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EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Abbott is set join the ensemble cast of Searchlight and Film4's Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel. Emma Stone is on board to star along with Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef also on board. Lanthimos is set to direct. Tony McNamara will adapt the…

“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…

Momentum Pictures has picked up the U.S. distribution rights the Aubrey Plaza-Christopher Abbott-Sarah Gadon starring film, Black Bear, the suspenseful meta-drama written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. The pic, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance, follows an expecting couple confronted with an out…

Black Bear writer-director Lawrence Michael Levine said that he wanted to explore his personal fears and anxieties he has when it comes to loss and breaking up of marriage in his new dramatic thriller that debuted at Sundance — and it came about in a very interesting way. “I wanted to do something more unusual and…

EXCLUSIVE: Lensing has begun in Ottawa on actor-comedian Jerrod Carmichael's (The Carmichael Show) under-the-radar movie directorial debut On the Count of Three, in which he is starring in an ensemble that includes Christopher Abbott (Girls), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), Henry Winkler (Arrested Development), J.B…

EXCLUSIVE: Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon are set to star in Black Bear, a suspenseful meta-drama written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Currently shooting in the Adirondack Mountains in Long Lake, NY, the film hails from Productivity Media and Oakhurst Entertainment. Productivity is…

Catch-22 recently made its highly-anticipated debut on Hulu. George Clooney directs and co-stars in the adaptation of Joseph Heller’s seminal novel about artful dodger Yossarian (Christopher Abbott). The book contained nearly four dozens characters, which made it extremely difficult for writers Luke Davies and David…

There's an hour to go before the pilot episode of Catch-22 unspools to Emmy voters at the Television Academy in the San Fernando Valley, and George Clooney is feeling pretty confident. He and his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov have completed work on their six-part miniseries based on Joseph Heller's classic World War…

Hulu has released a “Making Of” featurette about Catch-22, its limited series starring Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, EP George Clooney and Hugh Laurie that premieres May 17 on the streaming service. Here’s the logline for the adaptation of Joseph Heller's seminal 1961 novel: The incomparable, artful dodger…

If you’ve followed the news at all today, you know Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen abruptly resigned amid tension in the Trump administration over its failure to stop Central American migrants from crossing the southern border. President Donald Trump tweeted news of Nielsen’s departure at 6:02 p.m. ET. He…

EXCLUSIVE: In the second sassy project we can reveal this morning in Cannes, Birdman star Andrea Riseborough and fast-rising Christopher Abbott (First Man) will lead Brandon Cronenberg's sophomore feature Possessor. Cronenberg’s 2012 body-horror debut Antiviral played at festivals including Cannes, Toronto and London…

Christopher Abbott (First Man) has been tapped as the lead in Catch-22, Hulu’s high-profile limited series co-starring and directed by George Clooney. Written by Luke Davies and David Michôd based on the seminal Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 hails from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television. Set in Italy during…