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Kartik Aaryan's 'Dhamaka' Lands Netflix Deal (EXCLUSIVE)

Kartik Aaryan's 'Dhamaka' Lands Netflix Deal (EXCLUSIVE)
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Netflix has boarded thriller “Dhamaka,” starring popular Bollywood star Kartik Aaryan, and will release the film exclusively on the service.
Aaryan plays a news anchor who gets stuck in a situation with a mysterious bomb blast and must make a choice between his future career or the humanist in him. The film is a remake of 2013 Korean film “The Terror Live.”
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The cast also includes Mrunal Thakur (“Love Sonia”), Amruta Subash (“Choked”), Vikas Kumar (“Aarya”) and Vishwajeet Pradhan (“Class of ’83”).
“Dhamaka” is directed by Ram Madhvani, who helmed Disney Plus Hotstar series “Aarya,” the second season of which is now in production. It is produced by former Disney India chief Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP Movies and Ram Madhvani Films in association with Lotte Cultureworks, Globalgate Entertainment and Lionsgate.

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Beta Nordic Studios Acquires 'Atlantic Crossing' Producer Cinenord (EXCLUSIVE)

Beta Nordic Studios Acquires 'Atlantic Crossing' Producer Cinenord (EXCLUSIVE)
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Beta Nordic Studios, the umbrella for Beta’s production activities in Scandinavia, has acquired a majority stake in Cinenord, a leading Norwegian production banner specializing in high-end series.
Founded in 2004, the company is led by Silje Hopland-Eik and Alexander Eik, the producer-director duo behind the popular Scandi series “Atlantic Crossing” and “Wisting,” as well as the family franchise “Casper and Emma.”
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Cinenord’s pipeline of high-profile scripted projects include “Bergman,” a series about the Swedish icon Ingmar Bergman that Alexander Eik is writing and will direct. “Alexander has been working on ‘Bergman’ for nine years and wants to create a fresh, fun and colorful show about the man behind the artist,” said Hopland-Eik.

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Ione Skye Joins HBO Max Comedy Series 'Made for Love' (EXCLUSIVE)

Ione Skye Joins HBO Max Comedy Series 'Made for Love' (EXCLUSIVE)
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Variety has learned exclusively.
The dark comedy series follows Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire. Soon she discovers that her husband has implanted a monitoring device – the Made for Love chip – in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her, and know her “emotional data” as she tries to regain her independence. Through the chip, Byron’s able to watch Hazel’s every move as she flees to her desert hometown to take refuge with her aging widower father Herbert (Ray Romano) and his synthetic partner, Diane

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Netflix's 'Operation Varsity Blues' Trailer Skewers the Infamous College Admissions Scandal

Netflix's 'Operation Varsity Blues' Trailer Skewers the Infamous College Admissions Scandal
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Director: Chris Smith
With: Matthew Modine, Rick Singer, John Vandemoer, Jillian Peterson, Roger Rignack, David Starzyk, Randy Hernandez, Josh Stamberg, William Christopher Stephens, Wallace Langham, David Lloyd Smith, Kristen O’Meara, Angela Nicholas.
Netflix shines an unflattering light on the infamous college admissions scandal in the first trailer for the upcoming documentary “Operation Varsity Blues.”
The film, using real conversations recreated from FBI wiretaps, delves deep into the 2019 nationwide scandal that gripped the country and saw rich and influential parents buy their kids’ ways into top schools.

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'Mandalorian' Actor Simon Kassianides Sells 'The Weatherman' Movie Script to U.K.-Based Raw

'Mandalorian' Actor Simon Kassianides Sells 'The Weatherman' Movie Script to U.K.-Based Raw
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“The Mandalorian” star Simon Kassianides is set to make his feature screenwriting debut.
The actor, who plays Axe Woves on the hit Disney Plus Star Wars series, has sold the psychological thriller “The Weatherman” to U.K.-based production house Raw.
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The film is said to be female-led and in the vein of Christopher Nolan’s “Memento,” with elements of the Stephen King classic “Misery.” Raw’s notable credits include the heist drama “American Animals” and the documentary hit “Three Identical Strangers.” The company has just wrapped “Invasion,” a sci-fi project starring Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer.

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Netflix Releases 'Shadow and Bone' and 'Who Killed Sara?' Trailers (TV News Roundup)

Netflix Releases 'Shadow and Bone' and 'Who Killed Sara?' Trailers (TV News Roundup)
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HBO announced that “
Q: Into the Storm,” a six-part docuseries that explores the origins of QAnon, will debut with two back-to-back episodes on
March 21 at
9 p.m. Episodes will also be available to stream on HBO Max. The series will examine the evolution of QAnon in real-time and reveal how the anonymous figure known only as “Q” uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to game the internet, hijack politics, and manipulate people’s thinking. Additionally, “Q: Into the Storm” will examine QAnon’s influence on American culture and question the consequences of unfettered free speech permeating the darkest corners of the internet. HBO did not release information on from whom the docuseries comes, but you can watch a teaser below.

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How Celeste's 'Hear My Voice' From 'Trial of the Chicago 7' Caught the Ear of Elton John

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How Celeste's 'Hear My Voice' From 'Trial of the Chicago 7' Caught the Ear of Elton John
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Celeste’s contribution to the Golden Globe-nominated song “Hear My Voice” started with WhatsApp messages recorded in her bathroom.
That’s just one of the revelations in a half-hour conversation with the U.K.’s latest singing sensation, her co-writer Daniel Pemberton and the legendary Sir Elton John, released today by “The Trial of the Chicago 7” distributor Netflix.
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“Hear My Voice” concludes the Aaron Sorkin film about the controversial 1969 court case involving Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) and other protestors caught up in the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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'For Sama' Producer Siobhan Sinnerton Joins Clintons' HiddenLight Productions

'For Sama' Producer Siobhan Sinnerton Joins Clintons' HiddenLight Productions
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Sioban Sinnerton, executive producer of Oscar-nominated and BAFTA, Emmy and Cannes-winning documentary “For Sama,” has joined Hillary Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton’s production outfit HiddenLight Productions.
Sinnerton will take on the newly created role of creative director and senior VP unscripted, and will report into CEO Johnny Webb. She joins from U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 where she was commissioning editor, news and current affairs and immersive content. At HiddenLight, she will be responsible for growing the company’s slate of premium unscripted content globally.

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Stranger Than Fiction, Arrow Team For Documentary 'River,' Dogwoof to Sell at Berlin EFM (EXCLUSIVE)

Stranger Than Fiction, Arrow Team For Documentary 'River,' Dogwoof to Sell at Berlin EFM (EXCLUSIVE)
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Australia’s Stranger Than Fiction Films and the U.K.’s Arrow Pictures have teamed for theatrical documentary “River,” commissioned by ABC Arts and BBC Arts.
Exploring the relationship between humans and rivers, the documentary spans six continents. It is directed by Jennifer Peedom, co-directed by Joseph Nizeti and produced by Jo-anne McGowan and Peedom from Stranger than Fiction and John Smithson from Arrow.
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Peedom’s previous film “Mountain” (2017) is the highest-grossing Australian documentary in box office history, and completed an 11-week run in U.K. and U.S. cinemas. An earlier collaboration, “Sherpa” (2015), was BAFTA-nominated and won best documentary at the London Film Festival. It also won at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, Australian Film Critics Association Awards and Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, among numerous other accolades.

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Spike Lee to Produce 'Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu' for Netflix, Directed by Stefon Bristol

Spike Lee to Produce 'Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu' for Netflix, Directed by Stefon Bristol
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Spike Lee has set his latest project with Netflix; the Oscar-winning filmmaker is set to produce “Gordon Hemingway & the Realm of Cthulhu” for the streamer, directed by Stefon Bristol.
Lee partnered with Netflix for his latest film “Da 5 Bloods,” which debuted to critical acclaim last June. The movie has since been named the best film 2020 by the National Board of Review, among other accolades.
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The new feature, based on an original screenplay by Hank Woon, is set in East Africa in 1928 and centers on Gordon Hemingway, a roguish Black American gunslinger, who teams up with the elite warrior Princess Zenebe of Ethiopia to rescue the country’s kidnapped regent from an ancient evil.

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