On its surface J.D. Vance’s bestselling 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, detailing life with his Kentucky-bred Appalachian family and his own maturation in Middletown, Ohio, would not seem to be the easiest thing to adapt for the screen, especially with all the social and the…
EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired Cyrano, a musical film adaptation that will bring four-time Emmy winning Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage back in the title role he played onstage, and Haley Bennett reprising as Roxanne that she played alongside him at the Goodspeed Opera House’s Terris Theatre in 2018. The film will be…
Carlos Mirabella-Davis’s thriller Swallow follows a current day upper middle class housewife, Hunter, who lives on the Hudson River in a glass house and learns that she’s pregnant. But there’s a catch: She’s not all that happy with her marriage to posh husband Richie. So unhappy that Hunter begins to swallow objects…
Burning Cane, the drama whose writer-director Phillip Youmans is the youngest-ever helmer to have a feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, won the fest’s marquee Founders Award on Thursday. Tribeca bestowed all three of its top juried feature awards on first-time directors, but none more first-time than Youmans, who…
EXCLUSIVE: Haley Bennett, Jason Clarke and Riley Keough have been set for The Devil All the Time, the Antonio Campos-directed drama that Netflix will put into production this month in Alabama. They join Tom Holland, Mia Wasakowska, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, Eliza Scanlen and Sebastian Stan, latter of whom was…
Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche and Denis O'Hare have been added to the cast of Swallow, the indie psychological thriller starring Haley Bennett. Austin Stowellis also aboard the pic, which serves as the debut feature film of writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis. Shooting is now underway, with CAA and UTA handling…
EXCLUSIVE: Haley Bennett has landed the role of Megan inThe Girl On The Train, starring alongside Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson in the Tate Taylor-directed adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ runaway bestseller novel for DreamWorks. Bennett is coming off The Equalizer, and she is starring in the currently shooting The Mag…
EXCLUSIVE: Landing a star-making role a lot of actresses chased, Haley Bennett has been set to play the female lead opposite an ensemble headed by Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in the Antoine Fuqua-directed The Magnificent Seven for MGM. Bennett most recently co-starred with Washington in the Fuqua-directed The Equ…
EXCLUSIVE:Haley Bennett has landed a role in Gabriele Muccino’s Fathers And Daughters, which already boasts a cast that includes Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Amanda Seyfried, Octavia Spencer, Quvenzhane Wallis and Diane Kruger. The pic from Voltage Films is a love story detailing the bond between a father (Crowe) and…
EXCLUSIVE:Haley Bennett is continuing with her busy schedule, signing on for a role in Sony‘s redo of The Equalizer. Denzel Washington stars alongside Chloe Moretz and Melissa Leo, and Antoine Fuqua is directing. Bennett, whose earlier credits include The Haunting Of Molly Hartley and Marley & Me, has completed a…