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“Stranger Things” actor Brett Gelman is set to star in “Entitled,” a half-hour comedy series ordered at Showtime in the U.S. and Channel 4 in the U.K.

Created by Matt Morgan, the show follows Gabe (Gelman), an American widower who must get to know his British wife’s estranged family. In their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside, they compete for his affections — and his newly inherited fortune.

A co-production between Showtime and Channel 4 in association with All3Media International, “Entitled” is executive produced by Morgan and Gelman, along with Harry Williams, Jack Williams and Sarah Hammond of Two Brothers Pictures, the producers behind “Fleabag,” which Gelman was featured on alongside creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Tim Kirby is directing the eight-episode first season of the show and also executive producing.

Production on “Entitled” is set to begin in Manchester, England, in August. Showtime and Channel 4 are targeting a 2023 premiere for the series.

Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts and Anita Sheehan.

After 23 years and a body of work that spans 15 features, five TV series, two docos and three shorts, Porchlight Films will cease operations as founding partners Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts and Anita Sheehan move on to pursue new opportunities individually.

The company is best known internationally for producing three of David Michôd’s four features, including his Oscar-nominated debut, Animal Kingdom, as well as The Rover and Netflix’s The King.

Other notable film credits include Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang, Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene, Rachel Perkins’ Jasper Jones, Tony Krawitz’ Jewboy and Dead Europe, Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter, Tony Ayres’ The Home Song Stories and Walking on Water, Cate Shortland’s Lore, Rowan Woods’ Little Fish and David Caesar’s Mullet.

In television and episodic, the team have produced Foxtel drama The Kettering Incident, created by Vicki Madden...

Australian production firm Porchlight Films will cease operations after 23 years of making features that include Justin Kurzel’s “True History of the Kelly Gang,” and Garth Davis’ “Mary Magdalene.” The company also produced David Michod’s 2010 Australian “Animal Kingdom” feature that sparked a successful U.S. TV series.

The three founding partners Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts and Anita Sheehan will move on to pursue new opportunities individually. Watts and Vincent Sheehan will continue to work on projects currently in development. Anita Sheehan, MD of Porchlight since 2015, will take a short break before pursuing other business opportunities.

The three partners will retain ownership of Jetty Distribution, which will continue to manage the ongoing rights in Porchlight’s catalogue.

Productions currently being financed will continue to be produced under the Porchlight banner into 2021. These include Kitty Flanagan’s comedy series “Entitled” and Nakkiah Lui and Gabe Dowrick’s “Preppers.”

The company’s...

Joel Edgerton will produce and star in Thomas M Wright’s ‘The Unknown Man’.

Amid turbulent times for the sector, Screen Australia has some positive news, announcing production funding for three feature films, four television series, a children’s series and two online projects.

Overall, the projects, including Thomas M Wright’s The Unknown Man, produced by See-Saw Films and Anonymous Content, and starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, will share in $8.5 million of production funding.

Other projects include family drama The Midwife from Playmaker Media for Nine; a comedy created by Kitty Flanagan called Entitled for the ABC, and the debut feature film from artist Del Kathryn Barton, Puff, produced by Causeway Films.

“We’re blown away by the projects in this slate and it’s great to see such a wide range of genres. I am particularly delighted to support Puff, the directorial debut of renowned artist Del Kathryn Barton,...

Memory loss leads to mind-bending moments in Ed Gass-Donnelly's Lavender, and to commemorate the film's theatrical, VOD, and Digital HD release from Samuel Goldwyn Films and Ambi Media Group, we've been provided with three iTunes download codes to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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"Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly (“The Last Exorcism Part II”) who co-wrote the film with...

Samuel Goldwyn Films and Ambi Group have teamed up for the Us release of Lavender, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly and co-written by Colin Frizzell. The film will have its initial premiere on Dish on February 3rd, but you check out the trailer for the film in today’s Highlights. Following right behind, we also have a trailer for Garden Party Massacre as well as preview pages from Dark Horse Comics’ Eerie Volume 23 hardcover for you to enjoy.

Watch the Latest Trailer for Lavender: Press Release: “Los Angeles (Jan. 26, 2017) – Samuel Goldwyn Films and Ambi Group will partner on the domestic release for the anticipated thriller, “Lavender.” Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly (“The Last Exorcism Part II”) who co-wrote the film with Colin Frizzell (“Resident Evil: Apocalypse”), the film stars Abbie Cornish (“Limitless”), Diego Klattenhoff (TV’s “The Blacklist”), Justin Long (“Live Free or Die Hard”) and Dermot Mulroney (“My Best Friend...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 12, 2014

Price: DVD $39.98, Blu-ray $49.98

Studio: Entertainment One

Laura Vandervoort in Bitten

Based on the Otherworld novels by best-selling author Kelley Armstrong, the supernatural thriller TV series Bitten: Season One stars Laura Vandervoort (The Entitled) as Elena Michaels, the lone female werewolf in existence.

Desperate to escape both a world she never wanted to be part of and the man who turned her into a werewolf, Elena has abandoned her pack and taken refuge in a new city. There, she works as a photographer and hides her werewolf existence from her new boyfriend. However, when bodies start turning up in her pack’s backyard, Elena finds herself back at Stonehaven, the werewolves’ ancestral domain. And, now, torn between two worlds and two loves, she quickly realizes that – when push comes to shove – she’ll stop at nothing to defend her pack.

The fantasy-horror show performed so...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 3, 2013

Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $40.99

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is the first movie based on the best-selling series of novels by Cassandra Clare.

Aimed at the Twilight young-adult market, the fantasy film didn’t quite score as highly as the vampire movie, grossing only $31 million, compared to $193 million for the original Twilight. That could be because critics panned The Mortal Instruments (to the tune of 12% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes), although fans liked it much more (66%).

Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror) stars in the fantasy film as Clary, a normal teenager who discovers she’s the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, half-angel warriors trying to save the world from demons. When her mother (Lean Headey, The Purge) disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld,...

Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to five feature films and will present the slate of new titles, including the star-studded comedy Struck By Lightning written by and starring Glee.s Chris Colfer, to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market, it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment.

Struck By Lightning will make its market premiere at the Marché du Film following its Tribeca Film Festival world debut where it received an overwhelmingly positive response. Servitude will also make its market premiere with promotional footage being shown for family film Heaven.S Door and South African thriller One Last Look. Black South-easter is currently in production.

.We are thrilled to present this eclectic slate of new titles featuring films from across the globe to our buyers at Cannes and we are incredibly excited that both Struck By Lightning and Servitude will be making their market premieres next month,...

DVD Release Date: May 29, 2012

Price: DVD $26.95

Studio: Monterey

The husband-and-wife team of Sam Jaeger and Amber Jaeger star in the 2011 independent romantic comedy film Take Me Home.

With no job prospects and a landlord who’s just thrown all his belongings out into the hallway, Thom (Sam Jaeger, TV’s Parenthood) must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York. Fortunately for him, Claire Barrow (Amber Jaeger, Loveless in Los Angeles) isn’t having a good day, either, what with her husband flirting with his new secretary and then discovering that her estranged father has suffered a heart attack in California. In frenzy, Claire runs out into the night and hails what she assumes to be a cab. What she gets instead … is Thom. On a whim, Claire decides to pay Thom to drive her out to California. With nothing in New York to call his own,...

Read our exclusive interview with television and film composer Robert Duncan, who is currently working on the new season of the hit ABC police series ‘Castle,’ for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the show’s first season in 2009. Duncan also worked on the music for the new film ‘The Entitled,’ which is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. The composer, who produces all of his music at Hollywood’s legendary Devonshire Studios, discusses with us, among other things, what the process of working on both ‘Castle’ and ‘The Entitled’ is like, and the similarities and differences of working on television and films. ShockYa (Sy): You composed the...

The Film:

When taken for face value, The Entitled is a movie that should kind of fail on every level. It’s a low budget, direct to video feature starring a few aged stars and a few up and coming ones. Even when looking at the cover of the Blu-Ray/DVD, it just looks generic. After watching it, you realize that this movie is far from a failure. The aged stars; Ray Liotta as Richard Nader, Victor Garber as Bob Vincent and Stephen McHattie as Clifford Jones, do a great job as three rich men who are meeting for a weekend with their kids in a house in the middle of the woods. The young up and comers; John Breger as Jeff Vincent, Dustin Milligan as Nick Nader and the lovely Laura Vandervoot as Hailey Jones are the kids and they, too do a great job. They are believable in their roles,...

The Movie Pool is richer for having seen The Entitled on Blu-ray!

Blu-ray Specs

Release Date: September 6, 2011

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Anamorphic

Running Time: 91 minutes

Rating: R (language, violence, brief drug use)

Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Mono

Subtitles: English for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired, Spanish

Special Features: "Behind the Scenes of The Entitled" featurette, Alternate Ending

The Set-up

A group of anti-social college students kidnap three of their rich classmates and hold them for ransom, but things soon spiral out of control.

Director: Aaron Woodley

Written by: William Morrissey

The Delivery

Surprisingly riveting, The Entitled is an entertaining crime thriller that brings an original take on the ransom storyline. It didn't get a theatrical release, and while gong straight to DVD/Blu-ray is usually a warning sign, this is a nice exception. This indie film was obviously shot on a low budget, but it acts and looks like a big budget thriller.

I love direct-to-video genre fare. Not because they’re necessarily good, they typically are the opposite, but it is a method of distribution that gives unknown/under-appreciated filmmakers an avenue to seek a potential audience. More often than not, you’ve never heard of these films until they pop up on the shelf of your local Best Buy or you catch a glimpse of the cover art while browsing Amazon. Typically, you’ll be caught off guard by the presence of some former A or B-list celebrity amidst a cast of unknowns. Such is the case with the recent Anchor Bay release The Entitled.

When you first glance at the cover for The Entitled, the first aspect you’re likely to notice is Ray Liotta’s angry profile. Never mind that his is the last name in the cast listed during the opening credits. No, he clearly is the selling...

DVD Playhouse—September 2011

By Allen Gardner

In A Better World (Sony) Winner of last year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, this Danish export looks at two fractured families and the effect that the adult world dysfunction has on their two sons, who form an immediate and potentially deadly bond. Director Susanne Bier delivers another powerful work that maintains its drive during the films’ first 2/3, then falters somewhat during the last act. Still, well-worth seeing, and beautifully made. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Commentary by Bier and editor Pernille Bech Christensen; Interview with Bier. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.

X-men First Class (20th Century Fox) “Origins” film set in the early 1960s, traces the beginnings of Magento and Professor X (played ably here by Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy), and how the once-close friends and colleagues became bitter enemies. First half is slam-bang entertainment at its stylish best,...

What do you do when you can’t afford your mother’s critical medication, your house is being foreclosed upon and you just can’t seem to make ends meet? If your answer is kidnap three rich socialites and make their fathers pay one million dollars each for their safe return, you just might sympathize with the lead character of The Entitled. “I didn’t do it out of greed or envy,” our slightly twisted protagonist Paul Dynan (Kevin Zegers) says at the beginning of the film. “I did it because there was nowhere else to go.” While the opening line may be a little scoff-worthy, as the movie progresses one starts to see how his plan might be justifiable, even smart. By the twisty end, you’ll be reluctantly admitting that his plan was actually pretty damn clever - now if only the movie itself wasn’t so damn boring.

Director: Aaron Woodley.

Writer: William Morissey.

Cast: Kevin Zegers, Ray Liotta, and Stephen McHattie.

The Entitled is a film which was shot in Ontario, Canada, with help from Telefilm Canada. The film stars Kevin Zegers of Wrong Turn fame, Canadian actor Stephen McHattie (Die) and the versatile actor Ray Liotta. This is a tense kidnap thriller that incorporates some important messages about "The American Dream" and its promise of wealth. Occasionally predictable, director Aaron Woodley keeps the tension high through malevolent planning, double-crosses, false accusations and murder.

The film begins with Paul feeling trapped by his job and his lot in life. His mother is sick and her medication bills continue to rise. Meanwhile, his parents have to foreclose on their house. These are desperate times. So, Paul steps outside of the law to plan an elaborate kidnapping, which, while intricate, does not go how he would like. Soon characters are being killed,...

The Entitled is a film of tough times e.g. recession, medical expenses. Kevin Zegers plays Paul, a man driven to desperate measures when his mom needs expensive medication. Unable to find a job, Paul recruits two of his friends to kidnap three socialites, The Entitled. This title recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray and one of the first reviews is in. Matt Paprocki of Do Blue has mentioned the "morality play" and "false tension." It seems The Entitled has missed its mark (review below), but understanding a film from one review is not enough.

The trailer seems to promise some excitement, along a dusty road. It is here where the three socialites are kidnapped right out of their sports car. The ransom is $3 million and the fathers of the kidnapped look ready to pay. But events rarely go well in film, right? It seems the turn in action is...

Earlier this week Anchor Bay released The Entitled on both DVD and Blu-ray, and if a thriller starring starring Ray Liotta, Victor Garber and Laura Vandervoort sounds like it's up your alley, we would love to save you a trip to the video store.  We've got several copies of the film on Blu-ray to giveaway.  So how do you get one?  It's simple: Just like either Movies.com or The Entitled on Facebook and then leave a comment here.   You don't have to post to your wall or convince other people to do the same, and you don't have to like both, just one or the other.  Then leave a comment on this post with your name (do not leave an adress!).  Midnight on Sunday, September 11th will be the deadline to leave a comment.  On Monday...

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Hitting movie theaters this weekend:

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star - Nick Swardson, Don Johnson, Christina Ricci

Contagion - Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law

Warrior - Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton

Movie of the Week

Warrior

The Stars: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton

The Plot: The youngest son (Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nolte) returns home, where he’s trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament — a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother (Edgerton).

The Buzz: The world is pretty big, and there are a lot of folks out there busy populating it, so I guess it stands to reason that similar stories would crop up, even if they’re both insanely inspirational in their against-all-odds/too-good-to-be-true essence. I am, of course, nodding to the obvious similarities between last year’s (phenomenal...

Title: The Entitled Directed by: Aaron Woodley Starring: Kevin Zegers, Ray Liotta and Victor Garber Running time: 91 minutes, Rated R, available on standard DVD Struggling college student Paul Dynan is working a dead-end job while trying to help support his family, when times just keep getting harder. When he’s out of options, he devises a plan with the help of two friends to extort $3 million out of the parents of the more privileged students who don’t take their education and futures as seriously. When the plan goes off track, Paul has to improvise while still staying in control. Every few years or so, a caper movie like this...

Yeah, I went there. This week showcases Image Entertainments suckering of horror fans with their “Midnight Madness” series. The Midnight Madness series includes some of our favorite films slapped with a Blu release with zero special features, but at least there’s a low price, right? I’ll probably avoid them because, let’s face it, I already watch too many movies!

Children of the Corn: The original gets the Midnight Madness treatment, woo! Hey, Linda Hamilton is in it, that’s cool. “Are you Sarah Connor?”

The Entitled: Released by Anchor Bay/Starz, starring Ray Liotta, so it must be good.

Hanna: Not really horror but it stars a young child killing adults, what could be better? I wanted to see this when it hit theaters and the reception was fairly positive. Eric Bana is in it, so be warned.

Hellbound: Hellraiser II: My favorite...

These days, financial security seems as much a luxury as a pool, a monkey butler or a private jet. We all want it, but we’re not all gonna get it. Hey, cheer up. If you trust The Entitled, a thriller about extortion and ransom, you can always kidnap the children of the wealthy and wait for a $3 million pay off. While JustPressPlay doesn’t endorse (publicly) kidnapping or any other crimes, we will promote films that do and live vicariously through them. To help you do the same, we’re giving away a copy of Director Aaron Woodley’s The Entitled on Blu-ray. The film stars Kevin Zegers, Victor Garber (Alias), Laura Vandervoort (Smallville), Dustin Milligan (Shark Night 3D), Devon Bostick (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules), and Ray Liotta (whatever pays).

To find out how you can win a copy of The Entitled on Blu-ray, just keep reading.

Coming to Blu-ray and DVD on September 6th from Anchor Bay is The Entitled, starring Ray Liotta, Kevin Zegers, Devon Bostick, and Laura Vandervoort.

Paul Dynan’s life is turned upside down when he decides to kidnap three young socialites and hold them ransom to save his family. Things spiral out of control when his psychotic partners get trigger happy and his victims come with their own surprises. When blood is shed and his perfect plan goes horribly wrong, Dynan must fight to stay one step ahead of his own twisted game.

Aaron Woodley directs. Here’s a slideshow of stills, followed by the clips:...

Kevin Zegers is smokin' in The Entitled.

Anchor Bay will release the 2011 thriller The Entitled, starring Kevin Zegers (Frozen) and Ray Liotta (Something Wild), on Blu-ray and DVD on Sept. 6, for the list prices of 29.99 and $26.98, respectively.

In the movie, Zegers stars as Paul Dynan, who doesn’t have the security of the job he dreamed of so he plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family: extort a fortune from three wealthy men (Liotta, Titanic‘s Victor Garber, and A History of Violence‘s Stephen McHattie). He plans to abduct their socialite children and collect a healthy ransom of $3 million. Well, the kidnapping part goes okay, but it doesn’t take too long before blood is shed and the entire scheme begins to unravel.

Directed by Aaron Woodley (Rhinoceros Eyes) and also starring Laura Vandervoort (TV’s V) and Devon Bostick (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), the film is premiering in the U.

Actor Ray Liotta is starring in the upcoming kidnap thriller The Entitled. This title releases September 16th, 2011 on DVD and Blu-Ray and the film involves the ransom and extortion of several socialites (Anchor). Liotta plays Richard, one of the extorted and Kevin Zegers plays Paul, a kidnapper on the run when others find $3 million a price too steep to pay.

The first poster for The Entitled is here and fans of thrillers can preview this title below.

The synopsis for The Entitled is here:

"Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan (Kevin Zegers), plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – extort a fortune from three wealthy men (Ray Liotta, Victor Garber, Stephen Mchattie). The plan: to abduct their socialite children (Laura Vandervoort, Dusting Milligan, John Bregar) and collect a healthy ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course of one long night,...

You can brand them as peddlers of Brad Pitt, as U.S based Inferno Entertainment have got some highly anticipated titles in their sales line-up and one matches Pitt with Andrew Dominik in Cogan's Trade (they worked together on Jesse James) and James Gray should be rolling out the cameras one of these days for The Lost City of Z with Pitt attached in the lead. Joe Carnahan's The Grey is on the map as well. Killer Elite by Gary McKendry - Post-Production The Grey by Joe Carnahan - Post-Production Cogan's Trade by Andrew Dominik - Post-Production The Entitled by Aaron Woodley - Completed Arabian Nights by Chuck Russell - Pre-Production Cane Toads: The Conquest by Mark Lewis - Completed Five Star Day by Danny Buday - Completed Hachiko: A Dog's Story by Lasse HALLSTRÖM - Completed Happy Tears by Mitchell Lichtenstein - Completed How To Make Love Like...

As The CW’s hit series Smallville comes to a close, you can expect the show to pull out all the stops to end the series. Callum Blue (The Tudors, Dead Like Me) will be returning as baddie, Zod (whom Clark delivered a supposed one-way ticket to New Krypton).

Laura Vandervoort (V, The Entitled) will also be returning to reprise her role as Supergirl aka Kara Zor-El in one of the remaining five episodes. It is not known yet if both will appear in the same episode. Stay tuned to SciFi Mafia to find out!

Watch Smallville on The CW, Fridays at 8/7C. New episodes resume this week.

[Source] TVGuide, TVLine...

Chloe Sullivan has made her mark on the Superman story through the CW series, Smallville, and DC Comics is recognizing her contribution with Chloe’s first comic book appearance in Action Comics #893. Chloe, played by Allison Mack, is the only character invented for the show that was not from the DC source material.

Nick Spencer, who wrote Chloe’s introduction into the DC Universe, talks about the challenge of her inclusion:

“It’s a pretty different continuity, which I think has always been the challenging part of bringing Chloe into the DC Comics Universe. She’s never existed in the comics before, so in order to make a part of Clark’s life when he was a teenager in Smallville, you’d have to do it somewhat retroactively, and it would age Chloe as a character a lot, since Superman is well past that part of his life in the books.

Canadian director Aaron Woodley, one of the directors of the anthology film Toronto Stories, is preparing an upcoming feature film. This film, which is called Entitled, has been in production since July 5 in Toronto. Filming will be over on August 1rst.

According to the film's production company Foundation Features, the story goes like this:

Paul Dynan (Kevin Zegers) is a decent, intelligent 24-year-old man. But he is also one of the new generation of young people who have played by the rules, working hard and graduated college – only to find that the certainties of the past are gone. With out a job or future, he plans the perfect crime to redress the balance. He will extort a fortune from three wealthy men, all great friends, who typify the ruling class that made their millions when the going was good – he will abduct their perfect Ivy League children.

Over the course of one long,...

Kevin Zegers ("Transamerica," "Dawn of the Dead") has signed to star in a two indie features - the college drama "A Great Education" for Myriad Pictures and the thriller "Entitled" reports Variety.

In the Christopher Keyser-directed 'Education', the young hunk plays an ambitious but poor man from Indiana on a Harvard scholarship who begins dating a society girl (Emma Roberts). William Mosely and Ben Kingsley also star.

In the Aaron Woodley-directed "Entitled," Zegers plays the ringleader of a ransom plot with several other college students. Ray Liotta also stars.

Zegers is currently in Vancouver working on the Shunji Iwai-directed "Vampire".