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Monroe's horror performances are riveting and diverse, showcasing her ability to stand out in the genre beyond traditional tropes. In "Villains," Monroe breaks from her usual final girl roles to play a crime-committing character, displaying versatility in horror films. "Longlegs" highlights Monroe's commanding presence, carrying the film with a constant sense of unease and detachment in her detective role.

After her first role in the 2012 drama At Any Price, Maika Monroe has been acting steadily and has become known for her memorable and riveting horror characters. Before her breakout part in It Follows in 2014, she appeared in The Bling Ring in a minor capacity as Beach Girl and Mandy Chambers in the 2013 adaptation of the Joyce Maynard novel Labor Day written and directed by Jason Reitman. While Monroe has explored other genres, from science-fiction like The 5th Wave to the crime film Brothers by Blood, her horror performances stand out the most.

Zac Efron's first sports biopic, The Iron Claw, fulfills its promise with a moving portrayal of the Von Erich family's tragic story. After a brief detour into comedies, Efron's return to dark and dramatic roles in The Iron Claw is paying off with rave reviews. While Efron has future comedy projects, The Iron Claw's success solidifies his talent and potential in the world of dramas.

Zac Efron's big 2023 movie, The Iron Claw, is finally giving audiences a fulfilling project first teased with a role in 2019. The Iron Claw is a true story based on the Von Erich family of professional wrestlers and the tragedies that plagued them in the '80s and '90s. Efron has a starring role as Kevin Von Erich alongside other notable actors, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson, playing his brothers, Kerry and David, respectively. In addition to being Efron's first sports biopic,...

Kevin Turen, a producer on HBO’s Euphoria and The Idol and Ti West’s X, Pearl and MaXXXine, has died. He was 44.

A spokesperson for Penske Media Corp., the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter, confirmed Turen’s death. No other details were immediately available.

“Despite his many achievements in Hollywood, Kevin’s greatest passion was his family and friends,” Jay Penske, CEO of Pmc and a close friend of Turen, said in a statement. “He was so proud of his children. He and his wife, Evelina, were resolved that their children grow up with great values and ensured they make a difference in the broader world. Our collective heart breaks for them, and we all feel such a profound sense of loss. We will miss Kevin so much, and this town lost one of its brightest rising stars.”

Turen was closely associated with Sam and Ashley Levinson. The trio co-founded Little Lamb Productions,...

Due to historical reasons, and some economic reasons preceding and following the historical ones, we should know by now that Iranian diaspora in the so-called Western World is large. Also, it is often well-educated and active in arts and culture, sometimes even on the both sides, in both homelands, old and new. Cinema is not an exception, but this list is not about, for instance, Asghar Farhadi working in the context of the French or Spanish cinema, nor is touching some well-established common places of greatness, such as Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. We bring you five relatively recent films made by the filmmakers coming from the Iranian diaspora that might have flown under the radar somehow, in order of quality.

5. At Any Price

Ramin Bahrani reached greater success both with critics and audiences both before and after this film, either by touching the subjects from the (immigrants') margin, like in...

March brings a fresh slate of new shows and films to Hulu. The rotation of the catalogue also makes room for well-loved films arriving on the streamer this month. Sports buffs will enjoy “Love and Basketball” (2000) as well as “Kicking & Screaming” (2005). Animated family favorites include “Rio” (2011) and “Ice Age: Continental Drift” (2010).

As for new releases, Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon play hard-working journalists in the investigative thriller “Boston Strangler” (2023) from writer and director Matt Ruskin. Olivia Colman can be seen as Miss Havisham in FX’s rendition of “Great Expectations.” And a new twist on reality dating involves the charming countryside with “Farmer Wants a Wife.”

And Best Picture Oscar nominee “Triangle of Sadness” hits the streamer on March 3.

The Oscars as well as the pre-show and post-show red carpets will also be available to livestream around March 12 when the ceremony takes place and March 13, the day after, if...

Hulu’s list of new releases for March 2023 features an event long in the making.

On March 6, History of the World, Part II will finally arrive more than 40 years after Mel Brooks’ classic comedy History of the World, Part I. first premiered. Of course, Brooks never had any intention of adding future parts to his ahistorical film, but that yet makes the arrival of Part II so many years later even funnier. Described as a four-night comedy event, History of the World, Part II will release two episodes a day through March 9. Brooks returns to write and executive produce this series and will star alongside Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, and Ike Barinholtz. Guest stars include…everyone. Basically just everyone.

Read more Movies Great Eat the Rich Satires to Watch After The Menu By Nick Harley Movies Mel Brooks Recalls Alfred Hitchcock’s Unique Review of High Anxiety By David Crow...

It’s ironic but unavoidable that the greatest annual celebration of film should be a television special — but that’s just how it is. March often means Oscar season, a time for cinephiles to boot up that small screen you use for movies and use it to see if they win any awards during a telecast.

If you don’t have TV service anymore, Hulu has you covered with a pre-Oscars telecast as well as two red carpet specials before and after the main event. Though the ceremony itself won’t be livestreamed on Hulu, it will be added the next morning, like regular ABC programming. Awards viewership has been in general decline over the past several years, but next-day streaming gives curious viewers a chance to join the conversation and boost those Oscar ratings after the live show. It’s also a chance for superfans to pause and rewind...

This far into his screen career, it shouldn’t be a revelation to anyone that Zac Efron can act. He’s shown canny comic chops in the “Neighbors” films, wounded all-American ennui in “We Are Your Friends” and “At Any Price,” even a credible against-type chill as Ted Bundy in “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” — none of which has been enough to overtake his bland, floppy-banged, career-minting “High School Musical” persona in the popular imagination.

In “Gold,” an otherwise ordinary survival thriller from actor-director Anthony Hayes, Efron resorts to the same kind of extreme measures that fellow heartthrob Ryan Reynolds took to prove his worth in “Buried”: headlining a one-location genre piece so leanly conceived that it has scarcely anything to showcase but his commitment and grit. As a lone drifter guarding a precious quarry in deadly desert conditions in a faintly futuristic nowhereland, he’s good, as...

Who would've thought that a documentary about some bozo that invented a new bulletproof vest would be this fascinating and this unsettling?! But that's exactly why I had to watch this film and find out what it's all about and holy sh*t, it's totally nuts! This guy is nuts! But that is the story, that's the entire point of making this film. Another tale of the "American Dream" gone wrong. Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has cooked up his version "Tiger King" with this documentary called 2nd Chance, which just premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The engrossing documentary tells the story of Richard Davis, a doofus from Michigan that somehow invented some lightweight bulletproof vests as part of a police fanboy fantasy. The way it plays out from there is totally crazy, and it gets even crazier as ...

By most accounts, the story behind “The White Tiger” has been festering for almost 15 years. The Netflix project is based on Aravand Adiga’s award-winning 2008 novel that tracks the rags-to-riches saga of a young chauffeur who follows a criminal path to success in modern-day India. The roots of the project, however, stretch back to a Columbia University dorm room and a DVD of “Mean Streets.”

That was where aspiring filmmaker Ramin Bahrani met Adiga in 1993 through a group of largely Middle Eastern friends on campus. “We were all reading things like Dostoyevsky and Camus,” said Adiga, who was an English lit major raised in India. “One day, Ramin came up to the group in the library and said there was a film we ought to see that was as good as the books we were reading.”

Back in his room, Bahrani started the DVD player and made an impromptu case...

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New Delhi, Jan 31 (Ians) American-Iranian director Ramin Bahrani was struck by the realism and humanism in the works of Satyajit Ray, and says he continues to reflect upon the Maestros cinematic craft and imbibe some of the hues on his canvas.

The director also appreciates the current wave of Independent cinema in India, and feels it reflects something that was missing from cinema in our country for a long time.

"I have a vivid memory. In college in the 1990s, (author) Aravind (Adiga), I and one of our friends, we would walk to the Lincoln Plaza Cinema. Because that summer, Martin Scorsese had restored and was releasing nine of Satyajit Ray's films. So, every two weeks we would walk all the way and see the film, and then we would walk all the way back talking about it," Bahrani told Ians, while opening up about the influence of Ray on his work.

Working as an associate editor on a trio of recent Ramin Bahrani films, Alex Camilleri has been in post on his directorial debut collecting some support via Les Arcs Film Festival (2019 edition), as a Film Independent 2019 Directing Lab Fellow, and is currently a finalist to grab some coin via the Sffilm and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation for the Fall 2020 Sffilm Rainin Grant. His earliest history with anything Sundance was as a Lab participant as an editor on Rachel Israel’s Keep The Change. His feature debut Luzzu was filmed in Malta and will hit the film fest circuit in 2021.…...

A new discovery is always welcomed in Hollywood, and breakout star Adarsh Gourav makes his presence well known in Netflix’s “The White Tiger.” Written and directed by acclaimed director Ramin Bahrani, the ambitious and intriguing tale is likely to draw lazy comparisons to Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire,” due to mere geographic location. Much darker with a more dense narrative, the film likely won’t have the same awards traction as the 2008 Oscar sweeper.

The film tells the story of Balram Halwai (Gourav), an Indian driver who uses his wit and cunning ways to make his rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India.

In a year where Netflix has packed its awards arsenal with an eclectic showcase of films from a diverse set of filmmakers, Academy voters and guild members could find certain elements attractive, most prominently Gourav. His finding is sure to be praised...

"I'm just one who has woken up, when the rest of you are still sleeping." Netflix has revealed the first teaser trailer for the new film by Ramin Bahrani titled The White Tiger, heading to India to make a film about a poor servant who breaks free from working for rich masters. From acclaimed writer-director Ramin Bahrani comes the epic journey of a poor Indian driver (Adarsh Gourav) who uses his wit and cunning to break free from servitude to his rich masters (Rajkummar Rao and Priyanka Chopra Jonas) and rise to the top of the heap - in his own way. The White Tiger is based on the New York Times bestseller and 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. The book is praised for having: "this is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before." This looks awesome! Really ...

Netflix has released the first trailer for “The White Tiger,” starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas that is based on the New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name.

Earlier this month, Chopra Jonas shared the first image from the film, in which she’ll play Pinky Madam, a first-generation immigrant in the United States who travels to India with her husband Ashok, played by Rajkummar Rao.

“This is a story about a family and the plight of one man — Balram Halwai played by Adarsh Gourav, one of the most talented newcomers I’ve ever worked with, and one of the most remarkable performances I’ve seen in a long time. Balram’s rise from a poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India showcases how hunger and the lack of opportunity can build and drive a human being’s animal instinct of survival,” Chopra Jonas wrote on Instagram earlier in October.

Andrew Levitas has carved out a unique place in the art world, having used his considerable skills across multiple creative platforms. A filmmaker, painter, sculptor, producer, writer, actor and photographer, Levitas is also the founder of Metalwork Pictures, a media production company that develops and produces original content, including his 2014 directorial debut, “Lullaby,” as well as “Georgetown,” “Last Moment of Clarity,” “The White Crow,” “Farming,” “Flower,” “At Any Price,” “Affluenza” and “The Art of Getting By.” When it comes to producing, Levitas says, “It’s purely about supporting other like-minded artists, specifically those who seek essential truth, and engage with their material in a very particular way. Beyond that, joy of creation is essential.”

Levitas is currently in production on “Minamata,” pictured above, starring Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Hiroyuki Sanada. HanWay is handling sales. The film, set in 1971, follows Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith’s journey to the...

We can debate the blurring of lines between television and cinema all day long, but when someone like Ramin Bahrani (“99 Homes,” “At Any Price“) gets a chance to play with HBO sized money, and an-all star cast, we can’t help but be excited.

The first look at the director’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury‘s dystopian classic “Fahrenheit 451” is here, and it’s enough to have us feeling particularly fiery.

Continue reading First Look: Michael Shannon & Michael B. Jordan In Ramin Bahrani’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ at The Playlist.

Zac Efron‘s post-Disney heartthrob career has mostly consisted of broad, mainstream fare like “Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates,” “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” “Dirty Grandpa,” and the forthcoming “Baywatch,” however, the actor has shown an interest in spreading his wings. Roles in Ramin Bahrani‘s underrated “At Any Price” and Lee Daniels‘ wild “The Paperboy” have highlighted a desire to add more dimension to his CV, but the actor’s next gig will shake things up considerably.

Continue reading Zac Efron To Play Serial Killer Ted Bundy In ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile’ at The Playlist.

Sarah (Samantha Elisofon) is charmed by David (Brandon Polansky) in Rachel Israel's disarming and engagingly outspoken debut feature Keep The Change

Rachel Israel's Keep The Change, a Tribeca Film Festival highlight, deftly brings us into the challenges a couple has with building face-to-face personal relationships. Before the Tribeca World Premiere, Rachel and I discussed the connection to director Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes, At Any Price) and producer Summer Shelton (Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents and Jim Strouse's People Places Things), Adam and Eve-ing with production designer Alina Smirnova (Brian Oakes' Jim: The James Foley Story), casting Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisofon, Will Deaver, and Nicky Gottlieb, consulting with Drama Therapist Heidi Landis, the Grimms' Frog King, and wanting Keep The Change to be "centered, contained within a neurodivergent world".

Rachel Israel: "I'm working on an adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

David (Polansky), new to a...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)

Ramin Bahrani made a name for himself with three independent films over the last decade, focusing on humanity’s daily struggles, reinvented foreign lives in America, and a fundamental sense of decency. With 2012’s At Any Price and this year’s 99 Homes, Bahrani has twice returned to the festival that launched his career, presenting the evolution of those themes. Not coincidentally, the worst...

According to The Wrap, 99 Homes and At Any Price filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has been hired by HBO to write and direct an adaptation of the classic Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451. Bahrani will also executive produce the project with Alan Gasmer and Peter Jaysen. Bradbury's dystopian tale has only been adapted once for the screen, back in 1966 by director François Truffaut, however it has... Read More...

Ray Bradbury's classic "Fahrenheit 451" was both perfectly of its time and chillingly ahead of its time. While books aren't literally being burned in the street, it speaks to the culture at the moment that we have an annual Banned Books Week. And with knowledge increasingly politicized (see the ongoing battle of evolution vs. creationism in classrooms), Bradbury's book still resonates, and now it's getting ready for a brand new cinematic treatment. HBO has tapped Ramin Bahrani ("99 Homes," "At Any Price") to write and direct a new adaptation of the novel. Francois Truffaut previously brought his vision of Bradbury's work to cinemas in 1966, telling the story of Guy Montag, a fireman tasked with burning contraband material, who suddenly has a crisis of conscience. Here's the book synopsis:  Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out.

Exclusive: Three Six Zero, the music management/entertainment company, has hired Brian Young as manager. He is expected to bring all his clients. This is part of an expansion beyond music that is being led by former ICM Partners agent David Unger. Young has had producing and exec producing credits in films that include Arbitrage and the Venice-winning The Childhood of a Leader, Life after Beth, At Any Price and The Runaways. Young joins from his own boutique startup…...

Exclusive: Three Six Zero, the music management/entertainment company, has hired Brian Young as manager. He is expected to bring all his clients. This is part of an expansion beyond music that is being led by former ICM Partners agent David Unger. Young has had producing and exec producing credits in films that include Arbitrage and the Venice-winning The Childhood of a Leader, Life after Beth, At Any Price and The Runaways. Young joins from his own boutique startup…...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)

Ramin Bahrani made a name for himself with three independent films over the last decade, focusing on humanity’s daily struggles, reinvented foreign lives in America, and a fundamental sense of decency. With 2012’s At Any Price and this year’s 99 Homes, Bahrani has twice returned to the festival that launched his career, presenting the evolution of those themes. Not coincidentally, the worst...

Director Ramin Bahrani scores his most lauded venture yet with the critically acclaimed 99 Homes. Premiering in competition at Venice in 2014, Broad Green Pictures released theatrically a year later, though its limited booking didn’t reclaim its budget of eight million. Michael Shannon landed a Golden Globe and Indie Spirit Award nod for Best Supporting Actor, but a hushed awards campaign didn’t break into Oscar territory. A social issue drama masquerading as a potential genre film, this film should obtain a wider audience for the highly regarded Bahrani.

Though his 2012 farming melodrama At Any Price found the filmmaker gaining wider visibility with notable cast members, its Death of a Salesman treatment of modern capitalistic woes in America’s heartland left much to be desired, even as it showcased a surprising couple of performances, notably from Zac Efron. The filmmaker returns to look at a similar situation in a different market,...

Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.

99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)

Ramin Bahrani made a name for himself with three independent films over the last decade, focusing on humanity’s daily struggles, reinvented foreign lives in America, and a fundamental sense of decency. With 2012’s At Any Price and this year’s 99 Homes, Bahrani has twice returned to the festival that launched his career, presenting the evolution of those themes. Not coincidentally, the worst years of the financial crisis stand between his acclaimed Goodbye, Solo and the tepidly received 2012 picture,...

★★☆☆☆ Ramin Bahrani's At Any Price (2012) has one of those bland three-word titles which bodes no good, yet the results are intriguing if uneven. The Whipples are a family of farmers but the industry has changed and competition is so fierce that the risk of failure looms close despite their obvious prosperity. Farmers sit in Gps-guided, spaceship-esque tractors, checking corn prices on their Blackberries. Dennis Quaid plays Henry Whipple - a brilliantly realised character - there with a firm handshake, a thick hide and an unwavering grin, even if the 'there' is the funeral of a farmer whose land he wishes to buy up.

Zac Efron plays the stock car racing rebel refusing to follow dad Dennis Quaid into the farming business

American writer-director Ramin Bahrani specialises in low-key realist drama rooted in everyday economics: his recent 99 Homes was a trenchant take on the Us mortgage crisis. But he’s on minor form in his previous film, At Any Price, made in 2012 and belatedly getting a limited UK release.

This Iowa-set story is a downbeat affair demonstrating that today’s rural life is in thrall to corporate values and the pressures of the Gm industry. Dennis Quaid plays a fiercely competitive farmer and seed salesman, Zac Efron his rebellious stock car racer son. While Efron pulls off his role with unfussy grace, Quaid rather overplays his rhetoric-spouting midwest Willy Loman. It’s an honest, grown-up, slightly earnest slice of rolled-sleeves Americana – something like the cinematic equivalent of a Steve Earle album.

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The radical story of one of the first post-operative transgender women is played as conventionally as possible here – which is either a failed ironic ploy or simply a failure of imagination. Set in 1920s Denmark, it’s a movie of great taste and elegance, all the better to set off Redmayne’s androgynous beauty. But unlike Koch’s experimentally minded surgeon, we never really get under the skin of his Lili Elbe, formerly known as the artist Einar Wegener. The strain on his wife (Vikander) is conveyed more effectively, but this is a drama marred not so much by political correctness as stifling politeness.

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Ramin Bahrani’s excellent movie 99 Homes, released this year, starred Michael Shannon as a sinister real estate salesman and Andrew Garfield as his unwilling protege. It was a fierce drama about the toxic loan crisis, replete with father-son issues. This film, on the other hand, is the odd, flawed work Bahrani made before 99 Homes; it has many similar themes, but it’s nowhere near as good. Now At Any Price is getting a modest UK release, three years after it premiered at Venice, which is where I first saw it. Dennis Quaid plays Henry, who is worried about the farm that has been in his family for generations but is always teetering near the verge of insolvency. Zac Efron plays his son, the boy he hoped would one day take it over, but who seems more interested in stock car racing. It’s a strained picture, somewhere between tragedy and soap opera.

Hello class, welcome to cinema economics 101. Before you start rolling your eyes, I should tell you that this isn’t about how producers raise the cash in order to fund your favorite flicks. No, we’re going to take a look at the latest entry in Hollywood’s flicks about finance: the very high ups and the low, low downs. This film joins the ranks of the Wall Street series, with more than a passing nod to Arbitrage, Glenngary Glen Ross, and Boiler Room (and the soon to premiere The Big Short). Don’t be too concerned with the poster’s “based on real events” boast because it’s not about one incident, but an overall economic disaster that’s still affecting a whole lotta’ people. We’re talking the very recent housing boom and inevitable bust. How recent? Let’s turn the clock back just five years as we...

Andrew Garfield is at the centre of the Florida housing crisis in the new drama 99 Homes, in theatres this week.

The film, which played Tiff in 2014, sees Garfield as Dennis, a young father who, alongside his mother Lynn (Laura Dern), is evicted from their family home by greedy real estate broker Rick Carver (Michael Shannon). Eager to buy back their home, Dennis faces a moral dilemma; to earn the money he needs, he must work for Rick evicting people from their homes. A complicated relationship between Dennis and Rick ensues as his newfound mentor employs more than a few underhanded tricks to fleece the vulnerable for profit.

Directed by Ramin Bahrani (At Any Price), the film opens in select theatres on Friday. Cineplex sat down the Garfield, Shannon, and Dern to talk about 99 Homes. Watch our cast interview now, plus check out an in-depth conversation with Dern about the film...

“Celebrity is the new religion, as far as I can see, along with money, power, status. It’s all the same umbrella — the seductive forces of evil, really,” Andrew Garfield told Vulture. It’s safe to say the years under the microscope of public scrutiny during “The Amazing Spider-Man” wasn’t the young actor’s favorite time in the whole world. He’s been backlashing on it hard on his recent press rounds, and who can blame him? So, as he transitions out of superhero movie world and returns back to indie films, including his latest movie, “99 Homes,” don’t be surprised if you see him dive into character actor roles for some time to shake off the aftertaste of Peter Parker. And if you expect him to take a tentpole gig any time soon you’re probably going to be disappointed. Read More: Review: Ramin Bahrani's '99 Homes'...

Housing Complex: Bahrani Extends Capitalism Criticism to Housing Market

Though his 2012 farming melodrama At Any Price found director Ramin Bahrani gaining wider visibility with notable cast members, its Death of a Salesman treatment of modern capitalistic woes in America’s heartland left much to be desired, even as it showcased a surprising couple of performances, notably from Zac Efron. The filmmaker returns to look at a similar situation in a different market, navigating through the topicality of foreclosure.

Folding us into a Floridian malaise, Bahrani elevates blood pressure to match the blazing summer heat in this upsetting and often persuasive rendering of greed in a world that seems to have lost all semblance of humanity. Assuredly complex in its examination, it’s too bad that this emotional tornado culminates in a finale that would have been appropriate for the censorship era of villainous punishment, but one can sense that Bahrani...

As befitting his nuanced, observational approach toward narrative in his films (“Chop Shop”, “Goodbye Solo”), director Ramin Bahrani didn’t force his latest project “99 Homes” away from its path towards genre. “Initially when I went down to Florida [for research into the U.S. housing crisis], I thought I was making something more like my other films—a social drama,” explained Bahrani when we spoke with him recently in Los Angeles. “But Florida told me, 'No, you’re making a thriller.' Because every real estate broker carries a gun; because the corruption is so mind-boggling.” Following the swift eviction of the Nash family led by Dennis (Andrew Garfield), and Dennis’ uneasy partnership with the ruthless broker (Michael Shannon) who profited from it, the film also represents a step up in scale for Bahrani. His last feature “At Any Price” toyed with the combination of his humanist style with recognizable faces (Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid), but here he perfects that groove with.

Chalk it up to image control and the studio weight behind them — comic book films have become a time-release truth bomb, with a contractually bound gap for its cast and crew between its release and when the “real story” can emerge. That can occasionally slip, but the full tale behind Marc Webb’s “Amazing Spider-Man” reboot — to which actor Andrew Garfield lent a dedicated two turns as Peter Parker before the role was reset again — is still to come. If the aftermath means more films and roles for Garfield like “99 Homes” (our review) though, then consider the shift a welcome one. Led by Ramin Bahrani, director of “Chop Shop,” “Goodbye Solo,” and “At Any Price,” the “Never Let Me Go” actor delivers an impassioned performance as Dennis Nash, on the losing side of the housing crisis in Florida when he and his mother (Laura Dern) and son (Noah Lomax) are evicted from their home.

Premiering a year ago at the Venice Film Festival, Ramin Bahrani's ("Man Push Cart," "Goodbye Solo") latest "99 Homes"  has taken a little while to arrive in cinemas. But it's finally on the way, and a powerful new clip is here for the drama set against the backdrop of the worldwide economic crisis and foreclosure fallout of the past seven years. Read More: Venice Review: Ramin Bahrani's 'At Any Price,' A Patchy But Powerful Performance Melodrama With A Fantastic Performance From Dennis Quaid  Starring Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon and Laura Dern, the story follows a young man recently evicted from his home who decides to get into the repo business himself and comes under the wing of a ruthless businessman. Here's the official synopsis: In this timely thriller, charismatic and ruthless businessman, Rick Carver (Academy nominee Michael Shannon), is making a killing by repossessing homes - gaming the real estate.

Today we have the trailer for the upcoming "99 Homes" that got a lot of buzz at the Sundance Film Festival. It stars Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) and Michael Shannon (Man of Steel). Check out the trailer below. Plot: The story focuses on a desperate blue-collar construction worker (Garfield) whose family is evicted when the bank forecloses on their home during the economic downturn. In order to get back in their house, he makes a dirty deal to work for a crooked real-estate broker (Shannon), the same man who caused his trouble in the first place. "99 Homes" is directed by Ramin Bahrani (At Any Price) and is set to hit select theaters on September 25th. Trailer:...

There have already been a handful of great movies about the recent economic turmoil caused in America (and around the world) by the collapse of the real estate market, however movies like Margin Call and Inside Job focus on the institutionalized side of things. The new drama 99 Homes heads away from Wall Street and right into middle America and judging by the first trailer, it's going to be a must-see when it hits theaters on September 25, 2015. Directed by Ramin Bahrani (At Any Price), 99 Homes stars Andrew Garfield as a father whose family is evicted from their home by a greedy real estate broker played by Michael Shannon. Things are looking grim for them until one day Garfield gets a job offer from Shannon. But is working for the man worth the emotional cost? That...

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[Editor's Note: Broad Green Pictures is launching the official trailer on June 3, 2015. What was previously published was illegally posted to YouTube.] Read More: 'The Dark Horse' Joins '99 Homes,' 'Eden' and More in Broad Green Pictures' Impressive Inaugural Slate Ramin Bahrani has become one of the most astute observers of American identity thanks to dramas such as "Man Push Cart," "Chop Shop" and "At Any Price," and his latest film, "99 Homes," should be his most timely effort yet as it tackles the individual and economic effects of the recent housing crisis. The drama premiered to critical acclaim at the Venice International Film Festival last August and stars Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon and Laura Dern. Garfield stars as Dennis Nash, a father and construction worker who is forced to move in with his mother (Dern) after he is evicted from his home by an intimidating real-estate broker (Shannon). Unable to find work and hungry to...

"Fifty dollars shouldn't be a joke to you, son!" Broad Green Pictures has finally debuted an official trailer for 99 Homes, the latest film from Ramin Bahrani, a very talented American filmmaker who has worked in the indie scene for years. A few years ago we were big supporters of At Any Price, but recommend any of Bahrani's previous films: Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, etc. Also - see this one. 99 Homes stars Andrew Garfield as a young father, who decides to join the real estate business and work for the man that took his house from him. Michael Shannon co-stars, along with Laura Dern. The film is very powerful, and emotionally draining, but a very important film for these times. It's tough to watch, but so well made. Here's the official Us trailer for Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes, found originally on YouTube: 99 Homes is directed by Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart,...

Dennis Quaid's profanity-laced tirade – real or fake?

That's the question being asked after the video was posted on YouTube, showing the actor having a total meltdown while filming an as-of-now unknown production.

The verbal barrage apparently started when someone from the production crew stepped into a scene while Quaid was filming.

Watch: Dennis Quaid & Zac Efron Discuss Filming 'At Any Price'

"I am acting here and this d**khead wanders onto my set! I can't even get a line out until dopey the d**k starts whispering in your ear and you're not even watching anymore!" ...

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The movie business has a lot in common with the speculative stock market. Those that get a piece of the action early can hope for a huge payday in the long run. The Weinsteins are building their 2016 slate, getting into the game prior to lensing with The Founder and now, Gold. Deadline reports that the Weinstein Co. won the derby over for the domestic rights to Stephen Gaghan‘s third feature film starring Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez and packaged by Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures (they started with Ramin Bahrani’s At Any Price and most recently preemed Eli Roth’s Knock Knock). The film would receive an assured 2500 screen release. The film which was described as a sort of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre has already been picked up in several territories and will begin lensing this June in Thailand, New York and New Mexico. Look...

It looks like March is going to be a big month in VOD releases for genre fans, as there are a handful of great titles to keep an eye out for in the coming weeks. Several highly anticipated indie films are getting released, including It Follows, Spring, Faults and Backcountry, and there are also a handful of other fun films making their way onto digital platforms as well.

Here’s a rundown of what’s heading to VOD in March:

The Burning Dead (Uncork’d Entertainment)- 3/3

Written and produced by Jeff Miller and Jason Ancona (co-writers and producers of Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan), The Burning Dead pits a a horde of lava-filled zombies against a sheriff charged with the plight to rescue an estranged family from a volcano eruption. Trejo plays Night Wolf, a Native American warrior who knows way too much about the curse that unearthed the coffin dodgers.

Get ready to feel a chill go down your spine. Today's trailer is for a hit horror-thriller called It Follows, the second film from David Robert Mitchell of The Myth of the American Sleepover previously. Up-and-coming actress Maika Monroe, who you'll recognize starring in The Guest or Labor Day or At Any Price, stars as a teenage girl who ends up cursed after she has sex with a guy from her school. Out of nowhere, a person will suddenly start walking towards her, it never stops, and it's creepy as all hell. Jeremy gave the film a great review at Fantastic Fest, and it has earned raves from critics aplenty as it plays festivals all over the world. It's an original thriller that horror fans will love. Check out this teaser (which doesn't give away anything). Here's the first teaser trailer for David Robert Mitchell's It Follows, direct from...

They made a small blip on the radar with the Cannes pick-up of Carlos Marques-Marcet’s SXSW-winning 10000km, and until the press release was announced, we thought they were known more as a production entity with the Tiff-preemed Learning to Drive from Spanish helmer Isabel Coixet. But make no mistake about it, Daniel Hammond’s Broad Green Pictures is coming out of the woodworks by swinging for the fences — landing the critically lauded Ramin Bahrani film that surfaced in perfect Telluride-Venice-tiff trifecta. U.S rights were picked up for a cool $3 million with what was probably an interesting P&A commitment. A spring of 2015 release is expected for 99 Homes, meaning we can expect this to go the Jeff Nichols’ Mud/Derek Cianfrance The Place Beyond the Pines route of being among the earliest award mentions in the calendar year.

Gist: Co-written by Bahrani, filmmaker Amir Naderi and Bahareh Azimi, this is set in sunny Orlando,...

“It’s not your home anymore.” Director Ramin Bahrani has long been preoccupied with portraying the price of the American dream on the big screen – the theme is obvious in both At Any Price and Man Push Cart – but his 99 Homes finally fully capitalizes on that obsession to great effect. This time around, Bahrani is concerned with the bursting of the mortgage bubble, turning his attention to the swamplands of Florida, where regular people (oh, hey, just like Andrew Garfield‘s Dennis Nash) are desperately trying to hold on to their family homes, even as opportunists like Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) use their misfortune to fuel their own businesses. Dennis is already desperate when the film opens, mere days away from losing the Nash family home, effectively sealing that his inability to pay the bills has ruined his life, his young son Connor’s (Noah Lomax) life and even his mother Lynn’s (Laura Dern) life. Three...

Another film playing as part of the BFI London Film Festival, as well as the Toronto International Film Festival, is It Follows; and right now we have the first clip along with stills and the official one-sheet which is clawing its way up from below. Check 'em out, and look for more to follow. See what we did there?

With a riveting central performance from Maika Monroe and a strikingly ominous electronic score by Disasterpeace, It Follows is an artful psychosexual thriller from David Robert Mitchell (whose The Myth of the American Sleepover premiered at Critics' Week in 2010).

The film also stars Keir Gilchrist ("The United States of Tara"), Daniel Zovatto (Laggies), Jake Weary ("Chicago Fire"), Olivia Luccardi ("Orange Is the New Black"), and Lili Sepe (Spork).

Synopsis

For 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe, At Any Price), the fall should be about school, boys, and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter,...

After its smash international World Premiere in Venice, director Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes — an absolutely riveting drama about the 2008 home foreclosure crisis — had its North American premiere here at the Telluride Film Festival, and it has set this place ablaze. Despite lots of interest, as there should be, from domestic distributors, Bahrani told me immediately after this morning’s screening that the financiers behind the film are waiting until its Toronto debut next week to finalize anything. Starring Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon in career-best performances, this movie is not only a no-brainer for a quick distribution deal, it could be the rare — here comes that five letter word you hate so much, studios — drama that also could be a commercial powerhouse. Few films I have seen in recent years have cut so close to the bone as this one does. Americans, in particular, will respond strongly, and if ever there was a word-of-mouth movie,...