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2025 is shaping up to be a significant year in the life of Berlin-based production company One Two Films, run by Sol Bondy and Fred Burle.

The pair produced Ido Fluk’s well-received jazz tale Köln 75, which world premiered over the weekend as a Berlinale Special.

Burle also co-produced Ira Sach’s Peter Hujar’s Day, starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, which had its international premiere at the Berlinale following its debut at Sundance last month.

They followArmandfrom Norwegian filmmaker Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard last May winning the Camera d’Or for best debut feature,...

Following the film’s Sundance premiere and sale to Sideshow and Janus Films, “Peter Hujar’s Day” has released a first look.

Based on the book of the same name by Linda Rosenkrantz, “Peter Hujar’s Day” is director Ira Sachs’ follow-up to “Passages” (Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski). His latest film once again features Whishaw, now paired on-screen with Rebecca Hall. The two play friends, Peter Hujar (Whishaw) and Rosenkrantz (Hall), who connect over a 24-hour period in December 1974 and record an intimate discussion. Sachs took inspiration from a transcript of their real-life conversation.

The clip features a conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz as they discuss their differing views on stardom and artists. Hujar proclaims that he wants his work to stand on its own without stars, while Rosenkrantz doesn’t see the appeal in stars even as big as Joan Crawford. By the end, Hujar rests his head on Rosenkrantz...

It’s official: The book isn’t always better than the movie.

Filmmakers have been interpreting popular books for the screen since the invention of cinema, from influential novels to page-turning mysteries, comics, and buzzy book-club picks. But if you’re looking for a book-to-movie viewing recommendation, no need to consult a librarian — we’ve rounded up some of the most exciting and engrossing films that’ve been adapted from the page.

Because there are so many adaptations out there, we’re keeping this list to original Netflix films. Those page-to-screen stories include titles as varied as Rebecca Hall’s moving take on the Harlem Renaissance classic Passing, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s kinetic action flick taken from the panels of comic book The Old Guard, and Martin Scorsese’s engrossing crime saga realizing the nonfiction mob chronicle I Heard You Paint Houses — among many others. Whether you want to see one...

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Love, Death & Robots is an adult animated anthology series created by Tim Miller and David Fincher. The Netflix series is a collection of various animated short stories from different genres, including sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror, and mystery. Love, Death & Robots’ voice cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael B. Jordan, Topher Grace, Elodie Yung and many more. So, if you loved the imaginative stories, anthology format, and compelling plots and characters in Love, Death & Robots, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Secret Level is an adult animated anthology series created by Tim Miller. The Prime Video series consists of fifteen standalone stories set in the universes of different video games, including Armored Core, Concord, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, Sifu,...

Isabella Rossellini has joined Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX series “The Beauty” in a recurring guest star role, Variety has learned.

The “Blue Velvet” star and “Conclave” Oscar nominee joins previously announced series leads Evan Peters, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope and Rebecca Hall.

FX and 20th Century Television declined to comment. A representative for Murphy could not be immediately reached for comment.

“The Beauty,” from co-creators Murphy and Matthew Hodgson, was given an 11-episode order from FX. The series, which is currently in production, is based on the Image Comics series of the same name by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley. While character and plot details are being kept under wraps, a description of the comic series reads as follows:

“Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease?...

Ira Sachs has a sneaky way of building a rapport between his co-stars.

“He does this thing where he introduces the two actors, usually at a cafe or restaurant, and then he just leaves you so you’re forced to talk,” Ben Whishaw tells The Hollywood Reporter about the American filmmaker. The British star was plunged into this exact scenario with fellow Brit Rebecca Hall — the pair are starring in Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, getting its international premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.

“We just talked for hours at this diner in New York, and it was so nice,” recalls Whishaw, star of Black Doves, Paddington and the James Bond franchise. “It sounds like it could be a horrible thing, but it was a lovely thing. You end up going beyond the politeness of what you might just do if you met each other on a film set.

Ben Whishaw isn’t averse to juggling multiple and very different projects, but even he admits there was a point last year when things reached near farcical levels.

Around the same time he was shooting Netflix’s pulpy spy thriller series “Black Doves,” playing a contract killer with a conscience alongside Keira Knightley, he was recording the voice of Paddington Bear for the marmalade lover’s latest family adventure, “Paddington in Peru,” while also rehearsing for his lead role in a new West End adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s bleak tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot.”

“And all in one week! It was one of the strangest gear switches ever,” he says, speaking to Variety from his apartment in East London during a rare and brief period of rest for one of the U.K.’s most in-demand talents. “But it is nice to inhabit so many different worlds.”

Whishaw’s latest...

Disney pushed the opening of “Elio,” the studio’s upcoming Pixar film, by a week, while unveiling the release dates of Sam Raimi’s “Send Help” and James L. Brooks’ “Ella McCay.”

“Elio,” an animated science fiction adventure film, will debut on June 20. It was originally slated to open on June 13. That means it will no longer go head-to-head with Universal and DreamWorks’ live-action remake of “How to Train Your Dragon,” which could have cannibalized its core audience of kids and families. In its new date, it will face off against Sony’s “28 Years Later,” a zombie thriller that is pitched at older moviegoers.

Those are also the crowds that will be turning up for “Send Help” and “Ella McCay,” both of which will be released by 20th Century Studios. “Send Help,” a horror film with Rachel McAdams, Chris Pang, Dylan O’Brien, and Dennis Haysbert, will open on Jan.

Disney just shifted this summer’s Pixar movie Elio by one week from June 13 to June 20.

Typically, the June Pixar movies go out during Father’s Day weekend, but Disney is going a week later with this one.

Elio moves away from being head-to-head with Universal/DreamWorks’ live-action take of How to Train Your Dragon on June 13, and instead will go head-to-head with the adult skewing zombie title 28 Years Later on June 20.

In addition, the date shift for Elio creates space in Disney’s summer slate, giving Lilo & Stitch (5/23) more room to play, with the Pixar title still ahead of anticipated blockbuster The Fantastic Four: First Steps (7/25). Elio will be the only animated release in the wide gap between Looney Tunes (3/14) and Smurfs (7/18).

Other Disney changes are as follows:

20th Century Studios’ James L. Brooks directed dramedy Ella McCay starring Woody Harrelson and Rebecca Hall is now dated on...

While Sundance hasn’t had a plethora of the late night bidding wars we used to see in the good old days of the festival, the weirdness of the Los Angeles fires and the advent of the online platform suggest we will still see some deals close in a matter of days. That’s a good thing considering over 60 films came into this year’s Sundance looking for homes. As we previously reported, the hope is that even more distributors could get creative.

Below we’ll update all the acquisitions out of the festival as they arrive. Here are the movies we think could sell big.

“Obex”

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Buyer: Oscilloscope

Director: Albert Birney

Cast: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez

Buzz: In a slow Sundance, it’s good to see some of the smaller titles get some love. Oscilloscope’s acquisition of Birney’s “Obex” will give the film a theatrical release later this year,...

There were so many celebs at the Thom Browne show during New York Fashion Week and we have a full recap of everyone in attendance!

The fashion brand presented its latest collection on Tuesday (February 11) in New York City.

Cristin Milioti, Queen Latifah, Cara Delevingne, and Kerry Washington were some of the stars who stepped out for the event. Also there were Adrien Brody, Eiza Gonzalez, Justin Theroux, Cole Escola, and more.

“What I love people to see is the classic gray tailoring idea never gets old and becomes relevant in different ways with different people,” Thom told Wwd ahead of the show.

Head inside to check out photos of all the celebs at the show…

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Danielle Deadwyler, one of the biggest breakout stars of the last year, sat front row at the Ulla Johnson fashion show alongside chic couple Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector.

The celebs attended the event during New York Fashion Week on Sunday (February 9) in New York City.

More stars in attendance included Beanie Feldstein, Courtney Eaton, Juliana Canfield, and Clara McGregor.

This past year, Danielle got Oscar buzz for her work in the movie The Piano Lesson and she also starred in the hit Netflix action movie Carry-On, which is one of the most successful films of all time on the streamer. She’ll soon be seen in the horror movie The Woman in the Yard.

Morgan‘s show The Gilded Age is gearing up for a season three return on HBO in 2025 and we have updates on the cast list.

Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall are spending the day on set.

The two actors filmed scenes for Ryan Murphy‘s upcoming FX series The Beauty on Monday afternoon (February 10) in New York City.

For their time on set, Evan, 38, sported a black coat over a black suit and tie while Rebecca, 42, bundled up in a gray coat and brown booties as she took a break in between scenes.

The upcoming show, which is an adaption of Jason A. Hurley‘s comic book series of the same name, was first announced in September 2024.

Here’s the comic book series’ synopsis from Image Comics: “Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is attainable. The vast majority of the...

Netflix is honoring Black History Month by making theater screenings free.

IndieWire can announce that the Netflix-owned Paris Theater will present a special weekend of free community screenings as part of the “Strong Black Lead at the Paris” series. A total of six features will screen starting February 21; the series concludes February 23.

Spike Lee, George C. Wolfe, Tyler Perry, Rebecca Hall, and Malcolm Washington are among the directors whose films will be featured. According to a Netflix representative, the curated films were selected for being powerful features that each offer a unique perspective on Black experiences throughout American history. “Whether based on true stories or inspired by lived experience, these six films by gifted, visionary artists are essential viewing,” a press statement reads.

Among those “essential viewing” films include recent Netflix releases “The Piano Lesson,” directed by Malcolm Washington, and Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight” starring Kerry Washington.

“Peter Hujar’s Day” has found a home.

The film, written and directed by Ira Sachs and starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, where it quickly became one of the most buzzed-about titles. On Tuesday, Sideshow and Janus Films revealed they have since acquired the North American rights for the film.

Sideshow and Janus Films are eying a fall theatrical release for the movie. Sbs is handling international sales for the film, with a deal negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with WME Independent. It will next screen at the Berlinale in Panorama.

“Peter Hujar’s Day” was produced by Jordan Drake and Jonah Disend, and co-produced by Fred Burle and Aaron Craig. The film is a Complementary Colors, Blink Productions & Primo Content Presentation in association with We Are Films & Materia Cinema, and a Jordan Drake & One Two Films Production based on the book...

“Peter Hujar’s Day,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance, has sold to Sideshow and Janus Films. It’s one of the few projects to land a buyer out of the festival so far.

Written and directed by Ira Sachs, “Peter Hujar’s Day” is set over a 24-hour period in December 1974 and centers on one conversation between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) and his close friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), who recorded their talk for an art project. Hujar, who died of AIDS in 1987, only became celebrated as an artist after his death.

The film debuted in Park City to positive reviews, with Variety’s Owen Gleiberman calling it a “magical 1974 time capsule of a movie.” In his review, he wrote that “in its tiny-scaled staged-documentary way, ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ is exquisitely done and arresting to watch.”

“Peter Hujar’s Day” will screen at the Berlin Film Festival before Sideshow...

After its Sundance Film Festival premiere, Ira Sachs’ latest film, Peter Hujar’s Day, has landed at specialty distributors Sideshow and Janus Films for North America.

Peter Hujar’s Day, which is next set to screen at the Berlin Film Festival, is a word-for-word rendering of a 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz. The back and forth is focused on Hujar recounting the entirety of his previous day’s activities, which included photographing Allen Ginsberg for The New York Times and talking about his other acquaintances in the ’70s New York art scene. Ben Whishaw stars as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz.

The Hollywood Reporter‘s review of the film called it among Sachs’ best, with critic David Rooney writing, “Led by a performance of transfixing grace and subtlety from Ben Whishaw in the title role, the diaristic film spins compacted time into something free-flowing, expansive,...

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to Peter Hujar’s Day, Ira Sachs’ Sundance drama that will receive its international premiere in Berlin Panorama next week.

Ben Whishaw plays the queer New York photographer Hujar, who recounts his day to friend Linda Rosenkrantz played by Rebecca Hall. The film takes place in an apartment over the course of one day in 1974 and is based on the book of the same name that Rosenkrantz wrote from a recording of the conversation. It debuted in the Sundance Premieres section.

Sideshow and Janus Films negotiated the deal with WME Independent...

Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson were among the latest high-profile names confirmed this afternoon as attendees for this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

The pair were included this afternoon in an updated guest list shared by the festival.

Chalamet will attend for the German premiere of his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown while Pattinson will debut his Bong Joon-ho flick Micky 17. Both films play in the Berlinale Specials sidebar.

Other confirmed guests include Conclave filmmaker Edward Berger who will present Tilda Swinton her Honorary Golden Bear. Jessica Chastain will hit the German capital with Michel Franco’s Golden Bear Contender Dreams, and Jacob Elordi will make the trip to Berlin for the world premiere of his Justin Kurzel series The Narrow Road to the Deep South.

Other celebrity guests confirmed today by the festival include Naomi Ackie, Rose Byrne, Toni Collette, Denis Côté, Marion Cotillard, Lars Eidinger, Mala Emde,...

For the past two decades, Andrew Garfield has stood out as one of the most charming and talented actors that Britain has to offer. Over the course of his career, he's proven himself to be constantly eager to take on new challenges, appearing in a Catholicism-soaked period drama one moment and a sprightly superhero flick the next. You never know exactly what he's going to take on next, except that he's guaranteed to bring a certain boy-next-door charisma to every performance. 

After making his on-screen debut in 2005's teen comedy "Sugar Rush," he catapulted to stardom with a string of well-received leading roles. Garfield is no stranger to awards season, as he has received nominations at the Academy Awards, Emmys, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tonys. And while not every project of his is a slam dunk, a lot of them are, and all are improved by his presence. Here are...

Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day is crafted out of just a tiny sliver of a fragment of New York’s mid-1970s culture scene. As part of a larger project, well-connected autofiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend, photographer Peter Hujar, to come by her Yorkville apartment on December 19, 1974 and describe everything he did over the course of one day while she recorded him. Though she meant it to be a larger project, she was never able to make the recording into anything. But the written transcript of their conversation was discovered in 2019 and turned by Sachs into an engrossingly personal two-hander.

Peter Hujar’s Day simply consists of Hujar (Ben Whishaw) talking about his day and Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) gently nudging him along, less as an interviewer and more as a curious friend. The only times that Sachs deviates from his formalist framing of this conversation is...

The Alabama Solution

Relying heavily on footage shot by inmates on prohibited cellphones, Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s powerful and gripping documentary isn’t an easy watch, but it’s a crucial one. The film’s focus is on corruption and abuses of power specific to Alabama’s prisons — and the heroism of the men who have found ways to evolve within a system that has no interest in participating in their rehabilitation and denies their basic humanity in every way. — Daniel Fienberg

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Before his death in 1963, scholar W.E.B. Du Bois spent decades trying to publish an encyclopedia about people of African descent. That mission propels Kahlil Joseph’s hypnotic debut feature — a kinetic video essay blending Afro-futurist narrative, archival footage and memoir — that’s like an index of Black culture from the past 50 years. Joseph animates the fictional story of a journalist reporting on a transatlantic curatorial project with voiceover,...

Dan Stevens is set to return to the Monsterverse.The 42-year-old actor's character Trapper in Legendary’s 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' proved to be a hit with fans and so he is now in negotiations to star in the company's next installment in the franchise, The Hollyywood Reporter has revealed.Plot details for the next movie - which will be directed by 'I Am Mother' filmmaker Grant Sputore and also star Kaitlyn Dever - are being kept under wraps but Legendary previously teased it would feature “several new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending threat.” Dan previously admitted he had a "ton of fun" filming 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' with his "old buddy" Rebecca Hall and his 'The Guest' director Adam Wingard.He told '...

Recent years have seen many filmmakers take a less linear approach to the biopic, inviting audiences to learn more about the subject than a superficial understanding of their life events. Ira Sachs’s latest film, Peter Hujar’s Day, takes the slice-of-life genre to its extreme, delivering an experimental work that many may dismiss as uneventful but has many fascinating layers to unpack. In taking this unorthodox approach, Sachs helps audiences know more about Hujar and the world in which he worked than any simple biopic could.

Peter Hujar’s Day Review

Peter Hujar’s Day is, as the title implies, a narration of a day in the life of Peter Hujar, a gay portrait photographer who has recently become acclaimed for being the seminal figure he was despite the lack of recognition he received at the time. And because of this, the film — like its subject — is incredibly humble and minimalistic in nature,...

Everyone in this world knows who Meryl Streep is or who Anne Hathaway is. But then comes the lot of actresses, who no matter how good they perform, aren’t acknowledged worldwide. Well, Rebecca Hall might be the epitome of that group, who often goes unnoticed despite her riveting performance.

We’re sure that you’ve certainly watched Rebecca Hall’s films since the actress rolls from Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed movies to MCU’s blockbusters. But you may not recognize her just by the name. So today, while dissecting her decades-long filmography, let’s take a look at one of her most underrated masterpieces in Hollywood.

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Despite a lack of proper recognition in the industry after serving the entertainment sector for over a decade, Rebecca Hall hasn’t given up on her passion for art. Time and again, she has proven herself...

Since the Monsterverse franchise began with 2014’s Godzilla, Legendary Pictures continued to witness success with each installment of the classic Toho Godzilla series. Recently in 2024, the Monsterverse once again returned in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which despite receiving middling reviews from critics, became a massive box-office hit and a crowd-pleaser.

A still from Godzilla X Kong: A New Empire | image: Legendary Pictures

So now, Legendary Pictures is once again set to return with more epic kaiju action in a Godzilla x Kong sequel. Upping the ante with the two most recognizable giant monsters in cinematic history, the next installment has already released some major updates. Let’s dive right into and check out everything we know so far about the upcoming movie.

Release date for the Godzilla X Kong sequel Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | image: Legendary Pictures

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When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen Ginsburg, taken on December 18, 1974, it’s strikingly nonchalant. Ginsberg is standing on the sidewalk, one hand in pocket and the other looped through the straps of a bag draped on his shoulder. He’s looking right down the barrel of the lens with an “okay, you’re taking my picture” expression on his face. Ginsberg is perhaps the most recognizable name to come out of the beat generation of poets but he looks like he could be anybody––he could be your buddy Carl. It was taken for the New York Times but certainly doesn’t have the gloss and sophistication of celebrity portraits we see in major publications today. The austere street beside him is on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood now flooded with tourists, boutiques, and banality. Just as Hujar’s photo is indicative of an...

“Peter Hujar’s Day” is one of those films whose title is almost humorously straightforward, yet only gives a hint of what the experience of watching it is actually like. While true that it is about a day in the life of the late photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) that he recounts to his close friend Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) in mundane, expansive detail for a book that notably never came to be, it becomes about a moment in time, their place in it, and his anxieties as an artist. Handsomely shot by cinematographer Alex Ashe, whose richly textured visuals make it entrancing to watch even when little is happening, it’s a film about both everything and nothing as Whishaw literally just tells a story to the camera for the entire runtime.

“Peter Hujar’s Day” recreates the conversation the duo had in 1974, relying on a transcript that was only recently...

Ira Sachs’ latest film “Peter Hujar’s Day” is a fascinating experiment and historical document, and in speaking at the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, he said it “kept me up at night” trying to figure out how to make it cinematically interesting.

The film, a tight 75 minutes, is a filmed recreation of a conversation between famed New York photographer Peter Hujar and his friend and journalist Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 in which he describes a day in his life in NYC’s downtown art scene. He discusses chats with Susan Sontag and photographing Allen Ginsberg, and all of it was recorded as part of a transcript that was unearthed just in 2024, 50 years after the conversation first happened.

With only two people talking, Sachs had to find a way to make the dialogue “suspenseful, emotional, not boring,” which he called an “interesting challenge.”

“I connected to the time but also to the...

Neon has closed what is understood to be a $17m worldwide deal on Together, the body horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco that has been the standout commercial prospect of Sundance.

The first deal of the festival means that, for the second year in a row, Kristen Figeroid and the team at Neon International will head to Berlin with a buzzy genre hit from Park City after picking up Lucy Liu ghost story Presence last year.

Figeroid’steam will represent all international rights excluding Australia and New Zealand. Neon has scheduled an August 1 theatrical release in North America.

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Neon has closed what is understood to be a $15m worldwide deal on Together, the body horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco that has been the standout commercial prospect of Sundance.

The first deal of the festival means that, for the second year in a row, Kristen Figeroid and the team at Neon International will head to Berlin with a buzzy genre hit from Park City after picking up Lucy Liu ghost story Presence last year.

Figeroid’steam will represent all international rights excluding Australia and New Zealand. Neon has scheduled an August 1 theatrical release in North America.

Michael Shanks...

Neon is understood to be nearing a $15m worldwide deal on Together, the body horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco that has been the standout commercial prospect of Sundance.

The first deal of the festival means that, for the second year in a row, Kristen Figeroid and the team at Neon International will head to Berlin with a buzzy genre hit from Park City after picking up Lucy Liu ghost story Presence last year.

Michael Shanks made his feature writing and directing debut on Together, the Midnight selection about a couple who relocate to the country where their touch-and-go...

Sundance 2025 will be remembered as what’s probably the penultimate year that film festival calls Park City home, as well as the edition that gave us a body-horror rom-com (Irl couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco’s gloriously disgusting Together), an introduction to a major new triple-threat talent (Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby), a pastoral look at the stoic 20th century everymen who made our country (Train Dreams), and a whole lotta music docs. But for us, this Sundance will always be the one where we got to eavesdrop on...

“Peter Hujar’s Day” reunites writer-director Ira Sachs with his “Passages” star Ben Whishaw, and Sachs revealed at TheWrap’s Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt that his latest effort began while he was still making that searing 2023 relationship drama.

“I was working in Paris with Ben on ‘Passages,’ and I saw a book in a bookstore called ‘Peter Hujar’s Day,’ and it was a publication of a transcript of a conversation that took place in 1974 between the photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosencrantz,” Sachs recalled. “I picked it up and read it in a cafe, and by the time I finished it, I thought this would be a really interesting project or film or a piece of art to make with Ben specifically.”

While Whishaw said he “enjoyed” the original transcript that Sachs gave him, it wasn’t until he actually saw how the filmmaker wanted to...

Rebecca Hall is to reunite with her ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ director Adam Wingard for his action-thriller ‘Onslaught’.The 42-year-old actress will be joining her Monsterverse co-star Dan Stevens and Adria Arjona in the A24 flick, which has now entered production in New Mexico.‘Onslaught’ follows a mother (Arjona) living in a trailer who is forced to rely on "a particular set of skills" to protect her family once dangerous beings escape a secret military base and threaten her and her loved ones.While Hall’s character is unknown, The Hollywood Reporter claims her role will be related to that of Stevens’ part - a German scientist working on the experiments that escape the base.As well as Hall, Stevens and Arjona, Michael Biehn, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson and UFC star Alex ‘Poatan’ Pereira are also due to appear in ‘Onslaught’, though their roles have not been disclosed.

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

‘Together’: Sundance Review

Michael Shanks’ feature directorial debut and Midnight entry turned heads (and stomachs) as soon as it debuted on Sunday at Eccles Theatre. Buyers including Apple, A24, Focus Features, Amazon, and Searchlight Pictures are among those who were either in attendance at the premiere or who have since seen it.

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ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

‘Together’: Sundance Review

Michael Shanks’ feature directorial debut and Midnight entry turned heads (and stomachs) as soon as it debuted on Sunday at Eccles Theatre. Buyers including Apple, A24, Focus Features, Amazon, and Searchlight Pictures are among those who were either in attendance at the premiere or who have since seen it.

Real-life item Alison Brie...

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

Other fiction features without distribution have impressed over the first five days, despite the preponderance for bleak stories that some observers say has set a rather sullen table for the US acquisitions space in the next few months ahead.

However many agree the quality of filmmaking has been high, and nowhere has this been more evident that with the documentary selection,...

Director Adam Wingard and actress Rebecca Hall worked together on both Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire – but after making two giant monster movies in a row, Wingard decided he wanted to return to his roots with Onslaught, a project that is said to be in the vein of his cult classics The Guest and You’re Next. It has also been described as a “gonzo action horror thriller.” So the next Godzilla / Kong sequel is moving ahead without him… but that hasn’t disrupted his working relationship with Hall. The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that Hall is part of the Onslaught cast!

Hall will be starring in Onslaught alongside the previously announced Adria Arjona (Hit Man); Dan Stevens, who worked with Wingard on The Guest and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire; Drew Starkey (Outer Banks), Michael Biehn (The Terminator), Reginald VelJohnson (Die Hard...

The duo behind The Guest, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett are re-teaming for the upcoming A24 movie Onslaught, and THR reports that Rebecca Hall has joined a cast that also includes Dan Stevens

Adria Arjona and Michael Biehn also star in Onslaught, with the full cast including Reginald VelJohnson, Eric Wareheim, Drew Starkey, and Alex “Poatan” Pereira.

Onslaught is being described as “a gonzo action horror thriller.”

The Hollywood Reporter details the upcoming A24 project, “Adria Arjona stars as a mother living in a trailer who falls back on a particular set of skills in order to protect her loved ones after she runs afoul of a threat that has escaped a secret military base.”

“Stevens is playing a German scientist working on the experiments,” the site notes.

When the project was originally announced last year, it was noted that it would bring Adam Wingard back his horror roots,...

Rebecca Hall is reuniting with her Godzilla x Kong director Adam Wingard for the action thriller Onslaught.

The move also sees the actress, whose true-life drama Peter Hujar’s Day premiered at Sundance over the weekend, reteam with Dan Stevens, her Monsterverse co-star who is also part of the cast of the A24 action thriller now in production.

Adria Arjona stars as a mother living in a trailer who falls back on a particular set of skills in order to protect her loved ones after she runs afoul of a threat that has escaped a secret military base. The call sheet also includes UFC Champion Alex ”Poatan” Pereira, Michael Biehn, Eric Wareheim and Reginald VelJohnson.

Character details for Hall were unavailable, but sources said the part was related to Stevens’ role. Stevens is playing a German scientist working on the experiments that escape.

Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett will produce Onslaught...

Ben Whishaw again proves himself as the brilliant actor we all knew he was, if we were looking closely enough, in Ira Sachs’ “Peter Hujar’s Day.” The film, set in 1974 New York City, is an intimate two-hander starring just Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as gay photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, respectively. They gathered, it’s true, on a cold day in December, where Hujar recounts all the events of the previous one, which involved photo opportunities with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, and a lot of quotidian nothingness. But those small moments of a day grow profound as Peter’s winding monologue wears on. Writer/director Sachs’ extraordinary new movie never breaks from the pair, and at times becomes like a documentary about the greatness of the actors themselves, Mozart possessing the soundtrack as Sachs and cinematographer Alex Ashe take longing, lingering B-roll of the performers.

Park City – Sometimes, despite the best efforts of those involved, a movie isn’t really a movie. Maybe it’s really a short subject extended beyond its means. Maybe it’s more of an experiment or a well-intentioned exercise. In that context, it gives us no pleasure to inform you that Ira Sachs‘ latest dramatic endeavor, “Peter Hujar’s Day,” falls into a number of those unflattering categories.

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A world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Sachs’ follow-up to 2023’s “Passages,” his ambitious exploration of a gay marriage unexpectedly torn asunder, reunites him with one of the stars of that film, Ben Whishaw.

Continue reading ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall Get Lost In Ira Sachs’ Cinematic Exercise [Sundance] at The Playlist.

In the ever-shifting world of the biopic, a biopic can be many different things. It can be like a novel (if it covers someone’s entire life). It can have the more concentrated quality of a short story (if it’s set during one key period). On that score, you might say that “Peter Hujar’s Day” is the biopic as sonnet. The entire film takes place in one day — but more than that, it consists entirely of Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), the noted New York photographer of the 1970s and ’80s, having a rambling conversation with his friend, Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which he recounts everything he did the day before.

It seems that the two were collaborating on a project. Rosenkrantz instructed Hujar to write down everything that happened to him on Dec. 18, 1974, and to show up the following day at her apartment on 94th St. in Manhattan,...

In 2008, Ira Sachs got fired by his manager. The most indie spirited of independent filmmakers had refused to play the game for too long, and the bill had finally come due.

“I understood it in a way,” Sachs, more than a decade and a half-dozen features removed from that experience, says. “Because I was not entering the business, and his job was to facilitate the business of Hollywood, which was not what I was interested in doing. They were trying to get me jobs as opposed to what I was trying to do, which was produce my own work.”

For the record, Sachs thinks that he never would have gotten the gigs that his representatives wanted him to land. But the experience helped rethink his value in an industry that usually measures those things in terms of box office grosses.

“Before that, I thought I was kind of owed a career based on certain successes,...

We got confirmation late last year that a follow-up to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was officially in the works, with writer Dave Callaham enlisted to pen the script for the untitled movie.

Adam Wingard, who helmed The New Empire and previous MonsterVerse movie Godzilla vs. Kong, was originally set to return, but ultimately departed the project under "amicable" circumstances, with Grant Sputore stepping in to replace him shortly after.

Now, Deadline reports that the next MonsterVerse movie has founds its lead in Kaitlyn Dever.

We don't have any details on who she'll play, but the trade mentions that, while Kong and Godzilla will still be fronting the film, Legendary is looking to build on its human characters. The story will focus on "Godzilla and Kong as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending threat."

Sputore doesn't have much experience, having come from the world of commercials, but he...

The annual IndieWire Studio at Sundance returns for the 2025 edition of the Park City festival. It will feature interviews with the talent behind 25 of the most anticipated films of the festival with discussions taking place in-person on Main Street.

Presented by Dropbox, the IndieWire Studio at Sundance will welcome actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, and documentary subjects for exclusive video interviews with IndieWire’s senior staff starting Friday January 24.

Among the talent we’ll be welcoming to the studio are Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna (“Kiss of the Spiderwoman”), Josh O’Connor (“Rebuilding”), Sarah Jessica Parker (“The Librarians”), Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (“Sly Lives!”), Marlee Matlin (“Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore”), Olivia Colman and John Lithgow (“Jimpa”), Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner (“Atropia”), Juliette Lewis (“By Design”), Rachel Sennott (“Bunnylovr”), Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon (“Train Dreams”), Molly Gordon and Geraldine Viswanathan, Dave Franco and Alison Brie (“Together” plus Franco for “Bubble & Squeak...

The calendar has officially flipped on to 2025 and with that brings a new year, new hopes, and a new Sundance Film Festival lineup.

Today marks the first day of the annual independent film festival which takes place mountains of Park City, Utah.

Sundance has always been known for big stars in little films and the occasional massive breakthrough by an unknown.

This year looks very promising to deliver on both of those fronts.

The 2025 edition is in no short supply of recognizable names Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Lopez, Coleman Domingo, Olivia Coleman, Jon Lithgow, Rebecca Hall, John Malkovich, and many others star in some of the most anticipated titles of the festival.

As with any Sundance comes a massive slate of incredible documentaries. Questlove returns to Sundance after debuting his Academy Award-winning Summer of Soul at the 2021 Festival. This year he brings Sly Lives!, a profile on Sly and the Family Stone.

Jessica Chastain, Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton and Marion Cotillard were among a first wave of star guests confirmed for the 75th edition of the Berlinale at its line-up press conference on Tuesday.

Chastain will hit the festival as the co-star of Michel Franco’s Golden Bear Contender Dreams, while Whishaw and Hall will attend with Ira Sach’s Peter Hujar’s Day, which plays in the competitive Panorama sidebar. Sevigny is the star of another Panorama title, Magic Farm by Amalia Ulman.

Cotillard tops the cast of Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Golden Lion Contender The Ice Tower in the role of the enigmatic star of a production of The Snow Queen, who bewitches a young runaway.

Other confirmed guests include Archie Madekwe, who co-stars in Berlinale Special Gala title Lurker; Rose Byrne, who tops the cast of Golden Bear contender If I Had Links I’d Kick You and Lars Eidinger,...

Superhero movies produced by Marvel Studios have been among the biggest tentpole blockbusters in Hollywood for years. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has largely become ubiquitous with the superhero genre, with its projects often featuring the biggest names in entertainment in various starring roles. With their global reach, Marvel movies can provide their actors with the largest possible audience as far as modern cinema goes. However, not every actor has readily accepted the opportunity to join Marvel films, even for the most prominent parts in the MCU.

Whether due to not particularly connecting with the material or matters outside of their control, numerous A-list actors have turned down Marvel movie roles. In some cases, these actors have then gone on to appear in films based on Marvel's biggest competition, DC Comics. With actors rejecting some of Marvel's most important characters, the MCU would've looked very different if some of its planned castings panned out as intended.