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Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to the comedic documentary My Friend Tommy, along with North American rights to Blood Scales, an award-winning French-English doc about animal trafficking. The former title will debut on digital October 24th, with the latter hitting the internet on the 31st.

Directed by Nem Stankovic, My Friend Tommy follows Thomas “Tommy” Lee, a sheltered 40-year-old virgin who embarks on a cross-continental journey with his best friend, former pro-ball player and comedian Nem, to learn basic adult skills in a crash course on the life he’s missed out on. Nora Stankovic, Nem Stankovic, and Lauren Wolkowski produced the film alongside EPs Nick Risher, Patrick Tsang, Oliver Mochizuki, Utsava Kasera, Rahil Khandker, Wilson Siu, G. Lam, Archit Joshi, Christopher Aw, Sin W. Lau, Mark N. Taaffe, Jessey Lee, and Cherie Chan.

Directed by Paolo Sodi and produced by Alessio Bariviera, Blood Scales highlights...

The 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) announced details of its Closing Gala presentation, the addition of a Master Class with celebrated filmmaker and Iffla alum, Anurag Kashyap, and the film festival’s annual One-on-One program to connect its filmmakers to industry executives and encourage further career development. This year’s jury members were also revealed.

The 20th annual edition of the internationally acclaimed film festival will wrap up with a first look at Iffla alum Kahlil Maskati’s feature screenplay, Alim Uncle, presented as a live table read featuring a dozen of top Los Angeles-based talent, and a preview of Nimisha Mukerji’s Warner Bros. Discovery 150 supported project, New Country. The evening, taking place at Regal LA Live (1000 W. Olympic Blvd.), will also include the Awards Ceremony and will be bookended by red carpet entrances and one of Iffla’s signature afterparties at The Continental Club (116 W 4th...

Exclusive: Disney+ continues to expand the cast for its upcoming limited series The Santa Clause (working title), adding Tim Allen’s daughter Elizabeth Allen-Dick as a series regular, playing her dad’s on-screen daughter. She will appear opposite Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell and Kal Penn. Also joining The Santa Clause as series regulars are Austin Kane, Rupali Redd and Devin Bright.

In the Disney+ series, from Last Man Standing creator Jack Burditt, who serves as showrunner, Scott Calvin (Allen) is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s suddenly starting to lose his Santa magic, and more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the North Pole. With a lot of elves, children, and family to please, Scott sets out to find a...

Exclusive: Some of Hollywood’s Harvard veterans are helping out scribes from their alma mater find their voices and perhaps become Tinseltown’s future.

Harvardwood today announced the winners of its Writers Competition winners and Most Staffable TV List (see the full list below)

The 18-year old program aims to connect talented scribes from the venerable Ivy League college with studios, networks and agencies. To that end, this year sees industry leaders working as one-on-one mentors with the aspiring and varied writers, who also receive cash prizes. “Harvardwood has strived to support new voices in the industry, and we are proud to see those efforts reflected in our competition winners,” program President Allison Kiessling told Deadline Thursday, noting that many of this year’s winners come from underrepresented communities.

Among the 2021 mentors are Harvard alum 20th Century Fox TV boss Carolyn Cassidy, Sherman’s Showcase’s Diallo Riddle, and Veep and...

Boasting a universally acclaimed cast with Rajkummar Rao (India’s official entry to Academy Awards 2018 Newton), Nargis Fakhri (Bollywood blockbuster Rockstar), Academy Award nominee Candy Clark (American Graffiti) and Golden Globe nominee Bo Derek (10), 5 Weddings opens in cinemas worldwide on 21st September 2018.

5 Weddings is a feature film with comedy, drama and romance that showcases the vibrant ceremonies at India’s weddings, with an important sub-plot that features Hijras, a sect of transgender dancers who have been an integral part of Indian wedding tradition for centuries.

Other featured Hollywood actors include Broadway star Anneliese van der Pol (Beauty and The Beast), Mariana Paola Vicente, Robert Palmer Watkins (General Hospital), Dawn Richard (Danity Kane) and Rupak Ginn (Royal Pains).

Also starring from India are Suvinder Vicky (Chauthi Koot – Un Certain Regard Cannes 2015), Shiwani Saini (Sarbjit), Saru Maini (Dangerous Husn) and Diljott (Teshan).

This exciting film marks the second Hollywood project for both Fakhri and Rao.

Sami Khan's birth-search dram Khoya is opening here in Toronto, tomorrow night, at The Carlton. We have your exclusive first look at a new teaser timed with the release. You will find that below. Khan and his lead Rupak Ginn will be at The Carlton tomorrow night for the evening screenings and participating in Q&As. Roger Moreau (Rupak Ginn) - the hero of Sami Khan’s Khoya - is indifferent to India’s tourist attractions. The young Toronto-raised, Indian-born man is on a quest to solve the mystery of his birth. That quest takes him to some of the country’s rougher patches, where Roger follows in the footsteps of the poor, the desperate and the borderline criminal, gradually unraveling the tangled circumstances of how...

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The New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff) announced the full lineup last night for their 16th year of celebrating independent, art house, alternate, and diaspora films from/about/connected to the Indian subcontinent (May 7 – May 14). Dedicated to bringing these films to a New York audience, the festival will feature 40 screenings (35 narrative, 5 documentary) –all seen for the first time in New York City. In addition, the festival will also feature five programs of short films.

The festival highlights various cinemas of India’s different regions. All the films are subtitled in English and some of the languages this year include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telegu, Assamese, Haryanavi and Urdu. This year’s festival will feature a couple of sidebars –Nfdc restored first films of filmmakers and a three-generations sidebar, films of Bimal Roy, Basu Bhattacharya and Aditya Bhattacharya.

The festival’s film lineup includes 2016 National Award winners A Far Afternoon,...

Network: USA Network

Episodes: 104 (hour)

Seasons: Eight

TV show dates: July 4, 2009 -- present

Series status: Cancelled/ending

Performers include: Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Flint, Reshma Shetty, Campbell Scott, Anastasia Griffith, Dieter Riesle, Ezra Miller, Henry Winkler, James P. Anderson, Meredith Hagner, Christine Ebersole, Rupak Ginn, Bruno Campos, Marcia Gay Harden, Anna George, and Paul Weaver.

TV show description:      

This medical drama is about a doctor who was kicked out of his hospital job because he chose to save the life of a "nobody" instead of a hospital benefactor. He reluctantly goes on vacation to the Hamptons with his brother the accountant. He then falls in to being a concierge doctor. He helps rich people that have too much money to go to the hospital, and also aids those less fortunate.

Hank Lawson (Mark...

The doctors are out.

Royal Pains‘ upcoming eighth season will be its last, USA Network announced Thursday. The Hamptons-set drama’s eight-episode farewell season will kick off Wednesday, May 18 at 10/9c.

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“It’s with great sadness, but even greater thankfulness, that we prepare for our final summer sunsets, as Royal Pains comes to an end,” said exec producer/series creator Andrew Lenchewski and fellow Ep Michael Rauch in a statement. “We want to thank our [entire] network and studio family for tirelessly supporting us over eight magical seasons,...

Raj may have come down with the plague on the season two finale of Royal Pains.

But "they didn't kill me off," Rupak Ginn told me over the phone today. "So I had an idea I might be coming back."

And that return takes place tonight, as Raj makes an appearance on "An Apple a Day." The actor remained mum on the reasons behind Ray's presence, but did not an "interesting choice" made by the writers in penning the episode. He's curious to see how fans react.

It also sounds like Raj will be back again - "It's not tied up," he said of his storyline - which makes Ginn happy for the two reasons he enjoys working on the series:

It features a great, small main cast. "It's easy to get to know everyone and it really feels like a family." It mostly films on location in The Hamptons,...

The Beholder Short Film has premiered. Nisha Ganatra‘s Beholder (2011) stars Jessica Pare, Rupak Ginn, Elaine Hendrix, Michael McMillian, and Michael Mosley. Beholder‘s plot synopsis: “Beholder takes place in the biosphere-protected Red Estates, a gated community with a socially conservative political majority. At a clinic where patients can genetically engineer their children, Sasha, the wife of rising political star Bobby Aryana, is informed that her baby carries the genetic marker for homosexuality. By the laws of Red Estates, this is an aberration that must be dealt with immediately, and Sasha must decide between staying faithful to the love of her life or risking everything. Touching on issues of race, sexual orientation, and conformity, Beholder examines the notion of identity and the costs of belonging.” This was higher quality than I was expecting. It seemed like a segment of a larger story. The genetically engineering children storyline has a distinct similarity with Jim and Soldier.

Jessica Paré, the Montreal born actress who became famous overnight for becoming the unlikely new wife of Mad Men swinger Don Draper (John Ham), stars in the short dystopian film Beholder. Directed by Nisha Ganatra for the Futurestates project (which is like a politically charged, onlineTwilight Zone) the film has garnered some acclaim, so we're glad to be able to make it available for you here.

Synopsis:

Beholder takes place in the biosphere-protected Red Estates, a gated community with a socially conservative political majority. At a clinic where patients can genetically engineer their children, Sasha, the wife of rising political star Bobby Aryana, is informed that her baby carries the genetic marker for homosexuality. By the laws of Red Estates, this is an aberration that must be dealt with immediately, and Sasha must decide between staying faithful to the love of her life or risking everything. Touching on issues of race,...

USA Network brings you its biggest summer ever with powerful weeknight blocks of nine original series. Two of summer's hottest hits, White Collar and Covert Affairs, kick it off with the return of all new seasons on Tuesday, June 7 at 9/8c and 10/9c, respectively. Next up, Burn Notice returns for a sizzling fifth season, followed by the much-anticipated new series launch of Suits (fka A Legal Mind), premiering Thursday, June 23 at 9/8c and 10/9c, respectively. June ends with the hit series Royal Pains leading into another new show launch, Necessary Roughness, on Wednesday, June 29 at 9/8c and 10/9c, respectively. Also continuing into summer, Monday nights are marked with high-powered octane with WWE Tough Enough at 8/7c, followed by WWE Monday Night Raw at 9/8c. Sundays continue to share the love with back-to-back episodes Law & Order: Criminal Intent and In Plain Sight at 9/8c and 10/9c, respectively.

One of television's hottest shows,...

Directors: Nisha Ganatra, Barry Jenkins, Kimi Takesue, Robby Henson, Bennett Cohen, A. Sayeeda Clarke One of the biggest surprises for me during SXSW 2010 was the Futurestates: Season 1 program. In my opinion, the Futurestates: Season 1 shorts are the epitome of great science fiction -- inventive, futuristic narratives with strong social-political messages concerning our modern world -- so it is with much excitement that I report that SXSW 2011 will feature six episodes from Futurestates: Season 2. Similar to season one, this year’s selection of Futurestates shorts visualize various possible futures for American society which include one or a combination of the following: environmental degradation, political polarization (and apathetic masses), over-reliance on new technologies, and globalization. Beholder Director Nisha Ganatra’s America exists within “safe” and “perfect” bubble of the socially conservative gated community Red Estates. Sasha (Jessica Pare) and her husband, Bobby (Rupak Ginn), are in the middle of a genetically engineered pregnancy.

On March 16, out director Nisha Ganatra's new film, Beholder, will premiere as part of the Itvs/ PBS series FutureStates. FutureStates is a modern day Twilight Zone series for which ten filmmakers were selected to each make an episode that takes place in the future and explores a political idea in the realm of a fictional film. Beholder stars Jessica Paré (of Mad Men and Lost and Delirious) Elaine Hendrix (from Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and Superstar) and Michael McMillian (True Blood), with Rupak Ginn (Royal Pains and Private Practice). In this article, the second in a series (read the first in the series here) that takes readers behind the scenes in the making of the film, Ganatra writes about developing the screenplay for her episode and the obstacles faced when predicting an anti-gay future for a publicly-funded channel based in San Francisco.

So now that we have our super awesome sci-fi story,...

On March 16, out director Nisha Ganatra's new film, Beholder, will premiere as part of the Itvs/ PBS series FutureStates. FutureStates is a modern day Twilight Zone series for which ten filmmakers were selected to each make an episode that takes place in the future and explores a political idea in the realm of a fictional film. Beholder stars Jessica Paré (of Mad Men and Lost and Delirious) Elaine Hendrix (from Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and Superstar) and Michael McMillian (True Blood), with Rupak Ginn (Royal Pains and Private Practice). In this article, the first in a series that takes readers behind the scenes in the making of the film, Ganatra writes about developing the screenplay for her episode and the obstacles faced when predicting an anti-gay future for a publicly-funded channel based in San Francisco.

It’s been awhile since I’ve had the fortune to direct...

Divya (Reshma Shetty), a physician's assistant at concierge medical practice HankMed, and fiance Raj (Rupak Ginn) want to dance at their wedding on USA Network's comedy-drama "Royal Pains," but they may need a little help from "Dancing With the Stars" alumnus Gilles Marini to do it.

In "Listen to the Music," the second-season finale, airing Thursday, Feb. 24, the couple needs to learn the tango, so choreographer Niko (Marini) steps in.

But first, Marini has to firm up his viewing-party plans for his "Dancing" pro partner Cheryl Burke.

"Oh, gosh, Cheryl," he tells Zap2it, "I've got to ask her to come to my house for the 'Royal Pains' thing that I'm doing, because I'm playing a dance choreographer. She's going to have a blast with that one and making fun of me."

In season 8 of ABC's ballroom dancing reality/competition show, French heartthrob Marini -- who claims...

The Royal Pains Season 2 finale is almost here. And, all eyes are on Divya (Reshma Shetty) to see what the future holds for her not-so-imminent marriage to Raj (Rupak Ginn). Come on. Do you really think she’ll go through with the wedding? The clip above takes queues from True Lies as Raj and Divya head to tango bootcamp.

No matter what happens in the season 2 finale, remember, “There is only Tango.”

About Royal Pains Episode 2.18: Listen to the Music

Hank (Mark Feuerstein) believes his patient has been previously misdiagnosed and is determined to find out what he really has. Meanwhile, Divya and Raj prepare for their upcoming nuptials by taking dance lessons, but wind up as patients. Catch the season finale “Listen to the Music,” Thursday, February 24 at 9/8C on USA!

Royal Pains star Reshma Shetty has confirmed that her character's current romantic storyline will be resolved soon. In the USA series, Divya (Shetty) is torn between her arranged marriage to Raj (Rupak Ginn) and her blossoming relationship with Adam (Patrick Heusinger). "You are going to find out by the end [of the season] what happens," Shetty told TV Guide. "It's surprised me that people are kind of broken up between the two. Some people are like, 'You have to marry Raj, he's so sweet', and some people are (more)...

The mid-season catastrophe has been averted. Dr. Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan’s (Paulo Costanzo) father Eddie (Henry Winkler) has been saved. Was there ever any doubt?

Come on. How much fun would a summer in the Hamptons be if a parental death loomed over the next five episodes leading into the Royal Pains season 2 finale? Not much I gather. Funerals and grieving periods would take up way too much time and sap up way too much humor. Suffice to say that HankMed season 2 got quickly back on course with summer bliss, a few laughs and perhaps one too many puns, once Eddie made it out of the emergency room.

But Eddie wasn’t the only one whose life was teetering on the edge of a cliff at the mid-season finale. Divya (Reshma Shetty) has been playing with fire, or Adam’s (Patrick Heusinger) emotions depending on how you look at it,...

Gilles Marini is to make a guest appearance on USA comedy-drama Royal Pains. Entertainment Weekly reports that the actor will play dance instructor Niko in the second season finale. The character will apparently be hired by Raj (Rupak Ginn) and Divya (Reshma Shetty) to teach them the tango in preparation for their wedding. Marini currently plays Luc Laurent on ABC's Brothers (more)...