"Summer Camp" Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, and Alfre Woodard team up for this septuagenarian romcom proving that life begins at 70 (See review below). "Ezra" Tony Goldwyn directs Bobby Canavale, Rose Byrne, and Robert De Niro for this thoughtful film about a boy with autism named “Ezra” played by William A. Fitzgerald (See the review
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- 6/6/2024
- by manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Odessa A’zion (Sitting in Bars with Cake), Jordan Firstman (Rotting in the Sun), Miles Robbins (Blockers) and True Whitaker (Godfather of Harlem) have joined HBO’s Untitled Rachel Sennott Comedy Pilot.
In the untitled project, a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition and new relationships have changed them.
HBO ordered the pilot in March to star and be written and executive produced by Sennott. She executive produces alongside Emma Barrie, Aida Rodgers and Lorene Scafaria, who will also direct the pilot.
A’zion can most recently be seen in Netflix’s Grand Army in the role of Joey Del Marco and Prime Video’s Sitting In Bars With Cake as Corinne. She is represented by UTA, Luber Roklin, Granderson Des Rochers.
Firstman can most recently be seen in FX’s Dave and the Disney+/Marvel series Ms. Marvel. He is represented by UTA and Frankfurt Kurnit.
In the untitled project, a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition and new relationships have changed them.
HBO ordered the pilot in March to star and be written and executive produced by Sennott. She executive produces alongside Emma Barrie, Aida Rodgers and Lorene Scafaria, who will also direct the pilot.
A’zion can most recently be seen in Netflix’s Grand Army in the role of Joey Del Marco and Prime Video’s Sitting In Bars With Cake as Corinne. She is represented by UTA, Luber Roklin, Granderson Des Rochers.
Firstman can most recently be seen in FX’s Dave and the Disney+/Marvel series Ms. Marvel. He is represented by UTA and Frankfurt Kurnit.
- 6/5/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Kelly Marie Tran and Miles Robbins will star in Shal Ngo’s Control Freak, a psychological thriller from WorthenBrooks for Hulu Originals. The feature film has wrapped production and will premiere in early 2025.
Control Freak follows a motivational speaker plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, who becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland. Tran stars as “Valerie,” alongside Robbins who plays her husband, “Robbie.”
Additional cast includes Toan Le (The Sympathizer) as Valerie’s father, “Sang” and Kieu Chinh (The Joy Luck Club) as her “Aunt Thuy.”
Toan Le and Kieu Chinh
Ngo was tapped to direct Control Freak based on the short film Control. He also wrote and directed for Season 2 of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween. WorthenBrooks developed Control Freak for Hulu Originals with David Brooks,...
Control Freak follows a motivational speaker plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, who becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland. Tran stars as “Valerie,” alongside Robbins who plays her husband, “Robbie.”
Additional cast includes Toan Le (The Sympathizer) as Valerie’s father, “Sang” and Kieu Chinh (The Joy Luck Club) as her “Aunt Thuy.”
Toan Le and Kieu Chinh
Ngo was tapped to direct Control Freak based on the short film Control. He also wrote and directed for Season 2 of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween. WorthenBrooks developed Control Freak for Hulu Originals with David Brooks,...
- 4/19/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
The final entry in Ti West’s decades-spanning slasher trilogy will arrive this summer, with Mia Goth in the lead role for MaXXXine.
Time can play some strange tricks on our minds. Although it’s been just two years since Ti West regaled us with X, the seedy period slasher film that launched his era-hopping horror trilogy, it paradoxically seems like we’ve been waiting for this film for a long time.
MaXXXine will mark the third entry in Ti West’s series of acclaimed slasher films and Mia Goth will once again star.
2022 gave us X, and in the same year he also released Pearl, with both films attracting considerable buzz for their stylish approach to the slasher genre.
Ti West and A24, the studio behind the films announced MaXXXine all the way back in September of 2022, following X's release and before we’d even seen Pearl. Since then,...
Time can play some strange tricks on our minds. Although it’s been just two years since Ti West regaled us with X, the seedy period slasher film that launched his era-hopping horror trilogy, it paradoxically seems like we’ve been waiting for this film for a long time.
MaXXXine will mark the third entry in Ti West’s series of acclaimed slasher films and Mia Goth will once again star.
2022 gave us X, and in the same year he also released Pearl, with both films attracting considerable buzz for their stylish approach to the slasher genre.
Ti West and A24, the studio behind the films announced MaXXXine all the way back in September of 2022, following X's release and before we’d even seen Pearl. Since then,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
History was made 10 years ago at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards held Sept. 22, 2013. It was the first time in history that a streaming service took home a trophy. Three Netflix series — the “Arrested Development” reboot, “Hemlock Grove” and the lauded “House of Cards” — earned a total of 14 nominations. “House of Cards” helmer David Fincher won an Emmy for the pilot episode. Netflix had earlier received two Creative Arts Emmys,
The TV landscape has changed dramatically in the past decade. When the 75th Primetime Emmy nominations were announced July 12rh, several streaming service programming scored multiple nominations. Apple TV +’s “Ted Lasso” leads the streaming service nominations with 21, followed by Prime’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” with 14, Netflix’s “Beef” and “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” with 13 and “Wednesday” with 12; followed by Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” with 11.
And several of the nominees and winners from a decade ago...
The TV landscape has changed dramatically in the past decade. When the 75th Primetime Emmy nominations were announced July 12rh, several streaming service programming scored multiple nominations. Apple TV +’s “Ted Lasso” leads the streaming service nominations with 21, followed by Prime’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” with 14, Netflix’s “Beef” and “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” with 13 and “Wednesday” with 12; followed by Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” with 11.
And several of the nominees and winners from a decade ago...
- 7/13/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Rose Byrne is getting ready to say goodbye to “Physical,” as the series ends with its upcoming third season. “It’s all very bittersweet,” she says on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.
Byrne stars on the Apple TV+ show as Sheila Rubin, an aerobics entrepreneur in the 1980s whose business is booming just as her marriage is falling apart and she secretly suffers from an eating disorder. “It’s challenging,” Byrne said in depicting the illness on a dark comedy. “I did a lot of research. I spoke to people in recovery. I spoke to a wonderful young woman who worked in an Ed recovery center who was every day with people in recovery and all of the behaviors.”
She realized that the show was handling the serious issue when friends who are in recovery told her that they found the storyline real and very relatable.
Byrne stars on the Apple TV+ show as Sheila Rubin, an aerobics entrepreneur in the 1980s whose business is booming just as her marriage is falling apart and she secretly suffers from an eating disorder. “It’s challenging,” Byrne said in depicting the illness on a dark comedy. “I did a lot of research. I spoke to people in recovery. I spoke to a wonderful young woman who worked in an Ed recovery center who was every day with people in recovery and all of the behaviors.”
She realized that the show was handling the serious issue when friends who are in recovery told her that they found the storyline real and very relatable.
- 6/21/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Ryan Murphy continues to lead the competition for the fifth week in a row.
After toppling “Monster,” the Evan Peters-led limited series on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, to the No. 2 spot, Murphy’s “The Watcher” sits at No.1 on the Netflix top 10 chart for the second consecutive week. During the Oct. 17-23 viewing window, the series garnered 148.2 million hours viewed in its first full week of availability. Co-created with Ian Brennan and adapted from a true story originally told in a 2018 New York magazine story, Naomi Watts and Bobby Canavale star in the mystery thriller as a married couple on the hunt to find the identity of their haunting stalker.
In its fourth full week of streaming, “Monster” racked up 69.1 million hours viewed, furthering its solidified stance as second most-watched English-language series Netflix has ever had behind “Stranger Things” Season 4. The limited series crossed the milestone after hitting 701.4 million hours viewed earlier this month.
After toppling “Monster,” the Evan Peters-led limited series on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, to the No. 2 spot, Murphy’s “The Watcher” sits at No.1 on the Netflix top 10 chart for the second consecutive week. During the Oct. 17-23 viewing window, the series garnered 148.2 million hours viewed in its first full week of availability. Co-created with Ian Brennan and adapted from a true story originally told in a 2018 New York magazine story, Naomi Watts and Bobby Canavale star in the mystery thriller as a married couple on the hunt to find the identity of their haunting stalker.
In its fourth full week of streaming, “Monster” racked up 69.1 million hours viewed, furthering its solidified stance as second most-watched English-language series Netflix has ever had behind “Stranger Things” Season 4. The limited series crossed the milestone after hitting 701.4 million hours viewed earlier this month.
- 10/25/2022
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a good week for Ryan Murphy.
Now on the fourth year of his five-year Netflix deal, he’s had the streamer’s most-watched title of the week for four weeks in a row now. For the previous three weeks, it was “Monster,” the limited series starring Evan Peters as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which has now shifted to the No. 2 position.
At the top of the chart for the Oct. 10-16 viewing window is “The Watcher,” Murphy’s limited series that racked up a chart-topping 125 million hours watched in its first four days of availability. The mystery thriller, co-created with Ian Brennan and adapted from a true story originally told in a 2018 New York magazine story, stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Canavale as a married couple being stalked.
In its third week of availability, “Monster” was watched for 122.8 million hours. The series is now at a total of...
Now on the fourth year of his five-year Netflix deal, he’s had the streamer’s most-watched title of the week for four weeks in a row now. For the previous three weeks, it was “Monster,” the limited series starring Evan Peters as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which has now shifted to the No. 2 position.
At the top of the chart for the Oct. 10-16 viewing window is “The Watcher,” Murphy’s limited series that racked up a chart-topping 125 million hours watched in its first four days of availability. The mystery thriller, co-created with Ian Brennan and adapted from a true story originally told in a 2018 New York magazine story, stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Canavale as a married couple being stalked.
In its third week of availability, “Monster” was watched for 122.8 million hours. The series is now at a total of...
- 10/18/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Ana de Armas’s transformation into Norma Jeane Mortensen and again into Marylin Monroe in “Blonde” lit all the expected fireworks at its Venice Film Festival debut on Thursday. Written and directed by the provocative Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik, and based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the Nc-17 rated movie, long in development, had many concerned about the liberties taken with the tragic facts of Monroe’s life. (Coming out so soon after “Elvis” really does make this a banner year for interpretive looks at mid-century American icons.)
After its near three hour running time, “Blonde” was met with a reported 14 minute standing ovation, the longest such prolonged huzzah of the fest, with audience members chanting “Ana! Ana!” In addition to de Armas in the lead, Bobby Canavale co-stars as Joe Dimaggio, Adrien Brody as Arthur Miller, Caspar Phillipson as John F. Kennedy, and Julianne Nicholson as Marilyn/Norma’s mother.
After its near three hour running time, “Blonde” was met with a reported 14 minute standing ovation, the longest such prolonged huzzah of the fest, with audience members chanting “Ana! Ana!” In addition to de Armas in the lead, Bobby Canavale co-stars as Joe Dimaggio, Adrien Brody as Arthur Miller, Caspar Phillipson as John F. Kennedy, and Julianne Nicholson as Marilyn/Norma’s mother.
- 9/9/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
The Nashville Film Festival announced the full lineup Friday for a fall gathering of filmgoers in Music City that will begin with the Brandi Carlile-produced documentary “The Return of Tanya Tucker” as the gala opening on Sept. 29 and end with director Sacha Jenkins’ “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” for closing night on Oct. 5.
The 53rd annual edition of the festival will take place both in-person and virtually, with a selection of more than 150 films that includes 38 full-length features, about 30 of which will be world, North American or U.S. premieres.
Although the virtual component continues to be strong for the festival, its leaders note that of the 150 or so films in the festival, more than 50 will screen for audiences in Nashville venues, starting with the Tanya Tucker doc, which will be seen in the historic main auditorium of the city’s beloved Belcourt Theater, one of the original homes of the Grand Ole Opry.
The 53rd annual edition of the festival will take place both in-person and virtually, with a selection of more than 150 films that includes 38 full-length features, about 30 of which will be world, North American or U.S. premieres.
Although the virtual component continues to be strong for the festival, its leaders note that of the 150 or so films in the festival, more than 50 will screen for audiences in Nashville venues, starting with the Tanya Tucker doc, which will be seen in the historic main auditorium of the city’s beloved Belcourt Theater, one of the original homes of the Grand Ole Opry.
- 8/26/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
With June comes summer, and Netflix’s selection of films this month reflects that. The streamer has added several new films to watch for the month of June, including classics alongside some of their newer originals. Some of the movies that didn’t make the cut for this list, but are still new to Netflix in June include “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” “The Hurt Locker” and “Titanic.”
The following batch of films offers something many an audience member, from the heartfelt stories that have their ups and downs, animated films that still teach solid lessons and even an inspirational sports movie.
Read on to discover or re-discover the best new movies on Netflix this month.
“Steel Magnolias” (1989) Columbia Pictures
Boasting a brilliant cast of powerful female actresses, “Steel Magnolias” compliments “Hustle” and “We Are Marshall” in the vein of triumphs and tragedies. M...
The following batch of films offers something many an audience member, from the heartfelt stories that have their ups and downs, animated films that still teach solid lessons and even an inspirational sports movie.
Read on to discover or re-discover the best new movies on Netflix this month.
“Steel Magnolias” (1989) Columbia Pictures
Boasting a brilliant cast of powerful female actresses, “Steel Magnolias” compliments “Hustle” and “We Are Marshall” in the vein of triumphs and tragedies. M...
- 6/12/2022
- by Dessi Gomez and Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Female rage has long been the subject of films, across an array of genres, but only in recent years have women taken the helm, telling these stories in more nuanced, layered, and — yes — super-fun ways. That uniquely female gaze and energy provide the beating heart behind director Tanya Wexler’s indulgent, entertaining action flick “Jolt.”
Lindy (Kate Beckinsale) is a woman with an “impulse control problem.” A traumatic upbringing initiated her rage issues, but as most women in the world know, the trauma of growing up female is a lifelong lesson in grinning and bearing it. But that’s not how Lindy rolls. Despite years of therapy, and her attempts to vent as a member of the military or an athlete in extreme sports, Lindy has found only one way to curb her violent desires: Using a vest made out of electrodes, she gives herself little electric shocks whenever her rage gets too overwhelming.
Lindy (Kate Beckinsale) is a woman with an “impulse control problem.” A traumatic upbringing initiated her rage issues, but as most women in the world know, the trauma of growing up female is a lifelong lesson in grinning and bearing it. But that’s not how Lindy rolls. Despite years of therapy, and her attempts to vent as a member of the military or an athlete in extreme sports, Lindy has found only one way to curb her violent desires: Using a vest made out of electrodes, she gives herself little electric shocks whenever her rage gets too overwhelming.
- 7/22/2021
- by Yolanda Machado
- The Wrap
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