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Interview: Zosia Mamet on subverting expectations in ‘The Flight Attendant’ and having pets who see dead people

Interviews (Film)

Interview: Zosia Mamet on subverting expectations in ‘The Flight Attendant’ and having pets who see dead people

Daniel Trainor and Sam Stone December 16, 2020

Zosia Mamet is out to prove that she’s not just a one-trick pony. As high-powered attorney Annie on HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Mamet subverts... Read More

Focus Features picks up Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ with Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe

Erik Anderson December 16, 2020

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Branagh, Belfast is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of... Read More

Interview: George C. Wolfe on turning up the heat in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and Chadwick Boseman’s final performance

Interviews (Film)

Interview: George C. Wolfe on turning up the heat in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and Chadwick Boseman’s final performance

Erik Anderson December 16, 2020

George C. Wolfe is about to have his big breakthrough. Best known for his legendary, Tony-winning work on Broadway, producer Denzel Washington entrusted Wolfe with... Read More

Sundance 2021 lineup low on high-profile films but increases representation and accessibility of festival

Erik Anderson December 15, 2020

Award-winning actresses Robin Wright and Rebecca Hall will world premiere their debut feature films; women and BIPOC filmmakers make up 50% of the lineup of... Read More

Netflix announces production on new animated feature ‘The Magician’s Elephant’

Erik Anderson December 15, 2020

Netflix announced today a new animated feature film currently in production, The Magician’s Elephant, based on two-time Newbery Award winner Kate DiCamillo’s novel of the... Read More

Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) nominations: ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ leads with 11

Erik Anderson December 15, 2020

The Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) has announced nominees in all categories for its forthcoming 2020 awards with the Netflix drama i’m thinking of ending things leads... Read More

Interview: Lauren Lapkus on ‘The Last Blockbuster’ and the joys of movie nostalgia [VIDEO]

Interviews (Film)

Interview: Lauren Lapkus on ‘The Last Blockbuster’ and the joys of movie nostalgia [VIDEO]

Daniel Trainor and Sam Stone December 15, 2020

These days, a little nostalgia goes a long way. In the new documentary The Last Blockbuster, narrated by Lauren Lapkus (The Wrong Missy), the only... Read More

HBO greenlights ‘Irma Vep’ limited series with Alicia Vikander from A24

Erik Anderson December 14, 2020

HBO has greenlit Irma Vep, a limited series written and directed by Olivier Assayas and starring and executive produced by Alicia Vikander, it was announced today... Read More

Focus Features to give Robin Wright’s ‘Land’ an Oscar-qualifying release in February

Erik Anderson December 14, 2020

In a surprise announcement today, Focus Features will release Land, the directorial debut from award-winning actress Robin Wright (House of Cards) n theaters domestically on... Read More

Interview: Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan offer a poison paradise in ‘Promising Young Woman’

Interviews (Film)

Interview: Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan offer a poison paradise in ‘Promising Young Woman’

Erik Anderson December 14, 2020

In the new film and first feature from actress/writer/director Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman (out December 25 in theaters, VOD approximately three weeks later) tells... Read More

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