Chloë Sevigny is back in Cannes this year, pulling double duty with a role in Jim Jarmusch's opening night zombie ensemble, The Dead Don't Die, and premiering her third short as director, White Echo. Black comedy The Dead Don't Die marks a re-team for Sevigny and Jarmusch, with whom she's made three films, including…

Patricia Arquette recognizes that playing a mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy in the first season of Hulu's The Act so soon after playing a prison employee/inmate lover in Showtime's Escape At Dannemora has left her "a little exhausted at playing crazy women." She acknowledged people have treated her…

The weekend was packed full of specialty roll outs, and audiences appear to have divided their dollars, though a few titles grabbed their share. Chloë Sevigny's Lizzie went to four theaters, grossing just under $49K with a $12,473 average. On its heels was National Geographic Documentary Film doc Science Fair, with…

Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny and The Carrie Diaries star AnnaSophia Robb are set to co-star opposite Patricia Arquette and Joey King in the first season of The Act, Hulu's character-based anthology series from Nick Antosca, Michelle Dean and Universal Cable Productions. Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure…

Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny has signed with Circle of Confusion for management. Sevigny has just wrapped filming a starring role with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, and Tilda Swinton in Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die for Focus Features and Universal Pictures International. She will next be seen in the title role of…

Lizzie Borden took and axe and, well, maybe. We don’t actually see the deed in this chilling new trailer for Craig William Macneill’s Sundance Fest hit Lizzie starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, but we do get a Lizzie who can wield a wicked retort. Asked by an interrogator whether her murdered father had…

Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs) will head the jury for the 57th Cannes Critics' Week (9-17 May), the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival which honours first and second films. The director, whose Louder Than Bombs competed for the Palme d'Or in 2015, is joined on the jury by actress and…

Saban Films, in a competitive situation, has acquired North American rights to Craig William Macneill's Lizzie, starring Chloë Sevigny as accused murderess Lizzie Borden and Kristen Stewart as her maid. The racy period drama, which just had its World Premiere In-Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, was produced…

Ariane Mnouchkine has spectacle, and exile, in her DNA. Her father, the Russian-born French film magnate Alexandre Mnouchkine, produced Jean Cocteau’s Les parents terribles, Philippe de Broca’s Cartouche, Alain Resnais’ Stavisky, Bertrand Blier’s Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Name of the Rose…

With his fourth feature, Andrew Haigh proved to audiences at the Toronto Film Festival that, after the triple whammy of Greek Pete, Weekend and 45 Years, he had more in him than just British stories. Set in America's backwater fairs and racing tracks, Lean on Pete tells the story of a young drifter named Charley (Charl…

The Venice Film Festival's independently run Venice Days sidebar has unveiled its 12 competition titles, 11 of which are world premieres, which include new projects from Chloe Sevigny, Kim Nguyen and China's Pengfei. The section, which is modeled after Cannes' Directors' Fortnight sidebar, boasts a strong female…

Deadline is holding its Sundance Film Festival portrait and video studio at the Applegate Reel Food Café on Main Street in Park City, opening its doors to this year’s most riveting and groundbreaking filmmakers. Guests stopping by the Deadline Studio on Day 3 included Rashida Jones (Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On)…