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The “After” series has had a long journey. Starting as a One Direction Harry Styles fan fiction published on Wattpad by Anna Todd, the story was later reformatted to become an original novel series detailing the tumultuous relationship between college student Tessa Young and tortured bad boy Hardin Scott. Five years after the novel was published, the first book was turned into the film “After” starring Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Tessa and Hardin.

Since 2019 there have been four installments in the “After” movie series with one coming out consistently every year.

The story started as a college romance but over the course of the films, Tessa and Hardin’s relationship has undergone a series of dramatic changes. The first film connected the two over their love of literature and saw Tessa opening herself up to try and make a relationship with Hardin work. “After We Collided” introduced...

Voltage Pictures’ ‘After Ever Happy’ tops 12 markets on 7.9m total.

World box office August 26-28, 2022 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Minions: The Rise Of Gru (Universal) 17.7m 868.9m 14.9m 514.1m 85 2. Bullet Train (Sony) 15m 173.6m 9.4m 95.4m 62 3. New Gods: Yang Jian (various) 12.9m 43.6m 12.9m 43.6m 1 4. Moon Man (various) 12.2m 421.9m 12.2m 421.9m 1 5. Top Gun Maverick (Paramount) 11.5m 1.4bn 6.7m 731.2m 65 6. Nope (Universal) 10.5m 148.7m 8.3m 31.1m 79 7. Warriors Of Future (various) 9.8m 91.1m 9.8m 91.1m 2 8. Beast (Universal) 8.9m 36.2m 3.9m 16.1m 61 9. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (various) 8.8m 67.8m 4.2m 37m...

Voltage Pictures’ ‘After Ever Happy’ tops 12 markets on 7.9m total.

World box office August 26-28, 2022 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Minions: The Rise Of Gru (Universal) 17.7m 868.9m 14.9m 514.1m 85 2. Bullet Train (Sony) 15m 173.6m 9.4m 95.4m 62 3. New Gods: Yang Jian (various) 12.9m 43.6m 12.9m 43.6m 1 4. Moon Man (various) 12.2m 421.9m 12.2m 421.9m 1 5. Top Gun Maverick (Paramount) 11.5m 1.4bn 6.7m 731.2m 65 6. Nope (Universal) 10.5m 148.7m 8.3m 31.1m 79 7. Warriors Of Future (various) 9.8m 91.1m 9.8m 91.1m 2 8. Beast (Universal) 8.9m 36.2m 3.9m 16.1m 61 9. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (various) 8.8m 67.8m 4.2m 37m...

If you're not ready to say goodbye to Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) and Tessa (Josephine Langford) just yet, don't worry, you won't have to - well beyond "After Ever Happy"'s upcoming release. Tiffin just revealed in an August Instagram video that a fifth film is coming. Fans had previously thought the fourth film, out Sept. 7, was Tiffin and Langford's final contributions to the saga.

Said Tiffin, "We have just wrapped filming on the fifth after movie. I can't tell you too much about it yet but I can tell you that it will be called 'After Everything,' and I cannot wait for you all to see it."

Of course, there were already even more "After" movies in the works. Back in April 2021, director Castille Landon exclusively confirmed to Teen Vogue that the "After" franchise would be getting even bigger with two more films on the way,...

The Scene 2 Seen podcast is finishing off the week strong!

This week I’ve already published conversations with spectacular talents such as Michael Greyeyes, Naturi Naughton and Juliette Binoche. Today is no different as I chat with actress Mia Isaac and writer-actress-director Hannah Marks.

Isaac is a rising talent who starred in back-to-back films released in July. She made her feature film debut starring in Don’t Make Me Go for Amazon Studios. Directed by Hannah Marks, it follows a single father (John Cho) diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain tumor who takes his 16-year-old daughter, Wally (Isaac), on a road trip to meet her estranged mother.

Isaac then co-starred opposite Zoey Deutch and Dylan O’Brien in the Searchlight Pictures feature for Hulu, Not Okay. In the comedy satire written and directed by Quinn Shepard, Issacs plays Rowan, a young adult dedicated to societal change. Her next projects include a short film and a TV series.

When John Green's "Turtles All the Way Down" was released in 2017, the young-adult novel was an instant bestseller, topping the New York Times list. It stayed there for over a year, with the "The Fault in Our Stars" author announcing during that time that the movie was in development. The long-awaited adaptation was filmed in 2022, and director Hannah Marks teased the project just a little bit to Popsugar. "'Turtles All the Way Down' is an incredible book," she said while promoting her movie "Don't Make Me Go." "First and foremost, I love the book by John Green, and the movie really stays true to the book in so many ways. I think we really worked hard on making it a faithful adaptation."

She continued, "And beyond that, it's pretty cool that we have two teenage Latina leads in the movie, which hasn't been done very much before. And the...

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Writer-director Hannah Marks, who got her start acting in projects like Accepted, Weeds, Necessary Roughness and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, made her feature directorial debut with After Everything, which she also wrote. And she directed another film that she wrote, Mark, Mary & Some Other People, before she directed Don’t Make Me Go, which is currently streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video.

For Marks, directing a film she didn’t write was something she “really enjoyed.”

“It was a great experience, because I got to have an outside perspective on the material, and it was really fun to get to riff on the material that already existed,” Marks tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We did some improv and played around a bit because everyone was so collaborative that was involved.”

But that doesn’t mean making Don’t Make Me Go wasn’t without its challenges.

This review of “Don’t Make Me Go” was first published June 13, 2022, after its release in theaters.

Your enjoyment of the mostly half-baked road trip drama “Don’t Make Me Go” will probably depend on how you respond to its last-minute plot twist.

John Cho stars in and emotionally grounds this two-star tearjerker from director Hannah Marks (“After Everything”), which follows an insurance salesman who struggles to tell his teenage daughter that he’s got a malignant tumor when they travel cross-country to New Orleans for his college reunion.

Unfortunately, the movie’s unexpected plot twist violently re-directs its treacly uplift narrative for the sake of a Hail Mary conclusion that’s almost ridiculous enough to be campy fun. It’s not though, since the twist in question feels like a last-ditch effort to convince viewers that the movie’s otherwise plain story, credited to Vera Herbert (series writer on “This Is Us...

Chicago – Exceptional films that reflect honest relationships are rare, but the latest film “Don’t Make Me Go” – streaming on Prime Video on July 15th – accomplishes the father/daughter dynamic with authentic situations and emotions. John Cho and Mia Isaac portray that relationship, in a film directed by Hannah Marks.

John Cho is Max, a single father raising his 16-year-old daughter Wallace (Mia Isaac), a child from his failed marriage. When Max finds out he has a rare bone tumor, he takes Wallace on a road trip to meet her estranged mother. Winding from California to New Orleans, the pair face off during a series of incidences, including Wallace staying out all night with strangers in Texas. Despite all the travails, they begin to come to terms with the truth, including that mother reluctant to meet her daughter. It all ends up in a surprising conclusion, and changes all lives along the way.

Before she hit her sweet 16, Hannah Marks had already lined up an impressive array of acting credits for a rising young performer: an arc on “Weeds,” appearing as Justin Long’s little sis in comedy “Accepted,” and stints on series like “Ugly Betty,” “Criminal Minds,” and “Private Practice.” But what she really wanted to do was direct. And write. And keep acting, too. What she really wanted to do was everything.

As Marks rolls out her third directorial effort, the Amazon-backed coming-of-age dramedy “Don’t Make Me Go,” starring bonafide Internet Boyfriend John Cho and rising star Mia Isaac, the just-turned-29-year-old filmmaker is only continuing to grow as a creator, while building on the valuable stuff she learned as just a kiddo.

“Being an actor myself, and specifically a child actor, I do think it’s served me as a director,” Marks said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I...

From its opening moments, Hannah Marks’ “Don’t Make Me Go” tries to put its audience at ease with a surprising promise: disappointment. “You’re not going to like the way this story ends, but I think you’re going to like this story,” young Wally Park (newbie Mia Isaac) tells us via voiceover. That may sound coy for a dramedy that doesn’t hide a heartbreaking truth at its center — a single father (John Cho) discovers he has a terminal disease and decides to take his daughter (Isaac) on a road trip before he, well, goes — but it cleverly announces that perhaps there’s something else beneath the surface of what appears to be a straightforward weepy.

Marks (and Isaac and Cho) will revisit Wally’s declaration and it will prove to be true: “Don’t Make Me Go” is Also true: Where this road trip movie ends its journey will...

As part of Geeked Week, there’s a new “Warrior Nun” Season 2 first look, and it is just as action packed as ever with the team going up against Adriel.

The series, which is inspired by the Manga novels, revolves around a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is now part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her, per Netflix.

Season 1 starred Alba Baptista (Ava), Tristán Ulloa (Father Vincent), Kristina Tonteri-Young (Sister Beatrice), Lorena Andrea (Sister Lilith), Toya Turner (Shotgun Mary) and Thekla Reuten (Jillian Salvius)

Other stars included Sylvia De Fanti (Mother Superion), Emilio Sakraya (J.C.), Olivia Delcán (Sister Camila), Joaquim De Almeida (Cardinal Duretti), May Simón Lifschitz (Chanel...

There are diverse streaming releases slates and then there is Hulu’s list of new releases for May 2022. There are no big franchises here, no big themes – just a whole bunch of original and library titles for everyone to enjoy.

Hulu’s major original releases in May come in the middle of the month. Candy premieres on May 9 and stars Jessica Biel as your friendly neighborhood axe murderer. If that sounds a bit outlandish, bear in mind that this limited series is based on the real life story of Candy Montgomery and her victim, the tragically named Betty Gore. On May 15, Hulu will play host to Conversations with Friends. This is the latest adaptation of the works of Sally Rooney. After the breakaway success of Normal People, Hulu is undoubtedly hoping for more lightning in a bottle.

On the movie side of things, May will welcome The Valet on May...

Hulu‘s gearing up for a strong month of fresh programming in May as the streamer adds new originals and welcomes some familiar favorites to its library. Along with a collection of films, Hulu is debuting limited series like the Jessica Biel-led Candy and Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends which features an ensemble made up of Alison Oliver, Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane, and Jemima Kirke. And don’t miss the original film The Valet starring Eugenio Derbez. See the full list of what’s coming and going from Hulu in May, below. Here’s what’s coming to Hulu in May: May 1 A Beautiful Mind A Raisin in the Sun The Adjustment Bureau After Everything The Angriest Man in Brooklyn The A-Team The Big Year Billy Madison The Bounty Hunter The Breakfast Club Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer Cyrus Dazed and Confused Despicable Me Despicable Me 2 Deuce Bigalow:...

Coffee and menthol. Cold beer and ice cream. Soccer Mommy and a devastatingly direct chorus. Sophie Allison knows her combinations, and she’s back at it with “Shotgun,” a new gem that chases after the perfect metaphor for what it’s like to be emphatically in love.

Soccer Mommy released her last album, Color Theory, in February 2020, approximately 9 years ago in pandemic time. “Shotgun” is a far cry from that record, with its angsty emotional palette of distorted riffs and early aughts nostalgia. The musician who once sang that she...

Exclusive: We hear that Nick Cassavetes is set to co-write Couture with Sean Glover, a contemporary drama set in the world of high fashion which The Notebook filmmaker is in early negotiations to direct.

Couture follows an iconic fashion designer whose empire must take a back seat to her daughter’s mental illness. We understand that the feature will bring to light the toll schizophrenia takes on teenagers and loved ones.

Glover will produce and Mary Aloe will executive produce on behalf of Aloe Entertainment. Eric Kim, Ashok Reddy, Patrick Longworth and Carlos J. Ramsey are executive producing on behalf of 33 Degree Films. Aloe Entertainment’s 2021 slate of films includes Netflix’s Worth starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci, which dropped on the service today, and Bruised directed by and starring Halle Berry, the latter having made its world premiere at TIFF last year.

Glover said about Couture: “For...

Exclusive: Katie Holmes has launched her new production label, Lafayette Pictures, in partnership with Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman and Jesse Korman of Yale Productions.

Holmes recently teamed with Yale on the new untitled movie she wrote, directed, produced and starred in, along with Jim Sturgess, Derek Luke, Melissa Leo, and Zosia Mamet. The film centers on two strangers embroiled in bad relationships, who accidentally book the same upstate New York Airbnb, where they’re forced to confront quarantine and their disdain for one another in this unexpected and unlikely love story. The pic is in post-production.

The Lafayette Pictures team is currently prepping Holmes’ third movie, Rare Objects, and developing the limited series The Watergate Girl in which Holmes will also star.

“I am very excited to embark on this journey, working to bring authentic characters and stories to the screen,” Holmes said.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering...

The power imbalance is there from the start: Mark (Ben Rosenfield) goes googly-eyed at the sight of his old college acquaintance Mary (Hayley Law), who is so busy fussing with her own dramas that she can’t quite place the guy at the convenience store who’s staring at her. It’s a re-meet-cute that sets off Hannah Marks’ sophomore directorial outing, “Mark, Mary & Some Other People,” as Mary not only remembers Mark, but soon ensnares him in said dramas, channeling that tricky power imbalance into something like actual intimacy. Ain’t love grand?

In Marks’ world it is, at least for a while. The actress and filmmaker’s first directorial outing, “After Everything,” similarly explored a young couple in the throes of both a big love and a big problem, and Marks’ love stories strike a delicate balance; they are always funny, but never at the cost of actual human empathy.

Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American as well as UK/Ireland rights to Hannah Marks’ romantic comedy Mark, Mary & Some Other People, planning a theatrical day-and-date release later this year for the pic, which is having its world premiere this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film, written and directed by actor-director Marks, follows Mark and Mary as they meet and fall in love. As newlyweds, they reluctantly decide to give ethical non-monogamy a try as their lives get increasingly complicated. Gillian Jacobs, Lea Thompson, Kelli Berglund and Joe Lo Truglio also star.

Jonathan Duffy, Jon Lullo, Marks, Brendan Walter, Kelly Williams and Pete Williams are producers, and Stephen Braun is executive producer. Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump created the original music for the film.

“We’re excited to be partnering with phenomenal young filmmaker, Hannah Marks, once...

Shameless star Jeremy Allen White has been set to lead FX pilot The Bear.

White will play a young chef who returns to Chicago to run the family restaurant in the half-hour project, which comes from Ramy executive producer/director Christopher Storer, Hiro Murai’s (Atlanta) Super Frog, Joanna Calo (Bojack Horseman) and FX Productions.

The Disney-owned network handed the project a pilot order in March, which Storer will write, direct and exec produce with Murai, Nate Matteson and Calo. Casting was led by Jeanie & Maggie Bacharach.

The cast also features Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2), Ayo Edebiri (Dickinson), Lionel Boyce (Loiter Squad), Abby Elliott (SNL) and Matty Matheson (Just A Dash), who is also a consulting producer.

White, who played Phillip “Lip” Gallagher in the Showtime dramedy, recently starred in Dave Franco’s feature The Rental and also starred in Amazon’s Homecoming. He is also the lead in indie...

Jennifer Lopez has mixed work and family while filming her new movie, Shotgun Wedding in the Dominican Republic. The 51-year-old singer/actress shared three photos on Instagram of her time on the island. The first photo showed her night swimming at her villa’s pool with her 13-year-old twins, Emme and Max. Anna Carballosa and Elaine Goldsmith Thomas, both of who are also working on Shotgun […]

The post Jennifer Lopez Goes Night Swimming With Her Twins In The Dominican Republic appeared first on uInterview.

While Hannah Marks might be best known for her acting roles, appearing in projects such as “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency,” “Daniel Isn’t Real,” and “I Used to Go Here,” the actress has become a strong up-and-coming filmmaking talent, writing the hilarious comedy, “Banana Split” and directing the recent drama, “After Everything.” And it appears she’s continuing her filmmaking evolution with an exciting new dramedy, “Don’t Make Me Go.”

Read More: ‘Banana Split’ Is A Sweet, Hilarious Treat That Remixes The Teen Rom-Com Formula [Review]

According to Deadline, Hannah Marks is set to direct the upcoming father-daughter road trip film, “Don’t Make Me Go.” Adding to the excitement is the fact that Marks has already found her two leads, John Cho and Mia Isaac.

Continue reading ‘Don’t Make Me Go’: John Cho To Star In New Road Trip Dramedy From Director Hannah Marks at The Playlist.

Exclusive: Amazon Studios has signed on to finance and distribute the Hannah Marks-directed father-daughter adventure dramedy Don’t Make Me Go starring John Cho.

The script for Don’t Make Me Go was written by Vera Herbert (This Is Us) and originated as a spec script that landed on the 2012 Black List. Herbert will also executive produce.

Don’t Make Me Go follows a single father who takes his teenage daughter on a road trip to find her estranged mother, as he tries to teach her everything she might need to know for the rest of her life along the way.

Cho recently wrapped production on the first season of the live-action series Cowboy Bebop for Netflix. Based on the popular original Japanese animated series from 1997, Cho will star as the impossibly cool bounty hunter Spike Spiegel. He also lent his voice to the Oscar-nominated...

Ash Christian, an Emmy award-winning producer, actor, filmmaker and founder of Cranium Entertainment, died in his sleep on Thursday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was 35.

Born on Jan. 16, 1985, in Paris, Tex., Christian began writing and directing short films at the age of 14, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams just two years later. He wrote, directed and starred in his first feature film, “Fat Girls,” in 2006 at just 19 years old. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won an award for outstanding emerging talent at L.A. Outfest.

In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-format daytime program for “mI Promise.” He shared the award with his producing partner Anne Clements and executive producers Lauralee Bell and Scott Martin.

Christian went on to act in several television shows including “The Good Fight,” “The Good Wife” and “Law and Order,” but found his true calling with production.

Ash Christian, an Emmy Award-winning producer, actor and filmmaker, died in his sleep on Thursday, August 13 while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was 35 years old. Ash was a prolific filmmaker, with numerous projects in various stages of production, including many set to start filming this year. Under his own company, Cranium Entertainment, Christian developed and produced thought-provoking feature films for both specialized and mainstream audiences. He went on to produce dozens of award-winning films and productions, including Hurricane Bianca, 1985, Hello Again, Social Animals, and Coyote Lake. His current projects included As Sick As They Made Us, Mayim Bialik’s directorial debut starring Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen and Simon Helberg; Nightfall with Matt Bomer and Sam Worthington, directed by Addison McQuigg (Bloodline); and The Sixth Reel, directed by and starring Charles Busch and co-directed by Carl Andress; Chick Fight with Malin Akerman, Fortune Feimster, and Alec Baldwin; and Paper Spiders,...

Everything about the United States’ gig economy sucks but “Stranger Things” star Joe Keery has the perfect solution: Just broadcast yourself murdering all of your passengers until you become a social media celebrity.

That’s the gist of “Spree,” an upcoming Keery-led indie horror film that is slated to premiere in theaters and on demand on August 14. Dreamcrew Entertainment has unveiled the trailer for the upcoming feature, which boasts “the ride of your life” that will satirize influencer culture, social media madness, and America’s violent society.

Keery, who portrays Steve Harrington in Netflix’s wildly popular “Stranger Things,” stars in “Spree” as Kurt Kunkle, a rideshare driver and wannabe social media influencer whose goofy name is only matched by his ridiculous haircut. Keery will star alongside Sasheer Zamata, Mischa Barton, John DeLuca, Josh Ovalle, Lala Kent, Frankie Grande, Kyle Mooney, and David Arquette. The film is directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko,...

Mega-talented multi-hyphenate Hannah Marks started writing Banana Split when she was still a teenager. It was loosely based on her real life. She rewrote it with her writing partner Joey Power as her acting credits piled up in stuff like The Runaways, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Then, after she co-directed her first feature (with Power), After Everything, she was able to get Banana Split made with herself in the staring role, directed by Benjamin Kasulke. In this half hour, she talks about the ups and downs of standing her ground and seeing the dream of […]...

Mega-talented multi-hyphenate Hannah Marks started writing Banana Split when she was still a teenager. It was loosely based on her real life. She rewrote it with her writing partner Joey Power as her acting credits piled up in stuff like The Runaways, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Then, after she co-directed her first feature (with Power), After Everything, she was able to get Banana Split made with herself in the staring role, directed by Benjamin Kasulke. In this half hour, she talks about the ups and downs of standing her ground and seeing the dream of […]...

Few genres are as beholden to tropes than the romantic comedy, which has long traded in predictable patterns, both the good and the very bad (pitting so-called friends against each other in service to new relationships). The path to love never did run smooth, but too many love stories seem to delight in running over people on the way to eternal bliss. It’s a trope that’s been used as plot and as a dirty little garnish, always fortifying the most basic and bland of lessons: Romantic love is more important than anything else.

It’s a trope long due for a refresher. One way: jettison the emphasis on romantic love and lean into the value of friendship, a twist that’s been used to great effect in “Booksmart” and “For a Good Time, Call.” Both films placed a premium on the platonic Bff-ships and use the rom-com structure...

Paul English, Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer who was immortalized in Nelson’s road song “Me & Paul,” has died at 87. Nelson’s publicist confirmed English’s death to Rolling Stone.

Born in 1932 in Vernon, Texas, English joined Nelson’s Family Band in 1966 and continued to perform with Nelson up until his death, sharing percussion duties with his younger brother Billy English. Known for his tough but flamboyant style, English was not only Nelson’s drummer, but also his enforcer and de facto bodyguard. In a 2015 deep-dive feature for Oxford American,...

Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman and five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen are teaming up alongside Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) and Olivia Thirlby (Juno) for As Sick as They Made Us.

The comedy-drama comes from writer-director Mayim Bialik, former star of Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. Making its market debut at Afm, with Film Mode Entertainment handling sales, As Sick as They Made Us is being producing by Anne Clements (Stage Mother) and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn), with Film Mode’s Clay Epstein serving as exec producer.

The movie follows a divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life ...

Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman and five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen are teaming up alongside Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) and Olivia Thirlby (Juno) for As Sick as They Made Us.

The comedy-drama comes from writer-director Mayim Bialik, former star of Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. Making its market debut at Afm, with Film Mode Entertainment handling sales, As Sick as They Made Us is being producing by Anne Clements (Stage Mother) and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn), with Film Mode’s Clay Epstein serving as exec producer.

The movie follows a divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life ...

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.

Sendhil Ramamurthy (Reverie) has been tapped for a major recurring role on NBC’s freshman drama series New Amsterdam. He will play a new doctor.

Ramamurthy will be bringing a lot of personal knowledge and experience into the role as his parents and sister are all doctors.

Inspired by public hospital Bellevue, New Amsterdam, from Universal TV, follows the brilliant and charming Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold), the institution’s newest medical director who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care.

On New Amsterdam, Ramamurthy will reunite with series creator/executive producer David Schulner and writer Erika Green, with whom the actor previously worked on NBC’s summer drama series Reverie, which ran for one season.

Ramamurthy just wrapped the indie feature Magic Hour, opposite Miriam Shor, for directorJacqueline Christy. He can currently be seen in theaters in After Everything, which premiered at South by Southwest and stars Jeremy Allen White,...

In the burn bright and fade away world of memes, you might have forgotten all about the sizeable backlash spawned a couple years back by The Modern Man article, “How To Talk To A Woman Wearing Headphones.” The step-by-step pickup guide quickly earned derision for its assumption that a woman wearing headphones is single, straight, and just waiting around for a random dude to validate her attractiveness and ask her out on a date. So, it’s a bit strange that in writing/directing team Hannah Marks’ and Joey Power’s “After Everything” the meet-cute that’s supposed to form the foundation of the romance that drives the rest of the picture essentially plays out that scenario.

Continue reading ‘After Everything’ Is A Romantic Dramedy That Can’t Survive Its Toxic, Problematic Core [Review] at The Playlist.

In Hannah Marks and Joey Power’s first feature film, After Everything, two 20-somethings develop a relationship at an accelerated pace moments after Elliot (Jeremy Allen White) learns of his life-changing illness. But this "unusual love story" is more than just a film about cancer.

"I think we both felt the most interesting part of the story is that it’s actually about a young marriage and a relationship and not as much about the cancer," Marks told The Hollywood Reporter In Studio, alongside Power and White.

Power added: "I think we didn’t want the stakes ...

In Hannah Marks and Joey Power’s first feature film, After Everything, two 20-somethings develop a relationship at an accelerated pace moments after Elliot (Jeremy Allen White) learns of his life-changing illness. But this "unusual love story" is more than just a film about cancer.

"I think we both felt the most interesting part of the story is that it’s actually about a young marriage and a relationship and not as much about the cancer," Marks told The Hollywood Reporter In Studio, alongside Power and White.

Power added: "I think we didn’t want the stakes ...

Ever since they made their relationship red carpet official at the season two premiere of Netflix's Stranger Things last October, Joe Keery and Maika Monroe have continued to inspire major couple goals (and major hair goals) together. The Stranger Things actor and Tau actress - did you catch that Netflix movie over the Summer? - keep their relationship on the down-low on social media, but you can still spot them sharing some supersweet exchanges on the red carpet. The duo will appear in the movie After Everything together next month, but until then, these lovey-dovey couple pictures will have to suffice.

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Grab your tissues, or don’t, but be prepared that you might need them when you stroll into the cinema to see Hannah Marks and Joey Power’s feature directorial debut with the seemingly incredible love story “After Everything.” In a similar fashion to “A Walk to Remember” and “The Fault in Our Stars,” “After Everything” is a love story about a young person with cancer that will pull at your heartstrings.

Continue reading ‘After Everything’ Trailer: Young Love Is Tested By A Tragic Medical Diagnosis at The Playlist.

"I just want us to be on the same team" Good Deed Ent. has released an official trailer for an indie dramedy titled After Everything, which first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this year. The film is about two people who fall in love, Mia and Elliot, but must deal with the challenges of life when Elliot is diagnosed with cancer. Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen White star as the couple, and the cast includes Marisa Tomei, Gina Gershon, Olivia Luccardi, Dean Winters, Joe Keery, and Sasha Lane. This looks like an emotional, enriching story of love, and how it keeps these two together and happy even against all odds. I like that this has comedy and angst, and isn't a sad drama, because this kind of story needs levity. Here's the trailer (+ poster) for Hannah Marks & Joey Power's After Everything, in high def on Apple:...

Patrick Schwarzenegger, Miles Robbins, Sasha Lane, and Hannah Marks will star in Daniel Isn’t Real, a film from SpectreVision, the production behind the Sundance thriller, Mandy, and Ace Pictures. Adam Egypt Mortimer is directing the film, which is based on the novel In This Way I Was Saved by Brian DeLeeuw, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mortimer

The plot follows troubled college freshman Luke (Robbins) who suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Schwarzenegger) to help him cope. Charismatic and full of manic energy, Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams, before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind — and his soul.

Production is currently underway. SpectreVision producers are Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen, and Elijah Wood. Timur Bekbosunov, Johnny Chang, Emma Lee and Peter Wong will executive produce for Ace Pictures,...

Exclusive: Sasha Lane, who starred in Andrea Arnold’s 2016 Cannes-winning pic American Honey in her first feature role, has signed with Wme. The part earned her a Best Actress British Independent Film Award.

Lane currently appears in a pair of Sundance 2018 films: Hearts Beat Loud opposite Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons in theaters now, and grand prize winner The Miseducation of Cameron Post starring Chloë Grace Moretz. The latter pic bows August 3 via FilmRise.

Most recently, Lane starred in the SXSW film Shotgun, and she’s next up in Lionsgate’s Hellboy reboot opposite David Harbour and Milla Jovovich which hits screens January 11.

Lane, who had been based at Gersh, remains repped by The Long Run’s Amy BonFleur and attorney André Des Rochers.

Exclusive: It’s a Rescue Me reunion: Callie Thorne has been tapped to co-star opposite Denis Leary in Erase, USA Network’s crime thriller-with-a-twist drama pilot.

Created by Leary and Alex Cary, Erase is the story of Donal O’Neal (Leary), a dirty ex-cop who decides to do the right thing and bring down his complicit superior officers. In this gritty crime thriller, laced with elements of black comedy, Donal races against time to repair the damage he’s done to his estranged family while trying to avoid being killed by his enemies.

Thorne will play Donna O’Neal, Donal’s first love, ex-wife and mother of his children. A woman of strong backbone and incorruptible moral compass whose strength and Achilles’ heel is her compassion.

Leary and Cary executive produce, along with Jim Serpico and Tom Sellitti for Universal Cable Prods.

This marks Thorne’s return to USA, where...

Exclusive: Starz’s American Gods has cast three key roles for its upcoming second season. Dean Winters has been tapped to play Mr. Town; Devery Jacobs is set as Sam Black Crow, while Kahyun Kim has been cast as New Media, a successor to the Media goddess character played by Gillian Anderson in Season 1.

The eight-episode second season of the well received drama based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel of the same name, from FremantleMedia North America, is set to return in 2019. It will have Winters’ Mr. Town tasked by Mr. World (Crispin Glover) to find out what Shadow (Ricky Whittle) knows about Mr. Wednesday’s (Ian McShane) plan. His brutal efficiency and technique just may get him the answers to his curious questions.

First Nations actor Jacobs will recur as a college student named Sam Black Crow.

In today’s film news roundup, Dan Gilroy is honored by the Austin Film Festival, CBS Films moves forward on its ship cruise comedy, and Good Deed buys SXSW title “Shotgun.”

Honor

The Austin Film Festival has named screenwriter Tony Gilroy as the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Screenwriter Award.

Previous honorees of this award have included Lawrence Kasdan, Kenneth Lonergan, Nancy Meyers, and Caroline Thompson.

Gilroy’s credits include the 2007 thriller “Michael Clayton,” which earned him Oscar nominations for directing and original screenplay; writing the first three Bourne films and co-writing and directing the fourth film in the franchise (“The Bourne Legacy”); co-writing the screenplay for “Rouge One: A Star Wars Story”; and producing and writing the political thriller “Beirut,” starring Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike.

The festival also announced that “Beverly Hills Cop” writer Daniel Petrie, Jr. will receive the festival’s second Heart of Film Award for his...

In a pre-Cannes Film Festival move, production-financing-sales company the Exchange and specialty finance company Forest Road are launching their $50 million fund, Roadrunner Capital.

The fund has already provided capital for the SXSW project “Shotgun,” helmed by Hannah Marks and Joey Power. Roadrunner will be co-managed by the Exchange and Forest Road executives, with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

The sole purpose of the joint venture fund is to lend capital to responsible production companies at below-market rates in a seamless manner. As a sales-distribution outfit, the Exchange will sell some of the fund’s projects, but not all.

Forest Road offers low-cost financing options for tax-related collateral among various industries and subsectors, and this partnership is aimed at accelerating its expansion into independent film and television financing.

“Even at its infancy, we’re already seeing how Roadrunner has a competitive advantage in the marketplace. We’re very excited...

Ahead of the SXSW premiere for the dramatic comedy Shotgun, co-writers and co-directors Hannah Marks and Joey Power, along with stars Jeremy Allen White and Maika Monroe, made a stop at Deadline’s Studio to speak about the film’s origins and love story. The story follows Elliot (White), a 23-year-old living in New York with no real responsibility. Shortly after meeting Mia (Monroe), Elliot is diagnosed with cancer. They fall in love under the cloud of his illness, despite…...

Exclusive: In a new clip from Shotgun from the writing-directing duo of Hannah Marks and Joey Power, we see Elliot (Jeremy Allen White, Shameless) and Mia (Maika Monroe, It Follows) recklessly demolish random stuff on a roof and then “roll hard” on Mdma. They are just young people living their best life — until we find out one of them is battling cancer. Flowing in the same vein as the drama Like Crazy and the romantic comedy The Big Sick, Shotgun marks the feature debut…...

Saban Films has picked up North American rights to The Escape of Prisoner 614, the upcoming crime thriller starring Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Martin Starr (Knocked Up).

The film – in which two naïve recently-fired sheriff’s deputies go after an escaped convict in the hope of getting their jobs back, only to find he’s innocent – is the feature-length debut of writer/director Zach Golden. Jordan Yale Levine (King Cobra, Shotgun), Jordan Beckerman (Shotgun, Green Dolphin) and Shaun Sanghani (Blood Heist, The Pretenders) produce.

The deal was negotiated between Clay Epstein, president of Film Mode Entertainment, CAA and Jonathan Saba, senior...

The 2018 SXSW Film and TV lineups have landed, and Austin’s programming of new films and TV shows looks like nothing else out there. As the film section enters its 25th anniversary and the festival’s top programmer Janet Pierson enters her 10th, SXSW remains a distinctive presence on the festival circuit, one that speaks to an ever-changing media landscape and the variability of filmmaking outside of Hollywood. Here are some of the standouts from the announcement.

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As calls for supporting women filmmakers continue to dominate the industry, SXSW’s program provides a compelling response. Its 10-movie narrative competition is dominated by eight women directors, varying wildly in age and experience. These include first-time director Hannah Marks, who co-directed the drama “Shotgun” with Joey Power. Marks...