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CAA has signed Katty Kay, the popular author and BBC correspondent and author, and will serve as her representative for many of her ventures.

The announcement comes just days after Kay rejoined the BBC after leaving last May to join Ozy Media, an ill-fated venture alleged in November to have committed securities fraud. Kay left BBC in a bid to broaden her horizons in digital and audio media, but left Ozy soon after it came under scrutiny. “I was looking forward to working with the talented young reporters but I did not expect this!” she wrote at the time in a statement released on Twitter.

Her return to BBC is a homecoming of sorts, and she is expected to host documentaries from different points around the globe, create podcasts, write a weekly column and report news during moments of import. She has been named a U.S. special correspondent for BBC Studios.

Covid-19Police booked Mythri Movie Makers for allowing 15,000 people to attend a pre-release event to promote Pushpa, while permission was granted to allow only 5,000 people. Tnm StaffScreengrab | Mythri Movie MakersThe Hyderabad police have registered a case against Mythri Movie Makers, the production house backing Tollywood star Allu Arjun’s upcoming film Pushpa: The Rise. The police booked Mythri Movie Makers for flouting Covid-19 norms by allowing over 15,000 people to attend a pre-release event to promote Pushpa, even as permission was granted to accommodate only 5,000 people. The event was held at the Telangana State Special Police Battalion grounds in Yousufguda on Sunday, December 12. The case was booked by the Jubilee Hills police. Inspector S Rajasekhar Reddy told The Hindu that permission was granted to allow only 5,000 people at the venue. “They have violated the permission and sold over 15,000 passes and mobilised people, which resulted in massive traffic jams and disturbance to normal life in the area.

HBO Max’s “Pretty Little Liars” reboot has added two more cast members in Malia Pyles and Zaria.

Titled “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” the series is set within the same universe as the Freeform hit but centers on a different set of characters in a new town. The project is the fourth entry in the “Pretty Little Liars” franchise, following the flagship series (which ran for seven seasons) and the short-lived spinoffs “Ravenswood” and “Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists.”

Zaria will play Faran, a poised, disciplined ballerina with aspirations to make it out of Millwood. But “A” isn’t the only villain in Faran’s life. In the world of ballet, it’s death by a thousand microaggressions.

Pyles will portray Minnie, the youngest of the Little Liars. Having survived a childhood trauma, Minnie spends most of her time in a virtual world, but she is more than capable...

The Hauts-de-France region will also back films in production Soumission by Guillaume Nicloux, Saint-Omer by Alice Diop and Murder Party by Nicolas Pleskof. Three feature films have been earmarked for production support during the latest funding session held by Pictanovo, the Hauts-de-France’s regional agency dedicated to film and audiovisual creation. Shining bright among them is Tom, which will be Fabienne Berthaud’s 5th full-length work following Frankie (2006), Lily Sometimes (Directors’ Fortnight 2010), Sky (Toronto’s Platform competition in 2015) and A Bigger World (Venice Days in the Venice Film Festival 2019). Written by the director alongside Gladys Marciano and Pascal Arnold, the screenplay is an adaptation of Barbara Constantine’s novel Tom petit Tom tout petit homme Tom. The story revolves around 11-year-old Tom who lives in an old mobile home with his young mother, Joss. With her love for parties and weekends away with friends, Tom often finds himself alone, and.

Berlinale 2020: From the Guillaume Nicloux's project Soumission to the hybrid film A Winter’s Journey, a great many titles have been added to the line-ups of French companies at the Efm. Beyond the main announcements which came last week at the start of the European Film Market of the 70th Berlinale (read the news), professionals from the French film industry have since revealed during the Berlin event a large array of new titles. We take a tour of the new announcements.Parisian company Incognita Films will produce Soumission by Guillaume Nicloux, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Michel Houellebecq, which should begin filming next September with Jean-Paul Rouve in the leading role.Mk2 Films has added several titles to its international sales line-up (news): The Love Letter from French director Jérôme Bonnell (in post-production), Petite Solange from Axelle Roppert...

November 6th’s home media releases are all about the Steelbooks apparently, as horror fans have four different titles that are coming home this week that would be great additions to anyone’s collections. Scream Factory’s Steelbook for John Carpenter’s The Thing is a work of art, and Well Go USA has put together two beautiful Steelbook releases for both Phantasm: Remastered and Train to Busan, and we even get a Grindhouse Steelbook to boot. Scream Factory is also pulling double duty with the Collector’s Edition of Sleepwalkers, and as far as recent horror offerings go, Mara, The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, and All Light Will End are getting released this Tuesday, too.

Other notable releases for November 6th include Revenge of the Dead aka Zeder: Voices from the Beyond, Restraint, and Apartment 407.

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Company bolsters Efm slate with acquisition.

Genre specialists Devilworks has bolstered its sales slate with the acquisition of Kai E Bogatzki’s horror-thriller Scars Of Xavier.

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Scars Of Xavier

The company has taken world rights to the film, which picked up best film and best SFX at the DarkViens Horror Fest in Italy, best thriller at Nightmare Film Festival in the Us, and also won the best feature prize at the NYC Indie Film Awards.

Bogatzki co-wrote and co-produced the film with Marc Engel. The latter also stars as the titular Xavier in the story of a man who by day works at a car wash but by night is a brutal and vicious serial killer who targets young women.

Devilworks will introduce the project to buyers at next month’s European Film Market in Berlin (Feb 15-23). The company’s slate also includes holiday horror Mercy Christmas, supernatural horror The Hollow...

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Tim Roth leads an excellent cast in unpredictable new Sky Atlantic revenge drama Tin Star, out now…

“It’s the disposal,” says Tim Roth. “The killing isn’t the problem, it’s the disposal that’s the problem. You run out of space.” The storage issues faced by serial killers aren’t something to which many of us will have devoted much thought. Roth has. Reassuringly, he’s had reason to thanks to his recent sinister role as real-life murderer Reg Christie in BBC drama Rillington Place. “Charming fella” he jokes.

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Roth is back on UK television on the other side of the law in new Sky Atlantic drama Tin Star, which has already been renewed for a second series.

Mark Lazarus is departing as a drama investment manager at Screen Australia to join Arclight Films as head of creative and acquisitions in Australia.

He succeeds Michael Wrenn, who joined Arclight in 2012 as a consultant and is pursuing his own projects including Ben Elton.s The Wiggles- Pandamonium!, Eron Sheean.s End of Animal and Stephan Elliott's Madams, co-produced with Julie Ryan, based on the true story of two Australian con-women who took on the British "horsey". set and nearly got away with it. Arclight. reps The Wiggles movie and Madams internationally. .

Wrenn is also Ep on Gillian Armstrong's recently completed documentary Women He's Undressed, a behind-the-scenes look at the Australian Oscar-winning costume designer Orry-Kelly.

In five years at Screen Australia Lazarus has been involved in numerous films handled by Arclight internationally including Kimble Rendall.s Bait 3D, the Spierig brothers. Predestination and Patrick Hughes. Red Hill.

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Restraint was backed by the government.s screen agency, directed by one of the country.s top Tvc directors, and starred rising talent. Brendan Swift finds out why a $5 million taut-thriller gathered dust for years before a one-week cinema run in 2009. Restraint will be shown on TV this weekend on Channel Nine at 9.30pm on Saturday, April 14. (This article originally appeared in If #121, June 2009.)

It was an auspicious day. On April 2, Restraint had its premiere at inner-Sydney.s Chauvel Cinema . a small dual-screen complex better known for showing small Australian and art-house films. Among the cast and crew were respected director of photography Simon Duggan (I, Robot, Knowing), co-producer Anna Fawcett, and top TV commercials director David Denneen. But Denneen would give no speech that night. It had been almost four years since cameras stopped rolling and the film.s long-delayed release was less a celebration than a Pyrrhic victory.

Every fiber of my being tells me to hate the trailers for The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Sure, much of it is born out of my personal disdain for the disastrous, virus-like career of Nicholas Cage, who is featured in every 2.5 movies to come out of Hollywood. And they're never good movies. Also, the idea is kind of dumb, as it's supposed to be a sort of live-action re-imagining of the classic vignette from Fantasia. Also? Jerry Bruckheimer, who takes all good ideas and works very, very hard to make them suck.

And yet... Fuck me. I'm seriously disappointed in myself, because goddamnit, it looks kind of fun. Not good, mind you. But fun. Plus, it's got Jay Baruchel, and I dig his geeky shtick. If there was some sort of awkward, stuttery nerd-off between him and Michael Cera, I'm taking Baruchel every time. Teresa Palmer is an added bonus -- I've only seen her in Restraint,...

What can I say? After the likes of The Horseman, Acolytes, Lake Mungo, The Square, and the upcoming Beautiful and all sorts of other goodies coming out of Australia, I can say I'm pretty excited for the genre fare their spitting out. I wonder, will this revival of sorts get a name? Restraint will be having a small theatrical world premier in April followed by a national DVD release, and it's directed by newcomer David Denneen and stars Travis Fimmel, Teresa Palmer (The Grudge 2), and Stephen Moyer (True Blood). This looks like a straight up psychological thriller, so check er out!

A brutal crime is commited. Our murderous pair, Ron and Dale, seek a safe haven to hide out. But what they thought was an abandoned mansion is inhabited by a rich agoraphobic, Andrew, who becomes their hostage. Or does he? Who is the victim in this threesome? Whatever...

Ex Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel has been testing out his acting chops over the last few years, with the most noteworthy as Ellis Dove in the TV series The Beast, starring alongside Patrick Swayze. You can also see him flex his acting skills in his first starring role in a feature film: the Aussie film Restraint. Featuring alongside Fimmel are Australian actor Teresa Palmer and the English star of TV series True Blood, Stephen Moyer.