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EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell is attached to star and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant will adapt and direct Prince of Fashion for Amazon Studios. The project is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon’s GQ article, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion," which follows the reporter’s visit to Paris Men's Fashion Week…

He evidently doesn't like doing press conferences and discussing his performances, but Joaquin Phoenix admitted that he had his first enjoyable film festival experience in Berlin. Phoenix was in town to promote Gus Van Sant's Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot and gave a typically enigmatic performance during a…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is moving its Sundance Film Festival premiere Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot from May 11 to July 13. Given the positive critical and audience reaction coming out of Park City for the Gus Van Sant-directed biopic, Amazon felt that a mid-summer launch was prime, much in the same way that…

The Deadline Studio presented by Hyundai is again on Main Street in Park City, opening its doors to this year’s most riveting and groundbreaking filmmakers. Talent stopping by the Deadline Studio on Day 1 included Paul Rudd (The Catcher Was a Spy), Jane Fonda (Jane Fonda in Five Acts), Gus Van Sant (Don’t Worry, He Won…

Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot took its Sundance bow at the Eccles last night, introducing the Park City crowd to the tragic story behind Portland, OR cartoonist John Callahan. An alcoholic since his childhood years, Callahan was crippled in a drunken automobile accent, and soon after discovered…

Amazon today released the first look at Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, a biopic of sorts from Gus Van Sant that stars Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and Jack Black. The streaming service already has set a May 11 release in select theaters. Phoenix plays John Callahan, a Portland slacker and drunk who…

The first group of titles selected for the Berlin Film Festival competition have been unveiled with new offerings from Gus Van Sant and Benoît Jacquot among them. Two Berlinale Special Galas have also joined the lineup. Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs was previously announced as the opening night film, which will also…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios will release Gus Van Sant’s biopic drama Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot on May 11. The pic is based on the memoir by John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), who became paralyzed after a car accident at age 21 and turned to drawing as a form of therapy. Jonah Hill and Jack Black also star…

From marches on Main Street on the day after his inauguration to films and TV shows on the big screens and more, Donald Trump was all over the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. As today's unveiling of the U.S. Competition and World Cinema Competition Dramatic and Documentary categories plus the Midnight, Kids, NEXT, and…

Hot from a surprise Golden Globe nomination for War Dogs, Jonah Hill has been set to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the Gus Van Sant-directed Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot. The film is a biopic on quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, which Iconoclast and Anonymous Content are producing based on an…

Premieres, special sections, and the opening and closing films have been announced for the 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, happening January 2-16, with The Sense of an Ending, directed by Ritesh Batra selected to open the festival and The Comedian, from director Taylor Hackford has been selected…

“The absolute right people will find their way to a project, and you have to kind of surrender to the process; the way the actors came in, same with the financing and that whole dance,” says Jason Lew about mounting his feature directorial debut The Free World. Lew nabbed quite the headliner in Mad Men alum Elisabeth M…