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“American Sweatshop” is a new thriller, directed by Uta Briesewitz, starring Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Josh Whitehouse, Tim Plester, Christiane Paul and Joel Fry, releasing September 19, 2025 in theaters:

“…a social media moderator ‘Daisy’ (Reinhart) is tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet.

“But when she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she’s lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable…”

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The internet may look fun with cute cat videos and funny memes, but there’s a much scarier side hiding underneath. American Sweatshop, a creepy new movie from the Black Mirror director Uta Briesewitz, takes us deep into the underbelly of that terrifying world. And it’s not your usual tech thriller; it’s raw, real, and a complete nightmare.

Lili Reinhart, best known for her role in Riverdale, plays Daisy, a young woman who wants to be a nurse but ends up working a very disturbing job as a social media content moderator. Therein, watching the sadist side of humanity online is what leaves her more distraught than ever. But the worst part is that she can’t look away.

Delivering Black Mirror and Severance vibes, this upcoming movie shows what happens when technology pushes people too far, and what it does to their minds. Filled with scary tech...

Last year, we heard that Barry Levinson, director of Best Picture winner Rain Man (for which Levinson also won the Best Director Oscar), was producing a mystery thriller called American Sweatshop with Oz showrunner Tom Fontana, and Riverdale, Look Both Ways, and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart had been cast in the lead role. Now, it has been announced that American Sweatshop is set to receive a limited theatrical release on September 19th, and will also be reaching VOD that day. In anticipation of that release, a trailer for the film has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

Emmy nominee Uta Briesewitz, whose previous credits include Stranger Things, The Wheel of Time, Westworld and This Is Us, directed the film from a screenplay by Matthew Nemeth (City on a Hill). Here’s the synopsis: In a device driven world, American Sweatshop will take a look at the...

Violence goes viral in American Sweatshop, hitting select theaters and VOD on September 19 via Brainstorm Media.

A cyber thriller for the doom-scrolling age, the trailer below brings to mind 8Mm with a modern twist.

Lili Reinhart (“Riverdale”) stars as a social media moderator tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet. When she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she’s lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

TV veteran Uta Briesewitz makes her feature directorial debut from a script by Matthew Nemeth (“City on a Hill”).

Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Jeremy Ang Jones (“Hijack”), Josh Whitehouse (“Daisy Jones & The Six”), Tim Plester (“Game of Thrones”), Christiane Paul (“FBI: International”), and Joel Fry (“Our Flag Means Death”) round out the cast.

Produced by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and Tom Fontana...

Some jobs take everything, leaving workers exhausted physically and mentally. And then some leave someone traumatized and broken. In her next feature role, Riverdale star Lili Reinhart plays a worker who can't shake the things she sees in her line of work. In American Sweatshop, Reinhart's Daisy Moriaty works as a human reviewer for a social media site. When users flag content, it goes through human eyes for review before being deleted or restored. As a result, reviewers like her see some truly depraved things. In the film's official trailer below, Daisy can't shake a particular video she sees and goes to her supervisor, wanting to escalate the matter to the police. However, that's not in her job description. Even with everyone asking her to let it be, Daisy is determined to help. Below is the official description of the movie, also starring Daniela Melchior and Joel Fry and...

Exclusive: After winning Series Mania’s Best Actress Award for her turn opposite Cooper Raiff in Mubi’s Hal & Harper, Lili Reinhart has come aboard to star in and exec produce The Love Hypothesis, an adaptation of the New York Times bestseller by Ali Hazelwood, for Amazon MGM Studios and MRC.

In the romantic comedy, Olive Smith, a biology PhD candidate, and Dr. Adam Carlsen, a hotshot professor and well-known tyrant, enter into a fake relationship, seeing each of their carefully calculated theories on love get thrown into chaos.

Published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Hazelwood’s novel spent 10 months on the New York Times bestseller list, breaking out internationally in 40 countries. Originally acquired for publication by editor Sarah Blumenstock at Berkley, the book was also named the Best Romance of the Year by Amazon. Hazelwood is also known for titles like Problematic Summer Romance, Deep End,...

Uta Briesewitz, the German cinematographer who landed her first U.S. break shooting the pilot of HBO’s The Wire, has stepped into feature directing with American Sweatshop. Before turning to long-form drama she directed episodes of Severance, Westworld and Stranger Things, experience that shapes her new film’s boxed-in visual language. The thriller premiered in March in SXSW’s Narrative Spotlight strand and, on 8 June, closed the Lighthouse International Film Festival on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island.

Filmed at Mmc Studios in Cologne and on Bonn streets during the 2024 summer break, the production received €400,000 from the Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw. Producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana partnered with Elsani Film and Baltimore Pictures, while Plaion Pictures will oversee German theatrical release. Matthew Nemeth’s script follows Daisy, a low-paid content moderator driven to hunt for the source of a violent online video that she cannot erase from her mind.

Uta Briesewitz delivered a Munich International Film Festival Masterclass on her new movie American Sweatshop and also shared tales of her time on The Wire and the resistance she met as a woman coming up in Hollywood.

Briesewitz was joined by Anita Elsani, who produced American Sweatshop, and she brought the film’s Dop Jörg Widmer onto the stage during the session, which was organized by the Kirch Foundation and hosted by Deadline.

American Sweatshop stars Lili Reinhart as Daisy, a young woman whose job is to evaluate harmful and offensive content on social media. She is desensitized, but one violent video shakes up her world. The movie bowed at SXSW and had its European premiere at Munich.

“It’s a film that has a very clear attitude and it is just take it or leave it,” Elsani said. “All of us can surf on the internet because there are...

When the dust settled, there were 177 submissions in the Best Drama Directing category for the 2025 Emmys. Based on the TV Academy's calculus, there will be seven finalists when the nominations are announced July 15.

The vast uptick in submissions, when compared to the writing category, is due to the number of directors put up for each show. Front-runners like Severance, The Pitt, The Last of Us, and Paradise each went for for triple entries. Meanwhile, Andor, The Diplomat, and The Handmaid’s Tale each opted for a double-play. And because some shows had only one director behind the camera throughout the duration, such as The White Lotus and Squid Game, they were only allowed one episode for the category.

While a higher number of submissions per series may result in potential vote-splitting, we have seen time and time again that passionate voters will mark down a show on the ballot multiple times,...

Brainstorm Media has acquired North American rights to the social media thriller “American Sweatshop,” starring Lili Reinhart, TheWrap can exclusively reveal. The film, which premiered at SXSW, marks the feature directorial debut of Emmy-nominated filmmaker and cinematographer Uta Briesewitz (“Severance”) and will be released later this year.

Written by Matthew Nemeth (“City on a Hill”), “American Sweatshop” follows Daisy Morris (Reinhart), a young woman working in the world of online content moderation. Alongside a team of co-workers, she spends her days reviewing harmful and disturbing media uploaded to social platforms. When one violent video takes hold of her, Daisy becomes obsessed with uncovering its origin, leaving the safety of her screen behind and descending into a dangerous real-world mystery.

The cast of the film also includes Daniela Melchior (“Road House”), Josh Whitehouse (“Daisy Jones and the Six”) and Joel Fry (“Game of Thrones”). The movie marks Briesewitz’s first feature...

Apple TV+ has revealed its Emmy submissions for Severance with Adam Scott submitted for Best Drama Actor and Britt Lower for Best Drama Actress, Gold Derby has learned.

Ben Stiller, Jessica Lee Gagné, and Uta Briesewitz will be submitted for the Best Drama Directing, while creator Dan Erickson will be in the Best Drama Writing category.

The show’s other main cast members will run in the supporting categories: Michael Chernus, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken in Best Drama Supporting Actor, and Patricia Arquette, Sarah Bock, Dichen Lachman, and Jen Tullock in Best Drama Supporting Actress.

The show also has eight contenders in the Guest Actor/Actress categories:

Robby Benson, John Noble, Michael Siberry Jane Alexander, Sydney Cole Alexander, Sandra Bernhard, Gwendoline Christie, Merritt Wever

Three years ago, in its debut season, the series about office workers who sever their workplace memories from their personal ones earned...

The 2025 Lighthouse International Film Festival (Liff) has unveiled its program for this summer. The local festival, which takes places on Long Beach Island in New Jersey, will run from June 4 to 8, with special features including the U.S. premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov’s 2024 Cannes hit “Limonov: The Ballad” starring Ben Whishaw. Serebrennikov’s English-language debut was an IndieWire Critic’s Pick from the festival last year.

Liff 2025 has not yet announced its opening night feature, but IndieWire can reveal that Uta Briesewitz’s “American Sweatshop” will close the festival. Highlights also range from the Centerpiece screening of “Omaha” with John Magaro and SXSW Jury Award winner “Slanted.” Jason Alexander will be the keynote speaker for the 25th anniversary of his feature, “Just Looking.” Elegance Bratton is also among the filmmakers who will be in attendance; the director is screening his documentary “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” at the festival.

From the first frame, American Sweatshop positions itself as a tightly wound psychological thriller centered on the unseen mechanics of online content moderation. Uta Briesewitz makes a confident leap from television—where she honed her eye on shows like Stranger Things—into her feature debut, guiding each scene with the precision of a TV director accustomed to rhythm and restraint. Lili Reinhart anchors the film as Daisy, a newly minted moderator at Paladin Control whose daily task is heartbreakingly simple: watch flagged clips, then click “accept” or “reject.”

The story takes its cues from real-world moderation hubs, marrying newsroom efficiency with horror‑film unease. Rows of workstations stretch into shadowy corners, where fluorescent lights hum and keyboard clicks fall like a metronome marking sanity’s decline. Reinhart’s Daisy emerges as a vessel for our own digital anxiety—she scans titles like “Woman Jumps Off Building” or “Nail in Her,...

Every new season of Black Mirror launches a feverish debate over which episode was the best. Emmy voters gave three consecutive Best TV Movie awards to "San Junipero" (2017), "USS Callister" (2018), and "Bandersnatch" (2019), but how does the entire fandom rate the best and worst installments? We've consulted the cumulative IMDb scores for all seasons and have come up with the definitive ranking of Black Mirror episodes. Can you guess the No. 1 choice?

Season 7 was released in April 2025 and brought the total number of episodes and specials to 34. Created by Charlie Brooker, the sci-fi anthology series began on the U.K.'s Channel 4 in 2011 before moving to Netflix (and becoming a worldwide phenomenon) in 2016. The show took a four-year break after Season 5, thanks in part to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, but that just gave people even more time to relive their favorite episodes from the beginning.

See‘Black Mirror’ star Jimmi Simpson...

Severance creator Dan Erickson has addressed where the audience will find the innies at Lumon when we pick up in Season 3. The Severance Season 2 finale ends with Mark (Adam Scott) ultimately choosing to stay on the severed floor with Helly (Britt Lower) instead of leaving with Gemma (Dichen Lachman). Mark believed Gemma was dead until he learned that she was alive and being tested on at Lumon, and while it was not revealed how she survived the supposedly fatal car crash, we know she's been nothing more than Lumon’s lab rat this whole time. During a recent interview with Dazed, Severance creator Dan Erickson spoke about what will happen to the innies at the start of Season 3 after choosing to stay and fight for their lives instead of letting their outies decide their fate:

"I think that we leave our innies in a very interesting and precarious place. They...

Severance renewed for season 3 (Photo Credit: Apple TV+)

Apple TV+ is rewarding Severance fans with another season of the critically acclaimed sci-fi workplace drama. The streamer renewed the award-winning series for a third season, and Severance creator Dan Erickson claims it won’t take another three years to arrive.

“We’re hoping that there are no massive strikes or pandemics or fissures opening up in the crest of the Earth that end up delaying us. Barring that, I’d certainly hope that we’d get this one out a bit sooner,” said Erickson in an interview with Variety. “But, Severance has always been a show that takes a long time to make, and we’re proud of what we came up with, even though it took quite a long time.”

The series premiered on February 18, 2022, with season two debuting on January 17, 2025. The game-changing season two finale aired on March 20, 2025.

Season...

On the heels of the second season of Severance breaking records as the most-watched series on Apple TV+, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning hit thriller has been renewed for a third season.

The series hails from executive producer and director Ben Stiller and stars Emmy Award nominee Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Emmy Award winner John Turturro, Academy Award winner Christopher Walken, and Emmy and Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette.

“Making ‘Severance’ has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of,” said executive producer and director Ben Stiller. “While I have no memory of this, I’m told making season three will be equally enjoyable, though any recollection of these future events will be forever and irrevocably wiped from my memory as well.”

“I couldn’t be more excited to get back to work with Ben,...

Spoiler Alert !!!Proceed with caution—this article contains major Spoilers for American Sweatshop.

Sometimes, you gotta hit rock bottom to realize just how deep the pit is. Will you agree? Well, there’s a reason the internet’s dark side is often referred to as a ‘black hole’—you can’t unsee the abyss, no matter how hard you try. Uta Briesewitz’s American Sweatshop thrusts me headfirst into that very void, where content moderators are the unsung workers trapped in the most soul-sucking job imaginable.

A job so brutal, so psychologically taxing, that the only way out is to either burn out or lose your humanity entirely. It’s about Daisy (Lili Reinhart), who works as an internet moderator, watching video after video of violence, depravity, and chaos. Her daily grind involves approving or deleting horrific content, from suicides to animal cruelty.

American Sweatshop | Credit: Guido Marx

When one particular video breaks her,...

Finn Wolfhard might be growing beyond Stranger Things stardom, but he still credits the show as a rite of passage. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he reflected on how his time on the Netflix hit prepared him for Hell of a Summer, his directorial debut.

"I grew up on that set and was really interested in filmmaking and would stay every day after I would be done," Wolfhard said.

Known for his breakout role in Stranger Things, the actor-turned-director recalled sticking around post-curfew "just to watch the filmmakers make the show." The Netflix set became a classroom, an informal crash course ahead of Wolfhard pursuing a career in directing.

"There's a lot of stuff that I definitely learned from that and the way you communicate to crew and actors."

Stranger Things boasts no shortage of filmmaking superstars. Wolfhard's on-set educators include the likes of Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine), Pixar legend Andrew Stanton,...

On the surface, the job of a content moderator sounds noble: to ensure that a social media platform is deemed safe for public usage. However, moderating content is far from glamorous, and American Sweatshop isn’t afraid to address the profession’s dangerous side. Serving as the debut feature of Severance director Uta Briesewitz, the mystery thriller is a gritty take on the toll of social media, as told from the eyes of Daisy (Lili Reinhart).

Warning! This article contains Spoilers for Severance season 2, episode 9.Jen Tullock addresses why her character, Devon, calls Harmony Cobel for help in Severance season 2, episode 9. The sophomore season of Apple TV+’s hit psychological thriller continues to explore the ramifications behind Lumon's controversial medical procedure which "severs" an employee's work and personal memory. After Mark experiences a sudden blackout due to the reintegration procedure, Devon takes the drastic step of reaching out to Cobel. The former manager of the severed floor secretly infiltrated Mark’s personal life in season 1 by masquerading as the overly friendly neighbor “Mrs. Selvig.”

In an interview with Variety, Tullock explained why she thinks Devon is able to put aside her animosity toward Cobel after being staunchly against her. As Mrs. Selvig in Severance season 1, Cobel offered to assist Devon with nursing her newborn in order to monitor Mark's every move. While this was a significant breach of trust,...

In the constantly evolving world of the internet, you’ve probably crossed paths with a video that you likely didn’t want to see. Be it because it was something too graphic or because it was something so disturbing, no human being should ever have to see it. American Sweatshop, which is the directorial debut of veteran television director Uta Briesewitz, takes us head first into the worst job in the world: internet censors. When you first see the title American Sweatshop, it sounds like a documentary, and in some respects, it does feel like one, especially at the beginning. But at its core, Breisewitz's first feature is a tense and unpredictable character study set in a world that you didn't know existed.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 9 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+.

It all started off with an urgent phone call to Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), who had been noticeably absent throughout most of “Severance” Season 2.

In a season that has focused extensively on the dynamics between the innies and the outies and questions about ownership over one’s body, it’s Devon (Jen Tullock) who understands that Harmony is the key to outie Mark (Adam Scott) getting his wife Gemma (Dichen Lachman) back.

Devon’s plan is for Harmony and her to take Mark back to the severed birthing cabin, which was referenced back in Season 1, so that Mark can talk to his innie and devise a plan before the Cold Harbor file is complete.

In the penultimate episode of Season 2, titled “The After Hours,” Devon drives a reluctant, conflicted Mark — who is expected to...

Although American Sweatshop is a serious film that covers the seriousness of visual mediums and their effect on our brains and lives, Grae Drake talks to Lili Reinhart and Director Uta Briesewitz about what is actually constructive about their time online, and what brings smiles to their faces. They delve into the making of the film and how real this topic is.

American Sweatshop is a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty, who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet.

Even in the relatively regulated world of the contemporary internet, you never know what the person next to you is looking at on their phone: Fascist propaganda? Hardcore pornography? Photos from a church picnic? So it goes that the gray, featureless office building that gives “American Sweatshop” its title looks like it could be anything. The only sign that something is off here is the on-site counselor — and the employees vomiting and crying and having rage-filled tantrums at their desks.

Content moderation is a well-documented phenomenon, first brought to widespread public attention by Adrian Chen’s 2014 “Wired” article “The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed.” The headline there says it all: Around the world, a silent army of low-wage workers manually review flagged content on social-media sites to determine whether or not it violates the site’s terms of service. In practice, this means...

Usually, it’s the films that are loud at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin. This year, however, the parade of personalities in the City of the Violet Crown will be creating plenty of thunder including Blake Lively, Jenna Ortega, Michelle Obama, Disney co-chairman Alan Bergman, Amazon and MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Conan O’Brien fresh off the Oscar Dolby Theatre stage.

There are an intriguing amount of sit-downs here at SXSW this year after the fest kicks off Friday, rivaling the number of sidebar chats at a San Diego Comic-Con and certainly towering over the few at this past year’s Sundance, where the best chats were off-menu and not contained in any program: Elvis Mitchell’s conversations with Bill Murray and Quentin Tarantino.

In a déjà vu to Comic-Con, O’Brien will be on stage twice: once in a Sunday comedy event with...

Severance has made it its prerogative to have its audiences really root for its characters - specifically the characters' work selves (innies) - none more so than Helly and Mark S. The couple had a "will they or won’t they" romance through most of Season 1, and by the time of Season 2, it seemed they were set more for "when they."

In Episode 4, fans got a firm answer, only for the tender moment to be spoiled by a horrible truth - Helly wasn’t Helly, but Helena pretending to be her innie. Well, in episode 6, the couple finally got to have their intimate moment - and the actors make it clear that there is a clear difference between what happened with Mark S. and Helena and Mark S. and Helly. Their actors, Adam Scott and Britt Lower, addressed the situation to Entertainment Weekly.

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Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 6 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+.

Britt Lower’s Helly R. has been through the ringer in the second season of “Severance.”

After having her body hijacked by outie Helena, she finally returns to the severed floor as herself – only to be met with an icy reception from her fellow macrodata refiners.

In Season 2, Episode 6, titled “Attila,” Helly finally gets some answers: Mark confesses that he was intimate with Helena (who he believed to be Helly) during the Ortbo in Episode 4.

Helly is, naturally, distraught when she learns the truth — but she doesn’t let it keep her down for long. “What sucks is that she got to have that and I didn’t. That she used me to trick my friends,” she tells Mark.

He meekly offers to describe their relations, but Helly’s got a better idea: “I don’t want her memory.

Warning: This article contains major spoilers. Don't be a shambolic rube by reading this without watching the latest episode of "Severance" first.

After arguably hitting its peak with the Outdoor Retreat and Team-Building Occurrence, season 2 of "Severance" has settled back into a more familiar rhythm in the weeks since ... though that's not to say that the series hasn't continued moving the story in fascinating directions. Episode 5 shifted gears considerably and opted for a much more low-key hour, but what about the sixth? This latest episode, titled "Attila," just introduced some of our biggest wrinkles yet. Dylan G. (Zach Cherry) finally discerns the meaning of his bestie Irving B.'s (John Turturro) final words, "Hang in there," and discovers his instructions leading to the creepy-looking hallway from his outie's paintings. Mark S. (Adam Scott) and Helly R. (Brit Lower) consummate their romance -- for real, this time. And, over in the...

[Editor’s note: The following review contains spoilers for “Severance” Season 2, Episode 6, “Attila.” For coverage of earlier episodes, read our previous reviews.]

Amid Episode 6’s revealing, awkward, and intimate dinner party, Fields (John Noble) presents a seemingly innocuous opinion. “I believe Innies deserve to experience love,” he says. In the moment, it’s a supportive, friendly gesture. Fields, after all, is sharing his table with a man, Irving (John Turturro), who had an “erotic entanglement” with his husband, Burt (Christopher Walken). That their romantic relationship was restricted to the office, where the couple worked as severed employees, is a significant distinction — if Innies and Outies are independent individuals, with no real knowledge of what the other is doing, thinking, or feeling, then it would be hard for Fields to argue his husband betrayed him.

But that’s a big “if.” In the world of “Severance,” people have been arguing over whether Innies and Outies are separate people since the...

Warning: Spoilers for Severance Season 2 through Episode 4.

Quick LinksHelena Posing as Helly Was Obvious From the BeginningThe Signs Were There From the Moment She Exited the ElevatorHow Did Helena Successfully Pose as Helly?Was Irving Suspicious of Her the Whole Time?

When Severance’s second season finally returned in January 2025 after a three-year hiatus, fans were overjoyed to finally receive some answers to those burning questions from Season 1. After Dylan (Zach Cherry) successfully hijacked the overtime contingency, Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), and Irving (John Turturro) were able to converse with those on the outside. However, the first season ended before viewers saw the ramifications of those actions play out. Upon the show’s return, it’s clear Lumon isn’t happy, and they come down hard on the innies as they attempt to mitigate the damage.

Lumon initially fires everyone except Mark, but when they realize Mark’s...

Warning: Spoilers for Severance through Season 2, Episode 2.

As Severance’s second season finally returns to Apple TV+ after a massive three-year hiatus, viewers are anxious for their various questions to finally receive some answers. However, while the show’s Season 2 premiere provided some resolutions, it also garnered a whole new set of inquiries that likely won’t be fully addressed for some time. That being said, it hasn’t stopped various theories from springing up online. With many fans speculating Helena might actually be posing as Helly (Britt Lower), a number of viewers are also questioning Ms. Huang’s (Sarah Bock) purpose at Lumon, given her young age, and are curious about what Irving’s (John Turturro) outie is up to. However, those are merely a few queries in a sea of others.

In the wake of the overtime contingency debacle, viewers are led to believe it’s been five...

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After a three-year period that felt twice that length, Severance has finally returned. Last Friday saw the season premiere arrive, and it proved an appropriately trippy and darkly funny return (on top of featuring a welcome uncredited cameo from Keanu Reeves). While it mostly functioned as an extended reintroduction after years away, it also promised a number of tantalizing mysteries that we’re eagerly awaiting to see where they lead.

If the buzz from critics is any indication, we’re in for an exciting ride this year. The cast and crew are promising to shed more light on the series’ biggest mysteries and thus reveal more of their larger vision for the story. Whether that involves explaining Dr. Casey...

The 32nd edition of SXSW running March 7-14 in Austin, Texas, will open with the Apple TV+ series The Studio starring Seth Rogen and brings world premieres of new films from Nicole Kidman, Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck, and Paul Rudd.

Rogen stars as the frazzled head of fictitious Continental Studios in The Studio, which debuts on the platform on March 26.Rogen co-directed with Evan Goldberg, and co-wrote with Goldberg and others. The cast includes Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, and Katheryn Hahn, with cameos from A-listers.

Anticipated feature highlights include Headliners selections Holland from Amazon Studios, a thriller starring Kidman and...

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Colman Domingo is about to host the world’s most dangerous game show. The Sing Sing actor and Oscar contender has been cast to star opposite Glen Powell in Paramount’s Running Man movie, our sister site Deadline reports. The dystopian action flick is being produced and directed by Edgar Wright and is based on Stephen King‘s 1982 novel of the same name, which he wrote under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. Other cast members include Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, Daniel Ezra, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, Katy O’Brian, and Lee Pace. The Running Man is scheduled for a theatrical release in Nov. 2025.

The book was initially adapted for the big screen in 1987, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular character, which Powell takes on in the new movie. Set in...

Apple TV+ has announced the programming that will be added to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus January 2025 lineup includes Severance Season 2, the premiere of conspiracy thriller Prime Target, Eva the Owlet Season 2, and Mythic Quest Season 4.

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens.

Severance Season 2 Apple TV Plus January 2025 Schedule

Available January 17

Severance Season 2 (TV-ma Thriller Series)

The 10-episode second season will debut globally on Apple TV+, with the first episode on Friday, January 17, 2025, followed by one episode every Friday through March 21. The globally celebrated Emmy and Peabody Award-winning workplace thriller hails from executive producer and director Ben Stiller.

The series stars Emmy Award nominee Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Emmy Award winner John Turturro,...

It’s been a minute, but “Severance” is almost back.

On Wednesday, Apple TV+ dropped the trailer for Season 2 of the Emmy-winning drama, which returns on Friday, Jan. 17, nearly three years after it premiered in February 2022. The trailer sees Mark (Adam Scott) frantically running through Lumon’s pristine white hallways intercut with quick snippets of Season 2 scenes. He eventually arrives at his old workspace, where a new group of people, including one played by Alia Shawkat, have replaced Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro), and Dylan (Zach Cherry).

““Welcome back, Marcus,” Seth (Tramell Tillman) says, walking in with a handful of blue balloons with Mark’s face on them. “Been a minute.”

Apple TV+’s sci-fi drama follows Mark Stout, a worker who agrees to sever his life so that his “innie” (the version who works at Lumon Industries in the Macrodata Refinement division) and his “outie” (his home persona...

Plot: Former CIA agent Dan Chase and former FBI Assistant Director Harold Harper set off on their most important mission to date — to recover Emily Chase after she is kidnapped by Faraz Hamzad, a powerful Afghan tribal leader. With all three men claiming her as their daughter, Emily finds herself in an identity crisis that has dire implications.

Review: The first season of The Old Man was a unique take on the espionage drama, pitting the great Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow opposite one another despite not sharing the screen until the final episode. Truncated by Bridges’ cancer diagnosis and recovery along with a bout of Covid, the first season of The Old Man concluded with three episodes less than originally intended. Still, the series presented two of our best acting talents, complemented by solid performances from Alia Shawkat and Amy Brenneman, as the series set up an even more exciting sophomore run.

Daniela Melchior is staying booked and busy. The Road House actor has joined the upcoming ensemble of mystery thriller American Sweatshop, which Riverdale alum Lili Reinhart is headlining.

Per Deadline, character details for Melchior's American Sweatshop role remain under wraps at this time. Uta Briesewitz will direct the mystery thriller, which aims to, per the official synopsis, "take a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty (Reinhart), who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet. Moriarty, and a motley group of co-workers, toil in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful and offensive pictures and videos uploaded to social media."

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Actor Kj Apa reveals that he would happily return to Riverdale as Archie Andrews but only under one, pretty big condition.

Daniela Melchior is set to join the ensemble of mystery thriller American Sweatshop, starring Lili Reinhart. Producers include Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. Uta Briesewitz will direct.

In a device driven world, American Sweatshop will take a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty (Reinhart), who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet. Moriarty, and a motley group of co-workers, toil in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful and offensive pictures and videos uploaded to social media. With detached caution and a deranged sense of humor, they examine the millions of posts that get “flagged for review.” But one particularly violent video grabs hold of Daisy, luring her out of this office, away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

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What Do We Know About the second season of Severance? More thank you may think. The AppleTV+ psychological thriller series debuted back in 2022, and fans have been clamoring for the next chapter ever since. With casting announcements, plot twists from the first season, a teaser trailer, and more, we know a lot about what is to come. So, let’s jump in and discuss

Season Two will bring back the main cast

We are assuming that season two will pick up directly where the first concluded, which means Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette will reprise their roles. With multiple twists and reveals left at the conclusion of the first season, there is more than enough for all of these characters to explore. Expect expanded roles for Dichen Lachman after the season one finale reveal as well,...

More than two years after its cliffhanger Season 1 finale, Apple TV+ and the employees at Lumon are getting back to work.

On Wednesday, the streaming service announced “Severance” will make its long-awaited return on January 17, 2025. The date announcement was accompanied by a brief teaser that ended with an ominous warning for Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower) uttered by a new character, played by Gwendoline Christie: “You should’ve never left.”

Here’s the Apple synopsis for the show:

In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself. In season two,...

Today, Apple TV+ unveiled the premiere date for season two of its globally celebrated Emmy Award-winning workplace thriller Severance and shared a sneak peek showcasing what’s in store for the highly anticipated second season.

Directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller and created, written, and executive produced by Dan Erickson, the 10-episode second season of Severance will debut globally on Apple TV+ with the first episode on Friday, January 17, 2025 followed by one episode every Friday through March 21.

In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives.

This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself. In season two, Mark and his...

Barry Levinson, director of Best Picture winner Rain Man (for which Levinson also won the Best Director Oscar), is producing a mystery thriller called American Sweatshop with Oz showrunner Tom Fontana, and Deadline reports that Riverdale, Look Both Ways, and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart has been cast in the lead role.

Emmy nominee Uta Briesewitz, whose previous credits include Stranger Things, The Wheel of Time, Westworld and This Is Us, is set to direct the film from a screenplay by Matthew Nemeth (City on a Hill).

In a device driven world, American Sweatshop will take a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty (Reinhart), who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet. Moriarty, and a motley group of coworkers, toil in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful and offensive pictures and videos uploaded to social media.

Lili Reinhart (“Riverdale”) is leading the cast of an upcoming thriller titled American Sweatshop, with Deadline reporting that the film will explore the dark side of the internet.

“In a device driven world,” Deadline details, “American Sweatshop will take a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty (Reinhart), who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet.

“Moriarty, and a motley group of coworkers, toil in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful and offensive pictures and videos uploaded to social media. With detached caution and a deranged sense of humor, they examine the millions of posts that get ‘flagged for review.’

“But one particularly violent video grabs hold of Daisy, luring her out of this office, away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

Exclusive: Riverdale and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart is set to lead mystery thriller American Sweatshop, whose producers include Oscar winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and acclaimed American showrunner Tom Fontana (Oz) who will be producing his first feature.

Myriad Pictures will be launching international sales in Cannes after sealing a deal with Baltimore Pictures and Germany-based Elsani & Neary. UTA Independent Film Group is handling North American sales.

In a device driven world, American Sweatshop will take a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty (Reinhart), who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet. Moriarty, and a motley group of coworkers, toil in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful and offensive pictures and videos uploaded to social media. With detached caution and a deranged sense of humor, they examine the millions of posts that get “flagged for review.

Black Mirrors sixth season has been available to stream on Netflix since summer 2023, along with the rest of the series. The latest installment brought fans more shocking content with five new episodes (two more than Season 5 offered), but how do they stack up. Each episode also has a varying length, with some stretching for close to an hour and others stopping short of the 40-minute mark.

Except for a few Easter eggs that suggest the events are interlinked, each episode has an independent story; viewers will have an easier time picking a favorite or simply selecting those theyd prefer to watch. While more Black Mirror is always a good thing for fans of the series, some episodes fall into old habits, while others push the series further into uncharted territory. With six seasons and a film to draw reference from, fans have come to expect a certain element from Black Mirror.

Black Mirror’s sixth season has been available to stream on Netflix since summer 2023, along with the rest of the series. The latest installment brought fans more shocking content with five episodes (two more than Season 5 offered). Each episode also has a varying length, with some stretching for close to an hour and others stopping short of the 40-minute mark.

Except for a few Easter eggs that suggest the events are interlinked, each episode has an independent story; viewers will have an easier time picking a favorite or simply selecting those they’d prefer to watch. While more Black Mirror is always a good thing for fans of the series, some episodes fall into old habits, while others push the series further into uncharted territory. With six seasons and a film to draw reference from, fans have come to expect a certain element from Black Mirror. More than half of...

Stranger Things season 4 fully embraced horror, and season 5 is expected to continue this trend with a sci-fi twist. Dan Trachtenberg, known for his work in sci-fi and horror films, will direct an episode of Stranger Things season 5. Trachtenberg's previous works, such as 10 Cloverfield Lane, have been critically acclaimed, making him a promising choice for the series' horror theme.

Stranger Things is preparing for its fifth and final season, and it seems to be continuing the best trend of season 4. Stranger Things has stood out for its mix of fantasy and horror, as well as its many references and tributes to 1980s pop culture, but each season has brought a couple of changes to the series’ tone. Stranger Things seasons 1 and 2 were more about suspense, as they were introducing the audience to the Upside Down and its many mysteries, with season 3 adding more action and drama to the mix with the...

Stranger Things has brought on a new director with ample experience blending action and horror. Currently, season 5 of the hit Netflix sci-fi series is being delayed as a result of the ongoing writers strike as the writers guild has put pencils down during their fight for fair compensation. However, some progress has been made on the season, including the recent announcement that Terminator star Linda Hamilton will be joining the cast for the flagship series' final season.

On the official Stranger Things Twitter account, it was announced that director Dan Trachtenberg has been tapped for Stranger Things season 5.

Welcome to Hawkins @DannyTRS !https://t.co/RrDnF8aHBB — Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) June 28, 2023

Trachtenberg, who made his feature debut with the buzzy 10 Cloverfield Lane, also directed the recent Predator prequel Prey and has television experience on series including The Boys, Black Mirror, and The Lost Symbol. He will be directing one episode of the upcoming season,...