First off, can somebody please find a romantic comedy for Casey Affleck to do? It seems that with every movie I have seen this fine actor in lately he is experiencing some sort of intense grief. Perhaps it was the impact of his Oscar-winning performance in Manchester By the Sea, but nobody does depression better than…
Norwegian director Mona Fastvold's The World to Come takes her into frontier country, as two put-upon farmers wives—played by Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby—unexpectedly find love in the drudgery of 1850s America, despite their strained relationships with their husbands, played by Casey Affleck and Christopher…
Our Friend is a triangular narrative based on an Esquire article by journalist Matthew Teague about the death of his wife, Nicole. Before Nicole succumbed to cancer at age 36, an unusually intimate bond formed among the couple and mutual friend, Dane. Despite the ravages of fate, Dane offered a preternatural degree of…
When Our Friend premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, it was simply called The Friend, but the slightly altered new title feels better for this touching true story based on Matthew Teague’s sensational award-winning Esquire magazine article. It was written about his family crisis when his wife, Nicole, was…
“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…
