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Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Icelandic-Swedish-Polish drama “Lamb,” starring Noomi Rapace was awarded best film and actress for Rapace at the 54th edition of Sitges’ International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which wrapped Sunday.

The prizes add to an Originality Prize which the film received when competing at July’s Cannes Un Certain Regard.

“Lamb,” a horror-comedy combo, follows protagonist Maria, played by Rapace, a woman living with her husband in the total loneliness of the Icelandic countryside. According to a Variety review, “creepy-funny-weird-sad ‘Lamb’ proves just how far disbelief can be suspended if you’re in the hands of a director — and a cast, and a SFX/puppetry department — who really commit to the bit.” Lamb is produced by Go to Sheep, Black Spark Film & TV and Madants with New Europe Film Sales and A24 attached.

Rapace shared best actress honors with Susanne Jensen in Peter Brunner’s “Luzifer.” Justin Kurzel...

Stars in the House, the popular YouTube series known for reuniting classic TV and Broadway casts, will be hosted every Tuesday in February by prominent members of the Black theatre community, kicking off tonight with a tribute to the late Cicely Tyson.

The monthlong weekly takeover by the group Black Theatre United was announced today by Stars in the House creators and hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley. Proceeds from the special Black History Month episodes will benefit Btu.

Among the February hosts are Lillias White, Chicago‘s NaTasha Yvette Williams, sound designer Carin Ford and stage manager Lisa Dawn, and Shuffle Along‘s Darius de Haas. Viewers of the livestream will be able to ask questions live.

The February Tuesday series begins tonight with Williams hosting “Just As We Are: Powerful Women Honoring Cicely Tyson’s Legacy,” with guests Linda Twine, Jordin Sparks, Angela Robinson, Rhoda Ross,...

Encores!, the acclaimed series of concert-style theatrical productions founded to rediscover overlooked Broadway gems of years past, announced plans to stage Into The Woods, the beloved Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical that is anything but overlooked.

Into The Woods, which has been staged, revived and filmed many times over (including the 2014 feature film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden), will be the first of a new Encores! mission to celebrate iconic American musicals, the New York City Center announced today.

No production timeline or target opening was announced; the city’s theater venues remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“If the reason to revive a hidden gem is to discover it,” said Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet, “then the reason to revive a beloved musical that holds enormous meaning to so many people is to discover what we have in common, and how our experience with these shows connects us.

Exclusive: Broadway actors have a long history of moonlighting – sunlighting? – on daytime soaps, at least they did in decades past when New York City still had soaps. With theaters now dark, what better time to resurrect the tradition? Tune in today to…As The Curtain Rises.

An ongoing fiction podcast set in backstage Broadway, As The Curtain Rises has recruited a stellar cast from top Broadway productions past and, well, more recently past: Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Ariana Debose, Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen), Tony-winning James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), Ilana Levine, Lesli Margherita (Matilda The Musical), Mauricio Martinez (On Your Feet!), Ashley Park, George Salazar (Be More Chill), Sarah Stiles, Michael Urie (Grand Horizons) and Tony-winner Lillias White (The Life).

The first episode is available today,...

The upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997.

Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black lives; also in development is director Kenny Leon’s production of 1983’s The Tap Dance Kid. The two productions – a third remains to be announced – will mark the long-running series’ first season under the artistic direction of Lear deBessonet.

“I believe the future of a thriving Encores! has three prongs,” deBessonet said in a statement. “Revivals of hidden gems, productions where artists reclaim work for our time through their own personal lens, and celebrations that look at the ways musical theater can connect us, in this city and across the country. These upcoming projects hold seeds of all three tenets.

Rehearsals are now underway for Transport Group's The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which begins performances on Saturday, February 8 at 22 at Abrons Arts Center. The show stars Tony Award nominee Beth Malone Fun Home as Molly Brown, David Aron Damane The Book of Mormon, Big River, The Life as JJ, Whitney Bashor The Bridges of Madison County as Julia, Omar Lopez-Cepero On Your Feet as Vincenzo, Alex Gibson SpongeBob SquarePants Natasha, Pierre the Great Comet of 1812 as Erich, and Paolo Montalban Pacific Overtures, The King and I as Arthur. Rounding out the cast are Kaitlyn Davidson Tyrone Davis, Jr. Gregg Goodbrod Michael Halling Karl Josef Ko Nikka Graff Lanzarone Kate Marilley Shina Ann Morris Keven Quillon and Coco Smith.

Rehearsals are now underway for Transport Group's The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which begins performances on Saturday, February 8 at 22 at Abrons Arts Center. The show stars Tony Award nominee Beth Malone Fun Home as Molly Brown, David Aron Damane The Book of Mormon, Big River, The Life as JJ, Whitney Bashor The Bridges of Madison County as Julia, Omar Lopez-Cepero On Your Feet as Vincenzo, Alex Gibson SpongeBob SquarePants Natasha, Pierre the Great Comet of 1812 as Erich, and Paolo Montalban Pacific Overtures, The King and I as Arthur. Rounding out the cast are Kaitlyn Davidson Tyrone Davis, Jr. Gregg Goodbrod Michael Halling Karl Josef Ko Nikka Graff Lanzarone Kate Marilley Shina Ann Morris Keven Quillon and Coco Smith.

Get ready for more betrayals and bawdy behavior. “Harlots” will be back for another season.

On Thursday, Hulu’s Svp of Content Craig Erwich announced at the Television Critics Association press tour that it had renewed the prostitution drama for a second season. Set in 1760s Georgian London, the series focuses on the how the city became a hub for lucrative prostitution.

Read More‘Harlots’: Hulu’s Whore Drama May Be One of the Most Feminist TV Shows

At the center of “Harlots” is Margaret Wells (Samantha Morton), a brothel owner for the people who grew up in the business herself. Her chief rival is Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville), a madam who tries to set her prostitutes apart by giving them education and then charging a pretty penny to her higher-ranking clientele.

When last we left them, Margaret was dealing with her two daughters, who also followed her into the family whoring business.

The power struggle between the two main bawdy houses in “Harlots” is about to get even more personal.

The first season of Hulu’s critically acclaimed drama about Georgian-era brothels and the women who work there draws to a close on Wednesday. When last we left the women, Margaret Wells (Samantha Morton) was dealing with the aftermath of her daughter Lucy (Eloise Smyth) killing a nobleman Sir George (Hugh Skinner), when her other daughter Charlotte (Jessica Brown Findlay) got arrested and thrown into jail for the murder. Joining her is Daniel Marney (Rory Fleck Byrne) who’s also been framed for the killing.

Read More: ‘Harlots’: Hulu’s Whore Drama May Be One of the Most Feminist TV Shows

In the season finale, we see that Charlotte Wells has somehow been freed and lured back to the home/establishment of her mother’s chief rival Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville...

In last week's Masters of Sex pilot, we watched Dr. William Masters go to great lengths to get a risqué study approved at his hospital. Unsurprisingly, in "Race to Space," we found out that details have been leaked about the content of the studies and Masters is now in a heap of trouble.

With his pivotal experiment being uprooted from his office, Masters turned to the help of one of his subjects, a prostitute named Betty. He decided the best course of action would be to move his sex study to a brothel.

Masters is already getting enough heat about this, so I couldn't imagine how well it would go over for the provost to find out that he was now operating at a cathouse.

However, desperate times call for desperate measures. Betty has also been one of the most valuable and compliant subjects. Speaking of, it was definitely not...

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No. 10 – "Finale," The Office (Episodes 924 and 925, Premiered 05/16/2013, NBC)

The already perplexing challenges of ending a television show after nine years were amplified by the fact that the show's far-and-away breakout star had been two years removed from the series. For The Office, the task of wrapping up various storylines one year after its documentary airs provided for moments across the emotional spectrum: Dwight's fired Kevin and Toby, Andy has to pick up the pieces after his embarrassing Idol audition becomes a viral sensation, Erin finally meets her birth parents due to the airing of the show, Nellie takes...

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This year’s MTV Movie Awards was an evening of highly anticipated reunions, sneak peeks, and of course, the hostess herself, Rebel Wilson. Rebel’s opening sequence with James Franco was great, but she really blew it out of the water when she was joined onstage by her Pitch Perfect co-stars for a live mashup performance of "Lose Yourself/Girl on Fire." Soon enough, when Rebel busted out the leather pants and nun chucks and the audience knew we were in for a hell of a show. Rebel’s opening monologue hit all the right notes, and aside from a few bits that landed a little flat later in the show, she proved to be an entertaining and capable host.

Like any awards show, viewers care about what truly matters: The clothes. Overall, the women were dressed to the nines, highlights being...

Those Gallagher nutjobs sure have packed a lot of wrongness into a mere 24 episodes, haven't they? As we count down to the Season 3 premiere on Sunday, let's remember some of their ... um ... finer moments.

And be sure to check back on Monday for a whole new season of gobsmacked weekly recaps!

1. Eating Bald Eagle at Thanksgiving (Ep. 2.11)

Well, hey - Benjamin Franklin did lobby for the national bird to be the turkey. So they're not roasting an endangered species to succulent perfection, they're just paying tribute to our forefathers. Right?

2. Using Carl as Bait for a Pedophile Priest (Ep. 1.05)

Thankfully, budding sociopath Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) can handle himself, but the fact that Lip (Jeremy Allen White) and Ian (Cameron Monaghan) would dangle the kid in front of the old perv like a jerky treat is pretty foul. In the end, they did get "The Groper" to perform Kev and V's...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

So, in comparison to the last three episodes this was a little hit-and-miss. It was a little dodgy in trying to balance some comedy with its intellectual cynicism. I mean, once again, it defied clichéd an introduced further to complexities to Christopher and his relationship with (one of) the women in his life. It was still head-and-shoulders above any of its peers, but in comparison to the preceding episodes, it was a little bit of a let-down. Allow me to elaborate…

To be fair, it started off in a very interesting way, focusing on every character but Christopher himself. But Valentine and Christopher’s brother turned out to be pointless inclusions, as the action all happened in Rouen, so one side of Christopher’s love triangle was emitted (apart from one beautiful moment where Christopher runs to a woman he thinks is Valentine, only for it...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

007 Magazine And Archive

007 Magazine #55, $18.00

215 Ink

Little Heroes Gn, $10.99

Aam Markosia

Ketsueki Gn, $15.99

Toybox Turmoil Gn, $15.99

AC Comics

Femforce #161, $9.95

Aladdin Books

So You Want To Be A Comic Book Artist Ultimate Guide On How To Break Into Comics Hc (not verified by Diamond), $16.99

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Archaia Entertainment

Return Of The Dapper Men Hc (Special Edition), $29.95

Archie Comics

Betty And Veronica Double Digest #205, $3.99

Knuckles The Echidna Archives Volume 3 Tp, $9.99

Mega Man #17 (Chad Thomas Regular Cover), $2.99

Mega Man #17 (Chad Thomas Variant Cover), $2.99

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Crossed Badlands #13 (Oscar Jimenez Torture...

Between now and June 28, the deadline for Emmy voters to return nomination ballots, EW.com is running a series called Emmy Watch, featuring highlight clips and interviews with actors, producers, and writers whom EW TV critic Ken Tucker has on his wish list for the nominations announcement on July 19.

There’s a moment in Happy Endings’ season 2 finale, “Four Weddings and a Funeral (Minus Three Weddings and a Funeral),” in which guest star Stephen Guarino (as groom Derrick) tells the show’s regulars he doesn’t have time for their endless bantering: “The back and forth, it’s exhausting. I...

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi deserves attention. His chic revenger's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971) is one possible way in: you get Charlotte Rampling, an Ennio Morricone score that's just a Jacobean riff on his spaghetti western stylings, lashings of sex and gore, and a design sensibility which pays some kind of lip service to period while being deliriously seventies at all times, so that it would not be too surprising if Oliver Tobias donned a set of sixteenth century tinted shades, or a tie-dyed doublet.

An alternative entry point is Identikit (1974), Aka The Driver's Seat, from the novel of that name by Muriel Spark. It's the tale of a mysterious woman wandering through a nameless city, hoping to rendezvous with "a friend" whom she's apparently never met. In a parallel plot thread, apparently taking place a day or two later, the police are interrogating everyone she's come into contact with.

London arts centre, a stalwart of ugly-building polls, is hoping its new cinema will kickstart a cultural quarter in the City

For an organisation that is trying to be more inclusive, more involving, the name "Barbican" – a defensive structure, a fortification to keep the hordes out – is possibly not ideal. "I say 'watchtower'," the arts centre's chief executive, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, says when asked to define it. "It is something that looks out on the city and beyond it."

Whatever the definition, most people know what the Barbican centre is, where it is – and even how not to get lost there. That has not always been the case but, after many uphill battles, an awful lot of people now even love the place.

On Thursday the Barbican will celebrate its 30th anniversary, entertaining guests in its enormous and unlikely tropical conservatory – with more than 2,000 species of plants and trees as well as finches,...

Chicago – One of the annual gems of the Chicago movie scene is the Siskel Film Center’s unmissable European Union Film Festival. It provides local movie buffs with the opportunity to sample some of the finest achievements in world cinema. For many of the festival selections, their EU appearance will function as their sole screening in the Windy City.

This year’s edition, running from March 2nd through the 29th, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Andrea Arnold (“Wuthering Heights”), Bruce Dumont (“Hors Satan”), Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (“The Fairy”), Abdellatif Kechiche (“Black Venus”) and John Landis (“Burke & Hare”). Moviegoers will have the opportunity to see the latest work from some of the world’s most acclaimed and beloved actors, including Léa Seydoux (“Belle Épine”), Tahir Rahim (“Free Men”), Colm Meaney (“Parked”), Noomi Rapace (“Beyond”), Andy Serkis (“Burke & Hare”), Isabella Rossellini (“Late Bloomers”) and Ewan McGregor...

The twentieth year of Catherine Breillat’s directorial career marked a shift. While her thematic focus and bold vision remained true, her skills as a filmmaker and storyteller began showing strong signs of improvement beginning with 1996′s Perfect Love. It opens with a man explaining to the police how and why he killed his lover as well as her daughter’s account. Building toward such an extreme end, the actual story of the romance that the film flashes back to is surprisingly subtle. Too often this kind of disintegrating relationship story fails to build up the relationship and make you invest in it before tearing it down but on this note Perfect Love excels. Bonus points for excellent use of phallic symbolism.

Four of Breillat’s next five films share bonds that demand a break from a chronological structure. 1999′s Romance and 2004′s Anatomy of Hell share the presence of...

Simone Eder and Carlotta Corvi report from the Venice International Film Festival.

The 68th was certainly a memorable year with the overall quality of the films being very high and the films for the lineup well selected. Some films surprised while some films disappointed, and most of them will be talked about in the coming weeks and months.

Day 1

The longest running Film festival in the World kicked off its 68th Edition Festival at the Lido in Venice with the world premiere of George Clooney’s political drama The Ides of March starring Ryan Gosling, Clooney himself, Paul Giamatti and Phillip Seymour Hoffman,and was the first film shown in competition for the Golden Lion. Promoted as intense tale of sex, ambition, loyalty, betrayal and revenge the film was however less cynical and shocking than promised and contained a couple of weak plot points. The actors, especially the supporting cast,...

There are a couple of reasons for revisiting the Toronto International Film Festival's lineup for its documentary program, Real to Reel. One of them is Aj Schnack's interview with Thom Powers, Tiff's Documentary and Mavericks Programmer, posted just hours after the Mavericks lineup was announced on Tuesday. Discussing the highlights of both programs, they touch on another reason: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory is making all sorts of headlines. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's third film chronicling the odyssey of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr, aka the West Memphis Three, through the labyrinth of the Us legal system, follows Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000). All three films deal with what Powers calls in his Programmer's Note "an 18-year-old murder case that has become an iconic example of a legal witch hunt." In 1993, when all three men were still teens,...

Now that we've got an entry collecting trailers for the films competing at this year's Venice Film Festival, here's another gathering trailers for films screening in the other sections as well as in the two autonomous programs, Venice Days and International Critics' Week. What we've got here, obviously, is a pretty mixed bag, but here we go:

Out Of Competition

Rolando Colla's Giochi d'estate:

Ugo Gregoretti, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli and Nino Russo's Scossa:

Tomás Lunák's Alois Nebel:

Kike Maillo's Eva:

Takashi Shimizu's Tormented:

Tony Ching Siu-tung's The Sorcerer and the White Snake:

Steven Soderbergh's Contagion:

Orizzonti

Yves Caumon's L'Oiseau (The Bird):

Clarissa Campolina and Helvecio Marins Jr's Swirl:

Amiel Courtin-Wilson's Hail:

Jonathan Demme's I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad and the Beautiful:

And here are a couple more clips.

Michael Glawogger...

Wow, it's been a while, but I'm back! And thanks to FanGirlTastic, I was able to not only do my very first book review, but also my very first phone interview with the author, Oriana Small, otherwise known as Ashley Blue, gonzo porn star pervert extraordinaire.

I must admit, I was a little apprehensive at first - all I knew of Small before reading the book was her infamous "choke out" scene for Khan Tusion, her trademark of shoving her hand down her throat, and some dubious racial remarks on a Howard Stern show. That and some terrifyingly rough porn. I was reassured on watching the Stern show that the dubious racial remarks turned out to be out-of-context banter where she gave as good as she got in the sarcastic joke department, and…well, I didn't watch the Khan Tusion scene. Reading about it was distressing enough, and as I told Small,...

Usama Alshaibi’s Profane debuted in Berlin last week and the film already garnered a review by Ceven Knowles. To be honest, I haven’t read it yet because I’m waiting to see the film first without preconceptions. But, I think it’s a positive write-up.Actually, there are lots of write-ups coming from the Berlinale. On Electric Sheep, Pamela Jahn and Alison Frank review films Road to Nowhere, The Devil’s Double, Tomboy and Dance Town.Robert Koehler has several write-ups. First, he says Miranda July’s The Future isn’t good, but Marie Losier’s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is excellent. Then, this round-up of several films makes the fest sound pretty dismal overall.Kinemastik reviews some Berlinale short films.Clint Enns has a completely excellent review of Jaimz Asmundson’s phenomenal short film The Magus, cluing us in on many of the fine...

Black Swan is, at its core, a film about sexual awakening, and the way that it unfolds everything it touches to present something new. Sex is a fairly new topic for Darren Aronofsky, because even though it has been present in his previous work (particularly Requiem for a Dream), sexual identity has never been a predominant concern for any of his characters. Here, in his first film with a female protagonist, he acquits himself beautifully on the technical front and is able to brilliantly imagine a sensual world that is only now coming into focus for Natalie Portman’s ballerina, but in doing so, reveals his limitations in understanding the nuances of human behavior and interaction. Healthy female sexuality may be a terrifying prospect for Portman here, but it is all the more so to Aronofsky.

Nina Sayers (Portman) is a dancer with a New York City ballet company, and...

Robert here, with my series Distant Relatives, where we look at two films, (one classic, one modern) related through a common theme and ask what their similarities and differences can tell us about the evolution of cinema.

Upstairs/Downstairs

They tell bird owners to avoid putting your new pet in one of those high hanging Tweety-bird cages.  See, if the bird spends most of his time positioned above you, he'll develop a sense of superiority and will be impossible to teach and train.  Just in case the overworld/underworld concept started to seem like a common and cliched metaphor, it doesn't hurt to remember that it's a fact of nature. Those who are above see themselves as greater than those who are below.  And if it transcends animal species here on Earth then why not throughout the universe?  Which is why it makes so much sense that the aliens of...

Hey guys, Davis here checking in again with your weekly music roundup. How’s everyone’s week been going?

Is everyone pumped for Halloween? I’ve been on a tour of some of Chicago’s amazing Haunted Houses. There are some wildly creative ones out in the ‘burbs.Anyone else hit any up yet?

Well, here we are again with another music round-up. Some ofthe artists we’ll be covering today are Adam Lambert’s latest tour drama, an up and coming artist that I feel everyone needs to give some major attention- Deluka,Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s music video debut, Mariah Carey’s new Christmas album, Boy George is looking like the spitting image of Demi Moore, a new gay male musician to pay attention to – Diamond Rings, Shontelle’s latest beautiful ballad, and the commercial everyone’s buzzing about by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.

Tiger Woods Mistress Sued Over 'Whore' Allegations

Once again, Devon James' dirty mouth has landed her in some controversy -- after she allegedly accused a woman of being a "whore bag," "slut" and a "thief."

James -- aka Tiger Woods mistress 12³ -- is being sued by her former manager Gina Rodriguez -- aka David Boreanez's alleged mistress #1 -- after the two had a major falling out over commissions Gina said she earned after locking down deals for a porn movie and a website.

In the suit, filed a few days ago in L.A. County Superior Court, Rodriguez claims James got pissed over the 20% that Gina was making from the deals -- and posted some nasty stuff on the Internet such as:

-- "[Gina] doesn't pay her people and fck her" -- "She is a fcking whore bag slut" -- "Gina Rodriguez is a liar and her atty is a nut,...

Winners of the 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Awards were announced Monday night in a ceremony hosted by Lisa Kron at Cooper Union. The It Awards celebrate the stars of the Off-Off-Broadway community. The event was available for streaming and was live-blogged by theatre critics Doug Strassler and Aaron Riccio at www.nyitawards.com/live, where a rebroadcast is available. The list of nominees follows with the winners' names in bold.Outstanding Ensemble Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, Michael Dalto, Stephanie Wright Thompson, Samuel and Alasdair: "A Personal History of the Robot War"Christine Rebecca Herzog, Itsuko Higashi, Jubil Khan; "Fêtes de la Nuit" Kaela Crawford, Julia Giolzetti, Caitlin Mehner, Alison Scaramella, Stephanie Strohm; "Pink!" Jenny Bennett, Melissa D. Brown, John Graham, John J. Isgro, Courtney Kochuba, Kyle Minshew, Amanda Nichols, Katherine Nolan Brown, Jed Peterson, Sean Reidy, Miranda Shields, Douglas Taurel, Nate Washburn; "The Disorder Plays" Joie Bauer, David Bishins, Gina Nagy Burns,...

This is a recap for the fourth episode of Season 4 of Mad Men starring Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, January Jones, and a slew of other talented actors, on an episode called “The Rejected.” And here if your For Your Consideration Recap: Best Mad Men Opening Shot Ever Whoo, y’all (fanning myself with comically oversized geisha fan), nudity on Mad Men? Is Jon Hamm going to get so drunk he accidentally forgets his pants at a Pond’s Cold Cream meeting? Or will this be like on NYPD Blue, when everyone stayed up late to see some primetime, network television nakedness, only to be slapped across the face with an image of Sipowicz‘s bare ass? We shall masturbate and see. Best Cancer Reveal Oh, look, Anna wrote!! Can someone make out this handwriting? I swear, I wish she’d stop writing her letters on Ms Paint. It’s disrespectful.

We’re still yet to sample its sci-fi spectacle here in the UK, however District 9 has well and truly made a big splash on the other side of the Atlantic. Dazzling Us audiences with its quirky and original spin on aliens as refugees on Earth, it rocketed to the top of the Us box office and is generating quite the buzz for its home locale – South Africa. This most southern point of the continent is already becoming a firm favourite with the small screen, the likes of HBO’s Iraq drama Generation Kill, 24 spin-off 24: Redemption and Channel 4’s period romp The Devil’s Whore having filmed there and now District 9 is introducing film fans around the world to the charms of South Africa.

District 9 was shot primarily in Tshiawelo and Kliptown, both of Soweto in downtown Johannesburg (more on the locations to come in a future...

NEW YORK -- Indie banner Screen Media Films has acquired Whore (Yo Puta), starring Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards and Joaquim de Almeida. The film, from Spain's Delores Pictures, will make its premiere in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 7 and will be released in September. Based on a novel by Isabel Pisano, the film was directed by Maria "Luna" Lidon and adapted by Adela Ibanez and Pisano. The deal was brokered by Screen Media topper Robert Baruc and sales and marketing head Suzanne Blech, with Whore producer Jose Magan.