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Uncut Gems writer-director Benny Safdie and Succession star Sarah Snook have joined Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman which is currently in production.

Pieces of a Woman follows a grieving woman who is thrust into an emotional inner journey by trying to come to terms with the loss of her baby after a home birth goes wrong, while dealing with her husband and estranged mother.

Little Lambs Productions, a division of Bron Studios, is producing the drama which also stars Shia Labeouf, Vanessa Kirby, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Jimmie Fails and Iliza Shlesinger.

Kornél Mundruczó is the Cannes Un Certain Regard winner of White God. He’s directing from a script by his frequent collaborator Kata Wéber.

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Latino actors Jaime Zevallos (Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger) and Adrienne Lovette have signed on to the Lgbtq-drama feature

film A Boy Like That inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita.

Game of Thrones actor Pilou Asbæk is addressing the show’s divisive final season. Or, rather, fans are addressing it with him!

During an interview on People, Entertainment Weekly & TNT’s red carpet pre-show ahead of the 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Asbæk, 37, said that fans often ask him about the hit HBO series’ controversial finale.

Game of Thrones, which wrapped up an eight-season run in May 2019, is nominated for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series at Sunday night’s SAG Awards.

“You know, what I get most now is like, ‘Why did you guys f— up season...

As we wait in anticipation for A-listers to debut their glamorous looks at the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, stars are busy spending hours before the show with their glam squads getting red carpet ready. With the help from the best hairstylists, makeup artists, stylists, manicurists and facialists in the business, celebrities get primped and pampered before the show — and get brutally honest on social media about everything that goes down.

Read on to see how some of our favorite stars, from Catherine Zeta-Jones to Brad Goreski, are getting ready for the 2020 SAG Awards.

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Before she started getting ready,...

The biggest names in TV and film are gathering Sunday for an exciting night at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

People and Entertainment Weekly, in partnership with TNT, will host the official live, red carpet streaming pre-show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Entertainment Weekly Editor-in-Chief Jd Heyman and PeopleTV hosts Jeremy Parsons (People Now), Lola Ogunnaike (Couch Surfing) and Andrea Boehlke (People Now) will co-host. Fashion and beauty icon Jenna Lyons will be weighing in on all the red carpet fashion trends – you don’t want to miss it!

Catch the full livestream above at 5:30 p.m.

What better way to get ready for the Screen Actors Guild Awards than with a pre-party? Entertainment Weekly is doing exactly that, and People will be there covering all the arrivals during a red carpet livestream sponsored by Snack Pop and Casamigos.

People Now co-host Andrea Boehlke and Couch Surfing host Lola Ogunnaike will chat with Hollywood’s finest as they head into the bash in L.A. on Saturday. Catch the full livestream above at 10:45 p.m. Et/ 7:45 p.m. Pt or on People’s Facebook and Twitter pages. You can also watch the livestream on the PeopleTV app,...

Rumored couple Ross Lynch and Jaz Sinclair are getting down on TikTok! On Jan. 17, the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina costars hit up Balmain's menswear show at Paris Fashion Week and looked like a million bucks. But before they arrived at the glitzy event, the adorable duo prepared for the outing with a mini dance session. Ross, who made his debut on TikTok, shared a clip of them jamming out to Bruno Mars' 2012 hit "Treasure." The video begins with Ross and Jaz in their robes before they high-five and are suddenly dressed to the nines. They dance toward the camera, giving us a cute little spin, and end with a fierce pose.

Ross and Jaz first sparked romance rumors in Spring 2018 but have yet to officially confirm or deny their relationship. In January, Ross told Entertainment Tonight that they were simply each other's "favorite," but also revealed that Jaz met his family,...

Oh, the irony! I’ve been covering Hollywood industry awards as a journalist for 30 years and now I’m nominated for the Press Award bestowed by Hollywood’s leading PR guild: Icg Publicists. It’s so gracious of them – thank you, huzzahs to all – but now I’ll get a toxic dose of what I report on all the time: nominee jitters.

Uh-oh: do my Hollywood industry peers really, really like me? Should I campaign aggressively? Rent out billboards on Sunset Boulevard? What should I wear on Feb. 7 when the winner is revealed at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in the same room where the Golden Globes are doled out?

Lucky for me, I know the drill. I’ve been nominated, and lost, twice in the past. Only 16 more defeats and I’ll be the Susan Lucci of the Publicists’ Award! So, please, save me: spread the word across town — Vote for Tom!

Charlie Hunnam wants another shot at King Arthur. In a recent interview with SiriusXM to promote Guy Ritchie’s upcoming action movie “The Gentlemen,” Hunnam reminisced about the box office catastrophe that was his last Ritchie outing, 2017’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.” Ritchie’s fantasy epic was one of the biggest box office bombs of 2017. The $175 million Warner Bros. tentpole opened in May to just $14.7 million during its debut weekend. “King Arthur” tapped out with $39 million in the U.S. and $146 million worldwide, losing Warner Bros. as much as $153 million.

Hunnam was being interviewed on SiriusXM by Andy Cohen when he revealed that he’s keen on a “King Arthur” redo. The actor said that Ritchie’s 2017 “King Arthur” was just the first movie being planned in a franchise, one that got killed by the box office performance.

“I’d like to go back to ‘King Arthur’ because...

Lord knows I thought I lost my desire to set a dancefloor on fire long ago, though a recent announcement that Lucifer's fifth season will include a full-blown musical episode has me thinking I should ask the devil for my groove back, during my next visit to the Crossroads. The fine folks over at Entertainment Weekly have recently learned that the ninth episode of Lucifer's…...

Adam Pally is a lifelong “Star Wars” fan who got the chance of a lifetime when he was cast to play a Scout Trooper on “The Mandalorian.” What he didn’t know at the time is that he would do something that would make his character more hated than Jar Jar: he had to punch Baby Yoda.

Pally appeared in the Disney+ show’s season finale alongside Jason Sudekis as a pair of scouts tasked with delivering the powerfully Force sensitive Baby Yoda to Moff Gideon, played by Giancarlo Esposito. Pally’s scout, curious about why the alien child was so wanted, stuck his finger out at Baby Yoda, who bit it. In response, Pally gives Baby Yoda a hard jab.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Pally was asked about the scene at the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour on Saturday, where he was promoting the upcoming NBC comedy “Indebted.

Lucifer (Tom Ellis) might be isolated from his friends after reclaiming his hellish throne, but it looks like the Devil is in for a major reunion when the Netflix series returns for its fifth and final season this year. According to Entertainment Weekly, Dennis Haysbert has been cast as God for

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Lily Tomlin stands with her Grace and Frankie scene partner Jane Fonda — even in handcuffs.

In a new interview with The New York Times, Tomlin, 80, gushed about her costar on the Netflix comedy — which enters its sixth and penultimate season in January 2020 — noting Fonda’s passion for political activism.

“I support Jane; Jane is a real toughie,” said Tomlin, who described Fonda’s commitment to the cause as so strong that she once asked to halt production on the show so that she could protest, though she eventually found a compromise.

On Friday, Tomlin followed in the footsteps of various...

One of the biggest criticisms thrown at “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” since its nationwide release December 20 is the reduced role of Rose Tico, a Resistance member played by Kelly Marie Tran. Rose was introduced in “The Last Jedi” and became a point of contention for some toxic “Star Wars” fans. Tran had to wipe her Instagram account clean after becoming the victim of online harassment from “Star Wars” fans who disliked Rose and Tran’s hiring. Many Rose Tico fans were hopeful the character would continue to be a major character in “The Rise of Skywalker,” but as it turns out Rose is mostly removed from the entirety of the film.

Rose pops up near the beginning of “The Rise of Skywalker” as the main characters get ready to take off to the desert planet Pasanna to begin their mission. Finn tells Rose she won’t be going...

If you've ever wondered what a mashup of This Is Us and Lip Sync Battle would look like, Netflix's Soundtrack will surely satiate your curiosity. The show follows a group of interconnected people in Los Angeles as they grapple with different types of love - romantic, familial, platonic, you name it. This concept plays out in a relatively familiar way, using music to usher in the narrative of each story. But in contrast to something like 2018's A Star Is Born, where the music was recorded live, Soundtrack features actors 100 percent lip-syncing to pop songs.

Lip-synced performances were always part of creator Joshua Safran's original pitch for the show. Safran took inspiration from the BBC series and Steve Martin movie Pennies From Heaven, which both feature people lip-syncing to popular songs. Each hour-long episode will feature several music-video-like fantasy sequences that elevate the characters' less-than-glamorous realities.

"I was...

Thor: Ragnarok was such a smash-hit in 2017 that Marvel has invited director Taika Waititi back to helm a follow-up. Thor: Love and Thunder is significant for being the first time a sub-franchise of the McU has received a fourth installment and the filmmaker needs to make sure that the God of Thunder doesn’t outstay his welcome. Thankfully, then, it seems that Waititi’s tactic is to go all out on making it even bigger than Ragnarok.

While speaking to Entertainment Weekly – who named him one of their Entertainers of the Year – about Lat, the director explained that he’s going to focus on making his next Marvel effort all about the “adventure” and the craziness. Essentially, if you enjoyed Ragnarok, you’ll enjoy this one.

“The next Thor film I’m doing, basically, we’re sort of launching ourselves again on this adventure film, really. That was the thing...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Watchmen” Episode 9, “See How They Fly” — the season finale.]

“Watchmen” ended its nine-episode debut season with a perfect finale (read IndieWire’s review here) that capped off a series many critics have already added to their best of the decade lists at the last minute. By all accounts “Watchmen” had an extraordinary run and is one of the major TV achievements of 2019, and yet creator and showrunner Damon Lindelof isn’t completely satisfied with the final product. In an end-of-season interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lindelof shares his biggest regret about his iteration of the “Watchmen” story: Not enough Lady Trieu (Hong Chau).

“I wish we had done a deeper dive on Lady Trieu, that we had gone back into her past and showed her childhood because we talked a lot about that,” Lindelof said. “That would have been really interesting and maybe made us care a lot more about that...

At the climax of 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Kylo Ren famously tells Rey that her parents were nothing more than “filthy junk traders” who sold her off for drinking money.

The moment was a bold and deliberate subversion of the saga’s Skywalker-centric history that’s had the fans fighting ever since, but in a new TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker, we get the latest of many hints that director J.J. Abrams intends to walk back this divisive twist.

“I know who you are,” Kylo says through the speaker of his helmet. “I know the rest of your story.” We then cut to a shot of Rey against a desert backdrop, followed by the familiar sound of Palpatine’s laughter. And while filmgoers will presumably have to wait until next week’s release to find out what exactly the young Ben Solo is getting at here,...

Exclusive: Writers-producers Karyn Usher (Prison Break) and Lisa Zwerling (Betrayal) of Carpool Entertainment have signed an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, to develop, write and executive produce programming for network, cable and streaming platforms.

“We are grateful to be working with the multi-talented Karyn Usher and Lisa Zwerling, two exceptionally smart and passionate creators with a knack for great storytelling,” said Universal Television President Pearlena Igbokwe. “Their work is incredibly imaginative but emotionally grounded, the hallmarks of the Universal Television brand.”

Usher and Zwerling, who previously had worked together on John Wells’ Presidio Med, formed Carpool Entertainment four years ago to develop and oversee series for premium cable and streaming. The duo was most recently under an overall deal at Lionsgate TV and served as executive producers and showrunners on the studio’s spy thriller series The Rook, which aired on Starz for one season.

(Spoilers ahead for, you know, the ending of “The Man in the High Castle.” You have been warned.)

Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle” was always kind of a weird show, with its heady sci-fi alternate universe stuff on top of its heady alternate history main plot. I’ve never quite been sure what the writers were trying to do with this pairing of concepts that it inherited from the Philip K. Dick novel, and the wild ending of the series did not offer a huge amount of clarity about that.

So as we arrive at that final scene, things are looking up in the, ah, Prime Earth of this story. The Japanese have abandoned North America, and the Black Communist Rebellion is setting up a new, presumably much better government. The east coast has autonomy from Germany, and is now being run by a guy who clearly wants the Nazis gone.

In her 5-star Fantastic Fest review of Vfw, Emily von Seele wrote that Joe Begos' latest film is "insanely fun" and is "a film that you won’t want to miss," and ahead of its release in February, the official trailer for the new Fangoria movie has now been revealed, pitting a group of military veterans against drug-fueled mutants.

A Fangoria film, Vfw will be released by Rlje Films in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD beginning February 14th (Valentine's Day).

Directed by Joe Begos from a screenplay by Max Brallier & Matthew McArdle, Vfw stars Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson, Martin Kove, George Wendt, David Patrick Kelly, Tom Williamson, Sierra McCormick, Travis Hammer, and Dora Madison.

Below, you can watch the trailer for Vfw, which was unveiled on Entertainment Weekly. In case you missed it, check here to read Emily von Seele's review of the film, as well...

Black Widow is introducing a ton of new characters, including Melina Vostokoff. Played by Rachel Weisz, Melina is one of Natasha Romanoff's former "colleagues" from the Soviet Black Widow program, where they, along with many other women, were trained to be master assassins and spies. The first trailer seems to show Melina as a friend or at least an ally to Nat, but readers of Marvel comics know we should be very wary.

In the Marvel comics, Melina Vostokoff is far from a friend to Natasha - in fact, she's one of her major enemies. A Russian assassin under the alias Iron Maiden, Melina holds a particular vendetta against Natasha, who she feels overshadows her in every way. The official Marvel website describes exactly how far she's willing to go to pursue her hatred of Nat:

A Russian espionage agent, Iron Maiden (Melina Vostokoff) despised legendary Russian spy-turned-defector the...

Things couldn’t be better for Jenna Dewan and boyfriend Steve Kazee!

In fact, the actress told Entertainment Tonight this week that there was an “unspoken chemistry” between the couple, who are expecting their first child together, and that she is “totally in love.”

“You just know if you have it,” the Flirty Dancing star, 38, told Et. “It’s the sparks that fly and it just works really well.”

“I am in a really great place and totally in love,” Dewan added. “It’s nice.”

And while the couple may be expecting their first child together, the Step Up star...

The Toyman Toy Show in St. Louis has been going strong for over 30 years now and just keeps getting bigger and better! The fun now takes place nine times a year at The Machinists Hall 12365 St Charles Rock Road in Bridgeton, Mo 63044. There are over 120 vendors at the Toyman Toy Show spread out over 220 tables. all selling vintage toys, comics, dolls, diecast cars, movie memorabilia, and more as well as cosplayers and artists. It’s an unbelievable amount of fun for only $5! A Facebook invite for the event can be found Here

The next Toyman Show is Sunday, December 8th from 9:00a to 3:00p and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artists Jeffrey Edwards and Steve Lavigne will be special guests.

Steve Lavigne is an American comic book illustrator best known for his lettering and coloring on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title for Mirage Studios. He is the creator of Cudley the Cowlick,...

Coming home again!

E.T. is returning to Earth to reunite with his friend Elliot 37 years after the Steven Spielberg-directed film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, was released in 1982. Actor Henry Thomas reprises his role as Elliot alongside the alien character for Comcast’s new four-minute ad called “A Holiday Reunion.”

And the film’s fans were delighted to have seen some of their favorite scenes reenacted with E.T. and Elliot’s kids. From John Williams’ signature score to Reese’s Pieces and a Drew Barrymore-esque scream, the footage shows a revamped version of the beloved movie, including a...

We don't know much about the hero of The Mandalorian, so there have been tons of theories - including one that he's actually Boba Fett, the villainous bounty hunter who caused problems for the heroes of the original Star Wars trilogy. If you were hoping this theory was true, we have bad news for you: the Mandalorian is not Boba Fett.

The most obvious reason that the helmeted hero is definitely not Boba Fett? The Mandalorian takes place a few years after Return of the Jedi, in which the antagonistic bounty hunter is killed during Luke and company's escape from Jabba the Hutt. Boba Fett is pretty clearly killed without a likely means of escape: his death comes by falling into the maw of the Sarlacc. Being consumed by the Sarlacc is a pretty solid death sentence, and there's no known way out.

Compounding the case for "not Boba Fett...

It seemed inevitable Charlie Kaufman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” would publish a novel, and as announced by Entertainment Weekly, it’s aptly about a failed film critic. Kaufman’s latest sad sack is the protagonist of “Antkind,” which Random House acquired in 2012 and will release in May 2020. According to the publisher, it’s 720 pages, and described as a “mind-bending opus” — and why would you expect anything less from the man who penned “Being John Malkovich,” and wrote and directed “Synecdoche, New York”?

Here’s the synopsis from Random House: “B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and under-appreciated film critic, stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider — a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its...

Purchase Baby Yoda toys, you will.

Fans of the breakout character from the Disney Plus series “The Mandalorian” have been surprised that there was no merchandise pegged to the character available upon the launch of the show, given that the Christmas shopping season is rapidly approaching.

But according to an individual with knowledge of the situation, that is about to change. Disney is preparing to release a number of products all tied to the character, who is officially referred to simply as The Child at this point. Those products include apparel and accessories and will be available within days, with two T-shirts (see below) already for sale on Amazon. Amazon, Kohls, Target, Macys, Hot Topic, BoxLunch, and Zazzle will all carry the upcoming merch, as will Disney Stores, shopDisney, and Disney theme parks. In addition, fans will be able to pre-order toys and a plush toy sometime in the next few weeks.

“Somebody saaave meee!”… That’s what a lot of folks in the Arrowverse will be saying during the big “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover, but thankfully there’ll be a legion of superheroes around to help them. Including not just one or two, but three separate versions of Superman. There’s Brandon Routh’s Kingdom Come version, Tyler Hoechlin’s Man of Steel, as seen on Supergirl, and Tom Welling’s Clark Kent, star of Smallville. And this new still from the event teases the return of Welling and co-star Erica Durance as Clark and Lois Lane for the first time since The CW’s long-running Supes prequel ended in 2011.

As depicted in set photos and the promo images for the second episode that dropped earlier this week, the still finds the pair at the old Kent farm, which previously appeared in last year’s “Elseworlds.” Going by their expressions and stances,...

As of this weekend, Joker reached a milestone no other R-rated film has yet to achieve: making $1 billion at the box office. The controversial film, which previously raked in $93.5 million in its opening weekend, officially knocked Deadpool out of the top spot as the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time (the Ryan Reynolds action-comedy pulled in $783 million), Entertainment Weekly reports.

In addition to crushing this record, the controversial Todd Philips film - that follows the origin of Batman's most infamous foe and criminal mastermind Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) - nabbed the highest opening weekend in October when it earned almost $94 million. Following its Oct. 4 premiere, Joker went on to bring in $737.5 million in its first three weekends.

Although there are currently no plans for a sequel, we'd bet this isn't the last time we'll see the villainous character onscreen.

More than 20 years after the film’s 1999 theatrical debut, Edward Norton is still ruing the initial box-office failure of David Fincher’s now-iconic Chuck Palahniuk adaptation, “Fight Club.” And he’s no stranger to a box-office bellyflop, as indicated by the performance of his recent directorial outing “Motherless Brooklyn,” which has so far grossed $8 million domestically off a $26 million budget.

On a recent episode of PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing, as reported by Entertainment Weekly, Norton sounded off about the poor performance of “Fight Club,” which despite a Venice premiere and strong reviews, only managed to gross $37 million domestically off a $63 million budget. He points the finger at distributor 20th Century Fox’s marketing job for not fully embracing the movie’s critical takedown of capitalism and toxic masculinity — issues that remain top of mind for filmmakers and audiences today.

“I think there was a reluctance on the part of some...

Who could ever forget Freddie Prinze Jr.’s role as Sandy, the recorder-playing, hand-puppet-loving, expert “manny” who was the very short-term nanny to Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel’s (Jennifer Aniston) baby daughter, Emma, on “Friends”? Well, you could have, if the role had gone to the actor who was going to play the male nanny: Tom Hanks.

“I wasn’t even supposed to be [Sandy], that was originally offered to Tom Hanks but he wasn’t gonna make it back from his film on time,” Prinze told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Thursday. “And so my agent called me and said, ‘Do you want to be on Friends? And I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do an episode of ‘Friends.’ That’ll be great.’ He said, ‘Yeah, it shoots tomorrow.’ And I was like, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Yes, tomorrow so I’ll send you the script.'”

And not only...

Killing Eve's cast is already pretty killer as it is, but it's about to get even bigger and better (and killer-er?) for season three. Entertainment Weekly just revealed a whole slew of actors - seven, to be exact - who will be joining the BBC America series for its highly anticipated third installment, which is slated to premiere in the first half of 2020.

Included in the latest additions are Game of Thrones alum Gemma Whelan and Predrag Bjelac, who portrayed Igor Karkaroff in the fourth Harry Potter movie. BBC America also previously confirmed that Dame Harriet Walter (Succession) and Danny Sapani (Misfits) will be appearing in season three of the spy thriller show. We don't have any information about what roles these new cast members will be playing alongside Jodie Comer's Villanelle and Sandra Oh's Eve Polastri, but we're certainly already mulling over some theories.

Ahead, take...

The Mountain feels like a departure for Rick Alverson, whose brand of deliberately challenging and unconventional cinema is evolving beyond the scope of his previous two films, The Comedy (2012) and Entertainment (2015). Leaving (partially) behind the examination of what constitutes humor and entertainment both as genre elements and on the larger level of cultural production, the American filmmaker is evolving formally towards a more classical type of storytelling, even if, as we discuss in the interview, he still wants to engage with those tools as a way of critiquing their traditional use.

Going back to the 1950s to build an explicitly political critique of the era’s social values with regards to masculinity, authority and passivity, Alverson uses Andy, a young man neglected by his family, as the access point to the controversial figure of Dr Wallace Fiennes, a traveling lobotomist who cast a long, charismatic shadow.…

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Magnolia Pictures has nabbed North American rights to “Mister America,” a feature-length comedy that’s being billed as an extension of the world of “On Cinema,” the cult Adult Swim show.

The film stars “On Cinema” hosts Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington and follows Heidecker’s attempt to enter the world of politics. Eric Notarnicola, who previously oversaw several episodes of the show along with its 2018 Oscar special, directs. Magnolia is eyeing a fall theatrical release.

In the movie, Heidecker beats a murder charge for selling faulty e-cigarettes at an Edm festival, and mounts a campaign to unseat the San Bernardino District Attorney. His effort to win voters tries to overcome a lack of experience and funding by leaning into the candidate’s personal likability. It does not go well.

“We unleashed Tim into the real world to run the worst campaign in modern history, and document the process,” said Notarnicola in a statement.

Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to “The Mountain,” the latest directorial effort from Rick Alverson. The buy arrives just ahead of the movie’s North American premiere in the Spotlight section of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. “The Mountain” world premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. 30West negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

“The Mountain” stars Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Wallace Fiennes, a lobotomy doctor in the 1950s who hires an introverted young man (Tye Sheridan) to photograph his work during an asylum tour across America. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor’s career and life unravel, he begins to identify with the asylum patients. Arriving at a California mountain town, they encounter a French healer (Denis Lavant) who requests a lobotomy for his own daughter (Hannah Gross).

“’The Mountain is a peak cinematic experience and that’s no pun,” Kino...

After premiering his last two movies at Sundance, “The Comedy” and “Entertainment” writer/director Rick Alverson is headed to Venice. “The Mountain” stars Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan as a pioneering lobotomist and a young man who’s lost his parents in two different ways, respectively, and anyone who’s seen Alverson’s earlier work knows that the oddity won’t stop there. Ahead of its festival debut, avail yourself of two still photos and the film’s poster.

Speaking to IndieWire earlier this year, Goldblum explained that his character is inspired by Dr. Walter Freeman, “the guy who pioneered the lobotomy, did Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy. This is an extrapolation of that kind of character. Drugs have come in, so it’s very controversial what I’m doing.”

Named Dr. Wallace Fiennes, this fellow has “pioneered a way of doing it…like [Freeman] did, through the eyeball, with my own kind of ice picks…...

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2019 was a great year for video games. Here are the 10 very best games of the year!

2019 was an important year for the gaming industry. Not only did 2019 usher in some fantastic new experiences on consoles and PC but it also marked the last full year of the current generation of platforms. By the end of 2020, we'll have both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 in our hands, as well as the fully launched Google Stadia, meaning that the next generation of video games will be finally upon us. Did this current generation, which began in 2012 with the release of the Nintendo Wii U, go out with a bang?

Our favorite games of the year suggest that it did. From fast-paced online shooters and amazing role-playing games to zombie-filled terrors and surreal action-adventures, the 10 best games of 2019 represent a plethora of fresh ideas as well as...

Rick Alverson’s films don’t tend to lend themselves to easy elevator pitches or punchy plot descriptions, and the “Entertainment” and “The Comedy” filmmaker’s ambitious next film, “The Mountain,” keeps with that trend. When it was first announced, the period drama, which he wrote alongside Dustin Guy Defa and Colm O’Leary, was billed as the story of “a young man who lost his mother and was raised by his emotional stunted father goes to work with his mentor, a doctor who performs lobotomies and shock therapy.”

And while’s that a relatively meaty description of an Alverson film, it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Just ask the guy playing that lobotomy-giving doctor: Jeff Goldblum.

The actor, who’s next heard in this week’s “Isle of Dogs,” has a packed schedule, including both big budget sequels like “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” and the intriguing “The Mountain.

“Thunder Road” tests the limits of how long one can sit with the unflinching portrait of an angry, broken man whose life is falling apart in every direction, and it turns out it’s about 91 minutes. Writer-director-star Jim Cummings’ adaptation of his acclaimed 2016 short focuses on a wayward police officer who can’t manage to put his life together, largely due to his own simmering rage and sloppy mistakes. Cummings’ unruly performance as the mustachioed anti-hero engenders a paradoxical character study, in which the filmmaker takes to both sides of the camera to beg the audience for empathy, but doesn’t make it easy.

The Grand Jury prize winner at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival is most impressive for its uncompromising magnification of despair, with Cummings as a man who can’t stop traipsing through a trail of banana peels, and while that approach can grow weary it’s also an...

Fine Bros Entertainment (Fbe), the digital media company founded by brothers Benny and Rafi Fine, has come on board as the executive producer of a contest-winning pilot. The main Fbe YouTube channel is the home of Talking To Myself, a project born out of New Form's Pitch To Pilot Campaign.

Talking To Myself, from creator Eric Jaffe, showcases interactions between two people with the same name. In the pilot, the guests also happen to share their handle with a major celebrity: Selena Gomez. Across their five-and-a-half-minute conversation, they discuss awkward introductions, their respective issues with Facebook, and their shared namesake, Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla. While they chat, they sip coffee provided by Dunkin’ Donuts, one of the sponsors of Pitch To Pilot.

This is not the first time Fbe has used its platform to promote up-and-coming creators. It previously funded series from multiple creators, which it shared on YouTube.

Now in its eighth year, the American Film Festival offers a unique perspective on recent developments in U.S. indie filmmaking. That’s because it happens in Poland, staged at the stylish Kino Nowe Horyzonty film center in Wroclaw, also home to the summer New Horizons festival, which has more of a European tilt.

Although the festival, which recently concluded, surveys many favorites from Sundance and South by Southwest, the curation doesn’t merely transpose selections to a new setting. It imports a lively assortment of filmmakers, as well, and creates a cozy, engaged atmosphere more akin to the communal vibe of the Maryland Film Festival. Indeed, to rub shoulders in a crowd that included Jody Lee Lipes, Noel Wells, Dustin Guy Defa, Nathan Silver, producer Mike Ryan, Jessica Oreck and Mike Ott is to experience a deep dive into the creative bustle of current indie ferment.

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Smt Heads, you know there’s been a time when you wanted people to drop dead. But, given the mayhem in Epic Pictures’ upcoming Sci-Fi horror fest, “Radius,” maybe you’d need to make sure there was an off switch! Check out the Trailer right now (and don’t skip the pre-trailer for “Flint” while you’re at it):

Liam (Diego Klattenhoff) wakes from a car crash at the bottom of a deep ditch with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town, he discovers that anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly. Out of options, he tries to live in seclusion to protect others, until the day a woman comes up to him and doesn’t die in his presence. With her arrival, Liam’s murderous power now seems to have subsided. The woman, Jane (Charlotte Sullivan), is also amnesiac and looking for answers.

They went looking for monsters, but they had no idea that they would literally encounter them. A group of filmmakers find out the hard way that their new interviewees have a tendency to bite the hand that films them in the new movie The Monster Project, and ahead of its August 18th On Demand and Digital HD release from Epic Pictures Group, we've been provided with an exclusive clip for Daily Dead readers to enjoy.

"In a chilling and inventive take on the classic monster movie genre, The Monster Project follows a group of aspiring horror filmmakers, eager to raise their YouTube subscriber count, who post an online casting call for “real life” monsters to interview for their documentary. They find three participants and choose to film them sharing their haunted experiences in a mansion in the woods on the night of a lunar eclipse. The production suddenly turns into...

Lemon opens with a title card disclaimer: “This film was photographed and recorded in its entirety in Los Angeles, California.” It’s clear why the setting is important. This isn’t Hollywood, home to celebrities and various success stories. This is L.A., and the amateurishness and desperation of locals looking to make it big is in the air. The film plays to the setting quite a bit. The city’s cultural diversity is explored as director-writer Janicza Bravo and writer-star Brett Gelman inject aspects of their own heritage (and possibly relationship? — the two are married in real life) into the film. Then there’s the heat, which turns the film’s aesthetic as deceivingly bright as its title fruit, and a constant over-reliance on cars that serves as a sort of inside joke for the inhabitants of the city, who become neutered without a means of transportation.

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The sad fact about modern weird-for-weird’s-sake micro-indies is that they tend to be even more alike that than the toothlessly quirky Sundance items to which they’re supposed to serve as an antidote. It’s like they’ve all been grown from the same frothy mixture of Adult Swim anti-comedy, vintage lens fetishism, and male pattern baldness. Every now and again a movie like Rick Alverson’s Entertainment might crawl out of this mad-science vat, but more often than not, it’s something like Janicza Bravo’s Lemon, a comedy about a Los Angeles actor (Brett Gelman) who endures one surreal humiliation after another while doing a generally piss-poor job of keeping it together in the face of an impending break-up with his blind girlfriend (Judy Greer). It’s been a few years since the quintessential micro-indie weirdster Quentin Dupieux stopped churning out sporadically irritating and hilarious movies like...

The first thing we see in “Everything Else” is a look of emptiness. Doña Flor (Adriana Barraza), a middle-aged public servant who has spent 35 years engaged in an utterly boring routine, blankly stares at nothing in particular. Soon, we learn why: As a Mexico City clerk tasked with issuing government IDs, her days are spent assessing paperwork and mechanically processing new requests. Much of this quiet, slow-burn character study inhabits the dreary, remote quality of Doña’s existence, but with time, the movie pieces it together to reveal the emotional solitude lurking beneath that distant gaze.

Anyone familiar with Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman” or Lucretia Martel’s “The Headless Woman” will find familiar patterns in writer-director Natalia Almada’s first narrative feature, though it may as well be an extension of her documentary work for the way it pulls viewers into the nuances of everyday rituals and their ability to mask psychological discord.

April is shaping up to be a great month for horror and sci-fi VOD releases, as we have over a dozen great titles making their way home this month. Things kick off with Universal’s release of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split and the Sasquatch-themed The Bigfoot Project on April 4th. Then, on April 7th, we have a pair of stellar indie horrors coming our way—The Void and Bethany—with The Bye Bye Man making its VOD bow just a few days later.

April’s digital genre offerings continue throughout the month, with the releases of The Dark Tapes on April 18th, Detour on April 25th, and both Rupture and A Dark Song rounding out the month’s VOD titles with their April 28th releases. Read on for our full breakdown of all the genre VOD releases for April 2017.

The Bigfoot Project (Gravitas Ventures) – April 4th

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Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out. And if you're into box office and how movies might do, come play some of the box office games at EZ1 Productions including their new Pick 5 game!

This Past Weekend:

As expected, Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island won the weekend, and honestly, the Weekend Warrior’s original prediction of $61.6 million was pretty darn close to the movie’s opening weekend which ended up at $61 million. (Unfortunately, I chickened out on Thursday because my prediction was so much higher than all others and lowered it to $58 million, which was Still closer to than every other prediction last weekend.) Also, as expected (at least by me), Hugh Jackman’s Logan took a 2nd weekend tumble as has been the case with most X-Men movies,...

Netflix has announced the new titles arriving on the streaming platform next month, with five original films leading the pack: “Burning Sands” (3/10), “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train” (3/17), “Pandora” (3/17), “The Most Hated Woman in America” (3/24) and “The Discovery” (3/31). Three of these — “Burning Sands,” “Deidra & Laney,” “The Discovery” — are Netflix Origins that premiered during the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Read More: ‘The Discovery’ Review: Rooney Mara And Jason Segel Find Life After Death — Sundance 2017

Also available to stream next month are “The Bfg,” “Pete’s Dragon,” “The Life Aquatic,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Chicago,” “Jurassic Park,” “Memento,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Evolution,” “Fire at Sea” and “Welcome to New York,” among others, while the likes of “Jaws,” “Animal House,” “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” and “Entertainment” are all expiring at the end of February. Find a full list of what’s coming in March below.

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Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

This Past Weekend:

Bomb, bomb bomb bomb, Boooooomb! Things just kept getting worse and worse at the box office as this past weekend saw more new releases not meeting up to their potential. The horribly-reviewed horror movie Rings (Paramount) ended up around where I predicted with $13 million, taking second place to M. Night Shyamalan’s Split. The sci-fi romance The Space Between Us (Stx Entertainment) didn’t make much of a mark, opening in ninth place with just $3.8 million with about $1,300 per theater. Robert De Niro’s The Comedian (Sony Classics) tanked worse than many recent movies, making less than a million in 848 theaters or about $1,000 per theater. By comparison, the doc I Am Not Your Negro made about 78% of that amount in 800 less theaters.