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November is here, and with sunset falling sooner and sooner, what better way to spend your down time than snuggled up on the couch watching a great movie? A bevy of films are newly streaming in November and we’ve rounded up a curated list of the best ones added to Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock and beyond this month.

Check out our picks for the best new movies streaming in November 2024 below.

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John Williams is the elder statesman of film music. His scores conjure memories and transport you to different times and places. Just think about what he’s contributed over the years, from “Jaws” to “Star Wars” to “Indiana Jones” to “Harry Potter” to “Jurassic Park” to “Home Alone.” Even lesser-known scores crackle with intensity, technical proficiency and creative flair (think Brian De Palma...

Production is underway on Legion M’s darkly comedic horror thriller Fade to Black, which sees art imitating life for an aspiring Hollywood screenwriter. Today, Legion M has announced that Betty Gabriel, Thomas Barbusca, and Annie Gonzalez have joined the cast.

The horror thriller marks the feature debut of director Andrew Sandler.

Fade to Black follows “Amit as he navigates the horrors of trying to break into the twisted business of Hollywood. After an accidental death spurs a sinister epiphany, the screenwriter starts committing the murders of his script’s fictional serial killer in a desperate attempt to generate the IP necessary to get his movie made. The film promises a darkly comedic exploration of ambition, madness, and the brutal reality of the entertainment industry.”

Rounding out the newly added cast are Caylee Cowan (Sunrise in Heaven), Johnno Wilson (I Love That For You), Veronika Dash (Isabel’s Garden), and Scott Evans...

Exclusive: Maddie Ziegler (My Old Ass) and Levi Miller (Kraven the Hunter) are set to star in Shiver, a feature adaptation of the New York Times bestselling YA fantasy novel by Maggie Stiefvater.

Claire McCarthy (Ophelia) will direct. Andy Fickman had been attached to a prior iteration of the project, as we first reported.

Currently in production in Vancouver, the film follows Grace, who was attacked by a pack of wolves as a child. However, one of them — a yellow-eyed wolf — saved her, creating an inexplicable bond between them. Years later, she meets a young man named Sam with the exact same yellow eyes and immediately feels a connection to him. Their love story unfolds against the backdrop of mystical events, mysterious disappearances, and intrigues that reveal to Grace the true nature of Sam and his connection to the wolves. At the same time, as winter approaches, Sam must fight...

Aubrey Plaza's newest movie is officially a critical success — which also means the studio behind the super popular film, Amazon, is pretty happy right now.

In "My Old Ass," we first meet the movie's protagonist Elliott as her younger self played by Maisy Stella as she prepares to take hallucinogenic mushrooms with her friends; when she does, she "meets" her 39-year-old self played by Plaza (who recently stunned audiences on the Marvel series "Agatha All Along"). When Older Elliott dispenses some advice — including a strangely specific note to stay away from some boy named Chad — younger Elliot is suspicious at first but realizes that following it actually helps her solve some critical problems, so she starts seeking out her older counterpart to try and get through her younger years unscathed.

"My Old Ass" is funny, unexpectedly emotional, and features two outstanding central performances from Plaza and Stella. Clearly, critics...

My Old Ass (2024) succeeds as a time travel movie for the same reason that many classics in the subgenre have worked so successfully; it understands that time travel itself is a mechanism used to create interesting plot scenarios, regardless of whether or not the logic of the science makes any actual sense. “Back to the Future” works because the concept of a teenager meeting his parents when they were young is brilliant; similarly, the concept of reliving the same day over and over again is what makes “Groundhog Day” fun, even though it never really offers an explanation for why this is happening.

“My Old Ass” won’t be heralded in the same breath as “Back to the Future” or “Groundhog Day,” but it does find an inventive way of showing the path the inherent struggles with growing older and accepting uncomfortable truths about adulthood. At the center of Megan Park...

Megan Park’s two features, “The Fallout” and “My Old Ass,” couldn’t be more tonally different — one is about a high schooler dealing with a very contemporary trauma and one is about a high schooler connecting with her future self. With or without help from the vision of her as a 39-year-old (Aubrey Plaza), “My Old Ass” star Maisy Stella’s Elliot needs to figure out, as all high schoolers must, what kind of relationships she wants to pursue.

But a strength of Park’s work across both films is her ability to be both incredibly specific in voice, humor, and pacing about universal themes. One of the challenges and great joys of “My Old Ass” was Park’s ability to shape the film to echo the ‘90s coming-of-age stories she loves, while feeling both of this moment and somewhat timeless.

Park and her team created this feeling using...

Disney has announced two new music-driven comedy series to premiere in 2025 on Disney Channel and Disney+.

One of them, “Vampirina,” is based on the children’s books by Anne Maria Pace and inspired by the Disney Jr. animated series from Chris Nee. The new series follows a young vampire girl who leaves Transylvania to attend a performing arts boarding school and pursue her passion for music — all while keeping her identity a secret, “something that’s made more challenging when her overprotective father charges an overzealous ghost to live with her at the school,” per the logline.

The other series, “How We Became the Biggest Band in the World,” follows three members of a famous pop group, Electric Bloom, as they reminisce and tell the story of their band and friendship, starting with the day they met in middle school. According to the logline, “the girls go on a journey...

That first-time feature filmmaker Hannah Peterson has been mentored by both Chloé Zhao and Sean Baker is readily apparent in her debut feature, “The Graduates,” a deep-feeling and enormously affecting look at life after terrible tragedy.

Per the film’s official synopsis, it “follows a young woman, Genevieve (breakout Mina Sundwall), as she prepares to graduate high school in the aftermath of a tragic event. As she navigates an uncertain future alongside a community that is also searching for ways to heal, they turn to each other to find hope and a way forward.” The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, where it scored strong critical reviews and won the Best Cinematography award on behalf of Dp, Carolina Costa.

In IndieWire’s review of the film from last year’s Tribeca, this critic wrote, “Peterson’s film is about the world that exists after a terrible crime,...

My Old Ass is a wild, genre-bending adventure directed by Megan Park, blending stoner comedy, sci-fi, melodrama, and even a hint of Hallmark-style sentimentality. Park’s sophomore film, following her thoughtful debut The Fallout, offers a more absurdist take on adolescence — this time with time travel, a picturesque lake town, and the ever-charming Aubrey Plaza.

The film centres on Elliot (Maisy Stella), a small-town teen in her last summer before heading off to college, and her older, time-traveling self (Plaza), who comes back to offer guidance and support.

The Muskoka, Ontario, setting gives the movie a postcard-level charm, creating a perfect contrast with the sillier moments of the film, where pansexual stoner vibes and time-bending high jinks come into play.

While it flirts with surrealism, Park’s film manages to avoid falling into outright chaos. Instead, it uses its more bizarre elements, like Plaza’s effortlessly offbeat energy, to anchor the emotional beats.

Gen Z can be particularly hard to please, but 38-year-old Megan Park may have cracked the code.

The director behind “The Fallout” tackled a new coming-of-age story in “My Old Ass,” one that took her back to her roots in Canada on Lake Joseph.

The film follows Elliott (Maisy Stella) as she tries cherishing her last summer before heading to college, but happens to encounter her 39-year-old self, played by Aubrey Plaza. Park’s sophomore film centers Gen Z in a way that feels genuine to this era, something she noticed was missing as a young actress.

“I, for many years, was an actor in front of the camera when I was a teenager, and telling stories that didn’t always feel authentic to what my generation was experiencing or wearing or saying, and nobody ever asked me my opinion,” Park told TheWrap. She wanted to change that when she...

While the film My Old Ass may present itself as a goofy comedy exploring what it would be like to be a coming-of-age teenager meeting an older version of herself, it is instead a more existential and heartfelt drama that explores the choices that shape our lives and whether those choices should be second-guessed, ignored, or blindly followed.

On her eighteenth birthday, Elliot (Maisy Stella) embarks on a weekend camping trip with two friends – Ruthie (Maddie Ziegler) and Ro (Kerrice Brooks) – wherein they, among other typical girl’s night out fare, partake of some hallucinogenic mushrooms that bring Maisy face-to-face with her 39-year-old self (played by Aubrey Plaza) who blatantly warns her to stay away from a mysterious boy named Chad that she has never met. Then, of course, the next day, she meets Chad and the advice doesn’t seem as unbelievable as it did just one day earlier.

Life is, so often, not at all like the movies. It’s not even like TV. There was no lightbulb moment, no ah-ha! that made actress Megan Park decide to move behind the camera for the next creative and professional chapter of her life. In fact, during her early days acting on shows like “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and “Life with Derek,” Park said she remembered thinking, “I would never want to be a director.”

But while one part of Park might’ve thought “no, never,” what she was really doing was filing away the things she didn’t want to do when it came time to direct. During a recent interview with IndieWire in lower Manhattan in the weeks before the release of her second directorial effort, the Sundance hit “My Old Ass,” Park reflected on some of the earlier lessons that shaped her into such a wonderful chronicler of young,...

Sometimes, a coming-of-age film like My Old Ass helps us understand not only our past but our future. Even one that, as I have written many times before, makes you appreciate what you have and long for what you don’t. The exception is that My Old Ass is hardly manipulative.

In fact, Megan Park’s hilarious, vibrant, and overall heart-rendering tale is far from it. There are moments of familial authenticity that ring true throughout the picture. Nothing is more genuine than an older version of yourself counseling your youthful exuberance about how time is fleeting.

Those are the moments that My Old Ass depicts you remember and where you most likely hold your regret.

Maria Dizzia and Maisy Stella in My Old Ass (2024) | Image via Amazon MGM Studios RELATEDAubrey Plaza Didn’t Want to Join Kevin Feige’s Marvel Machine But 1 Actor Changed Her Mind and We Are...

Irish rap trio Kneecap is back in theaters at the start another U.S. tour, with Ian McKellen as The Critic, Aubrey Plaza in coming-of-age My Old Ass and handful of Indian films, and special events including GKids’ Dan Da Dan: First Encounter.

The first three episodes of the show Dan Da Dan, which is shaping up to be the fall’s biggest new anime, are out on 600 screens in a special program. The series is adapted from the manga by Yukinobu Tatsu and directed by Fuga Yamashiro at the studio Science Saru. The first episode premiered at Anime Expo in Los Angeles and Anime NYC in New York. GKids is holding special limited event screenings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday followed by a global theatrical rollout ahead of the show’s October streaming debut. It’s one of the first times a major new series like this has debuted...

Growing up sucks. Time seems to move faster than we can reasonably keep pace with, the crushing disappointment of reality never quite lives up to our naïve expectations, and even the fondest of memories can fade and turn into deep wells of regret. None of these are particularly profound observations for anyone legally old enough to drink, and they're certainly nothing that countless movies haven't already addressed in every conceivable way. So when yet another R-rated coming-of-age dramedy pops up on the radar -- centered on the well-worn trope of an idealistic 18-year-old relishing her last summer at home before moving away to bigger and better things in the city -- a healthy dose of skepticism would appear to be fair game. Even a talent like Megan Park, whose directorial debut "The Fallout" instantly made her a name worth paying attention to, would be hard-pressed to wring anything new out of this premise.

It’s easy to respect the laissez-faire approach My Old Ass takes to time travel, and even easier to fall for how quickly the coming-of-age dramedy introduces it. Elliott chats with her older self in the first major scene. The Elliotts look forward and back at their shared, possibly malleable...

Writer-director Megan Park’s upcoming film, My Old Ass, is something of a departure from her first feature The Fallout — the 2021 Jenna Ortega starrer that followed the survivors of a school shooting —although both films expertly center on a teenage point of view.

Bought at Sundance for $15M by Amazon MGM Studios, at first glance, perhaps the premise of My Old Ass seems like relatively light fare: a young woman coming of age in a beautiful Canadian lakeside town gets high on shrooms and meets her older self for a ‘what do I need to know’ chat. But then, Park works some magic, because at every screening, from Sundance onward, the audience has been reduced to sobs. Here, she explores how she stirred something deep in all of us: how quickly time passes; our missed chances, and those roads not taken. She also reveals how she first conceived of the story,...

With the momentum of stardom in her favor after Netflix’s Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Jenna Ortega will surely take on more Hollywood projects following Season 2 of Wednesday, which is currently in production.

Before these two Tim Burton projects, Ortega had roles in several other Netflix films and a television show as well as separate feature films. She got her start in a Colgate toothpaste commercial and then a Disney Channel show that mirrored the aspect of her big family.

Some might recognize Ortega as the actress who portrayed the younger version of Jane Gloriana Villanueva (portrayed by Gina Rodriguez when she’s older) in the CW’s Jane the Virgin. She also appeared in Studio 666 a horror film in which the Foo Fighters move into a storied rock ‘n roll studio that starts to haunt their work. Most recently right before the arrival of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice in theaters,...

Are ballerina dancers Hollywood’s new hotness? With the John Wick spinoff Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas, pirouetting into theaters next year and the latest indie action film Ballerina Overdrive coming from 87North and Gulfstream Pictures, it could be time for me to slip into a tutu and show my sweet moves to some studios heads. While I will likely keep stretching along a long bar, Uma Thurman is joining the cast of Ballerina Overdrive, an upcoming survivalist action film.

Uma Thurman joins Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Millicent Simmonds, Maddie Ziegler, and Avantika. Previously, Lena Headey, Yara Shahidi, and Isabela Merced were supposed to star in Ballerina Overdrive but have since stepped away.

Vicky Jewson directs Ballerina Overdrive from a script by Kate Freund. The plot revolves around a troupe of ballerinas who find themselves fighting for survival as they attempt to escape from a remote inn after their bus...

Jenna Ortega, known for her role in “Wednesday,” has recently opened up about the disturbing rise of explicit AI-generated images.

In an interview on The New York Times‘ “The Interview” podcast, the 21-year-old actress shared that she quit X, formerly Twitter, after being bombarded with fake pornographic pictures of herself, created using AI technology.

“Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child?” Ortega revealed. “No. It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong. It’s disgusting.”

Dealing With An Overwhelming Number Of ‘Absurd Images’

“The first [direct message] I ever opened myself when I was 12 was an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals. And that was just the beginning of what was to come,” she said. Ortega revealed that she was also sent AI-generated child pornography of herself.

Initially encouraged to join Twitter to build her image,...

After starring pristinely flawlessly across multiple films from the horror-thriller genre, Jenna Ortega will soon be returning to the screens in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. And this time around, she deems it really, really fortunate to have been able to deliver alongside such massive A-listers like Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Willem Dafoe, among others.

Jenna Ortega in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures.

But while working with them was pretty much a prestigious situation for her, she also found it incredibly hard to work with some other actors, like Justin Theroux and Catherine O’Hara, both of whom are two of the most iconic veterans in the industry. In fact, the situation was so serious with the former that Ortega even found it impossible to look at him during the shoot!

Jenna Ortega Found This Beetlejuice 2 Co-Star Really Hard to Work With

In Tim Burton‘s upcoming sequel to the original Beetlejuice movie,...

Jenna Ortega thinks she had a "very secret" audition for 'Dune'.The 21-year-old actress has revealed she once had a mysterious read for a role for what she believes was Chani in Denis Villeneuve's big screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's iconic 1965 sci-fi novel.Asked to name a role "people would be surprise" she auditioned for, she told Buzzfeed: "I think I auditioned for 'Dune' when I was about 15."I remember being a big fan of that film and that franchise and everything like that and being really excited for that interview because Denis is one of my favorite filmmakers.”The 'Wednesday' star thinks the part she was reading for was Chani, which eventually went to Zendaya.She added: "I think it was Chani. I think it was Zendaya’s. But they weren’t saying that. Everything was very secret.”Zendaya, 27, was reportedly cast in January 2019, while Timothee Chalamet,...

Exclusive: Maddie Ziegler and Avantika (Mean Girls) have joined the cast of the indie action feature Ballerina Overdrive from 87North and Gulfstream Pictures.

From Vicky Jewson, who is directing from a script by Kate Freund, Ballerina Overdrive follows a troupe of ballerinas who find themselves fighting for survival as they attempt to escape from a remote inn after their bus breaks down on the way to a dance competition.

As Deadline revealed exclusively last year, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow and Millicent Simmonds also star. Previously attached stars Lena Headey, Yara Shahidi and Isabela Merced have since departed the project. Jenny Jue cast the film, which is currently in production in Budapest.

Kelly McCormick and David Leitch produce through their 87North banner with Bill Bindley and Mike Karz for Gulfstream Pictures alongside Piers Tempest. Gulfstream Pictures is fully financing.

Ever since her appearance in You and Wednesday, Jenna Ortega has been making waves in the entertainment industry. Captivating audiences with her striking performances and undeniable charisma, the actress is gradually solidifying her position as one of the most talked-about young actresses of the moment.

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in Netflix’s Wednesday | image: MGM Television

Amid such a crucial moment in her career, Jenna Ortega shockingly appeared under fans’ radar for the role of Bellatrix Lestrange. Considering her portrayal of the gothic heroine in Tim Burton’s Wednesday that has people buzzing, fans are now fervently rallying for Ortega to step into the younger version of the character portrayed by Burton’s ex-wife Helena Bonham Carter in the Harry Potter films.

Fans Envision Jenna Ortega as the Young Version of a Sinister Harry Potter Character

Venturing from Disney series to the world of mainstream television with Penn Badgley’s You,...

As film festival season begins to wrap up, film buffs await the theatrical and streaming releases of the films that premiered at festivals, such as Sundance and Cannes. While some of the bigger film festivals have begun prep for next season, other smaller festivals are still going strong in their own right. I had the opportunity to attend NewFest Pride in New York City, an LGBTQ+ film festival, marking the beginning of Pride Month. While looking through the different options of films to attend, ‘My Old Ass’ stuck out to me, as I recognized director, Megan Park’s name from ‘The Fallout’. ‘The Fallout’ is a hidden gem film, winning the Narrative Feature category at South by Southwest in 2021. While both films are incredibly different, ‘My Old Ass’ still features unintentional comedy and messages about living life to the fullest that ‘The Fallout’ portrayed as well. ‘My Old Ass’ originally...

Exclusive: LA-based production outfit The Screen Company, headed by producer David Brown (The Fallout), is launching a domestic distribution and sales arm.

Distribution arm ScreenReleases will handle third party acquisitions and look to partner with filmmakers on projects in the development phase. Brown says the company will seek projects across all genres and budget ranges.

Former UTA exec Mike Rose has been brought aboard as Chief Operating Officer (COO) to oversee day-to-day operations at the new division and handle acquisitions. Rose, who most recently served nine years at UTA as Head of Story, has also previously worked at Disney, TWC, Miramax, and CAA.

Ari Elan Lewis, who has worked at Confluential Films, Netflix, Universal and John Legend’s Get Lifted Film , has also joined and will serve as Head of Acquisitions and handle international sales.

Brown says of the strategy behind the company: “We will not prolong Mg payments over...

The yearly mega event of pop culture and comics-related affairs, the San Diego Comic Con, has just come to a close after showcasing a ton of exciting announcements, updates, and exclusive sneak peeks of some of the most anticipated upcoming media ventures. Marvel returned to Sdcc after a couple of years’ break, and the comeback was big enough to become the topic of discussion among nerds worldwide ever since. Amidst restructuring their entire game plan, bringing in some fan favorite actors, and sharing promising first looks to some of their most crucial projects, Marvel, and by extension, MCU, seems to have found some stability after going through their recent rough patch. Let us take a quick look at every major Marvel-related update that was announced at San Diego Comic Con 2024 and accordingly speculate about the upcoming ventures as well.

Multiverse Saga Restructuring: Robert Downey Jr. Returned As Iron Man

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The Screen Company, a new full-service production, sales and financing entity, has launched with the debut of ScreenFund, its dedicated financing division.

CEO and producer David Brown announced the company’s formation, which aims to provide a wide range of services for both major studio and independent projects. Operating as a parent entity, The Screen Company will offer a comprehensive suite of services including financing, completion bonds, production payroll, collection accounts, international film sales and U.S. distribution. The company’s structure is designed to streamline the production process by providing multiple essential services under one roof.

Industry veteran Chris Cole has been appointed chief operating officer of ScreenFund. Cole brings a wealth of experience to the role, having served as a producer of feature films and television, as well as a media and entertainment consultant. His background includes executive producer roles on co-productions with major studios and streaming platforms such as Warner Bros.,...

Ella Purnell has lined up a killer new role: The Fallout and Yellowjackets star will play a woman driven to murder in the UK dark comedy Sweetpea, which will air in the U.S. on Starz later this year, TVLine has learned. (Starz has also released a first-look photo from the series, which you can see above.)

Purnell stars as Rhiannon, “a quiet wallflower who develops a vengeful and intoxicatingly liberating taste for murder,” per the official description. Rhiannon is overlooked at work, her boyfriend won’t commit and her dad is sick, and eventually, she’s “pushed over the edge and loses control.

Ethnobotanist and mystic Terrance McKenna would be proud of Maisy Stella’s Elliot as she consumes a “heroic dose” of dried psilocybin mushroom tea in Megan Park’s My Old Ass trailer. To Elliot’s credit, she and her friends went to nature for their psychedelic trip, which is the recommended venue. What Elliot did not account for was meeting her older self (Aubrey Plaza), creating an existential nightmare and providing insight into her future. Science fiction teaches us never to interact with our future or past selves, lest we make a universe-imploding paradox. Still, Elliot’s story ignores all that and deepens the dos and don’ts of growing up strange.

Written and directed by Megan Park, My Old Ass is a coming-of-age comedy that follows Elliot (Maisy Stella), who encounters her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza) after ingesting a steamy cup of mushroom tea. Somehow, the two keep in...

Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella in My Old AssPhoto: Marni Grossman © Amazon Content Services LLC

No one wants to meet their old ass before their ready. But one mushroom trip pushes Maisy Stella into direct contact with her aging posterior.

In My Old Ass, Stella plays Elliott, a young girl...

The festival circuit has treated writer, director, and actor Megan Park well. Her debut feature, “The Fallout,” made a big splash at the 2021 South by Southwest Festival. The drama film about a young girl and her friends recovering from a school shooting was both a grand jury winner and a special jury winner. (read our review).

“My Old Ass,” Megan Park’s most recent feature, premiered at this past January’s Sundance Film Festival.

Continue reading ‘My Old Ass’ Trailer: Megan Park’s Sundance Comedy With Aubrey Plaza Hit Arrives in Theaters September 13 at The Playlist.

Aubrey Plaza doles out wisdom to her younger self in the first trailer for “My Old Ass,” a coming-of-age comedy that premiered to rave reviews at Sundance Film Festival.

The film takes place the summer before 18-year-old Elliot Labrant (Maisy Stella of Lennon & Maisy fame) heads to college in Toronto. In the trailer, Plaza shows up as the middle-aged version of herself while the present-day Elliot is tripping on shrooms in the woods. At first, the younger Elliot doesn’t believe what she’s seeing — and it’s not like they look anything alike.

“You’re me? I don’t have a gap in my teeth,” Stella’s character tells Plaza’s as they sit around a campfire. She’s quick to respond: “Yeah, wear your retainer.”

The 39-year-old Elliot urges her younger self to be nicer to mom and spend more time with her brothers. She also cautions against...

Aubrey Plaza is turning back the clock on heartbreak in lovable queer dramedy “My Old Ass.”

The coming-of-age feature stars breakout actress Maisy Stella as 18-year-old Elliott, who is spending her final summer on her parents’ cranberry farm before she heads to college in Toronto. After a drug trip gone awry, Elliott is visited by the older version of herself (Plaza), who warns her to not fall in love with a visiting boy (“Wednesday” alum Percy Hynes White) working on her dad’s farm.

Megan Park (“The Fallout”) writes and directs the feature that centers on Elliott’s awakening into adulthood. Margot Robbie produces the indie film, along with Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Steven Rales.

Sia collaborator and “Dance Moms” alum Maddie Ziegler and Kerrice Brooks co-star. And yes, this isn’t Plaza’s first time, well, time traveling: the actress previously starred in Colin Trevorrow’s “Safety Not Guaranteed.

Maisy Stella, playing 18-year-old Elliot Labrant, finds her future self at age 39 (played by Aubrey Plaza) in the trailer for Megan Park’s My Old Ass, which dropped on Thursday.

The time-bending coming-of-age tale comes by way of a summer mushroom trip that Elliot goes on with her girlfriends while holidaying in cottage country north of Toronto before heading off to college. While tripping next to a campfire, Elliot meets Plaza’s character seated on the same log, only she’s two decades her senior — and full of warnings about what her younger self should or shouldn’t do.

My Old Ass Trailer

“You’re kind of hot for being middle-aged,” Elliot tells her older self at one point in the trailer, to which a defensive younger Elliot replies sternly, “I’m a very young adult.” Eventually, Elliott realizes her older self, or “old ass,” has her rethinking everything about family,...

For fans who miss Modern Family, there is a small reunion of the cast on TV right now. However, for one of the characters, he does not seem very happy about this. In the end, the cast of characters explains what happened, but he still seems to be getting cut out of the family’s chats.

Here is what the Modern Family cast is doing in the new TV spot.

Modern Family Cast Is Back, But What Happened To Mitchell?

Four members of the Modern Family cast are back on TV playing their show’s characters. However, one of them seems very unhappy he has been left out of some of the family’s adventures. Cameron wants things explained to him.

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The new spot is a WhatsApp commercial. In the ad, Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell), Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen), and Cam Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) are sitting on...

You’re watching your favorite show, and one of the main characters is in a jam.

He’s held captive by mercenaries and, for the past two episodes, has struggled to escape a labyrinthine prison. It’s unclear whether our hero will live or die, but the next episode opens with a warning: “The following contains a depiction of suicide. Viewer discretion is advised.” Welp, you think, I know how this story ends.

So what happens when trigger warnings need spoiler warnings? As content disclaimers trend in television, some viewers are taking issue when they give away crucial plot details or ruin surprises.

Take Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer,” which dulled a shocking assault scene with a preemptive warning reading, “The following episode contains depictions of sexual violence which some viewers may find troubling.” Or Apple TV+’s “Severance,” which tipped viewers off to an episode cliffhanger by revealing, “The following contains a depiction of self-harm.

After a particularly harrowing setback to his mission in The Fallout, the new series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (Westworld), a bounty hunter known as The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) makes the executive decision to change course entirely. Although his less experienced traveling companion/prisoner protests, The Ghoul knows better. “The wasteland’s got its own golden rule,” he snarls. “Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every time.”

That most of Prime Video’s Fallout consists of getting sidetracked by bullshit is simultaneously one of its main charms and one of its most frustrating flaws. At its liveliest, the sci-fi adventure captures the fun of simply getting to explore a strange new world, meeting colorful characters and going down mysterious rabbit holes. But the lack of urgency also means its eight hours take an awfully long time to get where it’s going.

Though Fallout is based on the video...

Exclusive: Actor-turned-executive Ella Wahlestedt on Wednesday announced the launch of Quarterlife Pictures, an L.A.-based production company dedicated to developing and producing women-centric and impactful narratives across film and TV.

Quarterlife will look to blend meaningful storytelling with commercial viability, focusing on stories in the genre and science fiction space. Its emphasis on women-fronted projects comes at a critical time, with a new study reporting a near 10-year low in female-led films. Already, the company has struck a strategic partnership with award-winning production house, CreativeChaos vmg, to collaborate on an undisclosed high-end docuseries.

Wahlestedt began her career as an actress, with credits including Relativity Media’s Earth to Echo, Lifetime’s Army Wives, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. She later joined Buffalo 8 Productions, known for its work on Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Max Original The Fallout starring Jenna Ortega, and award-winning...

James Gunn and Peter Saffron are expanding the DC universe with an exciting new addition. Despite the anticipation surrounding their initial releases, the studio wasted no time in revealing plans for a live-action film about the iconic Teen Titans.

Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans

The script for the highly anticipated film is in the hands of Ana Nogueira, who is known for her roles in hits such as The Vampire Diaries and Hightown. Nogueira is not new to the Gunn and Safran superhero universe; She already showcased her talent by writing the script for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow starring the talented Millie Alcock.

Suggesteddc Reportedly Developing Teen Titans Movie – 6 Actors and the Characters They Should Play in Rumored Film

While specifics about the project are scarce, the recent release of the Teen Titans logline by Production Weekly has only gotten fans excited, leading to several theories.

A Theory Says Dcu...

Tom Cruise was on a winning streak with Top Gun: Maverick becoming the biggest hit of his career. However, his latest Mission: Impossible film surprisingly failed at the box office, losing somewhere around $40 million for Paramount Pictures. Despite receiving critical acclaim, the high production budget and several other unfortunate factors contributed to the film’s box office disaster. Amidst the financial failure, one critical aspect of the film was overlooked – its real-world relevance.

Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

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The summer between the end of high school and for some, college, can be filled with an unequal combination of anxiety and anticipation. Anxiety of the unknown and anticipation of new and novel experiences, of new friends and new relationships, can be overwhelming. Via Canadian-born writer-director Megan Park’s (The Fallout) second film, My Old Ass, a heartrending, coming-of-age comedy-drama, that last summer before college can be both a time to celebrate future possibilities and mourn the loss of the past, including the family, parents, and siblings individually and collectively, left behind. For Park, the past may or may not be immutable, but remembering it free of nostalgia and recognizing the transitory nature of time, memory, and relationships are more than worthwhile: They’re essential. When we...

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Amazon MGM Studios is in final negotiations to acquire Megan Park’s sophomore feature “My Old Ass,” starring Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella, following its Sundance Film Festival debut.

The high-concept film — which was produced by LuckyChap’s Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, with Indian Paintbrush’s Steven Rales — made its world premiere on Saturday night in a sold-out screening at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Ut. The deal is for roughly $15 million. It is one of a handful of high-profile Sundance movies that are fielding offers from several bidders, including “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” and “Will & Harper,” a road trip documentary with Will Ferrell and his best friend, Harper Steele.

Amazon MGM is targeting a wide theatrical release for the film in the U.S. and Canada, with international territories still to be determined. Like all of its titles, the ultimate home will be Prime Video.

Exclusive: In another big Sundance deal upwards of $15 million, Amazon MGM is in final negotiations to acquire the Sundance buzz title My Old Ass. This was a hotly contested deal that today had several suitors in the mix for a crowd-pleasing coming-of-age film that has garnered strong reviews and reaction since it launched in the Premieres category on January 20 at the Eccles Theatre.

Amazon MGM is targeting a wide theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada, and they’re working out the strategy for international. Pic will then move to Prime Video to stream globally. It is the biggest Sundance deal for a theatrical release; Netflix paid $17 million for the genre thriller It’s What’s Inside, but that film is headed for a big streamer rollout.

Directed and scripted by Megan Park, the film stars Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Maddie Ziegler and Percy Hynes White. The summer before college, bright-yet-irreverent...

Amazon MGM Studios is in final negotiations for Sundance comedy hit My Old Ass starring Maddie Ziegler and Aubrey Plaza for a reported $15m.

The studio is targeting a wide North American theatrical release, with international territories to be determined. The film will end up on Prime Video.

My Old Ass marks the latest deal to trickle out of Sundance, where Netflix paid $17m for It’s What’s Inside, Neon acquired Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, and Searchlight Pictures paid $10m for Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain.

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After her feature directorial debut The Fallout (2021), a film about a high-school shooting, Megan Park was feeling the weight of its emotional aftermath. “When you make a movie, you live in that world for years,” she tells Filmmaker at Sundance Film Festival. “I wanted an escape, and I wanted to be nostalgic.” So she went back home to Canada and started thinking about what became the genesis of My Old Ass, a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy, and, gradually, a reflective tearjerker that left Sundance audiences sobbing. “It was this idea of the last time your whole family sleeps under one […]

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After her feature directorial debut The Fallout (2021), a film about a high-school shooting, Megan Park was feeling the weight of its emotional aftermath. “When you make a movie, you live in that world for years,” she tells Filmmaker at Sundance Film Festival. “I wanted an escape, and I wanted to be nostalgic.” So she went back home to Canada and started thinking about what became the genesis of My Old Ass, a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy, and, gradually, a reflective tearjerker that left Sundance audiences sobbing. “It was this idea of the last time your whole family sleeps under one […]

The post “…The Last Summer Before You Leave Home”: Megan Park on Teenage Life, Working with Margot Robbie’s Lucky Chap, and Her Sundance Dramedy, My Old Ass first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

It’s always a welcome surprise to encounter a fresh face who’s also a natural screen presence, which is very much the case with the captivating Maisy Stella in My Old Ass. Not to undersell the newcomer’s individuality, but I kept getting a crunchy granola version of Clueless-era Alicia Silverstone, which is no faint praise. The fact that Stella is often bouncing off Aubrey Plaza in peerless sardonic form just sweetens the deal. Megan Park’s enjoyable second feature is a warm blend of comedy, romance and whimsical collapsed-time fantasy, albeit grounded in the protagonist’s real world.

Not since Toy Story 3 wielded its power to reduce grown-ass adults to puddles of tears has a movie been so in touch with the tender feelings associated with leaving home and saying a definitive goodbye to childhood, wistfully contemplating what we take with us and what we leave behind.

Elliott (Maisy Stella) is ready for her life to start. The last 18 years? That’s been killing time, practice, kid stuff, and as we meet the teen on her 18th birthday, mere weeks before she’s about to leave her cozy Canadian lakeside community for college in Toronto (read: the real world!), Elliott is hellbent on leaving that stuff behind. In Megan Park’s warm-hearted “My Old Ass,” Elliott is forced to grapple — most unexpectedly, most literally — with the past and the present and the future, and all the iterations of her that will populate those time periods.

First, there are the mushrooms. Elliott and her best pals Ruthie (Maddie Ziegler) and Ro (Kerrice Brooks) ingest the hallucinogens to celebrate that key birthday, an experience that sees Ruthie talking to animals and Ro dancing to music only she can hear… and Elliott? She finds herself. More correctly: her old self finds her.

It takes some time to fall in love with 18-year-old Elliott in “My Old Ass.” As played by Maisy Stella, she’s young and self-involved, so focused on heading off to college in the big city that she’s kind of a jerk to everyone around her (especially her small-town cranberry-farming family). Maybe young adult audiences won’t think so. Canadian actor-turned-auteur Megan Park’s sweetly insightful coming-of-age comedy is intended for them — whereas adults might not have so much patience for the way Stella’s impulsive character takes for granted what are arguably her best years.

Don’t worry, the movie is great, and Elliott eventually grows on you. Besides, her initially off-putting persona is kind of the point of Park’s older-and-wiser second feature, which follows the director’s terrific SXSW-winning debut “The Fallout.” Park plays a magic trick early in the film: Elliott and her besties (Maddie Ziegler...