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Chicago – When a filmmaker makes a significant feature debut – in this case writer/director Christian Swegal for “Sovereign” – the movie world takes notice. This ripped-from-the-headlines emotional story features Nick Offerman in a searing lead performance, supported by Jacob Tremblay, Dennis Quaid and Martha Plimpton.

Based on real events, the story centers on Jerry (Offerman), an advocate and speaker regarding “Sovereign Citizens,” a society of anti-government and off the grid anarchists, who deflect on any law due to the perception that all law is not applicable to an individual’s rights of existence … so Jerry pays no mortgage on his house, or taxes, or driver’s license fees, etc. His home-schooled son is Joe (Tremblay), who travels the country with his father, helping to conduct seminars for other sovereign citizens.

’Sovereign,’ Written & Directed by Christian Swegal

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When they encounter the law, a detective named Joe Bouchart (Dennis...

Exclusive: Writer-director Ellie Sachs has set an impressive cast for her debut feature Lucy Schulman, an indie rom-com in which she plays the title role. Recently wrapping production in New York City, the film also stars David Cross (Arrested Development), who exec produces, as well as Thomas Mann (Sovereign), Sandrine Holt (Your Friends & Neighbors), playwright and actress Eisa Davis (Mare of Easttown), actress and filmmaker Annabelle Attanasio (Bull), and actor-comedian Hasan MInhaj (It Ends with Us).

The logline for Lucy Schulman is being kept under wraps. Fernando Loureiro (Frances Ha) and Guilherme Coelho (the upcoming Oceânico) are producing via their company, Tigresa, along with Morwin Schmookler (The Apprentice). Executive producers include Cross, Gabriel Faria do Amaral, Jay Burnley, Will Frank Day, Sam Evoy, Will Janowitz, Carissa Knol, Clay Prietsch, Zachary Rice, Kelly Schwartz, Sascha Seinfeld, and Chelsea Tieu.

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Jasmine Trinca and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Like Crazy”) are set to star in Paolo Strippoli’s high-concept Italian thriller “The Spiral” (“L’estranea”), which France’s Le Pacte has boarded for international sales.

Strippoli is Italy’s hottest young horror genre helmer, having made a splash with hit Netflix original “A Classic Horror Story,” which he co-directed with Roberto De Feo, followed by “Flowing” (“Piove”). His upcoming chiller “The Holy Boy” (“La Valle dei Sorrisi”) is tipped to bow at the upcoming Venice Film Festival.

Shooting is currently underway in Italy on “The Spiral” (see first-look image above), which also stars Romana Maggiora Vergano (“There’s Still Tomorrow”) and Adriano Giannini. The film is being lead-produced by Rome-based Propaganda in tandem with France’s Kazak Productions and Belgium’s Tarantula Film with support from Italy’s Rai Cinema. The planned delivery date is February 2026.

“The Spiral” centers on a mother-daughter relationship that...

Sovereign is a story based on true-to-life events where a father-son duo kill two police officers in an infamous shootout known as the 2010 West Memphis police shootings. Starring Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay in leading roles, the film presents a provocative take on the modern world and the disregard for authority it inspires.

Although the film will be lost in the myriad of summer blockbusters and films like Superman, the Nick Offerman film wants to give out a quiet message about the current situation and how far people can go before all hell breaks loose.

Nick Offerman’s Sovereign Is the Perfect Antithesis to Superman

The father-son relationship in Sovereign, where Offerman’s Jerry Kane teaches his son Joe Kane extremist views about the world, and how they are above the law, is very similar to something that Jor-El said to David Corenswet’s Kal-El in James Gunn‘s Superman.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the new film “Sovereign,” written and directed by Christian Swegal in his feature film debut and featuring an essential performance by Nick Offerman. In select theaters since July 11th and also available through digital video on demand.

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Based on real events, the story centers on Jerry (Offerman), an advocate and speaker regarding “Sovereign Citizens,” a society of anti-government and off the grid anarchists, who deflect on any law due to the perception that all law is not applicable to an individual’s rights of existence … so Jerry pays no mortgage on his house, or taxes, or driver’s license fees, etc. His home-schooled son is Joe (Jacob Tremblay), who travels the country with his father, helping to conduct seminars for other sovereign citizens. When they encounter the law, a detective named Joe Bouchart (Dennis Quaid) puts his focus on them,...

For Jerry Kane, the sovereign citizen movement is something between a political philosophy and a burgeoning psychosis. He criss-crosses the motel foyers of the American Midwest, giving sparsely attended seminars about how to avoid home foreclosures — a curriculum that hinges upon insisting that bank loans are “fictitious,” among other conspiratorial tactics. Clutching onto the character’s beliefs with a death grip as tight as it is tremulous, Nick Offerman’s volcanic performance makes it difficult to know where Jerry’s belief ends and his desperation begins.

That’s especially true for the extremist’s teenage son Joe (an unrecognizably grown-up Jacob Tremblay), who’s been raised in the shadow of his father’s anti-government rage, but also crushes on the girl next door and harbors secret fantasies of going to school like a normal kid. The Daniel Plainview of the “power to the people” lecture circuit, Jerry ropes his own...

The Last of Us and Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman has a new project coming out: Sovereign. The actor has chosen many exciting projects after Parks & Rec ended, and the upcoming one seems to follow the same trend as his most recent work.

The action film is based on true events and is set to premiere in theaters this weekend. Ahead of the film's premiere, Sovereign has debuted with a thrilling Rotten Tomatoes score of 87%. The action crime thriller had an enthusiastic response, not just for the film, but for the Emmy-winning actor's performance as well.

The action thrillerSovereign is based on the true events of the West Memphis police shootings from 2010. The official logline reads, "The story follows a father and son who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, as they venture across the country and find themselves in a standoff with a chief...

Christian Swegal’s “Sovereign” opens not with fanfare but with the quiet desperation of foreclosure notices piled on a kitchen table—a fitting metaphor for a nation drowning in its own contradictions. Set against the backdrop of Arkansas in 2010 (when the Tea Party was brewing and economic anxiety was curdling into something darker), this feature debut examines the true story of Jerry Kane, a self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen” whose rejection of governmental authority would spiral into tragedy.

The film follows Jerry (Nick Offerman) and his teenage son Joe (Jacob Tremblay) as they exist in a liminal space between society and its margins. Jerry conducts seminars on tax avoidance and property rights to audiences of the economically desperate, while homeschooling Joe in both mathematics and conspiracy theories. Parallel to this narrative runs the story of police chief John Bouchart (Dennis Quaid) and his son Adam (Thomas Mann), creating a diptych of American...

“Sovereign” is a new action thriller, directed by Christian Swegal, starring Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Dennis Quaid, Martha Plimpton, Thomas Mann and Nancy Travis, releasing July 11, 2025 in theaters:

“…inspired by true events, this gripping thriller follows ‘Jerry Kane’ (Offerman), an out-of-work roofer and struggling single father who desperately tries to provide for his home-schooled 15-year-old son, ‘Joe’ (Tremblay).

“Searching for control in an unforgiving world, Jerry embraces the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement, indoctrinating Joe into believing that laws are mere illusions and freedom must be seized by force.

“As they travel around the country selling ‘debt relief seminars’ to desperate homeowners, Jerry's ideology becomes increasingly extreme and his grip on reality deteriorates…”

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"At some point, you have to let them know that you won't be pushed any further..." Uh oh. Briarcliff Ent. has launched the full official trailer for the movie titled Sovereign, an American thriller which marks the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Christian Swegal. Offerman fights back! This premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month, and will be out to watch in July very soon. Inspired by true events and real people, Sovereign is a tense and provocative true crime thriller about a father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane — who follow the "Sovereign Citizen" belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. Their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief Jim Bouchart, setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle, and the limits of freedom. The film stars Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay, with Dennis Quaid,...

Films by Lukas Dhont, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Marie Kreutzer, Jonas Poher Rasmussen and Radu Jude are among 35 features to share €10.7m in Eurimages’s latest round of funding.

The 35 supported co-productions include five documentaries and two animations. 13 of the projects are to be directed or co-directed by women, representing 39.41% of the total funding awarded.

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Flemish director Dhont, who was Oscar nominated for his 2023 feature Close, received €500,000 forCoward. Dhont joins forces again with co-writer Angelo Tijssens for the film, for which plot details are not yet available.

The Reunion, the production company set up by Michiel and Lukas Dhont,...

“Sovereign” is a new action thriller, directed by Christian Swegal, starring Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Dennis Quaid, Martha Plimpton, Thomas Mann and Nancy Travis, releasing July 11, 2025 in theaters:

“…inspired by true events, this gripping thriller follows ‘Jerry Kane’ (Offerman), an out-of-work roofer and struggling single father who desperately tries to provide for his home-schooled 15-year-old son, ‘Joe’ (Tremblay).

“Searching for control in an unforgiving world, Jerry embraces the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement, indoctrinating Joe into believing that laws are mere illusions and freedom must be seized by force.

“As they travel around the country selling ‘debt relief seminars’ to desperate homeowners, Jerry's ideology becomes increasingly extreme and his grip on reality deteriorates…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

"They're willful creatures. You either gonna break them, or they're gonna break you." Briarcliff Ent. has revealed the first look teaser trailer for the film titled Sovereign, an American thriller marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Christian Swegal. It just premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month, and will be out to watch in July in just a few more weeks. Inspired by true events, Sovereign is a tense and provocative true crime thriller about a father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane — who follow the "Sovereign Citizen" belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. Their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief Jim Bouchart, setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle, and the limits of freedom. Starring Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Dennis Quaid, Martha Plimpton, Thomas Mann, and Nancy Travis. Reviews...

Before QAnon-ers and Proud Boys, there were sovereign citizens. Originating in the 1970s as a far-right, anti-government movement characterized by a belief system based on misinterpretations of common law, the ideology and others like it have spread like kudzu in our era of economic stagnation and political instability. Now, writer-director Christian Swegal’s feature-length directorial debut, Sovereign, aims to put a human face on a once-fringe movement whose dogmatic belief in hyperindividualism and the illegitimacy of governance has, over the last decade, begun to color mainstream political discourse.

Joe Kane (Jacob Tremblay) is torn. The son of Jerry Kane (Nick Offerman), an Arkansan who travels around the country lecturing small gatherings of working-class Americans on their rights as sovereign citizens, Joe does his best to understand his father’s ideology while harboring secret desires for a more normal life. Meanwhile, former police chief John Bouchart (Dennis Quaid) pressures his adult son,...

It’s been a particular pleasure to watch the blossoming of Nick Offerman’s acting career in recent years. The actor, who rose to fame with his hilariously droll performance as Ron Swanson in the hit series Parks and Recreation, has never stopped working. But his talent has really risen to the fore lately, especially with his heartbreaking, Emmy-winning guest appearance in HBO’s The Last of Us.

Now, with Christian Swegal’s feature debut Sovereign — receiving is world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival before its theatrical release on July 11 — he’s been given his meatiest film role to date. And boy, does he run with it.

He’s playing a role for which he has some previous experience. In Parks and Rec, his character was an anti-government libertarian. But what he played for comedy then is now deadly serious in this drama inspired by real-life events. The film,...

Nick Offerman andDennis Quaid have each featured in major projects already this year, but the duo is teaming up for a new crime thriller that just got its most exciting look yet. Quaid and Offerman will star alongside Jacob Tremblay (The Little Mermaid) in Sovereign, which is due in theaters on July 11, the same day as James Gunn’s Superman. Sovereign will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, and Collider is thrilled to partner with Briarcliff Entertainment to debut an exclusive clip from the film, which can be found below and shows Offerman's Jerry Kane preaching a harmful sermon loaded with propaganda. The movie was written and directed by Christian Swegal, who previously made his screenwriting debut with Proud Mary, the 2018 action thriller starring Taraji P. Henson and Neal McDonough.

Sovereign, which is inspired by true events, follows a father and his teenage son (Offerman and Tremblay), who...

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Hailee Steinfeld is one of the most talented and beautiful young actresses in the film industry. Steinfeld began her acting career at the early age of 10 and soon found her breakout role of Mattie Ross in Ethan and Joel Coen‘s True Grit. Soon, Seinfeld became one of the most prominent child actors in the industry and appeared in several big and small-scale projects like Ender’s Game and Begin Again. Recently, she starred in Ryan Coogler‘s brilliant supernatural action horror film Sinners, and she is also a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Kate Bishop. So, if you love Steinfeld’s performance, here are the best movies and TV shows starring Hailee Steinfeld you should check out right now.

10. Barely Lethal (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – A24

Barely Lethal is a teen action comedy film directed...

The Hungarian State Opera is set to launch its 142nd season with a program marked by artistic diversity and grand ambition. Audiences can anticipate a packed schedule featuring 385 performances, including seven new premieres, 36 different repertoire productions, 14 performances tailored for children and youth, and over two dozen concerts and song recitals.

The upcoming season promises a compelling mix of classic masterpieces and contemporary works, presented in modern productions. A major highlight is the return of Wagner’s Lohengrin to the Opera stage after two decades, presented in a new in-house production led by artistic director András Almási-Tóth and principal conductor Martin Rajna. Beethoven’s Fidelio will also be seen again as a full stage production, featuring Tobias Kratzer’s acclaimed London staging under the baton of principal guest conductor Péter Halász. Mozart’s comic opera Così fan tutte will be staged by Kriszta Székely at the Eiffel Art Studios, conducted by Levente Török.

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Darth Maul animated series in the works at Disney+

At the Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo, Lucasfilm announced that a new animated series about iconic, double-ended-lightsaber-wielding Sith lord Darth Maul, titled Maul - Shadow Lord, is coming to Disney+ in 2026. Sam Witwer will return to voice Maul, having voice the character several times previously. The series is set after the events of the final season of animated series The Clone Wars, and follows Maul as he rises again to lead the underworld factions.

Conan O'Brien Must Go Season 2 gets trailer and premiere date

Conan O'Brien Must Go, Max's Emmy-winning travel comedy series, will return for Season 2 on May 8. In the three-episode season, Conan O'Brien visits Spain, Austria, and New Zealand, with guest appearances by Javier Bardem and Taika Waititi. New episodes debut weekly on Thursdays, concluding with the season finale on May...

Exclusive: Brittany Snow has joined the cast of Hulu’s Murdaugh Murders limited series from showrunner Michael D. Fuller, who co-created the project with Erin Lee Carr.

The as-yet untitled project is based on Maggie and Alex Murdaugh’s stranger-than-fiction family drama, a riveting account drawing from countless hours of reporting by Mandy Matney – journalist and creator of the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast – as well as exclusive insider knowledge from years spent following the case.

Snow will play Mandy Matney, a journalist with a sunny smile and a suspicious view of the world. When Mandy starts searching for a story with teeth, she stumbles upon the news of a girl missing as a result of a boat crash. Mandy uses her keen instinct to unravel the complicated layers of the Murdaugh family and ensure that the guilty party is brought to justice.

She joins the previously announced...

ShowBiz Direct and Republic Pictures have set Sean McNamara’s Holocaust drama “Bau, Artist at War” for a Sept. 26 theatrical release, TheWrap has learned.

The film stars Emile Hirsch as Joseph Bau, who was a Polish-born Israeli artist who survived the Płaszów concentration camp during World War II. Inbar Lavi, Yan Tual, Adam Tsekhman, Josh Zuckerman, Edward Foy, Chris Cope, Josh Blacker, Eugene Lipinski, Dalias Blake, Pam Kearns and Tori Griffith also star.

“This is a story the world needs to see, to remind us of the power of hope, even in the darkest times,” McNamara said in a Friday statement. “It’s a powerful testament to resilience, and I can’t wait for audiences to finally see Joseph Bau’s incredible life story on the big screen.”

Per the logline, the movie is “the inspirational true story of how Bau used his creativity and skills as a forger to...

Donald Trump has banned actress Julianne Moore's book for children, Freckleface Strawberry, from the libraries of any school run by the Department of Defense. The Oscar winner was made aware of the news by the nonprofit group Pen America, which pointed out that hers is one of several books being outright removed or put under review for inclusion by the new administration in a post on social media.

Moore shared the news on her own social media on Sunday (though we first heard about it via Variety). "It is a great shock for me to learn that my first book, Freckleface Strawberry, has been banned by the Trump Administration from schools run by the Department of Defense," Moore wrote on her Instagram. "Freckleface Strawberry is a semi-autobiographical story about a seven-year-old girl who dislikes her freckles but eventually learns to live with them when she realizes that she is different 'just like everybody else.

German movies of the 1970s will forever be linked with the New German Cinema movement, the auteur directors — led by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff — who shook the country out of its postwar stupor. “Papa’s Kino ist tot” (‘Papa’s cinema’s is dead’) was their motto, and they held radical new visions of what movies could do.

But alongside this art house wave, ’70s Germany also was a breeding ground for a cruder, more commercial strain of cinema, one that took inspiration from sexploitation and spaghetti Westerns, biker films and grindhouse horror and grafted it onto the zeitgeist-y themes of political upheaval and sexual liberation. The Berlinale pays tribute to this seldom-seen oeuvre of German genre cinema in its 2025 retrospective, which features 15 titles — cult classics and curios from both East and West Germany — that prove that German film could also be “wild,...

When he’s not spooking and seducing with films like “The Lighthouse” and his most recent work, a reinvention of F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu,” filmmaker Robert Eggers is enjoying the best of moody cinema. Chatting inside the Criterion Closet, Eggers praised the work of Soviet writer/director Sergei Parajanov, pulling his film “The Color of Pomegranates” off the shelf first.

“Parajanov is a really fascinating filmmaker who is really into recreating folk culture with a lot of detail,” said Eggers. “And he does these beautiful tableaus that are interpretation[s] of the art from the world that he’s trying to articulate and bring us into. And it’s really spectacular.”

Continuing his appreciation for film aesthetics, Eggers went on to grab a set of work from Pier Paolo Pasolini, taking care to acknowledge the efforts of his designers in crafting the environments he shoots.

Eggers told Criterion, “The worlds that Pasolini creates with Piero Tosi,...

Finally, the American public learns how it would have gone down on 9/11 had Mark Wahlberg boarded American Airlines Flight 11. Turns out that he wasn’t wrong about the amount of blood he’d have spilled in the cabin. It’s just that half of it would’ve been his, and...

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Lessons in Chemistry is a drama miniseries developed for television by Lee Eisenberg. Based on a novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus, the Apple TV+ series is set in 1960s America, and it revolves around Elizabeth Zott, who has always dreamed of being a scientist, but because of the patriarchal society, she is denied her dream. That’s when he accepts a job on a TV cooking show and teaches the nation’s housewives way more than recipes. Lessons in Chemistry stars Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Bussman, Aja Naomi King, and Thomas Mann. So, if you loved the inspiring story, female empowerment, and compelling characters in Lessons in Chemistry, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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2025 marks the 25th anniversary of director Mary Harron’s Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho (watch it Here), which has come to be known as a cult classic – and for a while, news reports made it seem that, as an anniversary gift, we’d be getting an American Psycho remake from director Luca Guadagnino, whose credits include Challengers, Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, Queer, and the Suspiria remake. Guadagnino reportedly signed on to direct the film from a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) back in October, and in December we heard that Austin Butler (Elvis) and Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) were being considered for the lead role of Patrick Bateman, the character who was played by Christian Bale in Harron’s film. But then, Ellis said on his podcast that he thought the remake talk was “fake news” and that deals hadn’t even been secured with Guadagnino or Burns yet.

Ten years ago, writer/director Jason Krawczyk brought the world the horror comedy He Never Died, which introduced viewers to a badass immortal character named Jack (played by Henry Rollins), who had been around for thousands of years. The follow-ups planned for that film haven’t made it into production, but now, Krawczyk is back with the action comedy Don’t Mess with Grandma (which was filmed under the title Sunset Superman), starring Michael Jai White. I had the chance to watch the movie several months ago and had a lot of fun with it (you can read my 8/10 review at This Link), and a larger audience will have the opportunity to enjoy it when it reaches the free streaming service Tubi on January 24th!

Don’t Mess with Grandma shows us what happens when a drunk Army ranger must fight off the vicious robbers who plan to loot the cabin belonging to his sweet,...

Miles Teller will always be known for his role alongside J.K. Simmons in Whiplash, the 2014 musical thriller that saw Simmons win his first Oscar. However, two years before that, he starred in another film that just got a devastating streaming update. Teller features alongside Thomas Mann and Oliver Cooper in Project X, the teen comedy following three high school students who throw a party to make a name for themselves, but as the night goes on, things slowly descend into chaos. Project X has been streaming on Netflix since December, but the streamer recently announced that the film would depart the platform at the end of the month on January 31. Project X earned scores of 28% from critics and 61% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.

Four years after her Grammy-nominated album, Jubilee, and the bestselling memoir Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner has returned. Her band, Japanese Breakfast, will drop their new LP For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) on March 21 via Dead Oceans.

To accompany the announcement, the indie pop band released the lead single “Orlando in Love,” a subtle track with an elegant string arrangement. “Orlando in Love” was inspired by Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo’s “Orlando Innamorato” — an unfinished epic containing 68 1/2 cantos — as well as writer John Cheever’s riff on the poem.

Exclusive: Rory Culkin (Lords of Chaos) and Paris Jackson (Gringo) lead the cast of Skinemax, a comedy from writer-director Adam Sigal (Chariot), which has wrapped production in Budapest.

Examining the softcore porn industry of the early 1990s, the film follows Morgan Sands (Culkin), a failing indie film director, and his unlikely friendship with Jessie Hudson (Jackson), a popular adult film star.

Pic’s cast also includes Crispin Glover (Mr. K), Oliver Trevena (Plane), Will Peltz (Unfriended), Mark Boone Jr. (Memento), GaTa (Anyone But You), Jared P-Smith (FBI), Vladislav Lapidus (Dead Man’s Wire), Zac Coats (Crave), Sierra Nowak (Lucifer), and Maren Altman (If It Bleeds).

The film is produced by Jon Wroblewski and Christian Sosa of Roosevelt Film Lab, Trevena of Ollywood Media, and David Treatman of Grapevine Films. Exec producers include Dane and Elizabeth Fiori, Lars and Janice Letonoff, Michael Santos, Christian Sheedy, Dalas Lamberson, Maxwell Johnson of Grapevine, and Andre Champagne of Passcode.

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EXmas is a Christmas romantic comedy film directed by Jonah Feingold from a screenplay by Dan Steele. The Amazon Freevee film follows Graham, who decides to surprise his family on Christmas, but when he gets there, he is surprised to find his ex-fiancée, who is the guest of honour. EXmas stars Leighton Meester, Robbie Amell, Michael Hitchcock, Kathy Greenwood, Steven Huy, and Veronika Slowikowska. So, if you loved the Christmas spirit, hilarious romantic drama, and compelling characters in EXmas, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Our Little Secret is a romantic comedy film directed by Stephen Herek from a screenplay by Hailey DeDominicis. The Netflix film follows Avery, a young woman spending her first Christmas with her boyfriend’s family. Still, when she gets there, she unexpectedly finds her ex-boyfriend there,...

Francis Ford Coppola‘s big return with this year’s Megalopolis may not have had the reception that he was hoping for. Then again, the renowned filmmaker says he’s never had a project praised right out of the gate. Coppola never felt blindsided by the criticisms as he’s accustomed to butting heads with the studios as he stays true to his visions. He states, “I was almost fired on all of them.” Coppola, then continues, “The lesson is that the same things that they fire you for are the same things that later they give you lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.”

The Washington Post catches up with the Godfather and Apocalypse Now director as he gets honored at the Kennedy Center for his career. Although Megalopolis was a gamble that ended up flopping, Coppola still believes the film will eventually find its audience and that it will “play for 40 years.

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Our Little Secret is a romantic comedy film directed by Stephen Herek from a screenplay by Hailey DeDominicis. The Netflix film follows Avery, a young woman who is spending her first Christmas with her boyfriend’s family but is shocked to find out that her ex is also there, and they decide to hide their shared romantic history. Our Little Secret stars Lindsay Lohan, Ian Harding, Tim Meadows, Jon Rudnitsky, Henry Czerny, Judy Reyes, Chris Parnell, and Kristin Chenoweth. So, if you loved the heartwarming love story, funny family drama, and compelling characters in Our Little Secret, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Exmas is a romantic comedy film directed by Jonah Feingold from a screenplay by Dan Steele. The 2023 film follows Graham, a young man who decides...

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MonsterVerse is one of the most interesting cinematic universes out of all of them. The Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures-owned franchise has earned over $2.5 billion worldwide and also consists of TV shows on different streaming services but the way it all came together is a bit iffy because of the rights issues and the general laziness that we see in the some of the MonsterVerse films, but still Godzilla vs. Kong is still one of the most iconic movies for me. So, we thought of compiling every project that exists in the MonsterVerse and ranking them according to their Rotten Tomatoes score, here it is.

7. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Max & Rent on Prime Video) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 42% Credit – Warner Bros.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a monster sci-fi action adventure film directed by Michael Dougherty...

Luca Guadagnino and Lionsgate announced that the “Call Me by Your Name” and “Queer” director is in final discussions to film a new version of Bret Eason Ellis’ dark horror novel “American Psycho,” nearly 25 years after the same company released Mary Harron’s satirical adaptation. In a key role that elevated his career, the 2000 film starred Christian Bale as yuppie investment banker-turned-serial killer Patrick Bateman.

It’s the kind of announcement destined to raise eyebrows. Guadagnino is in a career sweet spot after “Challengers” and “Queer” this year (and “After the Hunt” in post); he already has many projects in the works, including “Separate Rooms” with Josh O’Connor and a Thomas Mann adaptation in early development. So why is he choosing a remake — and for a film that doesn’t seem that long ago?

New versions of older films are not unusual. Even the word “remake” is tricky here — does that apply with adaptations?...

Thanks to Luca Guadagnino, Patrick Bateman will be back.

The auteur is in final negotiations with Lionsgate for a new interpretation of iconic novel “American Psycho,” the studio announced Friday, October 18. The Bret Easton Ellis book was first brought to the screen in 2000. Christian Bale led the original film alongside Guadagnino’s frequent collaborator Chloë Sevigny.

Scott Z. Burns will adapt Ellis’ novel. Rather than a remake of the 2000 feature, Burns’ screenplay will be a new adaptation of the IP. Mary Harron directed the original film from a screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner.

Guadagnino’s iteration of “American Psycho” will be produced by Frenesy Films and executive produced by Pressman Film’s Sam Pressman, the son of Edward R. Pressman, who was a producer of the first adaptation.

“We are thrilled to add another elite filmmaker to our upcoming slate,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson said. “Luca is a brilliant artist,...

Mia Goth has established herself as one of modern cinema's "Scream Queens." Having starred in acclaimed horror films like Infinity Pool, 2018's Suspiria, and director Ti West's X trilogy (which ended with the 2024 film MaXXXine), Goth now guarantees an audience in whatever film she appears. However, A Cure for Wellness, in which Mia had a leading role, hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves since it premiered in 2016.

Directed by Gore Verbinski, A Cure for Wellness follows Dane DeHaan's Lockhart as he tries to bring his boss back from a wellness center in the Swiss Alps, where he uncovers a dark conspiracy revolving around Goth's mysterious character, Hannah. It's an unnerving blend of Gothic mystery and psychological horror, and the talent behind the film and its tribute to classic horror, particularly Universal's monster movies, make it a must-see for committed horror fans.

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It is nearly impossible for Luca Guadagnino to discuss one of his films without folding his cinematic hero, Bernardo Bertolucci, into the conversation. While on an upcoming episode of IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast about his forthcoming release, A24’s “Queer,” Guadagnino revealed his documentary about the great Italian director behind such films as “The Last Emperor” and “The Conformist,” who passed away in 2018, is much further along than we thought.

“I’m editing it now,” said Guadagnino while on the podcast. “I have a few more conversations I want to have. Actually, Marty Scorsese, I want to talk to him about it. We’ve been shooting for a while now. They’re not interviews; it’s a conversation. It’s a very personal movie. I am the protagonist of the movie. It could be called, ‘Bertolucci and I,’ which it’s not going to be.”

The current working title is “Joie de Vivre,...

TIFF: Sprawling, historical family sagas used to be de rigueur as culminating artistic statements from our greatest talents. They were characterized by the intertwined lives of a large cast of characters—parents, children, and siblings—their hopes and fears, triumphs and disappointments—situated at moments of profound societal change. Classic examples include Thomas Mann‘s “Buddenbrooks” and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa‘s “The Leopard.” It is, thus, heartening to see director Maura Delpero attempting such a tale in just her second narrative feature.

Continue reading ‘Vermiglio’ Review: Italy’s Award-Winning Oscar Submission Is A Sprawling, Ambitious Family Chronicle at The Playlist.

Actress and singer Annabella Avery “Bella” Thorne, known for Shake It Up (2010), The Duff (2015), Blended (2014), and Midnight Sun (2018) stopped by Sdcc to talk about her upcoming film. The film is called The Tower and also stars Jack Kilmer and Cam Gigandet (Twilight, The O.C.).

The movie follows a mysterious mermaid who has been trapped and forgotten for years in the water tower of a small Southern town. While talking to Cam Gigandet about their insight into the movie, he revealed that he portrays a cop who is a bully toward Billy, who Jack Kilmer portrays.

The film was written and directed by Adam Sigal who has directed directed “Chariot”, starring John Malkovich, Rosa Salazar and Thomas Mann. In 2022, he wrote and directed Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, starring Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver, Christopher Lloyd and Neil Gaiman.

When asked about a release date Sigal revealed that they were hoping...

Is it wrong to say something good came out of fascism? Probably. And it should be noted that Venice International Film Festival’s founder, Guiseppe Volpi, though a leading figure within Italy’s National Fascist Party, did ultimately oppose Benito Mussolini‘s government and the country’s alliance with Germany and Adolf Hitler. Nonetheless, his legacy is tainted as a result of this association, even with his and his family’s massive contributions to cinema.

The Venice International Film Festival began in 1932 as a result of Italy’s growing appreciation and interest in film. The Floating City had already played host to an arts festival known as Venice Biennale since 1893, so this film section was tied in and quickly overshadowed all other showcases. The actual event is held on the island of Lido rather than in the city’s central hub. This location was chosen in order to increase tourism...

This September, Max is bringing you a lot of entertainment with the highly anticipated DC action crime drama series The Penguin starring Colin Farrell and the new season of HBO’s great series My Brilliant Friend. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Max this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 5 best films coming to Max in September 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Boogie Nights (September 1)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%

Boogie Nights is a period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The 1997 film revolves around Eddie Adams, a high school dropout who begins working as a porn star and achieves huge success but his new glamorous lifestyle goes to his head and he gets addicted to drugs. Boogie Nights stars Mark Wahlberg in the lead role with Burt Reynolds,...

Incoming is a teen comedy film written and directed by Dave and John Chernin. The Netflix film follows the story of four teen friends as they go to their first high school party, which turns out to be one of the most memorable nights of their lives. Incoming stars Mason Thames, Raphael Alejandro, Bardia Seiri, Ramon Reed, Bobby Cannavale, Kaitlin Olson, Isabella Ferreira, and Ali Gallo. So, if you loved the carefree vibes, hilarious comedy, and the insane story in Incoming here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Project X is a found-footage teen comedy film directed by Nima Nourizadeh from a screenplay co-written by Matt Drake and Michael Bacall. The 2012 film follows the story of three high school seniors who decide to throw a party to gain popularity amongst their peers but their plans to throw a...

Olivia Cooke shone as Rachel in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl before impressively taking on Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon. Rachel and Alicent share surprising parallels, both wise beyond their years, navigating tough circumstances with courage and honesty. Cooke's stellar performance as Rachel prepared her well for the emotional depth and resilience required to portray Alicent in the popular Max series.

Olivia Cooke is now best known for her excellent portrayal of Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon, but before that, her best role was in an underrated 2015 film. Before these projects joined the ranks of her best movies and shows, Cooke gained widespread recognition for her regular role as Emma Decody in the Psycho prequel series Bates Motel. She went on to appear in a variety of other films and series, including as Samantha/Art3mis in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One and...

The nominations have been announced for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, and they include several nods for the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry. Brie Larson, who was nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, has shared her reaction to the show's recognition by the Television Academy.

Larson took to her Instagram Stories to comment on the news. She shared an image of herself and the Lessons in Chemistry team from a birthday celebration they'd had for her on the set. Larson also included a message thanking the Television Academy for honoring the show along with how "honored" she is to have been involved with the project.

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"I am trying to find the words,...

Exclusive: Rumer Willis (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood), Gbenga Akkinagbe (Rob Peace), Jeff Fahey (Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1) and Graham Greene (Echo) are in production in Arkansas on Broken Trail, a new Western from director Johnny Remo and his Skipstone Pictures.

Written by Remo and longtime collaborator Daniel Backman, the film set in 1875 watches as the life of Katherine (Willis) is shattered when her beloved husband falls victim to a murder orchestrated by the nefarious Colonel Davis (Fahey). Alone and overwhelmed, Katherine’s path crosses with John Scobell (Akinnagbe), a Black man with a troubled past as a former Pinkerton Agent. Despite initial reluctance, John is drawn to Katherine’s determination and the injustice of Caleb’s death. Together, they form an unlikely alliance fueled by a shared desire for retribution.

Others in the ensemble include Eric Nelsen, James Landry Hebert, Jeremy Sumpter and Connor Eterson. Remo...

Nico Hofmann and Jan Mojto, two leading figures in the German TV industry, on Friday unveiled the upcoming slate for their new joint venture, announced earlier this year. Their company plans to make big-budget, high-end series out of Germany for the international market.

The first slate of projects includes several novel and nonfiction adaptations. They include: Tilmann Lahme’s Die Manns – Geschichte einer Familie, a biography of the legendary Mann family, including noble prize winner Thomas Mann and his brother Heinrich Mann, which is to be produced as a six-part television series set in the 1920s and told through the eyes of the younger generation, particularly the kindred spirits and eldest siblings Klaus and Erika Mann.

The group plans to adapt European Book Prize winner Maxim Leo’s best-selling novel Wo wir zu Hause sind and his latest book, Wir werden jung sein, as a limited series. The first is...

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Meg Stalter is a star. Her first-ever leading lady, Cora, is…not. Constantly lugging her acoustic guitar around like a depressed millennial Linus dragging his little blue blanket, Cora is an especially chaotic breed of girlfailure. She’s brash, cruel without cause, and not particularly self-aware about her own affect,...

Godzilla Minus One is a hit monster movie from 2023, bringing a fresh take on the classic Godzilla story with deep themes and period setting. Kong: Skull Island and Jurassic Park are perfect follow-ups, sharing themes of monster creation and human response to destruction. Train to Busan and Cloverfield also explore cosmic horror and human vulnerability in the face of powerful entities, like Godzilla Minus One.

Godzilla Minus One is one of the most popular monster movies of 2023, and here are the 10 best movies to watch if a viewer wants to see something else like it. Godzilla Minus One is one of many reimaginings of the classic Godzilla story, with the titular monster this time facing off against a Japanese WWII deserter who rallies together the community in order to take Godzilla down. Godzilla Minus One was a huge hit upon its release, with many fans looking for more movies like it.