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In Geoffrey Sax's 2005 thriller "White Noise," Michael Keaton plays an architect named Jonathan Rivers (not to be confused with rocker Johnny Rivers) who is living in connubial bliss with his second wife Anna (Chandra West). One night, Anna doesn't come home. She remains missing for five months. Jonathan is devastated, but holds out hope that she may still be alive. One day, he is contacted by a man named Raymond (Ian McNeice) who claims to have a clue as to Anna's whereabouts. Raymond has been watching static-tuned TVs and listening to garbled radio signals, and claims he can hear voices emerging through the hissing. Raymond is convinced that the voices are the voices of ghosts, able to communicate with the land of the living through electrical signals. 

Jonathan doesn't believe Raymond at first, but soon falls under the spell of white noise monitoring. He finds that his monitoring is...

Exclusive: A third season of Acorn TV and Channel 5 detective drama Dalgliesh has begun filming in Northern Ireland.

Produced by New Pictures (The Long Shadow) for Acorn and C5 in association with All3Media International, the third run will include lead actor Bertie Carvel making his directorial debut.

Another three P.D. James novels will be adapted for the season over two hour-long episodes each, in which Commander Dalgliesh is seen with Margaret Thatcher on the cusp of power in the UK. In the first book, Death in Holy Orders, Dalgliesh travels to a remote seminary overlooking a windswept lake, where a body has been found gruesomely murdered. Nearly everyone in the seminary has reason to resent the victim, and Dalgliesh and DS Tarrant must unpick a complicated set of motives to find their killer.

In the second, Cover Her Face, Dalgliesh investigates a murder in the Essex home of the Mehtas,...

In the HBO series "House of the Dragon, actor Matt Smith plays Prince Daemon Targaryen, a character who will -- should "Dragon" last long enough -- no doubt commit multiple acts of murder, perhaps a few acts of torture, certainly several acts of incest, and, just for good measure, two separate acts of enthused cannibalism. Probably also tax evasion. This postulation is based merely on how lascivious and gnarly the show's predecessor, "Game of Thrones," was throughout its 2011 through 2019 run. 

Smith's screen acting career began in 2006 with his appearance on a TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel "Ruby in the Smoke" and its sequel "Shadow in the North." He was a regular character on the BBC Two series "Party Animals" before landing the plum gig of The Doctor in "Doctor Who" in 2010. The Doctor, for neophytes, is a near-immortal space alien who can, upon his death, choose to regenerate into a new body.

More of P.D. James’ murder mysteries will be turned into TV dramas after AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Paramount Global-owned broadcaster Channel 5 handed drama series Dalgliesh a two-season renewal.

Des producer New Pictures will return to film the seasons, the first of which goes into production this year ahead of a 2023 debut.

Acorn Media Enterprises has the rights in North America, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, with Channel 5 taking the UK, with Northern Ireland Screen providing additional funding.. All3Media International serves as distributor for the rest of the world.

Season two will comprise six episodes adapted from three P.D. James novels, with each being told over two hour-long episodes. Bertie Carvel will reprise the role of the enigmatic Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh.

The novels being adapted for season two are Death Of An Expert Witness, A...

British detective drama “Dalgliesh” is set to return after getting a second season order from AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Channel 5.

The second season, which will consist of six episodes, will be based on three more P.D. James novels with Bertie Carvel (“Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”) reprising his role as the enigmatic chief investigator. It is currently shooting in Northern Ireland with a scheduled TX on Channel 5 in 2023.

Details on the third season are still to be announced with filming set to begin in 2023.

Season two will be split into three parts – “Death Of An Expert Witness,” “A Certain Justice” and “The Murder Room” – each two episodes long.

Helen Edmundson (“The Suspicions of Mr Whicher”) returns as lead writer while Stewart Harcourt (“Maigret”) joins to write “A Certain Justice,” which Andy Tohill and Ryan Tohill (“The Dig”) will direct. Geoff Sax (“Us”) will direct “Death of an Expert Witness.

Sometimes, it’s possible for a TV series’ greatest strength to also be the source of its greatest shortcoming. It’s a paradox not readily apparent in “Us,” based on David Nicholls’ book of the same name and the latest presentation of PBS’ long-running “Masterpiece.” At the outset, the show offers up a surprisingly blunt telling of a familiar story. Over the course of a morning, Connie (Saskia Reeves) informs her husband Douglas (Tom Hollander) that she’s decided to leave him.

In the face of this monumental shift in their family, Douglas ultimately pushes for the two of them and their son Albie (Tom Taylor) to follow through on their plans for a grand European holiday, winding through cities in the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain, among other tourist-friendly stops. These overnight stays bounce back and forth between the grating (Douglas always worried about missing a reservation for a spot...

There’s a sense that history is repeating itself right now, with our entertainment overlords once again deciding that a live-action adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider novels is exactly what we need. But long before the upcoming Amazon Prime series was a twinkle in anybody’s eye, a feature-length film starring some high-profile British actors arrived in cinemas in 2006.

That film was Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker. A fairly faithful adaptation of the first book in Horowitz’s series, with a few added action scenes and beefed out roles for the supporting players, the Stormbreaker movie was an inoffensive way to spend a brisk 93 minutes.

The companies that invested in the film – which included The Weinstein Company in the Us, and Mpc, Samuelson Productions and Isle Of Man Film in the UK – presumably went into the production of the movie hoping to spark an on-going film franchise. After all,...

Alex Rider, the teen superspy series of novels that’s sold around 20M copies worldwide, is coming to the small screen in an eight-part series from Foyle’s War producer Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television, with the Hollywood studio using a new funding model to set up the drama before taking it out to international buyers later this year.

The companies have unveiled the first trailer for the series, which stars Mrs Wilson’s Otto Farrant as the eponymous teen spy, and Deadline spoke to the team behind the project about its unusual origin story.

Created by author Anthony Horowitz, the first Alex Rider book Stormbreaker was published in 2000 and was later made into a feature film, directed by Geoffrey Sax, in 2006.

Horowitz teamed with Eleventh Hours Film, run by his wife Jill Green, to reboot it for television, taking the second book in the series, Point Blanc,...

Doctor Who has been such a time-honored pillar of the TV landscape that Geoffrey Sax’s feature film, one that was initially released in ’96, is often overlooked.

Headed up by Paul McGann, who played the eighth incarnation of the beloved Time Lord, Sax’s TV movie was admittedly a bit of a flop, and failed to carve out much of an audience 20 years ago. Turns out it also heralded Eric Roberts’ first and last appearance in the Doctor Who franchise, as outgoing showrunner Steven Moffat revealed to Digital Spy that he never once considered bringing Roberts back as the Master for season 10’s show-stopping finale.

I like that TV movie and I liked him as the Master, I thought he was funny. But he’s not part… and sometimes this just happens… he’s not part, somehow, of anyone’s pantheon of Doctor Who. Not because he didn’t do...

Rob Leane Aug 15, 2016

The Doctor Who TV movie is heading to Blu-ray, with extensive extras, on Monday the 19th of September...

The Doctor Who TV movie is heading to Blu-ray. An 'upscaled' version of Paul McGann's debut as the eighth Doctor (and Sylvester McCoy's last on-screen appearance as the seventh one, to date) will be available on Blu-ray disc from Monday the 19th of September, with this extensive list of extras...

Disc 1 Extras

• Commentary #1

From director Geoffrey Sax (recorded 2001)

• Commentary #2

By Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy, moderated by Nicolas Briggs (recorded 2009)

• The Seven Year Hitch

Documenting the return Doctor Who to the screen. Narrated by Amanda Drew.

• The Doctor’s Strange Love

Writers Joe Lidster and Simon Guerrier discuss The TV Movie with comedian Josie Long.

• The Night of the Doctor

The Night of the Doctor was a mini-episode released in 2013 in the run-up to the show’s 50th anniversary special.

"Frankie and Alice," directed by Geoffrey Sax and starring Halle Berry in the titular characters, is based on true events in the life of Francine “Frankie” Murdoch, a black woman who was severely hindered by multiple personality disorder. The film takes place in the early 70’s, when Frankie (Berry) is finally diagnosed with, and begins treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder, under the care of Dr. Oswald (Stellan Skarsgard), soon after our protagonist is found half-dressed and passed out in the middle of traffic. The opening scene finds Frankie working as an exotic dancer. After a caged stage dancing segment - an oddly orchestrated sequence - is over, she’s in the...

For every Harry Potter or Hunger Games series, there are those franchises that didn't quite set the world on fire...

Since Insurgent came out, I’ve been thinking about those less fortunate: the franchise wannabes. While Divergent may have succeeded financially, (a film that rode on the coat-tails of the even more lucrative The Hunger Games franchise) there are others who didn’t quite make it into the movie world’s big leagues. These are the franchise-starters that flopped, the films produced with the optimistic hope that they will bring in the readies and kick-start Hollywood’s latest franchise. Worse luck for them, really.

For the sake of simplicity, this list will zero in on Ya franchise-starters, films adapted from a young adult novel or with that audience in mind. There are plenty of more mature films that struggled such as Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time, The A-Team...

Endeavour, Season 2, Episode 4, “Neverland”

Written by Russell Lewis

Directed by Geoffrey Sax

Airs Sundays at 9pm (Et) on PBS

“Bad apples, Morse. Every barrel’s got them”

Endeavour has had a near perfect second season run. Yes, the season hasn’t packed the same emotional punch that the first did, but the mysteries have been intriguing and the most important aspect of Endeavour, its characters, have continued to develop and fascinate. The show has also managed to break away once and for all from the shadow of Inspector Morse. Smart storylines and powerful performances, particularly by Shaun Evans as Endeavour and Roger Allam as Thursday, have made the show one of the best character studies on TV.

Like all Endeavour episodes, the finale features three seemingly unconnected cases that eventually come together. There is a missing boy with a brutally abusive father, a murdered journalist, and a convict who breaks...

It's hard to believe we're at the midway point of the year already, but alas, Halloween is finally in sight and will likely be here before you know it. Universal is very aware of this and is getting set to have some of its flicks make their Blu-ray debut on September 2nd.

The Return

Synopsis:

Joanna Mills (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is haunted by increasingly terrifying visions of a brutal murder that occurred 15 years ago, and of a woman she's never met. With her personal life spiraling out-of-control, she follows the relentless nightmares to an eerie small town in Texas. There, Joann will discover that some secrets can't be buried and the horrific murder she is trying to solve may just be her own.

Special Features

"The Making of The Return" Featurette

The People Under the Stairs

Synopsis:

In every neighborhood, there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid.

Frankie and Alice, directed by Geoffrey Sax and starring Halle Berry in the titular characters, is based on true events in the life of Francine “Frankie” Murdoch, a black woman who was severely hindered by multiple personality disorder. The film takes place in the early 70’s, when Frankie (Berry) is finally diagnosed with and begins treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder under the care of Dr. Oswald (Stellan Skarsgard), soon after our protagonist is found half-dressed and passed out the middle of traffic. The opening scene finds Frankie working as an exotic dancer. After her caged stage dancing segment - an oddly orchestrated sequence - is over, she’s in the establishment’s...

Geoffrey Sax's Frankie & Alice comes with some warning signs: the words "based on true events," for starters, along with three credits for "original story" and five for the screenplay. (It took eight people to tell a true story?) Then there's the fact that this film has been sitting on the shelf since 2010.

Fortunately, Frankie & Alice is by no means the train wreck any of that would suggest, especially for a film starring Halle Berry as a stripper suffering from multiple personalities.

Frankie (Berry) puts herself under the care of a psychotherapist played by Stellan Skarsgard in his lovable eccentric mode, making the picture feel all the more like an unintentional, nudity-free companion piece to Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. (Speaking of such th...

A 1970s set drama about a young black woman suffering from personality disorder? If that doesn't tick a few obvious Oscar boxes, we don't know what does, and Halle Berry certainly thought she'd have another shot at an award. Way back in 2010, "Frankie & Alice" was being positioned as a contender, but it barely made ripple and wound up sitting on a shelf for four years awaiting the light of day. Well, that day arrives this weekend and eight clips have dropped to compel you to give in to your curiosity. This story centers on a young woman with a personality disorder who struggles to contain her racist alter-ego, with Stellan Skarsgård, Chandra Wilson and Phylicia Rashad supporting and Geoffrey Sax ("White Noise," "Alex Rider: Stormbreaker") behind the camera. That does sound good on paper but good movies don't generally sit on a shelf for four years only to quietly hit...

Britain’s Sky Atlantic HD is making sure Game Of Thrones fans don’t have to wait to see the first episode of the upcoming fourth season. The pay channel will premiere the season debut simultaneously with HBO’s U.S. East Coast transmission. Catering to the faithful, it will air on Monday April 7 at 2 Am and then be repeated in primetime at 9 Pm UK time. Following the first 2 Am transmission, the premiere episode will also be available on demand. After that, Game Of Thrones will settle into its regular time slot. The move is not unprecedented for Sky which has done similar simulcasts with the series finales of Lost and Fringe. Two new 120-minute episodes of The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher have been ordered by the UK’s ITV. Paddy Considine stars in the psychological drama from Hat Trick Productions. Shooting will take place in April and May in...

The trailer for Halle Berry's latest film, Frankie & Alice, has been released online.

Based on a true story, the film, set in the 1970s, features Berry as a go-go dancer with a dissociative identity disorder.

Berry's character Frankie has to fight against two different alter-egos, a 7-year-old child named Genius and a Southern, white, racist woman named Alice.

To try and cure the voices in her head, Frankie visits a top psychotherapist, played by Stellan Skarsgard. The pair work together in an attempt to overcome her condition.

The film was originally set to be released in 2010 but was shelved for a later distribution date.

It is directed by Geoffrey Sax, who previously worked on White Noise.

Frankie & Alice is due for release in Us cinemas on April 4, with a UK date yet to be confirmed.

Back in 2010, the indie drama Frankie & Alice was believed to be a viable chance for Halle Berry to get another Oscar nomination. But as some indies do, the film say on a shelf with no distribution, and Berry missed out on her chance at Oscar gold. But four years later, the film is poised for release this spring, and while it's likely not going to get any attention at the Academy Awards next year, at least audiences can see what has been praised as a spectacular performance for Berry playing a young woman in the 70s with a personality disorder who struggles to contain a racist alter-ego. It looks a little over-the-top though. Watch? Here's the first trailer for Geoffrey Sax's Frankie & Alice, originally from Yahoo: Frankie & Alice is directed by Geoffrey Sax (White Noise), and first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. The film is inspired by...

Once upon a time, way, way back in 2010, Halle Berry was gunning for her second Oscar nomination (after winning for "Monster's Ball") with "Frankie & Alice." At the time, it was an indie film without a major studio behind it, but that didn't deter the actress, who was hoping her turn as a mentally ill woman would garner some attention. It didn't. Now here we are four years later, with the movie quietly headed to theaters.  Co-starring Stellan Skarsgård, Chandra Wilson and Phylicia Rashad, and directed by Geoffrey Sax ("White Noise," "Alex Rider: Stormbreaker"), the 1970s-set drama centers on a young woman with a personality disorder (Berry) who struggles to contain her racist alter-ego. And the first trailer reveals that there is nothing particularly subtle about this one, with Berry mostly flailing her arms and running around as her hidden personality rises to the surface when dramatically necessary. Sometimes, things sit on a shelf for a.

Code Black Films' "Frankie & Alice" has a new trailer up for the film which hits theaters April 4th. This one has been a long time coming and is in fact a 2010-produced film, which is helmed by Geoffrey Sax from the writing by Cheryl Edwards, Marko King, Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse. That's a lot of scribes. "Frankie & Alice" is inspired by the remarkable true story of an African American go-go dancer "Frankie" with multiple personalities (dissociative identity disorder or “Did”) who struggles to remain her true self while fighting against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child named Genius and a Southern white racist woman named Alice. In order to stop the multiple voices in her head, Frankie (Berry) works together with a psychotherapist (Stellan Skarsgard) to uncover and overcome the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

Distributor acquires North American rights to the film, starring Halle Berry and inspired by a true story.

Codeblack Films, a Lionsgate company, has acquired North American distribution rights to Frankie & Alice.

Inspired by a true story, Geoffrey Sax’s drama stars Halle Berry as a woman with multiple personality disorder who struggles to cope with her disease. The film also stars Stellan Skarsgard, Phylicia Rashad and Chandra Wilson.

Berry also produced the film, along with Vincent Cirrincione.

Codeblack Films’ general manager Quincy Newell negotiated the film acquisition with David B. Strapko of 37 Star Media Fund Corp. and Stephanie Denton of New Cadence Entertainment.

Jeff Clanagan, Codeblack Films president, commented: “Codeblack is thrilled to bring this important film to theatres nationwide delivering on our commitment to bring more quality films to the marketplace.”

“This is a career landmark for Halle as this is her first role as producer. She has done a brilliant job and we anticipate that it...

Lionsgate's Codeblack Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Halle Berry-starrer Frankie & Alice. The film will open in theaters on April 4, 2014. Berry stars as an exotic dancer dealing with multiple personality disorder in the project, which also stars Stellan Skarsgard, Phylicia Rashad and Chandra Wilson. Berry also produced the film, along with Vincent Cirrincione. Photos: Two-Timing Superheroes: Ben Affleck and 10 Actors Who've Played Multiple Comic Characters Directed by Geoffrey Sax, Frankie & Alice opened in a limited release on December 10, 2010, for an awards run. Berry was nominated for a Golden Globe

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Does anyone remember the Halle Berry vehicle Frankie & Alice ? The drama co-starring Stellan Skarsgard from Thor and The Avengers received a number of awards consideration screenings a few years back with plans to release it sometime in 2011 through Freestyle Releasing. Apparently, after being released in one theater for a one-week run in December 2010, it otherwise never saw the light of day. Until now, as word comes down that Lionsgate's Codeblack Films division has picked up the distribution rights for the film with plans to release it on April 14, 2014, almost five years after the completion of filming. Directed by Geoffrey Sax ( White Noise ), the film based on a true story stars Berry as Frankie Murdoch, a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder in...

Kiki's Delivery Service

16-year-old figure skater Koshiba Fuka has scored the lead role in the live-action version of Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 animated feature Kiki’s Delivery Service".

Takashi Shimizu is confirmed to be helming the project, based on a novel by Eiko Kadono, about a young broom-riding witch who spends a year trying to make it on her own by working as an air courier. [Source: Twitchfilm]

The Habit of Beauty

Noel Clarke ("Star Trek Into Darkness," "Doctor Who") and Francesca Neri ("Hannibal") have joined "The Habit of Beauty" which will shoot in London and Florence later this year.

Set in the wake of the 2011 London Riots, Clarke plays a successful gallery owner who, along with his wayward godson and an ex-lover, fly to Florence to find a missing photographer with a link to them all. [Source: Screen Daily]

The Walking Dead

Larry Gilliard Jr. ("The Wire") is set to play Bob Stookey in the...

Hoping for a huge summer blockbuster, Christina Ricci attended the Smurfs Family Festival World Premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday (April 27).

Posing with her voiced character, the "Black Snake Moan" star looked gorgeous in a black-and-white sleeveless patterned dress and pointy red heels.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 33-year-old actress is in talks to star in the indie thriller, "Unmasked."

Directed by Geoffrey Sax, the movie follows a man who joins a mysterious club in order to relive the worst day of his life.

• Johnny Depp is in talks to join Disney’s film adaptation of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s 1986 musical that borrows characters from classic Grimm fairy tales while following a baker and his wife as they venture into the woods to find the witch who put a spell on them. Meryl Streep will reportedly play the evil witch, a character originated on Broadway by Bernadette Peters, and Depp would play the baker. Rob Marshall (Chicago) is set to direct the project, and held a script reading in October 2012 with Anna Kendrick reading the role of Cinderella, Patrick Wilson as her Prince,...

She may not be taking on the biggest blockbusters the industry has to offer, but Christina Ricci has been keeping busy in Hollywood. In addition to small screen gigs like the short-lived series Pan Am and her one episode appearance on The Good Wife, she starred alongside Robert Pattinson in last year's Bel Ami; has a role in the upcoming drama Mother's Day with Susan Sarandon, Andie McDowell and Sharon Stone; and will be lending her voice to one of the main villains in this summer's Smurfs 2. And today she's added another project to her upcoming slate. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ricci has signed on to star in the upcoming thriller Unmasked, the new film from director Geoffrey Sax. Written by newcomer Peter Scott Vicaire, who's script was actually discovered on the website InkTip.com, the story centers on "a man who joins a dangerous and mysterious club in...

Christina Ricci is in talks to star in the indie thriller Unmasked. Geoffrey Sax (White Noise, Frankie & Alice) is onboard to helm the film, which was written by first-time scribe Peter Scott Vicaire. The script was discovered on Inkip.com and optioned by Sean Thomas, producer of the upcoming A Single Shot starring William H. Macy, Sam Rockwell and Melissa Leo. The story follows a man who joins a dangerous and mysterious club in order to relive the worst day of his life. The filmmakers are now looking to cast a male lead. Founded in 2001, InkTip.com has become a

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Geoffrey Sax's independent thriller Unmasked has landed its star in Christina Ricci. The script comes from first-time writer Peter Scott Vicaire. Sources say that the script was found on Inktip.com and optioned by Sean Thomas, the producer of the upcoming William H. Macy, Sam Rockwell and Melissa Leo starrer A Single Shot. Sax, known for directing films like Frankie & Alice and White Noise, will direct the film which tells of a man who joins a dangerous and mysterious club in order to relive the worst day of his life. Really? Why would you want to do that? Perhaps that description isn't summing the project's true meaning.

Another flick in the ever so weird and twisted sub-genre of living the same day over and over again is headed our way from the director of Frankie and Alice, and we've got your details right here.

According to Variety, Geoffrey Sax is set to direct the psychological thriller Unmaskedfor Nasser Entertainment. Joseph and Jack Nasser will produce the project, which will likely begin lensing in the second quarter of this year.

Nasser Entertainment/Nasser Group North will finance the flick with Studio City Pictures; Jim Harvey, head of Studio City Pictures, is repping Unmasked internationally.

The script by newcomer Peter Scott Vicaire is said to mix elements of Fight Club and Eyes Wide Shut with the story centering around a man who joins a mysterious and dangerous club in order to relive the worst day of his life.

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Variety reports that Geoffrey Sax (Frankie and Alice, White Noise) has signed on to direct Unmasked, a psychological thriller written by newcomer Peter Scott Vicaire. The movie follows a man who joins an underground club for the sole purpose of reliving the worst day of his life. Vicaire’s script has obvious Fight Club influences but according to the article it also has shades of Stanley Kubrick‘s Eyes Wide Shut so it’s completely understandable why the director of Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker was courted for the job (that’s sarcasm folks!).

All (painfully unfunny) joking aside, Unmasked definitely sounds interesting and I’m intrigued about the details of this supposed “worst day ever” that the main character is dying to relive. And as a White Noise apologist, I’m not totally against having Sax in the director’s chair; he’s handled psychological themes before and he’s capable.

Catching Fire

Both were said to have scored the gigs back in November but now it's official - Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire," "127 Hours") is writing the script and Gary Ross is set to direct "Catching Fire", the sequel to the upcoming sci-fi adaptation "The Hunger Games".

Ross, who also directs 'Hunger', is supervising the writing. The film has already set a November 22nd 2013 release. [Source: Reuters]

The Identity Thief

Director Seth Gordon and his "Horrible Bosses" star Jason Bateman are re-teaming on the comedy "The Identity Thief" at Universal Pictures.

Melissa McCarthy also stars in the film which will have an identity theft element to the storyline (no plot specifics have been revealed). Steve Conrad and Craig Mazin penned the script. [Source: Reuters]

Unmasked

Geoffrey Sax ("Frankie and Alice") is set to direct the psychological thriller "Unmasked" at Nasser Entertainment/Nasser Group North and Studio City Pictures.

Peter Scott Vicaire penned the...

Rank the week of June 28th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time:new Releasesthe Warrior’S Way

(Blu-ray and DVD | R | 2010)

Flickchart Ranking: #8698

Times Ranked: 631

Win Percentage: 39%

Top-20 Rankings: 0

Directed By: Sngmoo Lee

Starring: Kate Bosworth • Geoffrey Rush • Danny Huston • Tony Cox • Dong-gun Jang

Genres: Action • Fantasy • Martial Arts • Western

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Sucker Punch

(Blu-ray and DVD | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #2081

Times Ranked: 4896

Win Percentage: 44%

Top-20 Rankings: 19

Directed By: Zack Snyder

Starring: Emily Browning • Abbie Cornish • Jena Malone • Vanessa Hudgens • Carla Gugino

Genres: Action • Adventure • Drama • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure • Girls-with-Guns • Psychological Drama • Thriller

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Season Of The Witch

(Blu-ray and DVD | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #9846

Times Ranked: 1288

Win Percentage: 36%

Top-20 Rankings: 4

Directed By: Dominic Sena

Starring: Nicolas Cage • Ron Perlman • Stephen Campbell Moore • Stephen Graham • Ulrich Thomsen

Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure • Supernatural Thriller • Thriller • Witchcraft

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The 35th edition of the San Francisco International Lgbt Film Festival, or Frameline35, opens tonight with Rashaad Ernesto Green's Gun Hill Road (image above) and runs through June 26 — Gay Pride Day — closing with Geoffrey Sax's Christopher and His Kind.

Michael Hawley previews eight narrative features and six documentaries, and he's got a top recommendation for each category, beginning with Céline Sciamma's Tomboy: "It's the summer before 4th grade and Laure's family has moved to a new town. When a potential playmate mistakes her for a boy, athletic Laure plays along and becomes Mikael to all the neighborhood kids — a charade that's kept hidden from her parents until just before the start of school. This complex and intelligent tale about gender identity won a jury prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival and it's now one of my favorite films of the year." And in Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva's Angel,...

The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.

The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.

The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.

"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...

Over 200 films from more than 30 countries make up the slate for the 35th anniversary edition of Frameline35, the San Francisco international Lgbt film festival. The event kicks off of June 16th with Rashaad Ernesto Green's drama "Gun Hill Road." Geoffrey Sax's BBC-produced dramatization of Christopher Isherwood's 1976 memoir, "Christopher and His Kind," will close the festival. Among other highlights at the upcoming festival: Ash Christian's dark comedy "Mangus!" ...

Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.

With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.

For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...

Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.

With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.

For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...

Film Independent Announces First Round Of Us & International

Film Selections For 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival,

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Los Angeles (May 3, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, announced the first round of official Us and international selections. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent . the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Spirit Awards . and will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries. Opening and Closing Night films, Galas, Conversations, Artists in Residence, Lafca.s Films That Got Away, along with additional special guests and programming for the Festival Talks will be announced at later dates.

Returning to downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live, the Festival will run from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday,...

The 42nd annual NAACP Image Awards took place on Friday and the winners were very different from the Academy Award winners. Tyler Perry was once again the big winner. He won Best Director for "For Colored Girls," which also took home the Best Picture award. In the TV categories, Perry won for Outstanding Comedy Series for "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," beating out "30 Rock" and "Glee." Meanwhile, David Mann won Best Actor for "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns." Denzel Washington also won Best Actor for "The Book of Eli," beating Jaden Smith and Common. Halle Berry won Best Actress for "Frankie and Alice," beating Janet Jackson and Queen Talifah. And of course the Best Documentary award went to "For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots." Ice Cube and LL Cool J also won for their acting abilities in "Are We There Yet?" and "NCIS: Los Angeles.

The 42nd NAACP Awards Nominations follow below, and guess who stole the show? Well, it’s no surprise that Tyler Perry films would leave their mark but who knew it would be by a landslide? For Colored Girls topped the film category with seven nominations and Why Did I Get Married Too? has four.

The NAACP Image Awards honor accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature and film, as well as individuals who promote social justice through creative endeavors.

Perry is up for a film directing nod (For Colored Girls) alongside Geoffrey Sax (Frankie & Alice), George Tillman Jr. (Faster), Tanya Hamilton (Night Catches Us) and the Hughes Brothers (Book of Eli).

The show will be televised live, tonight, March 4, 2011 at 8/7 c, on the Fox Network.

Courtesy of Variety.com, here’s a list of all Film and Television related nominees:

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“For Colored Girls...

Christopher Smith, whose prior directorial efforts include Creep, Severance and Triangle, has made a habit of unpredictability as a director. In his latest effort, Smith explores one of the darkest periods in history, the black death pandemic of the mid-1300's which depleted Europe's population by almost one half during its legendary path of destruction. I spoke exclusively with Smith about his gritty, bloody portrayal of the Black Death and his possible next project, which might be a noir road trip movie in homage to Detour and Wild at Heart. Black Death is an incredibly ambitious project, especially for its relatively tight budget. What was the starting point? Originally Geoffrey Sax was going...

Oh, you American and Canadian Whovians without a region-free DVD player, today is your lucky day. For today is the day that the made-for-u.S.ian-tv Doctor Who movie starring Paul McGann as our favorite renegade Time Lord finally arrives on Region 1 DVD. Gary S. Dalkin’s review on Amazon is a small thing of beauty. An excerpt: [T]he most eccentrically British of programs [has] been almost entirely assimilated by the requirements of American network broadcasting. Matthew Jacobs' screenplay is literally nonsense, dependent on arbitrary, unexplained events while introducing numerous elements that contradict established Doctor Who mythology. The Tardis is re-imagined as a bizarre pre-Raphaelite/Gothic folly, while the Doctor, now half-human, becomes romantically involved with his lady companion. From the West Coast setting to metallic CGI morphing, from the look of Eric Roberts as the Master to a motorcycle/truck freeway chase, director Geoffrey Sax borrows freely from James Cameron...

Chicago – The stunning looks of Halle Berry is always the lead whenever the entertainment media considers her. But in “Frankie and Alice,” she reminds us of why her career continues to flourish and why she is a Best Actress Oscar winner.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Berry plays a complex character ridden with the psychological burden of multiple personalities. Based on a true story, this is the type of situation that as a film could be exploited or trivialized. To the credit of the production and especially Halle Berry, it’s handled with sensitivity.

Berry portrays Frankie, a stripper in Los Angeles in 1973. There is something odd about her, as she is liable to pontificate on several bizarre angles of the profession. After picking up a guy named Cliff (Adrian Holmes), she has a mental breakdown in his presence. She switches from the personality of a streetwise stripper to a bigoted society lady, blathering...

Chicago – Breaking through to the next level of name recognition in the acting field is the goal of all performers. Adrian Holmes, currently featured in the Halle Berry film, “Frankie and Alice,” is currently making his breakout move.

Holmes has been a professional actor since the early 1990s, working mostly out of the production centers in his native Canada. From there he has built a film and TV resume which includes “Smallville,” in which he played a Kryptonian named Basqat, to his roles in the Halle Berry film and the soon-to-be-released “Red Riding Hood.”

He’s Super, Man: Adrian Holmes Strikes a Pose

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Adrian Holmes participated in a phone interview with HollywoodChicago.com, in anticipation of the Chicago release of Frankie and Alice. He spoke about the life of the journeyman actor, and his gratitude towards this part of his career.

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2010 has gone by in a blur and another year at the movies has come and gone. So may films that seemed promising have turned out to be disappointments and the surprises audiences received were few and far between.But the past is the past, it's time to look onward as a fresh new year begins and hopes are raised for it to be an exciting time in the world of cinema. Kicking off the Winter season are a number of films described in detail and listed below:january 7Season Of The WITCHNicolas Cage stars alongside Ron Perlman as knights who return from the Crusades to find their homeland ruined by the Black Plague. Two church elders accuse a girl (Claire Foy) of being a witch and being responsible for the destruction. They command Behmen and Felson to transport her to a monastery so the monks there can lift her curse from the land.

Justin Timberlake has nailed an individual award nomination thanks to his role in "The Social Network". On Wednesday, January 12, the singer who takes the role of Sean Parker in the drama film is announced as one of the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nominees at the 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards.

In the category, the "SexyBack" hitmaker is facing some stiff competitions. The 29-year-old, who is up for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award, will battle "Brooklyn's Finest" actor Don Cheadle, "Takers" actor Idris Elba, "For Colored Girls" actor Michael Ealy and "Mother and Child" actor Samuel L. Jackson.

Dominating the movie field, in the meantime, was Tyler Perry. Two of the filmmaker's 2010 movies scored a combined total of 11 nominations. "For Colored Girls" nailed seven nods, while "Why Did I Get Married Too?" garnered four. Both are contenders for Outstanding...

The upcoming 42nd annual NAACP Image Awards are all about Tyler Perry. The nominations for the upcoming prize-giving show have been announced on January 12, and it was revealed that two of Perry's movies score 11 nominations in total.

"For Colored Girls" and "Why Did I Get Married Too?" nab 7 and 4 nods respectively, with both movies up against each other in Outstanding Motion Picture category. The other contenders for the coveted prize are "Just Wright", "The Book of Eli" and "The Kids Are All Right".

The follow-up to the 2007 drama comedy has its lead star Janet Jackson competing for Outstanding Actress prize, which is also vied by Halle Berry ("Frankie and Alice"), Kerry Washington ("Night Catches Us"), Queen Latifah ("Just Wright") and Zoe Saldana ("The Losers").

Additionally, four "For Colored Girls" stars which are Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad and Whoopi Goldberg land Outstanding Supporting Actress nod. Meanwhile, the last...