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Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3 - "Jinaal"

The latest clue in Star Trek: Discovery leads to a Trill symbiont named Jinaal Bix, creating a link to the Progenitors' life-creating technology. The zhian'tara ritual allows past Trill hosts to temporarily live through willing volunteers, offering insight into the nature of consciousness. The Trill's belief in the separation of mind and body may hold keys to understanding the Progenitors' technology and the origin of sentient life.

The search for the latest clue in Star Trek: Discovery season 5's treasure hunt involves a Trill ritual first seen with Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 800 years before Star Trek: Discovery's 32nd century, Romulan scientist Dr. Vellek (Michael Copeland) laid the clues that will ultimately lead to the life-creating technology of the Progenitors. In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3, "Jinaal", written by Kyle Jarrow and...

Dear readers, before I can move forward with my review of We Are Zombies, it’s only right that I inform you that I will be very biased in my assessment of this movie. First off, I’m a big fan of the works from filmmaking trio Rkss, and their debut feature Turbo Kid is one of my all-time favorites. Secondly, I went to college with some of the cast (though I won’t reveal who) and have seen them grow from background to principal characters. Finally, the film was shot around my home city of Montreal and I can pinpoint exactly where many scenes took place.

But I am not alone in my love for both Rkss and We Are Zombies. Its world premiere was chosen to be the closing film for this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. Before it even screened to a sold-out room, there was a...

Exclusive: Alan Cumming (The Traitors), Charlie Creed-Miles (Giri/Haji) and Clare Coulter (Three Pines) are leading feature road movie Drive Back Home, which is underway in Northern Ontario.

Set in 1968, the film tells the story of a conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together – discovering each other and themselves along the way.

Written and directed by Michael Clowater, Canadian outfit Game Theory is handling worldwide rights.

The film will shoot in North Bay, Ontario, with support from Telefilm Canada, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (Nohfc), Ontario Creates, Game Theory Films, Radke Films, and Vigilante Productions.

Pic is produced by William Woods,...

Louise Penny's series of mystery novels are coming to life with Three Pines. Centering on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the Prime Video show sees the Canadian investigator head to the titular small town to investigate the disappearance of a local Indigenous woman, only to stumble on to a series of murders with various connections to the local population.

Alfred Molina leads the ensemble cast of Three Pines alongside Rossif Sutherland, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Tantoo Cardinal, Clare Coulter, Sarah Booth, Anna Tierney, and Roberta Battaglia. Though a slower burn than some of its fellow murder mystery genre counterparts, the series is a rewarding exploration of the danger of keeping secrets and the overlooking of serious crimes in Indigenous communities.

Related: 10 Best Mystery Shows Of All Time, According To Ranker

Ahead of the show's premiere, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with star Alfred Molina to discuss Three Pines, being turned on to the books before getting the scripts,...

"Your kindness is your greatest strength." Prime Video has debuted the main official trailer for a murder mystery series titled Three Pines, arriving for streaming this fall thanks to Amazon. It's a Canadian series based on a set of books by Louise Penny, which sort of sound like riffs on Agatha Christie and her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In this one, Alfred Molina stars as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. He arrives to investigate murders in Three Pines, a seemingly idyllic village in Quebec's Eastern Townships. He sees things others do not: the light between the cracks, the mythic in the mundane, and discovers long-buried secrets in the small town. Also stars Rossif Sutherland, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Tantoo Cardinal, Clare Coulter, Sarah Booth, and Anna Tierney. This looks like if Poirot was in Fargo, which should be the perfect pitch for audiences nowadays. "If you don't belong here, Three Pines will chase...

Alfred Molina is starring in the upcoming Prime Video series "Three Pines." It's an adaptation of the beloved and best-selling mystery novel series by Louise Penny, focused on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. There are eight episodes in the season, though the novel series is 17 books long. That's a lot of story to mine from. It's set in Canada, and the production was filmed in both Montreal and rural Quebec. 

This is the first Canada-based production for Left Bank, which is the production company behind the Netflix series "The Crown," about the royal family of the United Kingdom. Production began on the Canadian Amazon Original drama series in September 2021. If you haven't heard of Armande Gamache, it's time to start reading, and watching when the series premieres. The Washington Post named Gamache the most beloved fictional detective in a 2021 reader survey. That puts him ahead of both Hercule Poirot from Agatha...

Alfred Molina is to star in Amazon police drama series Three Pines, which comes from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures.

The Spider-Man star is to play Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in the Canadian original, which was first revealed by Deadline in May 2020.

The eight-part series has begun production in Montreal and rural Quebec. It will film through to December and launch on Amazon in a number of territories including Canada, the U.S. and UK.

Based on Louise Penny’s book series, Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is a man who sees things that others do not: the light between the cracks, the mythic in the mundane, and the evil in the seemingly ordinary. As he investigates a spate of murders in Three Pines, a seemingly idyllic village, he discovers long-buried secrets and faces a few of his own ghosts.

The cast also includes Rossif Sutherland, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers,...

These days, when someone sets out to make a documentary, they typically have a pretty clear idea of what they’re expecting to find. Not Brett Story, who approaches “The Hottest August” like some kind of anthropologist from the future, interviewing New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds, as if any one of them might hold the key to what happened to the planet. Does Story know something we don’t? Has global warming reached such a point that our survival hangs in the balance, where each and every person she encounters is potentially both the victim and the culprit in the great whodunit of our species’ extinction?

Most climate change documentaries approach the issue from a place of hysteria, overwhelming audiences with statistics and doom-and-gloom scenarios, whereas Story attempts to reframe the subject from a different perspective. Her idea — at once rigorously serious in intent and playfully open-minded in...

Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all—with its streets and avenues named for numbers and letters and states and cities and presidents and Revolutionary War generals spanning an archipelago, intersecting at a million little data points at which to measure class, race, culture, history, architecture and infrastructure. And time, too—from this human density emerge daily and seasonal rituals, a set of biorhythms, reliable as the earth’s, against which to mark gradual shifts and momentary fashions. Summer is for lounging on fire escapes, always, and, today, for Mister Softee. Yesterday it was shaved ice. Tomorrow, who knows?

In The Hottest August, Brett Story, the cultural geographer who made The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, attempts something a little like Akerman’s News from Home, schlepping a camera across...

While you can debate the success of politically motivated events like 1970’s October Crisis in Quebec, Canada, you can’t question their danger removed from the cause. The media reports the carnage whether terrorist bombings or kidnappings and murder. They provide an objective account of what’s happening—in this case the Front de libération du Québec (Flq) wreaking havoc to force secession from the country and become an autonomous nation—and leave it to their viewers to understand the context. Adults can handle this because many already have an opinion one way or the other. But children don’t. Children only see their parents’ reactions and the aftermath. If they’re led to understand violence can achieve one’s goals, they might follow suit when their own backs are against the wall.

This is an interesting wrinkle many forget with rebellion proving much more palatable. Artists generally gravitate to...

Experts were talking at panel hosted in the UK film centre at Cannes.

Isabel Davis, head of international, BFI, hosted a panel on ’The Practical Guide to Closing Your Film’ at The UK Film Centre in Cannes on Sunday May 22.

Clare Coulter, business affairs manager, BFI; David Grumbach, producer, Bac films; Kai May, Unverzagt von Have and Peter La Terriere, managing director, European Film Bonds took part in the discussion.

The panellists provided tips for moving projects to a multi-party co-production.

Peter La Terriere suggested setting a rate with banks as soon as production begins.

“You need to know when your money is coming in, and how much money is coming in,” added La Terriere.

He added that developing relationships with banks that understood film financing was key, as they could help you with cash-flow, particularly in pre-production when money can be short. He suggested checking with film institutes who they had strong relationships with.

David Grumbach said managing...

On Sunday agents and producers discuss what feature film offers talent in the boom era of high-end TV.

The line-up for the UK Film Centre at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 18-27) includes a talent talk with the producers of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, a discussion about Brexit and a panel on attracting world-class talent (hosted by Screen International editor Matt Mueller).

The UK Film Centre is run by We Are UK Film, whose partners include the British Film Institute (BFI), the British Film Commission (Bfc), British Council, Creative Scotland, Film London and Northern Ireland Screen.

The UK Film Centre will be in Cannes from May 17-26 at Pavilion 119 of the International Village Riviera and is open for international and UK delegates from 9am – 6pm.

The full events line-up is below:

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The Practical Guide to Closing your Film (In association with European Film Bonds): 10.00 - 11.00

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Panels will tackle Brexit, attracting world class talent and working with Yorgos Lanthimos.

The line-up for the UK Film Centre at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 18-27) has been announced.

The free events include a talent talk with the producers of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, a discussion about Brexit and a panel on attracting world-class talent (hosted by Screen International editor Matt Mueller).

The UK Film Centre is run by We Are UK Film, whose partners include the British Film Institute (BFI), the British Film Commission (Bfc), British Council, Creative Scotland, Film London and Northern Ireland Screen.

The UK Film Centre will be in Cannes from May 17-26 at Pavilion 119 of the International Village Riviera and is open for international and UK delegates from 9am – 6pm.

The full events line-up is below:

Thursday 18th

Films without Borders (screening): 14.00 - 15.00

A showcase of films from young people living in challenging circumstances...

NEW YORK -- Producer Peter O'Brian will make his directorial debut on the indie feature Hollywood North for Winchester Entertainment in association with Now Entertainment Group and Canada's TriMuse Entertainment. The project -- a 1979-set satire on runaway production and tax-sheltered filmmaking in Canada -- is being shot in Toronto and stars Alan Bates along with Matthew Modine, Jennifer Tilly, Deborah Unger and John Neville. Rounding out the cast are Alan Thicke, Kim Coates, Fab Fillipo, Clare Coulter, Joe Cobden and Saul Rubinek. Winchester is handling worldwide sales, excluding Canada. Financing on the indie feature is being shared by Now Entertainment and Comerica Bank. O'Brian's producing credits include "The Grey Fox" and "My American Cousin." "North" was penned by Tony Johnston ("Triggermen") and John Hunter ("Grey Fox," "American Cousin"). John Gillespie will serve as producer on the project, along with Gary Smith and Aniz Manji as executive producers. Tony Johnston, Paul Weber, Michael Sannella and Jeffery Kirsch are shouldering co-producer duties.