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Peacock’s supernatural drama series Teacup unfolds on a rural Georgia ranch, where family tensions and dark secrets are intensified by a mysterious threat. Adapted from Robert R. McCammon’s 1988 novel Stinger, the show follows Maggie and James Chenoweth as they confront an otherworldly force that tests their fractured family and the bonds of their community. Here’s a guide to the cast and characters of Teacup.

Teacup Main Cast & Characters Yvonne Strahovski as Maggie Chenoweth

Maggie is the tough and resilient owner of the Chenoweth ranch, struggling to cope with her husband’s infidelity while facing a supernatural danger. A natural leader, she emerges as the focal point for the ranch’s resistance against the otherworldly being called “Assassin.”

Strahovski’s Notable Roles: Chuck (2007-2012), The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-), The Predator (2018) Scott Speedman as James Chenoweth

James, Maggie’s remorseful husband, is forced to face his mistakes after admitting to an affair.

You & I, the new movie from longtime independent film producer Summer Shelton, has a simple and familiar premise: Two former lovers unexpectedly cross paths years after they split, and over the course of several emotional conversations, gradually reconnect. It's a straightforward affair, and one we've all seen play out countless times before. To her credit, Shelton, who directed and wrote the movie in addition to starring, offers some unique touches to the tale of Sara (Shelton) and Joseph (Clayne Crawford).

You & I (2024)

Director Summer SheltonWriters Summer SheltonCast Shirlette Ammons, Linds Edwards, Ashley Shelton, Summer Shelton, Clayne CrawfordCharacter(s) Shirlette, Misty, Joseph, Mark, SaraGenres Romance

At the same time, I found myself mostly unmoved by the time the end credits began to roll. It feels like You & I is missing some pieces, and it isn't helped by an ending sequence that goes on for far too long. This stripped-down...

Exclusive: Kingston Rumi Southwick (Presumed Innocent) and Banks Repeta (Armageddon Time) will topline Henry’s Ebb, an indie horror thriller marking the feature debut of writer-director Thomas Mendolia.

Others starring in the film, which recently wrapped production in North Carolina, include Ashley Shelton (War Pony), Will Holland, Rebecca Ann Koon (The Menu) and Austin Willard.

Described as a southeastern-set story in the vein of Stand By Me or Mud, with genre elements, Henry’s Ebb follows Henry (Southwick) as he runs away from an abusive home with his imaginary best friend, Ebb (Repeta). The journey tests their friendship, as well as Henry’s inner “need” for Ebb as Ebb’s control and manipulation over Henry intensifies.

Lucas Ford and Joey LePage are serving as the film’s producers, with Ford Films as the production company. Tracy Kilpatrick (The Peanut Butter Falcon) oversaw casting.

As the calendar changes to March, Paramount+ is ringing in the month with its latest list of library additions, film and series premieres, and more. Get ready for the Paramount+ Original coming-of-age feature “Little Wing,” starring Brooklynn Prince, Che Tafari, Brian Cox and Kelly Reilly, midway through the month, as well as a sequel follow-up to the groundbreaking 2005 documentary “The Aggressives,” the feature follow-up “The Thundermans Return,” and Season 5 premiere of “Never Seen Again.”

The new month will also include many additions and exclusive premieres available only to Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, like the premiere of “A Gentleman in Moscow,” Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Leah Harvey, Johnny Harris, and more. March will also mark the debut of the streaming premieres of two recent award winners: the 2022 Cannes Caméra d’Or winner “War Pony” and the 2023 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Award-winning British horror film “Raging Grace.”

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Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s War Pony embodies the unconventional spirit that’s marked the former’s acting career. Shot on location at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and starring a cast of indigenous Lakota non-actors, the film details the daily struggles of a hustler, Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting), and a neglected middle-schooler, Matho (Ladainian Crazy Thunder). Structured in intertwining storylines, War Pony possesses a gritty essence, but for however uncompromising its glimpse into Bill and Matho’s stagnantly bleak existences may be, the film also feels generic in execution.

This can be chalked up to War Pony’s glaring, almost frustrating lack of nuance or specificity, as the filmmakers never effectively detail the characters’ relation to the various cultural, psychological, or historical intricacies of their milieu. Instead, they’re almost stubbornly focused on capturing an unflinchingly unvarnished view of day-to-day life on society’s fringes.

Exclusive: Price Productions has wrapped production on Mad Props, a new feature documentary featuring iconic actors Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) and more.

The film from director Juan Pablo Reinoso is said to follow a handsome nerd as he journeys the globe to turn the conventional art world on its head, proving to historians and critics alike that movie props are as important an art form as the greatest paintings and sculptures in history.

Keli Price produced for Price Productions, along with Reinoso and LookBook Films’ Melanie Sweeney, with Tom Biolchini and Colin Tucker serving as EPs. Englund is repped by Third Hill Entertainment, Jr Talent Group and Miloknay Weiner; Henriksen by APA and Henriksen Talent Management; Rourke by APA, Framework Entertainment and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel; and Price by Revenant Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

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As A Little Prayer begins, the voice of an unseen singer floats into the still morning air of a strikingly leafy neighborhood. The spirituals she belts, heard a few times during this quiet drama, take on the role of a disembodied character, sparking responses from the other characters that help to define who they are. Some hear only noise, an intrusion, something to complain about. But for Bill and his daughter-in-law, Tammy, searching souls beautifully played by David Strathairn and Jane Levy, the songs are enchanting, a mystery to savor.

Bill and Tammy are, as she puts it, kindred spirits, but that’s not to say they’re fully in sync. Their bond is the heart of writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s understated film, yet so too is the gap between what Bill wants to believe and the way things are. At the helm of his third feature, after Goodbye to All That...

Jerry Seinfeld has assembled a stellar cast for his Netflix comedy Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, with Melissa McCarthy (God’s Favorite Idiot), Jim Gaffigan (Linoleum), Amy Schumer (Life & Beth), Hugh Grant (The Undoing) and James Marsden (Sonic the Hedgehog 2) signing on for roles, along with Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon (Reno 911!), Adrian Martinez (iGilbert), Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live), Max Greenfield (The Neighborhood), Christian Slater (Dr. Death) and Sarah Cooper (Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine). In addition to co-writing and directing the film, in his feature debut, Seinfeld is set to star, as we told you first.

Billed as a tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar and menacing milkmen, Unfrosted is set in 1963 Michigan. It will watch as sworn cereal rivals Kellogg’s and Post race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. Information on the roles to be played...

It is more than a bit ironic in a Cannes Film Festival where Baz Luhrman’s biopic Elvis is one of the most anticipated entries, that the subject of it, Elvis Presley turns out to have another direct connection this year’s fest. His granddaughter Riley Keough is making her directorial debut with the Un Certain Regard selection, War Pony having its World Premiere today. The film focuses on two young Native Americans coming of age and trying to get by in a story set on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. It is a location that has intrigued other filmmakers like Chloe Zhao (The Rider) in recent years, and now has caught the attention of Keough and her co-director Gina Gammell in order to tell an authentic and unique contemporary tale of Native American youth brought to life by an impressive group of first-time actors, mostly locals the...

If Larry Clark had ever found his way onto the Pine Ridge Reservation, he probably would have come away with a film like “War Pony,” which observes its young Native American characters hustling, skating and stealing drugs from otherwise distracted adults. Presenting such behavior without judgment, first-time directors Gina Gammell and Riley Keough developed this unvarnished portrait in collaboration with their actors, capturing something at once tragic and true about these kids, who are torn between Oglala Lakota traditions and the consumer culture around them.

A few years older than the hero of Chloé Zhao’s recent “The Rider” — a movie this one can’t help but resemble, at least superficially — Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting) is like the slacker version of that American dreamer. He siphons gas from strangers’ tanks and goes around asking people if they want to buy a stolen PlayStation. He already has two kids by two different women.

With a decade’s worth of producing under her belt (she got her start working on Ramin Bahrani projects beginning with Goodbye Solo) she was selected as Sundance Institute for the Bingham Ray Creative Producing Fellow and was the recipient of the 2018 Independent Spirit Piaget Producer’s Award. Summer Shelton went in front the camera, directly behind it, did the number crunching and film editing for her directorial debut, You & I. A 2021 US in Progress selected project, this project is so low on the radar that we don’t have logline but we do know that Shelton was joined by The Killing of Two Lovers‘ Clayne Crawford and Ashley Shelton on a micro shoot.…...

William Sadler began his acting career in New York theaters, appearing in more than 75 productions over the course of 12 years. His roles included that of Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon’s Tony Award winning play “Biloxi Blues”. He is best remembered for his roles in Die Hard 2, The Shawshank Redemeption, and as The Grim Reaper in the Bill and Ted movies. William Sadler is also a television star, appearing in such sitcoms as Roseanne (1988) and Murphy Brown (1988) and he also starred as Sheriff Jim Valenti on the WB science fiction television series Roswell. William Sadler’s latest project is a co-starring role in Alice Fades Away, written and directed by Ryan Bliss and also starring Ashley Shelton, Paxton Singleton and Blanche Baker. Alice Fades Away is the story of a troubled woman in 1950s New England who stumbles upon an isolated farmhouse and is taken in by...

Throughout the last couple of years, directorial debuts have been a thing of mesmerising beauty, with each new filmmaker bringing a different recipe to the narrative conventions, and experimentations with tone, design and character. The same could be said for Ryan Bliss, through his debut feature, Alice Fades Away. Where inspirations from genres of the past generate something new, instead of merely reflecting the stories that have been told before.

Alice (Ashley Shelton), hides away from her past and present haunts, at her uncle’s farm - an idyllic, isolated patch where new lives can be formed and old ones left behind. There she meets other outsiders seeking shelter who have been taken in by her uncle in what appears to be through philanthropic motivations alone. But while her new refuge offers solace, secrets and faces from the past are not far behind.

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1091 Pictures is thrilled to announce that Alice Fades Away, written and directed by Ryan Bliss and starring Ashley Shelton, William Sadler, Paxton Singleton and Blanche Baker, will be available to purchase or rent in the USA and Canada starting on Tuesday, February 16th, 2021. Check out the trailer:

A troubled woman in 1950s New England stumbles upon an isolated farmhouse and is taken in by its idealistic residents -until a murderous figure from her past arrives.

On the run, Alice Sullivan takes refuge on her uncle’s farm, now home to WWII survivors suffering from Ptsd. She is taken in by its residents until Holden, a murderous figure from her past, arrives. His mission; return Alice’s son, Logan to his grandfather, the wealthy patriarch of the dangerous Sullivan family. Alice’s disturbed nature and increasing paranoia force the residents of the farm to make a decision; fight to protect...

"Go get my grandson, bring him home!" 1091 Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie thriller titled Alice Fades Away, set right after the end of World War II. The film is the feature directorial debut of Ryan Bliss and arrives on VOD in February. On the run, Alice takes refuge on her uncle’s farm, now home to WWII survivors. But when a ruthless and unpredictable man arrives searching for her son, the last link to the family dynasty, they must fight back to make it out alive. Bolstered by a star making performance from Ashley Shelton and strong supporting work from veteran actors William Sadler and Blanche Baker, the film is described as a "thrilling and timely tale of a woman driven to the edge and forced to fight back." These kind of stories are becoming a dime a dozen, and unfortunately this one just doesn't look that good.

The Giant Trailer — David Raboy‘s The Giant (2020) movie trailer has been released by Vertical Entertainment and stars Odessa Young, Madelyn Cline, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, Julia Reilly, Ashley Shelton, Taylor Hanks, Ezekiel Ajeigbe, Nicholas Cirillo, and Samantha Binkerd. Crew David Raboy wrote the screenplay for the film. Ari Balouzian created the music [...]

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, Braden King’s “The Evening Hour” shines on a rural Appalachian town like a golden ray of fading sunlight; as dark as the story gets, this hyper-empathetic film never fails to see its characters as decent people trying to make the best of a bad situation. This is the kind of movie that opens with someone reading a Bible verse over a shot of mountain grass swaying in the wind as the first woozy strains of Boxhead Ensemble’s score prepare to take your breath away.

Which isn’t to say that “The Evening Hour” elides the awfulness of the epidemic; that same opening shot pans across the landscape in time to see an ominous explosion in the distance. Every frame is saturated with a sense of quiet desperation. The rival drug pushers inevitably pull their guns on each other, and even the kindest intentions have a way of souring into sadness.

"Why country?" "Because it's three chords of truth." Neon has released a final "No Place Like Home" trailer for Wild Rose, the film about a country singer that just opened in theaters this weekend (full trailer). This first premiered at the Toronto & London Film Festivals last year, and stopped by SXSW this year. Acclaimed Irish actress Jessie Buckley plays a young mother from Glasgow, fresh out of prison, who decides to give up everything and move to Nashville to chase her dreams of becoming a country singer. An "uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and three chords and the truth." The full cast includes Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, Gemma McElhinney, James Harkness, and Ashley Shelton. This has excellent reviews, saying it's "crowd-pleasing" with an "unbelievably great" performance from Buckley. It just started playing in theaters - check your local art house cinema to catch it.

"If you got a voice, you've got something to say." Neon has debuted the official Us trailer for Wild Rose, to go along with the first UK trailer from earlier this year. This premiered at the Toronto and London Film Festivals last year, also just stopped by SXSW. Jessie Buckley (who also stars in the film Beast) plays a young mother from Glasgow, fresh out of prison, who decides to give up everything and move to Nashville to chase her dreams of becoming a country singer. But not without some bumps in the road. An "uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and three chords and the truth." The film's cast includes Julie Walters as her mother, plus Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, Gemma McElhinney, James Harkness, and Ashley Shelton. This looks really good, and reviews have been really good. Enjoy. Here's the official Us trailer (+ new...

"This is me trying to make something of myself, and surely that's a good thing for them." Entertainment One UK has debuted the first official trailer for Wild Rose, yet another film about a woman who wants to become a musician, overcoming challenges on the path to fame. This premiered at the Toronto and London Film Festivals last year, and is stopping by the SXSW Film Festival next. Jessie Buckley (who also stars in the film Beast) plays a young mother from Glasgow, fresh out of prison, who decides to give up everything and move to Nashville to chase her dreams of becoming a country singer. Not without some bumps in the road. An "uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and three chords and the truth." The full cast includes Julie Walters as her mother, plus Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, Gemma McElhinney, James Harkness, and Ashley Shelton.

In today’s film news roundup, William Sadler is starring in the thriller “Alice Fades Away,” Janos Szasz will direct a “Black Friday” movie, and “Superman Vs. The Ku Klux Klan” is in the works as a movie.

Castings

William Sadler, Ashley Shelton, Blanche Baker, and Paxton Singleton are starring in the independent thriller “Alice Fades Away” with Ryan Bliss directing from his own screenplay.

Bliss is also producing with Anthony Ambrosino, Andrew James, and Janine Moore. The story centers on a troubled woman in 1950’s New England stumbling upon an isolated farmhouse and being taken in by its idealistic residents — until a murderous figure from her past arrives.

The film is Bliss’ feature directorial debut. The production recently shot scenes at the Great House on Castle Hill in Massachusetts, which was the site featured in “The Witches of Eastwick.” Other cast members include Joanna Pickering, Nick Yiakoumatos, and Jay Potter.

Jessie Buckley is going to be massive – take our word for it. Wild Rose is the sort of film you want everyone in your life to see, and we’re going to be evangelical about the film until its release next year.

We were there last night at the 2018 London Film Festival British film when Wild Rose came to the capital to debut an incredible performance from Buckley and some soul-stirring music.

The feelgood and uplifting film shows of Jessie Buckley’s incredible voice and talent in the tale of Rose-Lynn Harlan who dreams of becoming a country and western singer in America. The film also stars Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, James Harkness and Ashley Shelton. The film is written by Nicole Taylor and directed by Tom Harper.

Wild Rose is released on the 19th of April, 2019 in the UK, and on the 10th of May in the Us.

October is upon us. The leaves are changing. Sweaters are becoming more abundant. Awards contenders are popping up in theaters nationwide. But those are far from the only films opening throughout the coming weeks. Below, you’ll find every planned theatrical release for the month of October, separated out into films with wide runs and limited ones. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)

Each week, we’ll give you an update with more specific information on where these films are playing. In the meantime, be sure to check our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. Stay warm and happy watching!

Week of October 7 Wide

The Birth of a Nation

Director: Nate Parker

Cast: Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior, Nate Parker

Synopsis: Set against the antebellum South and based on a true story, “The Birth...

Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything, which co-premiered recently at the Wisconsin Film Festival and the Sarasota Film Festival, is a portrait of a young woman in crisis. Peggy [Ashley Shelton] has already achieved her “stereotypically Southern” (as she’s described in the press kit) ambitions: a successful career in realty, a husband, a house in the suburbs, and a baby on the way. In the opening moments of the film, however, she’s forced to confront her dissatisfaction with it all. A family tragedy sends Peggy on a sojourn that leads her to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and, eventually, to a simpler life in a small apartment overlooking the Tennessee River.

Harrill first gained recognition in 2001 when his short film, Gina, An Actress, Age 29, won the top prize at Sundance and enjoyed an impressive run of screenings at international festivals. Starring Amy Hubbard and Frankie Faison (Burrell from The Wire...