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Join The Cult Of ‘The Apostle’ This October On Netflix

From Gareth Evans, the director of The Raid comes the revenge thriller Apostle, starring Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Bill Millner, and Kristine Froseth. Set in “London, 1905, prodigal son Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) has returned home, only to learn that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. Determined to get her back at any cost, Thomas travels to the idyllic island where the cult lives under the leadership of the charismatic Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen). As Thomas infiltrates the island’s community, he learns that the corruption of mainland society that they claim to reject has infested the cult’s ranks nonetheless – and uncovers a secret far more evil than he could have imagined. Apostle is a harrowing occult fable where the only thing more horrifying than madness is the sinister reality behind it.” Apostle arrives on Netflix on October 12, 2018.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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New Details For Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s ‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’

It’s been almost a year since we reported that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, had teamed up to create a new production company, Stolen Picture. Their first film under their new banner is the horror-comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez. It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the movie until now, during a recent interview with Digital Trends, Pegg revealed that a subterranean monster is at the center of the story, directed by Crispian Mills. It’s going to be really fun. It’s a sort of a horror comedy,” Pegg told the site. “It felt like the right thing for Nick and I to have as our first collaboration with Stolen Picture. It’s about a private school in the U.K. which sells off parts of its land to a fracking company, and the fracking company then unleashes a subterranean monster that terrorizes the school. It’s a big metaphor for the U.K. privatizing things, and it’s mixed up with some ridiculous, sloppy horror.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 27, 2018
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Nick Offerman Joins Amazon’s ‘Good Omens’ Series

“Good Omens”, Amazon’s upcoming six-part supernatural series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel, has added another cast member. Variety is reporting that “Parks and Recreation” actor Nick Offerman will play the U.S. Ambassador and father to a child Warlock who is thought to be the Antichrist. “When the Apocalypse is near and Final Judgment is set to descend upon humanity. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, and tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan — except a somewhat fussy angel, and a fast-living demon are not looking forward to the coming war, and someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.” Offerman joins the cast also includes Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm, Miranda Richardson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mireille Enos, Lourdes Faberas, and Yusuf Gatewood. “Good Omens” has already entered production and is set to be released by Amazon Prime in more than 200 countries in 2019, followed by

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 7, 2018
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Neil Gaiman’s Series ‘Good Omens’ Casts Michael Sheen And David Tennant In Lead Roles

The Amazon series adaption of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s apocalypse-comedy ‘Good Omens’ is moving along and has now revealed that the show’s lead roles have now been cast. Underworld/’Masters of Sex’ actor Michael Sheen is set to star as Aziraphale, and angel. Terry Pratchett, most recognized for his run as “the doctor” on ‘Doctor Who’, will play opposite Sheen as a demon named Crowley, Variety reports. In the novel, which was Gaiman’s first, the world is on the brink of the apocalypse. Aziraphale and Crowley are attempting to stop the “End Times” from happening as they search out the son of Satan. ‘Good Omens’ is set to premiere some time in 2018 and is co-produced by BBC Studios, Narrativia, and the Blank Corporation in association with Amazon Prime Video. Gaiman, Chris Sussman, Caroline Skinner, Rob Wilkins, and Rod Brown serve as executive producers. The six episode series was adapted by Gaiman himself. He will also serve as showrunner. Following

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 14, 2017
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Finn Cole Joins Simon Pegg And Nick Frost’s Horror-Comedy ‘Slaughterhouse Rulze’

The first film, a horror-comedy, from Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new production company, Stolen Picture, titled Slaughterhouse Rulez, has added another star to its cast. Set in an illustrious British boarding school, the institution becomes a bloody battleground when a sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horrors. ‘Peaky Blinders’ star Finn Cole has been cast in the lead role of Don Wallace, a new boy in school who comes from a modest background. Don is forced to navigate a baffling new world filled with arcane rules and rituals. He will join already announced cast members Asa Butterfield (Hugo), Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), and Underworld actor Michael Sheen. Both Pegg and Frost will also have roles in the film. Crispian Mills is in the director’s chair for the film he co-wrote with Henry Fitzerbert. The Official Synopsis: “Welcome to Slaughterhouse – where boys are girls are groomed for power and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 9, 2017
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Michael Sheen Makes His Directorial Debut With Green River Killer Based On Serial Killer Gary Ridgway

Golden Globe nominee and Masters of Sex and Underworld star Michael Sheen will be making his directorial debut with Green River Killer from his own screenplay, based on the real life murderer “The Green River Killer”. The film follows the true story of Gary Ridgway, who will be played by Sheen, and detective Tom Jensen. In reality, Jensen spent 20 years hunting down the man who earned the nick name “The Green River Killer” . The killer used Seattle as his hunting ground between 1980 and 1990. The first discovered victim, 16-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield, was found floating in the Green River in July of 1982. Over the next 20 years the discovery of bodies, ages 12-31, in and around the river became an all to frequent occurrence, earning the killer his nick name. He was finally caught in 2001 with the help of DNA evidence and police work. Ridgway was convicted of murdering 49 victims. He struck a deal

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2016

More from Michael Sheen

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Join The Cult Of ‘The Apostle’ This October On Netflix

From Gareth Evans, the director of The Raid comes the revenge thriller Apostle, starring Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Bill Millner, and Kristine Froseth. Set in “London, 1905, prodigal son Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) has returned home, only to learn that his sister is being held for ransom by a religious cult. Determined to get her back at any cost, Thomas travels to the idyllic island where the cult lives under the leadership of the charismatic Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen). As Thomas infiltrates the island’s community, he learns that the corruption of mainland society that they claim to reject has infested the cult’s ranks nonetheless – and uncovers a secret far more evil than he could have imagined. Apostle is a harrowing occult fable where the only thing more horrifying than madness is the sinister reality behind it.” Apostle arrives on Netflix on October 12, 2018.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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New Details For Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s ‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’

It’s been almost a year since we reported that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, had teamed up to create a new production company, Stolen Picture. Their first film under their new banner is the horror-comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez. It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the movie until now, during a recent interview with Digital Trends, Pegg revealed that a subterranean monster is at the center of the story, directed by Crispian Mills. It’s going to be really fun. It’s a sort of a horror comedy,” Pegg told the site. “It felt like the right thing for Nick and I to have as our first collaboration with Stolen Picture. It’s about a private school in the U.K. which sells off parts of its land to a fracking company, and the fracking company then unleashes a subterranean monster that terrorizes the school. It’s a big metaphor for the U.K. privatizing things, and it’s mixed up with some ridiculous, sloppy horror.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 27, 2018
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Nick Offerman Joins Amazon’s ‘Good Omens’ Series

“Good Omens”, Amazon’s upcoming six-part supernatural series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel, has added another cast member. Variety is reporting that “Parks and Recreation” actor Nick Offerman will play the U.S. Ambassador and father to a child Warlock who is thought to be the Antichrist. “When the Apocalypse is near and Final Judgment is set to descend upon humanity. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, and tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan — except a somewhat fussy angel, and a fast-living demon are not looking forward to the coming war, and someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.” Offerman joins the cast also includes Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm, Miranda Richardson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mireille Enos, Lourdes Faberas, and Yusuf Gatewood. “Good Omens” has already entered production and is set to be released by Amazon Prime in more than 200 countries in 2019, followed by

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 7, 2018
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Neil Gaiman’s Series ‘Good Omens’ Casts Michael Sheen And David Tennant In Lead Roles

The Amazon series adaption of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s apocalypse-comedy ‘Good Omens’ is moving along and has now revealed that the show’s lead roles have now been cast. Underworld/’Masters of Sex’ actor Michael Sheen is set to star as Aziraphale, and angel. Terry Pratchett, most recognized for his run as “the doctor” on ‘Doctor Who’, will play opposite Sheen as a demon named Crowley, Variety reports. In the novel, which was Gaiman’s first, the world is on the brink of the apocalypse. Aziraphale and Crowley are attempting to stop the “End Times” from happening as they search out the son of Satan. ‘Good Omens’ is set to premiere some time in 2018 and is co-produced by BBC Studios, Narrativia, and the Blank Corporation in association with Amazon Prime Video. Gaiman, Chris Sussman, Caroline Skinner, Rob Wilkins, and Rod Brown serve as executive producers. The six episode series was adapted by Gaiman himself. He will also serve as showrunner. Following

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 14, 2017
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Finn Cole Joins Simon Pegg And Nick Frost’s Horror-Comedy ‘Slaughterhouse Rulze’

The first film, a horror-comedy, from Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new production company, Stolen Picture, titled Slaughterhouse Rulez, has added another star to its cast. Set in an illustrious British boarding school, the institution becomes a bloody battleground when a sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horrors. ‘Peaky Blinders’ star Finn Cole has been cast in the lead role of Don Wallace, a new boy in school who comes from a modest background. Don is forced to navigate a baffling new world filled with arcane rules and rituals. He will join already announced cast members Asa Butterfield (Hugo), Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), and Underworld actor Michael Sheen. Both Pegg and Frost will also have roles in the film. Crispian Mills is in the director’s chair for the film he co-wrote with Henry Fitzerbert. The Official Synopsis: “Welcome to Slaughterhouse – where boys are girls are groomed for power and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 9, 2017
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Michael Sheen Makes His Directorial Debut With Green River Killer Based On Serial Killer Gary Ridgway

Golden Globe nominee and Masters of Sex and Underworld star Michael Sheen will be making his directorial debut with Green River Killer from his own screenplay, based on the real life murderer “The Green River Killer”. The film follows the true story of Gary Ridgway, who will be played by Sheen, and detective Tom Jensen. In reality, Jensen spent 20 years hunting down the man who earned the nick name “The Green River Killer” . The killer used Seattle as his hunting ground between 1980 and 1990. The first discovered victim, 16-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield, was found floating in the Green River in July of 1982. Over the next 20 years the discovery of bodies, ages 12-31, in and around the river became an all to frequent occurrence, earning the killer his nick name. He was finally caught in 2001 with the help of DNA evidence and police work. Ridgway was convicted of murdering 49 victims. He struck a deal

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2016