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Exclusive: L.A.-based company Apollo Management International (Ami) has launched a boutique sales division focused on indie features with notable cast and strong festival positioning.

Its inaugural slate comprises a quartet of titles spanning Sheridan O’Donnell’s Little Brother (outside of U.S.), Miguel Duran’s Adventure Tom, Vivian Kerr’s Scrap and Chris Messineo’s The Strange Dark.

“After nearly a decade in talent management and indie producing, launching the sales arm of Apollo management international was a very intentional move,” said Ami founder Greg Bekkers.

“I’ve spent years watching talented filmmakers and great films get lost in the noise, either mispositioned, undersold, or stuck in the wrong hands. I wanted to build something that doesn’t just sell movies but actually helps them reach the audiences they were made for.”

All four titles on the inaugural slate have enjoyed some exposure on the festival circuit and...

Channing Tatum is going where he has never gone before on-screen: The actor/producer collaborates with legendary indie director Derek Cianfrance for crime drama “Roofman,” based on real-life felon Jeffrey Manchester. The film centers on Tatum’s depiction of Jeff, who was known for living in a Toys ’R’ Us store after escaping from prison. He sustained himself by breaking into more than 60 McDonald’s over the course of his crime career.

The first look at “Roofman” states that the film is “based on a true story *as told by a liar.” The film takes place over the course of six months in 2004, during which Jeff lived under the alias “John Zorn” in a North Carolina community. Kirsten Dunst portrays Leigh Wainscott, the divorced mom who works at Toys ’R’ Us and falls for Tatum’s character. Ben Mendelsohn, Lakeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Melonie Diaz, Uzo Aduba, Lily Collias, Jimmy O. Yang,...

Ryan Eggold is going to be making a major comeback to our screens with a role in FX’s new drama pilot ‘Seven Sisters.’

All We Know About Ryan Eggold’s New Role In ‘Seven Sisters’

Perhaps Ryan Eggold is not done solving mysterious crimes, or even being a part of them, because he has been named a recurring member of FX’s drama pilot ‘Seven Sisters.’

This puts him in line with Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti, Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown and Carolyn Kettig, all of whom will play the titular sisters. Philip Ettinger will play the septet’s brother and Anthony Edwards and J. Smith-Cameron will star as their parents.

According to Deadline, the new FX drama series “follows a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when one sister, Adrienne (Olsen), starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets.

Exclusive: New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold rounds out the series regular cast of FX’s drama pilot Seven Sisters. He joins Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti, Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown, and Carolyn Kettig, who play the titular sisters, Philip Ettinger, who plays their brother, and Anthony Edwards and J. Smith-Cameron, who play the octet’s parents.

Seven Sisters, from FX Productions, follows a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister (Olsen) starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets.

Eggold will play Adrienne’s (Olsen) husband, a former addict, which he talks about frequently on his popular podcast.

Seven Sisters is executive produced by Will Arbery, who wrote the pilot; Sean Durkin, who will direct it; and Garrett Basch.

Following his breakout role on NBC’s The Blacklist, Eggold was tapped for the lead of the...

Exclusive: FX’s drama pilot Seven Sisters has cast the remainder of the siblings joining Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti as part of the core family: Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown, and Carolyn Kettig play the remaining five sisters, and Philip Ettinger will play their brother.

They join Anthony Edwards and J. Smith-Cameron, who play the patriarch and matriarch, Paul and Franchesa Bosco, respectively.

The project, from FX Productions, follows a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister (Olsen) starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets.

Seven Sisters is executive produced by Will Arbery, who wrote the pilot; Sean Durkin, who will direct it; and Garrett Basch. If the pilot goes forward, it would mark Basch’s fifth series for FX, where his company Dive has a long-standing first-look deal, following Devs, Reservation Dogs, What We Do in the Shadows,...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Happy Face” Episode 4.

In this week’s episode of “Happy Face,” Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) reconnects with her brother Shane (Philip Ettinger) after going public with the fact that their father is serial killer Keith Jesperson (Dennis Quaid).

TheWrap spoke to the real Melissa, Melissa G. Moore, as well as Ashford about the complicated relationship they have with their father and with each other.

“There are a lot of fictionalized series of serial killers, and we don’t [usually] see the serial killer portrayed as a parent or the relationships that they have with their family,” said Moore, noting that “Happy Face” also shows how Melissa and her family interact with the victim’s families.

“I just never felt seen watching any [other] shows,” said Moore, who is an executive producer on the series. “I always felt like I was alone and that I had an experience...

This post contains spoilers from Paramount+'s Happy Face episode 4, "Controlled Burn."

One of the things I’m loving about Happy Face is how each episode ends: with a bombshell. We learned last week that Melissa’s (Annaleigh Ashford) brother was with their father in Texas when Heather Richmond was killed. In this episode 4 recap, Shane (Philip Ettinger) enters the picture, as does someone unexpected, Melissa confronts her ex, and Happy Face (Dennis Quaid) gets to Hazel (Khiyla Aynne) then drops some bombshells in his attempted controlled burn, which is a tactic firemen use to prevent bigger fires. Jesperson uses them to start them, though, so only he can control them.

With Happy Face now out of solitary, he’s free to do what he wants… mostly. So, he reaches out to his granddaughter again, this time at school. It’s fair to say Hazel, who did sell the drawing Happy Face sent her,...

After joining the MCU, creating a film production empire, and closing out his iconic tenure as “Magic Mike,” Channing Tatum is making yet another career pivot: leading legendary indie director Derek Cianfrance’s latest feature, “Roofman.”

Tatum stars as the titular vigilante who lived in a Toys ’R’ Us store and broke into more than 60 McDonald’s, emptying cash registers after herding staffs into freezers. The Roofman robber became an urban myth, and now it’s Tatum’s turn to bring his story to the screen. Tatum onstage at CinemaCon teased the footage and called him the “unusually polite” robber and said Cianfrance’s film is “equal parts devastatingly emotional but also hilarious.”

The trailer that was shown at CinemaCon described the film as “based on a true story *as told by a liar.” Tatum’s character explains that after escaping from prison, running as far away as possible doesn’t work.

Paramount+'s Happy Faceis a new series based on the memoir Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter, written by Melissa G. George, where she recounts discovering her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was the real-life serial killer known as the Happy Face Killer. In her memoir and spinoff podcast, Happy Face, George explores the devastation she faced when she realized at 15 years old that her father was a murderer and how she came to terms with that reality.

Paramount+'s latest true-crime series doesn't focus too much on Jesperson committing the heinous acts or the events that led to his arrest in 1995 but starts with him already serving a life sentence. The series takes a different approach by honing in on how the victims' families are affected and doesn't lose focus like other true-crime series that subconsciously tap into one aspect of the overall story that viewers...

Channing Tatum is making waves and signaling the end of physically bulking roles in his acting journey. The beloved star of Magic Mike recently revealed an incredible transformation, dropping an impressive 30 pounds to showcase a sculpted physique that’s got fans buzzing with excitement. In a bold Instagram post from March 21, 2025, Tatum announced his decision to remove “fat roles,” emphasizing their toll on his body over the years.

Channing Tatum as Slater King in Blink Twice | Credits: Amazon MGM Studios

This marks a daring new chapter for the actor, renowned for his commitment to his craft and willingness to push his physical limits. With this new look and mindset, we can’t wait to see what he has in store next. The G.I. Joe actor crafted a huge caption under his post, expressing his gratitude to each involved in his transformational journey.

From 235 to 205 lb: Channing Tatum’s physical revamp...

Channing Tatum first rose to fame thanks to his unbeatable dancing skills. Many of his hit films included dancing, like 2006's Step Up, or the Magic Mike franchise, where he was extremely fit.

Over the years, his acting credits featured more diverse roles than the aforementioned, but he continued to star in movies that required him to be in shape, including the role of Duke in the action films G.I. Joe, 2012's 21 Jump Street, and 2013's White House Down. He finally played his dream superhero role, Gambit, in 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine. The actor has branched out to other roles since but revealed on Instagram that he wouldn't accept more "fat roles" after showing off his ripped physique.

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"We back up!" the actor wrote alongside a photo of his reflection in a window, showing his current progress while by the pool.

Dennis Quaid and Annaleigh Ashford star in the Paramount+ true-crime series “Happy Face,” about the real-life Happy Face killer Keith Jesperson, which premieres with two episodes this week.

Some of the names and details have been changed from the actual people — his daughter, Melissa Moore, who is an executive producer on the show is now Melissa Reed — but the story is essentially the same.

Here is who plays who in the cast and where you might have seen them before.

Annaleigh Ashford as Melissa Reed (Credit: Bettina Strauss/Paramount+) Annaleigh Ashford as Melissa Reed

The actress, who is known for “Masters of Sex” and “American Crime Story,” plays the lead character, Melissa Reed, a makeup artist who decides to come forward as the daughter of the Happy Face killer to save a man who is on death row for one of the crimes her father actually committed.

Dennis Quaid as...

Argentinian writer-director Lucio Castro made a quiet stunner of a first feature in 2020 with the exquisitely evocative queer romance, End of the Century. Trading the beaches and parks of Barcelona for woodsy upstate New York in the fall, the filmmaker delivers a self-consciously enigmatic drama that includes a messianic electro-psychedelic rock star with a cult following, a torrid affair, a family tragedy, a near-fatal hiking accident and a car careening over a bridge, its driver missing and eventually presumed dead. Oh, there’s also toxic fandom that becomes a physical threat.

Despite all that and its momentous title, After This Death isn’t really about anything. Or at least nothing that holds the attention for long. Where End of the Century felt intimately personal, the new film is a studied and distancing slog that feels considerably longer and slower than its 96-minute run time. The script name-checks Hitchcock — specifically Vertigo...

CAA Media Finance will handle North American sales and Paris-based Jean-Félix Dealberto the rest of the world on Argentinian filmmaker Lucio Castro’s psychological thriller After This Death, which will have its world premiere at Berlin Film Festival as a special gala screening.

Castro wrote the script for the film about a woman whose life is thrown into chaos when the musician she’s having an affair with disappears, leaving her to fend off his obsessive fans and attempt to repair her broken marriage. The English-language film shot in upstate New York and stars Mia Maestro, Lee Pace, Philip Ettinger,...

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for the 2025 edition, running February 13-23. It’s the first official lineup overseen by new artistic director and former BFI London Film Festival leader Tricia Tuttle, who succeeds Carlo Chatrian and brings her background as an American journalist and curator to the annual German showcase. She’s also working with co-directors of programming, Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz, to help reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the great global film festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers in the process.

This year’s lineup, announced Tuesday, January 21, features new films from Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), and Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”). Already confirmed in the mix are “Mickey 17” from Bong Joon Ho and Ira Sachs’ Sundance premiere “Peter Hujar’s Day,” plus Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” opening the festival.

Following last week’s lineup announcement, the Berlinale 2025 has now fleshed out its slate with the Competition, Special, and Perspectives sections. Highlights include the world premieres of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott; Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25; Hong Sangsoo’s What Does that Nature Say to You; Michel Franco’s Dreams starring Jessica Chastain; Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower starring Marion Cotillard; and Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk with Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps.

The festival will also include international premieres from Julia Loktev, Mary Bronstein, Kahlil Joseph, and more. In terms of omissions for films that potentially could have been a strong fit: there’s no Steven Soderberg’s Black Bag, Wes Anderson’s German production The Phoenician Scheme, nor Berlinale regular Christian Petzold, who wrapped Miroirs No. 3 only a few months ago.

Check out the lineup...

Compliance (2012) directed by Craig Zobel, features an ensemble cast led by Dreama Walker as Becky, Ann Dowd as Sandra, Pat Healy as Daniels, Philip Ettinger as Kevin, Ashlie Atkinson as Marti, and Stephen Payne as Harold. Compliance starts like any other thriller, slow and measured but when it picks up, it transforms into something entirely unexpected. The concept of prank calling in cinema isn’t new, but this film handles it in a way that becomes the true highlight of the story. Everything whether it’s the cast, the theme, or the storyline is restrained and purposeful, delivering a film that spans just 90 minutes. The film follows the story of Becky, an innocent and naive employee who becomes victim of a prank call.

The movie opens with the employees, led by Sandra, gathering for a morning meeting before the store opens. It’s going to be a busy day because it’s the weekend,...

Exclusive: Patton Oswalt has joined Oscar-qualified short film Sardinia as executive producer, along with his wife, actress Meredith Salenger.

The dark satirical short, written and directed by Paul Kowalski (Paper Tiger), stars Philip Ettinger as a deeply serious man battling a deadly laughing plague alongside Emmy winner Martha Plimpton. Olek Krupa, Breeda Wool and Sorel Carradine also star.

“Sardinia takes less than twenty minutes of your life to watch, but then takes up days and weeks of your brain-space when you’re done. It’s that rich, that stinging, that deep,” Oswalt said in a statement. “What Paul Kowalski does, with equal measures of hilarity and horror, is show the world go quickly off-kilter—and the subsequent ‘correction’ to ‘normality’ makes this worse. If this sounds familiar, keep in...

“I know I’m older than you but I’ve always felt, like, dumber or less capable. It’s like I’m the little brother,” says Pete (Philip Ettinger).

Jake (Daniel Diemer) is waiting outside in the car when Pete emerges from the hospital. He’s clearly relieved to see the warm smile on his brother’s face. There’s a lightness about Pete that one would not expect in someone who has recently tried to kill himself. Still wearing his medical bracelet, he takes Jake back to their deceased grandmother’s house, where he’s been staying, talking cheerfully about matters of no consequence. When he can slip away, Jake speaks on the phone with their father (Jk Simmons), who wants to sell the house and, more to the point, get Pete back home where he can keep an eye on him.

He doesn’t mean it to be a betrayal.

Jk Simmons in Little Brother

Dealing with loved ones who are harming themselves is always a difficult thing, and perhaps even more so when it’s not a byproduct of something else but a simple desire not to be alive anymore, When we meet Pete (Philip Ettinger), he’s already been in that state for years. his little brother, Jake (Daniel Diemer), is picking him up from the hospital after his latest suicide attempt. Sheridan O’Donnell’s film, itself called Little Brother, follows their subsequent travels together under the influence of their controlling father, whom we gradually come to recognise as a far more complex character than he first appears.

This troubled man almost certainly contributed to Pete being the way he is, but he’s still desperate to save him – and also to protect Jake. It’s a difficult role to get right, and the film benefits considerably from...

"I can't keep hurting just to keep everyone else from hurting." Gravitas has revealed an official trailer for an indie drama titled Little Brother, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Sheridan O'Donnell after many other shorts. After premiering at the 2023 Atlanta Film Festival last year, this film is set for a VOD release in September this year. Little Brother follows Jake, played by Daniel Diemer, as he drives his older brother Pete, played by Philip Ettinger, home for a family intervention after his most recent suicide attempt. The brothers aren't just oil and water; they're fire and gasoline—and they're both crammed inside a busted-up van for 1,400 miles with nowhere to hide. As they cross the American West together, the two struggle to reconcile their past and forge a new bond. Their overbearing father is played by J.K. Simmons (mostly on the phone). The cast includes Polly Draper, Ellen Humphreys,...

Next month, Gravitas Ventures is bringing its next acclaimed indie feature to theaters in Sheridan ODonnell's directorial debut Little Brother. The distribution outlet acquired the film earlier this month after it turned heads and earned the Audience Award at the 2023 Atlanta Film Festival for its heartfelt story about two siblings on a road trip to an intervention. The Half of It star Daniel Diemer plays the titular younger brother, Jake, who is tasked with driving his troubled older brother Pete (Philip Ettinger) from Albuquerque to Seattle for a family intervention following his suicide attempt. Ahead of the release, Collider can exclusively share the official trailer that shows how the two wildly different siblings clash during their trip yet ultimately find common ground.

A self-reflexive origin story about creation, growth, and the myth of the lone artist, “My First Film” announces a bold, disruptive new talent in American cinema. But if the film’s release is anything like Zia Anger’s experience in the film world thus far, it will elicit a maddening whimper where it should have made a bang.

That’s because Anger, who writes and directs with fierce emotion and sincerity, has had terrible luck (if you want to call it that) on the film scene. Despite directing evocative music videos for artists like Mitski and Angel Olsen, Anger has been consistently overlooked by Hollywood, and has struggled to secure financing. Her first feature, shot on a shoestring budget with support from family and friends, was rejected from every film festival.

A caveat: even Anger looks back on that first film as “bad.” At least she implies as much in “My First Film,...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Sheridan O’Donnell’s debut feature “Little Brother,” starring Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”), Phillip Ettinger (“First Reformed”), Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”) and Polly Draper (“Thirtysomething”). The film is slated for a Sept. 2024 theatrical release.

“Little Brother” begins after Pete (Ettinger) attempts suicide, pushing his overbearing father Warren (Simmons) to recruit his little brother Jake (Diemer) to drive Pete from Albuquerque to Seattle for a family intervention. The brothers aren’t just oil and water; they’re fire and gasoline—and they’re both crammed inside a busted-up van for 1,400 miles with nowhere to hide. As they cross the American West, the two struggle to reconcile their past and forge a new bond.

The film, which took home the Audience Award at the 2023 Atlanta Film Festival, is a deeply personal one for writer-director O’Donnell, who was partly inspired...

Zia Anger is haunted by a long-abandoned film project in her feature directorial debut “My First Film.” A filmmaker, performance artist, and celebrated director of music videos for the likes of Beach House, Angel Olsen, Mitski, and Zola Jesus, Anger fuses ideas from that unrealized project with echoes of a touring stage piece she started in 2018 for this Mubi release, out at the end of August. Odessa Young stands in for Anger as the young filmmaker Vita, who 15 years before started making a film about a young woman adrift after becoming pregnant. IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for the film below.

Here’s the official synopsis: “Vita (Odessa Young) revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking — a semi-autobiographical feature made 15 years prior about a young woman who decides to leave home after becoming pregnant. Blending past with present, reality with fiction, Zia Anger’s ‘debut’ film navigates the tumultuous intersection...

Never fear, What We Do In The Shadows fans, Harvey Guillén’s got his next gig lined up. The actor will star in the new “bromance comedy” That Friend, the debut feature from writer-directors Will Sterling and Alex Wall. Per Deadline, the film will begin production in December. According to the outlet,...

Today, in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (Under the Bridge) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase), and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled The Sea of Monsters by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down.

His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under...

AMC’s anthology series “The Terror” is returning to AMC with “The Terror: Devil in Silver,” starring and executive produced by Dan Stevens. Per Deadline, twelve actors have joined the cast, including Birth/Rebirth and The Dark and the Wicked star Marin Ireland and Cch Pounder (Godzilla: King of the Monsters).

The six-episode new season is based on Victor Lavalle’s novel, The Devil in Silver.

“The Terror: Devil in Silver” tells the story of Pepper – a working class moving man, who through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself.

As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to...

Poker Face is flush with talent for Season 2.

Peacock’s case-of-the-week murder mystery starring Natasha Lyonne has added four guest stars, including Sherry Cola (Good Trouble), Kevin Corrigan (Godfather of Harlem, Fringe), Ben Marshall (Saturday Night Live) and Kathrine Narducci (Godfather of Harlem, The Sopranos).

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They join previously announced guest stars Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), Katie Holmes (Ray Donovan, Dawson’s Creek), Gaby Hoffmann...

Judith Light, Cch Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Michael Aronov and Marin Ireland are among a dozen actors joining star/executive producer Dan Stevens in the third installment of AMC Networks’ The Terror horror anthology, Devil in Silver.

The rest of the new principal cast additions are Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, b, Hayward Leach and Philip Ettinger

Written by Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle, on whose novel the season is based, The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper (Stevens), a working-class moving man who, through a combination...

“The Terror” Season 3 has rounded out its main cast, Variety has learned.

A dozen actors have now joined previously announced lead Dan Stevens in the new season, which is officially titled “The Terror: Devil in Silver.” It is based on the novel “The Devil in Silver” written by Victor Lavalle.

The new additions are: Judith Light, Cch Pounder, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, b, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Hayward Leach, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, and Philip Ettinger.

Per the official series description, Stevens will play Pepper, described as “a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a...

"This is not your choice, you're not staying here. Not another word. Get your things." A highly-rated short film is now available to watch online after playing on the film festival circuit for the last few years. Safe is an engaging 16-minute short film written and directed by Ian Barling - it originally premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Critics Week sidebar, and played at many of others including Naples, Nashville, and Rome Independent. On a cold winter night in Atlantic City, the manager of a defunct casino must reckon with his parental failures when his unruly son comes to him in desperate need of help out of an illicit bind. Safe stars acclaimed actors Will Patton and Philip Ettinger, with Noa Fisher, Cindy Katz, and Skipp Sudduth. Patton is one of the most underrated actors in the biz, and it's always fascinating watching him. There's always something...

A film project delayed due to the pandemic, that was pushed back slightly and then leapfrogged when she shot and premiered SXSW title Soft & Quiet, it’s been confirmed that Beth de Araújo is currently in post-production (and probably gunning for a 2025 Sundance 2025 berth) with her sophomore feature. It’s been confirmed that Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan toplined Josephine — production took place this past April in San Francisco. One of our favorites in Philip Ettinger and Syra McCarthy also star while the centerpiece role belongs to newbie Mason Lily Reeves. Animal Kingdom’s David Kaplan is producing alongside Araújo.…...

If you managed to catch filmmaker Beth de Araújo’s feature directorial debut, the Gotham-nominated SXSW premiere “Soft & Quiet,” you already know how uniquely skilled de Araújo is at building dread and terror on both a technical and emotional level. Her first film, which debuted at the fest in 2022 before getting released in October of that year, used the one-take technique to follow a group of white supremacist women as they meet, mingle, and eventually attack a pair of Poc sisters.

While not based on a single real-life story, “Soft & Quiet” was the result of deep research into actual (and terrifying) culture shifts and personal experiences, from de Araújo’s own stories around a racist teacher to the Amy Cooper birdwatching incident and even the “Tradlife” movement. For her next film, de Araújo is again mining her own life and the world around her to tell what we...

If you've ever watched any behind-the-scenes footage from "The Shining," you might remember Jack Nicholson working himself up into a frenzy prior to shooting the famous "Here's Johnny" scene. As poor Shelly Duvall quietly finds her way into the bathroom, Jack can be seen seething as he descends into the deranged mental space required for the scene. No wonder "The Shining" changed Shelly Duvall forever.

But while Nicholson's process for journeying to the outer edges of sanity involved jumping in place, repeating the words, "Come on!," and almost accidentally giving the Pa a concussion with a prop axe, not all actors follow that same method. We all know the punishing physical lengths to which Christian Bale goes in order to truly feel like the characters he portrays. As the actor told The Guardian, "I try to get as distant as possible. Otherwise, I can't do it. It's helpful not to look like yourself.

Ethan Hawke is one of the most renowned actors currently working. He has four Academy Award nominations to his name - two for acting and two for writing. Slowly, he's branching into the world of directing. His new film Wildcat, starring his daughter Maya as Flannery O'Connor, comes to theaters on May 3rd - which makes this the perfect opportunity to dive into some of Hawke's earlier work.

He has played some of the most iconic characters in cinematic history. Whether he's playing a terrifying villain like The Black Phone's Grabber or a sympathetic romantic lead like Jesse Wallace in Before Sunrise, he brings nuance to every role he takes on. It's no wonder he's had a remarkably prolific career on both the big and small screens and should be celebrated for that.

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Maya Hawke excels as Flannery O'Connor in Wildcat, embodying the writer's struggles with faith and creativity convincingly. Director Ethan Hawke's use of fantasy sequences overwhelms the film, detracting from the narrative and causing pacing issues. Despite a talented cast and meaningful subject matter, Wildcat's emphasis on style over substance results in a forgettable experience.

Wildcat explores the formative early life of celebrated Southern Gothic novelist Mary Flannery O'Connor through vivid depictions of her imaginative writing process. The deeply devout O'Connor struggled to reconcile her Catholic faith with artistic ambitions while suffering from debilitating lupus. Director/co-writer Ethan Hawke, scion Maya Hawke, and a venerated supporting cast revel in an overindulgent portrayal that confuses creative expression for substantive depth. A ping-pong structure, where the ensemble plays multiple characters, grinds the pacing to a cinematic drip. There's a lot of effort on display. That's appreciated, but the experience becomes arduous and unfortunately forgettable.

Full disclosure: I’ve been looking forward to this interview ever since I read the novel Ash Wednesday as a teenager. Ethan Hawke, co-writer and director of Wildcat, is an actor and filmmaker who has been as important to me as any artist in my life. The opportunity to discuss his new film––a feverish, faith-fueled look into the life of writer Flannery O’Connor as inspired by her fiction––with Hawke was both welcome and daunting.

The film stars Maya Hawke as O’Connor, alongside a stellar supporting cast that includes Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger, Rafael Casal, Steve Zahn, Cooper Hoffman, Willa Fitzgerald, Alessandro Nivola, and Liam Neeson. Ahead of the film’s release this Friday, we talk about the intimidation of adapting a great writer’s work, the joy of filming a great scene in a master shot, and inviting your audience into the conversation.

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In the 1990s and 2000s, May (and specifically Memorial Day) typically marked the beginning of Summer Movie Season. Multiplexes nationwide were packed to the emergency exits with big names, big explosions and (presumably) big box office. The film industry has changed since then, obviously, and summer no longer packs the same high-octane punch that it once did. But in this evolution, release schedule space has opened up for a stellar month of Don’t-Miss Indies titles.

Jeanne Du Barry

When You Can Watch: May 3

Where You Can Watch: Theaters

Director: Maiwenn

Cast: Maiwenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvin Poupaud, Pierre Richard

Why We’re Excited: In 18th-century France, Jeanne Vaubernier, a common girl eager to climb the social ladder uses her distinct charms to convince her lover, the Count du Barry (Melvin Poupaud) to introduce her to the King, Louis Xv (Depp). The Count organizes the meeting through the intermediary...

Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat won’t tell you much about what Flannery O’Connor accomplished. The audience won’t learn about O’Connor’s place in the literary world, the larger culture, or alongside other consciously Catholic fiction writers like Graham Greene. There’s a worthy determination to the way that Wildcat sees O’Connor’s world almost entirely from her mystical, pain-rattled perspective. But by limiting the film’s viewpoint so strictly, Hawke and co-screenwriter Shelby Gaines miss an opportunity to introduce O’Connor to a wider audience.

Hawke’s gnomic biopic opens with a 24-year-old O’Connor (Maya Hawke) trying to make it in New York, circa 1950. Having won a literary prize while attending the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop, she’s trying to get her first novel, Wise Blood, published. But O’Connor, incapable of small talk or artistic compromise, isn’t a striving literary ingenue working the angles and currying favor.

Ethan and Maya Hawke are stepping out to support their new movie!

The father-daughter-duo were joined by Laura Linney at a special screening of their new movie Wildcat hosted by Dior, Cinema Society, and Oscilloscope Laboratories on Thursday (April 11) held at the Angelika Film Center in New York City.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Philip Ettinger and Alessandro Nivola.

Ethan‘s wife Ryan Hawke was also in attendance.

Keep reading to find out more…Directed and co-written by Ethan, Wildcat “invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya) visits her mother Regina (Laura) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old.

Struggling with the same disease that took...

2023 saw the emergence of many new comedy TV shows and the return of beloved favorites, but some stood out more than others. Continuing shows like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and What We Do in the Shadows continued finding fresh ways to tell their stories. Shows like Beef and The Bear used darker humor and storylines to rise to the top of 2023's TV releases.

Despite the year coming to an end, the best comedy TV shows of 2023 are still being discussed. While this year has seen many hilarious shows across multiple platforms, some stand out more than others. Whether they deliver more lighthearted humor or darker laughs, plenty of comedies have left their mark in 2023. From dark comedies to sitcoms, lighthearted adaptations to murder mysteries, comedies in 2023 went in all possible directions.

2023 saw many new shows airing on streaming services and cable television, as well as old favorites making returns.

Bupkis will not be returning for a second season after all. Pete Davidson has cancelled his plans to continue the series, which was renewed by Peacock a month after its June 2023 release.

The comedy-drama series, which stars Pete Davidson, Edie Falco, and Joe Pesci, is a heightened and fictionalized version of Davidson's life, ala Curb Your Enthusiasm. The first season follows Davidson as he attempts to work through his family's unique dynamics, the complexities of fame, and how to form meaningful relationships.

Season one features guest appearances by La La Anthony, Carly Aquilino, Colson Baker (Machine Gun Kelly), Josh Bitton, Preston Brodrick, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Kevin Corrigan, Nadia Dajani, Charlamagne Tha God, Charlie Day, Philip Ettinger, Derek Gaines, Brad Garrett, Al Gore, Paul Walter Hauser, Lynne Koplitz, Loulou Lazarus, Sunita Mani, John Mulaney,...

Pete Davidson is laying his comedy series Bupkis to rest ahead of its planned second season. Davidson says while the semi-autobiographical comedy has been a great experience, it’s also an emotionally taxing show to bring to life on screens.

Davidson said about the sunsetting of Bupkis, “I’ve always seen Bupkis as a window into my life, since it is so personal and about my struggles and family. After nearly a decade of my personal life being in the media I wanted a chance to tell my story my way,” Davidson told The Hollywood Reporter. “Of all the work I’ve ever done, Bupkis is by far what I’m most proud of. I am so grateful to Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video, Peacock, Universal Television and the amazing cast and writers for helping me create something honest, funny and heartfelt. I do also feel that this part of my life is finished.

“Bupkis” Season 2 is bupkis. Star Pete Davidson has confirmed that he has opted not to continue with his semi-autobiographical Peacock comedy, which had previously been renewed for a second season.

“I’ve always seen Bupkis as a window into my life, since it is so personal and about my struggles and family,” Davidson said ina. statement. “After nearly a decade of my personal life being in the media I wanted a chance to tell my story my way. Of all the work I’ve ever done, Bupkis is by far what I’m most proud of. I am so grateful to Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video, Peacock, Universal Television and the amazing cast and writers for helping me create something honest, funny and heartfelt. I do also feel that this part of my life is finished. I’m very excited for this next chapter and for you guys to see the work.

Ethan Hawke goes back behind the camera for Wildcat, and here are details of his new film – plus a trailer.

Ethan Hawke is better known as an actor than a director, with a prolific career that has included many collaborations with Richard Linklater – the sublime Before trilogy, Tape, The Newton Boys and Boyhood stand tall. Plus, films as diverse as Dead Poet’s Society, Training Day, The Purge, Predestination and Lord Of War – the sequel to the latter is currently in development, with writer and director Andrew Niccol and star Nicholas Cage on board. It has not been confirmed if Hawke will appear.

However, he has also steadily built up an impressive career behind the camera. Besides co-writing the last two Before films with Linklater and Julie Delpy, he has directed several documentaries and three feature films – Chelsea Walls in 1999, The Hottest State, adapted from his own novel in 2006, and...

"An inquiry into the broken nature of grace." Oscope Labs has revealed an official trailer for Wildcat, the latest feature film directed by beloved American actor Ethan Hawke, following up his feature Blaze from 2018. This one originally premiered at the 2023 Telluride & Toronto Film Festivals last year, with stops at Zurich & Stockholm as well. This time it's a family affair - it follows the life of writer Flannery O'Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel (titled "Wise Blood" published in 1952), starring Ethan's own daughter Maya Hawke as Flannery. Directed & co-written by 4-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, Wildcat invites viewers to weave in & out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? Some intriguing ideas. The film also stars Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger,...

Exclusive: Oscilloscope Laboratories has settled on a theatrical release date for its Flannery O’Connor biopic Wildcat, co-written and directed by Ethan Hawke, following the acquisition of North American rights. Exec produced by and starring the filmmaker’s daughter, Maya Hawke, the film will open at The Angelika in New York, and in L.A. theaters still to be determined on May 3rd, with a national roll-out to follow.

Competitors in its opening weekend will include Uni’s action comedy The Fall Guy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and an unknown title from Disney.

World premiering at last year’s Telluride Film Festival before going on to screen in Toronto, Wildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of the mind of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor (Maya Hawke) as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness?...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Wildcat, Ethan Hawke’s portrait of Flannery O’Connor, which premiered at Telluride last year.

Maya Hawke stars in and produced the film, which weaves in and out of the Southern Gothic writer’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?

The cast includes Laura Linney as O’Connor’s mother, Philip Ettinger, Rafael Casal, Cooper Hoffman, Steve Zahn, Vincent D’Onofrio, Alessandro Nivola, Christine Dye, Willa Fitzgerald, and Levon Hawke.

O-Scope plans a spring theatrical release.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Wildcat, Ethan Hawke’s portrait of Flannery O’Connor, which premiered at Telluride last year.

Maya Hawke stars in and produced the film, which weaves in and out of the Southern Gothic writer’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?

The cast includes Laura Linney as O’Connor’s mother, Philip Ettinger, Rafael Casal, Cooper Hoffman, Steve Zahn, Vincent D’Onofrio, Alessandro Nivola, Christine Dye, Willa Fitzgerald, and Levon Hawke.

O-Scope plans a spring theatrical release.