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Netflix on Monday released the trailer for The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut that also won her best screenplay honors after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The pic starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson is gearing up for its theatrical release December 17…

The Lost Daughter stars Dakota Johnson And Jessie Buckley have spotlighted the “raw and unnerving honesty” of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s upcoming Elena Ferrante adaptation, her directorial debut. The pair of A-listers feature alongside Olivia Colman in the Netflix film and they heaped praise on the atmosphere created by…

The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, is “a searing portrait of parenthood, about womanhood, but about so much more than that,” says producing partner Endeavor Content’s Negeen Yazdi, senior vice president of film development and production. Searing is right. The film, adapted by Gyllenhaal from…

It comes as no surprise that for her feature directorial debut Maggie Gyllenhaal would choose the challenging job of adapting Italian author Elena Ferrante’s searingly compact novel The Lost Daughter. The film just made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and next heads to Telluride this weekend. The Last Da…

IFC Films has unveiled a new trailer for its psychological thriller The Nowhere Inn, starring Grammy winner Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia) and Dakota Johnson (Our Friend), which it is releasing in theaters, on digital and VOD on September 17. In the metafictional feature, Clark and her…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has taken remaining worldwide territories including in the U.S. on Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut The Lost Daughter. Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard and Paul Mescal, the drama is set to world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival next…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s another lucrative package set to hit the Cannes market as We are hearing Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn are attached to star in Daddio with Christy Hall on board to write and direct. Endeavor Content will launch worldwide sales at Cannes with CAA Media Finance co-repping the U.S. Johnson will also…

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding will play Mr. Elliot opposite Dakota Johnson’s Anne Elliot in Netflix and MRC’s modern feature take of Jane Austen’s classic novel Persuasion.  In the Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow penned script, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities…

Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson will star in Netflix and MRC Film’s modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.  Carrie Cracknell, who directed Jake Gyllenhall and Tom Sturridge to Tony nominations last year in Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway, will make her feature directing debut. In this version of Persuasion…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding situation, Picturestart and Endeavor Content are set to co-finance and produce Cha Cha Real Smooth. Cooper Raiff, whose debut film Shithouse won the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s SXSW, will direct a script he has written. Raiff will star with Dakota Johnson. Raiff will…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that the Tig Notaro- and Stephanie Allynne-directed feature film Am I OK? had to stop production here in Los Angeles after a person involved with the movie was diagnosed with Covid-19. Dakota Johnson stars in the Lauren Pomerantz-scripted movie that follows lifelong best friends Lucy and…

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…