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Impractical Jokers: The Movie isn’t pranking us when it comes to their box office performance. After having a stellar opening last week, the big-screen adaptation of WarnerMedia's truTV prank show expanded from 357 to nearly 1,800 theaters and earned an estimated $3,545,000, to bring its cume to $6.6 million. The…

The specialty box office is headed towards the second star on the right and straight on till morning with Benh Zeitlin’s magical adventure Wendy, a fresh reimagination of J.M. Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan. The pic from Searchlight Pictures is Zeitlin’s follow up to his Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild…

Persistence is everything. It only took writer-director Andrew Heckler two decades and producer Robbie Brenner 15 years to get the strange but true story of reformed KKK member Mike Burden to the screen. But here, even another two years after taking the audience prize for dramatic feature at the 2018 Sundance Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its February 28 specialty release comes a sneak peek at a scene from Burden, the 101 Studios drama starring Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund, Tom Wilkinson, Andrea Riseborough, Tess Harper, Crystal Fox and Usher. Based on a true story, the pic written and directed by Andrew Heckler revolves around…

101 Studios has released a new trailer for Burden, one of the buzz titles at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where the drama won the Audience Award. Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson, Andrea Riseborough, Tess Harper, Crystal Fox and Usher star in writer-director Andrew Heckler’s pic, which arrives in…

“Can’t get rid of hate,” the preacher says, “unless you replace it with something else.” Here’s the trailer for Burden, writer-director Andrew Heckler’s film that was inspired by true events and premiered in competition at Sundance this year. Garret Hedlund stars as Mike Burden, a taciturn repo man raised as an orphan…

Burden and Bathtubs Over Broadway took the narrative and documentary audience prizes, respectively, at the 23rd annual Nantucket Film Festival. The six-day festival does not have juried awards, instead putting more emphasis on the audience experience. Written and directed by Andrew Heckler, Burden edged out Juliet, Nak…

“This story is so deep and so meaningful that you just couldn’t resist telling it” said Burden writer/director Andrew Heckler on why he chose this project as his feature directorial debut. “It’s a story of hope and it’s a universal story that I felt really needed to be told.” Accompanying Heckler at Deadline’s Sundance…

Here is an exclusive first look at Burden, the Andrew Heckler-directed fact based drama that stars Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Andrea Riseborough, Usher Raymond and Tom Wilkinson. The film premieres in competition tomorrow 6:15 at the PC Library, and is based on a true story about a taciturn repo man (Hedlund)…

Jane The Virgin‘s Andrea Navedo has been cast in Netflix’s Bright, the fantastical cop thriller feature written by Max Landis, for which the streaming giant acquired for $90M. David Ayer is attached to direct with Will Smith, Joel Egerton, and Noomi Rapace starring.  Navedo will play Captain Perez in the film, which…

EXCLUSIVE: English stage and film actress Andrea Riseborough (Nocturnal Animals, Birdman) has been set to star opposite Garrett Hedlund  in Andrew Heckler’s indie feature Burden. She will play the love interest and lead role of Judy opposite Hedlund’s Mike Burden in the story about an orphan raised within the Ku Klux…

EXCLUSIVE: As the film prepares to go into production, principal cast has been set for The Firm’s drama Burden, with Garrett Hedlund in the title role joined by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Oscar nominees Tom Wilkinson and Tess Harper and Hands of Stone‘s Usher Raymond IV. Written and directed by Andrew Heckler and…