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BREAKING: Makeready has set Jill Soloway to write and direct the upcoming Amy Butcher memoir Mothertrucker as a feature starring vehicle for Oscar winning actress Julianne Moore. Butcher is the award winning essayist and author, and Soloway the Emmy-winning writer/producer behind Transparent, I Love Dick and Afternoon…

EXCLUSIVE: At long last, the opening-night film of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival has a distribution deal and a release date. Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights in North America, France, India and several other Asian countries to After the Wedding, the Bart Freundlich-directed adaptation of Susanne…

EXCLUSIVE: Tonight's Sundance kickoff film, After The Wedding, fits a festival emphasis on inclusion and diversity. Even though director Bart Freundlich didn’t set out to do that when he made a film inspired by the 2006 Danish film by Susanne Bier, his decision to swap the gender of the two principal characters opened…

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival brings more questions than usual. Sellers believe they have brought the goods, but with few new buyers on the horizon, several more wavering, questions of whether Netflix and Amazon will be aggressive as they make their own content, and the influx of streaming services another year or…

EXCLUSIVE: Just over a week before the 2019 Sundance Film Festival starts and After the Wedding writer-director Bart Freundlich has already notched one big deal. Set to have the Opening Night film slot at the Robert Redford founded shindig, the Mozart in the Jungle helmer has signed with WME for representation in all…

Michelle Williams, last seen in critically acclaimed films The Greatest Showman and All the Money in the World, is set to join Julianne Moore in the U.S. remake of After The Wedding, which is written and directed by Moore’s spouse Bart Freundlich. This version takes on a different spin to Susanne Bier’s original…

Husband and wife team Bart Freundlich and Julianne Moore are to find out what happens After The Wedding after setting up a U.S. remake of Susanne Bier's Danish drama. The Hunger Games star Moore is set to star in the feature, which will be written and directed by Wolves director Freundlich. It will be produced by Joel…

Following a dizzying climax of Awards Season, the post-Oscar releases are going full throttle at the Specialty box office. Fox Searchlight will have the biggest limited release of the weekend with Jeffrey Blitz's comedy Table 19 starring Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, June Squibb and Lisa Kudrow. The feature is…