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HBO is jumping into production on the upcoming “Bs High” documentary. Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe (“Two Distant Strangers”) have been named to direct the film, which will debut on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max in 2023.

According to the documentary’s synopsis, the story follows the investigation that ensued after August 29, 2021, when the Bishop Sycamore Centurions, a presumed high school football team from Columbus, Ohio, took on perennial prep powerhouse Img Academy.

The nationally televised game ended in the Centurions 58-0 loss, causing fans and audiences to question the legitimacy of the Bishop Sycamore program and the activities of now-fired head coach Roy Johnson. However, the final score and a fired head coach turned out to be just the beginning of the story.

Roe, who shares an Academy Award with Free for their 2020 short film, has a list of documentary credits which includes “Heist,” “We Are the Champions,...

This Money Heist article contains Major spoilers for Season 5.

The long-awaited final season of Netflix’s most popular foreign language series Money Heist blew up everything we though we knew about the show. Every fan has been eagerly waiting to see Gandia (José Manuel Poga) get his just desserts for his cold-blooded killing of Nairobi (Alba Flores) last season. Season 4 ended with the gang chanting “For Nairobi!” at the end, a rallying cry for revenge. But the price of Gandia’s death was way too high. It cost the life of the show’s leading character, Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó), taking Money Heist in a completely new, much darker direction.

Tokyo’s Death

Tokyo’s death is one of the most daring character kills ever seen on television. It’s even more of a showstopper than the death of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) in Game of Thrones. The Mother of Dragons...

Exclusive: Jake Brennan, host of the popular music series Disgraceland, and Audiochuck, the Crime Junkie producer run by podcaster Ashley Flowers have teamed up on an audio series about armored truck robberies.

The pair are launching Armored on September 15.

The series will explore how despite armored truck robberies are supposedly among the most difficult and dangerous crimes to get away with, they happen so often. The ten-part series, hosted by Brennan, will dive dee into the most notorious armored truck robbery cases in North America and beyond to figure out what fuels these perpetrators and the investigators whose job it is to catch them.

Delia D’Ambra, an investigative journalist who has worked on audio series including Counterclock, exec produces. Listen to the trailer below.

“Being from the Boston area I’ve always been interested in stories of armored car and bank robberies. The Town, The Friends of Eddie Coyle – these...

On Netflix’s hit crime drama Money Heist, Tokyo’s various lives have less to do with reincarnation and everything to do with reinvention.

And as the first half of Season 5 came to an end, fans got a better understanding of her origin story — before she died — in Episode 5, which was titled, “Lives Many Lives.” For instance, when Tokyo was robbing restaurants with her old boo Rene (which we saw in flashbacks), her name was simply Silene. And after their penultimate heist, Silene and Rene ran away to Portugal and partied it up until the money ran out.

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Exclusive: Inside Job and Red Army DoP Svetlana Cvetko is set to direct One Nation Under Earl for Oakhurst Entertainment.

Based on a true story, One Nation Under Earl will detail the rise and fall of Earl David, a young Brooklyn attorney who committed major immigration fraud in the U.S. Using an encyclopedic knowledge of the U.S. immigration system, David amassed a fortune and outsmarted the FBI to give tens of thousands of immigrants a shot at the American Dream. Script was penned by Jeremy J. Dodd and Jonathan Keasey.

The film will also be produced by the Malkus Group. Oakhurst Entertainment’s Jai Khanna and Marina Grasic will finance and executive-produce, with Jonathan Keasey also serving as producer.

Cvetko most recently directed feature Show Me What You Got and was cinematographer for Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job and festival hit Red Army.

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Though the summer movie season is winding down (if it ever really started this year), Amazon Prime’s list of new releases for September 2021 is chock full of worthwhile movie options.

For starters, Amazon’s library movie titles are quite good this month. September 1 sees the arrivals of heavyweights such as Apollo 13, Arachnophobia, Romeo + Juliet, The Descent, and The Social Network. And if that weren’t enough, the streamer is trying out some intriguing original movies as well. Cinderella, a modern update on the classic fairy tale, premieres on September 3. That will be followed by “exotic thriller” The Voyeurs (Sept. 10), musical adaptation Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sept. 17), and French thriller The Mad Woman’s Ball (Sept. 17).

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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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If there’s one thing that Money Heist has mastered, it’s the cliffhanger. The cancelled Spanish series that was reborn on Netflix took the world by storm, sparking a global revolution that has so many nail-biting edge-of-your-seat twists and turns that it’s nearly impossible not to binge it all once you’re hooked. The show is a relentless rollercoaster ride and oh so addictive. You never know who is going to live and who is going to die. In fact, not even the actors don’t know.

“It’s impossible, really difficult to know that because it’s also something they established from the start,” Úrsula Corberó (who plays Tokyo), said during the show’s appearance at the 2021 Television Critics Association summer press tour.. “Alex Pina, he’s a last-minute writer, and he’s obsessed as if this was linked with some kind of inspiration. I think it...

Eight of the 10 most-viewed streaming television shows in Nielsen’s latest viewership report hailed from Netflix, a dominant showing for the company that is continuing to attract significant audiences thanks to its massive subscriber base and popular titles like “Virgin River.”

“Virgin River,” a romantic drama that premiered its third season July 9, was viewed for 1,270 million minutes from July 19 to July 25, according to Nielsen’s latest streaming ratings report. The show was the most popular title of that period by a considerable margin: Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever,” which premiered its sophomore season on July 15, came in second with with 567 million minutes viewed. Netflix’s “Atypical,” which premiered its fourth season on July 9, came in third with 422 million minutes viewed.

Netflix’s string of strong July premieres helped the streaming service lead Nielsen’s latest report, but several of the platform’s older titles also appeared on the list.

Flawless, a UK-based AI-entertainment venture that’s developed a new way of dubbing, is expanding Stateside and announced a raft of key industry hires for its new “neural net film lab” in Los Angeles.

Lionsgate veteran Ryan Black will be managing director for the U.S. Adobe’s Jim Rivera joins as chief product officer, and Industrial Light & Magic’s Praveen Ilangovan as software engineer.

Flawless specializes in state-of-the art AI technology for film and entertainment, developing first from an office and science lab in London’s Soho and now in LA where will continue to build up its team of scientists and film production specialists close to major film and TV studios.

Black, at Lionsgate for the last 14 years, was VP of Acquisitions and Development for Grindstone Entertainment Group. He’ll be responsible for building and maintaining business and filmmaker relations for Flawless and overseeing the expansion of the LA operation.

The Crab Club is on the case.

Jimmy O. Yang and his two partners at production banner and creative incubator Crab Club, Jessica Gao and Ken Cheng, have been tapped to write the adaptation of The Great Chinese Art Heist for Warner Bros.

Jon M. Chu, the director of Crazy Rich Asians and this year’s In the Heights, is attached to helm the feature project.

Heist adapts a 2018 GQ article by Alex Palmer that recounted a series of sometimes intricate and cinematic thefts from museums and palaces across Europe of Chinese art and antiquities. The majority of the items came from a time when European armies had ...

The Crab Club is on the case.

Jimmy O. Yang and his two partners at production banner and creative incubator Crab Club, Jessica Gao and Ken Cheng, have been tapped to write the adaptation of The Great Chinese Art Heist for Warner Bros.

Jon M. Chu, the director of Crazy Rich Asians and this year’s In the Heights, is attached to helm the feature project.

Heist adapts a 2018 GQ article by Alex Palmer that recounted a series of sometimes intricate and cinematic thefts from museums and palaces across Europe of Chinese art and antiquities. The majority of the items came from a time when European armies had ...

Warning: This post contains a major spoiler from Outer Banks‘ Season 2 finale.

Just when it seemed like Outer Banks‘ third season was going to end on a visual of the Pogues living their best — if stranded — lives on a deserted Caribbean beach, the Netflix series’ action moved to Barbados to reveal something many fans had predicted since the show’s start: John B’s dad, Big John, is alive.

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On this week's Hca's What to Stream podcast, Jana Nagase of Jana on Camera and I review Jungle Cruise and The Suicide Squad which are also premiering on streaming services in addition to movie theaters. We're also discussing the new Trollhunters movie: Tales Of Arcadia, the sci-fi thriller Settlers, Netflix's docuseries Heist and the animated Harley Quinn show. ...