Anita Gou found out she had two films going to Sundance this year via WeChat, while she was out on a road trip in Taiwan. It was a fitting way to find out for someone with such strong international connections. One was Lulu Wang's Mandarin-language comedy The Farewell, which was snapped up by A24 in a splashy $6…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios will launch Alma Har'el's Honey Boy in limited theaters on Nov. 8 and expand thereafter. The film which stars and was written by Shia LaBeouf based on his own experiences with Har’el winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Vision and Craft at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this…

“When everybody was saying ‘No’ this story does not have an audience, you, Sundance and the people who have seen this film have proven that there is an audience for this film, and I thank you!” beamed Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu after accepting the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize for her death penalty drama Clemen…

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 pariah, his decision to bare his pain in the screenplay format he was so familiar…

With each passing year, Lucas Hedges multiplies his awards season filmography. First there was Manchester by the Sea, for which he was Oscar nominated. Then, last year, much-garlanded turns in Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. This year he's back with no fewer than three films: Joel Edgerton's Bo…

Up-and-comer Shane Paul McGhie is set to play Jamal in Paramount Players’s What Men Want, starring Taraji P. Henson as a sports agent in a male-dominated space, who when she gains the power to hear men's thoughts and is able to shift the paradigm to her advantage as she races to sign the NBA's next superstar. Cut to…

EXCLUSIVE: Clifton Collins Jr., who currently co-stars on HBO's series, Westworld, has signed on to play opposite Lucas Hedges and Shia LaBeouf in Honey Boy, which Alma Har'el is directing from the screenplay co-written by LaBeouf. Loosely based on the Transformers star’s relationship with his father, the pic follows…

Shia LaBeouf and Lucas Hedges will star in Alma Har'el's next film, Honey Boy, which follows child actor Otis Lort (Hedges) and his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father James (LaBeouf) as they attempt to mend their contentious relationship over the course of a decade. Har’el’s known for the films LoveTrue and Bombay Be…