NEON has released the first trailer to Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning drama, Clemency, written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, who made history as the first black female to snag the marquee award at the festival. The film stars Alfre Woodard in a performance that has placed her among the early Oscar…

EXCLUSIVE: Production is currently underway on the Netflix and Plan B-produced Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, which has Ana de Armas starring as Hollywood icon. The Andrew Dominik-helmed film has added Garret Dillahunt (Fear the Walking Dead, Widows), Scoot McNairy (Killing Them Softly, True Detective), Lucy DeVito (The…

EXCLUSIVE: The Craft remake has found its leads. Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone and Zoey Luna are set to star in the Blumhouse and Columbia Pictures pic along with previously announced Cailee Spaeny. Zoe Lister-Jones is at the helm of the reimagining of the 1996 female-fronted, witch-themed cult classic. The original, led…

Aaron Janus, an executive producer of the sleeper hit, A Quiet Place, has joined Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group as Senior Vice President of Production, while Meredith Wieck has been promoted to Vice President of Production. Both will report to Erin Westerman, the President of Production. Prior to joining Lionsgate…

Following the release of her directorial debut film Always Be My Maybe, Nahnatchka Khan has inked a multi-year first-look feature deal at Netflix. The Ali Wong and Randall Park starring rom-com premiered on the streamer in May and, according to Netflix, was seen 32 million households in its first four weeks. This news…

CSI alum Gary Dourdan will take on the lead role of Adam Turner in Memoria, an indie sci-fi drama written by Alice Del Corso. Production-Finance company, Buffalo 8, has come on board to executive produce the project. Philip Thomas Morelli is directing the film, which is set in the near future where a special high-tech…

EXCLUSIVE: In an effort to refine its operations with a global focus, Sony Pictures' Worldwide Partnerships group, led by Jeffrey Godsick, has tapped Andre Seddoh as Senior Vice President of International Partnerships, where he will oversee all international promotional partnership efforts for the studio. In addition…

Stampede and Steel Springs Pictures have partnered up to produce and co-finance Alice, a period drama based on the true story of a slave in the antebellum South who escapes from her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line. Krystin Ver Linden wrote the screenplay and will…

My Zoe marks the seventh film by writer-director-actor Julie Delpy, who is perhaps best known for starring in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy. The suspense drama surrounds an ex-husband and wife couple whose toxic marriage may be over but they are still in contact with each other as they co-parent their daughter…

Drake Doremus’s Endings, Beginnings is a coming-of-age story of sorts. The pic stars Shailene Woodley as Daphne, a thirtysomething woman navigating love and heartbreak over the course of one year. In an attempt to get her life on track financially and romantically, but gets caught in a love triangle with a…

While Eddie Murphy doesn’t necessarily compare his career trajectory to that of comedian and film producer Rudy Ray Moore, who he portrays in the Netflix film, Dolemite Is My Name, he acknowledges Moore as “an inspiring figure.” Moore, who was stung by a string of showbiz failures, took his fate into his own hands…

Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried is in negotiations to topline the Netflix film, Things Heard & Seen, which is being directed by American Splendor helmers Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman. The pic is an adaptation of the book All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. It follows recent transplants to a…