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Karen Gillan has had a lot of faces throughout the course of her career. She has played many different characters and established just how talented she is as an actress. She has gone from horror movies to blue aliens and even got transported into a game. However, her fans may have never seen her in a film like 2023’s Late Bloomers.

Karen Gillan in Late Bloomers I Vertical Entertainment

Rather than playing a confident character like she usually does, the film places her in the shoes of Louise, a 28-year-old, who is trying to figure out her place in the world and with her family quite late in her life. The film adopts quite an awkward tone, and often, it can be almost impossible to watch because of how good it is at making audiences uncomfortable.

This feeling can perfectly be encompassed in one scene from the film, which happens...

Avengers: Endgame gave a bigger role to Nebula, who was just a minor character in James Gunn’s first MCU film, Guardians of the Galaxy. Actress Karen Gillan never thought she would get to do more than those first eight days playing Nebula in Gunn’s film. Nebula’s story completed a full circle in the final film in the trilogy, and Gillan reveals that she would work again with Gunn at the drop of a hat.

Karen Gillan as Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.3 | Marvel Studios

When asked if she would join The Suicide Squad director’s Dcu, Gillan didn’t hesitate to respond with a yes. However, she shared that she didn’t want to pitch for any character in the DC universe. She was ready to take on any role that Gunn would ask of her.

Avengers: Endgame Actress Karen Gillan Will Join James Gunn...

Late Bloomers is a heartwarming comedy about unlikely friendships, starring Karen Gillan in a charming role of self-discovery. The film is based on writer Anna Greenfield's own life experiences, blending humor with the vulnerability of growing older. Director Lisa Steen captures the essence of New York City as a character, adding depth to the intergenerational tale of aging and acceptance.

Late Bloomers follows an aimless musician in her late twenties who breaks her hip while drunk. Through her physical therapy, Louise meets and befriends people twice her age, notably Antonina, a Polish woman who doesn't speak any English. Unexpectedly, Louise is hired as Antonina's caretaker and the unlikely pair help each other grow out of their comfort zones and rediscover what makes life beautiful.

Doctor Who's Karen Gillan stars as Louise, infusing the role with heart and endless comedy. Late Bloomers is written by Anna Greenfield, based on her own life,...

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You can't guard the galaxy from destruction if you can't guard your own well-being. Fan-favorite actress Karen Gillan has stepped into what she just described as one of her "favorite things to perform," and it's not a Marvel or Jumanji franchise installment. Late Bloomers, now in theaters, proves Gillan is captivating even when reduced to a hospital bed and/or crutches, as she hobbles across Brooklyn in search of true love, purpose, and the meaning of family.

We last spoke to Gillan amid the release of her film Sleeping Dogs, which also starred Oscar winner Russell Crowe. We recently caught up with her again, this time in Los Angeles alongside Late Bloomers' writer Anna Greenfield and director Lisa Steen for a hilarious group interview about their inspiration behind the film, real-life injuries, diapers and the "unsexy sex scene," and Gillan's highly anticipated...

"I was just trying to take care of her." Vertical has revealed the trailer for an indie dramedy film titled Late Bloomers, marking the feature directorial debut of director Lisa Steen. This initially premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival last year, and it played at the Sarasota, Seattle, Memphis, Philadelphia, Palm Springs Film Fests as well. Louise is a 28-year-old Brooklynite adrift in life, who now finds herself grappling with her identity as a musician. She ends up in the hospital after drunkenly breaking her hip. An encounter with a cranky elderly Polish woman who speaks no English that's in the same room as her in the physical therapy ward leads to a job caring for her. Neither likes it, but it's time to grow up. As they navigate their begrudging relationship, they confront the realities of aging, forcing Louise to consider her own journey into adulthood. Karen Gillan co-stars...

Visit Films has announced a torrent of recent deals on its slate led by a further key territory sale on Cannes Directors’ Fortnight entry Good One.

India Donaldson’s feature debut starring newcomer Lily Collias as a 17-year-old who goes on an awkward backpacking trip with her father and his best friend has gone to Cherry Pickers for Benelux after a previously reported deal with New Story for France.

Multiple territories remain in active negotiation after Cannes, and Metrograph Pictures holds North American rights.

SXSW documentary Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound about the cult post-rock band has been...

“Late Bloomers” is a new comedy-drama feature, directed by Lisa Steen, starring Karen Gillan (“Guardians of the Galaxy”), Margaret Sophie Stein, Jermaine Fowler, Kevin Nealon, Danielle Alonzo, Talia Balsam, Winsome Brown and Tan Chinn, opening June 7, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Louise’, a 28-year-old Brooklynite adrift in life, finds herself suddenly single and grappling with her identity as a musician. While she struggles with her underlying depression, a reckless drunken stumble lands her with a broken hip, and leads to a stint in a physical therapy ward with patients twice her age.

“Here, she crosses paths with ‘Antonina’, a cantankerous elderly woman who speaks no English. Reluctantly, Louise takes on the role of Antonina’s caregiver, a situation neither of them welcomes. As they navigate their begrudging relationship, they confront the realities of aging, forcing Louise to consider her own journey into adulthood…”

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Sometimes a broken hip is the best thing that could happen to you. Or at least that’s the situation seen in the upcoming comedy film, “Late Bloomers.”

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As seen in the trailer, “Late Bloomers” tells the story of a young woman who finds herself suddenly single and with a broken hip. While recovering in the hospital, she meets an older lady and they form a bittersweet friendship.

Continue reading ‘Late Bloomers’ Trailer: Karen Gillan Breaks Her Hip & Makes A Friend In Lisa Steen’s Comedy at The Playlist.

Exclusive: Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) and Zoë Chao (Nightbitch) will lead the cast of Let’s Have Kids!, a feature comedy from MRC that’s heading into production this week.

Marking the directorial debut of Black Adam and Due Date scribe Adam Sztykiel, pic’s ensemble also includes Sam Richardson (The Afterparty) Max Greenfield (The Neighborhood), K.J. Apa (Riverdale), Ed Begley Jr. (Young Sheldon) and Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen (Nightmare Alley).

Let’s Have Kids! tells the story of lifelong best friends Emma and Phoebe, who decide to try to have their first babies at the same time so they can navigate the Great Unknown of motherhood together, but find their friendship is deeply tested when only one of them gets pregnant. Sztykiel and Ellie Knaus wrote the script and will also produce alongside Becky Sloviter (Palm Springs) — the recently appointed President of Miramax Motion Picture Group,...

Exclusive: Lisa Steen’s debut feature Late Bloomers, starring Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise), is the latest starry festival indie to have secured North American distribution through Vertical.

Other recent pickups for Vertical include the Sundance genre-bender Your Monster starring Melissa Barrera, true crime doc The Speedway Murders, Brittany Snow’s SXSW-premiering directorial debut Parachute, and the Zoe Saldaña thriller The Absence of Eden co-acquired with Roadside Attractions, to name just a few.

Specifics as to the release plan for Late Bloomers haven’t been disclosed.

World premiering at SXSW 2023, the film centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless and recently single 28-year-old Brooklynite, who drunkenly falls while stalking her ex and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina (Margaret Sophie Stein), a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Through circumstances beyond her control,...

Visit Films has added Sundance premiere Ghostlight, Latin music biopic Jenni and New York-set comedy Late Bloomers to its slate for next week’s European Film Market.

Visit will represent international sales rights for Ghostlight, directed by Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson. Keith Kupferer, Tara Mullen, Katherine Mallen Kupfererv and Dolly de Leon star in the story of a construction worker who joins a local theater production of Romeo and Juliet.

IFC Films and Sapan Studio recently acquired North American rights to the film, which is produced by Ian Keiser, Alex Wilson, Pierce Cravens, Eddie Linker, Chelsea Krant and Alex Thompson.

Exclusive: Chiwetel Ejiofor (Rob Peace), Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and Jacob Tremblay (The Toxic Avenger) have joined the cast of The Life of Chuck, the latest of many Stephen King adaptations from filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep), which kicked off production in Alabama under an interim agreement earlier this month. Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill lead the ensemble of the pic, written and directed by Flanagan, as we were first to tell you.

Also now involved is QWGmire, the production and financing entity known for the indie horror Agnes and the forthcoming Lovely, Dark and Deep, which has made a major equity investment in the independently financed feature.

Stated QWGmire partners Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty and Elan Gale, “We are thrilled to partner with Mike and Trevor [Macy] on this project. Mike is a master storyteller and we can’t wait to bring his...

In this episode, we interviewed cinematographer and director John De Menil. John shares with us his insights about storytelling, making it into major film festivals, how to choose the right cameras and lenses for the project as an integral part of the pre-production process, and how to direct the characters. Read his thoughts below.

Dp John De Menil Cinematographer and director John De Menil

John de Menil is the Director of Photography of Late Bloomers, which premiered at SXSW and was directed by Lisa Steen, starring Karen Gillan (Nebula in the MCU). John as a Dp has become a film festival darling, with his films premiering at major festivals such as Sundance and SXSW. His most recent credits include Dp’ing the Sundance short Sundowners and the SXSW short Stepdaddy, both directed by Steen. John received a bachelor’s degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a...

Feeling as though one has screwed most everything up in their life — with a hope of no return or redemption — permeates throughout Late Bloomers. The film’s protagonist has hit rock bottom, and she’s floundering, but director Lisa Steen and writer Anna Greenfield have crafted a simple, but effective journey for her that allows her to regain her footing. Starring Karen Gillan, Late Bloomers is at once a buddy comedy involving two wildly different people and a story about growing up and facing the hardship and hurt of life.

Louise (Gillan) is struggling. The 28-year-old is still coping with her ex-boyfriend breaking up with her more than a year prior, and she refuses to go home to California to see her ailing mother, who no longer remembers who she is due to her dementia. When Louise, in an attempt to sneak into her ex’s home through a window,...

Since the beginning of the mumblecore movement in the 2000s, independent cinema has been saturated with stories of young (often white) people in their 20s in a state of arrested development. For these people, adulthood is a playground characterized by risk-taking and pontificating about the state of their romantic relationships. With spare lighting and naturalistic camera movements, these films attempt to mimic the rawness of real life, adding weight to the mundane. Though the movement has already passed, these stories continue to thrive at festivals.

In Lisa Steen’s feature directorial debut Late Bloomers, millennial angst is once again at the center of a deeply personal, minimalist story. Karen Gillan plays Louise, an aimless and depressed musician in her 20s struggling to get past a painful breakup. When she discovers that her ex-boyfriend is moving on without her, Louise tries to drunkenly climb into his apartment through the window. Falling and injuring her hip,...

As Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 barrels the Marvel Studios’ franchise toward its conclusion, Karen Gillan, stopping in Deadline’s SXSW studio provided a glimpse as to how life is shaping up for Thanos’ adopted daughter and Gamora’s adopted sister, Nebula, in the threequel.

“Now we’re seeing Nebula post the death of the source of her trauma, Thanos. He’s been eliminated from the story, and now we’re seeing her character become a little bit of the person that she should have been had that not happened to her,” Gillan told Deadline.

Cranky and combative Nebula’s idea of bliss now is “her new family with the new Guardians and letting love in for the first time, rather than the defense mechanism always triggering. Allowing her to be loved and to love,” said the actress who was at SXSW for the world premiere of her movie...

Deadline launched Day 1 of its photo studio on Friday, March 10th, at the Deadline Studio at SXSW Film and Television Festival, as cast members of SXSW-premiering films and television stopped by including the Yellowjackets cast Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Samantha Hanratty, Kevin Alves, Courtney Eaton; David Dastmalchian, Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes from Late Night with the Devil; Sara Bareilles and Daveed Diggs for Breakthrough; Chloe Bailey, Dominique Fishback, Jamal Olori and Janine Nabers for Swarm; Leah McKendricks from Scrambled; Karen Gillan, Anna Greenfield and Lisa Steen from Late Bloomers, Eric Andre, Matt Walsh & many more.

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The Deadline Studio at SXSW runs March 10-13, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Austin, Texas.

There are late bloomers and then there those who never bloom at all. Unfortunately for Lisa Steen’s feature debut “Late Bloomers,” The dramedy follows Louise (Karen Gillan), an aimless 28-year-old musician who breaks her hip while drunkenly stalking her ex. Through her injury, Louise befriends a group of elderly women at physical therapy and unwittingly becomes the caretaker to cranky Polish-speaking Antonina (Margaret Sophie Stein).

The parallels between Louise and Antonina are explained only in their shared shrugging off of polite social norms and blatant disregard for conventionality: namely, Louise is avoiding facing her ailing mother (Talia Balsam) who has Alzheimer’s and dodging calls from her scatter-brained father (Tim Nealon), while Antonina digs her heels in about moving into a retirement home. Nods to Antonina’s youth and her relationship with her own late daughter only sprout in the background of “Late Bloomers,” teasing what the film could have been.

While Andrea Riseborough’s shock Oscar nomination for the SXSW 2022 sleeper To Leslie is still being processed, it’s too early to see whether it will have any effect on anything other than awards-season process. It would be nice, however, to think that it could also make it just that little bit harder for the success of smaller, more personal movies to be measured by box office returns alone. Late Bloomers doesn’t have that film’s dramatic intensity, and is way more schematic in its plotting, but Lisa Steen’s debut feature is still an intimate, defiantly female-fronted indie, showcasing an engaging and refreshingly vanity-free performance from Karen Gillan, a talented Scottish actress whose career to date is still something of a work in progress.

Gillan plays Louise, a woman in her late 20s whose life...

Late Bloomers is a new comedy film having its world premiere at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Friday. To discuss the making of the film, screenwriter Anna Greenfield, director Lisa Steen (her feature debut) and star Karen Gillan joined The Hollywood Reporter in its SXSW Studio.

Greenfield based the story on real-life experiences. The movie follows a Brooklyn woman, Louise, in her late 20s, who falls drunkenly and breaks her hip, prompting a stay at a physical therapy ward with the elderly. When Louise is assigned to care for an old Polish woman named Antonina, the pair are forced to face some painful truths.

Steen and Greenfield connected when they went to college together and were also friends with Gillan through her husband. Gillan, previously known for her roles in franchises including Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji, became obsessed with the script after reading it, studying Greenfield...

Festival runs March 10-19 in Austin, Texas.

SXSW opens on Friday with the world premiere of all-star fantasy romp Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, kicking off what is expected to be a rambunctious 10 days of screenings of films both spoken for and available for worldwide distribution.

Over the years the festival has proved itself to be a valuable launchpad for studio titles and the most recent evidence of that was last year’s edition, where A24 premiered Oscar frontrunner Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2022 as well as Ti West’s horror X, Lionsgate brought The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent...

SXSW has announced the first wave of movie and television programming for its 2023 film festival, including its narrative, documentary, and television competition lineups.

While several sections of the complete film lineup, including this year’s Global and 24 Beats Per Minute programming, have yet to be announced, the lineup already features new work from many of the industry’s most exciting names. The festival will open with the world premiere of “Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” John Francis Dailey and Jonathan Goldstein’s comedic adaptation of the beloved role-playing game. Other notable premieres include “Evil Dead Rise,” the latest entry in Sam Raimi’s camp horror franchise that hails from director Lee Cronin; Eva Longoria’s Frito-Lay origin story “Flamin’ Hot”; and the Season 2 premiere of “Blindspotting.”

“We are thrilled to announce the first wave of our incredible lineup for SXSW 2023,” SXSW VP of Film & TV Claudette Godfrey said in a statement.

Paramount and eOne’s Dungeouns and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will fire up this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival with its opening-night world premiere March 10 before its theatrical release on March 31.

The fanboy demo title is one of a handful looking to gain steam at the Austin, TX event, which will be in its second year live and in-person after going virtual during Covid from 2020-2021. The 30th annual Sxswe runs until March 18 and will be in-person only (no virtual).

Other notable spring cinefile titles in Wednesday’s reveal of the fest’s first titles include Warner Bros’ Evil Dead Rise, the next installment in the Sam Raimi horror franchise; A24’s Emma Stone-produced, Tilda Swinton-starring Problemista; and Searchlight’s Eva Longoria directorial Flamin’ Hot about the Mexican American Frito Lay janitor who revolutionized the snack industry with his idea for Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.

Also announced today...

SXSW has announced the first batch of titles in its 2023 film festival line-up, including opening night movie, Paramount’s big-budget adventure film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

“We are thrilled to announce the first wave of our incredible lineup for SXSW 2023,” said Claudette Godfrey, vp film & tv. “It’s an amazing collection of films, TV series and Xr experiences that promise to inspire, entertain and challenge our audiences. We’re also proud to open with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, a raucous and engaging fantasy adventure, and look forward to welcoming everyone to Austin in March for what promises to be an unforgettable event.”

The other 2023 headliners are the Julio Torres A24 movie Problemista, the latest film in the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rise, and Eva Longoria’s directorial debut Flamin’ Hot. Last year’s headliners included box office break out The Lost City and awards contender Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Exclusive: Karen Gillan (Thor: Love and Thunder) will star opposite Margaret Sophie Stein (Bullets Over Broadway), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), Kevin Nealon (SNL) and Talia Balsam (Divorce) in the Lisa Steen-directed comedy Late Bloomers from We’re Doin’ Great and Park Pictures, which has wrapped production in Brooklyn, NY.

The film written by Anna Greenfield is loosely based on her experience living in Brooklyn in her 20s. It centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless millennial who drunkenly breaks her hip, landing her in physical therapy. There, she makes an elderly Polish Bff (Stein) who speaks no English. And it’s this unlikely friendship that gives her the courage to face what she’s been running from all along: Her mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s. Fowler plays Louise’s Craigslist roommate/landlord Brick, with Nealon and Balsam as her parents.

Late Bloomers marks the feature directorial debut of Greenfield’s frequent collaborator,...

Film Independent, the organization behind the Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival, has unveiled the six fellows chosen for its annual Directing Lab, a program designed to support emerging independent film directors in prep on their feature films. See the list below.

In a big change caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Lab will be a two-part program: a two-week lab taking place virtually from May 4-15, followed by a three-day workshop to be held in Los Angeles later this year. In previous years, it was an eight-week program.

Directing Lab fellows receive script feedback, discuss their visions and select short scenes from their screenplays to workshop. Each director then casts actors and rehearses their scenes in the Lab before undertaking a mini-production.

This year’s creative advisers and guest speakers include Daniel Barnz, Alex O’Flinn, Susanna Fogel, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Karyn Kusama, Wyatt Garfield, Lisa Robertson and Chloé Zhao.