German actress Gabrielle Scharnitzky stars in the new TV series Those About To Die, executive produced and co-directed by Roland Emmerich. The series, described as a story of freedom and destiny, explores a side of Rome never before told - the dirty business of entertaining the masses, giving the mob what they want most - blood and sport.    Scharnitzky’s plays the role of Drusilla, who was captured by pirates and sold as a slave to the household of a wealthy couple, Con...

Premiering in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, SERBIA won several awards for its realistic portrayal of a father’s struggle to reclaim his children, removed from him because the local welfare office declared him incompetent to take care of them. Nikola is an underemployed semi-skilled blue collar worker, denied the compensation he was owed when he lost his last job.  Because of the seemingly insurmountable problems they face, his wife tries to kill herself and is ad...

  (Johnny Depp, © Lindsay Bellinger) (Johnny Depp, Aileen Mioko Smith, © Lindsay Bellinger) by LINDSAY R. BELLINGER   The press conference for Minamata was delayed more than thirty minutes, allowing journalists and photographers ample time to get pumped for Johnny Depp's much anticipated arrival. Depp not only took on the lead role of W. Eugene Smith but he also served as a producer, having backed the project from very early on accor...