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Carl Reid and Enrico Natale’s diverse slate includes comedies, dramas.

New Los Angeles-based company Dept. H led by Carl Reid and Enrico Natale is launching AFM sales on the sci-fi thriller Catalyst.

Christopher Folkens wrote and directed the film about seven strangers who wake up and discover they have been taken captive and are being held in an electrical grid.

The only way they can escape is by revealing their darkest secrets before time runs out.

The film stars Noel Gugliemi (Training Day), Patrick Kilpatrick (Minority Report), Michael Roark, (Sleepy Hollow), and Melanie Liburd (This is Us).

Catalyst is...

The Lgbtqia+ festival takes place March 15-26.

The BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 37th edition which takes place March 15 – 26.

The programme features 58 features, six of which are world premieres, spread across three thematic strands – Hearts, Bodies and Minds.

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World premiering at the festival is John Hay’s documentary Willem & Frieda which is presented by Stephen Fry and explores how a gay man and a lesbian woman led the anti-Nazi resistance in Holland.

The other world premieres are Timothy Harris’ documentary Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn about the...

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to actor Avan Jogia’s first feature Door Mouse from Highland Film Group. The thriller starring Hayley Law (Riverdale), Keith Powers (The Tomorrow War), Famke Janssen (Long Slow Exhale), Donal Logue (Gotham) and Jogia (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City) is slated for release in theaters and on demand on January 13.

Pic follows Mouse (Law), an irreverent dancer at a dead-end burlesque club run by Mama (Janssen). When Mouse’s only friends and fellow club dancers go missing under mysterious circumstances, nobody at the club seems too concerned about them, and the police couldn’t care less. Mouse and her constant sidekick Ugly (Powers) quickly realize that it’s up to them to dig up all the dirt and start the hunt for the culprits.

Jogia directed from his script, with Kyle Mann producing for Independent Edge, along with Jason Ross Jallet from Cause and Effect Entertainment.

Exclusive: Two-time Emmy nominee and SAG Award winner Matt Walsh has boarded the Apple Original limited series Manhunt about the Lincoln assassination and aftermath.

Walsh will play Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Mudd did not report Booth to the authorities until days later and later was imprisoned for conspiring with the assassin.

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Manhunt is created by Emmy-nominated writer-producer Monica Beletsky, who also is the showrunner and an EP. The historical-fiction conspiracy thriller is based on the best-selling book by James Swanson. Manhunt features Black historical figures whose lives intertwined with the escape, manhunt and subsequent high-crimes investigation, including Mary Simms (Lovie Simone), a former slave of Mudd’s. Anthony Boyle plays Booth.

Walsh joins recently announced Tobias Menzies who stars as Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s War Secretary and friend,...

Abby Miller (Home Before Dark) will star in Jess Plus None, the directorial debut feature from writer and director Mandy Fabian. The film centers on Jess (Miller) who goes to her best friend’s wedding in the middle of nowhere, where she will be confronted by her ex, her happily coupled friends from college, and the insecure monster she becomes when she is off the grid.

Marielle Scott (Lady Bird), Tate Ellington (Quantico), Matt Walsh (Veep), Scout Durwood (Take One Thing Off), Shalim Ortiz (All Rise), Alexis Krause (Pure Genius), Rory O’Malley (Book of Mormon), Craig Thomas (Source Code), Michael Dunn (Sydney To The Max), and Asenneth Del Toro (Immance) round out the cast.

Mandy June Turpin, Producers Patrick Fabian, Sarah Chaney, and Heather Olt are producing the project, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles.

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Chiara D’Ambrosio has been added to the cast of Bandit,...

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The Newsroom is buzzing: Patrick Fabian is a dad again!

The actor and his wife, comedienne and writer Mandy Steckelberg, welcomed their second daughter, Delilah Grace, on Saturday, July 28 in Los Angeles, his rep confirms to People.

Born at home, the baby girl weighed 8 lbs., 12 oz. and measured 18 inches long. “Two is definitely more than one. Couldn’t be happier!” Fabian says.

Already dad to daughter Abbey Ray, 22 months, the proud papa jokes that he is surrounded by lovely ladies.

“Now I live in the House of Estrogen; a beautiful wife, two beautiful daughters, even my two dogs are girls,...

After Two Documentaries Under Her Belt, The Actress-Turned-Director Helms Her First Feature Here's an interesting cast for what sounds like a small indie passion project. Adam Brody, Susan Sarandon and David Arquette are all in negotiations to join Rosanna Arquette's feature-length narrative debut, "Hemlock Drive." Written by actresses Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg and set in a small New England town, the dramedy centers on the Pratt family and an eccentric, once-trendsetting mother (Sarandon) in Connecticut who learns she is dying and brings her three adult children back home for a weekend (Brody is one of the children, but two…...

Drama time! And this time we’re here to share the latest news about the upcoming Rosanna Arquette’s (The Pulp Fiction star) project that will be titled Hemlock Drive.

Apparently, some interesting names are being rumored for the roles in the whole thing, and they are Susan Sarandon, Rosanna’s brother David Arquette and Adam Brody. Not bad at all for a directorial debut.

At this moment not much is known about the movie, but we learned that the script comes from Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg, and that it will center on an eccentric mother in Connecticut who learns she is dying and brings her three adult children back home for a weekend.

As you already guess, Sarandon is in talks to play the mother, Brody is negotiations for the part of Sarandon’s son, while David Arquette is eyeing the role of a man who owns a nearby bar,...

Susan Sarandon, David Arquette and Adam Brody are in talks to star in Rosanna Arquette's feature directorial debut "Hemlock Drive."According to Variety, Kristin Holt is producing with Tracey Adam, Sascha Hecks and HDFilms' Jace Hall executive producing.The script, by Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg, focuses on a dying mother who gets her three children to set up a living funeral for her so that she can reunite her family before she dies.Production is set to begin this September in Louisiana.Rosanna Arquette has directed the documentaries "All We Are Saying" and "Searching for Debra Winger."Sarandon is currently shooting the financial thriller "Arbitrage" with Richard Gere.David Arquette and Adam Brody can be currently seen in "Scream 4."...

Rosanna Arquette is about to make her first dramatic feature, Hemlock Drive, after making a couple of documentaries. The film is "about an eccentric mother in Connecticut who learns she is dying and brings her three adult children back home for a weekend." Part of the plot involves the matriarch getting her kids to throw a living funeral, Get Low style, although it sounds like this is meant to be a bit more funny than the climactic scene in that movie. Now Susan Sarandon is in talks to play the main character, with Adam Brody in talks for one of her kids, and David Arquette negotiating a role as a nearby bar owner. The film, written by Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg, will shoot in Louisiana in September. [The Wrap [1]] After the break, Julia Stiles and three more join an indie adaptation of a play, and Justin Long is one of several...

David Arquette, Adam Brody and Susan Sarandon are all set to star in the family drama "Hemlock Drive" for HDFilms and Lex Filmed Entertainment reports Variety.

Rosanna Arquette makes her feature directorial debut on the project about a dying mother who has her adult children host a living funeral.

It's not been specified if the actress/filmmaker would also be appearing on screen alongside her brother David. Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg wrote the script .

Kristin Holt is producing and shooting kicks off in Louisiana in September.

Adam Brody is in negotiations to star in director Rosanna Arquette's Hemlock Drive. The Jennifer's Body star could take on the role of a son who is called to his eccentric mother's bedside in the prosperous town of Connecticut, The Wrap reports. Susan Sarandon and David Arquette are also in talks for the film, which is penned by Jenna Carta and Mandy Steckelberg. The Thelma and Louse (more)...

Susan Sarandon, David Arquette and Adam Brody are in talks to star in Rosanna Arquette's feature directorial debut Hemlock Drive.

From a script by Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg, the story concerns a dying mother who enlists her three grown children to throw her a living funeral in a desperate attempt to unite her family.

Production is scheduled to start this Sept. in Louisiana.

A trio of actors are now in negotiations to star in Rosanna Arquette’s next directorial effort. Susan Sarandon, David Arquette and Adam Brody are in talks to star in the dramedy Hemlock Drive. The Wrap reports that the film centers on an eccentric mother in Connecticut who learns she is dying and brings her three adult children back home for a weekend. Sarandon is in talks to play the mother, while David Arquette is eyeing the role of a man who owns a nearby bar. Brody is negotiations for the part of Sarandon’s son. The script was written by Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg, and marks the narrative feature directorial debut of Rosanna Arquette, as she previously helmed the documentaries Searching for Debra Winger and All We Are Saying. Given the Terms of Endearment-esque nature of Hemlock Drive’s plot, it’s easy to see Arquette’s attraction to the project.

Rosanna Arquette is making her return to the director's chair, with her first feature, Hemlock Drive . Arquette was previously behind the camera on two successful documentaries, Searching for Debra Winger and All We Are Saying . Hemlock Drive , written by Jennifer Carta and Mandy Steckelberg, is about a dying Mother who, in a desperate attempt to unite and bond her family, enlists her three grown children to throw her a living funeral. Jace Hall's production company Hdfilms (ABC series "V," "The Morning After" on Hulu) is working with UK-based, Lex Filmed Entertainment. Kristin Holt is producing, Tracey Adam, Sascha Hecks and Jace Hall are Executive Producers. The film will begin principal photography this September in Louisiana. Producers are in...

In a Screen Actors Guild election that was widely considered a referendum on merger with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, proponents of that idea emerged with a clear mandate.When the results of SAG's 2010 national board of directors election were announced Sept. 23, MembershipFirst, the SAG faction that emerged from the group of actors who helped scuttle merger in 2003, lost the fight for all 13 Hollywood-based national seats up for grabs to its rival faction, the pro-merger Unite for Strength. MembershipFirst partisans had held all 13 of those seats. The loss hands the coalition of Hollywood, New York, and regional moderates who had held a slim majority of the national seats—and who have been vocal in support of merger—a commanding boardroom advantage.Even more striking is MembershipFirst's loss of its majority on the Hollywood board. Unite for Strength won an overwhelming 33 of 35 open seats. Ufs, formed in...

"The Last Exorcism" star Patrick Fabian is officially a first time father. Fabian and his comedienne and writer wife, Mandy Steckelberg, welcomed their first child together, a baby daughter, at their Los Angeles home on Wednesday, September 15, People reported.

Fabian and Steckelberg named their girl Abbey Ray, who according to the 45-year-old actor "is already batting her eyelashes." He further told the site, "Being a father for the first time is fantastic. My love and admiration for what women can do has gone up 1,000 percent."

On why Fabian and Steckelberg picked the name, the actor told Celebrity Baby Scoop back in August, "We're naming her after Abbey Road. We are big (The) Beatles fans. Abbey's first concert was in utero at the Hollywood Bowl with none other than Paul McCartney."

As for Ray, Fabian shared, "Ray is after Mandy's grandfather who ran a western wear and saddlery in South Dakota.

Actor Patrick Fabian has some Big Love in his life - he is a first-time dad.

The TV star and his wife Mandy Steckelberg welcomed daughter Abbey Ray into the world on Wednesday.

The Big Love star and his wife picked the name because they're both huge Beatles fans and love the Fab Four's Abbey Road album.

Fabian is awestruck after witnessing his partner go through the wonders of labour. He tells People.com, "Being a father for the first time is fantastic. My love and admiration for what women can do has gone up 1,000 per cent."...

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There’s a new charmer in town — and her name is Abbey Ray.

The Last Exorcism star Patrick Fabian‘s newborn daughter “is already batting her eyelashes,” says the proud dad of his first child, born Wednesday, Sept. 15.

The actor’s wife, comedienne and writer Mandy Steckelberg, gave birth to their daughter at the couple’s home in Los Angeles.

“Being a father for the first time is fantastic!” Fabian, 45, tells People exclusively. “My love and admiration for what women can do has gone up 1,000 percent.”

The actor, who played Reverend Cotton Marcus in the Eli Roth horror flick,...

There's a new charmer in town - and her name is Abbey Ray. The Last Exorcism star Patrick Fabian's newborn daughter "is already batting her eyelashes," says the proud dad of his first child, born Wednesday, Sept. 15. The actor's wife, comedienne and writer Mandy Steckelberg, gave birth to their daughter at the couple's home in Los Angeles. "Being a father for the first time is fantastic," Fabian, 45, tells People exclusively. "My love and admiration for what women can do has gone up 1,000 percent." The actor, who played Reverend Cotton Marcus in the Eli Roth horror flick, is also known...

Big Love actor Patrick Fabian is set to become a first-time father - his wife, comedy writer Mandy Steckelberg, is expecting a baby girl later this month.

And the couple already has a name picked out for the tot - inspired by their shared love for The Beatles.

Fabian tells E! News, "We are going to name her Abbey Ray after Abbey Road in London. We were over in London and I'm a Beatles freak so we went to visit Abbey Road. I looked over at my wife and she was so moved by the place she was in tears. We didn't even know she was pregnant at the time but I filed the name Abbey in case we ever had a girl.

"A few weeks later my wife's friend called saying she had a dream (that) Mandy was pregnant with a girl, and it was true."...

Patrick Fabian and wife Mandy Steckelberg already have big love for the baby on the way, their first child together. Well, they better, because Steckelberg is just about ready to pop! "The baby is due Sept. 14," Fabian, Barb's brother-in-law on Big Love and a skeptical priest in The Last Exorcism, gushes to E! News. "My wife and I are so excited, we're over the moon." And they're not making us wait for a name, either. "We are going to name her Abbey Ray after Abbey Road in London," Fabian says. "We were over in London and I'm a Beatles freak so we went to visit Abbey Road. I looked over at my wife and she was so moved by the place she was in tears. We...

SAG yesterday released the official list of candidates for its upcoming national board elections. Notably, all of the open seats in La (the Hollywood Division) are held by MembershipFirst members, which means that, as was the case last year, Mf can at best maintain its level of representation on the national board. More likely, it will lose some of its board seats.

On the Hollywood divisional board, Mf could gain or lose, as all division seats are up every year. This contrasts with the national board, where approximately 1/3 of the 69 seats are up in any given year. The president and secretary-treasurer, who are ex officio members of the board, have two-year terms, and are not up for election this year.

Ballots in Hollywood and New York will be mailed on August 24 with a return deadline and tabulation on September 23. Election results are expected to be announced that evening.

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Jeff Garlin, Ron Perlman, Clark Gregg and Gabrielle Carteris are among the candidates from the Unite for Strength party vying for seats on the Screen Actors Guild's national and Hollywood Division boards.

Ufs announced Wednesday its full slate of 35 candidates, which includes 15 Hollywood board incumbents and a number of first-timers. Ballots go out to Hollywood Division members August 24 and must be returned by Sept. 23, when results will be tallied.

A first round of preliminary discussions with employers for a new TV-theatrical contract begins four days later. That deal expires June 30.

The Ufs party, which is part of a majority coalition that now runs the guild, was founded in 2008 in the midst of inter-union strife and took the hotly contested presidency last fall with its candidate Ken Howard.

"I'm inspired by our candidates," said Howard. "These are smart, dedicated SAG members who are passionate about protecting actors. They represent the diversity...

In a victory for the SAG moderate coalition (Unite for Strength / Usan / independents), the Ufs candidates for president, Ken Howard, and secretary, Amy Aquino, won the union's national offices.

However, the election was close: Howard's total was slightly less than the two hardline candidates added together (Anne-Marie Johnson and Seymour Cassel) and Aquino's was slightly more than that of incumbent Connie Stevens. So the union is still very divided, and Howard acknowledged that the results were not a landslide and that the union is very divided, while saying that he planned to reach out to Mf supporters.

On the national board, the moderates showed strength as well: They picked up 4 of 11 seats in Hollywood and held all of the NY and regional (Rbd) seats. I estimate that this brings the moderate's board majority to around 60%, vs. 40% for Mf, but that's a very rough calculation and I'm not sure at this point.

There are surely more conflicts to come, but the Screen Actors Guild membership on Thursday night settled a big one: Ken Howard has been elected the union's new national president.

Running mate Amy Aquino beat two-time incumbent Connie Stevens in the race for secretary-treasurer. Howard and Aquino will serve two-year terms beginning Friday.

For the moment, at least, the outcomes indicate that a winning 47.2% of the voting segment of SAG's roughly 120,000 members prefers the less strident approach of the self-styled moderate wing of the party represented by Unite for Strength.

Howard collected 12,895 votes, or 3,989 more than MembershipFirst candidate Anne-Marie Johnson, who received 32.6% of the 27,295 votes cast. Independents Seymour Cassel and Asmar Muhammad garnered 17.7% and 1.5%, respectively, in their bid for the presidency.

Ufs came together last year in opposition and in January led a boardroom coup at SAG, installed new negotiators and salvaged a deal with Hollywood producers nearly a...

SAG's filing deadline for fall elections came and went Thursday, and it remains unclear who will face each other for the presidency. Only Unite for Strength, formed last year in opposition to the MembershipFirst faction led by SAG president Alan Rosenberg, has gone public with its complete slate.

Ken Howard will lead the charge as Unite for Strength's candidate for president, and Amy Aquino will run for secretary-treasurer. Unite for Strength also will field 33 candidates from the guild's Hollywood Division for seats on the national board of directors.

Months ago, Rosenberg stated provisionally that he will seek a third term, but first national vp Anne-Marie Johnson or another candidate could heed the call to represent MembershipFirst in the elections.

On the eve of MembershipFirst announcing its slate Sunday during a scheduled fundraiser, the Unite for Strength candidates took direct aim at and issue with their political opponents of the past year.