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If you’ve been sleeping on Silo, it’s about time to partake in the party that has been happening under our feet. Based on Hugh Howey’s Wool trilogy, Silo explores a dystopian underground society and Juliette’s journey to find out the realities of their subterranean existence, how they got here, and the toxic world above.

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The silo is a massive structure over a mile deep with 144 levels, separating its inhabitants by a rigid caste system. The mechanical workers live at the bottom, while the authorities reside at the top.

Built as part of a U.S. government project in 2049 to preserve humanity, the silo system consists of 50 units, with Juliette’s silo likely located in the States. Outside, the surface is a barren wasteland where death is imminent. Manipulated visors deceive silo inhabitants into seeing a better landscape, but in reality,...

Exclusive: Ming-Na Wen (The Book of Boba Fett) and Esai Morales (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One) have signed on to star alongside Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) in the long-gestating sci-fi thriller Persephone, from director Jeffrey Morris (Oceanus: Act One).

Morris’ first feature follows refugees from a dying earth, who are traveling aboard an enormous space vessel called Odyssey. Their destination is Proxima b—a planet orbiting the nearest star. When a crew is dispatched to repair a shield designed to protect their colony from deadly solar flares, a computer malfunction causes them to crash-land on the alien planet. The crew then discover that they may not be the only life on this hostile world. A mystery unfolds that may not only derail their mission, but also prevent the colonists from ever setting foot on the planet.

Morris penned the script, also co-authoring a companion novel with New York Times bestselling...

The California Film Commission announced the latest round of tax credits for film productions on Monday, and once again Netflix emerged as the big winner.

The streaming giant was awarded $60.3 million in state credits, far outpacing Disney ($27.2 million), Warner Bros. ($16.2 million) and Amazon ($16 million). Netflix also led the way in the last round of credits in August 2021, taking $43.3 million.

This time, Netflix was granted credits for four projects: “Atlas,” “Beverly Hills Cop 4,” “Family Leave” and “Unfrosted.”

The latter project stars Jerry Seinfeld in an origin story about the Pop Tart, and was awarded $14.2 million in credits.

“We are so happy to get the California tax credit which enables us to make our whole movie there,” said Seinfeld, who is also writing, directing and producing the film for Netflix. “Having made all of the ‘Seinfeld’ series in L.A., I very much wanted to come back and shoot there again.

30 different film projects, including Jerry Seinfeld’s “Unfrosted” for Netflix and Tom Brady’s recently announced film “80 For Brady,” are among the movies that have qualified for the latest round of tax credits for filming inside the state of California.

The California Film Commission announced Monday that 19 indie and 11 studio films were selected for the latest round as part of the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 3.0. These projects will bring an estimated $1.17 billion in combined production spending to California, including $774 million in “qualified” spending (defined as wages to below-the-line workers and payments to in-state vendors).

It has reserved $149.2 million in tax credit allocation for the 30 conditionally approved projects. Only the qualified portion of each project’s budget is eligible for tax credits under California’s uniquely targeted incentive program.

Four of the films alone are big budget projects that the film commission says will spend an estimated $553 million in California,...

Nick Cave paid tribute to his friend and occasional collaborator, Mark Lanegan, in his Red Hand Files newsletter. Lanegan, who fronted Screaming Trees before embarking on a solo career, died Tuesday at the age of 57.

“I encountered Mark many times over the years — we engaged in some extremely dubious escapades back in the Nineties; he sang ‘White Light/White Heat’ and ‘Fire and Brimstone’ with Warren [Ellis] and me on the Lawless soundtrack; he recorded my favorite ever Nick Cave cover — an astonishing version of ‘Brompton Oratory’; we did something together...

A second round of performers has been announced for the upcoming Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, with Eric Church, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Brothers Osborne, Kane Brown, Jordan Davis, Brittney Spencer, Mitchell Tenpenny, Jason Aldean and leading ACMs nominee Chris Young joining the lineup.

More specific plans for some of the previously announced performers have also been revealed. Dolly Parton, who’ll be hosting the commercial-free Prime Video webcast from Allegiant Stadium, will be joined for a performance of her new album’s “Big Dreams and Faded Dreams” by Kelsea Ballerini.

The two-hour show will kick off with a collaborative two-song set by Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett, who are up for male and female artist of the year.

Brothers Osborne will be joined by Spencer for a yet-to-be-named number. Spencer has seen less chart action than the other announced performers but has gotten considerable attention recently...

Exclusive: Zach Villa, Devon Graye, Madeline Zima, Chris Doubek, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster, Adam Busch, Michael Cassidy, Peter Mensah and Debra Wilson have signed on to star in Addison Heimann’s feature directorial debut, Hypochondriac.

In the LGBTQ-themed horror-thriller, a young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.

Bay Dariz is producing through his Minutehand Pictures banner alongside John Humber, with Michelle Lewitt handling casting.

Common has joined the cast of the “Wool” series adaptation at Apple.

The show is based on the Hugh Howey novel series of the same name. Common will star alongside previously announced cast members Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Rashida Jones, and David Oyelowo.

“Wool” is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Common will appear in the role of Sims, the Silo’s Head of Judicial Security.

In addition to his highly successful music career, Common has found acclaim both in film and television music as well. Most notably, he and John Legend won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for writing the song “Glory” for the film “Selma,” with Common also appearing in the film in a supporting role.

The official video for Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind” is typical of many music videos from the late Seventies: There’s an endless amount of hair, a few questionably ruffled tuxedo shirts, and some more hair. In the same way that Journey’s 1978 video for “Lights” humorously featured light literally beaming out of the band members’ extravagant outfits, the Kansas clip uses a fog machine to dramatically represent all that dust in the wind.

But this is a song about living in the moment — so why not check out a...

Miramax and Gunpower & Sky’s science fiction label Dust are teaming up to develop the sci-fi thriller, “The Masseuse.”

“We’re fired up that Bill Block and the Miramax team have recognized the wealth of emerging IP and underrepresented filmmaking talent lying within Dust’s ecosystem,” Gunpowder & Sky CEO Van Toffler said. “Miramax was our dream partner for this project because like us, they believe unique and diverse stories like ‘The Masseuse’ are the future of sci-fi storytelling and we can’t wait to get this one told!”

The feature is based on a short film written and directed by Tan Ce Ding that was released on the Dust channel in 2019. It is set in the near future where androids live and work among humans, resulting in a lonely android technician falling in love with the female android masseuse he’s been tasked to fix. All the while, the...

Dutch outfit Lemming Film embarks on joint venture with Belgium’s A Private View.

Leading Dutch production outfit Lemming Film has teamed with Belgium’s A Private View to launch a new joint venture and has lined-up its first three projects.

Lemming Film Belgium will aim to attract international co-productions and broaden the offer of high-quality series and films made in Belgium. The company, based in Ghent, will be run by Lemming CEO Leontine Petit and producer Erik Glijnis alongside Flemish producer Dries Phlypo of A Private View.

It marks a collaboration between two of the region’s leading production...

Having spent most of my life in New England, where sports are the way of life and the Patriots hoard more cultural cachet than the Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, and maybe even the mayor combined, I have never understood football’s appeal as entertainment or as a pastime. Against these odds, Ty Roberts’ new movie, “12 Mighty Orphans,” has opened my eyes by couching Americans’ passion for the game in a time of national duress: The Dust Bowl, smack-dab in the middle of the Great Depression, when football became a symbol on which deprived and destitute Americans could imprint their hopes and dreams.

Continue reading ’12 Mighty Orphans’ Gets Caught Somewhere Between Plucky Underdog Sports Film & Sentimental Biopic [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.

Marks the first international offshoot of the script development initiative for women and non-binary writers over 40.

The Writers Lab UK and Ireland, the international offshoot of the script development program for woman and non-binary writers over 40, has unveiled its first cohort of screenwriters and projects.

The non-profit organization, that counts Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman among its supporters, has selected 12 participants that will take part in the lab, set to take place online from June 10-13, with additional sessions spread over the following five months.

Scroll down for the full list of participants

Due to the significant number of writers who applied,...

Rebecca Ferguson will star in a series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s “Wool,” which has been ordered to series at Apple.

“Wool” is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Ferguson will star as Juliette, an independent and hardworking engineer.

Graham Yost will write and executive produce the adaptation, with Ferguson executive producing in addition to starring. Morten Tyldum will direct and executive produce. Howey, Remi Aubuchon, Nina Jack, and Ingrid Escajeda will also executive produce. The series hails from AMC Studios.

“Wool” was originally a standalone short story released online. After the first self-published story became an online sensation, Howey then published a series of stories continuing the journey in subsequent books in what became the “Silo” series: “Wool,...

Update (5/7): The Podcast Academy has tapped Cameron Esposito to host their inaugural ceremony, held on May 16th. Rainn Wilson, Hank Azaria, Este Haim, Kenan Thompson, Darren Criss, Neil Strauss, Whitney Cummings, Ashley Flowers, DeRay Mckesson, and others will present awards.

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The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for their inaugural Awards for Excellence in Audio, a.k.a. the Ambies.

Matthew McConaughey, Tessa Thompson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malcolm Gladwell and Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the 164 nominees in 23 categories that include Best Performer in Audio Fiction, Best Podcast Host,...

Nearly 40 years ago, Godfrey Reggio’s “Koyaanisqatsi” set a pulsating montage of modern and natural splendor to an ecstatic Phillip Glass score and was off to the races, with a singular formula of manufactured awe that has lasted generations. Likewise, when Terrence Malick returned from decades of dormancy to heighten conventional narratives with whispery voiceovers and cosmic detours, the ambition was undeniable. Yet “Awaken,” which was executive produced by both men and directed by their protege Tom Lowe,

“Awaken” was reportedly shot over the course of five years and across 30 countries, yet all that time and globe-trotting effort yielded little more than a dense clip reel of sumptuous time-lapse photography strewn about 70-odd minutes in search of a single unifying idea to justify the journey. Lowe is an undeniably talented astrophotographer who was been churning out time-lapse marvels for over a decade. His 2009 “TimeScapes,” which centers on the American southwest,...

"Our moment." Step aside Godfrey Reggio, it's time for other filmmakers to present their vision of our world in glorious 4K Hdr. Awaken is a documentary feature from filmmaker / cinematographer Tom Löwe, of the timelapse film TimeScapes previously. This is his latest creation - shot over a 5-year period in more than 30 countries, he pioneers state-of-the-art timelapse, time-dilation, underwater, and aerial cinematography techniques to give audiences new eyes with which to see our world. Executive produced by cinema pioneers Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio (best known for the stunning Qatsi documentary series), Awaken is a celebration of the spirit of life, an exploration of the Earth, and an ode to the Cosmos. I'm a big geek for this kind of jaw-dropping cinematography, but apparently it's getting harder and harder to sell to audiences. This premiered in 2018 but is only now getting a direct-to-vod release via the Dust sci-fi YouTube channel.

Exclusive: Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi brand Dust has acquired worldwide rights to the Tom Lowe-directed documentary Awaken, executive produced by Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) and Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi). Awaken is set to debut April 9 on Apple TV, Amazon and all other major VOD platforms.

Narrated by The Lord of the Rings alum Liv Tyler, Awaken takes viewers around the globe in immersive 4K Hdr showcasing the world’s natural wonders.

Lowe, who also produced and served as the cinematographer for Awaken, gives audiences a timely film experience featuring immersive imagery, beautiful cultures and an inspiring message. It explores humanity’s relationship with technology and the natural world. The docu was shot over a five-year period in more than 30 countries and pioneers state-of-the-art time-lapse, slow-motion, underwater and aerial cinematography techniques to give viewers new eyes with which to see our world.

“Awaken is a celebration of the spirit of life,...

Mumbai, March 1 (Ians) The Vinay Pathak-starrer Dust has dropped digitally only now, but the actor proudly recalls how the indie film, written and directed by Udita Bhargava, made waves when it was screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in 2019.

"I remember our screening at the Berlinale where barring me, Udita and her parents, the rest of the audience in the screening theatre, which was a full house, was an entirely international audience. The way the audience reacted to the story after the screening was overwhelming. 'Dust' is an Indian film with a global appeal and perhaps that is why we touched the right chords," Vinay recalls, speaking to Ians

The story of the film revolves around David, a young German who visits Indore after the death of his Indian photojournalist girlfriend Mumtaz and embarks on a journey to the troubled heart of India. As he...

Norman Lear is getting into business with IMDb TV. He has set two projects in development at the Amazon-owned free streaming service including the Laverne Cox-George Wallace comedy Clean Slate, which previously was in development at Peacock.

The streamer is working with Lear’s Act III Productions and Sony Pictures Television, where Lear is under an overall deal, on Clean Slate and Loteria.

Clean Slate, which initially was announced as part of NBCUniversal’s development slate in January 2020, is set to star Cox and Wallace. The half-hour comedy follows Henry (Wallace), an old-school car wash owner who is thrilled that his estranged child is returning home to Alabama after 17 years. However, Henry has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he thought was a son returns as the determined, proud trans woman Desiree (Cox).

Cox and Wallace wrote the story with Dan Ewen, who wrote...

Science+, a pilot from creator/producer Seaton-Kay Smith (Alphabet Street), producer Yingna Lu (Tangles and Knots) and director Leela Varghese, premiered this morning on Dust, a US-based platform from Gunpowder & Sky, dedicated to science-fiction and boasting more than 3 million viewers 18-35 years old.

Supported by Screen Australia, the 10-minute episode follows Matt (Akkshey Caplash), who accidentally shrinks himself and is captured by the ants whom he has unwittingly been squashing. He must find a way to escape their clutches and their impending death sentence.

The creatives talked to If about pulling it together.

What’s the genesis of ‘Science+;?

Seaton: I love sci-fi, and I wanted to write something that incorporated all my favourite elements from those classic sci-fi films – shrink rays, teleportation devices, time travel, etc. – but wanted to bring them into a straight realistic world. I was also working at an agency writing how to videos for...

Exclusive: Stampede Ventures is developing a television series based on short film Autonomous, a cyberpunk sci-fi project from director Joe Sill and writer Matisse Tolin.

Jon Berg and Greg Silverman of Stampede Ventures are producing the project, which recently debuted on Short of the Week and was picked up by genre streamer Dust.

It tells the story of two siblings who are part of a rebel motorcycle gang in a near-future world of autonomous vehicles that are regulated on a grid system run by a mega-corporation. The 3D animated project follows Yuri and her brother Nyx as they face off against the Metro Task Force to transport an important package to a client. Watch the film below.

Sill, who directed the 2019 feature Stray and has directed for brands such as Apple, NASA and Tesla, and Tolin began working on the project prior to the pandemic but used the lockdown to...

Milcho Manchevski is a New York-based filmmaker from North Macedonia, who has made several films about motherhood and its impact on women. His latest film, “Willow,” takes that theme and tells it through the eyes of a shared experience of sacrifice that spans centuries.

“Willow” is a triptych of three stories, each about 30 minutes in length, which ripple subtly into each other. It’s a format of storytelling that Manchevski has favored during his career, especially in his acclaimed 1994 drama “Before the Rain,” which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and earned an Oscar nomination. “Willow” is North Macedonia’s official selection for the 2020 Academy Awards.

The filmmaker was asked about his preference for three-act structure during an interview as part of TheWrap’s Awards & International Screening Series. “I guess it goes back to my film school days in Illinois and [learning] avant garde cinema and structuralism and even conceptualism,...

Kino Lorber’s acquired U.S. rights to Milcho Manchevski’s “Willow,” which will represent North Macedonia in the Oscars’ international feature film race.

“Willow” premiered at the Rome Film Festival and went on to win a best director award at Raindance. Reel Suspects is handling worldwide sales on the movie.

“Willow” tells the heartfelt tale of three women struggling to become mothers and contending with the issues of control over their bodies, struggle against tradition, loyalty, adoption and motherhood. Penned by Manchevski, the multi-layered drama is set in a medieval Macedonian village and in a contemporary city.

Manchevski is best known for his feature debut “Before the Rain” which won an Independent Spirit award, as well as the Golden Lion in Venice. “Before The Rain” represented Macedonia at the Oscars in 1995 and earned the country’s first Oscar nomination.

Kino Lorber is planning to release “Willow” in the Spring,...

Exclusive: ABC’s Women of the Movement has assembled a team of four accomplished Black female directors for the first installment of the potential anthology that celebrates the women of the civil rights movement. Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) and Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) will join Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball), as directors on the limited series, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.

The six-episode series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley, played by Adrienne Warren, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till (Cedric Joe) following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South.

As previously announced, Prince-Bythewood, who executive produces, will direct the first episode., Mabry will direct the second and third episodes, Dash will helm the fourth and fifth episodes and Lemmons will direct the sixth and final episode.

This article contains spoilers for episode 3 of The Stand.

After spending much of episodes 1 and 2 with important characters such as Stu Redman (James Marsden), Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young), Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) and Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo), the new miniseries version of Stephen King’s The Stand brings in or fills out the backgrounds of several more key personnel in episode 3, titled “Blank Pages.”

This episode of the nine-part CBS All Access limited series introduces the characters of Nick Andros (Brazilian actor Henry Zaga from The New Mutants), Ray Brentner (Irene Bedard) and Tom Cullen (Brad William Henke), all of whom play a major role in King’s tale — and all of whom have received a fairly significant overhaul for the new adaptation.

In King’s book and the 1994 miniseries, Ray is Ralph Brentner, a physically imposing yet good-natured 45-year-old farmer from Oklahoma and a key leader of the Boulder Free Zone.

Exclusive: Cara Gee (The Expanse) and Mpho Koaho are set to star in the forthcoming sci-fi thriller Levels written and directed by Adam Stern. Principal photography is slated to begin in 2021.

The film, which marks Stern’s feature directorial debut, explores “the nature of our existence.” After witnessing the murder of his girlfriend (Gee), Joe (Koaho) risks everything — including reality itself — to discover the truth about her death. Additional casting is underway.

Levels comes from Orbital Mechanics and Middle Child Films and will be produced by Stern and Tony Wosk of Middle Child.

“Adam shows a unique talent for storytelling within the genre, including strong character work with his actors, compelling visuals and the ability to produce visual effects-heavy content on a fraction of the cost of studio tentpole movies,” said Wosk. “Levels is structured...

This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers.

This is such a weird story. Beautifully so. It’s not surprising that the first attempt to put it on screen in 2007 struggled to capture its peculiar magic, nor that it would justify all the blood, sweat and tears involved in a second go. Witches and parallel worlds and quasi-fascist baddies we’ve seen before in fantasy, but quantum computing, dark matter and an ex-nun physicist alongside them? This is a singular tale that – as fans of Pullman’s books know – is only about to get stranger.

An episode like ‘The Cave’ shows just how singular, and how well-conceived the narrative spine of His Dark Materials is. The concept of Dust has, until now, felt contained to Lyra’s fantastic world. Here we see that it’s universal, with a presence in every realm including our own. What Lyra calls Dust, we call...

Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust is developing a modern take on the classic H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. The series will be titled Moreau and will be written by Zack Stentz.

“The double helix wasn’t even a twinkle in Watson & Crick’s eye when H.G. Wells first wrote The Island of Dr. Moreau, but his 1896 novel proved astonishingly prescient about how unlocking the secrets of DNA would open the door to humanity playing God with the natural world in strange and frightening ways,” said Stentz. “And now, in the shadow of the Crispr revolution, it felt like the perfect time to revisit Moreau and bring it into our own 21st Century world of transgenic animals, designer babies and other scientific advances Wells never could have dreamed of.

Having consent in the current digital age is one of the most vital pieces to finding pleasure. Actor Nicholas Alexander is realizing that important message the hard way in the upcoming short film, ‘Come F*ck My Robot,’ which Gunpowder & Sky is set to distribute this Thursday, November 5 on its Dust platform. The official […]

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Disney’s Searchlight arm has bought rights to Claire Foy’s horror-thriller “Dust,” four months after the project was unveiled at the Cannes Virtual Market.

Foy will portray a woman who becomes increasingly traumatized in 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms and convinces herself that a mysterious presence is threatening her family. She then takes extraordinary measures to protect them.

Variety reported at the Cannes market in June that the film would be set around a remote farmhouse and would be fairly self-contained, with just a small number of starring roles and a minimalist aesthetic.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse are set to direct from a script that Crouse wrote. The screenplay was developed at the Sundance Writer’s Lab.

“Winter’s Bone” producer Alix Madigan and her Mad Dog Films are producing with Lucas Joaquin of Secret Engine. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-representing North American rights.

Searchlight Pictures has acquired the rights to “Dust,” a psychological horror film that will star “The Crown” actress Claire Foy, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

“Dust” was introduced to buyers at the virtual Cannes marketplace in June, and Searchlight will now develop further develop the project.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse, who previously collaborated on the short film “Propagation,” will direct “Dust” from a script that Crouse wrote. The script was developed at the Sundance Writer’s Lab.

In “Dust,” Foy is trapped by increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma. She plays a young mother haunted by the past who becomes convinced that a mysterious presence is threatening her family and takes extraordinary measures to protect them.

Lucas Joaquin of Secret Engine is producing the film along with Alix Madigan (“Winter’s Bone”) of Mad Dog Films.

CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are...

Unsane and The Girl in the Spider’s Web actress Claire Foy has been set to star in psychological horror movie Dust, and the project has been picked up by Searchlight Pictures. THR reports, “The story is set against the backdrop of increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma and tells of a young mother, to be played by Foy, haunted […]...

Searchlight Pictures has picked up Dust, a psychological horror thriller that has The Crown star Claire Foy attached to topline.

The project was initially unveiled at the Cannes virtual market in June. It will now be further developed by the prestige film arm of the Walt Disney Co.

The story is set against the backdrop of increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma and tells of a young mother, to be played by Foy, haunted by the past who becomes convinced that a mysterious presence is threatening her family and takes extraordinary measures to protect them.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse are set ...

Searchlight Pictures has picked up Dust, a psychological horror thriller that has The Crown star Claire Foy attached to topline.

The project was initially unveiled at the Cannes virtual market in June. It will now be further developed by the prestige film arm of the Walt Disney Co.

The story is set against the backdrop of increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma and tells of a young mother, to be played by Foy, haunted by the past who becomes convinced that a mysterious presence is threatening her family and takes extraordinary measures to protect them.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse are set ...

‘The Voice’ will enable directors to create a proof-of-concept.

New projects by Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan and Maudie filmmaker Aisling Walsh are among 27 chosen for the inaugural edition of The Voice, Screen Ireland’s development scheme for emerging and established directors.

Each director is eligible for up to €30,000 in funding across a maximum of two projects.

Finnegan has received funding for his TV drama Strange Coast. His second feature Vivarium debuted at Cannes 2019 in Critics’ Week, winning a distribution prize.

Walsh is receiving support for her as-yet-untitled feature film project about US photojournalist Dorothea Lange. The director’s fourth feature Maudie,...

The New York Times put prestigious specialty home-video distributor The Criterion Collection under a microscope late last week, and the headline said it all: “How the Criterion Collection Crops Out African-American Directors.” The report looked at all 22 years and more than 1,000 titles in the Criterion’s revered selection of Blu-rays and DVDs of films, finding that only four African Americans are represented: Oscar Micheaux (“Body and Soul”); William Greaves; Charles Burnett (“To Sleep With Anger”); and Spike Lee (“Do the Right Thing” and “Bamboozled”).

It’s a glaring omission for a company that prides itself on licensing and releasing what it describes as “important classic and contemporary films,” but also reflective of an industry-wide practice of shutting out Black filmmakers.

Despite America’s changing demographics, the industry’s most powerful leaders have been slow to respond to a demand for films that reflect cultural and racial shifts that have long been underway.

Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust is teaming with producer John Davis and Black Label Media to develop time-hopping action pic Time Agent. John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad is set to write the feature based on the Korean short film The Time Agent from writer/director Jude Chun, which was previously released by Dust.

“The Dust team lives for amplifying the voices of diverse storytellers and when we first came across Jude’s short film, we knew we had something special,” said Eric Bromberg, General Manager of Dust. “Having the short realized into a feature film with the powerhouse combination of John Davis, Black Label and Derek Kolstad, only confirms our instinct that this will be nothing short of a mind-bending adrenaline-shot-to-the-heart.”

The Time Agent short film was originally released in 2018 and, as the title suggests, it follows an...

Stars: Karan Soni, Bess Rous, Trace Beaulieu, Neil Casey, Eugene Cordero, Milana Vayntrub, Conor Leslie | Created by Paul Feig

Hey everybody, remember that time Yahoo decided to get into the streaming game? No? Oh right… Well back in the mid 2000s Yahoo decided they would join Netflix in the streaming realm and, well, nobody really knew or bothered to look or care. All I myself really remember was there was something to do with Community and how they lost a whole bunch of money and that pretty much killed it. Yeah that’s pretty vague and I could probably sit here and Yahoo it but… I don’t want to!

But… There was always that one show. That one show that only ever had one season on the platform. That one show that has been spoken about in hushed voices since it was first aired. A show that garnered some...

Sci-fi Romance “Ji” Premieres on Dust beginning July 30th The short film stars Lewis Tan and Eva De Dominici (Cosmic Sin with Bruce Willis). Both actors are available for interviews. The film will be available for free on Dust beginning July 30th (no subscription needed). After millennia of misuse, pollution and destructive warfare, the Earth is …

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“It was possibly the most frustrating thing I’ve ever been through in my career,” Paul Feig says. “To make something I’m so proud of that was exactly what I wanted it to be that had this amazing cast, and the writing was so good. And then to be so happy with the final product and then nobody sees it.”

Feig isn’t talking about the bizarre internet backlash that greeted the 2016 version of Ghostbusters, but instead, lamenting how a year prior, in 2015, his series Other Space — which originally debuted on the now-defunct Yahoo Stream platform — was shelved with very little fanfare or announcement. If you haven’t heard of Other Space, an 8-episode comedy series, you’re forgiven. At a glance, it feels like a show you know you would instantly love; the aesthetics of ‘70s space opera, but with the jaunty, quirky humor of Community.

Sci-fi Romance "Ji" Premieres on Dust beginning July 30th The short film stars Lewis Tan (Deadpool 2, Mortal Kombat) and Eva De Dominici (Cosmic Sin with Bruce Willis).  The film will be available for free on Dust beginning July 30th (no subscription needed). After millennia of misuse, pollution and destructive warfare, the Earth is damaged beyond repair and teetering on the brink of collapse. As the global community bickers on a solution, an irreparable rift forms between the East and West. The two halves of the world split, with the East fleeing a polluted and overpopulated Earth to build their own planet, Nilo, and the West retreating within high, impenetrable walls. After a decade of divergent civilizations, rumors linger on Nilo that life may still exist on Earth. Ji, a commanding General in the...

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Fleetwood Mac will release a massive box set documenting the band’s early years, out September 4th on Rhino.

Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974 will consist of eight CDs, beginning with their third album, 1969’s Then Play On. The lineup shifted quite a bit in these years, most notably when founding guitarist Peter Green left in 1970.

The collection also includes the studio albums Kiln House (1970), Future Games (1971), Bare Trees (1972), Penguin (1973), Mystery to Me (1973) and Heroes Are Hard to Find (1974) — all with bonus tracks.

The eighth CD in the set, Live From the...

Stars: Matt Harris, Sian Hill, Kirsty Sturgess, Max Williams, Abeo Jackson | Written by Matt Brothers, Nour Wazzi | Directed by Nour Wazzi

After recently watching and enjoy the short Baby Mine, I couldn’t wait to check out director Nour Wazzi’s other work, which lead me to this all new sci-fi short Lab Rat.

In it we see a group of scientists trapped in a lab and told that one of them is an A.I. – a humanoid robot of sorts. The whole thing is orchestrated by an unhinged mother whose daughter now worries her lover might be the A.I.and looks to save him from the other scientists.

It’s a cool concept to work with and my mind immediately went to The Thing. And while it wouldn’t have been a bad thing to go done that route of finding out who was the ‘odd one out...

The nation’s largest cinema chain, Odeon, has announced it will begin reopening cinemas from Saturday 4 July, with new health and safety measures in place. Ten Odeon cinemas in England will be the first to open, with a further 88 UK cinemas set to reopen by 16 July.

To ensure guests can enjoy the Odeon safer cinema experience in the most controlled environment, Odeon has worked with the UK Cinema Association and UK Government to introduce enhanced health and safety measures to each site. These safety measures include:

Safer Buying Contactless experience, including booking online and contactless ticket checks in cinema and contactless till payments for purchasing food and drinks Range of ‘Grab & Go’ pre-packaged food and drinks including a bottled drink, Butterkist popcorn and a bag of sweets to improve the speed of service A Safer Space Limited seats on sale for each show and guaranteed unoccupied seats between guests to meet social distancing requirements,...

Claire Foy has left her crown as Elizabeth II well and truly behind her as she is set to star in the psychological horror ‘Dust’.

Foy will play a young mother in 1930s Oklahoma. Trapped by increasingly stifling dust storms, she takes extreme measures to protect her family while haunted by her past.

The film is said to centre around a remote farmhouse, requires just a small number of roles to be filled.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse will direct from a story by Crouse, whose writing credits include HBO’s ‘Westworld.’

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Lucas Joaquin of Secret Engine is producing along with Oscar nominee Alix Madigan (Winter’s Bone) of Mad Dog Films.

Since moving on from Netflix royal series ‘The Crown’ Foy has starred in Steven Soderberg’s ‘Unsane’, Damien Chazelle’s ‘First Man...

A couple of years ago, Claire Foy was poised to become yet another major A-list actor with three big-time projects being released in the span of one year. Coming off her Emmy-winning turn as Queen Elizabeth in “The Crown,” Foy was seen in films, “Unsane,” “First Man,” and “The Girl in the Spider’s Web.” While the first two films were well-received and her acting was lauded, it’s ‘Spider’s Web’ that seemingly derailed her upward trajectory.

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“The Crown” star Claire Foy will next star in the psychological horror film “Dust,” which comes from “Winter’s Bone” producer Alix Madigan and is launching sales this week at the Cannes Virtual Marketplace.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse, who previously collaborated on the short film “Propagation,” will direct “Dust” from a script that Crouse wrote. The script was developed at the Sundance Writer’s Lab.

In “Dust,” Foy is trapped by increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma. She plays a young mother haunted by the past who becomes convinced that a mysterious presence is threatening her family and takes extraordinary measures to protect them.

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Lucas Joaquin of Secret Engine is producing the film along with Madigan of Mad Dog Films.

CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-representing North American rights on the film,...

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse to direct.

Claire Foy (The Crown) will star in the psychological horror film Dust, which Mad River International is introducing to international buyers at the virtual Cannes market.

Dust follows a young mother haunted by the past who becomes convinced that a mysterious presence is threatening her family during increasingly terrifying dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse, who previously directed the short film Propagation, will direct from a script that Crouse (Westworld) wrote and came through the Sundance Writer’s Lab.

Lucas Joaquin of Secret Engine is producing along with Alix Madigan...

British actor Claire Foy is set to front psychological horror “Dust” — a hot project being launched at this week’s virtual Cannes market.

Foy, whose turn as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s “The Crown” earned her a Golden Globe and Emmy Award, will play a young mother in 1930s Oklahoma. Trapped by increasingly stifling dust storms, she takes extreme measures to protect her family while haunted by her past.

Variety understands the film, which is set around a remote farmhouse, is fairly self-contained, with just a small number of starring roles and a minimalist aesthetic. It’s the kind of project that could bode particularly well for this market, where players across the industry are hyper-aware of the limits of production going forward.

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse, who collaborated on the short film “Propagation,” are to direct from a script from Crouse, whose writing credits include HBO’s “Westworld.