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Easy Money Season 3 Episode 79 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Pictionary,” titled “Easy Money,” promises to bring excitement and laughter to the screen. This episode will feature celebrity captains Kel Mitchell and Loni Love, both known for their vibrant personalities and comedic talents. Fans can expect a fun-filled hour as these two stars lead their teams in a battle of wits and creativity.

Kel Mitchell, famous for his roles in shows like “Kenan & Kel,” is sure to bring his energetic spirit to the game. His playful nature and quick thinking will be key as he encourages his teammates to guess the drawings. Loni Love, a talented comedian and co-host of “The Real,” will add her own flair to the competition. Known for her humor and charm, she will keep the atmosphere light and entertaining.

As the teams compete to draw and guess various prompts,...

Based on the Västberga heist, a real-life smash-and-grab incident that is so thrilling that it seems to be taken straight from some blockbuster action flick, Netflix’s Swedish thriller series The Helicopter Heist focuses mostly on the characters involved and the transformation in their lives following the heist. At the same time, the series is an adaptation of Jonas Bonnier’s novel sharing the same title, and like the novel, it follows the real-life scenario pretty closely, especially the operation itself, while adding drama and tension by taking certain creative freedoms. While the characterization is nothing to write home about, it still manages to capture different shades of the lives of the people on both sides of the law, allowing viewers to form a perspective of their own. The ensemble cast, which consists of mostly Swedish actors, performed well according to the demands of the character-driven narrative.

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Lydia Deetz, her stepmother Delia Deetz, and her daughter Astrid stand over a casket, the burial services in progress. We can barely make out who the funeral is for but there he is on the headstone: Charles Deetz. While Charles was once part of the Beetlejuice sequel when the ghost with the most was to “go Hawaiian”, he was written entirely out of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice…for reasons that will soon be obvious.

Despite the original’s and sequel’s dalliances with the afterlife, Jeffrey Jones will not be in the Beetlejuice sequel– or pretty much any other legitimate movie – following his disgraceful tumble from his small but reliable spotlight. Perfectly fitting into prestigious period pieces and goofball funny flicks. Jones is a Golden Globe nominee with consistent work – a mix of villain, comedic and at times patriarchal roles, Jeffrey Jones went from Ferris Bueller baddie to Who’s Your Caddy?...

There have been some truly iconic martial arts experts who have gone on to become bonafide superstars in Hollywood. Names such as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan pop up prominently, although when it comes to female actors, there is nobody who matches the kind of legacy Michelle Yeoh has created in the last few decades.

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The 61-year-old actress has been a part of some truly iconic series, such as Transformers, Avatar, The Mummy, and became part of the MCU via her role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

As it turns out, the Malaysian actress has worked with fellow martial arts icon Jackie Chan in the past as well, in the form of 1992’s Supercop. As a matter of fact, her expertise in martial arts(despite no formal training!), and her ability to do dangerous stunts brought forth a hilarious response from Chan,...

Banijay Nordic’s banner Yellow Bird is set to produce “A Life’s Worth,” a drama series inspired by real events within the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. The show is being produced by Arte France and Viaplay Content Distribution which will also handle global sales.

“A Life’s Worth” is set in the fall of 1993, amid the devastating turmoil unfurling in Bosnia. Swedish U.N. soldiers embark on a perilous mission to bring peace to a fractured land. The series follows the journey of a group of young soldiers and their commander as they struggle with the complexities of war.

The show is headlined by a strong cast including Edvin Ryding (“Young Royals”), Maxwell Cunningham (“Top Dog”), Erik Enge (“Tigers”), Johan Rheborg (“Solsidan”) and Toni Prince (“Drugdealer”). Additional cast members include Lazar Dragojevic, Ivana Roscic, Alena Dzebo and Alban Ukaj.

“A Life’s Worth” was co-written by Mona Masri (“Easy Money”) and Oliver Dixon,...

A filmmaker with an affinity for the dark, Daniel Espinosa caught international attention with 2010 Swedish thriller “Easy Money.” Hollywood was immediately and understandably intrigued by his capacity to make us care about shady criminal types, and for his part, the Chilean-born, Sweden-based director couldn’t resist the lure of making an American studio movie. Or three. Alas, each paycheck took Espinosa farther from his core strength: finding the humanity in morally compromised characters. Now, in a hard swing from ill-advised snabba cash project “Morbius” in 2022, “Madame Luna” can be seen either as penance or simply a return to form. Either way, this tense, tragic contemporary immigrant drama makes infinitely better use of his instincts.

Where Espinosa’s past four credits allowed him to work with an enviable roster of English-speaking stars — Denzel Washington, Tom Hardy, Jake Gyllenhaal and Jared Leto — this smaller, more sociological character study gives him a chance...

Verve is bolstering its Media Rights team with the hire of senior publishing agent Jenni Ferrari-Adler.

Ferrari-Adler will be based in Verve’s New York office, working with Partner Liz Parker and IP Agent Noah Ballard to further expand the Media Rights team.

Having previously served at Union Literary for over a decade, Ferrari-Adler was key to cultivating the agency’s successful cookbook portfolio and business endeavors. Her diverse representation spans recent New York Times bestsellers, Hello Sunshine Book Club and Read with Jenna picks. In addition to handling literary and commercial novels, she represents award-winning young adult and middle-grade novels, short story collections, graphic memoirs, narrative non-fiction, and cookbooks. Noteworthy clients under her representation include Jennifer Baker, Aya de Leon, Ariel Djanikian, Amy Kurzweil, Neel Patel, Ana Reyes, Gerardo Samano Cordova, and Susie Yang.

Ferrari-Adler previously edited the anthology Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone.

Johnny Marr teamed up with a 30-piece orchestra for the first of a two-night homecoming run in Manchester, England.

Across a 16-song setlist, the British guitar icon reimagined songs from his solo repertoire along with classics from The Smiths and his dance project with Bernard Sumner, Electronic. Highlights included “How Soon Is Now?,” “Easy Money,” and, of course, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” during which Marr paid tribute to his late Smiths bandmate, Andy Rourke, who died this past May.

Speaking about the experience, Marr said that he couldn’t “help feeling a little bit emotional” hearing his songs receive symphonic treatment. “I’ve had two experiences of playing with an orchestra — Hans Zimmer, obviously, and also with Pet Shop Boys — but to actually sing in front of an orchestra playing my own work, that’s a first,” he said (per NME). “It’s been really enjoyable working on the arrangements.

If John Woo had permitted the characters in “Silent Night” to speak, chances are that audiences would laugh them off the screen. Instead, the director gets right down to business, opening with a wordless chase sequence in which a sad dad (Joel Kinnaman) in a corny Christmas sweater sprints after a pair of speeding cars. Inside the vehicles, bad men blast machine guns, while our nameless hero is armed with … just his wits and the jingle bell around his neck.

By the time this guy — identified as Brian Godlock in the end credits — catches up to the gang members who murdered his son, “Silent Night” has already demonstrated that Woo has no intention of letting logic get in his way. And why should we expect any different from the director of “Face/Off,” whose title-says-it-all gimmick had two rivals swapping identities via plastic surgery? The movie dedicates a lot of time...

‘Codename: Annika’: SkyShowtime Unveils Cast & Trailer

SkyShowtime has unveiled cast and trailer for Codename: Annika, one of the fledgling Paramount/Comcast Jv’s biggest originals to date. The series follows a Finnish detective, Emma Haka, played by Sannah Nedergård (Yellow Sulphur Sky), who is still completing her undercover training when she gets sent on a mission into Stockholm’s corrupt world of fine art trade. Unveiled at the Stockholm International Film Festival, Codename from Mia Ylönen and Aleksi Bardy will star the likes of Ardalan Esmaili (Easy Money) as Rasmus Ståhlgren, Eva Melander (Border) as Rina Olander and Helena Bergström (House of Angels) as Agatha Torstensson, along with Pekka Strang (Tom of Finland) as Raimo Korpi, Clarisse Lhoni-Botte (Rolling to You) as Béatrice Joly and Charles Martins (Emily in Paris) as Denver Carpentier. Show will launch next month on the streaming service that is available in territories in which...

SkyShowtime, the European streaming joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global has unveiled a teaser trailer for six-part original crime drama series Codename: Annika at the Stockholm International Film Festival outdoor cinema, Sommarbio.

The Finnish-Swedish production, which originally had the working title ID, was part of a deal that the streamer struck early this year with Warner Bros. Discovery for exclusive rights across all of Europe to 21 HBO Max European originals. Codename: Annika will launch on SkyShowtime in September.

Created by Mia Ylönen and Aleksi Bardy of production company Helsinki-Filmi (Tove, Ladies of Steel, Tom of Finland, Heart of a Lion, Lapland Odyssey) and directed by Finnish director Aj Annila (Peacemaker), the show promises to take audiences behind the scenes of the world of high-class art fraud, while also exploring “the reality of navigating a double identity.”

The series stars Sannah Nedergård (Yellow Sulphur Sky) as Finnish art fraud investigator Emma/Annika.

Momento Film, the leading Swedish banner founded by David Herdies (“Winter Buoy”) and Michael Krotkiewski (“Bellum — The Daemon Of War”), is boasting a slate of projects including the documentaries “Leaving Jesus” and “The Underdog,” as well as Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet.”

While at Cannes, the banner also started teasing one of its biggest project so far, “The Swedish Torpedo,” Frida Kempff (“Winter Buoy”)’s period film inspired by the life of Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel in 1939. “The Swedish Torpedo” will start shooting in August with a topnotch cast led by Josefin Neldén, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, as well as Lisa Carlehed (“The Emigrants”).

Co-produced by Sweden, Estonia, Belgium and England, the film opens in 1939, as Europe is on the brink of war. Sally, a 30-year-old single mom, dreams of being the first European woman to cross the English Channel. While society and...

"Animal House" was the first movie ever created under the name of National Lampoon. It made the humor magazine a household name, but not everybody on the staff was interested in venturing into the movie business. In fact, some of the writers and editors at the magazine felt that the film brought on an unwelcome shift that would eventually render them obsolete.

The film arrived in 1978, eight years after National Lampoon was founded, and achieved instant success. The magazine went on to attach its name to a number of other films, including 1983's "Vacation," which was so popular it exploded into its own movie franchise.

The success of "Animal House" brought a lot of new readers to the magazine, and it also brought a lot of the magazine's writers into the entertainment business. One of the magazine's founders, Henry Beard, had warned the staff against going into film and television before he moved on.

Writer/director Axel Petersén calls it “a redemption drama stuck inside a Mediterranean Noir”.

LevelK has boarded international sales for Axel Petersén’s Shame On Dry Land.

The drama is set against the world of online gamblers who fled Sweden for Malta. An exiled conman goes to a lavish wedding, seeking redemption but derailing on a wild goose chase of lies, deceit and murder.

The writer/director calls it “a redemption drama stuck inside a Mediterranean Noir”.

The cast includes Joel Spira (Easy Money), Christopher Wagelin (Gentlemen & Gangsters) and Julia Sporre (The Square).

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Apc Studios has signed a raft of key deals on the second season of the Nordic thriller “Alex,” the hit series produced by Sf Studios and Nevision for Viaplay.

The Paris-based company has sold the Swedish show’s second season to Amazon Prime Video (France), Walter Presents for the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Mhz (USA), ProSiebenSat1.Media.Se (Germany), Upc (Switzerland), Ale Kino+ (Poland), Elisa/My Nordic TV (China), Stod (Iceland) and Green Narae Media (South Korea).

Written by Frans Wiklund and directed y Alain Darborg, “Alex” stars Dragomir Mrsic (“Easy Money”) as a ruthless police officer who has decided to come to terms with his dubious past but gets caught up by the dark forces of his past.

“Alex” has been Viaplay’s most viewed series to date since it launched in November 2017. A third season is currently in development.

“After a first season that launched last year...

Jens Lapidus’ hit novels will return after a film trilogy, via a series being produced by Sf Studios. Six years after the release of the last part of the movie trilogy, the hit Swedish crime-drama Easy Money (aka Snabba Cash), which is based on Jens Lapidus’ best-selling novels, is returning as an original series for Netflix, produced by Sf Studios. According to the official announcement, the story is set in the milieu of Stockholm’s buzzing underworld ten years after the events depicted in the feature-film franchise. Now, the demand for money and status is stronger than ever, and this leads the entrepreneurial jet set and the criminal underworld to clash, making them more brutal, chaotic and ruthless. The collision of these two worlds will put business partnerships, loyalty and friendships to the test, all set against the backdrop of the everlasting pursuit of easy money. The series is being developed.

Netflix is adapting Scandinavian movie trilogy Snabba Cash (Easy Money) into a six-part series. The Svod service has partnered with screenwriter Oskar Söderlund and author Jens Lapidus on the project.

The series is set in Stockholm ten years after the events depicted in the feature films. It is a buzzing environment where the craving for status and money is stronger than ever. The entrepreneurial jet set as well as the criminal world has become even more brutal, chaotic and ruthless. When these two worlds collide, loyalty, friendships and business partners will all be tested in the never-ending quest for easy money. The films starred The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman.

Snabba Cash is produced by Sf Studios, the original producer of the film trilogy, set in the gritty criminal underground of Stockholm. Oskar Söderlund, the screenwriter behind The Fat and the Angry and Greyzone, has developed the series together with Lapidus,...

Netflix has ordered a six-part original series based on the hit Swedish crime franchise “Snabba Cash” from Sf Studios.

Based on Jens Lapidus’s bestselling novels, the series is set in Stockholm’s gritty criminal underground ten years after the events depicted in the “Snabba Cash” movie trilogy. The society has become even more obsessed with status and money, while the entrepreneurial jet set as well as the criminal worlds have collided.

The show was developed by Oskar Söderlund, the acclaimed screenwriter behind “The Fat and the Angry,” together with Lapidus, a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author who has sold more than 2.2 million books in Sweden alone.

Lapidus, who also serves as executive producer, said he had “been waiting for an opportunity to continue with ‘Snabba Cash.'” “The stories are still epic but also depict our time in an unfiltered light. It will be amazing,” said Lapidus.

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As it seeks to bolster its production input, the centenary Nordic major Sf Studios has acquired a majority stake in thriving Swedish outfit Flx, the company behind the Netflix show “Quicksand” and some of Sweden’s most popular series, including “Solsidan” (pictured), and the popular movie “The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.”

Under the deal with Sf Studios, Flx’s founder Felix Herngren and CEO Pontus Edgren will remain significant shareholders and keep spearheading daily operations at the company which will continue operating as an independent production company under its own brand. The pact has yet to be approved by the Swedish anti-trust board.

Michael Porseryd, CEO at Sf Studios, pointed that both companies have been collaborating for several years as part of a distribution deal covering the theatrical release of Flx’s movies. “This is the next step bringing us together,”

“The team at Flx,...

Joel Kinnaman doesn't agree with the whole "call-out" culture of the society. The Swedish-American actor says there is no value in digging up an old tweet or finding a bad joke written by someone ten years ago. Be it James Gunn, Kevin Hart, Green Book screenwriter Nick Vallelonga, Blake Shelton or Trevor Noah -- there have been many instances when old tweets came back to haunt many names from Hollywood in the era of MeToo movement, inclusivity and gender equality.

But Kinnaman feels people should refrain from jumping to judgments, and look for the intention behind the words sometimes.

"There is a negative side of this movement and it is something that I really dislike. That is the call-out culture where people are offended by things," Kinnaman told Ians in an interview over the phone from New York.

"What is really important is that people go to the bottom of...

Norman Hollyn, a prolific film and film music editor whose credits include “The Cotton Club,” “Sophie’s Choice” and “Heathers,” died over the weekend after suffering a coronary embolism and cardiac arrest. He was 66.

Hollyn, who was also a professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, was in Yokohama, Japan, where he was serving as a guest lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Hollyn began his career as an apprentice sound editor on Bob Fossee’s “Lenny” in 1974, and was an apprentice editor on “Network” two years later. His subsequent credits include “Hair,” “Fame,” the Rodney Dangerfield comedy “Easy Money,” “Mr. Destiny,” and “It’s Pat: The Movie,” among many others. Hollyn also had numerous television credits, including the ABC miniseries “Wild Palms.”

Hollyn wrote the “The Film Editing Room Handbook” in 1984.

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Sf Studios, the Scandinavian company celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, is developing an English-language series based on Max Tegmark’s 2017 New York Times bestseller “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”

The science-fiction series will follow a group of young scientists working at a startup who discover the first sentient artificial intelligence and envision ways in which it could be used to create a better world, which leads to a clash of ideals and morals. The show is a fictionalized treatment of Tegmark’s exploration of the ramifications of AI, which was translated in multiple languages and published around the world.

Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, the senior VP of international production, said the “series will be character-driven as well as boasts a dramatic dimension and a tone similar to ‘The Social Network’ and ‘Her.'”

The series will also explore ways in which AI can affect news,...

’It makes no sense to do a co-production if you don’t have the product that fits your market and your partner.’

Peter Nadermann, the champion of high-end Scandinavian content who served as executive producer the original Millennium film series and launched Nadcon with Constantin Films six years ago, used a Ventana Sur keynote to emphasise the potential benefits of co-productions under the right circumstances.

Speaking at the Buenos Aires market’s new Fiction Factory programme on Wednesday (12), the former Zdf Enterprises executive who now plies his trade at Cologne-based producer Nadcon wasted no time disabusing attendees of the notion...

’It makes no send to do a co-production if you don’t have the product that fits your market and your partner.’

Peter Nadermann, the champion of high-end Scandinavian content who served as executive producer the original Millennium film series and launched Nadcon with Constantin Films six years ago, used a Ventana Sur keynote to emphasise the benefits of co-productions under the right circumstances.

Speaking at the Buenos Aires market’s new Fiction Factory programme on Wednesday (12), the former Zdf Enterprises executive who now plies his trade at Cologne-based producer Nadcon did not waste time disabusing attendees of the notion...

Gustaf Skarsgård and Matias Varela lead the cast.

As Afm kicks off, Sf Studios is launching the first teaser for Jesper Ganslandt’s 438 Days, which is now in post production.

Gustaf Skarsgård and Matias Varela lead the cast.

The drama/thriller is based on the true story of Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson, who were on assignment in Ethiopia (researching the impact of the hunt for oil on the local population) in 2011 when they were captured, accused of terrorism and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

They were pardoned and released from jail after 438 days inside the notorious...

Matias Varela and Julia Ragnarsson will star in “Blinded,” the much-anticipated Swedish thriller following a journalist on the trail of corruption in the world of high finance. Ragnarsson and Varela will take the lead roles, with the former playing the journalist Bea Farkas, who detects irregularities at a high-profile bank. Varela is Peder Rooth, the bank’s CEO.

The series is based on the books by economics journalist Carolina Neurath. Production starts later this month. Flx, which made Netflix’s first Swedish original, “Quicksand,” is producing for C More and TV4. All3Media International is also on board and handling international distribution of the series, its first move into Scandi drama. Film Capital Stockholm is a co-production partner.

Varela had a breakout role in TV4 series “New Times” before embarking on a career in film and TV that includes “Point Break” and, more recently, Netflix series “Narcos,” in which he played Jorge Salcedo.

Gustaf Skarsgård, Matias Varela lead cast for projects from ‘Jimmie’ director.

Jesper Ganslandt is gearing up to start shooting 438 Days for Miso Film Sweden this summer.

438 Days will be based on the true story of Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson, who were on assignment in Ethiopia when they were captured, accused of terrorism and sentenced to 11 years in prison. They were pardoned and released from jail after 438 days; they wrote an award-winning book about their experiences in 2013.

Gustaf Skarsgård (Westworld) and Matias Varela (Easy Money) will star in the film, which is written by Peter Birro.

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The Snowman's Rebecca Ferguson talks making a murder mystery in the cold The Snowman's Rebecca Ferguson talks making a murder mystery in the cold Bob Strauss - Cineplex Magazine10/18/2017 10:15:00 Am

Rebecca Ferguson is used to living between two worlds, so she felt right at home making the gory mystery The Snowman.

“It’s by a studio from America and an incredible Swedish director,” Ferguson says over the phone from London. The 34-year-old actor’s mom was English but her dad was Swedish and Ferguson, whose full name is Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström, was born and raised in Stockholm.

“I got to work with Michael Fassbender, run around in deep snow in Norway — which, by the way, if you’ve never been, you should go. It is breathtakingly beautiful up there!”

A beautiful locale for an ugly tale.

It’s hard to avoid horrific violence in any story written by Jo Nesbø,...

Few conversations that start with “I got this friend” tend to end well, especially in the world of crime-centric filmmaking. In Ed Blythe’s upcoming “Man With Van,” that proves true from the jump.

The film follows down-on-his-luck construction electrician Kier Sawicki (Morgan Spector, “The Mist”), who bumbles into professional arson to provide for his daughter (Ursula Parker, “Louie”) amidst a bitter custody dispute. It’s clearly a fraught idea from the start — as seen in our exclusive clip below — but Kier is hopeful that the so-called victimless crime will pay. It doesn’t, and there is definitely a victim.

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Blythe’s film explodes out Kier’s bad luck, pitting him against his best friend and their bad-mannered boss, forcing his ex-wife to go to wild legal ends, and pushing him into yet another ill-fated scheme.

Lost In America

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Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty

Cinematography: Eric Saarinen

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Written by Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson

Produced by Marty Katz and Herb Nanas

Music: Arthur B. Rubinstein

Directed by Albert Brooks

According to a Newsweek cover story published that same year, 1984 was “The Year of the Yuppie”, referring to those ferociously materialistic young professionals whose numbers blossomed during the Reagan administration. The following year director Albert Brooks and his co-writer Monica Johnson delivered Lost In America, an acerbic road movie detailing what happens when one of those upwardly mobile hot-shots decides to get back to nature and “touch Indians”.

The result is one of the great American comedies, a mile-a-minute talk fest worthy of writer-directors like Billy Wilder, Woody Allen and in particular Preston Sturges, whose The Palm Beach Story told a similar tale about two young-marrieds who find...

Filmmaker Rob Bralver (best known for his editing work on “Gore Vidal: The United States of America”) turns his attentions to a different side of filmmaking with his feature narrative debut, “Espionage Tonight,” bound for a world premiere at Dances With Films next week. The film stars Sean Astin, Lynn Whitfield, Joe Hursley, Greg Davis Jr., Chasty Ballesteros, and many more.

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Bralver wrote and directed the film, billed as “an inventive and sly critique of American media culture and politics,” which blends some timely issues around politics, “fake news,” the value of supposedly fact-based entertainment, and good old-fashioned espionage into a very amusing mix.

But there is some real meat here and, as Bralver explained in an official statement, some warnings, too. Said Bralver, “What used to be an intersectional space...

“I think you are a cunning person,” Vladimir Putin tells Oliver Stone in the newly released trailer for “The Putin Interviews.” Showtime Documentary Films has also released the first extended clip and poster for the four-part documentary. Avail yourself of all three below.

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Stone was granted “unprecedented access to both Putin’s professional and personal worlds” for the project, presumably because the Russian pol was so enamored of last year’s “Snowden”; the filmmaker interviewed his subject more than a dozen times, with their most recent session taking place in February.

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“The Putin Interviews” will air on Showtime on four consecutive nights beginning Monday, June 12. It probably won’t end with any Frost/Nixon–style revelations,...

“Abu” is the Urdu word for “father,” making it a fitting choice for the title of Arshad Khan’s very personal new documentary. The film mixes personal footage, interviews, and even a slew of Bollywood films to tell the story of Khan — a gay man who has long struggled to be authentic to his unaccepting family — and his father, a devout Muslim.

Per the film’s official synopsis, “Abu” is billed as “a journey to the center of a fragmented family as they grapple with religion, sexuality, colonialism and migration. Through a tapestry of narratives composed of family footage, observation and classic Bollywood films, gay-identifying Pakistani Muslim filmmaker Arshad Khan takes viewers through the tense relationships between family and fate, conservatism and liberalism and modernity and familiarity. It is a father and son’s search for that elusive place called ‘home.'”

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Italian director and actor (and neorealist luminary) Vittorio De Sica is best known to most stateside audiences for his honorary Oscar winners like “Sciuscià” (the first foreign film to be recognized by the Academy) and his enduring classic “Bicycle Thieves,” but there are still gems from the long-deceased filmmaker for fans to discover.

Like his 1963 comedy “Il Boom,” which has never had a U.S. release…until now! “Il Boom” will finally come to the States — complete with a new restoration — later this month, and we have a fresh trailer to celebrate.

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The film’s title refers to the Italian economic “miracle” that took place from the late 1950s until the 1970s after World War II. “Il Boom” follows Giovanni Alberti (Alberto Sordi), a small building contractor who is deeply in debt because...

Agatha Christie’s 1934 detective story “Murder on the Orient Express” last came to the big screen in Sidney Lumet’s 1974 six-time Oscar nominee. Enough time has passed for a new version, but it’s certainly not going to be easy to top Lumet’s version, which won Ingrid Bergman the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Fortunately director Kenneth Branagh, who has found blockbuster success with “Thor” and “Cinderella,” has one of the year’s most start-studded ensemble casts to help him succeed.

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Branagh has cast himself as Christie’s famed detective Hercule Poirot, who finds himself racing against the clock to find a murderer while on a lavish train ride in England. His search brings him face to face with 13 potential suspects, played by the likes of Daisy Ridley,...

“Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry,” Laura Dunn’s vivid, poignant look at the life of seminal American writer Wendell Berry — and, by extension, the country he’s lovingly written about for so long — comes complete with one heck of a pedigree to recommend it.

Produced by Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, and Nick Offerman, Dunn’s documentary is billed as “a beautiful and poignant portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the eye of American novelist, poet, and activist, Wendell Berry.”

And one look at the film’s debut trailer is enough to make that vision and artistry very clear indeed.

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The film is the first one about Berry and it takes viewers inside his unique life...

Loosely based on her own grandmother’s life, Amanda Kernall’s feature debut, “Sami Blood,” follows a unique heroine through a compelling coming-of-age tale. The films centers on 14-year-old Elle Marja, a reindeer-herding Sámi girl who feels trapped by her insular society and by an outside world that doesn’t accept her. Once she is exposed to the racism of the 1930s and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve this dream, Elle Marja will have to make a series of heart-breaking sacrifices.

The film is led by a powerful performance from newcomer Lene Cecilia Sparrok — who never acted before this film and is Sami herself — along with her own sister, also a newbie to the world of moviemaking. Based on Kernall’s 2015 short film, “Stoerre Vaerie,” the film flips back and forth between time periods to give life to Elle...

The future of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” remains a question mark now that Dennis has left for North Carolina (original series regular Glenn Howerton is moving to the NBC sitcom “AP Bio” this fall). Fxx has already renewed the series for two more seasons, which will bring the show all the way to Season 14, but what it will look like without Howerton remains to be seen.

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While we continue to think about what the future holds, YouTube’s very own Nikki Potnick has published the ultimate celebration of the past with an insane supercut that brings together every time a character uttered “god dammit” across 12 seasons and 134 episodes. That’s a lot of “god dammit” quotes, to say the least.

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Daniel Espinosa made his directorial debut with Easy Money, originally called Snabba Cash. His Scorsese-presented gangster pic has an aggressive atmosphere, and it ultimately helped him land his second feature and first studio gig, Safe House. Since then, he’s directed Child 44 – a movie that reportedly had some difficulties – and his latest film, Life. Espinosa’s sci-fi horror thriller, which […]

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This weekend, some pretty big-league talent is headed to the multiplex with “Life.” The sci-fi horror stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson, comes from “Deadpool” writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and has Daniel Espinosa of “Safe House” and “Easy Money” behind the camera.

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Swedish director Daniel Espinosa might have been another foreign filmmaker working in obscurity until his film Snabba Cash (Easy Money) caught the attention of Hollywood, and he was hired to helm Safe House, an action-thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington that became a huge hit over here. (Espinosa’s next movie, the psychological thriller Child 44, failed to find much of an audience, more due to poor marketing than anything else.)

Now, Espinosa is back with Life, an outer space thriller starring Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and more, which looks at what it might be like if life was discovered on Mars, and what might happen if that life turns out to be hostile. For the astronauts of the Iss (International Space Station), it becomes a life or death situation as a single cell organism starts growing and becoming stronger and smarter, as they have to figure out...

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Director Daniel Espinosa talks to us about his new film, Life, and his thoughts on the science fiction genre...

Nb: The following discusses a few plot points in Life, but only ones you've seen in its trailer.

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Life immediately distinguishes itself from other post-Alien, monsters-in-space movies with one simple concept: it's not set in the future, but the present. Its events don't take place on a ship somewhere out there in the galaxy, but in the International Space Station orbiting Earth.

So when an alien organism's discovered in a soil sample retrieved from Mars, and a group of scientists begin studying it, there's an added layer of tension: in astronomical terms, the events are taking place on our own front door step.

Swedish director Daniel Espinosa,...

Daniel Espinosa, the Chilean-born Sweden-based director who broke in with Easy Money and followed with Safe House, takes his first outer space movie, Life, to SXSW. The thriller, which gets its premiere tomorrow in Austin, is set in a space station filled with scientists assigned to receive soil samples from Mars to see if there are any signs of intelligent life. We are so far from movies like E.T. and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind that it isn’t spoiling the film to…...

Jake Gyllenhaal leads the cast in the intense space horror-thriller, Life. Here's our review of an unexpectedly good genre film...

Great horror movies are, among other things, an exercise in style and tone. Alien differed from earlier monsters-on-a-spaceship films because it took its subject matter seriously and featured stunning design work from director Ridley Scott and his collaborators. Gravity wasn’t the first film about astronauts trapped in space, but it was one of the most striking thanks to Alfonso Cuaron’s dizzying use of camerawork and digital filmmaking to create what appeared to be a story told in one seamless take.

This brings us to Life, a space horror film which feels like an unholy amalgam of Alien, Gravity, plus a dash of Prometheus, John Carpenter’s The Thing and Nigel Kneale’s The Quatermass Xperiment. Life’s individual parts aren’t unique, but the way they’ve been...

Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson discover the first proof of life on Mars. What could possibly go wrong? A whole lot based on the trailers for Daniel Espinosa‘s (Easy Money) space thriller, Life, which hopefully has more to offer than a blend of Alien and Gravity. Below, watch an extended Life clip. Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) is the poor soul aboard the International […]

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Swedish production company Sf Studios is teaming with A Man Called Ove producer Niklas Wikström Nicastro for a new big-budget drama series called Alex with Easy Money actor Dragomir Mrsic tapped to star. Sf Studios, which created the Easy Money trilogy, will jointly produce the 6×44' Swedish-language thriller with Nevision. It will premiere on Modern Times Group-owned VOD service Viaplay in Spring 2018. Niklas Rockström (Before We Die) and Michael Hjorth (Sebastian Bergman…...

Even if there were nothing else to draw viewers to Life, the fact both Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal are leaving their comfort zones to make a film that is, apparently, mostly a sci-fi thriller and in large part a horror effort is worth a ticket.

The new trailer, closely connected to the Super Bowl ad spot, gives a lot more information about what’s happening, though it was pretty clear before, and it also shows us some of the destruction and it gives away the fact that, whatever happens, it isn’t going to end well.

Most importantly, the trailer teases that as the pressure mounts, and the fate of the world rests in the hands of a few astronauts on the space station, there are going to be some big decisions that need to be made.

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal), Roy Adams (Ryan Reynolds), Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson...

2017 is the year we’re going to be freaked out in space at the multiplex. Ridley Scott‘s “Alien: Covenant” will once again bring galactic terror to the big screen, but coming first is the simply titled “Life,” where a bunch of astronauts face something definitely not human.

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Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson, from the pens of “Deadpool” writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and directed by Daniel Espinosa (“Safe House,” “Easy Money“), the action takes place on board an international space station where things start going very, very wrong.

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Ryan Lambie Mar 15, 2017

Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson star in the forthcoming sci-fi movie, Life. Here's the latest trailer...

Just a quick update here. A new, red band trailer for Life has landed, with the film just a couple of weeks out for release. Take a mooch and see what you reckon...

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Previously...

If Professor Quatermass and The Andromeda Strain have taught us one thing, it's that even simple alien life-forms can't be trusted. A crew of astronauts aboard the International Space Station learn this the hard way in Life, a forthcoming sci-fi thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson.

The six-strong team (which also includes Olga Dihovichnaya, Hiroyuki Sanada and Ariyon Bakare) are the first humans to discover evidence of life beyond our planet. But their elation soon turns...

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.

Metrograph

“Body of Work” presents Madonna’s more-impressive-than-you-think filmography, including the 25th-anniversary restoration of Truth or Dare. This weekend offers A League of Their Own, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shadows and Fog, and Dick Tracy.

Fantastic Mr. Fox screens on Saturday.

Film Forum

Double-billings continue with Hitchcock-Polanski, Reed-Welles, and Kelly- / Donen-Minelli.

A restoration of Howards End has begun its run.