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A spin-off from the hit CW series The 100 has been in the works for years, but is now officially done, as the series is not in development.

Cannes: How Streaming Is Helping, Not Killing, the Indie Film Business Scott Roxborough 'Annette' Acclaimed Polish director and European Film Academy president Agnieszka Holland gave voice to a growing fear in the independent film world: that global streamers might kill theatrical cinema. Speaking via video link at a Cannes Film Market panel on Thursday, Holland called the streaming platforms “a non-curated, big black hole where our more fragile and personal products can disappear and vanish.” Instead of having movies “curated only by algorithms,” Holland said indepen...

(The article continues below - Commercial information) The new project was shot on location in London and benefited from the British government’s Film and TV Production Restart Scheme. The story, penned by Simon Allen (the TV series The Watch and The Musketeers), centres on a broke college dropout (played by Evans) who, in pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realises she’s n...

08/06/2021 - The feature, penned by Simon Allen, stars Asa Butterfield, Iola Evans and Eddie Marsan in the leading roles