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Alma Har'el used her DGA Awards win on Saturday night to draw attention to a rising issue among the female directing community. Accepting her award in the First-Time Feature category for her Amazon film Honey Boy, Har'el thanked director Jessica Dimmock for drawing attention to the plight of women directors, who, like…

On Honey Boy, cinematographer Natasha Braier found herself seeking two quite difficult forms of balance. On a visual level, the film needed to be both naturalistic and highly cinematic. In practical terms, the DP needed to capture performance with the utmost intimacy, while giving her actors as much space and freedom…

On Honey Boy, director Alma Har'el waded through "a burning mist of pain" to hit upon the raw truth she says she values most. Coming to her via Shia LaBeouf—who began writing the script in court-ordered therapy—the film examines the turbulent coming of age of an actor estranged from his father. From the beginning…

EXCLUSIVE: The screenplay for Honey Boy wasn't originally written for a movie screen. When Shia LaBeouf was ordered by a judge to write about the childhood trauma that seeded a fiery transition to adulthood punctuated by angry outbursts, car crashes and curious creative choices that transformed him from golden boy to…

Amazon Studios brought three striking iterations of true grit to Deadline’s Contenders New York with a look at The Aeronauts, The Report and Honey Boy that kicked off Saturday’s event. Tom Harper, director and producer of The Aeronauts, said the set was kept below freezing and actors plunged their hands in ice water…

For anyone who has gone through the pain of a family member who has weathered substance or alcohol abuse, or even the roller-coaster ride of being a child actor, Alma Har’el’s feature take on Shia LaBeouf’s childhood, Honey Boy, is a cathartic experience. LaBeouf was spurred to write the story when he was in…

The Thanksgiving holiday weekend had a sparse amount of openings in the specialty box office space. In fact, Michael Apted’s documentary 63 Up was one of the only — if not the only — new titles. The BritBox docu had an exclusive single-theater opening at New York’s Film Forum and earned a confident $15,150 for the…

A production designer known for his work in the commercial world, and on high-end music videos for the likes of Beyoncé and P!nk, Jc Molina had his work cut out for him on Honey Boy, helping to define a visual approach to a film where incredibly raw memory and gorgeous fantasy would collide. Written by actor Shia LaBeo…

A24’s Adam Sandler thriller Uncut Gems and Robert Eggers’ spooky black-and-white movie The Lighthouse led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations Thursday morning with five noms apiece, followed by Amazon’s Honey Boy scripted by Shia LeBeouf and based on his rocky childhood. For a fourth straight year, A24 lead…

UPDATED with adjusted grosses and actuals. In its first week, the Abramorama docu The All-Americans had a soft opening on three screens, grossing $7,895 at the specialty box office. American Dharma‘s actual gross for its second weekend was $7,152 bringing its cume to $17,421 while NatGeo released its grosses for The Ca…

As films like Parasite, Jojo Rabbit and Judy flourish and find audiences, Shia LaBeouf’s semi-autobiographical film Honey Boy looks to sweeten the pot and bring its unique vision to not only the Specialty box office space but also the award season race. Directed by visionary filmmaker Alma Har’el, whose feature…

The names have been changed in Honey Boy, but Shia LaBeouf, as not only a co-star in the film but also its writer, is not trying to hide the fact that this is the story of his life, no matter what poetic license may be taken it its telling. And what a story it is, a raw and revealing movie in which two actors in…