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In the merciless arena of reality TV, a new contender emerges, promising a twist both intriguing and potentially stomach-churning. Fox’s “Extracted” drops 12 untrained individuals into the unforgiving Canadian wilderness, but with a catch – their families hold the power to pull them out. So, forget individual grit; this survival game hinges on familial bonds, […]

Extracted: Fox’s New Reality Show Where Family Matters… Or Maybe Not...

Fox is sending more contestants into the wild.

The network has handed Extracted, a survival competition series, a midseason premiere date and has launched the show’s first trailer.

The show will launch on Monday February 10 at 8pm, the day after the Super Bowl, which will air on Fox, and leading in to Rescue: Hi-Surf, which was set to air after the big game but has been since replaced by The Floor.

Watch above for the trailer for the show, which unlike Fox’s other survival series Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, features civilian contestants rather than celebrities.

It features 12 untrained competitors attempting to survive extremely grueling conditions, perilous terrain, and the threat of fearsome predators in the unforgiving Canadian wilderness.

Meanwhile, some miles away, their family members are locked down at a secluded headquarters watching them navigate their dangerous surroundings alone via a 24/7 live feed. The fate of each...

Fox on Tuesday became the fifth broadcast network (after ABC, CBS, The CW and NBC) to lock down premiere dates for the Fall TV season.

The lineup includes the long-awaited return of 9-1-1: Lone Star, which comes back for Season 5 in September, with crime anthology Accused returning for its sophomore run in October. Fox is also rolling out three new scripted series this fall, with lifeguard drama Rescue: Hi-Surf, the Kristin Kreuk-led mystery Murder in a Small Town and animated comedy Universal Basic Guys all bowing in September.

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Here’s the Lowe down: Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” finally has a Season 5 premiere date, almost a year and a half after its previous episode aired. “9-1-1: Lone Star” will return on Monday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m., kicking off a premiere week for Fox and marking the first new episode of the Rob Lowe series since May 2023. (“9-1-1: Lone Star” took a hiatus last season in the wake of the Hollywood strikes.)

Among other news revealed on Tuesday by Fox, the network has made a slight tweak to its fall schedule: The Joel McHale-hosted series “Crime Scene Kitchen” will now return for its Season 3 in the fall, airing Thursdays at 9 p.m. behind Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s Kitchen” (back for Season 23!). The show originally scheduled behind “Hell’s Kitchen,” Season 3 of “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test,” will launch in midseason instead.

Fox’s fall schedule actually starts...

Fox is the latest broadcast network to unveil its fall schedule, and there are some surprises.

We’ll start with the good news: 9-1-1: Lone Star will finally return to the air in September. Tina Pehme Kim Roberts

The series has been on hiatus for a year, but Fox is expected to give it a big promotional push as it succeeds the original 9-1-1 on Mondays at 8/7c.

16 months between seasons doesn’t bode well for the show’s future, but there’s a chance the numbers will still be strong enough to stay on the air.

9-1-1: Lone Star is being paired with Rescue Hi-Surf, a new drama series that will air on Mondays at 9/8c.

The Arielle Kebbel-led drama has also been confirmed to air along with the 2025 Super Bowl, hinting that Fox believes it will be a massive hit in the fall.

Fox is switching...

The Fox network has announced its schedule for the fall portion of the 2024-25 TV season. Returning this fall are 9-1-1: Lone Star, Accused, Bob's Burgers, The Floor, Hell's Kitchen, Krapopolis, The Masked Singer, The Simpsons, and Special Forces: World's Toughest Test.

The new fall shows are dramas Rescue: Hi-Surf and Murder in a Small Town, and Universal Basic Guys, an animated comedy.

Returning later in the 2024-25 season are Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Animal Control, The Cleaning Lady, Crime Scene Kitchen, Family Guy, The Great North, Grimsburg, Lego Masters, MasterChef, Name That Tune, and Next Level Chef. New shows Doc, Extracted, and Going Dutch will also launch in 2025.

Premiere dates and additional 2024-25 programming will be announced in the future. Here are details about the Fox schedule...

Fox on Monday became the third broadcast network (after CBS and NBC) to unveil its schedule for the Fall TV season. What shows are on the move, where did new ones land, and what’s on hold until midseason?

♦ 9-1-1: Lone Star’s strikes-delayed Season 5 will air Mondays at 8/7c, leading into the new lifeguard drama Rescue: Hi-Surf.

More from TVLineTVLine Items: MTV Movie & TV Awards on Hiatus, Lacey Chabert's Netflix Rom-Com and MoreHeartstopper Season 3 Gets Fall Release Date at Netflix - Plus, Get 'Hi' On a First Look Behind the ScenesHawai'i Action Drama Rescue: Hi-Surf Lands...

Live-action fairytales are all the rage in Hollywood (see: Beauty and the Beast), but what about live-action fairytales that enter a new genre altogether?

Well, if a new report collated by The Tracking Board is to be believed, Princesses could go on to become the answer. Hatched by screenwriter Nir Paniry (Extracted), the project only has a spec script to its name at the moment, but TB claims the treatment is being shopped to studios near and far – Disney included.

The elevator pitch is a “female-driven Avengers featuring classic fairy tale princesses,” and though it’s unclear which characters will feature – it’ll largely depend on where the project lands, essentially – we understand Joachim Ronning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) is currently attached at the helm, with Lawrence Grey (Lights Out, Last Vegas) involved in a producing capacity.

Buoyed by the success of female-driven tentpoles in...

Exclusive: Indie distributor XLrator Media is diving into content creation with John Suits and Gabriel Cowan’s film production shingle New Artists Alliance. The companies have inked a three-picture production and distribution deal to co-produce low-budget science fiction action thrillers, starting with the Brandon Routh-Caity Lotz astronaut pic 400 Days, now in post-production.

After seeing a self-described successful digital and VOD return on the $1.5 million-budgeted April sci-fier The Machine, XLrator’s CEO Barry Gordon was seeking similarly budgeted high-concept acquisition titles but found niche offerings to be sparse. He linked up with Naa, the producers behind recent genre pics Bad Milo and SXSW winner Cheap Thrills. The deal gives XLrator a stake in the pipeline driving content tailored to the kind of multiplatform release that made British android pic The Machine an iTunes high performer.

The two companies initially pacted on graphic novel adaptation The Scribbler, the upcoming Suits-helmed...

Gee, let’s enter the mind of serial killer! Cause, you know, that worked out so well for Jennifer Lopez in “The Cell”. Nir Paniry’s “Extracted”, which hits VOD and selected theaters tomorrow, is working with a tad smaller budget than the Lopez film, or Nolan’s “Inception”, which it also has more than a little resemblance to. Still, it looks pretty interesting if you’re in a mood for a little mind-screw and don’t mind the lack of big-budget Hollywood gloss. A scientist invents a technique to enter people’s memories deep within their subconscious when their mind is at its most vulnerable state. When he is tasked with entering a convicted criminal’s mind to see whether he committed murder, he is faced with his most dangerous and risky memory extraction ever. Starring Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, and Dominic Bogart. Get extracted this July 26th, 2013.

Watch a couple more clips from Nir Paniry's Extracted, starring Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart and Richard Riehle. The Phase 4 Films sci-fi film release opens in theaters and VOD on July 26th under the direction of writer and helmer Paniry. In Extracted, a scientist invents a technique to enter people's memories deep within their subconscious when their mind is at its most vulnerable state. When he is tasked with entering a convicted criminal's mind to see whether he committed murder, he is faced with his most dangerous and risky memory extraction ever.

This summer has seen cities demolished, landmarks destroyed and monsters rising out of the ocean, proving that Hollywood knows how to find massive backdrops for their blockbuster spectacles. But filmmakers of late have found an unlikelier location for thrills: the mind. Christopher Nolan dove deep with "Inception," Shane Carruth played in that territory with "Upstream Color" and even Pixar will delve into that area with 2015's "The Inside Out." Now, another film is also using the brain to spur some interesting narrative twists. Filmmaker Nir Paniry's "Extracted" stars Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart and Richard Riehle and tells the story of a scientist who invents a technique to enter people's memories, and is tasked with entering a convicted criminal's mind to see whether he committed murder. Of course, he gets much more than he bargained for. In this exclusive clip, we see our characters preparing just as the...

Extracted played at SXSW 2012 but isn’t getting its UK release until September this year, quite some delay by any standard. The new trailer which is over at Yahoo looks to have some interesting elements to it, in its tale of a man (Sash Roiz) who develops the technology to not only access your own memories, but also the memories of others. He gets drawn into the memories of a suspected killer in order to get to the truth but finds himself stuck.

This looks to be playing on Inception’s ideas of reality, layers and perception, although it seems to lack the style or clarity of Nolan’s rightly lauded blockbuster. The cast list reads like a “who?” rather than a who’s who, but that’s not necessarily a reason to write it off. Big name stars are no guarantee of quality or success, though the extremely limited...

Catch the first poster for the sci-fi thriller / horror Extracted directed by Nir Paniri. The film opens on via Phase 4 Films, and stars Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart and Richard Riehle. As far as the design of this poster goes, I think it's pretty well made and almost reminds of those spinal tubes on Keanu Reeves' back in The Matrix. In Extracted, a scientist invents a technique to enter people's memories deep within their subconscious when their mind is at its most vulnerable state. When he is tasked with entering a convicted criminal's mind to see whether he committed murder, he is faced with his most dangerous and risky memory extraction ever.

Catch the trailer for Nir Paniri's Extracted, starring Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart and Richard Riehle. A scientist invents a technique to enter people's memories deep within their subconscious when their mind is at its most vulnerable state. When he is tasked with entering a convicted criminal's mind to see whether he committed murder, he is faced with his most dangerous and risky memory extraction ever. This plot sounds a lot like The Cell starring Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn, but don't go by that alone, check out the trailer below and decide for yourself.

Extraction is a sci-fi thriller that deals with captured memories and criminal activity. In the future, an engineer designs a device that allows a person to retrieve memories from subjects. The Department of Justice wants to use this tool to extract memories involving robberies, and murders to convict criminals. Unwittingly, the engineer becomes trapped inside the mind of psychopath. Now, Thomas (Sasha Roiz) must work with the criminal to find an escape, if escape is possible. The trailer for Extraction is below and this title will release through Signature Entertainment February 25th (UK, DVD). Release Date: February 25th, 2013 (DVD). Director: Nir Paniry. Writers: Nir Paniry, Gabriel Cowan, and John Suits. Cast: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart, Richard Riehle, Nick Jameson, Rodney Eastman and Frank Ashmore. The trailer for Extraction is here: Source: Extracted at Signature Ent.  |  |  Advertise Here - Contact...

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Which identity is the real you? For Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku, this concept is all too familiar. Dushku joins fellow Buffy veteran Michelle Trachtenberg on the cast of the big screen adaptation of the comic book, The Scribbler, published by Image Comics and written by Daniel Schaffer.

Deadline reports that Katie Cassidy (Supernatural, Taken) , picture center above, has signed on to topline in the film about “Suki, a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using “The Siamese Burn,” an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being “cured,” she’s haunted by a thought… what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?”

Check out the official press release on The Scribbler:

Los Angeles—Katie Cassidy (Taken) will topline as the title character in the mind-bending thriller feature, The Scribbler, which begins production this week in downtown Los Angeles. Starring alongside...

Filming on Dan Schaffer’s graphic novel The Scribbler begins later this week in Los Angeles for a live action theatrical film release.

Schaffer’s graphic novel was originally published in 2006 by Image Comics. A new “director’s cut” of the graphic novel is being prepared by the recently re-launched First Comics™ for release in conjunction with the film’s opening. Schaffer penned the screenplay adapted from his graphic novel.

The thriller centers on Suki, a young woman confined in a mental institution and being treated with an experimental machine dubbed “The Siamese Burn, designed to eliminate multiple personalities. As the “treatment” progresses, Suki starts to be haunted by the realization that if “The Siamese Burn” is successful, which one of her personalities will be the survivor?

Katie Cassidy, already with comic connections as Dinah Lance in the CW pilot Arrow, stars as the title character Suki. The cast also...

You don't need to set something in space, or have aliens invading the planet, or lots of grand special effects, to make a science fiction story. The final frontier is perhaps not space, but the human mind, about which we still know next to nothing. Its exploration and visualization have been explored in many films, and Nir Paniry's Extracted, is a fairly solid entry into this canon. While it grounds itself in simplicity and straight-forward psychology, it misses some great opportunities for dramatic content.Brilliant scientist Tom (Sasha Roiz) has invented a machine that allows a person to enter the mind of another and walk around in their memories. He has meant his invention to be used in trauma therapy, but the funds aren't forthcoming. That...

Friday updates:

Alessandra Torresani has a new movie in the works, a horror called Paranormal Initiation. Shock Till You Drop has the first details:

Morgan Fairchild and Alessandra Torresani are starring in Paranormal Initiation. This one follows three sorority sisters find themselves trapped inside their haunted house and must uncover the secrets and escape before it’s too late.Esai Morales is back on Fairly Legal tonight (USA, 9 pm). Synopsis:

While mediating bankruptcy negotiations, Kate decides to help a client who's unable to pay his mortgage because of a drug-dealer tenant. The case catches Ben's attention when he learns the dealer's lawyer is his rival, Travis. And here is what happens on Grimm (9 pm, NBC):

Nick (David Giuntoli) and Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) join Hank for dinner, where Nick discovers Hank’s mystery date is none other than Adalind (guest star Claire Coffee), the same Hexenbiest who tried to kill Aunt Marie.

It's been a while since the last proper news roundup, so some of the news today won't be all that new. Posting it anyway in case anyone missed it elsewhere.

Fairly Legal is back tonight at 9 pm on USA. Esai Morales guest stars in the season premiere and will be appearing in several more episodes. Other BSG and Caprica folks appearing on the show this season include Michael Hogan, Ben Cotton and Zak Santiago. And yeah, Michael Trucco is still a regular.

The Voice of TV has some recent Bts pics, and Buddy TV talked to Esai (more at the link):

What do we need to know about Esai Morales' character?

Esai Morales: I'm playing Aaron Davidson, thank you. No hablo espanol in this show... I am a politician, District Attorney. I am, I guess, a bit of a quintessential slimeball. Sleazebag is how I've been described,...

SXSW 2012 film review

complete coverage of SXSW Film 2012

Extracted

Director & Screenwriter: Nir Paniry

A scientist is trapped in the memories of a criminal and must solve a crime in order to get back home to his family.

Cast: Sasha Roiz, Dominic Bogart, Jenny Mollen, Nick Jameson, Brad Culver

(World Premiere)

Film Synopsis (from SXSW.com)

Who’S It For?: Fans who are perfectly satisfied by science fiction television shows.

Overall

Extracted has a concept that is perfectly sexy for the lower standards of a cable TV series. With its simple story and lack of magnetic tension, it’s a reminder of the lower attention span asked for by most TV shows compared to any theatrical experience. Most TV shows (especially the ones that look like Extracted) feel like they’re meant to amuse viewers in-between commercial breaks. Viewers can move about their rooms while full episodes play out.

MTV News wraps up the highlights of the Austin, Texas, festival including our favorite celebrity interviews.

By Kara Warner

Matthew McConaughey in "Killer Joe"

Photo: Voltage Pictures

Austin, Texas — Although the South by Southwest Music Festival is just getting started, the film portion of the annual music, arts and interactive gathering in Austin, Texas, is coming to an end. It was too short a trip for our tastes, but we were able to cram in an awful lot of film coverage during our time within the city limits. Before we get to the highlights from SXSW Film Fest '12, here's a compilation of our interviewees' humorous commentary regarding the best and worst things about SXSW.

"The great thing about SXSW is the proliferation of beautiful young men all over the city," deadpanned Nick Offerman. "Now that the sun's out we're going to be seeing some shirts come off. This is a modern film we've made,...

MTV News wraps up the highlights of the Austin, Texas, festival including our favorite celebrity interviews.

By Kara Warner

Matthew McConaughey in "Killer Joe"

Photo: Voltage Pictures

Austin, Texas — Although the South by Southwest Music Festival is just getting started, the film portion of the annual music, arts and interactive gathering in Austin, Texas, is coming to an end. It was too short a trip for our tastes, but we were able to cram in an awful lot of film coverage during our time within the city limits. Before we get to the highlights from SXSW Film Fest '12, here's a compilation of our interviewees' humorous commentary regarding the best and worst things about SXSW.

"The great thing about SXSW is the proliferation of beautiful young men all over the city," deadpanned Nick Offerman. "Now that the sun's out we're going to be seeing some shirts come off. This is a modern film we've made,...

In which a review begs to open with a deep-seeming quote about memory – its price, its collapse, its malleability, its importance, something about Mark Twain – and fails utterly. Director and co-writer Nir Paniry attempts something similar with his Extracted. The film follows Sasha Roiz as Tom, an inventor who has crafted a machine that is able to plug into a person’s memory and allow them to experience it as if it was currently happening, all while processing those memories into video capture. Unsurprisingly enough, Tom’s invention doesn’t quite work as planned, and he’s plunged into the depths of another person’s memory – except the memories he’s found are bad ones, and he’s trapped inside of them. Though Tom creates his machine with the hope of helping people work through their past issues, when his apparent manager comes to him with an interested buyer who plans on using it for something very...

Nir Paniry's Extracted, playing at SXSW, is a classic case on how indie science fiction works. Focusing more on narrative and character than blockbuster explosions or motion captured creatures, Paniry wraps his story tightly around its central premise and leaves little fat around the meat. Extracted moves with a purpose, setting up the characters and conflict quickly so that there's plenty of room for the second and third acts to breath. The non-linear structure combined with the vast amount of time within which the story takes place create a scope that no amount of computer generated, alien landscapes could achieve. To give you an idea of what it's about: A scientist invents a way to look into someone's memories, to find those hidden moments we keep locked in our brains and travel through them, experience them first-hand along with the subject. The inventor of the project finds himself in...

SXSW starts tomorrow, hotels and airfares were sold out long ago, and Austin’s data networks are already trembling. I’ll be there, and here are 20 films and other things that I’m looking forward to catching.

1. Tchoupitoulas. Bill and Turner Ross won Best Documentary at SXSW in 2009 with their doc, 45365. Their new film, Tchoupitoulas (pictured), promises to be a similarly beguiling exploration of time and place. It is about, in the words of the filmmakers, “three kids, New Orleans at night, and Music,” and it’s produced by the founding members of Court 13, whose Beasts of the Southern Wild was Sundance’s most exciting discovery this year.

2. The Sheik and I. Note to politically sensitive Middle Eastern art fairs: you don’t commission a cinematic provocateur like Caveh Zahedi to make a film about “art as a subversive act” if you can’t handle the consequences. One did, and...

"Extracted" director Nir Paniry says, "When we love [films], we love them with all our heart. They seep into our hard-wiring like an old friend." Paniry has been working as a storyboard and comic artist for seven years, while moonlighting as a short filmmaker and screenwriter when time allowed. "Extracted" is his feature debut. What it's about: "Extracted" is a science fiction thriller about a man trapped in another man's past. Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However, a malfunction causes his consciousness to become trapped inside the criminal's mind. Pulled from life and family, he remains a prisoner in the addict's memories for more than four years until he discovers the possibility of escape. Director Paniry says: "I feel that from the.

Extracted

Directed by: Nir Paniry

Starring: Sasha Roiz, Dominic Bogart, Jenny Mollen

Rating: Not Yet Rated

Release Date: Tba

Trailer Score: 7/10

Thoughts by Tsr: Selling a high concept sci-fi film like this is hard enough. Selling one with no notable stars or filmmakers is a whole different level. Sometimes you end up with a masterpiece like Primer, but more often than not it ends up being forgettable. I’m not saying Extracted needs to be as good as Primer – very few things are – but if it lives up to this quality trailer, it might be a film (and filmmaker) to keep an eye on when it bows at SXSW next month.

I’m not familiar with any of the main cast other than Sasha Roiz, but they all seem to be doing solid work – a few rough moments from Dominic Bogart aside. It also looks to be a fairly well-made film,...

The Friday round of updates:

A new episode of Grimm, with Sasha Roiz, airs tonight at 9 pm. Here is the synopsis:

As Portland's homeless youth start to go missing, Nick uncovers a deadly black market supplying the Grimm world with human organs for all types of elixirs. As the investigation heightens, Nick and Juliette befriend a pair of homeless siblings, Hanson (guest star Daryl Sabara, "Spy Kids") and Gracie (guest star Hannah Marks, "Necessary Roughness"), whose friends have gone missing.Valerie Cruz from Alphas and The Dresden Files also guest stars.

Starting next week, NBC will be airing Grimm reruns on Thursdays at 10 until March, and The Firm is moving to Saturdays.

You can find a bunch of stills from Extracted on the film's Fb page.

Here is a sneak peek from Grimm:

Playback with Alessandra Torresani is finally available on demand. The film will also hit theatres on March 9. Synopsis and clip,...

Sound On Sight will once again be covering the SXSW Film Festival this year, making it our second time attending. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas fest taking place March 9-17, including 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. As previously announced, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods will have the honours of opening the festival, and now they have released the full list of films – and it’s looking pretty amazing. Enjoy!

Narrative Feature Competition

This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:

Booster

Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin

When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.

Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail (World Premiere)

Eden

Director: Megan Griffiths,...

The 2012 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival runs March 9–17 in Austin, Texas, and now the full film program lineup has been announced. From a first glance at the list, it's pretty light on horror, but there are a few standouts.

In addition to the world premiere of Lionsgate’s The Cabin in the Woods as the Opening Night Film, which we already knew, here are the horror (and a few horror-ish or just very interesting sounding) highlights:

Killer Joe - Us Premiere

Director: William Friedkin | Screenwriter: Tracy Letts

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church

A garish, Southwestern tale - a violent black comedy about a desperate Texas debtor (Hirsch) who plots to kill his mother with help of his family (Haden Church, Gershon). They hire a crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer (McConaughey) to do the job, but Killer Joe...

Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry, shot by Bob Gruen in 1977

Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen

screens as part of 24 Beats per Second

SXSW Film has just announced its features lineup for the 2012 edition, running March 9 through 17. We already knew that the Opening Night Film would be Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods. For its Closing Night Film, the festival will host the world premiere of of Emmett Malloy’s documentary Big Easy Express (more below). The lineup, with descriptions from the festival:

Narrative Feature Competition

Booster

Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin. When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail. (World Premiere)

Eden

Director: Megan Griffiths, Screenwriters: Richard B. Phillips, Megan Griffiths, Story by: Richard B. Phillips & Chong Kim.

Extracted, the sci fi thriller Sasha Roiz filmed last year, will have its world premiere at the South By Southwest festival in Austin in March. Filmmaker Magazine has the full SXSW lineup, announced earlier today.

Extracted will be screened in the Emerging Visions section. The date/venue info hasn't been posted yet, but it will probably show up on the film's page on SXSW.com one of these days.

This year, the festival runs from March 9 to 17.

Film synopsis, main credits & trailer, from New Artists Alliance:

Thomas Jacobs is a brilliant engineer who invents a device that enables him to enter the mind of a patient and observe them in their memories.

Having run out of funds to complete the project, he reluctantly partners with the justice department who plans to use it to see criminals enact their crimes, But, during the first test on a convict, Tom gets trapped,...

With Sundance 2012 Film Festival over, the next big one on the horizon is South by Southwest, which we’ll be heavily covering. The biggest chunk of the line-up has been announced today, which has some great premieres including 21 Jump Street, Tiff and Sundance hit The Raid, Will Ferrell‘s Casa de mi Padre, the documentary Girl Model (which we liked at Tiff), as well as the next from Broken Lizard, The Babymakers. There are many other promising titles included and you can see them all below. Check back for our coverage for the fest, kicking off March 9th.

Narrative Feature Competition

This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:

Booster

Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin

When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.

Attendees of South by Southwest 2012 are in for a treat. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas festival taking place March 9-17. Among them are 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. The organization already announced [1] Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods would open the festival (the movie is phenomenal [2]) and today the majority of the remaining line up has been revealed. One of the highlights is the unbelievably smart and hilarious 21 Jump Street, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. Both of those are World Premieres. Other highlights include The Hunter, Killer Joe, The Babymakers, frankie goes boom, God Bless America, The Imposter, The Raid, Bernie and Casa de mi Padre just to name a few. After the jump, read descriptions of all the films that have been announced so far. Before I copy and paste the rest of the list, a few minor notes.

Exclusive: Production has just gotten underway on 3 Nights In The Desert, a drama that stars Amber Tamblyn, Wes Bentley and Boardwalk Empire‘s Vincent Piazza. Gabriel Cowan is directing the Adam Chanzit script in a co-production between New Artists Alliance and Caliber Media Company. Tamblyn, Bentley and Piazza play three estranged friends and former bandmates who reunite to celebrate turning 30. They come together for a weekend in the desert and expose unresolved wounds as they struggle with who they have become and what might have been had they done things differently. Chanzit, who moved to China to live with Daoists, based the tale on his travels. Cowan has the musical experience from his days as a member of the bands Lode and Ear Two Thousand. Cowan’s producing with his New Artists Alliance partner John Suits, and Caliber’s Jack Heller and Dallas Sonnier are the executive producers alongside Kerry Johnson,...

Breaking into Hollywood wasn’t something Sasha Roiz (Caprica, Warehouse 13, Extracted) thought would happen. Starting out the Israel-born / Montreal-raised actor had a strong passion for theatre. "I didn’t get into acting until later in life. I entered acting school when I was about 25 and studied for about 4 years. Acting was something that I always wanted to do but didn’t have the courage to really pursue it early on. I was looking to become a classically trained theater actor initially."

Sasha’s road to success in film and television was his destiny, and here he shares how he got started, and how he made it through the rough spots along the way. He discusses his first major feature film The Day After Tomorrow with Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid. Sela Ward, and Emmy Rossum and now his new series Grimm that premiere's October 21st on NBC.

Iae: When did...

Since yesterday:

Spoiler TV has the promotional pics from the next episode of Hart of Dixie and Comic Book Resources has a new interview with Scott Porter. He mainly talks about the X-Men animated series, which premieres on October 21. Snippet:

This version of the X-Men story is a very modern one that Warren Ellis initially wrote with a lot of influence from his "Astonishing X-Men" run, but the one twist that brings in the classic thread for Cyclops is that the series starts just after the death of Jean Grey at the end of "The Dark Phoenix Saga." What was it like to pick up the character after the worst tragedy in his life?

That made it completely interesting for me. To allude to why I have such respect for Cyclops, it's because he's been through hell. He's lost Jean how many times now? He has to control this odd...

Tons of updates today, most of them from Comic-Con.

Let's start with Sasha Roiz - he makes his first appearance on Warehouse 13 tomorrow (Monday, 9/8c, Syfy).

CP24 has a recent video interview with him and he also did a Q&A with the press that is finally up on several sites. I think Starry Mag has the least edited version of it. The interview is mostly about Warehouse 13, but he also talks about his other new projects and Caprica. Snippets:

So can you at least tell us how many episode we’re going to see you in Warehouse 13?

I’m not sure the specific number, but I mean I’m there for a good chunk. But I’m there for a good - yes, all the sudden this just doesn’t make sense you know. But no, I’m there for a good chunk of the season,...

First, a reminder that Battlestar Galactica is off to conquer new audiences on BBC America starting tomorrow (Saturday) at 10 pm. For all the details you need, go to BBCAmerica.com. You can find the airing schedule here.

As for cast updates, there really should be more days like this.

Eric Stoltz will guest star in the season premiere of Leverage, titled "The Long Way Down Job," according to an interview with Aldis Hodge (one of the show's stars).

The episode airs on Sunday, June 26 on TNT.

And if your kids are dragging you to the theatre this weekend, you can also catch Eric in the Judy Moody movie, which opens today. L.A. Times says he makes a cameo.

TV Guide talked to Warehouse 13 producer Jack Kenny and he says that Alessandra Torresani and Sasha Roiz will both guest star on the show this season:

Fans of Caprica can...

In a press release today Ifp announced the participants of the 2011 Narrative Independent Filmmaker Lab, which kicked off today and will go on in New York City until June 10.

The Narrative Lab Fellows and their features are Matt Ruskin (Booster), Rola Nashef (Detroit Unleaded), Nir Paniry (Extracted), Jenny Deller (Future Weather), Andrew Semans (Nancy, Please), Sara Blecher (Otelo Burning), Tim Sutton (Pavilion), Jaron Henrie-McCrea (Pervertigo), Ryan O’Nan (The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best), Mark Harris (The Lost Children) and Keith Miller (Welcome To Pine Hill).

This highly immersive, free mentorship program for first-time feature filmmakers is currently the only film program that supports diverse, low budget, independently produced filmmakers through the completion, marketing and distribution of their first feature film.

The Labs include an initial five days of workshops in June that assist filmmakers with the technical, creative and strategic advice needed to complete their films. In September, a...

Caprica 1x16, "The Heavens Will Rise," airs tonight at 10 pm on Space. Both this week's episode and the next one, "Here Be Dragons," were directed by Michael Nankin.

Beyond that, there isn't much info out there about the last few eps, but there has been a lot of speculation about some massive plot points that happen toward the end of the season, so whether you are DVRing, downloading, waiting for the DVD, or waiting for Syfy to air the episodes, if you don't like reading major spoilers, stay away from reviews and discussion forums. Great choice there for most people: either steal or be spoiled. Thanks for that too, Syfy.

That said, Space has posted the synopsis for "The Heavens Will Rise:"

The Graystones (Eric Stoltz & Paula Malcomson) search New Cap City for Zoe (Alessandra Torresani), while Lacy (Magda Apanowicz) uncovers a mystery about the Cylons. Clarice (Polly Walker) learns the truth about Amanda.

A few scattered updates today.

CapriCast has posted a video review of Caprica 1x15, "The Dirteaters." You can find it here.

Teresa Jusino over at Tor.com has a new interview with Bear McCreary. It's mostly about his work on Human Target last season, but he also mentioned some interesting things about the BSG piano book, Caprica score in season 1.5, and the possibility of the Caprica Season One soundtrack being released:

Will there be themes from Battlestar Galactica incorporated into upcoming episodes of Caprica? Will there be a connection musically as the show progresses?

Bear McCreary: Connection musically, yes. Themes, no. I will say this: starting very soon, the episodes of Caprica take a noticeable shift and the writing and the acting and editing and music is going to get tighter and more focused, and it begins a story arc that takes us to the end of the season.

Good news for Canadians and pirates:

In a weird twist, the Space channel tweeted earlier that they will air the remaining five episodes of Caprica season one starting tonight at 10 pm, so if you're here and Canadian, you have a date with the couch tonight.

Here is the synopsis for episode 1x14, "Blowback:"

Lacy (Magda Apanowicz) is sent to Gemenon to join an Sto training camp, but her flight gets hijacked along the way; the Willow clan becomes suspicious of Amanda (Paula Malcomson); Joseph (Esai Morales) divulges a secret about the Ha'la'Tha that has ramifications for Sam (Sasha Roiz) and Daniel (Eric Stoltz).

From the previews (taken down by Syfy), Ryan Robbins will be back as Diego and Ryan Kennedy will make his first appearance as Odin Sinclair.

Elsewhere:

The apple campaign is very much alive and kicking at savecaprica.blogspot.com. For updates on all the campaigns to get the show back,...