Thursday, August 25, 2011

Mohra

Journalist Roma Singh is the daughter of a jailer. While taking a tour of the jail, she is molested by some of the inmates, and an inmate, Vishal Agnihotri comes to her assistance. She finds out that Vishal is in for four homicides, and decides to investigate further. She finds out, with the help of the owner of her publications, Jindal that Vishal was compelled to take the law in his own hands when the courts failed to punish the assailants of his sister and sweetheart. Soon, Vishal is released from prison, and begins to work for Jindal. It is then that he realizes that he has just walked from a walled prison, to an open prison, as the truth behind his release slowly but surely starts to dawn on him.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Fox gets 'Guidance' from Ryan Reynolds

ReynoldsIf this whole film career thing doesn't work out, at least Ryan Reynolds can fall back on TV production. The "Green Lantern" star and 20th Century Fox TV have sold a script with a penalty attached to Fox through his DarkFire shingle. Tyler Labine is attached to star and executive produce "Guidance," a single-camera adult buddy comedy set in a high school. Fox was so interested in purchasing "Guidance" that it bought it in the room Friday before DarkFire could continue pitching the project to the other networks later in the day. Also on board to executive produce are the project's writer, Tim Dowling ("Role Models"), Jonathon Komack Martin, Steven Pearl and Allan Loeb, who started DarkFire with Reynolds earlier this year. They have a first-look deal at 20th TV. The studio has had a busy week between "Guidance" and an untitled Sarah Silverman script that sparked a bidding war from which NBC emerged the victor. 20th teamed with Imagine TV on the project. Labine continues to be a hot commodity in front of the camera, though he's yet to translate his appeal into long-term TV success. He's been featured in short-lived series "Mad Love," "Sons of Tucson" and "Reaper" in recent years. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Thorne Sleepyhead

follows DI Tom Thornes analysis right into a mysterious serial killer. His first three sufferers wound up dead. His 4th wasn't so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to become alive. She's made it a stroke, deliberately caused by manipulation of pressure points about the mind and neck. She will see, hear and feel, she understands everything happening round her, but she's not able to maneuver or communicate. In departing Alison alive, law enforcement believe the killer's made his first mistake.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

'True Blood's' Denis O'Hare on Russell Edgington's Return: 'Never Give Up Hope'

Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images After the vampire king of Mississippi, Russell Edgington, changed the path of vampire-human relations last season on True Blood with a televised display of blood thirst, the character's return may be one of the most anticipated of the series. PHOTOS: True Blood's Dark, Sexy New Style The last time fans saw him, Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) sealed Russell in a cement grave, but he vowed that he'd be back. "He's been locked away," executive producer and writer Alexander Woo told The Hollywood Reporter earlier in the season. "So he's kind of a time bomb. He could come back in any moment." THR caught up with Denis O'Hare Saturday at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Press tour where he was promoting his new FX series, American Horror Story. We had a moment to speak to him about whether the return to the HBO series will actually come to fruition. THR: True Blood fans have been waiting eagerly for Russell Edgington's possible return. Here we are halfway through Season 4 and nothing. Did that ever come to fruition? Denis O'Hare: I think [series creator]Alan Ball was asked recently about Russell's return and he said, 'Russell's not dead.' And I can't do better than that. So, I'll just reiterate what he said. Russell is not dead. THR: So, fans shouldn't give up hope? O'Hare: Never give up hope. Never give up hope. THR: What do you think Russell's unfinished business is? O'Hare: It's a great character and I feel he hasn't been able to completely express his dreams yet. I think more than any of the other vampires that season, he has ambition and huge dreams, an incredible life force. I'm still attracted to that and I think he needs to fulfill whatever it is the thing is he's aiming for and go out in a blaze of glory in whatever it is he needs to do. He's not just a passive character. He's charging forward with a plan and I think we need to see his plan. THR: In many ways Russell shapes the events of this season with his actions. Did you expect that when you took on the role? O'Hare: No. I think it's really interesting, because I think with True Blood it's the strongest when it talks about the interaction between vampires and humans. And so any way that the show can bring that in, then the show gets a real spine. Pardon the pun. True Blood airs Sundays at 10 p.m. O'Hare's new series, American Horror Story, premieres October 5 on FX. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter:@TheRealJethro RELATED 'True Blood': Alan Ball Inks New Deal, Talks Season 5 'True Blood's' Alexander Skarsgard Talks Shirtless Eric, Plus Sookie Shower Scene Confirmed All 'True Blood' Coverage on THR True Blood TCA Denis O'Hare HBO TCA Summer Press Tour 2011

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Jeff Wadlow Goes Non-Stop

Directing a new Dark Castle thriller.... Despite a slightly patchy record, Joel Silver's Dark Castle company continues to pump out the thrillers/genre movies. With Unknown doing decent business as their last cinematic outing, the company is now adding to its list of projects in development, nabbing spec script Non-Stop and attaching Jeff Wadlow to direct it. Written by Chris Roach and John Richardson, Non-Stop is being kept largely under wraps, though the Heat Vision blog has ferreted out that it's a claustrophobic action thriller with a gritty edge that focuses on an air marshal running into trouble when he works an internal US flight. It all sounds like a mash-up of Jodie Foster thriller Flightplan and those action movies from the '80s and '90s, including Air Force One. And does anyone else get the idea that the title might lead to a time-crunch element reminiscent of Speed?Wadlow, who is still best known for directing teen fight club drama Never Back Down and horror thriller Cry Wolf, apparently discovered the writing pair and developed the script with them. It remains to be seen if it gets off the ground. Sorry....