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Anya Chalotra of The Witcher, Chloe Cherry of Euphoria, and Ralph Ineson of The Witch star in the dark comedy Two Neighbors, which was able to secure a SAG interim agreement to film while the actors strike was still going on and wrapped production back in September. Although the story is set in New York, filming took place in the UK.

Marking the feature directorial debut of “multi-disciplinary artist” Ondine Viñao, who has exhibited video projects in the US and abroad, Two Neighbors was inspired by Aesop’s fable Avaricious and Envious. This take on the story shows what happens when Becky (Chalotra), an ambitious but struggling writer, is overcome by envy and spite when she meets Stacy (Cherry), a beautiful but insatiable socialite, at a lavish party hosted by Stacy’s father at their country estate. The evening descends slowly into chaos, and the girls’ lives are forever transformed...

Exclusive: Anya Chalotra (The Witcher), Chloe Cherry (Euphoria) and Ralph Ineson (The Green Knight) are set to lead the ensemble cast of indie feature Two Neighbors from debut feature director Ondine Viñao. The project has received a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement.

Joining Chalotra, Cherry and Ineson in the feature, that wrapped late September in the UK, are William Hope (Aliens), Samuel Anderson (Doctor Who), Jake Simmance, Ivy Freeman-Attwood (The Ending), Taz Skylar (One Piece), Joseph Millson (Casino Royale), Zoe Telford (Genius), Laura Arnaiz (Silent Witness), Charles Hagerty (Black Mirror) and Jessie-Ann Kohlman (Dream Scenario).

Co-written by Viñao and Jordan Johnson, Two Neighbors, a dark comedy set in New York, is inspired by Aesop’s fable Avaricious and Envious. Becky (Chalotra), an ambitious but struggling writer, is overcome by envy and spite when she meets Stacy (Cherry), a beautiful but insatiable socialite, at a lavish...

Sky has today revealed a first-look teaser for the highly anticipated return of Sky Original sci-fi thriller, ‘The Lazarus Project.’ When the world locks into a never-ending time loop that will ultimately end with the planet’s complete extinction, the Lazarus team must race against time to find a solution before humanity is wiped out forever. Among their number is resolute Lazarus agent, George (Paapa Essiedu), who’s been left in disgrace after betraying the organisation in the name of love. George is determined to redeem himself and win back the trust of his friends, colleagues, and the love of his life. But when he discovers that the cause he’s fighting is more sinister than it appears, George begins to suspect that the only person he can really trust is himself. The action packed second series is led by Emmy and BAFTA-nominated Pappa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), with...

Last year, The Lazarus Project brought us all manner of time-looping and terror-fighting thrills – and, thankfully, you don't need to indulge in any chronological tinkering to see the next set of episodes. The show is coming back this year, and we have an exclusive first look at images from Season 2.

Heading into the new series, the fight to secure the future has never been more intense. In an escalation of last season's six-month time-loops, this time the world is set to end every three weeks, forcing the Lazarus team to race against time to find a solution before humanity is wiped out forever. Among their number is resolute Lazarus agent, George (Paapa Essiedu), who’s been left in disgrace after betraying the organisation in the name of love. Can George redeem himself and win back the trust of his team? And, more importantly, can he trust them?

The stakes are higher,...

NBC is developing an adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's Collision, which aired in November, 2009, on ITV and Utv, as a five-episode event series. In the Us, an edited version of the original series aired on PBS, in two parts. Horowitz will serve as show runner on the new, Us version, and reportedly will write the first two episodes.

The cast of the ITV series includes: Douglas Henshall, Kate Ashfield, Christopher Fulford, Jo Woodcock, Craig Kelly, Dean Lennox Kelly, Zoe Telford, Claire Rushbrook, Phil Davis, Jan Francis, Sylvia Syms, Paul McGann, Lucy Griffiths, Lenora Crichlow, David Bamber, and Nicholas Farrell. Continue on for more about NBC's new Collision adaptation. Read More…...

Update: Tony Benn doc wins audience award; Hide and Seek wins Michael Powell Award, Ice Poison takes international prize.

Joanna Coates’s drama Hide and Seek has won The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which has revealed its winners today.

Walking on Sunshine star Hannah Arterton, sister of Gemma, is among the cast of the film about four fragile youngsters who flee London to start an unconventional utopia.

Coates wrote the film with Daniel Metz, who also stars in the film and produces.

The Michael Powell jury, chaired by director Amos Gitai with actors Nina Hoss and Michael Smiley, described the film as “innovative” and “exceptional.”

On Sunday, Skip Kite’s documentary Tony Benn: Will & Testament won the audience award.

The award for Best Film in the International Competition went to Midi Z’s Ice Poison (Taiwan, Myanmar), which charts the economic despair in the rural and developing...

Since losing his sight in Afghanistan, Army veteran Mal (Alec Newman) has become disillusioned with and withdrawn from society. With his compensation due, however, he plans on escaping the city once and for all by moving to a cottage in the South Downs. Unfortunately, days before his planned departure, Mal’s guide dog goes missing on an otherwise routine walk. Suspecting foul play, he returns the following day in order to search the notorious Greyhawk Estate one occupant at a time. At first frustrated by their pity and reluctant to accept their assistance, Mal eventually employs the help of unemployed mother Paula (Zoe Telford), her rebellious son Jem (Michael Fox), and an enthusiastic Sikh man (Mal Soor) who delights in playing detective.

It’s a struggle to think of a movie about blindness that doesn’t use the subject for comedic or horrific effect. Blindness, maybe. Ray, of course. Or there’s Daredevil.

It has been a very good year for producer Steven Moffat. He took over Doctor Who, hired Matt Smith (after rejecting him for Watson) to replace the incredible David Tennant and kept the show high in the ratings. He has proven exceptionally versatile with the recent Jekyll miniseries, wrote the script for The Adventures of Tintin for Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg and now has updated Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s indelible detective has survived pastiche, parody, and endless retellings of the classic stories. Moffat and Mark Gatiss took all the trappings and characters bringing them to the 21st Century. Dr. John Watson arrives after a tour in Afghanistan (some things never change) and meets Holmes, moving in with him at 221B Baker Street. Instead of a journal, Watson blogs about their cases and marvels at Holmes’ disinterest in the extraneous, even things like who is the current Prime Minister.

Not only the British TV series Sherlock will be aired in Canada on Showcase, a cable network, on September 10 at 10 Pm, but it will also come on DVD. In fact, BBC, a British TV network, announced that the show's first season will come out on DVD and Blu-Ray in North America on November 9, 2010.

This TV series based on the popular character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a modern take on the novels. The TV series is set in the London of the 21rst century and we learn that Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a "consultant" who helps policemen when they don't have a clue on how to close an investigation. In his adventure, Holmes is obviously helped by Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman).

The show also stars Una Stubbs, Loo Brealey, Rupert Graves and Zoe Telford.

Finally, Warner Home Video will distribute the TV series on DVD and Blu-Ray.

I received quite a few emails and Twitter replies asking me where my weekly write-ups of BBC One's Ashes to Ashes had gone. After a one-week break, I'm happy to say that they're back and I'll be covering the last two installments of Ashes--the series' fourth and fifth episodes--in this write-up. The fourth episode continued the pattern established earlier this season, with each of Ashes to Ashes's supporting cast getting a character-centric episode. With both Shaz and Ray getting their individual episodes (representing courage and heart, respectively), Chris Skelton finally got his installment with Episode Four, as he fell for a female undercover police officer who wasn't quite exactly what she appeared to be. While the team attempted to protect Officer Louise Gardner (Zoe Telford) from the villainous Stafford gang, the true war that was being waged was the invisible one between Dci Gene Hunt and Discipline and Complaints...

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Part history, part cautionary tale, "Hitler" rumbles onto the sweep scene like one of those tornadoes that recently bedeviled the Midwest -- powerful, awesome and traveling in a somewhat unpredictable pattern.

The initial announcement of this four-hour event was met with skepticism. Any fears, however, that this production would glorify the greatest monster of the 20th century are unfounded. Indeed, Adolf Hitler's psychopathic personality is evident even before the completion of the opening credits.

The other controversy surrounding the project was the sacking of Alliance Atlantis executive and exec producer Ed Gernon over remarks that suggested the possibility of parallels between contemporary America and a fearful Germany after World War I. The observation, while debatable, has as much merit as many propositions over which historians argue.

Considering Gernon's major role in a miniseries that forcefully warns of the soft spots in democracy's underbelly, his firing seems at the very least ironic.

Public justification for the project has been that despite an abundance of movies on World War II and, particularly, the Holocaust, little has been done to show how Adolf Hitler, an outwardly pathetic and awkward individual, was able to grab the reins of power on behalf of his demented vision and plunge the world into the largest darkness it has known. In this, "Hitler" admirably succeeds.

From his start as an obscure zealot who blends strident anti-Semitism with fervent nationalism, we are shown how, year by year, rung by rung, Hitler climbed the ladder of political success. The first night ends with Hitler's mild punishment following his failed Munich beer hall putsch in 1923. The second night takes us through 1934, when Hitler wrests complete control of the German government.

The miniseries is a triumph of collaboration by Robert Carlyle, who plays Hitler, and director Christian Duguay. Carlyle brilliantly depicts a humorless and twisted Hitler who becomes more brazen and intimidating over time. It is a characterization of evil that lingers long after the miniseries ends.

Frame after frame, Duguay never lets viewers forget how Hitler, though ungraceful and slight of physical stature, nonetheless imposed his will on others through ruthless intimidation, brazen self-confidence, willful manipulation and occasional violence.

The project is marked by meticulous istoric research, almost to the detriment of the script from John Pielmeier and G. Ross Parker. Striving to be true to fact as much as possible meant, in this case, that several main characters were absent from scenes for long stretches and that dialogue carried an unduly heavy burden of historical exposition. This is not to argue with the compromises, only to note that some simply had to be made.

There was no compromise, however, in production values. Production designer Marek Dobrowolski takes full advantage of the Prague location to create convincing settings inside and out. He and costume designer Maria Schicker enhance the production with their careful attention to detail. n

HITLER: THE RISE OF EVIL

CBS

Alliance Atlantis

Credits:

Executive producers: Peter Sussman, Ed Gernon

Co-executive producers: Diana Kerew, Christian Duguay

Co-producer: John Pielmeier

Producer: John Ryan

Supervising producers: Ian McDougall, Philip Von Alvensleben

Director: Christian Duguay

Writers: John Pielmeier, G. Ross Parker

Director of photography: Pierre Gill

Production designer: Marek Dobrowolski

Editors: Hank Van Eeghen, Sylvain Lebel

Music: Normand Corbeil

Costume designer: Maria Schicker

Casting: Deirdre Bowen, Susan Glicksman, Alex Wald, Sue Jones

Cast:

Adolf Hitler: Robert Carlyle

President Hindenburg: Peter O'Toole

Klara Hitler: Stockard Channing

Geli Raubal: Jena Malone

Helene Hanfstaengl: Julianna Margulies

Fritz Gerlich: Matthew Modine

Ernst Hanfstaengl: Liev Schreiber

Ernst Rohm: Peter Stormare

Gen Erich Von Ludendorff: Friedrich Von Thun

Eva Braun: Zoe Telford...