Encore is taking aim at original programming, unveiling today plans to air the novel adaptation Moby Dick that stars William Hurt, Ethan Hawke and Gillian Anderson as well as a Tom Hardy-starring mini The Take based on Martina Cole's best-selling crime novel. Moby Dick is a three-hour mini that will air over two nights Aug. 1 and Aug. 2. Hurt will play Captain Ahab, Hawke is his first mate Starbuck and Anderson is Ahab's wife; Donald Sutherland and Raoul Trujillo also star. Rhi, Tele Munchen and Gate Filmproduktion produced. The four-part thriller The Take, from ITV Studios Global Entertainment, also stars Brian Cox, Kierston Wareing, Charlotte Riley and Shaun Evans. It will air sometime in the fall alongside another original effort, the documentary Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis, which was previously announced.

Tomorrow, Sky 1 brings Martina Cole’s gritty crime novel The Runaway to the screen, with the first in a six-part drama, which will star a liberal smattering of British talent including Alan Cumming, Joanna Vanderham and volatile relative new-comer Jack O’ Connell. And lucky devil that I am, I’ve got my hands on the first two episodes for an early review.

If you haven’t yet come across any of the pre-release marketing, the official Sky synopsis goes like this:

East London kids Cathy Connor (Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (O’Connell) dream of a brighter future. But their hopes are shattered when Cathy is sent into care and then compelled to run away and forced to survive on the streets of Soho. Befriended by colourful transvestite Desrae (Cumming), Cathy grows up in the heart of London’s underworld, while Eamonn is drawn into a life of crime and ultimately flees to New York.

Screenterrier reported back in March 2010 on the casting of Skins star Jack O'Connell and newcomer Joanna Vanderham in Sky1's adaptation of Martina Cole's best-seller The Runaway.

The 6-part series also stars Alan Cumming as flamboyant transvestite Desrae, Ken Stott (Messiah), and Keith Allen (Robin Hood).

Now, a year later, the drama hits our screens on Thursday 31st March at 9pm on Sky1.

East London kids Cathy Connor (Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (O'Connell) dream of a brighter future. But their hopes are shattered when Cathy is sent into care and then compelled to run away and forced to survive on the streets of Soho. Befriended by colourful transvestite Desrae (Cumming), Cathy grows up in the heart of London's underworld, while Eamonn is drawn into a life of crime and ultimately flees to New York. As London's red light district sinks into the sleaze of the 70s, and the Ira,...

When the announcement of Tom Hardy’s inclusion in Chris Nolan’s third and final Batman film was initially made, the rumour hounds went crazy over who he would play, with the top three options lining up as The Riddler, Hugo Strange and Bane, with the masked muscle-bound madman coming in a distant third in that particular race. So it wasn’t hugely surprising to find a vocal and vociferous opposition to the further announcement that the Brit would indeed be taking on the role of he who is often referred to as the anti-Batman.

But, given the time to reflect on the decision, and the way Bane (and also Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle) will fit in with the rest of the Nolan universe, I think the casting is genius. And here, my Batman-loving friends, is why:

It’s Tom fucking Hardy

He may have recently walked away with the Rising Star Bafta award,...

Tom Hardy has reportedly split from actress fiancee Charlotte Riley. The couple, who got engaged last July after dating for one year, reportedly broke up last month although the "Inception" actor is said to be desperate to rekindle their relationship.

"Tom and Charlotte broke up last month," a source told the Metro newspaper. "He has been calling her a lot to try to patch things up."

Tom and 28-year-old Charlotte first met on the set of the TV adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" when they were cast as star-crossed lovers before going on to work together again in television drama "The Take".

Speculation about the couple's relationship has been mounting after Tom failed to make an appearance at Sunday's (February 13) BAFTAs where he won the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award. He is said to have sent an apology blaming "personal commitments" for his absence.

Gossip Cop, however, begged to differ on the split report.

Filming has wrapped on British actor Dexter Fletcher's directorial debut Wild Bill which stars one of Screenterrier's favourite rising stars, the now 18 year Will Poulter, star of the latest Narnia film, as well as Son of Rambow and E4's School of Comedy.

Will plays Dean, a 15 year old boy who is caring for his younger brother Jimmy, after being abandoned by their mother while their father Bill (Charlie Creed-Miles) is in prison.

Sammy Williams plays 11 year old Jimmy. Sammy played Young Freddie in Sky's successful mini-series The Take and also appeared in Day of the Triffids and Harley Street. He will also been seen in up-coming Joe Cornish's debut feature Attack the Block.

Official synopsis:

Out on parole after eight years Bill Hayward returns home to find his 11 & 15 year old sons  abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.

British writer/director Susan Jacobson's first feature comes in the form of UK suspense thriller 'The Holding'. A bunch of new stills, mostly just close-up face shots, and the first look at the one-sheet artwork have arrived online. Kierston Wareing ('The Take'), Vincent Regan ('300', 'Clash of the Titans'), David Bradley ('Harry Brown'), Skye Lourie ('Guinea Pigs') and Georgia Groome all star. Check out the full and extended plot synopsis and all the new images below....

The Hollywood Reporter has released what they claim is a shortlist of actresses under consideration for a role in the next Batman installment, The Dark Knight Rises. Some of Hollywood's most popular actresses, including Jessica Biel and Keira Knightley, are on the shortlist, as are a number of up-and-coming actresses.

According to the THR article, the list includes Biel, Knightley, Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries), and Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia). Two lesser known actresses, Kate Mara (Entourage, We are Marshall) and Charlotte Riley (The Take) are also under consideration.

There are reportedly two major female roles in Dark Knight Rises to fill, including a romantic lead and possibly the role of Talia, the daughter of Batman Begins villain Ra's Al Ghul who is reportedly appearing in the next film.

The dark horse in the race may be Riley, as she is engaged to actor Tom Hardy,...

The Hollywood Reporter has released what they claim is a shortlist of actresses under consideration for a role in the next Batman installment, The Dark Knight Rises. Some of Hollywood's most popular actresses, including Jessica Biel and Keira Knightley, are on the shortlist, as are a number of up-and-coming actresses.

According to the THR article, the list includes Biel, Knightley, Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries), and Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia). Two lesser known actresses, Kate Mara (Entourage, We are Marshall) and Charlotte Riley (The Take) are also under consideration.

There are reportedly two major female roles in Dark Knight Rises to fill, including a romantic lead and possibly the role of Talia, the daughter of Batman Begins villain Ra's Al Ghul who is reportedly appearing in the next film.

The dark horse in the race may be Riley, as she is engaged to actor Tom Hardy,...

Is the guessing game finally over? Is Talia Al Ghul a major cog in The Dark Knight Rises, perhaps even the main villain? Is director Chris Nolan purposefully connecting his first movie Batman Begins, with this, his final one?

The Hollywood Reporter have heard from ‘inside sources’ that Talia Al Ghul, daughter of Liam Neeson’s Ra’s Al Ghul, is one of the two suggested female parts in the new film.

Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway (two we’ve heard before) and new names… Jessica Biel, Gemma Arterton, Kate Mara and Charlotte Riley (interestingly, she is engaged to Tom Hardy… who was the first new actor cast) are all due to screen test at Warner Bros. in the next two weeks.

Talia Al Ghul has been a firm fan favourite amongst Owf readers for The Dark Knight Rises, topping a recent poll we ran, and is constantly spoken of in the talkback suggestions.

Ahoy me hearties – Sky1 HD are going full steam ahead with a 21st Century spin on Sinbad the Sailor. Stuart Murphy, director of programmes, today announced the 13-part series, which is being produced by Impossible Pictures, the company behind Primeval. The new show, called Sinbad, will be written by the award-winning cream of television’s writing crop including Jack Lothian (Ashes To Ashes, Shameless) and Neil Biswas (Skins, Martina Cole’s The Take).

Speaking to journalists during promotion for Inception, Tom Hardy answered a few questions on the upcoming fourth installment in the Mad Max franchise: Fury Road. ComingSoon carries the full interview and, though the specifics are sparse, there are still a few key points to focus on:

We have to take it differently, as George [Miller, director and creator of all the installments] is taking it. It’s a relaunch and revisit to the world. An entire restructuring. That’s not to say that it’s not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know already, but it’s a nice re-take on the entire world using the same character, depositing him in the same world, but bringing him up to date by 30 years.

This seems to go hand-in-hand with the only official news on the project so far – that the film will take place a short while after the events of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Sir David Jason has joined the cast of a new ITV drama. Pa reports that the actor will play a Cockney ex-docker called Don in Come Rain Come Shine. The programme follows Don and his wife Dora (Alison Steadman), who are struggling with their finances. Shaun Evans, who has previously appeared in Teachers and The Take, will star as Don's son David, a property developer. (more)...

London -- "Grey's Anatomy" star Sandra Oh will head the cast in Sky 1's fall police thriller "thorne: scaredy cat," alongside David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan and Aidan Gillen. The project will premiere on Sky and then seek international theatrical release.

Oh will play Detective Sergeant Sandra Chen, part of a London cop squad investigating a grisly series of murders that take place around London's St Pancras station.

The three-part drama is a sequel to "thorne: sleepyhead," which also starred Natascha McElhone. Both will premiere on Sky 1 HD in the fall and will then be released as two separate movies, to be distributed by ContentFilm.

Based on the award-winning crime novels of Mark Billingham, the series sees Morrissey play Detective Inspector Tom Thorne.

Both films are produced by Jolyon Symonds for Stagereel, the indie producer he jointly set up with Paul and Morrissey. It is a co-production with Canadian producer Cite-Amerique.

Digital Spy presents a list of the winners at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2009, which took place last night at the Grosvenor Hotel in London: Actress

Naomie Harris - Small Island - Winner!

Suranne Jones - Unforgiven

Julie Walters - A Short Stay in Switzerland Actor

Stephen Graham -The Street

Tom Hardy - The Take

David Oyelowo - Small Island - Winner! Arts

Baroque - Winner!

The First Movie

What Is Beauty? Children's Drama

Mi High

Roy - Winner!

The Sarah Jane Adventures Children's Programme

Big and Small - Blame it on the Drain - Winner!

Bookaboo

Horrible Histories Comedy Performance

Peter Capaldi - The Thick of It

Miranda Hart - Miranda - Winner!

Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey Constructed Factual Series

Famous, Rich and Homeless - Winner!

The World's Strictest Parents

Victorian (more)...

Digital Spy presents the shortlist for the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2009, which take place on March 16 at the Grosvenor Hotel in London: Actress

Naomie Harris - Small Island

Suranne Jones - Unforgiven

Julie Walters - A Short Stay in Switzerland Actor

Stephen Graham -The Street

Tom Hardy - The Take

David Oyelowo - Small Island Arts

Baroque

The First Movie

What Is Beauty? Children's Drama

Mi High

Roy

The Sarah Jane Adventures Children's Programme

Big and Small - Blame it on the Drain

Bookaboo

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A Fourth Mad Max movie is finally about to get moving Down Under.

Director George Miller has hinted that the actor chosen to play Mel Gibson's lead role is likely to be native to Australia.

Online speculation suggests that the part will go to Sam Worthington (pictured), the Aussie star of Terminator Salvation and upcoming films Avatar and Clash of the Titans.

The other name that has cropped up in rumours is Tom Hardy, who is British. He made his film debut in Black Hawk Down, starred in this year's Bronson and has a role in Christopher Nolan's upcoming Inception.

Hardy also appeared on TV in crime thriller The Take and this August's adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

Mad Max 4: Fury Road is to start filming in Australia in late 2010, with Charlize Theron set to co-star. It will create 540 jobs and generate millions of dollars for the local movie industry,...

Martina Cole's The Take bowed out to strong ratings last night, according to the latest figures. The final instalment of the drama, starring Charlotte Riley and Tom Hardy, pulled in 608k (3.4%) for Sky1 during the 9pm hour. Two weeks ago, the show debuted to 648k (3.3%). Also on the multichannel stations, Gossip Girl logged a lowly 174k (1%) for ITV2. Elsewhere at 9pm, ITV1's Cops With Cameras put in 3.14m (16%), making it the most-watched programme during the hour. Its nearest rival, BBC One's Waking The Dead, had 2.62m (13.4%). The second part of Nasa - Triumph And Tragedy pulled in 1.82m (9.3%) for BBC Two, and Five's Clint Eastwood film The Good, The Bad And The Ugly averaged 1.16m (8.2%) between 9pm and 12.30am. Big (more)...

Speaking from his base in London, director David Drury (The Cry, Midnight Man) talked to Iftn about his latest drama 'The Take', which premieres on Sky1 tonight. Drury chats about recreating the London criminal underworld in Dublin and gives his thoughts on the latest Red Eye HD technology. Created with the support of investment incentives provided by the Irish Film Board 'The Take' features a cast of talent including; Tom Hardy (Bronson, Stuart A Life Backwards), Emmy award winner Brian Cox (Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, Deadwood), Kierston Wareing (It's a Free World, Fish Tank), Charlotte Riley (Easy Virtue), and Shaun Evans (Teachers). The series is produced by Willow Grylls of UK independent film and TV production company, Company Pictures. A large Irish crew included Owen McPolin (Eden), Costume Designer Allison Byrne (The Daisy Chain) and Production Designer Susie Cullen (Zonad). 'The Take' was shot...