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A crackling bulletin on Kiwa radio sets the stage: humanity hurtles toward oblivion with an asteroid cluster bearing down, its timetable etched into every ticker. In that echo of impending doom, When I’m Ready uncovers the fragile poetry of final days, as life’s ordinary rhythms fracture under the weight of the unstoppable.

Michael and Rose emerge as reluctant heralds of the end—two twenty‑somethings who trade dorm room routines for a ’70s king‑cab Ford and a pilgrimage through America’s silent arteries. Their newfound romance unfolds against a canvas emptied of commerce and chatter, where petrol stops and trespassing on vacant porches become acts of intimacy.

Behind the camera, Andrew Johnson guides the film with a steady hand, letting moments of playful recklessness slip into lingering questions of regret. Andrew Ortenberg’s screenplay sidesteps heavy exposition, favoring elliptical dialogue that flutters between anxiety and levity. Rachael Kliman...

With the looming dread of an asteroid extinction event on the horizon, a young couple takes the road trip of a lifetime in Andrew Johnson's new movie When I'm Ready. With the apocalyptic romantic thriller now playing on VOD and Digital platforms (and sounding like it could make a great double feature with Seeking a Friend for the End of the World), we have an exclusive clip from When I'm Ready that combines a bottle of wine, a shotgun getaway, and reports of impending doom on the airwaves.

You can watch our exclusive clip below, and to learn more about When I'm Ready, visit:

https://www.quiverdistribution.com/slate/when-i'm-ready

"Written and produced by Ortenberg and directed by Andrew Johnson, When I’M Ready revolves around a young couple, Rose (Schreiner) and Michael (Ortenberg), on a road trip across the country during the last days before an extinction event, as...

Led Zeppelin on Imax, Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino and Armand starring Renate Reinsve, both Cannes premieres, and Barry Koeghan in Irish drama Bring Them Down headline an interesting specialty weekend.

Sony Pictures Classics debuts Bernard MacMahon’s hybrid docu concert film Becoming Led Zeppelin exclusively in Imax at 369 locations this week, opening wide next week on over 1,000 screens. Powered by never-before-seen footage, performances and music, the film is billed as an experiential cinematic odyssey exploring Led Zeppelin‘s creative, musical, and personal origin story. It’s told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.

An early version premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in 2021 as a work in progress to a 10-minute standing ovation. It subsequently incorporated a brand-new sound mix, newly unearthed material from the archives of all four band members (including home movies and family photos), and exclusive interviews with Jimmy Page,...

“When I'm Ready” is a new science fiction thriller, directed by Andrew Johnson, starring Andrew Ortenberg, June Schreiner, Thalia Besson, Lauren Cohan, Dermot Mulroney and Bryan Curtis, opening February 7, 2025 in theaters, followed by a February 14 VOD release:

“…’Rose’ (Schreiner) and ‘Michael’ (Ortenberg), take a road trip across the country during the last days before an extinction event, as asteroids threaten to wipe out all life on earth.

“While journeying to see the girl's grandmother one last time before they perish, they fight to find meaning and adventure in the world's final week…

“…encountering a rotating cast of lost souls from different backgrounds, each looking for something very different in the end…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

“When I'm Ready” is a new science fiction thriller, directed by Andrew Johnson, starring Andrew Ortenberg, June Schreiner, Thalia Besson, Lauren Cohan, Dermot Mulroney and Bryan Curtis, opening February 7, 2025 in theaters, followed by a February 14 VOD release:

“…’Rose’ (Schreiner) and ‘Michael’ (Ortenberg), take a road trip across the country during the last days before an extinction event, as asteroids threaten to wipe out all life on earth.

“While journeying to see the girl's grandmother one last time before they perish, they fight to find meaning and adventure in the world's final week…

“…encountering a rotating cast of lost souls from different backgrounds, each looking for something very different in the end…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

"I can't believe it's really gonna happen." Briarcliff Entertainment & 19th Hole Productions have unveiled an official trailer for an indie film called When I'm Ready, a "romantic end-of-the-world thriller" from filmmaker Andrew Johnson. Set for release in February just in time for Valentine's Day - including on VOD to watch at home if you want. It's the end of the world. Seeking meaning and thrills in their last days alive, Rose and Michael embark on a cross-country road trip as a devastating asteroid threatens to wipe out life on Earth. While journeying to see her grandmother one last time before they perish, they fight to find meaning and adventure in the world's final week. Starring Andrew Ortenberg & June Schreiner as Michael & Rose, with Thalia Besson, Lauren Cohan, and Dermot Mulroney. Bryan Curtis of The Ringer also voices a radio DJ updating citizens on the progress of the asteroids as the hours tick down.

Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has taken North American distribution rights to the romantic end-of-days thriller When I’m Ready, starring Andrew Ortenberg, June Schreiner, Thalia Besson, Lauren Cohan, and Dermot Mulroney.

Quiver and Briarcliff will jointly oversee theatrical release which is set for Feb. 7, 2025 followed by a digital release on Feb. 14. Quiver will handle the home entertainment release of the Ortenberg written movie.

Directed by Andrew Johnson, When I’m Ready revolves around a young couple, Rose and Michael, on a road trip across the country during the last days before an extinction event, as asteroids threaten to wipe out all life on earth. While journeying to see the girl’s grandmother one last time before they perish, they fight to find meaning and adventure in the world’s final week. Along the way Rose and Michael encounter a rotating cast of lost souls from different backgrounds, each looking for something very different out of the end.

Chicago – One of the greatest challenges of any actor is the portrayal of a person in history that is familiar to most of the culture. Orson Welles is such a man, and Jewell Wilson Bridges took on his persona in the new film “Voodoo MacBeth.” He plays Welles as the “Boy Genius” stage director, age 21 in 1936.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Before the radio notoriety of “War of the Worlds” and the film “Citizen Kane,” there was the stage rendering of “Voodoo MacBeth.” Produced by John Houseman (Daniel Kuhlman) for the Federal Theatre Project as part of a Depression-era “New Deal” government program, it featured an all-black cast in Harlem performing Shakespeare’s MacBeth, including leading Broadway actor Rose McClendon (Inger Tudor). Houseman turned to 21-year-old Orson Welles (Bridges) to bring the production to life, and as director he creates a radical version set in a fictional Caribbean island, using voodoo instead of witchery to drive the famous narrative.

For some theater fans, the 1936 production of the “Voodoo Macbeth” (as it became commonly known) is the stuff of legend. Funded by the Federal Theater Project, which gave financial aid to the struggling theater community during the Great Depression, the “Voodoo Macbeth” starred a cast of black performers in an imaginative new staging of William Shakespeare’s so-called “Scottish Play,” set in Haiti in the early 1800s.

The show was a mammoth success, critically acclaimed and financially successful, and not for nothing, it was one of the more noteworthy early accomplishments of a 20-year-old thespian and director named Orson Welles.

While Welles’s theater days have been the subject of biopics before, with films like “Cradle Will Rock” and “Me and Orson Welles” dramatizing his imaginative stagings, the new film “Voodoo Macbeth” may be the first to properly depict this particular landmark production. It’s attractively filmed and, mostly, solidly performed,...

“Voodoo Macbeth” credits no fewer than 10 directors and eight screenwriters, all of them students of or recent graduates from the USC School of the Cinematic Arts. And arguably the most impressive thing about the USC-produced movie — a fanciful dramatization of Orson Welles’ historic 1936 New York production of “Macbeth” with an all-Black cast — is how smoothly it plays as all of one piece. To be sure, you might quibble about certain dramatic liberties the creatives have taken to embellish real-life events — or, in some cases, to completely rewrite history covered in Orson Welles biographies and documentaries. And yes, the film overall is more diverting than stirring. Still, there is a good deal more than novelty value going for this group effort.

Set during the Depression Era, “Voodoo Macbeth” begins with an introduction to the Negro Theatre Unit, an innovative federally funded offshoot of the Works Project Administration, and its two...

Fox’s The Resident season six episode three charted the course of one gunshot victim’s impact on the hospital staff and resources. Plus, there were a few heartstopping moments when Padma nearly lost her twins but, fortunately, she ultimately gave birth to two beautiful babies. Up next, episode four – “It Won’t Be Like This For Long” – airing on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 8pm Et/Pt.

The season six cast includes Matt Czuchry as Dr. Conrad Hawkins, Jessica Lucas as Dr. Billie Sutton, Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Randolph Bell, and Jane Leeves as Dr. Kit Voss. Manish Dayal stars as Dr. Devon Pravesh, Malcolm-Jamal Warner is Dr. Aj Austin, Anuja Joshi is Dr. Leela Devi, Andrew McCarthy plays Dr. Ian Sullivan, and Kaley Ronayne is Dr. Cade Sullivan.

“It Won’t Be Like This For Long” Plot: Ian is faced with performing a surgery on a Jane Doe Nicu patient...

Exclusive: Film Bridge International and 19th Hole Productions have shot and are ready to shop the end-of-the-world YA romance When I’m Ready, starring up and comers Andrew Ortenberg and June Schreiner along with Thalia Besson, Dermot Mulroney and Lauren Cohan.

Written by Ortenberg and directed by Andrew Johnson, When I’m Ready tells the story of Rose and Michael, a young couple falling in love while on the run from their past as a devastating asteroid threatens to wipe out life on Earth. Seeking meaning and thrills in their last days alive, they embark on a cross-country road trip. Along the way they encounter other lost souls, each with their own unique perspective on the impending doom. It will be shopped shortly and readied for early 2023 festivals.

Pic is produced by Jordan Dykstra, Ortenberg, Robert Ballo and Eli Samek. Executive producers include James Masciello, Matt Sidari, Clay Pecorin, Russell Geyser and Tom Ortenberg.

Exclusive: USC Originals has scored its first theatrical release, in association with Warner Bros., following Lightyear Entertainment’s acquisition of its film, Voodoo Macbeth. The company behind the Oscar-nominated Australian feature Tanna has slated the pic for release across the U.S. and Canada in October.

Based on a true story, Voodoo Macbeth follows a young Orson Welles (Jewell Wilson Bridges) and a group of committed artists as they set out to create what is now considered a landmark event in African-American theater history—the Negro Theatre Unit’s revolutionary 1936 production of Macbeth.

With Fdr’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project, director Rose McClendon (Inger Tudor) convinces co-director John Houseman (Daniel Kuhlman) to help her bring Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. Well before Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, they choose for their groundbreaking production...