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Cult-Tastic: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman Coming In November (Shout! Factory TV)

Shout! Factory TV, the digital entertainment streaming service, is set to launch its first original digital docuseries Cult-Tastic: Tales From The Trenches With Roger and Julie Corman. Created, written and co-produced by Ashley Sidaway and Robert Sidaway, the 13-part series about the life and work of Roger and Julie Corman, provides viewers an extraordinary look inside the Cormans’ cinematic universe and features extensive in-depth interviews. The series will premiere November 15th on Shout! Factory TV’s Amazon Prime Video Channel and via Roku Channel’s Premium Subscription.

In the series, the Cormans draw upon their vast filmography and footage from over 130 films spanning seven decades. Within each episode, the legendary filmmakers share insightful stories and defining moments from their movies, recall talent and young filmmakers they fostered, as well as provide behind-the-scenes perspectives on how they produced some of the smallest budget films that went on to achieve box-office gold.

 

Known for their acute ability to recognize young talent, the Cormans’ lasting legacy will undoubtedly be the legion of producers, directors, writers, and actors they have cultivated.  Throughout the series, Roger and Julie recount working with iconic industry talent including Jack Nicholson, Bryan Cranston, Ron Howard, James Cameron, William Shatner, Martin Sheen, Joe Dante, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tommy Lee Jones, Angie Dickenson, Francis Coppola, Will Ferrell, Sandra Bullock, among many others.  

 

One of the most prolific and successful film producers in the history of cinema, Roger Corman’s impact on modern American film is prodigious.  Referred to as “the King of the Cult film” and “The Pope of Pop Cinema,” Corman has produced more than 350 films and directed 60 others. Honored with an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2009, Corman continues to reign supreme as one of Hollywood’s most masterful and influential filmmakers. 

 

Julie Corman’s film career spans nearly five decades, first as a producer alongside Roger Corman at New World Productions and later as co-founder and Executive Vice President of their production banner New Horizons Pictures Corporation. With over 35 film credits to her name , she has worked with industry heavyweights Martin Scorsese,Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, Catherine Hardwicke, Robert King, Bill Pullman, Martin Sheen, Peter Billingsley, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Jason Priestley and Mario Van Peebles, among others.  Julie was previously Chair of the Graduate Film Department at NYU and is currently a member of Women in Film, where she advocates for the advancement of women in the screen industries, gender parity and inclusion, and to ultimately transform culture and policy for women in entertainment. 

 

“It makes total sense to be Shout! Factory TV's first original streaming series,” said Roger and Julie Corman. "Over the course of seven decades, we have had the great fortune to work on incredible independent film productions with some of the most distinguished actors, writers, and filmmakers of our time. Shout! Factory TV is the perfect place to share our memories, allowing us to bring our stories to life and share them with a passionate audience. Shout! Factory TV’s focus on cult classic film and TV programming makes them the perfect home for this rich history of independent film.”

 

“After having worked with the Cormans for nearly a decade, we are thrilled to have Shout! Factory TV be the home for Cult-Tastic Roger and Julie’s influence in the independent film space is immeasurable, and the Shout! Factory TV digital streaming service was built on serving fans of cult films and television,” said Gene Pao, SVP, Digital Enterprises. “With a number of Corman films already available on our service, we pushed hard to secure the opportunity to complement existing content with a series featuring enthralling behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Roger and Julie. We see immense opportunity in developing more original programming inspired by the Cormans’ film archive.”

 

‘Cult-Tastic joins an extensive collection of Corman cult classics available across Shout! Factory TV’s platforms. Films discussed in the series, from genre gems Battle Beyond the Stars, Suburbia and Caged Heat, to horror favorites The Slumber Party Massacre, The Wasp Woman and Forbidden World, are also available in their entirety on Shout! Factory TV.

 

Shout! Factory, a multi-platform media company and parent company to Shout! Factory TV, alongside China-based Ace Film HK Company Limited (ACE) acquired the New Horizons Picture library in 2018. The acquisition encompassed 270 Corman films and an action sci-fi TV series. Cult-Tastic: Tales From The Trenches with Roger And Julie Corman is the first series to be developed from the acquisition and is produced by Ace Film in association with Friendship Films.

DC Super Hero High & House of the Dragon Coming To HBO Max

Announced earlier this week at the HBO Max WarnerMedia Day are two new projects in the works at the forthcoming streamer: DC Super Hero High from Elizabeth Banks and the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.

DC Super Hero High is a half-hour comedy series executive produced by Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels, Pitch Perfect, Shrill), which follows a group of students experiencing the fun and drama of adolescence at a boarding school for gifted kids. These teens are just trying to navigate the pressures of high school, but none of them realize that someday they will become legendary DC Super Heroes. DC Super Hero High is produced by Brownstone Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television, based on the characters from DC. Brownstone’s Banks and Max Handelman (Shrill, Pitch Perfect) are executive producers, along with writer Scott Weinger (Fuller House), John D. Beck (Disjointed, Fuller House) and Ron Hart (Disjointed, According to Jim). Brownstone’s Dannah Shinder (Shrill) will serve as co-executive producer. 

House of the Dragon, a 10-episode, straight-to-series order Game of Thrones prequel. Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, the series, which is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, tells the story of House Targaryen. Co-created by George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal. Emmy award winning director Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal will partner as showrunners and will also serve as executive producers along with George R.R. Martin and Vince Gerardis. Sapochnik will direct the pilot and additional episodes of the series, which will be written by Condal.

Pennyworth Renewed For Second Season (EPIX)

Premium cable network EPIX announced today that Pennyworth, its critically-acclaimed DC drama from Warner Horizon Scripted Television, will return for season two.  The 10-episode sophomore season will commence production in the UK in January 2020 – filming once again at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden – with an eye towards a 2020 premiere on EPIX. The one-hour drama series follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), a former British SAS soldier who goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge), who has not yet become Bruce Wayne’s father, in 1960s London. 

Said Michael Wright, President, EPIX, “Pennyworth has been a big hit for us, embraced by critics and fans alike. It was the highest-performing original series ever to premiere on EPIX, more than doubling the viewership of the shows that came before it. Bruno Heller, Danny Cannon and WBTV have delivered a brilliant, must watch series. We can’t wait to work with this phenomenal cast and creative team on another exciting season.” 

In addition to Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game, Ripper Street) and Ben Aldridge (Our Girl, Fleabag), Pennyworth season one stars included Emma Paetz (Gentleman Jack), Hainsley Lloyd Bennett (Eastenders), Ryan Fletcher (Outlander), Dorothy Atkinson (Mr. Turner, Topsy-Turvy), Ian Puleston-Davies (Coronation Street), Polly Walker (Rome, Caprica), with multi-award-winning recording artist Paloma Faith, and Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).

Pennyworth is from executive producer/writer Bruno Heller (Gotham, The Mentalist, Rome) and executive producer/director Danny Cannon (Gotham, CSI series). The series is based characters created for DC by Bob Kane with Bill Finger.

Raised By Wolves Coming To HBO Max

Announced earlier this week at the HBO Max WarnerMedia Day, Raised by Wolves, a serialized sci-fi series from master storyteller and filmmaker Ridley Scott (The Martian, Blade Runner, Alien: Covenant) will premiere on the direct-to-consumer offering.
 
The epic serialized sci-fi series is executive produced and directed by Ridley Scott (The Martian, Blade Runner, Alien: Covenant). Acclaimed writer Aaron Guzikowski, the visionary behind the highly lauded film Prisoners, created the 10-episode series and serves as showrunner and writer for the project, which recently wrapped production in Cape Town, South Africa. The series centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.  
 
“As we strive to set a high creative bar for HBO Max, there’s no better person to set that bar than Ridley Scott as he delivers his first season of yet another incredible vision realized," said Kevin Reilly, chief content officer, HBO Max and president TBS, TNT, and truTV.
 
“The breathtaking worlds, compelling characters and intricate storylines that Ridley, Aaron and team have created for this project are mesmerizing,” added Sarah Aubrey, head of original content, HBO Max.
 
The cast includes Travis Fimmel (Vikings), Amanda Collin(A Conspiracy of Faith, A Horrible Woman), Abubakar Salim (Fortitude, Jamestown), Winta McGrath (Aloft, Red Dog: True Blue), Niamh Algar (The Virtues, Calm With Horses), Matias Varela (Narcos, Point Break), Felix Jamieson (Game of Thrones, The Ghost), Ethan Hazzard (The Long Song, Damned), Jordan Loughran (The Infiltrator, Emerald City), Aasiya Shah (Call the Midwife, Unforgotten) and Ivy Wong (Star Wars: Rogue One, Maleficent 2). 
 
The series is produced by Scott's Scott Free Productions, with Scott, Guzikowski, David W. Zucker (The Man in the High Castle), Jordan Sheehan (The Terror), Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners) and Mark Huffam (The Martian) serving as executive producers. 

Strange Adventures & A Green Lantern-Inspired Series Coming to HBO Max

This week, Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Titans, Doom Patrol) announced at the HBO Max WarnerMedia Day two new projects in the works exclusively for the new streaming platform — Strange Adventures and a Green Lantern inspired series. 

“Both of these original DC properties we’ll be creating for HBO Max will be unlike anything seen on television,” said Berlanti. “An anthology series of cautionary tales set in a world where superpowers exist, and, in what promises to be our biggest DC show ever made, we will be going to space with a Green Lantern television series, but I can’t reveal any more about that just yet.”

Strange Adventures, a DC Super Hero anthology series executive produced by Berlanti, will feature characters from across the DC canon. This one-hour drama series will explore close-ended morality tales about the intersecting lives of mortals and superhumans. Strange Adventures is based on the characters from DC and is produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Berlanti, Sarah Schechter (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Titans, Doom Patrol), and showrunner/writer John Stephens (Gotham, Gossip Girl) serve as executive producers. Charlie Huston (Powers, Gotham) is a co-executive producer, Brigitte Hales (Once Upon a Time) is a producer, and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, The Twilight Zone) is a consulting producer.

The Green Lantern inspired series, based on the characters from the iconic DC comic, will come from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Creepshow Renewed For Second Season (Shudder)

Following a record-setting first season, Shudder — AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural — today announced the season two renewal of its horror anthology series, Creepshow. Executive produced by showrunner Greg Nicotero (​The Walking Dead), Creepshowis based on the iconic 1982 movie written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero. 

Creepshow, Shudder’s first hour-long scripted series, has been a hit with its members and critics alike. The series is rated 92% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and was called one of the “10 best shows on TV right now“ by Paste Magazine. More than 50% of Shudder members watched at least one episode of the series, and the show has also helped drive record growth for the streaming service. 

“Creepshow has met every expectation we had for Shudder’s first original scripted series and then some, with record numbers across the board,” said Shudder GM Craig Engler. “Greg Nicotero and his team delivered an amazing show that’s unlike anything else on TV and we’re thrilled and delighted to bring it back for another season.”

“For me, Creepshow has been a true labor of love,” said Nicotero. “To be able to pay tribute to George A. Romero’s visionary project and have the show so embraced by fans everywhere is humbling to this horror kid from Pittsburgh. I couldn’t be more pleased and look forward to continuing the series with more ghoulish delight.”

“Working with Greg Nicotero and Shudder on Creepshow has been a dream come true,” said Stan Spry, executive producer for the series and CEO of the Cartel. “We’re thrilled to carry on the Creepshow legacy with season two.”

The season one finale airs Thursday, October 31, both on demand and on the Shudder TV live-stream at 9:00 pm ET/6:00 pm PT. Shudder is available on all your favorite devices and platforms, including Apple TV Channels.

Season one of Creepshow stars David Arquette (​Scream franchise), Adrienne Barbeau (​The Fog), Tobin Bell (​Saw), Big Boi (​Scream: The TV Series), Jeffrey Combs (​Star Trek, Re-Animator), Kid Cudi (​Drunk Parents), Bruce Davison (​X-Men), Giancarlo Esposito (​Better Call Saul), Dana Gould (​Stan Against Evil), Tricia Helfer (​Battlestar Galactica) and DJ Qualls (Supernatural) and features adaptations of stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill, Joe R. Lansdale, Josh Malerman and others. Nicotero’s Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Make-up Effects studio KNB EFX GROUP will again serve as creature creators.

Shudder’s​ Creepshow is produced by the Cartel with Monster Agency Productions, Taurus Entertainment, and Striker Entertainment: Stan Spry, Jeff Holland, and Eric Woods are executive producers for the Cartel; Greg Nicotero and Brian Witten are executive producers for Monster Agency Productions; Robert Dudelson, James Dudelson and Jordan Kizwani are executive producers for Taurus Entertainment; Russell Binder is executive producer and Marc Mostman co-executive producer for Striker Entertainment.

Sci Fi Magazine - February 2020

If you happen to be passing a newsstand, check out the new issue of Sci Fi Magazine (February 2020 issue) which contains my "TV in Focus" section interviews with Jenny Boyd (Legacies), Jonathan Walker (Van Helsing), Kyle Schmid (The I-Land), Max Brallier & Nick Wolfhard (The Last Kids on Earth), Joel Allen (The Purge), Owian Yeoman (Emergence), Grant Wilson (Ghost Hunters), Staz Nair (Supergirl), Kate Purdy (Undone) and Brian J. Smith (Treadstone) as well as my feature interviews with Melissa McBride (The Walking Dead), Greg Nicotero (Creepshow) and Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi (For All Mankind). If you live in the U.S. and cannot find a copy of the magazine at your local newsstand you can order it directly - SCI FI Circulation, P.O. Box 1654, Williamsport, PA 17703. Single copies are $5.00 plus $2.00 for postage. Yearly subscriptions can also be purchased - U.S.A. $16.95; Canada and overseas $30.95 US$. Thanks as always for your continued support!

Steve Eramo

Sci-Fi Blast From the Past - Rachel Nichols (Continuum)

It has been a while since I posted Sci-Fi Blast From the Past pieces, so I thought I would take some time out to do just that. Again, these are interviews that appeared in print only but never on-line. First up, the lovely and talented Rachel Nichols chats with me during the filming of Continuum's final season. Enjoy! 

On this particular Wednesday afternoon in early May, Rachel Nichols is travelling from Vancouver to the nearby city of Surrey, where she and the rest of the Continuum cast and crew are working on-location filming scenes for the last two episodes of the show’s fourth and final season. It was four years ago that the actress was cast as CPS (City Protective Services) Officer Kiera Cameron who, along a group of convicted terrorists calling themselves Liber8, was transported from 2077 Vancouver to the year 2012. With help from a tech-savvy teenager named Alec Sadler as well as Vancouver City Police Detective Carlos Fonnegra, our heroine set out to stop Liber8 from changing history and altering a future where major corporations have replaced world governments. The endgame of her mission, though, has changed a great deal since Kiera’s arrival in the present.

“Kiera has gone through quite a bit since we first met her,” notes Nichols. “In season one, her mindset was very much one of, I’ve got to get home. Then, in season two, yes, she still really wanted to go home, but Kiera understood that she had a mission to complete before she could ever have any hope of getting back home to her family. Last year in the third season, Kiera missed her son Sam dearly, but realized that she couldn’t be an ostrich and just stick her head in the sand and hope that someone sent her back to what was the horrible future that she came from in order to save her husband and child.

“So I’ve always felt that for the good of humanity in season three, Kiera chose a better future for all of humankind as opposed to returning to the same bad future for herself. This [fourth] season, she’s very much focused on the idea that there’s still a chance that she could get back home and all hopes are not dashed. However, any alliance with Matthew Kellog [Stephen Lobo] or Brad Tonkin [Ryan Robbins], who became a big part of her life last year, is tricky. After all, we saw what happened when [in the third season finale Last Minute] Kiera and Brad stuck the beacon into the ground and six super soldiers arrived from a totally different timeline. Kiera would never attempt to return home, though, if it meant she was leaving the present day in a big mess for Carlos [Victor Webster] and Alec [Eric Knudsen] to clean up.

“Playing this character of Kiera has become a very interesting experience for me. I’ve worked on single seasons of The Inside, Alias and Criminal Minds, but doing four years of Continuum has given me this wonderful sense of being part of a family. Also, in stepping back into the Kiera role every year, it has become so familiar to me. For example, I don’t have any children, but on the show Kiera has a seven-year-old son Sam, who feels very much like a part of my own life, if you know what I mean. So when it comes to scenes with her and Sam, or when we talk about Kiera potentially getting back to him, the emotions that are there and readily available. I’ve never really had the luxury of that before in previous roles, so that’s become very special to me.

“This experience is also bittersweet, because although we all know this is the end, we’re kind of looking at it and thinking how fortunate we are to have the opportunity to finish the show rather than to have been just cancelled and left things up in the air at the end of season three. We have these six episodes to wrap up the story and the show. So, again, it’s bittersweet, but ultimately it’s more sweet than bitter.”

In Continuum’s season two finale Second Time, Alec uses time travel technology to save his girlfriend Emily’s (Magda Apanowicz) life. His actions not only create an alternate timeline, but also duplicate versions of himself as well as Kiera. One of the Kieras is killed in the season three opener Minute by Minute, while the other enters into an uneasy alliance with the Freelances, a group of time travelers who are determined to repair the damaged timeline. As season three unfolds, Kiera and Carlos continue to fight Liber8, and Brad Tonkin, who comes from a bleak future timeline, teams up with Kiera to prevent his timeline from ever happening. Meanwhile, ex-Liber8 member Matthew Kellog carries on pursuing his own agenda. In the show’s fourth season, some trusts are mended as others are further strained, while new partnerships are formed and certain events take place that surprised even Nichols.

“Alec and Kiera have gone through a couple of bumpy moments over the past couple of seasons, and especially last year with two Alecs,” notes the actress. “Luckily it was the ‘good’ Alec who wound up killing the ‘bad’ Alec at the end of season three, and in the fourth season, he and Kiera are very much on the same page again and pretty much trust each other more than anyone else.

“With Inspector Dillon [Brian Markinson] having been badly injured at the end of season three, Carlos has stepped into his position of inspector at the Vancouver Police Department this year, so he has to be more careful than ever to play the good cop. He’s always had a very strong moral code and that great sort of hero/leading man/everyman way about him, but now that he’s been handed more responsibility, Carlos has to prove he is up to the challenge and can do the job. So there’s obviously going to be a bit of a strain between him and Kiera, who sometimes does things in a rather cloak and dagger fashion and is used to getting away with it. However, she doesn’t really have Carlos in a position to help her any more.

“As for Kellog, he can never be trusted, or at least that’s what Kiera thinks for the majority of season four, but there are times when he does come through for her. The same is true of Brad Tonkin. He’s from this other timeline where Kellog is a warlord and sent those super soldiers into the present at the end of the third season. So with Brad and Kellog, as much as Kiera is wondering if she can trust them, the two of them are wondering if they can trust her.

“When it comes to Liber8, they are almost no more if you think about it. Given the end of last season, Kellog is off doing his own thing and running Piron now. Kagame [Tony Amendola] is gone, as well as Sonya [Lexa Doig), who was killed in season three, and then there’s Travis [Roger Cross], Garza [Luvia Petersen] and Lucas [Omari Newton], who are no longer operating as a team. So Liber8 has pretty much disbanded, and its remaining members along with Kiera are in different camps. I will tell you that there’s a scene in season four that includes some former Liber8 members, some law officials, Kiera, Alec and a couple of other characters, all of whom are at a peaceful gathering. If you told me back in season one that these people would all be together one day in the same room, I’d have said, ‘How is that going to happen?’”

Even with all the high-tech gadgetry that Kiera brought with her to the present – including a nifty “super suit” – she has had to depend on her physical prowess more than once to get her out of a tight spot. Continuum fans can expect plenty more action-packed scenes involving Kiera in season four.

“It’s revealed pretty quickly this season that the super soldiers who arrived at the end of last season are here for a reason,” reveals Nichols. “We discover if they’re good or bad, what they want and what Brad Tonkin’s relationship is with them. The main goal of the soldiers is housed within the facility that we’re filming at today in Surrey, which, of course, we’re pretending is in downtown Vancouver. You’re going to see Carlos as well as Kiera in these scenes that are going to involve plenty of fighting, lots of gunfire and, I hope, some explosions.”

Given all the trials and tribulations that her character has been through and the sacrifices she has made, is Nichols pleased with where Kiera Cameron ends up in Continuum’s season four/series finale? “I am,” she answers. “I’m not about to say that every single question is answered and the finale is a neat little package tied up in a bow, because that wouldn’t be Continuum. I’m holding out hope that there’s a future somewhere for Continuum, so you’re never going to want to tie up all the loose ends, and for that reason I like where Kiera as well as the rest of the characters end up. I think it’s enough to satiate the requests of the fans and clear up all the big mysteries, but there are also plenty of questions remaining that will leave the fans as well as the cast wanting more.

“Simon Barry [series creator/executive producer] wrote the last episode and he did an incredible job, as he’s always done and as all of our writers have always done, but the finale is, I think, the best written episode since probably our first two. We’ve already shot the show’s last two scenes and that was amazingly difficult to do. It wasn’t just the content of the scenes, but also knowing that they were the final scenes, at least for now, that I’d play as Kiera Cameron.”

Steve Eramo

American Gods Begins Production on Season Three (STARZ)

(L-R): Ian McShane and Ricky Whittle. Photo courtesy/copyright of STARZ.

STARZ, a Lionsgate Company, announced the start of production on the third season of its visually stunning series, American Gods. The 10-episode season of the one-hour scripted drama adapted from Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel has begun production in Toronto.

In Season Three, showrunner Charles “Chic” Eglee, takes viewers into the snowy, eerie, little town of Lakeside, Wisconsin with new guest stars Dominique Jackson (Pose) as Ms. World—an incarnation of the infamous Mr. World and Eric Johnson (The Girlfriend Experience, Vikings) as Chad Mulligan—Lakeside’s Chief of Police, in addition to the previously announced Marilyn Manson (Salem, Sons of Anarchy) as Johan Wengren, Blythe Danner (Huff, Will & Grace) as Demeter and Herizen Guardiola (The Get Down) as Oshun. Ashley Reyes (Night Has Settled) was also announced as a series regular.

Dominique Jackson. Photo courtesy/copyright of STARZ.

Eric Johnson. Photo courtesy/copyright of STARZ.

Returning cast members include Ricky Whittle (The 100, Austenland) as Shadow Moon, Ian McShane (Deadwood, Ray Donovan) as Mr. Wednesday, Emily Browning (Sucker Punch, The Affair) as Laura Moon, Yetide Badaki (Aquarius, This Is Us) as Bilquis, Bruce Langley (Deadly Waters) as Technical Boy, Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) as Mr. World, Omid Abtahi (Damien, Legends) as Salim, Peter Stormare (Fargo, Prison Break) as Czernobog, Demore Barnes (12 Monkeys, Waco) as Mr. Ibis and Devery Jacobs (Cardinal, The Order) as Sam Black Crow.

Danger Close Coming In November To Theaters, Digital & On-Demand

Written by Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) and directed by Kriv Stenders (Red Dog), Danger Close stars Travis Fimmel (Warcraft: The Beginning), Luke Bracey (G.I. Joe: Retaliation), Daniel Webber (TV’s The Punisher), Alexander England (Alien: Covenant), Aaron Glenane (TV’s Picnic at Hanging Rock), Nicholas Hamilton (It), Myles Pollard (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Matt Doran (The Matrix), with Anthony Hayes (Animal Kingdom), and Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!).

In Danger Close, Major Harry Smith (Travis Fimmel) and his company of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives in the Battle of Long tan.   With 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong soldiers closing in, their ammunition running out and casualties mounting, each man searches for the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. Saban Films will release Danger Close in theaters, on digital and on demand on November 8, 2019.