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About two years ago, we heard that producers Mark Lane and James Harris of Tea Shop Productions, who freaked out movie-goers with the shark thrillers 47 Meters Down and 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, as well as the survival thriller Fall, were teaming up with Gavin Mehrtens and Ashley Holberry of Cowboy Cosmonaut for a new “nature run amok thriller,” a killer alligator movie that was, at the time, called The Bayou. That project has since been retitled Gator Creek and it’s set to be released through the likes of Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube Movies, Sky Store, BT Store, and Microsoft Store on March 24th. A trailer recently dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

Mehrtens wrote the screenplay for Gator Creek, working from a story by Holberry. That story crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome,...

From the producers of 47 Meters Down and Fall, the creature feature Gator Creek is headed our way here in early 2025, and Vertigo Releasing has unleashed the official trailer.

Gator Creek is swimming to platforms including Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube Movies, Sky Store, BT Store, and Microsoft Store on March 24, 2025. Watch the trailer below.

In the film, “Vacation turns to disaster when Houston graduate Kyle and her friends survive a plane crash in the desolate Louisiana Bayou, only to discover there’s something infinitely more dangerous lurking in the shallows…a pack of primordial, highly-evolved American alligators.

“Apex predators and perfectly adapted to their native habitat, the gators have zeroed in on Kyle and the survivors – pure killing machines 150 million years in the making. And these gators are living in an environment contaminated by illegal chemicals pumped into their ecosystem.

“They’re bigger, smarter, faster, meaner, and hell-bent on devouring...

The much-loved BBC program Wolf Hall is coming back with a new casting method that challenges the way history is usually shown. For the new season, the show’s producers have chosen to use colour-blind casting, a big change in how TV stories are told.

Director Peter Kosminsky stressed that the casting process was based on talent. “We selected the best actors who auditioned for the roles,” he said. As a result of this approach, some big casting changes have happened. For example, Egyptian-born actor Amir El-Masry replaced Jack Lowden as Thomas Wyatt. Sarah Priddy, of mixed British and African descent, played Lady Margery Seymour.

The choice has sparked both support and debate. Critics, such as writer Petronella Wyatt, have called the method “cultural appropriation.” “The world has changed since the first series,” said Colin Callender, the show’s executive producer, to justify the choice. We thought that hiring people...

Wolf Hall returns to British television after nearly a decade this weekend — and director Peter Kosminsky has revealed why the Tudor series has switched to a color-blind casting policy.

The critically lauded Hilary Mantel adaptation has cast Egyptian-born Amir El-Masry as Thomas Wyatt after he was played by Jack Lowden in Season 1, while Lady Margery Seymour is played by Sarah Priddy, who is from a mixed-heritage British-African family.

At a Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light screening, Kosminsky said: “There are a number of parts played by people of color and this is not something we did in the first series. I’m delighted we’ve been able to do it.”

He added: “We wanted the very best actors who are available for the show and we looked at everybody, and we chose the best actors who auditioned for the roles. And obviously, we aren’t playing lookalikes in the series.

The second season of Wolf Hall has created headlines in the UK for its diverse casting — and the latest to speak out is an ancestor of one of the Tudor drama’s characters.

Journalist Petronella Wyatt has written a column in The Daily Telegraph questioning the “absurd” decision to cast Egyptian-born Amir El-Masry as Yorkshireman Thomas Wyatt.

The character was played by Slow Horses star Jack Lowden in Season 1 of the BBC/PBS Masterpiece drama, which premiered in 2015.

Wyatt praised The Crown star El-Masry’s acting credentials, but said color-blind casting for a story rooted in British history was tantamount to “cultural appropriation.”

She said Thomas Wyatt, a 16th-century English politician credited with inventing the sonnet, had “never been east of Calais” in his lifetime.

Amir El-Masry

“I appreciate that it is the job of actors to act, and I have no theoretical quarrel with his being played by Mr El-Masry,...

A few more returns and more than two dozen (!) new bits of casting have been announced for the second/final season of Wolf Hall.

Masterpiece PBS and the BBC previously announced that the six-episode Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy, will bring back Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser.

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