EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK rights to SXSW Audience Award winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and newcomer Zack Gottsagen. LaBeouf plays as a small time outlaw turned unlikely coach who joins forces with Zak, a young man with Down syndrome on the run from a…

Dakota Johnson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross of TV’s Black-ish have signed on as the leads in Covers, a comedy set among the talent, fame and fast-paced world of Hollywood's music scene from Focus Features and Working Title Films. Nisha Ganatra, whose comedy Late Night made a big splash at this year’s…

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Peanut Butter Falcon, the road trip comedy that stars Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and Zack Gottsagen and won the SXSW audience award this year after its world premiere there. The pic will now hit theaters August 9. The film was written and directed by…

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: Scott Free and Black Bear have set Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Oscar-winner Casey Affleck to star in The Friend, a fact-based touching drama that STX International will launch for offshore sales at the European Film Market. Directing is Gabriela Cowperthwaite, whose Blackfish was a BAFTA nominee for…

The 17th Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30 – Dec 08) has set a jury comprising Suspiria star Dakota Johnson, Indian actress Ileana D'Cruz (Barfi!), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (I Want To See), Brit director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Moroccan director Tala Hadid…

The ads for the noirish new thriller Bad Times at the El Royale suggest that the plot revolves around seven strangers with a “secret to bury.” That certainly is truth in advertising as it seems to be exactly what writer-director Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) has in mind in a pic that recalls movies like Bogart…

The world premiere of Drew Goddard’s starry mystery-thriller Bad Times At The El Royale will close the San Sebastian Film Festival (September 21-29), out of competition. Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Dakota Johnson and Jon Hamm are among cast for the pic about seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, who meet at…

It was standing room only at the packed and generally light-hearted Venice press conference for Luca Guadagnino’s anticipated update of 70’s Italian horror classic Suspiria. Guadagnino, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jessica Harper, Thom Yorke and writer David Kagjanich were greeted with…

Dance hasn’t seemed so sinister since Black Swan. The official trailer for director Luca Guadagnino’s Venice-bound Suspiria suggests the film might more than make up for lost time. From Amazon Studios, Suspiria stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf and Chloe Grace Moretz in a remake of the 1977…

There’s a lot going on the in first trailer for Bad Times at the El Royale, Fox’s period crime thriller set in majestic Lake Tahoe. Like the city, the lodging in question straddles two state lines, so its guests have the option of staying in California or Nevada. Judging from this first look, some choose…

Amazon Studios has released the first-look teaser to Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming horror piece, Suspiria, which features a red-headed Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, and more in a sequence of twisty imagines played up by even creepier background music. Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf, Jessica Harper and Chloë Grace Moretz…