Exclusive: Independent Artist Group on Tuesday announced its signing of actress Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars).
Benson is best known for starring on the hit Freeform series Pretty Little Liars, based on the novels by Sara Shepard, which aired for seven seasons from 2010 to 2017.
Created by I. Marlene King, the mystery drama follows the lives of four high school girls whose friendship falls apart after their clique leader, Alison, goes missing. A year later, they start receiving anonymous messages from a mysterious figure known as “A,” who threatens to expose their deepest secrets, including ones they thought only Alison knew. In the role of “It girl” Hannah Marin, Benson starred opposite Troian Bellisario, Holly Marie Combs, Lucy Hale and more.
Most recently, the actress starred alongside Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Colman in Prime Video’s thriller miniseries Wilderness. Her feature film credits include Mob Land with John Travolta, Kevin Dillon...
Benson is best known for starring on the hit Freeform series Pretty Little Liars, based on the novels by Sara Shepard, which aired for seven seasons from 2010 to 2017.
Created by I. Marlene King, the mystery drama follows the lives of four high school girls whose friendship falls apart after their clique leader, Alison, goes missing. A year later, they start receiving anonymous messages from a mysterious figure known as “A,” who threatens to expose their deepest secrets, including ones they thought only Alison knew. In the role of “It girl” Hannah Marin, Benson starred opposite Troian Bellisario, Holly Marie Combs, Lucy Hale and more.
Most recently, the actress starred alongside Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Colman in Prime Video’s thriller miniseries Wilderness. Her feature film credits include Mob Land with John Travolta, Kevin Dillon...
- 5/21/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dylan Gelula (Dream Scenario) has joined Paramount Pictures’ untitled sequel to Smile, the 2022 horror thriller from Parker Finn, which went on to outsized success in theaters after initially being set to debut on Paramount+.
The actress joins an ensemble that also includes Naomi Scott, Lukas Gage, Kyle Gallner and Rosemarie DeWitt, as previously announced.
Details as to the plot and cast members’ roles are under wraps. But Finn has returned to direct from his own script, with Temple Hill producing. The sequel is slated for release on October 18, 2024, when it will go up against an unnamed title from Universal Pictures.
Grossing over $217M at the worldwide box office, 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, pic tells the story of Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), a psychiatrist who becomes...
The actress joins an ensemble that also includes Naomi Scott, Lukas Gage, Kyle Gallner and Rosemarie DeWitt, as previously announced.
Details as to the plot and cast members’ roles are under wraps. But Finn has returned to direct from his own script, with Temple Hill producing. The sequel is slated for release on October 18, 2024, when it will go up against an unnamed title from Universal Pictures.
Grossing over $217M at the worldwide box office, 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, pic tells the story of Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), a psychiatrist who becomes...
- 2/12/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Here at /Film, we have talked quite a bit about how much we love genre-specific streaming services like Shudder or Alter, but does such a platform exist for fans of science fiction? Sure, there's always the Syfy channel on cable, but with so many people cutting cords and pivoting exclusively to streaming, you may be wondering where to find new and unique sci-fi stories. Well, may we interest you in Dust? A sister site of Alter, Dust comes from the folks at Gunpowder and Sky, the independent studio behind hits like "Summer of 84," "Tragedy Girls," "Her Smell," "Hearts Beat Loud," "Call Me Miss Cleo," and "Kobe Bryant's Dear Basketball."
A hub for the very best in sci-fi short films, Dust also has a live linear channel constantly playing from their selection of shorts, so if you don't feel like wading through the selections, you can let the service choose for you.
A hub for the very best in sci-fi short films, Dust also has a live linear channel constantly playing from their selection of shorts, so if you don't feel like wading through the selections, you can let the service choose for you.
- 12/9/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
It’s been five years since Alex Ross Perry’s most recent narrative feature, “Her Smell.” Despite the film earning pretty solid reviews, as have most of his narrative features, the filmmaker doesn’t seem at all interested in narrative filmmaking at this moment. In fact, he has two new films on the horizon, but both are documentaries. And in his mind, this is exactly what a quality filmmaker should be doing—diversifying.
Continue reading Alex Ross Perry Details His Next Two Docs & Explains His Reluctance To Make Narrative Features Right Now at The Playlist.
Continue reading Alex Ross Perry Details His Next Two Docs & Explains His Reluctance To Make Narrative Features Right Now at The Playlist.
- 11/27/2023
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
He might be technically retired from what we consider regular fiction filmmaking, but since his TIFF premiered Her Smell back in 2018 Alex Ross Perry‘s output has been fruitful, plentiful and now we this hybrid we can say imaginative and not trapped by conformity. Announced late last year, the project as Perry called it will be a mix of items tossed into a blender. Putting together the members of Pavement, Zoe Lister-Jones, Michael Esper and Kathryn Gallagher, the behind the line crew folk include cinematography Robert Kolodny and editor Robert Greene. Perry first visited Park City for Listen Up Philip in 2014.…...
- 11/17/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Her Smell” director Alex Ross Perry is developing two nonfiction projects, including the as-yet-untitled doc about video stores.
“I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,” he tells Variety at Poland’s American Film Festival, where he also picked the Indie Star Award and treated the audience to work-in-progress footage.
“I’m trying to tell this story while it’s still within our grasp. You only have so much time when something is both a present tense memory for one half of your audience and a completely new experience for another. In another decade, everything I’m talking about will be ancient history.”
Perry, who has been working on the project for 10 years, is also putting finishing touches on “Pavements,” about an indie rock band.
“I think both this video store movie and the Pavement movie are examinations of the unexamined era,” he says.
“It was something...
“I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,” he tells Variety at Poland’s American Film Festival, where he also picked the Indie Star Award and treated the audience to work-in-progress footage.
“I’m trying to tell this story while it’s still within our grasp. You only have so much time when something is both a present tense memory for one half of your audience and a completely new experience for another. In another decade, everything I’m talking about will be ancient history.”
Perry, who has been working on the project for 10 years, is also putting finishing touches on “Pavements,” about an indie rock band.
“I think both this video store movie and the Pavement movie are examinations of the unexamined era,” he says.
“It was something...
- 11/12/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Longest Yard is getting another set of downs.
Deadline hears that another remake of the film, which originally starred Burt Reynolds in 1974 and was remade starring Adam Sandler in 2005, is in the works at Paramount Pictures. Rodney Barnes, who was an exec producer and writer on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is writing.
It comes from Gunpowder & Sky, whose CEO Van Toffler was an exec producer on the 2005 version when he worked at then-MTV owner Viacom. Toffler is producing with former MTV Films boss David Gale, who reunited with Toffler at Gunpowder & Sky and who also exec produced the Sandler version.
The Longest Yard is a prison sports comedy film.
‘The Longest Yard,’ 1974
The 1974 original was based on a story by Al Ruddy, directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Tracy Keenan Wynn. It starred Reynolds as Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, a...
Deadline hears that another remake of the film, which originally starred Burt Reynolds in 1974 and was remade starring Adam Sandler in 2005, is in the works at Paramount Pictures. Rodney Barnes, who was an exec producer and writer on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is writing.
It comes from Gunpowder & Sky, whose CEO Van Toffler was an exec producer on the 2005 version when he worked at then-MTV owner Viacom. Toffler is producing with former MTV Films boss David Gale, who reunited with Toffler at Gunpowder & Sky and who also exec produced the Sandler version.
The Longest Yard is a prison sports comedy film.
‘The Longest Yard,’ 1974
The 1974 original was based on a story by Al Ruddy, directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Tracy Keenan Wynn. It starred Reynolds as Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, a...
- 11/6/2023
- by Peter White and Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
More than 90 feature films showcasing the best in U.S. moviemaking will take center stage next month at Poland’s American Film Festival (Aff), whose 14th edition takes place Nov. 7 – 12 in Wrocław, Poland.
Founded in 2010 as the sister event of the long-running New Horizons Film Festival, the Aff bills itself as the first film event in Central Europe solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema.
In putting together the program for the 14th edition, festival director Ula Śniegowska says she and the programming team spent the past year “scouting the festivals and trying to get our hands on the pulse of what’s happening in American auteur and independent film.” The festival, which includes titles that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes and other leading fests, is similar in spirit to France’s long-running Deauville American Film Festival, which mounted its 49th edition this year.
Founded in 2010 as the sister event of the long-running New Horizons Film Festival, the Aff bills itself as the first film event in Central Europe solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema.
In putting together the program for the 14th edition, festival director Ula Śniegowska says she and the programming team spent the past year “scouting the festivals and trying to get our hands on the pulse of what’s happening in American auteur and independent film.” The festival, which includes titles that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes and other leading fests, is similar in spirit to France’s long-running Deauville American Film Festival, which mounted its 49th edition this year.
- 10/24/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Eddie Redmayne will star in the Cabaret revival coming to Broadway this spring.
He reprises his role as the Emcee from the production in London, opposite newcomer Gayle Rankin (Glow), who will be playing Sally Bowles. The production, directed by Rebecca Frecknall, starts previews at the August Wilson Theatre on April 1, 2024, with an official press opening night on April 21.
Like in London, the creative team plans to transform the August Wilson Theatre for the production, featuring an in-the-round auditorium and “sinfully dreamlike spaces,” where attendees can view entertainment and buy drinks and food before the show. Each attendee will have a timed entry to the theater and the pre show. Tom Scutt is the club, scenic, and costume designer and Julia Cheng is the choreographer.
In addition to performing the role in London, for which he won an Olivier Award for best actor in a musical (alongside the production’s...
He reprises his role as the Emcee from the production in London, opposite newcomer Gayle Rankin (Glow), who will be playing Sally Bowles. The production, directed by Rebecca Frecknall, starts previews at the August Wilson Theatre on April 1, 2024, with an official press opening night on April 21.
Like in London, the creative team plans to transform the August Wilson Theatre for the production, featuring an in-the-round auditorium and “sinfully dreamlike spaces,” where attendees can view entertainment and buy drinks and food before the show. Each attendee will have a timed entry to the theater and the pre show. Tom Scutt is the club, scenic, and costume designer and Julia Cheng is the choreographer.
In addition to performing the role in London, for which he won an Olivier Award for best actor in a musical (alongside the production’s...
- 10/23/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bi-continental production outfit Lspg (Luca Severi Production Group) has boarded “Eco Village,” a gonzo musical comedy led by Sidney Flanigan, the star of Sundance and Berlinale prize winner “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” Nearing completion, the project is eyeing a festival launch early next year.
Marking the feature debut of playwright Phoebe Nir – who adapted her own Off-Broadway play – the off-kilter film follows a young drifter (played by actor-musician Flanigan) who makes her way first onto an anarchic and uninhibited artists colony, and then into the thrall of the utopia’s manipulative leader, played by Lindsay Burdge (of “Thirst Street” and “Her Smell”).
The filmmaker describes her 16mm project as an “[honest depiction of] the agonies and ecstasies of female desire, inspired by the memory of my tumble down the rabbit hole of first love (or was it lust?) in an idealistic hippie commune where jealousy and rage churned quietly beneath the surface.”
Theresa Rebeck and Linda Gray produced,...
Marking the feature debut of playwright Phoebe Nir – who adapted her own Off-Broadway play – the off-kilter film follows a young drifter (played by actor-musician Flanigan) who makes her way first onto an anarchic and uninhibited artists colony, and then into the thrall of the utopia’s manipulative leader, played by Lindsay Burdge (of “Thirst Street” and “Her Smell”).
The filmmaker describes her 16mm project as an “[honest depiction of] the agonies and ecstasies of female desire, inspired by the memory of my tumble down the rabbit hole of first love (or was it lust?) in an idealistic hippie commune where jealousy and rage churned quietly beneath the surface.”
Theresa Rebeck and Linda Gray produced,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
It’s not much of a spoiler to say that the final image of Sean Price Williams’s solo feature directorial debut, The Sweet East, is that of Talia Ryder’s Lillian nonchalantly strolling toward and past the camera, a smirk on her face. That’s effectively the whole vibe of the film, an odyssey that traipses through the world of white supremacist academics, PizzaGate conspiracy theorists, self-satisfied filmmakers, mixed-media artists of questionable talent, and religious zealots. And as these various figure heads of a post-whatever world aspire to approximate, at once, political and social fragmentation, reactionaryism, delusion, provocation, and apathy, there Lilian is, eyes like butterfly knives being toyed with by a bored teenager.
As a cinematographer, Price Williams made a name for himself working with filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry and Josh and Benny Safdie, lending their films an earthy sense of immediacy. On 16mm, his images burn...
As a cinematographer, Price Williams made a name for himself working with filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry and Josh and Benny Safdie, lending their films an earthy sense of immediacy. On 16mm, his images burn...
- 9/27/2023
- by Kyle Turner
- Slant Magazine
Cara Delevingne exploded onto the modeling scene in the early 2010s as one of the most sought-after names in fashion. As her modeling career took off, she also took up acting and has since appeared in a number of different films and TV shows over the years - including "Paper Towns," "Suicide Squad," "Her Smell," "Only Murders in the Building," and "Carnival Row."
Despite her celebrity status and fame, Delevingne is not very open about her personal life, including those she's romanced through the years. In the past, Delevingne has vaguely alluded to how she chooses her partners. "However one defines themselves, whether it's 'they' or 'he' or 'she,' I fall in love with the person - and that's that," she told Variety in 2020 of her pansexual identity. "I'm attracted to the person."
Since emerging into the spotlight, the model-turned-actor has been the subject of many dating rumors (and...
Despite her celebrity status and fame, Delevingne is not very open about her personal life, including those she's romanced through the years. In the past, Delevingne has vaguely alluded to how she chooses her partners. "However one defines themselves, whether it's 'they' or 'he' or 'she,' I fall in love with the person - and that's that," she told Variety in 2020 of her pansexual identity. "I'm attracted to the person."
Since emerging into the spotlight, the model-turned-actor has been the subject of many dating rumors (and...
- 9/18/2023
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
Prime Video’s new thriller series Wilderness is already making a splash by having a truly great bop as its theme tune in Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’, but there’s much more to enjoy here than that. The raunchy show follows a young writer called Liv, whose dream life with her handsome and wealthy husband falls apart when they move stateside and she catches him cheating on her. Their “make or break” dream holiday is set to crumble into a nightmare, albeit a scenic one, when Liv sets out to get her revenge.
The cast of Wilderness may be small, but it’s stacked with notable actors, some of whom might seem very familiar to you. If you can’t remember where you’ve seen them before, or just want to know more about them, we’re here to help!
Jenna Coleman as Liv
Blackpool-born...
The cast of Wilderness may be small, but it’s stacked with notable actors, some of whom might seem very familiar to you. If you can’t remember where you’ve seen them before, or just want to know more about them, we’re here to help!
Jenna Coleman as Liv
Blackpool-born...
- 9/15/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
With Cannes done and dusted and the heavy-hitting autumn quartet of Venice, Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF still a few months off, what’s a film festival fan to do during the dog days of summer? With New York City’s own Tribeca Festival now firmly ensconced in the summer months after moving off its traditional spring dates in 2021, movie lovers both in the city and beyond can enjoy the annual event’s prodigious programming, thanks to a combination of in-person and virtual programming.
The 2023 edition will kick off June 7 with the North American premiere of “Kiss the Future,” a documentary following the story of a community of underground musicians and creatives throughout the nearly four-year-long siege of Sarajevo, as well as the 1997 U2 concert celebrating the liberation of the Bosnian capital.
A special 30th-anniversary screening of “A Bronx Tale” will close the fest on June 17. After the movie, the film...
The 2023 edition will kick off June 7 with the North American premiere of “Kiss the Future,” a documentary following the story of a community of underground musicians and creatives throughout the nearly four-year-long siege of Sarajevo, as well as the 1997 U2 concert celebrating the liberation of the Bosnian capital.
A special 30th-anniversary screening of “A Bronx Tale” will close the fest on June 17. After the movie, the film...
- 6/1/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sean Prince Williams made his name with cinephiles as the Dp on several recent movies like the Safdie Brothers‘ “Good Time,” Alex Ross Perry‘s “Her Smell,” “Tesla,” and Abel Ferrara‘s “Zeroes And Ones.” Now it’s his turn to sit in the director’s chair. The Match Factory brings Williams’ directorial debut, “The Sweet East,” to the Cannes Film Festival this year, where it has its world premiere as part of the Directors’ Fortnight.
Continue reading ‘The Sweet East’ First Look: Sean Prince Williams Makes His Directorial Debut During The Directors’ Fortnight At Cannes 2023 at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Sweet East’ First Look: Sean Prince Williams Makes His Directorial Debut During The Directors’ Fortnight At Cannes 2023 at The Playlist.
- 4/21/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
The Match Factory has acquired international sales rights on U.S. cinematographer and filmmaker Sean Price Williams’s feature directorial debut The Sweet East ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight in May.
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, the movie is described as a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
Williams’s credits as a cinematographer include Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry...
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, the movie is described as a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
Williams’s credits as a cinematographer include Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry...
- 4/21/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Film is directorial debut of prolific cinematographer Sean Price Williams.
The Match Factory has boarded Sean Price Williams’ The Sweet East which world premieres next month in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, it is the first feature film directed by cinematographer Price Williams, whose credits Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell (2018) and the Safdie brothers Good Time (2017).
The Sweet East is billed as picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the US undertaken by Lillian,...
The Match Factory has boarded Sean Price Williams’ The Sweet East which world premieres next month in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, it is the first feature film directed by cinematographer Price Williams, whose credits Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell (2018) and the Safdie brothers Good Time (2017).
The Sweet East is billed as picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the US undertaken by Lillian,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The Match Factory has boarded Sean Price Williams’s “The Sweet East,” which has its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival in May.
It is the first feature film directed by Price Williams, the cinematographer of Owen Kline’s “Funny Pages” (2022), Abel Ferrara’s “Zeros and Ones” (2021), Michael Almereyda’s “Tesla” (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell” (2018) and the Safdies’ “Good Time” (2017).
The screenplay is by film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton.
“The Sweet East” is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
“Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy-tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions...
It is the first feature film directed by Price Williams, the cinematographer of Owen Kline’s “Funny Pages” (2022), Abel Ferrara’s “Zeros and Ones” (2021), Michael Almereyda’s “Tesla” (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell” (2018) and the Safdies’ “Good Time” (2017).
The screenplay is by film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton.
“The Sweet East” is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
“Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy-tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions...
- 4/21/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Pretty Little Liars, the soapy teen drama based on the books by Sara Shepard, captivated audiences for seven seasons. The cliquey friend group found themselves being harassed by an anonymous “A” after the disappearance of their leader, snarky Alison Dilaurentis (Sasha Pieterse). But here was something the actor wished had disappeared with her character.
In ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ Sasha Pieterse loathed her character’s yellow ruffled tank top
I need this iconic yellow top and a blonde wig so I can go as Queen Alison Dilaurentis for Halloween @ABCFpll pic.twitter.com/t9w62OeIJG
— Conor Clark (@ConorClark) August 26, 2015
Throughout the first few seasons of Pretty Little Liars, most of Sasha Pieterse’s appearances on the show were flashbacks from the night Alison disappeared. Because of that, she’s usually seen wearing the same piece of clothing — a ruffly yellow tank top.
Viewers knew it was flashback mode as soon...
In ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ Sasha Pieterse loathed her character’s yellow ruffled tank top
I need this iconic yellow top and a blonde wig so I can go as Queen Alison Dilaurentis for Halloween @ABCFpll pic.twitter.com/t9w62OeIJG
— Conor Clark (@ConorClark) August 26, 2015
Throughout the first few seasons of Pretty Little Liars, most of Sasha Pieterse’s appearances on the show were flashbacks from the night Alison disappeared. Because of that, she’s usually seen wearing the same piece of clothing — a ruffly yellow tank top.
Viewers knew it was flashback mode as soon...
- 4/1/2023
- by Julie Rhoads
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Cara Delevingne made headlines in 2022 due to her public behavior. In 2023, she revealed her journey to sobriety, as well as more about her personal life. Another part of her life that’s come together? Her romantic one. Delevingne opened up in a Vogue interview, sharing a little about her relationship with her girlfriend, Minke, including how they met.
Cara Delevingne has a well-known relationship history in Hollywood Cara Delevingne attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2021/2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 05, 2021 in Paris, France. | Kristy Sparow/Getty Images For Dior
The stunning model has had a pretty rich dating history, according to J-14. Delevingne has been romantically linked to some of the most famous faces in Hollywood, including Michelle Rodriguez and Ashley Benson.
According to the Carnival Row star, she is happiest and at her best when she is in a relationship.”I’m just...
Cara Delevingne has a well-known relationship history in Hollywood Cara Delevingne attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2021/2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 05, 2021 in Paris, France. | Kristy Sparow/Getty Images For Dior
The stunning model has had a pretty rich dating history, according to J-14. Delevingne has been romantically linked to some of the most famous faces in Hollywood, including Michelle Rodriguez and Ashley Benson.
According to the Carnival Row star, she is happiest and at her best when she is in a relationship.”I’m just...
- 3/30/2023
- by Lisa Geiger
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Film festivals tend to have at least one trend. Cannes 2021 was the year of ... well, cunnilingus, while TIFF 2018 was the year of movies about troubled musicians. In 2023, South by Southwest was the year of the brand movie or product biopic (the prodpic?). Finally, Hollywood has realized that people are tired of the same old biopics that distill someone's entire life into a truncated narrative full of cliches and tropes, reducing moments of genuine innovation into contrived deus ex machinas.
Besides, who cares about people anyway? Not Hollywood, apparently, because they have finally recognized that audience's huge interest in recognizable IP and nostalgia means they don't care about people or characters, they care about products. And so, this year's SXSW saw movie writers and producers realize that they could just cut the middlemen and deliver what the people want right to them — movies about products!
That's right. This was the year...
Besides, who cares about people anyway? Not Hollywood, apparently, because they have finally recognized that audience's huge interest in recognizable IP and nostalgia means they don't care about people or characters, they care about products. And so, this year's SXSW saw movie writers and producers realize that they could just cut the middlemen and deliver what the people want right to them — movies about products!
That's right. This was the year...
- 3/23/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Nashville garage rockers Bully are back with a new song, “Days Move Slow,” which will appear on their next album, Lucky for You, out June 2 via Sub Pop.
“Days Move Slow” is a punchy but poignant tune, an energetic and honest exploration of grief that Bully’s Alicia Bognanno wrote after the death of her dog, Mezzi.
“As someone who has spent the majority of my life feeling agonizingly misunderstood, there is no greater gift than experiencing true unconditional love and acceptance,” Bognanno said in a statement. “I waited my...
“Days Move Slow” is a punchy but poignant tune, an energetic and honest exploration of grief that Bully’s Alicia Bognanno wrote after the death of her dog, Mezzi.
“As someone who has spent the majority of my life feeling agonizingly misunderstood, there is no greater gift than experiencing true unconditional love and acceptance,” Bognanno said in a statement. “I waited my...
- 3/21/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Cara Delevingne Says Concerning Paparazzi Images Led to Rehab Stay, Sobriety Journey: “I Was Not Ok”
Cara Delevingne sparked widespread concern after paparazzi images captured at a private airport in L.A. last September showed the model and actress looking disheveled and acting erratically upon returning from Burning Man. Now, in a revealing cover interview with Vogue, the 30-year-old said she’s grateful for those images because it sent her on a path to rehab and sobriety.
“I hadn’t slept. I was not Ok,” she told Vogue writer Chioma Nnadi. “It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, Ok, I don’t look well. You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.”
For the interview, conducted in late January, Delevingne confessed that she was four months sober after a stint in rehab late last year. “I’ve had interventions of a sort, but I wasn’t ready.
“I hadn’t slept. I was not Ok,” she told Vogue writer Chioma Nnadi. “It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, Ok, I don’t look well. You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.”
For the interview, conducted in late January, Delevingne confessed that she was four months sober after a stint in rehab late last year. “I’ve had interventions of a sort, but I wasn’t ready.
- 3/8/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elisabeth Moss is a widely celebrated actor. Her roles in shows like Mad Men and The Handmaid’s Tale have earned her acclaimed and captured significant audiences. For the most part, Moss doesn’t share information about her personal life with the public. But one thing fans do know about her is that she is a Scientologist.
The church and its followers have been involved in disturbing situations and accused of other terrible crimes. Despite the stigma that comes with believing in the words of L. Ron Hubbard, Moss remains a famous face for the religion and defends it and her commitment to it in interviews.
Elisabeth Moss was born into a Scientology family US actress Elisabeth Moss arrives for “The Invisible Man” premiere at the Tcl Chinese theatre in Hollywood on February 24, 2020. | Valerie Macon/Afp via Getty Images
Moss’ lifelong connections to Scientology were explored in a profile of the...
The church and its followers have been involved in disturbing situations and accused of other terrible crimes. Despite the stigma that comes with believing in the words of L. Ron Hubbard, Moss remains a famous face for the religion and defends it and her commitment to it in interviews.
Elisabeth Moss was born into a Scientology family US actress Elisabeth Moss arrives for “The Invisible Man” premiere at the Tcl Chinese theatre in Hollywood on February 24, 2020. | Valerie Macon/Afp via Getty Images
Moss’ lifelong connections to Scientology were explored in a profile of the...
- 2/8/2023
- by Garrett Burke
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: Alyssa Milano (Brazen), Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Gina Torres (9-1-1: Lone Star) and Milana Vayntrub (This Is Us) have signed on for roles in the feature-length anthology Give Me an A, which links together 15 short films, in response to the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The film currently in post-production will have been completed within two months from the date of Roe’s overturning — which eliminated the longstanding constitutional right to abortion — in an effort to ensure this is a response and not a delayed reaction. The creators, cast and crew have made a significant effort to expedite the process in order to start a conversation with audiences about the importance of bodily autonomy and address the dysfunction of a democracy that is not protecting the needs of a majority of the population. Support from vendors like Keslow, Panavision and The Ebell of Los Angeles has allowed...
The film currently in post-production will have been completed within two months from the date of Roe’s overturning — which eliminated the longstanding constitutional right to abortion — in an effort to ensure this is a response and not a delayed reaction. The creators, cast and crew have made a significant effort to expedite the process in order to start a conversation with audiences about the importance of bodily autonomy and address the dysfunction of a democracy that is not protecting the needs of a majority of the population. Support from vendors like Keslow, Panavision and The Ebell of Los Angeles has allowed...
- 9/12/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Bulldog Film Distribution has exclusively released a new clip from the upcoming surreal feature ‘Strawberry Mansion.’
In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an ageing eccentric…
Written and Directed by Kentucker Audley & Albert Binney, the film stars Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Penny Fuller, Reed Birney, Constance Shulman and Linas Phillips.
Also in news – Kumail Nanjiani features in first look images for ‘Welcome to Chippendales’
The film hits select cinemas and on demand 16 September. Here’s the exclusive clip.
And here’s the film’s official trailer.
The post Exclusive: Dreamy new clip from surreal feature ‘Strawberry Mansion’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an ageing eccentric…
Written and Directed by Kentucker Audley & Albert Binney, the film stars Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Penny Fuller, Reed Birney, Constance Shulman and Linas Phillips.
Also in news – Kumail Nanjiani features in first look images for ‘Welcome to Chippendales’
The film hits select cinemas and on demand 16 September. Here’s the exclusive clip.
And here’s the film’s official trailer.
The post Exclusive: Dreamy new clip from surreal feature ‘Strawberry Mansion’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 8/10/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Rain Management Group has brought on Yasmin Felice Morris as a Talent Manager, effective immediately.
Morris began her career in her hometown of Chicago working for veteran casting director Claire Simon, supporting shows including Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., and Empire, as well as features, commercials, and theatre. She later segued into talent covering rising stars coming out of the long-established Chicago theatre community such as Kiki Layne, Chris Redd, Tosin Morohunfola and Joe Keery. Morris then moved on to production, assisting Executive Producer/Director Michael Waxman on Chicago Med for the show’s first three seasons.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2018, first working as a development exec at Van Toffler and Floris Bauer’s independent studio, Gunpowder & Sky, responsible for such titles as The Little Hours, Hearts Beat Loud,...
Morris began her career in her hometown of Chicago working for veteran casting director Claire Simon, supporting shows including Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., and Empire, as well as features, commercials, and theatre. She later segued into talent covering rising stars coming out of the long-established Chicago theatre community such as Kiki Layne, Chris Redd, Tosin Morohunfola and Joe Keery. Morris then moved on to production, assisting Executive Producer/Director Michael Waxman on Chicago Med for the show’s first three seasons.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2018, first working as a development exec at Van Toffler and Floris Bauer’s independent studio, Gunpowder & Sky, responsible for such titles as The Little Hours, Hearts Beat Loud,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
At this point, if anyone in Hollywood is selling a story that happens to center on a haunted, damaged, and obsessively driven woman, they sure as hell better be giving Elisabeth Moss a call. The supremely talented star of "Mad Men," "The Handmaid's Tale," "Her Smell," "The Invisible Man," and "Shirley" has all but cornered the market in playing these specific types of leads, going above and beyond to embody such rich characters with a fierce and unwavering sense of commitment. It's not really overselling things to state that the results, thus far, have...
The post Shining Girls Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Attempts To Catch A Killer In A Reality-Shifting Mystery Series appeared first on /Film.
The post Shining Girls Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Attempts To Catch A Killer In A Reality-Shifting Mystery Series appeared first on /Film.
- 3/29/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
No, this is not a video from the archives. Released as a B-side on their 1999 EP Spit On a Stranger, Pavement’s song Harness Your Hopes has had a rebirth as of late, becoming a viral sensation across TikTok and Spotify, racking up nearly 70 million plays on the latter platform. The EP is now getting a re-issue on April 8 courtesy of Matador Records and an entertaining new music video has dropped.
Coming from director Alex Ross Perry, whose last feature was 2018’s Her Smell, the video stars Sophia Thatcher (Yellowjackets) traveling through various vintage footage of the band and beyond placed behind her. As we await news on Arp’s next project, this certainly tides us over. Check it out below.
The post Watch Alex Ross Perry's Music Video for Pavement's Harness Your Hopes first appeared on The Film Stage.
Coming from director Alex Ross Perry, whose last feature was 2018’s Her Smell, the video stars Sophia Thatcher (Yellowjackets) traveling through various vintage footage of the band and beyond placed behind her. As we await news on Arp’s next project, this certainly tides us over. Check it out below.
The post Watch Alex Ross Perry's Music Video for Pavement's Harness Your Hopes first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 3/11/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Maybe it’s the pandemic screwing with the perceived passing of time, but it does feel like it was only recently that filmmaker Alex Ross Perry released the musical drama “Her Smell.” But actually, that was nearly four years ago, way back in the pre-covid era of 2018. Since then, the filmmaker hasn’t released any new films or TV shows, but he has stayed busy directing music videos, like the newest one for the ’90s indie-rock band Pavement.
Continue reading Alex Ross Perry Teams With Pavement & Actress Sophie Thatcher For ‘Harness Your Hopes’ Music Video at The Playlist.
Continue reading Alex Ross Perry Teams With Pavement & Actress Sophie Thatcher For ‘Harness Your Hopes’ Music Video at The Playlist.
- 3/11/2022
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
The eighth annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival is upon us!
IndieWire can exclusively announce highlights from the upcoming Nitehawk Shorts Fest, running March 2–6 at both the Nitehawk’s Prospect Park and Williamsburg locations.
The Nitehawk Shorts Festival celebrates independent filmmaking by featuring over 60 short films, with filmmakers in attendance for Q&As. Continuing its mission to represent diverse backgrounds, voices, and perspectives with a selection of exceptional short-form films, female-directed films make up a majority of this year’s festival program.
The festival will include six programs: Opening Nite, Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, NoBudge, and Closing Nite. Opening and Closing Nite shows will take place at the Prospect Park location, with post-screening parties hosted in the Trees Lounge bar. Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, and NoBudge will be at the Williamsburg location.
“We have been eager to get the Nitehawk Shorts Festival back up and running, since it has become such an...
IndieWire can exclusively announce highlights from the upcoming Nitehawk Shorts Fest, running March 2–6 at both the Nitehawk’s Prospect Park and Williamsburg locations.
The Nitehawk Shorts Festival celebrates independent filmmaking by featuring over 60 short films, with filmmakers in attendance for Q&As. Continuing its mission to represent diverse backgrounds, voices, and perspectives with a selection of exceptional short-form films, female-directed films make up a majority of this year’s festival program.
The festival will include six programs: Opening Nite, Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, NoBudge, and Closing Nite. Opening and Closing Nite shows will take place at the Prospect Park location, with post-screening parties hosted in the Trees Lounge bar. Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, and NoBudge will be at the Williamsburg location.
“We have been eager to get the Nitehawk Shorts Festival back up and running, since it has become such an...
- 2/1/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
2021 is nearly in the books and Hulu is celebrating by heading back to the past…like, the way past. With its list of new releases for December 2021, Hulu is going positive Medieval with two swords and shield original series arriving this month.
Animated comedy Crossing Swords premieres its second season on Dec. 10. This stop-motion style tale follows Patrick (Nicholas Hoult) as he works his way up the feudal latter of The Kingdom. This will be complemented by Dragons: The Nine Realms on Dec. 23. This series is set in the How to Train Your Dragon universe and takes place over 1,000 years after the events of the films. In it, a group of modern day kids uncover the secret truth about dragons.
Hulu also has some more current options for TV this month. Original comedy Pen15 premieres the second half of its second season on Dec. 3. Watch it to relive the trauma...
Animated comedy Crossing Swords premieres its second season on Dec. 10. This stop-motion style tale follows Patrick (Nicholas Hoult) as he works his way up the feudal latter of The Kingdom. This will be complemented by Dragons: The Nine Realms on Dec. 23. This series is set in the How to Train Your Dragon universe and takes place over 1,000 years after the events of the films. In it, a group of modern day kids uncover the secret truth about dragons.
Hulu also has some more current options for TV this month. Original comedy Pen15 premieres the second half of its second season on Dec. 3. Watch it to relive the trauma...
- 12/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Ashley Benson, Shiloh Fernandez, Logan Miller, Frank Whaley and Jay Pharoah are starring in “Private Property,” a remake of the 1960 noir film of the same title.
The movie recently wrapped production in Los Angeles and was written, produced, and directed by Chadd Harbold. The original film, written and directed by “Outer Limits” creator Leslie Stevens, was out of circulation for 30 years and considered lost, until it was restored and re-released by Cinelicious Pics in 2016 to critical acclaim.
In the remake, Benson stars as Kathryn, a struggling actress and unfulfilled housewife who becomes involved with her new gardener Ben, played by Fernandez. As he gives her the attention and sensitivity she craves, they start to fall for each other. But, in true noir fashion, Ben is not all that he seems.
Benson is best known for her work in “Spring Breakers,” “Her Smell” and the teen mystery-drama series “Pretty Little Liars.
The movie recently wrapped production in Los Angeles and was written, produced, and directed by Chadd Harbold. The original film, written and directed by “Outer Limits” creator Leslie Stevens, was out of circulation for 30 years and considered lost, until it was restored and re-released by Cinelicious Pics in 2016 to critical acclaim.
In the remake, Benson stars as Kathryn, a struggling actress and unfulfilled housewife who becomes involved with her new gardener Ben, played by Fernandez. As he gives her the attention and sensitivity she craves, they start to fall for each other. But, in true noir fashion, Ben is not all that he seems.
Benson is best known for her work in “Spring Breakers,” “Her Smell” and the teen mystery-drama series “Pretty Little Liars.
- 8/6/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
An as-yet untitled documentary about Doors frontman Jim Morrison is in production via the independent studio Gunpowder & Sky and the managers of the singer’s estate, they jointly announced Friday, with the promise of bringing “unearthed” personal diaries and home movies to the screen as part of the project.
Joining Gunpowder & Sky as producers on the film are Jeff Jampol, the head of Jampol Artist Management (Jam), which manages Morrison’s estate as well as those of artists from Janis Joplin to Charlie Parker, and Jeff Pollack, of FourScore Entertainment, a producer on films and TV specials including the Frank Sinatra doc “All or Nothing at All,” “Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time” and “Rhythm + Flow.”
“Our job is to guide, protect and connect our clients’ extraordinary legacies to fans both old and new, while always maintaining the highest standards of credibility and authenticity,” Jampol said in a statement.
Joining Gunpowder & Sky as producers on the film are Jeff Jampol, the head of Jampol Artist Management (Jam), which manages Morrison’s estate as well as those of artists from Janis Joplin to Charlie Parker, and Jeff Pollack, of FourScore Entertainment, a producer on films and TV specials including the Frank Sinatra doc “All or Nothing at All,” “Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time” and “Rhythm + Flow.”
“Our job is to guide, protect and connect our clients’ extraordinary legacies to fans both old and new, while always maintaining the highest standards of credibility and authenticity,” Jampol said in a statement.
- 7/9/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
It is tempting and totally incorrect to put Jamie Adams’ “Love Spreads” on a shelf next to Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell”: Both films center on petty, personal rifts expanding between members of all-women rock bands, and the former at first appears, like the latter, concerned with toxic lead singers cursed with too much ego after tasting success. But “Love Spreads” is about early success, the success that sets a band up for album number two, and all the pressure that comes from outputting a hit record and being expected to make another; characters act monstrously toward one another, yes, but the film is not a character study.
Continue reading ‘Love Spreads’: Eiza González & Alia Shawkat Consider What’s Worth Sacrificing To Make A Great Album [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Love Spreads’: Eiza González & Alia Shawkat Consider What’s Worth Sacrificing To Make A Great Album [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 6/20/2021
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Testimony,” the latest episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Once again, Elisabeth Moss has been assigned a bravura bit of acting; once again, she’s delivered. The question “The Handmaid’s Tale” always seems to force is: Is that enough to keep us watching?
On “Testimony,” the most recent episode of the fourth-season Hulu drama, Moss delivers a seven-minute speech, directly to camera, in a single unbroken shot. She narrates every terrible thing that has happened to her over the course of the series. Within the show’s universe, the context is a trial in which the crimes of her former captors, the Waterfords, are to be brought into the light. Within ours, it’s a chance for the show to announce it’s entering a new phase, and for Moss, who directed the episode in which she monologizes, to show...
Once again, Elisabeth Moss has been assigned a bravura bit of acting; once again, she’s delivered. The question “The Handmaid’s Tale” always seems to force is: Is that enough to keep us watching?
On “Testimony,” the most recent episode of the fourth-season Hulu drama, Moss delivers a seven-minute speech, directly to camera, in a single unbroken shot. She narrates every terrible thing that has happened to her over the course of the series. Within the show’s universe, the context is a trial in which the crimes of her former captors, the Waterfords, are to be brought into the light. Within ours, it’s a chance for the show to announce it’s entering a new phase, and for Moss, who directed the episode in which she monologizes, to show...
- 6/2/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Take a look at new images of "Pretty Little Liars" actress Ashley Benson in the latest issue of "Cosmopolitan" (UK), photographed by Ramona Rosales:
Benson is best known for her role as 'Hanna Marin' in theABC Family teen mystery-drama TV series "Pretty Little Liars" (2010–2017).
Benson's feature film credits include "Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), "Christmas Cupid" (2010), "Spring Breakers" (2012), "Ratter" (2015), "Chronically Metropolitan" (2016), and "Her Smell" (2018).
Upcoming productions include "Lapham Rising" (post-production), "18 & Over" (post-production), "The Birthday Cake" and "Sorry Charlie Miller".
Click the images to enlarge...
Benson is best known for her role as 'Hanna Marin' in theABC Family teen mystery-drama TV series "Pretty Little Liars" (2010–2017).
Benson's feature film credits include "Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), "Christmas Cupid" (2010), "Spring Breakers" (2012), "Ratter" (2015), "Chronically Metropolitan" (2016), and "Her Smell" (2018).
Upcoming productions include "Lapham Rising" (post-production), "18 & Over" (post-production), "The Birthday Cake" and "Sorry Charlie Miller".
Click the images to enlarge...
- 5/28/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The Birthday Cake director and composer Jimmy Giannopoulos with Anne-Katrin Titze on being introduced to Ed Bahlman: “Before anything, you know, I saw Liquid Liquid open for LCD Soundsystem in Madison Square Garden about ten years ago.” Photo: Ed Bahlman
The Birthday Cake, directed by Jimmy Giannopoulos, co-written with Diomedes Raul Bermudez and Shiloh Fernandez (who also stars as Gio), shot crisply by Sean Price Williams, grips us firmly right from the start. The superb ensemble cast includes Ewan McGregor, Lorraine Bracco, Val Kilmer, Emory Cohen, William Fichtner, Vincent Pastore, David Mazouz, Paul Sorvino, Penn Badgley, Ashley Benson, Tyler Dean Flores, Luis Guzmán, Marla Maples, and Clara McGregor.
In the first instalment of my conversation on the making of The Birthday Cake, music producer 'legend' Ed Bahlman (founder of 99 Records) joined us to discuss with Jimmy Giannopoulos the terrific score he co-wrote and performed with Tim Sandusky, and the original...
The Birthday Cake, directed by Jimmy Giannopoulos, co-written with Diomedes Raul Bermudez and Shiloh Fernandez (who also stars as Gio), shot crisply by Sean Price Williams, grips us firmly right from the start. The superb ensemble cast includes Ewan McGregor, Lorraine Bracco, Val Kilmer, Emory Cohen, William Fichtner, Vincent Pastore, David Mazouz, Paul Sorvino, Penn Badgley, Ashley Benson, Tyler Dean Flores, Luis Guzmán, Marla Maples, and Clara McGregor.
In the first instalment of my conversation on the making of The Birthday Cake, music producer 'legend' Ed Bahlman (founder of 99 Records) joined us to discuss with Jimmy Giannopoulos the terrific score he co-wrote and performed with Tim Sandusky, and the original...
- 5/26/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Pretty Little Liars alum Ashley Benson will produce and star in 18 & Over, a pandemic-inspired slasher movie that she co-created with Jimmy Giannopolous and Diomedes Raul Bermudez. Also starring in the film are Jon Foster, Jake Weary, Sky Ferreira, Luis Guzman, Winnie Harlow, G Eazy, Duke Nicholson, A$AP Nast, John Robinson, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson.
The pic hails from Hercules film fund and Rhea Films. Giannopolous directed the indie horror from a screenplay he co-wrote with Bermudez. Plot details are scare other than it takes place when quarantine leads to a night of terror. G Eazy composed the film’s score, marking the No Limit artist’s first-ever film score.
18 & Over marks Giannopolous’ sophomore feature following his debut Brooklyn mob thriller, The Birthday Cake, which also stars Benson.
“After deciding to shoot this film in the middle of the pandemic, we wanted to make something that would be...
The pic hails from Hercules film fund and Rhea Films. Giannopolous directed the indie horror from a screenplay he co-wrote with Bermudez. Plot details are scare other than it takes place when quarantine leads to a night of terror. G Eazy composed the film’s score, marking the No Limit artist’s first-ever film score.
18 & Over marks Giannopolous’ sophomore feature following his debut Brooklyn mob thriller, The Birthday Cake, which also stars Benson.
“After deciding to shoot this film in the middle of the pandemic, we wanted to make something that would be...
- 4/7/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
"Pretty Little Liars" actress Ashley Benson poses for the April 2021 issue of "Cosmopolitan" (UK) magazine, photographed by Ramona Roseales:
Benson is best known for her role as 'Hanna Mari' in the teen mystery-drama series "Pretty Little Liars" (2010–2017).
Her starring feature film roles include "Bring It On: In It to Win It" (2007), "Christmas Cupid" (2010), "Spring Breakers" (2012), "Ratter" (2015), "Chronically Metropolitan" (2016), and "Her Smell".
Benson's TV work includes playing a witch disguised as a cheerleader in a 2008 episode of The CW series "Supernatural". Then In 2009, she starred in ABC's comedy series "Eastwick".
December 2009, Benson was cast as 'Hanna Marin' in the ABC Family mystery-thriller teen drama series "Pretty Little Liars", based on the books by Sara Shepard, playing the 'It girl' of the group, then reprising the role in the spin-off series "Ravenswood".
In 2012, Benson was cast in the film "Spring Breakers".
Click the images to enlarge...
Benson is best known for her role as 'Hanna Mari' in the teen mystery-drama series "Pretty Little Liars" (2010–2017).
Her starring feature film roles include "Bring It On: In It to Win It" (2007), "Christmas Cupid" (2010), "Spring Breakers" (2012), "Ratter" (2015), "Chronically Metropolitan" (2016), and "Her Smell".
Benson's TV work includes playing a witch disguised as a cheerleader in a 2008 episode of The CW series "Supernatural". Then In 2009, she starred in ABC's comedy series "Eastwick".
December 2009, Benson was cast as 'Hanna Marin' in the ABC Family mystery-thriller teen drama series "Pretty Little Liars", based on the books by Sara Shepard, playing the 'It girl' of the group, then reprising the role in the spin-off series "Ravenswood".
In 2012, Benson was cast in the film "Spring Breakers".
Click the images to enlarge...
- 3/5/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
While being lauded by critics’ bodies for visual effects, film editing and original score, Universal’s “The Invisible Man” continues the industry’s trend of snubbing horror films and performances. It left empty-handed when the Golden Globes and SAG Awards released their nominations; its only other chances remain at the Oscars in a list of 15 shortlist nominees for Best Original Score and at the Critics Choice Awards for Best Visual Effects. Elisabeth Moss’ searing absence follows after Lupita Nyong’o in “Us,” Toni Collette in “Hereditary” and many others including the entire production of “The Shining.” The main exception to this rule was when “The Silence of the Lambs,” which celebrated its 30th anniversary on Valentine’s Day, won all Big Five awards at the 1992 Oscars.
SEERevisiting ‘The Invisible Man’ and Oscar’s complicated history with horror
Widely known and celebrated for her portrayals of Peggy Olson on “Mad Men” and...
SEERevisiting ‘The Invisible Man’ and Oscar’s complicated history with horror
Widely known and celebrated for her portrayals of Peggy Olson on “Mad Men” and...
- 2/23/2021
- by Nick Ruhrkraut
- Gold Derby
Whether she’s being dragged screaming across the floor of a mental hospital in “Invisible Man” or lumbering drunkenly with a cigarette and a sneer at a decorous dinner party in “Shirley,” Elisabeth Moss doesn’t take her roles home with her at the end of the day. “I don’t even take it to the car,” she said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Or back to my trailer.”
That’s surprising, given that Moss needs no introduction as the onscreen harbinger of mad, messy women, and she played two of them exceptionally (again) in 2020. First, in Leigh Whannell’s Universal monster movie homage “The Invisible Man,” updated as a post-#MeToo gaslighting thriller, and then, in Josephine Decker’s jagged portrait of gothic fiction writer Shirley Jackson, “Shirley.” Both performances required harrowing physical and mental feats, but anyone who knows Moss, or has spoken to her over the...
That’s surprising, given that Moss needs no introduction as the onscreen harbinger of mad, messy women, and she played two of them exceptionally (again) in 2020. First, in Leigh Whannell’s Universal monster movie homage “The Invisible Man,” updated as a post-#MeToo gaslighting thriller, and then, in Josephine Decker’s jagged portrait of gothic fiction writer Shirley Jackson, “Shirley.” Both performances required harrowing physical and mental feats, but anyone who knows Moss, or has spoken to her over the...
- 1/21/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A version of this story about Elisabeth Moss first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
For seven seasons on “Mad Men” and three on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Elisabeth Moss has been the face of women pushing back against oppression by the patriarchy. But while her main showcase has been television, Moss has also had an intriguing film career, which in recent years has included films like “The Square,” “Her Smell” and “Us” – and which in 2020 found her portraying a pair of fierce women who insist on seizing power from the men who want to restrict them.
The roles came in two dramatically different films, the Blumhouse horror-movie riff “The Invisible Man” and the spiky indie drama “Shirley,” about writer Shirley Jackson. The latter film, written by Sarah Gubbins and directed to Josephine Decker, was a landmark of sorts for her, the first time she’d ever portrayed a real-life person.
For seven seasons on “Mad Men” and three on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Elisabeth Moss has been the face of women pushing back against oppression by the patriarchy. But while her main showcase has been television, Moss has also had an intriguing film career, which in recent years has included films like “The Square,” “Her Smell” and “Us” – and which in 2020 found her portraying a pair of fierce women who insist on seizing power from the men who want to restrict them.
The roles came in two dramatically different films, the Blumhouse horror-movie riff “The Invisible Man” and the spiky indie drama “Shirley,” about writer Shirley Jackson. The latter film, written by Sarah Gubbins and directed to Josephine Decker, was a landmark of sorts for her, the first time she’d ever portrayed a real-life person.
- 1/20/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
IFC Films acquired North American rights to Cooper Raiff’s romantic comedy.
Vertigo Releasing has acquired SXSW grand jury prize winner Freshman Year (aka Shithouse) for the UK and Ireland, while Protagonist Pictures has boarded international sales on the romantic comedy-drama.
Vertigo is planning a theatrical and digital platform release in February 2021. Protagonist will launch the title to international buyers at AFM in November.
The college romance marks the feature debut of writer-director Cooper Raiff, who also stars in the film alongside Dylan Gelula (Her Smell), Amy Landecker (Transparent) and Logan Miller (Love Simon).
It centres on a friendly college...
Vertigo Releasing has acquired SXSW grand jury prize winner Freshman Year (aka Shithouse) for the UK and Ireland, while Protagonist Pictures has boarded international sales on the romantic comedy-drama.
Vertigo is planning a theatrical and digital platform release in February 2021. Protagonist will launch the title to international buyers at AFM in November.
The college romance marks the feature debut of writer-director Cooper Raiff, who also stars in the film alongside Dylan Gelula (Her Smell), Amy Landecker (Transparent) and Logan Miller (Love Simon).
It centres on a friendly college...
- 10/29/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Coming off the heels of this year’s widely successful The Invisible Man, Elisabeth Moss will be reteaming with Blumhouse for another psychological thriller. Mrs. March, based on Virginia Feito’s upcoming novel, will feature Moss as a well-to-do housewife whose life begins unraveling after she suspects the subject of her husband’s new novel is based on her.
Feito will executive produce the film alongside Blumhouse and Moss’s production company Love and Squalor Pictures. Those who are eager to check out the source material will have to wait a little bit longer. Feiro’s novel will be hitting the shelves in August 2021.
Moss is no stranger to psychologically complex and emotionally demanding material. In addition to her performance in The Invisible Man and Emmy-winning work on The Handmaid’s Tale, her recent roles in Jordan Peele’s Us, Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, and Josephine Decker’s Shirley...
Feito will executive produce the film alongside Blumhouse and Moss’s production company Love and Squalor Pictures. Those who are eager to check out the source material will have to wait a little bit longer. Feiro’s novel will be hitting the shelves in August 2021.
Moss is no stranger to psychologically complex and emotionally demanding material. In addition to her performance in The Invisible Man and Emmy-winning work on The Handmaid’s Tale, her recent roles in Jordan Peele’s Us, Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, and Josephine Decker’s Shirley...
- 8/13/2020
- by Stephen Hladik
- The Film Stage
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
Netflix’s “Eurovision Song Contest” was marketed on the strengths of Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ star power, but a different actor has emerged as the film’s Mvp in the days since its June 26 release. That would be Dan Stevens, whose career up until now has been dominated by television work on “Downton Abbey” and “Legion.” Stevens’ “Eurovision” role as Russian pop star Alexander Lemtov has earned him viral social media praise and critical acclaim (Collider named him the hero of the summer movie season), but anyone finally realizing Stevens has what it takes to make the crossover from television favorite to major move star is about six years too late.
Enter “The Guest,” Adam Wingard’s 2014 thriller starring Stevens in...
Netflix’s “Eurovision Song Contest” was marketed on the strengths of Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ star power, but a different actor has emerged as the film’s Mvp in the days since its June 26 release. That would be Dan Stevens, whose career up until now has been dominated by television work on “Downton Abbey” and “Legion.” Stevens’ “Eurovision” role as Russian pop star Alexander Lemtov has earned him viral social media praise and critical acclaim (Collider named him the hero of the summer movie season), but anyone finally realizing Stevens has what it takes to make the crossover from television favorite to major move star is about six years too late.
Enter “The Guest,” Adam Wingard’s 2014 thriller starring Stevens in...
- 7/1/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
After a string of incredible performances in Queen of Earth, Her Smell, The Invisible Man, Shirley, and more, Elisabeth Moss will next be seen in new films from Wes Anderson and Taika Waititi. Another new project starring the actress has now been announced, which finds her returning to horror-thriller territory.
She’ll lead Run Rabbit Run, which is being described as a “ghost horror thriller,” according to THR. Set to be directed by Australian helmer Daina Reid, it’ll mark a reunion for the duo after Reid directed a few episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The film, scripted by Hannah Kent (Burial Rites), follows Moss as Sarah, a fertility doctor with a pragmatic understanding of the circle of life. Things get complicated when she “is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter, Mia” and “Sarah must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
She’ll lead Run Rabbit Run, which is being described as a “ghost horror thriller,” according to THR. Set to be directed by Australian helmer Daina Reid, it’ll mark a reunion for the duo after Reid directed a few episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The film, scripted by Hannah Kent (Burial Rites), follows Moss as Sarah, a fertility doctor with a pragmatic understanding of the circle of life. Things get complicated when she “is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter, Mia” and “Sarah must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
- 6/15/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Elisabeth Moss is set to star in Emmy-nominated “Handmaid’s Tale” director Daina Reid’s new feature film, “Run Rabbit Run.”
Moss plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her part.
The film is written by novelist Hannah Kent, who penned the script from an original idea developed with Carver Films, with Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films producing and Xyz Films executive producing. Moss will also produce alongside her partner Lindsey McManus.
Producer-sales agent Xyz is financing the project as part of its new fund with Finland’s Ipr.Vc, in conjunction with Screen Australia. Additional financing comes from Film Victoria and the South Australia Film Corporation.
Xyz is also handling worldwide sales on the film at the Cannes Virtual Market — set to...
Moss plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her part.
The film is written by novelist Hannah Kent, who penned the script from an original idea developed with Carver Films, with Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films producing and Xyz Films executive producing. Moss will also produce alongside her partner Lindsey McManus.
Producer-sales agent Xyz is financing the project as part of its new fund with Finland’s Ipr.Vc, in conjunction with Screen Australia. Additional financing comes from Film Victoria and the South Australia Film Corporation.
Xyz is also handling worldwide sales on the film at the Cannes Virtual Market — set to...
- 6/11/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Alicia Bognanno channeled 1997 Chumbawamba classic “Tubthumping” when it came to writing her new single, “Where to Start” — the first song off of Bully’s upcoming third album, Sugaregg (out August 21 via Subpop).
“I was listening to ‘Tubthumping’ by Chumbawamba and picking apart the melodic structure and sort of trying to mimic that,” Bognanno tells Rolling Stone. “I’m not even joking; it still makes me laugh to think about. But let’s be real, that is undeniably a solid song. ‘Where to Start’ addresses the frustration that comes along with...
“I was listening to ‘Tubthumping’ by Chumbawamba and picking apart the melodic structure and sort of trying to mimic that,” Bognanno tells Rolling Stone. “I’m not even joking; it still makes me laugh to think about. But let’s be real, that is undeniably a solid song. ‘Where to Start’ addresses the frustration that comes along with...
- 6/11/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Arianna Bocco hails writer-director-star Cooper Raiff as “extraordinary new voice”.
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Cooper Raiff’s SXSW narrative feature grand jury prize winner Shithouse.
The distributor plans an autumn release on the college romance about a friendless college freshman contemplating a transfer to be closer to his mother and sister when he meets someone special.
Raiff stars alongside Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker, and Logan Miller.
Shithouse producers are Raiff, Divi Crockett and Will Youmans.
Arianna Bocco, executive vice-president of acquisitions and productions at IFC Films, brokered the deal with ICM Partners on behalf of the...
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Cooper Raiff’s SXSW narrative feature grand jury prize winner Shithouse.
The distributor plans an autumn release on the college romance about a friendless college freshman contemplating a transfer to be closer to his mother and sister when he meets someone special.
Raiff stars alongside Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker, and Logan Miller.
Shithouse producers are Raiff, Divi Crockett and Will Youmans.
Arianna Bocco, executive vice-president of acquisitions and productions at IFC Films, brokered the deal with ICM Partners on behalf of the...
- 6/10/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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