UPDATED with trailer.AMC’s forthcoming Dispatches From Elsewhere is an interesting series. The 10-episode anthology created by and starring Jason Segel is a self-reflective, transcendental series about a group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. The series also…
When Gabriela Cowperthwaite read the Esquire article on which her new feature, The Friend, is based, she found something she wasn’t expecting—a new way into talking about grief that she hadn’t seen before. “What it was, was not talking directly about grief, but focusing on the thing that keeps you tethered,"…
Deadline on Saturday kicked off this year’s edition of Nespresso presents COFFEE WITH CREATORS at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 with The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama that had its world premiere last night as a TIFF Special Presentation.
The film is based on the true story related in…
EXCLUSIVE: When the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama The Friend premieres tonight in Toronto, the film's tough subject matter – Dakota Johnson plays Nicole Teague, who at 34 was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer – was made more bearable by the presence of two classic Led Zeppelin songs. “Ramble On” and…
EXCLUSIVE:Tara Lynne Barr(Casual) is set to recur in Dispatches from Elsewhere,AMC's 10-episode anthology series created by and starring Jason Segel.
Dispatches from Elsewhere is about a group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. They will come to find that the…
EXCLUSIVE: Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) and Cherry Jones (Boy Erased) are among cast to have joined Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck in Gabriela Cowperthwaite's (Blackfish) feature drama The Friend, which is now underway in Fairhope, Alabama.
Country artist Jake Owen, Denee Benton (Hamilton: An Am…
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free and Black Bear have set Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Oscar-winner Casey Affleck to star in The Friend, a fact-based touching drama that STX International will launch for offshore sales at the European Film Market. Directing is Gabriela Cowperthwaite, whose Blackfish was a BAFTA nominee for…
AMC has greenlit Dispatches From Elsewhere, an hourlong anthology series created by and starring Jason Segel in his return to television. The network will make the announcement during its portion of TCA today.
Dispatches From Elsewhere, which will feature elements across multiple platforms, is about a group of…
“Don’t you think your discovery was too dangerous to share with the world?” Dr. Thomas Harber (Robert Redford) has done the unthinkable: offered proof of an afterlife. But the world is headed for serious strife as millions take their own lives to reach the other side.
Here is the first full trailer for The Discovery…
EXCLUSIVE:  SVOD giant Netflix has acquired global rights to Charlie McDowell's The Discovery, starring Rooney Mara, Robert Redford and Jason Segel. The film will premiere on Netflix and also get a theatrical domestic run in 2017. This deal has been a few months in the making after the project was first brought to…
The ABC Broadcast of the Oscars may not be until two weeks from today, but for all intents and purposes the show started last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel where, in an elegant and, yes, actually fun ceremony the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out their annual nerd, er, Scientific and Technical…
