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The title says it all. Just like Snakes on a Plane was about just that, the new horror comedy Cocaine Bear is about a 500-pound bear on a jihad after coming upon a ton of cocaine dropped into rural Georgia on a drug run gone wrong. The bear ingests the coke, and soon you have a beast roaring out of…

In an interview with the New York Times last September, actor-filmmaker Elizabeth Banks shared a piece of career advice from Lorne Michaels that’s been of enduring value to her. “Don’t do things unless you think they’ll be part of the cultural conversation,” Banks recalled the SNL boss saying. “I’ve…

Earlier this week, social media lit up as users excitedly uploaded the poster for the Elizabeth Banks-directed Cocaine Bear, imagining what a movie with that title might be like. They got some idea today when Universal dropped the bonkers first trailer for the film “inspired by the true story of a drug…

An interview with Elizabeth Banks in the New York Times tied to the release of her new film Call Jane turned for a time into an exploration of an older film Banks directed, Charlie’s Angels. Banks called it “a long conversation that I don't know that I want to get into.” Pressed by interviewer David Marchese, Banks…

Roadside Attractions has unveiled the trailer for its abortion rights drama Call Jane, starring three-time Emmy nominee Elizabeth Banks (Mrs. America), which is slated for an exclusive release in theaters on October 28. Remarkably timely following the Supreme Court’s June overturning of Roe v. Wade—which in 1973…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won a competitive auction for the buddy comedy pitch package Foreign Relations. Kat Coiro is directing a star vehicle for Nick Jonas (Jumanji; The Next Level, Kingdom and the upcoming Jersey Boys Live!) and Glen Powell, who played one of the hotshot pilots in Top Gun: Maverick. Charlie…

Elizabeth Banks is to star in writer-director Christine Jeffs' medical suspense drama A Mistake, based on the novel by Carl Shuker. Cornerstone Films will launch international sales in Cannes on the GFC Films production, and is co-repping the U.S. together with UTA Independent Film Group. Principal Photography starts…

Elizabeth Banks’ next movie as a director, Cocaine Bear, will be hitting theaters on February 24, 2023, Universal said Monday. The film stars Keri Russell (The Americans), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Ray Liotta (The Many Saints of Newark), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight O…

"There's nothing wishy-washy about working with Phyllis Nagy," Elizabeth Banks tells Deadline of working with the Call Jane director. "She's very gentle with her direction but she's also firm with what she expects or wants out of something, which I really appreciate." This gentle but firm approach seems to be just the…

As the star of Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane, Elizabeth Banks relished the opportunity to portray a woman intent on finding “agency” within her own life, even in the midst of “a very tumultuous time in our country.” “It was a…time…when…women were fighting for the ERA and for abortion rights, reproductive rights, and I just…

A suburban housewife falls in with a group of activists in Call Jane, a Sundance Film Festival premiere directed by Phyllis Nagy, the writer of Carol. Elizabeth Banks is a likeable lead in this story inspired by the network of women who arranged safer illegal abortions in 1960s and ’70s Chicago. Written by Hayley…

EXCLUSIVE: With her Emmy-winning show Pose coming to an end, writer/director Janet Mock looks to have found her follow-up feature. She has signed on to direct and rewrite The International Sweethearts of Rhythm for Sony Pictures. A previous draft was written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks with Amy…