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Selena Gomez announces new album with fiancé Benny Blanco

Selena Gomez has released a new single and announced an upcoming album with her fiancé Benny Blanco. I Said I Love You First will be released March 21, the Emilia Pérez star shared on Instagram. The first single, “Scared of Loving You,” is available now on all streaming platforms. Blanco also shared the news on his own Instagram account, saying, “I can’t believe I get to spend the rest of my life with you.”

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The pair announced their engagement last December, a year after going public with their relationship. Gomez is a two-time Grammy nominee whose hits include “The Heart Wants What It Wants,” “Lose You to Love Me,” and “Calm Down.” Blanco is a successful music producer who has worked with other megastar artists including Ed Sheeran, BTS, Eminem,...

Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment’s Luca Guadagnino thriller After the Hunt, is going into limited release October 10, with a nationwide break October 17.

The film follows a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. Guadagnino regular Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny also star along with Lío Mehiel, Thaddea Graham, Will Price, Christine Dye, and Burgess Byrd.

The After the Hunt screenplay is by Nora Garrett. Producers are Guadagnino, Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum.

Don’t be shocked if this one makes a premiere during the fall film festival troika. Guadagnino loves to launch at the Venice Film Festival, as he did for his latest pics Bones and All and Queer.

On October...

Amazon MGM will release “After the Hunt,” a psychological drama directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Julia Roberts, during prime awards season, starting with select theaters on Oct. 10, 2025, followed by a wider release on Oct. 17, the company announced on Thursday.

The film will debut nationwide alongside two other major releases: Blumhouse’s “The Black Phone 2” starring Ethan Hawke, and Lionsgate’s R-rated comedy “Good Fortune” featuring Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, and Seth Rogen.

“After the Hunt” also stars Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny.

Written by newcomer Nora Garrett, who will also serve as executive producer, “After the Hunt” will see Roberts play a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.

Allan Mandelbaum, who brought...

After the Hunt has tracked down a prime awards season slot from Amazon MGM Studios.

Director Luca Guadagnino’s thriller feature is set to launch in limited theatrical release on Oct. 10, with the film expanding its theater count the following week. Julia Roberts leads a cast that includes Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny.

Also set for nationwide release on Oct. 17, when After the Hunt is scheduled to go wide, are Universal’s horror sequel The Black Phone 2 and Lionsgate’s Aziz Ansari-directed comedy Good Fortune that stars Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer.

Hailing from Imagine Entertainment, After the Hunt focuses on a college professor (Roberts) who is forced to confront her own dark past when a prominent student (Edebiri) makes an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield).

Guadagnino helmed the movie from a script by Nora Garrett. Serving as producers are Guadagnino,...

“After the Hunt,” a thriller directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, will land in theaters this fall.

Amazon MGM is granting the film a prime awards season release date, with a limited rollout on Oct. 10 before expanding on Oct. 17. “After the Hunt” will open nationwide on the same date as Blumhouse’s thriller “The Black Phone 2” with Ethan Hawke and Lionsgate’s R-rated comedy “Good Fortune,” starring Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen.

Described as a “gripping psychological drama,” the film follows Roberts as a college professor who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield),” according to the official logline. As she navigates the difficult situation, “a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.” Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast.

From “I Am Love” to “Queer,” romance and desire have always been fundamental to Luca Guadagnino’s storytelling. Even in more mainstream fare like “Call Me by Your Name” and “Challengers,” Guadagnino has found ways to incorporate intimacy as a way of exploring humanity, but the Italian filmmaker recently shared that his latest film, “After the Hunt,” will diverge from these subjects.

“It’s not a movie about sexuality or love. It’s one of my very rare movies where I didn’t tackle that,” Guadagnino said in a recent interview on “Wtf with Marc Maron.” In describing what the film would cover, he added, “It’s a very timely movie for where we are now. In terms of the society and the division in society and the extreme positions that we can have vis-a-vis an opinion in a way.”

Guadagnino described the project, which is currently in post-production, as “a very surprising movie,...

On Friday, Oct. 19, Variety partnered with the Santa Fe International Film festival to celebrate its 10 Screenwriters to Watch. All 10 recipients gathered at Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center for a lively conversation about their path to screenwriting and the work that earned them their place on Variety’s annual list of the most promising up-and-coming scribes in the entertainment industry.

The panel began with a conversation about the films that first made them want to be screenwriters — and in some cases, exposed them to the idea that writing for film and television was a job they could pursue. Among their responses, “Fancy Dance” co-screenwriter Miciana Alise named John Huston’s “Annie” (“Carol Burnett just takes up the whole screen”), while her partner Erica Tremblay remembered “The Last Emperor” making a lasting impression; Noah Pink (“Eden”) said “Jurassic Park;” Tory Kamen (“Eleanor the Great”) and Nora Garrett (“After the Hunt”) agreed that “Juno,...

Exclusive: Sugar23 has added managers Antoni Kaczmarek and Sydney Blanke to its literary department

“We could not be happier to have both Antoni and Sydney joining our literary ranks. With Antoni’s deep relationships and experience in scripted television, and Sydney’s impeccable taste and reputation, we feel lucky to have them,” says Sugar23 founder Michael Sugar.

Kaczmarek joins Sugar23 after spending the last three years at A3 Artists Agency as a television literary agent. He began his career as an agent trainee at UTA and in series development at FX Networks. He first became an agent in 2018 at Paradigm where he focused on international formats, playwrights, and development.

Along with his experience, Kaczmarek brings to the Sugar23 team screenwriters including: Adam Starks, Pamela Garcia Rooney, Jonny Gomez, Erick Galindo, Jerry Kontogiorgis, Miriam Hernandez, Candace Jackson and others.

Blanke joins Sugar23 from Fourth Wall Management, where she was a literary...

Exclusive: Lío Mehiel, Thaddea Graham, Will Price, Christine Dye, and Burgess Byrd have joined previously announced cast members Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature After the Hunt. The pic is produced by Imagine Entertainment will be released in theaters next year.

Luca Guadagnino is directing the film from a script penned by Nora Garrett. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing alongside Guadagnino via his Frenesy banner. Imagine Entertainment’s Karen Lunder will executive produce alongside Nora Garrett. The film will start production this summer.

The film follows a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Mehiel made their feature film debut starring in Sundance 2023’s Mutt.

Fresh off the success of “Challengers,” director Luca Guadagnino has wasted no time in moving forward with his next film, “After the Hunt.” The project, which boasts an impressive ensemble cast, has officially entered pre-production in London.

On Saturday, cast members Julia Roberts, Chloë Sevigny, and Ayo Edebiri shared a group photo on social media, seemingly from the first day of pre-production. Sevigny captioned her Instagram post with “#backtowork After The Hunt directed by the great Luca Guadagnino,” while also sharing dinner photos with the director.

The cast photo also included co-stars Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lio Meheil, Ariyan Kassam, and Will Price, suggesting that a table read for the film had taken place. Edebiri’s post humorously included a screenshot of Guadagnino urging her to share the photo, emphasizing “Not a story!!!”

“After the Hunt,” written by Nora Garrett, is described as an intense dramatic thriller. The plot centers on a college professor,...

As movie theater seats are still damp from Challengers showings, director Luca Guadagnino has already moved on to his next production.

Julia Roberts, Chloë Sevigny and Ayo Edebiri shared a cast photo on Saturday from what appeared to be the first day of pre-production on Guadagnino’s After the Hunt in London.

“#backtowork After The Hunt directed by the great Luca Guadagnino,” Sevigny captioned the photo on Instagram, also sharing photos from dinner with Guadagnino to her Instagram Story. “Like we do,” she wrote with the snaps.

“Here we go! Luca!!!!!” wrote Roberts with her own post.

Edebiri also shared the photo along with a screenshot of Guadagnino’s text urging her to post it. “Post it!! I sent it to Julia too!” he wrote to the Bear actress. “Not a story!!!”

Director Luca Guadagnino and actress Chloë Sevigny pose for a photo at dinner after kicking off production on their movie After the Hunt.

The Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield thriller “After the Hunt” has entered production, according to a pair of photos shared on Instagram by Ayo Edebiri. The actress hashtagged the post #NotAStory after Luca Guadagnino seemed to request Edebiri post the photo on her grid (hence the hashtag), not to her Instagram Stories, according to a text from the director she also shared.

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The enthusiastic Guadagnino also noted that he’d sent the photo to Roberts.

Amazon MGM acquired the rights to the film in March. Writer Nora Garrett will also serve as executive producer on the movie, which stars Julia Roberts as a college professor whose life is thrown into chaos after a student makes an accusation against one of her colleagues.

Andrew Garfield and Chloë Sevigny also star. The movie marks Guadagnino’s followup to his acclaimed “Challengers,...

Joining Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edibiri, Chloë Sevigny is to co-star in Luca Guadagnino’s drama, After The Hunt.

Having already worked with the filmmaker for 2022’s Bones And All, Chloë Sevigny is to star in Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming thriller, After The Hunt.

Sevigny is the latest addition to an already starry cast, which so far includes Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri and another Guadagnino favourite, Michael Stuhlbarg.

Guadagnino has been busy of late; his most recent film, the tennis-based love triangle Challengers, emerged to critical applause in April, while his next opus, Queer – starring Daniel Craig and based on the book of the same name by William S Burroughs – is out later in 2024.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the Sevigny news, After The Hunt is due to begin filming this summer – so presumably within the next few weeks. Written by Nora Garrett, it...

Chloë Sevigny is the latest A-lister to join Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming thriller After the Hunt, re-teaming with the director for a third time after the cannibal love story Bones & All and HBO series We Are Who We Are.

Sevigny joins a cast that includes Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, and fellow Guadagnino regular Michael Stuhlbarg, with the film due to begin production this summer.

Guadagnino is directing from a script penned by Nora Garrett, which follows a college professor who has to contest with the personal and professional ramifications of a star pupil leveling an accusation against one of her colleagues. All the while, a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Amazon MGM is behind the project after worked with Guadagnino on his latest film, Zendaya’s tennis romantic drama Challengers, which has grossed $90 million at the global box office. Imagine Entertainment is set to produce,...

The cast for Luca Guadagnino's upcoming thriller After The Hunt just keeps getting better and better. Since last month's news that Andrew Garfield has signed on to star alongside Julia Roberts in the Challengers filmmaker's latest project, The Bear star Ayo Edebiri has already slipped into the movie's ensemble. And now, as reported by Deadline, Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name collaborator and Academy Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg has become the latest acting heavyweight to join the film.

Penned by first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett, Guadagnino's "intense dramatic thriller" is set to centre around Julia Roberts' character, a college professor who finds both her professional and private life coming undone when one of her star pupils levels a serious accusation against one of her colleagues. And in classic Guadagnino style, there's more to the story yet, as the incident at the heart of the film also threatens to dredge up...

Exclusive: Oscar-nominee Michael Stuhlbarg is set to join Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature After the Hunt, which will be released in theaters next year. The film stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew garfield. Luca Guadagnino is directing the film from a script penned by Nora Garrett. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing alongside Guadagnino via his Frenesy banner. Imagine Entertainment’s Karen Lunder will executive produce alongside Nora Garrett. The film is targeting a summer start-of-production.

After the Hunt is an intense dramatic thriller about a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

The project has been a hot property going back to when Imagine landed the script and began developing it at the top of...

The record-breaking success of Julia Roberts' last thriller, Leave the World Behind, makes her casting in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming thriller, After the Hunt, even more exciting. The strong cast involved in "After the Hunt," including Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri, hints at a promising film. Director Luca Guadagnino's track record with successful films like Call Me by Your Name and Challengers adds to the potential of After the Hunt.

Julia Roberts starring in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming thriller, After the Hunt, is already exciting, but even moreso in light of her recent smash hit on Netflix. With the release of Challengers behind him and the expected festival debut of Queer later this year, Luca Guadagnino's next movie is set to be After the Hunt, written by Nora Garrett. The Amazon MGM Studios production will begin filming this summer and is expected to premiere in theaters sometime in 2025.

Per Deadline,...

Ayo Edebiri is the latest star to be cast in 'After The Hunt'.The 28-year-old actress has joined Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield in the film that is being directed by Luca Guadagnino.The movie is an intense thriller about a college professor who finds herself in a personal and professional quandary when a star pupil makes an allegation towards one of her colleagues as it threatens to expose a dark secret from her past.Guadagnino is helming from a screenplay written by Nora Garrett and is also producing for his Frenesy company with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum.The movie is due to begin production this summer ahead of a 2025 release.Ayo plays chef Sydney Adamu in the hit TV series 'The Bear' and explains that she considers her co-star Jeremy Allen White to be like "family" as they have been able to rely...

Exclusive: Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) has signed on to star alongside Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming film After the Hunt from director Luca Guadagnino and Imagine, Deadline has learned.

Details as to her role are under wraps.

Written by Nora Garrett, the film is an intense dramatic thriller about a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing alongside Guadagnino via his Frenesy banner, with Imagine Entertainment’s Karen Lunder exec producing alongside Garrett. Production is scheduled to kick off this summer and the film will be released in theaters next year.

One of today’s most in-demand actors, Edebiri is best known for starring opposite Jeremy...

At long last, Kathryn Bigelow is returning to filmmaking. After 2017’s Detroit, she was developing the David Koepp-scripted thriller Aurora for Netflix but has now moved on to another project for the company. The untitled thriller will unfold in real-time at the White House as a missile attack threatens the United States. THR reports former NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, who also wrote Jackie, scripted the project based on Bigelow’s idea. No additional details were revealed but with Netflix now greenlighting the project, here’s hoping it kicks off before the end of the year.

Juliette Binoche will make her directorial and writing debut in a new anthology film Bike Me Up. Joining directors Sally El Hosaini, Isabel Coixet, Matthias Schweighöfer, Asger Leth, and Frédéric Auburtin, each section will be set in a different European city and explore the locales’ relationship with cycling. Binoche’s film will be...

Whilst we're still here trying to catch our breath and wolf down a post-match banana after Challengers, director Luca Guadagnino has already left the court to get the ball rolling on his next cinematic outing. And having already signed up Julia Roberts for upcoming thriller After The Hunt, the Italian auteur behind Bones And All and Call Me By Your Name seems to have tracked down his next leading man: Andrew Garfield.

As first reported by Deadline, the Spider-Man: No Way Home and Tick, Tick... Boom! is currently in negotations to star alongside Roberts in the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios production, slated for theatrical release in 2025. Coming from first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett, the film, described as an "intense dramatic thriller", centres around a college professor (Roberts) who finds both her professional and private life thrown into turmoil when a star pupil levels a scandalous accusation against one of her colleagues.

Tras ‘Challengers’, llega ‘Queer’ y después este nuevo proyecto.

De acuerdo con Deadline, Andrew Garfield (“Hasta el Último Hombre”) se encuentra en negociaciones para protagonizar junto a Julia Roberts (“Dejar el Mundo Atrás”), “After the Hunt”, dirigida por Luca Guadagnino a partir de un guion de Nora Garrett, que supone su debut como guionista.

“After the Hunt” es un intenso thriller dramático sobre una profesora universitaria que se encuentra en una encrucijada personal y profesional cuando un alumno estrella lanza una acusación contra uno de sus colegas, y un oscuro secreto de su propio pasado amenaza con salir a la luz.

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Andrew Garfield has been cast in 'After the Hunt'.The 40-year-old star is set to appear alongside Julia Roberts in the picture that is being directed by Luca Guadagnino and will be released next year.The movie is an intense thriller about a college professor who finds herself in a personal and professional quandary when a star pupil makes an allegation towards one of her colleagues as it threatens to expose a dark secret from her past.Guadagnino is directing from a screenplay written by Nora Garrett and is also producing for his Frenesy company with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum.The movie is due to begin production this summer.Andrew has previously played the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in four movies and explained how studio chiefs made the right decision by keeping his return in the 2021 film 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' a secret.

Andrew Garfield has tracked down a lead role opposite Julia Roberts in a new thriller from Luca Guadagnino that is set in the world of academia.

Garfield is in negotiations to star opposite Roberts in the forthcoming Amazon MGM Studios feature After the Hunt. Guadagnino (Challengers) is set to direct from a script by Nora Garrett, with the film aiming to start production this summer.

Hailing from Imagine Entertainment, After the Hunt focuses on a college professor who is forced to confront her own dark past when a prominent student makes an accusation against one of her colleagues.

Imagine’s Allan Mandelbaum brought the script to the production company and worked with CAA to land Roberts and Guadagnino. Guadagnino serves as a producer alongside Imagine’s Mandelbaum and Brian Grazer.

Garfield is a two-time Oscar nominee who can next be seen in A24 and Studio Canal’s romantic film We Live in Time...

Fresh off her role in the thriller Leave the World Behind, which quickly made its way onto Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular Movies list when it was released through the streaming service back in December, Julia Roberts has signed on to star in another thriller, and this one sees her teaming up with director Luca Guadagnino, whose credits include Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, and the Suspiria remake. Said to be “set in the world of academia,” this thriller is called After the Hunt, and it’s set up at Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment.

Guadagnino will be directing the film from a screenplay by Nora Garrett. The story centers on a college professor who faces a crossroads in confronting her own dark past when a standout student makes an accusation against one of her colleagues. That’s all the information we have on this one at this time,...

Marking his first feature in five years, Election and Drug War director Johnnie To has quietly embarked on his next project. Although no official details have been announced regarding the title or plot, HK01 (via Frank Yan) spotted To filming a scene with Hong Kong pop star Anson Lo, who plays a driver in the film. There’ll surely be more to come, but it’s exciting to see one of our great directors back at work.

Darren Aronofsky has found his next film and star. Following The Whale, he’ll direct Austin Butler in Caught Stealing, Deadline reports, a sports crime drama scripted by Charlie Huston based on his own book. The Sony Pictures project is described as an “adrenaline-soaked roller coaster ride” and will follow Butler as Hank Thompson, “a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ‘90s NYC.

Thanks to films like Call Me by Your Name and Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino has established himself as a filmmaker who knows how to narrate complex stories with such charm that will end up leaving you speechless. And now, the Italian director will soon be coming out with yet another masterpiece as he teams up with renowned actress, Julia Roberts.

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While we do not doubt that Luca Guadagnino is going to hit a home run once again with After the Hunt, several sources have something to say that makes us even more confident in the filmmaker’s upcoming art. According to those who had the privilege of reading the script of After the Hunt, the film could have some similarities with a critically acclaimed film starring Cate Blanchett – Tár.

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Amazon MGM Studios has acquired Imagine Entertainment’s thriller After The Hunt with Luca Guadagnino directing and Julia Roberts attached to star.

Nora Garrett wrote the screenplay about a college professor at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing for Imagine alongside Guadagnino for Frenesy. Executive producers are Karen Lunder for Imagine Entertainment, and Garrett.

Allan Mandelbaum brought the screenplay to Imagine and worked with CAA to get it to Guadagnino and Roberts.

2024 is shaping up to be quite the year for Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (“Suspiria”). Following on the heels of his new gay romance drama, “Separate Rooms,” which was announced yesterday and starred Josh O’Connor, the “Call Me By Your Name” director has yet another new project in the works, this one with A-lister Julia Roberts.

Deadline reports that Guadagnino is teaming up with Roberts for a thriller called “After The Hunt” from screenwriter Nora Garrett, which landed at Amazon MGM Studios.

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Luca Guadagnino is set to direct Julia Roberts in a dramatic thriller called “After the Hunt” that has landed at Amazon MGM Studios, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire.

Imagine Entertainment had the rights to the film package and script from writer Nora Garrett, and the project has now landed with Amazon MGM after it attracted a lot of interest around town as a hot spec script. Producer Allan Mandelbaum brought the script into Imagine and worked with CAA to get it to both Guadagnino and Roberts.

“After the Hunt” is described as an intense dramatic thriller about a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

No word on release date or whether the film will be Guadagnino’s next project to shoot,...

Julia Roberts is set to star in director Luca Guadagnino’s thriller feature that is set in the world of academia.

Amazon MGM Studios has landed After the Hunt, with Roberts attached to the movie that has Guadagnino directing from a script by Nora Garrett. The project hails from Imagine Entertainment and centers on a college professor who faces a crossroads in confronting her own dark past when a standout student makes an accusation against one of her colleagues.

Imagine’s Allan Mandelbaum brought the script to the production company and worked with CAA to secure Roberts and Guadagnino. Guadagnino serves as a producer alongside Imagine’s Mandelbaum and Brian Grazer.

Roberts’ recent film credits include 2022’s Universal romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise opposite George Clooney and last year’s Netflix thriller Leave the World Behind that co-starred Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke.

Guadagnino is known for directing Call Me by Your Name...

Julia Roberts and director Luca Guadagnino are teaming up on “After the Hunt,” a thriller set at Amazon MGM.

According to the official logline, the movie follows Roberts as a college professor who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues.” As she navigates the difficult situation, “a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.” Additional cast members will be announced at a later date.

First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett wrote the script and will executive produce with Karen Lunder for Imagine Entertainment. Imagine Entertainment executives Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing the film with Guadagnino on behalf of his company Frenesy.

Guadagnino, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “Call Me by Your Name” and the upcoming tennis love-triangle drama “Challengers,” is staying busy. He’s also directing “Separate Rooms,” an adaptation of the novel by...

Exclusive: After coming together at warp speed over the past month, the Imagine Entertainment package After the Hunt from screenwriter Nora Garrett has landed at Amazon MGM Studios with Julia Roberts attached to star and Luca Guadagnino on board to direct, Deadline hears.

Garrett penned the script, and Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum will produce for Imagine Entertainment, with Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Guadagnino producing through his Frenesy banner. Garrett will also exec produce along with Imagine’s Karen Lunder.

The film is an intense dramatic thriller about a college professor (Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. Allan Mandelbaum brought the script into Imagine and worked with CAA to get it to top talent like Guadagnino and Roberts.