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Stunt teams are some of the hardest working people in the industry. They literally put their lives on the line just to entertain us and yet there’s so little acknowledgement of their contributions. There is no Oscar for stunt work, but there should be. Netflix’s adaptation of Jupiter’s Legacy has secured one of the industry’s hottest stunt choreographers, one who is no stranger to superhero action, Philip J. Silvera.

If you’ve read Jupiter’s Legacy already, you know Frank Quitely’s artwork leaps off the page, splattered with intense moments of sanguineous bloodshed. Quitely’s graphic style is a perfect fit for Silvera, who says he’s always been inspired by the visceral violence of films like Goodfellas and The Godfather Part II.

“My action in the past has always had a bit of a lead pipe brutality to it,” confesses Silvera with a grin.

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Born in California, Mike Wade actually graduated from college with a B.A. in Psychology, but taking a pair of acting classes as a college senior sent his career, and his life, off into a different direction as an actor, and it’s probably the best decision he’s made in his life.

You may have seen him in episodes of Timeless, NCIS, For the People, Who the F is Mike Young or in a recurring role on Seal Team (as Lt. Wes Soto). He’s graced the big screen in nine films, most recently 2018’s Wally Got Wasted.

But on Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy he is Fitz Small, the superheroic Flare, and a key member of The Union.

Who Is Flare?

Name: Fitz Small

Alter Ego: Flare

Powers And Abilities: Can transform his body into a solid mass of light, which grants him the...

The Flash season 5 finale, “Legacy,” was a game-changing episode as it saw Barry and Iris’ daughter Nora erased from reality, the Reverse-Flash escaping his bonds in the future to play havoc with the timeline once again and, last but not least, a big teaser for the “Crisis On Infinite Earths” crossover to come this fall. It also revealed that one fan favorite member of the cast won’t be returning for season 6.

We’re referring to Carlos Valdes’ Cisco Ramon. When Thawne escapes, he has one last confrontation with the Star Labs gang. During this, he taunts Cisco about how the only thing special about him is his powers. This leads the team’s resident genius to realize that he doesn’t need his powers and he elects to take the metahuman cure. When we last see him, a happy, powerless Cisco is enjoying a carefree stroll down the street with his girlfriend.

This fall, worlds will live and worlds will die as the Arrowverse finally tackles “Crisis On Infinite Earths” for its next big crossover. Monday’s Arrow season 7 finale already paved the way for the multiversal event, which means that fans went into last night’s The Flash season 5 closer with an expectation that it would similarly lay the groundwork for the biggest threat the heroes of The CW’s DC TV universe have yet faced. And, sure enough, that’s exactly what it did.

Episode 5×22, “Legacy,” ended on an emotional note. With Cicada II defeated and Grace cured, it seemed like a happy ending, but the destruction of Cicada’s dagger meant Reverse-Flash escaped from his prison in the future. Obviously, this was a huge change to the timeline and resulted in Barry and Iris’ daughter Nora vanishing from existence.

Following her disappearance, a further consequence of the alteration was revealed.

The Flash has officially wrapped its fifth season as Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and his team took on Cicada II (Sarah Carter) once and for all. But it didn’t stop there as Barry and his daughter Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) took on the Reverse-Flash (Tom Cavanagh.) In true Flash tradition, the season finale came with several twists and turns as well some big heartbreaks.

Related: What To Expect From The Flash Season 6

With Season 5 concluded after one of the show’s biggest season finales, it’s time to breakdown the 22nd episode of the season. What brought us closure and what didn’t? Disclaimer: this will feature full spoilers from “Legacy.”...

No single episode of The Flash could redeem an entire season as flawed as this fifth one turned out to be, but “Legacy” manages to pull the strongest elements of this past year together in an emotionally satisfying way, shaky as the storytelling logic is at times. The Cicada saga is put to bed, a much more worthy…...

The Flash season 5 finale gives us the end of Cicada, the fate of Nora, and the reveal of Thawne's plans.

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The Flash Season 5 Episode 22

What a mess. Taken completely in isolation, "Legacy" would be an acceptably middle of the road episode of The Flash. As a season finale? It's almost unacceptable. Rescued only by the anti-heroics of Eobard Thawne in its final half, The Flash season 5 finale is the muddied, logical endpoint of a season that started with tremendous promise, lost its way, and never quite managed to find its way back on track.

"Legacy" never, not even in its better moments, felt like a proper season finale. From the opening on Ralph's "kinetically inverted" form (the result of the awkwardly edited cliffhanger with the mirror gun from last week's episode), this just felt like "business as usual." We got a cool,...

With the season finales of various Arrowverse series now being upon us, the inevitable summer hiatus will come shortly. But before you know it, our favorite DC TV shows will resume and the next major crossover event, “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” will grace airwaves.

Those of you who’ve read the comic book on which it’s based know of how adapting it in any sense will be a massive undertaking. But considering how this had been originally teased as far back as The Flash‘s pilot episode, I think the producers always hoped to build to such a thing, no matter how great the challenges.

While recently speaking with ComicBook.com, executive producer and showrunner Todd Helbing admitted he assumed what many of us likely did while also pondering how a post-Crisis Flash may be affected:

“When I first read the pilot, and then I saw the pilot, I...

We’ve known that Eobard Thawne was up to something for the past half-season on The Flash, but now Barry Allen and his friends from Star Labs have discovered the extent of his master plan: to get his enemies to defeat Cicada, thereby destroying the metahuman-dampening dagger that’s imprisoning him in the future Central City of 2049.

Showrunner Todd Helbing spoke to TV Line to explain the situation a little more recently and elaborated on Ralph’s realization of the truth based on something not adding up about their plan to destroy the dagger.

“In the history of Cicada there was a point where Young Grace woke up, and that whole time Cicada was killing people. So now that they gave him the cure, what happened to all those people he continued to kill?”

Helbing also reminded viewers of something Thawne said way back when which now gains a new significance.

If there’s one thing that’s for certain about the month of May, it’s that The Flash is going to deliver an unforgettable season finale which could leave us talking throughout the summer months. In years prior, we witnessed the beginning of Flashpoint and saw Barry Allen willingly exiling himself to the Speed Force, so odds are we’ll be met with some crazy cliffhanger come next week.

In the meantime, though, the network has served up a bountiful gallery promoting said finale, and it can be viewed below. Aside from letting us know that Team Flash will unite against the persistent threat that’s been Cicada II, the images also preview the next smackdown involving the Scarlet Speedster and Eobard Thawne, who’s now returned to his Reverse-Flash persona.

In my view, the rivalry shared between those two is arguably the greatest the Arrowverse has had to offer.

Chicago r&b poet Jamila Woods generated her first major who is she?! moment beside Chance the Rapper in the “Sunday Candy” video by Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment; her LP debut Heavn answered that question a year later with a personal set of gospel-tinged rap-soul hybrids. Her new Legacy! Legacy! views the personal through a lens of cultural history. Songs are named for giants: “Miles,” “Zora,” “Eartha,” “Baldwin,” “Basquiat,” and if the connections aren’t always obvious, they’re always inspired.

Take “Zora,” which quotes folk singer Malvina Reynolds...

After tuning in for last night’s episode of The Flash, I must say that I have to hand it to Eobard Thawne. To put it quite succinctly, everything we’ve seen thus far this season has been part of an elaborate plan concocted by him so that he may escape execution in 2049. But depending on how next week’s season finale goes, we could see this show standing alongside Avengers: Endgame so that fans may relentlessly pick apart its time travel logic.

In the meantime, though, the Powers That Be have given us a promo video to chew on, and you can view it at the top of this article. From the look of it, Team Flash will have their hands full because they’ll have to deal with both the Reverse-Flash and Cicada II in the climactic episode. I guess the producers have decided to really up the ante this year.

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Netflix post-apocalyptic film, I Am Mother, stars Hilary Swank, Clara Rugaard and a creepy maternal robot voiced by Rose Byrne.

A while ago, we first heard that Oscar winner Hilary Swank was teaming up with first time director Grant Sputore for a new sci-fi/horror film called I Am Mother. We were curious, because Swank's previous forays into the horror genre weren't exactly...good, for the most part. The Gift was solid enough with Sam Raimi at the helm, and The Reaping and The Resident both initially looked promising, but didn't ultimately make the grade, so it was interesting to us that the actress had chosen to dip her toe back into the scream queen water some years later, especially with an unproven director at the helm. Yet, when the film became bound for Netflix direct distribution, the logic became a bit clearer.

While the...

At 85, Willie Nelson’ isn’t letting any grass grow under him: The legendary singer and songwriter is releasing his second album of the year in September, a Frank Sinatra tribute outing called “My Way” on Sony’s Legacy label. The 11-track album was produced by Buddy Cannon and Matt Rollings and will be released on Sept. 14.

Along with the announcement came the album’s first single and video, “Summer Wind.”

While Nelson is one of the greatest American songwriters of the 20th century, this album finds him swinging through a set of standards and classics made famous by Sinatra, accompanied by the lush string and horn arrangements that the songs deserve, and in the spirit of Nelson’s classic 1978 album “Stardust,” which found him interpreting material from the Great American Songbook.

According to the announcement, Nelson and Sinatra were close friends and mutual admirers of each other’s work. In the 1980s,...

Cbbc's online and interactive drama Dixi is set to return for a 3rd series. Claudia Jessie, April Hughes, Kerry Boyne and Jordan Loughran (hot from the set of Disney’s live action series Evermoor) are all returning, along with two new cast members:

Chloe May Cuthill (represented by Debbie Allen Associates), has previously appeared in Eastenders and The Midnight Beast and has recently filmed the feature Reason To Leave. She will play Zoe in the new series.

And also joining the cast is Shaquille Ali-Yebuah. Shaquille (represented by Identity Agency Group) has previously appeared in features Legacy and Social Suicide as well as the Radio 4 sitcom What Does The K Stand For?

This new series' plot sees the arrival of a new online menace as the gang are thrown together with a rival set of students to put on a showcase. The anonymous troll is determined to stop the show...

Not many actors would be drawn to the part of "an idiot" - but that's exactly what attracted Samuel Anderson to his new movie Pleasure Island.

Anderson said he loved playing the light relief - in his words, "a ridiculous plonker" - in the gritty British thriller from writer/director Mike Doxford.

"I've played a lot of love interests - those kind of romantic roles, 'sweet boy' kind of thing - so it was brilliant to come in and just play an idiot," he told Digital Spy.

Anderson is Nate, the hapless best mate of troubled Dean (Ian Sharp) - who returns home from the Army and finds himself sucked into a dark underworld.

"From when I read the script, I was hooked," said Doctor Who actor Anderson. "Just the way Mike had laid his characters out.

"You could feel it - each character was grounded and had a bit of weight to them.

Murder in Successville star Tom Davis has revealed he wants David and Victoria Beckham to guest on a second series.

BBC Three's semi-improvised comedy series stars Davis as the burly Di Sleet, with celebrity guests helping him solve a murder in the fictional 'Successville'.

"Everyone involved in it is dying to do a second series," the actor and comedian told Digital Spy. "If I'm honest, it's just whether there's a channel there to make it for!

"But yeah, fingers crossed - I'm really hopeful. There's nothing confirmed yet, but I'd love to take it up to the next level.

"We've always had big plans if it goes to a second series of what we want to do - the worry would be that people think they know how to handle it, but they've only seen the tip of the iceberg and we can pull the rug out from under them a lot more!

Actor and comedian Tom Davis has said that British films should not try to compete with Hollywood when it comes to spectacle.

Davis stars opposite Attack The Block's Franz Drameh in new movie Legacy and told Digital Spy that Brit movies need to rely on strong scripts.

"There is some really great fresh talent - I'm doing Ben Wheatley's film Free Fire at the moment," he said.

"But I think it's really hard to compete with films that have millions and millions put towards them - that straight away is a bit of a stumbling block.

"I think when it comes to British films, everything is down to the scripts - as long as the core's strong… that's the thing. Maybe for the times, the scripts maybe need to be that little big stronger.

"The story's got to work - and if it works - people will find it.

Small in scale but grand in swagger, Noel Clarke movies delve into corners of London life you won’t find explored elsewhere. His latest production, Legacy, is another slice of urban drama that’s headlined by Attack The Block’s Franz Drameh. A new clip from the film has dropped onto the internet. Click below for a closer look.brightcove.createExperiences();The scene sees Pj (McKell David) looking to make a big score from the council estate dealer ahead of a massive party he and his four mates are attending. The fact that his dealer lives with his mum, has names for his frying fish and is looking to move into novel-writing is a clue that it’s not kitchen-sink realism co-directors Davie Fairbanks and Marc Small have in mind for the movie.Ring-led by Sean (Drameh), the five mates find their plans to get into the party of a lifetime – Chrome!

It’s rare that movie advertising gets that hashtags aren’t just marketing buzz phrases, but cheeky summations of people’s actions. That’s what immediately jumps out about the trailer for Legacy (stylised as #Legacy) – throughout the tease the events are accompanied by real-sounding hashtags that are less about virality and more about summing up emotions; #OnOurWay, #Out4Revenge, #WhateverTheCost, #etc.

The film follows a group of teens who, when they’re rejected from a big party event, decide to create their own legendary night. The cast includes a couple of notable names (Franz Drameh, from Attack The Block, is the lead), but the big star is the music; as the trailer screams, it has a #BangingSoundtrack with tracks from the likes of #Rudimental and #Example appearing. Check out the trailer above for a look/listen.

A home-grown, British production from Unstoppable Entertainment (who made Adulthood and 4.3.2.1), there’s...

Back in July last year a nationwide casting call was launched to find some new talent for Legacy, a new film from Unstoppable Entertainment and Think Big Productions.

Exec Produced by Noel Clarke (4.3.2.1, The Anomaly) and Jason Maza (The Knot, The Hooligan Factory) Legacy tells the story of five teenagers and the ultimate party of the year.

After auditioning hundreds of girls with no previous professional experience, Amy Tyger from Manchester won the lead female role of Dani. 21 year old Amy is now represented by Cole Kitchenn.

Dani is strong willed, fierce, aggressive yet still lovable, she is protective and more than a match for the groups’ machismo. She’s an attractive tomboy with deep-rooted femininity issues exacerbated by her elder sister Yasmin.

21 year old Franz Drameh (represented by Hamilton Hodell) plays Sean, the unspoken leader of the group.

Franz starred in Attack The Block, and he also plays Brandon...

Jason Maza and Noel Clarke produce.

Unstoppable Entertainment and Think Big Productions have wrapped principal photography as of Oct 13 on London-shot Legacy.

Jason Maza (The Knot, The Hooligan Factory) and Noel Clarke (4.3.2.1.) produce. Davie Fairbanks and Marc Small co-write and co-direct.

The story follows five teenagers throwing the ultimate party.

The cast features Screen International 2013 Star of Tomorrow Franz Drameh [pictured], McKell David, Steven Cree and Amy Tyger (who was discovered following nationwide open auditions). There are cameos from Brett Goldstein and Paige Meade.

Alcatel One Touch, Unstoppable Entertainment and Think Big Productions, would like to announce a UK search for young people to star in the upcoming movie event Legacy

Exec Produced by Noel Clarke (4.3.2.1, The Anomaly) and Jason Maza (The Knot, The Hooligan Factory) Legacy tells the story of five teenagers and the ultimate party of the year. We are looking for five young actors to play the leading roles in the new film set to be released early 2014.

The production team will be conducting a nationwide search to find the five stars of the movie. Auditions will be being held in London, Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

So if you’re between the ages of 17 to 22 and have ever considered yourself as a budding actor, please go to https://www.facebook.com/LegacyMovieUK for details on how to apply.

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