“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart wrapped up his Election Night special with a direct message to pollsters: “I do want to very quickly send a quick message to all the pollsters — um, blow me.”

Stewart’s barb on Tuesday night came right as Donald Trump was securing enough votes to beat Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, sending him back to The White House in January.

Heading into Election Day, many big-name pundits and pollsters said it was going to be a tight race between the two candidates. Polling guru Nate Silver, notably, said Harris won 40,012 of the 80,000 simulations he ran the night before the election; that comment quickly became a meme on X, with many users joking about the 80,000 simulations they’d run.

He wasn’t the only one who said it was a close race with Harris holding a slight advantage, either. FiveThirtyEight, the stats-focused site Silver used to run,...

In the latest example of 30 Rock being less sitcom and more Nostradamus-esque prophecy, former American teenager and big little liar Shailene Woodley has been cast to star as Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic. This is per Variety, which reports that the film will be funded by California tax credits.

Who would have thought that in 2003, when Ben Affleck had yet to don the Bat-cape, he could foresee the streaming revolution? As if channeling Nostradamus, the actor, 52, predicted our binge-watching future while promoting The Battle Of Shaker Heights.

Ben Affleck in a still from Air | Credit: Amazon Studios

He casually suggested (or envisioned) a future where movies would be available on-demand with a tiered structure. Was it a flash of genius or just a beginner’s luck? What followed was nothing short of a plot twist: Netflix, Spotify, and a legion of others upended how we consume entertainment.

Fast forward to today, and that old interview clip has resurfaced, causing a stir on social media. His foresight into the rise of Netflix and Spotify has left many in awe, proving that he’s got more than just good looks going for him.

Ben Affleck Knew Spotify & Netflix Would Change Our...

The TV industry can benefit from some of the hard lessons learnt in the film business, Johanna Koljonen, the author of the influential Nostradamus report told a Seriencamp audience in Germany. As a panel of industry experts weighed in, the sense was the much-used “survive ‘til ‘25” aphorism might need to be extended into 2026 or beyond.

“I don’t know if that [phrase] means we survive to ‘25, or through ’25 and to ’26, but we will work through it, and we will maneuver as we’ve always done,” said Danna Stern, who runs In Transit Productions and is the former head of Yes Studios. “Yes, with less commissioning. Yes, with less money. We will try to integrate, new technologies, social media and new ways of communicating what we’re doing to our audiences.”

Asked if the fever had broken and the industry now had clarity on the road ahead, she added: “There’s never been clarity.

The fifth episode of “Survivor 45” aired on Wednesday night, concluding with host Jeff Probst snuffing out the torch of Brandon “Brando” Meyer. The 23-year old from Seattle, Washington was sent home after being voted out by the Belo tribe. Did they make the right decision? And what were the dumbest, most shocking and most exciting moments of this episode?

Below, read our “Survivor 45” Episode 5 Top 6 moments. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite castaways on CBS’s reality TV show, who bothers you the most and who you think will ultimately join the “Survivor” winners list and take home the $1 million grand prize.

See Brando Meyer (‘Survivor 45’ exit interview): ‘Being vulnerable is something that I wouldn’t trade for anything’

Top 5 Moments of Episode 5:

1. Awkward Return to Camp: Nicholas “Sifu” Alsup was none too pleased to see his name written down at the previous tribal council.

New projects from Jenni Toivoniemi, Jon Blåhed, Erol Mintaş and Ester Martin Bergsmark are among selection

The Finnish Film Affair (Ffa), Helsinki International Film Festival’s industry strand, has unveiled the line-up for its market showcase of Nordic films and Finnish series running September 20-22.

Among the 31 projects selected is Jenni Toivoniemi’s comedy Butterflies, the director’s second feature after Games People Play which was also presented at the Ffa.

Also being showcased is Jon Blåhed’s new feature Raptures; Erol Mintaş’ Earth Song; Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Land Of Ferns; and Marika Harjusaari’s The Mire from the producer of Hatching.

Report also examines industry’s challenges in remaining to young audiences.

AI-powered production technologies will spark a restructure of the film and television industries, bringing both dramatic efficiency gains and creative possibilities, but also major potential challenges.

That’s one of the findings of the 2023 Nostradamus report, launched in Cannes today by the Göteborg Film Festival, which also examines the industry’s challenges in remaining attractive to young audiences.

The annual Nostradamus report looks at the near-future of the audiovisual industries by talking to industry experts with analysis by author Johanna Koljonen.

Titled Everything Changing All At Once, the...

More than 70 speakers from 17 countries, including “Skam” showrunner Julie Andem, “It Takes Two” game creator/filmmaker Josef Fares, and top commissioners from Viaplay, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Dr, Svt, Nrk and Yle will take center stage at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision.

The festival’s flagship drama confab will run Feb. 1-2 both on-site in Sweden’s second largest city, and online, with all streamed sessions open to accredited professionals.

A record 542 delegates – including 39 online visitors – have signed up for the sold-out event, set under the overarching theme “Navigating Disruption and Cultivating Talent.”

”It’s been a challenge to set the core of this year’s program, considering the drastic changes in the drama industry, fuelled by the macroeconomic uncertainties, streaming wars and changing strategies,” acknowledges TV Drama Vision honcho Cia Edström. “But our top industry guests will offer inspiring best-practices on how to navigate these changing times, cultivate talent and innovate in storytelling.

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be roaring back into theatres to celebrate its 26th edition with a dynamic in-person program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 15 through August 3, 2022. Fantasia remains a leading showcase in North America for the wildest, weirdest, and most worthwhile releases in Japanese anime and live-action manga adaptations, and the festival is proud to announce the first of its 2022 selections. All animated films are nominated for Fantasia’s prestigious Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation.

A dark and monstrous creature becomes the guardian of an innocent human child in the affecting gothic anime fairy tale The Girl From The Other Side, co-directed by rising talents Yutaro Kubo and Satomi Maiya. The pair world-premiered their short film adaptation of Nagabe’s cult manga at Fantasia 2019, and with this feature film, they bring the elegant, enigmatic tale of Shiva and Teacher to the screen once again.

Edström has been head of industry since 2005.

Cia Edström will step down as head of industry at Göteborg Film Festival in autumn 2022, while keeping a senior role at the festival to focus on the strategic development of its TV Drama Vision conference.

Edström started working at the festival’s ticket office in the 1990s and has been head of industry since 2005.

In that role, she was in charge of developing the Nordic Film Market, launching the TV Drama Vision conference as well as being one of the originators of the Nostradamus project, a multi-year initiative analysing industry changes.

The festival...

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The US Writers Guld of America (WGA) has settled its long-running dispute with the Hollywood agencies as WME became the final agency to agree to a new franchise deal.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however the agreement on Friday (February 5) appears to bring to an end the battle that began when the Guild argued agencies had to align their businesses with the interests of writer clients.

For the Guild, that meant an end to packaging fees and a cap on agency ownership of production entities. Along the way, the Guild instructed...

Eave surveyed 150 professionals in its network and partners to comment on the ideas, offering pros and cons of each.

Producers organisation Eave has unveiled a series of proposals that it has brainstormed to help the future of the film industry.

Eave Think Tank started as a group of 20 professionals who gathered in January 2020 to brainstorm 30 potential solutions to boost innovation in the film industry and film funding. After the pandemic struck, a smaller group of nine professionals re-evaluated those 30 solutions and came up with a shortlist of five initiatives.

Then Eave surveyed 150 professionals in its network and partners to comment on the ideas,...

Presented at Göteborg Film Festival, the report aims to examine the near future of the screen industries.

Five years from now, “virtual production methods, tools, and pipelines have been completely normalised across the industry,” according to media analyst Johanna Koljonen, author of the latest Nostradamus report, ’Transforming Storytelling Together’.

She writes in the report: “The threshold to hands-on experience with virtual production is very low today, and the tools are rapidly becoming even more accessible. At the highest end, installations that currently require a significant initial investment will also lower in price.”

The Göteborg Film Festival unveiled the eighth edition of its Nostradamus report,...

Projects include period drama ‘The Emigrants’ and ‘Margrete – Queen Of The North’, starring Trine Dyrholm.

Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market has revealed the 13 Nordic films that will be presented as works in progress at its online market.

They include two big-budget historical epics, Charlotte Sieling’s Margrete – Queen Of The North, starring Trine Dyrholm as a powerful ruler in the early 15th century; and Erik Poppe’s The Emigrants, about Swedes moving to America in the 19th century.

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Further features set to be previewed include Bille August’s drama The Pact, about Karen Blixen’s...

The annual presentation of the acclaimed report featured industry experts in a discussion on how and when the return to normality could be expected. Göteborg Film Festival’s Nostradamus initiative has made its annual appearance at the Cannes Next section of Marché du Film Online. Every year, the Nostradamus report is one of the most anticipated, aiming to predict the near future of the industry. Under the title “Making Choices: How to Build for a Better New Normal”, the session explored ways in which the industry can adapt in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The session was introduced by Cannes Next head Sten-Kristian Saluveer who presented the host of the discussion, media analyst Johanna Koljonen from Göteborg’s Kulturakademin. After a brief introduction where Koljonen mentioned the lack of racial balance in an “all-white” panel, and how the serious issues of racism and the current pandemic affect the audience’s behaviour,...

Annual Nostradamus report report looks into the future of the screen industries and was unveiled at the Goteborg Film Festival.

The near future of the film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos.

These are the predictions of the 2020 Nostradamus report – “A Creative Explosion” – which was unveiled on Friday (January 31) at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival.

“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,...

Annual Nostradamus report report looks into the future of the screen industries and was unveiled at the Goteborg Film Festival.

The near future of the film and TV industries will be a boom time of creativity and growing hours of content, but will also see an industry in chaos.

These are the predictions of the 2020 Nostradamus report – “A Creative Explosion” – which was unveiled on Friday (January 31) at the Nordic Film Market at the Goteborg Film Festival.

“The next three to five years will be a time of creativity and chaos, with many artistic highs and unprecedented amounts of money invested in scripted content,...

In 2014, if someone claimed Annabelle would spawn the ‘Conjurverse’s’ most successful spinoff sequels, I’d’ve gone blue in the face from laughter. Not even Nostradamus could prophesize the leap in quality from Annabelle to Annabelle: Creation, and now Annabelle to Annabelle Comes Home.

Frequent ‘Conjurverse’ screenwriter Gary Dauberman helms this third continuation in the Warrens’ fight against dolly-dearest damnation, which is an absolute monster mashin’ blast. It’s like walking through a high-concept Halloween Horror Nights maze at Universal, and I mean that in the best funhouse way. Dauberman’s screenplay answers that oft-pondered Cabin In The Woods question, as characters unwittingly choose their collective fate, of “What happens if *all* the monsters get loose?” Annabelle isn’t alone, and as depicted, there ain’t no party like an Annabelle party because an Annabelle party don’t stop (the screams).

At this point in the Warrens’ story, Ed...

Season 17 of “Project Runway” has its long-awaited premiere tonight on Bravo. In addition to a brand new host (model Karlie Kloss), a new mentor (Christian Siriano) and new judges (Elaine Welteroth and Brandon Maxwell), there’s a brand new crop of 16 designers competing for a prize package of hundreds of thousands of dollars. So who’s the early front-runner? We’ve been asking our readers to boldly stick their necks out with their early forecasts here in our predictions center.

It would be challenging even for Nostradamus to anticipate who will be this year’s champ from among more than a dozen hopefuls. We haven’t seen any of them in action yet beyond the trailer for the season and the official bios for the contestants (get to know them all below in our photo gallery). Indeed, our readers are split 10 ways as of this writing, but a few speculative...

Projects include comic book adaptation Dampyr and feature comedy A Son Called Eramus

Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has unveiled details of its new film and TV production arm which will be run by the company’s Roberto Proia and Maria Grazia Vairo.

Proia will spearhead the development of projects originated by Eagle and Vairo will manage international co-productions in which Eagle is a minority partner. Both Proia and Vairo will retain their existing roles at Eagle as head of theatrical distribtion and head of feature acquisitions respectively.

Eagle, whose biggest releases this year are Midnight Sun and The Commuter, has...

Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing’s 1967 Flying V has sold in a London auction for approximately $189,000, as Blabbermouth notes. It was on of 11 of Downing’s guitars the International auction house Bonhams sold in their Entertainment Memorabilia auction, which concluded on December 11th. The guitar was used on a number of classic albums, including Sad Wings of Destiny and Point of Entry.

Another of Downing’s guitars fetched equally impressive coin: His 1971 Flying V Medallion was sold for approximately $102,000. The entertainment-themed lot also included a 1970s Heliocentric Helios Console...

As the Starz spy-fi mashup Counterpart nears the end of its first season, critics and viewers notice parallels with the J.J. Abrams-helmed Fringe. Both series have alternate universes, a liberal use of doppelgangers and an increasingly tense and at times deadly turf war between the two worlds.

Largely ignored in the discussion is another Abrams spy show: Alias, which predated Fringe and had a groundbreaking concept. Alias was the first American TV show to mix spycraft with supernatural/sci-fi elements. The overarching storyline involving Milo Rambaldi, a mythical character loosely based on a mixture of inventor Leonardo da Vinci and seer Nostradamus, gave a much-needed ...

Kfm: Russian investor boards ‘Black Angel’ remake, ‘made in Russia’ blockbusters, Kfm pitching winners, Latido picks up Ukrainian debut

Russian investment is set to be tapped for Roger Christian’s feature version of his 1980 cult short Black Angel.

Speaking during the first edition of the KinoPoisk Film Market (Kfm) in Moscow, the film’s producer Harald Reichebner said that 70% of the budget is in place as a co-production between the UK, Belgium and Hungary, with the final 30% now to come from an undisclosed private Russian investor.

The $9.7m production features an international cast including Dougray Scott, John Rhys-Davies, Rutger Hauer (who starred as The Mystic Monk in Christian’s 1994 biopic Nostradamus), Turkish-German actress-model Meryem Uzerli, star of the Turkish TV series Muhtesem Yüzyil, and Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov, known to international audiences from Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Behind Enemy Lines.

Berlin-based, Austrian-born Reichebner – who had previously worked with Christian as the producer on Nostradamus - told...

A long time ago – well, 35 years – in a place not quite so far away, an art director named Roger Christian, who had won an Oscar for his work on Star Wars, was asked by that film’s director, George Lucas, to make a short film to accompany The Empire Strikes Back. The result, Black Angel had a short life in cinemas and was presumed lost until recently, but now Christian is turning it into a full-length feature with genre stalwarts Rutger Hauer and John Rhys-Davies, at the head of the cast.Despite the short lingering in limbo until it was discovered in Universal’s extensive archives in 2013, it has been something of a cult sensation, and is cited as an influence on other films including John Boorman’s Excalibur.Christian, who in the intervening years became a director on the likes of Nostradamus, Masterminds and (whisper it) Battlefield Earth, is...

Black Angel first seen as a short at theatrical screenings of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

A short film shown before screenings of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, is to be adapted into a new feature film starring Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) and John Rhys-Davis (Lord of the Rings).

Black Angel: The Feature Film has partnered with crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to launch a 45-day campaign aimed at raising $100,000 (£66,000) which goes live from today http://igg.me/at/blackangel.

Production is slated for September 2015, with filming locations to include Hungary, Belgium, Morocco and Scotland.

Carnaby International will handle worldwide sales and distribution on the film, which is a co-production between Belgium, Hungary, Canada and UK.

The film will be directed and written by Roger Christian, who wrote and directed the original short and won an Oscar for his work on the art/set decoration of the original Star Wars in 1977.

Rewards in the crowdfunding...

Thirty-five years after it screened alongside Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, fantasy short Black Angel is getting the feature-length treatment. Roger Christian (Nostradamus, Battlefield Earth), who won an Oscar for his set decoration work on the first Star Wars (where he, among other achievements, helped design the first-ever lightsaber), is returning to write and direct the adaptation of his first-ever effort as a director. “It’s my passion project, has been for 35-36 years,” Christian tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I guess ‘patience is a virtue’ is a true saying.” Originally commissioned

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It’s that time of year again where the Big 5 networks start to roll out their annual Fall Season of new TV shows. Being lucky enough to preview the new shows being offered, here is a quick take on which of new shows caught our eye and that we recommend you add to your “watch” list this Fall:

Almost Human

Coming from the super-duo J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman (who also brought Fringe to the small screen), this new sci-fi series invites viewers to explore life in the near future in the year 2048 where robots and androids are a routine part of everyday life; so much so that they are even paired with human partners in the police force. Starring Star Trek’s Karl Urban and Common Law’s Michael Ealy, they bring an unexpected level of hilarious interaction to a tense drama series about political terrorism and unrest in the future.

Exclusive: Laurie Collyer will next direct an adaptation of Erica Jong‘s iconic Fear Of Flying. This was the erotic publishing phenomenon a la Fifty Shades Of Grey, selling over 27 million copies worldwide to become one of the top 50 bestselling novels in publishing history. Donald Kushner (Tron Legacy, Monster), Leigh Ann Burton and Piers Ashworth have set up the project to produce for Blu-Sky Media, along with Mark Damon and Remington Chase (Lone Survivor, End Of Watch) via his Envision Entertainment. Nostradamus scribe Piers Ashworth wrote the script, and producers plan to begin production later this year, shooting throughout Europe. Nice to see the groundbreaking book is still viable as it gets an international re-release marking its 40th year on bookshelves. Fear Of Flying tells the story of Isadora Wing, who combats her failing marriage by taking an existential sexual odyssey across Europe. She searches for the “zipless fuck”, which...

Reliance Entertainment and Kintop Pictures have acquired feature rights to Kristin Cashore's 2008 young-adult fantasy trilogy "Graceling" with plans to launch a possible franchise.

The story centers on young woman who lives in a world where select people born with an extreme skill — people called 'Grace'. Said people are feared and exploited, while she is burdened with the Grace of killing.

Piers Ashworth ("Nostradamus") will write the script, while Deepak Nayar, Tabrez Noorani and Leigh Ann Burton will produce.

Source: Variety...

India-based Reliance Entertainment has acquired as a film franchise starter the rights to Kristin Cashore's bestselling, award-winning young adult fantasy Graceling , in partnership with Kintop Pictures. British screenwriter Piers Ashworth ( Nostradamus ) has signed on to write the script. Graceling is the first installment of "The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy," which also includes The New York Times bestsellers Fire and Bitterblue . These books have won numerous awards, including the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, the Siba Book Award/Ya, Indies Choice Book Award Honor Book, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Graceling , published by Harcourt Children's Books, tells the story of the vulnerable yet...

Relativity Media now has the rights to the script “Silver or Lead,” which tells the story about the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Relativity Media will produce the film about the legendary criminal along with Atmosphere Entertainment Mm. British writer Piers Ashworth (“Nostradamus,” “St. Trinian’s”), wrote the screenplay, which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane. Enrique Urbizu (“No Rest for the Wicked”) will direct. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the Escobar case, including the pursuit, capture and death of the Escobar. The films’s source material [ Read More ]

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Relativity Media announced today that it has acquired rights to the script Silver or Lead, the epic story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world’s greatest outlaws. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment Mm. Enrique Urbizu, whose gritty crime thriller No Rest for the Wicked swept the Spanish Goya’s last year with a record 14 wins, will direct from a screenplay by British writer Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus, St. Trinian’s), which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane.

The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights were also acquired by Relativity. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the pursuit, capture and death of Escobar. Source material for the film is provided by...

Relativity Media announced today that it has acquired rights to the script Silver Or Lead, the epic story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world’s greatest outlaws. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment Mm. Enrique Urbizu, whose gritty crime thriller No Rest for the Wicked swept the Spanish Goya’s last year with a record 14 wins, will direct from a screenplay by British writer Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus, St. Trinian’s), which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane.

The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights were also acquired by Relativity. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the pursuit, capture and death of Escobar. Source material for the film is provided by...

Relativity Media has acquired the script rights to Silver or Lead, a story about the manhunt for infamous Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. The film will be directed by Enrique Urbizu from a screenplay by Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus, St. Trinian’s), which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane. Urbizu’s previous film, No Rest for the Wicked (2011), won 14 trophies at Spain's Goya Awards last year. “Piers Ashworth has penned an extraordinary script that captures all the thrilling aspects of Pablo Escobar's life while championing a classic tale of the battle between two larger-than-life men who

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Breaking: Relativity Media acquired Silver Or Lead, a script that tells the story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment Mm. Enrique Urbizu, whose gritty crime thriller No Rest For The Wicked swept the Spanish Goya’s last year with a record 14 wins, will direct from a screenplay by British writer Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus, St. Trinian’s), which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane. I feel like this is the umpteenth attempt to tell the story of Escobar’s rise and downfall, but maybe Relativity will finally get it done. The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights are part of the deal as are rights to Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency who was involved in the pursuit, capture and death of Escobar.

Relativity Media announced today that it has acquired rights to the script Silver or Lead , the true story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment Mm. Enrique Urbizu, whose No Rest for the Wicked swept the Spanish Goya's last year with a record 14 wins, will direct from a screenplay by British writer Piers Ashworth ( Nostradamus , St. Trinian.s ), which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane. The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights were also acquired by Relativity. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the pursuit, capture...

The zombie horror classic Demons and its follow-up Demons 2 are to be resurrected in all their gruesome glory as limited edition deluxe releases.

Both films were directed by Lamberto Bava and co-written with Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, whose latest work Dracula 3D stars Thomas Kretschmann (Valkyrie, Wanted, Resident Evil: Apocalypse) as the legendary vampire and Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing.

Arrow Films announced that Blu-ray, DVD and Steelbook editions of the two Demons films will hit stores in the UK on April 30 alongside Demons 3 - an exclusive, specially-commissioned comic book by Stefan Hutchinson that finally completes the intended trilogy.

Restored from the original camera negatives by Cineteca di Bologna, each release will be packaged with both the original Anglo/Italian artwork and newly-commissioned artwork by Jeff Zornow, in a reversible, interchangeable design.

Also included will be a double-sided fold-out poster, a collector's booklet written by Calum Waddell, and...

Here is another new column I'm going to start. Every so often I am going to make a confession. Not about my personal life, don't get too excited. Instead I'll be making a confession about a movie. Either a movie I secretly hate or secretly love. I'm warning you, some of the things I say may shock and even appal you and I do expect backlash, but everything I write is the truth and are my honest opinions. I have a rather odd taste in film and don't usually agree with the general consensus on films. This week's edition is about a movie I actually liked. My confession is I secretly enjoyed... Battlefield Earth. Yes you heard me. I enjoyed Battlefield Earth! Now pick up your jaw off the floor and continue reading, just hear me out. For those of you unfamiliar with Battlefield Earth, it is widely regarded as...

Sin City and Batman Begins in 2005 saw the mighty Rutger Hauer return to roles in high profile genre films. He has been working solidly of course, but these day's one might forget just what a genre film powerhouse the Dutchman was, during a period spanning about 15 years, from the early 80's to the mid nineties. Of course Hauer’s quintessential role is that of Roy Batty, the replicant on the run who races against time to find his creator. While avoiding the Blade Runner Rick Deckard played by Harrison Ford. Probably his second most recognizable role is the powerhouse performance as the uber menacing Hitch Hiker John Ryder in the 1986 movie The Hitcher. "John Ryder" as played by Hauer is probably my favorite on screen psycho, as Hauer relies almost entirely on performance to menace both the viewer and his onscreen victim Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in a movie...