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Kevin Durand as Vasiliy Fet in "Night Train." Photo copyright of FX.
On this week's all-new episode of FX's The Strain, Setrakian (David Bradley) and Fet (Kevin Durand) battle for possession of the Occido Lumen, and gain a surprising new ally. Meanwhile, a massive attack imperils Eph's (Corey Stoll), Nora's (Mia Meastro) and Zack’s (Max Charles) escape from New York. Check out the clip below from Night Train and then tune in for the entire episode on Sunday, October 4th @ 10:00 p.m. EST/PST.
Canada's SPACE Channel, Temple Street Productions, and BBC America have announced that production has begun on Season 4 of the critically acclaimed original Canadian series Orphan Black.
Season 4 sees the return of the phenomenal Tatiana Maslany to her Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated role as multiple characters on the CSA and Peabody Award-winning series Orphan Black. The third season of this mind-bending thriller plunged into the clone sisterhood, as they came together to combat the new line of male “Castor” clones and their journey towards the truth of who, and what they are. In Season 4, Sarah returns home from Iceland to track down an elusive new ally tied to Beth’s past. Sarah follows Beth’s footsteps into a dangerous relationship with a potent new enemy, and uncovers a horrifying new facet of the conspiracy . The 10-episode fourth season shoots in Toronto on location and in studio until March 2016, and is set to premiere in Spring 2016.
“Orphan Black’s many fans will be rewarded with an intense Season 4, which is shaping up to be a white-knuckle ride with more twists and turns than ever before,” said Corrie Coe, Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media. “Together with our incredibly talented partners at Temple Street Productions, BBCA, and the extraordinary cast and crew, the bar continues to be raised on this outstanding production.”
“The cast and crew of Orphan Black are thrilled to start work on Season 4 of our critically-acclaimed series,” said David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, executive producers of Orphan Black and Co-Presidents of Temple Street Productions. “The show continues to engage more fans from around the world with our gripping storyline led by the stellar Tatiana Maslany.”
This season on Orphan Black, the near constant terror pushes everyone to their limit, particularly Sarah’s daughter, Kira. Under pressure, Sarah’s old habits begin to resurface. The clones are pulled in disparate directions and Sarah finds herself estranged from the loving relationships that changed her for the better.
Fear the Walking Dead may be concluding its first season this Sunday, October 4th, but Fear will continue to spread as AMC rolls out its newest web series, officially titled Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462, online beginning this fall. The first installment of the 16-part series will debut on AMC.com on Sunday, October 4th and will then air as promos during two commercial breaks within The Walking Dead season 6 premiere episode on Sunday, October 11th.
Subsequent episodes of Flight 462, each less than one minute long, will debut every Sunday, online and then on-air as promos during new episodes of The Walking Dead, for the duration of season 6. In addition, one of the characters featured in the web series, which is produced by Fear the Walking Dead showrunner and executive producer Dave Erickson and co-executive producer David Wiener, will join the cast of Fear the Walking Dead season 2.
Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 tells the story of a group of passengers aboard a commercial airplane during the earliest moments of the outbreak. Over the course of the series, the plane and the lives of its passengers are put in jeopardy once they discover an infected traveler. The series is written by L. Signorino and Mike Zunic and directed by Fear director of photography Michael McDonough.
“Flight 462 is a great extension of the world of Fear and will engage fans across multiple platforms with another riveting story set at the start of the fall of civilization,” said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV. “We are thrilled to be collaborating with Dave Erickson and David Wiener on another piece of original content. Watching how they'll bring one of these new characters to the second season of ‘Fear’ will be really exciting for viewers to follow.”
(L-R): Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall and Matthew Macfadyen in The Enfield Haunting.
A&E Network presents the supernatural thriller The Enfield Haunting, a dramatization of the terrifying real-life events that took place in a seemingly ordinary home in northern London during the fall of 1977. Written by Joshua St. Johnston (Walking on Sunshine, Sweeney Todd) and directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing), the miniseries premieres Friday, October 9th at 10PM ET/PT on A&E.
Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair’s book This House is Haunted, The Enfield Haunting draws on extensive documentation, recordings and witness statements recorded at the time. To this day, the incident remains the most documented account of poltergeist activity in British history and the basis of horror films including the upcoming The Conjuring 2.
The miniseries stars 2014 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, The King's Speech) as Maurice Grosse, a rookie paranormal researcher, and BAFTA nominated actress Juliet Stevenson (Emma, Truly Madly Deeply, The Village) as his grieving wife Betty. BAFTA winner Matthew Macfadyen (Ripper Street, Frost/Nixon, Pride and Prejudice) portrays Guy Lyon Playfair, an experienced investigator who approaches the case with skepticism. Following a personal tragedy, Maurice is drawn to the house in Enfield after disturbing reports of a desperate family terrorized by malevolent unseen forces. Working together to get to the heart of the supernatural happenings, Maurice and Guy find that they cannot save the tortured family without first coming to terms with their own demons. Check out the trailer below!
The STARZ Original series Ash vs Evil Dead released a behind-the-scenes clip featuring series stars Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo and Lucy Lawless, along with executive producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert and showrunner Craig DiGregorio. The clip offers an inside look at the highly anticipated series and reveals why Ash might be the most reluctant hero ever. Ash vs Evil Dead premieres Saturday, October 31st at 9:00pm ET/PT exclusively on STARZ with a 10-episode season.
Campbell reprises his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario, and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons –personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Burn Notice) in the role of Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless (Salem, Spartacus, Xena) as Ruby, a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Ray Santiago (Touch, Meet the Fockers) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick, Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past, and Jill Marie Jones (Sleepy Hollow) as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner. Check out the clip below!
Flash: The Complete First Season and Arrow: The Complete Third Season are both available TODAY -- September 22, 2015 -- everywhere on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD.
(L-R) Lee Jones as Wilkin Brattle and Stephen Moyer as Milus Corbett in "Effigy/Delw." Photo copyright of FX.
This week on The Bastard Executioner, when an unlikely suspect is charged with treason, Wilkin (Lee Jones) must carry out his duties as the new executioner. Check out the clip below and then tune in for Effigy/Delw on Tuesday, September 22nd @ 10:00 p.m. EST/PST on FX.
Aleks Paunovic as Rollins in Continuum. Photo copyright of Shaw Media/Showcase.
It never hurts to make a good entrance, especially as an actor. If you happen to be the latter, it helps, too, if you are tall (really tall), handsome and have loads of talent, none of which Aleks Paunovic is lacking. He put all of that to good use when making his debut in Lost Hours, the season four opener of the hit Canadian-made Sci-Fi series Continuum. As Rollins, his character is one of six soldiers from the year 2039 who travels into present day Vancouver, British Columbia to cause no end of problems for the show’s heroine, Kiera Cameron. This particular role is one that the actor had been waiting quite a while for, and in his eyes it was well worth the wait.
“I’d read for a few characters when they began casting for Continuum’s first season,” recalls Paunovic, “and then one of my best friends, Victor Webster, wound up getting the [male] lead [Vancouver Police Detective Carlos Fonnegra]. We were super-happy about that because we’ve been friends for 15 years and it meant Victor would be spending some time here in Vancouver. I’ve also known [series creator/executive producer] Simon Barry for a while, and whenever we bumped into each other, he’d tell me, ‘Not yet, not yet, but don’t worry, I’m keeping you in mind for something.’
“Whenever a guest-spot would come around for Continuum, I’d end up passing on any type of audition. I decided to take a chance that Simon would just propose a role for me. He’s one of the most sincere and honest people in a business where that’s not always true, and lo and behold, one day Simon got in touch and offered me the part of Rollins. He told me, ‘This is what I’ve been waiting for you do to.’ I can’t tell you how pleased I am that everything worked out with my schedule. Simon is an amazing man and I was really fortunate. Then, of course, when I began work on the show it felt like a reunion of sorts because I already knew pretty much everyone. It’s a testament to Simon, who makes a point of casting Vancouver-based actors. So walking onto that set on day one and being welcomed with such open arms made me feel like I’d been a part of things all along.”
Having been involuntarily sent back in time from the year 2077, City Protective Services (CPS) officer Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) has made it her mission to stop a futuristic terrorist organization called Liber8 from changing the timeline in order to prevent big corporations from wresting control out of the hands of world governments. One of its former members, however, Matthew Kellog (Stephen Lobo) has his own agenda and has been working to shape the future more to his liking. In season three of Continuum, Keira worked with a fellow time traveler, Brad Tonkin (Ryan Robbins), to erase a future timeline where Kellog is a warlord. Our heroes thought they had succeeded, but in the final moments of the season three finale Last Minute, six heavily armored Marines from 2039, among them Rollins, suddenly appeared. These soldiers have come to the present with orders that they intend to carry out, and Paunovic took that to heart whenever he was in front of the camera.
“There's a quiet confidence amongst this band of soldiers that are basically capable of mass destruction,” explains the actor. “My character of Rollins doesn’t have to be loud and doesn’t feel the need to let anyone know what he’s thinking. At the end of the day he’s got a job to do and a cause he believes in, so the only real tricky part of playing someone like this was trying to keep him contained and focused on his business. I’m quite an expressive guy,” says Paunovic with a chuckle, “so for me it was a really great [acting] exercise to keep myself subdued if you will, while still trying to get across Rollins’ intent. I think the growth of the character was tied into the overall growth of the team. Again, they all had the same job to do, and it wasn’t about any one person. It was about the group as a whole, and I enjoyed that aspect of the character.
“Something else I also liked was the physicality of the role. I mean, it was definitely challenging at times, but again, it’s something I’ve done for my entire career. I love the fights that they put together on Continuum. The stunt coordinator, Kimani Ray Smith, is just a marvel and did some great work during the show’s four seasons. Although it’s set in the present day, it involves people who come from the future, so Kimani incorporated some innovative moves in the fights he choreographed, and I was thrilled to be a part of bringing them to life in front of the camera. There are several key fight moments this season, and if you turn the volume down, it looks like there’s a dialogue of sorts between the actors as the fights are played out. I thought that was pretty awesome.”
Besides Continuum, Paunovic can be seen opposite Martin Sheen in the upcoming feature film Badge of Honor. He also had the chance to cross paths once again with Dolph Lundgren in Kindergarten Cop 2 as well as work for the first time with the legendary Sir Anthony Hopkins in Go With Me.
“Kindergarten Cop 2 was a great deal of fun,” he says. “I’d worked with Dolph Lundgren before on In The Name of the King: Two Worlds, in which we were allies, and this time around our two characters were fighting against each other. I’m a huge Rocky fan and a boxing fan in general. I have three generations of boxers in my family, so knowing that Dolph Lundgren played Drago in Rocky IV was a big deal to me. However, the full impact of that didn’t actually hit me until we were getting ready to do the fight scene for Kindergarten Cop 2. I glanced over at Dolph and saw him shadowboxing to warm up. That’s when I suddenly began to think, ‘Oh, my God, it’s Drago. I’m about to fight Drago.’ All it took was for me to see him throwing some punches and my brain went right into Rocky mode,” jokes the actor.
“As for Go With Me and working with Anthony Hopkins, that was one of those moments in this business where you shake your head and think, ‘I can’t believe this is happening to me.’ For me, Anthony Hopkins is ‘the guy,’ from his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter, obviously, but even before that. When I met him on-set, he said to me, ‘Call me Tony,’ and from that moment on we hit it off. At one point we were sitting there talking when someone came over to get us for a scene and I thought, ‘Please don’t interrupt this fantastic conversation.’ It was such an amazing thing for me to realize that Anthony is someone who likes to act and create, just like me and my friends when we went to theatre school. So there was no hierarchy between us, and that made the shoot even more memorable for me.”
The actor also recently completed work on the mystery thriller Numb, in which he not only stars alongside such familiar names as Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica), Marie Avgeropoulos (The 100), Stefanie von Pfetten (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief), Colin Cunningham (Falling Skies) and Paul McGillion (Stargate Atlantis), but also served as one of the film’s associate producers. Numb will be in the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Whistler Film Festival 2015. The feature film is also having its world premiere at a screening in the Midnight Passion selection on Saturday, October 3rd at the 840-seat Busan Cinema Center main theatre in South Korea. Paunovic's involvement in this project was quite special for him.
“This was so different from anything I’d ever done before because of my being part of the producing team,” he notes. “This project took four years to come to fruition and the role was one that was basically written for me. The journey I participated in and the growth that I had as an actor as well as one of the producers is second to none, and I’ll never forget that experience.”
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Season four of Continuum is currently airing @ 9:00 p.m. EST/PST on Canada's Showcase Network, and in the States on Syfy @ 11:00 p.m. EST/PST. As noted above, photo copyright of Shaw Media/Showcase, so please no unauthorized copying or duplicating of any kind. Thanks!
Krysten Ritter as Marvel's Jessica Jones. Photo copyright of Netflix.
Here is a first look into Netflix original series Marvel’s Jessica Jones, the second of four epic live-action adventure series. (Marvel’s Daredevil, which launched April 10th, Marvel’s Luke Cage and Marvel’s Iron Fist, all leading up to the teaming of the main characters in Marvel’s The Defenders) to premiere only on Netflix on November 20th.
David Tennant as Kilgrave in Marvel's Jessica Jones. Photo copyright of Netflix.
Mike Colter as Luke Cage in Marvel's Jessica Jones. Photo copyright of Netflix.
After a tragic ending to her short-lived Super Hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases in New York City. Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones) is joined by an amazing cast including David Tennant (Kilgrave), Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Rachael Taylor (Trish Walker), Carrie-Anne Moss, Eka Darville, Erin Moriarty, and Wil Traval, among others.
Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix is Executive Produced by series Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight, Dexter) and Liz Friedman (Elementary), along with Jeph Loeb (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Smallville, Heroes), who also serves as Marvel’s Head of Television.
For more information on Marvel's Jessica Jones, please visit: netflix.com/jessicajones and the official social pages:
Twitter: @JessicaJones ( http://twitter.com/jessicajones ), #jessicajones
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/marvelsjessicajones
Website: www.Marvel.com for all Marvel news!
As noted above, photos copyright of Nexflix, so please unauthorized copying or duplicating of any kind. Thanks!
Wilmer Valderrama as Carlos Madrigal and Eiza González as Santánico Pandemonium in "Bondage." Photo copyright of the EL Rey Network.
Next week on an all-new episode of the El Rey Network's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Richie (D.J. Cotrona) and Seth (Zane Holtz) call a truce and work together to find Malvado’s (Esai Morales) headquarters. Meanwhile, Carlos (Wilmer Valderrama), unhinged from the Labyrinth, abducts Santanico (Eiza Gonzalez) and claims her for himself. And Kate (Madison Davenport) enlists Freddie’s (Jesse Garcia) help as she attempts to save her brother. Written by Luisa Leschin and Directed by Joe Menendez, Bondage airs Tuesday, September 22nd @ 9:00 p.m. Check out the clip below and then make sure to tune in for the episode!
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