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Justine Skye, Seann William Scott to Star in Keanu Reeves Exec-Produced 'Green Dolphin' (Exclusive)
4 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Justine Skye, Tyler Dean Flores and Seann William Scott have been cast in the coming-of-age road movie Green Dolphin, written and directed by Chris Kenneally.
Green Dolphin follows 15-year-old Robinson (Flores) and 20-year-old Keesha (Skye) as they venture cross-country in an attempt to escape the grasp of abusive foster parent and drug-dealer Martin (Scott). When they breakdown midway, Keesha and Robinson discover a new family that could turn their life around.
The film is produced by Russell Geyser of RainMaker Films, Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions, and Shruti Ganguly of Honto88. Keanu Reeves and Clay Pecorin »
- Rebecca Ford
Kenneth Lonergan to Be Honored at Austin Film Festival
28 June 2017 8:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Kenneth Lonergan, who won the best original screenplay Oscar for Manchester by the Sea, will be honored at the Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference, where he will receive the event’s 2017 Distinguished Screenwriter Award.
The festival, which celebrates writers’ contributions to film, television and new media, takes place Oct. 26-29, and Lonergan will be recognized at the Awards Luncheon on Oct. 28.
In addition to Manchester, Lonergan wrote and directed You Can Count on Me and Margaret. He also co-wrote the screenplays for Analyze This and Gangs of New York, and as a playwright, has written This Is Our »
- Gregg Kilday
Xavier Dolan Is Back: After a Self-Imposed Exile, the Filmmaker Is Ready For the Spotlight Again
37 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Our weekly Film Festival Roundup column explores notable stories and news updates from the circuit. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
After a self-imposed exile, Xavier Dolan getting back in the limelight at this year’s Rome Film Festival. The Canadian wunderkind is scheduled to participate in a public chat as part of the festival’s Close Encounters section (via Variety, other big names slated for appearances include Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave, and Chuck Palahniuk), marking his return to the international festival world after publicly announcing his intention to sit out this year’s Cannes, a festival that has been very good to the filmmaker in the past.
Dolan announced his intention to keep off the circuit back in September of last year, when he made the decision to not submit his latest feature, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan” to Cannes. He didn’t hold »
- Kate Erbland
Aubrey Plaza and Director Jeff Baena Reveal the Highs and Lows of Dating Your Creative Collaborator
37 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
In “The Little Hours,” Aubrey Plaza plays a foul-mouthed nun in 14th century Italy, the kind of sarcastic humor Plaza does best. Unsurprisingly, the actress had more than one hand in the production: It’s her first movie as a producer, and director Jeff Baena is her boyfriend.
The film, which also stars John C. Reilly, Dave Franco, Molly Shannon, and a host of other comedic actors, is a loose adaptation of “The Decameron,” the 1353 short story collection by Giovanni Boccaccio. However, “The Little Hours” is also notable for Plaza because it marks her first producing credit. The actress best known for her recurring role in “Parks and Recreation” already has a few more of those in the bag, including the upcoming “Ingrid Goes West,” which opens in August. Plaza’s work on “The Little Hours,” however, provides a window into the collaborative process of an indie power couple who »
- Eric Kohn
‘The Crown’: What It Takes to Play Royalty in an Age That Questions Their Worth
40 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Heavy is the head that wears the crown, but it’s not easy being the sibling of a monarch either.
On Netflix’s “The Crown,” Jared Harris and Vanessa Kirby play father and daughter royals, King George VI and Princess Margaret, both of whom had their fates changed by divorce. Today, their stories have been overshadowed by Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned for more than 60 years. “The Crown” has dredged up their stories for a new generation.
Read More: Netflix’s ‘The Crown’: How Stephen Daldry Romanticized a Royal Wedding
Before ever tackling a role such as these though, most British actors have already formed some sort of an opinion about the Royal Family.
“That relationship [with the monarchy] has changed over time, and I think there is a conflict about that which is still ongoing,” Harris said in an interview with IndieWire. “What is the relevance of the Royal Family? »
- Hanh Nguyen
‘Snowfall’ Review: The Robust True Story of How Crack Began Makes for a Surprisingly Modest TV Show
50 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Every piece of “Snowfall” is well-crafted. From the pitch to the paper to the scenes brought to life from it, John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron’s new drama tells an authentic ’80s tale inspired by truth and shaped by street life in South Central L.A. As the tagline reads, it’s the story of how crack began, which contrasts longstanding cultural oppression with the CIA’s secret role funneling drugs into the country. You can imagine the comparisons — “It’s like ‘The Americans’ meets a west coast ‘Wire’!” — and you can see the layered craft work throughout the first six episodes.
But “Snowfall” doesn’t transcend beyond its talking points. Exquisite period detail and terrific performances, from newcomers like series lead Damson Idris to returning favorites Bokeem Woodbine and Kevin Carroll, can’t fully overcome a familiarity of structure, pacing, and story. We haven’t heard much »
- Ben Travers
Netflix Revives ‘Sense8’ For 2-Hour Series Finale
52 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Even though they have billions of dollars to spend on original programming, even Netflix has to make sure the numbers add when it comes their shows. As a result, this year has seen the streaming service axe a handful of shows, including “The Get Down” and “Girlboss,” but the one series that really caused an outcry when it got yanked was “Sense8.” Fans mounted an online campaign to save the program, and while Netflix initially seemed unmoved, it looks like they’ve had a change of heart.
Continue reading Netflix Revives ‘Sense8’ For 2-Hour Series Finale at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Sense8’ Lives! Netflix and Lana Wachowski Announce 2-Hour Series Finale
57 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Well, “Sense8” fans — Netflix listened. They listened to your petitions, and maybe they even listened to at least one humble article about why ending the series after Season 2 wasn’t a great idea.
Read More: ‘Sense8’: 8 Reasons Why Netflix Must Make a Feature-Length Series Finale
Via a letter posted on Twitter by the official “Sense8” account, creator Lana Wachowski announced that Netflix had agreed to greenlight a new two-hour special that will wrap up the “Sense8” story in 2018.
This is huge news, given the storylines left unresolved— until today, it seemed likely that current fans as well as future Netflix subscribers who might discover the show would be left with an unsatisfying cliffhanger as the final moments of “Sense8.”
It’s something Wachowski fully attributes to the power of the show’s fandom. “By myself, there was nothing I could do,” Wachowski writes in the letter. “But just as »
- Liz Shannon Miller
Summer Movie Surprise: How This Year’s Big Releases Are Stealing TV’s Thunder
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Coming back from a long vacation earlier this week, I discovered something truly shocking as I read back through all the news and chatter that I’d “missed” while away. Between the wholly predictable stories about Russia, terrorism, and the Gop’s never-ending quest to sever America’s last remaining strands of basic human decency, I found that people had been talking about something else, something far more surprising. People had been talking about movies.
More than that, people were talking about movies like they mattered. People were talking about movies like they were cultural events. People were talking about movies like they were newsworthy, fiercely arguing the merits and failures of new films (like “The Beguiled”) while also using recent developments as a lens through which to exhume and re-examine old ones (like “The Color Purple”).
In other words, people were talking about movies like they were television shows. »
- David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2017 (So Far)
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Like any best-of list, choosing the best podcasts of the year is a fundamentally foolish task. With a neverending collection of new shows and fresh perspectives popping up every day, singling out a couple dozen seems like trying to stab a tidal wave with a dinner fork.
With all of those listening options sprouting up quicker than anyone can listen to them all, there are going to be wonders that lie just beyond any top charts or list of featured shows. We’ve tried to cover as many shows in our regular review of the month’s best episodes.
Full List: Our Complete Picks of the 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2017 (So Far)
Journalists are constantly upending the expectations of sports talk radio on shows like “Hang Up and Listen.” Scripted shows like “The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel” are bridging the gap between the average podcast listener and younger audiences. »
- Steve Greene
Exclusive: Linda Cardellini Goes To A Pageant In Clip From ‘Austin Found’
1 hour ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Parents trying to live vicariously through their children doesn’t always lead to the best results, and in the upcoming indie comedy “Austin Found,” chasing fame and fortune has its consequences. And today we have an exclusive clip from the film.
Starring Linda Cardellini, Kristen Schaal, Skeet Ulrich, and Craig Robinson, the story follows Leanne Miller, a former beauty queen and prom queen, who is fed up with her unglamorously average lifestyle when, and decides to take matters into her own hands by plotting a scheme to make her family instant celebrities.
Continue reading Exclusive: Linda Cardellini Goes To A Pageant In Clip From ‘Austin Found’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Insecure’ Season 2 Trailer: Emmy Contender Issa Rae Returns For Another Round of Growing Pains
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Issa Rae was one of the breakout new voices of the 2016 television season thanks to “Insecure,” which found the creator of the successful web series “Awkward Black Girl” bringing her distinct social commentary to the small screen. HBO wisely renewed the series for another round of episodes, and our first look at Season 2 has arrived in the form of an official trailer that proves Issa still has a lot of growing up to do.
Read More: ‘Insecure’ Teaser Trailer Promises the Season 2 of Issa Rae’s Dreams
“Insecure” returns to HBO on Sunday, July 23. We’ll know by then if the series found any love among Emmy voters. Issa Rae is currently in the thick of awards season and has been campaigning for the show, which could earn Best Comedy and Best Comedy Actress nominations when the Emmy voting results are announced on July 13.
The series co-stars Yvonne Orji, Lisa Joyce and Jay Ellis. »
- Zack Sharf
How ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Will Save Sony’s Summer and Launch Several A-List Careers
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Early word on “Spider-Man: Homecoming” was right: Jon Watts, the director plucked from “Cop Car” obscurity by the production combine of Marvel’s Kevin Feige and Sony’s Amy Pascal, finally made the Spider-Man” movie that Sony (and the rest of us) needed.
It’s highly entertaining. It’s fleet of foot and confident, even though it’s the product of a hugely collaborative effort. And it will yield many dividends beyond box-office returns. Here’s what this new iteration of “Spider-Man” wrought:
1. A directing star is born.
Somehow Watts and a sprawling production team manage to keep the movie on a believably human scale (save for that final airborne set piece). Tom Holland introduced himself as a high-school Spider-Man in “Captain America: Civil War,” so this movie continues from there, with plenty of wit and comedy and a genuine appreciation of what it means to be smart, confident, and »
- Anne Thompson
Issa Rae Grows Up In New Trailer For ‘Insecure’ Season 2
1 hour ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
What may be the only HBO show that doesn’t have a massive budget for fake blood is returning this summer for season two! First coming to attention with her webseries “Awkward Black Girl” that earned 25 million views, and then writing the Nyt bestselling memoir “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” Issa Rae created the fantastic HBO series “Insecure.” Tackling issues of race, identity, sexuality, and other complex matters with both sensitivity and wit, it’s a unique show with a powerful voice behind it.
Continue reading Issa Rae Grows Up In New Trailer For ‘Insecure’ Season 2 at The Playlist. »
- Halli Goldman
The 11 Most Exciting Queer Films of 2017 So Far
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Last year was a windfall year for Lgbtq cinema, thanks to a historic Best Picture win for “Moonlight” and Park Chan-wook’s exquisite “The Handmaiden” both receiving critical and commercial acclaim. While these highly deserving queer stories rose to the top, many smaller Lgbt films were either forgotten or simply nowhere to be found.
Read More: Lgbt Superheroes: Why ‘Wonder Woman’ Couldn’t Be The Lesbian Avenger We Need
Hollywood studios have begun to shoehorn blink-and-you’ll-miss-it gay stories into an endless stream of remakes and TV adaptations, and there is a wide range of indies exploring the breadth of queer stories with ever-expanding joy and nuance. While it’s still difficult to get a gay film made (or any film, for that matter), it’s wonderful that, only halfway through 2017, there are already so many queer films on the horizon. Which is why we think it’s important to celebrate them now, »
- Jude Dry
‘Despicable Me 3’ Makes Double Trouble with Steve Carell’s Gru vs. Dru
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The continuing challenge for Illumination’s popular “Despicable Me” franchise is what to do with Steve Carell’s Gru now that he’s no longer a supervillain. The solution in “Despicable Me 3”: Gru experiences a mid-life crisis and flirts with being bad when he meets his long-lost twin brother, Dru (also voiced by Steve Carell), a flamboyant opposite in every way.
For Illumination, it was an opportunity to draw more out of Gru through Dru in a yin-and-yang way. This allows Gru to get his mojo back by teaming up with Dru to steal back the world’s most expensive diamond from the young supervillain who cost him his job: Balthazar Bratt, a failed child star from the ’80s who never got over the cancellation of his show (voiced by “South Park” co-creator Trey Parker).
Finding the Right Dru for Gru
Designer Eric Guillon made a drawing early on of the long-haired, »
- Bill Desowitz
The 11 Most Exciting Queer Films of 2017 So Far
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Last year was a banner year for Lgbtq cinema, thanks to a historic Best Picture win for “Moonlight” and Park Chan-wook’s exquisite “The Handmaiden” also in the awards conversation. While these highly deserving queer stories rose to the top, many smaller Lgbt films were either forgotten or simply nowhere to be found. That they were both directed by straight men is worth noting, though certainly not a trend given the success of Todd Haynes’ “Carol” the previous year.
Read More: Lgbt Superheroes: Why ‘Wonder Woman’ Couldn’t Be The Lesbian Avenger We Need
Hollywood studios have begun to shoehorn blink-and-you’ll-miss-it gay stories into an endless stream of remakes and TV adaptations, and there is a wide range of indies exploring the breadth of queer stories with ever-expanding joy and nuance. While it’s still difficult to get a gay film made (or any film, for that matter), it’s wonderful that, »
- Jude Dry
9 Outrageous Tilda Swinton Transformations at the Movies
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
There’s nothing Tilda Swinton can’t do. The 56-year-old actress is currently starring in Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja,” now available to stream on Netflix, which is the latest in a long history of roles that have completely transformed the way we see Swinton on the big screen. The actress shifts her looks and mannerisms from role to role, refusing to give audiences the same performance twice and constantly redefining the limits of her talent. She’s the closest thing we have to a cinematic chameleon.
Read More: ‘Okja’ Includes a Blink-And-You’ll-Miss-It Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Reference
“Okja” is the second Bong movie to completely transform Swinton, following her eye-popping presence as the villain in “Snowpiercer.” The word “unrecognizable” is thrown around a lot when talking about Swinton’s recent work, and for good reason. But what unites her many different performances is an unwavering commitment to her characters, »
- Zack Sharf
Watch Neil Blomkamp’s New Short Film ‘Firebase’
2 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Remember all of two weeks ago when Neil Blomkamp (“District 9,” “Elysium,” “Chappie”) and his newly-founded Oats Studios debuted his dystopic short film “Rakka” starring Sigourney Weaver? If not, you should check that out here. It shouldn’t take long, what with “Rakka’s” just-over-twenty-minute runtime, so I’ll wait.
Okay, now that we are all up to speed, there is something even newer from Blomkamp’s camp that you ought to give a look: “Firebase.”
“Firebase” is another short film that fits firmly within Blomkamp’s wheelhouse of action-packed science fiction.
Continue reading Watch Neil Blomkamp’s New Short Film ‘Firebase’ at The Playlist. »
- Reese Conner
The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2017 So Far
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
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