17 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Waleed Elgadi plays Colonel Kaveh Afsahani in Gravitas Ventures feature Mosul which premiered at Venice Film Festival this year.
Directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan, the film is based on a New Yorker article—aptly called “The Avengers of Mosul” when it appeared in print—about an elite Iraqi SWAT team who fought back against the rise of ISIS, with each of their number having faced loss or injury at the hands of the terrorist group.
It is, then, a revenge story, and one told
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16 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Amir Wilson set to play Will Parry in HBO's new series His Dark Materials based on the fantasy novels by Philip Pullman.
Pullman’s beloved trilogy, Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, has been given a two season order from the BBC, with HBO picking up the worldwide rights.
The first season follows Lyra (Dafne Keen), a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and
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16 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Adam Brown stars as Manny in Stanleyville for Amazon Studios.
Written by McCabe-Lokos and Rob Benvie, Stanleyville is a satirical feature comedy that follows six disparate characters with nothing to lose as they face off in a bizarre competition for a slightly used habanero-orange compact sport utility vehicle.
The story follows Maria Barbizan (Wuest) who has walked away from her life – her job, her money, her feckless husband and vile teenaged daughter – her entire identity. While loitering in a shopping
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16 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Deborah Ayorinde to star as Lucky Emory in Them: Covenant for Amazon Studios alongside Ashley Thomas.
Them: Covenant, the first season of the anthology horror series from executive producer Lena Waithe and writer and executive producer Little Marvin. The project, from Vertigo Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV, has a two-season straight-to-series order.
Written by Little Marvin, the 1953-set Them: Covenant centers on Alfred and Lucky Emory (Ayorinde and Thomas), who decide to move their family from North Carolina to an all-white Los
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15 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Joivan Wade (
The First Purge) plays Victor Stone aka Cyborg in Season 1 & 2 of the DC Universe’s live-action series
Doom Patrol, the follow-up to Titans, from Greg Berlanti and Warner Bros TV.
Wade’s Vic Stone is the charming and sarcastic half-human, half-machine superhero known as Cyborg. Vic may be connected to every computer on the world, but he struggles to maintain the connections that make him human. Desperate to gain acceptance from the outside world, Vic harnesses the
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15 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Ciara Baxendale plays series regular Poppy Four Weddings and a Funeral for Hulu.
Four American friends reunite for a fabulous London wedding, but after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and
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8 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Aaron Fontaine can be seen as new series lead regular Tobin in the second season of The CW Networks' The Outpost.
The supernatural TV series centres on Talon (Jessica Green), the lone survivor of the “Blackbloods” race. When she was still a child, a ruthless mercenary gang slaughtered her entire village. Now that she has come of age, Talon decides to track her family’s murderers, all the way to a harsh and unruly fortress, at the edge of civilization. Along the
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8 July, 2019 - 2 months ago
Amita can be seen as new series lead regular Naya in the second season of The CW Networks' The Outpost.
The supernatural TV series centres on Talon (Jessica Green), the lone survivor of the “Blackbloods” race. When she was still a child, a ruthless mercenary gang slaughtered her entire village. Now that she has come of age, Talon decides to track her family’s murderers, all the way to a harsh and unruly fortress, at the edge of civilization. Along the way,
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28 June, 2019 - 2 months ago
Hareet Deol is series regular Hassan Hussein in season 3 of Ackley Bridge for Channel 4.
“The return of the drama series about an academy school that merges the lives and cultures of a community.”
Season three of Ackley Bridge begins with Nasreen Paracha (played by Amy-Leigh Hickman) going for an interview for Oxford University. Speaking with Bradford Zone, Hickman said of this plot: “This is a million miles away from the town she grew up in and knows.” As her chances
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28 June, 2019 - 2 months ago
Michael Junior Onafowokan is Cornell in Top Boy for Channel 4 and Netflix.
The first two series of the crime show were shown on Channel 4 in the UK. Six years after the second series aired in 2013, Top Boy is being revived on Netflix. The show revolves around the fictional London estate of Summerhouse. The new series focuses on a brand new story in Summerhouse, but sees Walters and Kano – under his real name Kane Robinson – revive their
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