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Spoiler alert: The following article contains details about the series finale for You.

After seven years, it’s the end of You. Or, rather, the end of its main character: the misogynistic, manipulative and murderous Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley).

In crafting the harrowing end to a saga filled with deceit, treachery and countless lives lost, Badgley tells Deadline the pulse-pounding Netflix drama had to go “back to form,” focusing on his “object of desire” — each season’s new “You.” This time around, Bronte (The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Madeline Brewer) “becomes an avatar for the audience,” subverting Joe’s cunning to bring about his downfall.

“It becomes a meta exercise on: Why are we so obsessed with this man?” explains Badgley, who has been vocal in the past about censuring fans who glorify or romanticize his character. “Apart from the superficial reasons, what is it about a protagonist like this that works?...

“Looking back, this is less of a rom-com and more of a love story…”

So warns the trailer for “Spoiler Alert,” the adaptation of Michael Ausiello’s bestselling memoir, “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies.” Jim Parsons stars as entertainment journalist Michael, a man determined to live in a rom-com fantasy with his new love, photographer Kit (Ben Aldridge). Yet after Kit’s terminal cancer diagnosis, the couple are on borrowed time. The film captures their 14-year love story, culminating in Kit’s death.

“Spoiler Alert” will be released by Focus Features in select theaters December 2, followed by a nationwide rollout December 16. The film is directed by Michael Showalter (“The Big Sick”) and written by David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage. Emmy nominee Grant previously wrote “Smash,” “A Million Little Things,” and “Brothers and Sisters.” This is fellow Emmy nominee Savage’s first feature film.

The cast for “Spoiler Alert” also includes Sally Field,...

Focus Features has set a limited theatrical release for Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 2, 2022.

The film, directed by Michael Showalter from a screenplay by David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage based on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir, will expand domestically on December 9 and be released wide on December 16.

Spoiler Alert stars Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge and Sally Field. Antoni Porowski, Nikki M. James, Jeffery Self, and Bill Irwin will also be featured in the film.

Producers on the project are Michael Showalter and Jordana Mollick via their Semi–Formal Productions banner; Jim Parsons, and Todd Spiewak and Alison Mo Massey via the That’s Wonderful Production banner. Executive Producers are Michael Ausiello, Eric Norsoph, and Jason Sokoloff.

This is a tragicomic, heartwarming and life-affirming story of the eleven-month span between Ausiello’s partner, photographer Kit Cowan, receiving a diagnosis of terminal cancer,...

Netflix has come aboard to distribute See You Yesterday, a travel drama produced by Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. The pic is the directorial debut from Stefon Bristol, Lee’s long-time NYU Graduate Film School protege.

The script was co-written by Bristol and Fredrica Bailey. It’s based on their 2017 short film of the same title, which was a finalist at the HBO Short Film Competition at American Black Film Festival and is currently on the Cinemax streaming platform, Max Go.

Starring Eden-Duncan Smith (Roxanne Roxanne) and newcomer Danté Crichlow, the film centers on two Brooklyn teenage science prodigies, Claudette “C.J.” Walker and Sebastian J. Thomas, who build make-shift time machines to save C.J.’s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer

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Principal photography has completed on Netflix’s upcoming film “See You Yesterday,” a time-travel film written and directed by newcomer filmmaker Stefon Bristol and produced by Spike Lee through his 40 Acres and a Mule production banner.

Netflix plans to release the film in 2019.

Based on Bristol’s NYU thesis short film, which was also produced by Lee and streamed on HBO last year, “See You Yesterday” follows C.J. and Sebastian (Eden-Duncan Smith and Dante Crichlow), two African-American prodigies who build a time machine in the hopes of using it to save C.J.’s brother from being wrongfully killed by a cop.

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“I started this project when Mike Brown and Eric Gardner were murdered. That was in 2014. And we are still dealing with deadly police misconduct. I made this film because I don’t...

After a theatrical run in February Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, directed by Spike Lee, will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 26th, 2015. Also in this round-up: release details on a Fright Rags shirt for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and a trailer for The Man in the Shadows.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus: Press Release -- "Anchor Bay Entertainment and Gravitas Ventures will release the Spike Lee thriller Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus on Blu-ray™ and DVD on May 26, 2015. The film previously hit theaters on February 13th after a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the production. It’s a reinterpretation of Bill Gunn’s horror cult film “Ganja & Hess”, which played as a Critics Choice at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival; Spike Lee’s stylized thriller features an Original Score by Bruce Hornsby.

A Spike Lee Joint, Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is directed by Spike Lee,...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus starring Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams.

The film, which is a reinterpretation of Bill Gunn’s 1973 cult horror classic “Ganja & Hess,” previously made its debut earlier this year at the American Black Film Festival after a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the production.

Gravitas will release the film theatrically and on video on demand on February 13, 2015.

“Making Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus is one of my most gratifying experiences in my body of work,” said Spike Lee. “The support and love we got raising the money through Kickstarter is a true blessing. I thank everyone who brought this New Spike Lee Joint to life.”

“We are thrilled to collaborate with Spike Lee to release Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus in theatres and on demand across North America,” said Nolan Gallagher, Gravitas Ventures’ Founder and CEO.

Johnny Messner, Ronen Rubinstein, Shawn Christensen, Jon Abrahams and Jordan Gelber have joined Caliber Media’s original horror film.

Eli Morgan Gesner is set to commence shooting in April in New York.

Genevieve Hudson-Price, Anthony Chisholm, Kevin Kirkwood, Kea Ho and Michael Drayer have also joined previously announced cast members Dylan Penn, Lydia Hearst and Honor Titus.

Gesner also wrote the story about a fight to the death in a mysterious Manhattan building.

Caliber Media partners Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller arranged financing and will produce alongside Jason Sokoloff.

Johnny Messner, Ronen Rubinstein, Shawn Christensen, Jon Abrahams and Jordan Gelber have joined Dylan Penn in Condemned, the horror film from Eli Morgan Gesner. Photos: 15 Horror Movies That Offered the Most Bang for the Buck Caliber Media partners Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller arranged the financing and are producing alongside Jason Sokoloff. Also cast were Genevieve Hudson-Price (The Wire), Anthony Chisholm (Oz), Kevin Kirkwood (Broadway’s Kinky Boots), Kea Ho (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), and Michael Drayer (Deception). Lydia Hearst and punk rocker Honor Titus are already on board. Penn, Titus, Rubinstein and Hudson-Price portray

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Sean Penn and Robin Wright's daughter Dylan Penn will make her acting debut in the horror movie “Condemned,” it was announced Friday by Caliber Media. The project hails from writer-director Eli Morgan Gesner, a successful entrepreneur and clothing designer. Also read: Sean Penn Explodes in Cannes: ‘The Whole F—ing World Abandoned Haiti’ Caliber Media partners Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller arranged the financing and will produce alongside Jason Sokoloff. Production is scheduled to start next month in New York. Penn will star as Maya, the youngest in a group of kids who live in a condemned, filthy squat...

Growing up and living in Brooklyn, New York, for thirty years, I can tell you quite a few tales of some creepy condemned buildings. That being said, any place with Sean Penn's daughter, Dylan Penn, cannot be all that ugly. Read on!

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Dylan Penn will make her entrée into acting in Condemned, an original horror film from writer and director Eli Morgan Gesner that begins shooting next month in New York. Caliber Media partners Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller arranged the financing and will produce alongside Jason Sokoloff.

Penn will play the lead role of “Maya,” the youngest in a group of kids who live in a condemned, filthy squat in Manhattan’s Lower East Side with a bunch of crazy degenerate NYC lunatics. The building residents succumb to an infection from their own waste and garbage, inciting a "battle royale" where they all go...

Writer-director Eli Morgan Gesner is preparing to commence principal photography on the horror tale in New York in April.

Condemned centres on a group of children who inhabit a squalid building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side with lunatics and must fight to the death to survive. Robin Wright’s model daughter Dylan Penn (pictured) makes her acting debut.

Caliber Media partners Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller arranged financing and will produce alongside Jason Sokoloff.

Caliber Media is in post on Chuck Hank And The San Diego Twins, Dark Was The Night starring Kevin Durand and Lukas Haas and comic book adaptation The Scribbler starring Katie Cassidy.

Dylan Penn, the daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright, will make her acting debut by starring in Condemned, a horror film written and directed by Eli Morgan Gesner, the professional skateboarder turned clothing designer. Caliber Media partners Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller arranged the financing and are producing alongside Jason Sokoloff. Photos: Hollywood Dynasties: Top 14 Movies Featuring Stars and Their Kids Penn, who at 22 has a thriving modeling career with shoots for GQ, Elle and the Gap, will play the lead role as the youngest member of a group of kids who live in a condemned, filthy

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