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Member Lens: Thomas Mignone’s Wild Ride from Big Tech to Heavy Metal, Biopics and Beyond by MATT WARREN    In our new Member Lens series, we’re spotlighting a cross-section of current Film Independent Members to see how they got where they are now, what they hope to do next and what being a part of Film Independent means […]

by Sam Ben-Meir At the famed New York Street sets at Warner Bros in Burbank, California, filmmakers are in the middle of shooting a new film about the wildly vivacious and roller-coaster life of Vanessa Del Rio – the World’s First Latina adult star in organized crime-controlled Times Square back in the late 1970s and […]

Esai Morales will replace Nicholas Hoult as the villain in Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible 7,” Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media have confirmed. Morales is best known for “La Bamba” and his roles as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on “NYPD Blue” and Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series “Ozark.” His recent credits include “Titans,” “NCIS: Los Angeles” and “How […]

Hey, have you seen The Shining? Director Thomas Mignone has! This is a nod to one of the film’s most famous moments, when REDRUM is seen reflected in a mirror, as MURDER. Mignone has also made videos for Mudvayne, System Of A Down, Ozzy Osbourne, Suicide Silence, Avenged Sevenfold, Sepultura, Danzig, Cradle Of Filth and loads more, as well as writing and directing the extremely bleak movie “On The Doll”.

In today’s film news roundup, Jesse Metcalfe joins indie biopic “The Queen of Manhattan”. Metcalfe will portray a federal agent, joining Esai Morales, Drea De Matteo and Taryn Manning.

BeondTV’s hosts Carlos Amezcua and Lisa Remillard interview Thomas Mignone about his upcoming new feature film based on the life of Vanessa Del Rio in NYC’s Times Square during the 70s and 80s. They do not ask the most important question of why a hardcore NY Yankee fan would ever wear a “red” baseball jersey.