“With little pride and less hope, we begin the new year,” Abigail writes in a journal entry dated January 1, 1856. But there is hope for the leads in The World to Come, which explores how isolation is overcome by the intensity of human connection. Watch first trailer above.
Set in the American Northeast and framed by…
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures is finally set to release the upcoming dramedy Our Friend directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and starring Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck. Along with a new trailer that provides the first look at the heartwarming and inevitable heartbreaking pic, Gravitas and Universal Home…
EXCLUSIVE: Mona Fastvold's The World To Come debuts in competition at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, and we’ve got a first-look clip (check it out above). The film, one of the more anticipated titles in Venice, is a frontier romance starring Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby, the latter is doing double duty…
EXCLUSIVE: Stars from film, TV, music, sports and other arenas will take part in Stories from Tomorrow, a social media fundraising initiative aimed at ensuring children around the world have access to food and remote learning tools.
The founders of the effort are Casey Affleck, director and writer S-hekh Shem Hetep…
HanWay Films will launch sales at the EFM on writer-director Jasmine McGlade's drama Fencer, which is set to star Zoe Saldana (Avengers: Endgame).
Set in the competitive world of fencing, Saldana is attached to play Mae, an ambitious female athlete facing personal demons and childhood rivals as she vies for a spot on…
Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan and Sam Claflin have joined 13 Films’ thriller Every Breath You Take from Sunshine Cleaning director Christine Jeffs.
Affleck plays a psychiatrist whose career is thrown into jeopardy when his patient takes her own life. When he invites his patient's surviving brother (HungerGames…
EXCLUSIVE: When the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama The Friend premieres tonight in Toronto, the film's tough subject matter – Dakota Johnson plays Nicole Teague, who at 34 was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer – was made more bearable by the presence of two classic Led Zeppelin songs. “Ramble On” and…
Casey Affleck says he stayed “quiet” following the allegations of sexual misconduct that made news in 2016 because he didn’t want to seem to be in opposition to the #MeToo movement “that I really wanted to champion."
Speaking with Dax Shepard on the latter’s new Armchair Expert podcast, Affleck addressed the allegation…
BREAKING: Saban Films has obtained the U.S. distribution rights to Light of My Life, the directorial debut film from Oscar winner Casey Affleck, who also wrote and stars in the piece. Making it world premiere at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, the dystopian survival drama also features Anna Pniowsky as well as Emmy…
EXCLUSIVE: Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) and Cherry Jones (Boy Erased) are among cast to have joined Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck in Gabriela Cowperthwaite's (Blackfish) feature drama The Friend, which is now underway in Fairhope, Alabama.
Country artist Jake Owen, Denee Benton (Hamilton: An Am…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Here’s the first clip from Oscar winner Casey Affleck’s passion project —Â Light of My Life — which screened today at the Berlin International Film Festival. Affleck wrote, produced, directed and starred in this film. It is an incredible accomplishment for any filmmaker and one that is hard to do well, but…