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Netflix is parting ways with two of its freshman dramas.

The streaming service canceled Partner Track and The Imperfects.

Partner Track launched on August 26 but failed to garner much traction.

The series followed Ingrid Yun (Arden Cho), a 1st generation Korean American and the first lawyer in her family, who experiences the trials and tribulations of excelling at the prestigious (but old school) law firm, Parsons Valentine.

Bradley Gibson (Power Book II: Ghost), Alexandra Turshen (Ray Donovan), Dominic Sherwood (Shadowhunters), and Rob Heaps (Good Girls) also starred.

The cast was rounded out by Nolan Gerard Funk (The Flight Attendant), Matthew Rauch (Banshee), and Roby Attal (The Haunting of Bly Manor).

Unfortunately, the series ended on a big cliffhanger, meaning it joins the ranks of Netflix's other one-and-done series that failed to get conclusions.

Also canceled is The Imperfects.

The drama focuses on a group of people who undergo experimental gene...

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Netflix has cancelled The Imperfects after one season, TVLine has confirmed. This is the second series to be axed by Netflix on Tuesday, following the cancellation of Partner Track.

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The Imperfects focused on three twenty-somethings — one of whom was played by Designated Survivor‘s Italia Ricci — who undergo an experiment gene therapy that turns them into monsters. In the aftermath,...

Designated Survivor‘s Italia Ricci is returning to Netflix as star of The Imperfects, a sci-fi drama from writer/executive producer Dennis Heaton (The Order).

The 10-episode series focuses on three twenty-somethings who undergo an experiment gene therapy that turns them into monsters. In the aftermath, the trio must “band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again,” according to the official logline.

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Netflix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to sci-fi drama The Imperfects, starring Italia Ricci, from The Order‘s Dennis Heaton, Shelley Eriksen and Nomadic Pictures.

Written by Heaton and Eriksen, in The Imperfects, after an experimental gene therapy turns them into monsters, three twenty-somethings band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again.

Cast also includes Morgan Taylor Campbell (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist), Rhianna Jagpal (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before), Iñaki Godoy (Who Killed Sara?), Rhys Nicholson (RuPaul’s Drag Race Downunder), Celina Martin (Other Kingdom), and Kyra Zagorsky (The 100).

Ricci plays Dr. Sydney Burke, a brilliant scientist looking to fix her past mistakes, both professional and ethical, by allying with Abbi, Juan and Tilda to track down the scientist responsible for their grim fates.

Campbell portrays Tilda Weber, the driven lead singer of a...

Stars: Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Romeo Carere, Steve Lund, Maria Nash, Naledi Majola, Richard White, Sara Canning, Celina Martin, Kiroshan Naidoo | Written by Jed Elinoff, Scott Thomas | Directed by Danishka Esterhazy

One banana, two banana, three banana, Gore! The cult-favorite animal rock-band from Hanna-Barbera’s 1968 The Banana Splits Adventure Hour variety program is back with a blood-spattered vengeance as a young boy named Harley and his family go to a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley. But things take an unexpected turn… and the body count quickly rises.

It would seem Warner Bros., through production company Blue Ribbon Content, have taken a leaf out of Universal’s Dtv playbook and commissioned a series of direct to market, low-to-mid budget movies that capitalise on existing franchises. Whereas Universal created a myriad of sequels to popular action franchises like Death Race...

Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge, Amalia Williamson, Kate Vickery, Joelle Farrow, Josette Halpert, Shanice Johnson, Yasmin Lau, Kiana Madeira | Written and Directed by Danishka Esterhazy

Sixteen-year-old Vivien feels trapped in The Vestalis Academy, a prison-like boarding school, keeping to herself and sticking her neck out for no one while being indoctrinated in the feminine virtues of cleanliness, obedience and sweetness. Until she is reunited with Sophia – the former friend who betrayed her – who has stopped taking her prescribed medication and now has so many questions about their clearly run down institution. Together the girls embark on a dangerous search to uncover the horrifying truth behind their submissive incarceration.

A dystopian sci-fi thriller inspired by Logan’s Run and its concept of a hero who uncovered the truth about society by questioning everything he had been taught by the system; and Jane Eyre, in particular the early...

Ready for instruction in Level 16 Photo: Glasgow Film Festival

Vivien (Katie Douglas) and Sophia (Celina Martin) have been in the Academy for as long as they can remember. Each day has a familiar routine: they rise, take their pills, watch a video reminding them of the virtues and go to their lessons. Vivien has never seriously questioned this, but when Sophia stops taking her medication and confronts her with a frantic, whispered warning, she begins to see things differently. Danishka Esterhazy’s sinister science fiction film has attracted comparisons with The Handmaid’s Tale and is one of the most intriguing offerings at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.

The director is currently hard at work in South Africa, shooting her next film, but took time out to talk about Level 16 – a film all the more dear to her because she had to battle to get it made.

“I...

Dark Sky Films Proudly Announces The Release Date and Trailer Debut For Festival Darling with Wicked Feminist Punch Level 16 In Theaters And On VOD March 1, 2019 In the thematically rich fantasy Level 16, teen-aged Vivien (Emmy-nominated actress Katie Douglas) and Sophia’s (Celina Martin) are locked away in a sterile top secret facility where …

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"It's our responsibility to report unclean behavior." Dark Sky Films has released a full-length official trailer for the dystopian thriller Level 16, which first premiered at Fantastic Fest last year. Sixteen-year-old Vivien is trapped in The Vestalis Academy, a prison-like boarding school, keeping to herself and sticking her neck out for no one. Until she is reunited with Sophia -- the former friend who betrayed her. Together the girls embark on a dangerous search to uncover the horrifying truth behind their imprisonment at this academy. They soon end up running for their lives. Katie Douglas stars as Vivien, along with Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge, Amalia Williamson, Kate Vickery, and Kiana Madeira. Looks rather creepy and quite mysterious - a cool, contemporary mix of some intriguing genre ideas. Check it out below. Here's the full-length trailer (+ new poster) for Danishka Esterhazy's Level 16, direct from YouTube: You can still...

One of the highlights of last year's genre offerings was Danishka Esterhazy's Level 16 (review).

Over a decade in the making, Esterhazy's first foray into the world of science fiction unfolds at The Vestalis Academy, a boarding school for orphan girls who are being trained for adoption into wealthy families when they turn into young women.

When Vivian and Sophia (Katie Douglas and Celina Martin respectively), begin to suspect that they're being groomed for another purpose, they do everything in their power to escape the academy and its exacting headmistress Miss Brixil (Sara Canning).

Action, drama, hints of science fiction and more than a dollop o...

"Level 16 is not like the other levels." In the new movie Level 16, girls growing up in a strict facility just hope to escape by finding a family that wants to adopt them, but they end up fighting just to survive to see the outside world when disciplinary actions become lethal in the sci-fi film's official trailer from Dark Sky Films.

Level 16 will be released in theaters and on VOD beginning March 1st. Written and directed by Danishka Esterhazy, and produced by Judy Holm, Michael McNamara, and Stéphanie Chapelle, Level 16 stars Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge, Alexis Whelan, and Amalia Williamson.

"In the thematically rich fantasy Level 16, teen-aged Vivien (Emmy-nominated actress Katie Douglas) and Sophia's (Celina Martin) are locked away in a sterile top secret facility where they're taught the finer points of "feminine virtues" by Miss Brixil (Sara Canning), a Stepford-like headmistress, and left to...

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It’s full scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 14th fearful year, from Thursday 28 February to Saturday 2 March, 2019. Presenting a stunning and resonating two days of trauma, terror and tantalising thrills, this year’s line-up, once again housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, embraces the latest genre discoveries from around the world, spanning four continents, with two world, two European and six UK premieres.

Alan Jones, FrightFest co-director, commented:

Currently at its most vibrant and popular, the horror fantasy genre is constantly garnering critical acclaim, pushing boundaries and asking tough questions of audiences by reflecting relevant political and social issues. The genre isn’t just about escapism but a key tool to make sense of the chaos and confusion swirling around our everyday lives and FrightFest has known this for 20 years now, so it...

New York-based sales outfit adds three titles to slate.

New York-based Mpi Media Group has beefed up its Afm slate with the acquisition of three titles, including UK post-Brexit thriller White Chamber.

From writer-director Paul Raschid, the film is set in a UK of the near future where civil war has broken out, with martial law declared by a military government hell-bent on squashing its opposition. Shauna MacDonald stars as a prisoner of the government, with Oded Fehr playing a general who tortures her for information. The completed film played at festivals this year including Sitges, FrightFest, the Brussels International...

Writer/director Danishka Esterhazy has been working in the trappings of genre film for her entire career but it's taken eleven years for Level 16, her first foray into science fiction, to see the light.

Set in an undisclosed time that is either today or years in the future, Level 16 stars Katie Douglas and Celina Martin as Vivian and Sophia, a pair of young women we first meet as girls. They're living at The Vestalis Academy, a boarding school for orphan girls who are being trained for adoption into wealthy families when they turn into young women. The headmistress, Miss Brixil (Sara Canning) runs a tight ship, including having a group of black-clad security guards who help her keep order.

When Vivian arrives on Level 16 for the first time, her final level of train...

"All your training has lead up to this moment." The first teaser trailer has arrived for a dystopian thriller titled Level 16, which is premiering at Fantastic Fest starting this week (and it will play the Vancouver Film Festival next in October). Here's the pitch: The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being "clean girls," practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. What exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out. Katie Douglas stars as Vivien, with a cast including Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge, Amalia Williamson, Kate Vickery, and Kiana Madeira. This is a very short trailer, but there's some intriguing footage in here. Plenty of mysterious "what's going on?" scenes and more. I'm curious to hear the initial reactions about this out of the festivals, maybe there is something to it. Here's the first teaser trailer for Danishka Esterhazy's...