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On Saturday, November 11, 2023, at 10:30 Pm on National Geographic, viewers will have the opportunity to watch a thrilling episode of “To Catch a Smuggler.” This particular episode, titled “Spot Check: Dark Net Dragnet,” takes the audience deep into the world of international law enforcement and the pursuit of dark web traffickers.

In this Spot Check episode, Homeland Security Investigations (Hsi) is at the center of the action. They’re on a mission to apprehend a notorious dark web trafficker operating in France. The dark web is a hidden part of the internet where illegal activities often thrive, making it a challenging realm to navigate.

The episode offers an inside look at the methods employed by Hsi agents as they work to identify and capture the trafficker. It’s a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, with law enforcement using their skills and resources to bring criminals to justice.

“To Catch a Smuggler...

Daniel David Stewart — one of the breakouts on Hulu's Catch-22 — is boarding the true-crime thriller Silk Road.

Stewart will be taking a role previously held by Riverdale star Cole Sprouse, joining a cast that includes Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp and Paul Walter Hauser.

Based on David Kushner’s 2014 Rolling Stone article “Dead End on Silk Road,” the movie focuses on a young criminal mastermind who unleashed the Dark Net and the man bent on bringing down his billion-dollar empire.

Tiller Russell adapted the story for the screen and is directing.

Duncan Montgomery and ...

Daniel David Stewart — one of the breakouts on Hulu's Catch-22 — is boarding the true-crime thriller Silk Road.

Stewart will be taking a role previously held by Riverdale star Cole Sprouse, joining a cast that includes Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp and Paul Walter Hauser.

Based on David Kushner’s 2014 Rolling Stone article “Dead End on Silk Road,” the movie focuses on a young criminal mastermind who unleashed the Dark Net and the man bent on bringing down his billion-dollar empire.

Tiller Russell adapted the story for the screen and is directing.

Duncan Montgomery and ...

Josh Radnor has joined Jordan Peele’s upcoming Amazon series “The Hunt,” TheWrap has learned.

The “How I Met Your Mother” alum has been cast opposite Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and Jerrika Hinton on the Prime Video Nazi-hunting drama.

Created by David Weil, “The Hunt” follows a diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the Us. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.

Radnor will play Lonny Flash, a movie star who is secretly a member of Meyer’s (Pacino) organization, The Hunters

Also Read: Amazon Orders Jordan Peele's Nazi-Hunting Show to Series

Produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment, “The Hunt” also stars Lena Olin,...

Jason Clarke and Nick Robinson will star in the crime drama “Silk Road,” directed and written by Tiller Russell.

Sierra/Affinity is launching international sales of the pic at the upcoming European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival.

The movie, based on David Kushner’s 2014 Rolling Stone article “Dead End on Silk Road,” is about a criminal mastermind who unleashed the Dark Net and the “Jurassic Narc” bent on bringing down the young kingpin’s billion-dollar empire.

“Silk Road” is produced by Duncan Montgomery and Jack Selby via the High Frequency Entertainment banner, Alex Orlovsky and Elika Portnoy for Mutressa Movies, and David Hyman and Stephen Gans on behalf of Perfect Season Productions.

“Tiller Russell has an amazing voice as a documentary filmmaker and writer,” Orlovsky and Montgomery said. “Few understand the world of law enforcement and the modern criminal like him. Tiller will tell this story with the...

Disney has announced the 4K Ultra HD/blu-ray release of their latest animated film, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and detailed all the bonus features fans can expect. Come inside for all the details!

I really enjoyed Ralph Breaks the Internet. More than being a by the numbers sequel, it has a lot of heart, humor, and a really important message on friendship. That's not to mention how gorgeous (and packed with hidden detail) the animation is. As such, I'm eager to get my hands on the home entertainment version, which will be dropping digitally on Feburary 12th, with the physical copy hitting on February 26th:

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” the animated adventure featuring video-game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman), raced to No. 1 opening weekend (the second biggest Thanksgiving opening of all time), winning...

Part2 Pictures has optioned “Blonde, Beautiful and Dead: The Murder Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks,” an upcoming project from MetaBook about Hazel Drew, the young woman whose murder 110 years ago became the basis for the fictional killing of Laura Palmer.

“Blonde, Beautiful and Dead,” by David Bushman and Mark Givens, examines the death of Drew in Sand Lake, New York, home of “Twin Peaks” co-creator Mark Frost’s grandmother, Betty Calhoun. Calhoun used to tell Frost stories about Drew, who was found dead in the waters of Teal’s Pond. Like Laura Palmer, she was said to have a double life that included multiple lovers.

Frost will write the foreword of the book, which explains how his grandmother’s stories about the killing lingered with with for decades, leading to the inception of the murder mystery at the center of his and David Lynch’s unforgettable “Twin Peaks.”

Under the deal,...

In the first “Wreck-It Ralph,” audiences got a video game mashup film that featured some of the biggest characters in gaming combined with the Disney way of subverting tropes. Well, for the sequel, “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” we get the same idea but on a much grander scale. Social media, search engines, spam, and yes, even the Dark Net are all subject to jokes in the new Disney animated film.

Continue reading ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ Trailer: Take A Trip To Disney’s Version Of The “Dark Net” at The Playlist.

As indie production outlet Part2 Pictures celebrates its first 10 years, the company’s approach to documentary storytelling — premium content with high production values — has moved more into the mainstream.

“We have been doing what people now call ‘premium’ from the beginning,” says Amy Bucher, Part2 senior vice president of programming and content. “It’s as natural to us as air and water. We just think that’s the way you should tell stories.”

Lisa Ling has worked with Part2 for the better part of a decade, first with five seasons of “Our America With Lisa Ling” that aired on Own, and now with “This Is Life With Lisa Ling” for CNN. She believes the audience for such premium content in which Part2 specializes has always been there, but the current real estate between traditional networks and streamers have helped provide a larger platform.

“Netflix and its documentary vertical has opened...

Investigation Discovery has picked up a second season of Part2 Pictures-produced Scene of the Crime with Tony Harris, with premiere set for June 3.

In Scene of the Crime, Harris explores unbelievable injustices to better understand how horrific crimes came to be and why lives were forever changed.

In the Season 2 premiere episode “Down by the River”, Harris unravels the shocking case of three prostitutes brutally slain by a serial killer in Spokane, Washington. After 22 years and 15 more bodies are uncovered, DNA evidence finally surrenders a suspect – the last person investigators ever imagined. Harris scours police files, actual evidence and raw interrogation footage. He interviews veteran detectives on the case, a journalist and family members compelled to speak for the first time.

Scene of the Crime is produced for Investigation Discovery by Part2 Pictures with David Shadrack Smith, Amy Bucher, Robert Palumbo and Jonathan Grupper as Executive Producers. Lorna Thomas is senior executive producer for ID.

Amazon Studios has snared a Jordan Peele project about hunting down the villains at the center of one of the most horrifying chapter’s in the history of the world: Nazis.

The “Get Out” director’s new series, “The Hunt,” has been given a 10-episode order by e-commerce giant’s streaming service, Amazon announced Thursday.

The drama is a vengeance-driven Nazi-hunting series, based on an original idea, drawing from real-life events, and created by David Weil (“Moonfall”), who will pen the script and executive produce along with Peele.

Also Read: Netflix Picks Up Amazon's 'Lost Girls' With Amy Ryan in Lead Role

“When David Weil first shared ‘The Hunt’ with me, I immediately knew that we had to be involved,” Peele said. “It’s cathartic. It’s noir. It’s frighteningly relevant. It’s exactly what I want to see on television. I am thrilled to be working...

Tomorrow, Benjamin Percy’s fourth novel, The Dark Net, arrives to bring us hell on earth. Set in present day Portland, The Dark Net is a cracked-mirror version of the digital nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative… Continue Reading →

The post Guest Post: Benjamin Percy Faces His Digital Demons for The Dark Net appeared first on Dread Central.

This week Dark Net looks at surveillance and cyber stalking as individuals and communities come under increased observation by the state and become vulnerable to crackers. Countries like the UK have a huge number of CCTV cameras with nearly every major town and city stuffed full of them, recording every move of the citizens. The U.S. is not far behind and although these technologies together with license plate and face recognition can help stop crime, they also create a real dilemma for those defending basic freedoms. One man on the show tries to defend his CCTV program to neighbors, who...read more...

What to Watch: Thursday, May 11

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(To find out, see what you missed last night!)

“Riverdale,” 9 p.m., The CW

Episode Title: “Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter”

Network Synopsis: Archie and Veronica continue to grow closer. Betty is tired of her family acting as if nothing has happened and confronts her mother. Jughead finds himself in an unexpected situation, leaving Archie and the gang scrambling. Hermione makes Fred an offer that seems too good to be true. Meanwhile, the truth about Blossoms’ family business is revealed leaving Cheryl to take matters into her own hands.

Why You Should Watch: The big mystery of the season — who killed Jason Blossom — was resolved in last week’s episode, so tonight “Riverdale” sets up what’s to come in Season 2. Given how the series began, we can probably expect some casualties.

“I Love Dick,” streaming now, Amazon Prime

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This week Dark Net delves into the murky world of online propaganda in the shape of Alt-Right, Al-Qaeda and White Nationalists. Over the last few years the media has been full of stories about online radicalisation of all kinds and more recently the phenomena of fake news and extreme Alt-Right news has caught the attention of both politicians and media companies. Indeed fake news has become such a problem that tech companies like Google and Facebook are investing a lot of time working out how to filter it out or at least to verify genuine news outlets. Dark Net features some...read more...

This week Dark Net plunges into the fascinating and sometimes murky world of digital money as virtual currencies like bitcoin start to have real economic significance. Bitcoin might have started with a 10,000 bitcoin pizza delivery but it now best known for its rags to riches reputation with tales of early adopter geeks making millions from the coins they mined relatively easily in the early days of the project. The currency and others like it have been hailed as a revolution in how goods and services are paid for with the intermediaries like bank cut out of the transaction. However, like most...read more...

The Season 2 premiere of Showtime’s series Dark Net features AI sex robot Harmony — who when completed will be able to see, speak and learn. “Creating a visually beautiful doll is very right-brain challenging,” says Matt McMullen, founder of the firm behind it ReallDoll. “Creating an AI, on the other hand, is a whole other side of your brain, because you start analyzing what is it that attracts you to someone.” Harmony, when completed, will recognize her owners’ face, voice and desires. The Dark Net Season 2 premiere looks at the prototype. The AI programmers insist in the episode that they are trying to create dolls...read more...

Tonight’s season 2 premiere of the series Dark Net on Showtime examines how U.S. military veterans can use new virtual reality technology to treat the post-traumatic stress disorder they sustained from fighting in Iraq and elsewhere overseas. The episode, called My Mind, explores how Vr specialists can guide veterans through their worst nightmares and use the 360-degree technology as a therapeutic means in which they can deal with the trauma. “One of the cardinal symptoms of Ptsd is avoidance,” a Vr specialist says in footage from the episode. “They avoid anything that reminds them of their Ptsd trauma.” To that end, techies create simulations that are generic to...read more...

Nikita alum Devon Sawa‘s next TV gig will take him Somewhere Between at ABC.

RelatedABC Gives Thriller Somewhere Between a 10-Episode Series Order

The actor will star opposite Paula Patton in the supernatural summer series, about a news producer (Patton) who knows exactly when, where and how her daughter will be murdered, but is clueless about why she was killed and the killer’s identity.

Per our sister site Deadline, Sawa will play a cop-turned-private investigator on the series, which has already secured a ten-episode series order from ABC.

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This week’s episode of Arrow aimed to accomplish a lot — and damn if it didn’t hit the bull’s-eye on all counts.

RelatedMatt’s Inside Line: Scoop on an Arrow Return and More

First and foremost, Oliver shifted his promise to hand off the Black Canary mantle into high gear, waving off ridiculously impressive resumes (“It’s a feel thing”) to instead zero in on the closest thing to bashert (as Rory puts it) he saw: a female vigilante/”urban legend” who couples elite hand-to-hand combat skills with a sonic cry, obtained years ago via the Central City particle accelerator explosion.

Are you afraid of the dark? Showtime has renewed its new Dark Net TV series for a second season, per Deadline. The season two renewal comes less than a week after the first season finale.

Showtime says Dark Net, "...explores the impact of technology on love, sex, power, children, our memories, our senses, our identities, and even our physical selves." Dark Net is created by Vocativ Founder Mati Kochavi. Danna Rabin, Vivian Schiller for Vocativ, and David Shadrack Smith for Part 2 Pictures are executive producers.

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