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Audiences have grown accustomed to dark visions of what could have been. Television alone has been bombarding the public with intriguing dramas that rewrite history, thus showing us the darker recesses of human behavior. Classics such as Sliders and Fringe or modern binge-worthy shows like Dark Matter and The Man in the High Castle make us thankful for our world and the choices we’ve made while horrifying us with glimpses into bleaker universes.

Even some of television’s most popular sitcoms have shown us what could have been, and while they might be trying to create laughs, they still have indirectly sent the odd shiver down the spines of viewers as well. Let’s take a look at some of the most hilarious, yet terrifying alternate realities in sitcoms.

Red Dwarf – “Parallel Universe”

Any fan of the immortal Red Dwarf will probably agree that, while it’s great that...

House of the Dragon finally redeemed Game of Thrones for its terrible ending and it seems that the fans of the high fantasy series are getting back up on the Got train. Based on George R.R. Martin‘s book Fire & Blood, the Game of Thrones prequel series takes place 200 years before the events of the original series and it revolves around the internal conflicts of the House of Targaryen. House of the Dragon stars Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen, Rhys Ifans as Otta Hightower, Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon, Eve Best as Rhaenys Velaryon, Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria, and Fabien Frankel as Criston Cole. So, if you loved the high fantasy, political drama, brutal violence, and medieval setting in House of the Dragon here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Game of Thrones is an epic fantasy and...

The project stars American actress/model Devon Ross.

The production of director Dominik Sedlar’s Second World War feature Vindicta is underway in Croatia.

The film stars Devon Ross (HBO’s Irma Vep), Jack Bandeira, Sam Hazeldine (Peaky Blinders), Pip Torrens, Suzanne Bertish and Anna Madeley.

Austrian producer Veit Heiduschka, who has produced several of Michael Haneke’s films including Happy End, Amour, The White Ribbon and Hidden, is producing alongside Croatia Film’s creative director Zeljko Zima, Stephen Ollendorff, Alan Green, Wendy Benge and Sedlar.

It is Croatian-born US filmmaker Sedlar’s third successive feature with a Second World...

The sequel to the hit 2018 horror film The Nun is finally here and it is directed by Michael Chaves with a screenplay written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and Akela Cooper from a story by Akela Cooper. The new addition to The Conjuring Universe follows the investigation of a violent murder of a priest led by Sister Irene. The Nun II is set nearly four years after the first film.

The Nun II stars Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene, Bonnie Aarons as Demon Nun, Storm Reid as Debra, Anna Popplewell as Kate, Jonas Bloquet as Maurice, Katelyn Rose Downey as Sophie, Natalia Safran as Sister Chloe, David Horovitch as Cardinal Conroy, Alexandra Gentil as Sister Astrid, Tamar Baruch as Sister Amara, Peter Hudson as Father Ridley, Pascal Aubert as Father Noiret, and Suzanne Bertish as Madame Laurent.

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The Nun II...

The following contains major spoilers for "The Nun II."

Fire is one of the most potent and common elements seen in religious iconography, for very good reasons. It not only turns up as a representative of God in the Jewish and Christian faiths (the infamous "burning bush" seen by Moses), it also acts as a catch-all symbol for faith itself. Fire can be seen as an agent of purification, burning away sin and corruption. It can also be seen as a perpetual force that represents the staunch power of one's belief, often in the form of a lit candle.

It's no surprise, then, that fire is all over "The Nun II," literally and metaphorically. The movie is the 9th in the film series The Conjuring Universe, movies that began as fictionalized adaptations of the life and times of demon hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga...

Now on its ninth feature entry in just a decade, the “Conjuring” franchise has proved something of a powerhouse in the continued growth of horror as one of the most reliably popular (not to mention cost-effective) mainstream film genres. Their mythologies may be garbled and silly, the scares mostly “jump” ones, yet these movies provide a kind of creepy comfort food — familiarly formulaic jolts unlikely to trouble any non-child viewer’s sleep later on — whose satisfactions are amplified by the good actors and superior atmospherics deployed.

Defying the law of diminishing returns, 2018’s spinoff “The Nun” was (and so far remains) the franchise’s biggest hit to date. Ergo enter “The Nun II,” a direct sequel. In some respects an improvement on its predecessor, in others not, this is finally one more good-enough if unmemorable entry sure to extend the series’ life in lucrative fashion.

Storywise, the prior “Nun” entry...

Early commuters were surprised to see seven nuns dressed in a demonic fashion this morning in London at several well-known landmarks. This signals the upcoming release of ‘The Nun II’ on September 8th, 2023.

Early in the morning, there were reports of frightening nuns near St Paul’s Cathedral. They later appeared on the Millennium Bridge, wearing their traditional habits, and even levitated across the Thames to scare commuters on the south side of the river. These nuns seem to have adapted to life in the city and were seen boarding a bus to Seven Sisters, presumably to return home and continue their mischievous actions.

And after evading discovery in the capital, the mystifying robed figures—appearing to defy gravity by the sea—were reported by a couple strolling on the beach by Seven Sisters Cliffs in East Sussex, with the nuns spooking people on the south coast too.

Demonic nuns have been spotted across London,...

Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review — Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Reid Carolin and starring Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek Pinault, Juliette Motamed, Caitlin Gerard, Alan Cox, Christopher Villiers, Vicki Pepperdine, Christie-Leigh Emby, Kasey Iliana Sfetsios, Suzanne Bertish, Christopher Bencomo, Gavin Spokes, Ethan Lawrence, Kylie [...]

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Exclusive: Roadside Attractions has snapped up North American rights to Terence Davies’ well-received TIFF and London Film Festival drama Benediction.

Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) stars as WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon, alongside Peter Capaldi, Geraldine James, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Calam Lynch, Anton Lesser, Jeremy Irvine, Ben Daniels, Lia Williams, Jude Akuwudike, Suzanne Bertish and Simon Russell Beale.

Following its world premiere at TIFF and its berth at San Sebastian where it won the Jury Prize, the film is debuting in the UK tonight at the London Film Festival.

Roadside, which struck the deal with UK sales firm Bankside, plans to release the film theatrically in spring 2022.

Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Davies, the biopic explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Sassoon. The writer and soldier was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became...

One of our greatest working directors has wrapped production on his latest film. Following 2011’s The Deep Blue Sea, 2015’s Sunset Song, and 2016’s A Quiet Passion, British director Terence Davies was set to begin shooting Benediction, about World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, earlier this year, but the pandemic halted plans. He was able to recently resume and now the film has wrapped.

Led by Jack Lowden he plays Sassoon, marking Davies’ second biopic of a poet, immediately following his Emily Dickinson film. Sassoon was known for his epic, satirical poems detailing trench warfare and the horrors of a war in which he fought bravely but spoke out against. He was also a closeted gay man in Britain, where those in power considered his sexual identity a crime.

The film, which has debuted its first image above via Deadline, also stars Peter Capaldi as Sassoon in his older years,...

Exclusive: Terence Davies’ (A Quiet Passion) Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction has wrapped in the UK, with joining cast including Geraldine James (Downton Abbey), Kate Phillips (Downton Abbey), Gemma Jones (Ammonite), Anton Lesser (Game Of Thrones), Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Ben Daniels (The Crown), Lia Williams (The Crown), Jude Akuwudike (Gangs Of London), Suzanne Bertish (Atlantic Crossing), Simon Russell Beale (The Death Of Stalin) and newcomer Callum Lynch.

Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden leads cast as WWI poet and soldier Sassoon. As we previously revealed, Peter Capaldi will play Sassoon in his later years.

The film, which had to go on a lengthy hiatus caused by the pandemic, has wrapped on locations in the West Midlands. Bankside has world sales rights and will be showing a promo to buyers at the upcoming AFM.

Sassoon was decorated for bravery on the Western Front and is remembered for his...

Network: PBSEpisodes: 12 (hour)Seasons: TwoTV show dates: January 17, 2016 — March 5, 2017.Series status: CancelledPerformers include: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Donna Murphy, Norbert Leo Butz, McKinley Belcher III, Shalita Grant, L. Scott Caldwell, Hannah James, Wade Williams, AnnaSophia Robb, Tara Summers, Brad Koed, Luke Macfarlane, Cameron Monaghan, Suzanne Bertish, and Cherry Jones.TV show description:This Civil War era historical drama focuses on the doctors, nurses, contraband laborers, and Confederate loyalists at the Mansion House Hospital in Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia. It is set prior to the Emancipation Proclamation.A New Englander, abolitionist, and feminist, widowed nurse Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) trained under Dorothea Dix, and is new to Mansion House Hospital. Struggling with guilt over her inability to save the life of her late husband,...

While the quality of mercy is not strained, television productions (and their budgets) often are. We are sad to report the Mercy Street TV show on PBS has been cancelled. There will be no season three on PBS. Ridley Scott, David Zucker, and David Zabel, executive produced the series.A Civil War-era medical drama, Mercy Street follows the doctors, nurses, contraband laborers, and Confederate loyalists at the Mansion House Hospital in Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia. It is set prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. The PBS TV series stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Donna Murphy, Norbert Leo Butz, McKinley Belcher III, Shalita Grant, L. Scott Caldwell, Hannah James, Wade Williams, AnnaSophia Robb, Tara Summers, Brad Koed, Luke Macfarlane, Cameron Monaghan, Suzanne Bertish, and Cherry Jones.Read More…...

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Chris Wood will recur in the second season of the Mercy Street TV show on PBS. Wood played Kai Parker in season six of The Vampire Diaries on The CW. He was also Adam Weaver on The Carrie Diaries, and can currently be seen on Vampire Diaries' Ep Julie Plec's new series, Containment.

Earlier this week, PBS announced Brían F. O’Byrne, Patina Miller, and Bryce Pinkham are joining the Mercy Street season two cast. Returning cast members include: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, Gary Cole, Hannah James, Brad Koed, Jr., and Norbert Leo Butz. Also returning are Tara Summers, McKinley Belcher III, Jack Falahee, AnnaSophia Robb, Donna Murphy, L. Scott Caldwell, Suzanne Bertish, and Luke Macfarlane.

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Production has begun on the second season of the Mercy Street TV series coming to PBS. Actor Zivan Holloway, who is new to the show tweeted and posted a photo to his Instagram account. "Good Morning from the set of #MercyStreetPBS Day Three filming Season 2. Day One for me on set!…"

Mercy Street is a Civil War era historical drama focusing on the doctors, nurses, and laborers, at the Mansion House Hospital in Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia. The Mercy Street cast also includes: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Donna Murphy, Norbert Leo Butz, McKinley Belcher III, Shalita Grant, L. Scott Caldwell, Hannah James, Wade Williams, AnnaSophia Robb, Tara Summers, Brad Koed, Luke Macfarlane, Cameron Monaghan, Suzanne Bertish, and Cherry Jones.

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Have mercy! While the second season of the Mercy Street TV series isn't coming to PBS until 2017, the network is already promoting it. Watch a teaser, below.

The Mercy Street TV show cast includes: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Donna Murphy, Norbert Leo Butz, McKinley Belcher III, Shalita Grant, L. Scott Caldwell, Hannah James, Wade Williams, AnnaSophia Robb, Tara Summers, Brad Koed, Luke Macfarlane, Cameron Monaghan, Suzanne Bertish, and Cherry Jones.

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PBS has renewed the Mercy Street TV series for a second season. Set prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, this Civil War era medical drama follows the doctors, nurses, laborers, and Confederate loyalists at the Mansion House Hospital in Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia.

The cast of Mercy Street includes: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Donna Murphy, Norbert Leo Butz, McKinley Belcher III, Shalita Grant, L. Scott Caldwell, Hannah James, Wade Williams, AnnaSophia Robb, Tara Summers, Brad Koed, Luke Macfarlane, Cameron Monaghan, Suzanne Bertish, and Cherry Jones.

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Suzanne Bertish and Paxton Whitehead have been selected to receive the 2014 Joe A. Callaway Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation. The award, honoring the best performance in a professional production of a classic play one written prior to 1920 in the New York metropolitan area, will be presented at Equity's Eastern Regional Membership Meeting at 2 pm today, January 9, 2015 at the Equity offices, 165 West 46th Street, New York.

Suzanne Bertish and Paxton Whitehead have been selected to receive the 2014 Joe A. Callaway Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation. The award, honoring the best performance in a professional production of a classic play one written prior to 1920 in the New York metropolitan area, will be presented at Equity's Eastern Regional Membership Meeting at 2 pm on Friday, January 9, 2015 at the Equity offices, 165 West 46th Street, New York. The announcement was made by Arne Gundersen, President of the Foundation and Joan Glazer, Managing Director.

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, will present David Ives' The Heir Apparent, adapted from the play by Jean-Francois Regnard, beginning performances Friday, March 28 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. Directed by John Rando, The Heir Apparent will feature Suzanne Bertish Madame Argante, Carson Elrod Crispin, Claire Karpen Lisette, Amelia Pedlow Isabelle, David Pittu Scruple, Dave Quay Eraste and Paxton Whitehead Geronte. The official press opening for The Heir Apparent is Wednesday, April 9. The production will play at limited engagement through Sunday, May 4.

Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Machinal, starring Rebecca Hall, written by Sophie Treadwell and directed by Lyndsey Turner, began previews on December 20 and opened on January 16, 2014 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway. Machinal is a limited engagement through March 2.Below you can check out photos of Suzanne Bertish in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In The Spotlight' by acclaimed photographer Walter McBride...

Stage and screen actor best known for his roles in Only Fools and Horses, The Vicar of Dibley and Harry Potter

The talented and idiosyncratic character actor Roger Lloyd Pack, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 69, achieved national recognition, and huge popularity, as Colin "Trigger" Ball, the lugubrious Peckham road sweeper in John Sullivan's brilliantly acted comedy series Only Fools and Horses. He appeared alongside David Jason's Del Boy and Nicholas Lyndhurst's "plonker" Rodney from 1981 for 10 years, with many a seasonal "special" for another decade.

This success cemented a career in which, up to that point, he had played important roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Almeida theatre in north London – he was a notably anguished Rosmer in Ibsen's Rosmersholm at the National in 1987, opposite Suzanne Bertish – without recognition any wider than usually appreciative reviews.

His enhanced status led to another...

Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director will present Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall as 'Young Woman' in a new Broadway production of Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Lyndsey Turner. The cast will include Suzanne Bertish as 'Mother', Michael Cumpsty as 'Husband',Morgan Spector as 'Lover' and Damian Baldet, Ashley Bell, Jeff Biehl, Arnie Burton, Ryan Dinning, Scott Drummond, Dion Graham, Edward James Hyland, Jason Loughlin, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Daniel Pearce, Henny Russell, Karen Walsh,Michael Warner.The cast met the press earlier today and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below. Check back later for full coverage.

New York -- Another "Sex and the City" star has made her way to Broadway but she's brought along a different kind of cocktail.

Cynthia Nixon has a combination of the drugs Hexamethophosphacil and Vinplatin in her veins as she fights back ovarian cancer in a tight and powerful Manhattan Theatre Club production of "Wit," which opened Thursday at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

The play about the final days of a scholar of John Donne's metaphysical poetry is making its Broadway premiere 13 years after it earned playwright Margaret Edson the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

It is a deceptive play – seemingly so simple yet layered with nuance and self-consciousness. "I've got less than two hours. Then: curtain," quips the scholar at the top of the piece in a typically – yes, witty – line.

The part of Professor Vivian Bearing is catnip for any serious actress – Emma Thompson and Judith Light have...

Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway premiere of Wit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow, will start previews Thursday, January 5 and open Thursday, January 26 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Wit features Pun Bandhu Technician, Olivier Award winner Suzanne Bertish E.M. Ashford, Michael Countryman Harvey KelekianMr. Bearing, Jessica Dickey Technician, Chik Johnson Technician, Greg Keller Jason Posner, Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon Vivian Bearing, Carra Patterson Susie Monahan, and Zachary Spicer Technician.The company met the press on Tuesday, Decmber 13 and BroadwayBeat was on hand for interviews with Cynthia Nixona and Lynn Meadow. Click below to check it out...

Manhattan Theatre Clubs upcoming Broadway premiere of Wit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow, will start previews Thursday, January 5 and open Thursday, January 26 at MTCs Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Wit features Pun Bandhu Technician, Olivier Award winner Suzanne Bertish E.M. Ashford, Michael Countryman Harvey KelekianMr. Bearing, Jessica Dickey Technician, Chik Johnson Technician, Greg Keller Jason Posner, Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon Vivian Bearing, Carra Patterson Susie Monahan, and Zachary Spicer Technician.Today, the company met the press and BroadwayWorld was on hand for the photo op...

She had warmth, wit and talent. But most of all, she embodied the quality of friendship, recalls the playwright

Anna Massey was for a long time acknowledged and admired as the owner of the best fictional voice on BBC radio, and if you were lucky enough to meet her in person, then you would recognise that the voice was the woman: funny, warm, intelligent and lucid, with a sharp edge which very quietly but firmly kept you in line.

She and I were friends for 40 years, and if she hadn't died so soon, we intended to be friends for a great deal longer. In fact, when I think of friendship, I think of Anna: regular phone calls, very good jokes and steadfast loyalty.

She appeared in my first play, Slag. It had made a fair splash at Hampstead in 1970 when I was just 23, but the following year the Royal Court...

Manhattan Theatre Club has just announced full casting for the upcoming Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow. Joining Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon as Vivian Bearing will be Pun Bandhu Technician, Olivier Award winner Suzanne Bertish E.M. Ashford, Michael Countryman Harvey KelekianMr. Bearing, Jessica Dickey Technician, Chik Johnson Technician, Greg Keller Jason Posner, Carra Patterson Susie Monahan, and Zachary Spicer Technician.

Novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan turned an unusual trick at the book festival on Sunday: instead of reading from his book, he imported a trio of actors – Ian McDiarmid, Suzanne Bertish and Andrew Hawley – to "do" the voices in his latest, canine-narrated novel, which features Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and a dog called Maf. The novel is slated to become a Hollywood film: Mike Newell is on the cards to direct, and Angelina Jolie and George Clooney to star. Not bad for a one-time Guardian feature writer.

O'Hagan was also chairing – and providing enthusiastic cheerleading for – Bill Clegg, the American literary agent who has written a startling memoir of his addiction to crack cocaine, Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man. Clegg, giving his only public interview about the book, spoke with immense clarity and humility about his dark and secret descent into addiction – and how he managed, for a while,...

It looks like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie are going to star in a new film that will be an adaption of the novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend, Marilyn Monroe. Clooney will play Frank Sinatra, and Jolie will take on the role of Marilyn Monroe in the story.

The book was written by Andrew O'Hagan and is set to be released this December. It serves as a biopic of Monroe, told through the eyes of her Scottish maltese poodle, Mafia Honey (nicknamed Maf), given to her as a present by Sinatra.

O'Hagan announced the news at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Here's what The Times reported:

O’Hagan, who was also accompanied on stage by Suzanne Bertish and Andrew Hawley, announced that a film adaptation of his book, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe,...

A Rome feature film is becoming less of a "maybe some day" and more of a "definitely soon." At the end of 2008 it was reported here that series co-creator Bruno Heller wanted to see Rome rise again. There doesn't seem to be much holding it back now, with the script having been completed and the stars having a desire to film it.

HBO may be realizing that they prematurely cancelled Rome, a co-production with the BBC. The program shows the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Heller had a multi-year plan for the series but, when he learned the it was ending after the second season, he hurried his story along. The series stars Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson, and also features Indira Varma, David Bamber, Chiara Mastalli, Manfredi Aliquo, Suzanne Bertish, Max Pirkis, Lee Boardman, Esther Hall, and Ciaran Hinds.

Constantin Film just sent us the first official movie still from the upcoming film “Pope Joan” by director Sonke Wortmann and starring John Goodman (The Princess and the Frog, Alabama Moon), David Wenham (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 300), Iain Glen (Harry Brown), Anatole Taubman (Quantum of Solace), Johanna Wokalek and Suzanne Bertish (Rome). Film Synopsis: A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and more from “Pope Joan”.

Due to popular demand and great ticket sales, McCarter Theatre Center has added a performance of its acclaimed production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession on Sunday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. Staged by McCarter Artistic Director Emily Mann, the cast features Suzanne Bertish in the title role, along with Robin Chadwick, Edward Hibbert, Madeleine Hutchins, Michael Izquierdo, and Rocco Sisto.

Despite being one of HBO's most popular TV shows, Rome was cancelled after two short seasons. Devoted viewers were outraged that the historical drama could be cut so short. Now, if the series' co-creator Bruno Heller has his way, Rome will rise again.

A co-production mainly between HBO and the BBC, Rome showcases the often violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. While past dramatizations of this period have focused almost exclusively on the political leaders of the day, much of Rome's screen time is devoted to two common soldiers, Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson). The large cast also includes Indira Varma, David Bamber, Chiara Mastalli, Manfredi Aliquo, Suzanne Bertish, Max Pirkis, Lee Boardman, Esther Hall, and Ciaran Hinds.

Rome ran for two seasons and 22 episodes on HBO, debuting on August 28, 2005. The premiere attracted 3.8 million viewers and lots of positive reviews. A few weeks later,...

Maxime Alexandre, the director of photography for Mirrors, High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes, is set to make his directorial debut on a new thriller entitled Holy Money. The film stars Aaron Stanford (The Hills Have Eyes), Karl Roden (Blade II), Ben Gazzara, Joaquim de Almeida, Suzanne Bertish, Valeria Solarino, Nicola Di Pinto, Tiberio Murgia, Luca Angeletti, Pino Colizzi and Francesco Guzzo. Written by Philippa Goslett and M. Christine Vanden Eede, inside you can check out the synopsis for the film. Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineyard in Sant'Angelo, the village his parents came from in Italy...