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Good family dramas are a rarity these days. Any movie or show that discusses the flaws in the familial system is always a good story. There is scope for exploring layers behind human behavior, and family dramas allow that if the screenplay is competently written. Piku, Dil Dhadakne Do, and Kapoor & Sons are some examples from Hindi cinema that explore family dynamics as a theme and how families function on a daily basis. Parachute, the new Disney+ Hotstar show, is about two young children and the relationship they have with their father, who seems to have a temper.

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Why was Lakshmi at a police station?

The show began with a distraught Varun looking for Rudra on a crowded road. He is hit by an oncoming vehicle that renders him injured. Moving on to nightfall later that day, Lakshmi visits the local police station to file a missing persons...

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The entertainment scene feels light this weekend on Ott platforms and in theaters. It could be because the major releases are gearing up for next month, just in time for Christmas. As usual, Netflix takes the lead with the highest number of titles. Netflix offers a variety of options, including a rags-to-riches story, a thrilling heist movie, a Christmas romantic comedy, and a gripping conspiracy thriller. If none interest you, head to Disney+ Hotstar for a heartwarming comedy about an uncle struggling to care for his orphaned nibblings. In theaters, we have just two notable releases this week. Please keep reading to discover what they are and everything else you need to know about what to watch this weekend.

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Directed by Venky Atluri, this period financial crime drama stars Dulquer Salmaan in the titular role. Set in the late 1980s and early 90s,...

Emotions ran high as The Voice’s Season 26 Knockouts came to a close Monday night. Uncle Snoop Dogg was even reduced to tears by the prospect of picking between three of his contestants. Was his choice really so hard, though? Let’s discuss all the performances, then we can debate it out in the comments.

Team Reba: Lauren-Michael Sellers singing “Hold On to Me” (Grade: B+) defeated Danny Joseph singing “It Hurt So Bad” (Grade: A) and Tate Renner singing “In Color” (Grade: B) — Danny saved by Reba | Up first, Danny was so present and so compelling, if...

Exclusive: Oscar nominees Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon) and Bryan Cranston (Trumbo) have been set to star in action-thriller Lone Wolf.

Mark Pellington (Arlington Road) is set to direct from an original screenplay by Tom Chilcoat. Ted Hope and his Double Hope banner is producing alongside Christine Vachon and her Killer Films, in association with Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions. Backing comes from Rabbits Black.

The conspiracy thriller will follow a troubled vet (Gladstone) struggling with addiction who is recruited by a contractor (Cranston) for a covert government plot to assassinate a high-level politician. After learning she’s set to take the fall, she must utilize all of her skills to outwit the shadow agents to protect the future of her son.

Great Escape is handling sales with the UTA Independent Film Group jointly handling domestic at the upcoming American Film Market.

Executive producers include Sean Krajewski,...

Exclusive: Alex Cooper, host of the hit Call Her Daddy podcast, is adding to her talent pool.

Cooper has signed actor Owen Thiele, who starred in Theater Camp, to The Unwell Network, her burgeoning talent network.

Thiele is the latest rising star to join The Unwell Network’s ranks, following the likes of content creators Alix Earle, Madeline Argy and Perfect Match star Harry Jowsey.

Cooper launched The Unwell Network in August 2023 and is behind podcasts such as Hot Mess with Alix Earle, Pretty Lonesome with Madeline Argy and Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey. It is part of her media company Trending, which she founded with her husband Matt Kaplan of Ace Entertainment.

It will now work with Thiele to develop and produce upcoming projects.

Thiele previously starred in Zoey 102 for Paramount+, indie feature Parachute, directed by Brittany Snow and season two of Hulu’s Dollface. He is set to star in FX pilot Snowflakes,...

Brittany Snow’s Parachute isn’t a rom-com to feel fluttery about. Rather, through Riley’s struggles, this film takes a psychological approach to show the impact of mental disorders like body dysmorphia. Neurotypical people often do not understand what someone with conditions like these goes through. It can be quite horrifying, and that is something Brittany Snow has captured impeccably by letting us see the world through the eyes of Riley herself.

Riley is a young woman fresh out of rehab, looking forward to recovering from her severe eating disorder and body dysmorphia. Riley has become a compulsive Instagram scroller, and her feed is filled with Instagram models with flawless and “perfect” bodies. These women, with their strict workout regimes and dieting, make Riley feel worse. At times, she even starves herself on purpose. It’s quite true that Instagram’s rise has led to an increase in the...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for The Sympathizer, Fallout and Quiet on Set.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver screening

On April 5, Netflix hosted a fan screening in New York to celebrate the upcoming release of Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver with filmmakers Zack and Deborah Snyder and stars Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Michiel Huisman, Ed Skrein, Staz Nair, Fra Fee, Elise Duffy, Stuart Martin and Ray Fisher.

Wesley Coller, Stuart Martin, Ed Skrein, Staz Nair, Deborah Snyder, Eric Newman, Zack Snyder, Ray Fisher, Fra Fee, Djimon Hounsou, Elise Duffy, Sofia Boutella and Michiel Huisman

The Sympathizer premiere

Robert Downey Jr., Sandra Oh and Hoa Xuande walked the carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of their new HBO series on Tuesday.

Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey Sandra Oh, Hoa Xuande...

Ryan Gosling doesn’t need anything but his cowboy hat and the long, open road in the promotional clip for his upcoming Saturday Night Live gig. The actor will host this weekend’s episode with musical guest Chris Stapleton — though Gosling, a huge Stapleton fan, was admittedly a little nervous to talk to the country star, uncertain of how to go about asking for an autograph.

“Mr. Stapleton, big fan. Love your music,” Gosling said to himself, trying out the introduction before scrapping it with a swift “No, that’s stupid.

Moviegoers will likely recognize Brittany Snow‘s name from films like “X,” “John Tucker Must Die,” and the “Pitch Perfect” series. But the longtime actress is now a full-fledged director, and her feature debut is ready to hit theaters after its world premiere at SXSW last year.

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And “Parachute” stars another up-and-coming performer on the cusp of a breakout: “Yellowjackets” star Courtney Eaton.

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"I just can't see you do this to yourself anymore. Don't trust your brain, okay?" Vertical has debuted the trailer for an indie romantic drama called Parachute, the feature directorial debut from actress Brittany Snow. This originally premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival one year ago. It also played at the Dallas, Woodstock, Raindance, & Denver Film Festivals last year. From director Brittany Snow, Parachute tells the story of Riley and Ethan, who must navigate blossoming love and friendship and intimacy while trying to overcome combustible personal struggles. The film focuses on Riley, who was recently released from rehab after struggling with eating disorders and body image. She meets Ethan and finds herself navigating the line between love and a new addiction. The film stars Courtney Eaton as Riley and Thomas Mann as Ethan, with Francesca Reale, Gina Rodriguez, Joel McHale, Dave Bautista, and Scott Mescudi. This has a similar look...

Exclusive: Lisa Steen’s debut feature Late Bloomers, starring Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise), is the latest starry festival indie to have secured North American distribution through Vertical.

Other recent pickups for Vertical include the Sundance genre-bender Your Monster starring Melissa Barrera, true crime doc The Speedway Murders, Brittany Snow’s SXSW-premiering directorial debut Parachute, and the Zoe Saldaña thriller The Absence of Eden co-acquired with Roadside Attractions, to name just a few.

Specifics as to the release plan for Late Bloomers haven’t been disclosed.

World premiering at SXSW 2023, the film centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless and recently single 28-year-old Brooklynite, who drunkenly falls while stalking her ex and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina (Margaret Sophie Stein), a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Through circumstances beyond her control,...

Exclusive: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Parachute, the romantic drama marking the directorial debut of actress Brittany Snow (X), which won multiple awards in its debut at SXSW 2023, recognizing Snow and star Courtney Eaton (Yellowjackets). The film from Yale Productions, also starring Thomas Mann (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), is set to open in select theaters on April 5.

Written by Snow and Becca Gleason (Summer ’03), Parachute boasts a starry cast that also includes Gina Rodriguez (Not Dead Yet), Dave Bautista (Dune: Part Two), Joel McHale (Community), Francesca Reale, and Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi (Silent Night).

The film tells the story of Riley (Eaton), a fun and energetic young woman who struggles with an eating disorder and body image issues, and Ethan (Mann), a once-promising musician approaching the end of his 20s, watching as the two meet and just “click.” To Ethan, all...

Music and movies will take turns being Kid Cudi’s main creative priority. The musician announced on Friday that his next studio album is nearly complete, but he isn’t looking to release it until 2026. His latest release, the long-delayed Insano, arrived last month, which makes 2025 a movie year in his alternating schedule.

“My next album is already about 80% done, and it’ll be out in 2026. As always, we’re takin it someplace new,” Cudi wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Just wanted to let yall know, expect an album from...

Production and sales group Yale Entertainment is to collaborate with New York theatre company Djdl Productions on a slate of feature films.

The companies said the features, to be made under a Yale Entertainment Select Projects, or Yes Projects banner, will be “character driven films that empower unique and diverse cinematic voices.” International sales on the projects will be handled by Yale’s sales operation Great Escape.

The first two projects to be revealed under the arrangement are neo-noir suspense thriller Just Over Broken and sci-fi/political thriller Mars.

Written by Mickey Solis, who also wrote Yale’s 2021 action thriller Rogue Hostage,...

Brittany Snow joins ‘The Hunting Wives’ (Photo Credit: Sela Shiloni / Courtesy of Starz)

Brittany Snow (the Pitch Perfect franchise) has boarded Starz’s new drama series The Hunting Wives, based on the bestselling novel by May Cobb. Snow will co-lead the series with Malin Akerman, who was previously announced as attached to the project.

The series, described as a twisty thriller, is targeting a spring start of production in Charlotte, North Carolina. Season one will consist of eight episodes.

“Snow will portray Sophie O’Neil in the series based on the novel by May Cobb, which tells the story of Sophie and her family’s move from the East Coast to deep East Texas, where she succumbs to socialite Margo Bank’s (Malin Åkerman) irresistible charms – and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction, and murder,” reads Starz’s synopsis.

Rebecca Cutter (Hightown) is adapting Cobb’s book and will serve as showrunner and executive producer.

Brittany Snow has been cast in “The Hunting Wives,” an upcoming drama series at Starz adapted from the May Cobb novel of the same name. She will play Sophie O’Neill, and joins previously announced star Malin Åkerman.

“The Hunting Wives” follows Sophie, who moves with her family from the East Coast to deep East Texas. There, she succumbs to socialite Margo’s (Åkerman) irresistible charms and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction and murder.

Snow began her career on the CBS soap opera “Guiding Light” before rising to prominence with roles such as Amber Von Tussle in the 2007 “Hairspray” film and Chloe Beale in the “Pitch Perfect” films. More recently, she has appeared in the A24 horror film “X,” the Fox drama “Almost Family” and the short film “Red White & Blue,” which is nominated for a 2024 Oscar. Up next, she will be seen opposite Nick Jonas in...

Exclusive: Brittany Snow has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Malin Åkerman in Starz’s upcoming thriller drama series The Hunting Wives, produced by Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment.

Written by Rebecca Cutter based on the novel by May Cobb, The Hunting Wives tells the story of Sophie O’Neil (Snow) and her family’s move from the East Coast to deep East Texas, where she succumbs to socialite Margo Bank’s (Åkerman) irresistible charms – and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction and murder.

Cutter, who will serve as showrunner, executive produces with Cobb and 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff. Production on the eight-episode series starts this spring in Charlotte, Nc.

Snow can currently be seen in the 2024 Oscar-nominated live-action short film Red White & Blue. Her directorial feature debut film Parachute premiered at SXSW 2023, earning two awards including the Thunderbird Rising Special Award. It is set for a 2024 release.

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Exclusive: After recurring in the fifth season of FX’s acclaimed crime drama anthology Fargo, Lukas Gage has been tapped to star opposite Naomi Scott in Paramount’s sequel to Smile, the 2022 horror thriller from Parker Finn, which went on to outsized success in theaters following a pivot in release strategy.

Details as to the plot of the as-yet-untitled film, as well as the roles of the actors cast thus far, are under wraps. But Finn has returned to direct from his own script, with Temple Hill producing. The sequel is currently slated for release on October 18, 2024, when it will go up against a still-unnamed title from Universal Pictures.

Going on to gross over $217M in theaters, even if it was initially set up for release on Paramount+, Smile was one of the great, unexpected box office successes of 2022. One of a number of original studio horror films of late to expand into a franchise,...

Tuesday night on NBC, the remaining five contestants on “The Voice” Season 24 found out their fates in the live two-hour finale (read our minute-by-minute live blog). One by one, host Carson Daly revealed which artist came in fifth place, fourth place, third place and second place, and then named the ultimate winner. But did the right person win? That’s for You to decide! Vote right now in our poll and then sound off down in the comments section.

Warning: the following story contains spoilers from “The Voice” Season 24 finale. Read at your own risk!

Up first, Carson announced that the fifth place artist was Lila Forde. Lila was a four-chair turn for her blind audition of “Can’t Find My Way Home,” joining Team John Legend. She then won her battle of “Killing Me Softly with His Song” against JaRae Womack. In the knockouts, she sang “Fire and Rain...

For the past three weeks, Gold Derby readers have been making their “The Voice” winner predictions for Season 24 and things are still looking good for Huntley of Team Niall Horan. According to our updated racetrack odds, this 33-year-old rock singer from Fredericksburg, Virginia has leading 39/50 odds to win, compared to second-place contender Ruby Leigh of Team Reba McEntire at 31/10 odds.

Here are the current “The Voice” winner predictions as of Monday, December 18:

1. Huntley (Team Niall) — 39/50 odds

2. Ruby Leigh (Team Reba) — 31/10 odds

3. Mara Justine (Team Niall) — 9/1 odds

4. Lila Forde (Team John Legend) — 18/1 odds

5. Jacquie Roar (Team Reba) — 25/1 odds

Do you agree or disagree with the predictions of your fellow “The Voice” fans? This 24th season is about to wrap up, with the live two-night finale taking place on December 18 (performance show) and December 19 (results show).

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For the first time in Season 24, The Voice put its contestants’ fates in the hands of viewers last week, allowing their votes to decide who advanced. Monday, the sing-off invited those grips to tighten as fans also suggested the numbers that the Top 9 would be performing. Which contenders got lucky, and which got un-? Read on…

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Ruby Leigh (Team Reba), “Take Me Home, Country Roads” — Grade: B- | Fans did fine and also dandy by the 16-year-old by suggesting John Denver’s classic for her. Unfortunately, Ruby wasn’t 100% up to the task at hand.

Tonight on “The Voice,” the top nine artists perform solo and in trios for coaches Niall Horan, John Legend, Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani. Viewers have a chance to vote for their favorite overnight. Then tomorrow, the top four vote-getters will automatically advance to the Season 24 finale while the bottom five fight for the Instant Save.

The four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series returns with the strongest vocalists from across the country invited to compete in the show’s newest season, which premiered September 25 on NBC. The show’s innovative format features five stages of competition: Blind Auditions, Battle Rounds, Knockouts, Playoffs and Live Performance Shows.

See Everything to know about ‘The Voice’ Season 24: Premiere date, coaches

Below, read our minute-by-minute “The Voice” recap of Season 24, Episode 22 to find out what happened Monday, December 11 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments...

Exclusive: Reptile co-stars Alicia Silverstone and Karl Glusman have been set to lead The Bird and the Bee, a sexually charged thriller that marks Justin Kelly’s third film for Yale Productions, on the heels of Welcome the Stranger and gay porn world-set crime drama King Cobra.

Written by Atlantis actor Jack Donnelly, the film was shot under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement and wrapped production this week. Pic follows a successful executive (Silverstone) as she fights back a scorned younger lover (Glusman) who takes his obsession too far.

Producers included Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jesse Korman of Yale Productions, as well as Scott Levenson and Lexi Tannenholtz. Exec producers included Jason Kringstein, John Wollman, Michael J. Rothstein, Jeffrey Tussi, Jeremy Rothstein, and Jodie Lazar, as well as Brian Unger, Gigi Lacks,...

Brittany Snow and Jaspre Guest did not let the month close without toasting the three-year anniversary of their mental health platform September Letters. They did so with the help of lifestyle website The Retaility and footwear brand Toms as the party partners teamed to host a backyard fete held at the Los Angeles home of entertainment journalist, host and podcaster Adrianna Costa.

Guests at the party included Snow’s Pitch Perfect costar Anna Kendrick, Kid Cudi, Haley Lu Richardson, Amanda Kloots, Paul Wesley, Courtney Eaton, Sam Richardson, Abigail Spencer, Francesca Reale, Elektra Kilbey, Chrissie Fit, Hilary Shor, Kelly McKee Zajfen, Jaclyn Johnson, Nikki DeLoach, mental health expert David Kessler and Toms chief brand and impact officer Amy Smith.

“We started September Letters to help people feel less alone through sharing their story,” said Snow in reference to the platform that started as a mental health awareness and letter writing experience...

Christian Cooke’s directorial debut ‘Embers’ is among the world premieres.

The UK premieres of Jack Huston’s Day Of The Fight and Isabel Coixet’s Un Amor will respectively open and close the 31st Raindance Film Festival, which will take place in London from October 25 – November 4.

Day Of The Flight launched in Horizons at Venice earlier this month, It is the directorial debut of UK actor Huston and stars Michael Pitt, Ron Perlman and Joe Pesci in a story about a once-renowned boxer on his first day out of prison.

Coixet’s latest feature Un Amor stars Lai Costa...

The 31st edition of London’s Raindance Film Festival will open with the U.K. premiere of British actor Jack Huston’s directorial debut “Day of the Fight.”

The film comes to Raindance fresh off its Venice debut, where Huston was honored by Variety as a breakthrough director.

The story of a once-renowned boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first fight since he left prison stars Michael Pitt alongside a cast including Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci, and a cameo from Steve Buscemi.

The U.K. premiere of Isabel Coixet’s “Un Amor” will close the festival after it bows at San Sebastian. Based on Sara Mesa’s bestselling novel, Laia Costa plays a young woman who escapes her stressful life in the city and relocates to rural Spain. When she accepts a disturbing sexual proposal, it gives rise to an all-consuming and obsessive passion.

Leading independent digital platform Mamamia hosted its Upfronts showcase in Sydney last week to 250 senior marketers at Doltone House.

Creators Mia Freedman, Holly Wainwright and Clare Stephens opened by sharing the stark findings of Mamamia’s new longitudinal study ‘The State of Australian Women’: two thirds of women, across generations, are shouldering the burden of managing the household’s budget through inflationary times. As wallets tighten, it is women who are calling the shots.

And it’s an ocean of purchasing power (see chart below): from beauty to home entertainment to auto, it’s only when you get to home renovation that shared decision-making becomes more common than women making all or most decisions.

The study also found that Health & Fitness and Travel & Holidays were the areas where women’s intentions to spend more in the year ahead outnumbered intentions to cut back. Holly Wainwright, Executive Editor, said:...

The upcoming Woodstock Film Festival will kick off with Chloe Domont’s “Fair Play” and present a lifetime achievement award to James Ivory.

The 24th edition of the fest, which runs from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in New York’s Hudson Valley, about 100 miles north of Manhattan, features a lineup of world, U.S. and New York premieres of feature films directed by filmmakers ranging from Steve Buscemi (“The Listener”) and Wim Wenders (“Anselm”) to Roger Ross Williams (“Stamped From the Beginning”).

Opening night “Fair Play,” an erotic thriller about a power-hungry couple contending for power at a cutthroat financial firm, was acquired by Netflix for $20 million after debuting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Wff will be held at venues in Woodstock, Rosendale and Saugerties, all of which are Hudson Valley towns where many Academy members own homes, making the fest an award season campaign hotspot.

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Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) and Jason Momoa (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) are teaming with Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto on The Wrecking Crew, the buddy action comedy that they’ve set up at MGM, Deadline can confirm.

Bautista and Momoa were both in talks for the film, scripted by Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper, long before the SAG-AFTRA strike. Tropper’s deal was negotiated and closed, and his script submitted, prior to the WGA strike began in early May.

Plot details are under wraps for now, but Bautista and Momoa sold the pitch to MGM following a four-bidder battle in the fall 2021, as we were first to report. Jeffrey Fierson, Momoa’s collaborator on the Netflix/Discovery Canada series Frontier, will produce.

Bautista has been seen this year in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin, as well as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,...

Lukas Gage (You), Megan Suri (It Lives Inside) and Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) have closed deals to join Jack Quaid in Companion, New Line’s sci-fi thriller from the team behind last fall’s horror smash Barbarian, which Drew Hancock will direct from his own original script, in his feature debut.

Details as to the film’s plot are under wraps. New Line acquired Companion in a competitive situation following the multi-studio bidding war for Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger’s new horror Weapons, which Cregger is producing alongside Vertigo’s Roy Lee and BoulderLight’s Raphael Margules & J.D. Lifshitz, as well as Miri Yoon.

Also on board to produce Companion are BoulderLight’s Margules & Lifshitz, Vertigo’s Lee, and Cregger. BoulderLight’s Tracy Rosenblum and Vertigo’s Andrew Childs will exec produce.

Most recently wrapping production on Max’s Dead Boy Detectives and Amazon/MGM’s...

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Brittany Snow and Jaspre Guest’s HarperCollins book September Letters: Finding Strength and Connection in Sharing Our Stories is Chicken Soup for the Soul for a new generation. A collection of inspirational essays and mantras, the new tome is an extension of the duo’s online mental health platform, which launched in 2020 and features soul-affirming content submitted by (often anonymous) writers in the form of letters as a means of free therapy.

“We wanted to build a place that was safe, where people could feel connected,” Guest says of SeptemberLetters.com. It’s overseen by editorial director Stacey Lindsay, who has evolved the platform to include profiles, stories exploring happiness and additional mental health resources.

Like the September Letters website, Snow and Guest’s new book is...

Tickets go on sale tomorrow for this year's edition of the Lighthouse Film Festival in Long Beach Island, New Jersey. We already highlighted the midnighter program, led by Ted Geoghegan's Brooklyn 45, the other day. The final wave of titles are being announced right here, right now.    If nights of terror aren't your brand then perhaps titles in this final wave will be more to your liking. Brittany Snow's directorial debut and SXSW award winning picture, Parachute, is all set to open this year's festival. Snow took home the  Best First Feature award while one of their stars, Courtney Eaton, won the Best Performance Award.    The rest of the final wave of titles are included in the announcement below.    The festival's buzzy...

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Exclusive: Scott Mescudi (X) has closed a deal to star opposite Jessica Biel and Xochitl Gomez in the sci-fi thriller Ursa Major, from Kin filmmakers Jonathan and Josh Baker.

The film written by Patrick Somerville, Colleen O’Brien and Katie French, which is heading into production this fall, is set on an earth-like planet, where a mother (Biel) and daughter (Gomez) fight for survival while hiding from a group of relentless hunters. With the added threat of an imminent and deadly storm, Natalie — now a teenager — begins questioning her mother, Charlie, about who they really are, how they got here, and what they need to do to survive.

Mescudi will play the role of Blair, part of an enemy faction that crash-lands on the same planet as Charlie and Natalie.

Producers include Somerville, David Eisenberg and Stephanie Jacob-Goldman through Tractor Beam, John Finemore through Lost City, Mason Novick through Mxn Entertainment,...

This year’s Stagecoach Festival was a love letter to country music’s past and a nod to its wide-open future. While the festival — the genre’s largest, most rollicking reunion that takes place in California’s low desert the week after Coachella — was sparse on guest appearances (no Axl Rose, this time), the level of showmanship and raw talent was high.

The three-day affair weaved in and out of hat-tips from the likes of Luke Bryan playing “Where the Green Grass Grows” by Tim McGraw to Kane Brown performing...

In 2007, just after her breakout movie role as brittle, sizeist mean-girl Amber Von Tussle in Adam Shankman’s “Hairspray,” actor Brittany Snow took to the pages of People to talk about her own longtime battle with anorexia. But in a cultural moment that was peculiarly hostile to the mental health crises of young female celebrities — it was also the year that Britney Spears shaved her head — the response to her op-ed was dismissive. Now, 16 years and something of a sea change in social attitudes later, the sheer sincerity of Snow’s directorial debut is quite the rebuttal to those who accused her of mere attention-seeking back then. Unmistakably informed by personal, painful experience, “Parachute” pulls its ripcord early, determined to let its self-critical, struggling characters drift down to the soft landing Snow herself was not granted.

The film, which Snow co-wrote with Becca Gleason, is deeply felt and certainly proves that the actress,...

Throughout the first episodes of “Yellowjackets” Season 2, the thriller’s younger cast members are emerging as series MVPs. Increasingly harsh living conditions and emotional fallout from Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) death have provided them with the show’s most complex and devastating material yet. Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Courtney Eaton and Sophie Thatcher’s standout performances deserve as much Emmy consideration as those of their adult counterparts.

As Shauna, seven months pregnant and grieving her best friend under less-than-ideal circumstances, Nélisse is giving a darker, more psychologically challenging performance than she had in Season 1. Clayton Davis reported in Variety that, despite having been campaigned alongside her ‘96-timeline co-stars as a supporting actor for the show’s maiden Emmy bid, Nélisse will this time around compete for a lead slot. The shift doesn’t come as a surprise, given how many Season 2 write-ups have singled out the rising star. While...

The curtain has dropped on another South by Southwest, but this was no ordinary year for the Austin-based tech and media event. Two days after the festival started, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” claimed seven Oscars and gave it the bonafide of having premiered a Best Picture winner (2022’s slate also produced a Best Actress contender in “To Leslie’s” Andrea Riseborough). Now considered an “Oscar launchpad,” SXSW unsurprisingly attracted more than its usual share of attention.

“Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” filled this year’s Opening Night slot. The movie got a warm reception and looks to spearhead a new franchise for Paramount. Laura Bradley (The Daily Beast) thinks it does an admirable job balancing accessibility and fan service, writing, “Those who have played Dungeons & Dragons will find plenty of details to love in ‘Honor Among Thieves’ (including an excellently deployed owlbear), but the film also avoids...

Actor Brittany Snow (the Pitch Perfect franchise, Hairspray) just about nails it as a writer-director with her first feature, Parachute, a rom-dram set in New York City and co-written with Becca Gleason (Summer ‘03).

This astute, impressively honest portrait of a complicated relationship between Riley (Courtney Eaton from Yellowjackets, who picked up a prize for her performance at SXSW), a young woman with an eating disorder and addiction issues, and Ethan (Thomas Mann, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), a guy disposed toward co-dependency, is perhaps a smidge messy structurally. But then again, so is life. Viewers, especially those in the same demographic as the protagonists, will probably cut the film and its vividly drawn characters some slack as they try to navigate territory thickly peppered with emotional landmines.

Covering a few years in Riley’s mid-20s (which is, in itself, a refreshing choice given so many love stories...

Austin, TX – The SXSW Conference and Festivals wrapped on March 19th, after 10 days of magic and Austin wackiness, showcasing film, TV, interactive, conferences, interviews and music. The Film & TV Fest named “Raging Grace” as the top Narrative Feature and “Grown” as top TV Pilot.

“Raging Grace” was written and directed by Paris Zarcilla, telling the story of a Filipina house cleaner and her young daughter, with the jury noting its “heady blend of horror, history, and midnight humor announcing the arrival of an exciting new filmmaking talent.” The TV Pilot “Grown” focuses on a teenage boy attempting to move forward after losing his father, and the jury said it was “a coming-of-age story told with heart and visually realized with polish and verve.”

The following is the list of top honorees …

Grand Jury Prize - Narrative Feature

Raging Grace

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Winner: “Raging Grace,” directed by Paris Zarcilla...

Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen is speaking out for the first time following a violent attack on March 13 in South Florida.

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“Thank you everyone for your overwhelming support. Your love and prayers are truly helping. My wife Lauren [Monroe] was thankfully not with me at the time of the incident. We are together now, and working on recovering in a safe space,” a statement released on behalf of Allen to ABC News reads.

The statement continues, “We ask you to join us in our effort to move from confusion and shock to compassion and empathy. We understand this act of violence can be triggering for so many people.

There’s a lot going on in this troubled-girl-on-a-journey story, which recalls the late-’90s proliferation of books like Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted. Brittany Snow’s directing debut doesn’t so much add to that canon as dust it down a bit for a new generation, and its success is mostly attributable to its empathetic star Courtney Eaton — the deserving winner of a SXSW Special Jury Recognition for Performance — whose low-key work anchors a needlessly busy film that never quite settles down.

A lot is packed into the opening salvo, from the moment we see Riley (Eaton) sitting on the curb outside a forbiddingly nondescript building, scrolling through pages and pages of narcissistic Instagram influencers. It will come as no surprise when we find out, shortly after that, that she’s been in for a fairly serious disorder she’ll describe variously as...

Audience Awards voting concludes on March 19.

Raging Grace has taken the 2023 SXSW Narrative Feature Competition award and Angel Applicant has taken top prize in the Documentary Feature Competition.

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Raging Grace director Paris Zarcilla’s film about an undocumented Filipina house cleaner and her daughter who find work for a wealthy British man was praised by the jury for “cleverly employing genre tropes to explore vast socio-political matters”.

Courtney Eaton won the special jury award for performance for her role in Parachute, Brittany Snow’s feature directorial debut about a young woman freshly out...

This year’s South by Southwest Film & TV Festival has officially unveiled the 2023 winners list.

With buzzy titles such as “Bottoms,” “Beef,” “Swarm,” and “Air” debuting at the festival, the 2023 conference in Austin, Texas proved to be a memorable time. “What an extraordinary week of film and TV premieres here at SXSW, and there is more to come through Saturday,” Claudette Godfrey, VP, Flm & TV, said. “Our theaters have been brimming with enthusiastic audiences celebrating the exceptional and diverse work in our lineup, and we’re so excited to celebrate this year’s jury and special award winners!”

The Narrative Feature Competition, presented by Panavision, bestowed the top honor to “Raging Grace,” written and directed by Paris Zarcilla.

“‘Raging Grace”s heady blend of horror, history, and midnight humor announces the arrival of an exciting new filmmaking talent in writer-director Paris Zarcilla,” the official statement reads. “The story of a...

Two days after ”Everything Everywhere All at Once“ won seven Oscars, including best picture, the SXSW Film Festival, where Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s movie launched last year, has announced its own awards. To be clear, “Eeaao” was a studio-backed opening night premiere (not one of the smaller movies launched in competition at the indie-focused fest), but you can still feel the excitement in Austin around the landmark Oscar win. After all, SXSW was the first festival to take Daniels seriously, awarding them top prize for their Battles music video (“My Machines”) in 2012.

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With five days still to go at SXSW, the juries convened to present the winners.

Narrative feature honors went to writer-director Paris Zarcilla’s “Raging Grace.” On the surface, the tense story of an undocumented Filipina house cleaner and...

“Pitch Perfect” star Brittany Snow has spoken openly about dealing with an eating disorder from a very young age, but she revealed at SXSW Saturday that her directorial debut “Parachute,” which grapples with themes of mental health in a woman suffering from her own disorder, is “very personal” for other, more romantic reasons.

“Parachute” is about Riley (Courtney Eaton), a young woman just out of rehab and now attending therapy to contend with her own body issues and self-loathing behavior. But it’s more significantly a love story about her relationship and friendship with Ethan (Thomas Mann), and how this co-dependent bond between the two of them helps her on the road to recovery. It turns out though that there’s a “real Ethan” with whom Snow remains best friends, and Snow’s purpose for telling this story was not to dwell on her own past but to come at...

Not everyone can make the messy young woman archetype as charming and quirky as Greta Gerwig can, but she certainly started a trend. In the long overdue push to center women’s perspectives, conventional romantic plots have been replaced by gritty tales of lost young women spiraling out, leaving trails of chaos in their wake. With men’s stories crowding most of film history, a host of untapped material awaits the burgeoning genre of the messy young woman. As with all familiar stories, however, it’s all too easy to court cliché — even when trying so hard to flout conventions.

The actress Brittany Snow, best known for her role in the “Pitch Perfect” films, makes her directorial debut with “Parachute,” a meandering portrait of a particular type of lost young woman. Played by “Yellowjackets” star Courtney Eaton, unemployed 20-something Riley is a child of privilege careening between an eating disorder and extreme codependency.

Festival runs March 10-19 in Austin, Texas.

SXSW opens on Friday with the world premiere of all-star fantasy romp Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, kicking off what is expected to be a rambunctious 10 days of screenings of films both spoken for and available for worldwide distribution.

Over the years the festival has proved itself to be a valuable launchpad for studio titles and the most recent evidence of that was last year’s edition, where A24 premiered Oscar frontrunner Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2022 as well as Ti West’s horror X, Lionsgate brought The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent...

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Nell (Gina Rodriguez) got more than just a blast from the obituaries with her latest “ghost” in the February 15 episode of Not Dead Yet. As it turned out, she had history with her latest assignment — and Rodriguez has a history with the actress playing her as well! Brittany Snow guest starred on the ABC comedy as a popular influencer and Nell’s former bully in “Not Out of High School Yet,” but this was far from the first time she and Rodriguez worked together. Among the projects is the 2019 film Someone Great. “Gina and I have now worked together a bunch of times. She recently did a part in my directorial debut, Parachute, and said yes to it immediately,” Snow tells TV Insider. “From the minute we met, we were instant kindred souls. She is truly a remarkable person with the most kind heart. She knows every single crew member...

Exclusive: Indie director-producer Chadd Harbold has been appointed as Head of Production at Post Film, the burgeoning independent film production and finance company led by Russ Posternak.

Harbold’s new role will have him overseeing all aspects of production for the company’s upcoming slate of films, while developing new projects for it to produce and/or finance.

Harbold’s feature producing credits include Ana Asensio’s Most Beautiful Island, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award; Shout! Studios’ upcoming sci-fi drama Linoleum, starring Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn; and the crime drama South of Heaven, starring Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly, as well as Post Film’s The Wrath of Becky, the sequel to its 2020 box office-topping indie action-thriller Becky, which is set to premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival.

Titles directed by Harbold include the thriller Private Property, starring Ashley Benson and Shiloh Fernandez, which...