Thandie Newton is going to be a guest on “The View” airing Wednesday, October 27th on ABC! Make sure you check your local TV listings for exact air times in your area.

Thandie Newton is going to be a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on November 2nd! The show airs on the ABC network at about midnight, but make sure you check your local TV listings for air times in your area.

A new movie poster for the upcoming film, “For Colored Girls” has been officially released.

The movie is based on Ntozake Shange’s play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors performing the collection of 20 poems, the movie has given each of the 20 characters names. Each of the poems deal with intense issues that particularly impact women in a thought-provoking commentary on what it means to be a female of color in the world.

“For Colored Girls” hits theatres on November 5th, 2010.

ReelzChannel Spotlight – Toronto International Film Festival

A look at some of the darker films that premiered at the Midnight Madness portion of the festival. (The movie coverage for “Vanishing on 7th Street” begins at 1:10.)

If you’re not afraid of the dark now, you just might be after seeing ‘Vanishing on 7th Street.’ The new post-apocalyptic thriller by director Brad Anderson (‘The Machinist’) stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and newcomer Jacob Latimore as a group of survivors trying to figure out how to sustain themselves in a world where everyone has inexplicably vanished.

The movie doesn’t have a traditional villain. An ambiguous “dark” entity engulfs anyone who doesn’t have his or her own source of light, whether it be from a flashlight, a candle, a lighter, a glowstick, or exposure to the ever-shrinking bursts of daylight. The four survivors take refuge in a bar that’s powered by a back-up generator, but the sinister shadows are never far away.

‘Vanishing’ had its world premiere as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness line-up. We caught up with Christensen and Newton the following day at the Windsor Arms Hotel, where a crowd of onlookers lurked outside trying to catch a glimpse of the stars.

This is a pretty unusual concept. What was your reaction when you first saw the script?
Newton: I really liked how spare the script was. And you could tell straight away that it wasn’t going to be looking for shocks and thrills. It was much more a kind of meditation on fear and –

Christensen: And death.

Newton: Yeah, and death. And it would rely heavily on what the actors brought to it, which I thought was… you don’t get those very often.

Did you have any idea about how you were going to get into character and approach it?
Christensen: What I liked about the script was the containment of it and how that would allow for real character exploration. We spent a lot of time in that bar. Just Thandie, John, Jacob and myself. And it really felt like we were putting on a play.

Newton: We had lots of night shoots in the freezing cold. It was like an endurance test. We had a lot of stuff to get through, so it was also everyone very keen to get the work done. So there almost wasn’t time to think about how cold it was. I love all of that.

Christensen: I think it also lends itself to the work. The nature of having to make a movie in such tough conditions in such a short period of time gave us all this sort of frantic feeling that we’re just trying to keep up with in the movie.

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