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EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Bryan Bertino has inked with WME . Bertino’s movie The Dark and The Wicked premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2020 and was met with rave reviews, notching 91% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. In The Dark and The Wicked, two siblings, who are plagued by waking nightmares, suspect that something evil is taking over their family at an isolated farmhouse. The pic was released by RLJE Films and starred Marin Ireland and Michael Abbott Jr. Bertino initially broke onto the scene in 2008 by writing and directing The Strangers , which starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. Released by Rogue Pictures, the movie grossed over $80M worldwide off a $9M production budget. The Strangers followed a young couple who are terrorized by unknown assailants while staying in an isolated vacation home. The pic spawned a 2018 sequel which Bertino wrote and executive produced, The Strangers: Prey at Night. That starred Christina Hendricks, … [Read more...] about ‘The Strangers’ Filmmaker Bryan Bertino Signs With WME

The BBC and BritBox have commissioned a spin-off of BBC drama favorite Death in Paradise , with Kris Marshall ’s DI Humphrey Goodman character making a return in the UK. Marshall played the lead role in the show’s third-to-sixth season before being replaced by Ardal O’Hanlon and Beyond Paradise will spotlight his return to being a DI in his home nation. Beyond Paradise will be distributed internationally by BBC Studios and be available in all Britbox international markets outside of Australia. Having recently entered its 11th season, Asacha Media Group-backed Sanditon producer Red Planet Pictures’ Death in Paradise is one of the BBC’s most popular dramas of the past decade and was one of the first shows to return to production after the COVID-induced production hiatus in 2020. The idea for a spin-off has been floating around for several years and BritBox Chief Creative Officer Diederick Santer, who used to run Broadchurch indie Kudos, described the … [Read more...] about ‘Death In Paradise’ Spin-Off ‘Beyond Paradise’ Greenlit By BBC & BritBox; Kris Marshall To Star

Karen O released a distortion-slathered duet featuring vocals from the English singer Michael Kiwanuka on Thursday. “Yo! My Saint” offers a stylized distillation of Sixties rock. Electric guitar is coated in a thick layer of fuzz and an organ plays long, sustained lines. Kiwanuka’s verses betray internal anguish – “Don’t you know the way I feel?/ Can’t you read my mind?” – while O’s are more decisive. “The perfect crime that I’ll commit is loving you,” she sings. “Yo! My Saint” comes to a pretty end with soft strums on an acoustic guitar and wafting strings. O wrote this song to soundtrack a short film for Kenzo’s spring/summer campaign. “For the music, I immediately wanted to do melodramatic and romantic and with lots of yearning and high stakes – all the good stuff that’s in any Korean soap opera,” the singer said in a statement. In 2017, Karen O and her band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs reissued their Fever to Tell album. They have three shows scheduled later this year: One in … [Read more...] about Hear Karen O Channel Korean Soap Opera on New Song ‘Yo! My Saint’

The Shins ‘ 2004 microhit “New Slang” established one of the more pliant templates in 2000s pop – Feist , Bon Iver and Mumford & Sons all owe something to its frumpy intimacy and strummy, mumbled moodiness. But James Mercer has been stretching for something grander ever since; 2007’s Wincing the Night Away was almost prog-rock in its micromanaged ambition. On the first Shins record in five years, he nails a balance of economy and sweep, matching the studio lushness he craves with the secondhand melodicism that made “New Slang” resonate beyond the vegan cookouts of his base in Portlandia. Port of Morrow has more of a studio-sculpture auteurist vibe than ever. Mercer and producer Greg Kurstin send filaments of Sixties and Seventies radio gold and Nineties indie pop through a picturesque psychedelia – from the “Be My Baby” cathedral boom of “Simple Song” (with Janet Weiss mutilating the drums) to “For a Fool,” soul-pop balladry as a mossy Upper Northwest guitar nod. … [Read more...] about Port of Morrow

Psychedelic rockers the Shins have announced that their fourth album, Port of Morrow , will hit stores in March. The record will be released jointly on frontman James Mercer’s Aural Apothecary label and Columbia Records, making it the group’s first set to come out via a major label. The band intend to tour in support of the album through 2012. Port of Morrow was recorded in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., throughout the past year with producer Greg Kurstin. As with previous Shins records, Mercer wrote all of the songs and played the majority of the instruments. The full track listing for Port of Morrow is as follows: “The Rifle’s Spiral” Related The Shins to Self-Release Fourth Album The Shins Cover Pink Floyd on ‘Late Night’ … [Read more...] about The Shins Reveal Track Listing for ‘Port of Morrow’