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Exclusive: Brian Tee is set to produce the anthology limited series The Scapegoat. The project is currently being shopped around to streamers and premium cablers.

Season 1, titled Tokyo Rose, will adapt the Mike Weedall historical novel, Iva, The True Story of Tokyo Rose. It will tell the story of Iva Toguri, who was wrongfully convicted of treason and sent to prison for being the infamous radio propagandist “Tokyo Rose” during World War II.

Tee, whose grandparents were imprisoned in an Internment Camp during the war, believes that Tokyo Rose is “just the first of the many universal stories that can be told in future seasons of The Scapegoat, including contemporary tales, featuring people who endured the hateful sides of this country and survived, emerging as hopeful symbols of our American ideals.” Tee also notes that the box office success of Oppenheimer over the summer demonstrates the “audience...

Warner Bros. Discovery has had a rough go of it recently. The newly-formed mega corporation’s decision to callously prune HBO Max’s servers of hours of content has led to mountains of bad PR and billions of dollars in market cap losses. Suffice it to say, a jam-packed list of new HBO Max releases for September 2022 would provide some welcome relief for the “House of the House of the Dragon.”

Unfortunately, HBO Max’s new releases this month are uncommonly light. It’s impossible to say whether this is the result of more Wbd meddling or simply some bad scheduling luck but either way it’s not going to make any executives’ seats less warm. There are only a handful of notable originals this month, led by season 2 of the Spanish language comedy Los Espookys on Sept. 16. That is joined by a pair of documentaries, Escape from Kabul on Sept.

After stumbling upon a beheaded goat belonging to a young Muslim family, a young firebrand woman becomes entwined in the sordid affairs of her abusive husband and his hateful politics. Consequently, her troubled existence under the hands of a domineering abuser transforms into something even darker, as she learns the true extent of his cruelty towards his fellow man. At her wits end, the young woman finally chooses to confront her husband in hopes of salvaging a shred of hope for a family targeted by her husband.

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Tathagata Ghosh certainly knows how to strike a nerve within the short film format, “The Scapegoat” exemplifying the director’s knack for getting straight to the base of the issue. In this case, themes of inequality and entitlement based on personal morality/beliefs place a family in the sights of a corrupt...

Which books may have potential for film or TV options? Rights Available is a snapshot of notable new or upcoming titles that have appeal for studios (and have been shopped). Below are the titles featured in late July and August issues of The Hollywood Reporter, all of which were available to pick up at the time of their respective issue publications.

The Scapegoat (MacMillan, March 2)

By Sara Davis Agency WME

This Lynchian mystery centers on an employee at a California university who investigates the death of his estranged father. The case leads him to a fringe academic group and experiences of daytime hallucinations that blur the imagined ...

Which books may have potential for film or TV options? Rights Available is a snapshot of notable new or upcoming titles that have appeal for studios (and have been shopped). Below are the titles featured in late July and August issues of The Hollywood Reporter, all of which were available to pick up at the time of their respective issue publications.

The Scapegoat (MacMillan, March 2)

By Sara Davis Agency WME

This Lynchian mystery centers on an employee at a California university who investigates the death of his estranged father. The case leads him to a fringe academic group and experiences of daytime hallucinations that blur the imagined ...

Sheridan Smith is so good that ITV has decided to dedicate an entire season to her talents.

The best of her work will air next month on ITV Encore, so if you missed any of her acclaimed dramas, now is the time to do something about it.

The channel will be broadcasting dramas like Cilla, The Widower, The Scapegoat and Mrs Biggs from Saturday (August 1).

ITV's recent drama Black Work, which saw Smith star as a police officer searching for answers about her husband's death, will also be repeated as part of the season.

Earlier this year, the 34-year-old triumphed at the National Television Awards, winning the prize for Best Drama Performance for her performance in Cilla.

Meanwhile, Smith recently confirmed that she will play Fanny Brice in a new West End production of Funny Girl.

In the upcoming ITV adaptation of acclaimed author Dorothy Koomson's internationally best selling novel, The Ice Cream Girls, Lorraine Burroughs (Dci Banks, Lip Service, Fast Girls) and Jodhi May (The Scapegoat, The Jury, Strike Back) play the respective lead roles of Serena Gorringe and Poppy Carlisle. Dona Croll (Doctors, Tula: The Revolt) and Georgina Campbell (One Night) also have supporting roles in the Left Bank Pictures production; Croll as Serena's mother, Rachel, and Campbell as young Serena. From ITV . . . "The story follows two vulnerable teenage girls who, in the summer of 1995, are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two girls go their...

Three more Dauntless initiates have now boarded the "Divergent" train! Summit Entertainment at Lionsgate announced today that actors Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb and Christian Madsen have now been attached to star in their adaptation of Veronica Roth's best-seller. Lloyd-Hughes, whose recent credits include "Great Expectations" and "The Scapegoat," will star as Will, the friend of Tris who becomes susceptible to the ill-doings of the Erudite faction leadership. View slideshow: Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb and Christian Madsen See also: 'Divergent' cast heads to Chicago to begin production Meanwhile Lamb, who stars in The BBC's upcoming "The White Queen," will portray fellow initiate Edward, who le ,,,...

Summit Entertainment announced today that Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb and Christian Madsen have joined the cast of the upcoming Divergent . They join the previously-announced Kate Winslet, Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Zoe Kravitz, Maggie Q, Jai Courtney and Theo James. Divergent is a thrilling adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities, Tris Prior (Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late. Lloyd-Hughes ( Great Expectations , The Scapegoat ) will play Will, Lamb ("The White Queen") will play Edward and Madsen ( Palo Alton ) will...

If you're a young film-maker, here are my tips on creating a calling card that will open doors to a job in the industry

Film and TV have always been highly competitive industries, and no doors have ever opened without some serious pushing. And my sense is that the odds are longer these days for prospective new entrants. So that's partly what the Intergenerational Foundation/Nus/Guardian short film competition is about: no one can stop you making a little film and flexing your storytelling muscles. And a good short is a great calling-card.

Making drama and telling stories is a strange calling, and "calling" is the right word: the work chooses you. If you're reading this, and you're interested in entering the competition, you'll probably know what I'm talking about. Something drives you to tell stories even before you know what the stories are.

My own story is this.

New York — It all started with a slap for Matthew Rhys. Trying out for "The Americans," he took one in the puss from Keri Russell.

This new FX drama, whose third episode airs Wednesday at 10 p.m. Est, focuses on two Kgb spies posing as an ordinary American couple shortly after Ronald Reagan became president.

As Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, they have a comfortable home in a Washington suburb, two sweet kids, a travel agency they run and, by all signs, a solid piece of the American Dream. No one would suspect that they are Russian-born plants bent on burying the United States with subterfuge and brutality.

No one, that is, unless it's their new neighbor, FBI agent Stan Beeman (played by Noah Emmerich with an infectious mix of cunning and dorkiness), who has recently moved in with his family across the street. He represents just one among the many threats of exposure,...

White Collar returns tonight. Neal needs to stop looking so hot when he's feeling distrustful,

it only encourages people to do distrustful things to him.

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I've been watching the right try to claim that Downton Abbey is a conservative show. Jonah Goldberg wrote about it a couple weeks back and now Fox & Friends repeated that Downton challenges how "rich people... are reviled". Wow. That just says so much about how little they pay attention to everything. I'll be willing to consider that idea when Lord Grantham orders Mrs. Patmore to start using questionable ingredients when she cooks for the staff so that he can afford to have fancier wines with dinner.

Fox's ads for The Following broke a rule for television and asked viewers to watch the show on the DVR. Vulture explains what this means and how its another step in changing how viewers watch TV and how the industry responds to it.

Filming is currently underway in Dublin for the ITV dramatic adaptation of the international best selling novel, The Ice Cream Girls, published in 2010 by writer Dorothy Koomson. Left Bank Pictures is producing. From ITV: "Lorraine Burroughs (Dci Banks, Lip Service, Spooks) and Jodhi May (The Scapegoat, The Jury, Strike Back) will play the lead roles of Serena Gorringe and Poppy Carlisle. The story follows two vulnerable teenage girls, who in the summer of 1995 are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two girls are forced to go their separate ways and lead very different lives.  But now in 2013, they are forced to confront each other...

'Line of Duty' star Martin Compston has begun shooting ITV drama 'The Ice Cream Girls' in Ireland alongside British actresses Lorraine Burroughs (Spooks) and Jodhi May (The Scapegoat). Based on Dorothey Koomson's 2010 international best-seller of the same name, filming on the three-part series got underway in Bray, Co Wicklow, yesterday (August 27) with English director Dan Zeff (Lost in Austen, Case Histories) at the helm.

Chicago – The 48th Chicago International Film Festival has released the first 22 titles in its lineup to be screened from Thursday, October 11th, through Thursday, October 25th. Over 150 films from more than 50 countries are expected to be presented at this year’s festival.

One of the most buzzed-about titles on the roster is Ben Lewin’s “The Sessions,” which stars John Hawkes as a 36-year-old man in an iron lung who decides to lose his virginity by hiring a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt) with the help of his priest (William H. Macy). The film was a big hit at Sundance and received the Audience Award as well as the Special Jury Prize for ensemble acting. Another wildly anticipated picture is Leos Carax’s “Holy Motors,” which reportedly garnered the most divisive yet impassioned reactions of any selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Earning comparisons to the work of David Lynch,...

Screen Australia has invested $275,000 in funding to support the development of 10 feature film projects, it was announced today.

The money will be used toward the development of films including a new feature from Balibo director Robert Connolly and John Polson's mysteriously titled 'Sydney Project.'

Connolly is attached to write, direct and co-produce Paper Planes, the story of a young boy with such a love flight, that he is compelled to compete in the world paper plane championships.

Details surrounding Tropfest creator John Polson's Sydney project are few. When announced last June, it was said to be a collection of 12 short films set in each month of the year that paid tribute to the city.

Other films that have received funding include Kingdom Come, an action thriller to be directed by Marc Furmie and One White Crow, from writer/director Catriona McKenzie.

Kingdom Come features an Australian Federal...

Berenice Bejo, Raphael Personnaz and Emir Kusturica are all set to star in an upcoming adaptation of Daniel Pennac‘s French comic novel The Scapegoat. As much as I’m surprised with Kusturica’s involvement in the whole thing, I must admit that Bejo, The Artist star, definitely looks like an awesome choice! Nicolas Bary (responsible for Les [...]

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