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Belisa Balaban has been promoted to VP Original Documentaries. The streaming service has been ramping up its Hulu Original Documentary films slate with recent titles including Ask Dr. Ruth, The Amazing Johnathon and the Emmy-winning Crime + Punishment. Balaban joined Hulu in 2017 as Director of Original Content and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg is the subject of Greta (working title), an original documentary that will premiere on Hulu in 2020. The  documentary is produced by Cecilia Nessen and Frederik Heinig via B-Reel Films and directed by Nathan Grossman. The logline: In August 2018, Thunberg, a…

4th Update, Sunday AM: DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World has won the weekend, as we wrote earlier, thanks to Saturday matinees, which took yesterday to $14.1M, a 119% gain over Friday. This now puts the threequel at a second weekend of $30M, -45%, which is a sign of relief to…

For me, one of the joys of last September’s Toronto Film Festival was watching Isabelle Huppert go for broke playing a disturbed lonely woman in the suspense thriller Greta. It falls into a genre we don’t see as much anymore, at least on this scale, echoing movies like Fatal Attraction, Misery, The Hand That Rocks the…

Focus Features has taken the wraps off Greta, the stalker suspense thriller starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert that it fought for and won for $6 million during an all-night auction earlier this fall at the Toronto Film Festival. Neil Jordan directed and co-wrote with Ray Wright. The film has March 1…

Greta, the suspense thriller starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert that Focus Features acquired at the last Toronto Film Festival for $6 million after winning a bidding battle, now has a release date. The pic will hit theaters on March 1, 2019. In the film directed by Oscar winner Neil Jordan, Moretz plays…

A surprise hit at this year's TIFF was Neil Jordan's Greta, a female-centred thriller in which Chloë Grace Moretz plays a young girl who falls prey to an older lady named Greta (Isabelle Huppert) after finding her handbag on the subway. Although the reviews were kind, none exactly made claims for great art, so it was…

EXCLUSIVE: After an all-night auction in Toronto, Focus Features is finalizing a big deal for Greta, a foray into elevated genre by writer/director Neil Jordan with Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert. The auction was feverish, with Netflix, Lionsgate and NEON also bidding, but Focus stalked the stalker tale…

EXCLUSIVE: A lonely, mysterious widow’s friendship with a naïve young woman takes on an increasingly obsessive and sinister air in Greta, the Neil Jordan-helmed psychological thriller that premieres today at Toronto. Check out an exclusive clip above. Making a go of it in the Big Apple, Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz)…